Newsom: “Divorce Is Not An Option In This Country”
In an interview with PBS, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he was “not offended” by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) meeting with Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, despite backlash from many Democrats over the meeting.
AMNA NAWAZ, PBS NEWSHOUR: You saw House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took a lot of flack for a meeting that he took with Jared Kushner, your fellow Californian. Congressman Ro Khanna said he shouldn’t have done it. He said it undermined the party’s base. GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes. NAWAZ: Do you agree with that? NEWSOM: No, no. I’m not as offended by it. Come on. So he met with him. I care about — I met with Trump for 90 minutes. NAWAZ: Did anything come of that meeting, of Jeffries’ meeting? NEWSOM: I don’t know. You got to ask Jeffries. I mean, but you know what? I met with Trump 90 minutes. NAWAZ: Yes. NEWSOM: I meet with my father-in-law all the time, big Republican. Come on. NAWAZ: — your meeting with the president. NEWSOM: I sit down on my podcast. I have been rightfully criticized by people like him that don’t like meeting with people they disagree with. But divorce is not an option in this country. And so the idea that they met did not offend me. I understand it offended the base, and I’m not naive to the concern about that, but I’m personally not concerned about Speaker Jeffries doing appropriate oversight. So that will be the determination. I will criticize him if he doesn’t unleash the oversight committees. I want to see real accountability. And, by the way, I think you know enough about what I have been saying. I’m not messing around when it comes to accountability. NAWAZ: What does that mean? NEWSOM: This great grift, the corruption, if any of that’s illegal, we run every single one of that down. I mean, all these sole source contracts, the crony capitalism, the state capitalism, I mean, we run all of them down.
