Tom Steyer

of what Thomas Jefferson said at the beginning of the 1800s, when the Barbary pirates were bedeviling American shipping, and they wanted ransom money, basically.

And he said, millions for defense, not one penny for tribute.

When people are trying to blackmail you, don't pay.

Stand up for your principles, and that's what we're going to do.

I think that we don't have a choice.

Giving in for money

to someone who is basically extorting you and what you're talking about is extortion.

Do what I want or you don't get what you are owed.

That's what he's saying.

He's holding up FEMA payments to the people in Altadena and Pacific Palisades for a fire that took place last January.

We will push every single way we can, Jennifer.

That what we can see is someone who is extraordinary.

Look, I don't know if you remember this.

I'm sure you also did an all-nighter studying how great this was.

In 2017 and 2018, I put together something called Need to Impeach, and we got 8 million signatures saying, this is a criminal who's stealing from us every day, and he hates America, and he wants to end it.

And, you know, no one was happy.

The Democratic Party was mad at me because they felt like they had this under control.

We know how to handle this guy.

You're muddying the waters with.

And I was like, wow, seems to me like the sooner we stop this guy, the better.