he says the chinese government sees jack moore as a threat. there's 2 problems with jack mar, according to beijing. one is that he's a well funded very popular billionaire who could gradually it controls to large companies and financial and bob, which is the amazon china. and the 2nd thing is that he actually was starting to compete because it and financial with some of the state banks in china, which are the backbone of the economy. so for those 2 reasons, they thought he was a threat and they're cutting him down to size. it's a terrible message. a china is struggling with the slowing economy and they're pouring money into, into this state sector, which is not going to help their growth going forward. at a time when, of course they've got the cobit problem, the large tech giants have been the one area of hope in china because they're very effective and very efficient, but they're perceived as a threat. and meanwhile, the smaller companies that employ the vast majority of chinese workers, these as a need, small businesses are having difficulty

i want to personally congratulate nolan smith, michael moore's, lauren mcclendon, jack lipsky, darren smith and all of our first district players. congratulations to the 2023 national champions, the georgia bulldogs. go dogs. >> i rise to speak on the powerful winter storm systems that are impacting by district and much of the state of california. rainfall in recent weeks has been several times above average, which, along with severe wins, has had devastating and cascading impact. this includes flooding, including in fulsome and lincoln, avalanches and mudslides in the tahoe area, and other counties are under mudslide and avalanche warning. there have been broke leisure's from town to, hundreds of down trees that have disruptive travel plans, power outages affecting 300 and 45,000 californians, and 4500 people in the third district. and hundreds of school closures, including schools in the lake tahoe unified district. there have also tragically been 17 that's in the state, including five in the sacramento area. i want to extend my most sincere sympathy to everyone who has been affecte

we have michael moore, and state representative betsy who flipped her district from red to blue, meeting republican jacktive, welcome. different people look at this different ways. my particular point tonight for viewers is not whether one party should always win or not, but rather whether democracy is holding. what is your experience there? show us. we'll put that graphic back up. that's a wild political environment to be in where democrats kept winning but not getting in power. >> yeah, thank you for having me, and hello, michael moore. nice to see you. yeah, here in michigan, republicans for my entire life had pretty much been used to being able to rig the game and create districts that were tilted in their favor. we had some of the worst gerrymandering in the entire country until -- until a whole lot of everyday michigananders from all over our state said no more, we're tired of this, we should pick our leaders. a lot of experts said it couldn't be done. they collected hundreds of thousands of signatures to get a nonpartisan redistricting on the ballot, and indeed they did that. i have to give a sho