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Gavin Newsom: “A president of the United States...federalized the National…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Full Interview with Gov. Gavin Newsom | The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit

Published | Video Starts at 02:09

… States that federalized the National Guard and did something he never did in his first term. He never sent the military overseas. He sent the military to the United States A president of the United States...federalized the National Guard...sent 700 active duty members of the Marines to the second largest city in the United States of America. Nothing about that is normal and nothing about that should be normalized. He also threatened the American people happen to live in California, that he wouldn't provide aid. (02:09–02:32)

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Asserts that the President federalized the National Guard and sent 700 Marines to Los Angeles.

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