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Gavin Newsom: “He [the President] also threatened the American people…”

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 02:15

He 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 [the President] also threatened the American people happen to live in California, that he wouldn't provide aid. He conditioned the aid at a time. Disaster in the middle of the disaster didn't even wait till the fire was suppressed to threaten the American people that happened to live in the state of California. (02:15–02:44)

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Asserts that the President threatened to withhold aid from California.

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