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Gavin Newsom: “The National Guard... were heroes. I mean, the biggest…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 39:41

And also just not dissimilar how we opened as well for us, the National Guard. These are the folks that are out there during the fire, in the middle of The National Guard... were heroes. I mean, the biggest problem we had, we had thousands of National Guard that were there protecting the residents of Los Angeles. And the biggest problem they had were the number of people coming up to get selfies with them, giving them food and water, and they were overwhelmed. And these are our neighbors. (39:41–39:56)

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Asserts that thousands of National Guard members protected Los Angeles residents.

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