Gavin Newsom: “We had 30, almost 3,000 of these guys that were in your…”

“Just. Yeah, that's a dangerous. I have empathy for these. These. Damn. I mean, come on. I'VE got these. I just think about our National Guard. These are. We had 30, almost 3,000 of these guys that were in your backyard, man. In LA. And there were. People were coming up. The biggest problem we were having was so many people coming up, doing selfies, thanking them for the help during the fires and after the fires and doing the traffic management.” (53:46)

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