Gavin Newsom: “We're going to be initiating a lawsuit first thing tomorrow…”

“Of course not. He flamed the fires. This is exactly what he wanted. This is what he intended by illegally acting to federalize the National Guard. We're going to be initiating a lawsuit first thing tomorrow morning. And it did exactly what we told his team it would do. It would inflame the anxiety, would inflame the conditions.” (00:21–00:26)

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