Greg Abbott: “There's a recent court order authorizing Trump to do exactly…”

“… to do what you did, you would think would be in violation of the regulatory, statutory authority of President Trump. Well, for one, they are in violation. But for another, There's a recent court order authorizing Trump to do exactly this, a court order of that conservative state, California. When Governor Newsom said he would not deploy the Guard and filed a lawsuit against Trump for deploying the Guard there in California, he got a federal court ruling favoring Gavin Newsom, favoring California.” (04:08–04:16)

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