Spencer Cox: “I don't anticipate that the president would call up the…”

“We've deployed here before when we've had riots and property damage that was happening here in the state of Utah when people's lives were at risk. We're hoping we don't need to do that here, that we'll be able to, I don't anticipate that the president would call up the National Guard from one state to go into another state. I think again he would have the authority to call up the National Guards in those states. And so our job is to make sure that, that we're doing our job so that we don't need the National Guard here in Utah.” (24:08–24:18)

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