Zohran Mamdani: “The deployment of the National Guard was illegal.”

“And we've seen in California, when you have Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and the attorney general of the state coming together to file a lawsuit. Federal judge found in their favor. The deployment of the National Guard was illegal. The attorney general there estimates that for every dollar they spent on legal fees, they recovered more than 30,000 in what would have otherwise been lost federal funding.” (05:45–05:48)

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