Zohran Mamdani: “We cannot try and convince ourselves that because something…”

“Could I ask how you're going to protect this city from the National Guard coming in? The first thing is we have to prepare for the inevitability of that deployment. We cannot try and convince ourselves that because something is illegal, Donald Trump will not do it. We have to be prepared and we have to be clear eyed and we have to understand that it will take every single tool at our disposal.” (00:11–00:17)

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