During a press briefing on Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was asked about his state's numerous lawsuits against the Trump administration.
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00:00Is there any more insight you can give us into your own thinking as you're trying to decide, like, when it surprises to the level of being worth pushing back on the Trump administration versus, you know, biding the time or holding back a little bit in order to protect that relationship?
00:17Because you've talked about wanting to react to stuff you're doing out of the scene.
00:20Yeah, it's interesting.
00:24Literally, interestingly, in one of the caucus meetings that I had yesterday, this was the question asked.
00:30You know, just what our thinking is.
00:33And I said, if you want to make a point, you may want to reconsider.
00:37You want to make a difference?
00:40Stand tall and firm.
00:42And that's kind of the approach.
00:45If it's a virtue signal, I think you're inviting something.
00:50But if it's a fundamental principle, like tariffs, literally gutting the economy of the state and creating so much uncertainty, it's going to take years and years.
01:01I mean, to wreck the economy, now the fourth largest economy in the world, California, to overnight do that, you have to stand on principle.
01:09And so that's the approach we'll take.
01:11Thanks, guys.