At a press briefing, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) took questions about the lawsuit against the Trump Administration over tariffs.
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00:00First question. Perhaps you can advance it. I haven't spoken to him directly, but we reached out to the White House to give them a heads up.
00:12I like that. I like the description, bat phones. I'm going to keep that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's nice. I mean, it's interesting. I mean, all of them, there's not one that has expressed anything differently. All of them have brought the issue of terrorism.
00:41I don't want to call them out again. The idea of, let me just say just on the meta point, what the hell, bat phones and the governor. So I thought it was important that some of the biggest job creators, we've been doing this, as you know, with our jobs first plan with small businesses. For the last few years, we built this framework.
01:11around regions rising together. And I'm really proud of that work. I felt we needed to do the same for some of the larger employers in the state. And so I reached out to them and I did a burner phone and just put my cell phone in there just with my number.
01:27And I wrote a handwritten note to each one of the CEOs saying, you need something, call me. Here's my cell phone. And to your point and some of your reporting, a lot of them have reached out directly.
01:37I will say, full disclosure, a lot of them thought it was fraud. They didn't know what to expect. They didn't know it was real. They didn't even know what was going to happen. So some, we had security personnel call saying, is this actually from you guys? So it's been an interesting experiment.
01:51I'm just being a little too forthright with you. But for those that got it, eventually, many of them just texted said, I'm just want to confirm it's you. Those conversations.
02:01They just simply hasn't been one of them where terrorists haven't been brought up, period. Every single one of them have. By definition, of course. I mean, it's just it's it's it's I said the worst on goal in the history of this country.
02:18One of the most self-destructive things that we've experienced in modern American history. I mean, the attorney general has laid out the 22 percent. Some have estimated as much as 26.7, 27 percent all in.
02:33But you're getting near that Smith, the Smoot-Hawley numbers that every independent assessment said exacerbated the Great Depression.
02:41I mean, it's literally comparable to that. You know, I know a thing or two about China. I've sat down with President Xi. This is, you know, this is serious. And and we need to take it seriously. Again, no state has more to lose.