Gavin Newsom Discusses ‘Uncertainty’ Of Trump’s Tariffs: We’ll See The Effects In ‘Minutes’

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On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) answered reporter questions about Trump's tariff rollout.

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00:00It's fundamentally correct. There's hundreds and hundreds. I think if I

00:06counted the number of threats to the state, I mean, that's that's uh, yeah,

00:13that's on a list. We could run in 52 different directions every single day

00:19on all those threats and you know, hair on fire and the whole thing. So you

00:22just adjudicate it, you respond to it, you take it seriously, make a

00:26determination as we do with the A. G. S. Office all the time have been. I

00:29think we're nine lawsuits in 9 10 weeks, 11 weeks, you know, which ones

00:34are the most serious, which ones are the most pressing, which ones do we

00:37feel we don't have a solid litigation strategy or at least there's shaky

00:41grounds and stand whatever it is and we make those determinations. So I think

00:46there were, I think there were six missives or something. I think the new

00:49york times you wrote that maybe it was your writing. I don't know. There's a

00:51headline, six different things, actions against California that day hardly

00:57seems coincidental. So there may be something else at work there. And so

01:01you just, you know, you take a look at it all, make a determination, but we

01:05take everything seriously. Um, take some things literally. And right now, uh, we

01:11take the most pressing issue, which is the uncertainty of tariffs and

01:16retaliatory tariffs that are inevitable in a trade war. That's inevitable. Um,

01:22with the actions that the president looks to make, we'll see in a matter of

01:25hours or minutes. It's almost, I guess one

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