Trump Responds To Just-Announced Lawsuit Against Him From California For Sending In National Guard

Speaking to reporters at an "Invest America" roundtable at the White House, President Trump was asked about a lawsuit from California against him.

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00:00I think it's actually very bad for him.

00:01And right around the time that we were walking in here,

00:04the governor and the state attorney general said that they're going to sue you

00:08for sending the National Guard, and they're saying there's no invasion, there's no rebellion.

00:13The president is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends.

00:19Federalizing the California National Guard is an abuse of the president's authority under law.

00:24Well, you know, it's interesting.

00:26You watch the same clips as I did.

00:28Cars burning all over the place, people rioting.

00:31And by the way, we stopped it.

00:33We were able to make it much better, but it still looked pretty bad.

00:36And in watching clips last night, people were saying, this is really a big problem.

00:41And until we went in, if we didn't do the job, that place would be burning down just like the houses burned down.

00:47They were in big trouble last night, Peter.

00:49You know it.

00:49And the night before and the night before that.

00:52And I feel we had no choice.

00:54I don't want to see I don't want to see happen what what happened so many times in this country.

01:00I watched Minneapolis burn.

01:02I watched look at what happened in so many different parts of California.

01:06You take a look at what happened in San Diego.

01:09There's so many different places where we let it burn.

01:13We want to be politically correct.

01:15We want it to be nice.

01:16We want to be nice to the criminal.

01:18And what you're doing is destroying the fabric of our life in this country.

01:21No, we we did the right thing.

01:23We've been given credit for by people that I would least suspect.

01:28Why?

01:28I would say that some of the people that came in and said, thank goodness.

01:32They said some of them.

01:34Thank God that Trump got involved.

01:36And I'm very happy I got involved.

01:38And I think Gavin, in his own way, is probably happy I got involved.

01:42Yeah, go ahead.

01:43What do you make of the fact that he says, you want a civil war?