Speaker Johnson Says Gavin Newsom 'Ought To Be Tarred And Feathered' For L.A. Response

At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

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00:00Speaker Johnson, the president said possibly in jest that if he were Tom Homan, he would arrest Gavin Newsom.

00:07Do you believe that Newsom should face consequences in a legal way?

00:12Look, that's not my lane. I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested,

00:17but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I'll say that.

00:19I mean, look, he's standing in the way of the administration and the carrying out of federal law, right?

00:26He is applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys.

00:31He is a participant, an accomplice in our federal law enforcement agents being not just disrespected but assaulted.

00:40This is a serious problem, and the governor is now filing a lawsuit against the president.

00:45What a joke. Do your job, man. That's what I tell Gavin Newsom.

00:48Do your job. Stop working on your rebranding and be a governor.

00:52Stand up for the rule of law. He's not doing that.

00:54So I don't know what the ultimate measure will be there, but I know that in the interim time,

00:58the president of the United States is showing real leadership, and we're not going to allow L.A. to burn.

01:03We've seen this movie before, right?

01:05This thing gets out of hand real quickly, especially in a big city like that,

01:08and if local and state officials are unwilling or unable to do their job,

01:12the president of the United States will do his, and we support that fully.

01:15Yes.