00:00Well, I mean, it's a complex question, as you know, because there's multifaceted considerations, and as a consequence, responses.
00:19I'll give you one example. L.A. City's sanctuary ordinance. There's a litigation on that.
00:26There's litigation as it relates to other aspects of immigration at the state level, aspects that are derivative or associated or connected as it relates to broader DEI issues.
00:38You saw the assault on public education yesterday at $811 million for all quote-unquote title programs.
00:45These are the programs for the most vulnerable that were already budgeted, of which the state already contributes on behalf of the district's 25% up front.
00:56Where now we're going to either have to backfill or see direct impacts of critical programs, professional development for teachers, and other programs for diverse communities.
01:08It's an ideological assault. We are involved in, as you know, more lawsuits than any other state.
01:15We're more fortified to litigate because we funded our litigation strategy through a special session, and we're not going to be timid in pushing back.
01:24But we've been successful so far with most of the litigation, and most importantly on immigration, successful in the past, and I'll leave you with that.
01:32There was litigation in the first Trump administration in the Ninth Circuit.
01:37Federal courts adjudicated that our policies related to SB 54 were constitutional, and so we're confident in our grounds that it will be firmly established.
01:49Regular people are not aware that the wheels of justice turn so slowly.
01:54That's the challenge.
01:55How do you address the frustration that seems to take forever to stop it?
01:58Well, that's why these injunctions matter.
02:00That's why the Supreme Court decision just a few days ago was so consequential as it relates to local courts impacting broader national rules and regulations.
02:09And, of course, that assault on the rule of law that will be part of the weaponization, the further weaponization of the rule of law by the Trump administration is obvious concern.
02:19But look, on that, we'll continue to file aggressively for TROs and injunctions.
02:24We'll try to stop and stay these efforts to vandalize our democracy and to assault our rule of law, and notably to take grant funding that Congress has legally appropriated,
02:38that the president does not have the unilateral authority to take.
02:42We'll continue in that posture as aggressively as we possibly can with the best legal minds we have.
02:47The broader issue of what's happening on the streets, there's not a day that goes by.
02:52I can regale you with saved videos that just break your heart of women screaming because they're being taken away by people with masks,
03:01that refuse to provide IDs and unmarked cars in the middle of the day, in the middle of the streets, without any arrest warrants, without any criminal history, desperate just to provide medication to their young children, just being disappeared in the United States of America.
03:17You've got 4,000 military wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, military that are not working in our parks and playgrounds.
03:29They've taken National Guard that are teachers that are supposed to be teaching summer school.
03:34They've taken National Guard men and women off our wildfire efforts.
03:39They've taken National Guard out of fire departments and paramedic offices that can't be there in emergencies, and they're sitting there in the armories.
03:49Pure theater, doing nothing. Serious moment.
03:55So we'll continue our posture, but we need to continue to remind people.
03:59I know people can feel overwhelmed, the shock and awe of everything that's going on, but we need to understand the moment we're living.
04:05And I know I made a comment about the Alcatraz alligator.
04:09That was just, these are flim flamers. They're not serious people.
04:13What an embarrassment. Imagine the rest of the world looking at that, mocking people, saying, well, if you're going to run, zig and zag.
04:20The President of the United States of America, I revere that office. We all should.
04:26Founding fathers didn't live and die to see that show.
04:30What an embarrassment. $450 million a year of wasted tax money for pure theater.
04:37So, strong opinions, but we'll continue to push back in very aggressive ways.
