🚨 Gov. Newsom PUMMELS Trump on TARIFF LOSS!!

I'm joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor Newsom, great to see you. Got to get your reaction to Trump's reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against his tariffs against the world. Donald Trump having a meltdown, a temper tantrum, and his entire regime right now, they're just whining. What do you make of it all, Governor? Yeah, I mean, there's never been a ditch that's been dug this deep, isn't it? I mean, as you describe it, a tantrum on top of a tantrum attacking his own hand-picked Supreme Court

that's been completely supine, has been doing his bidding, particularly with the shadow docket, for months and months and months. But look, months ago, I was on your show the day we announced we were the first state with our Attorney general to announce our lawsuit against the Trump administration saying they were illegally moving forward, exercising emergency authority under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act.

They could not unilaterally do that. And boy, I think about that complaint we filed that day, it sounded a lot like, or read a lot like Robert's opinion, or at least Robert's words as it relates to this illegal action by this administration. I want to remind you, by the way, we did it in a ranch in the Central Valley in California

because it was ranchers and farmers, small businesses that were hurt most with this regressive tax that is taxed average American family by over $1,750. And so it's time to return that money immediately to the American people, put it back in their pockets. And it's time to return to the rule of law, not the rule of Don.

Right, and you immediately demanded those refunds be issued right away. Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, they said, we're going to try to hold up American businesses and the people in litigation. We're going to be fighting this is what they said. The Supreme Court ruling is ambiguous and confusing. And they said years

of litigation. What's your response to that? Again, I mean, it's the last stop. Sorry, guys. I mean, we've all I've suffered many times on the other side of the Supreme Court ruling. There's no higher ruling. There's no board of peace here. You can't reestablish with a billion-dollar tithing with 27 of your friends from overseas and create a new Supreme Court. It's time this guy started to understand that he cannot operate as an imperial president, that he is subject to the rule of law,

co-equal branches of government. The only branch of government that seems to be marginally operating, Supreme Court I say with an asterisk, but today they seem to operate, are the courts. And I hope the court of public opinion

is finally catching up that, you know, it's gonna put pressure on the other branch of government, Congress, to step up and start doing their job. They're all going to be out of work in nine months. You're going to have a Speaker Jeffries. This is a wrecking ball president. His imperial presidency is about to come to an end, but he's going to be, as you suggest, this last gasp of a desperate man

And that was advanced today Rhetorically and then substantively with his effort to now do a global tax of 10% another Regressive tax on working people and small businesses across this country and around the world You mentioned his Board of Peace boy. Was that a weird? Bizarre thing to watch. He was like sleeping through it. You had all these authoritarian leaders there. He was playing YMCA. Very strange.

But in a more serious note, you've now traveled to the Munich conference. You were at Davos. You were at a climate conference in Brazil. You've been speaking to world leaders who are our allies or under the Trump regime, former allies who should be our allies. What's your general sense of what the world is feeling right now as you've now concluded this travel to those places?

Well, one-on-one meetings with the Chancellor of Germany, the Prime Minister of Spain, I'm talking ambassadors from across the globe. This is, there's a reckoning happening. I didn't feel that. When I went to Davos those first few days, I called out. I was very aggressive. I brought those knee pads and brought them up on stage. I decided not to come in mildly. I came in very hot,

calling folks out, calling those that are bending their knee like law firms and universities have in the United States and CEOs that were assembled in Davos. And I suggested a lot of world leaders were as well, only to be pleasantly surprised with Carney's speech there in Davos and this great retreat from Donald Trump as it relates to Greenland.

And maybe that was aided and abetted by world leaders bucking up and expressing themselves more clearly and more forcefully, but also by the bond markets that also spoke very loudly against these incursions against a NATO ally into Greenland. But it was an assertion that we need to be tougher, we need to be more united, and I felt it was important not to give him, again, exclusive playing field in Munich.

And it was great to see other democratic leaders there, other congressmen and congressional leaders or other business leaders that were a little more assertive, including, by the way, the Chancellor of Germany, who decided to promote the fact that we got together. Trump was very critical of that. He was threatening, by the way, Trump, threatening other world leaders not to even meet with me. He's a weak, weak president.

And that weakness is on display globally now as well, as the rest of the world is starting to turn against Trump and Trumpism. And the only card he had left was these terrorists. And that's why, it's exactly why he was so aggressive today, because he knows it. He's got nothing else going on.

His entire economic policy, his mass deportations, that's beginning to unravel because of the people in Minneapolis. His economic policies were obviously aided and abetted by these terrorists. By the way, Sobhain was his personal dealings.

And don't forget for a second, these terror policies are connected to the great grift, this great self-dealing, this crony capitalism we're seeing around the globe. You saw it as he moved back on terror policy in Vietnam as he got a business deal done there with the golf course in the waiver of a lot of environmental rules. Same thing in the UAE, same thing in Saudi Arabia. The self-dealing is a big part of the

story in what happened today at the Supreme Court. I want to talk about your book in a moment. It's out right now, Young Man in a Hurry, a memoir of discovery. And it is a memoir of discovery of you becoming a man. And I want to talk about that, but it's in contrast to Donald Trump's behavior because so much of what's taken place to me with this Trump regime masqueraded as political, this side, that side,

but I had always been shouting from the rooftop, this is about basic human behavior and Donald Trump is behaving like a demented human being. And I've been just trying to say, stop viewing this as a Democrat or a Republican. View this as human character.

And this is someone utterly lacking in moral character. This is someone who is weak and pathetic, and just stop with the politicizing of it. And so just talk to us before we get into the book about just the behavior you've exhibited. Because you used to say

that it was weakness masquerading as strength, but I've noticed a pivot in how you talk about it now, which is it's weakness, period. Explanation is weak. And look, he's a broken man in the spirit of your question. I think you rightfully, for years now, diagnosed him.

He's a broken man that tried to break this country on January 6th, tried to light democracy on fire. He's going to do everything he can to vandalize this next election. His presidency de facto ends when Speaker Jeffries gets sworn in. At least his presidency as we know it. Now losing this tariff policy and the unilateral authority under the IEEPA, this is a major body blow. You saw the new GDP numbers that came out, 2.2%

for the year, down from 2.8% under the Biden administration. We're seeing manufacturing job losses. We're seeing the entire economic case that Besset, not just Trump, have made collapse, run him. And he's got nothing else left in his back pocket. And I think there's gonna be a hell of a State of the Union. And I imagine that's gonna mean

perhaps more forays overseas. Watch what happens, obviously, in Iran. But this weakness is on display. World leaders have finally figured it out, to your point about Munich, COP, and what happened in Davos. The American people are seeing it on full display. When you stand up to this guy, he backs down. His great strength, if there's any, is figuring out your weakness and exploiting it.

But he does not do well when people assert themselves and push back. Again, that's what the people of Minneapolis have done. And that's what's happening across this country. And that's the pathway back. Conviction, strength, clarity, purpose.

Call this guy out. No quarter. Fight fire with fire. He's a paper tiger, a broken man. And the only thing standing between our republic, a 251st anniversary we celebrate this historic project, is Donald Trump. We have to be mindful of what he will do between now and November and be more vigilant than we've ever been.

You know, one of the things I note about your memoir and how deeply personal it is, how you open up about things like your emotions and you describe things that I'm not used to seeing political leaders or leaders at all really get into.

I mean, you talk about feeling of this conflicting feelings of abandonment with your dad, William, you know, and how he was a mentor, but also you felt that he left your family, you know, in the 1970s, moving from home to home with your mom, Tessa, what that experience was like living in these two different worlds where your dad was representing high profile people, but you didn't feel that,

and you were living with your mom and going, and you open up, I mean, about going to college and not doing well on the SATs. We have currently right now people in the office who say, I did so great and I'm amazing, and you said, I suffered with dyslexia.

Torture was the words that you used. And you open up about things that you just don't hear that people would normally say, ah, why are you opening up? You're being too emotional. What do you say about that?

And why'd you open up like that in the book? Well, it's because I'm sick of wearing the mask. And I put a mask on, and my face started growing into it. And I was becoming someone that I didn't want to become, that I'm not. And I talked. This book, it says Young Man in a Hurry.

It's a memoir of discovery. I didn't know about my family. I knew a little bit about my family. Both my parents passed away. My mom, many, many years ago. My father, right after I got elected governor of California,

they never talked about their marriage. They never talked about why my father left. My mom was 19. Two years later, she's living on her own. She comes from no money. We're living in a one-bedroom apartment,

and my father just took off, and he never told me. I discovered that in the process of writing this book. She raised us single-handedly—grit, hard work, resilience—how she never wanted me to get in politics, how I struggled with learning disability. This day, I don't read speeches. You'll never see me read a speech because I can't read a speech. I can read and write.

The irony of me writing a book and then reading, by the way, that book, the audiobook, that alone, that was 18 hours of pure hell. God bless the people that helped edit that and the grace of theirs. But I just wanted to open up and be myself. For those that hate me, you should buy this book. It's all the op research. You don't have to work very hard.

I gave it all to you. But it's honest. It's really honest. I'll tell you, Ben, you know this, man. There are so many political books out there. Diamond does. I'm not knocking anybody. I'm not. There are some great ones, too. But this is not your typical political book. But it's me, man. It's all the good, the bad, the sweaty hands, the nervous guy in the back of the room the guy You know tries to put a mask on wear a tie, you know the whole thing and mistakes

I made you know how I played into the stereotypes But it's it's a little more raw and to the extent it's emotional. It's real man I was there for my mom's assisted suicide when it was illegal and I was there with her held her hand her last breath I didn't know about her dad, who put a gun to her head, committed suicide. He was a prisoner of war after the march in Corregido. I didn't know all this history. I didn't know that history. It shaped me,

and now it explains who I am in ways that I never understood the why, why I was motivated by this, why I was doing certain things, why I felt certain anxieties. It all just started to take place and shape as I started to learn and dive deeper in this book. It's a book for my kids, man.

It's literally a dedication to my four little kids and how I wish my parents wrote this book. I wish my grandparents wrote this book. I hope people receive it well. I know it will be seen through the eyes of cynicism and politics, but that's the third way.

I can't control that. I can't control the critics. We'll see. It's just coming up. People have different opinions about it, but I'm really proud of it. I'm proud of my dad and mom for all the warts and all.

I'm proud of the person I'm becoming. I'm in the process of becoming. I'm trying to be a better dad, better father, better husband, rather. We're all works in progress. My life's been open. There's been bright lights on it for a long time, supervisor, mayor, lieutenant governor, governor. I made a lot of mistakes and paid a lot of personal professional price for it and try to put it all out there in this memoir.

You know, it's a book for everyone, but also as the title talks about, you becoming a man, young man, a journey of discovery. And we've seen so many young men who were peeled off by Trump and MAGA and their movement and put in much darker places than they perhaps already felt. I've always said, you know, look

empathy is a is a good thing and that, you know, supporting the bullies was always a bad thing when I grew up and we should feel comfortable as men to call out that behavior when people are, again, trying to use the phrases of, this is what an alpha is and this is what it is. And I'm like, that actually is the behavior that's being exhibited by these MAGA leaders to me who call themselves alpha, to me is deeply problematic. And what I like about this book is you said it's okay to feel these things, and it's

okay to make mistakes, but let's try to fix it. Let's try to be better. Let's aspire for something more. Yeah, no, I love that, man. Look, it's about empathy, care, and compassion. Those are the superpowers. You want to talk about strength. It's defined in those terms. It's not power, dominance, and aggression. It's not power, dominance, and aggression. It's about moral authority, not formal authority. You don't have to be something to do something.

Donald Trump is learning that. The more he uses his formal authority, the less he has of it. The more we, the people, the people of Minneapolis, use our moral authority, the more abundant it becomes. It's reflected in aspects of this book, failing forward fast, learning from mistakes, trying not to make them again, the grace and humility, the human expression, the human experience,

and how we have privileges and challenges, and how they shape us, and how our parents, man. All the good and the bad. My mom said to me, it's in the book, she said something that just broke me. She said, it's okay to be average because I was struggling reading. She was worried I was going to drop out of school.

I was going into community college, 960. Thank you for reminding me of my SAT. It hurt me. I'm like, man, I in part of the memoir Discovery, is I understood she was just on her journey trying to be a good parent. She was struggling herself, just like, it's okay.

You don't have to be smarter than anyone. And that's life, man. We're all just like, it's not like we're all broken. I don't want to get into that, but it's like, it's just, you know, it's messy and we're all messy and it's okay and you know and so you know that's what it's like to be a man man is recognizing that and into love man and to be loved you know we all need it and ask for help

i mean the strongest people is a bend down on one knee yeah and left other people up also those that ask for help and i had asked for help a lot and that's in this book that's why i say for those who hate me you want more research by the damn book in bulk but for those that hate me, you want more op research, buy the damn book in bulk. But for those that think they know me, I challenge you. Buy a couple books because you may want to pass along to a friend and it may challenge even your assumptions.

Those that love me, I hope I gave you some reason why you may be right. It may be challenging to say, all right, you didn't know that about me, but you know, maybe I offered another layer of understanding that may allow you to forgive me a little bit too. Everybody check out the book, Young Man in a Hurry, a memoir of discovery. Governor, thanks for being on. We always appreciate you.

We appreciate the work you're doing here in California and for this country. Honor to be back with you. Thank you, brother. Thank you, brother.

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