Newsom said he's been forced to think about what would happen in the event the Trump administration did secure a federal warrant for his arrest.

California sends $83 billion more to the federal government than it gets back. Most red states are the opposite.

What’s happening right now is very different than anything we’ve seen before,” Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, said in a speech Tuesday night that was seemingly addressed as much to his own state’s residents as to the nation.