POTUS speaks on deploying the National Guard to California: 'I went right by every rule.'

You have to remember, I've been here before. And I went right by every rule, and I waited for governors to say, send in the National Guard. They wouldn't do it. They wouldn't do it, and they just wouldn't do it. It kept going on and on, got worse and worse. And in Minneapolis, that city was burning down seven days. And I said, I don't care. The governor, who's a governor that just happened to be running for vice president, a total. You talk about an incompetent governor. He's an incompetent person that he was picked. Well, I was actually very happy he was picked for other reasons. But this guy wouldn't call the National Guard. And we ultimately just sent in the National Guard. We stopped it, but that was after seven days. And I said to myself, if that stuff happens again, we've got to make faster decisions because they don't want to do it. The radical left, it's usually radical left and it's usually governors that are Democrat. And they don't want to call them in. They don't want to save lives, they don't want to save property. They don't want to call them in. I don't know what it is. We sent them in not early, we sent them in late, as far as I'm concerned. But big problems, as you know, three nights ago, big problems were ensuing. If we didn't send in the National Guard quickly, right now Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.