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This is Gavin Newsom

And, This Is The Conversation The Trump Administration Tried To Cancel (Live From Davos!)

This is Gavin Newsom

iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture

3.07.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this special conversation, Gavin is joined by Ben Smith of Semafor to discuss how much damage Trump is doing to the American brand on the world stage. 

Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, they analyze how Newsom is fighting fire with fire when it comes to Trump's online rhetoric, Canadian PM Mark Carney's remarks on America's international standing, and California's economic record.

00:00 What Trump Tried To Cancel

2:54 CEOs Under Trump

6:49 The Trump Administration's Insults & Fighting Fire With Fire

8:58 America's Role On The World Stage 

17:31 California's Record & The Democratic Party At Large

20:35 Immigration & The Border 

25:25 California's Progressive Tax Structure

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you all for joining us.

0:02.0

And I actually wanted to start.

0:04.0

You or you tweeted last or posted last night.

0:08.0

That this was the

0:10.0

the conversation, and yes, thank you for joining us, Governor.

0:14.0

Thank you so much to the web for hosting this.

0:16.0

This is the conversation that Donald Trump tried to cancel.

0:20.0

Don't miss it, 1130 Pacific. Thank you to our

0:22.9

Pacific time viewers. In fact, this is a different conversation in the Wefts defense. It was the

0:27.8

privately run USA House, which is endorsed by the State Department, funded by big American companies,

0:33.2

which did pull an event with you with Fortune yesterday. Yeah. And I guess I wondered to begin with,

0:39.0

what does that tell you about the way the U.S. private sector,

0:42.1

which is really very heavily represented here?

0:44.2

So you didn't get me in trouble right off the back.

0:46.0

I looked at the, I admit, looking at the list, McKinsey and Microsoft

0:50.8

and a few California companies.

0:53.6

So, have you, what the hell are you even talking about?

0:56.9

But it's indicative, I think, of America,

0:59.0

for those that you're not American.

1:00.4

And it gives you a sense of what we're up against

1:03.3

and what's happening across my country

1:06.7

and what happened here in Davos.

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