Jill Cowan: What are you expecting to hear from President Trump, and what will be your response?

Xavier Becerra: I suspect it’ll be vintage Donald Trump, whatever year of the vintage we’re going to get. And I suspect we’re going to hear a lot about walls; I suspect we’re going to hear a lot about “No collusion.” We’ll probably hear that everything’s been a wild success and I think I’ll be ready to talk about what’s really going on in America.

Your office has been seen as a leader in California’s fights with the Trump administration. What’s the count of lawsuits you’ve filed against the administration?

I think we’re at about 45.

What do you consider your most important battle?

It is hard to narrow, because so many of these are consequential — these aren’t lawsuits that affect just a small community or part of California. Most of these lawsuits impact the entire state, plus people outside. I suspect that because health care has become such an expensive commodity and finally we were beginning to find the secret sauce on it, our defense of the Affordable Care Act for not just Californians, but every American carries consequences that reverberate way beyond just one state.

What do you consider your biggest victory so far in any of those lawsuits?

We’ve had success on the health care side, stopping some of the erosion of services under the Affordable Care Act — for example, women’s reproductive rights services. We were able to get injunctions to stop the Trump administration from eliminating some of those services. That was critical.

The protection of all people, if they want to give service in the military, to our government, they should be able to regardless of their gender identity status.