
**FILE** President Obama walks with California Attorney General Kamala Harris (center) and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Feb. 16, 2012, after arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

**FILE** President Obama walks with California Attorney General Kamala Harris (center) and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Feb. 16, 2012, after arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

**FILE** California Attorney General Kamala Harris appears May 10, 2012, before an Assembly committee at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. (Associated Press)

**FILE** California Attorney General Kamala Harris appears May 10, 2012, before an Assembly committee at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. (Associated Press)

President Obama is greeted upon his arrival at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday for a series of fundraisers by (from left) California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and California Attorney General Kamala Harris. (Associated Press)

"They suggested that by joining this lawsuit, the banks would have to pay," California Attorney General Kamala Harris said of defendants in an alleged scam. (Associated Press)

President Barack Obama walks along the tarmac with California Attorney General Kamala Harris, center and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, after Obama arrived on Air Force One, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, in San Francisco, at San Francisco International Airport. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)