‘An American president is deliberately fanning flames’: Historian on Trump's use of National Guard

I want to go back to 1992 in Los Angeles when the Rodney King riots broke out. That was the last time the National Guard was in LA. Then President George HW Bush deployed them at the request of the governor.The key word highlighted, underlined, scored, exclamation point is request. Now here we are 33 years later. They are back, but not because the governor asked for it.Quite the opposite. Historian John Meechum joins us now. John, I'm so grateful that you're here because the last time a president bypassed a ...