Welcome to the beat everyone. We're monitoring live pictures from Los Angeles as we come on the air right now. People are continuing these protests after what has widely been reported as the Trump administration's escalation. 700 Marines now deployed by the administration arriving today. You can see some of the indications of this type of military presence on American streets. This is a rare effort to deploy US troops inside the US for what would seem like policing purposes, although the details are in deba ...

The troops that are being deployed here are not being deployed for our purposes. We did not request through the sheriff, through the mutual aid system for National Guard troops. What are the troops in in in LA to do.Uh and that is unclear to pretty much everybody at this time. That's the LAPD police chief basically saying unclear uh what these troops are supposed to do and they don't need them. We are joined now by Congressman Seth Molton of Massachusetts.He's a veteran, a former US Marine captain who serve ...