Defense Secretary Hegsth grilled over the military deployments. He's under oath here on Capitol Hill. And while some of this may still be a cross between dodging a question or trying to match the president's rhetoric, we are seeing again the normalizing or softening of the kind of lines that Pentagon chiefs in every administration and party would always be able to emphatically say, "No, of course we don't use troops domestically to arrest American citizens." But yet here was the version of the answer today. ...

on January 6th with violence against the Constitution, against the Congress, and against the United States Capital, we beg the President of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it. And yet, in an contraon constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California.Something is very wrong with this. ...

There are protests that continued throughout downtown Los Angeles. Overnight, this time less violent than what we saw over the weekend. Fewer clashes reported yesterday with law enforcement as groups marched across the city in protest of the Trump administration's immigration raids.Despite that, the White House deployed another 2,000 National Guard troops, bringing the total number to 4,700 Marines also were activated. California Governor Gavin Newsome says the deployment of troops is unnecessary and only s ...

Thank you for the real-time images that you're showing of uh what all appear to be peaceful assemblies. Uh which is what we want. We want calm. We want peace. Uh we want people to assemble peacefully, lawfully, safely.And uh we want uh the law to be followed. And yes, that includes the president of the United States um who here has overstepped his authority. He's trying to exercise authority.He does not have. He has invoked a statute which can only uh be used to call in the National Guard if there's uh an i ...