>> SUPERPOWER OF A. >> GREAT NIGHT'S SLEEP. >> IN 2005, WHEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS WAS IN A DIRE STATE OF EMERGENCY FROM HURRICANE KATRINA.>> AND ITS AFTERMATH. >> THOUSANDS OF. NATIONAL GUARD.MEMBERS WERE SENT THERE TO HELP WITH RESCUE AND RELIEF AT THE REQUEST OF THE STATE'S GOVERNOR AT THE TIME. AND WHILE PEOPLE WERE REALLY HAPPY TO GET FEDERAL HELP, IT WAS ALSO OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING NEW AND SCARY TO HAVE MILITARY TROOPS ON THEIR STREETS. AND THERE WAS THIS MEMORABLE SCENE CAPTURED IN SPIKE LEE'S DOCUMEN ...

What would you have done if the president of the United States posed this option to you, not only deploying National Guard troops around the authority of a sitting governor, but in fact deploying active duty U.S. Marines to an American city. Well, if the president had actually asked me when I was a governor about deploying National Guard or active duty military, I would have first said, let's assess the situation and whether my law enforcement and civilian law enforcement has the capacity and capability to ...