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First of all, we want to make sure that what has happened in California does not happen in Texas. Texas is a law and order state and we will use every tool that we can to ensure order across our state. That includes the deployment of Texas Department of Public Safety officers as well as Texas National Guard in strategic locations where they can provide the most robust response where needed.That's Texas Governor Greg Abbott there taking a tough stand and mirroring President Trump's strategy of deploying Nati ...

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 ...

Overall, the initial protests over these ICE raids have clearly morphed into something larger. The president seeking this conflict, seeking a chance to use what are clearly extraordinary powers, unusual powers, rarely deployed federal powers while overruling the sitting governor of the state. Democrats have been pushing back. They are taking him to court as mentioned. But overall, in what is still an early period in the second term of this unusual Trump presidency, the nation is facing a wider reckoning ove ...

You know, the deployment itself is the problem. We have very specific guardrails in the United States to make sure that we live under a civilian authority, not military rule. And so if the president wants to deploy the military, the president wants to deploy the National Guard without the consent of state and local leaders.There are only extremely specific rare circumstances under which you can do that. That's invasion. There's no invasion.That's rebellion. There's no rebellion. And if the state and local a ...