you and I want to bring in Democratic Congressman representing part of his native San Antonio, Wen Castro. Congressman, thanks for joining us. I first want to play for you, Governor Abbott, explaining his decision to send in those National Guard troops.Watch. 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 ...

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 ...