Again, our top story tonight right now is about this these troops in the streets from California to DC. And as many people asked across this long summer, how can this be happening in America. How is this legal. And tonight, the answer, fresh from the federal courts, is this is not legal.Donald Trump's deployment of troops to patrol Americans is illegal and it's smacks of an illicit bid to create Trump's own national police force, a police state. And that is according to a federal judge. And I'm going to wal ...

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles this summer was illegal. In his 52-page ruling, federal judge Charles Brier says that Trump violated a 19th century law barring the use of soldiers as cops. The judge then warned the efforts to send troops into other cities could amount to quote creating a national police force with the president as its chief.Joining us now, former federal prosecutor and former lawyer with the Department of Justice and the National Sec ...