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 ...

What is his bar for invoking the Insurrection Act. And can you describe some of the conversations around that particular topic that have been underway. Well, sure.Right now, it's keeping California safe. If if Gavin Newsome isn't going to keep California safe, we are. So, right now in California, we're at a good point.We're not we're not scared to go further. We're not frightened to do something else if we need to. Right now, we're trying with the hammers banging up sidewalks.Is it something else. Like, wha ...

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 ...

Legal Action & Concerns - California's Attorney General sought a restraining order against the deployment of National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles [1] - The concern revolves around the potential violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts military involvement in civilian law enforcement [7] - The Attorney General argues the National Guard deployment lacks proper authority and Governor's consent [8][9] Mission & Deployment - The stated mission of the deployed National Guard and Marines is to protect federal property, operations, functions, and personnel, potentially involving interaction with ICE agents [6] - The California National Guard typically operates under the command of the Governor, focusing on issues like fentanyl inflow and wildfire suppression [12][13] - Marines are not under the command of the Governor, and their involvement in civilian law enforcement activities is questioned [14] Insurrection Act & Power - There is concern that President Trump is attempting to invoke the Insurrection Act to gain more power, despite the absence of an actual insurrection, rebellion, or invasion [15][16][17][18][20] - The Attorney General believes the administration is deliberately using language to suggest an insurrection to justify invoking the Act [16] - The Attorney General states that if the President attempts to claim an insurrection where one doesn't exist, they will take him to court [20]

Mark, welcome. Uh, you know, one of the questions that I have, I I want to start with you on a sort of non-legal footing. Uh, I know we want to get into some of the legal stuff here, but I want to from the standpoint of how the American people from your estimation should now be absorbing and posturing themselves relative to what we see this administration trying to do, and that is to provoke the hell out of them.to get them to the point where they flash respond so that this administration can bring that ham ...

The troops that are being deployed here are not being deployed for our purposes. We did not request through the sheriff, through the mutual aid system for National Guard troops. What are the troops in in in LA to do.Uh and that is unclear to pretty much everybody at this time. That's the LAPD police chief basically saying unclear uh what these troops are supposed to do and they don't need them. We are joined now by Congressman Seth Molton of Massachusetts.He's a veteran, a former US Marine captain who serve ...

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 ...

Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbour and we are covering the late breaking news out of Los Angeles. Late today, the latest development in a clash that seems escalated by the federal government under the Trump administration includes now a small number of US Marines formally mobilized to respond to this ongoing clash and the protests.Today's protests, and you can see some of the footage and we've been tracking this, are overwhelmingly peaceful across the city there. The escalation though has little precedent ...