June 15, 2025 • 23 mins
Members of Congress aren't having it. Trump’s ICE raids and troop deployments in California sparked outrage — and Pete Hegseth got absolutely cooked trying to defend it.
🔥 $134 million spent on ICE and military operations — without California’s consent
🔥 Marines deployed, raids ordered, and a “birthday parade” for Trump?
🔥 Lawmakers torched Hegseth over militarized tactics and taxpayer waste
🔥 California said NO. Trump did it anyway.
This isn’t law and order. It’s an invasion.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Folks, Donald Trump's decision to say in military to California
is going to cost American tax payers one hundred and
thirty four million dollars. It is grossly unnecessary. It's a
waste of money. But he's also spending about one hundred
million dollars on his stupid parade. Military parade that's really
about celebrating his birthday. It is not about celebrating in
(00:20):
two hundred and fifty years of the United States Army.
Now as a battle that continues to heat up between
Governor gaven Usibaturnian General Rob Bonta and that full sitting
at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, First and Foremost Trump Live.
He claims that he called the governor of California, couldn't
get him on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Newsom literally posted a screenshot of his caller ID on
social media shows that he is absolute lying. This is
unconstitutional move of the he is making now Governor news
of his fowl and emergency lawsuit against the Trump administration,
arguing that the Trump attacks on California is a problem
(01:01):
when it comes to states rights. Yeah, that's real. So
here is some discussion. Well, first of all, here is
what this full Pete Hassek. Of course, the Defense Secretary
told Congress today about this, this this one hundred thirty
four million dollars in troops now going to California.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Misterctarrey, I want to express my severe concern with the
deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles without consultation
of the state of California. There have been photographs that
have shown these troops sleeping on the floor and have
not been provided fuel, food, or water by DoD. How
long will this deployment last? And why were we unprepared
to provide them basic necessities such and such as food
(01:39):
and water.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The commanders and troops on the field are very well prepared, Sir.
They wrapped, they responded incredibly rapidly to a deteriorating situation.
With equipment and capabilities, we have made sure from the
top down. As a Secretary of Defense who's been in
a unit holding riot shield outside the White House during
the chaos of the summer of twenty twenty, I know
(02:05):
what it's like to be immediately deployed into a situation
like that. There are moments where you may do as
best you can temporarily, but we are ensuring they're housed,
fed water capabilities in real time from my office, because
I care that much about the California Guard and the
Marines and the men and women who are supporting ouration
to the ground. It's true every day, and that's a
(02:27):
disingenuous attack that misrepresents how much we care about our
troops and what they're doing to defend ice ages. I'm
not going to take the fact that we don't care
about the troops. Nobody cares more about the troops at
the top than this secretary and the chairman in our department.
The deployment lasts We stated very publicly that it's sixty
days because we want to ensure that those rioters, looters
(02:47):
and thugs on the other side assaulting our police officers
know that we're not going anywhere. We're here to maintain
the piece on behalf of law enforcement officers in Los
Angeles appreciate, which Gavin Newsom won't do.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
What is the estimated cost of the deploys meant for
the Guard and the Marines to LA and where's this
funding coming from? Will be coming from quality of life
programs that affect our service members or our families. If
you want to wait to life, and before I handed
to such as updates housing and barracks.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Before I handed to Brand, the insinuation that we're pulling
money from housing in barracks in order to find this
is disingenuous and incorrect. I just ask Brand can give
you the numbers. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So the current estimate cost is one hundred and thirty
four million dollars, which is largely just TDY cost travel, housing, food,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Where's it coming from, that's the cost.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Where's it coming from their own m accounts?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
With the most recent deployment of the Marines, Mister secretary,
what's the justification for using the military for civilian law
enforcement purposes in LA? Why are you sending war fighters
to cities to interact with civilians?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Every American citizen deserves to be live in a community
that's safe, and ICE agents need to be able to
do their job. They're being attacked for doing their job,
which is deporting illegal criminals. That should happen in any city,
Minneapolis or Los Angeles, and if they're attacked, that's lawless.
And President Trump believes in law and order, so he
(04:12):
has every authority and he has done mobilizing National Guard
or active duty troops under US Code to protect let's
talk federal agents in their job, which is exactly what
we're doing.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And we're proud to do.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
We're proud to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Ten USC of the US Code twelve four oh six
as a legal basis that the President use cites three
examples and circumstances for the guard invasioned by a foreign nation,
rebellion or dangerous rebellion against the authority of the government
of the United States, or the President is unable for
with regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,
(04:46):
which authority is triggered here to justify the use.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You just read it yourself and people can listen themselves.
But it sounds like all three to me. If you've
got millions of illegals and you don't know where they're
coming from, they're waving flags from foreign countries and assaulting police.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Officers, and.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Laws of the United States.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The governor of California is unable to execute the laws
of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
The President, you said, governor.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Of the California has failed to protect his people, along
with the mayor of Los Angeles, and so President Trump
has said he will protect our agents and our guarden Marines.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Also says mister sigres Hary that the orders for these
purposes shall be issued through governors of the States.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You and I both know that President Trump has all
the authorities necessary, and thankfully he's willing to do it.
On behalf of the citizens of Los Angeles, on behalf
of our ice agents, and behalf of our country.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We've also pulled a billion dollars for the for the
border as well, so this just goes into the same
you know, fund one hundred and thirty four with corson
what's it, one hundred and thirty four million, I was
asking miss McDonald one hundred and thirty one hundred and
thirty four million goes on top of the billion that's
been pulled for.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So the funding that was pulled for this year was
largely in FSRM, and in this budget, we're actually looking
to plus that funding back up to backfill that for
our troops and for their families.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You see these sheer arrogance of this idiot, Pete Heck says,
Now to understand where we are, Folks in Lost Angeles
say that the presence of the military plus these ice
agents is making it very difficult to quell the protests
that are taking there. They also say warning that the
presence of abysmal president of federal troops is inflaming the
(06:30):
tensions there in Los Angeles. Now US District Judge Charles
Bryer will decide whether to halt the deployment other troops
in the coming days due to this particular lawsuit. So
lots of drama going on. Let's going to our pant on.
Doctor Masapo Santiago, I leave former Senior and Vositor for
Environmental Justice at the EPA, Joinsmiths out of d C.
Doctor Larry Walker, social professor, University of Central Florida out
(06:52):
of Orlando, Tylerick macmillan, and social justice leader movement strategist
out of d C. What you have here obviously administration
that wants to provoke this mustafa. You see Trump lying
about Governor Gaven Newsom, lying about him not returning his
phone calls. And so that's what we got going on here.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And then you saw p. Hickson he also was lying there.
The law is the law. It is very clear when
in terms of the authority, uh, when you are to
send troops. Uh, to states. It's a request from the governor.
We all know that. In fact, we played it yesterday
Control Room. Get the clip ready. Don't Trump even said
it himself before. But see they don't care. They will
(07:32):
just change stuff at a heartbeat and go, oh, we
can't do it. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean, we're very clear.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
The beauty of this show, the beauty of this network
is you know, even a year before the election, we
began to lay out for folks the things that you
should be thinking about, that you could should be concerned with,
because you know, we had a blueprint from the first
Trump administration and we knew that they were going to
you know, Trump two point zero, that they were going
to turn it up. So now you see an individual
(08:01):
who is trying as diligently as he possibly can to
make sure that martial law is happening across our country
to be able to strip rights away from individuals. You know,
they have very little concern for the law when the
law stops them from doing egregious types of actions. So
we're seeing it continually playing out right here in front
(08:22):
of us, and they will do anything that they can
to fan the flames. And when they do that, then
they try and justify bringing in individuals when we could
be using that money to actually feed people or to
house the unhoused. There are so many different things that
we could be doing with that one hundred and thirty
four million and one hundred plus million for the parade
(08:44):
that would actually benefit both our most vulnerable and people
across our country.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But they don't care because what this is about is
a television show, Larry, that's all this is. Donald Trump
wants to present all of it like it's a big
TV show. Yes, so I have a brute a show
of force. And again his actions are wrong. He knows
it's illegal because he actually said it. Roll it four years.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
I promised four years ago at the Democrat at the
Republican Convention, I'm going to restore law in order and
I have accepting Democrat run cities. Look, we have laws.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We have to go by the laws.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
We can't move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection,
but there's no reason to ever do that. Even in
a Portland case, we can't call in the National Guard
unless we're requested by a governor.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sounds pretty clear to me, Larry.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Make its way into the lawsuit that's being filed by
the governor. Its first hand hearing the here the president
state of himself that he can't do what he's doing
right now. And I think one of the things rolling
that people are watching is understand we've talked about this
for the last several months, about Project twenty twenty five,
and undoubtedly some of the things that were going to happen.
This relates to ICE and Views and other agencies to
(10:14):
identify individuals they want to remove in the United States.
This is not about democracy, Roland. This is about power
and people have to understand that. And so the only
way you can obviously deal with this is protest. And
so the President once again said to himself that he
shouldn't be able to simply send troops use the National
Guard in California without asking, you know, make sure the
(10:37):
governor is signed off on it. I think the other
thing is interesting is from a historical perspective, Roland, is
that we haven't really seen anything like this in terms
of what the governor of a state is asking for
when the president provides since the nineteen sixties. Is the
relates to civil righting movement, and we know that at
that time black folks were fighting for to be treated like,
(10:58):
you know, like citizens. You know, decades later, we're we're
back in the same problem issue again, but this time
is obviously doing those who are you know, you know,
individuals who have to come to this country, many of
who are law abidying and seeking for a better life.
But once again, understand, this is about power. This is
not about democracy. The other challenge with this Roman is
(11:18):
this will escalate. Whether it's California or LA or another
you know, state or city, this will escalate until eventually individual,
one person or individuals will be harmed. This is going
to be on TV. And then the question is how
do people in those communities and throughout the nation respond
when they see violence like we saw we've seen numerous
times and with escalation in terms of interactions with law
(11:40):
enforcement throughout the last several years, what will be the
response when someone gets hurt and it's filmed on live television.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
They don't care, Tyler, and so you see what they're doing,
and yes, they want this to be the case. They
want to say this battle, they want to have it.
And again it's just you're well force and you know,
we're gonna sit here and take control of this h
you know, so this clip, Steven A. Smith was saying,
oh that Donald Trump is winning on this though he's not.
And so, so what you're seeing is you're seeing the feelings.
(12:14):
You're seeing these things brew And I'm telling you this
is the moment where I believe fundamentally you've got to
have people who recognize that they have to stand up,
they must fight, they must do battle. They must recognize
that these thugs are going to continue doing this and
(12:35):
the American people do not fight back, then they are
going to continue absolutely Roland.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
And I think you know, history tells us this that
silence in the face of tyranny is complacency. But protests,
especially protests that is rooted in love, is the heartbeat
of our democracy and it's the heartbeat of who we
are as people are standing up to biggots and tyrants
and so and I think you know, it's a simple fact.
It's a powerful demand that protesters are echoing across the
(13:06):
world to stop criminalizing families, to stop caging our children,
to stop using tax dollars to terrorize great communities. Because
what we see here is not a mirror of strength,
but it's a mirror of tyranny. And it's not law
and order, but it's really lawlessness cloaked in a badge.
(13:27):
And I want to be very clear on this that
you know, this is just not about immigration policy. It's
more about the right to descend. It's about the right
to gather, the right to raise our voices, the right
to speak up and without being brutalized or terrorized or
or labeled a domestic terrorist the First I believe the
First Amendment was not written for us to be comfortable,
(13:50):
but it was written for us to protect the very
uncomfortable truths to the ones that are in power. And
I think, as you said before, now is the time
not to be dismayed or to be comfortable or complacent,
but now is the time to speak up and stand
tinto's down on what what what we believe in standing
up to a biggot in tyranny.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And I hope people really understand what is going on here.
I'm going to read for you Mustafa. Uh this is
a comment. Uh, this was a uh this was a
very interesting comment here. Uh So Christopher Ruffo, who is
the leader against CRT and WO can d o all
(14:36):
those different things. This is literally what he wrote on
his substact and if you want to understand how demented
these people are and really what their goal is, they
still are mad, and I keep telling people they still
are angry and mad with what took place to the
(14:59):
Black Lives Matter prop tests. This is what he wrote
at the same time as we saw demonstrated in Portland,
Oregon during the George Floyd He calls them riots. The
agencies should dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and
snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking.
(15:21):
The most effective riot control is to I need everybody
listening to me right now. This is Christopher Ruffo. Conservatives
love him. Ron DeSantis loves him. The most effective riot
controlled is to take movement leaders off the field, infiltrate
(15:43):
their networks, disrupt the flow of funding, and roll them
up in felleral investigations. Denying the left trained protest leaders
now will create a strong precedent for the rest of
the president term. Christopher Rufo is calling for co intail
(16:04):
pro two point zero.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, you know, they took their lessons from Jagar Hoover
and the things that they did in relationship to the
civil rights movement and the Aim movement, this Chicano Movement,
all these movements. So you know, now we're, you know,
seventy years past that, and they continue to understand that
there is power and unity, that there is power also
(16:30):
in us realizing that we don't have to have these
types of egregious behaviors going on. Doctor King once said
that a riot is the language of the unheard, and
that's exactly what we see playing out. So they want
to silence your voice. They want to make sure also
that you know, they have the power to control voting, housing, transportation,
(16:50):
all the things that are connected to resources. They want
to make sure that they can strip those away. So
if individuals can't speak out and talk about the disparate
impacts that are happening, then they win. Now that's why.
And you know, I've had these conversations with brothers and
sisters over the last couple of days that we have
to be very conscious. Right. I hear people saying, well,
(17:10):
we don't need to get involved, And I'm remembered of
that poem that says, first they came for the Jews, right,
and that I did not speak out because I was
not a Jew. And then they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
And then they came for the trade unionists, and I
did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
You can go all the way down all these types
of things that we currently have going on in our
(17:31):
country and place those in. You know, I wasn't black,
so I didn't say anything. I wasn't an lgbd Q member,
so I didn't say anything. You know, I wasn't x
Y or Z. So we have to understand this game
that is being played right, and the game has been
well thought out. They have learned lessons from the past,
and they understand how to strip your rights away, and
(17:53):
that's what they are trying to play out right here
on your screen. They said that the revolution will not
be televised. Well, we're seeing right before how mothers are
being taken from their children, you know, how grandmothers are
being caught up in this and so many other folks.
So yes, I understand that we have to take care
of our community. I completely understand that, but we also
(18:13):
have some responsibility to make sure that we're also living
up to what Malcolm said. Malcolm once said wrong is wrong,
No matter who does it or says it. So if
we remember those words, we can also make sure that
we are taking care of our community and strengthening and
also understanding why strategic partnerships and alliances are so important
when you're dealing with fascists who are trying to pit
(18:35):
one against the other. To be able to control.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Those comments right there laying by Christopher Ruffo, this is
what the right wants to do. They despise protesters. Now
they don't mind January sixth protesters. Donald Trump complains about
all these folks are attacking costs, but he had no
problem partning those white domestic terrorists on who did what
(19:04):
they did in January sixth. And so what they're all
saying is, hey, if you beat up cops for me,
I will free you from prison. The rest of you,
the rest of you who choose to protest, I'm throwing
you in jail.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, Roland, this is a huge contradiction we all on
January sixth watch none of that. You know, not just
see in the United States, but people throughout the world.
Watch what happened in terms of the individual's brutalized law
enforcement break it to you as capital trash. It you know,
ten hundreds of thousands of dollars, million, millions of dollars
in terms of property, and we don't even talk about
all things that happen in a countryman, policy, so office, etc.
(19:41):
So we watched that that international embarrassment, and here we
are a few years later. You write many of these
those insurrectionists have been pardoned, and we're now saying that
people who are mostly peaceful protesting is inconsistent with democratic values.
And I go back to the point I made earlier
about power and not democracy. This is about power. Listen,
(20:03):
if you're going to uphold white nationalist ideas and views
that you're fine. If you are fighting for a multi
racial democracy, they have a problem with you and Roland
you highlight them very important and we can continue to
go back to Project twenty twenty five. That first administration
was a dry run. They have now fine tuned the
(20:25):
system that every step they need to take to make
sure they undermine democracy. That's why we see more and
more conversations about individuals being grabbed, and jurisdictions throughout the
United States never hear it from them. Again. People don't
know where their family members are. This will continue to escalate.
Until they continue to to send grab people off the
(20:45):
streets drop black box them. You won't ever hear from
individuals again. And once again you'll find out that El Salvador,
you know, they try to sell sent some people to
South Sudan and various other parts of the world. That
is not democracy. We don't have due process. We also
have to remember we have you have to buy by
the US Constitution, and individuals have the right to protest.
So we don't continue to keep our eyes on the prize.
(21:07):
Once again, we will find more and more of our
individuals that we care about those who are protesting to
fight to make sure we maintain a democracy. Those individuals
once again will be grabbed up and dropped into a
black box.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, we see exactly what's going on here, and I'm
gonna tell you point blank at Tyler, people need to
understand they want to do this all across the country.
Folks should gird themselves for more of this.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Absolutely, this is a moment that I think we must
decide whether we stand on the sidelines and let freedom
be redefined by fear. I think, you know, from the
Garvey Movement to the Haitian Revolution to Angela Davis, and
as you mentioned, Black Lives Matter and dream Defenders, our
freedoms have always understood that liberation is the goal. And
(21:56):
even as I'm seeing these ice rays, I'm thinking, you know,
they mirrored slave catching patrols, storming homes and separating families,
and the detention centers are looking like modern day plantations,
and we're seeing, you know, mass deportations that's happening, And
I think it's just a reflective that history repeats itself,
and we must really decide which side of history we
(22:17):
stand on. I always say all the time, people always say, well,
in the sixties are set, ou would.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It did this?
Speaker 9 (22:23):
But now history is our is at our doorstep, and
we must decide which side of history we would stand on,
and what would the history books say about us in
this moment in time.
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Folks, Donald Trump's decision to say in military to California
is going to cost American tax payers one hundred and
thirty four million dollars. It is grossly unnecessary. It's a
waste of money. But he's also spending about one hundred
million dollars on his stupid parade. Military parade that's really
about celebrating his birthday. It is not about celebrating in
(00:20):
two hundred and fifty years of the United States Army.
Now as a battle that continues to heat up between
Governor gaven Usibaturnian General Rob Bonta and that full sitting
at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, First and Foremost Trump Live.
He claims that he called the governor of California, couldn't
get him on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Newsom literally posted a screenshot of his caller ID on
social media shows that he is absolute lying. This is
unconstitutional move of the he is making now Governor news
of his fowl and emergency lawsuit against the Trump administration,
arguing that the Trump attacks on California is a problem
(01:01):
when it comes to states rights. Yeah, that's real. So
here is some discussion. Well, first of all, here is
what this full Pete Hassek. Of course, the Defense Secretary
told Congress today about this, this this one hundred thirty
four million dollars in troops now going to California.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Misterctarrey, I want to express my severe concern with the
deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles without consultation
of the state of California. There have been photographs that
have shown these troops sleeping on the floor and have
not been provided fuel, food, or water by DoD. How
long will this deployment last? And why were we unprepared
to provide them basic necessities such and such as food
(01:39):
and water.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The commanders and troops on the field are very well prepared, Sir.
They wrapped, they responded incredibly rapidly to a deteriorating situation.
With equipment and capabilities, we have made sure from the
top down. As a Secretary of Defense who's been in
a unit holding riot shield outside the White House during
the chaos of the summer of twenty twenty, I know
(02:05):
what it's like to be immediately deployed into a situation
like that. There are moments where you may do as
best you can temporarily, but we are ensuring they're housed,
fed water capabilities in real time from my office, because
I care that much about the California Guard and the
Marines and the men and women who are supporting ouration
to the ground. It's true every day, and that's a
(02:27):
disingenuous attack that misrepresents how much we care about our
troops and what they're doing to defend ice ages. I'm
not going to take the fact that we don't care
about the troops. Nobody cares more about the troops at
the top than this secretary and the chairman in our department.
The deployment lasts We stated very publicly that it's sixty
days because we want to ensure that those rioters, looters
(02:47):
and thugs on the other side assaulting our police officers
know that we're not going anywhere. We're here to maintain
the piece on behalf of law enforcement officers in Los
Angeles appreciate, which Gavin Newsom won't do.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
What is the estimated cost of the deploys meant for
the Guard and the Marines to LA and where's this
funding coming from? Will be coming from quality of life
programs that affect our service members or our families. If
you want to wait to life, and before I handed
to such as updates housing and barracks.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Before I handed to Brand, the insinuation that we're pulling
money from housing in barracks in order to find this
is disingenuous and incorrect. I just ask Brand can give
you the numbers. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So the current estimate cost is one hundred and thirty
four million dollars, which is largely just TDY cost travel, housing, food,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Where's it coming from, that's the cost.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Where's it coming from their own m accounts?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
With the most recent deployment of the Marines, Mister secretary,
what's the justification for using the military for civilian law
enforcement purposes in LA? Why are you sending war fighters
to cities to interact with civilians?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Every American citizen deserves to be live in a community
that's safe, and ICE agents need to be able to
do their job. They're being attacked for doing their job,
which is deporting illegal criminals. That should happen in any city,
Minneapolis or Los Angeles, and if they're attacked, that's lawless.
And President Trump believes in law and order, so he
(04:12):
has every authority and he has done mobilizing National Guard
or active duty troops under US Code to protect let's
talk federal agents in their job, which is exactly what
we're doing.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And we're proud to do.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
We're proud to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Ten USC of the US Code twelve four oh six
as a legal basis that the President use cites three
examples and circumstances for the guard invasioned by a foreign nation,
rebellion or dangerous rebellion against the authority of the government
of the United States, or the President is unable for
with regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,
(04:46):
which authority is triggered here to justify the use.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You just read it yourself and people can listen themselves.
But it sounds like all three to me. If you've
got millions of illegals and you don't know where they're
coming from, they're waving flags from foreign countries and assaulting police.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Officers, and.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Laws of the United States.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The governor of California is unable to execute the laws
of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
The President, you said, governor.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Of the California has failed to protect his people, along
with the mayor of Los Angeles, and so President Trump
has said he will protect our agents and our guarden Marines.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Also says mister sigres Hary that the orders for these
purposes shall be issued through governors of the States.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You and I both know that President Trump has all
the authorities necessary, and thankfully he's willing to do it.
On behalf of the citizens of Los Angeles, on behalf
of our ice agents, and behalf of our country.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We've also pulled a billion dollars for the for the
border as well, so this just goes into the same
you know, fund one hundred and thirty four with corson
what's it, one hundred and thirty four million, I was
asking miss McDonald one hundred and thirty one hundred and
thirty four million goes on top of the billion that's
been pulled for.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So the funding that was pulled for this year was
largely in FSRM, and in this budget, we're actually looking
to plus that funding back up to backfill that for
our troops and for their families.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You see these sheer arrogance of this idiot, Pete Heck says,
Now to understand where we are, Folks in Lost Angeles
say that the presence of the military plus these ice
agents is making it very difficult to quell the protests
that are taking there. They also say warning that the
presence of abysmal president of federal troops is inflaming the
(06:30):
tensions there in Los Angeles. Now US District Judge Charles
Bryer will decide whether to halt the deployment other troops
in the coming days due to this particular lawsuit. So
lots of drama going on. Let's going to our pant on.
Doctor Masapo Santiago, I leave former Senior and Vositor for
Environmental Justice at the EPA, Joinsmiths out of d C.
Doctor Larry Walker, social professor, University of Central Florida out
(06:52):
of Orlando, Tylerick macmillan, and social justice leader movement strategist
out of d C. What you have here obviously administration
that wants to provoke this mustafa. You see Trump lying
about Governor Gaven Newsom, lying about him not returning his
phone calls. And so that's what we got going on here.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And then you saw p. Hickson he also was lying there.
The law is the law. It is very clear when
in terms of the authority, uh, when you are to
send troops. Uh, to states. It's a request from the governor.
We all know that. In fact, we played it yesterday
Control Room. Get the clip ready. Don't Trump even said
it himself before. But see they don't care. They will
(07:32):
just change stuff at a heartbeat and go, oh, we
can't do it. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean, we're very clear.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
The beauty of this show, the beauty of this network
is you know, even a year before the election, we
began to lay out for folks the things that you
should be thinking about, that you could should be concerned with,
because you know, we had a blueprint from the first
Trump administration and we knew that they were going to
you know, Trump two point zero, that they were going
to turn it up. So now you see an individual
(08:01):
who is trying as diligently as he possibly can to
make sure that martial law is happening across our country
to be able to strip rights away from individuals. You know,
they have very little concern for the law when the
law stops them from doing egregious types of actions. So
we're seeing it continually playing out right here in front
(08:22):
of us, and they will do anything that they can
to fan the flames. And when they do that, then
they try and justify bringing in individuals when we could
be using that money to actually feed people or to
house the unhoused. There are so many different things that
we could be doing with that one hundred and thirty
four million and one hundred plus million for the parade
(08:44):
that would actually benefit both our most vulnerable and people
across our country.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But they don't care because what this is about is
a television show, Larry, that's all this is. Donald Trump
wants to present all of it like it's a big
TV show. Yes, so I have a brute a show
of force. And again his actions are wrong. He knows
it's illegal because he actually said it. Roll it four years.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
I promised four years ago at the Democrat at the
Republican Convention, I'm going to restore law in order and
I have accepting Democrat run cities. Look, we have laws.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We have to go by the laws.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
We can't move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection,
but there's no reason to ever do that. Even in
a Portland case, we can't call in the National Guard
unless we're requested by a governor.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sounds pretty clear to me, Larry.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Make its way into the lawsuit that's being filed by
the governor. Its first hand hearing the here the president
state of himself that he can't do what he's doing
right now. And I think one of the things rolling
that people are watching is understand we've talked about this
for the last several months, about Project twenty twenty five,
and undoubtedly some of the things that were going to happen.
This relates to ICE and Views and other agencies to
(10:14):
identify individuals they want to remove in the United States.
This is not about democracy, Roland. This is about power
and people have to understand that. And so the only
way you can obviously deal with this is protest. And
so the President once again said to himself that he
shouldn't be able to simply send troops use the National
Guard in California without asking, you know, make sure the
(10:37):
governor is signed off on it. I think the other
thing is interesting is from a historical perspective, Roland, is
that we haven't really seen anything like this in terms
of what the governor of a state is asking for
when the president provides since the nineteen sixties. Is the
relates to civil righting movement, and we know that at
that time black folks were fighting for to be treated like,
(10:58):
you know, like citizens. You know, decades later, we're we're
back in the same problem issue again, but this time
is obviously doing those who are you know, you know,
individuals who have to come to this country, many of
who are law abidying and seeking for a better life.
But once again, understand, this is about power. This is
not about democracy. The other challenge with this Roman is
(11:18):
this will escalate. Whether it's California or LA or another
you know, state or city, this will escalate until eventually individual,
one person or individuals will be harmed. This is going
to be on TV. And then the question is how
do people in those communities and throughout the nation respond
when they see violence like we saw we've seen numerous
times and with escalation in terms of interactions with law
(11:40):
enforcement throughout the last several years, what will be the
response when someone gets hurt and it's filmed on live television.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
They don't care, Tyler, and so you see what they're doing,
and yes, they want this to be the case. They
want to say this battle, they want to have it.
And again it's just you're well force and you know,
we're gonna sit here and take control of this h
you know, so this clip, Steven A. Smith was saying,
oh that Donald Trump is winning on this though he's not.
And so, so what you're seeing is you're seeing the feelings.
(12:14):
You're seeing these things brew And I'm telling you this
is the moment where I believe fundamentally you've got to
have people who recognize that they have to stand up,
they must fight, they must do battle. They must recognize
that these thugs are going to continue doing this and
(12:35):
the American people do not fight back, then they are
going to continue absolutely Roland.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
And I think you know, history tells us this that
silence in the face of tyranny is complacency. But protests,
especially protests that is rooted in love, is the heartbeat
of our democracy and it's the heartbeat of who we
are as people are standing up to biggots and tyrants
and so and I think you know, it's a simple fact.
It's a powerful demand that protesters are echoing across the
(13:06):
world to stop criminalizing families, to stop caging our children,
to stop using tax dollars to terrorize great communities. Because
what we see here is not a mirror of strength,
but it's a mirror of tyranny. And it's not law
and order, but it's really lawlessness cloaked in a badge.
(13:27):
And I want to be very clear on this that
you know, this is just not about immigration policy. It's
more about the right to descend. It's about the right
to gather, the right to raise our voices, the right
to speak up and without being brutalized or terrorized or
or labeled a domestic terrorist the First I believe the
First Amendment was not written for us to be comfortable,
(13:50):
but it was written for us to protect the very
uncomfortable truths to the ones that are in power. And
I think, as you said before, now is the time
not to be dismayed or to be comfortable or complacent,
but now is the time to speak up and stand
tinto's down on what what what we believe in standing
up to a biggot in tyranny.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And I hope people really understand what is going on here.
I'm going to read for you Mustafa. Uh this is
a comment. Uh, this was a uh this was a
very interesting comment here. Uh So Christopher Ruffo, who is
the leader against CRT and WO can d o all
(14:36):
those different things. This is literally what he wrote on
his substact and if you want to understand how demented
these people are and really what their goal is, they
still are mad, and I keep telling people they still
are angry and mad with what took place to the
(14:59):
Black Lives Matter prop tests. This is what he wrote
at the same time as we saw demonstrated in Portland,
Oregon during the George Floyd He calls them riots. The
agencies should dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and
snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking.
(15:21):
The most effective riot control is to I need everybody
listening to me right now. This is Christopher Ruffo. Conservatives
love him. Ron DeSantis loves him. The most effective riot
controlled is to take movement leaders off the field, infiltrate
(15:43):
their networks, disrupt the flow of funding, and roll them
up in felleral investigations. Denying the left trained protest leaders
now will create a strong precedent for the rest of
the president term. Christopher Rufo is calling for co intail
(16:04):
pro two point zero.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, you know, they took their lessons from Jagar Hoover
and the things that they did in relationship to the
civil rights movement and the Aim movement, this Chicano Movement,
all these movements. So you know, now we're, you know,
seventy years past that, and they continue to understand that
there is power and unity, that there is power also
(16:30):
in us realizing that we don't have to have these
types of egregious behaviors going on. Doctor King once said
that a riot is the language of the unheard, and
that's exactly what we see playing out. So they want
to silence your voice. They want to make sure also
that you know, they have the power to control voting, housing, transportation,
(16:50):
all the things that are connected to resources. They want
to make sure that they can strip those away. So
if individuals can't speak out and talk about the disparate
impacts that are happening, then they win. Now that's why.
And you know, I've had these conversations with brothers and
sisters over the last couple of days that we have
to be very conscious. Right. I hear people saying, well,
(17:10):
we don't need to get involved, And I'm remembered of
that poem that says, first they came for the Jews, right,
and that I did not speak out because I was
not a Jew. And then they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
And then they came for the trade unionists, and I
did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
You can go all the way down all these types
of things that we currently have going on in our
(17:31):
country and place those in. You know, I wasn't black,
so I didn't say anything. I wasn't an lgbd Q member,
so I didn't say anything. You know, I wasn't x
Y or Z. So we have to understand this game
that is being played right, and the game has been
well thought out. They have learned lessons from the past,
and they understand how to strip your rights away, and
(17:53):
that's what they are trying to play out right here
on your screen. They said that the revolution will not
be televised. Well, we're seeing right before how mothers are
being taken from their children, you know, how grandmothers are
being caught up in this and so many other folks.
So yes, I understand that we have to take care
of our community. I completely understand that, but we also
(18:13):
have some responsibility to make sure that we're also living
up to what Malcolm said. Malcolm once said wrong is wrong,
No matter who does it or says it. So if
we remember those words, we can also make sure that
we are taking care of our community and strengthening and
also understanding why strategic partnerships and alliances are so important
when you're dealing with fascists who are trying to pit
(18:35):
one against the other. To be able to control.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Those comments right there laying by Christopher Ruffo, this is
what the right wants to do. They despise protesters. Now
they don't mind January sixth protesters. Donald Trump complains about
all these folks are attacking costs, but he had no
problem partning those white domestic terrorists on who did what
(19:04):
they did in January sixth. And so what they're all
saying is, hey, if you beat up cops for me,
I will free you from prison. The rest of you,
the rest of you who choose to protest, I'm throwing
you in jail.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, Roland, this is a huge contradiction we all on
January sixth watch none of that. You know, not just
see in the United States, but people throughout the world.
Watch what happened in terms of the individual's brutalized law
enforcement break it to you as capital trash. It you know,
ten hundreds of thousands of dollars, million, millions of dollars
in terms of property, and we don't even talk about
all things that happen in a countryman, policy, so office, etc.
(19:41):
So we watched that that international embarrassment, and here we
are a few years later. You write many of these
those insurrectionists have been pardoned, and we're now saying that
people who are mostly peaceful protesting is inconsistent with democratic values.
And I go back to the point I made earlier
about power and not democracy. This is about power. Listen,
(20:03):
if you're going to uphold white nationalist ideas and views
that you're fine. If you are fighting for a multi
racial democracy, they have a problem with you and Roland
you highlight them very important and we can continue to
go back to Project twenty twenty five. That first administration
was a dry run. They have now fine tuned the
(20:25):
system that every step they need to take to make
sure they undermine democracy. That's why we see more and
more conversations about individuals being grabbed, and jurisdictions throughout the
United States never hear it from them. Again. People don't
know where their family members are. This will continue to escalate.
Until they continue to to send grab people off the
(20:45):
streets drop black box them. You won't ever hear from
individuals again. And once again you'll find out that El Salvador,
you know, they try to sell sent some people to
South Sudan and various other parts of the world. That
is not democracy. We don't have due process. We also
have to remember we have you have to buy by
the US Constitution, and individuals have the right to protest.
So we don't continue to keep our eyes on the prize.
(21:07):
Once again, we will find more and more of our
individuals that we care about those who are protesting to
fight to make sure we maintain a democracy. Those individuals
once again will be grabbed up and dropped into a
black box.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, we see exactly what's going on here, and I'm
gonna tell you point blank at Tyler, people need to
understand they want to do this all across the country.
Folks should gird themselves for more of this.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Absolutely, this is a moment that I think we must
decide whether we stand on the sidelines and let freedom
be redefined by fear. I think, you know, from the
Garvey Movement to the Haitian Revolution to Angela Davis, and
as you mentioned, Black Lives Matter and dream Defenders, our
freedoms have always understood that liberation is the goal. And
(21:56):
even as I'm seeing these ice rays, I'm thinking, you know,
they mirrored slave catching patrols, storming homes and separating families,
and the detention centers are looking like modern day plantations,
and we're seeing, you know, mass deportations that's happening, And
I think it's just a reflective that history repeats itself,
and we must really decide which side of history we
(22:17):
stand on. I always say all the time, people always say, well,
in the sixties are set, ou would.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It did this?
Speaker 9 (22:23):
But now history is our is at our doorstep, and
we must decide which side of history we would stand on,
and what would the history books say about us in
this moment in time.
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