Mike Pence Reacts To Deployment Of Marines To LA, Says He Supports Trump Sending National Guard

Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke to CNN on Sunday about the anti-ICE demonstrations.

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00:00Well, I do support the president's decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles,

00:05because as you can see in the days that followed, it wasn't just Los Angeles.

00:10Their riots began to emerge in other cities, but I think a strong show of force, securing

00:17peace in the streets of L.A., sent a very important message all across the country.

00:23With regard to activating the Marines, I have read that.

00:28I mean, obviously, we have a policy of posse comitatus.

00:30We don't use our military against our civilians.

00:33But military personnel are able to secure federal assets, federal buildings.

00:41And I am confident that the administration going forward will make sure, and frankly,

00:47the United States Marine Corps will make sure that any deployment here domestically is consistent

00:54with that great tradition.

00:56MR.

00:57Well, as I said, there's ñ I visited a lot of embassies around the world ñ so have

01:02you, Dana.

01:03And Marines are deployed to protect American embassies all around the world.

01:09We do site protection.

01:11The Marines do a brilliant job at that.

01:14Thanks for mentioning my son.

01:16We're awful proud of his service, as well as my son-in-law, who's in the U.S. Navy.

01:20And, look, I just have a lot of confidence in our military, a lot of confidence in our armed

01:28forces.

01:29And I'm sure the ñ I'm sure the administration will respect that great tradition that we use

01:37our military for proper forces to defend our interests, to defend our nation.

01:41And, look, I just have a voice to do all of our efforts to defend our nation.

01:42Thank you, novamente.

01:43Thanks, sir.

01:44We will try to defend our nation.