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00:00Welcome to NTD Evening News.
00:05Our top star tonight, a federal judge today temporarily blocking the Trump administration from firing federal workers.
00:12That says President Trump works to ensure the FBI and military get paid amid the prolonged shutdown.
00:17Meanwhile, the president and FBI director Kash Patel highlight the results of Operation Summer Heat.
00:23Mario Tzu standing by at the White House.
00:25The Supreme Court today heard a second challenge to Louisiana's congressional district map.
00:30The case revisits what role race plays in drawing district lines.
00:35Arlene Richards breaks it down for us.
00:37After a ninth failed attempt to reopen the government, Senate Republicans tee up a vote on a defense appropriations bill to test Democrats' resolve to continue the shutdown.
00:47Luis Eduardo Martinez has the latest from Capitol Hill.
00:49Updates on immigration raids.
00:52Los Angeles County declares an emergency and Broadview, Illinois, takes down a fence at an ICE facility.
00:58But Homeland Security says its enforcement operations are to protect Americans.
01:03And the Hamas terrorist group hands over the bodies of two more hostages.
01:08This comes after Israel says that one recently returned body was not that of a hostage.
01:13Jason Perry reports.
01:19This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City.
01:30Here's Tiffany Meyer.
01:33Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight.
01:36President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel highlighting the accomplishments of the crime crackdown.
01:42And the president tightening federal hiring rules while a judge blocks the administration from firing federal workers.
01:47We now go live to NTD's Washington correspondent, Mari Otsu, at the White House.
01:52Good evening, Mari.
01:53What is the latest from the presser with the president and FBI director?
01:59Tiff, good evening.
02:00Yes, President Trump tonight, alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi,
02:05and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is touting the results of the crime crackdown called Operation Summer Heat,
02:12a three-month FBI initiative to combat crime across the U.S.
02:16Take a look.
02:17You have taken the handcuffs off them and let them do their jobs, and you let cops be cops.
02:24Director Kash Patel announces that since January, more than 28,000 violent criminals have been arrested,
02:31nearly double last year, over 5,000 children rescued, and nearly 2,000 kilos of fentanyl seized,
02:37enough to kill 127 million Americans.
02:40And Patel says the Trump administration's efforts extend to transnational organized crime.
02:45We have gone after espionage activities against our main counterparts in China, Russia, and Iran.
02:52In China alone, we've had over a 50 percent increase in espionage and arrests alone in prosecution.
02:58This coming as the FBI director says that the Chinese Communist Party engages in the greatest level of espionage against the United States
03:06by penetrating our telecommunications infrastructure, water, energy, and electrical grids.
03:12And on China, when asked if we're in for a sustained trade war...
03:15Well, you're in one now.
03:16Look, we have a 100 percent tariff.
03:19If we didn't have tariffs, we would be exposed as being a nothing.
03:25We would have no defense.
03:27You know, they've used tariffs on us.
03:29If we don't have tariffs, we're not going to have national security.
03:32And the president breaking some news on India, saying he spoke to Prime Minister Modi today.
03:36And he assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia.
03:40That's a big stop.
03:42Now we've got to get China to do the same thing.
03:47President Trump suggests that India's move today speeds up the end of the war in Ukraine.
03:52He also emphasizes the importance of his tariff plan in ensuring national security,
03:57floating the idea of attending the Supreme Court arguments in the case against his tariffs.
04:02Tiff?
04:03A lot to look out for before his reported upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi.
04:07And Mari, on another topic, though, what can you tell us about the orders President Trump is signing today?
04:14Sure, Tiff.
04:15So in other efforts to ensure national security, President Trump is signing an executive order today,
04:21a tightening federal hiring rules.
04:24Now, we're on the 15th day of the government shutdown.
04:26And the Office of Management and Budget Director, Russ Vogt, is saying that layoffs will likely reach north of 10,000.
04:33This is coming as a federal judge is blocking temporarily the Trump administration from firing federal workers.
04:39And the Senate vote on the government funding bill fails for the ninth time.
04:43But President Trump ensures that the military will be paid.
04:46Today, he's signing a memo directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and OMB Director of Russ Vogt
04:51to reallocate Department of War funds to pay U.S. troops on time during the government shutdown.
04:57The president also says that FBI workers will continue to get paid during this time.
05:02Tiff, back to you.
05:03The Supreme Court today once again heard arguments over the map for Louisiana's 6th Congressional District,
05:12which was revised earlier this year to create an additional black majority district in the state.
05:17The high court is now considering a lower court's reasons for blocking the revised map.
05:23NTD's Arlene Richards has more.
05:25The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard two cases with opposite views on what role race should play
05:31when drawing congressional district lines.
05:34It's not the first time the court considered race in the state of Louisiana's map.
05:39In 2024, the high court first reviewed a challenge to Louisiana's 6th Congressional District map
05:44over claims that it was unfair to black voters.
05:47A court of appeals had ordered that the map be redrawn, which the legislature did.
05:52The new map included two black voter districts instead of just one,
05:57and a majority of Supreme Court justices approved it for the 2024 election.
06:02Meanwhile, a new slate of voters, calling themselves non-African-Americans,
06:07said the state relied too heavily on race when they redrew the map,
06:11and a panel of federal judges agreed.
06:14The Supreme Court decided in June that both cases should be restored to the calendar for re-argument.
06:19The attorney for the black voters argued to keep the revised map.
06:24Six appellate judges affirmed findings that Louisiana,
06:28in the face of extreme racially polarized voting,
06:32packed and cracked black voters,
06:35and it rejected seven non-dilutive maps
06:41in favor of one that would give its 58 percent declining white electorate
06:47entrenched control over 83 percent of the congressional districts.
06:53Louisiana's creation of a district to remedy that discrimination
06:57and to ensure that black Louisianans have an equal opportunity to participate in the process
07:03is constitutional.
07:04The attorney for Louisiana argued that the revised map was based on racial stereotyping.
07:11And it requires drawing in enough members of a minority race
07:15to sufficiently augment their voting strength.
07:18Embedded within these expressed targets
07:21are racial stereotypes that this court has long criticized.
07:25They assume, for example, that a black voter,
07:28simply because he is black, must think like other black voters,
07:31share the same interests, and prefer the same political candidates.
07:35And this stereotyping system has no logical endpoint.
07:39He added that race-based districting has placed states in impossible situations
07:44which require more racial discrimination.
07:47The attorney for the non-African Americans also argued about stereotypes.
07:52He said the Voter Rights Act didn't justify the widespread stereotyping
07:56of American voters based on race, and that it violates the 14th and 15th Amendments.
08:02The justices now face the complicated task of deciding whether or not to reshape
08:07how race is considered in redistricting.
08:10Arlene Richards, NTD News.
08:13Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act says that a jurisdiction's political processes
08:17must be equally open to all races.
08:20How do we get from here to black-majority districts?
08:23Tonight on Capitol Report with Steve Lance,
08:25hear from former attorney for President Trump, Jim Trustee, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
08:31After the Senate vote on the GOP bill to end the government shutdown failed today for the ninth time,
08:36Senate Republicans are shifting their strategy to reopen the government
08:39and will now pursue full-year appropriation bills in order to end the shutdown.
08:44Our Washington correspondent, Luis Adorno-Martinez, has more on the Republicans' new approach.
08:49Today, if it weren't for the bold leadership of President Trump helping us to protect our military,
08:55everyone needs to understand that 1.3 million active-duty service members would be missing a paycheck.
09:01They'll get their check, thankfully, because President Trump has shown strong leadership.
09:07The Trump administration has reallocated $8 billion of unused research and development funds
09:12from the Department of War to pay active-duty service members during the government shutdown.
09:18Senate Republicans have now teed up a vote for this Thursday
09:21on the House-passed defense appropriation bill to try and secure annual funding
09:26for the Department of War during the government shutdown.
09:29Republicans want to pay the troops,
09:31and we have shown that with our actions and our votes now nine times.
09:35And the Democrats want to use them as hostages to extort $1.5 trillion
09:41in new, unserious partisan spending that we just won't go along with.
09:46The new Republican strategy in Congress is to continue the regular appropriations process
09:51despite Democrats' intransigence to reopen the government.
09:55Democrats, on the other hand, insist on their messaging
09:57and demanding that their policy priorities be met in order to reopen government.
10:02We are ready, we are willing, and we are able to negotiate a bipartisan spending agreement
10:08that actually meets the needs of the American people.
10:12Reopen the government and decisively address the Republican health care crisis.
10:20The Senate has already, on a bipartisan basis, passed three out of the 12 appropriations bills
10:25and is prepared to vote on a fourth one this Thursday.
10:27Mr. President, Democrats attempt to defend their funding blockade
10:32by complaining that Republicans won't negotiate.
10:37But what exactly is there to negotiate?
10:41Negotiation happens when you have two sides, each with its own demands.
10:47Republicans have no demands.
10:50The vote on the defense appropriations bill this Thursday
10:53also served as a pressure point on moderate Democrats
10:56who have already said they want to see the regular appropriations process play out to fund government.
11:01Reporting from Washington, D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez, NTD News.
11:07In the Middle East, the Hamas terrorist group is continuing to hand over the bodies
11:11of deceased hostages from the Gaza Strip.
11:14But after a lab test, an Israeli official says one of the bodies is not that of a hostage.
11:20NTD's Jason Perry has the details.
11:23On Wednesday, Israel's chief of the general staff met with newly released hostages,
11:30whom Hamas had held in captivity for almost two years.
11:33And the former hostages continue to be monitored at hospitals in Israel.
11:38An executive at one of the hospitals said their road to recovery will be a very long one.
11:43Every one of them has endured untold adversity and horrors.
11:49They will probably need weeks, months, and maybe years to heal.
11:54But they are finally taking their first steps to return to life here at the Sheba Medical Center.
12:00And he added that some of the former hostages may soon be discharged to outpatient care next week.
12:07On the same day, people filled the streets during a funeral procession for deceased hostage Guy Elouz.
12:14Hamas returned his body from the Gaza Strip on Monday.
12:17And his dad spoke at his funeral after seeing his son's body at the forensic institute.
12:22Meanwhile, the head of the Israeli forensic institute said that one of the bodies Hamas recently handed over
12:48is not the body of any of the deceased hostages.
12:52The father of one hostage, who some believe is deceased, is still waiting for news about his son.
12:58And he shared his feelings.
12:59You start the day anticipating to get the worst phone call that you will in your lifetime.
13:09And then feel disappointed when you do not get that phone call, which is a very complex thing to process.
13:20The Israel Defense Forces said that two more bodies of deceased hostages had been returned to Israel on Wednesday.
13:27Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, residents were seen moving about as the ceasefire continues to hold.
13:33However, the United States military has now called on the Hamas terrorist group to stop shooting at innocent civilians in the territory.
13:42The U.S. also said they expressed their concerns to mediators who have agreed to work with the U.S.
13:48to enforce the peace and protect innocent civilians in Gaza.
13:52This comes as Turkish rescue teams are expected to soon depart to Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
14:01And will reportedly take part in a joint task force to help locate the bodies of deceased hostages in the territory.
14:09Jason Perry, NTD News.
14:12President Trump says India will stop buying oil from Russia after months of pressure from the U.S.
14:17And War Secretary Pete Hex has plain experienced a mid-air emergency today after he addressed NATO members in Europe.
14:24NTD's international correspondent, Arian Posdar, has the story.
14:27During a NATO meeting on Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hex have had this message for Russia.
14:34Now, if this war does not end, if there is no path to peace in the short term,
14:38then the United States, along with our allies, will take the steps necessary to impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression.
14:46He added that the War Department is ready to do its part in ways only the United States can.
14:52He made the remarks at a meeting of Ukraine's allies at NATO headquarters on Wednesday.
14:58All countries need to translate goals into guns, commitments into capabilities, and pledges into power.
15:08That's all that matters. Hard power. It's the only thing belligerents actually respect.
15:13He added that the U.S. is willing to deliver more weapons to NATO member countries.
15:18Hex have urged allies to ramp up investment in the prioritized Ukraine requirement list program.
15:25This replaced U.S. weapons donations to Ukraine and now requires allies to pay for U.S. weapons deliveries.
15:33Then, on his way back to the U.S., Hex have's plane had an emergency.
15:38This map shows where the plane was above the ocean before it turned around to land in the U.K.
15:44According to Flightradar24, the plane suddenly lost attitude and dropped to only 10,000 feet.
15:51It's not yet clear what caused the incident.
15:54According to the War Department, the plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom due to a crack in the aircraft windshield.
16:01Everyone on board, including Secretary Hexeth, is safe.
16:04Back at NATO, Wednesday's meetings weren't only about Ukraine.
16:09NATO members Germany, Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Romania all report recent aerospace violations.
16:16Some of them are directly blaming Russia.
16:18NATO will implement a number of additional counter-drone measures that will build on and expand and accelerate our ability to counter drones.
16:28NATO and EU member states recently agreed to build a so-called drone wall, which would detect and destroy incoming Russian drones.
16:38Germany on Wednesday announced that it will allocate over $11 billion on drones, while also strongly supporting the drone wall.
16:47NATO Chief Mark Rutte has presented a plan to strengthen drone defense.
16:52In light of recent incidents, this can only be welcomed.
16:56Germany will, of course, also make a visible contribution here.
17:01The German defense minister added that Berlin will deploy two Eurofighter jets in Poland from December to March to patrol airspace.
17:10Arian Pasdar, NTD News.
17:13Coming up, the Treasury Secretary issues a new warning.
17:16If tensions with China continue to escalate over rare earth minerals, the U.S. could cut economic ties entirely.
17:22That's as President Trump says we have now entered a trade war with China.
17:27Jack Bradley reports and a panel of experts joins us to break down the latest trade disputes after the break.
17:32Welcome back, I'm Tiffany Meyer.
17:46The U.S. is signaling the possibility of drastic steps in response to China's stranglehold on rare earth minerals, which are vital for the defense and tech industries.
17:55U.S. officials say they could cut trade ties with China altogether if it continues.
17:59President Trump now saying we are in a trade war with China.
18:03NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more on how this affects everything from car manufacturing to national security.
18:11Are we in for a sustained trade war with China?
18:14Well, you're in one now.
18:16President Trump says the U.S. is in a trade war with China.
18:19That's as Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says if China continues its rare earth export restrictions, the U.S. may be forced to cut economic ties with China.
18:30If China wants to be an unreliable partner to the world, then the world will have to decouple.
18:36Now, to be clear, Besson emphasized that decoupling is not the goal.
18:40The administration wants to de-risk and diversify, not sever ties altogether.
18:44But he said China's latest move in restricting five more rare earth elements last week and dozens of related technologies sends a message that, well, can't be ignored.
18:55And U.S. industries are already feeling the pressure.
18:58Besson said U.S. automakers are reporting delays in getting Chinese-made magnets that contain rare earths.
19:05He also accused the CCP of giving non-credible explanations for those delays.
19:10When we asked the Chinese about this, they said, oh, it probably had something to do with the holiday.
19:16It had something to do with the holiday.
19:18So they can't be trusted with the global supply chain.
19:22Meanwhile, we're seeing some major companies trying to adapt.
19:25Stellantis, the carmaker behind Jeep and Dodge, just announced a massive $13 billion U.S. investment, their largest ever, to boost domestic production and reduce its dependence on China.
19:37Long-term, the U.S. is shifting strategies, now going on offense with industrial policy.
19:43That means price floors, forward buying, and long-term investments in critical minerals, not just rare earths, all to protect any U.S. industry that's vulnerable to Chinese market manipulation.
19:55Also, on China's rare earth mineral export restrictions last week, Besson now says that they were made by a different CCP official without Chinese leader Xi Jinping's knowledge.
20:05A lower-level trade person who was slightly unhinged here in August, I think his name is Li Quangong, and is threatening, saying that China would unleash chaos on the global system if the U.S. went ahead with our docking fees for Chinese ships.
20:28Li Chen Gong is China's vice minister of commerce.
20:32He's widely viewed as belonging to a faction within the Chinese Communist Party that opposes Xi Jinping.
20:38Besson said earlier this week that this is a sign of the Chinese Communist Party's brittle nature, with party infighting more than prevalent.
20:46Reporting by Jack Bradley, NTD News.
20:50And we have a panel joining us to discuss these latest developments on China.
20:54David Blackman is an energy policy analyst and advisor.
20:57He's also a senior contributor to Forbes.
21:00Grant Newsom is a retired U.S. Marine colonel, former U.S. diplomat, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and author of When China Attacks.
21:08Thank you both so much for joining us.
21:09Now, David, drill down for us why China's announcement on further rare earth restrictions shook countries around the world so much.
21:16Just how reliant is the world right now on China for these?
21:20Oh, very much reliant.
21:23Pretty much every country is.
21:25China controls roughly 80% of the supply chain capacity globally for these kinds of minerals, 65% or so of the production.
21:34So it's a big player in this scene, and it's this latest round of restrictions that were announced anyway, really seek to lock down control of not just their own exports of these minerals, but control of other countries with whom they have economic relationships through their Belt and Road Initiative.
21:56And that's a big deal. I mean, that's a really huge issue for the United States and other countries.
22:03And, Grant, there is also a diplomatic angle here.
22:06We heard Treasury Secretary Scott Besson today publicly calling out a Chinese official, Li Chung-gan, saying he showed up uninvited to talks, has threatened chaos to the global economy, and is tapping into the wolf warrior mindset.
22:17What do you make of all of this? How rare is it to see a U.S. official call out a Chinese official by name?
22:25Well, it's nice to hear somebody sort of talking straight.
22:29We've had too many administrations where they'll put the best face on things and try to cover it up, but Secretary of Treasury Besson is laying this down clearly, and it's about time we hear that sort of language from this administration.
22:44And, David, as for what we can expect from the U.S. Besson is saying the U.S. may decouple from China if this rare-earth dispute persists.
22:53How likely is that, and what kind of impact would that have on global markets?
22:59It would have an enormous impact on global markets if we fully decouple from China.
23:04Hopefully, it won't advance to that point because it would have cascading impacts throughout the American economy and the other Western nations.
23:12But, yes, I mean, the U.S. is going to have to respond to this.
23:17Hopefully, President Trump, in his discussion with Xi Jinping, President Xi Jinping, at the end of October over in South Korea, they will be able to reach some sort of amicable agreement on this.
23:30But, as you heard in the previous report, there's this infighting happening within the Communist Party there in China.
23:37And so, you know, we're in this situation, unfortunately, that's developed over the last half century, really, where we are so relied on China and these political conflicts that happen within the Communist Party there can have a very significant impact and not a good one on our own country.
23:56And, Grant, we did hear President Trump today saying we are in a trade war now.
24:01What would decoupling from China mean for the global order?
24:05What changes could we see on that level?
24:09Well, it depends on how fast it happens.
24:11If you try to go cold turkey, then you're going to have just chaos.
24:16Because this is, as you just heard, this is the outcome of 30, 40, 50 years of America getting itself so deeply into bed with China, getting addicted to that market, that to suddenly stop it and break it all would be very, very disruptive.
24:34It may be that that's where we end up, and I think that that is where we are going to end up, but it's going to take some time.
24:41And how much time?
24:42At least five, ten years.
24:44But you have to go about it sort of carefully, but you do have to hurry at the same time.
24:49And this is a dangerous dependency.
24:51And the Chinese have got a chokehold on us, and they're playing it.
24:56I think they believe that, one, either Mr. Trump will back down or that the Chinese will actually prevail, you know, because this is really has all, they've already seen how well it has worked.
25:07And when they did play the rare earth card earlier, that the administration had to back down because of the effects that it was going to have on American industry.
25:17So we've got to hurry, but this is, you really can't blame Mr. Trump for this, because this is something that our best and brightest in the financial and business sectors and on Capitol Hill have got us into this mess.
25:30Now, untangling it is going to be difficult, but it is just as necessary.
25:35And speaking of this chokehold, David, while the rare earth minerals themselves might not be that rare, China does dominate the processing and refining capabilities, as you mentioned earlier, cornering that market.
25:45Now, we are seeing reports that the EU is looking to partner with the U.S. and other G7 countries to try to cut reliance on China's rare earths.
25:53Given that defense industries are quite reliant on these minerals, if China does withhold them, how big of a blow would that be around the world?
26:04It's very big.
26:05I mean, the Pentagon has need for these minerals and the magnets and chips made from them and pretty much all of their modern weapons systems.
26:14But, you know, we do have inventories of these minerals to some extent, although it's not real clear to me just how big they are and how long they would last.
26:26And so this is really an emergency situation that's evolving here for the Pentagon and for our national security.
26:34And that's why you saw the Pentagon make the deal with MP materials out in California, which is really the only sizable processor of these minerals in the United States.
26:45That doesn't solve the entire problem, but it's a good start.
26:48But they're going to have to do many more of those kinds of actions here in the coming months really to just increase our country's security to withstand any sort of complete cutoff from from these imports of these minerals.
27:03And, Grant, there is, of course, an economic angle here, but I want to zoom out a bit to the political as we've been hearing these increasing reports on Xi Jinping's grip or lack thereof on power.
27:14What do these recent moves from China signal about that or do they signal anything?
27:20I would take a little bit different view.
27:22I think Xi Jinping is calling the shots here.
27:25I'm not convinced that it is a sort of internecine fight in the Chinese bureaucracy.
27:30I think China is Xi Jinping is firmly in power.
27:34And I think this is his his call.
27:36And I think they have decided to really take the gloves off and dare the Americans to do something.
27:43If you look beyond just the rare earth, the Chinese behavior and language elsewhere suggests that they're they're out looking for a fight.
27:51I think they think they have the upper hand and they're going to push on this.
27:56So, you know, this is this is new territory.
27:59I've never seen anything like it.
28:02But I think China thinks it's got a window before America can get its act together and they are going to push on this.
28:09And it's this is serious.
28:12A lot to watch for here for sure.
28:14David Blackman, Grant Newsom, thank you both so much for joining us.
28:17Turning now to Europe, France's parliament is preparing to hold a new no confidence vote against the newly reappointed prime minister.
28:28This comes amid worsening economic conditions and growing doubts about President Emmanuel Macron's leadership.
28:34NTD International Correspondent David Vest reports from Paris.
28:39France's political crisis is far from over.
28:41After suspending a key pension reform to avoid an earlier collapse, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is now facing a new no confidence vote on Thursday.
28:51Lawmakers from both the conservative and leftist groups have failed no confidence motions.
28:56According to policy analyst Philippe Fabry, Lecornu, who resigned last week before being reappointed days later by President Emmanuel Macron, is walking on thin ice.
29:08Given the current configuration of parliament and the general state of anger among the opposition, I think that censorship will happen very soon.
29:15Calls for a resignation or snap legislative elections continue to echo in the parliament.
29:23Emmanuel Macron himself clearly appear as a cause for the problems inside the parliament, as this has been going on for two years and shows no sign of stopping.
29:32We are moving increasingly towards a resignation of President Macron or a slowly downgrading of Emmanuel Macron's presidential office's power.
29:40The budget talks add to Lecornu's troubles, with rising debt and deficit concerns shaking investor confidence.
29:47Former IMF official Desmond Lackmann warned in L'Express that France's fiscal crisis could spill over to the eurozone, describing the country as in great budgetary disorder.
29:58He said markets may soon force Macron into radical choices, even suggesting all the elections might be the only way out of the crisis.
30:06European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde, said any further political instability in Paris could have an obvious impact on financial markets.
30:15Fabrice says this is an expected scenario.
30:18I think the out-of-control debt is one of the factors that will cause the French political crisis to spread to the European level.
30:27We are likely heading into a political crisis on a Europe-wide scale.
30:31It's difficult to make an accurate prediction, but France's credit rating is under close watch, with new evaluations due soon.
30:40There are also growing tensions between the European Parliament and the European Commission.
30:44As Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has already faced three no-confidence votes this year.
30:50President Macron has warned that if another no-confidence vote passes in the Parliament, he would call for snap legislative elections.
31:02David Vives, NTD News, Paris.
31:05Coming up, former lawmaker Katie Porter is facing scrutiny after several tense exchanges are caught on video.
31:11The California gubernatorial candidate is now speaking out and taking responsibility.
31:16Christina Corona has the details when we come back.
31:18Welcome back. I'm Tiffany Meyer.
31:29ICE and Homeland Security have been busy with immigration enforcement.
31:32But some leaders in Los Angeles say their community is being disrupted and the county has declared an emergency.
31:39But Homeland Security says it's just protecting Americans.
31:42NTD's David Lamb reports.
31:44Los Angeles County has declared an emergency this week over ongoing immigration raids by ICE.
31:51The emergency proclamation passed by a 4-1 vote on Tuesday, stating that raids, which started in June, have, quote,
31:59caused residents to be fearful of leaving their homes to go to work, take public transportation, and access county services.
32:06On the other hand, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, told NTD,
32:12This isn't the first time sanctuary politicians in Los Angeles have put lawbreakers ahead of Americans.
32:18The fact is, while these politicians play Russian roulette with American lives, ICE and border patrols are removing the worst of the worst from Los Angeles streets.
32:29Since operations began in June, ICE and border patrol have made more than 5,000 arrests in Los Angeles, including of gang members, rapists, thieves, and murderers.
32:39Our law enforcement should be thanked by the Board of Supervisors, not demonized.
32:45Los Angeles County has one of the country's largest immigrant populations.
32:50This week, Homeland Security said that Mexican cartels have placed bounties on ICE and border protection agents.
32:56But DHS warned on Tuesday that people who dox, threaten, or lay hands on their officers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
33:05Meanwhile, after a judge's order, crews have taken down a fence that surrounded an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.
33:18Protesters argue the fence was a safety hazard, but DHS says the fence was for protection.
33:24DHS said some of the detainees inside its Broadview facility were convicted of crimes, including assault with a deadly weapon, felony robbery, drug possession, and driving under the influence.
33:36First responders are implementing safety measures in the area to protect First Amendment rights and public safety.
33:43David Lam, NTD News.
33:46California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter is making headlines after two viral videos capture her intense exchanges.
33:53In a recent interview, Porter says she wants her supporters to know she's owning up to her actions.
33:59NTD's Christina Corona has more.
34:02California Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former lawmaker Katie Porter stated that she could have handled things better after viral videos surfaced showing tense exchanges with the reporter and a staffer.
34:15In one clip, Porter threatened to walk out on CBS California correspondent Julie Watts during an interview that went viral last week.
34:23Well, to those voters, okay, so you...
34:25I don't want to keep doing this.
34:26I'm going to call it.
34:27Okay.
34:29You're not going to do the interview with us?
34:31Nope, not like this.
34:32I'm not.
34:33Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask.
34:35Every other candidate has answered our follow-ups.
34:38I don't care.
34:38In another video obtained by Politico, Porter is seen using profanity at a staffer who was standing behind her during a 2021 meeting with the Biden administration.
34:49And other problems, and the state could lose...
34:52Get out of my shot.
34:55The staffer was trying to inform Porter about climate issues, but she also criticized the staffer for previously appearing in the background.
35:03Okay, I was climbing up, Porter.
35:05Okay.
35:06It does...
35:06Okay.
35:07You also were in my shot before that.
35:10Stay out of my shot.
35:12Porter appeared on KTLA's Inside California Politics, which aired Tuesday night, to address the videos.
35:20When I look at those videos, I want people to know that I understand that I could have handled things better.
35:27I think I'm known as someone who's able to handle tough questions, who's willing to answer questions.
35:32I think I can...
35:33People who know me know I can be tough, but I need to do a better job expressing appreciation for the amazing work that my team does.
35:40Porter says she wants voters to understand her reasons for running, highlighting her goal of ensuring California has a governor who will act firmly and address the state's affordability crisis.
35:51Porter also said this week that she had apologized to the staff member.
35:54While holding herself accountable for the clips, Porter said her supporters back her because they want a strong candidate who will fight for the state.
36:02Christina Corona, NTD News.
36:06Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton says he's challenging Senator Ed Markey in next year's Democratic primary, calling for what he describes as a new generation of leadership.
36:15In a campaign video, the 46-year-old Marine veteran said Democrats are stuck in the status quo and not fighting hard enough to win the future.
36:24Markey has served in Congress for nearly 50 years.
36:28He would be 80 when his next term begins.
36:30Moulton's campaign will focus on affordability, health care, and protecting democracy.
36:35The race sets up a high-profile generational clash in one of the nation's bluest states.
36:40Coming up in baseball, the Blue Jays have their backs against the wall as they face the Mariners tonight in Seattle.
36:47Dave Martin joins us to discuss when we come back.
37:10And now for your sports news, we're joined by NTD's Dave Martin.
37:18Dave, plenty going on right now, but let's start in baseball because tonight we have Game 3 of the ALCS with Seattle leading Toronto 2-0.
37:25How important is it for the Blue Jays to get a win tonight?
37:29Yeah, it's very important.
37:30I mean, every playoff game is big, obviously, but if the Blue Jays lose tonight, they fall behind and 3-0 here to Seattle.
37:38Now, only once in the 100-plus years of baseball's postseason has a team ever recovered from a 0-3 deficit in the playoffs.
37:45That was the Red Sox over the Yankees back in the 2004 ALCS.
37:49Even worse for Toronto, they lost the first two games at home.
37:52So if they're going to do this, it's going to have to start tonight in Seattle on the road where games 3 and 4 are.
37:57And Toronto, to do it, really, they're going to have to definitely start hitting.
38:00I mean, that's very obvious.
38:02Blue Jays had little problem with the Yankees pitching in the ALDS.
38:06But through two games against Seattle, the team's hitting a combined 143.
38:10Just two total extra base hits in those two games.
38:13Vlad Guerrero 0-7 with a walk.
38:15Now, for tonight's game, Toronto has former Seiyong winner Shane Bieber on the mound opposite the Mariners' George Kirby.
38:22The game starts at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
38:25All right, well, looking at the NLCS, the Dodgers got another dominant pitching performance last night and shutting down the Brewers.
38:32Yeah, did they ever.
38:33Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game jam.
38:37Allowed one run, three hits, threw nine innings, struck out seven.
38:41Dodgers won 5-1.
38:42That marked the first complete game in the playoffs since Justin Verlander, then with Houston, did it to the Yankees back in 2017.
38:50Actually, eight years ago, exactly, to the day.
38:53Now, Yamamoto actually allowed a leadoff home run on the very first pitch he threw to Jackson Churio.
38:58But he was pretty much lights out after that.
39:00And that was just one day after Blake Snell shut down the Brewers with eight shutout innings in game one.
39:07So in the NLCS, the Brewers are actually in the exact same scenario that the Blue Jays are in, having lost the first two games of the series at home.
39:17So game three against the Dodgers, then, will be Thursday night.
39:22So we'll talk more about this tomorrow, all right, Tiffany?
39:25All right.
39:26Shifting gears, though, to next year's World Cup, President Trump was asked about possibly moving one of the sites for next year's games in Boston.
39:33That's over public safety concerns.
39:35Yeah, FIFA has scheduled seven World Cup games next year in the Boston area.
39:40They'll be at, actually, Gillette Stadium.
39:41That's in Foxborough, Massachusetts, roughly 30 miles away.
39:45Now, last week, there was some public unrest in Boston where police say some 200 to 300 people.
39:50Protesters blocked police vehicles from passing.
39:54Several officers were assaulted.
39:55It resulted in 13 arrests.
39:57Trump was then asked yesterday about possibly moving some World Cup games over public safety concerns.
40:03Here's what he had to say here.
40:05We could take them away.
40:06I love the people of Boston.
40:08I know the games are sold out.
40:10But your mayor, she's radical left.
40:13And they're taking over parts of Boston.
40:15That's a pretty big statement, right?
40:17We could get them back in about two seconds.
40:19All she has to do is call us.
40:20We'll go in and take them back.
40:22But she's afraid to because she thinks it's bad politically.
40:24The answer is yes.
40:26If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni,
40:32the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal, and I would say, let's move it to another location.
40:37And he would do that.
40:38He wouldn't love to do it, but he'd do it.
40:41Very easily he'd do it.
40:42And this is the right time to do it.
40:45So it sounds like it would be really more of a joint decision because they kept saying
40:49way between him and FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who he's very close with.
40:53So stay tuned on this subject.
40:54But this actually subject was actually not brought up by Trump.
40:57It was actually brought up by a reporter.
40:58So just an FYI on that.
41:00I mean, it sounds like a lot at stake, especially tourism revenue, all the people.
41:04I know.
41:04The game's already sold out.
41:06Seven games.
41:07There's seven games next year.
41:08I think some are in the quarterfinals.
41:09So yeah, it would be a pretty big deal.
41:11But he's also close to Robert Kraft, who's the Patriots owner, who was also involved in this deal.
41:17So stay tuned on this one.
41:19I don't know what else to say other than it would be a tough situation if they had to actually do it.
41:24But we'll see.
41:25Looking at NFL news then, New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn today called the speculation
41:30over whether their trade running back, Brees Hall, quote, rumors.
41:33What reason would the Jets have to trade him?
41:36Well, as of now, he's unsigned for next season.
41:40And the Jets are 0-6.
41:41They have the worst record in the league.
41:43They're usually talented players on teams that aren't headed towards the playoffs, are
41:47prime candidates to be traded, especially if they're not going to be there the next season.
41:52Hall, he's very talented.
41:53He's 10th in the NFL in yards from scrimmage.
41:55The guy's only 24 years old now still.
41:57He's in his fourth season there with the Jets.
41:59Now, meanwhile, behind him, the Jets do have 21-year-old Braylon Allen, who's a very good
42:04running back himself.
42:05But he's only injured reserve now, so that kind of complicates matters.
42:08In any case, the trade deadline is on November 4th.
42:11So expect, you know, these trade rumors to expect, expect trades actually happen leading
42:17up in that final week, I would say, up to November 4th.
42:20Right now, it's all speculation.
42:21That's what I'm trying to say.
42:23That final week, you'll get the actual trades going down.
42:26That's what I'm trying to say.
42:27Everything is gossip.
42:29Yeah, everything right now is pretty much just gossip.
42:31This is a good piece of gossip, though, wasn't it?
42:34Well, on that note, Dave, as always, thanks for joining us.
42:37Thank you, Tiff.
42:38And that's all for today's news.
42:41We're on the clock coverage.
42:42Visit us at ntd.com slash live or download our NTD app.
42:46Thanks for tuning in.
42:47I'm Tiffany Meyer.
42:48Good night.
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