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00:00President Trump is having a bit of a standoff with both Chicago and Portland right now over
00:04the presence of federalized National Guard troops. The president wants to send the National Guard
00:09into both of those cities to help protect federal agents as they round up suspected
00:13illegal migrants. City and state lawmakers in both places do not want that. Now, a federal judge
00:19blocked the president from sending Oregon's National Guard troops into Portland. So his
00:24workaround was to send them from California instead. Well, in response to that, the same
00:29Trump-appointed judge that stopped him from sending Oregon's National Guard in the first
00:33place expanded her order to include all states' Guard members. California Governor Gavin Newsom
00:39celebrated on X in part, posting, quote, Trump's abuse of power won't stand. Now, the Justice
00:45Department indicated that it would appeal the order, qualifying the situation in Portland as
00:49domestic unrest, which it says is the specific language that gives the president authority to
00:54deploy National Guard forces. Meanwhile, the state of Illinois filed its own lawsuit against
01:00the president, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Army
01:05Secretary Daniel Driscoll over the administration's deployment of 300 Texas National Guard troops to
01:10Chicago.
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