00:00President Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, saying he'd do it if necessary if courts or local officials try to block his deployment of National Guard troops.
00:13The comment comes as Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker accused the administration Monday of staging a military-style invasion of Chicago.
00:22The state and the city filed a lawsuit Monday to block the federalization of the Illinois Guard.
00:26There is no invasion here. There is no insurrection here.
00:31And local and state law enforcement are on the job and managing what they need to.
00:37Without my permission and against my vigorous objections, the president has federalized 300 Illinois National Guard military troops and hundreds of National Guard members from Texas.
00:51Let me be clear. Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities.
01:03The Department of Homeland Security shot back, calling Pritzker's claims a smorgasbord of lies and saying he should, quote, get out of his mansion and see Chicago.
01:14If J.B. Pritzker actually walked the streets of his own city, he would see domestic terrorists and violent rioters attacking police officers and the scourge of violent crime as a direct result of his own policies.
01:27Later in the Oval Office, Trump described when he would actually invoke the Insurrection Act.
01:31We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd do that.
01:36If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that.
01:44I mean, I want to make sure that people aren't killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe.
01:49The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military for law enforcement purposes under limited circumstances.
01:57It was last used during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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