Trump threatens Insurrection Act amid National Guard troop deployments

Watch Trump threatens Insurrection Act amid National Guard troop deployments - Straight Arrow News on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00President Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, saying he'd do it, if necessary,

00:08if 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

00:18of 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,

00:42the president has federalized 300 Illinois National Guard military troops

00:47and hundreds of National Guard members from Texas.

00:51Let me be clear. Donald Trump is using our service members as political props

00:58and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities.

01:04The Department of Homeland Security shot back, calling Pritzker's claims a smorgasbord of lies

01:09and saying he should, quote, get out of his mansion and see Chicago.

01:13If J.B. Pritzker actually walked the streets of his own city,

01:17he would see domestic terrorists and violent rioters attacking police officers

01:21and the scourge of violent crime as a direct result of his own policies.

01:26Later in the Oval Office, Trump described when he would actually invoke the Insurrection Act.

01:32We have an Insurrection Act for a reason.

01:34If I had to enact it, I'd do that.

01:36If people were being killed and courts were holding us up

01:40or 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.

01:47We have to make sure that our cities are safe.

01:49The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military

01:53for law enforcement purposes under limited circumstances.

01:57It was last used during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.