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Trump deploys the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles, trade talks with China amid bio-warfare threats, understanding rescissions and school choice tax credits, and the 21-Day Bible Challenge.
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In this video 0:00 Unrest in Los Angeles and Political Reactions18:39 National Guard Deployment and Legal Implications33:32 Trade Talks and Economic Tensions with China43:13 Family Bible Challenge and Spiritual Growth
Unrest in Los Angeles and Political Reactions 0:06 Welcome to the Washington Watch News Desk. I'm Sarah Holliday with today's top stories. If you thought the chaos in Los Angeles couldn't get worse, think again. In addition0:18 to setting cars on fire, hurling rocks, attacking officers, and screaming profanities, the mobs viciously attacking ICE agents have added a few more crimes to their0:30 list. In a now 5 day saga, protesters have taken to mass looting, more arson, and even attempted murder. The LAPD has said0:42 they're overwhelmed. President Trump has officially deployed 700 marines to the scene.0:49 Some of the things you're reading about in Los Angeles, thank goodness we sent out, some wonderful national guard. They've really helped. It's lucky for the people in Los Angeles and in California1:01 that we did what we did.1:03 Democrats are now banding together, not to provide or support aid, but to criticize the Trump administration. California governor Gavin Newsom has filed a lawsuit1:15 against them.1:17 This isn't about LA per se. It's about us today. It's about you, everyone watching tomorrow. I promise you. I mean, this this guy's unhinged. Donald Trump is unhinged right now.1:29 LA mayor Karen Bass, after watching her city bird for almost a week, also criticized president Trump for sending the national guard to help restore law and order.
1:41 There was no reason for them to be here in the first place. If anything, it was a provocation.
1:47 And now, at least 22 Democratic governors have signed a joint letter condemning Trump's use of the National Guard. Meanwhile, the unrest is stirring across the country. At
1:59 least 5 leftist groups in Florida now plan to stand, quote, in solidarity with Los Angeles. Smaller protests continue to erupt in places including but not
2:11 limited to Texas, Chicago, New York, Arizona, and Washington. As this conflict swells, we'll continue to watch closely. Now there are
2:22 quieter battles taking place also worth our attention. In New York, for example, the state senate officially passed the medical aid in dying act. The vote was 35 to
2:34 27 and the legislation now heads to governor Kathy Hochul's desk. The power to make New York the twelfth state to legalize assisted suicide rests in her hands.
2:46 Up till now, she's remained noncommittal mum, but she's now facing lobbyists from both sides of this moral issue. What she'll ultimately decide remains a mystery.
2:59 In another development, health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy junior has swung the ax on the CDC's vaccine panel. All 17 members of the CDC's
3:11 advisory committee on immunization practices have been fired. Kennedy has been known for his skepticism of vaccines. The secretary said that this latest move is
3:23 to shatter what he calls a web of big pharma influence, and it's also to rebuild public trust from the ground up. In other news, a fresh Gallup
3:35 poll just dropped and it's showing a big swing in how Americans feel about abortion. According to the survey, 47 percent now say that they're pro life.
3:47 That's a 6 percent increase from last year. This marks a significant change in sentiment driven in part by growing pro life views among young voters and independents.
3:59 The poll also indicates a 3 percent rise in those who believe abortion is morally wrong, as well as a similar increase in support for restricting abortion to few or no cases.
4:12 Public opinion on this issue remains as nuanced and divided as ever. But the question is, could this shift in public sentiment motivate a shift in public conversation too?
4:24 And those are today's headlines. I'm Sarah Holliday. Dive deeper with the Washington stand at washington stand dot com. Watch this and other news in the stand for mobile app and follow us on social media for updates.
4:36 Up next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. We're back tomorrow with more stories that matter.
4:51 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington Washington DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and
5:02 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Toni Perkins starts now.
5:09 They are not helpful. There was no reason for them to be here in the first place. If anything, it was a provocation. And so I I said, if you wanna see chaos in the city, then send in
5:21 troops when they are not needed. There was nothing happening here. There was no mass civil unrest.
5:27 That was Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass on MSNBC responding after the Trump administration deployed troops to LA to keep the city from burning again. Welcome to this June tenth
5:38 edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony Perkins. Thanks for tuning in. Well, coming up, we got a live report from Joshua Phillips senior investigative reporter for the Epoch Times who is covering the latest
5:49 riots in Los Angeles.
5:52 If we didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would be burning just like it was burning a number of months ago with all the houses that were lost. Los Angeles right now would be on fire, and
6:04 we have it in great shape. How that playing around?
6:07 That was president Donald Trump discussing the deployment of troops to Los Angeles. Retired lieutenant general Jerry Boykin will join me in studio to talk about the use of active duty military to address domestic unrest.
6:19 It's rare in American history, and there may be a reason why. We'll also hear from Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general and former acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security on the legal and the strategic
6:31 implications of US troops in the US city. We've, been following the education scholarship provisions in the reconciliation bill that is now before the US Senate. Well, after a recent meeting
6:43 between president Trump and sponsors of the Universal School Choice Act, the proposal within the reconciliation bill may be expanding. Congressman Burgess Owen of Utah, 1 of the bill
6:55 sponsors, will join us later with details. Meanwhile, the US and China held trade talks in the UK for the second day in a row. So far, no agreement. If the talks fail
7:06 and they fall apart, who has the most to lose? We're gonna talk to Asian expert, Gordon Chang. And finally, the 21 day family bible challenge kicks off tomorrow, and I'll share with you how you can get
7:18 involved and walk your family through the word of God together. But if you wanna get a head start, text Matthew to 6 7 7 4 2, and I'll send you a link even before we talk about it. Alright. President Trump last
7:30 night authorized the deployment of, 2000 more national guard troops to the Los Angeles area. There are now roughly 4100 guard members with federal orders concerning these protests in addition
7:42 to local police, But the riots continue even as more enforcement is headed to the region. The president is also sending 700, roughly 700 marines,
7:54 to Los Angeles. Here to discuss this, Joshua Phillips, senior investigative reporter at the Epoch Times. Joshua, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
8:03 Thank you.
8:04 Alright. So, you've been on the ground. I've been watching some of, what you've been reporting on. Give us the latest there on, what's happening on the streets of Los Angeles.
8:14 Yeah. So I I actually just, left I just left Los Angeles. I'm in Orange County right now. I was there until about 1 PM today afternoon. Right now, it's not too much. Last
8:26 night, I was told, you know, it got pretty bad. But around around 2 o'clock yesterday, you you had roughly 3000 people outside the federal building. Today, it was mostly journalists. You had maybe, maybe
8:37 30 protesters. They started slowly trickling in. When I left, it was maybe 75. Nothing like yesterday. You do have a national guard presence there. They're guarding the building. 1 of their
8:49 main roles right now is to guard federal buildings. The entire building is just plastered with graffiti. We'll see how things go tonight. But as of now, it's it's a big shift from yesterday from what I'm
9:01 told.
9:02 Your sense, in the organized the organization of this effort, is is this an organized effort?
9:10 Yes and no. Without a doubt, you do have some activist organizations working on it. 1 big thing that I I think is not being talked about enough, this is going to lead into the protests on Saturday.
9:22 There are nationwide protests being planned in all 50 states this Saturday. And for that, you have a hundred 9190 left wing organizations, ranging from your let you
9:34 know, normal left to very, very far left, ACLU all the way down to all the resist protest groups. That's being planned in all 50 states. In LA alone, they they have they have more than 2
9:46 dozen pro planned protests this Saturday.
9:49 Now over the weekend, the protests were were violent. Did you see the same thing yesterday, or was it, beginning to scale back?
9:56 So, yeah, I went I went out on the streets. I can tell you it was pretty bad. Police at that time so at that time, you already had national guard deploying to an extent, very small amount, 300 total.
10:08 The national guard was mainly protecting federal buildings. I personally saw they were light you had it was interesting. You had the main protest area. Police had that area blocked off. Even if you're
10:20 a journalist, if you were in there and they arrested a group of the protesters, you would be arrested with them. As of last night, they were more aggressive with the arrests. But what what you also had is outside the
10:31 main police area, there were group of rioters, and they were going around. I personally saw them communicating. I saw an individual with the radio stuffed in his backpack communicating locations saying go
10:42 here, go there, and, watched watched the car burn, watched them set a second 1 on fire. It was still very chaotic. So so absolutely, there was coordination on the car
10:54 burnings from what I saw.
10:56 How strong of a police presence from the LAPD?
11:00 As of today, it was very strong. As of I don't know. I mean, original I think when the protest first started, you've heard these statements saying, you know, these were mostly peaceful. They they were not, which is why
11:11 this happened. You originally, they didn't have enough they did not have enough police. Originally, they did not. Even even the local police chiefs and so on, they were acknowledging this. As of now, they're very strong.
11:23 They do have very strong backing. Even when I was there this afternoon, there were protesters and journalists, you know, on the street. Police cars rolled up very quickly, said get off the road, you know,
11:34 final warning type thing. They're they're no nonsense right now, and they have a much stronger presence.
11:40 Now, did you interview any of the protesters that were there on-site?
11:45 I did not. Yeah. I did not interview any protesters.
11:48 Any any I've heard these reports and that some of these rioters are being paid, or funded by political action groups. I mean, obviously, you see they have, communications equipment. Someone's gotta be funding some
12:00 element of that.
12:02 You you do have some groups. And I I would say it's a mix. I I wouldn't say it's absolutely 1 way or the other. Today, for example, I did see a lot of just, you know, people there who just
12:14 seem to just not support illegal or not support the deportations. 1 individual is very loud about it saying that, you know, his his mom was an illegal immigrant. He's an American citizen. He's he's against it. He says,
12:26 you know, he supports if ICE wants to deport criminal aliens, he supports it, but not everybody else. What's being left out of that conversation is ICE currently is almost only deporting
12:37 criminal aliens except for in some isolated cases.
12:40 So so final question for you, Joshua. When you look at, your interaction, what you saw of the protesters, how many of those are being driven in your estimation by the issue of,
12:52 immigration, the deportation, and others just looking for an opportunity?
12:56 In my in my personal observance, what you have here as with many other protests, including the pro Gaza ones, including BLM, you have your normal protesters who actually believe in the issue, and then you have
13:08 paid people who are instigating them. With this organization, absolutely, you have you have unions. You have immigration activist organizations. You have actual communist organizations.
13:20 Those are your paid protesters. Those are actually the more or more organized ones, and they also tend to be the more violent and aggressive ones. But they do tend to instigate the other crowds. Then you also have
13:32 opportunists. A lot of the looters are opportunists.
13:35 Joshua Phillip, thanks so much for, joining us today. Appreciate your, your insights and reporting on what's taking place there.
13:42 My pleasure. Thank you.
13:43 Alright. I wanna continue the the discussion on the riots in Los Angeles. I wanna bring in retired lieutenant general Jerry Boykin, executive vice president here at the Family Research Council, spent 36 and a half years
13:54 in the army, previously served as the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, also 1 of the founding members of the Delta Force. Alright. The reason, general, I wanted to get your thoughts on this as you and I
14:05 have talked about this before, in addition to the National Guard, which that's what they're there for, frankly, to be to be, used for domestic issues. But the mobilization of active duty
14:17 military members is is very rare in the history of our country. And the president activating, you know, 700 reportedly, to go to Los Angeles,
14:29 this is very unique.
14:31 It is indeed. And I I must tell you, it, it bothers me a little bit because nobody wants to see another Kent state.
14:41 Right.
14:42 I mean, that would be the absolute worst thing that could happen, and we don't wanna see any of our people get hurt. It's not that they are any different
14:55 their value to this nation. But, at the same time, they have done the very best they could to fight the wars ever
15:07 since 9 11. And the and the and the reserves and guard have as well. But I think to put them into a situation where they could potentially
15:19 wind up shooting somebody, or there's there could be some kind of incident that would, bring them to the courtroom to where they would have to testify. And I don't wanna see them.
15:32 And that now there there is training for the military, but most of the training for the military is not domestic law enforcement, which is the role that they're playing here. Now there's also a law, that prohibits the
15:42 use of US military on US soil.
15:46 Right. Yeah. Possekomitatus. Now you are aware that I have operated twice under Possekomit I mean, under, what is called the Insurrection
15:59 Act
16:00 Right. Which is how you Which is how you get over the
16:01 Yeah. You get beyond the requirements there. But I will also tell you that, at the Branch Davidian compound in 19 93. I had 2 men there,
16:14 and those 2 men were there handling some clandestine listening devices and videos and that type of thing. But when they went down, when they, they got ready to hit the
16:25 compound, they made those guys go in another room and not look at the assault. And the reason was they didn't want them to have to testify. And we had made that we
16:37 stressed that point to them before we gave them to them.
16:40 Now there there's the legal issue. I'm gonna talk more about that with, Ken Cuccinelli, former attorney general of Virginia and, acting deputy, director at Homeland Security. I'm gonna talk to him later about the legal
16:51 aspects about this. We got we got 2 minutes left, general, but there there's a there's a perception issue here. They're having military on the streets of America. Now it's 1 thing you
17:03 can argue, and there's probably been about a dozen times, maybe less, that has been used in the history of the country to use active duty military, to protect federal property. But on the streets of a city like Los
17:14 Angeles, I mean, it the perception there could be problematic.
17:19 Absolutely. It's like a a military state. I mean, that's what the I mean, if you just look at this the videos, it looks like a military state. That is not what we want our we we want our military to be
17:31 revered and respected, not feared.
17:34 Not used against its own citizens. And then the Patriot Act back after 9 11, something I was concerned about back then, and my concerns proved to be true because you can't while I might trust Donald Trump
17:46 by using the military, a Democratic administration or someone else could do the same thing, and the outcome be much different as it was with the, the the Patriot Act.
17:57 Yeah. That that's and that's I mean, that's a ridiculous statement to start with. Look at what's happening here. And what are the Democrats doing here? Yeah. Nothing except egging them on Yeah. And making it worse.
18:09 But if they have, once precedent is set, we we see it used again and again. And I I I would not want a Democratic administration using our nation's military on the streets
18:21 of America. General, we're out of time. Always great to, to have you on the program. Thanks so much for
18:26 coming in. Good to be here, Tony.
18:27 Well, folks, I I would say this is certainly something to be praying about. And there's we're gonna talk more about this because there's underlying issues here that why is it that these cities like Los Angeles keep
18:39 erupting in riots? We're gonna talk about that later, but don't go away. We're coming back with more Washington Watch Watch on the other side of the break.Show more
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