California Governor Gavin Newsom issues a fiery rebuke as thousands of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines flood the streets of Los Angeles under orders from former President Donald Trump. Amid violent protests and mass deportation raids, Newsom accuses Trump of “abusing military power” and warns the rest of the nation: “Other states are next.”
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00:00This moment, we all need to stand up and be held to account a higher level of accountability.
00:06If you exercise your First Amendment rights, please, please do it peacefully.
00:11I know many of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear,
00:15but I want you to know that you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety.
00:21What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment.
00:27Do not give in to him.
00:30If you incite violence, I want to be clear about this.
00:33If you incite violence or destroy our communities, you're going to be held to account.
00:38That kind of criminal behavior will not be tolerated.
00:40Full stop.
00:41Already more than 220 people have been arrested,
00:45and we're reviewing tapes to build additional cases,
00:48and people will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
00:52Again, thanks to our law enforcement officers and the majority of Angelenos who protested peacefully,
00:59the situation was winding down and was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown.
01:06But that, that's not what Donald Trump wanted.
01:09He again chose escalation.
01:11He chose more force.
01:13He chose theatrics over public safety.
01:16He federalized another 2,000 Guard members.
01:19He deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines.
01:24These are the men and women trained for foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement.
01:29We honor their service.
01:31We honor their bravery.
01:33But we do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forces.
01:37Not in L.A., not in California, not anywhere.
01:41California will keep fighting.
01:43It will keep fighting on behalf of our people, all of our people, including in the courts.
01:47Just yesterday, we filed a legal challenge to Donald Trump's reckless deployment of American troops to a major American city.
01:56Today, we sought an emergency court order to stop the use of the American military to engage in law enforcement activities across Los Angeles.
02:04If some of us could be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe.
02:14Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves.
02:19But they do not stop there.
02:22Trump and his loyalists, they thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control.
02:29And by the way, Trump, he's not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as it serves him.
02:36What more evidence do we need than January 6th?
02:40I ask everyone, take time, reflect on this perilous moment.
02:46A president who wants to be bound by no law or constitution, perpetuating a unified assault on American traditions.
02:54This is a president who, in just over 140 days, has fired government watchdogs that could hold him accountable, accountable for corruption and fraud.
03:05He's declared a war, a war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself.
03:11Databases, quite literally, are vanishing.
03:14He's delegitimizing news organizations, and he's assaulting the First Amendment and the threat of defunding them.
03:21At threat, he's dictating what universities themselves can teach.
03:26He's targeting law firms and the judicial brands that are the foundations of an orderly and civil society.
03:32He's calling for a sitting governor to be arrested for no other reason than to, in his own words, for getting elected.
03:41And we all know this Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military,
03:46and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past.
03:55Look, this isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles.
04:00When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard,
04:04he made that order apply to every state in this nation.
04:07This is about all of us.
04:09This is about you.
04:11California may be first, but it clearly will not end here.
04:14Other states are next.
04:16Democracy is next.
04:19Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
04:22This moment we have feared has arrived.
04:25He's taking a wrecking ball.
04:27A wrecking ball to our founding fathers' historic project.
04:30Three co-equal branches of independent government.
04:34There are no longer any checks and balances.
04:36Congress is nowhere to be found.
04:39Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility.
04:43The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don.
04:49The founding fathers, they didn't live and die to see this kind of moment.
04:53It's time for all of us to stand up.
04:55Justice Brandeis, he said it best.
04:58In a democracy, the most important office, with all due respect, Mr. President, is not the presidency.
05:04And it's certainly not governor.
05:05The most important office is office of citizen.
05:08At this moment, at this moment, we all need to stand up and be held to account a higher level of accountability.
05:16If you exercise your First Amendment rights, please, please do it peacefully.
05:21I know many of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear.
05:26But I want you to know that you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety.
05:31What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence to be complicit in this moment.
05:38Do not give in to him.
05:41California is no stranger to immigration enforcement.
05:44But instead of focusing on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records and people with final deportation orders,
05:51a strategy both parties have long supported, this administration is pushing mass deportations,
05:58indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk.
06:05What's happening right now is very different than anything we've seen before.
06:10On Saturday morning, when federal agents jumped out of an unmarked van near a Home Depot parking lot,
06:15they began grabbing people, a deliberate targeting of a heavily Latino suburb.
06:21A similar scene played out when a clothing company was raided downtown.
06:25In other actions, a U.S. citizen, nine months pregnant, was arrested, a four-year-old girl taken,
