Trump Asked: 'Are You At All Concerned That Things Could Get Out Of Hand With Marines' In L.A.?

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about sending Marines to Los Angeles, California.

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00:00The Marines is, a lot of people think, an escalatory step, though.

00:03These are guys who fight wars.

00:04Are you at all concerned that things could get out of hand with Marines in American City?

00:08When I see people throwing concrete into cars,

00:11when I see people, the kind of people that I saw on your network,

00:15doing danger to the police and to the military and to the National Guard,

00:20no, it's okay.

00:21You know, you start running out of people.

00:23When you have 2,000 people from a National Guard standpoint,

00:26we have a very big military.

00:28But the National Guard, they needed a little extra help,

00:32and we sent them a little, and we did a great job last night.

00:35We had, well, a lot of cars go up in smoke and flame and a lot of bad scenes,

00:41but it was pretty minor by comparison.

00:45This morning, it's very calm.

00:47We'll see what happens later.

00:48But they know if they go there, they're not going to get anywhere

00:51because we have the National Guard.

00:52We backed it up with a number of Marines, yeah.