During Wednesday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about protests in Los Angeles.
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00:00If I can ask another, if the President does end up deploying any National Guard members, perhaps Marines, to blue states, would he be in contact with the governors prior to this? Would it be necessary?
00:13Well, President Trump was in contact with Governor Gavin Newsom, despite some of the claims he's made in the last couple of days.
00:19The President called the governor on Friday evening and told him to let law enforcement in California do their jobs.
00:26And the Los Angeles Police Department, by the way, are fantastic people.
00:30They are trying to do the work that they've so bravely signed up to do to enforce the law.
00:35But they have been kneecapped by incompetent Democrat policies and Democrat politicians who do not allow their local law enforcement to correspond and coordinate with federal immigration authorities.
00:46And so President gave Gavin Newsom a warning and said, get it together.
00:5024 hours later, we saw more images like this.
00:52We heard about Border Patrol agents who were being the target of rocks.
00:57These illegal criminals were throwing rocks at our Border Patrol and ICE agents.
01:01And so the President made the decision to federalize California's National Guard.
01:05Stephanie.