Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) criticizes President Trump for sending troops to Los Angeles, California.
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00:00Could you comment on Defense Secretary Pete Heggs' suggestion that the order to federalize the National Guard could extend to other states?
00:09It's an alarming reminder that President Trump has a history of wanting to use uniformed troops for domestic purposes that are inappropriate.
00:19Our Marines train for combat in the Indo-Pacific, not for securing the streets of Los Angeles.
00:25And in a situation where state and local law enforcement leaders have repeatedly said they had of everything under control,
00:33there is no crisis or insurrection that justifies the use of combat troops,
00:38I would urge that the administration and the secretary reconsider.
00:44Every dictator in the world who wants to use his own troops against his own people when they protest is encouraged by the visuals.
00:52First, of an over-militarized ICE carrying out activity in the parking lot of a Home Depot,
00:59and then the intentional deployment of the National Guard and then the U.S. Marines to suppress domestic dissent.
01:07It's a very troubling precedent, and we should all be following this closely.
01:11Thank you, sir.
01:11Thank you, sir.
01:11Thank you, sir.