During a press gaggle on Friday, Vice President JD Vance answered reporter questions about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to let Trump keep the National Guard in Los Angeles.
00:00Your reaction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, their decision yesterday, I just want to get your reaction to that.
00:07Yeah, well, it's interesting that for the past couple of weeks, Gavin Newsom has said that there's an illegitimate effort to send federal resources to secure a city that he refuses to secure.
00:17And what the Ninth Circuit said yesterday is that that was a completely legitimate and proper use of federal law enforcement.
00:24The president has a very simple proposal to everybody in every city, every community, every town, whether big or small.
00:31If you enforce your own laws and if you protect federal law enforcement, we're not going to send in the National Guard because it's unnecessary.
00:38But if you let violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground, then of course we're going to send federal law enforcement in to protect the people the president was elected to protect.
00:48And I think what the Ninth Circuit said very clearly is when the president makes a determination that you've got to send in certain federal officials to protect people, that determination was legitimate.
00:57And the president's going to do it again if he has to.
00:59But hopefully it won't be necessary.
01:01We don't want to send these great Marines to cities like Los Angeles.
01:05We only do it if we have to to protect federal property and to protect the lives of our great law enforcement folks.
