This is not what Americans want to see.

The only invasion or mayhem that's occurring is happening because the Trump administration

is visiting it upon our city.

This is not who we are as Americans.

We have checks and balances.

We have the courts.

In June of this year, in the second largest city of the United States of America, President

of the United States called up 700 active duty

Marines. He didn't send them overseas. He sent them to an American city. It was just days after

he had federalized some 4,000 National Guard, unprecedented act done not at the behest of the state's governor, myself,

but against my advice, my counsel, certainly against my consent.

We said at the time this was a preview of things to come.

A few months later, we saw what happened in another major American city in Washington,

D.C., with the militarization of their streets. And of course, since then, we've seen similar

actions by this president and Christine Nome and Homeland Security in other major American cities,

not least of which, just in the last few days, in Chicago, Illinois, Portland, Oregon.

And the anticipation is we're going to see additional actions by this president all across the United States of America.

This is unprecedented in modern American history.

This is, dare I say, a constitutional

crisis. But it's also a crisis that not only divides, but also brings people together.

And one of the things that I've enjoyed, perhaps more than most aspects of my job, is

working collaborative and getting to know some of America's outstanding leaders.

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