California's governor says National Guards deployment to LA is illegal
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom says President Trump’s deployment of National Guards to help immigration officers in LA is illegal and unconstitutional, and that he will challenge the move in court. One journalist covering the riots tells us he needed surgery after being hit by a baton round.
Also in the programme: the latest swap of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war begins; and could countries meeting in France be on the brink of a breakthrough in protecting the planet’s oceans?
(IMAGE: California National Guard members participate in crowd control during immigration raid protests near the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, USA, 08 June 2025 / CREDIT: Caroline Brehman/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:09.4 | It's just gone 6 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, where we're told although protests continued into Sunday night, the scene was generally tense but calmer than at other times over the weekend. |
| 0:21.5 | But the physical clashes between protesters and police officers on the streets |
| 0:25.2 | has been mirrored by verbal clashes at the political level. |
| 0:29.5 | California's governor Gavin Newsom has accused President Trump |
| 0:33.1 | of trying to manufacture a crisis in L.A. |
| 0:36.5 | by deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to the area. |
| 0:40.1 | The White House line is that Mr Trump has rightfully stepped in to restore law and order. |
| 0:45.0 | The administration is also threatening to send in US Marines to the area if the unrest continues. |
| 0:50.7 | But Mr Newsom says the deployment of national guards against the will of the state |
| 0:55.6 | is illegal, immoral and unconstitutional. He's threatening to sue the government. With the latest |
| 1:02.6 | from Los Angeles, our North America correspondent John Sudworth. Once again, downtown Los Angeles |
| 1:10.4 | echoed to the sound of tear gas and rubber bullets. |
| 1:14.5 | At one point, protesters surged onto one of this city's busiest highways, |
| 1:19.5 | before the police eventually cleared the road, making a number of arrests as they did so. |
| 1:28.7 | You're one of us. |
| 1:31.8 | You're no different. I know you don't want to do this. |
| 1:34.6 | A short distance away, protesters faced off with a line of National Guardsmen. |
| 1:39.8 | What are you doing here? |
| 1:41.0 | If you're a member of the National Guard, you should not be here. |
| 1:45.0 | It is this that has turned what were localized protests into a major storm. |
| 1:50.9 | President Trump's protocol-busting decision to send in the soldiers against the wishes of the state governor and the city's mayor, Karen Bass. |
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