Welcome to the beat, everyone. We're monitoring live pictures from Los Angeles as we come on the air right now.

People are continuing these protests after what has widely been reported is the Trump administration's escalation.

700 Marines now deployed by the administration arriving today.

You can see some of the indications of this type of military presence

on American streets. This is a rare effort to deploy U.S. troops inside the U.S. for what would seem

like policing purposes, although the details are in debate, and that's what will really matter

legally. The move could be illegal. It depends on

what the Marines are ultimately tasked with doing and what they do. California's governor pushing

back, suing Trump for allegedly illegal use of federal forces. And today, California is

formally seeking an emergency restraining order to stop any further activity by the Marines you just saw there who

are just getting started and the National Guard troops. We can tell you judges are usually hesitant,

though, to intercede in these kind of conflicts in real time. Overall, the initial protests over

these ice raids have clearly morphed into something larger. The president seeking this conflict,

seeking a chance to use what are clearly extraordinary powers, unusual powers, rarely deployed

federal powers while overruling the sitting governor of the state. Democrats have been pushing back.

They are taking him to court,

as mentioned. But overall, in what is still an early period in the second term of this unusual

Trump presidency, the nation is facing a wider reckoning over a president who confesses

what are improper goals, recently arresting some opponents in the Democratic

Party because they disagree with him. In a case that, again, a lot's going on, you're forgiven if

it's hard to keep track, but that case, that arrest, very dramatic of a Democratic mayor in his

own city, dropped. The case fell apart. The lawyers

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