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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. Protests against immigration raids on Los Angeles entered their fourth day after a chaotic weekend. |
0:07.8 | President Trump deployed the National Guard to put down demonstrations over the objections of state and local officials. |
0:14.2 | And late today, 700 active duty U.S. Marines have also been deployed. They're expected to arrive in the next 24 hours. |
0:21.8 | Law enforcement has made dozens of arrests, and the events are sparking a debate about state |
0:26.6 | versus federal authority. Lisa Desjardin starts our coverage. |
0:31.8 | Today, in parts of Los Angeles, clean up, a forced calm, and in one part, a crowd of protesters outside the facility |
0:39.7 | holding union leader David Huerta, charged with obstructing police during an ice raid last week. |
0:45.7 | This after a tumultuous weekend when thousands of people flooded the downtown. |
0:51.0 | Some blocked off a major highway, set fire to driverless cars, and threw rocks at police |
0:56.5 | officers, while police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, flashbangs, and arrests. L.A. police |
1:03.7 | have declared all of downtown an unlawful assembly area, and the debate over the response rages. |
1:10.4 | Some of the things you're reading about in Los Angeles, |
1:13.1 | thank goodness we sent out some wonderful national guard. At the White House today, Trump pointed |
1:20.2 | without proof at what he called paid agitators and insurrectionists. And multiple outlets report |
1:27.3 | Trump is going further, |
1:28.3 | temporarily deploying active duty troops, |
1:31.3 | Marines to Los Angeles without invoking the |
1:34.3 | Insurrection Act that other presidents have cited for such a rare move. |
1:38.3 | That would be an unprecedented step. |
1:41.3 | As a result, California's Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, faces two tests, |
1:46.4 | protecting his largest city from upheaval and confronting Trump. Today, California sued the |
1:52.3 | president, calling the National Guard order unconstitutional and immoral. Trump has said he is |
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