Deployment of Marines and National Guard to LA Raises New Authoritarianism Concerns

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ostensibly to quell anti-ICE protests, President Trump this week mobilized 700 Marines and another 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles. That’s on top of the 2,000 troops he sent over the weekend. The Atlantic’s David Graham calls the deployment a “gesture of authoritarianism.” We’ll talk to Graham and former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary Juliette Kayyem about Trump’s intensifying efforts to assert executive power, the strategies at play and what the implications could be for our democracy. Guests: Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project, Harvard Kennedy School; senior national security analyst, CNN David Graham, staff writer, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	... From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, we talk with former Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, Juliet Cyan, and the Atlantics, David Graham,
1:28.8	about the meaning and motivation behind the president's mobilization of now 4,000 National Guard
1:34.0	troops to Los Angeles and 700 Marines following protests against ice raids. Here's Governor Newsom
1:40.0	on the Daily podcast today. I think it's a red line when you're using military that are trained for foreign incursions
1:46.7	to do domestic law enforcement in American cities.
1:50.2	I think that's a red line.
1:51.4	If that's not a red line, I don't know what red lines mean.
1:53.7	We also look at the latest efforts to restrain the deployment.
1:57.6	Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. A San Francisco federal judge will hold a
2:09.3	hearing today on Governor Newsom's request for a temporary restraining order against President
2:14.1	Trump's use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles.
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