Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the east. At this very moment, as we come on the air,

the Trump administration and California Governor Gavin Newsom are having it out in court.

California's attorneys are asking a three-judge panel to restore control of the 4,000 National Guard

troops that the Trump administration sent to

California to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles back under the command and control of

Governor Gavin Newsom. That panel paused a ruling last week from a district court judge

who called Donald Trump's National Guard takeover unconstitutional and illegal.

Ahead of today's hearing, Governor Newsom issued a dire warning on the stakes of all of this.

In an op-ed, he penned for none other than Fox News.

He writes this, quote, authoritarian regimes begin by targeting the most vulnerable, but they do not stop there.

Trump and his loyalists thrive on division because it allows them to consolidate power and exert

even greater control. If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant based

only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. This is about far more than L.A. It's about more than California.

This is about all of us. It's about you.

When Donald Trump asserted blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard,

he made that order apply to every state in this nation.

California may be the first, but it won't be the last.

Other states are next. Democracy is next. That idea that Trump's autocratic tactics do not start

and end in California was an idea and a message that was echoed today on the Senate floor by

California Senator Alex Padilla.

He emotionally recounted how he was handcuffed and removed from a press conference

being held last week by DHS Secretary Christine Ome.

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