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Amanpour

Immigration Protests Spread Across US

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Protests over the Trump Administration sending in the National Guard and the Marines to assist in its immigration raids are spreading across the country. Legal and military experts warn that this could threaten American democracy. California Governor Gavin Newsom calls it a brazen abuse of power. Governor Newsom and the State Attorney General Rob Bonta are suing the president to remove the troops from their streets. Bonta says mobilizing 700 marines to support the National Guard in LA is a "unnecessary escalation." He joins Christiane from Alameda, California. Also on today's show: Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres; human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice; Tulsa OK Mayor Monroe Nichols Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

We do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forces.

0:13.0

Unrest grows at Trump's deployment of National Guard and Marines.

0:18.0

Protest spreads from LA across the United States. California's Attorney General

0:23.4

Rob Bonta joins me and Congresswoman Norma Torres to discuss Trump's crackdown and what this

0:29.5

means for American democracy. Then, dozens more Palestinians are shot to death near the Gaza

0:35.4

aid site as pressure on Israel mounts both at home and abroad.

0:40.3

I speak to former international war crimes prosecutor Sir Jeffrey Nice about what's going on in Gaza and how America is targeting the ICC.

0:50.3

Then...

0:51.3

It destroyed what was perhaps the greatest example of black excellence in economics and entrepreneurship

0:58.0

that the country has seen at the time.

1:00.0

Road to Repair, healing from the dark legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,

1:06.0

Michel Martin speaks to the city's mayor Monroe Nichols about his new justice initiative

1:12.6

and his plans for a $105 million reparations package. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London, where the world watches as the most powerful democracy,

1:39.3

deploys its military against citizens to enforce its political agenda. In the United States, protests over the Trump administration sending in the National Guard and having U.S. Marines on standby to assist in its immigration raids are spreading across the country, from Los Angeles, now to New York, Chicago, and other key cities.

1:59.2

In this extraordinary scene at Fort Bragg,

2:01.6

President Trump is literally rallying the troops.

2:05.6

What you're witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order.

2:11.6

We will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean, and safe again.

2:15.6

It's happening very quickly.

2:23.0

Legal and military experts warn that this could threaten American democracy.

2:27.3

California governor, Gavin Newsom, calls it a brazen abuse of power.

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