And welcome to the Jim Acosta show on this Monday, starting a little bit late today.

As Michael was just mentioning a few moments ago, I was taking care of my dad earlier today.

And so starting a little bit later today, but Michael Cohen is with me.

And Michael, we got to just jump right into this because, I mean, things are escalating very quickly out in California.

I thought Trump said he wanted to end the wars.

Perhaps he's preparing to ignite one

here at home. ABC News reporting 700 Marines in California have been ordered to assist in L.A. and

they're expected to arrive over the next 24 hours. The Marines are from the 2nd Battalion,

7th Marines at 29 Palms, California.

You know, Trump was asked about this earlier today, apparently said, we'll see what happens.

This sounds like this is the direction it's heading, Michael.

And you and I have talked about this a lot in the past, that this has been the fear for

some time, that Trump would try to find a confrontation that he could turn into basically

a clash where he could mobilize federal troops and send them into a demonstration like this

to see where it could go from there.

You know, Jim, I actually wrote about it at 4 o'clock in the morning.

I called LA Mayhem, right?

Trump's, you know,

a big beautiful distraction, because that's really what this is. This is not about national security.

This is law and order. This is pure, unfiltered weapons grade reality show distraction,

right?

And I've been down this road with him.

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