As far as what we are hearing, the National Guard, first of all, it's illegal, unconstitutional,

it's dangerous, it's wrong. This is not about deportation. This is not about safety for this president.

This is about authoritarianism. It's about stoking fear. It's about breaking the Constitution

that would give him that much more control over our American cities.

Hi again, everyone. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. More escalations to report in the standoff

between our commander-in-chief and American cities he doesn't like today as leaders, like the one

you just heard, Chicago's mayor, call out Trump's desires to deploy federal troops to the streets

of cities run by Democratic elected officials, as Trump in the Oval

Office yet again raised the prospect of invoking the Insurrection Act. Today, notable not just

for the growing clash of rhetoric, but of troops actually appearing on the ground. The Texas National

Guard has arrived in Chicago. The Chicago

Tribune reports that its journalists, quote, saw several military members dressed in camouflage

and carrying long guns on federal property in the far southwest suburbs Tuesday morning.

Soldiers who had tea patches on their arms identical to the one shown in a picture tweeted by

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday, could be seen walking in and out of mobile sleeping

units on the site, end quote. The presence of these out-of-state troops comes as a judge

declined to immediately respond to a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois, which we covered on this

program yesterday. That lawsuit said the Trump administration's efforts to send in the National Guard

against the wishes of the state's governor are illegal and unconstitutional. The judge in this case,

U.S. District Judge April Perry, said she needed time to go through the government's response to the

suit and scheduled a hearing for Thursday, giving Trump and his allies a small window of time

to send troops into the windy city, an opportunity they are seizing upon. But as Illinois Governor

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