News Wrap: Court considers Trump’s California National Guard deployment
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We start today's other headlines in New York. There were dramatic scenes at an immigration court as the city's comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents. |
| 0:09.7 | Sir, you don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. |
| 0:14.0 | Video provided to the News Hour by his campaign shows a group of ICE and FBI agents struggling with Lander as he tried to escort a migrant out of the building. |
| 0:23.1 | Lander, who is also a candidate for mayor, is heard in the video repeatedly asking to see a judicial warrant |
| 0:28.4 | before he's pushed into a wall and arrested by the agents who are not wearing uniforms or displaying badges. |
| 0:34.7 | Immigration lawyers say warrants are not needed in immigration courts because they are |
| 0:38.3 | public spaces. Lander was released several hours after his arrest. Meantime, a federal appeals court in |
| 0:45.1 | California heard arguments today on whether the Trump administration can keep using National Guard |
| 0:50.0 | troops to prevent protests and protect immigration agents in Los Angeles. The hearing by the three |
| 0:56.0 | judge panel came just days after a lower court ruled that Trump's use of the guard was illegal |
| 1:01.3 | and ordered those troops return to California state control. The Trump administration appealed |
| 1:06.7 | that decision, saying it was within its rights to bypass Governor Gavin Newsom to maintain order. |
| 1:13.2 | Those guardsmen are necessary on the ground today to prevent breaches of the federal buildings |
| 1:18.0 | to protect ICE officers when they are conducting their law enforcement operations. |
| 1:22.8 | The guardsmen are not conducting law enforcement. They are charged with a protective mission, |
| 1:26.7 | not a law enforcement mission. Meant with a protective mission, not a law enforcement |
| 1:27.5 | mission. Meantime, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted her curfew for parts of the city that were |
| 1:33.5 | roiled by last week's protests against immigration rates. Turning now to the war in Gaza, Palestinian |
| 1:39.7 | health officials say at least 51 people were killed and more than 200 others wounded as they waited |
| 1:45.2 | for U.N. trucks bearing much-needed food. |
| 1:49.6 | This is not aid. This is an ambush. This is not aid. This is an ambush against the youth, |
| 1:55.2 | not to feed them, but to kill them. |
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