News Wrap: Judge rules Trump’s National Guard deployment in LA was illegal
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We start the day's other headlines in California. A federal judge ruled today that the Trump |
| 0:04.8 | administration's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June was |
| 0:10.4 | illegal. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the administration, quote, willfully |
| 0:15.5 | violated the law, adding that the government knew, quote, they were ordering troops to execute |
| 0:20.5 | domestic law beyond their usual authority. |
| 0:23.4 | The White House has signaled that it will appeal. |
| 0:26.0 | The ruling comes as President Trump told reporters that he plans to send forces to Chicago, saying, quote, |
| 0:31.9 | we're going in but provided no timeline. |
| 0:34.6 | Trump said Illinois's governor should call him to ask for help. |
| 0:44.7 | If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country. |
| 0:49.9 | Governor Pritzker immediately fired back saying Chicago does not need federal troops and bristling |
| 0:56.4 | at the idea of calling the president for help. |
| 0:59.0 | When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national |
| 1:05.0 | television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want. |
| 1:14.6 | Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal? |
| 1:20.6 | President Trump has pointed to gun violence over the weekend in Chicago as a rationale for why the city needs federal assistance. |
| 1:28.8 | Governor Prisker said today that the president would look for, quote, any excuse to put active |
| 1:33.2 | duty military on Chicago's streets. |
| 1:36.1 | The president's comments about sending troops to Chicago came during an event where he announced |
| 1:41.1 | the relocation of U.S. Space Command. |
| 1:43.7 | It's moving its temporary home in |
| 1:45.5 | Colorado Springs to a new one in Huntsville, Alabama. The announcement reverses a decision |
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