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welcome to the lead.

I'm Jake Tapper.

We're going to start with our national lead any moment.

We're going to bring you a live update from Los Angeles officials as they announced

new charges filed in connection with the ongoing unrest and violence in the city.

Today we'll mark the six day of protests, some of which have turned violent.

In response to the Trump administration's immigration raids, the protesters say.

More than 200 people were taken into custody just yesterday for failing to disperse.

Once an overnight curfew came into effect for part of downtown L.A., a curfew imposed by the LA mayor. Today, White House Press

Secretary Caroline Levitt says that since Friday, since Friday, 330 undocumented immigrants,

including 113 with prior criminal convictions, have been arrested, quote, as part of these riots.

This, of course, as the Trump administration has deployed about 4,000 active duty National Guard troops and mobilized 700 Marines. Those Marines are still training. According to a U.S. Northern Command spokesperson, here are those Marines on a softball field. No batting practice. They appear to be practicing detaining people, perhaps, so the Marines and National

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