Oregon governor calls Trump’s actions ‘an abuse of power and threat to our democracy’
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. President Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities is facing significant pushback and setting up a new showdown in federal courts over the limits of his authority. |
| 0:13.0 | Illinois officials sued the Trump administration today to stop plans to send 400 troops from Texas to aid an immigration enforcement operation in Chicago. |
| 0:22.4 | The lawsuit called the plan unlawful and dangerous, but a federal judge disagreed, declining to |
| 0:28.4 | block the deployment for now. It comes just a day after a separate judge blocked the Trump |
| 0:33.7 | administration from sending California's guard to Oregon in response to a series |
| 0:38.3 | of clashes outside an immigration detention facility in Portland. The president said today |
| 0:43.3 | he wants to get the city under control and would consider invoking the Insurrection Act. |
| 0:48.3 | You look at what's happened with Portland over the years. It's a burning hellhole. And then you |
| 0:56.0 | have a judge that lost away that tries to pretend that like there's no problem. Actually, she's |
| 1:05.0 | not even saying that. There's a huge problem in Portland. I'll tell you what the problem is. |
| 1:09.0 | Crime. |
| 1:10.0 | For more on how the state is responding, |
| 1:12.6 | we spoke earlier today with Oregon's Democratic governor, Tina Kotech. Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:18.6 | Hey Jeff. So I understand you spoke with President Trump about a week ago. How did that conversation go? |
| 1:24.6 | Well, it was cordial. I was very direct with him. I don't understand why you think it's necessary |
| 1:32.6 | just to have military intervention in the city of Portland. We are a beautiful, vibrant, safe city. |
| 1:41.9 | Portland is doing well. And I believe he had at the time and continues to have |
| 1:47.5 | misinformation, a very old outdated viewpoint about what is happening in Portland. The protests |
| 1:55.1 | that are happening outside of the ice facility are confined to about a one block radius of the |
| 1:58.8 | city of Portland. I will say when I spoke with him, |
| 2:02.6 | I was like, look, I believe local law enforcement has this situation managed, always open to |
| 2:07.9 | conversation, but we do not need military intervention here. And of course, that has continued to |
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