So it's been nearly three months since Trump sent the National Guard into Los Angeles

against the governor and the mayor's wishes.

Nearly three months.

Then the pretext was to quell protests against Trump's immigration crackdown.

But the reality was that along the way, local authorities there, the reality was that the local team there was, what was dealing for, was preparing for, was preparing to, to help the people in Los Angeles, crack down. And so the challenge that we're looking right now, and like, so we know that Trump's

entire LA deployment, just to go back to that, cost the taxpayers around $120 million and likely

violated citizen civil rights, despite how poorly that all went. Trump has been threatening for

weeks now to do the same exact thing

in Chicago, claiming that he needs to send in the National Guard because of rampant crime.

Yet again, that pretext is far from the reality. I mean, reality, as I was just saying with

Chris, the overall crime has been dropping for four consecutive years in Chicago.

Violent crime specifically has been dropping for a decade.

But regardless of the reality on the ground, this week in the Oval Office, Trump called Chicago a hellhole.

He said, quote, we're going in.

I didn't say when, but we're going in.

That's literally what he said about Chicago.

Now, we spent a day in Chicago, as I was just

telling Chris, and what I can tell you most certainly is that it is not in any way a hellhole.

But where it does appear that Trump is planning some sort of federal deployment, expansion of

ICE imminently, that is what the preparations appear to be on the ground

right now. I mean, this week, the Pentagon gave its approval for Trump's federal immigration

agents to use the Great Lakes Naval Station, a military base, about 35 miles north of Chicago,

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