It's a federal holiday, but things are about to get very busy this week with what appears to be a looming federal takeover of Chicago and more political fights over congressional redistricting.

Joining us now for Politics Monday is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Thanks to you both for laboring on this Labor Day.

You're welcome.

Good to be here.

All right, so let's start with the story we mentioned first. President Trump is again threatening to send troops into Chicago with the Pentagon reportedly preparing a deployment from a nearby Navy base as soon as this week. The governor, J.B. Pritzker, says that Trump is using the military to invade the state. Tam, this appears to be a calibrated escalation of the limits

of executive power. What's the White House saying about it? Well, the president has said that

he can do anything. He's the president, and he was specifically talking about this. But in that

same breath, he also said he wants to be invited. He wants the governor to ask. And the fact is that there are more limits

on what he can do in a state where the governor has not invited the National Guard than, for

instance, Washington, D.C., where the president has much more control. What we know about the

request so far is that it, it seems to be limited.

Now, that obviously could change, and President Trump has been known to say things and then change

where he's headed.

But the Department of Homeland Security requested help from the National Guard for limited support in the form of facilities,

infrastructure, and other logistical needs to support Department of Homeland Security

operations. That's a lot of words to say they're not talking, at least in this request,

about National Guard patrolling the streets in some sort of law enforcement capacity.

This would be much more limited, perhaps more similar to Los Angeles, where, and that is still

being litigated, whether that was a proper use of the National Guard without the blessing

of the governor or the mayor, but where National Guard troops were there in support of federal

agents doing their thing. In that case, ICE.

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