The Math isn’t Mathing for Donald Trump

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Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Lloyd Doggett and fmr. Rep. Charlie Dent discuss the bogus accounting Republicans are using to sell Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’; Fmr. Gov. Jay Inslee addresses President Trump’s decision to deploy national guard troops to Los Angeles; and the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos exposes the new Gilded Age that’s exploding into view.

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0:00.0	Good morning. It's Sunday, June the 8th. We now have word that the National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles.
0:07.9	This is important because unlike the way you normally think about the National Guard,
0:11.8	and by the way, I just want to make sure these are images from last night. This is not the National Guard involved in this.
0:16.6	The National Guard, we do not have images of the National Guard in Los Angeles yet.
0:23.9	Normally you think of a governor as activating the National Guard, and there not have images of the National Guard in Los Angeles yet. Normally you think of a governor as activating the National Guard.
0:28.8	And there's a lot of history and materialing the Constitution about why that's the case.
0:32.9	The National Guard in California has not been activated by the governor.
0:35.2	It has been federalized by Donald Trump.
0:37.5	The Trump administration said last night it would be sending the National Guard to L.A. in response to protests over immigration enforcement operations.
0:42.6	Overnight demonstrators clashed with law enforcement. Officials responded with tear gas.
0:48.0	Another discussion about whether they should be using tear gas on protesters. A lot of countries
0:52.4	think it should be illegal. Some demonstrators set vehicles on fire
0:56.0	and blocked major roadways. The protests are in response to a sweeping ice operation in the
1:00.8	Southern California region, particularly at a local Home Depot. Last night, President Trump said
1:05.7	he would deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to the L.A. area. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass called the move
1:11.5	unnecessary. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who nominally holds the power, as all governors do,
1:17.1	to deploy the National Guard in their state, said it would create a spectacle.
1:21.6	He accused the Trump administration of moving to take over the California National Guard.
1:25.5	The defense secretary, Pete Higgseth, going further. He tweeted this morning, quote, California National Guard. The defense secretary, Pete Hankseth, going further,
1:29.1	he tweeted this morning, quote, the National Guard and Marines, if need be, stand with ice.
1:36.2	There's a lot of problems with that, by the way. The use of the military to do policing and law
1:42.5	enforcement work is actually not allowed without a very specific
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