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Velshi

The Travel Ban Is Back

Velshi

MSNBC

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

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What President Trump’s latest travel ban is really about; why a Tea Party Republican just joined the Democratic Party; and what it means that President Trump has deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles against the wishes of state and local leaders.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, I'm Ali Velshi. It's Sunday, June 8th. We know that the California National Guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles now.

0:07.9

You're looking at pictures of troops at a federal building in downtown Los Angeles.

0:12.2

Just think about this for a second. Federalized National Guard troops in downtown L.A.

0:17.7

President Trump was the one to deploy the National Guard, not as is typically the case,

0:22.4

the governor. That's how it normally works. Last night, the Trump administration said it would be

0:26.7

sending 2,000 California National Guard troops to L.A. in response to protests over immigration

0:32.5

enforcement operations, which you're looking at now. Yesterday, demonstrators clashed with law enforcement, not National Guard.

0:39.9

Officials responded with tear gas. Some demonstrators set vehicles on fire and blocked major roadways.

0:45.4

The protests are in response to a sweeping ice operation in Southern California, particularly at a local home depot.

0:52.8

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass called Trump's move to deploy the National Guard

0:56.0

unnecessary. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who normally holds the power to deploy the National

1:00.6

Guard, said it would create a spectacle. He accused the Trump administration of moving to take

1:04.8

over the California National Guard. The Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth went a lot farther, actually.

1:11.8

He tweeted this morning, the National Guard and Marines, if need be, stand with ice, end quote.

1:19.7

There's no work for the military in law enforcement in America.

1:24.1

It's not actually allowed.

1:25.9

Trump's appointed Borders are Tom Homan warned that

1:28.3

Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass could face arrest if they impede federal authorities work. NBC's Jacob

1:33.2

Soberoff asked Homan about it last night. There have been threats, you know, previously that

1:40.0

if you stand in the way of your enforcement operations, you know, you could be subject potentially to arrest.

1:45.2

Are you saying that about Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom, or they at risk being arrested?

1:49.5

I'll say it about anybody.

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