"They spit, we hit" - Trump sends the troops into L.A.
The News Agents
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Why has Trump sent the National Guard onto the streets of L.A. to deal with protests against his immigration raids? Normally, this would only happen at the invitation of the State's governor. This time, Trump acted without consultation - and the governor, Gavin Newsom, is now threatening to sue him.
Is Trump right to say he needs to assert law and order on a few protestors before it gets out of control? Is this a personal vendetta against Newsom? Or might it be for more sinister reasons - a dress rehearsal for a President working out how to use emergency powers to seize control of local operations of government?
Later, actor comedian poet and writer Tim Key joins us to discuss his smash hit film 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' - and an update on the Chancellor's winter fuel u-turn.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | They're coming out. They're coming out. They're coming out. They're coming out. |
| 0:18.2 | Look at that. Fuck you. You're coming out. That was the sound on the streets of LA last night as |
| 0:35.6 | as volleys of rubber bullets, tear gas, canisters are being fired |
| 0:41.7 | into the air as the National Guard are deployed to try and quell protests being held by immigrant groups |
| 0:50.3 | opposed to the forced deportations that are now taking place by immigration officials in America. |
| 0:58.3 | So what you're hearing is part protest and part heavy-handed response to that protest. |
| 1:04.9 | Trump using a very arcane bit of legislation to allow him to bring in the National Guard. |
| 1:12.1 | What is really at stake here? |
| 1:14.4 | And what is he trying to do? |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:21.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:23.5 | It's John. |
| 1:24.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:24.8 | And the protest started after ICE, which is immigration and customs |
| 1:30.8 | enforcement. And they're the sort of snatch squads that have been deployed by Donald Trump, |
| 1:36.4 | promised in the election campaign to deport illegal immigrants from California. What's unusual |
| 1:42.8 | about this and exceptional about this, is Donald Trump saying, |
| 1:48.9 | OK, there have been protests. What I need to do is I need to bring in 2,000 National Guardsmen to quell |
| 1:56.3 | the protests. The last time that the National Guard were deployed, not by the governor of the state, |
| 2:04.9 | but overridden by the president, you'd have to go back to 1965 and Lyndon B. Johnson. And then it was |
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