Welcome to the beat. I'm Melissa Murray in for Ari Melburgh.

Ahead tonight. On day one of the government shut down, Donald Trump is trying to exert some presidential pressure. But top Democrats are defiant.

For decades, Republicans have consistently shut the government down as part of their efforts to try to extract and jam

their extreme right-wing agenda down the throats of the American people.

Already, Trump is targeting blue states in a way that some Democrats claim is an abuse of power.

We will get into that and more.

But we start tonight with a red

alert for the country as federal troops enter more American cities and Donald Trump suggests

that some American citizens are, quote, enemies. Today, Trump claimed that the National Guard is now,

quote, in place in Portland, Oregon. This, despite local on-the-ground

reporting, that National Guard deployment has actually been delayed amid legal challenges. Also today,

federal troops are on the ground in Memphis, Tennessee. And Missouri's Republican governor

has authorized the National Guard to assist ICE with deportations across the state.

All of this comes, of course, just months after Donald Trump deployed troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

And it comes just one day after Trump tried to justify domestic military action, telling Pentagon leaders to, quote, handle the, quote, enemy from within.

Take a listen.

To San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places.

And we're going to straighten them out one by one.

And this is going to be a major part for some of the

people in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within. We should use some of these

dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard. It's the enemy from within,

and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.

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