Trump’s deployment of National Guard in U.S. cities gets renewed scrutiny
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 0:03.0 | Tonight, investigators say the suspect in the brazen daylight shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., drove cross-country to carry out the attack, but they're still searching for a motive. |
| 0:15.0 | The two victims remain in critical condition, and the accused shooter is also in the hospital. |
| 0:20.0 | Prosecutors say the suspect, who's an Afghan national, |
| 0:22.1 | will be charged with three counts of assault with intent to kill, |
| 0:25.6 | and the Trump administration is further restricting immigration |
| 0:28.6 | in the wake of the attack. |
| 0:30.6 | Our coverage begins tonight with White House correspondent Liz Landers. |
| 0:34.6 | Caught on camera, the moment after an attack that shattered the pre-holiday calm near the White |
| 0:41.1 | House. |
| 0:42.0 | The suspect already wounded, tackled to the pavement, surrounded by law enforcement. |
| 0:46.9 | Within moments, officers take him into custody, ending what authorities describe as a deliberate |
| 0:52.3 | ambush. |
| 0:53.6 | Just minutes earlier, officials say he opened fire on two National Guard members as they waited at Washington, D.C. bus stop. |
| 1:01.0 | The victims, 20-year-old Sarah Bextram and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, both from the West Virginia National Guard. |
| 1:07.8 | They answered the call. They took the charge. They volunteered. They put their |
| 1:13.5 | lives on the line for people they don't even know. Law enforcement identified the suspect as an |
| 1:20.2 | Afghan national and said he drove across the country from his home north of Seattle with a plan to |
| 1:25.9 | commit the attack. The suspect, he has been identified |
| 1:29.9 | as Ramanullah Lackinwal, a 29-year-old Afghan who entered the United States under Biden's |
| 1:39.0 | Operation Allies Welcome, a program following the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
| 1:46.7 | The alleged shooter used a 357 revolver, shooting a guard member and then firing again after |
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