When you're witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order.

The president reframed the mostly peaceful protests in L.A. as riots and sent in the army.

But...

You need to have some express legal authorization in order to deploy troops.

You can't just say this looks like chaos to me, so I'm going to bring in the military.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Lohinger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Several journalists covering the protests have been attacked by law enforcement.

And a new documentary about the investigation to find out who killed Palestinian-American journalist Shereen Abu Ackle.

Israel even refused to provide the U.S. government with the name of the soldier.

They did everything they could to hide his identity.

And, you know, as a journalist, when someone's working so hard to hide something. You want to know even more.

Exactly.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Michael Lowinger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

So, where to begin?

The conflicting depictions of conditions on the ground in Los Angeles is yet another

among many vivid illustrations of the stark contrast between the hellscape inhabited by the president

and life on planet Earth. I've deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of

Marines to protect federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob.

And some of the radical left, they say, oh, that's not nice.

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