This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Trump's invasion of Chicago has really gone off the rails.

The imagery is jarring.

Hyper-militarized raids of apartment buildings,

children getting pulled out into the streets and potentially traumatized, a priest getting shot by a smoke pellet. And Stephen Miller is boasting about it all over

right-wing media, relishing every minute of these horrors. He and Trump plainly want to

incite violence to justify further authoritarian crackdowns.

In response to all this, Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has taken a lead role in denouncing

Trump's abuses of power and warning that our ongoing slide into authoritarianism could end in

true catastrophe. We think Democrats as a party could be doing a lot more of what Pritzker's doing. So today,

we're fortunate to be talking to Governor Pritzker about all this and where it's all going.

Governor, thank you so much for joining us today. Great to be with you, Greg.

So, Governor, can you just bring us up to date on what's going on in Chicago with the National

Guard and ICE right now at this moment?

Sure. Well, I think I'm making news if I tell you this, but we have seen in addition to the Texas National Guard, which have not been deployed, but they are on the ground.

We now have seen that there are 14, so far, California National Guard on the ground. And then, of course, they're federalizing

our Illinois National Guard. So none of them have been deployed. Again, we don't get direct

information from the feds, but we do get reports from folks. That's how we know anything, really, is that,

you know, sometimes it's people who work for me, sometimes it's other law enforcement around

the state or just bystanders. So we know that they're on the ground but not deployed.

Well, I want to get your response to something Stephen Miller said on Fox News about the raid on Chicago's south side.

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