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

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump suffered a major legal loss on Tuesday when a federal district court in California ruled that Trump's occupation of Los Angeles with the National Guard and the Marines was illegal.

But his response to this was highly unsettling.

Speaking to reporters, he sounded entirely unconstrained.

He said the military is now definitely going into Chicago,

threatened to send it back into California,

and let out a strange, angry rant about

crime in D.C. that sounded frankly pretty nuts. It's starting to look like the stage is set for

a major confrontation if the courts continue to try to block his military occupations. But we think

it would be particularly combustible if he

stages this confrontation on this particular issue. We're talking about all this with former

federal prosecutor Barbara McQuaid, who's going to help us understand where it might all be headed.

Barbara, always good to see you. Thanks, Greg. Glad to be with you.

So federal district judge Charles Breyer and San Francisco issued this ruling, and it was really unsparing.

He found that Trump's unleashing of the National Guard and Marines violated the Pasi Comitatis Act.

Breyer wrote that this has created, quote, a national police force with the president as its chief.

Alarming stuff.

The ruling only applies to California and it's on hold for 10 days while Trump presumably appeals.

Barb, what jumped out at you about the ruling?

Well, it was interesting because you may recall that Judge Breyer initially did block the initiation

of troops into Los Angeles, finding that there was an insatisfactory finding of an emergency.

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