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--:-- Georgia Howe: The violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles continue, and the state's Democratic leaders are doubling down on their support. Come after me. Arrest me. Let's just get it over with. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley.
--:-- John Bickley: It's Tuesday, June 10th, and this is Morning Wire. Democrats accused Trump of overstepping his authority by using the National Guard, but America has a long history of sending in the troops.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Early today, I directed 3,000 members of the 7th Infantry and 1,500 Marines to stand by at El Toro Air Station, California. And California taxpayers may be unknowingly funding the L.A. protests.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Los Angeles continues to be gripped by wide-scale riots as President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration moves ahead. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest on the riots and the political response.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So, Cabot, many areas of Los Angeles have been under siege with anti-Trump protesters. What's the latest?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, a major development Monday afternoon as President Trump deployed hundreds of Marines to help secure Los Angeles. They'll join the 2,000 National Guardsmen who have already been activated. The expectation is that those Marines will be protecting federal personnel and property in the city.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The move comes after the chaos continued there over the last 24 hours, with rioters across LA shutting down highways, setting numerous cars on fire, and lobbing bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police. In one incident, rioters smashed out the windows of the LAPD headquarters. In another, a number of businesses, including a Jordan sneaker store, were broken into and looted.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Dozens of arrests have been made, but violent crowds continue to form overnight, vowing to riot until ICE agents ceased their deportation rates. President Trump, though, is vowing to push forward. He said on Truth Social that he would, quote, deal with the violent instigated riots in California, and that without his deploying of the National Guard quote Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But a number of California Democrats have offered sort of tacit support for the riots and blamed Trump for the violence. Right. There's been a lot of controversy around this and how Trump's approached it. So what are lawmakers in California saying?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, leading the charge is Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, who said that he will sue the Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to break up the riots. He wrote on X, quote, Donald Trump is putting fuel on this fire, Commandeering a state's National Guard without consulting the governor of that state is illegal and immoral. California will be taking him to court.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And in a really remarkable interview with MSNBC, Newsom said it was time to push back. Challenging Trump's borders are Tom Homan to arrest him. Come after me. Arrest me. Let's just get it over with. Tough guy. You know, I don't give a damn. But I care about my community. I care about this community. The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up. They need to stop. And we need to push back.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: For his part, Trump responded to those comments Monday by saying, quote, I would arrest him if I were Tom. Gavin likes the publicity.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Elsewhere, we saw a number of California Democrats across the state downplaying the riots altogether. Here's Senator Alex Padilla, for example, calling them peaceful and saying that ICE should expect these sorts of riots. They're passionate. When you come into a community like Los Angeles the way that the Trump administration has, you need to expect to be countered with people who are passionate about defending fundamental rights.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And then there was California Congressmember Maxine Waters, who falsely claimed on CNN that these rioters have committed no violence. There have been no violence where anybody that was protesting hit anybody, shot anybody, threatened anybody. And later on, Waters went as far as taunting a group of National Guardsmen, telling them, quote, if you shoot me, you better shoot straight.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, we've also seen a variety of legacy media outlets taking kind of a similar stance. Can you give us some examples of those?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, we all remember the now infamous CNN characterization of the 2020 BLM riots, which they called fiery but peaceful. Some outlets now have repeated similar language this week. Listen to this ABC anchor, for example. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And here's MSNBC's Julian Castro essentially blaming the riots on ICE. Video after video has shown that these agents are the ones provoking protesters and also making up, you know, aggression by these protesters that later video shows people were not aggressive.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, the White House has argued that these riots are actually proving their point, that illegal aliens are wreaking havoc on American cities. President Trump said he campaigned on restoring law and order. He's clearly intent on doing just that in California.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Well, in the meantime, I feel really badly for those Los Angeles residents. Cabot, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Absolutely.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump dispatched National Guard troops to Los Angeles this weekend, despite the protest of local Democrat leaders. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the political and legal fights over the National Guard deployment.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So, Tim, let's start with the context. When was the last time something like this happened?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Right. It's rare, but it's not unprecedented. We've seen this a few times, but you do have to go back decades. Here's Fox 11 anchor Alex Michelson explaining. There have been a few examples in U.S. history, like when Dwight Eisenhower did that to desegregate schools. It happened in Los Angeles after the Rodney King riots. But it hasn't happened since.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So that's a big move for the president to say, sorry, governor of X state, I disagree with you. I'm taking over the National Guard. That happened this weekend. President Trump calling in the National Guard, even though Governor Newsom did not want them to.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The last time the Guard was called in over riots was coincidentally also in L.A. President George H.W. Bush called them in to crack down on the Rodney King riots. Here's some footage of Bush announcing it back in 1992.
--:-- Tim Pierce: To restore order right now, There are 3,000 National Guardsmen on duty in the city of Los Angeles. Another 2,200 stand ready to provide immediate support.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, one big difference between Bush in 92 and Trump today is that Bush had the backing of California's governor and the mayor of L.A. Trump has neither, and that in itself has been the focus of some criticism.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So let's get into that criticism. The state filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday. What's the basis of the state's argument?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Essentially that Trump violated procedure. Here's California Attorney General Rob Bonta talking about the lawsuit. An order that abused the federal government's authority and violated the 10th Amendment and federal law. An order that skipped over multiple rational, common sense, strategic steps that should have been deployed to quell unrest and prevent escalation.
--:-- Tim Pierce: As a result, I, in partnership with Governor Gavin Newsom, are suing President Trump.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Of course, the administration rejects that argument. Now, what about the other side? What are Republicans saying?
--:-- Tim Pierce: They're mostly all for it. For example, Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez appeared on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday to make his case. It's tragic to see what's happening in L.A. I spent 20 years in the military. I fought in two wars. I fought to give people the freedom to protest whatever the hell they want to. But what we're seeing in L.A. are not advocates. We're seeing anarchists. And the president of the United States should absolutely put down the mob as soon as possible.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Some background here. The federal government is typically barred from deploying military resources for law enforcement purposes in the United States, with one exception that is found in the Insurrection Act.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The Insurrection Act says the military can be deployed to enforce the law or quell rebellion. Constitutionally, its use relies on Congress's authority to, quote, provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, we'll have to see how this plays out in court.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The anti-ICE protests sweeping through the Los Angeles area are being promoted and organized by left-wing activist groups, including a prominent nonprofit that receives tens of millions of taxpayer dollars from California.
--:-- Laura Powell: Yeah. Joining us now is Laura Powell, civil liberties attorney and founder of Californians for good governance, a nonpartisan advocacy group.
--:-- Laura Powell: Thanks so much for joining us.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now you've identified the coalition for humane immigrant rights or CHURLA as one of the key funders of these anti-protests. And one of the most surprising bits of information in your thread online is that California taxpayers are the ones funding CHURLA which is openly called to abolish ICE in the past.
--:-- Laura Powell: First can you tell us more about this group?
--:-- Laura Powell: Well, that was really, they pushed in 2018, you know, hoping that maybe that was their opening with that. That rhetoric, though, they are always bringing up, you know, they're anti any immigration enforcement with a really extreme view.
--:-- Laura Powell: So now you see that manifesting as there is finally some immigration enforcement happening in their area and they're rallying people to come out.
--:-- Laura Powell: I was looking at them on Friday as things were really heating up. Union president David Huerta was arrested for his involvement and then they held a rally at 4 p.m. as things were heating up to get people fired up to continue the protests.
--:-- Laura Powell: They do other things besides that, but they're really out in the community advocating for illegal aliens and rights for them, providing services to them.
--:-- Laura Powell: What I uncovered was how connected they are to the Democrat establishment in California. Mayor Bass of Los Angeles is very connected to them. They've supported her. She's bragged about helping them get federal funding in the past.
--:-- Laura Powell: A whole slew, really. I mean, they endorsed Kamala Harris. Of course, Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff has talked about them. They can't directly endorse candidates because they're a 501c3, but they have a 501c4 that they use for those candidate endorsements.
--:-- Laura Powell: They also sponsor a lot of legislation at the state level. And you mentioned services they provide. One of those is related to trying to warn people about ICE operations and potentially protest them, correct?
--:-- Laura Powell: Yeah, so there's a rapid response network that was set up that is a coalition of various nonprofits, but they seem to be the central one because it's their phone number that's used as this hotline.
--:-- Laura Powell: And the hotline serves so that people in the street can call in to report when ICE is in the area, and then they can deploy people to go to that area. And in fact, Mayor Bass said in an interview, that's how she found out about ICE enforcement actions in her city, that they are actually finding out from the work of this nonprofit and others what's going on in the streets.
--:-- Laura Powell: You know, so that allows them to get the word out and that and people to congregate where those actions are taking place and in some cases interfere with the officer's work and then of course you know where is this money coming from is the question people ask next.
--:-- Laura Powell: I looked into financials I found an audit that gave a lot more detail from 2023 and they had gotten around 34 million from the state. It had leaped from $12 million in 2022 to $34 million in 2023.
--:-- Laura Powell: So they're just swimming in money right now. There was also a federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security, relatively small compared to this massive amount they're getting from the state. But that was $450,000 they got from the Department of Homeland Security.
--:-- Laura Powell: And Mayor Bass bragged about helping them get that money. That funding actually was frozen in February. And then they filed a lawsuit against DHS. And 10 days later, they terminated the contract. And in late May, that lawsuit was dismissed.
--:-- Laura Powell: All right, so the Trump administration is freezing the federal funding, at least.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Meanwhile, Californians continue to pay for tens of millions of this group's operations. Laura, thanks so much for joining us.
--:-- Laura Powell: Thank you.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And a quick note on programming. A lot of you asked for it, so we've brought it back. Morning Wire's afternoon update show is back starting this week with a few tweaks. So you can look for Evening Wire in your podcast feeds on weekdays at 5 p.m. Eastern.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for waking up with us. And if you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to like and subscribe. We'll be back this evening with more news you need to know.
