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Adam Schiff: “That hasn't happened since the mid-1960s.”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Adam Schiff Criticizes Trump's Military Deployment Amid Immigration Raids and Protests in California

Published | Video Starts at 04:28

It wasn't necessary for local law enforcement. And the president, not only without seeking the approval of the governor, but over the opposition of Governor Newsom, nevertheless called out 2,000 National Guardsmen. Now, That hasn't happened since the mid-1960s. That hasn't happened since there was an effort to integrate the schools in Arkansas when the segregationist governor of that state opposed the efforts to integrate the schools. (04:28–04:32)

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Asserts that federalizing the National Guard without state approval hasn't occurred since the 1960s.

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