So I was trying to explain to him that I did not think it was needed and that more importantly than that, that I thought that it was going to, it was going to sow a sense of chaos in the city … The President of the United States is trying to inflame tensions by virtue of bringing these [National Guard] troops in. … what the President said originally, which is this is going to be targeted to violent criminals. How do you go from violent criminals to people who are at a workplace? (01:19–01:30)
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Asserts that the President's intention in deploying the National Guard is to inflame tensions.
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