And they were engaged and effective as it relates to the deployment. Right now, there's no state National Guard that had been requested by local law enforcement because they had adequate resources. And Donald Trump knew that. His chief of staff knew that they didn't care about that. And so they wanted to create conditions that would get worse because of their ignorance and recklessness in order to incite the kind of reaction that we're seeing on the streets so that they can further incite. (04:52–04:57)
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