In June of this year, in the second largest city in the United States of America, President United states called up 700 active duty marines. He didn't send them overseas. He sent them to, to an American city. It was just days after he had federalized some 4,000 National Guard. Unprecedented act done not at the behest of the state's governor myself, but against my advice, my counsel, certainly against my consent. We said at the time this was a preview of things to come. (00:27–00:35)
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Asserts that 4,000 National Guard members were federalized shortly before the marines were called up.
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