Their presence in America's capital made a significant difference, and we honor their service and their sacrifice. Gentlemen, as you know, the National Guard has been deployed to assist with domestic security since before The National Guard has often been deployed to assist in law enforcement operations when state and local authorities were unwilling or unable to do so. ranging from enforcing desegregation laws to helping quell riots. Based on your analysis of historical deployments of the National Guard, do these deployments initiated by the current administration deviate from, in any material way from the domestic National Guard deployments initiated by previous administrations? (00:58–01:13)
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Asserts that the National Guard is used when state/local authorities can't or won't act.
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