To the 1950s, when you had Southern Democrat governors who were bigots and they didn't want to integrate the schools, and they dug in and were fighting civil rights laws. And President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, sent in the National Guard and said, you don't have a right to defy federal law, and we are going to enforce federal law. That's exactly what President Trump is doing here. And I just wanted to ask you about Governor Abbott deploying more than 5,000 Texas National Guard and more than 2,000 Texas DPS troopers to be in place for planned protests this weekend. (05:06–05:18)
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Asserts that President Eisenhower sent the National Guard to enforce federal law against Southern Democrat governors.
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