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Speaker 1: Top Ink Club Pod.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, good evening, and everybody it so hold

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you your fortune and were tuning in for this top

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INC World news and we actually got updates from our

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reporters from ABC newscasts about the actual troops being deployed

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in the California situation. We're keeping y'all updated on what's

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going on and what Donald Trump and his administration is doing.

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So we're gonna get into this top INC World news

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and then on the follow up, I got some exclusive

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Top INC celeb Baikiki t for y'all tonight. Let's get

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into this news scheit now.

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Speaker 3: As we await the arrival of those seven hundred Marines,

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California's top leaders are going to court to block what

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they call Trump's unlawful militarization of Los Angeles. Hearing is

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actually set for this afternoon on California's emergency request to

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block the administration from expanding the mission of the Marines,

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and California's National Guard DOJ lawyers calling the lawsuit a

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crass political stunt. My next guest will be in that

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courtroom arguing for the State of California. Joining me now,

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta Rob. Good to see you again.

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The last time we talked was during the wildfires. Now

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you are dealing with this, You are getting ready to

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go to court this afternoon. Give me a preview. What

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will you argue? How will you argue?

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Speaker 4: Well, great to see you again and thank you for

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having me. We have a hearing at one thirty pm

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in San Francisco in the Federal Courthouse, and we'll be

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making the case we've been making since day one, since

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we filed our complaint on Monday and our temporary restraining

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order request on Tuesday. We argue that the President is

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engaged in an unlawful power grab, that he's trying to

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exercise authority that he doesn't have. The commander in chief

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for the National Guard, the California National Guard under these

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circumstances is Gavin Newsom, and there was no authority or

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statue that triggers the President to deploy the National Guard

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to Los Angeles. So we argue that his deployment of

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the National Guard to La is unlawful and thus invalid.

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We also argue that the Marines, of course, as a

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military entity, are subject to the Posse comment Tatis Act

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and cannot gauge as engage as a military entity in

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civilian law enforcement and must be restricted so that they're

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not involved in civilian law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: So we think we have the better of the facts

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and the law.

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Speaker 4: We've seen the opposition filed by the federal government, and

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we think will prevail today.

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Speaker 3: What happens if the court doesn't agree with you today, rob?

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Speaker 4: Our case continues today's request for a temporary restraining order,

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so all the arguments in on our complaint continue. We

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might be able to seek a preliminary injunction or seek

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an order at the end of the litigation.

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Speaker 1: So today is one step along the way.

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Speaker 4: But we do believe, as we have in a supermajority

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of the twenty five cases that we've brought against the

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Trump administration, we believe will prevail and secure the order

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that we're seeking.

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Speaker 3: Bear with me for a minute, Rob, I want to

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give a little historical perspective here. The other time last

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time in history that the president deployed the National Guard

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against the wishes of the governor of a state was

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nineteen sixty five. President Johnson deployed the National Guard, as

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well as active duty military to Alabama to enforce desegregation

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citing the quote likelihood of domestic violence and obstruction of

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the execution and enforcement of federal laws end quote. President

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Trump says that these protesters are obstructing federal law enforcement

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and committing violence. Does precedent exist here, even though they

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are very different situations.

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Speaker 4: There's no precedent or what the comp administration is trying

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to do here. The example that you cite is based

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on a different law entirely, and the concern was about

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the deprivation of rights to those who were peacefully protesting

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and the civil rights not being enforced, that they had

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protections for.

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Speaker 1: That attached to them. Here. The citation that the President

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refers to is ten USC.

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Speaker 4: Twelve four h six to authorize, purportedly his deployment of

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the National Guard to Los Angeles, and it requires one

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of three things. An invasion there is absolutely no invasion.

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No one can credibly say that. A rebellion.

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Speaker 1: There's no rebellion either. No one can credibly say that.

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Speaker 4: Or the inability of the federal government to execute the

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laws of the United States didn't exist either. And even

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if you have one of those elements which do not exist,

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you also have to have the cooperation or consent of

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the governor of the state, Governor Gavin Newsom, he has

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strenuously objected to the National Guard coming. And so if

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you just look at the plain, unambiguous language in black

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and white in the citation in the law that is

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cited to by the President, they fail and they do

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not have the authority to call in the National Guard.

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The one time this statute in the history of the

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United States was used to call in the National Guard

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was during the United States Post Office strike when the

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constitutional requirement and federal statutes requiring a mail to be

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moved through the US Postal Service when they weren't able

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to be executed, so the National Guard came in and

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moved the mail. Very different circumstances then here. And by

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the way, the local law enforcement, the LA Sheriff's Department,

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largest sheriff's department in the nation, the LAPD third largest

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police department in the nation, are very well resourced, highly trained,

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have men and women that do exactly this. They tackle crime,

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they confront crime, they quill situations, and they've done it

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well here. And they have a whole set of mutual

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aid that they can request if needed. And then at

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the end of that they can ask for the National

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Guard from the governor if they need that. But you

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heard the police chief of La last night saying they're

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nowhere near needing to call it a national guard and

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haven't even come close to depleting the mutual aid resources.

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Speaker 1: So things are well in hand on the ground.

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Speaker 4: Of course, there are challenges, and that's what law enforcement

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agencies do.

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Speaker 1: They tackle the challenges when they arrive.

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Speaker 3: Attorney General, appreciate your time today and we'll continue to

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follow what happens in court. I hope you'll come back

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and speak to me after you make arguments.

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Speaker 1: Happy too great to see you again.