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Truly unconstitutional actions on Trumps National Guard deployment · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We're heading to Chicago because we want to save Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know they head over four thousand people killed
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, over shoed four thousand people. And I have
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  Speaker 1: to watch the slap of a governor stand up and
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  Speaker 1: say that, well, everything's okay. We've got it under control.
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  Speaker 2: Here in Chicago. We have brought prime down precipitously. The President,
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, has some idea in his head
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  Speaker 2: that things are getting worse and worse. It's a hellhole.
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  Speaker 2: It's some kind of hellscape in Chicago or in Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: And we are joined now by Illinois Governor JB.
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  Speaker 1: Pritsker.
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  Speaker 3: Governor Prisker, thank you for joining us this morning. I
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  Speaker 3: know you just heard Vice President of Vance. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: directly answer whether he agreed with President Trump and you've
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  Speaker 3: committed a crime, But what he did say was it
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  Speaker 3: seems pretty criminal to him your behavior. What's your response, Well.
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  Speaker 2: You just heard a title wave of lies from the
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  Speaker 2: Vice president of the United States. It's a bit shocking,
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  Speaker 2: and you heard over and over again him just making
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  Speaker 2: things up on national television with you. There's a reason
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  Speaker 2: why the judge here in federal court said that the
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  Speaker 2: administration lacks credibility and why even the Nobel Prize committee
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  Speaker 2: chair said that the administration lacks integrity. This administration, led
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  Speaker 2: by a thirty four time convicted felon, is threatening to
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  Speaker 2: jail people that are their political opponents. They're making things
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  Speaker 2: up to go after people. We're seeing it day in
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  Speaker 2: and day out, and the fact that he's made a
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  Speaker 2: threat against me, I'm not afraid. I'm going to stand
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  Speaker 2: up for the people of my state. And we've got
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  Speaker 2: to all stand together because there is truly unconstitutional actions
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  Speaker 2: that are coming out of this administration coming at the
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  Speaker 2: states and the people of the United States, and all
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  Speaker 2: of us Democrats and Republicans need to speak out about it.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I'd point out. You mentioned Governor Stitt who
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  Speaker 2: said specifically we shouldn't be federalizing troops in one state
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  Speaker 2: and sending them into another. That he would be offended
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  Speaker 2: if I had troops going into his state. I am
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  Speaker 2: offended that Greg Abbott has troops coming into my state.
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  Speaker 2: And even Governor Scott in Vermont has called this unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 2: So good news. Republicans are now calling out the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: More should do so.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, President Trump called for the prosecution of James.
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  Speaker 3: Call me, it happened. He called for the prosecution of
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  Speaker 3: Letitia James, and it happened. He said, you committed a crime.
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  Speaker 3: Are you worried that just Forrman is going to come
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  Speaker 3: after you.
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  Speaker 2: It's true that the president says things and sometimes he
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  Speaker 2: follows through on those threats, and he certainly has the
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  Speaker 2: power of the presidency. He does not have the power
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  Speaker 2: to overcome the Constitution. And so am I afraid. I
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  Speaker 2: am not afraid. Do I think that he could do it.
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  Speaker 2: He might, But as I've said before, come and get me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're dead wrong, mister President and mister Vice President,
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  Speaker 2: and I will stand up for the law and the constitution.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we do in the state of Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: The latest federal judge has allowed troops from Texas to
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  Speaker 3: remain in Illinois, but said they can't be deployed in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: What is the situation exactly on the ground right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are federalized troops that have been sent here
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  Speaker 2: from Texas. They are in a federal facility. They're not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to come onto the streets of Chicago or our
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  Speaker 2: suburbs or anywhere in Illinois. According to the determination of
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  Speaker 2: the judge. We have also troops from California, not sent
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  Speaker 2: by California, but rather by the President when they were
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  Speaker 2: deterred from Oregon. So we've got two states, other states troops,
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  Speaker 2: and of course the Illinois National Guard that's been federalized
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  Speaker 2: and under the direction of the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: None are allowed on the streets of Chicago right now
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  Speaker 2: because we've won the temporary restraining order and the appeal
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  Speaker 2: of that tro and we hope to continue to win. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to rely on the courts to do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing. I realize that sometimes that's risky business, especially
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  Speaker 2: when some have been appointed by Donald Trump. But we've
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  Speaker 2: seen that even a Trump appointed judge out in California
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  Speaker 2: in the West Coast has ruled against the administration. So
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  Speaker 2: I do think that their oath of office actually matters
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  Speaker 2: to them and that they'll make the right determination.
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  Speaker 3: But as you just heard Vice President van say that
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  Speaker 3: those troops are necessary because under your watch and of
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  Speaker 3: the watch of the mayor of Chicago, the streets have
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  Speaker 3: been given over to lawlessness. Those are his words.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know they've said that that Portland is on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Portland is not on fire in Chicago. We've cut the
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  Speaker 2: homicide rate in half. We've got double digit declines in
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  Speaker 2: all of our violent crime statistics. He says that we've
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  Speaker 2: got the highest crime rate in the entire world. That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: We're not even in the top twenty five cities in
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  Speaker 2: the United States, and Illinois itself is the nineteenth safest
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  Speaker 2: state in the United States. I'd like to be in
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  Speaker 2: the top ten, but nineteenth is a whole heck of
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  Speaker 2: a lot better than Texas or Florida.
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  Speaker 3: But if the President invokes the Insurrection Act, there's not
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  Speaker 3: much you can do, is there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for
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  Speaker 2: a reason. There has to be a rebellion. There has
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  Speaker 2: to be an insurrection in order for him to be
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  Speaker 2: allowed to invoke it again. He can say anything he wants.
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  Speaker 2: But if the Constitution means anything, and I guess we
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  Speaker 2: all are questioning that right now, but the courts will
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  Speaker 2: make the determination. If the Constitution means anything, the Insurrection
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  Speaker 2: Act cannot be invoked to send them in because they
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  Speaker 2: want to fight crime. Let me add that they're claiming
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  Speaker 2: in court that that's not the reason that they're calling
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  Speaker 2: up troops to send them into our states. They're claiming
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  Speaker 2: in court that this is about protecting ICE facilities and
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  Speaker 2: ICE agents and not about crime on the streets. But
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  Speaker 2: then you hear Vice President Advance and the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States contravening that and saying exactly what they
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  Speaker 2: actually think. They just want troops on the ground because
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  Speaker 2: they want to militarize, especially blue cities and blue states.
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  Speaker 3: Governor Pritsker, thanks for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, George