Day: June 11, 2025

Unnecessary foreign wars and assailing the Constitution

In this episode of the National Security Hour on the America Out Loud Radio Network, Colonel Mike is traveling, and Dr. Mike was very fortunate to have another of the network’s best and most knowledgeable hosts take the Colonel’s usual place. Mr. Paul Engel is a speaker and an author, and also hosts the outstanding Constitutional Study program on America Out Loud. We spoke about several items, ranging from foreign policy to a discussion about the U.S. Constitution.

Night after night, the rioting and burning continue

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – LA Mayor Bass and other officials initially denied the assistance of LAPD, forcing ICE to call on the FBI for assistance. As the riots grew, President Donald Trump sent in the National Guard, which only made Governor Newsom mad. Night after night, the rioting and burning continue. What does this say about the citizens of LA…

Los Angeles Mayor Bass, over 30 Mayors Call for End to Federal Immigration Enforcement Raids

Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and over 30 other mayors of nearby cities on Wednesday called for an end to federal immigration enforcement raids amid protests.
Protests in Los Angeles turned violent over the weekend after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids last week, resulting in detentions and deportations of illegal immigrants. The violent protests led to President Trump sending the National Guard and Marines to the city over California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) objection.

Newsom Urges Californians to ‘Take Peaceful Action’ Against Trump’s Orders

The governor accuses the president of sending the California National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles ‘illegally, and for no reason.’

MSNBC Lies: ‘There Is No Violent Mob In Los Angeles’

One of the week’s most inaccurate and biased statements was “there is no vicious and violent mob in Los Angeles.” This claim did not come from some fringe angry online social media user, but was pushed by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday night’s broadcast of The Last Word. Clearly, this take was not only just extremely out of touch with reality, but a bald-faced lie. 
But far be it from those at MSNBC to care about factual reporting. Their agenda was to push anti-conservative rhetoric and excuse the massive illegal immigration problem. Many of O’Donnell’s claims were certifiably false at best, and intentional inflammatory rhetoric at worst. 
 
 
O’Donnell began his LA tirade by attempting to garner sympathy for illegal immigrants who worked on construction sites: 
Those immigrants outside the Home Depots in Los Angeles are there to help. They are there to work. They are there hoping that someone doing a home project of some kind will need their help and hire them, and people do that every day in the parking lot of Home Depots in Los Angeles. Every day. People have decided from experience that they can trust those men, those workers, some of whom show up at the Home Depot every day and are known by sight to all of us going in and out of those Home Depots in Los Angeles, they’re there to try to support their families by making life easier for us.
But that wasn’t even O’Donnell’s most absurd take of the segment. 
“Donald Trump wants to torture them.” He stated confidently, almost proud of himself for coming up with the line. O’Donnell believes that Donald Trump wants to torture illegal immigrants. He provided no examples or proof to back up his claim, but did have the audacity to say that Trump supporters are “fact free.”
But the icing on O’Donnell’s cake of lies was yet to come. The host continued to tell viewers that President Trump lied about Los Angeles, saying that “there is no vicious and violent mob in Los Angeles.”
The entire country’s attention is fixated on the violence that has ravaged through LA over the past several days, and to state confidently that there is “no violent mob in Los Angeles” is an embarrassing take from O’Donnell and MSNBC. He also told his viewers that there were no riots on Tuesday, which completely contradicts what was said by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in a press conference on Tuesday night, where the violence had gotten so difficult to control, that Bass had to implement a curfew that very night. 
O’Donnell continued his rant, saying that California belonged to Mexico before the United States had “waged war” to secure it, so “when you take land by force in war, as this country did, to add California to our country, don’t be surprised if from time to time you see the flag of the country that was there before you on that very same land, that was Mexican land until we took it away.”
What O’Donnell left out of his spun historical account was that the population of the entire territory ceded to the U.S. was only about 80,000 people. He also omitted that the U.S. gained California as a state during the Mexican-American War, which was fought largely because Mexico refused to recognize the independence of Texas, which also was previously a Mexican territory. Texas had sought independence from Mexico because the Mexican government had imposed unfair taxes and assimilation laws on Texans, and Mexican troops fired on American troops in disputed territory after Texas became a state.
He also left out that parts of California used to be part of Russia, but O’Donnell would probably have a different reaction if he saw people rioting while waving Russian flags.
“American” has never been a race, but a unique philosophy that goes far beyond race and ethnicity, based on the principles of unalienable rights. O’Donnell has failed to understand this, and has implied that whatever your ethnicity is, that is the heritage you should uphold over your identity as an American– which is inherently antithetical to the reason why so many immigrated here in the first place: the American Dream.
The entire transcript is below. Click "expand" to read.
MSNBC’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell
June 10, 2025
10:13:18 PM EST
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Those immigrants outside the Home Depots in Los Angeles are there to help. They are there to work. They are there hoping that someone doing a home project of some kind will need their help and hire them, and people do that every day in the parking lot of Home Depots in Los Angeles. Every day. People have decided from experience that they can trust those men, those workers, some of whom show up at the Home Depot every day and are known by sight to all of us going in and out of those Home Depots in Los Angeles. They’re there to try to support their families by making life easier for us. And Donald Trump wants to torture them.
They’re not drug dealers. They’re not gang members. They have not been released from any mental institutions. And Donald Trump has never produced a single person who was released from a mental institution and sent into this country by a foreign government, which he claims happens every single day and is an invented, demented dreamscape of Donald Trump’s, believable only to Donald Trump’s most fact-free supporters. Donald Trump lied about Los Angeles again today. 
[SCREEN WIPE] 
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP [SPEECH AT FT. BRAGG]: I want to say a few words about the situation in Los Angeles, California, have you heard of the place? Where I’ve deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to protect federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob.
O’DONNELL: There is no vicious and violent mob in Los Angeles. The National Guard troops are doing absolutely nothing. The Marines are invisible and obviously doing absolutely nothing. And peaceful protesters have been peacefully submitting to arrests in small numbers to make their point of protest against what Donald Trump is trying to do in their city. Donald Trump repeatedly today referred to, “rioters bearing foreign flags.”
There were no rioters today, none. But there were Mexican flags in a place that was Mexico long before it became part of the United States, as a result of a war the United States chose to wage on Mexico in order to obtain that territory. 
Mexico, and Spain before it, have forced Donald Trump to speak Spanish very much against his will. But he’s, of course too stupid to even realize that he’s doing that when he names the city where he has sent his troops to do nothing.
Spain was the first colonizer of the place we now call California. Spain established the missions in California, named after saints in Spanish, that every California public school student learns about in elementary school. And Donald Trump knows nothing about. He doesn’t know that Los Angeles means the angels. He doesn’t know that Spanish was the only non-tribal language spoken in Los Angeles long before New York even existed, long before New York was first settled by the Dutch.
And so, yes, when you take land by force in war, as this country did, to add California to our country, don’t be surprised if from time to time you see the flag of the country that was there before you on that very same land, that was Mexican land until we took it away. 
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House Rescissions Seen as a Make-Or-Break Chance to Codify DOGE

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LA District Attorney and Local Police Announce Protest-Related Charges

The Los Angeles district attorney, police chief, and county sheriff announce protest-related charges at 5 p.m. ET on June 11.

ABC Praises LA Rioters for ‘Self-Policing’ as NBC Admits Businesses Are Being Harmed

Even though CBS’s lead newscasts were far and away the most out of control Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in siding with the illegal immigrant mobs in Los Angeles and attacking President Trump for a simple desire to restore law and order, their compatriots at ABC and NBC had plenty of their own hot takes.
ABC ludicrously declared the “protesters” have been “self-policing, keeping others in check” while Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom launched “a broadside against President Trump” for sending in troops that now outnumber those “in Iraq and Syria.”
NBC was a tick closer to reality. While they tried to minimize the violence due to its size being contained to a few city blocks, they labeled local officials as Democrats, interviewing a business owner whose had to stay closed due to their proximity to the riots, and admitted an Apple Store was ransacked.
On Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight started with a bang of bias thanks to sensationalistic anchor David Muir: 
His formal opening to the show afterward doubled down on what was clearly the newly-distributed talking point about Iraq and Syria plus the cost of $134 million.
Senior national correspondent Matt Gutman was back on scene and, along with being upset President Trump suggested some of the hooligans have been paid to cause unrest, he suggested the mob has been, well, disciplined:
He tossed back with unfortunate news for ABC viewers about an initial injunction plea to stop Trump: “And David, just moments ago, we learned there was a blow to Governor Newsom. A federal judge rejecting Governor Newsom’s bid to block the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines here to Los Angeles.”
Gutman was back on Wednesday’s Good Morning America and boasted of Newsom’s supposed address to the nation as “a broadside against President Trump, calling the deployment of those federal troops behind me a brazen abuse of power” and touted of “protests…spreading across the country in response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.”
“While the majority of protests have been peaceful, Los Angeles for the fifth consecutive night mounted police officers swarming protesters as a curfew kicked in. Governor Gavin Newsom claiming Tuesday that democracy is under assault,” he added.
Gutman left the comical “self-policing” narrative to chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce:
Back to Tuesday, NBC Nightly News began with anchor Tom Llamas labeling local officials “Democratic leaders” and admitting they believe the riots “would all stop if the raids stop.”
Llamas tossed to correspondent Liz Kreutz amid the crowds by saying the troops were a “growing controversy” aimed at restoring order and assisting in “anti-immigration enforcement raids.”
Kreutz conceded “things are starting to pick up” (just after 3:30 p.m. local time) with policing having “issued a dispersal order right outside of the federal building.”
Some blow-by-blow tic-toc later, Kreutz actually admitted there was violence and stores destroyed:
She also interviewed a store owner who opposes the mobs and had to remain shuttered due to its location to the riots:
Llamas also showed part of an interview he had taped with Trump border czar Tom Homan (click “expand”):
LLAMAS: What happens if the courts do stop the President’s deployment? I just spoke to the border czar about it, and Governor Newsom’s comments that the Trump administration is adding to the chaos. [TO HOMAN] From what you’ve seen from what you’ve heard in Los Angeles, could you conduct ICE raids now without the help of the National Guard and the Marines?
HOMAN: We can conduct ICE raids, but it’s — it’s about the — the threats and the violence right now. I mean, this job’s already dangerous, I’ve done this a long time. I mean, our ICE officers have been attacked. It’s like we’re a third world nation where people think it’s okay to threaten the life and safety of law enforcement officers and their families.
LLAMAS: I want to put up a tweet for you. This is what Governor Newsom on X, right? He put the photos you see there of Marines sleeping on top of each other. This is what he wrote in that post: “You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep. Here are they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another.” What do you say to that, Mr. Homan?
HOMAN: I’d say take a few moments, go to downtown LA, and see the damage done by these radical protesters. I mean, President Trump is saving his city. President Trump is doing what he should have done. Gavin Newsom could have responded right away and everyone — everybody wants to put the blame on President Trump and the National Guard. You know where the blame starts? It starts with the Biden administration letting over ten million immigrant aliens cross this border. We’re out there trying to respond to the chaos he created.
Kreutz was back on Wednesday’s Today and gave something to both the left and right.
First, she broke ranks from what those on ABC and CBS saw by acknowledging the business fallout, but also said this was just “in a small area”:
To make sure the left wasn’t left out, she played this snippet of Newsom fear-mongering: “This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.”
Before signing off in the first hour, co-host Savannah Guthrie asked her “what has it really been like out there”…with the implication being it’s not chaotic. Kreutz went along with it:
Kreutz summarized both in the second hour:
That curfew is now in effect here in downtown LA and parts of downtown — we’ll show you — they now look like this with businesses boarded up. Store owners telling us they’re concerned about looting after these protests now have gone on for several days and we should point out that these protests are very much concentrated to a small part of downtown L.A. If you’re in another part of the city, you probably won’t even notice the impact of the protests, but as they’ve escalated and as they’ve continued we are now seeing a shift in tactics from law enforcement, a major crackdown overnight.
To see the relevant transcripts from June 10, click here (for ABC’s World News Tonight) and here (for NBC Nightly News). To see the relevant transcripts from June 11, click here (for ABC’s Good Morning America) and here (for NBC’s Today).