1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Right, La, Richard Arnold, morning to you. Where are we 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: at peerful? 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Right now? How's that for headline? Los Angeles not burning? 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 2: The television images do not make clear really that the 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: immigration standoffs are occurring in a very small, maybe four 6 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 2: block section of LA. There has been some real violences. 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: We've seen some stores looted, bricks thrown. That Nine Network 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: reporter from Australia, Lauren Demarci, pit by a rubber bullet 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: while she was doing a live cross bullet fired by police. Also, 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: there is a lot of anti ice, immigration and customers 11 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 2: enforcement graffiti which now is being painted out. And there 12 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: were some WAYMOA cars set on fire by people now arrested. 13 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: It seems that the driverless cars were ordered into the 14 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 2: protest area just so it could be set on fire. 15 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 2: What we do see is images of armed National Guards 16 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: and now US Marines standing opposite protesters, which California Governor 17 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 2: Knewsom calls a blatant abuse for federal power by President Trump, 18 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: who has just bolding numbers and sent it seven hundred 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 2: camouflage marines with rifles as well, says there. 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 3: Were two thousand National Guard that were quote unquote deployed, 21 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 3: of which only three hundred and fifteen actually were mission assigned. 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: Seventeen hundred have no particular role or responsibility. 23 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: They didn't have anywhere to stay, eve they they lay 24 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 2: down on the concrete floors to sleep, went awake standing 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: in front of a federal building. Again, one tiny spot 26 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: in a city of what ten million plus people. The 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: LA police have made about one hundred arrests. There were 28 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 2: no richs Utol. Of course, ICE agents moved in on 29 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: Saturday or time, says La May and Karen Bass. 30 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 4: People go to work and then they have no idea 31 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 4: that their workplace is going to be invaded and it 32 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 4: is going to be an enforcement action. And you remember 33 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 4: when the administration started, he talked about violent criminals, drug dealers. 34 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: How do you go from a drug deal to chasing 35 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 4: people through the parking lot of a home depot where 36 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 4: there's day laborers working just trying to survive. 37 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: Two hundred and twenty one million New Zealand for the 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 2: marine deployment for sixty days, is what they're saying. The 39 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: ICE agents, wearing masks as they do, moved into the 40 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: fashion area first and rounded up forty six people who 41 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: were sitting at their sewing machines, claiming they were part 42 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 2: of a criminal money laundering operation, says Immigration Chief Tom Homan. 43 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: They have to do with money monitoring, tax invasion and 44 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: customer trud or, a. 45 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 5: Company undeclared as underdeclared over eighty million. 46 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 3: Dollars in goods. Well. 47 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 2: No charges have been laid, none at all. Trump says 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: LA would be a blaze if not for the actions 49 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: that he's taken. 50 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 5: We didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would. 51 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 3: Be burning, just like we was burning a number of 52 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 3: months ago, with all the houses that were last. 53 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 2: Most Californians don't buy that there is. They were a 54 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: war of words between all of the politicians. As The 55 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 2: New York Times today is running a peace headline, Trump 56 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 2: declares dubious emergencies to a mass power. Trump age Stephen 57 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: Miller called in ice chiefs the other day, told him 58 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: they were horrible and should be arresting three thousand people 59 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: a day. While the House Speaker says the Governor Newsom 60 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 2: should be quote trd and feathered, Trump says he would 61 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: support arresting the California Governor Newsom, who has responded. 62 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 5: He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He 63 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 5: knows where to find me. But you know what, lay 64 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 5: your hands off four year old girls that are trying 65 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 5: to get educated. Lay your hands off. These poor people 66 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 5: are just trying to live their lives. Man trying to 67 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 5: live their lives paying their tax has been here ten years. 68 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 5: The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy. 69 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: There's a lot of wild staff meantime. On Monday, reported 70 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 2: an eighteen year old high school kid, right Marcello to Silver, 71 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 2: who was stopped on his way to a volleyball practice. 72 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 2: Then his whole school marched to the local city hall 73 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: in Milford, Massachusetts for the court hearing, along with most 74 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 2: of the rest of the small town, with any people 75 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: wearing T shirts and blazon with this boys' school team 76 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: jersey number ten. Marcello now has been freed. While in Bakersfield, 77 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 2: a four year old girl has been brought to the 78 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 2: US because she was dying from a real disease where 79 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: she could not probably take the nutrients. She had seven 80 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 2: surgeries page four. Then doctors here gave her a specially 81 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 2: built backpack that would allow her to take in food 82 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: and survive. Then Trump ordered her to be deported, which 83 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 2: would have meant her death. There was a huge public outcry. 84 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: So now the federal government has back down. She won't 85 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: be deported. She can live all. 86 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: Right, mate, catch up in a couple of days, Richard 87 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: Arnold states, I'll come back to that in a couple 88 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: of moments. By the way, north of the border in Canada, 89 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: Charnie made an interesting move yesterday. They're going to move 90 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: to the NATO target of two percent GDP for defense, 91 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: and they're going to do it by he claims now 92 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: next year. It's currently at one point four. They're very 93 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: similar to us. They've sort of never had their act 94 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: together in defense spending, mainly because the Liberals. But finally 95 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: they've woken up to it. So we pledged to hit 96 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: two percent by twenty thirty previous government trade Oh said 97 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: twenty thirty two. Now he's up that, Carnie. He's going 98 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: to do it by March of next year. Apparently having 99 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: spent I don't know, several hours yesterday on and off 100 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: watching CNN. I this La thing. If you've been to La, 101 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: it's a massive city and anyone can fly a helicopter 102 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: over a couple of intersections, which is all I saw yesterday. 103 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: And you had a couple of hundred people, Max, and 104 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: you had a whole bunch of cops there, and they 105 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: were the most polite operators I've literally ever seen in 106 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: my life. They would sort of move the people back, 107 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: move the people back, move the people back, and basically 108 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: disperse them. And really, over the hours that I watched it, 109 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: nothing happened. And I saw CNN and they got up 110 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: in the face of the cops, and then they got 111 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: asked that there's a video floating around this morning. I 112 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: can't remember the guy's name, but he's one of the 113 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: reporters for CNN. He walks up to a cop and 114 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: the cop goes, look, we're going to es court. He 115 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: literally goes, we are going to escort you out now, 116 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: and so will escort you out one at a time 117 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: and you can all meet up back down the street there. 118 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: I need you to put your hands behind your back 119 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: and I'll escort you now, just one at a time. 120 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: It's the most mundane sedate removal from approatus. They do 121 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: thirty seconds of calm, don't they you go? March move move, move, move, hold, move, move, move, 122 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: move hold. And this went on for several hours, and 123 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: I thought, is this it is this really all we're 124 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: getting exercised about at the moment, remembering, of course, the 125 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: size of LA and for ninety nine point nine nine 126 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: nine percent of people in LA, they wouldn't even know 127 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: what was going on. So I just wonder if we're 128 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: just making a bigger deal of this than we need to. 129 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 2: For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 130 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 131 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.