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And you should know that President Trump will this afternoon host a roundtable at the White House focused on business investment. | |
| Pending the House schedule, we plan to have that for you live here on C-SPAN and on the C-SPAN Now video app. | ||
| It's scheduled right now to get underway at 2 p.m. Eastern today. | ||
| Joining us to give us the latest, Joey Garrison, who joins us from the White House. | ||
| He's the White House reporter for USA Today. | ||
| Mr. Garrison, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Mr. Garrison, what have we heard or what kind of follow-up has there been to the events in California and the White House's role and interest in its involvement in it? | ||
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Well, as you know, President Trump sent 2,000 National Guard members to California, and he did that apparently without consultation with Governor Gavin Newsom, who was pushed back fiercely against Trump's action there. | |
| He said he had no communication, nor did he even mention it during a phone call that Newsom said he had with Trump late on Friday night. | ||
| And Trump and other Trump officials have said, look, you know, we want law and order in L.A. He's condemned the riots and he's pushed back strongly. | ||
| This is something, you know, politically that they see as something that they can work to their advantage. | ||
| You know, this is something that Trump has talked about for a long time. | ||
| And so you have these protests that largely stemmed over ICE, but you also see pro-Palestinian flags, et cetera. | ||
| And it's something the White House has jumped all over. | ||
| And you say that it worked to their advantage. | ||
| Can you elaborate on that? | ||
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Well, look, this is something that they can seize on politically here. | |
| They think this is a winning issue. | ||
| I mean, this is something that Trump has long campaigned on, this idea of lawlessness in Democratic cities. | ||
| So you have Los Angeles, you have a Democratic governor also in Newsom, somebody who Trump has routinely butted heads with. | ||
| There's quite a confrontation right now unfolding between Newsom, who's one of the, of course, leaders of the Democratic Party right now and Trump on this matter. | ||
| Mr. Garrison, we see the president travel frequently to his home in Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| He travels to Bedminster in New Jersey, but he made a stop at Camp David yesterday. | ||
| What was that stop for? | ||
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You know, that was a surprise that wasn't originally on the schedule, and it got put on there. | |
| And reporters asked him yesterday on the what, what exactly are you doing there? | ||
| He just said he was meeting with top military leaders. | ||
| He was asked about possibly meeting with foreign leaders. | ||
| He didn't respond to that or address whether he'd be talking to, communicating with other foreign leaders on this trip. | ||
| So it remains a mystery. | ||
| This is often the place, Camp David, where you do a lot of foreign policy. | ||
| Of course, it happened in the middle of this situation in Los Angeles. | ||
| So I think that raised speculation. | ||
| Maybe he is trying to regroup with his military brass there to really kind of present this front of, hey, you know, we're going to war against these rioters, these protesters. | ||
| But we still haven't gotten an answer. | ||
| We're expecting President Trump to return from Camp David back to the White House here in a matter within the next hour. | ||
| And so hopefully we'll get some better answers of what exactly was discussed there. | ||
| On Saturday, it is the Army's 250th birthday. | ||
| This is something that the White House has been touting. | ||
| What more will we expect to hear about it as the week progresses? | ||
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Well, you probably saw clips over the weekend of large military tanks and other equipment coming down to D.C. by a train. | |
| It's going to be quite a spectacle here. | ||
| It's one that Trump has circled for a long time. | ||
| You remember in his first term, he often talked about wanting some sort of military parade to show off the equipment the United States has, the biggest military, the best military in the world. | ||
| He saw what French leader Emmanuel Macron had in France for Basile Day, that kind of parade, and he's long wanted that. | ||
| So it's going to be, you know, what happens? | ||
| You know, we've never quite seen this. | ||
| I believe it's going to be taking place late in the day on Saturday. | ||
| Washington, D.C. Mayher Mario Bowser has raised concerns about what the condition of the roads where the large equipment is going to be going down. | ||
| What's that kind of impact that is going to have? | ||
| It's going to have, we're going to have a lot of people here. | ||
| It's going to attract a ton of protesters, I expect, as well. | ||
| And, you know, it'll be quite a scene. | ||
| And of course, as you know, this falls on President Trump's birthday in addition to the 250th anniversary of the Army. |