I want to start in Los Angeles and get your sense of the situation out there, what you're hearing as a member of Congress and your concerns as a member of the Judiciary Committee.
I'm finding it incredibly disconcerting that we have political leaders in California that are taking the side of the rioters rather than the side of the citizens.
It is stunning to me that they think that this is the exercise of the First Amendment right to be torching cars and burning things to the ground and destroying property.
That clearly is not the case.
I can't believe that they don't have more regard for one of the historically great cities in this country that they are going to allow this to happen.
And as far as the sentiment here in Washington, D.C., we simply cannot allow these kinds of things to continue.
We saw what happened in the summer of 2020, over $2 billion in damage, people murdered.
We just can't allow this kind of rioting to get out of control the way that they're allowing it in California.
I think Gavin Newsom, pretty much every decision he makes is the wrong one.
I think that that's how you know what is the right decision to make is to do the opposite of what he does.
Again, it is stunning to me that he would take the side of the rioters rather than the side of law and order.
I don't think that his lawsuit is going to go anywhere.
And I think absolutely if they're not going to protect the federal offices, then they're not going to allow our ICE agents to conduct the operations that they should be conducting.
If they're not going to protect them, then we're going to have to call in the National Guard to do it.
It really is surprising to me that we have people who are waving flags from a foreign country and burning ones here while they're claiming that they don't want to be deported to the country that they're waving the flags of, yet they claim to hate America.
None of this makes sense, and it tells you that this is not an organic movement, that this is just part of the ongoing effort to undermine America.
You mentioned ICE agents need to have the ability to do their jobs.
A topic that has come up during what's happened out in Los Angeles is the ability of sitting members of Congress to go into federal facilities, jails, to check on those who have been arrested.
What actual authorities do members of Congress have on that front?
What's your understanding about what you're allowed and not allowed to do?