Seven months ago, you'll recall, he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and put American troops on the streets of Washington, D.C., in Portland and other cities. But that's exactly what we must do now, because of the violence that Donald Trump himself incited.
Johnson discussing the need for military presence due to the violence incited by Trump.
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He is moving the goalpost. He and his supporters would rather have this issue as a campaign issue than to actually take the opportunity that Lankford and Murphy have presented them to solve the problem.
I'm a former law enforcement officer. I have spent much of my career as a law enforcement officer. I will enforce the law. I will do what it takes to secure our border.
The numbers, now, are something like, last time I looked, 12,000 a month. The prior administration sometimes saw that in a day.
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