NewYou can listen to Fox News articles now!
CBS host Margaret Brennan urged him whether he wanted to call on President Donald Trump to send troops to help quell the riots in Los Angeles when his Senator Tom Cotton was met with R-ark on Sunday.
“You wrote a decision to support President Trump’s decision to send federal National Guard forces and active Marines to California. You call it a “threat of the radical left,” which is the force to end the right wing and talk about the community being terrorist attacks. Given the current tensions in the country.
Cotton wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, paralleling his infamous 2020 guest paper in The New York Times, saying: “It’s really time to send troops to another slutty sofa.”
“yes.
CBS host Margaret Brennan put pressure on Senator Tom Cotton to use the language about dispatching troops in the WSJ column. (Screen shot/facethenation)
“If the governor is not allowed to call the National Guard, then the president must have the federal government. We hope that local police can allow local police to do their jobs and have enough numbers to maintain order and protect innocent lives and property.
Trump’s decision to send the National Guard was finally met with a group of U.S. Marines.
Arkansas Republican Writing Support Trump deployed National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles over the weekend after the anti-ice riot escalated. His comments respond to similar arguments he made after the Black Lives Matter events that plagued major cities in the summer of 2020.
Brennan pushed back, saying the Los Angeles Police Chief insisted they were under control of the riots and, as Cotton said, stretching thinly last weekend.
Senator Tom Cotton wrote two papers supporting the dispatch of federal officers to stop violent protests for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, one in 2020 and one in 2025. (Screen shot/New York Times; Screen shot/Wall Street Journal)
Click here for more media and cultural reports
Cotton wrote that he was planning, too Introduce new legislation This would “punish the thugs attacking law enforcement officers” and “make crimes related to riots expelled crimes”.
He added that the current Republican Budget Act provides additional funding for immigration authorities to deport criminal illegal immigrants.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) held a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 1, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Click here to get the Fox News app
“These ideas are basic common sense, but like the case was five years ago, Democrats haven’t learned it yet. It’s not ‘incitement’ [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom claims to stand with law enforcement and protect civilians in order to enforce federal laws. It is necessary to maintain peace. ” Cotton wrote.
Fox News’s Lindsay Kornick contributed to the report.
