The president has clear constitutional authority to use federal troops to enforce federal immigration law against states that resist it.

“So absolutely he has constitutional authority to do this. And if you look at how the governor and the mayor are behaving, I mean just today I think the governor um Tim Walt um said um Minnesota is an island. Well, no, you're not an island from federal say he's an island.”

The federal government has the constitutional authority under the Insurrection Act to intervene in cities where local officials are refusing to enforce federal law.

“So no, it is not them who are pushing for civil war at all. It is you and you, this mayor of Chicago and is the officials in Portland that are fighting this that are the ones that are in rebellion. They are in open rebellion against the federal government.”

President Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act because local officials are exceeding their authority by attempting to veto federal immigration policy.

“And I think that the reason why we need to invoke the Insurrection Act is because local officials are clearly exceeding their authority. They think they have some right to veto federal policy, to veto, you know, national immigration policy, which they do not get to set”

The president should use the Insurrection Act to maintain order and protect federal property when faced with violent protests.

“And we all saw the mostly peaceful protests during BLM and 2020. And I think the president was absolutely right there to say we needed to put those down and save lives in federal buildings and property.”

The administration should invoke the Insurrection Act to address the theft of federal property and end the chaos.

“The only way this stops is if Donald Trump explains to them what monopoly on force really means, invokes the Insurrection Act, has them all arrested, and charged with felony destruction to federal property.”

The federal government has lost the credibility required to responsibly invoke the Insurrection Act by lying about the facts surrounding the shooting of Renee Good.

“I think that when your federal government is lying to you and lying about things that all of us can see on video, there's absolutely no reason why we should trust them to deploy any type of National Guard or to invoke any kind of insurrection act”

He believes using the Insurrection Act in the context of Minneapolis would be an unprecedented case of the federal government instigating the conflict itself.

“This would be basically the first case where the federal government instigated the thing.”

He claims the federal government is instigating the unrest to create a justification for deploying the Insurrection Act.

“I think this is what Trump wants. He wants the escalation of this sort of cyclical violence that, you know, spirals down so that he could have a a pretense or justification to end up deploying the insurrection act.”

The host believes invoking the Insurrection Act is an extremely dangerous and irresponsible action for the president to take.

“And I think what's what's worrying here is it seems like tensions are deliberately being escalated to trigger this to justify this. And that is extremely dangerous and irresponsible for the president to be doing.”

The host asserts that invoking the Insurrection Act to manage protests is a tool for weaponizing the military against the American people.

“He is sending in he is weaponizing the military against the American people. It's not America anymore. Or maybe it is now by definition.”