Vance Comments On Possible Trump Decision

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00:00Vance comments on possible Trump decision.

00:03Vice President J.D. Vance appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday and confirmed that

00:08the White House is actively considering whether to invoke the Insurrection Act, a rarely used

00:13federal law that would allow President Donald Trump to deploy the U.S. military for domestic

00:18law enforcement purposes without needing additional congressional approval.

00:22When asked directly by moderator Kristen Welker whether the president might use the 1807 statute,

00:28Vance responded, the president is looking at all his options.

00:32The law has not been invoked since the 1992 Los Angeles riots when former President George

00:38H.W. Bush sent federal troops into the city following widespread violence and civil unrest.

00:44The problem is the fact that the entire media in this country, cheered on by a few far-left

00:50lunatics, have made it okay to tee off on American law enforcement.

00:54We cannot accept that in the United States of America.

00:57A federal appeals court ruled Saturday that while the National Guard may remain federalized,

01:02the troops cannot be deployed in Illinois.

01:05That strategy was also shut down by a federal judge, who ruled that troops from any other

01:10state could not be sent to Portland without violating the law.

01:13While Vance claimed that city officials in Portland and Chicago are failing to keep the

01:18statistics properly, data from both cities shows that violent crime has dropped in recent

01:23months, raising questions about the urgency of the deployments.

01:27Trump himself has weighed in on the issue during press events, saying,

01:30If I had to enact the Insurrection Act, I'd do that.

01:34If people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding

01:38us up, sure, I'd do that.

01:41State officials, however, are pushing back just as hard, creating a constitutional standoff that

01:46may end up in the Supreme Court.

01:48What happens next could determine how far a president can go in deploying military power

01:53on U.S. soil, and whether the courts will let him.