Illinois senator on President Trump saying he’ll send troops to Chicago and Putin-Xi meeting
(CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about President Donald Trump saying he'll send troops to Chicago.
In a post to social media, President Trump said, "Chicago is about to find out why it is called the Department of War," but Vice President J.D. Vance says there isn't any plans to send in troop.
This prompted Brennan to ask Senator Duckworth if she has concrete indiction, now, that there's plans to do so, to which the senator said:
"Let's make it clear: The President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal...This is not acceptable behavior. No, we don't have any indications of them getting ready to send troops into Chicago. In fact, I was out at Great Lakes base yesterday, naval training base, and they were able to confirm that the only assistance they've been requested to provide is just office space for ICE, but that no barracks, no detention facilities, none of that is being requested or prepared in order to support troops into Chicago."
Duckworth added, "I take what the President of the United States says very seriously, because that is the respect you have to give to the office. And if that's what he's declaring, then let me make it clear, it would be an illegal order to declare war on a major city, any city within the United States, by the President of the United States."
During the interview, Brennan and Duckworth talked about meeting between the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea last week, with Brennan saying, "China and Russia seem to be deepening their work together," leading her to ask Duckworth what she thinks the signal to the United States is, and the senator said:
"The signal to the United States is exactly what, you know, these authoritarian regimes want to send, which is that they are the new world power, that America is losing its ground, and that they have utter disrespect for the United States. I think it was very, very clear, and it, you know, it doesn't escape me, the fact that once this meeting happened, which was humiliating to Donald Trump, he immediately responds by saying, well, then I'm going to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War and declare war on Chicago. This is what Donald Trump does when something bad happens to him in the news cycle, or when the Epstein victims come together and have a very emotional press conference, he changes the topic and distracts us by saying things like, 'I'm going to send ICE into Chicago, I'm going to do this or do that.' The American people cannot be fooled. We cannot be allowing him to distract us from what is truly happening, which is, this is a man who has driven our economy to a point where now there are more unemployed people than there are jobs. You know, we're not selling our agricultural products overseas. Our adversaries are united against us."
To watch more of Brennan's interview with Duckworth, click here.
