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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.

The California lawmaker showed up at an anti-ICE demonstration near Los Angeles on Sunday after President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to be deployed.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) got a lesson on how the government works on CNN on Sunday when a former DOJ official explained to her that the escalation of violence in Los Angeles can solely be linked back to Donald Trump's firing spree since taking office.

During the panel segment on CNN's "State of the Union," the New York Republican claimed that the president had no choice but to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell the protests of ICE immigrant sweeps despite Califonia lawmakers saying there is no need.

With the pro-immigrant, anti-ICE protests growing, Malliotakis asserted, , "You see an ICE agents attacked, you've seen their cars put on fire, stones thrown at them –– this is unacceptable and you're also talking about enforcement of our immigration laws."

As she stated people who have been taken into custody have been, "... gang members, these were drug traffickers, human smugglers, people who committed robbery, child abuse, sex, offense, the worst of the worst," she was interrupted with, "Are you sure that they were?" to which she responded, "Well that's what the reporting says."

After adding, "The fact that, look, we would not have this situation in Los Angeles if it were not that they had this sanctuary status that refuses cooperation with ICE agents. It makes it more dangerous for everyone, the agents and the community when the ICE agents have to go in there and find these criminals instead of the city and state turning them over," former DOJ Public Affairs Director Xochitl Hinojosa took exception.

"Well, it was also children and mothers, and there's video of violence against these ––are mothers and small children and the videos are terrible," she told the GOP lawmaker. "What I'll say is it is a president's responsibility to de-escalate a situation anytime there is violence in our country. Then they should work with local law enforcement to do that."

"What happened here is sending in the National Guard only escalates it," she continued. "Hegseth saying that he wants to send in the Marines that are equipped for war only escalates it. You know, arresting the president of SEIU and going in and conducting raids only escalates. The interesting part about this is the Department of Justice would normally go in through the Community Relations Service; they did this with George Floyd. They've done this with a whole bunch of other instances where they go in and they work with state and local law enforcement to de-escalate what is happening."

"The problem here is that Trump essentially fired everyone in the Community Relations Service, he did, I worked there" she continued as the GOP lawmaker objected. No, no, no, no, no! The federal government's role is to help state and. local law enforcement, to deescalate. He essentially got rid of all of those employees because he does not believe in civil rights, and instead he's escalating it by sending in the National Guard."

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CBS host Margaret Brennan pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about how she could justify enforcing a no-mask rule on protesters when her officers were allowed to hide their faces.

"President Trump said masks will not be allowed to be worn at protests," Brennan told Noem in a Sunday interview. "Who's going to enforce that and how? And how can you justify it when law enforcement officials have their faces covered?"

Border czar Tom Homan suggested ICE agents could kill protesters if demonstrations continue in California.

NBC News' Jacob Soboroff spoke to Homan on Sunday about mostly peaceful demonstrations taking place near Los Angeles.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett insisted that the Trump administration would consider cutting Medicare even though the president has said the program would not be touched.

During a Sunday interview on CBS, host Margaret Brennan noted that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had acknowledged a discussion around Medicare cuts.

Several senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration are now finding themselves in the crosshairs of Trump's MAGA base, who are upset with their inability to follow through on promises to get to the bottom of unproven conspiracy theories.

According to a Sunday report in the New York Times, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino have all experienced MAGA's wrath on multiple occasions since they were confirmed to their positions. Bondi was lambasted for giving far-right, pro-Trump activists binders full of material that was teased as new revelations about the late convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein, only to disappoint them once it was found that there was no new information contained in those binders.

"Words are cheap," claimed a GOP senator sitting in Oklahoma after he was told on CNN that Los Angeles police are saying they have ICE protests under control.

During an appearance on Sunday morning, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) insisted he knew better than California officials whether the military needs to be deployed on the streets of Los Angeles.

Speaking remotely from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, with "State of the Union" host Dana Bash, the GOP lawmaker went on a tirade about the protests in Los Angeles and Paramount, California while defending Donald Trump impulsive decision to federalize 2,000 National Guard troops to protect marauding ICE agents.

With host Bash noting that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not request assistance from the Republican president, Mullin, repeatedly using "illegal" during his diatribe, excitedly insisted, "Well, you got two issues here. You have a very weak, lawless-believing governor in Governor Newsom, who's not enforcing the nation's laws. And then you had a Biden administration for the last four years that didn't enforce our immigration laws, which is why we need to pass this one big, beautiful bill so we can secure our border and focus on getting these illegals out of the country, regardless of what they may be doing right now."

"They enter the country illegally and therefore they are illegal and they are criminals and they need to be deported," he continued. "And I don't know why a governor would want to try to protect illegal activity inside a state. And the president has made it very clear if the governor or the mayor of the city isn't willing to protect the citizens of his state or the city, then the president will. The American people elected him to restore the law and order back to our streets. And that's why murders are down, that's why people are optimistic today about the future of our country. and that's why we need to continue this step by passing one big, beautiful bill."

"Senator," Bash finally was able to ask, "The L.A. County Police say that they have it under control and Governor Newsom says –.'

"Well it doesn't look like that," Mullin spoke over her from Oklahoma.

"Governor Newsom says that the National Guard, at least sending them, is purposely inflaming and will only escalate tensions there," the CNN host broke in.

"Well, words are cheap, especially when you got video," Mullin protested. "And so you ask me, did it look like it was under –– or I'll ask you, did it look like it was under control? It doesn't. It is absolutely not in control. You saw rioters throwing rocks, throwing fireworks. and being extremely aggressive towards, not just federal agents, but even the county and the local PD that was there. So does it look like it's under control? Absolutely not."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested President Donald Trump was "destroying states' rights" with his "One Big Beautiful Bill" to fund government spending.

On Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Greene about a "provision within the One Big, Beautiful Bill that prevents states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested that Elon Musk getting in a physical altercation with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was a "healthy disagreement."

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo noted that MAGA influencer Steve Bannon had reported that Musk confronted Bessent in the White House.

One moderate Republican member of the House of Representatives is arguing that the GOP needs to stake out its own identity outside of being a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) defended his more frequent public opposition to Trump's agenda as simply "being on the right side" of history. A retired brigadier general in the Air Force, Bacon is likely to decide soon whether to run for a sixth term in Congress or retire when his current term expires.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy interviewed her daughter, Evita Duffy-Alfonso, about Elon Musk's "naughty" behavior for feuding with President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday segment on Fox News, the two women downplayed the blowup between two of the world's most powerful men.