MAJOR GARRETT:
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Nancy Cordes at the White House-- thank you so very, very much. CBS News Justice Department Reporter Jake Rosen joins me now here at the family table. Jake, great to see you. Let's talk about what the president said today, the plans for Chicago. What, if anything, do we know about what those plans actually are? As it stands right now, Major, our colleagues reported last week in the Immigration and Justice Department here at CBS that there is going to be increased federal immigration authorities present in Chicago starting this week and kicking up throughout-- as this is just the kicking off point of what they're going to do, what we saw and have continued to see in Los Angeles, what we've seen creep into Washington, DC after the federal takeover started. But what this opens the door for is the National Guard to, potentially, be called in, because we saw this in Los Angeles, and we kind of have seen the reverse in Washington, DC. But as immigration authorities have come in, protests come in. As protests come in, there are potential bad actors who, as we saw in Los Angeles, the easiest example was throwing bricks through truck windows-- damage easily hurts somebody driving, officers who do not deserve to be hurt in their line of work or hurt. Then, that creates an emergency in the eyes of the White House. They are, then, given the opportunity to not just have these troops protect federal buildings, but then they are creeping into the mission, protecting the trucks that potentially are in walking alongside. And that is what this judge in San Francisco ruled was wrong and illegal that the Trump administration did today. I want to play you some sound from Face theNationyesterday. My colleague Ed O'Keefe, who did a wonderful job sitting in for me for a couple of days, talked to JB Pritzker, Illinois Governor, Democrat, and Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security. Let's play those, control room, back to back, please. Notice, he never talks about where the most violent crime is occurring, which is in red states. Illinois is not even in the bottom half of states. This seems like it's more about Governor Pritzker's ego now rather than actually protecting his people. If he has one murder in the city of Chicago, he should be calling President Trump and saying, what's your ideas? What can we do? One murder. If that's the definition of this White House of a crime crisis, it is going to be sending-- or believes it will have the authority to send federal law enforcement and possibly National Guard anywhere in this country. Absolutely. And I think we should put what both Governor Pritzker and Noem said, very briefly, just into context, is that of cities with over 100,000 people in them, Chicago actually ranks 80th in terms of crime. Again, violent crime per 100,000 people. But, again, at the same time, the other cities that the president has actually talked about-- Oakland, San Francisco, again, not off the table-- Baltimore, Cleveland, Memphis, all cities who rank in the top five. There hasn't been this same talk. Well, it's because JB Pritzker has been extremely vocal. I don't think it's a coincidence. We've seen the Mayor of Baltimore be extremely vocal in his pushing back-- the Mayor of Baltimore pushing back, and, obviously, Gavin Newsom, President Trump's--