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Third Day Of LA Protests Over Immigration Raid; President Donald Trump Deploys National Guard California; Trump's Travel Ban On Citizens From 12 Countries Takes Effect; Top U.S. and China Leaders Holding Trade Talks Monday; Russia To Send More Ukrainian Soldiers' Bodies Amid Prisoner Swap Dispute. Aired 10-11p ET

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BRIAN ABEL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Brian Abel. We begin this hour with breaking news out of Los Angeles. A third straight day of protests following immigration raids. And California officials say the federal government is only making the situation worse.

Tear gas and the sound of flash veins as police could be seen detaining at least one person there. Intense moments as demonstrators clashed with National Guard and ICE agents outside the Metropolitan Detention center in downtown LA.

Police say arrests are also being made after thousands of protesters flooded the streets and blocked lanes on the 101 Freeway, causing significant disruption to traffic. You see it here. Demonstrators are making clear why they've turned out to protest.

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RON GOCHEZ, LOS ANGELES RESIDENT: It is a beautiful day of resistance. And for every single minute that were here resisting against the Border Patrol, that was time that they were not out deporting people in our community. They could not kidnap people in our community today because the people came out to resist.

ALEX WALLS, PROTESTER FROM LOUISIANA: I think it's very disturbing. You know, you're separating people from their kids, families and whatnot. Younger kids don't understand what's going on, seeing this going on. So it's just, it's very disturbing.

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ABEL: And as the Unrest continues, the U.S. Northern Command says about 500 active duty Marines are on, quote, prepared to deploy status. This despite calls from the governor and other top officials for the Trump administration to rescind the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles.

U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the protests. Telling reporters it depends on what happens in Los Angeles. The President already deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard, a move California's governor has called purposefully inflammatory.

On Sunday, the president posted online that he authorized officials and federal agencies to take any necessary action to, quote, liberate Los Angeles from the migrants' invasion and put an end to these migrant riots. Invoking the Insurrection act would allow the president to deploy the active duty military on U.S. soil.

Here's what he had to say about that possibility.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are the rules of engagement for federal troops?

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We'll see what happens. If we think there's a serious insurrection or less than that, we're going to have law and order.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How would you define an insurrection?

TRUMP: You have to really just have to look at the site. You have to see what's happening. Last night in Los Angeles, we watched it very closely. There was a lot of violence there. There was a lot of violence that it could have gotten much worse. You have an incompetent governor.

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ABEL: I want to bring in Donell Harvin now. He's the former Chief of Homeland Security and Intelligence for the District of Columbia. Thank you for your time, sir.

First, I want to talk about what we are seeing on the ground right now at this moment. What, what stands out to you and what are you watching for?

DONELL HARVIN, FORMER DC CHIEF OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE: Well, nightfall hasn't happened yet in L.A., so law enforcement has an opportunity to disperse a lot of the protesters. What you're going to find in these type of protests, and I've done a lot of these, is there's three different types of protesters, really four. One is a law abiding citizen that's just out there to kind of, you know, participate in first men protected activity. Law enforcement gives them orders, they'll usually start disbanding. Then there's those individuals who are a little bit more heartened, they need a little bit more nudging.

So some of the smoke grenades and the pepper spray and the horses, mounted units and then you have the criminal element. And those individuals usually hang out in the crowd, they stir things up and those are the individuals that will usually stay.

They're a little more recalcitrant and they're not going to leave when ordered to do so. And those are the elements that we worry about when night falls because that's when really the violence you can expect to see.

ABEL: We heard Kyung Lah earlier on CNN talk about the changes, the different crowds than there were earlier in the day, talking about the introduction of agitators there. Is that organic? Is that something that traditionally happens with protests like this?

HARVIN: Well, the other type that I mentioned before, the opportunists. Right. And every protest we see, we see kind of a spectrum of individuals from nonviolent all the way to violent. And those opportunists, right?

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So they will use all those other individuals as shields, as human shields, to kind of throw Molotov cocktails or rocks or whatever and instigate. They may not even be from the community. Often they're not. And they're not -- they don't have a vested interest. Sometimes they don't even care about the cause.

What we saw a little bit earlier, if you had seen some of the other footage, were there individuals out there with Palestine flags saying free Palestine. So they're clearly not out there in regards to the immigration crackdown that you're seeing. They're opportunist.

ABEL: Donell, we are now 24 hours since learning of this federalization of the National Guard in California. I think, by any objective measure, the images and the situation that we are seeing has devolved rather than improved since then.

You oversaw DC's response to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. So you are no stranger to volatile situations. What could be done at this moment, in your eyes? So this doesn't deteriorate further to that J6 level or to that of the LA riots in '92?

HARVIN: I mean, I hate to say this, but in my assessment, I think there's a lot of the violent individuals that you'll see coming out that you've seen already over the last 24 hours. They're itching for a fight. And some of this doesn't have anything to do with the migrants. Some of it does, but some of this is a fight against the administration.

And by the administration sending National Guard troops, uniformed members of the armed services, to L.A., it really does inflame this. Local and state law enforcement can handle this. They do this all the time. They're trained. There's a science to this.

And I think that introducing that element of the National Guard really, really ramps things up. And so that's what my concern is. I think you saw this earlier. Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass has called for cooler heads to prevail. People have to go to work. People have to go to school tomorrow.

Hopefully, the vast majority of these individuals will go home and realize that this is not worth it. But I don't think the administration is going to back down, as your previous guests have said. I think they're looking to really crack down and make L.A. an example.

ABEL: Help us understand this concept of unlawful assembly versus peaceful protesting under the First Amendment. From the images that we see here, we know that the 101 Freeway was blocked for a period of time. I imagine that is what triggered the unlawful assembly declaration. But can you just walk us through that process?

HARVIN: Yes. So we used to issue dozens of these permits daily in D.C. And basically a group would say they want to protest and want a First Amendment protected activity, we call that. And we would make sure that protest at march or whatever did not impact critical infrastructure.

Critical infrastructure is described as something that's essential to the operation of the city, like bridges, tunnels, roadways. And so we would never issue a permit for what you saw earlier. We can't have hundreds or thousands of people spilling out into the middle of the roads. There's emergency vehicles that have to get by. People have to get to work. People have to get to the hospital and back.

But more importantly, one of our job was to not only protect the city from violent protests, but also to protect those individuals who are coming out to protest against violence themselves. And you can't prevent, as we've seen time and time again, a vehicle ramming. If people in the roads or the highways, we can't protect them.

And so you really need to clamp down, give them a cordon area to peacefully protest. And that's peaceful protest. Once it starts getting into violent activities, unlawfulness spilling out into the roadways, impeding government operations, that's when it hits that bar. And that's what you saw LAPD doing earlier, where warning individuals that this is an illegal protest and giving them fair notice that they have to disband.

ABEL: From our understanding, Donell, there's a separation here between what LAPD and other agencies in the area are doing around the protest itself versus what the National Guard is doing with protecting federal buildings. With that said, do you see scenes like this happening in other cities based on what the President said today?

HARVIN: That's a worry. And I, as you mentioned before, I actually lived through 2020 in D.C. when the president at that time called up the D.C. National Guard and other federal officers, and they essentially had the city of the District of Columbia in a martial law. It was completely locked down. And so that's a concern. I've never lived through that in my entire public safety career.

The good news about what's happening now is that these National Guards are deployed to protect federal assets and federal buildings, leaving the state and locals to patrol the streets and handle that. If that dynamic changes in the next eight or 24 hours and you have these federal law enforcement, as well as the National Guard going out into the community, we've crossed the precipice into something we've never seen before.

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This unrolls in other cities. It's going to be a long summer.

ABEL: That's quite the statement and the speculation there, Donell. Hopefully we do not see that. I do want to ask you, I know you're not on the ground at the moment, but based on what you have seen today, do you get a sense of how much of the crowds are legitimate protesters protesting First Amendment versus those agitators?

HARVIN: Yes, I'm out on the ground. But fortunately I was on the phone earlier today with some city officials. I want to be able to be very clear. They said they can handle this. Now, generally, the state and locals have full authority on this. And there's a very robust, what we call mutual aid compact. And so they can call other jurisdictions, they can even call other states to support them. This happens all the time. They don't need federal authorities in there. They certainly don't need the National Guard. And that can just muddy things up.

In terms of the dynamics of these crowds, you don't know, really, there's a lot of crowd dynamics that happens there. So people may start off being peaceful and they just want to go out there and be heard and they're next to someone who's throwing a rock, maybe they get hit with something, they start throwing things back. These crowd dynamics get out of control.

I will tell you that the peaceful protesters, those are out there -- who are out there to participate in First Amendment protected activity, they will probably more than likely go home when sun goes down and then we'll really see what the criminal element looks like.

ABEL: All right, we'll see what happens throughout the evening. Donell Harvin, appreciate your expertise. Thank you.

HARVIN: Thank you.

ABEL: CNN's Kyung Lah has been following developments and she filed this report earlier from Los Angeles.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: It's been a long day of protests and skirmishes between the people who are opposed to federal law enforcement and the National Guard showing up in strong numbers here in Los Angeles, federalized by President Donald Trump as they've continued to have conflict with some of the law enforcement who's here.

What you're looking at is a long line of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security. There are also some National Guard, the Customs and Border Patrol and also LAPD. And this is where it all began. The area that we're standing in right

here is right near where the initial protests began when we saw the California National Guard lining up. And then there was a skirmish with some of the protesters who were standing on the sidewalk and on the street. And throughout the day, there have been problems.

The LAPD was brought in, tried to clear the crowds, and then there was a conflict with the federal agents as well at that site. And now we've come to the part of the night where cars are being set on fire. You can see that this Waymo has been vandalized. There are people still sitting on the streets in various corners.

The LAPD has called these assemblies unlawful assemblies on this particular corner. I have not been here throughout the duration, so the unlawful assembly was a block away from here. The assumption is that that may be the case here as well. But this is all very fluid.

At this point, this is still a city where there are many people on the streets and law enforcement still standing in force. Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.

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ABEL: You are watching the CNN Newsroom. We are back with more in just a moment.

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ABEL: We are following breaking news out of Los Angeles. You are taking a look at live images right now. A senior law enforcement official telling CNN, quote, it could be a rough night. State and local officials are calling for calm after protests over federal immigration sweeps turned violent on Sunday with clash between some protesters and police.

Thousands of demonstrators filling the streets of LA. Some even forcing the closure of the 101 Freeway. California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked the Defense Department to rescind the deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she spoke with the Trump administration hoping to convince them not to deploy National Guard troops, but they were sent anyway. Here's what she told CNN's Jessica Dean earlier.

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MAYOR KAREN BASS (D) LOS ANGELES: To me it just seems like this is intentional chaos. You know, I had talked to representatives of the Trump administration earlier on to tell them that the Los Angeles Police Department could control things that were happening here and that there was no need to federalize troops. And so to have this here is really just a provocation and something

that was not needed in our city. We're still recover after five months from the city's worst natural disaster in decades. And now to go through a trauma like this that is really traumatizing the whole city because everybody knows somebody in a city where more than 50 percent are Latino, this just sows chaos that is not warranted nor needed in the city of Los Angeles at this point in time.

JESSICA DEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And I know LAPD, as you just noted, declared some of these gatherings unlawful assembly. Is that something you were made aware of before they did that? Did you OK that?

BASS: Yes. I didn't OK it. I don't run the police department, the chief does. But I was aware of it. And what I was told is that the protesters had begun throwing things. So to me, it is most important that everybody be allowed to exercise their First Amendment right. But it absolutely has to be done peacefully.

Now with federal troops on the ground, we do not need to have our city under siege. I remember the last time federal troops were on the ground here, and it was in 1992, when there was massive civil unrest. Nothing like that is happening here. So there is no need for there to be federal troops on our ground right now.

DEAN: And, Mayor, we've seen since the federal troops arrived, there were those clashes earlier today. And then we saw LAPD essentially trying to build some space between where the protesters were located, where the National Guard troops were located, try to spread them out a bit.

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Now, obviously they're trying to disperse them. I'm curious if now that the National Guard troops are there on the ground, if there is any urgency on the police department's part to really put out an even stronger force and stronger posture to get this under control. So you can, and I know your governor said that they don't want that he's formally requested that the National Guard troops go back, that they're not needed. Were those things correlated?

BASS: Well, I absolutely agree with the governor in asking that the troops be withdrawn. I don't think that is a way to bring peace in Los Angeles. I think that our law enforcement officers can handle this situation.

But I just have to repeat again, it's a feeling here of intentional and chaos in a situation that had not broken out to violence short of a few people. And there's nothing unusual about that. And our police departments can manage that. But it is as though troops were rolled out in a provocative manner. And I do not see how that is helpful to Los Angeles right now. It's not the type of resources that we need in the city.

DEAN: You and the governor both said this is that the presence of those National Guard troops is incendiary. Is what we're seeing right now what you were afraid would happen? BASS: Well, absolutely. I mean, again, it's hard to describe the depth

of the fear in the city because of the raids. I mean, you had a Home Depot day laborer center where people were literally running through the parking lot and it was reported that they had been chased. We had a graduation that was taking a few blocks, taking place a few blocks away. I know that there were parents who are conflicted with whether or not they should even go to their own kids graduation because maybe they wouldn't be, maybe they would be detained. Maybe it would be disrupted.

The last time this happened several years ago in the first administration, you had kids that wouldn't go to school because they were afraid their parents wouldn't be there. You had people that wouldn't go to work. And you just think of the ripple effects.

You have people on the west side of town, far away from downtown, who might employ people in their houses that have green cards that are there legally. But now people are even concerned about that. Just because I have a green card, does that mean I'm protected? Will I be picked up too? Will I be detained? Are my relatives that are detained? Are they even still in the United States? We know they're not in Los Angeles. They're in an adjacent County.

But these people don't even know if their family members are still here or whether they were flown back, quote, unquote home. I would argue that Los Angeles is home or maybe they were even sent to another country that they have no relationship with, like the people that were sent to Venezuela. And they are not Venezuelan.

So this is a sense of chaos and fear and it's just the last thing that Los Angeles needs right now at this point in time. This is not helpful.

DEAN: Yes. I want to ask you an additional logistical question. This is a question we're trying to get to the bottom of which is these National Guard troops are -- they're federalized at this point. Are you aware of what their rules of engagement are and are? The LAPD -- is the LAPD actively in coordination with the National Guard at this point?

BASS: Yes, the LAPD is in coordination. And as I understand it, their mission is to protect federal property, not to be in the streets where protests might be taking place far from the federal building. But their mission is to protect the federal building downtown and the federal building in Westwood.

But again, it's the intimidation factor. It's the anger that people feel that then gets directed to the guards. And how ironic has it been because the guards, the National Guard has been in the fire area and everybody has just been applauding and cheering them. And now to have this situation take place, it's just really unfortunate.

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ABEL: That's Karen Bass there. Still to come more on the California protests over federal immigration raids. Our breaking news coverage continues.

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ABEL: Welcome back to CNN Newsroom. I'm Brian Abel. All eyes on Los Angeles this hour where unrest and protests have broken out for a third consecutive day following immigration raids across the state.

California officials are furious with the Trump administration, saying the president's deployment of the National Guard has only inflamed the situation and one law enforcement source warns it could be a rough night ahead.

Authorities say arrests are being made after thousands flooded the streets and even blocked a freeway. We've seen clashes and at least two self-driving cars being set on fire. CNN's chief law enforcement analyst John Miller says the president's move to mobilize 2000 National Guard members was done in an unusual way. While the president holds authority to do so, it usually happens after a request for help from the state.

Miller says in all of his experience, this type of deployment is something he's never seen.

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JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LAW ENFOCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: We have to begin with the question of what are they doing there. Typically the request will come from an overwhelmed law enforcement community that will go to the governor and say, we need help from outside and that's going to be the National Guard. That did not happen, nor did the governor ask for assistance from the National Guard.

This is the Trump administration in Washington federalizing the California National Guard out from under the governor and deploying them based on their assertion that they are not satisfied with the forced protection that they got from the local law enforcement agencies, whether that was the LAPD deployed Friday and Saturday at the federal building, or whether it was the LA sheriff's people who were deployed in Paramount, California near the ICE facility there.

So they're basically saying we're federalizing the whole operation, not just the enforcement piece based on civil immigration law, but also the protection of the federal building, the protection of the federal agents. And I haven't seen that before and I've been around a long time.

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ABEL: CNN's Kevin Liptak has more on the president's choice to deploy the National Guard without request from California officials.

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KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: President Trump's decision to call up National Guard troops in Los Angeles is really one that's without precedent, at least in recent memory. You have to go all the way back to the civil rights era to find another example of a president calling up a state's National Guard without the explicit request of that state's governor, which has not happened this time around.

In fact, it's quite the opposite. The Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, calling on Sunday for President Trump to reverse his decision, saying that there is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles.

And to do so in this unlawful manner and for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation while simultaneously depriving the state from deploying these personnel and resources where they are truly required.

Now, as of Sunday evening, there was no sign that President Trump planned to back off this decision. He said at multiple points on Sunday that this was about instilling law and order and that he could potentially deploy these troops in other cities across the United States. Listen to more of what President Trump said as he was heading to Camp David.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are the rules of engagement for federal troops?

TRUMP: We're going to see what happens. If we think there's a serious insurrection or less than that, we're going to have law and order. Very important.

UNDIENTIFIED MALE: How would you define an insurrection?

TRUMP: You have to really just have to look at the get to see what's happening. Last night in Los Angeles, we watched it very closely. There was a lot of violence there. There was a lot of violence that it could have gotten much worse. You have an incompetent governor.

LIPTAK: Now, later Sunday, the president reiterated that point of view on Truth Social, saying that violent insurrectionist mobs were swarming and attacking our federal agents to try and stop our deportation operations, but these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve.

The president went on to say that he was instructing federal officials to, quote, take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the migrant invasion and put an end to these migrant riots.

Now, President Trump has mused in the past, including during his first term in office, about using federal military personnel to tamp down on protests and on crime. But aides previously had talked him out of it, taking such an extreme action. This time, he seems unencumbered by these so called guardrails around him. And the president clearly tried to follow through on things that he said he would do as a candidate.

Now, he's long seen California and its Democratic leaders as something of a foil. You've seen that really escalate over the last several months as the president threatens to withdraw federal aid from that state. Now clearly the president willing to take it a step further as he deploys these National Guard troops against that state's wishes. Kevin Liptak, CNN, the White House.

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ABEL: And joining me now from Washington is Elizabeth Goitein. She's the senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Thank you for the time. We really appreciate it, Elizabeth.

Ordinarily using federal troops to suppress civil unrest would be illegal. Can you just walk us through first the pertinent laws for that versus what's being used right now?

ELIZABETH GOITEIN, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE LIBERTY AND NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM, BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE: Sure. The Posse Comitatus Act is the law that generally prohibits federal armed forces, and that includes the federalized National Guard from directly participating in core law enforcement functions. And those are things like arrests or searches or seizures. And this is an absolutely vital protection for our democracy and for our individual liberties.

But there are exceptions. Congress has legislated exceptions. And the one that is probably most common that people have heard of the most is the Insurrection Act. And that's what allows the president to deploy federal troops to quell civil unrest or to enforce the law in a crisis.

But as you said, that is not what President Trump used here. He used a very obscure provision 10 USC 12406 that has not previously been used in this. In fact, it's pretty much always been coupled with the Insurrection Act.

It's been treated and used as sort of a technical call up authority that the president can use when he wants to deploy troops under the Insurrection Act. So this is unprecedented to sort of uncouple those things and rely on that authority to deploy the National Guard to, you know, conduct these federal protective activities.

ABEL: OK, so now that you've given us what this mechanism is that he's currently using, could there be any legal challenges to it?

GOITEIN: Absolutely, there could be legal challenges. I mean, again, this is really an unprecedented use of these laws.

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And so we are wading into uncharted legal waters. Obviously, there has been a lot of consternation around the deployment of these troops. Governor Newsom said that this was going to be inflammatory, that this was going to escalate tensions rather than deescalate them. And we have seen that. And some of the resulting, really, chaos we've seen with reports of National Guard forces now throwing tear gas canisters and using flashbang grenades.

These are the kinds of situations that have a tendency to prompt lawsuits because, needless to say, they're negatively impacting things in Los Angeles and there are legal challenges that can be brought.

ABEL: And Elizabeth, we are seeing live images right now with like fireworks, it looks like that are exploding right in front officers there at a line right next to a police car. I know you know this. In 1992, National Guard was federalized in L.A. following the acquittal of white officers beating Rodney Keane. But that was at the request of the Governor.

And during those riots, there were dozens of people killed, thousands injured and thousands arrested. Property damage estimated to be north of a billion dollars then. So that's not where we are right now. If you can you give us the historical context that we need to be aware of in this moment? When was the last time a president deployed National Guard troops without a governor? When was the last time they were used in this fashion and the differences between those moments and now?

GOITEIN: Yes, so it was last used in 1992 in Los Angeles, as you say. And yes, that is not a model that we would necessarily want to replicate. It has only been used 30 times in U.S. history, and it has not been used without a state's request since the 1960s during the Civil Rights era.

So this is an authority that's been used quite sparingly, and it's been used even more sparingly over time. The reason we haven't seen it used for the last 30 plus years, there are actually several reasons. But one is that the capacity of local law enforcement, especially when we're talking about these large municipal police departments, has really grown exponentially.

And frankly, there aren't that many civil unrest scenarios that these large police departments cannot handle today with the capacity they have, with the equipment they have, they have a lot of military equipment.

And this is what we saw in last Angeles. We saw the Los Angeles police, the sheriff's department, saying, we've got this. Yes, there have -- there have been incidents of violence and property damage sort of at the edge of these protests. But we have them under control. And that really appeared to be the case as of this morning before the National Guard was deployed. And since then, things have just gone south very quickly.

ABEL: And we are waiting to see if they go south. Further hearing from the president today, Elizabeth, it sounds that this, the presence of troops, of National Guard troops may not be just relegated to Los Angeles. What are the implications of that?

GOITEIN: Right. So the memorandum that the president issued actually doesn't mention Los Angeles. It authorizes the deployment of federalized National Guard forces and active duty forces anywhere in the country where protests over ICE activity might be occurring, regardless of whether there's any violence associated with the protests. There was nothing about that in the memorandum and even in places where no protests are occurring yet. But the government determines that protests might occur.

So what we have is this sort of massive, preemptive, potentially nationwide deployment, authorization of the military to effectively police protests. And that is absolutely unprecedented. It's extremely dangerous, and it's an abuse of any law that the president might invoke to try to do that.

ABEL: And Elizabeth, lastly, based on your experience and maybe what history tells us, do you believe we've seen the worst of this yet?

GOITEIN: I would hope that the answer is yes. But unfortunately, I think as long as President Trump continues to try to up the ante here, it's going to some of these negative effects that we've already seen, I fear are going to continue.

And this is really one reason why the military does not actually perform police functions in this country. This is not their job. They're not trained for this. Frankly, the military is the best fighting force in the world. They're trained to fight and destroy an enemy, but they are not trained to deescalate civil unrest situations while respecting the constitutional rights of the Americans involved.

And so these kinds of deployments really do pose risks, safety risks, not only to civilians, but to the soldiers themselves.

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ABEL: All right. Elizabeth Goitein, appreciate your expertise. Thank you.

GOITEIN: Thanks for having me.

ABEL: And as were taking pictures there of Los Angeles, we will continue to monitor that situation. But we also look at some other news just ahead, including a look at President Trump's partial travel ban as it's about to take effect.

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ABEL: Back to our breaking news in Los Angeles right now. These are live pictures as we monitor the ongoing clashes between demonstrators and federal law enforcement agencies. You just saw there a moment ago, police officers under a bridge and what looks to be concrete of some sort right at their feet, along with electric scooters that have been thrown onto the freeway.

And you see that group officers there looking around at protesters that are above them. We're, of course, monitoring this situation as well as other scenes from Los Angeles. It is the third day of protests against immigration raids there that swept across California over the weekend. The governor is slamming the Trump administration for deploying about

300 members of the California National Guard. You see there what looks to be water or something putting out a fire of a police vehicle, law enforcement vehicle there with that sandbag or something that has smashed the windshield there. California National Guard calling the move unlawful, the governor said.

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The U.S. Northern Command says about 500 active duty Marines are also standing by. And U.S. President Donald Trump changing gears now to the new travel ban by Trump. It's set to take effect in less than two hours. He signed a proclamation on Wednesday banning nationals from 12 countries. Another seven countries are facing partial restrictions. The White House says President Trump issued the order to, quote, protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors. CNN's Rafael Romo has more.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The countries being targeted by the Trump administration's travel ban are mostly nations with frosty adversarial or outwardly antagonistic relations with the United States, like Cuba and Venezuela in the Western Hemisphere and Iran and Yemen on the other side of the world.

The Trump administration says that all but four of the countries hit with restrictions have high rates of their nationals with overstaying their visas after entering the United States. As we can see in the map, the list includes seven African countries that have been targeted with full travel restrictions for their citizens, including Sudan, the Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. Somalia, identified by the White House as a terrorist safe haven, is also facing a full restriction. Three Middle Eastern adversaries, Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen also face full travel bans. These are countries that have limited or no diplomatic ties with the US.

In the Americas, entry has been suspended for citizens of Haiti, while Cuba and Venezuela, both governments seen as adversarial to the United States, face partial restrictions. This is what President Donald Trump said about the travel ban the day he signed the executive order placing travel restrictions on a total of 19 countries.

TRUMP: Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek Canadians enter the United States.

ROMO: The president made the announcement only days after the Boulder, Colorado attack against the group campaigning in solidarity with the Israeli hostage held by Hamas in Gaza. While the suspect in the attack was originally from Egypt and had overstayed his visa, the northeast African country is not facing restrictions. Some Republican leaders say the travel ban has to do more with the instability of origin countries. MARKWAYNE MULLIN, U.S. SENATE REPUBLICAN: There are some real travel

concerns because of some activities that is going place. I don't think the Boulder incident had anything to do with this moving forward because this conversation has been going on for weeks.

ROMO: In the last 12 months, around 126,000 visas have been issued to nationals from countries that are now on Trump's travel ban list. Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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ABEL: Top level U.S. and Chinese officials are scheduled to hold trade talks in London on Monday night. They're aiming to defuse the high stakes dispute between the world's two largest economies. A preliminary agreement reached last month in Geneva helped ease tensions. Now the delegations, led by the U.S. Treasury and Commerce secretaries and the Chinese vice premier will try to smooth out differences over tariffs, trade restrictions and goods critical to global supply chains.

The stage is set for talks on Thursday, when Presidents Trump and Xi spoke on the phone for over an hour.

And Israel has intercepted a Gaza bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists detaining those on board. With the vessel being taken to Israel, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition posted a photo of the Madeleine's crew sitting in the boat wearing life jackets with their hands in the air. No IDF soldiers appear in the image.

In an earlier post, the coalition said the ship had, quote, come under assault international waters. Israel has repeatedly said it would stop the aid boat from reaching Gaza.

The Israeli military says it has recovered the body of de facto Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar from a tunnel underneath the European Hospital in southern Gaza. His death is the latest blow to Hamas and its leadership, which Israel has vowed to destroy.

Sinwar was targeted in a massive strike on the hospital in Khan Younis on May 13. The attack killed 28 and wounded more than 50 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Colombian police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of shooting presidential hopeful Senator Miguel Uribe in Bogota on Saturday. Officials say the senator was shot twice in the back during his speech at a campaign event.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned the attack. He believes other criminals may have orchestrated it and vowed to hunt down those responsible. The 39-year-old Senator is a member of Colombia's Democratic Center Party, the nation's largest political opposition group. His wife says he is fighting for his life as he remains in critical condition after his surgery on Sunday.

Russia claims its forces have pushed into the central Ukrainian region for the first time since invading Ukraine.

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The area borders the Donetsk region, large parts of which Russia already occupies. Ukraine denies Russia's claim, and CNN is not able to verify the battlefield report. If true, it would be a costly setback for Ukraine's overextended forces. Ukrainian analyst group Deep State says Russia now controls nearly one-fifth of Ukraine.

And on Sunday, Russia said it would send more Ukrainian soldiers bodies to the border preparing for a prisoner swap. A warning though the video we are about to show may be disturbing for some viewers.

Russia says it was supposed to exchange prisoners and the remains of troops with Ukraine on Saturday. Ukraine says that exchange is supposed to happen next week. You're seeing images of bodies in the back of freezer trucks here. A Ukrainian official says Russia is playing a, quote, dirty information game.

Still to come, an update on the California protests over federal immigration raids. Our breaking news coverage continues after this.

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ABEL: More now on the breaking news in California at this hour. We are looking at live images right now on a freeway in Los Angeles. And down there where -- there is that smoke in the distance underneath that bridge, you see as the camera pulls in right there, that is a police car, what we believe to be a county police car on fire. It looks like something was thrown onto the windshield at one point. We also see concrete scattered across the ground as well as electric scooters that have been thrown onto the freeway as well.

This is the third day of protests in Los Angeles as crowds gather to denounce immigration raids across the country. Demonstrators, they have clashed with local police, members of the National Guard as well as ICE and Homeland Security agents.

We do know two officers have been injured by motorcyclists who burst through a police line at one point throughout the day. Unclear whether any protesters have sustained injuries. California Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding that the White House rescind what he's called the unlawful deployment of National Guard troops. He and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass say the deployment is a provocation and local authorities can control the situation.

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BASS: What we're seeing in L.A. is chaos caused by the administration. People should exercise their right to protest. That's their First Amendment right. But people should also exercise that right peacefully. We do not want to play into the administration's hands. We're working with officials, we're organizing resources. But what we're seeing in Los Angeles is chaos that is provoked by the

administration. When you raid Home Depot and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you cause fear and you cause panic.

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ABEL: I'm Brian Abel. Stay with us. CNN's breaking news coverage from Los Angeles continues after a short break.

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