The Dan Bongino Show - CHAOS in LA: Trump Sends Troops To Rescue Lawless City | Episode 60

Episode Date: June 9, 2025

All hell has broken loose in LA as chaos reigns and comparisons to the 'Summer of Love' are aptly made. In this episode: a look into the madness in California and a breakdown of what the insane left has done to pour gasoline into the fire (literally). Immigration authorities highlight criminal history of multiple migrants arrested in Los Angeles ⁠https://www.foxnews.com/us/immigration-authorities-highlight-criminal-history-multiple-migrants-arrested-los-angeles⁠ ‘You essentially destroyed any chance I have,’ DNC chair told David Hogg in private meeting ⁠https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/08/martin-hogg-call-private-meeting-00393517⁠ Anti-ICE protesters clash with police officers in chaotic confrontation in downtown LA ⁠https://abc7.com/live-updates/tensions-flare-downtown-la-anti-ice-protesters-clash-agents-live-updates/16692645/entry/16695462/⁠ ExpressVPN: ExpressVPN.com/VINCE JackedUp Fitness: GetJackedUp.com promo code VINCE Helix Sleep: Helixsleep.com/VINCE Moink: MoinkBox dot com/VINCE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Vince on a Monday. Good to have you with us. Man, we had a fiery weekend of news as chaos descended upon Los Angeles just because President Trump is enforcing the law. Insurrection going on on the West Coast. We'll get into the details of that. Everything that happened through the weekend transpiring Friday, Saturday, Sunday until today. And the threat, the potential threat looming over people like LA mayor, Karen Bass and the governor of California Gavin Newsom under threat to be arrested for their law breaking. Boy, I've got a lot to talk about with you.

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He saw so much of the violence and chaos firsthand. I'll show you some of those videos coming up. And of course we'll hear from Anthony Cabassa here on the program, get his updates on what is happening as we have this conversation live Monday morning. Of course, for those of you who are listening to the podcast, you can always see this show at rumble.com slash Vince. If you've watched this program,

if you've listened to this program, you knew already that this was coming. You knew that these raids were gonna take place If you've watched this program, if you've listened to this program, you knew already that this was coming. You knew that these raids were gonna take place in Los Angeles and sure enough, they are taking place already. Take a look, here's Tom Holman, the border czar, announcing just over a week ago

that he was going after California and Los Angeles. Look at this. We got some great states stepping up, but California's a problem. They got SP, I think it's SP 54. The whole state's a sanctuary. And Governor Newsom, he doesn't, he's one of these governors that vilify ICE every day.

So it makes the job more difficult, but in California, worksite enforcement, it's gonna be very important. Again, if we can't have, we don't have cooperation with the jails, this means we gotta go neighborhood. We have court injunctions in California where it ties ICE's hands about who can even approach

on knocking talks at their home. So there's a place there where we're going to concentrate on worksite enforcement because we have the right to do that. We have no court injunctions on that. They'll probably try to place one, but worksite enforcement will be very important in California. So, and so you can look for a lot in California, a lot more resources sent to California. We have a big footprint there already, but we're going to double that footprint. Yeah. All right. So Tom Homan, just he laid it out

here. You know, if Gavin Newsom was even listening to this program, he would have known this was coming. And it definitely did come this weekend. As on Friday, you saw these ICE raids in Los Angeles as federal immigration authorities went after nearly a hundred people arrested. And these were, as the Trump administration has been describing, some of the worst of the worst. I just want to give you a sense of what that means. Take a look at this. ICE captures worst of the worst of the worst. I just wanna give you a sense of what that means.

Take a look at this. ICE captures worst of the worst illegal aliens in Los Angeles, including murderers, sex offenders, and other violent criminals. This is who they actually picked up this weekend. You won't see this on any of the left-wing press that is covering this. They're acting like Donald Trump is just causing chaos.

He's trying to stoke violence. This is the projection the left is using this weekend. But look at the people that they picked up. There's this guy, Quang Chan Phan. ICE arrested this guy, a 49-year-old illegal from Vietnam. He's got a criminal history. That includes conviction for second degree murder. He was sentenced to 15 years to life.

And there he was on the streets of Los Angeles. Another one, Ronaldo Venerecion Enriquez, a 55 year old illegal from the Philippines. His criminal history includes burglary in Ontario, California, as Canada make that, with a sentence of four years in prison, sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, California. Yeah. He had a sentence of 37 years in prison. There he was free on the streets of LA.

Lionel Sanchez Laguna, he has a criminal history that includes discharging a firearm in an inhabited dwelling and a vehicle in Orange, California. He had a sentence of a year. He had battery on spouse or cohabitant in California, willful cruelty to a child, driving under the influence, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, personal use of a firearm. This guy, look at him.

Look at him mean mugging here. This guy free on the streets of LA. Armando Ordaz is another one, a 44-year- old illegal from Mexico. Sexual battery, receiving known or stolen property, petty theft. And the list is continuous. It goes on and on and on. Now again, these are details that you're not going to see almost anywhere else where we go into, hey, what is happening here? These are very violent, violent people picked up on the streets

of California by a border czar and a team who promised that they would do this these sanctuary jurisdictions who refuse to work with federal law enforcement who refuse they actually harbor illegal aliens this ends now this ends now the Trump administration going in this led though to a weekend of violence as that Democrat led Jurisdiction that sanctuary jurisdiction allowed the people that are there to go absolutely crazy Look if you will at some of the details here. We've got LA rioters throwing rocks through the windows of speeding Border Patrol vehicles. Take a look here cut one at this Look so in this video there's a man He's picking up rocks off of a medium, and he's throwing it through every window

of a Border Patrol vehicle he can possibly get to. Bang, throws another one. Bang, throws another one. Right through the glass of these cars, and in the process, wounding the Border Patrol agents who are driving these vehicles. That man blasting through these cars with these rocks.

Horrific attacks. Law enforcement officials here. Now we do also have footage from inside of those vehicles. Bill Mollusion of Fox News obtaining this. The view from inside of a law enforcement vehicle under siege this week. And take a look at cut two. Here's what it looked like and sounded like

as these guys were driving through that. You can see here these border patrol agents driving, trying to keep their head on a swivel here, driving through a very tough area as people are trying to attack the vehicles, about to get started on their forward advance. And as they do, what you're gonna see is rocks being thrown against the glass against these vehicles

as these guys are under attack. Just gruesome stuff. The wounds to these guys included cuts, lacerations to their hands from, there you go, some of the fragmented glass blasting through the car. They included lacerations to the border patrol agents from the glass that struck them as they were driving through. And of course, the chaos this weekend continued

all over the place in LA. Here's video footage of one LA rioter parading a Mexican flag, driving it on these dirt bikes and these mini bikes, circling around a burning Hyundai vehicle at the middle of this intersection in LA. Take a look, cut three here, what was going on there. You know, let's hope that no one is hurt

and no one is injured and it doesn't escalate from here. Look at the flag, that guy I see. There it is. Mexican flag and you know. You know, this is criminal activity that I hope is people are held accountable for and I'm talking about the riots right here. Where are the cops? Yeah, where are they?

The cops actually informed some sort of lime about it looked like a tenth of a mile away as the helicopter shot pulls back but at that moment, not intervening taking a long time to finally get involved and all of that delay has led the Trump administration to say we have to send in reinforcements. So over the weekend, the president of the United States, the border czar, Tom Holman, the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, all announcing that not only are the national guard

on the way, but additionally, the Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, south of Los Angeles, near San Diego, they stand ready to come in and support law enforcement efforts to bring about a peace to that city, which could desperately use it right now. They're being betrayed by the Democrats who run them.

Take a look. This is Borders are Tom Homan confirming the National Guard Cut 5 is on the way to LA and arrived this weekend. This is about enforcing the law and again we're not going to apologize for doing it. We're stepping up. She says they're going to mobilize but guess what? We're already ahead of the game.

We were already mobilizing. We're going to bring the National Guard in tonight. We're going to continue doing our job. We're going to push back on these people and we're going to enforce the law. Tom, it's Lydia. We're going to push back. We're going to force a law. Tom, it's Lydia. We're gonna push back, we're gonna enforce the law. And that's because again, you have people like the LA mayor,

Karen Bass and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who just refused to enforce the law. In fact, Mayor Karen Bass on Friday was angry that the Trump administration was enforcing the law, was deporting violent illegal aliens. I just read you the list. These are rapists, these are murderers, these are the worst possible offenders imaginable who are being picked up in California. And Karen Bass here in cut 15, Karen Bass says, you know who she's

fighting for? Not for you, not for Americans. She's fighting for illegal aliens to stay in the United States and to become American citizens. Look at this. We are going to fight for all Angelenos, regardless of when they got here, whether they have papers or not. We are a city of immigrants and this impacts hundreds of thousands of Angelenos. Disgusting. Just disgusting for her to say something like that.

We're a city of immigrants, false. You are a city that's being overrun by illegal invaders who need to be ejected from this country with haste. And you need to get out of the way or else face the consequences. I'm gonna get to that coming up in a moment because the border czar Tom Homan has something to say about all of this. These left-wing rioters, you know, they're only tough

up to a point. Occasionally when the cops actually start doing their job and they're allowed to do their job, well these lefties will take off running. Take a look at Cut 6 at one such incident this weekend. at one such incident this weekend. Here they are, the rioters outside of the federal building in Los Angeles, eventually law enforcement assembling, creating a formation here. And then raising up the barricades, and then just opening fire with non-lethal rounds, just shooting these guys, and all of a sudden, all of these insane left-wing rioters

take off running. I have to say, you know, the LA police chief did say in his covers this weekend and some of his press conferences that he believes that these are organized rioters, that these anarchists have the makings of people who have done this before. And you can't help but notice as you see these images that it looks a lot like the events of 2020.

Masked up left-wing anarchists who are causing utter chaos in the streets of the United States, lighting cars on fire in the middle of intersections, attacking police officers, shutting down the 101 freeway. This has all of the makings of that summer of 2020. And you can tell that President Trump does not want this to grow into some bigger event.

He wants to put this down quickly, which is why you saw the Trump administration moving so quickly this weekend to do that. In fact, let me share with you some of the other important footage from all of this. So you've got Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom who are just running a sanctuary jurisdiction. They're refusing to enforce the law. They're refusing to work with the feds.

In fact, Gavin Newsom is furious that President Trump has mobilized 2000 National Guardsmen from inside of the California National Guard, now working for the president in order to stop all of this. You've got Tom Homan saying this, cut 19, that if Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom get in the way, if they start breaking the law themselves, well, they're gonna be put in silver bracelets. Take a look at this. I would think every elected governor,

every elected mayor, number one responsibility is to remove public safety threats from their communities. That's what he's trying to do, but they're not helping. There have been threats, you know, previously that if you stand in the way of your enforcement operations, you know, you could be subject potentially to arrest. Are you saying that about Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom,

or are they at risk of being arrested? I'll say it about anybody. You cross that line. It's a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien. It's a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job. Yeah, that's right. It's a felony. It's a felony to harbor an illegal alien.

It's a felony to obstruct federal law enforcement from doing their job. So you want to be cuffed? Then stay on this path, Karen Bass. Stay on this path, Gavin Newsom. Go ahead, do that. So here we have Gavin Newsom saying, okay, I dare you, arrest me. Tom Homan, cut 16. Take a look at Gavin Newsom getting a little chippy. Tom Homan, the border czar, said to me yesterday, he did not rule out literally arresting you, Norm Mayor Bass, if you interfere in his work. He said you hadn't yet.

He's a tough guy, why doesn't he do that? He knows where to find me. But you know what? Let your hands off four-year-old girls that are trying to get educated. Let your hands off these poor people who are just trying to live their lives, man. Trying to live their lives, paying their taxes,

been here 10 years. The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy? Come after me, arrest me, let's just get it over with. Tough guy. You know, I don't give a damn. But I care about my community, I care about this community. The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up, they need need to stop and we need to push back

And I'm sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting so time. Sorry to be so clear. Let's go What a tool what a complete tool that jackass is that's Gavin Newsom the greasy governor of California Pretending like he's a tough guy Tom. Omen doesn't have have to pretend. Newsom pretends, go ahead, tough guy. Yeah, what are you gonna do about it? If they show up and cuff you, there's nothing going on except for you're wet in your pants and then you're going into federal custody. I don't know what to tell you, Gavin Newsom,

you ridiculous human being. Oh, and they're arresting four-year-olds. Yeah, I'm sorry, I ran down the list, but just to remind you once again, we've got the list in front of us. We've got the murderer, we've got the rapist, the burglary suspect, convicted of burglary in fact. The guy is shooting firearms going off. We've got the thief, sexual battery, grand theft larceny, possession of prohibited weapons, we've got distributing cocaine, we've got possession of drugs and controlled substances, assault with a deadly weapon, great bodily injury, distribution

of heroin and cocaine, domestic violence, transporting illegal aliens. I mean, come on, oh, it's just these poor, innocent little four-year-olds who are being rounded up. Now, first of all, if you're here illegally, you should leave with your family if you're a four-year-old. That family should take you back to your home country. But here's the thing, Gavin Newsom, that greasy jackass is just lying about what's going on and even spent the weekend saying all of this is Trump's fault.

Every time you see cars burning in the streets this weekend in LA, every time you see a highway shutdown, people being attacked, rocks being thrown through the windows of law enforcement, that's Trump's fault, says the left. That's what Gavin Newsom's saying. So Gavin Newsom, if he ends up in handcuffs,

he'll get exactly what he deserves here. He's just absolutely, absolutely disgusting. And speaking of those cars being set on fire, take a look at Cut 20. Here's a bunch of these Waymo self-driving cars caught on fire this weekend, set on fire this weekend by the arsonists among this anarchist crowd. Look.

Look at that. Just look at these vehicles burned to a crisp. Burned to a crisp. These are all self-driving cars. You know how much those cars cost? Those things are well over a hundred thousand approaching $200,000 a piece. Five of them set on fire and burned down

to just the brittle little husk that was remaining. Which means that there was well over, it looked like about a million dollars in damage just under those vehicles alone That doesn't count all the cop cars that doesn't count all the other attacks that took place this weekend And there were a lot of them. There were a lot of them. In fact, there were uh, There was there was stuff being thrown off the bridge on the uh, the 101

Just attacking law enforcement here. I want to pull this up for you. Attacking law enforcement here just over and over because these rioters are completely out of control. They're waving Mexican flags around. And of course that is a sign, as JD Vance pointed out this weekend of invasion. Just take a look here at this footage. Of course, that is a sign, as JD Vance pointed out this weekend of invasion. Just take a look here at this footage.

Here are the cars that have been under attack. Here are the cop cars under attack underneath this freeway on the 101. You have people picking up rocks, throwing them down off the bridge, through the windows of vehicles, throwing them at cops, fires being lit, smoke grenades being thrown, fireworks being thrown. This is a city that's in desperate need of rescue,

which is why the president of the United States is mobilizing the National Guard and the Marines could follow, the Marines could follow. I've got more in a moment, including out of control, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been calling for this type of violence for a long time. She tried to barrel her way into a federal facility this weekend

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I wanna see a lot of people arrested, including government officials. You break the law, you get held accountable. And the FBI is announcing massive, massive rewards right now for anybody who's attacking law enforcement, for the arrest of people like that. It's an all hands on deck effort to get control of our country.

Now Maxine Waters is among the lawbreakers. She's among the people who are stoking this kind of insanity. And what did I tell you on Friday? I told you all about this. This whole last week we've been talking about all of these Democrat officials who keep saying that ICE agents are like the Gestapo,

that they're like Nazis. Who's saying this? That's people like Hakeem Jeffries and people like Dan Goldman, that sniveling jerk from New York. You get other Democrats who are saying this, Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston, saying this. And the list keeps growing.

Tim Walls, Tampon Tim Walls said it too. The list keeps growing. They're all calling ICE agents Nazis. And I said, this doesn't end well. You know what happens here? They're gonna get an ICE agent killed. They're gonna get law enforcement attacked. And sure enough, over the weekend,

law enforcement under a constant barrage of attack in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Maxine Waters tried to barrel her way into the Los Angeles Federal Building this weekend. Take a look at this. I'm gonna pull this up full screen. Take a look at this as Maxine Waters goes for it. Here she is trying to barrel her way into a building

and getting stopped by one of the local officials there who's saying, yeah, no. No, I want to do, hello, hello, hello. Congresswoman Waters, I just came to use my congressional authority to check on these. We have a lot of people here, you know, from all these individuals. Excuse me, I need to get in.

I'll check our public apparel. Ha ha ha ha. What are you hoping to do, Congresswoman? Slammed in her face. I didn't see David Wordtap. They slammed the door in her face. She was trying to get it. I was trying to, I want to use my congressional authority. She said she just made that up.

You may as well have said something like that yourself. I want to use my citizen authority to get into this building. Yeah, no boom door slammed in face. She is a goofball. So now we're loving truly. Excuse me, I need to get in and check our public apparel.

Yeah, I need to get in. No, you don't stay outside. You windbag you are out of the way. I need to get in. No you don't stay outside. You windbag. You are out of control. So she gets the door slammed in her face and then she goes on here. You know, she, she starts telling people that, Oh, all of these illegals, this is the game. You know what this is about.

All of these illegals, she insists, need to become United States citizens. That's the point of all of this. She wants to make illegals American citizens. Take a look. Here's Maxine Waters telling just outside that building where she got ejected that it's time to turn everybody into an American citizen who's here illegally. Where the guns are. I want y'all to take pictures of these guns and let people know that they're in our city with guns and I'm sure they have artists who can kill. I don't know, but otherwise they wouldn't have guns.

What a liar. Representative, Ms. Waters, if there's one statement that you call, a message that you can send to Donald Trump, what is that message here today? My message to Donald Trump is you are a cruel human being. These people are insurrectionists. That's the face of an insurrectionist

that you're staring at if you're watching this on video. That's Maxine Waters. She has been for as long as she's been in public office and especially in the Trump era, an insurrectionist who doesn't believe in the laws of the United States, seeks insurrectionist who doesn't believe in the laws of the United States, seeks to undermine them, advances any cause that does that,

up to and including having, helping, aiding and abetting illegal alien invaders and then saying, actually they should be citizens of the United States. And that you're using the poorest people in the land, the most vulnerable people in the land to promote your politics. You are wrong, we know. But this is all-

These are murderers and rapists and rioters who are setting fires to police cars. Not vulnerable, venomous, vile. We have people who are immigrants here who are trying to seek a better living. We've come from places where they have experienced this kind of thing that he's doing here today. People who work every day.

In other, and you know, if they have experienced that, that's because that's the world that they created. The whole point is we have to have orderly immigration into the United States. We shouldn't be a third world country by virtue of our own self abuse. People who are paying taxes, who raising their families, who supporting education,

they should not be treated this way. They should be given an opportunity to tell their story, who they are and why they're here. They are telling their story. They're driving around burned out vehicles, waving Mexican flags. The story that they're telling is one of invasion. And when you're spinning your nation's flag

around the burned out vehicles right in the middle of the streets of the United States, what you're declaring is that you're conquering this country. That's the message that they're sending. I ask the United States to please do what the constitution allows us to do. And that is give them consideration for having citizenship here. It's insanity. It is insanity. the Constitution allows us to do. And that is give them consideration

for having citizenship here. It's insanity. It is insanity. Insanity, thy name is Maxine Waters. My next guest has been capturing lots of footage of everything going on on the ground in Los Angeles. The message that the immigrants are sending will get to Anthony Cabassa in just a moment.

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That's moinkbox.com slash Vince. Moinkbox.com slash Vince. Okay, so my next guest captured a bunch of video this weekend because that's what he does in California, in LA. I wanna show you some of this before we bring him in. So you get a sense of the kinds of things that he was witnessing.

Look at this, look at this on the ground perspective of these Waymo vehicles on fire. Mexican flags being waved, you're being conquered before your very eyes unless we stop this. Look at that. And so these vehicles getting completely burned out all the way down to just the hubcaps,

basically nothing left. Look at these things. Look at that. By the way, some very high quality hubcaps, basically nothing left. Look at these things. Look at that. By the way, some very high quality hubcaps on those vehicles. This is the only things that are left. Those rims. Crazy footage, a ton of crazy footage.

You can see so much more at Anthony Cabasa's X account. Find him on X, that's Anthony Cabassa underscore Anthony Cabassa, independent journalist joins us right now. Anthony, thank you very much for joining us today, sir. Hey, thank you for having me. Good to have you here. So tell me, are you from LA? Like, how did you get into the middle of all this?

Yeah, I actually do live in LA County, and I've been actually covering protests for close to eight years now. That's kind of like my thing. If you like protesting, LA is the place. It's front lines to anything protest. Anything happens, something's being protested in Los Angeles.

So I had heard that there was going to be city-wide, county-wide protests beginning on Friday, last Friday when it was being received by California local pro-immigrant groups that there was going to be ICE raids beginning last week and into the coming days over the weekend and into the next couple of weeks as well. And so I had seen people posting online that, hey, you know, you need to prepare for these ICE raids. We're going to head on out and we're going to be protesting and protecting the migrant community.

Come out and join us. Obviously you had some left-wing factions such as the DSA, which is Democratic Socialists of America, and PSL, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, which is kind of an oxymoron. There's no such thing as liberation under socialism, but these are the left-wing factions that are promoting this, are funding this, and are egging everybody on to head into the highways, to head out into the streets, to shut down these ice raids.

And it was just an insane weekend, as you guys can see with the videos. And total insanity. So take me through your weekend. Were you out there Friday night as those first arrests were being made and then those first protests started showing up? Yeah, correct. So I've been covering it since Friday when it all began. This was all taking place near a federal building in downtown LA.

This is one of the places that was being targeted by these protesters because this is where there is an ICE detention center. And so there's actually like a tall building full of people inside of this facility, some of them migrants, some of them just prisoners and inmates. And so this is kind of like a target federal building for a lot of these pro-migrant factions and groups and organizations. And so when I went down there, you know, there was obviously this power struggle. You had the federal government wanting to come in and do ice raids, but then you had local law enforcement and then you also had local Mayor Bass saying that

there were denouncing these pro ice raids. Even the LAPD chief of police said that the police are not partaking or enforcing or helping to any capacity the federal government that was reaping fear into the migrant community. That's what they were saying. And so it was an odd thing to see. That was the police chief that said that? That is a police chief. That is correct. And he was just reiterating that in no way, shape or form was LAPD involved in any migrant raids, that that is just simply not their job. So what were the cops doing?

How long did it take for the cops to finally engage the people who were committing acts of violence in the streets of LA? So from what I saw, police were only setting up a perimeter against the DHS agents that were at the federal building. But what happened I think was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen as far as leadership in this city. And you got to remember just a few months ago we were battling the fires which of course is also a result of poor leadership in

Los Angeles. And so what I saw was DHS agents were trapped inside this federal building. There was a garage in which they were trapped. They had nowhere to go. They had no way out and there was really no way in for them. And so they're basically trapped inside this garage where protesters were launching items. I posted video of protesters breaking cement blocks. They had hammers and they were breaking down cement to crack into little throwable pieces that they were throwing and launching at DHS agents. And so I just couldn't believe it because LAPD had a perimeter and they were throwing and launching at DHS agents. And so I just couldn't believe it because LAPD had a perimeter and they were watching this unfold and they did nothing. I think that there was

a stand down order, I don't know from who, in basically saying do not arrest or engage any of the protesters. So we went on for a couple of hours where DHS agents were under siege by protesters with LAPD doing nothing. It actually took a few hours, maybe two or three hours of back and forth between DHS agents and the protesters for LAPD riot police to finally step in and try to get a hold of the situation. So, okay, so the message from Gavin Newsom is to the Trump administration, stay out of this. We've got this under control. We've got local cops handling everything. You don't need to be here doing anything. And you're telling me that he's lying.

Oh, absolutely. This is classic. So California, for people that don't know, I think the whole nation knows is a one-party state. It's completely ruled by Democrats. When anything goes wrong, they do anything they can to shift the blame. Over the weekend, even just yesterday, Gavin Newsom was putting out statements that this escalation was a direct result of federal oversight. ICE agents coming into quote-unquote

migrant communities to target these helpless, hardworking people. But the reality is, Borders czar Tom Homan listed and put out full rap sheets of the people that were actually targeted in the ICE raids. These are violent cartel, gang member, people that have no place in this community. If you really wanna protect a community, you go after these hardened criminals,

which is what ICE was doing over the weekend. But of course, you know, you have state Senator Schiff, you have Gavin Newsom, you have L.A. Mayor Bass saying that the complete opposite, that these are not targeting, that ICE is not targeting violent criminals, they're going after helpless, hard-working people and that just couldn't be further from the truth. So they're escalating things and of course, because the city is burning, now they're shifting blame on the federal government. They are shifting blame. So what's going to happen next? Do you see this de-escalating anytime soon? It does seem like the democrat officials who run

that state and that city are doing everything they can to make it worse. Oh yeah I expect things to escalate from what I understand the memorandum signed by President Trump it gives the authority of the National Guard to be out here mobilized 2,000 National Guardsmen for the next 60 days. I There's a lot of back and forth right now before between Gavin Newsom and President Trump. There's a power struggle there Obviously, you know Gavin Newsom trying to make it seem like hey, we've got this under control But clearly they don't as evidenced by the videos what happened over the weekend Yeah, I do I do expect things to continue to escalate.

Maybe Monday through Thursday, we'll see it kind of die down a little bit, but I expect things to pick back up over this next upcoming weekend and upcoming weekend, so long as National Guard is here and so long as the ice rates continue. How dicey did it get when you were out there capturing all this footage,

when you're getting close to a lot of very violent action. Tell me what it was like to be in the middle of it. Yeah, you know, again, I've been covering protests for close to eight, nine years now, and this is actually some of the most violent actions I've seen. This is akin to the George Floyd riots, which I also covered a couple years ago. Thankfully, you know, this time around, I'm not banned or censored on social media. So a lot of my stuff is going viral. I was actually banned on Twitter 1.0 when the Floyd rides were going so I was kind of upset that a lot of my footage didn't get out there as it is this time. But no yeah it was complete violence and chaos. I saw Molotov cocktails being made in front of me, bricks being broken down to launch

at police. Police cruisers you know put on fire. It was pretty bad and this is actually the first time I've got banged up myself a couple of times. I've been shot in the face, I've been shot in the head and the arm. I've got a nice bruise on my hand. And that's just because of the level of violence that has been ongoing over the weekend. So what you saw this weekend,

just if you would compare it to what you saw in 2020, because it strikes me that these images from afar look a lot like the events of 2020, but it almost seems like, I do wonder to what extent you can detect whether or not these are refined tactics. In other words, these are people who've done this before

and they've now worked out a system to cause maximum chaos in light of the fact that they've been in the streets causing this kind of chaos through the years. Do you get the sense that this was more professional than maybe even in 2020? Oh, absolutely. And so what's happening is you have, again, these organizations like DSA,

Democratic Socialist of America, PSL, you have Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. These are all Marxist organizations that have been organizing in Los Angeles. These are the same organizations organizing in Seattle. These are the same organizations in Portland, Oregon, Washington DC, Chicago, et cetera. So if you follow these groups closely,

you'll see that they are the ones organizing, collaborating and making sure that, you know, what happens is what could start off as a peaceful protest during the day, as the sun begins to set, things just get crazier and crazier. And what I've noticed is a lot of the people that don't wear the mask, a lot of people just waving flags or holding signs, a lot of these people kind of leave by the time

the sun starts setting because they know that the violence is coming. And so toward the night, now you start seeing a lot of these agitators, anarchists, you know, communists, because we did see a, I did see a bunch of communist flags out there. And so these people are covering their faces because they know what's, what's about to ensue. So what you're watching is not, there's no underlying principle actually, that's leading to this. These are people that are just exploiting conversation in order to cause chaos, because there's no unifying theory between the George Floyd riots and the trying to stop illegal aliens from being ejected from the country, violent illegals.

There's no unifying principle there other than agents of chaos trying to take advantage of it all in order to sow division, right? Oh, absolutely. So this is exactly how communism works is they basically collect these little factions of groups of pro-Palestine, the Black Lives Matter, and now the pro-immigrant community. These are all badges for these communist groups to basically attain. They're collecting these factions. They're saying,

if you come to us, we can help you organize, we can help you mobilize, and we have lawyers, because we have these funds. And if you get in trouble, we can bail you out. Just do as we say, do as you're told. I actually yesterday was solicited money to be violent against police. I had this guy with a mask on come up to me and say, hey man, if I'm live right now, I'm recording, I'd be willing to pay you if you start a fight with the police.

I got money, who wants money? And so he started looking around and he's money, who wants money? So he started looking around, he's like, who wants money? Who wants money? Who wants to get paid to hit the police? And so I don't know, maybe the guy was drunk, I don't know, but this is not uncommon that these people are being paid. And what I discovered over the weekend was pallets full of bricks and stone strategically placed in these locations of protests. I've got a video just of last night, I discovered a pallet just randomly in a building corner. Yeah, I just couldn't believe protests. I've got a video just of last night. I discovered a pallet just randomly in a building corner.

Yeah, I just couldn't believe it. I was like, why is there just a random pallet of stone here strategically placed right next to the protest? And I had actually discovered similar ones on Saturday in Paramount, California, where there was just basically brick cylinders that the protesters were using to break up into smaller pieces and launch at police.

Yeah, oh my goodness. Well, that, yeah, so that feels familiar. That's a 2020 phenomenon. We saw that in 2020, where you saw those pallets of bricks laying out on the streets, there's people picking up these bricks and then using them to attack other human beings and law enforcement officers.

And so you see that once again suspicious feature here in the midst of a city where there's been a tremendous amount of damage. So you mentioned that these democratic socialists and the in the Marxist organizations that are involved in this kind of chaos are very active in cities like Portland and Seattle. So I think it stands to reason that you and I can predict what happens next. If we see ice raids of any consequence inside of places like Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington, kind of sounds like, Anthony, you might be traveling for more riots. Oh, yeah, this is exactly like the George Floyd riots. I was traveling all over the nation from DC to Minneapolis to Seattle. But yeah, I actually posted about this yesterday. Los Angeles right now is ground zero for immigration enforcement. And what I mean by that is there's clearly this showdown between state government.

California is very, very Democrat, very, very liberal, especially the cities are hyper liberal. And so what we're seeing is kind of a blueprint of what's to come with other blue states, other blue cities where ice roads will be taking place across the nation. And so if the federal government, you know, is not able to assert its power and dominance, even in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles, I think that they are looking at nationwide protests in blue cities where ICE is coming in and trying to get these violent criminals out. But of course they don't care that, you know,

they're violent criminals, they're just wanting to further their communist agenda and just sowing destruction. And so this, I think what we're seeing right now is the very beginning of a summer of love 2.0. I hope not. What would it take to shut it down, do you think, Anthony? Well, I think, and this is very unrealistic, I think that it's time for Gavin Newsom and

state leadership to take accountability that sanctuary cities haven't worked. It's put normal US citizens and residents and immigrants that live here as well that don't want to see any of this violence. I know a lot of hardworking people as well. These people are nonviolent. They're here on visas, work visas, et cetera. These people just want a slice of the American dream and I can appreciate that. But going out there waving foreign flags, burning the American flag, burning down cars

is not, it shouldn't be an option and it should not be tolerated. And so I think that Gavin Newsom needs to work with the federal government to see, okay, what can we do to make sure that this doesn't happen again and make sure that the federal agents are protected when you guys are out going, doing ICE raids. What would be great from Gavin Newsom is to get together with border czar Tom Homan and say look We're not just targeting just people at random. We're not just picking up people in vans These are the violent criminals that ice is coming after but I think that I look I'm with you I agree that'd be great if that were to happen, but you and I both know at this point. There's no way

Yeah, there's no way he's like completely dialed into this like amnesty attitude and that law enforcement itself is some sort of betrayal of the country That's insanity to me So it strikes me that if we're gonna crack down on this using law enforcement It's just gonna have to be the president wielding the insurrection act He's gonna have to go in and save American cities from the leadership that that's betraying them So I mean, don't you think that it seems to be the answer is, send in the National Guard, send in the Marines, send in the Marshals, whatever it takes, and restore order in a city that has people atop it right now who are trying to create disorder? No, yeah.

And that's going to be the most likely outcome is the federal government is going to say clearly these, because look, you know, you can say that these are just protesters, but that's not the reality. these are being organized by teachers union leaders the money is being funneled to these protesters the protesters are a proxy of the leadership of the of the city I personally witnessed and recorded city leadership calling cops pigs and saying that ICE is not welcome that they are fascist. They are the ones sowing the division

between the community and they are being very clear, they're not mincing words. Your enemy is the federal government and local law enforcement. And so what is this gonna do? It's gonna incentivize a lot of these hardened criminals that are gonna be joining in on the protest. We've had an open border for the last four years.

Who knows who else has come in and who else is going to take opportunity to infiltrate these cities. You know, I hope this isn't what comes to light, but I can foresee terrorist attacks in federal buildings in LA. And it's not going to be an innocent protester that does it. It's someone that has been sent from a foreign country to do exactly that, waiting for the opportune moment to see these large protests go in there. We've all seen what's been happening with drone technology

as of late, Ukraine being a perfect example of what's happening with the advancement of drone technology. So I'm pretty fearful living in LA, to be honest, of what's to come, because it doesn't look like the state and the federal government are getting along. And so what that means is it's going to be Donald Trump, like you said, using the full power of the federal government to say this, we're not going to tolerate this again. We tolerated it back in 2020. Nothing was done. Cities were destroyed. Now we're coming in. We're not playing any games. But then as the federal government, you know, escalates

their manpower, I suspect that protesters from around the country and maybe even around the nation will be flooding into Los Angeles, because again, this is ground zero. So I hope I'm wrong. I hope this is settled. But I think that you're right in that it's just not going to happen the way we wish it plays out. The only way to stop it is to impose consequences. That's it. That's the only way. And that's not just on the rioters.

That's also in the insurrectionists. That's also on the insurrectionist leadership of places like LA. Like they want to break the law, cuff them. Send a message. Send a clear message that you break the law. There are consequences for that. That's what you need to do to restore order. Anthony Cabasa, thank you for putting yourself in harm's way to capture all of this. Important that we get to see it.

Thank you for your time and analysis today as well, sir. Yeah, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you. Good to talk to you. You can follow Anthony Cabasa on X, AnthonyCabasa underscore right there. He's got a lot of incredible footage and hopefully things die down

so you don't have to keep checking as account for stuff. But unfortunately, I don't think that's gonna happen. Not in the near term. We had some insanity this weekend. In addition to in LA, the way that the left is reacting to it, there's an ABC reporter by the name of Terry Moran, Moran, and he is Terry Moran, Moran.

And he is a Moran, this guy. He posted and then deleted an unhinged screed about President Trump this weekend and also Stephen Miller. He wrote that Stephen Miller is not just the brains behind Trumpism, but he's also the bile of Trumpism, he claims. He said Miller, this guy's supposed to be a straight down the middle reporter. Miller

is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred, said Terry Moran. He's a world-class hater. You can see it just by looking at him. You can conclude it just by looking at him. He says he eats his hate. And then he posted Trump is a world-class hater, but his hatred is only a means to an end. And that end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment. So this is an ABC reporter. Now I will remind you that this is a guy that the White House granted an interview to.

And this was just about a month ago, Terry Moran arguing with President Trump over MS 13 Kilmar MS 13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia being sent to El Salvador Take a look at cut 9 here Let me ask you about one man in one court order Kilmar Abrego Garcia He's the Salvadoran man who crossed into this country illegally But who is under a protective order that he not be sent back to El Salvador. Your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged in court that was a mistake. And now the Supreme Court has upheld an order that you must return him to facilitate his return to the United States.

What are you doing to comply? Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was here a long time, was not appointed by us, should not have said that... should not have said that should not have said that and just said in court said the person that you're talking about you know you're making this person said this is the ms thirteen gang member a tough cookie been in a lot of skirmishes beat the hell out of his wife

yeah wife was petrified even talk about him okay this is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland. Yeah, so Terry Moran has been a ludicrous figure for a long time, and that was on display, of course, again, in that interview with the president of the United States, generous of the White House to grant him that in the first place.

So Terry Moran tweets this insanity about how Trump and Stephen Miller are a bunch of haters, and that led to Caroline Levitt posting that this is unhinged on his part, on Terry's part and unacceptable. She further said, we've reached out to ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable. And that brings us to Sunday morning,

Terry Moran got his ass suspended from ABC of all places. Brian Stelter, Mr. Potato Head being the one to deliver the news, he says breaking ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation. They said that the since deleted tweet was the reason for the suspension. He further posted that the full statement here from ABC included, ABC News stands for objectivity, hilarious, and impartiality, hilarious, in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others.

The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards. As a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation. Yeah, suspended. What does that even mean suspended? Are they still sending him a paycheck? Does he not have to do work now?

Does he get a paid vacation? Does he get to come back at some point? Are they trying to, you know, just bury this whole thing? Suggest that a simple suspension counts as a punishment, but he gets to keep working there and being a lunatic going forward into the future? We'll see. But that's the statement filtered through Brian Stelter

that Terry Moran has been suspended. You know, I mentioned Kilmar Abrego Garcia. You saw it Friday afternoon, we got an update on the Kilmar case. Apparently Kilmar is coming back to the United States of America now. The left has desired this for so long. Chris Van Hollen has been pining for this.

He's been ripping the petals off of flowers one by one. Will he come back? Won't he come back? Will he come back? Won't he come back? Chris Van Hollen, desperate for his love Kilmar to show up after their successful conjugal visit down in El Salvador.

The White House had good news, bad news for Chris Van Hollen. Good news Kilmar is coming back. Bad news. He's being charged. He's being charged with human smuggling. Cut 10. Take a look. Pam Bondi with the big announcement. And conspiracy to commit alien smuggling in violation of Title 8 USC 1324. We want to thank President Bukele for agreeing to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant and they agreed to return him to our country. We're grateful to President Bukele for agreeing to return him to our country to face these very serious charges. This is what American justice looks like. Upon completion of his sentence, we anticipate he will be returned to his home country of El Salvador.

She added that he also apparently, according to one of their sources, was guilty of soliciting child pornography as well. So this guy is just a barrel full of awful. And so the United States, isn't this brilliant? So the left has been pressuring the Trump administration, these crazy out of control district judges, and they think they can run the immigration system of the United States, have been pressuring the Trump administration, bring him back,

bring him back, bring him back. So the Trump administration, you see what they did? This is amazing. They built a criminal case against Kilmar-Brego Garcia. They established that he has been guilty of human smuggling by their account over a hundred times, bringing in some awful people and trafficking innocent humans into the United States.

And that he was further guilty of other things like soliciting child porn. And so they said, okay, we'll build a criminal case against him. They actually issued an arrest warrant. They requested extradition from El Salvador. Bukele agreed that he's sending Kilmar in as a criminal suspect. And now he will face trial upon the conclusion of that trial. Either he does time in the clink right here in the United States of America, or he's just deported at the conclusion of the legal proceedings. And so the left doesn't get what it wants.

The left does not get what it wants here. They wanted Kilmarsh, the Maryland man to be released into the United States of America. That's not happening. That's not happening. You wanted this? Okay. We'll give it to you. Good and hard. Chris Van Hollen crying into his pillow last night, learning all of this news. It really is amazing. It really is. Holy cow. All right. We've got a big radio show coming up for you today. 12 to three Eastern time. You can watch that at rumble.com slash Vince or listen, wherever you get a radio show, you can find that at thevinceshow.com. We've got the radio listings there.

I've got, we've got big shows planned for this week. We're talking the big, beautiful bill, which by the way, we desperately need passed to get all of these bad actors out of our country, duh. And then we're gonna talk to Senator Rand Paul, actually, coming up this week. He'll stop by the show, looking forward to that conversation And then we're gonna talk to Senator Rand Paul actually coming up this week. He'll stop by the show looking forward to that conversation

because he's been opposed to the big, beautiful bill. I'll kick the tires on why and see if he's changed his mind at all this week as he sees all of this violence, just like the rest of us. Craziness. Great to have you with us today on Vince. Always nice to chat with you.