What's really going on? Should federal forces withdraw? Why hasn't Portland law enforcement been able to get this situation under control? Is it correct to characterize the violence we have seen occurring in Portland as a "Myth," as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler did this week? Lora Ries, a senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.
President Donald Trump suggested in a tweet that America may want to consider postponing the election in November due to COVID-19.Trump told reporters that federal law enforcement was not on the cusp of leaving Portland.
The Department of Homeland Security has an agency within it called the Federal Protective Service and the function of the Federal Protective Service is to protect federal buildings and federal property throughout the country.
We have a federal courthouse in Portland and the Federal Protective Service has been there since the building was erected, I believe, over 20 years ago.
Ries: Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security acting secretary, Chad Wolf, announced a tentative agreement with the governor of Oregon that state police will go into Portland and regain control of the streets and the surrounding areas around the federal courthouse.
Ries: There are federal laws and federal crimes against attacking federal officers attacking federal property, damaging federal property.
Jerry Nadler's comment is indicative of politicians on the left, at all levels, whether it's in Portland or in Oregon or at federal government, ignoring what is really going on and trying to portray the federal police as the ones provoking the situation and that's exactly backward.
President Donald Trump suggested in a tweet that America may want to consider postponing the election in November due to COVID-19.Trump told reporters that federal law enforcement was not on the cusp of leaving Portland.
The Department of Homeland Security has an agency within it called the Federal Protective Service and the function of the Federal Protective Service is to protect federal buildings and federal property throughout the country.
We have a federal courthouse in Portland and the Federal Protective Service has been there since the building was erected, I believe, over 20 years ago.
Ries: Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security acting secretary, Chad Wolf, announced a tentative agreement with the governor of Oregon that state police will go into Portland and regain control of the streets and the surrounding areas around the federal courthouse.
Ries: There are federal laws and federal crimes against attacking federal officers attacking federal property, damaging federal property.
Jerry Nadler's comment is indicative of politicians on the left, at all levels, whether it's in Portland or in Oregon or at federal government, ignoring what is really going on and trying to portray the federal police as the ones provoking the situation and that's exactly backward.
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