Long before the 2024 election (and before he was OMB Director), Russell Vought’s think tank was working on the rationale for invoking The Insurrection Act to deploy the military on American streets. Project 2025 — the blueprint for seizing power in a second Trump presidency — could only come to fruition if he could get around the pesky legal hurdle of the U.S. Constitution. Ali Velshi looks at how today, National Guard troops have been deployed to five American cities, and much worse is ahead as Trump and his advisors have begun labeling any American who dares protest his power grab as “insurrectionist.”

Demonstration is a fundamental right in America. Against the objections of state and city leaders, the president has called in troops to fight protestors and patrol streets where

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