The military commander overseeing National Guard deployments in Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago told lawmakers Thursday that he had no intelligence to suggest the military is facing an “enemy within,” in contrast to statements the president made during a September speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, head of U.S. Northern Command, as well as a top Pentagon lawyer and the Defense Department’s deputy assistant secretary for homeland security and Americas security affairs during a hearing on the recent deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities. Several of those deployments have been deemed illegal in federal court.

In September, Trump told an auditorium full of the nation’s top military

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