statements and letting them go through the process like with abrego garcia and they're similar million attacking -- simply attacking -- >> endorsing in one of the bluest cities and states in the country and it's a remarkable and frankly revolting scene to watch for the last two hours together here on the big weekend show. that does it for us and live coverage. see you next weekend. mark levine starting right now. >> mitigating circumstance, mark levine. this is life, lickerty and levine. two great guests here.

we have first interview on the upcoming butler and it's unbelievable book on assassination attempt of donald trump and not going to want to miss this. before we do that, there's been a cur if you feel between elon musk and -- kerfuffle between donald trump and elon musk. i don't know elon musk. i know donald trump very well. first shot fired by musk on this budget stuff and president is desperately trying to get the tax cuts through and another shot and i think the president the democrats are ab shutsly frothing at the mouth over it. in the end, it's not a big deal. a little history lesson. we love history. constitution and philosophy and you'll find this fascinating with help from friends at

historytools.org. remember thomas jefferson and john adams and second president and third president, story of thomas jefferson and john adams is one of the most captivating and consequential relationships in american history. friends, rivals, fellow architects to the new nation. their interactions over half a century tell the tumultuous tale of finding and growth and unique bond and reconciliation and rich or understanding commend themselves and twisting path of the country and help create. despite the desperate origins and stiles, jefferson and adams discovering a deep kinship with the delegates with the congress in 1775. they brought together by a shared commitment to american independence and government by the people they work closely together on the committee task and drafting declaration of independence in philadelphia. a decision that would echo through history. adams persuaded committee for jerkins son on the author and explaining the rational and

saying you can write ten times better than i can and act of generous deference and jefferson never forgot. summer of 1776 in sweltering philadelphia, laborring together over the declaration and intense collaboration and a virginiaen and new englanders and perspectives were complimentary and minds on the fundamentals of self-governance and liberty. the city tavern and rented lodging on high street and two men engaged in passion dis-court and enlightenment, political theory and mass cal history. preambled conclusion and declaration was a work of joint genius and adams fierce convictions and pocketbook of liberty married with jefferson soaring pros and vision of fundamental human equality. 1780s and revolutionary war won

jefferson and adams found themselves partnered in a diplomatic arena and jefferson dispatched to paris and refined cap of absolutist monarchy and adams took up post in london, bustling heart of constitutional empire. for jefferson, still grieving loss of wife martha in 1782 and correspondents of adams family was immense comfort and i come to europe and must be contented to hope for the day and we can all be together. jefferson wrote to abigail adams, this will be the great day of my life. he cherished his visits to adams' london home and delighting in the wit and encycloimmediate walleye of -- encyclopedia of life and law. letters from the continued political strategizing going for the nation skin creasing intimate reading friendship and going for them and courts of york and sharing wild horse

saloonful hopes of re--- hopes of trial and 17 80s and subtle seeds of later political differences began to sprout and jefferson with culture and enlightenment spirit of reform and going for them on the line and essence of european high society and perils of centralized roles of reason and despite the emerging agreements of respect staying strong and roosevelt left in 1790s and jefferson stretching to the breaking point and politics and young republic were increasingly polarizized and president george washington two rival factions with the federalist and alexander hamilton and the close ties to britain going about the democratic republicans. championed by jefferson and james madison who envisioned a more de-centralized knock

seizure disorders and allied with revolutionary france. differences burst into the open with w a heated debate of the constitution and bill of rights and i'll keep in mind jefferson was not at constitutional convention but had a somewhat role through madison that obviously was very involved. jefferson was still in france. adams argued vehemently and jefferson for strong protections of individual liberties and limitations on the authority and 1796 election with jefferson challenging adams for the presidency and brought the rivalry to a bitter head. going for the democrat and aristolochic pretensions and attacking his character and casting doubts on the patriotism due to the francophilia and going with 71 votes to

jefferson's 68. adams going to be vice president and he was a thorn in the side of the administration and organizing the opposition for the federal legislation preparing for another white house run and x, y, z affair and quasi war with france and going for the french and this charged atmosphere going for this alien sedition act going for the deep foreigners and prosecute critics of the president. jefferson saw the acts of tyrannical overreach and culminated in the 1800s and jefferson dubbed revolution of 1800s. reversal of fortunes and jefferson topped adams with 73 electoral votes against 65 for the incumbent. apoplectic adams proceeded to appoint a slew of midnight judges that brought us to these famous case of marl bury vs. madison going for office.

to that extent, minuscule and federal officers and bureaucracy and partisans going for jefferson coming in and surrounding by these partisans and house of representatives still controlled by federalists did it with jefferson's victory and drag out final selection process through dozens of deadlocked ballots and ironically it was hamilton and jefferson's arch enemy and man that detested adams and tipping scale in his favor. it was a devastating defeat for adams and promptly decamped washington without attending his rivals inauguration and once inseparable duo exchanged not a word for the next 12 ye years ad despised each other after really loving each other and left to dr. benjamin rush and the imminent philadelphia physician and took it upon himself to repair the fractured relationship starting in 1808

and dr. rush reaching out to both men employing them and reconnecting and must not going for them and going for the world with the political opinions and misconduct going for adams and jefferson emphasized importance of the "republican cause and the need for great champions to reconcile and twilight years softening by age and old friend adams and sending an olive branch let tore jerkins son". to jefferson. you and i ought not to die before explaining to each other echoing rush. jefferson eagerly reciprocated and that would span 14 years and 158 letters. letters from 1812 to 1826 among the most poignant and illuminating going for them and hinting of nostalgia and reflecting on the storied lives and unfinished business in the nation they served and on

july 4, 1826 and stunning cosmic coincidence and jefferson and adams died 350 years to the -- died 15 year-ov 15 years to ther the adoption and the last words going to be reported by thomas jefferson sur survi surv s survd unbeknownst to adams he passed away at age of 83. a political fellowship between jefferson and adams that endure as testment to the possibilities of friendship and forgiveness in the backdrop of partisanship and division. these two giants of american experiment and different in temperament in world view and unite united in commitment to human liberty and embodied the tensions of the nation they helped found and 50-year journey from slab ray torrs and rivals -- collaborators and friends and halting progress towards a more perfect union and

state and federal power an and tracing them with the fundamental debates for the democracy and debates that resound today and the lives of them and going for the essential nature of them and it's on the line and self-governance going for conflict going for them and going for agreements and arguarguments and their competin and going with cautionary lessons and inspiring models for how to forge ahead as a nation. and this is not exact. donald trump is elected president of the united states and trying to get a bill passed through congress and these days almost impossible and house of respectives for the majority and it's a minute school majority

and rhinos or sort of republicans going virtually everything and this is a bare working majority and building up the defenses and to cut taxes as the president promised. not tax cuts for billionaires as the left democrat coup keeps saying and working americans and blue collar americans to get this economy really cooking and cooking to get money back in your pockets and of course the democrats oppose it and i suggest if you want to cut, cut. nobody is stopping you. get your dam job done and get to the house and have it past and -- pass theed for the american people going to secure the border even more and doing things as we need as a country.

and i would say to elon musk, you attacked first on the bill and then attacked again and do what you want it's a free country and you might want to give him a call. mr. president, i'm sure you'd take the call as i said earlier because in the end, donald trump does have a very big heart and he is willing to forgive. the common enemy at home is seeking the democratic party transforming for america going for them and seeing what he did with inflation and abroad going for them and iran and going for them on which to attack for the country and going for communist chinese and seek to invade taiwan and threatening japan and south korea and philippines and australia and going to be here and it's impounding the hell out of civilian centers in ukraine and at least to me, those are

common enemies. so i think this will pass. if jefferson and adams can get through it, i believe you gentlemen will get through it too. we'll be right back. ♪ [music playing] speaker: these moments, they matter-- the laughs, the little wins, the times when it all feels a little lighter. because of you, we are family. st. jude-- we're here when it matters most. support st. jude families.

>> welcome back, america. nobody better than retired general jack keane. four stars are hard to get. it's an amazing accomplishment and he's a great patriot and i want to read headlines to you here. recent in the last few days and iran ordering thousands of tons

of ballistic missile ingredients up for 100,000 missiles they can provide for and that's the jerusalem post and amassed even more weapons grade and going for them and ned gaucheuating with the administration and slamming nuclear proposal and continue to enrich uranium and the offer and trump sends new warning. general. are they right about that? >> absolutely. the motivation is going downright with sa saddam hussein and would have never removed if he didn't give up nuclear weapons and never would have been removed and preservation of them won and going to threaten

israel and destroy the state of israel and be clear about that . americans are rolling eyes of something lake that saying they can't be serious and believe me. they are serious. and the arabs know it as well. and if they get a nuclear weapon and we are in then and it's a nuclear arm's race. and the arabs get weapons as quickly as possible and my friend he henry kissenger warnee the scariest thing is the nuclear arms race in the middle east and lead leading to a nuclear exchange and we can never, ever let that happen and that's where we are and have to put our foot down here. mark: this is why all the wording is wrong and so much propaganda and warmongerrers and the people want to --

warmongerrers and want to stop the threatening of the free world and building the missiles as fast as they can and going for the chinese now and somehow we're the war smokers mongers and we're the peace mongers and going for them and iranians going for them and then the man who's been to war and who's led troops and what am i missing here. >> absolutely. those of us that don't want iran to have a nuclear weapon. we're trying to stop a holocaust from taking place as a result of something like this and that's the reality of what we're facing and this is a diabolical regime and fact that we refer to them as clerks and mull vas a joke. mullahs is a joke. this is islamic and they want to

control the flow of oil and said many, many times over and over in the 45 years of existence destroying the state of israel. they are about this and this is serious business. it's extremely dangerous and taking the appropriate action to prevent it from happening and let me just say something about these ballistic missiles. the israelis are very concerned about these ballistic missiles and just use conventionally and why is that? iran attacked them in the first attack in april over 300 things flying at them drones and missiles. 105 of those were ballistic missiles and only four pen straiting their defense -- penetrated their defense systems and then the ayatollahs came after them after aaron attacks in retaliation and iran attacked this time only with ballistic missiles, 200 of them came at israel and a stunning number of

40 p penetrated the system and only had 11 minutes of warning and all the airplanes from the airfields going to get in their bunkers and attacked the headquarters and no damage is done. capability of hundreds of ballistic missiles with china's help flying at israel. not 200, 400, 600 flying at military targets and coming at tel aviv and jerusalem and impact on civilian casualties and this is what israelis fear and they've got got them shut down going for them and must take down their ballistic

enterprise going to get it worked out diplomatically and if not, we cannot let them stay on this path. mark: getting that work done diplomatically and dealing with a country lied and cheated on everything they've got and dealing with bide and they just keep moving on and i want to pursue this with you when we return. we'll be right back. ♪

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what they plan after the trump administration and going for them and number two, the more missiles they're going to create and having a situation going for them and thousands of these missiles going for them and ha nassau county not defeated and it's a "ceasefire"and deal with the houthis not including israel and shooting missiles into israel. isn't it conceivable that the situation will be a thousand times more dangerous if this isn't handled right? >> yeah, absolutely. taking place with the iranians going for them and the supreme leader not going to voluntarily dismantle the system and he's committed to the negotiations at the urging of the president

that's more modern than him and going to put up with it. they stall and it's going back for the obama administration and it's negotiation and it's the same kind of deal going for them and asking for a complete disruption of them going in and it took two years to go for jcpoa and actually enshrining them for the nuclear cape and the weaponization in 2030. so the trump administration and same thing. stalling negotiations as much as possible dragging them out wide and it's a couple of reasons and one, you just introduced the subject and considerable assistance from china to increase the ballistic missile arsenal and two, they need to

recover the air defense system for them with russian systems and they're about recovering them with the air defense systems and going for them taking the time mark going for them and sta stalling in the ba. i had my intuition in dealing with these people for 45 years. the ie toll la is prepare -- ayatollah is prepared to accept the air strike going to voluntarily going for the assistance going for them dismantling them for the line and going to accept an air strike because he thinks it's going to be salvaged and rebuild to a nuclear weapon eventually and that's going for them more on his mind and not making a lot of sense from his per spect and i have probably does from our -- pperspective and doesn't and

tolerate diplomatic negotiations and no optimism whatsoever, mark, these talks are going to bring a dismantlement of nuclear enterprise of iran and much less dismantling of the ballistic missile system. i don't think it's possible. mark: i think you're requirement the movie 1 1957 bridge or river kawhi. they even went to and forced to build this bridge and here comes japanese train and they're supposed to blow up the bridge and the colonel wouldn't blow up the bridge. he was scottie in love with the bridge in showing that british architectural and engineering cape and the this diplomacy and having a document is becoming our bridge on the river and

we're so focussed and committed to it in order to avoid what's going to have to come that in some ways this thing is our bridge on the river. is that crazy? >> i don't think it is but i do believe people that get involved and serious negotiation and there's a lot at stake here going for them and going to commit the negotiations and losing on the strategic combined effectives here and ds strategic unequivocal here and no nuclear weapons at all and no nuclear enterprise in support of the government at all and destroying the state of israel by so many thousands of israelis and they're willing to migrate out of the country.

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angeles hold ago conference earlier in the hour saying what we're seeing in la is chaos caused by administration. we're looking at two cars on fire right now and you understand there's a third and your thoughts? >> this is caused by administration and ziti believe the policy of the administration certainly beyond the microscope body demonstrators but these are not only looking for them with the trump administration and they're going for their own reasons for being out in the street and it's -- alicia: we're going to have to get back to programming. mark: welcome back, america. we have a real treat here going

for them and walking the beat and introducing people and she has a relationship with the people of pennsylvania and going for them on the line and written a book and able to convey this as well as i can sports grill simply called butler and going for them and learning things in this book and beautifully written and story after story going with them and i'll give you an example. i want to welcome you to the program. starting off with george washington and george washington in 1753 he was a major in the militia and basically on behalf of the crown.

the french and british scuffling over the land in the it area and it's called butler and he was almost assassinated he can bees correct? >>; correct? >> yea, ask not far from where president trump was almost assassinated. mark: you write in your book and i want to read in the paragraph and barely, barely touching service of the beautiful for them and i did not know and if you're in the front row and you're there and hearing this and wondering about your own line and crossing for the united states going for them and going where one is at 6:00 p.m. and thomas crux ripped off four shots to the main stage where trump was speaking and candidate had just turned ever so slightly to his right and one bull and

the morally wounded and the other thing gravely wounded spectators and david dutch going with a 57-year-old u.s. marine hearing about these people and going for them being like at this moment and explaining for them in excruciating detail where wow feel like you're there and how close and loose it is to donald trump. >> i guess, absolutely. as a journalist, usually the end of your day doesn't end up the way your day started to what you're supposed to do and that was true for me that day. i wasn't supposed to be in the buffer. i was there with my daughter who is a photo journalist and only four feet from the president.

as i heard the shots go off, pop pop pop, i'm from western pennsylvania and i'm a gun owner like most and never got down and watch it had as people say something happened in slow motion, that was in slow motion. i watched a sea of blue go around him and watched he didn't fall down but he took himself down. that was my first understanding that neighbor heist not as hurt as he possibly could b. i saw the blood streak down his faith face and not till the second round of shots that a campaign press advanced person took me down to protect me. there's an iconic photo of him literally laying on top of me to protect me. i watched the entire thing, my recorder was on not because i was trying to record that, but because i was recording the speech.

i watched the president talking back and forth with the secret service agents and insisting he puts his shoes on and eventually walk right past me. it was one of the things -- several things struck me about that day, mark. nobody panicked. you would expect in that situation mass hysteria and there wasn't. i heard screaming but that was it. i watched the president and people don't know this and this is what i want to convey for people and he says usa and first next morning president trump called me really early in the morning and i'll probably get in trouble with my parents for saying it, but he, the first thing he said to me was are you okay?

is your daughter okay? i said are you [bleep]ing kidding me? you're the one that was shot. he would go onto call me several titimes that day on the most significant moments in the book is when he describes to me why he says fight fight fight. it wasn't about him. it was about projecting strength for the country. it was about showing -- he knew people there would panic. he knew people watching would panic. he said to me in an interview and reiterated last week when i interviewed him on air force one, it wasn't me in that moment. i represent the -- being president of the united states even though i wasn't president in that moment. it was important to show the people -- the country that we are okay and we are resilient.

mark: your explanation of it and i've never read anything like this before. your conveyance, your portrayal of this man who he really is, that the press never really covers. he's cerebral but passionate and thinking about the country all the time and people around him all the time, and you make that clear in the book. we'll be right back.

alicia: welcome to folk news live. i'm alicia acuna in new york. protesters clashing with a federallized california national guard and los angeles prompt for

a third straight day -- police department for a third straight day. at this hour, we've seen bottles and rocks thrown by protesters and highways blocked and smoke bombs and flash bangs have been used to disburse the crowds. you're looking at a live picture from downtown los angeles right now and as we watch things continue watch things continue to unfold that we've been watching for a number of hours today. we will now be joined by by phone by former d.c. police detective, defense attorney and fox news contributor ted williams. ted, glad to have you back. i want to pick up on what we were talking about about 15 minutes ago or so. we have some time now because the mayor of los angeles, karen bass, held a news conference to give an update on the chaos that's unfolding that we're watching there on our screens, screens. and in that time, she took a moment to say that the chaos that we are seeing has been caused by the trump

administration's decision to send in the national guard. your thoughts? >> well, you know, alicia, i don't believe that there's been one single reason for the chaos that we're seeing in the streets of l.a. at this immediate time. i certainly if i was in charge, i would not have federalized the national guard. i would have allowed the l.a. police department, i believe, to try to handle the situation. those people are trained. the national guard is not trained for urban warfare. the l.a. police department is handled many of these incidents. but i don't think we can blame it on one. any one given scenario there. these are people who have been hell bent on having their beliefs are carried out here in l.a, and they don't give a damn whether they burn the city down, as

long as whatever they believe in is out there in the open. >> and ted, in addition to the national guard, i can tell you that u.s. northern command put out a statement earlier regarding the protection of federal property and personnel in los angeles, because we did see earlier that there were officers in front of the federal building in downtown los angeles, and they were trying to protect that. and in the statement, u.s. northcom said, at this time, there are approximately 300 members of the california army national guard, 79th infantry brigade combat team deployed at some of the locations various locations in los angeles, but additionally approximately 500 marines from the second battalion, seventh marines at 29 palms, california. they are prepared to deploy status should that be necessary, and augment the support that the dod's protection of federal property and personal effects. now, ted, we do know that

governor gavin newsom's office sent a letter to defense secretary pete hegseth earlier saying that the national troops were not needed, that to call them off, that they were making things worse. and it is in your mind that they could make it worse. i'm just trying to understand here. >> well, you know, i do believe, unfortunately, that that could make the matters worse. first of all, we have never on our soil in america had marines deployed in any city or you have, as we know, national guard. we have local law enforcement and we have state law enforcement officers. when you look at what's going on out in california at this immediate time, you have a lot of rabble rousers out there. but the l.a. police department, i believe, can control this. we

do not need, i believe, all marines coming into a city and being deployed. >> so, ted, just listening to what you're saying, because that is the point that the administration of gavin newsom is making that that that they can handle this. you did bring up urban warfare. that's what this looks like. and also at the same time, watching the police officers there and i don't know if those are also members of the military, but they do look like they're struggling. it looks to be kind of tough. and maybe to the average eye this doesn't look like they have things under control there. >> you know, alicia, they may very well not have everything under control at this immediate time. because what you're seeing out on the streets right now are primarily state police officers. and you're seeing all l.a. police department police officers, and they have a

contingency of their force out there. they don't have the complete force out there. but i do believe over a period of time that the l.a. police department, pursuant to the training that they received through the years of dealing with demonstrations, can bring these demonstrations under control if given the tools that they need and the green light to go in and make arrests. >> you know, the los angeles mayor, karen bass, also in her news conference, said that she is calling on all angelenos to continue expressing, quote, your right, your anger, your outrage, but to do it peacefully. it doesn't appear that that message is being heard at this time. and, ted, i just can't help thinking about the folks who live in this area, the business owners who

are also located here. and then i think back to 2020 and the george floyd protests that we saw and the destruction of property, the vandalization of businesses, and the fact that there are still so many cities, quite frankly, still reeling from the damage and the unsafe nature that they still feel from those protests. and then here we have this happening right now. it's just difficult, you know. >> it it's very difficult because if you look at your television screen, you see rioters out in the streets of l.a, but that is only a small fraction of that community. the most majority of that community, they are at home watching their television, watching these riders and hoping that they don't come to their communities. and quite naturally, what you just said, alicia, about the businessmen, those businessmen are hoping that the law enforcement

officers can bring this and get continue to get this matter under control so that their businesses can survive. and that is the unfortunate thing about these riots, is that these businesses are the ones who take the bulk of what is going on in these various communities. >> and just to remind folks to kind of bring folks up to date here, the, the, the reason all of this started is because a few days ago, we had ice officers go in to paramount california in the los angeles area. they were there for ice raids, a series of them. and when that happened, there were people in the community who then rejected this premise and they decided to protest. it has been growing for three days now. and president trump spoke with governor gavin newsom on friday and let him know, and in his mind, as the president, that this needed to be shut

down. and then here we are now. the president didn't see it getting any better, only worse, and then ultimately decided it was time to federalize the national guard. and so here we are. but, ted, you know, we're heading into the evening hours right now. and that's when things can get particularly dangerous. can you talk to us about the challenges right now that these officers are about to face as we're approaching 6 p.m. on the california coast, alicia. >> and it's sad and unfortunate, but nighttime is the enemy of law enforcement officers that are trying to bring a riot under control. and the rationale behind that is, is dogs. and in the dark you find individuals throwing bottles or individuals shooting guns, individuals trying to do whatever they can to harm law enforcement officers. or for

fox, i was out in ferguson, missouri, for fox. i was in milwaukee, wisconsin when we had riots. and i can tell you it is the most scariest thing for law enforcement officers to have to deal with because they don't know where the objects are coming from. and it is very, very difficult to bring a riding group under control or in the night time. so i'm hoping that they will flood the zone, meaning law enforcement and that anybody within that zone they will arrest. as you know, alicia, they've already declared an unlawful assembly out there. and that's under the california penal code 409. and that simply means that law enforcement, anybody in a specified area after law enforcement is told them to move on. and if they don't, they can make immediate arrests of those individuals. and i'm hoping that this is what they

will do. >> well, we will continue to absolutely watch this. and, ted, i just have about a minute here left. but, you know, former vice president harris did issue a statement in part saying, you know, los angeles is my home. and like so many americans, i'm appalled that we are witnessing on the streets of our city, deploying the national guard as a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. in addition to the recent ice raids in southern california and across our nation, it is part of the trump administration's cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division. and of course, ted, the trump administration is saying we were actually concerned about safety here, and we didn't feel that the state of california and mayor bass was acting were acting fast enough. your thoughts? >> well, i think that i think that i would have tried to work again further with the governor and the mayor of los angeles, rather than bringing in the

national guard at this stage, because i believe bringing in the national guard, it was like pouring gasoline on an already lit fire. but something had to be done in l.a. because they were meaning federal agents being attacked. and i think that someone had to act, and i would hope that the government would have acted more precipitously. >> yes. and everyone at home continuing to watch. we really think about all those folks in los angeles, in this area who are completely innocent and really have nothing to do with any of this. ted williams, thank you so much for helping us with this coverage. good to talk to you. again. if you're just joining us, chaos erupting in los angeles as immigration protesters clash with a federalized california national guard, federal immigration officers and the los angeles police department for a third straight day. at this hour, we've seen bottles and rocks thrown by protesters and high