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broken and gone and merchandise is gone. It's a shame. It didn't look as bad as that to me. Maybe it was
the sunshine. I don't know, but in Los Angeles the store fronts are gone.
places may not look for the National Guard. And I think that New Jersey so far has been doing a very
good job with the state police and Newark police.
Something the president said reminded me. The reason we have to control the streets is not just to
bring peace to that town, but to give us the opportunity to get the bad actors, because they are going to
go elsewhere. We're picking up information that when they run into a tough nut, the strong police force
and National Guards are looking for secondary targets and cities where they can go on overwhelm the
police force. So in several of your states, that's what we're hearing. So that's why it's so imperative. We
can't wack a mole these people. We have to take out the professional instigators and a leadership
group. And the way to do that is to start with a strong statement in the major cities.
deployed in the National Guard in 29 states. And I will tell you, the bulk of the states have fewer than
200 people... Fewer than 200 people deployed in the bulk of the states that have called up their guard.
So as the President and the AGM rightly pointed out, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has done a fantastic job.
By Saturday morning, after the Chairman [inaudible 00:14:38] Chief of Staff and I spoke to the governor,
they increased their presence tenfold. And I think the evidence was clear on Saturday night and Sunday
night.
We had the Georgia State Patrol and the Georgia National Guard and the Department of Natural
Resource team of rangers.
I am. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to give a thank you to secretary [crosstalk 00:20:53] for your
strategic guidance. Very helpful. Yeah. Our city is grieving and in pain. And I would just say, as far as...
The peaceful protesters are expressing an outrage that is real. They witnessed eight minutes of a man
dying in front of them. That part of it then, of course, sparked the civil unrest, where there were actors.
And I would like to believe they were from out of state here in Minnesota, but they're not. They're home
grown. This was an issue that this happened with Minneapolis Police Department. But once that started
to spin, the idea that when you saw this happen in the first few days, I don't believe anybody would
have had a big enough force to do this. When we mobilized, then, into Thursday and Friday, I had
mobilized... As the President was saying, or Secretary of Defense was saying, about 750 to 1000 is what
we could get of National Guard on to the scene.
The police force and taking over. And I don't blame you. I blame the mayor. I've never seen anything like
it, where the police were told to abandon the police house, and it was ransacked and really destroyed it.
Millions and millions of dollars are going to have to go back to fix it. I don't know. You'll have [crosstalk
00:24:18].
General (25:04):
350,000.
So it's a very effective technique, strongly encouraged, to mobilize [inaudible 00:27:14] as many Guard
as you think do need in order to establish law and order in various cities. 55 city protests... 54, 55 cities
had protests last 24 hours. And 22 of them were violent at moderate to severe levels, but the rest be the
rest were peaceful. The rest were peaceful because there was good law and order on the streets. So
strongly encourage to use the National Guard, get as many boots on the ground as you can muster.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Governor Mills, your line is now open.
All right. We'll look into that. We have a tremendous crowd of people showing up, as you know, and I
think most of them are very favorable. They like their president, but we'll talk to you about that
certainly. As far as intelligence, we do have intelligence information and we'll present it to the
appropriate people. I'd like to turn that around. Though. If you hear anything, let us know. Report it to
the Attorney General.
got 1300 members of the Guard called up now. We haven't had any issues or problems yet. It's been
mostly peaceful, I think because they're at this point maybe afraid to take action in Baltimore, but we're
watching to see if it breaks out again.
Guard and all those police officers, and not a single person was hurt for the rest of the week. No more
violence. So it's powerful forces with showing restraint, but I think showing those troops, people start to
scatter.
Operator (42:04):
Governor Polis. Go ahead.
the Supreme Court will accept that. But if you have a state where you feel strongly, and many of you do,
most of you do I'll bet, if you wanted to try and pass a very powerful flag burning statute, again anti-flag
burning, I hope you do it because we'll back you 100%. All the way. Okay? I hope some of you do it. All
right, go ahead. #2 please.
Operator (44:43):
Governor Polis, your line is open.
... these folks, they're just getting a 30 days or $500. That's just the cost of doing business. We know that
we have organized people. We're trying to figure out if we've got some here. We think maybe we do,
but we have a state grand jury that's just like the federal grand. They tend to act as they can and bring
them before that grand jury, where we can investigate using the tools of the grand jury. We talked to
our US Attorney receiving the call, but everybody was on board and we really had a model thing happen
in the city of Charleston. The first night, they had one approach with a late 11 o'clock curfew. Henry,
they had a whole lot of violence. They were taking, I guess you'd say a less confrontational approach and
they had a lot of damage on King Street, beautiful place. People were busting out windows in
restaurants, throwing in big fire crackers landing on the tables of diners and that because there was no
curfew. The diners were still there and it was scaring everybody.
Operator (51:02):
Please go ahead. Your line is now open.
them that stood there and watched and maybe even participated, the whole world was disgraced by it,
not just our country and the whole world was watching. So nobody can tell me I haven't spoken about it.
I've spoken about it at great length, but I will continue to speak about it. But I also have to speak about
law and order. We need law and order in our country. And if we don't have law and order, we don't
have a country. So we need law and order. Okay, who's next please. #2. #2 please.
Operator (54:11):
We have no one in queue at this time.
Operator (55:20):
That concludes our conference. Thank you to all of our speakers and thank you all in the audience for
joining us today. Again, this call is not intended for press purposes, and is off the record. The call has
concluded. You may disconnect.