Juliette Kayyem: The White House’s Role ‘Is to Deescalate,’ ‘It’s Not Hard to Not Put Things on Fire’

RUSH EXCERPT:

KAYYEM: “Well, I mean, the the sending in the state national guard might be appropriate if you had lost control of the city or greater parts of the city, just to give you the statistics, as we were reporting, 0.2% of the city is impacted by what‘s going on, 0.02% of the entire Los Angeles county. So just a sense of of of what it is the federal government could be helpful to Los Angeles and the state of California by not antagonizing a situation that exists on the street. The whole point of political leadership is to deescalate in situations like this. People get heated. We have massive political debates in this country. Violence is not acceptable.”