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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is currently testifying before a congressional committee on defence spending, where he is defending the Trump administration's decision to deploy Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles.

The current estimated cost for the deployment for the National Guard troops and the Marines is $143 million (£105 million), Hegseth's Special Assistant Bryn Macdonnell says.

Hegseth says the troops are "very well prepared" in response to Democrat Pete Aguilar's question over reports that troops are sleeping on the floor without food or water.

The deployment will last 60 days and the troops responded "incredibly rapidly to a deteriorating situation," he tells the committee.

In response, LA governor Gavin Newsom says on X: "Think of how much veteran nutrition assistance and housing he could be providing instead of dishonoring these troops using them as pawns."

Concluding her update, Bass says the city of Los Angeles has no capacity to protect all public facilities in the event of ICE raids.

"It is very difficult for city staff to tell armed ICE agents they can't come in somewhere," she adds.

Bass says she thinks the Trump administration's actions in LA are an "experiment" to instil fear.

"Because if you can do this to the nation's second largest city, maybe the Administration is hoping that this will be a signal to everybody everywhere to fear them," she adds.

The LA mayor says she's going to call President Trump today, where she'll tell him to stop the raids.

"I want to tell him we're a city of immigrants... I want to tell him: "Don't you want the world cup to be a success?"

If he does, she says, Trump should give LA the $130 million (£96 million) that is being spent "for no reason".

For context, earlier we reported that the estimated cost of deploying Marines and National Guard troops to LA is $134 million.

Bass continues to answer questions from the media, saying they should drive by the federal building in downtown LA to see what the deployed members of the National Guard are up to.

They are "stationary", protecting the building and are not doing "crowd control or anything like that", she says.

"Who saved the day are our local law enforcement agencies."

Mayor Bass says she "strongly believes" the groups vandalising downtown LA are not part of the immigrant rights movement.

Instead, they're concerned about "wreaking havoc".

She says the immigrant rights movement is very organised and have "well-respected institutions".

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In response to a question from a reporter, Bass says the federal government needs to bear the cost of deploying the Marines and National Guard to LA.

"I could not even imagine that they would come here and ask us to reimburse their unnecessary expense," she says. "LA cannot afford it."

Imagine how far that amount of money could go in preparing LA for the World Cup, Bass adds.

Bass says her administration and local police are looking at several options to deal with violence including imposing a curfew.

"We are looking at things like curfews, other aggressive response we can have in case this violence breaks out again."

Moving to to speak about the ICE immigration raids, Bass says they create a "sense of fear" in Los Angeles.

"It's just not right to do that to a population who is trying to survive," she says. "We are a city of immigrants."

Bass says the federal government is "usurping" California Governor Gavin Newsom's authority.

"People have asked me what the Marines are going to do when they get here. That's a good question, I have no idea," Bass tells the news conference.

She says the LAPD has asked for more help, but not from the federal government. The police force has instead received assistance from other local and state law enforcement.

Bass adds the real solution to ending the ongoing protests is for the federal government to "stop the raids" - referring to mass immigration arrests in Los Angeles which sparked this protest.

The people being arrested are people who are working in childcare, as gardeners, in factories, running small businesses, she says.

Bass continues by saying that Los Angeles was "peaceful" on Thursday last week.

There was nothing going on in the city that warranted the federal intervention that took place the following day, she says.

Bass says this whole situation is a result of Friday's immigration raids, which caused "fear" and "uncertainty" in LA families.

"They don't know if they should go to work, they don't know if they should go to school," she says.

There were people arrested in the raids who haven't been able to meet with lawyers yet, Bass tells the assembled media - adding that other legal immigrants have been detained despite their status.

She says this is a departure from the Trump administrations original goal of going after criminals, which is not the same thing as going after laborers in the Home Depot parking lot who contribute to the economy.

Bass next says the vandalism in downtown the city has been "extensive".

She adds that LA is one year away from hosting the Fifa football World Cup and that "is about beautifying our city and bringing it together".

Bass calls on business, faith and community leaders to come together in the coming days to discuss how the clean-up will take place.

She tells reporters that city workers are already cleaning up, but adds that the damage is "so extensive" it's going to "take community-wide involvement".

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Bass says the unrest was happening in a few blocks in downtown Los Angeles, rather than the whole of downtown or the wider city.

She says the visuals make it seem like "the entire city is in flames", which she adds "is not the case at all".

Bass goes on to say violence will not be tolerated.

Investigations will be conducted and just because people who vandalised property went home last night "doesn't mean you got off scot-free," Bass says.

Mayor Karen Bass jumps right into it, addressing the raids and the demonstrations.

She says she supports immigrant Angelinos, but that violent protest is "unacceptable".

"I do not believe that individuals that commit violence and vandalism and violence in our city really are in support of immigrants, they have another agenda," Bass adds.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has just begun a news conference about the riots.

You can follow it live by clicking the Watch Live button at the top of this page, or we'll bring you all the key lines here.

California governor Gavin Newsom has just shared a video on social media of Donald Trump speaking in the Oval office, with the president saying he last spoke to Newsom a day ago.

In the video, Trump says he called the governor to tell him that he's "doing a bad job".

The call, Newsom says, did not take place.

"There was no call. Not even a voicemail," the governor says in a post on X.

"Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to."

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In his Oval Office remarks just now, Trump also claimed if his administration "didn't get involved" that LA would be "on fire... just like it was burning a number of months ago".

For context, around 30 people died and more than 10,000 homes were destroyed in the fast-spreading, destructive fires that broke out in Los Angeles in early January.

In a post on his social media platform earlier today, Trump criticised "an incompetent Governor and Mayor", meaning Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, for the number of houses destroyed and their handling of their rebuilding process.

"Incidentally, the much more difficult, time consuming, and stringent FEDERAL PERMITTING PROCESS is virtually complete on these houses, while the easy and simple City and State Permits are disastrously bungled up and WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE! They are a total mess, and will be for a long time," Trump wrote.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

We've just wrapped a brief - and surprise - Oval Office question-and-answer session with President Trump.

Trump has shrugged off any criticism of the National Guard and Marine Corps deployments to Los Angeles, and expressed anger at the protesters, whom he referred to as "paid" without any evidence.

He notably declined to commit to invoking the Insurrection Act, which would give him legal justification for the deployment of active-duty US military forces to Los Angeles to perform police duties.

By not doing so, some observers have noted that the deployment of the Marines will become the focus of legal battles in the days ahead.

While his language was strong - such as referring to US protesters as "animals" - Trump, however, did not say much past what he has previously said about the protests.

We'll hear from Trump again later today, when he delivers remarks during a visit to a military base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina this afternoon.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

The protests in Los Angeles appear to be causing a rift between the Trump administration and Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum - with whom they have otherwise had largely friendly relations so far during this term.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Sheinbaum of having "encouraged" more protests. It is unclear what she is referring to.

"I condemn her," Noem says. Trump, for his part, remained largely quiet on Sheinbaum.

Sheinbaum has only briefly commented on the protests, which have reportedly led to the arrest of more than 40 Mexican nationals.

On Monday, she said that the Mexican government does not "agree with violent actions as a form of protest" and called on the "Mexican community" to "not allow itself to be provoked".

A day earlier, she was more pointed in her remarks on US immigration policy, saying that "the immigration phenomenon cannot be dealt with through violence or raids".

Additionally, she had previously threatened that Mexicans would "mobilise" against a Republican proposal to tax remittances to Mexico.

Mexican citizens are the largest immigrant group in the US - totalling over 11 million - and Los Angeles is widely seen as the hub of the Mexican diaspora in the United States.

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We have also just heard from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who stood behind President Trump during his comments from the Oval Office.

Noem says the violence happening in LA is "not acceptable and it's not going to happen in America".

She says Trump is standing up for the "average American who wants to walk their child to school every day safely, run their small business and provide for their families".

She says he has "every authority under the constitution" to send National Guard troops into the LA communities.

Noem adds she's "incredibly proud" of Trump for deploying National Guard troops and Marines.

Trump is asked how long the National Guard will be in California.

"Until there's no danger," he tells reporters in the Oval Office, before repeating that "when there's no danger, they'll leave".

"You would've had a horrible situation had I not sent them in," he says.

The president adds: "You'd be reporting on a lot of death and a lot of destruction, and that's not going to take place."

Earlier, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth testified to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense that the deployment of the National Guard would last for 60 days.

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Trump also says opposition to a parade this weekend in Washington DC will be met with "heavy force."

On Saturday, the US Army will stage a parade in the US capital to mark its 250th anniversary. The 14 June anniversary also happens to be Trump's 79th birthday.

"If there is any protesters that want to come out, they will be met with very big force," Trump says.

He says the protesters are "people who hate our country but they will be met with very heavy force".