US politics live: Trump's wild LA claim: ‘Burning to the ground'

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Welcome back to our live coverage of events in the United States.
Los Angeles is bracing for its fifth day of protests with the possibility the Marines could arrive on the city's streets.
There have been sporadic reports of looting in LA's CBD. But it's also said to have been calmer.
That comes as President Donald Trump has sent a further 2000 National Guard troops to LA, on top of the 2000 already mobilised.
California Governor Gavin Newsom continues to say that the White House actions are fuelling the protests not lessening them and his use of National Guard and Marines are not needed and authoritarians.
He has posted images of National Guard troops sleeping on the floor of a loading dock claiming that the Trump admiration isn't looking after them despite saying how essential they are,
He has sued the administration for mobilising the National Guard above his head.
But on Tuesday morning, US time, Mr Trump said the 'great city' would be 'burning to the ground' if he hadn't intervened.
Those demonstrators are occurring die to the Trump administration's attempts to deport migrants from California en masse, which have seen it skirt usual parts of the legal process. Agents of the enforcement agency ICE have, for instance, been seizing people without warrants.