Madeline Rivera

Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying we will, of course, be pursuing this directly with the U.S.

administration.

We'll see if this includes retaliatory tariffs against the United States.

The president making the announcement on Truth Social, saying that he's directed his secretary of war, Pete Hegsa, to send troops to protect Portland at any of their ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists.

While there have been protests at the ICE facility in South Portland, the state's Democratic Governor Tina Kotak maintains there is no national security threat in the city.

Kotak says they have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission.

Regardless, state and local officials have already reported seeing armored vehicles and more federal agents in the city, something they dismiss as merely a show of force.