Arkansas Senator on Israel-Iran Conflict and ICE Raids in L.A.
- Senator Tom Cotton spoke on June 15, 2025, about Israeli strikes on Iran and escalating anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles over the weekend.
- Cotton attributed the failed Israeli-Iran negotiations to Iran's stubborn refusal to negotiate and linked the Los Angeles unrest to local authorities being overwhelmed.
- He supported President Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines to regain order after rioters assaulted officers, set cars on fire, and blocked highways.
- Cotton warned that if local law enforcement is unable to control the unrest, federal troops might need to be deployed, acknowledging that this stance could provoke strong reactions from liberals.
- He planned legislation to punish rioters and called the riots a messaging opportunity to expose Democratic opposition to immigration law enforcement.
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Tom Cotton pressed on 'language' used in 'send in the troops' op-ed, National Guard presence
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., doubled down on Sunday when pressed by CBS host Margaret Brennan on whether he wanted to use the language he did in his call for President Donald Trump to send in troops to help quell the rioting in Los Angeles."You wrote an op-ed supporting President Trump’s decision to send in federalized national guard troops and active-duty marines to California. You referred to it as the threat from the radical left, a show of force…
Margaret Brennan Scolds Sen. Cotton over Op-Ed Language, Gets SCHOOLED
We regret to inform you that CBS’s Margaret Brennan is at it again. Brennan attempted to chastise Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) over his most recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, with its language evocative of the 2020 New York Times op-ed that triggered a newsroom revolt. As you can see from watching the exchange, Cotton was ready: WATCH: Sen. Tom Cotton SHUTS DOWN Margaret Brennan's hectoring over the "language" of his WSJ op-ed pic.twitter.c…

Cotton claps back at CBS News’s Margaret Brennan over riots that ‘terrorized’ LA
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) defended the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, arguing it is necessary to “restore civil order” when local police cannot do so on their own. Cotton was asked by CBS News’s Margaret…
Cotton claps back at CBS News's Margaret Brennan over riots that 'terrorized' LA
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) defended the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, arguing it is necessary to “restore civil order” when local police cannot do so on their own. Cotton was asked by CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday about an op-ed he wrote, in which he endorsed “an overwhelming show of force” to bring an end to the riots in Los Angeles, where communities are being “terrorized.” Brennan asked if Cotton’…
Arkansas senator on Israel-Iran conflict and ICE raids in L.A.
WASHINGTON (CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), Senate Intelligence Chairman, spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the latest on Israeli strikes against Iran. Brennan asked Senator Cotton to clarify President Donald Trump's comments saying the U.S. had "nothing to do with the attack on Iran," but said "this is not America's fight, unless Iran hits the U.S." "What the President said in his overnight post was a cle…
GOP Organizing Big Senate Move After LA Riots: Report
While this past week’s anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in California have undoubtedly wrought disaster on most involved, it’s not all necessarily bad news, at least according to the GOP. […] The post GOP Organizing Big Senate Move After LA Riots: Report appeared first on The Western Journal.
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