Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said President Trump's decision to deploy 2,000 National Guardsmen to the Los Angeles area without a governor's signoff is an effort to "de-escalate" the situation.

"I think what President Trump's trying to do is pretty clear. He's trying to de-escalate all the tensions that are there," he said during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

He compared the situation to the 2020 protests in Portland, Ore., when........

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