House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that deploying the Marine Corps to Los Angeles to suppress protests, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has suggested, would not be "heavy-handed."

“Secretary Hegseth said that active-duty Marines there at Camp Pendleton, there by San Diego, are on high alert and could be mobilized. Could we really see active-duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?” ABC News’s Jonathan Karl asked on “This Week.”

“You know, one of our core principles is maintaining peace through strength. We do that on foreign affairs and domestic affairs as well. I don't........

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