Two top Republican Senate leaders on Monday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into Los Angeles.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said the absence of action by local and state leaders necessitated the move.

“I think the president did what the local officials weren’t doing, which is protecting their citizens,” Thune told reporters Monday afternoon. “This was clearly an incident, multiple incidents, that got out of hand.”

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