9 Sep 2025

USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 9 September 2025

President Trump continues to threaten Chicago with Federal troops.

He has been threatening to send troops there as well as Baltimore and New Orleans in a bid, he says, to curb crime and carry out deportations.

Senators grill Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while the President attempts to rename the Department of Defense. 

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