The White House plans to send National Guard troops into Illinois and Oregon, while Democratic leaders of those states are pushing back in court. Ash-Har Quraishi is in Illinois, while Jessica Levinson analyzes the legal arguments of these deployments. Rob Lehman, leader of defense startup Saronic, talks about his business' latest venture: unmanned maritime drones for the Navy. Plus, Major has an extended conversation with Bill Nye the Science Guy about his effort to prevent the Trump Administration from cutting funding to NASA. All that and more on "The Takeout!"

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