On Monday's CNN This Morning, senior CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere decided to malign the National Guard acting on orders of CNN's least favorite president:  "Just yesterday, I was walking around Washington. Of course, we've had National Guard deployment here for months, and it's been extended. And just troops with their weapons out, walking the streets, four of them at a time, walking around. It didn't seem like doing really much of anything, except that we are now being made used to every day more troops on the streets of more American cities.  Did it occur to Dovere that not much was going on BECAUSE they were walking around? Crime is significantly down in DC since the deployment began! This is similar to the people who complain that too many criminals are incarcerated, given that crime is down. Crime is down in large part because we have imprisoned more criminals--hello? So what's next, Dovere? Are you going to suggest that the heating system in the CNN building should be dismantled, since even on this frosty morning, it's warm inside? Dovere's parody-worthy comment came in the context of a discussion of possible plans to send more federal troops to Minneapolis because they're needed to guard the agents whose actions are being impeded by protesters.  According to Dovere: "It goes all the way around in a circle, and really what we're seeing is just more militarization of American cities."  But surely Dovere has witnessed the scenes of protesters blocking ICE agents with vehicles, getting in their face, screaming, blowing whistles, etc., making it more difficult for them to do their job of detaining a targeted person. What might take 4-6 people to do the job if left unmolested could now take twice that number: the core people carrying out the detention, and the others fending off protesters trying to "de-arrest" the detainee. Notice that Dovere never brought up that two National Guardsmen were shot in D.C. in November. Right after it happened, CNN analyst Andrew McCabe also maligned the Guard: "But these are folks who basically been thrown into a pseudo law enforcement function, most of whom don't really have law enforcement backgrounds. And that adds, I think a real wild card element to this this thing. We don't really know how those folks would respond if confronted with a violent incident on the street with an armed person." The Guard drew more scorn than the shooter!  PS: Dovere came to CNN from The Atlantic, where he promoted his magazine’s sleazy partisan story claiming that Trump mocked our war dead as losers. At a presser, Dovere was awarded the first question and he asked Biden about the dreadful state of Donald Trump’s soul: Khizr Khan said the comments demonstrated that President Trump's life is a testament to selfishness, and his soul is that of a coward. You've talked about this as a different view of how you see the job as president. But when you hear these remarks -- suckers, losers, recoiling from amputees -- what does it tell you about the president's soul and the life he leads?" Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 1/10/26 6:17 am ET ERICA HILL: There was so much talk, and I would say, certainly at the end of last week, and we heard from officials, right, in Minnesota saying, don't give them these pictures don't in their work, the administration, rather, these images, this is what they want, to your point, for the Insurrection Act.  The way that this is playing out, though, in a fairly small city, right, with, in the grand scheme of things, perhaps a smaller number of undocumented immigrants, is this having the reaction politically that was hoped for?  ISAAC DOVERE: You see in the polls that people seem to be, by a majority of them, uncomfortable with what's going on and disapprove of it.  I do think this goes beyond the political side of it. I mean, even just the words that we're using here: what counts as victory, right? This is the American president, what he wants to get done in an American city. And that's because of the militarization that's happened here and the pretext that keeps shifting the rationales, that keep going back, that now we might need to have the Alaska Airborne there to protect the ICE agents, but the ICE agents need to be there because of the fraud. It goes all the way around in a circle, and really what we're seeing is just more militarization of American cities.  I mean, even just yesterday, I was walking around Washington. Of course, we've had National Guard deployment here for months, and it's been extended. And just troops with their weapons out, walking the streets, four of them at a time, walking around. It didn't seem like doing really much of anything, except that we are now being made used to every day more troops on the streets of more American cities.