> Federal protective service has been declared an unlawful assembly. Anyone who is deemed a threat trespassing on federal property is subject to arrest.
JEDEDIAH BILA: We are back with a Fox News alert. Federal law enforcement declaring an unlawful assembly in Portland after demonstrators stormed a local ICE facility. Townhall.com senior writer Julio Roses was just on the ground there on Inauguration Day covering the unrest, and he joins us now. Julio, thanks for being with us. We know you've done extensive coverage of the violence happening in Portland right now. First and foremost, why are they rioting?
JULIO ROSAS, TOWNHALL.COM SENIOR WRITER: They just hate the United States, and so it doesn't matter if a Democrat is in office. They hate Joe Biden. They made that abundantly clear on Inauguration Day after they attacked the Democrat headquarters. But this really shows that critics last summer blamed federal law enforcement on the riots at the federal courthouse saying that it was their fault for that's why unrest was happening, but this shows that Portland just likes to riot against the government. It happened before the federal courthouse, and obviously now it's obviously happening afterwards. We're going to see this continue as long as there is a federal government presence. And even if that were to go away, they would just go after the local law enforcement.
BILA: You know, the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked if she had spoken to Joe Biden about the riots in Seattle and Portland. She was asked this on Friday. Listen to her response.
ED O'KEEFE, CBS NEWS: Does the President have any comments on the violence in Oregon and Washington state?
JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I haven't spoken with him specifically about those events, but it's something that our national security team and homeland security advisor is closely monitoring of course.
BILA: You know, Julio, my response to her would have been, "Why not? Why haven't you spoken to him?" Are you surprised by that comment that she gave? And what should President Biden do here?
ROSAS: I'm not surprised at all. I mean, you have to remember that when the riots across the country were widespread last year, it took a long time not just for President Joe Biden but for the entire Democratic party to really come out and forcefully condemn the violence that was going on. And, so, unfortunately, that kind of non-answer and, "we're just monitoring it," doesn't surprise me at all. And, really, he has to come out and, just as he did with the Capitol riot, which I also covered, saying that that was bad, he also needs to come out and say that the continued unrest that is affecting the local population in Portland and elsewhere is also bad.