Pelosi ask Trump to clarify deployment of police

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter today to President Donald Trump questioning the deployment of troops and unidentified law enforcement officials and the military against peaceful protestors in the nation's capital.

In a press conference Thursday, she told reporters, "peaceful protesters are confronted with the deployment of a variety -- various security officers with multiple -- from multiple jurisdictions. "

"To make matters worse," Pelosi says as she quotes from the letter—"some officers have refused to provide information, had been deployed without identifying insignia, badges or name plates. The practice of officers operating with full anonymity undermines accountability and ignites government distrust and suspicion. And it's counter to the principle of procedural justice and legitimacy during this precarious moment in our history."

Pelosi demanded the White House provide a full list of all agencies involved in policing the protests and their individual duties.

Pelosi also quipped about White House officials saying Trump's recent visit to a church near the White House was a "leadership moment" akin to Winston Churchill's inspection of bomb damage in London during World War II.

"The White House put out some kind of a statement saying that the president there with the Bible at St. John's was the equivalent of Winston Churchill going to the ruins of London or George W. Bush at 9/11."

"Let's hope that holding that Bible something by osmosis or something may have gotten to the president about healing,"

she said.