Business Insider reports Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is in hot water with top White House brass.<br />Esper said on Wednesday that he opposed sending active-duty troops to respond to protests and unrest except in the "most urgent and dire of situations."<br />He said the current situation didn't merit such a drastic response and that he doesn't support invoking the Insurrection Act.<br />The Insurrection Act was last invoked in 1992, at the request of the governor of California, to assist with the Rodney King riots.<br />The act allows the president to deploy the military to quell domestic unrest.<br />Multiple news outlets report top White House officials are "not happy" with Esper's remarks, and some say Esper may be on shaky ground in his job security.<br />Esper was already under fire for telling governors that they should use the National Guard to "dominate the battlespace" in a reference to protesters.<br />He also accompanied President Donald Trump to Trump's controversial, Bible-holding photo op.
