A Different Kind of Swamp-Cleaning | On the Census and Redistricting, Rs Need to Act FAST | 8/12/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Aaron McIntire covers President Trump’s invocation of Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, federalizing D.C.’s police and deploying the National Guard to combat crime. Joined by Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel, Trump cites D.C.’s homicide rate (27.3 per 100,000) as a national embarrassment, comparing it unfavorably to New York and L.A. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum defends Mexican illegals’ "contributions" to the U.S. economy while blaming America’s drug consumption for fentanyl issues. JD Vance details redistricting and a new census to correct 2020 errors, and Aaron warns that Republican inaction could cede permanent control to Democrats.
Trump D.C. takeover, Home Rule Act, National Guard, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Claudia Sheinbaum, immigration, JD Vance, redistricting, census, D.C. crime, ICE arrests, Pittsburgh explosion, gerrymandering, Beto O’Rourke, JB Pritzker
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. The Reconquista of Washington, D.C. begins. Mexico's president |
| 0:06.4 | has some thoughts about immigration, and J.D. Vance lays out what's at stake with redistricting |
| 0:11.8 | and a new census. Next on the AM update. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, the dominating piece of the news cycle yesterday was President Trump's invocation of the D.C. Home Rule Act to rein in violent crime in the nation's capital. |
| 0:31.3 | Capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States. I'm officially |
| 0:38.7 | invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? |
| 0:45.4 | And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be |
| 0:51.7 | meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. |
| 0:55.3 | President Trump was joined at his announcement ceremony by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, |
| 1:00.3 | Pam Bondi, Attorney General Cash Mattel of the FBI. |
| 1:03.9 | Here is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who also said there's going to be a pretty big deployment |
| 1:08.7 | of National Guard to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:11.2 | At your direction this morning, we've mobilized the D.C. National Guard. |
| 1:15.1 | It'll be operationalized by the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, through the D.C. Guard. |
| 1:19.7 | You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week. |
| 1:23.6 | At your direction as well, sir, there are other units we are prepared to bring in. |
| 1:27.5 | Other National Guard units, other specialized units, they will be strong, they will be tough, |
| 1:33.1 | and they will stand with their law enforcement partners. |
| 1:35.4 | This is nothing new for DOD, as the President noted, at the border. |
| 1:39.8 | We've got 10,000 troops down there who've been operating in defense cooperation areas, |
| 1:45.5 | defense zones, where there's zero, zero illegal crossings because of troops on strikers |
| 1:51.5 | scanning the border. |
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