Hello, everyone. I'm Dana Perino along with Kaylee McEnany, Jessica Tarlov, Jesse Waters, and Charlie Hurt.

It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is the five.

Why is it that a governor wouldn't accept free help from regardless?

I mean, whether it's National Guard or the military or anybody.

Then we have a governor get up and say, oh, it's safe.

We can handle it.

He can't handle it.

He's an incompetent guy.

That was President Trump today sounding off on his crime crackdown and calling out

Democrat leaders running some of America's biggest blue cities. It comes as a federal judge

blocks him from sending National Guard troops to stop the anti-ice violence exploding in Portland

and now Chicago and Illinois fighting for the same outcome. They've sued the administration over

its move to send troops into the windy city

where this weekend all hell broke loose.

Watch this.

Federal authorities opened fire on a woman who was allegedly armed with a gun

shortly after their vehicle rammed and blog calls to help federal agents who were

surrounded by an angry mob.

Chicago PD denies that. Were they told to

stand down? Our officers were not told to stand down. Our officers were out there throughout the

entire event. I would never tell our officers to stand down because if our officers were in trouble

and we needed help from other offices, I would

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