August 12, 2025: Trump sends in the troops

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

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Summary

Residents of Washington are waking up this morning to a city that looks a little different. At a press conference yesterday morning, President Donald Trump announced he would effectively take over the Washington’s police department for 30 days and deploy the National Guard to patrol the city. What happens next? How are Democrats responding? And what is the conversation Trump is trying to bait them into? Playbook’s Adam Wren and Dasha Burns break it all down.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Adam Redd.
0:07.0	And I'm Dasha Burns.
0:08.2	It is Tuesday, August 12th.
0:10.1	And this is the Playbook podcast.
0:12.2	Good morning, Dasha.
0:13.1	Welcome back.
0:13.7	So good to have you here.
0:14.7	Good morning.
0:15.9	Nice to be back, although it was great to be fully off grade and completely unreachable to all of you for a hot minute.
0:22.5	But I missed everyone.
0:23.4	I'm glad to be back.
0:24.2	Well, we missed you and we're glad to have you back as well.
0:27.2	But let's get right to what's driving the day.
0:29.3	The big story, again, is in Washington and the fallout from President Donald Trump's decision to have the federal government take an
0:38.4	aggressive role in policing Washington, D.C. Yesterday, we told you about the sort of escalating
0:44.8	series of options at President Trump's disposal if you wanted to take up the pressure on the city.
0:50.4	Well, at his press conference yesterday morning, he outlined exactly what he intended to do.
0:55.7	He is effectively taking over the city's police department for 30 days and is deploying the National Guard about 800 troops in total to Washington.
1:05.6	Dasha, you were in the room.
1:07.4	Yeah, a very packed, very hot, kind of smelly briefing room, to be honest,
1:11.6	it was really crazy. What was the mood like from the president? Was he determined? I mean,
1:17.2	how would you describe it? He was seizing the moment. I mean, he was very excited about how full
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