President Trump is threatening to send National Guard troops into other Democratic-led cities after ordering the Guard into Washington, D.C.

One of his main targets is Baltimore. The president has repeatedly described the city as crime-ridden and today suggested the Guard could, quote, clean it up.

Maryland's Democratic governor, Wes Moore, called the threats inappropriate, and he invited the president to visit Baltimore to see firsthand the progress.

The city and state leaders say they've made in driving down crime.

The president pushed back during a cabinet meeting this afternoon.

Wes Moore was telling me he wants, I want to walk with the president.

Well, I said, I want to walk with you too someday.

But first you've got to clean up your crime because I, I said, I want to walk with you too someday. But first,

you've got to clean up your crime because I'm not walking in Baltimore right now. Baltimore is a hellhole.

For more, we're joined now by the mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott. Mr. Mayor, thank you for being

with us. Thank you for having me. And I know you say you welcome support from federal law enforcement when it's coordinated,

but what's your response to what you heard there from President Trump and his threat to send National Guard troops into Baltimore?

How seriously are you taking that threat?

Well, we take it very seriously, but first and foremost, I just think that to have the president of the United States, the person is supposed to be a leader of the free world, one, talking about their own cities that way, but two, more importantly, not acknowledging that the city of Baltimore is safer today than it has been in my lifetime because of the leadership of myself and others here from our police department,

our state's attorney, our attorney general, our violence intervention workers who work

hard each and every day.

We're safer now than even in his first term.

It's just very disrespectful and it's unfortunate, but we still welcome that support, if

done the right way, because we work with our federal law

and fort and partners each and every day here in Baltimore. And I don't, I'm not, have never been

one for the political dog and pony show or the gotcha in the back and forth. That's never been

my style. My style is to focus on what matters the most to me, and that's continuing this historic

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