Just like you said, and I've seen it myself, it still surprises me.

And it catches my attention every single time at 3 o'clock in the morning when I see a young couple just walking through the park in the middle of the night.

It just, that doesn't happen here because you're going to get mugged, shot, or robbed, and it's going to take the police on average 20 minutes to show up if they even bother showing up. Hello everyone, Tate Brown here holding it down for Tim Poole. We have an interview here with Nick Sorder. He's going to discuss the National Guard deployment in DC and break down what he's seeing on the ground. It's a great interview. Here you go. So let's see here. Nick, can you hear me? I can hear you loud and clear. How are we doing today? Well, do you want to tell the people who you are and what you do? I'm sure everyone knows, but for the one or two people that don't know. Well, my name is Nick Sorter. I'm an independent journalist here in Washington, D.C. And honestly, I've never been prouder to say that I live in Washington, D.C., so this is new for me. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, we're seeing, I read your, uh, your clip of Trump earlier where the reporter was trying to browbeat him and he was saying, no, this is actually popular. People, people like this. People want to see our city safe. I mean, what are you seeing on the ground when you're talking to DC residents? I mean, what's kind of the atmosphere right now?

Look, I mean, what are you seeing on the ground when you're talking to D.C. residents? I mean, what's kind of the atmosphere right now?

Look, I mean, you're seeing the local media outlets are attempting to spin this as some sort

of draconian takeover of, you know, in martial law in the streets.

And that's not at all what's going on here.

I mean, the, the mainstream media, the local stations are all just trying to terrify everybody

because, you know, they profit in sewing division, really.

And none of that, none of what they're saying is actually happening.

Nobody is getting beaten by National

Guard in the street, although I'd argue that some people here deserve to be beat by National

Guard in the street. Maybe they'll shape up a little bit. But, you know, what they're actually doing

is their National Guard is stepping in to deter and the federal agents are here to assist police officers in fighting everyday crime

because that's been a huge issue here for years you know dc police on their own because of the

woke mayor and the uh the chief of police who was previously the chief of DEI at the department

that didn't know what chain of command meant when

she was doing a press conference the other day. You know, they weren't allowing cops to be cops. So Trump took them over and put a, there's a massive infusion of new cops on the ground here. And it's a totally different city. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I've been in D.C. this last week. and you see it, like, especially in the Capitol Mall,

like you just see the Humvees just parked up on the,

on the grass.

And it's like, typically that's a, you know, ominous sign. It's actually kind of liberating and freeing because DC is so, it felt so unstable and hostile previously. And the funny thing is the press is saying, this is going to scare away tourists. This is going to, you know to freak everyone out. And the people that are taking pictures of the Humvees are like clearly tourists. Like they're from abroad. So clearly the tourists don't care. And yeah, and the locals, I mean, there does seem to be a bit of relief. You're seeing more people like jogging at night and these sorts of things, which in a first world country should be a standard. Right. I mean, have you heard much from the police themselves? I mean, what their thoughts are? Absolutely. Yes. I've been around pretty much every single night, like last night, I was out until like 3 o'clock in the morning, you know, and I've been just kind of shadowing them to see

what they've been doing, how they've been operating, and I've gotten to know a lot of them,

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