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Laura Coates Live

DC Mayor: Trump’s Takeover Is A Message To Other Cities

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Trump announced that he is placing the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and is deploying the National Guard to deal with crime in the city.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, we were all wondering what the day after Trump's decision to deploy the military

0:38.1

to Washington, D.C. What that would look like? Well, you know what, let me paint you a picture.

0:42.6

Members of the National Guard deployed here in D.C. with armored vehicles actually lining the streets.

0:48.4

I'm coming you see every day. You don't see this either. Joggers just trotting along running by guard members with the

0:56.8

national monument in the background. Or this, people actually posing for pictures with National Guard

1:04.0

soldiers. As our Brian Todd saw during his reporting this evening, of course, it was quite a moment.

1:12.4

That's not really the reality, though, that we've used to see.

1:14.9

It's now the reality we do see in the nation's capital after President Trump announced

1:18.9

his crime crackdown and took over the city's police.

1:22.2

Talking about 800 guard troops, they've been activated.

1:25.4

Hundreds of federal agents like the FBI are also helping police

1:28.6

on patrol. The White House says it's been effective so far. Nearly two dozen people have been

1:34.8

arrested on charges from homicide to driving under the influence to even fair evasion. Not

1:41.7

what you see with the National Guard of the FBI, right? But it's

1:45.3

happening. And the mayor of D.C., Merrill Bowser, she is warning that Trump could use this

1:50.8

DC takeover as a kind of blueprint for other cities. He wants to send the message to cities

1:59.9

that if he can get away with this in Los Angeles that if he can get away with this in Los Angeles,

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