DC Mayor: Trump’s Takeover Is A Message To Other Cities
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we were all wondering what the day after Trump's decision to deploy the military to Washington, D.C., what that would look like? |
| 0:10.0 | Well, you know what, let me paint you a picture. Members of the National Guard deployed here in D.C. with armored vehicles actually lining the streets. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm not going to you see every day. |
| 0:21.9 | You don't see this either. |
| 0:26.3 | Joggers just trotting along, running by guard members with the national monument in the background. |
| 0:29.5 | Or this, people actually posing for pictures |
| 0:32.5 | with National Guard soldiers. |
| 0:34.4 | As our Brian Todd saw during his reporting, this evening, of course, |
| 0:39.0 | it was quite a moment. It's not really the reality, though, that we've used to see. It's now |
| 0:45.2 | the reality we do see in the nation's capital after President Trump announced his crime |
| 0:49.5 | crackdown and took over the city's police. Talking about 800 guard troops, they've been |
| 0:54.1 | activated. Hundreds of federal agents like the FBI are city's police. Talking about 800 guard troops, they've been activated. |
| 0:55.4 | Hundreds of federal agents like the FBI |
| 0:57.2 | are also helping police on patrol. |
| 0:59.9 | The White House says it's been effective so far. |
| 1:02.8 | Nearly two dozen people have been arrested |
| 1:05.5 | on charges from homicide to driving under the influence |
| 1:09.1 | to even fair evasion. Not knowing what you see with the |
| 1:12.7 | National Guard of the FBI, right? But it's happening. And the mayor of D.C., Merrill Bowser, |
| 1:18.2 | she is warning that Trump could use this D.C. takeover as a kind of blueprint for other cities. |
| 1:26.3 | He wants to send the message to cities that if he can get away with this in Los Angeles, |
| 1:33.1 | if he can get away with this in D.C., he can get away with it in New York or Baltimore or Chicago |
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