From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed,

bedlam and squalor and worse.

This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back.

We're taking it back.

In an extraordinary move, President Trump's ordered a federal

takeover of the D.C. Police Department and the deployment of 800 National Guard to the nation's

capital. Trump declared an emergency in D.C. even though violent crime in the city, is at a 30-year low.

Critics have described the move as a raw authoritarian power grab.

We'll speak with the head of the ACLU of D.C. and Princeton professor Khalil Gibran

Muhammad, a leading scholar on the history of policing in America.

Then from deploying troops at home to deploying them abroad.

President Trump secretly signed a directive approving the use of military force on foreign soil to target Latin American drug cartels.

We'll speak with Arizona State Professor Alexander Avina.

If there's one thing we know about the war on drugs,

is that this is not a war on drugs.

This is actually a war on poor people.

Then to Geneva to speak with the UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan on Israel's assassination of six Palestinian journalists in Gaza, including five from Al Jazeera.

All that and more coming out.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

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