not marry what is in the law, the DC Home Rule Act, and it does not merit what's in his own executive order.

He is trying to take the rhetoric further.

He's trying to bully the District of Columbia and their police department into submitting to him.

Because if he can do it on this, just like on immigration, right?

If he can do it on this, he can replicate this in many other cities.

What do you think, Lisa Rubin?

I think this is a particularly pernicious situation in a couple of ways.

Let's start with the fact that, as you noted, this is a president who's governing almost by anecdote

rather than by empirical data, right?

We know that he's not just using juvenile crime as a pretext.

He's using a particular incident of juvenile crime involving a former Doge staffer who was

involved in a carjacking in a particularly violent way.

But that seems to be what has led the president into this moment a single incident of juvenile

crime rather than a pattern of it.

Because as we know as congresswoman

eleanor holmes norton a 34 year veteran of congress said today crime is on an all time low in

dc or at least a 30 year low that can't be refuted by this white house instead what they want to say

is dc has one of the highest crime rates

in the country. Well, that is perhaps true. There are 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

Somebody's going to be at the top of the list. President Trump has nominated E.J. and Tony to be

the new commissioner for the agency, which is in charge of reporting out all sorts of important

government data from jobs numbers to inflation numbers.

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