Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. I'm in my recording studio. Nick is in his recording studio. The boys, I'm glad to tell you, are officially back in town. Yes, we sound optimal, I think, and we are going to say optimal things today. I think that's a high bar that we need to clear it out.

Okay.

Whether or not we're saying optimal things, I mean, that's a different conversation.

But I'm glad to hear you and not be in a car and not be like in the middle of nowhere

trying somehow to make things work.

That's a relief.

Yeah. Much more preferable to do it this way. All right, everybody. So a reminder, go over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. Support the show. Keep us editorially independent. It is incredibly important at this time. Also gain full access to the weekender episode on Fridays. I know you're listening to the previews. We see the numbers. We see it. You want this show. Head over to patreon.com slash Moncrank podcast. Nick, what do we have to talk about today? I assume nothing's going on in the world. I assume that everything is in great standing. We feel good about it. There are no power grabs, no weirdness, nothing. Great. Cue the music. You know, stay safe, everybody. We're done. All right, that's the show. Well, first, we have to

talk about, I can't, you know, it's each new iteration of this bullshit, Nick. It's, it's,

again, shocking, but also not surprising. It's been building now for a while.

The right wing has been talking about Washington, D.C. and about the need to federalize it. There was a

recent incident, again, can't believe we talk about this, in which big balls of Doge infamy apparently got into a little bit of a scuffle.

Since then, there's been a call to federalized Washington, D.C., which Donald Trump, as president, is now doing, taking over the D.C. police force, bringing in the National Guard, federal troops, you name it.

There's a lot more to talk about it, but here is the president of the United States.

Yeah, announcing it and making it official.

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 under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States.

I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule

Act. You know what that is? And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct

federal control, and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.

Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening.

They've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish

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