President Trump's emergency declaration in Washington, D.C. that gave his administration

control of local police is set to expire tonight. That, along with his deployment of National

Guard troops to the city, has drawn sharp criticism for many Democrats who have called it

government overreach. But in New Mexico, a Democratic governor who deployed the National Guard

has seen violent crime fall in her state's largest city.

In April, Governor Michelle Luan Grisham ordered about 70 guard members to assist Albuquerque police with duties like securing crime scenes, patrolling transit, and traffic control.

And the governor joins us now. Welcome to the News Hour.

Thank you for having me.

I appreciate being on the show. So why did you decide to deploy the New Mexico National Guard

to Albuquerque to support the police department there? Well, a multitude of reasons, but the

biggest one is public safety is a concern of every governor in the country.

I want all of my residents and constituents to feel safe wherever they are, on the road,

at work, at home, at school, at church, all of it. And I've got a thousand fewer police officers in the city jurisdiction of Albuquerque

than New Mexico had a decade ago. There's a big difference between what I'm doing and what the

Trump administration is doing. I'm about cooperation and supporting community policing,

not occupation. I don't control the police. I'm not taking

over a jurisdiction or a city or a county. I'm trying to give them the resources that they need to do

the jobs that they were trained to do and then keep our communities safer. And on the ground, how is the guards' role in Albuquerque different from what we've seen resulting from the President's decision to deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and then prior to that, Los Angeles?

Well, first of all, there's no militarization of any of the policing.

So you don't see tanks, you don't see

men and women in riot gear, you don't see a giant troop, sort of just deployed in the

middle of a city. This is strategic, smart, and by and large, the National Guard is behind

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