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Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison.

And we are both very excited to welcome to the podcast today, Chris Myers-Eash, Chris

Teachers History at Colby College.

He's a DC native, and we've invited him to talk about what's been going on with Trump,

the police, the National Guard, and all of that really frightening stuff in Washington, D.C.

So Chris, thank you very much for joining us.

I appreciate the invitation.

So let's just start with an overall question.

What is going on in D.C., and you could take that in any way you would like.

Well, a lot's happened in the last week or so. Of course, the president has declared essentially a state of emergency in the city. He says that there are bloodthirsty criminals in his language,

bloodthirsty criminals and, you know, wild young people roving the streets

and that there's a crime epidemic.

And he's using this as the pretext for federalizing the city's police force

and sending troops in to the city to essentially go around

asking for papers and identification. And in his mind, he's cleaning up the streets, taking

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