The President's Crime Crackdown

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

President Trump is vowing to make the nation's capital great ... and safe again, working to federalize Washington, D.C., police, and bringing in the National Guard to fight violent crime. On Monday, the President declared a public safety emergency for the city, despite pushback from local officials like D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, who says the administration's actions are unprecedented, unlawful, and unnecessary. While critics of the President's plan argue crime is down in D.C., former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker says increased law enforcement has worked before. Swecker joins the Rundown to discuss the President's announcement and weigh in on the state of Washington, D.C. Last week, the Department of Labor posted on X, "Make trade schools great again," along with a screenshot of an article about billions of dollars now available for trade schools due to recent changes to 529 college savings plans. The so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill" expanded how much one can spend on this type of education. It is one of the President's goals to reroute grant funding to trade schools. Dr. Jason Altmire, former Pennsylvania Congressman and current President and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, joins the podcast to discuss the growing interest in trade schools across the U.S. and whether artificial intelligence will eradicate some of these jobs. Plus, commentary from co-host of the Ruthless Podcast, Comfortably Smug. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Shannon Bream. I'm Tom Shaloo. I'm Maria Barturomo, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.0	Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. I'm Dave Anthony. He says he'll make the nation's capital great again.
0:18.4	President Trump is federalizing Washington, D.C. police and bringing in the National Guard
0:23.8	and federal agents to fight violent crime. When we put security guards outside bank branches,
0:29.8	we reduce our bank robberies by over 50%. Visible deterrence, visible presence of law
0:36.9	enforcement and security will reduce crime.
0:40.3	I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Make trade school great again. That's a stated goal of the Trump administration.
0:47.3	And as entry-level jobs post-college are more difficult to attain, those trade schools are seeing an increase in interest and enrollment.
0:55.5	There's a lot of things that are going to happen in the future that are very important to America,
0:59.9	and we do not have the workforce right now to be able to build the infrastructure that's necessary to carry out that work.
1:07.5	And I'm comfortably smug.
1:09.2	I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:15.9	He's calling it a liberation for Washington, D.C. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's
1:25.1	capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor.
1:28.4	President Trump is putting Metro D.C. police under federal control.
1:32.6	In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order of public safety.
1:38.3	There will also be more federal agents brought in from the FBI to immigration enforcement and more,
1:46.6	declaring a public safety emergency for D.C. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings
1:53.7	has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever. But the president is facing pushback.
2:03.7	Free D.C. We shall not be moved.
2:09.1	Those were protesters marching in Washington demonstrating against the Trump federal police takeover.
2:14.7	Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwall posted on X. It's unprecedented,
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