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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump Announces Federal Takeover Of DC Police, Deploying National Guard

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Citing a crime emergency, President Trump says he's taking over the DC police, sending in the National Guard and is ready to do the same in other big cities. Overall crime numbers in DC are lower this year than in 2024. Plus, one of the most well-known Palestinian journalists, Anas Al-Sharif, is dead after being targeted in an Israeli strike. Four of his colleagues were also killed.  Clarissa Ward has details on the attack and the widespread condemnation that Israel is now facing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, citing a crime emergency, the president says he's taking over the D.C.

0:06.4

police, sending in the National Guard and is ready to do the same in other big cities.

0:11.2

Also, tonight a judge says no to releasing Jeffrey Epstein's grand jury testimony, leaving

0:16.2

the administration one less way to answer demands by Democrats and Republicans for transparency.

0:21.6

And later, a striking new report on just how much money the President is profiting financially

0:25.6

from the Presidency. The numbers are astounding.

0:29.6

Good evening, short of natural disasters and insurrections, it isn't every day that the President

0:33.6

United States takes over a big city police force, orders in the National Guard, says active-duty troops could follow and suggest that he might do the same in the United States takes over a big city police force, orders in the National Guard, says active

0:38.5

duty troops could follow, and suggest that he might do the same in other big cities across

0:42.7

the country.

0:43.7

Yet today, this president did all of the above.

0:46.3

And whatever you hear tonight about the legality of it or the necessity for it or lack thereof,

0:51.5

the sheer fact of what he did today is pretty remarkable.

0:54.8

Flanked by his defense secretary, attorney general, and FBI director,

0:58.3

he announced he was taking federal control of the Washington, D.C. Police Department

1:01.8

and deploying 800 National Guard troops to crack down what he described as crime, bloodshed,

1:07.5

bedlam, and squalor, and worse.

1:11.4

Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate.

1:15.5

Probably ever, they say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just

1:19.6

goes back 25 years.

1:21.2

Can't be worse.

1:22.7

Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild

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