Today on the Playbook podcast, President Trump's takeover of D.C. expires. So where's next? The president

will be reacting to Israel's shock strike on Qatar, and we're going to be talking all things

Mahar after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s big report on health in America.

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday, September 10th.

And this is the Playbook podcast. It's good to see you, Dasha. How are you doing?

Good to see you, too, my friend. Happy Hump Day, everybody.

It is Wednesday, the 10th of September. That means

it is 30 days. It feels like about 30 years. Politics years, like dog years. 30 days since Donald

Trump announced his crime emergency in Washington that he was taking control of the local police force.

He obviously flooded the city with troops and with federal agents,

but those 30 days expire today, which means that officially his federal takeover, at least of the

police force, is over. Dashua, if you live in D.C. like we do, this has been one of the most

visual hallmarks of the Trump presidency so far, hasn't it? That's absolutely right. And that is in

many ways the point of it, right, is to create those visuals.

One White House official told me that these images and the images of some of the Democratic

resistance to these efforts are a big factor, are something that they are looking to use

in campaign ads in the midterms.

So this is absolutely both a practical

thing that we are witnessing and a political strategy that is playing out. So the idea is we'll

see videos of President Trump striding around, calling in the military, clamping down on crime,

and then Democrats saying, no, no, don't clamp down on crime, please, Mr. President, and looking weak.

That's right. And in fact, one thing to note, according to one senior White House official,

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