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Today we're catching you up on what's going on in the nation's capital.

And we mean it literally.

What in the holy heck is going on in Washington, D.C.? Donald Trump said,

The local government of the District of Columbia

has lost control of public order and safety in the city,

citing the case of two Israeli embassy staffers murdered in May,

a congressional staffer who was shot and killed,

and a Trump administration staffer who was recently beaten.

He said that he directed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth to mobilize the District of Columbia

National Guard and order members to active service in such numbers as he deems necessary

to address the epidemic of crime in our nation's capital.

Furthermore, Trump said he directed Hegeseth to coordinate with state governors

and authorize the orders of any additional members of the National Guard to active service

as he deems necessary and appropriate to augment this mission.

Fox News Radio's Ryan Smeleltz joins Mark Cox at KFTK to talk about what's going on in D.C.

Mayor Muriel Bowser does not like what's going on in Washington, D.C.

She does not want the federal government to come in and clean up

the mess that she was incapable or unwilling to clean up over the past couple of years.

And here's my point about this. And I think what's going on in D.C. is the exact same thing that's gone on in St. Louis.

They are manipulating the crime numbers, in my opinion, to make them seem lower than they are.

And the excuse has been, well, the way we count crime doesn't directly line up with the FBI uniform crime

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