So, the National Guard headed to Washington right now. The president announcing earlier today, what exactly motivated this move? The most immediate motivation appears to have been this attack on a former Doge staffer who was beaten up, but I think this is a much longer backstory than that. I mean, the president has had his complaints about DC and the idea that it was this crimeridden place going all the way back to his first term. and he's had kind of this broader concern about crime in cities. But this eme ...

Joining me now is NBC News senior national security correspondent Courtney Kubie who is at the Pentagon. Uh so Courtney, we heard President Trump say that Zillinsky is not going to be a part of these talks. How significant of a blow is that for Ukraine and European nations.>> It's a huge deal, Ryan. I mean, the notion that President Zalinski would agree to any kind of a potential outcome out of the meetings in Alaska seems pretty far-fetched. Imagine that would mean President Trump and Vladimir Putin would ...

If it's Monday, a crackdown on crime or a crackdown on the capital. President Trump orders his attorney general to take command of Washington DC's police force as he deploys hundreds of National Guard troops to patrol the district. Plus, President Trump sets expectations for his face-to-face meeting with Russian President Putin in Alaska, saying land swapping will be a key part of a peace deal, despite push back from Ukrain Ukrainian President Zalinsky, who won't even be in an attendance. And a federal judg ...

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This is Liberation Day in DC and we're going to take our capital back. Can DC actually do anything to stop President Trump from federalizing police and deploying the National Guard. I'm officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.Well, under the Home Rule Act, which gives DC residents the right to elect their own mayor, a president can determine special conditions that require federal use of DC police. So, in other words, a president can decide to take control of those law enfo ...

Let's get to some other breaking news right now. This time out of Texas where we have learned in literally the last maybe three minutes that three people are now dead, shot and killed at the parking lot of this Target store in Austin. Officials have just wrapped up an update and that is what we've learned.We initially thought two people had been killed. That number is now three. We're learning a bit more about the suspect as well, um, who I believe is now in custody.Erin Gilchrist will check me on that as h ...

Joining me now is Washington DC Council Member Robert White. And Council Member White, the president today described Washington DC as what he said, ridden with quote crime, bloodshed, bedum, and squalor. How would you respond to this description the president has of the capital city.>> I think we have to be rooted in fact, Ryan. The the fact is uh crime is at its lowest point in 30 years, violent crime specifically. Um, and so unfortunately DC is once again used as a political pawn uh for other measures.Tha ...

We are also learning new details about Friday's deadly shooting near the CDC headquarters in Atlanta. A neighbor telling NBC News that the suspect, 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, expressed antivaccine sentiments. Investigators say that White opened fire inside a nearby pharmacy with multiple bullets striking that CDC complex.A responding officer was killed and the gunman died there at the scene. Now, some former CDC employees are blaming dangerous rhetoric coming out of DC for this attack. NBC News corre ...

limited home rule uh gives the federal government uh the ability to intrude on our autonomy in many ways. And while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the past that were totally surprised. I can say to DC residents that we will continue to operate our government in a way that makes you proud. ...

If you don't live in DC, you would think that damn, DC is like, like he said, giving Baghdad or something, but it's not. It's not at all. Yes, we have issues like any other inner city.Trump does not care about DC safety. He cares about control. And what we know from history is that authoritarians always want to control the capital and the people in the capital city.It's because it's the fastest way to silence disscent and to accelerate their agenda. Black people are more likely to be stopped, searched, ques ...