National Guard members report for duty in DC under President Trump’s orders
NBC News·2025-08-13 01:30
Tonight, hundreds of National Guard troops reporting for duty, awaiting deployment around the nation's capital, acting on President Trump's orders after he declared a crime emergency, activating 800 Guard members and instituting a 30-day federal takeover of DC police despite police statistics that show violent crime is declining here. We've been watching members of the DC National Guard trickle in one by one all day here at the DC Armory. Soon, as many as 200 at any time will be in neighborhoods like this, ...