[Applause] So that's what violent crime in DC looks like. And Donald Trump sat in the White House watching that happen for hours and did nothing. Police officers were brutally beaten as America's tradition of a peaceful transfer of power was ended on that day, January 6.Trump supporters chanted to hang Trump's own vice president, Mike Pence. Yet today, in a very peaceful day in Washington that looked nothing like that, and amid a 30year crime low in the nation's capital, Donald Trump decided to claim that n ...

Joining us now, NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba, NBC senior national security correspondent Courtney Kubie and MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin. U Monica, I want to begin with you. Give me a little bit of background on where the president is getting these numbers and what led him to this.So, this is actually something the president has been talking about for months, Katie. He even signed an executive order back in the spring that was focused solely on DC. But then in the last week or so, ...

President Trump said he would deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and place the city’s police department under federal control, launching an unprecedented effort to take charge of the nation’s capital.Read more: https://t.co/PStFz6DRcf https://t.co/uXSZpHwclp ...