This morning, Trump said he would be placing the DC Police Department under federal control and deploying at least 800 National Guard troops to the district, citing what he says is outofcontrol crime with an emphasis on juvenile crime. Take a listen to how Trump falsely described the nation's capital, where more than 700,000 everyday Americans live and work. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedum, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in DC, and ...

All right, that's Mayor Muriel Bowser. She's uh said that she wasn't um entirely surprised by this move from President Donald Trump. She believes that the president's view of DC was shaped by his COVID area era experience uh in the city and and that was when crime was spiking.But as we have noted, crime has been on the decline. Joining us now, MSNBC justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Delaneian, staff writer for the Atlantic, Michael Sharer, author of the Red Letter on Substack, Tara Palm Mary, and r ...