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Yasmin Vesugian
Hey, everybody, and welcome to here's the scoop of NBC News. I'm Yasmin Vesugian. Before we get started today, I want to acknowledge something. My voice is a little or a lot scratchy today. My son's seventh birthday was at a water park this weekend and you have to yell at a water park to make sure you don't lose any kids. We did lose one, but we found him a few minutes later, so it's all good. Thank you in advance for, for understanding. All right, we have a big show to get to today. We've got new details about a succession plan in North Korea, a roadblock in the DOJ's plan to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell's transcripts, and the end of an Internet era. Up first, though, our top story. President Trump is deploying the national guard to Washington, D.C. and placing the D.C. police under federal control. At a press conference this morning, he said the move was needed to crack down on violent crime.
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Donald Trump
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, Roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people. And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're not going to take it.
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Yasmin Vesugian
He also said he would bring in the military if necessary. But despite what we're hearing from the President, violent crime in Washington hit a 30 year low last year. That's according to the Metropolitan Police Department. So what is going on here? I want to bring in senior White House correspondent Garrett Hake to break it all down. Hey, Garrett.
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Garrett Hake
Hey, as, how's it going?
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Yasmin Vesugian
I'm good. All right, so the National Guard is headed to Washington right now. What exactly motivated this?
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Garrett Hake
Well, the most immediate motivation appears to have been this attack on a former Doge staffer who was beaten up out in D.C. late at night, I guess a little more than a week ago now, the administration said, while he was trying to defend someone else. But I think this is a much longer backstory than that. I mean, the President has had his complaints about D.C. and the idea that it was this crime ridden place going all the way back to his first term. And he's had kind of this broader concern about crime in cities going back to his pre political career. I mean, he talked about all this in New York. So I think this is kind of a final realization of a series of kind of long standing goals that brought the President to this point. And the laws in D.C. are unique in such a way that allow him to have this kind of control.
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Yasmin Vesugian
It's interesting, Garrett, because during the press conference, and we're used to this with the President, right, He cited a lot of data, a lot of kind of anecdotal evidence saying it illustrated the problem of crime in Washington, comparing it to Bogota, to Mexico City, to Baghdad. But in actuality, crime is fairly low in Washington D.C. right now, isn't it?
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Garrett Hake
Well, it's low in Comparison to Washington D.C. historically, violent crime is down in D.C. across the last two years. Just this year so far, it's down something like 26%. It's up from its historic low, but it is down from kind of the, the bad old days of Washington in the 80s and 90s where Washington was kind of a poster child for urban crime. The crack cocaine epidemic. The administration argues two things. They say that's not good enough for the nation's capital. And they say, pointing to kind of a recent local scandal here in D.C. that there is concern that the D.C. police officials are trying to cook the books arguing that D.C. police officials are recategoriz different types of crime so it doesn't count as violent crime and that the numbers can't be trusted. That is something that's being reported out in real time. But it does get you back to a position where if you don't trust the data, you're basically doing this on scary anecdote and bad vibes.
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Yasmin Vesugian
Right.
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Garrett Hake
And so they land somewhere in the middle.
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Yasmin Vesugian
So this emergency and the way in which he's declaring the deployment at the National Guard in Washington. And it's different than what we saw in Los Angeles, isn't it?
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Garrett Hake
It is different than California for this reason in D.C. because we are not a state, there's no governor. And so the mayor doesn't have the same authority over the National Guard that Gavin Newsom had in California.
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Yasmin Vesugian
Right.
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Garrett Hake
Part of what was so scandalous in California was the President going around the Governor to bring in the National Guard to take these steps in D.C. that almost has to be the case. The mayor can ask for the National Guard, but she does not command them in the same method that any other governor in 50 states would do that. Said the National Guard are not police. They're not trained that way. They don't necessarily have the power to detain somebody in a local jail. I think what you're probably going to see is the National Guard take over some kind of non arrest work of a police department. So the National Guard might be manning different intersections, they might be working on traffic control, they might be taking on some of this ancillary work so cops can do cop stuff. But D.C. has tons of law enforcement available already. We have more law enforcement here. You have the park police, the Secret Service police, you have the FBI, you have the State Department has its own police force. You have all these different agencies who are already here. So I don't think there's any credible law enforcement voice who would say what we need are untrained National Guardsmen making arrests in D.C. in bringing the Guard here gives, I guess, the best case I could make for it is, gives you more bodies to work with so the police can focus on doing police work.
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Yasmin Vesugian
President Trump wasn't the only one on the stage, Garrett. Notably, we had Pam Bondi as well standing directly behind him, who actually. Choice words.
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Raf Sanchez
Yeah.
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Garrett Hake
Pam Bondi had to me the soundbite that might become sort of a key part of the historical record here, which.
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Yasmin Vesugian
She said, let me be crystal clear. Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today.
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Garrett Hake
Yeah, there's the rule in politics. They call it the Pottery Barn rule. You break it, you buy it. She took ownership of crime in Washington D.C. for the Trump administration. The steps they're taking today are by definition temporary. But Pam Bonney just said we own this problem for the Donald Trump administration, which lasts another three and a half years. So I think how they handle this, not in the immediate future, but if the crime numbers start to tick back up a year or two from now, do they still take that ownership? Well, they better act on it because it will be used against them politically for sure. That the top law enforcement official of the United States just said today, this is now our problem to solve.
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Yasmin Vesugian
Garrett Hakefor us, my friend, thank you for bearing with my voice. I appreciate you.
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Garrett Hake
I didn't even notice anything.
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Yasmin Vesugian
Yeah, right. By the way, lawyers for the president and California Governor Gavin Newsom are set to face off today over the president's deployment of National Guard troops to California. It's a bench trial and it's going to determine whether President Trump acted unlawfully in sending those Guardsmen to quell protests over those immigration raids back in Los Angeles. We'll of course, be covering this on NBC news dot com. All right. Coming up, a mysterious succession plan seems to be shaping up in North Korea. That's next.
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Raf Sanchez
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Yasmin Vesugian
And we're back with here's the scoop from NBC News. There is a lot going on globally right now. We have the upcoming meeting scheduled between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine. Then you have the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to take control of Gaza City. But there is a world power that we have not been focused on as of late, and that is North Korea. According to experts in South Korea's intelligence agency, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's teenage daughter, Kim Ju Ae is likely the country's next leader. She's been popping up at a number of public events alongside her father. I want to bring in NBC News foreign correspondent Raf Sanchez to talk more about this. Hi, Rafael.
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Raf Sanchez
Hey, thanks for having me.
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Yasmin Vesugian
Kim Ju a 13 years of age, the only child of Kim Jong Uns that we've actually seen in public. What do we know about her?
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Raf Sanchez
Not a lot, which is pretty shocking given that the world's intelligence agencies focus so much time, so much attention on figuring out what is going on in North Korea. Here's what we do know. We think that she is about 13 years old. So born roughly 2012. And it feels ridiculous saying this the first time we heard about her was from Dennis Rodman. Do you remember? He went to North Korea back in 2013. He hung out with Kim Jong Un. And when he came out, he made this passing reference to holding a baby. And that was the first time we heard that Kim Jong Un and his wife had this child. And then it is basically another nine years before we learn anything else. We see her for the very first time in November of 2022. We see her at the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that has the range to hit the United States. This is kind of like one of the crown jewels in North Korea's missile arsenal. And then over the last six months or so, we are seeing her all the time, again and again and again. The odds are pretty good, if you see Kim Jong Un on North Korean state tv, that he will have his daughter at his side. What's interesting, Yasmine. So she's now 13. Roughly. She is being dressed and her hair and her makeup is being done in a way that makes her look a lot older. And analysts will tell you that is kind of a deliberate effort by the North Koreans to show that, you know, this is not a child. This is a young woman who is now in training, learning from her father potentially to take the reins of state at some point.
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Yasmin Vesugian
So, Raf, do we know if she is the oldest of his children? Because I know that intelligence services suggests that he has three kids.
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Raf Sanchez
We do think he has three kids. And it seems possible that she actually may not be the eldest. There is some reason to believe that he may have an elder son. And if he does, that raises the kind of really intriguing question, why would that oldest son not be the heir apparent? Stressing that we just. There's so much we don't know about the Kim family. But when you ask analysts, they give you a couple of possibilities. One is it may just be that this young girl, 13 years old, has somehow managed to already exhibit the traits that the North Korean leadership thinks a future leader should have. So maybe this 13 year old is just showing that ruthlessness, that steeliness to run the country. And another possibility is it may be that Kim feels that she is not a threat to him.
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Yasmin Vesugian
Oh, interesting.
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Raf Sanchez
She's young, she's a woman. She's unlikely to be able to kind of develop her own power base inside of the North Korean regime. And so it may be that he wants to demonstrate to the country and to the world that a successor is lined up, but he doesn't want that successor to kind of outshine him, if you will.
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Yasmin Vesugian
We had somewhat of a similar conversation when we saw Kim Jong Un's sister make a lot of public appearances. Is there anything to the fact that as his sister has kind of rose in the ranks, it may be an indication as to why he has chosen his daughter, it seems, as a successor.
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Raf Sanchez
Well, at minimum, the high profile of his sister, her name is Kim Yo Jong, shows that you can have women in senior positions inside of the North Korean regime. There has never been a female leader of North Korea. But Kim Yo Jong, his sister is very, very prominent. She often goes on North Korean state TV and she delivers the kind of hardest line screeds against the United States, against South Kore. So again, the fact that there is at least one woman in a prominent position makes you think, well, why couldn't there be a female leader one day?
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Yasmin Vesugian
Raf Sanchez is always my friend. It is a pleasure. Thank you.
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Raf Sanchez
Thank you.
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Yasmin Vesugian
All right, let's get to some headlines. Al Jazeera says five of its journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday, calling the killings a, quote, targeted assassination. The Israel Defense Forces, meanwhile, say one of the men killed, Anas Al Sharif, was a Hamas leader posing as a journalist. But Al Sharif and Al Jazeera have previously denied accusations that he was a terrorist. The Committee to Protect Journalists said Israel has a longstanding practice of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing credible evidence. A federal judge just shut down the DOJ's push to unseal grand jury records in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. Judge Paul Engelmeier said the government could not show the extraordinary circumstances it would take to open up that secrecy, especially since most of the details already came out. In her 2021 trial. The DOJ argued it might help quiet the conspiracy chatter. Maxwell is still appealing her sex trafficking conviction. A massive wildfire, the sixth largest in Colorado history, has forced the evacuation of a prison. 179 people at Rifle Correctional center were safely moved as the Leaf fire charred more than 167 square miles. Over a thousand firefighters are on it. Air quality alerts are up and folks in remote areas are being told to be ready to go as gusty winds keep feeding the flames. Hesley Rivera, the youngest US Olympian from Paris, is on fire right now. She just nabbed the national all around crown of the 2025 Xfinity Championships, becoming the first woman since Jordan Weber to sweep both junior and senior titles. She crushed beam and floor and now she's cartwheeling straight into worlds in Jakarta with LA 2028 in her sights. And then over in baseball, you got history. Turning a fresh page, Jen Powell became the first woman ever to ump a major league regular season game, debuting at first base on Saturday, then sliding behind the plate Sunday for Braves Marlins, calling balls and strikes like a pro. Players and managers were all about her calm, cool presence. She even donated the cap that she wore Saturday in Atlanta to the National Baseball hall of Fame. We took the field and it seemed like quite a few people had started clapping and saying my name and stuff. So that was pretty intense and very, very emotional. This wasn't just a milestone, it was a mic drop, powerful, electric, and just the opening act. I turn on my computer, I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words, you got Mail. You may be wondering why you just heard Meg Ryan from the movie you've Got Mail. Well, aol, the OG you've got Mail legend is finally pulling the plug on dial up on September 30th. Yeah, it was still going somewhere. People were still logging on slower than a snail after a double espresso. Perhaps most popular in the 90s, it's outlived blockbuster flip phones and most of our patients. AOL says it's retiring dial up and relics like the AOL dialer and AOL Shield browser because they're built for computers that belong in a museum. For some in rural America, it was a lifeline. For others, a screechy, comforting time machine. The rest of AOL's perks are going to stick around just without the modem's signature squawk. And by the way, speaking of squawking, it is time for me to retire this voice for the day that's going to do it for all of us. That here's the scoop from NBC News. I'm Yasmin Vesugin. We'll be back here tomorrow with whatever the day may bring and hopefully a better voice. See you then. Foreign.
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Donald Trump
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