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Donald Trump
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good Tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And there is only one big story today. Donald Trump putting the D.C. police Department under federal control, deploying the National Guard, and getting every federal resource involved to make America's capital safe again. Could this be a blueprint for success around the country? And why is the president doing it right now? Plus, why are Democrats losing their minds over this, calling the president a dictator and a tyrant for trying to keep Americans safe? We're going to talk about all of that on today's show. But first, let me tell you about Crockett Coffee. If you drink coffee like I do, I drink it every day. I want a great cup of coffee. Well, my good friends Clay Travis and Bucks Sexton decided to start a company that only did small batch premium coffee. 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He also said he was going to crack down on drugs, cartels, naming them terrorist organizations, and stopping the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border. The president is making good on all of those promises, and now there's a new one, and it's making liberals lose their mind. The President invokes section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule act, allowing him to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard under declaration of a public safety emergency. Democrats, of course, are angry that the President, United States of America, may actually save lives, get drugs off the streets, and restore law and order to our nation's capital. So what are they doing? They're saying this is what a dictator and a tyrant would do. Yes. Democrats are so unhinged. Now they're claiming that as the president's trying to save lives, that he's somehow a dictator. Now this. The scale of the deployment will be up to 800 National Guard troops and around 500 federal law enforcement personnel, including over 100 FBI agents, plus members from the DEA, the ATF, ICE and U.S. marshals. They're all being deployed to patrol the streets in Washington, D.C. trump's justification, very simple. He described the city as descending into chaos, using words like bloodshed to frame the intervention as a liberation day. He warned similar federal actions could extend to other big cities, such as New York and Los Angeles. Now, what does the crime data show? It actually shows, thank goodness, that violent crime across the country is coming down. Why? Because the president's backing law enforcement and allowing them to do their job. And we're also witnessing ICE agents taking hardened criminals off the streets that are in the country illegally. This is exactly why the president is having such success. Now, local responses are obviously different depending on if you're a Democrat or a Republican. Mayor Bowser condemned the move as unsettling in D.C. and unprecedented, asserting the city doesn't meet legal criteria. She Claims for a federal emergency. Yes. She cares more about playing politics than saving lives. She pushed instead for more judicial resources and staffing. Again, bureaucracy over policing. D.C. s Attorney General is exploring legal options. They're saying as and the D.C. city Council members called the move an intrusion on local authority, quote, unquote. This is all politics for them instead of actually protecting Americans. I want you to hear what the President had to say as he announced this to the White House in his own words.
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Donald Trump
Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is, and placing the D.C. metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law, order and public safety in Washington, D.C. and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
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Ben Ferguson
They're going to be allowed to do their job properly. That is the core point of what President Trump has been saying over and over again when it comes to law enforcement, let law enforcement officers do their jobs the right way. Now, how do we get to this point? Well, the President also talked about the radicals in D.C. for example, having no cash bail. And it's putting people's lives at risk.
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Donald Trump
This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left City Council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York. And they don't change it. They don't want to change it. That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it. But that was the one thing that central no cash bail. Somebody murders somebody and they're out on no cash bail before the day is out. Now we're going to end that in Chicago. We're going to change the statute. I spoke with Pam and Todd and everybody. We're going to change the statute. And I'm going to have to get the Republicans to vote because the Democrats are weak on crime.
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Ben Ferguson
Totally weak on crime, totally weak on crime. The stats say he's absolutely accurate. And the President, United States of America, saying this is our moment to shine, to take back our nation's capital. And we're not going to allow Democrats to hold us hostage any longer. AG Bondi also saying this about what's happen in D.C. let me be crystal clear.
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AG Bondi
Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today. We are going to use every power we have to fight criminals here. President, thank you for caring about our Capitol. Families come here every summer. Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo. We have the National Gallery. D.C. should be a place where everyone can come and feel safe.
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Ben Ferguson
It's all about safety. That is the president's number one priority for all Americans. And yet Democrats are doing everything they can to try to stop the president from accomplishing this goal. Donald Trump also saying this as well, about what's happening in D.C. becoming a.
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Donald Trump
Situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we get rid of the slums, too. We have slums here. We're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct, but you'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of the slums where they live.
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Ben Ferguson
We're getting rid of the slums. Now, you listen also to something else on this Liberation Day, and that is again, the president saying we're taking our Capitol back. The man who's in charge of the Department of Defense, Pete Hed Seth, went on Laura Ingram show and this is what he had to say about what the president ordered him to do.
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Pete Hegseth
This Capitol belongs to all Americans. And starting now, we're taking it back. And that's the angle. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was given the tall order of handling this, and he's here with me exclusively. Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us tonight. So the president called this a public safety emergency. And you said we're going to start seeing the National Guard this week.
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Laura Ingraham
Tell us more this week and in coming weeks. And we're going to work right alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers. This is what the American people voted for, Laura. This is what the common sense, clarity, strength. I hadn't heard that story from President Trump before, the story he told about his father that he told them, hey, son, if you look at the front door of a restaurant and it's dirty, then I bet the kitchen, you can count on the fact that the kitchen is too. I sat there thinking, that's exactly right. If our capital city is a mess, if we can't control our capital city, then what does the rest of the country look like? And what signals does the rest of the country take from that? So just like we did in Los Angeles, alongside our federal law, we took a lot of criticism for 4,000 troops, 700 Marines, you know what we didn't get? There was no summer of love in 2020. There was. In 2025, there was a summer of law enforcement. And we quelled the protests of the attacks on ICE officers. We're going to help get DC under control by working with local officials who have been federalized, with federal officials who are coming in. The D.C. guard's proud to be a part of it. Other states will contribute this week going into the weeks to come. Whatever's needed, the DoD will provide to make sure this is a safe city for those who live here, for those that work here, and the Americans who want to come visit here and love our capital city.
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Pete Hegseth
The question of martial law keeps getting raised by the left that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. They want to impose martial law as authoritarians would. To that you say.
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Laura Ingraham
To that I say, look at Los Angeles. They said the exact same thing. Oh, look, oh, look, 4,000 troops, California National Guard. Oh, look, the Marines. You can't put in the Marines. They were the troops available to ensure that we de. Escalated the situation and didn't allow other lawbreakers to say, look, it's wide open. We can do whatever we want in these sanctuary cities. I was told, oh, you're going to lock up political opponents, you're going to go after Democrats, yada, yada. It's the same stuff every time, mischaracterizing our intentions. The intentions of this president is to establish law and order using legal and lawful and constitutional means, which he completely has. And you know what? You know why they don't like him? He's got the guts to do it. He's got the guts to say, I'm going to federalize the police. That don't work. I'm going to bring in the National Guard, I'm going to bring in federal marshals, I'm gonna bring in the park police.
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Pete Hegseth
How long will it.
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Laura Ingraham
How are we gonna control the. Who knows? What is the.
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Pete Hegseth
Well, it costs money, right? Sure, it costs money. And the question is, are you there for a year, are you there for six months? And when the troops pull out, what happens?
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Laura Ingraham
I would call this conditions based. I would say it's a situation where we're here to support law enforcement, and the more we can free them up to do their job, the more effective they can be, the more we can work. I mean, this isn't my realm, but the justice system, to make sure people who are arrested are actually locked up. That's why the president's talking about cashless bail in sanctuary cities. If you're illegal here in D.C. that's going to be a problem. So all of these things that apply to law and order are front and center for us. And I don't know, weeks, months, what will it take? That's the president's call. But we're going to be there for him to execute as swiftly as possible.
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Ben Ferguson
As swiftly as possible. This is what you voted for. And the president's delivering on that promise of having safer cities, safer streets, a safer capital, and making sure we are protecting everyone in this country, regardless of who you voted for.
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