President Donald Trump on Monday said he is mobilizing the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and taking control of the city's police force as part of his administration's effort to combat crime in the nation's capital.

"I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse," the president said during a White House press conference. "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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"Under the authorities vested in me as president of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the Dist

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