Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington D.C. was a “stunt.”

Partial transcript as follows:

KRISTEN WELKER: Let me ask you about what is unfolding here in the nation’s capital. Federal troops patrolling the Capitol under what President Trump has called a crime crackdown. Republicans, as you know, have long tried to brand Democrats as being soft on crime. If you look at the polls, actually, Republicans get higher numbers when it comes to the public trusting them to be tough on crime. Do you think, and what is your message to people in the Capitol and elsewhere who buy into this argument that President Trump is making that these cities are unsafe, in part because of Democratic policies?

MURPHY: Well, first, let

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