NEW YORK (WABC) -- Visitors to the nation's capital this week are seeing armed National Guard troops - 2,200 of them - and while no such order has been given to deploy troops in New York City so far, a big question is whether or not the Trump administration could see a need to do so.

National Guard troops have been deployed, not to high crime areas of Washington, D.C., but instead at national monuments and in train stations.

"They're armed, capable of defending themselves and others, if need be, supporting law enforcement," U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said.

But Commissioner Jessica Tisch says the NYPD doesn't need that kind of support, telling Attorney General Pam Bondi in a sit-down meeting on Monday that the department can handle the city's crime, and that gun violence i

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