President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated sending federal agents and National Guard troops to patrol New Orleans, part of a series of threats the president has leveled against Democratic-led cities to deploy troops and law enforcement officers on their streets.

"We're making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough, quite bad," Trump said in an interview aired on C-SPAN .

The Republican president has threatened to put federal boots on the ground in an array of American cities with Democratic leaders in recent weeks.

Already, National Guard troops, FBI agents and other federal officers have

See Full Page