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Mike Johnson: “He's put National Guard troops here in D.C. and cleaned up…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Mike Johnson on Trump telling military to use US cities as 'training grounds'

Published | Video Starts at 04:38

Well, you can take his quotes out of context, which you often do. And I don't think that's fair to the president. I'll tell you what he's done, though. He's put National Guard troops here in D.C. and cleaned up the crime problem. People can walk safely to and from work today because the president took takes crime seriously. Some of the big mayors in some of these big blue cities are not. (04:38–04:42)

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Asserts that President Trump deployed National Guard troops to address crime in D.C.

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