President Trump, Monday morning, he announced at a press conference, quote, this is liberation Day in dc, and we're going to take our capital back. And he declared a public safety emergency. And he took two actions. Number one, He invokes Section 740 of the D.C. home Rule act, placing the D.C. police directly under federal control. And number two, he signed a memorandum to the Secretary of Defense to utilize the National Guard. He placed DEA Administrator Terry Cole as the interim federal commissioner of D.C. police. (06:18–06:27)
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Asserts that President Trump invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act to place D.C. police under federal control.
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