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August 12, 2025 • 12 mins
  1. Presidential Action:

    • Trump declares a "Liberation Day" for D.C., citing rising crime and lawlessness.
    • He invokes federal authority to override local control of law enforcement.
    • Deploys 800 National Guard troops and 500+ federal agents (FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, U.S. Marshals).
  2. Criticism of Local Leadership:

    • Strong criticism of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the City Council.
    • Blames policies like no cash bail for rising crime and public safety failures.
    • Accuses local leaders of prioritizing politics over public safety.
  3. Supportive Commentary:

    • The tone is highly supportive of Trump, portraying him as a decisive leader restoring order.
    • Quotes from Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth emphasize law and order.
    • The narrative frames opposition (mainly Democrats) as weak on crime and politically motivated.
  4. Martial Law Concerns:

    • the podcast addresses accusations from critics that these actions resemble martial law.
    • Defenders argue the measures are legal, constitutional, and necessary.
  5. Broader Implications:

    • Suggests similar actions could be taken in other cities like New York and Los Angeles.
    • Frames the intervention as a model for restoring safety nationwide.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good Tuesday morning, So nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. And there is only
one big story today, Donald Trump putting the DC Police
Department under federal control, deploying the National Guard, and getting
every federal resource involved to make America's capital safe again.
Could this be a blueprint for success around the country

(00:40):
And why is the President doing it right now? Plus
why are Democrats losing their minds over this, calling the
president a dictator a tyrant for trying to keep Americans safe.
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Speaker 2 (02:52):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Donald Trump promised all Americans, no matter where you lived,
even in a liberal city, that he was gonna do
everything in his power to keep you safe. He also
said he was going to crack down on drugs, cartels,
naming them terrorists organizations, and stopping the flow of illegal
immigrants across the southern border. The President is making good
on all of those promises, and now there's a new one,

(03:17):
and it's making liberals lose their mind. The President invokes
section seven forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
allowing him to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and
deploy the National Guard under declaration of a public safety emergency. Democrats,
of course, are angry that the president of United States

(03:39):
of America may actually save lives, get drugs off the streets,
and restore law and order to our nation's capital. So
what are they doing. They're saying, this is what a
dictator and a tyrant would do. Yes, Democrats are so
unhinged now they're claiming that as the President's trying to
save lives, that he's somehow a dictator. Now, the scale

(03:59):
of the deployment will be up to eight hundred National
Guard troops and around five hundred federal law enforcement personnel,
including over one hundred FBI agents, plus members from the DEA,
the atf, ICE, and US marshals. They're all being deployed
to patrol the streets in Washington, d C. Trump's justification

(04:20):
very simple. He described the city as descending into chaos,
using words like bloodshed to frame the intervention as a
liberation day. He warned similar federal actions could extend to
other big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Now,
what does the crime data show? It actually shows, thank goodness,

(04:41):
that violent crime across the country is coming down. Why
because the President's backing law enforcement and allowing them to
do their job. And we're also witnessing ice agents taking
hardened criminals off the streets that are in the country illegally.
This is exactly why the president is having such success. Now,
responses are obviously different depending on if you're a Democrat

(05:04):
or Republican. Mayor Bowser condemned the move as quote unsettling
in DC and unprecedented, asserting the city doesn't meet legal
criteria she claims for a federal emergency. Yes, she cares
more about playing politics than saving lives. She puts instead
for more judicial resources and staffing. Again, bureaucracy over policing.

(05:26):
DC's Attorney general is exploring legal options, they're saying as well,
and the DC City Council members called the move an
intrusion on local authority quote unquote, this is all politics
for them instead of actually protecting Americans. I want you
to hear what the President had to say as he
announces to the White House in his own words.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Under the authorities vested in me as the President of
the United States, I'm officially invoking section seventy forty of
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what
that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department and
under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people
that will be directly involved with that. Very good people,

(06:07):
but they're tough, and they know what's happening. They've done
it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to
help re establish law order of public safety in Washington,
d C. And they're going to be allowed to do
their job properly.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
They're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
That is the core point of what President Trump has
been saying over and over again when it comes to
law enforcement. Let law enforcement officers do their jobs the
right way. Now, how do we get to this point? Well,
the President also talked about the radicals in DC, for example,
having no cash bail and it's putting people's lives at risk.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject
failures of the city's local leadership. The radical city Council
adopted no cash bail. By the way, every place in
the country you have no cash is a disaster. That's
what started the problem in New York, and they don't
change it. They don't want to change it. That's what

(07:06):
started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started and
bad leadership started it. But that was the one thing
that's central. No cash bail. Somebody murders somebody and they're
out on no cash bail before the day is out.
We're going to end that in Chicago. We're going to
change the statute. I spoke with Pam and Todd and everybody.
We're going to change the statue. And I'm going to

(07:27):
have to get the Republicans to vote because the Democrats
are week on crime, totally weak on.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Crime, totally week on crime. The stats say he's absolutely accurate.
And the President United States of America saying, this is
our moment to shine, to take back our nation's capital,
and we're not going to allow Democrats to hold us
hostage any longer. Ag BONDI also saying this about what's
happening in DC.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Let me be crystal clear, crime in DC is ending
and ending today. We are going to use every power
we have to fight. I'm your president. Thank you for
caring about our capital. Families come here every summer. Our
museums are free, we have the National Zoo, we have
the National Gallery. DC should be a place where everyone

(08:14):
can come and feel safe.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
It's all about safety. That is the presen's number one
priority for all Americans, and yet Democrats are doing everything
they can to try to stop the President from accomplishing
this goal. Donald Trump also saying this as well, about
what's happening in DC.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we
getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
We getting rid of them.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I know it's not politically correct, you'll say, oh, so terrible. No,
we're getting rid of the slums where they live.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
We're getting rid of the slums. Now. You listen also
to something else on this Liberation Day, and that is
again the President saying we're taking our capital back. The
man who's in charge of the Department of Defense, Pete Headseth,
went on Laura Ingram Show, and this is what he
had to say about what the President has ordered him
to do.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
This capital belongs to all Americans, and starting now, we're
taking it back. And that's the angle. Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth was given the tall order of handling this
and he's here with me exclusively. Mister Secretary, thank you
for joining us tonight. So the President called this a
public safety emergency, and you said, we're going to start
seeing the National Guard this week, tell us more this

(09:29):
week and incoming weeks, and we're going to work right
alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
This is what the American people voted for, Laura. This
is what the common sense, clarity strength. I hadn't heard
that story from President Trump before the story he told
about his father that he told him, hey, son, if
you look at the front door of a restaurant and
it's dirty, then I bet the kitchen you can count
on the fact that the kitchen is too and sat
there thinking that's exactly right. If our capital city is
a mess, if we can't control our capital city, then

(09:57):
what does the rest of the country look like and
what signals does the rest the country take from that? So,
just like we did in Los Angeles, alongside our federal law,
we took a lot of criticism for four thousand troops,
seven hundred marines, you know what we didn't get. There
was no summer of love in twenty twenty. There was
in twenty twenty five. There was a summer of law enforcement,
and we quelled the protests of the attacks on ice officers.
We're going to help get DC under control by working

(10:19):
with local officials who have been federalized, with federal officials
who are coming in. The DC Guards proud to be
a part of it. Other states will contribute this week,
going into the weeks to come. Whatever's needed, the DoD
will provide to make sure this is a safe city
for those who live here, for those that work here,
and the Americans who want to come visit here and
love our capital city.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
The question of martial law keeps getting raised by the
left that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth they want to
impose martial law as authoritarians would.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
To that, you said to that, I say, look at
Los Angeles. They said the exact same thing. Oh look,
oh look, four thousand troops California National Guard. Oh look
the marine you can't put in the marie is what
they were. The troops available to ensure that we de
escalated the situation and didn't allow other lawbreakers to say, look,
it's wide open. We can do whatever we want in
these sanctuary cities. I was told, oh, you're going to

(11:12):
lock up political opponents, You're going to go after democrats, YadA, YadA.
It's the same stuff every time, mischaracterizing our intentions. The
intentions of this president is to establish law and order
using legal and lawful and constitutional means, which he completely
has and you know what, you know why they don't
like him. He's got the guts to do it. He's
got the guts to say I'm going to federalize the
police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring

(11:32):
in the National Guard, I'm going to bring in federal marshals.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
I'm going to bring in the park police. What is
the cost money? Right, cost money? And the question is
are you there for a year? Are you there for
six months? And when the troops pull out? What happened?

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I would call this conditions based. I would say it's
a situation where we're here to support law enforcement, and
the more we can free them up to do their job,
the more effective they can be, the more we can work.
I mean, this isn't my realm, but the justice system
to make sure people who are arrested are actually locked up.
That's why the president's talking about cash list, bear bail,
and sanctuary cities. If you're illegal here in DC, that's
going to be a problem. So all of these things

(12:12):
that apply to law and order are our front and
center for us. And I don't know weeks, months, what
will it take. That's the President's call, but we're going
to be there for him to execute as swiftly as possible.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well then as swiftly as possible. This is what you
voted for and the presence delivering on that promise of
having safer cities, safer streets, safer capital, and making sure
we are protecting everyone in this country, regardless of who
you voted for.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
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