"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 D.C. and we're going to take our capital back," he said.

President Donald Trump announced in a press conference that the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. will be placed under federal control. Trump also said that the National Guard will be deployed to the nation's capital to assist law enforcement in a crime-fighting effort.

President Donald Trump announced he is taking control of the Washington, D.C. police and deploying the National Guard.