The president announced his plans during an interview with conservative radio host Todd Starnes on Thursday, Aug. 21, less than two weeks after he announced a federal takeover of Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and deployed National Guard troops in a bid to reduce crime.

After a decade of threatening to take over the deeply Democratic District of Columbia, President Donald Trump on Monday announced he would exert more federal control over the

President Trump said he's going out in Washington, D.C., Thursday night to patrol the city alongside law enforcement and the National Guard. Mr. Trump made the announcement as the Metropolitan Police Department tells CBS News no homicides have been reported in the district in over a week,