President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and putting the city's police department under federal control, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation's capital.

At an extraordinary news conference on Monday, President Donald Trump revealed plans to take over the Washington, D.C. police department and employ troops in a move he's said "will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington,

President Donald Trump ordered 800 National Guard troops into the district to "help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C.”