Putin Coming to America For Trump Summit, Redistricting Fight Grows, Trump's DC Plan： AM Update 8⧸11
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Trump and Putin are set to meet in Alaska this week in a potentially major step toward peace, and could President Zelensky also join them? We re talking about emergency measures to respond to what s happening in Texas, and we ll nullify what happens in Texas. The redistricting battle that started in Texas grows into a massive national fight, and President Trump takes the helm, promising to clean up Washington, D.C. What exactly does he have planned? All that and more coming up in just a moment on Your AM Update.
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It's Monday, August 11th, and this is your AM Update.
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This direct engagement by President Trump obviously is leading us closer to a peace.
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President Trump and President Putin set to meet in Alaska this week
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We are talking about emergency measures to respond to what's happening in Texas,
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The redistricting battle that started in Texas grows into a massive national fight.
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And President Trump taking the helm, promising to clean up Washington, D.C.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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An historic summit set for later this week between President Donald Trump and Russian
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President Vladimir Putin right here on U.S. soil.
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President Trump breaking the news on Truth Social that he would be meeting in Alaska with
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President Putin this Friday, exact timing and location yet to be announced.
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This marks the first time Mr. Putin has stepped foot in the U.S. in nearly a decade, the last
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one being a September 2015 session of the United Nations General Assembly, where he met with
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It comes after the Trump administration's envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Mr. Putin for more than
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three hours in Russia last Wednesday, reportedly receiving the framework of a ceasefire deal
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Sunday morning on Fox, Vice President J.D. Vance praising the development and the potential
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This is a major breakthrough for American diplomacy.
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If you go back, this war has been going on for over three years at this point.
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Well over a million Russians and Ukrainian dead soldiers.
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We have been aggressively working, trying to break the logjam.
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One of the most important logjams is that Vladimir Putin said that he would never sit down
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with Zelensky, the head of Ukraine, and the president has now got that to change.
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We're at a point now where we're now trying to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things
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like that around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.
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Now, I don't think you could actually sit down and have this negotiation absent the leadership
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This is something where the president needs to force President Putin and President Zelensky really
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We, of course, condemn the invasion that happened.
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We don't like that this is where things are, but you've got to make peace here.
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And the only way to make peace is to sit down and talk.
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You can't, you know, wag your finger at somebody and say, you're wrong.
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The way to peace is to have a decisive leader sit down and force people to come together.
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Before the announcement of the Alaskan summit, President Trump discussing the potential
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deal from the White House on Friday with a nod to the difficult issue of Mr. Putin's land
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But we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping.
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There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both.
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It's unclear what specific land would be included in a swapping of territories.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky taking to X on Saturday with a response, writing,
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quote, Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace.
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Any decisions that are against us, any decisions that are without Ukraine,
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Zelensky also posting a video where he said what translated to, quote,
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Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier.
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Several European leaders releasing a joint statement Sunday praising President Trump's,
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quote, work to stop the killing in Ukraine, but in the next paragraph seeming to counter the
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strategy of meeting with Mr. Putin now, writing, quote,
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we are convinced that only an approach that combines active diplomacy, support to Ukraine,
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and pressure on the Russian Federation to end their illegal war can succeed.
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On the American Sunday shows, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who recently developed a
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bit of a bromance with President Trump at the June NATO summit, sounding optimistic here
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I think it is very good that President Trump will test him, and we'll see how far he can
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He basically broke the deadlock, President Trump, in February, starting the dialogue with
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We had a great NATO summit under his leadership, committing to 5% defense spending, so that
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is a clear signal to our main threat, which is Russia, that we are serious.
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And this is all clear evidence that President Trump is absolutely adamant to bring this war
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to an end, but also to keep maximum pressure on Putin.
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And next Friday will be important because it is testing Putin how serious he is in this
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whole process, which will then have to continue after Friday with Ukraine involved, with others
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Former National Security Advisor under Trump 1.0, John Bolton, who never misses an opportunity
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to criticize Trump, sounding less convinced during an interview with ABC Sunday.
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Number one, in holding this meeting on American soil, legitimizing a pariah leader of a rogue
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Second, he's allowed Putin to get first mover advantage by putting his peace plan on the table
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First, you can already see from Trump's own statements, he thinks that Zelensky has to
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make constitutional modifications for Ukraine to cede territory.
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But what Putin gets more than anything else is an opportunity one-on-one to try and get
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There remains an open question about whether this bilateral meeting could become trilateral,
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with Ukrainian President Zelensky attending Friday's Alaska summit in some capacity.
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NBC quoting one official in the Trump administration saying, it's being discussed.
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And everyone is very hopeful that would happen.
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On CNN Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker weighing in.
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There can't be a deal that everybody that's involved in it doesn't agree to.
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And, you know, I mean, obviously it's a high priority to get this war to end.
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You know, the carnage and the dying is terrible.
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I think this direct engagement by President Trump obviously is leading us closer to a
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You know, the two sides have been communicating.
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But, you know, this if we can get a deal done on terms that both sides agree, that will
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A Kremlin official previously dismissing the idea of Mr. Putin meeting with Mr. Zelensky directly.
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However, the NBC report notes President Zelensky could be on site to meet with President Trump
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and others without necessarily crossing paths or sitting in the same room with his Russian
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Oksana Markovrova was noncommittal, but not ruling it out on CBS Sunday.
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He is ready to be anywhere to advance the agenda of peace.
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So if needed, President Zelensky, of course, will be present at the meetings.
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But he's not planning to be in Alaska on Friday.
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If he will be planning to do that, we'll be there.
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This summit comes as support among Ukrainians for a prolonged war in Russia is fading and
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According to a new Gallup poll conducted in July and released last week, 69 percent say
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Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to this war as soon as possible, while just
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24 percent say Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war.
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Just two years earlier, those numbers were nearly reversed.
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Meanwhile, more than 70 percent of Ukrainians say the U.S., U.K., and E.U. can play a significant
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role in peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
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Coming up, the left and right amplify the redistricting and gerrymandering fight with
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The issue of gerrymandering and redistricting at the forefront of American politics, as the
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Texas Democrats who ran away from their state remain at large, camped out in blue states
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like Illinois and New York in an effort to stop Texas from adding five new House seats
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California Governor Gavin Newsom promising to fight fire with fire and match the five seats
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with five new ones in his largely blue state during a press conference Friday.
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California is moving forward as a state that's larger than 21 state populations combined.
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We are talking about emergency measures to respond to what's happening in Texas, and we will nullify
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We will pick up five seats with the consent of the people.
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And that's the difference between the approach we're taking and the approach they're taking.
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White House Communications Director Steve Chung firing back in a comment to the LA Times,
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quote, Gavin Newsom is a loser of the highest order, and he will never be president, no matter
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Perpetual political loser Beto O'Rourke urging for more rule-breaking during a rally Saturday
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We don't await the punch thrown by these would-be fascists to land.
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We want California and New Jersey and Illinois and Maryland and every other state where the
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Democrats hold the governor's mansion, the assembly, and the state senate to redraw their
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congressional districts now, not wait for Texas to move first, to maximize Democratic
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Listen, you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.
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On Fox yesterday, Vice President J.D. Vance signaling that the redistricting battle will
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continue, fresh off a trip to Indiana to strategize similar efforts there.
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One of the things that you see in a lot of red states is blue states have really aggressively
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gerrymandered such that they've actually made it harder for the majority of the state of Indiana to
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have their voice heard in their federal elections. Because if California has crazy gerrymanders,
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Illinois has crazy gerrymanders, New York has crazy gerrymanders, what it does is it actually
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suppresses the will of the people in states like Indiana. California has way more house seats than
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it should because they have such a high population of illegal aliens. So they get rewarded for welcoming
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illegal aliens into their state, giving them federal benefits, actually asking the taxpayers of states
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like Ohio to subsidize them. And then those same taxpayers in Ohio and Indiana and elsewhere,
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they have fewer congressional representatives because of what California has allowed to happen.
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That's ridiculously unfair. And the only real way to fight back against it is for us to redistrict in
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some ways as aggressively as these hard blue states have done.
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The governor of one of those states, Democrat J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, pressed by NBC host Kristen
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Welker Sunday over the obvious hypocrisy when it comes to attacking Texas Republicans for something
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his state has done for years. What do you say to those who argue that it's hypocritical for you to
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criticize Texas for partisanship when your state also drew maps to boost your party's standing?
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Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is, again, violate the Voting Rights Act.
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We didn't. This is it's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at
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golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes.
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Well, look, sticking on your state's map, every major group that grades the fairness of
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congressional maps gives your state an F. Common cause and nonpartisan government watchdog
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even says your map, and I'm going to quote, represents a nearly perfect model for everything
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that can go wrong with redistricting. And I guess the question is, you talk about preserving
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democracy. How do you preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that you've
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criticized Texas Republicans for? But as I say, what they're talking about is a distraction.
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The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights is what Texas is attempting to do.
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What? President Trump teasing a major announcement coming later today, which he will make during a
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press conference this morning at the White House tied to helping Washington, D.C. clean up its act.
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This after the president directed a surge in federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI,
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U.S. Marshals Service, DEA and others, to increase police presence in the capital city beginning this
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past Friday for what is expected to be at least a week, following the news that a 19-year-old former
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Doge staffer was viciously assaulted by approximately 10 juveniles in a late-night carjacking.
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Mr. Trump taking to Truth Social Sunday to preview his announcement, writing, quote,
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I'm going to make our capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before.
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The homeless have to move out immediately. We will give you places to stay, but far from the
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capital. The criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong.
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It's all going to happen very fast, just like the border. Be prepared. There will be no Mr. Nice Guy.
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We want our capital back. Vice President Vance weighing in over the weekend on X, quote,
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Our nation's capital has become ridden with out-of-control violent crime thanks to
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misguided local leadership. President Trump is putting a stop to this lawlessness.
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According to USAFacts.org, Steve Ballmer's organization, citing CDC data, Washington,
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D.C. had the fourth highest homicide rate of any metropolitan area in the country in 2023,
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the most recent stats available. Mr. Trump has previously floated the idea of a federal
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takeover of the nation's capital, which would require congressional approval.
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President Trump also reportedly directing the Pentagon to draw up plans to use
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military force against Latin American drug cartels, which the Trump administration has
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declared as terrorist organizations. According to the New York Times, that includes the possibility
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of direct military operations by American troops in international waters and on foreign soil to
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target the cartels. While the military actions are still in the planning phase, a White House
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spokesperson appearing to confirm the directive to the Times saying, quote,
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President Trump's top priority is protecting the homeland, which is why he took the bold step to
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designate several cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
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And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show,
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