Scarborough: We Certainly Don’t Need the Nat’l Guard in Washington, D.C., But That Place Has Been Dangerous for Years

BRZEZINSKI: “the White House is pushing forward on a plan to increase federal law enforcement in the nation’s capital. The president has ordered a citywide security initiative in high traffic areas like key tourist destinations. President Trump has criticized the crime rate in Washington, D.C. for days after a prominent DOGE worker was attacked in a botched carjacking on Sunday. Earlier this week, the president actually floated a possible federal takeover on the Capitol. Joe, this is what we’ve been talking about.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah, I mean, we don’t want a federal takeover of the Capitol, certainly don’t need the National Guard in there, or certainly not Marines. But you look at Washington, D.C, and it’s been dangerous for years. There have been — there have been, you know, a year, a couple of years here, a couple of years there where it’s been a bit better, but certainly over the past five years it has just been an absolute mess. Its quality of life has been terrible. We’ve heard it from people that have gone there to visit, are horrified that the nation’s capital is as dangerous as it is. We’ve heard it from students, we’ve heard it from business people, we’ve heard it from people that work on the Hill. I’ve 25, 30 years of friends asking, ‘Really? This is how the nation’s capital runs?’ And so anything that the administration can do to forge a partnership with the city that, I gotta say, its leaders seem unwilling to do what is required to keep city streets safe, that’s something that’s encouraged. Again, they don’t have to federalize it, but just help the city help themselves. If city council members continue to do things that undermine the security of the streets and of the communities and the places, not only where tourists go, where people have to go to work day in and day out, then yeah, we need the federal government to be far more involved in the nation’s capital. This is not Nebraska, this is the nation’s capital. It should be safe for Americans and tourists from around the world to visit.”