Startseite
Podcasts
The Daily Podcast
When the National Guard Comes to Town

When the National Guard Comes to Town

The Daily vor 1 Jahr

0:00

36:48

One month after sending the National Guard into Washington, D.C.
saying they would fight crime there, President Trump is so
pleased with the results that he is discussing how to put federal
troops onto the streets of cities across the country — from
Chicago to New Orleans. It’s a potentially dramatic expansion of
what has already become an unprecedented military deployment on
domestic soil.

Today, we hear from residents of Washington about what life is
like with the National Guard in town.

Guest:

Jessica Cheung, a senior audio producer at The New York Times

Background reading:

The District of Columbia sued the Trump administration last
week, challenging the National Guard deployment and describing it
as a “military occupation.”

Here’s what we know about Mr. Trump’s crime and immigration
crackdown across the U.S.

For more information on today’s episode,
visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of
each episode will be made available by the next workday.

Photo: Alex Kent for The New York Times

For more information on today’s episode, visit
nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each
episode will be made available by the next workday.

Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts,
Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your
favorite podcast app here
https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.
For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York
Times app at nytimes.com/app.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for
information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.