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,

Trump said he was invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which gives the President of the United States the authority to commandeer DC's Police Department in “conditions of an emergency nature.” Attorney General Pam Bondi is now in charge of the Metropolitan Police Department, he said.