Daniel P. Driscoll

mayor said last week, they're starting to build a plan around now that they actually have all of these resources and these law enforcement officers.

They're leaning into the idea that they can improve their city.

And I think this is exactly what President Trump wanted to do is empower D.C.

and empower our nation's capital to fix itself with federal resources and build the momentum to go do this throughout the nation.

Yeah, I mean, I think they would see the full might and fury of our United States Army.

They would see the full might and fury of the most powerful government in the history of the world.

And I think the president and secretary of war have been very clear that they are taking a hard line, and that kind of violence is no longer acceptable in our nation.

And so I don't think we would ever wish that on our soldiers.

I think anyone who has deployed on behalf of the nation knows the cost that comes from those moments.

I mean, my dad is going on 80, and it never really clicked to me why, when I woke him up my entire childhood,

i kind of poke him and he'd sit up like a mousetrap um and the the day before we i deployed we're at a ruby tuesdays in watertown new york and um we were talking about i just asked him if he remembered those moments in vietnam and he kind of was dodging the answer i was like seriously like do you remember them and he said oh every night i have bad dreams on it

And it was like for 55 years, the man's been having bad dreams about his time there.

You don't wish these moments of conflict on somebody.

So I don't want to sound light or callous when I say it.

But this mission to me, unlike a lot of the ones in the early 2000s, is a noble mission.

It is purpose-built for our National Guard members to provide security to their own communities.

And these are heroes who have raised their right hand and said they want to go do this mission.

And so whoever it is that threatens our soldiers, they will see violence like an act of God coming at them, and they will see support coming from all directions.

And I think that they will learn very quickly that the standard of what they are able to do in our nation has changed.

I think as it relates to D.C., if you talk to the president or his advisors or the secretary of war or the attorney general, Pam Bondi,