Daniel P. Driscoll

It's like we think back to this time of Ellis Island and like this influx of new Americans coming.

And we as a nation had consented to that.

We in the previous four years hadn't consented to this.

And you had this insane number of human beings from just the inaction of the federal government leading to all these downstream bad effects in communities.

And so if you look at DC, one of my experience so far has been

And we mentioned it earlier at breakfast, but when I got the secretary of the Army role and then the acting director of ATF, if you had told me on my bingo card that I would have had a spot where we would be working on the same mission together, I would have told you you were crazy.

But it's been amazing getting to see the National Guard soldiers work with our ATF agents and the rest of their law enforcement brethren.

providing a service in DC that the community loves.

I think if you look at the feedback, and I encourage reporters anytime I talk to them, just go talk to average members of the DC community.

And I think they love it.

These National Guard members go to the same churches as them.

Their kids are in the same school.

They are many and most times from this exact same community.

And what's so cool about the National Guard is

You can be deployed abroad for the security of your country, but you can also be used to improve and help secure your own community.

And I think what President Trump is doing in D.C., our nation's capital and the most amazing country that has existed in the history of the world, to repair it and beautify it and make it something we can all be proud of, where you can walk your kids down the street and not be afraid of a violent crime happening to you,

is such an obvious outcome to me that the slippery slope conversation of militarizing DC and whether it's martial law, I think if you actually talk to people, it's nothing like that.

And when we had 15, 18, 20 reporters, and I was talking to them a couple of weeks ago, and one of the places I struggle the most with the press in our country is, and I understand why the incentive structure is this way,

But they're incentivized to get clicks.

They're incentivized.