Daniel P. Driscoll

We keep telling these boogeyman stories about what the president is trying to do to secure our communities.

And I think it's really harmful.

It's degrading our belief in the system unnecessarily.

And every interaction I have had has been a positive one.

Yeah, so very specifically, Sean, what we do is we go to a set of people who have joined, they've raised their right hand to defend our country, and we say, you are being activated.

We're going to give you orders to come do this mission that in the instance of the D.C.

National Guard is right in the strike zone of what they are intended to do and have always been intended to do.

They, because the D.C.

is a little bit quirky, there's no governor over it.

So the secretary of the army, me, is essentially from the president through the secretary of war down to me has the authority to activate them.

We turn them on.

We bring them in.

We train them on whatever the mission is.

And then we look to the local, in this instance, we look to the local law enforcement leaders from the federal agency and we say, how can we help?

Where do you need us?

What can we do?

What do you need them doing?

Where can they be most valuable?

Here are the assets we have.

A lot of them are law enforcement officers.