00:00Mayor Bowser, I'm wondering if you could put some meat on the bones of your conversation with the president, particularly what you told him about.
00:10I mean, did you thank him as you did here?
00:12I mean, basically, this this has been pretty pro surge press conference.
00:18This is pretty pro we have seen reductions in crime.
00:23And this comes this comes just after President Trump said Mayor Bowser better get her axe straight or she won't be mayor for long.
00:32So I'm wondering if this is in response to that, what you said to the president, what he said to you, did you push back at all?
00:38Because while, yes, the numbers are down, when we look at what's happening in the streets, there are a lot of neighbors who are really upset and not happy about seeing masked federal agents.
00:49You didn't say anything about the detentions of ICE, what's happening with those people, if you're doing any tracking, if you're doing any.
00:55So I'm just wondering about that conversation.
00:57And if you gave any pushback to the president about the intrusion on home rule and if he and what he told you as to what to expect in the future.
01:06Mark, let me say that we had a what what I would call a courtesy meeting with the president.
01:15I had a following a substantive meeting with the attorney general, who is his designee on this issue, along with the chief of staff.
01:26And I'm not going to talk about the details of that conversation.
01:30You have seen what I have laid out in terms of our concerns.
01:34And you have seen what I have laid out in terms of the benefits.
01:39And that is the the huge number of federal law enforcement, not National Guard, federal law enforcement, that have enhanced NPD's deployment capacity.
01:53Did you push back about the masks at all with either the attorney general or the president about these law enforcement agents not wearing name tags?
02:01Mark, I'm concerned about masks.
02:03And so while while I'm not going to give you like a rundown of every word that was said in the meeting, you can be assured that the things that we are very concerned about, we are working on a resolution for.
02:18And what about the ICE detentions?
02:20You haven't said much about those.
02:21Do you have any numbers on that, on how many people have been detained?
02:25And are you tracking who those people are, what's happening to those people?
02:29We do not have any information on anybody who was detained by ICE, as far as I know.
02:39And I am concerned for sure because we think anything that we do and anything that we're going to ask federal partners to do is focused on violent crime.
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