After President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration would take over Washington’s police department for at least a month, hundreds of members of the National Guard began to arrive in the capital.

The president said he was declaring a public safety emergency and his administration would be removing homeless encampments.

As National Guard troops patrol Washington, D.C., critics of President Trump's crackdown on crime in the nation's capital have slammed it as a "political ploy." NOTUS reporter Oriana González and Politico national political correspondent Brakkton Booker join "The Takeout" to analyze the situation.