A look at the President Trump's contentious relationship with Washington, D.C.

By Leila Fadel

Published August 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM PDT

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NPR's Leila Fadel asks historian George Derek Musgrove about the relationship between the federal government and the nation's capital over the use of law enforcement.

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Leila Fadel is a host of Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

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