Does President Trump have the legal authority to put Washington, D.C.’s police under federal control? In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss Trump’s executive order declaring a crime emergency in DC to seize control of the city’s police and deploy the National Guard.

In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss: 

– A federal judge’s decision to reject the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury testimony from the Ghislaine Maxwell case; and

– The redistricting debate in Texas, as Democratic lawmakers have fled the state to block Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional map to further strengthen GOP representation.

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