Why Washington, DC

Thanks to quirks of the district, Trump gets to watch the troops he deployed right out the window.
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Jimmy Carter sends his daughter to his public schools; pictures of Obama still grace businesses' walls; and now Trump has taken an interest in Washington, DC…by deploying the National Guard, reassigning FBI agents, vowing to evict the city's homeless population.
Guest: Jenny Gathright , reporter at the Washington Post covering the DC region.
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Podcast produced by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.
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