President Donald Trump defiantly insisted Wednesday that he did not need Congress’s blessing to maintain his control of Washington, D.C.’s police. The president was asked if he was talking to Congress about extending his control of the Metropolitan Police beyond 30 days after he declared Monday he was federalizing the force to combat crime in the nation’s capital.

A Republican congressman introduced a bill that would allow President Donald Trump to indefinitely take control of Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. The president declared a crime emergency on Monday,