President Trump: I'm determined to make Washington, D.C. safe, clean, and beautiful again. It's gonna take place very rapidly. Be prepared.

Reporter: Your federalization of the police has a thirty day limit, unless congress acts to extend it. Are you talking to congress to extend it, or do you believe thirty days is sufficient?

President Trump: Well, if it's a national emergency, we can do it without congress, but we expect to be before congress very quickly…we're gonna need a Crime Bill, that we're gonna be putting in, and it's gonna pertain, initially, to DC. We're gonna use it as a very positive example, and we're gonna be asking for extensions on that; long-term extensions, because you can't have thirty days…I don't want to have to call a national emergency. If I have to, I will.

President Trump: They decided to build a basement, under the building [Federal Reserve], in the Potomac River. So in order to do that, you need the biggest pumps that God ever created. And they were pumping their hearts out, but as big as those pumps are, you can't pump it fast enough because it's the Potomac River…you don't build a basement under a building that is two feet about the river that's right next to it.