National Guard members deployed to D.C. to combat "lawlessness" will remain until late September, according to a leaked memo.

The president is holding a news conference Monday morning to discuss efforts to fight crime and clean up the nation's capital.

At an extraordinary news conference on Monday, President Donald Trump revealed plans to take over the Washington, D.C. police department and deploy National Guard troops in the nation's capital to combat what he says is rampant violent crime that statistics show is actually decreasing.