Mayor Muriel Bowser met with the president-elect to talk about the nation’s capital and his second term. She joins The Weekend ahead of a busy few weeks for DC

Donald Trump has often cast Washington, DC, as an urban hellscape, but the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said she had a “great meeting” with the president-elect on Monday and came away “optimistic that we will continue to find common ground.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had a “great” meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, as he is slated to return to the White House in less than three weeks. Bowser, who was also the mayor during Trump’s first term in office,

Bowser’s optimistic tenor appears part of a strategy to collaborate with Trump rather than provoke him in a city where over 90 percent of voters rejected him.

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed that she had a “great meeting” with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, who threatened to “federalize” the “crime ridden” district on the campaign

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She called it a good meeting, but did not offer specifics.