advance of the city requesting. so we were fully ready to engage immediately. >> sounds like -- [ inaudible ] worried you're not going to get this under control tonight? >> we have no way of predicting. i can tell you this, we're going to put every available asset and as much manpower as it possibly takes to get this under control as quickly as we possibly can. and we're going to maintain the state of emergency until it is put to rest. >> can you tell us what the president had to say in the conversation? >> he thanked me for the action. said he thought we were doing the right thing. he said, i assume that you and your team will be exercising due restraint. i assured him we were. the last thing we want to do is escalate the violence. i assured him we weren't going to stand by and allow our city of baltimore to be taken over by thugs. he said the justice department was going to be -- the new attorney general would be coming