Late Tuesday morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the conclusion of a “productive” meeting at the Justice Department on the Trump administration’s federal takeover of the nation’s capital. The participants were D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, U.S. Marshals Service Director Gady Serralta, Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Terry Cole, and Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Tuesday’s meeting lasted about 45 minutes, a source familiar with the matter tells National Review.

“We agreed that there is nothing more important than keeping residents and tourists in Washington, D.C., safe from deadly crime,” Bondi said in a social media statement.

Bondi’s word choice here suggests that the relationship between the Trump administration and the D.C. mayor’s office isn’t as adversarial as one might expect. In fact, according to Axios reporter Marc Caputo, Trump reportedly “likes” Mayor Bowser:

A Bowser adviser confirmed the two have had a good personal working relationship.

• “You’re welcome to come here and to make your case for things that you want,” Trump told Bowser in a recent White House meeting, according to Bowser’s adviser.
• “We’re not always going to agree, but you can always come to me,” Trump told her.
• Said the mayoral adviser: “She appreciated his candor, and that set the tone.”

Bowser has notably struck a more conciliatory tone than have most Democrats in reaction to Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. Though she called Trump’s executive moves here “unsettling and unprecedented,” she also said the city will comply with the order and suggested there may be an upside to a larger police presence on the streets.

“It doesn’t matter if crime has gone down if you were a victim,” Bowser told reporters during a Monday news conference. “The fact that we have more law enforcement and presence in neighborhoods . . . that may be positive.”