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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore defended his rhetoric against President Donald Trump over crime in his home city of Baltimore amid an escalating feud between the two leaders.

"I have no interest in fighting with the president, but I have an interest in fighting for my communities and fighting for our people," Moore told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz in an interview that aired Sunday.

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"If the president of the United States were to have a serious conversation with me and say, what can we do -- particularly when you look at the cost of the National Guard of well over a million dollars a day?" Moore responded. "I would tell him things like, we need to make sure we're increasing funding for local law enforcement."

"Asking me to deploy my National Guard, people who are not trained for municipal policing, is just not a serious approach," Moore added.