Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said the effort to reopen the dilapidated former prison is a "diversionary tactic."

Embattled U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials arrived in San Francisco on an expected mission to announce plans to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison.