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DC Mayor Admits Trump’s Crime Crackdown Works plus Monarez Shortest Tenure in CDC History · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: So the DC mayor has had a major change of
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  Speaker 1: her rhetoric when it comes to reversing what crime is
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  Speaker 1: doing in her city. Yes, she's totally reversing course now
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: admitting that Donald Trump's federal crime crackdown is in fact working.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bowser cited an eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings
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  Speaker 1: during the twenty day federal law enforcement deployment. Just take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to the conversation that was had on Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Channel about what she said and also the data.
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  Speaker 2: We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: MPD has been able to do in this city. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we know it's not working. Is a break and trust
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  Speaker 2: between police and community, especially with new federal partners in
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  Speaker 2: our community. We know having massed ice agents in the
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  Speaker 2: community has not worked.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but let's listen to some residents here.
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  Speaker 4: Navy Yard has kind of been a hot area before
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  Speaker 4: all the you know, additional security. It was a little
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  Speaker 4: dicey at times, especially at later times in the hour.
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  Speaker 4: I would see fights break out whenever I just walking home.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's a lot more quiet.
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  Speaker 5: I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea and
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  Speaker 5: I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
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  Speaker 5: the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
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  Speaker 5: the highways and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: What about the fallout of all this stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we just had a poll come I yesterday the
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  Speaker 6: ap poles here, eighty one percent of people think that
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  Speaker 6: crime is a problem in major, major problem in urban areas.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's approval rating on crime was fifty four percent in
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  Speaker 6: that pole and the Harvard Harris pole was fifty one percent,
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  Speaker 6: his highest rating of any of the issues that they
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  Speaker 6: they questioned VS about. So, I think what you saw
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  Speaker 6: from the mayor, which she said, is a bit surprising.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's her responding to her constituents. She's hearing
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  Speaker 6: from people who are saying that, especially in the areas
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  Speaker 6: where crime is the worst, that they feel safer and
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  Speaker 6: that's not a bad thing. Democrats have managed to box
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  Speaker 6: themselves in on another eighty twenty issue and are trying
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  Speaker 6: to find a way out, and I think the mayor
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  Speaker 6: has recognized that, and she's obviously in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, here Democrats on the wrong side of the issue.
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  Speaker 1: This is an issue where the majority of Americans say
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  Speaker 1: that they want to feel safe In fact, for decades,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have been saying this, and now what is happening. Well,
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump says, I'm with you. I want to
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  Speaker 1: drive down crime in some of our most dangerous cities.
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  Speaker 1: And Democrats are angry. Why they're coming down once again
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  Speaker 1: on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions
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  Speaker 1: of Americans. And the question you should ask yourself is this,
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  Speaker 1: Why would the leaders of high crime cities like Washington,
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  Speaker 1: DC or Chicago project to the president helping to make
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  Speaker 1: their streets safer. I'll tell you why they're panicked. Their
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  Speaker 1: panic that Donald Trump is succeeding, exposing them as inept,
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  Speaker 1: as corrupt, as leaders that really just want to control cities,
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  Speaker 1: even if it means they're filled with crime. For decades,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Democrats have been struggling to overcome the
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  Speaker 1: accusations on the facts that they were soft on crime.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to nineteen ninety four. Trying to combat that charge,
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  Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton signed a law the most sweeping anti
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  Speaker 1: crime bill at the time in history, and funded actually
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  Speaker 1: the hiring of one hundred thousand new police officers. It
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  Speaker 1: also authorized the construction of new prisons and introduced that
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  Speaker 1: three strikes law manditing lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are furious. They are furious that crime is actually
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  Speaker 1: going down in DC, and they're also even more angry
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  Speaker 1: that the President said this about you know the prospect
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  Speaker 1: of places like Chicago getting some extra help.
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  Speaker 7: And after we do.
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  Speaker 8: This, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe.
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  Speaker 8: Al So we're going to make our country very safe.
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  Speaker 8: We're going to make our cities very very safe. Chicago's
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  Speaker 8: a mess. You have an incompetent mayor grossly incompetent. And
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  Speaker 8: we'll straighten that one out probably next. That'll be our
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  Speaker 8: next one after this, and it won't even be tough.
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  Speaker 8: And the people in Chicago, mister Vice President, are screaming
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  Speaker 8: for us to come. They're wearing red hats, just like
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  Speaker 8: this one, but they're wearing red hats. African American ladies,
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  Speaker 8: beautiful ladies, are saying, please, President Trump, come to Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 8: I did great with the black vote, as you know,
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  Speaker 8: and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago
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  Speaker 8: will be our next, and then we'll help with New York,
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  Speaker 8: and we're going to help with and I think, really,
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  Speaker 8: I think a lot of and a lot of these
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  Speaker 8: people that you see on television, they are, including the
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  Speaker 8: people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me,
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  Speaker 8: and then they'll say, thank god he's here, because half
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  Speaker 8: of them got mugged and they don't want to get
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  Speaker 8: mugged again. But you know, they work for a ladder.
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  Speaker 8: They work for stupid people that are radical left, and
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  Speaker 8: they're made to do things and say things that they
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  Speaker 8: don't want to be saying.
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  Speaker 1: This goes back to the real problem. And if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the present and what he's saying there, he's
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. You had Democrats that used to be in
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  Speaker 1: favor of fighting crime and saving black lives. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: soft on crime. Democrats' literal high water mark for cracking
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  Speaker 1: down on crime was in nineteen ninety four. The party leaders,
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  Speaker 1: including former President Joe Biden, are now at a point
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  Speaker 1: where they apologize for being tough on crime. They literally
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  Speaker 1: apologize for the nineteen ninety four crime bill it is
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  Speaker 1: and then post George Floyd in that that error. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have adopted policies as open we want to defund the police,
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  Speaker 1: we want to have no bail, we want to have
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  Speaker 1: prison reform, we want to shut down prisons. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what made our cities, or especially the cities they run,
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  Speaker 1: liberal cities so dangerous because they favored criminals over their citizens.
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  Speaker 1: They also did this on the issue of I legal immigration,
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  Speaker 1: flooding these liberal cities with criminals. President Trump saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this. I'm going to save people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to reverse course on this. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go wherever I can, and if I can send troops,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it for one reason, to stop
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  Speaker 1: the violence and to stop the killing. And what a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat say, You're a dictator and a tyrant if you
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  Speaker 1: do it. So now you go back to the mayor
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  Speaker 1: in DC. Why is the mayor in d C saying
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  Speaker 1: what she's saying now because the citizens are telling her
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  Speaker 1: that they're glad this is happening. You look at Chicago's mayor,
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  Speaker 1: for example. He is the complete opposite of this. Right,
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  Speaker 1: He's saying, well, President Trump, if you send the National Guard,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to stand up to you in the Windy City.
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  Speaker 1: The most flagrant violation of our constitution the twenty first
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  Speaker 1: centuries I described on X and then he boasted the
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  Speaker 1: city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. Those
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  Speaker 1: are his words. It actually does, by the way, One
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  Speaker 1: headline from the summer sets it all quote at least
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  Speaker 1: fifty five people shot, eight fatally in the fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July weekend. So Brandon Johnson's like, no, no, no, no, you don't understand,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want any help. Well, you clearly need it.
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  Speaker 1: You need to help big time. The mayor in his
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for the question. It's not like the federal
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  Speaker 9: government has given us any heads up, right, there's no
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  Speaker 9: communication from the federal government or the local police department.
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  Speaker 9: the interests of the wealthy in this country is the
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  Speaker 9: priority that he has carried out. Anything other than that,
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  Speaker 9: he's been a miserable disappointment and failure.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing that the President is actually lowering crime?
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  Speaker 1: And the Chicago mayor is like, Oh, he's just an
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  Speaker 1: evil guy that likes the rich people and then goes
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: on these ti raids that have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: protecting his citizens. And the President says, I'm not waiting
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  Speaker 1: around any longer. I am going to protect the citizens
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America wherever I can. I've
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: got some pretty nice news for you. The CDC is
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: finally getting a new acting director as leadership has had
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: a major shakeup at the agency. You may remember this
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: is where Director Fauci got paid more money than anybody
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: else to be in charge of the agency, the same
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: people that were giving me to China and other countries
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: around the world. Well, Jim O'Neill, a top deputy to
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: the Health Secretary RFK Junior, we now know we'll serve
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: and Prevention that according to an administration official. The official
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  Speaker 1: also requested Amininity to discuss a personal change that has
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: not been quote formally announced. The administration want to O'Neil
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: to replace Susan Monarees, whom the White House is trying
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: to remove only after a month starting the job. Minariz
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: is fighting to keep her job. Her removal has left
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: the nation's top public health agency reeling, and three senior
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: officials were escorted from its headquarters on Thursday. The turmoil
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: triggered bipartisan alarm as Kenny tries to advance anti vaccine
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  Speaker 1: policies the left says that are contradicted by decades they
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  Speaker 1: claim of scientific research. Now the turbulence comes weeks before
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  Speaker 1: a key advisory committee, which Kennedy has reshaped with vaccine skeptics.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: By the way, I love how they say anyone that
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: ask a question about a vaccine is a quote vaccine
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  Speaker 1: skeptic is expected, by the way, to meet to issue
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: new recommendations on immunizations, which, of course the big pharma
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  Speaker 1: companies are dreading. Two Republican centers also have now called
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: for a congressional oversight, and even Democrats are saying that
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy should be fired. He's scheduled to testify on Capitol
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  Speaker 1: Hill on September the fourth. Our FK Junior has not
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  Speaker 1: explained the decision to als Susan Manares as the CDC
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  Speaker 1: director less than a month after she was sworn in,
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  Speaker 1: but warned that more turnover very well could be coming,
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  Speaker 1: saying this quote, there's a lot of trouble at the CDC,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to require getting rid of some people
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  Speaker 1: over the long term in order for us to change
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  Speaker 1: the institutional culture, Kenny said a news conference in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The White House has only said that Manares was not
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  Speaker 1: aligned with President Donald Trump's agenda. There is no word
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  Speaker 1: on winter replacement, by the way could be named. Minars'
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  Speaker 1: lawyer said that she refused to quote rubber stamp unscientific,
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  Speaker 1: reckless directives and or fired dedicated health experts. She's fighting
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  Speaker 1: her dismissal, saying the decision must come directly from Trump,
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  Speaker 1: who nominate her in March.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 1: The saga began Wednesday night with the administration's announcement that
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  Speaker 1: Minarias would no longer lead the CDC. In response, three
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  Speaker 1: different doctors three different officials resigned from senior roles at
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  Speaker 1: the agency. The officials returned to the office Thursday to
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  Speaker 1: collect their belongings and staff. Members of the agency had
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  Speaker 1: planned to gather in the afternoon to applaud them as
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  Speaker 1: they left the Atlanta campus, but the removal by security
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  Speaker 1: personnel earlier in the morning squelts those plans, according to
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  Speaker 1: current and former employees. Some of those that resigned in
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: protest told the Associated Press that Minarrez had tried to
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  Speaker 1: guard against political medaling and scientific research and health recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: We were going to see if she was able to
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  Speaker 1: weather the storm, and when she was not, we were done,
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  Speaker 1: is what one of the doctors said he resigned. She
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  Speaker 1: had been the agency's deputy director and chief medical officer.
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  Speaker 1: Giving up a big job is what the media wants
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  Speaker 1: you to believe. Another one of the people that resigned
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  Speaker 1: was also the head of the National Center for Immunization
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  Speaker 1: and Respiratory Diseases, and they said, it is time for
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  Speaker 1: us to stand up to what's actually happening. Now you
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  Speaker 1: go back to all of this, and if removed, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Manarias will be the shortest serving director since the CDC
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  Speaker 1: was founded in nineteen forty six, exacerbating a leadership vacuum
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  Speaker 1: that has persisted since Trump took office is what the
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  Speaker 1: media is saying about this as well. Trump initially chose
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  Speaker 1: David Weldon, a former Florida congressman who is a doctor
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  Speaker 1: in vaccine skeptic, but yanked the nomination in March. Minaire Is,
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  Speaker 1: a longtime government scientist, was tapped next to lead the
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  Speaker 1: nine point two billion dollar agency while she was serving
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  Speaker 1: as its interim director, but questions immediately emerged within Kennedy's
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  Speaker 1: circle about her loyalty to make America Healthy Again movement,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: especially given her previous support for the COVID nineteen vaccines
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  Speaker 1: that Kennedy has well publicly criticized. Now, Kennedy rarely mentioned
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  Speaker 1: manara Is by name and the way he did other
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  Speaker 1: health agency leaders, and that was when many people thought
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: there could be a problem. A flashpoint has been Kenny's
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  Speaker 1: handling of the CDC's Advisory Vaccine Committee, which he has
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: tried to reshape since taking over the Department of Health
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  Speaker 1: and Human Services. By the way, this isn't controversial. This
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  Speaker 1: is literally what he said he was going to do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why anyone's shocked by Kennedy doing this.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are. We have all of this now,
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  Speaker 1: and people are mad. They're mad that the people that
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  Speaker 1: are always green lighting things like the COVID nineteen vaccine
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  Speaker 1: are now actually having to answer questions and they don't
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  Speaker 1: get a rubber stamp from the Trump administration. As for
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  Speaker 1: the idea of firing someone right after they get their job, if,
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  Speaker 1: as the Trump administration said, they're not actually aligning with
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the values that you have for the agency. And remember,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: no one voted for any of these people. They voted
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: only for Donald Trump, then it's Trump's job to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that those people are in a good place, a
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  Speaker 1: place where they are representing what he ran on. And
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that's what this ultimately boils down to. You have Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump that has said I'm listening to the people. You
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  Speaker 1: have Donald Trump that said the CDC has lost the
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  Speaker 1: faith of the American people, especially with what we witness
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  Speaker 1: with COVID. I think we can all agree on that point.
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  Speaker 1: And so what the President's doing is he's listening to
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  Speaker 1: the people and then saying I'm going to find people
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  Speaker 1: that are aligned with it. RFK Junior, by the way,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: was a perfect example of that, an unorthodox individual who
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the President said deserve to have a voice in his administration. Now,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the question is going to be what happens next. I
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: expect the President to not flinch on this one. I
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  Speaker 1: expect the President of the United States America to stand firm,
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  Speaker 1: and I expect the president of United State, It's America
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  Speaker 1: to trust RFK Junior to make sure they get the
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  Speaker 1: right people aligned with the values that were promised. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what Caroline Levitt said at the White House
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  Speaker 1: as she talked about President Trump having every right to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: fire the CDC director on.
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  Speaker 7: The firing in the CDC director first will replace her,
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  Speaker 7: and then also overnight the White House said that she
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: did not align with the president's agenda. Doctor Manards's attorney
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: say that she refused to rubber stamp unscientific breakfast directives
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: and fired dedicated health experts, what specifically.
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  Speaker 9: To shooting moment.
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  Speaker 10: Look, what I will say about this individual is that
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  Speaker 10: her lawyer's statement made it abundantly clear themselves that she
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: was not aligned with the president's mission to make America
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  Speaker 10: healthy again. And the Secretary asked her to resign, she
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: said she would, and then she said she wouldn't, So
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: the President fired her, which he has every right to do.
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  Speaker 10: It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly re elected on
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  Speaker 10: November fifth. This woman has never received a vote in
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: her life, and the president has the authority to fire
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: those who are not aligned with his mission. A new
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  Speaker 10: replacement will be announced by either the President or the
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  Speaker 10: Secretary very soon, and the President and Secretary Kennedy are
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  Speaker 10: committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the
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  Speaker 10: CDC by ensuring their leadership and their decisions are more
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: public facing, more accountable, strengthening our public health system, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: restoring it to its core mission of protecting Americans from
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: communicable diseases, investing in innovation to prevent, detect, and respond
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  Speaker 10: to future threats. That's the mission of the CDC, and
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  Speaker 10: we're going to make sure that folks that are in
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: positions of leadership there are aligned with that mission.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have. The White House may get very
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: clear that even if they pick someone to be in
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: their administration for a job, if they are not pushing
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: for the agenda items that the President of the United
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: States of America has told them to push for, then
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: they will get rid of them. And that's exactly what
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the President should be doing, not wasting any time when
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: he sees clearly that someone is going against what he
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: believes their job should be. You step back and you
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: look at this country right now, and it is very
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: clear that every major city in America that is run
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: by Democrats is a city that is filled with violent criminals.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them are filled with violent criminal, illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them are filled with child rapists, sex offenders,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and a network of drug cartel members. And by the way,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the drug cartels and going
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: after them because they've been designated terrorist organizations in a moment,
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  Speaker 1: something I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of going
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: after them, and there's a very good chance that may
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: be what the President's going to do in Mexico very
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: very soon. But they're filled with the lawlessness. This is
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the time where we as Republicans and conservatives, I think,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to make real inroads in inner city
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  Speaker 1: America where overwhelming they've been voting for Democrats for decades.
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  Speaker 1: It's seventy eighty percent. This is that moment where you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: can look at Washington, d C. And show them that
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  Speaker 1: there is an actual chance of safe and secure neighborhoods
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: regardless of where you live. If you restore the law
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and order, and then once you get that safety and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you get that secl scurity, you're then in a much
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: better place because at that point you have citizens that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: start to be inspired to go out in their communities,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to be involved in their communities. By the way, you
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: know what, there's two things that are very interesting about crime.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in a high crime area, did you know
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  Speaker 1: that it's almost guaranteed that your kids are in a
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  Speaker 1: failing school. Yeah. If black lives really matter to the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party like they claim, then they would want young
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  Speaker 1: black lives to not be set up for failure, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: set up for success in a public school that is
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: not a failure. By the way, it's also the reason
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: why I'm in favor of school choice. You may not
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: know this, but did you know if you're in a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: high crime city, not only are you more likely to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: be in a failing school than a successful school, but
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you're you're also more likely to let me rephrase that,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you're less likely to go to church. You'll look at
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the most high crime cities in America and look at
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  Speaker 1: the church attendance numbers. They are in historic declines. Why
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: is that? Because you've killed community. It used to be
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you walk to church in your neighborhood with your family,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: your friends, your neighbors. If you live in a violent
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: city and a violent neighborhood, the chances of you knowing
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: your neighbors, going out with your neighbors, spending time with
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: your neighbors, spending time in a community, spend time outside
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of your home with your family is very low. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: if you want to know why we have so many
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: empty churches on Sunday mornings and so many these violent cities. Yes,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: there is a direct correlation between failing schools and lack
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of faith in America. In cities where there is crime
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and the criminals are running the city, there are some
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of the most beautiful churches that's seventy eighty percent empty
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: on Sunday mornings in these violent cities because the elderly,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: by the way, who I truly believe the elders, there's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a reason why we have elders in the church are
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the backbone of our community. They're the backbone of our churches.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: The elder statesmen. And if they're afraid to go to
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: church because they're afraid of the crime and they don't
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: feel safe in their own neighborhood, they don't feel safe
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to go to church, they don't feel safe to go
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to the grocery stores. What happens They end up becoming depressed.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: They end up sitting in their homes, and they end
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: up dying like hermits. Crime isn't just killing people, it's
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: killing cities. It's killing hopes, it's killing dreams, it's killing education,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it's killing faith in America today. And so what the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: President I encourage him to do is to keep doing
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: what he's doing Number one, but to go to these
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: cities regardless of what the local leaders say, and talk
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to the people directly. In these top twenty most dangerousies.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Do a tour of America's worst cities, and don't walk
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in and criticize. Walk in and say, life should be
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  Speaker 1: better than the Life should be safer for you and
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  Speaker 1: your grandparents and your kids. Our churches and our schools
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: should be places that people can't wait to go to.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Your children should be able to play in your backyard,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: in your front yard and not be behind bars on
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the windows because it's so crime ridden. Your kids should
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: be able to sit on the front porch at night
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and not be inside in case there's a drive by shooting. Yes,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that's a reality in many of the most dangerous cities
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  Speaker 1: in America. I don't care who you are, you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: if you're not safe, can I get an amen on that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You know that if you were in an unsafe area,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're in a community that is not safe,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you know it. I know it, you know it, everybody
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: knows it. You how many people are stuck in a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: neighborhood that they wish they didn't live in because they're
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: on a fixed income, they're retired, they're in social security,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: they live their life, they did well and unform. Actually
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: now they live in a community that they can't afford
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to get out of, and so they're stuck literally in hell.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: This is not hard to fix. Let me give you
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: some stats to prove my point. DC violent crime has
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: dropped twenty two percent after Trump's crackdown. They've had zero
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: homicides in the last week. I'm gonna read you this
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: article and every American. By the way, I will repost
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: this article on my ex account at Ben Ferguson Show.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I'll put it up on Instagram, follow me at Ben
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Ferguson Podcast, and I'll put these stats in my podcast
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: so you can share it. But here are the stats.
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  Speaker 1: Violent crime in DC has dropped twenty two percent over
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the last week following Trump's crackdown the city. The article says.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Fox News Digital detailed the stunning findings, which include the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: fact that as of Wednesday afternoon, there were not one,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not ten, not fifteen, not twenty.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: But zero.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Murders in washing in DC over the last seven days.
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  Speaker 1: That is a feat that has not been seen for months.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Fox News Digital also said a few other studying statistics
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: from the local police union revealing that since Trump's federal takeover,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: carjackings have dropped by eighty three percent, robberies have dropped
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: by forty six percent, zero murders in d C during
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the past week. The White House Officials Rapid Response page
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: also shared the news detailing the quote dramatic reductions in crime.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Here's a local report about it.
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  Speaker 11: When the National Guard hit the ground in Washington last week,
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: that city's crime fight went into overdrive. And now we're
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: seeing the impact and the dramatic reductions in crime. When
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: the National Guard rolled into Washington last week, the locals
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: seem skeptical.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: The crime is minimal here, it's not really a lot
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: of crime here. Lived at the window dress up to me.
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: But with the Guard on the ground, crime is on
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  Speaker 11: the decline for the first time in a long time.
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  Speaker 11: DC has gone seven days without a homicide, and that's
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: down forty six percent, carthif's down twenty one percent, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
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  Speaker 12: When you have these kind of numbers going down, it
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: basically says this is a success and that means people
• 28:28
  Speaker 12: feel safer.
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  Speaker 11: Like many big cities, Washington's police department is critically short staff.
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: People who don't feel safe aren't free.
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: Sergeant Betsy Smith with the National Police Association says it
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: is ripe for federal health.
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: More police generally equals less crime.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: More police, what an idea, More police generally means less crime.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: This is not hard to figure out. Why would all
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: these other cities not want Donald Trump's help. Forget the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: mayor's forget the politics. Why would any city right now
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: not be screaming, mister President, please help us. We need
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the National Guard. Send them in. We want our carjackings
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: down eighty three percent. We want robberies down forty six percent,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: we want car theft down twenty one percent. We want
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: overall violent crime down twenty two percent. That is in
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a seven day period. This is the dramatic reduction crime,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and these numbers do seem shocking to me. I also
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: want to be clear about that, and probably it's because
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: we've been living in such an abusive relationship in these
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: big seas or so long that it seems impossible to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: stop the violent crime. When you grow up in a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: violent city, one of the most violent seas in America,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it's a it's an abusive relationship. I grew up in Memphis.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I say it again. I love my city, I really do.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: But I can tell you this. I wouldn't tell anybody
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to move there right now. In fact, I tell most
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of my friends when we talk about this stuff, get out.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: It's not worth your family's life. It's not worth living
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: in fear. When I moved out of Memphis, I moved
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: from one of the most dangerous cities in a ma America,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the murder capital of America, to one of the safest
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: cities in all of America. And do you want to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: know what happened. It took me about sixty days to
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: figure out just how much my life was consumed with
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: thinking about safety. About six months in I actually forgot
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to lock my door one night at my house and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I laughed the next morning, because there's no way in
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: hell I would ever do that in Memphis and sea
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like it would. That accident doesn't happen in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: The idea of not locking your door would not be
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: an option when you live in a violent city. And
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: if you're listening to me right now and you live
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: in one of these cities, you know exactly what I'm
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: talking about, Like you understand it. You're like, yeah, there's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: no way in hell. When I was a little boy,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: we went to Batano, North Dakota, seat my great grandmother.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And when you grow up in Memphis, there's a lot
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of rules. My dad was by the way law enforcement,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: so there was like he knew and we knew just
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: how dangerous the city was. And I remember going to Botno,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: North Dakota my great grandmother, she was I think in
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: her eighties at the time, and we got there and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: there was two things this little child, I'll never forget.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Number One, they always left the keys and the ignition
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in the car and the driveway. No one was stealing
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: cars in Botno, North Dakota. They had a real sense
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of community. Number two, and this is even more important,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: they had a community where everybody walked and everybody went
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to church. When you have a safe city, you have
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a real community. People don't stay in their houses and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: lock their doors. They go outside and they have an
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: open door policy to their family, their friends, and their neighbors.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And the most amazing thing that ever happened when I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: was a little kid. It was one of those moments that,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: like they say, is a core memory. Was when I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: was there, My gr great grandmother looked at me and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I was a little kid, My sister was little, and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: she handed us money and she said, you guys, walk
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: down the store and go get yourself some candy. And
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: my parents said, yeah, yeah, y'all go down there. We
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: looked at my mom and my dad like they were insane.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't I When I lived in Memphis, you had to.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: My mom would walk out into the street to watch
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: me walk down to our neighbor's house to make sure
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I made it safely. And I wasn't allowed to walk
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: home until I called, so they could walk outside and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: watch me walk back down the street. And those same
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: parents are telling me and bot, no, North Dakota, you
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: can go the grocery store and go shopping by yourself.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I was like, what, I didn't even know what drugs were.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I was so young, but I knew something wasn't right.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be nice if we got back to that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: way of life? And the President of United States of
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: America is telling every one of these cities you can
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: do this. We are ready to do it with you,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: we are ready to help you. And the only thing
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that's holding these cities back is the arrogance of the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Democratic Marxists and socialists and communists that are running these cities.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: They would rather their constituents live in fear. They would
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: rather than ode on fetnyl. They would rather than be raped,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: they would rather than be shot. They'd rather them be
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: murdered than to actually work with Donald Trump, because Orange
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Man apparently is so bad that they just can't work
• 33:23
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• 33:30
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