Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / Trump Bringing Peace to the Ukraine War plus DC Crime Plummets

Transcript

Trump Bringing Peace to the Ukraine War plus DC Crime Plummets · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

0:01
Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
0:04
Speaker 1: with you, so nice to have you with us, and
0:05
Speaker 1: Senator We've got two big stories that we're gonna be
0:07
Speaker 1: talking about. One of them is this incredible movement we've
0:12
Speaker 1: seen with Russia and also with Ukraine. This is significant movement.
0:17
Speaker 1: The media is fighting against us, saying no to it.
0:19
Speaker 1: Now look what we're seeing deals getting done.
0:21
Speaker 2: Well, Listen, I'm cautiously optimistic. Let's not get ahead of
0:25
Speaker 2: ourselves and celebrate, but we are making progress towards peace.
0:29
Speaker 3: In Ukraine.
0:30
Speaker 2: We had in the last several days, President Trump met
0:33
Speaker 2: with Putin in Alaska, had a positive meeting, and then
0:37
Speaker 2: on Monday he had a meeting with President Zelenski, multiple
0:40
Speaker 2: European heads of state in Washington in the White House,
0:44
Speaker 2: again another positive meeting. We are making real significant steps
0:48
Speaker 2: towards peace. We're gonna break it down. We're gonna tell
0:50
Speaker 2: you where things stand right now. We're gonna tell you
0:52
Speaker 2: where each of the players are, and we're gonna tell
0:54
Speaker 2: you what's.
0:55
Speaker 3: Likely to happen next.
0:56
Speaker 2: We're also gonna talk on today's podcast about DC and
1:01
Speaker 2: when President Trump federalized the police department in DC pursuant
1:05
Speaker 2: to his authority under the Constitution, his authority under the
1:07
Speaker 2: DC Home Rule Statute. The Democrats freaked out, the media
1:11
Speaker 2: freaked out. The worst thing they could imagine was having
1:14
Speaker 2: a Republican president step in and actually stop violent crime.
1:18
Speaker 2: Well that has happened. The numbers are stunning. Violent crime
1:21
Speaker 2: has plummeted. We're going to break down the results of that.
1:24
Speaker 2: And the attendant freak out from the Democrats. This is
1:27
Speaker 2: yet another week of real, meaningful successes for the Trump
1:31
Speaker 2: presidency and its differences that are making a difference for
1:34
Speaker 2: Americans across the country.
1:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's certainly going to be very interesting to see
1:37
Speaker 1: what happens with all these others.
1:39
Speaker 4: As you mentioned, all these other cities.
1:41
Speaker 1: And if this is so successful, how do you then
1:45
Speaker 1: say we don't want help to save lives in our cities.
1:48
Speaker 4: We're going to break all that down, I promise you.
1:50
Speaker 2: The Democrats will say that they don't want help in
1:52
Speaker 2: New York, they don't want help in Chicago, they don't
1:54
Speaker 2: want help in la they don't want help in any
1:56
Speaker 2: city in America run by a Democrat mayor, because they
1:59
Speaker 2: rather crime be high than actually allow the police to
2:03
Speaker 2: arrest the violent criminals. That's spoiler alert, but we're going
2:06
Speaker 2: to get to that in the second story today.
2:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
2:09
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about our friend's over at Patriot
2:11
Speaker 1: Mobile real quick. If you've never heard about Patriot Mobile,
2:13
Speaker 1: they're an amazing company. My cell phone that I have
2:17
Speaker 1: is with Patriot Mobile. I travel all over the place.
2:19
Speaker 1: Literally tonight, I'm doing my show from a hotel on
2:22
Speaker 1: the road, and I have had phenomenal service because they
2:25
Speaker 1: operate on the three largest major networks in the country.
2:28
Speaker 1: Now why did I switch to Patriot Mobile. Number One,
2:31
Speaker 1: they save me cash on my monthly bill. But two,
2:34
Speaker 1: they're actually giving back to causes I care about. You
2:36
Speaker 1: may not realize, but Big Mobile they get big, big,
2:40
Speaker 1: big donations the Democratic Causes, candidates and organizations. They also
2:44
Speaker 1: give money to organizations that support abortion. If you don't
2:47
Speaker 1: want your money going there, then why not make a
2:50
Speaker 1: difference in every call you make, with every text you
2:53
Speaker 1: send in with every bill you pay. That's where the
2:55
Speaker 1: amazing work a Patriot Mobile does comes into play. When
2:58
Speaker 1: you pay your bill, five percent of that bill every
3:00
Speaker 1: month goes back to support conservative causes. Add no extra
3:04
Speaker 1: cost to you that support our First or Secondmendment rights.
3:07
Speaker 1: They also stand with law enforcement. They stand with our
3:10
Speaker 1: wounded warriors and our veterans, and they give back big
3:15
Speaker 1: every year. That's why I love them, and I want
3:18
Speaker 1: you to try it now. I'm gonna give you a
3:19
Speaker 1: free month of service. By the way, if you're in
3:21
Speaker 1: a contract, don't worry about. They have a contract buy
3:24
Speaker 1: out program right now. Maybe you owe some money on
3:26
Speaker 1: a phone, call them. They can help you get out
3:29
Speaker 1: of that as well. Nine to seven to two Patriot
3:32
Speaker 1: is the number. That's nine seven to two Patriot or
3:35
Speaker 1: online at Patriotmobile dot com slash verdict. Switching is easy,
3:40
Speaker 1: just takes a few minutes over the phone or at
3:42
Speaker 1: your office. You can call them and you'll get that
3:44
Speaker 1: free month of service as well. Keep your same number,
3:47
Speaker 1: same cell phone, or upgrade to a new one Patriot
3:49
Speaker 1: Mobile dot com slash verdict or nine seven to two
3:52
Speaker 1: Patriot promo code vertict for a free month of service.
3:56
Speaker 1: Check them out. All right, So let's talk about this meeting.
3:59
Speaker 2: I want to all right, before we do, I gotta
4:01
Speaker 2: tell you. You mentioned you're on the road, Yes, so
4:05
Speaker 2: where are you? You could see Bennis in front of
4:08
Speaker 2: the most drab uh drapes in a hotel. I'm actually
4:13
Speaker 2: wondering if you're like in the red Light district, if
4:15
Speaker 2: this is something that you pay like by the minute
4:18
Speaker 2: you put a quarter in the bed. So where are
4:20
Speaker 2: you and and and and why are the drapes so
4:23
Speaker 2: drab behind you?
4:24
Speaker 3: All right?
4:24
Speaker 1: So it's a very bougie room. I'm not gonna lie.
4:27
Speaker 1: I didn't book it. I think it's called the Conrad.
4:29
Speaker 1: It's very nice. But the drapes they have, otherwise you'd
4:33
Speaker 1: be seeing the skyline behind me. I hit the clothes
4:36
Speaker 1: button beforehand, and they're like these tan drapes. But they
4:38
Speaker 1: look very as you mentioned. Yes, I agree with you.
4:41
Speaker 1: It does look like I'm in a motel six outdoor
4:43
Speaker 1: entry hotel right now.
4:44
Speaker 4: So that's I'm in now?
4:45
Speaker 3: So in what in web site Nashville? All right? All right,
4:48
Speaker 3: so pull the drapes behind.
4:49
Speaker 4: Let's see the Skytish Vegas.
4:51
Speaker 1: All right, let's see it on, let's see it. They'll
4:53
Speaker 1: open there we go, hold on, they're automatic drapes. I
4:56
Speaker 1: love that you're making me do this. Can you see
4:58
Speaker 1: the skyline? You guys? You see it's real nice back there?
5:01
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
5:02
Speaker 2: All right, that's that's uh, you know it did. There's
5:07
Speaker 2: not just actually a crack dealer your window.
5:09
Speaker 3: So that's good.
5:11
Speaker 1: Look look look automatic drapes behind me. Can you see
5:14
Speaker 1: the moving automatically? All right?
5:17
Speaker 2: From now on, we'll have to address you aie Ben.
5:21
Speaker 4: I love it.
5:22
Speaker 1: I'm just glad you dressed up for me. You know
5:24
Speaker 1: I was. I'm in my travel gear right now.
5:27
Speaker 3: You know, I'm just glad you're wearing travels.
5:29
Speaker 1: That's that's, that's very true. So let's talk about this.
5:33
Speaker 1: That the implosion of the media over what we just witnessed.
5:37
Speaker 4: So let's just go back a couple of days ago.
5:40
Speaker 1: They said, like uniformly the media that a guy by
5:44
Speaker 1: the name of Vladimir Putin played Donald Trump, that this
5:48
Speaker 1: was a disaster, the meeting in Alaska, it was gonna
5:52
Speaker 1: go nowhere. They were saying that there was no movement,
5:55
Speaker 1: no real deal done. You fast forward days the Lensky
5:59
Speaker 1: shows up, Your and leaders show up, and they're all
6:02
Speaker 1: sitting there going, let's get this done. Let's move forward.
6:06
Speaker 1: Zielenski even wore a suit. Some said it looked like
6:08
Speaker 1: a ten year old. After they get their first suit
6:10
Speaker 1: at j C. Pennies. The way he was dressed up.
6:12
Speaker 1: It is kind of funny if you saw that meme
6:13
Speaker 1: going around, because it is exactly what I looked like
6:16
Speaker 1: when I was smiling when I wore my first suit
6:17
Speaker 1: when I was like ten years old.
6:18
Speaker 4: It was one of the best memes I've ever seen.
6:21
Speaker 1: But he show up for his suit instead that you know,
6:24
Speaker 1: I know, I know, except for instead of the military.
6:26
Speaker 4: You know, Garby normally wears.
6:29
Speaker 1: And he clearly was there in a very different tone
6:31
Speaker 1: than he was the first meeting when he was very
6:34
Speaker 1: combative with Donald Trump. And now we have a structure
6:38
Speaker 1: that is being laid out publicly.
6:40
Speaker 3: Yeah.
6:41
Speaker 2: So look, we had this weekend, the meeting in Alaska
6:44
Speaker 2: between President Trump and and Putin, and you're right, the
6:48
Speaker 2: media freaked out. We did a deep dive on that
6:50
Speaker 2: meeting in Monday's podcast. If you didn't listen to Monday's podcast,
6:53
Speaker 2: you got to go back and listen to it. But
6:56
Speaker 2: the disconnect between what actually happened between President Trump in
7:00
Speaker 2: Putin and what the media reported is night and day.
7:04
Speaker 2: Because they are rooting for the president to fail. They
7:07
Speaker 2: are rooting for America to fail, and the Democrats are
7:10
Speaker 2: rooting for the president to fail in America to fail,
7:12
Speaker 2: and I have to say we're making real and material progress.
7:16
Speaker 2: I believe the war in Ukraine will be over by
7:20
Speaker 2: the end of the year. I think we are on
7:21
Speaker 2: a path to do that. Understand, Donald Trump campaigned on
7:25
Speaker 2: ending this war. The American people elected him. That was
7:28
Speaker 2: part of the mandate.
7:29
Speaker 3: Is that.
7:29
Speaker 2: I think the American people are done with a blank
7:34
Speaker 2: check with sending billions of dollars to Ukraine with no limit,
7:38
Speaker 2: just on and on for NonStop war. The American people
7:41
Speaker 2: are ready for this to be over. Now, what I've
7:44
Speaker 2: advised the President, what I've encouraged the President, is it
7:47
Speaker 2: needs to end. It's going to end in a negotiated settlement,
7:50
Speaker 2: but it needs to end in a way that is
7:51
Speaker 2: a clear and discernible loss for Putin.
7:54
Speaker 3: That is a.
7:55
Speaker 2: Loss for Russia because Russia is not our friend. They
7:58
Speaker 2: are our enemy, and we want weaker and not stronger. Now,
8:02
Speaker 2: the media tried to say the meeting with Putin was
8:05
Speaker 2: a disaster. The world was on fire, cats and dogs
8:07
Speaker 2: living together, signs of the end, time to armageddon. And
8:11
Speaker 2: then we had the meeting, yeah, in the White House,
8:14
Speaker 2: with Zelenski and with the European heads of state, and
8:18
Speaker 2: even with the dishonest corporate media, they couldn't spend this.
8:21
Speaker 2: I want you to listen to the finished president his
8:24
Speaker 2: assessment of what has happened in the last couple of weeks.
8:27
Speaker 3: Give a listen. And by the way, Alex, I'd like
8:29
Speaker 3: you to say a couple of words too. You're a young,
8:32
Speaker 3: powerful man.
8:34
Speaker 4: Before I finish up, I want you to say a
8:36
Speaker 4: couple of words. Go ahead.
8:39
Speaker 5: I'll take the notion of youth back to my wife
8:42
Speaker 5: and try to convince her. Thank you very much, mister President.
8:45
Speaker 5: I think in the past two weeks we've probably had
8:50
Speaker 5: more progress in ending this war than we have in
8:53
Speaker 5: the past three and a half years. And I think
8:55
Speaker 5: the fact that we're around this table today is very
8:58
Speaker 5: much symbolic in the sense that it's team Europe and
9:02
Speaker 5: team United States helping Ukraine.
9:05
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, well, Ben, that's exactly what you and
9:08
Speaker 2: I said on Monday's pod, which is that we made
9:11
Speaker 2: more progress towards peace in Ukraine in the last couple
9:15
Speaker 2: of weeks than we have in three and a half years.
9:17
Speaker 2: But when you and I were saying it, the media
9:18
Speaker 2: dismisses it. You've now got the President of Finland saying that,
9:22
Speaker 2: and by the way, not just Finland. I want you
9:24
Speaker 2: to listen now to Keer Starmer from the United Kingdom,
9:26
Speaker 2: give a listen.
9:27
Speaker 6: Thinks it is such an important meeting as a group.
9:29
Speaker 6: I think we've had a discussion on the phone a
9:32
Speaker 6: number of times, was the President, but be able now
9:34
Speaker 6: to be around the table to take it forward, and
9:36
Speaker 6: I really feel that we can, I think, with the
9:40
Speaker 6: right approach this afternoon, make real progress, particularly on the
9:44
Speaker 6: security guarantees, and your indication of security guarantees of some
9:48
Speaker 6: sort of Article five style guarantees fits with what we've
9:51
Speaker 6: been doing with the Coalition of the Willing, which we
9:53
Speaker 6: started some months ago, bringing countries together and showing that
9:57
Speaker 6: we were prepared to step up to the plate when
9:59
Speaker 6: it came security. With you coming alongside the US, alongside
10:04
Speaker 6: what we've already developed, I think we could take a
10:07
Speaker 6: really important step forward today. A historic step actually could
10:11
Speaker 6: come out of this meeting in terms of security for
10:13
Speaker 6: Ukraine and security in Europe. I also feel that we
10:18
Speaker 6: can make real progress towards a just and lasting outcome.
10:24
Speaker 6: Obviously that has to involve Ukraine and a trilateral meeting
10:28
Speaker 6: seems the sensible next step. So thank you for being
10:31
Speaker 6: prepared to take that forward, because I think if we
10:35
Speaker 6: can ensure that that is the progress out of this meeting,
10:40
Speaker 6: both security guarantees and some sort of progress on trilateral
10:44
Speaker 6: meeting of some sort to bring some of the difficult
10:47
Speaker 6: issues to a head, then I think today we'll be
10:51
Speaker 6: seen as a very important day in recent years in
10:54
Speaker 6: relation to a conflict which has gone on for three
10:56
Speaker 6: and a bit years, and so nobody's able to bring
11:00
Speaker 6: it to this point.
11:01
Speaker 4: So I thank you for that no one's been able
11:03
Speaker 4: to bring it to this point.
11:04
Speaker 1: I think that is a very big accolade from the
11:07
Speaker 1: leaders at the table. He also and I want to
11:10
Speaker 1: get your explanation for people say understand this, because if
11:14
Speaker 1: you don't understand it, it's complicated. Trump has pledged US
11:19
Speaker 1: quote support for NATO style security guarantees. You heard it
11:22
Speaker 1: mentioned there in that quote for Ukraine, while emphasizing that
11:26
Speaker 1: Europe would serve quote as the first line of defense.
11:30
Speaker 1: NATO officials also urge that this would be vitally important
11:35
Speaker 1: to getting a deal done and even a ceasefire. So
11:38
Speaker 1: explain NATO style security guarantees. What does that mean? For
11:43
Speaker 1: people that don't understand.
11:44
Speaker 3: That, well, listen.
11:45
Speaker 2: One of the things that we covered in Monday's pod
11:49
Speaker 2: is that Putin in the meeting in Alaska, he conceded
11:52
Speaker 2: explicitly that there needed to be some clear security guarantees
11:55
Speaker 2: for Ukraine that when this war comes to an end,
11:58
Speaker 2: which I believe will happen this year, that Ukraine has
12:01
Speaker 2: some confidence that they're not going to wake up in January, February,
12:04
Speaker 2: and March and see Russian tanks once again crossing their borders.
12:08
Speaker 2: I think the negotiated settlement will include some monokoo security guarantees. Now,
12:13
Speaker 2: what it will not include is Ukraine joining NATO. And
12:17
Speaker 2: I oppose Ukraine joining NATO. I've been vocal for a
12:20
Speaker 2: long time Ukraine should not join NATO. Why is that
12:23
Speaker 2: because under NATO, under Article five of NATO, the member
12:27
Speaker 2: States of NATO take on an obligation to defend any
12:31
Speaker 2: one of the members if they are invaded. And I
12:34
Speaker 2: am not interested in a treaty obligation to put US
12:38
Speaker 2: troops in harms way. I don't believe President Trump is
12:41
Speaker 2: going to enter into any agreement that puts US troops
12:44
Speaker 2: in harms way. And so the emphasis and you put
12:47
Speaker 2: it exactly right, Ben, is that security guarantees should put
12:50
Speaker 2: Europe on the front line. If the Brits, if the French,
12:53
Speaker 2: if the Germans to want to commit, if Russia violates
12:57
Speaker 2: the borders, they'll come in and defend Ukraine. Knock yourself out.
13:01
Speaker 2: You guys believe in it. That's fine. We will facilitate
13:06
Speaker 2: the resolution. But I do not think there is any
13:10
Speaker 2: will to war on the part of the United States
13:12
Speaker 2: to put US troops on the ground. And it's not
13:14
Speaker 2: just me saying this. So I want you to listen
13:18
Speaker 2: to Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, when she
13:21
Speaker 2: was asked about this.
13:22
Speaker 3: Here give a listen to what Caroline.
13:23
Speaker 4: Had to say.
13:24
Speaker 7: The President has definitively stated US boots will not be
13:28
Speaker 7: on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help
13:30
Speaker 7: in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security
13:33
Speaker 7: guarantees to our European allies. The President understands security guarantees
13:37
Speaker 7: are crucially important to ensure a lasting piece, and he
13:41
Speaker 7: has directed his National Security team to coordinate with our
13:45
Speaker 7: friends in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and
13:47
Speaker 7: discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia.
13:50
Speaker 8: As well.
13:51
Speaker 1: You listen to Caroline Levitt there, and there's a theme
13:54
Speaker 1: that we continue to get from the Trump foreign policy doctrine.
13:57
Speaker 1: It cannot always be America everything. He is holding other
14:02
Speaker 1: countries accountable, saying you need to step up, Yes you
14:05
Speaker 1: need to lead, Yes you need to do this. President
14:08
Speaker 1: clarified three times, and that was my counting. It may
14:11
Speaker 1: even be more, but I heard him three times clearly
14:14
Speaker 1: say he had continued and saying it for a long time,
14:17
Speaker 1: just like you mentioned opposition to Ukrainian NATO membership and
14:22
Speaker 1: noted even that there may have to be territorial concessions
14:26
Speaker 1: for a deal to get done. So again he's saying
14:28
Speaker 1: to Europe and all these other leaders, you guys need
14:31
Speaker 1: to step up. America is not going to fund all this.
14:34
Speaker 1: We're not going to get in these wars. We're not
14:36
Speaker 1: gonna do everything on the backs of American taxpayers. I
14:39
Speaker 1: think that's very popular in this country right now.
14:43
Speaker 3: I think that's right.
14:44
Speaker 2: And listen, the contrast between this meeting and the last
14:48
Speaker 2: meeting with President Zelensky in the Oval Office is night
14:51
Speaker 2: and day. The last meeting, and we covered that extensively
14:54
Speaker 2: on this podcast. The last meeting with Zelensky was a disaster.
14:59
Speaker 2: It was a train wreck. It will go down in
15:01
Speaker 2: history as the worst as the least successful Oval Office
15:06
Speaker 2: meeting in history. Why because President Zelensky came in looking
15:10
Speaker 2: to pick a fight with President Trump. He came in
15:13
Speaker 2: arrogant and belligerent and demanding. He was like a petulant child.
15:18
Speaker 2: You need to defend me, You owe it to me.
15:21
Speaker 2: And I think Zelensky had spent too much time with
15:24
Speaker 2: the New York Times and with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
15:26
Speaker 2: Schumer and believe their talking points. And I got to
15:29
Speaker 2: tell you, look in this no US president would allow
15:35
Speaker 2: a foreign leader to come into the Oval Office and
15:37
Speaker 2: address him the way Zelensky did the last time, and
15:40
Speaker 2: especially not Donald Trump. So it went very badly. This
15:43
Speaker 2: time was night and day. As you noted, he put
15:45
Speaker 2: on a suit, he demonstrated some respect. And listen, I
15:49
Speaker 2: understand why Zelenski's position has been they don't want to
15:53
Speaker 2: give up one inch of their territory. If if you
15:56
Speaker 2: were the president of Ukraine, you'd probably say the same thing. Man,
15:58
Speaker 2: I understand why he's said saying that, But that is
16:02
Speaker 2: not America's national security interest. What is our national security
16:05
Speaker 2: interest is that Russia and Putin not gets significantly stronger
16:11
Speaker 2: because they're an enemy to America. And I'll tell you
16:13
Speaker 2: I want to throw it down a marker that I
16:15
Speaker 2: think is really important in terms of the negotiated settlement
16:18
Speaker 2: that occurs here. I think energy is front and center.
16:22
Speaker 2: We've talked a lot on this podcast about how Joe
16:25
Speaker 2: Biden caused the war in Ukraine, that his weakness, the
16:29
Speaker 2: disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan emboldened Putin and all of our enemies,
16:34
Speaker 2: and also how Biden's waiving the sanctions on Nordstream two
16:38
Speaker 2: caused this war. I authored those sanctions, I wrote that legislation.
16:43
Speaker 2: Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and as Putin
16:47
Speaker 2: said in Alaska just a couple of days ago, if
16:49
Speaker 2: Trump had still been in the Oval Office, there would
16:52
Speaker 2: be no war in Ukraine. Russia would not have invaded
16:56
Speaker 2: in this settlement. What I think is very important, I
16:59
Speaker 2: would like to see Ukraine and the rest of Europe
17:03
Speaker 2: sign an agreement to buy their energy, buy their oil
17:06
Speaker 2: and gas from the United States. And let's be clear
17:09
Speaker 2: from Texas. Texas, we have the resources. That's good for America,
17:14
Speaker 2: but they should not return to buying oil and gas
17:19
Speaker 2: from Russia. When I meet with European heads of state
17:22
Speaker 2: and foreign ministers, this is the number one question I
17:25
Speaker 2: asked them. When this war is over, are you going
17:28
Speaker 2: to go back to buying Russian oil and gas? Are
17:30
Speaker 2: you going to go back to sending billions of dollars
17:33
Speaker 2: to fuel the Russian war machine? Or are you going
17:36
Speaker 2: to use this as an opportunity to pivot towards a
17:39
Speaker 2: friend and ally.
17:40
Speaker 3: And I think.
17:41
Speaker 2: Leaving resolving this war with a major energy agreement for
17:46
Speaker 2: Ukraine and Europe to buy their energy from America. I
17:50
Speaker 2: think that is a powerful America first outcome, and it's
17:55
Speaker 2: also an outcome where Putin will not have scored a
17:58
Speaker 2: major victory. If that is the resolution, I hope very
18:02
Speaker 2: much that's the direction the President takes this.
18:04
Speaker 1: All of you know that I am a pro Second
18:07
Speaker 1: Amendment guy. I've shared on numerous occasions how caring my
18:10
Speaker 1: firearms saved my life from a gang related attack. But
18:13
Speaker 1: for those of you out there with family members who
18:16
Speaker 1: may not be comfortable having a gun by their side,
18:18
Speaker 1: you still want them to be able to protect themselves
18:21
Speaker 1: and others in times of danger. And that's where the
18:23
Speaker 1: Burno Launcher comes in Berna is a handheld pistol that
18:27
Speaker 1: fires both kinetic rounds and chemical irritants to separate you
18:31
Speaker 1: from an attacker. And I'm here with Josh Cherrard from
18:33
Speaker 1: Berna to share the true story of how an avid
18:37
Speaker 1: hiker uses burning to stop an attacking mountain lion. Josh
18:40
Speaker 1: tell us what happened?
18:41
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, Jason is an avid hiker deciding to
18:44
Speaker 8: take his family out on a hiper he's done several times,
18:48
Speaker 8: super easy, high but super fun, all armed with his Berna.
18:52
Speaker 8: You know, this is one of those things where he
18:53
Speaker 8: didn't expect to see anything, and all of a sudden,
18:55
Speaker 8: on this hike, this mountain lion appears out of no work.
18:58
Speaker 8: Of course, he sends his family on down the trail,
19:01
Speaker 8: watches the line for a few minutes, realizing it's not
19:04
Speaker 8: going away, so uses his burner, fires a few rounds
19:07
Speaker 8: to scare it off. Continues down the trail, but unfortunately,
19:10
Speaker 8: this mountain lion appears again, at which point he realized
19:14
Speaker 8: he was going to have to up his aggression with
19:16
Speaker 8: that burner. Fire's four rounds was able to strike the
19:19
Speaker 8: mountain lion all four times at chest and torso, at
19:21
Speaker 8: which point that mountain lion airs off, never to be
19:24
Speaker 8: seen again. These guys make it down the trail, back
19:27
Speaker 8: to their car and back to home safely. Fortunately, this
19:31
Speaker 8: is all it took to make sure and get this
19:34
Speaker 8: family back home safe off a hike that could have
19:36
Speaker 8: taken an obvious turn for the worst.
19:38
Speaker 1: And I'm going to guess that burner has been used
19:40
Speaker 1: to stop other types of animal attacks as well.
19:43
Speaker 8: Absolutely, we get stories all the time of users with
19:47
Speaker 8: whether it be dogs or other wildlife. We even have
19:50
Speaker 8: an ecological park whose security carries burna four bears out
19:55
Speaker 8: in the smoky mountains out there. That's been effective there
19:58
Speaker 8: as well, So once again not just a tool for people,
20:01
Speaker 8: but very effective against animals as well.
20:03
Speaker 4: It's really incredible.
20:04
Speaker 1: If you want to get more information on how you
20:06
Speaker 1: and your family member can protect themselves with the Burner launcher,
20:10
Speaker 1: go to Berna dot com. That's by r Inna dot com.
20:15
Speaker 1: Again by RNA dot com Burna dot com. All right,
20:20
Speaker 1: let's go down this path because this is a very
20:22
Speaker 1: interesting point and I want to ask you because I
20:25
Speaker 1: look at Russia right now. Russia's economy is teetering. A
20:29
Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize this. They really cannot afford
20:32
Speaker 1: for this war to go on much longer. Part of
20:34
Speaker 1: the reason why I'm guessing you're saying you believe this
20:37
Speaker 1: timeline that we're going to end this war by the
20:38
Speaker 1: end of this year, is the financial impact this is
20:42
Speaker 1: having on Russia. And Vladimir Putin does not want to
20:44
Speaker 1: get to the point where there's a revolt in his
20:46
Speaker 1: country because they're so gone. Economically, there's also he needs
20:50
Speaker 1: to start selling oil because that is what gives life
20:55
Speaker 1: to his you know, being in charge of this country.
20:58
Speaker 1: It gives him his power, or it makes the people
21:01
Speaker 1: kind of sit back down and and and just go
21:04
Speaker 1: along to get along in essence, which is the way
21:06
Speaker 1: of life unfortunately under Vladimir Putin in Russia. But if
21:09
Speaker 1: he doesn't get this done soon, he's in trouble economically.
21:13
Speaker 1: You mentioned this agreement with the US these other countries.
21:17
Speaker 1: How does that work. Does it say we're not buying
21:19
Speaker 1: Russian oil and then Russia says, fine, we would just
21:21
Speaker 1: keep lowering our price so eventually you'll bit it again.
21:24
Speaker 1: Explain to me how that would work.
21:26
Speaker 2: Look, I think you negotiate an agreement. Ukraine wants to
21:29
Speaker 2: buy American oil and American natural gas, and this is
21:33
Speaker 2: a little bit like predatory pricing in the antitrust context.
21:37
Speaker 2: I think many European countries realize that Russia uses energy
21:41
Speaker 2: for economic blackmail, that they offer low prices to get
21:44
Speaker 2: Europe hooked. It's kind of like a drug dealer going
21:46
Speaker 2: to a junior high saying here, try a free sample,
21:49
Speaker 2: just enjoy it, and they're trying to get you hooked.
21:51
Speaker 2: And Russia and Putin in particular, has a long history
21:55
Speaker 2: then of jacking up prices when he wants to extort
21:58
Speaker 2: Europe or cutting off energy supplies when he wants to
22:03
Speaker 2: get concessions from them. Look, if you're in Europe and
22:06
Speaker 2: it's the dead of winner and you're relying on gas
22:08
Speaker 2: to heat your houses and Russia can shut you off,
22:11
Speaker 2: that gives them enormous leverage. And Putin is demonstrated he
22:14
Speaker 2: will use that leverage to engage in economic blackmail. So
22:18
Speaker 2: it's not in Europe's interest to be dependent on Russia
22:21
Speaker 2: for energy now. Right now, Russia is selling the bulk
22:25
Speaker 2: of their oil and gas to China and to India.
22:29
Speaker 2: And this is one of the lever points President Trump
22:31
Speaker 2: has is that he is threatened or in post sanctions
22:34
Speaker 2: against both India and China if they continue buying Russian
22:38
Speaker 2: oil and gas. And that's one of the things I
22:40
Speaker 2: believe that's bringing Putin to the table is that if
22:44
Speaker 2: President Trump cuts off his market in China and India,
22:47
Speaker 2: Putin is in a world of hurt. And so that's
22:49
Speaker 2: an incentive for Putin to come in and say, all right,
22:52
Speaker 2: let's reach a resolution. And I think we're going to
22:56
Speaker 2: and it's going to be a resolution. Is Ukraine going
22:58
Speaker 2: to get everything they want? No, but Russia's not going
23:01
Speaker 2: to get everything they want either. And I'll point out,
23:05
Speaker 2: you know, one really important point. I want to read
23:08
Speaker 2: a tweet from Mark Penn. Now, Mark Penn is a
23:12
Speaker 2: polster for the Clintons, for Bill Clinton, for Hillary Clinton.
23:15
Speaker 2: He is a Democrat. Here's what Mark Penn tweeted out.
23:18
Speaker 2: I think it's really important. He said, quote from what
23:21
Speaker 2: I can see, nearly a million people have died in
23:25
Speaker 2: the Ukraine War, and Biden was unable to attend G
23:29
Speaker 2: seven meetings without embarrassing the country. In contrast, Trump is
23:36
Speaker 2: pulling off unprecedented diplomatic feats to advance serious negotiations. That
23:43
Speaker 2: has a reasonable chance of being successful, and the press
23:47
Speaker 2: coverage of it has been ludicrous. If Obama had pulled
23:52
Speaker 2: off these meetings, it would be hailed as a tour
23:56
Speaker 2: de force rather than downplaying in naysaying every we see
24:00
Speaker 2: in the press. He may or may not be successful,
24:05
Speaker 2: but it is an incredible effort that should be respected
24:10
Speaker 2: and applauded, and for the people involved, a new hope
24:14
Speaker 2: for designing a lasting piece with real enforcement, unlike previous
24:20
Speaker 2: empty security guarantees. That is a big deal for Mark
24:25
Speaker 2: Penn to say that, and listen, I retweeted him today,
24:29
Speaker 2: I said, bravo, bravo for saying that he's a Democrat.
24:33
Speaker 2: I feel confident that Mark Penn is not a fan
24:35
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, but he is acknowledging reality. And I
24:40
Speaker 2: don't know of an elected Democrat who is. I don't
24:43
Speaker 2: know of a Democrat governor. I don't know of a
24:44
Speaker 2: Democrat senator who is saying this and the media. I
24:49
Speaker 2: don't want us to get over confident. You know, Reagan
24:52
Speaker 2: famously said about the Soviet Union trust but verify. This
24:56
Speaker 2: could go off the rails a thousand different ways. But
25:00
Speaker 2: I believe President Trump is doing everything humanly possible to
25:04
Speaker 2: resolve this at achieved piece, and that is unequivocally good.
25:08
Speaker 1: Final two questions on this, and it deals with the
25:11
Speaker 1: next steps for people that don't know what we're looking
25:14
Speaker 1: at is by the way, Donald Trump apparently walked out
25:17
Speaker 1: these meetings by himself, went to the Oval by himself,
25:20
Speaker 1: made a phone called Vladimir Putin and said, let's let's
25:24
Speaker 1: get a meeting. Apparently meeting number one would be between
25:27
Speaker 1: him and Zelensky they're working on that, and then there
25:30
Speaker 1: would be a trilateral meeting where he would in essence
25:33
Speaker 1: be the negotiator in the room between Zelenski and Putin.
25:38
Speaker 1: I found that very interesting that he said, you guys
25:41
Speaker 1: meet first, I'll meet the next meeting, and said the
25:45
Speaker 1: other way around. What did you think about that strategy
25:48
Speaker 1: and why do you think he decided to do it
25:51
Speaker 1: that way?
25:51
Speaker 2: Look, I think he believes he's got the leverage to
25:55
Speaker 2: try to push through a deal. And there's no doubt
25:58
Speaker 2: he's got enormous leverage over Ukraine because the United States
26:01
Speaker 2: has been the major funder of this war, and he's
26:05
Speaker 2: got enormous leverage over Russia because the ability to impose
26:08
Speaker 2: sanctions to shut down their ability to sell oil and
26:11
Speaker 2: gas anywhere in the world that is powerful. And those
26:15
Speaker 2: two together and listen, I just think force a personality.
26:18
Speaker 2: I got to say, some of my favorite things watching
26:21
Speaker 2: the last couple of days have been the memes and
26:23
Speaker 2: and and and everything that has come out. When when
26:26
Speaker 2: Trump and Putin were walking together and the b twos
26:28
Speaker 2: fly over and you see Putin do a double take
26:31
Speaker 2: as he like, yeah, literally buzzes Putin with American military might.
26:36
Speaker 2: I think Trump is trying to use every tool he
26:41
Speaker 2: has to resolve this. You know, it was striking Bill
26:45
Speaker 2: Maher this week. He went on TV and to be clear,
26:48
Speaker 2: Bill Maher is is no friend of Donald Trump. But
26:51
Speaker 2: Bill Maher said, I'll tell you this, Trump wants peace,
26:55
Speaker 2: he hates war. That is a really positive thing. And
27:00
Speaker 2: and Hillary Clinton may well regret her tongue in cheek
27:03
Speaker 2: comment that she would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace
27:06
Speaker 2: Prize if he resolved this. Now she put wiggle words
27:09
Speaker 2: in there. So no matter what happened, she's gonna claim no, no, no,
27:12
Speaker 2: he didn't resolve it to my satisfaction. But she's gonna
27:16
Speaker 2: see that quote played back at her one hundred times.
27:20
Speaker 1: You talk about the President having leverage, let's move to Washington,
27:23
Speaker 1: d C. And everyone that said the President was like
27:27
Speaker 1: being a dictator and a tyrant by sending in the
27:30
Speaker 1: National Guard actually trying to fight crime. They said, this
27:33
Speaker 1: was just him being a bully. He was obsessed with
27:36
Speaker 1: the media. This is what tyrants and dictators do. He's
27:39
Speaker 1: gonna roll the National Guard and militarize every city in
27:43
Speaker 1: America that he doesn't like. That was the narrative. Well
27:46
Speaker 1: guess what they got it wrong again. DC Crime since
27:50
Speaker 1: the announcement of the Federal control versus the seven day
27:53
Speaker 1: prior to that, we have that data NOL Center. Please,
27:57
Speaker 1: for everyone that's listening, go through every category of a
28:01
Speaker 1: shock right. I say that sarcastically. More law enforcement on
28:05
Speaker 1: the street, law and order, what happens less crime?
28:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out when you arrest criminals, you get
28:13
Speaker 2: less crime. I know that's a shocking outcome. It's one
28:16
Speaker 2: Democrats don't understand and the media doesn't understand. But everyone
28:20
Speaker 2: whose head is not fully inserted up their rear end
28:23
Speaker 2: gets that point. Here is a tweet from the DC
28:27
Speaker 2: Police Union DC Crime since the announcement of Federal control
28:34
Speaker 2: versus the seven Days prior robbery down forty six percent,
28:40
Speaker 2: carjacking down eighty three percent, car theft down twenty one percent,
28:50
Speaker 2: violent crime down twenty two percent, property crime down six percent,
28:59
Speaker 2: and all all crimes down eight percent. That is in
29:05
Speaker 2: one week, in seven days. And if you hear a
29:09
Speaker 2: wailing in the distance, that is the collective wail of
29:13
Speaker 2: pain and unhappiness of Democrats in the media. Because understood,
29:17
Speaker 2: this is not hyperbole. They are rooting for the criminals.
29:20
Speaker 2: They do not want crime to go down, because if
29:23
Speaker 2: crime goes down, it vindicates President Trump exercising his constitutional
29:27
Speaker 2: authority to concerning d C and exercising his authority is
29:32
Speaker 2: explicit statutory authority under the DC Home Rule Act. The
29:36
Speaker 2: Democrats do not want that.
29:37
Speaker 4: No, they don't.
29:38
Speaker 1: And there's also another aspect of this story, and that
29:42
Speaker 1: is we now have the Justice Department that's investigating whether Washington,
29:46
Speaker 1: DC police manipulated their crime data. Remember I was shoot
29:51
Speaker 1: I was on scene in a week and a half,
29:52
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and they're like, your stats are wrong.
29:56
Speaker 1: Crime is way down. The President doesn't need to do this,
29:59
Speaker 1: everything's moving there direction. Well, it may have looked like
30:02
Speaker 1: crime was down, but now the Justice Department's investigating whether
30:05
Speaker 1: the DC police purposely willfully manipulate the crime data to
30:10
Speaker 1: basically fake people out lie to the systems of DC.
30:14
Speaker 1: And they said, no, no, everything's getting better from last year
30:17
Speaker 1: when it was really, really, really bad.
30:19
Speaker 4: Now it's not as bad.
30:20
Speaker 1: And apparently they may manipulated the numbers, including a whistleblower
30:24
Speaker 1: that they've settled with.
30:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:25
Speaker 2: Look, I can tell you from someone who works in DC.
30:28
Speaker 2: So most weeks I am in d C in the
30:30
Speaker 2: Senate when the Senate's in session. And in the last
30:35
Speaker 2: four years under Joe Biden, the violence in DC has
30:38
Speaker 2: gotten much worse. We've seen Rand Paul had a staffer
30:42
Speaker 2: who was stabbed on a public street at like four
30:44
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, stabbed in the gut. There was a
30:48
Speaker 2: guy who served in the first Trump administration who was
30:51
Speaker 2: shot in the head. It killed at about five pm,
30:55
Speaker 2: sitting in his car on a street in d C.
30:57
Speaker 2: This is not two in the morning in a rough neighborhood.
31:00
Speaker 2: This is in a major metropolitan street.
31:03
Speaker 3: Uh.
31:03
Speaker 2: We we had, uh, you know, not long ago, we
31:08
Speaker 2: had to Israelis murdered by a radical Prohamas pro Palestinian
31:13
Speaker 2: leftist zealot from Chicago and and and DC. As someone
31:18
Speaker 2: who works there, you know it used to be when
31:21
Speaker 2: when I started in the Senate. You know I would,
31:23
Speaker 2: as you know, I love movies. We've done a couple
31:25
Speaker 2: of podcasts where we talk about movies. When I started
31:28
Speaker 2: in the Senate, I used to sometimes if there was
31:30
Speaker 2: a night that I was done, Let's say I was
31:32
Speaker 2: done at eight or nine o'clock at night, there's a
31:34
Speaker 2: movie theater about five blocks from my house. I used
31:37
Speaker 2: to routinely walk up to the movie theater and just
31:39
Speaker 2: go see a movie. I don't do that now. I mean, frankly,
31:43
Speaker 2: at nine o'clock.
31:44
Speaker 1: At night, I know it's movie theater talking about Yeah,
31:46
Speaker 1: no way you do that now.
31:47
Speaker 2: At nine o'clock at night. You don't walk five blocks
31:50
Speaker 2: in d C. I'll tell you. I've got a guy
31:54
Speaker 2: in my security detail in Washington who's a tough guy.
31:58
Speaker 2: He's he's he's been in some some some pretty rough
32:01
Speaker 2: combat situations, you bet him. And he was walking back
32:06
Speaker 2: to the Capitol at ten PM and he had two guys,
32:09
Speaker 2: two teenagers, jump him and try to rob him. Now,
32:13
Speaker 2: now Mark's a pretty tough guy, so he picked picked
32:15
Speaker 2: up one of them. And body slammed them into the
32:17
Speaker 2: back of a car and the two of them ran off.
32:20
Speaker 2: But the violence in DC has gotten really significantly worse.
32:26
Speaker 1: And you know, it's been interesting the reporters that are
32:32
Speaker 1: his chairman, what he said about it.
32:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, the reporters that are honest, who are interviewing d
32:37
Speaker 2: C residents, many of whom most of whom are African American.
32:41
Speaker 2: The residents are saying, thank god, we think this is great.
32:44
Speaker 2: Lock these criminals up. Look, the DC residents don't like
32:48
Speaker 2: living with the risk of dry by sittings. Henry Quayar,
32:50
Speaker 2: who is a Democrat congressman, was carjacked again in the
32:55
Speaker 2: early evening. He was coming home with dinner to his apartment.
32:58
Speaker 2: His apartment building, apparently five other congressman lived in. Carjacked
33:02
Speaker 2: right out in the front of it. And here's what
33:05
Speaker 2: Greg Pemberton, I want you to listen to Greg Pemberton,
33:08
Speaker 2: who was the DC Police union chairman, what he said
33:11
Speaker 2: about the security of DC under Democrats.
33:13
Speaker 3: Give a listen.
33:14
Speaker 9: The criminal justice system here in the District of Columbia
33:17
Speaker 9: is broken. Every aspect of it is broken, whether that's policing, prosecution, judges,
33:22
Speaker 9: and trials, sentencing and supervision. All of it is broken,
33:26
Speaker 9: and you can trace every aspect of it back to
33:29
Speaker 9: a piece of legislation that was passed by the Council.
33:32
Speaker 9: They have destroyed policing, they have destroyed prosecutions, they have
33:35
Speaker 9: destroyed the way that the courts are allowed to operate,
33:37
Speaker 9: and they've destroyed our ability to sentence criminals to sentences
33:40
Speaker 9: that are commensurate with the crimes they've committed. And so
33:43
Speaker 9: the only way to fix this holistically is to go
33:45
Speaker 9: back and look at all of this legislation that the
33:47
Speaker 9: Council passed it back in twenty twenty when there was
33:50
Speaker 9: all of this anti police rhetoric and work to undo that.
33:54
Speaker 9: I know from my experiences the DC Council will never
33:57
Speaker 9: do that on their own. And so what we're hoping
33:59
Speaker 9: over the course of the next thirty days is that
34:01
Speaker 9: whether that's the White House, whether that's these federal law
34:03
Speaker 9: enforcement agencies, whether that's Congress, that people get an insight
34:07
Speaker 9: into exactly how the system got so broken, because the
34:10
Speaker 9: only way to fix it is if we can get
34:12
Speaker 9: rid of that legislation. And my main concern is that
34:14
Speaker 9: thirty days are going to go by all of these
34:17
Speaker 9: folks are going to go up about their merry way
34:19
Speaker 9: and we're still going to be stuck with all this
34:20
Speaker 9: bad law.
34:21
Speaker 4: Like He's like, we know what's wrong, we know it's wrong.
34:23
Speaker 1: We know exactly what's wrong, and if they don't fix it,
34:26
Speaker 1: we're going to be back here. Thank good as the
34:29
Speaker 1: President stepped in here and the citizens. I go back
34:32
Speaker 1: to the media narrative here center, the citizens overwhelmingly trust
34:37
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to fight crime more than they trusted Joe Biden.
34:40
Speaker 1: And the citizens in Washington, d C. Overwhelmingly or trusting
34:44
Speaker 1: the strategy of Donald Trump then their own city council
34:48
Speaker 1: members and their mayor. And that is a threat I
34:51
Speaker 1: think to all these other high crime cities Memphis, Baltimore.
34:54
Speaker 4: Detroit, New Orleans.
34:56
Speaker 3: That'll still fish on.
34:58
Speaker 4: San Francisco, LA.
35:00
Speaker 1: Because yeah, if this works, how do you then say
35:04
Speaker 1: no when the President offers you help or national guard.
35:08
Speaker 2: So understand, this is the same principle with securing the border.
35:12
Speaker 2: So a year ago at the State of the Union address,
35:14
Speaker 2: Joe Biden said he could not secure the border. He
35:16
Speaker 2: needed new legislation from Congress in order to secure the border.
35:20
Speaker 2: We had at the time the highest rate of illegal immigration.
35:23
Speaker 2: In our nation's history, we had criminals and murderers, and
35:25
Speaker 2: gang members and rapists and child molesters and terrorists streaming
35:29
Speaker 2: across the border, and he said he was helpless to
35:31
Speaker 2: fix it. Donald Trump came in and the rate of
35:35
Speaker 2: illegal border crossings dropped over ninety nine percent. As President
35:41
Speaker 2: Trump said in the most recent State of the Union address,
35:44
Speaker 2: it turns out we didn't need new legislation, We just
35:47
Speaker 2: needed a new president. The same is true in DC.
35:51
Speaker 2: If we see violent crime numbers continue to go down
35:54
Speaker 2: and stay down, that demonstrates we can solve crime in
35:59
Speaker 2: other cities too. And the reason residents of your city
36:03
Speaker 2: are being murdered is because the Democrat mayors and the
36:06
Speaker 2: Democrat city councils care more about the radical leftists who
36:10
Speaker 2: hate the police, who want to defund the police, who
36:12
Speaker 2: want to abolish the police, than they care about your family
36:15
Speaker 2: and your children. Look at spoke Volumes when China's president.
36:19
Speaker 2: She came to visit San Francisco a few years ago,
36:23
Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsoen came in and cleaned up San Francisco
36:26
Speaker 2: and took out the homeless people, and took out the
36:28
Speaker 2: drug addicts and the streets were sparkling, and I got
36:32
Speaker 2: to say, even if you are a left wing Bolshevik
36:36
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, a tiny voice in the back of
36:39
Speaker 2: your head must have said, wait a second, if they
36:43
Speaker 2: could clean up the streets today, why didn't they clean
36:47
Speaker 2: up the streets last week? Why do my kids matter
36:51
Speaker 2: less than the president of China? And so this is
36:56
Speaker 2: an existential threat to Democrats who want to say, where
37:00
Speaker 2: they are helpless, we can't stop crime. And by the way,
37:02
Speaker 2: part of their message is the only way to stop
37:04
Speaker 2: crime is to disarm law abiding citizens. That gun control
37:10
Speaker 2: doesn't solve it, but locking up violent criminals does, and
37:13
Speaker 2: spoiler alert, that is what works in stopping violent crime.
37:17
Speaker 2: Then the Democrats have a massive challenge. And I want
37:20
Speaker 2: you to listen to Caroline Levitt talking about some of
37:22
Speaker 2: the results.
37:23
Speaker 3: We've seen in just one week in DC. Give a listen.
37:26
Speaker 7: President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
37:29
Speaker 7: There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
37:32
Speaker 7: five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
37:36
Speaker 7: August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty
37:39
Speaker 7: two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS
37:43
Speaker 7: thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.
37:47
Speaker 7: Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of
37:50
Speaker 7: both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like
37:54
Speaker 7: the one picked up last night will not feel allowed
37:56
Speaker 7: on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrest night
38:00
Speaker 7: included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole violation
38:04
Speaker 7: for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault on
38:09
Speaker 7: federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more homeless
38:13
Speaker 7: encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period. To date,
38:17
Speaker 7: a total of forty eight homeless encampments have been cleared
38:20
Speaker 7: in Washington, d C. By multi agency teams. MPD patrol
38:24
Speaker 7: units are actively working with city officials to locate and
38:27
Speaker 7: clear additional encampments and remove homeless residents off of Washington streets.
38:32
Speaker 7: And despite fake narratives from the media, again, a significant
38:36
Speaker 7: number of the arrests have been in high crime areas
38:39
Speaker 7: of DC. In fact, nearly half of all of the
38:42
Speaker 7: non illegal alien related arrests have occurred in Wards seven
38:47
Speaker 7: and eight, the two wards that have the highest number
38:50
Speaker 7: of violent crime as well as homicides and assaults with
38:53
Speaker 7: dangerous weapons. Last year. So while Democrats continue to caudle
38:57
Speaker 7: violent criminals, President Trump and thisstration are focused on putting
39:01
Speaker 7: them behind bars and unapologetically standing up for the safety
39:05
Speaker 7: of law abiding American citizens. And the White House will
39:08
Speaker 7: continue to provide all of you with the results of
39:10
Speaker 7: this operation in the days ahead.
39:13
Speaker 1: By the way, this goes back to the narrative when
39:17
Speaker 1: this was announced the President was going to do this.
39:19
Speaker 1: That night, I was doing Abby's Phillips show on CNN
39:23
Speaker 1: and all of the panelists are losing their minds saying,
39:26
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, this was going to do nothing. They said,
39:29
Speaker 1: He's putting them on the National Mall where there's no crime.
39:32
Speaker 1: He's a dictator. They're not going to put the law
39:35
Speaker 1: enforce it where the real crime is. That's why this
39:37
Speaker 1: is a waste of resources. This is just him showing
39:41
Speaker 1: and flexing his muscles that he can do this because
39:44
Speaker 1: the present and this is what a dictator does.
39:46
Speaker 4: Yet you're the crime set there.
39:48
Speaker 1: Where are they fighting crime where the criminals are?
39:51
Speaker 4: And I said it, then I'll say it again.
39:53
Speaker 1: It's amazing how much the left and the media hates
39:56
Speaker 1: Donald Trump so much. They don't even care if they're
40:00
Speaker 1: able to save lives through this. They just hate the
40:03
Speaker 1: fact that Donald Trump wants to fight crime. So whatever
40:06
Speaker 1: he says he wants to do, we're going to fight
40:08
Speaker 1: it and lie and slander him. And regardless of how
40:12
Speaker 1: many people lose their lives in DC or any other
40:14
Speaker 1: city when this comes out.
40:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, that is exactly right. And I will point
40:19
Speaker 2: out those very high crime neighborhoods in DC are overwhelmingly
40:24
Speaker 2: African American and the woke left wing Democrat mayor painted
40:29
Speaker 2: the words black lives Matter on the street at a
40:32
Speaker 2: giant mural. They've removed that now, But when it comes
40:35
Speaker 2: to actually protecting black lives, understand that a very significant
40:41
Speaker 2: percentage of the murder victims from these violent criminals are
40:45
Speaker 2: African Americans, and so Donald Trump and Republicans are stepping
40:49
Speaker 2: in and saving black lives. And the position of Democrats
40:53
Speaker 2: in the media is those black lives do not matter.
40:56
Speaker 2: They'd rather they be victims of murder then actually have
41:01
Speaker 2: law enforcement put violent criminals in jail. And ben when
41:05
Speaker 2: I say that, that sounds unbelievably harsh, But I want
41:11
Speaker 2: to ask you seriously, give me an alternative explanation. If
41:14
Speaker 2: the explanation is not sure that the Democrats do not
41:19
Speaker 2: give a damn about whether black lives matter and whether
41:23
Speaker 2: they're saving African Americans from being victims of homicide, Then
41:26
Speaker 2: why are they so adamantly opposed to supporting law enforcement
41:30
Speaker 2: putting violent criminals in jail.
41:32
Speaker 3: Yeah?
41:33
Speaker 1: No, this is the Democratic Party now. They'd rather see
41:35
Speaker 1: Donald Trump fail than actually save American lives.
41:38
Speaker 4: Don't forget. We do the show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
41:41
Speaker 1: Also, this episode is up on YouTube, so if you
41:43
Speaker 1: want to watch it we put up there on YouTube
41:45
Speaker 1: as well, hit that subscribe or auto download button. We're
41:48
Speaker 1: gonna keep giving you the stats out of DC because
41:50
Speaker 1: I promise you the media is not going to do it.
41:52
Speaker 1: We cover these stories, give you the facts. Please share
41:56
Speaker 1: it wherever you can on social media and the Senator
41:58
Speaker 1: and I will see you back here on Friday morning.