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Trump Federalizes DC Police & Dems' Heads Explode plus Admin Directs the Military to Take Out Terrorist Drug Cartels · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdicate Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.
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  Speaker 1: tried to do the show last night, we had major
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  Speaker 1: technical difficulties and couldn't get the connections right. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why we're coming with you today on this show putting
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  Speaker 1: out on Tuesday. The good news is we've had some
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable news. It's broken and so they could be a
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  Speaker 1: blessing in disguise. And one of the big issues that
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  Speaker 1: is broken, Centator is the President Nights It's America has
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  Speaker 1: made every liberal lose their mind because he's actually trying
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  Speaker 1: to fight crime in Washington, d C. And they're saying
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  Speaker 1: he's a dictator and a tyrant for doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Today, on Monday, the President made a bold announcement
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  Speaker 2: that the federal government is federalizing the DC police force,
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  Speaker 2: that they are going to fight violent crime in DC.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to tackle the out of control murder rates,
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  Speaker 2: the violent crimes, the carjackings that have plagued that city,
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  Speaker 2: plague that city because of left wing policies that have
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  Speaker 2: undermined the ability of the police to actually protect the
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  Speaker 2: residents there. And you're right. This has Democrats and this
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  Speaker 2: has the media losing their minds. How dare a president
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  Speaker 2: of the United States actually stand up against violent criminals.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna break that down. We're gonna explain to you
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he did. We're gonna explain to you the
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  Speaker 2: legal basis for why he can do so. We're also
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  Speaker 2: gonna explain why DC is different. One of the talking
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  Speaker 2: points you're seeing on television right now is well, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to do this in every country, every city in
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  Speaker 2: the country. He's just going to take over every city
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  Speaker 2: in America. And I don't think that's right. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's going to happen. D C is qualitatively different quality,
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  Speaker 2: constitutionally and legally. We're gonna explain to you why. We're
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  Speaker 2: also going to talk about another order President Trump put
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  Speaker 2: out again targeting bad guys, but in this case drug cartels,
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  Speaker 2: where he has directed the military to use military force
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  Speaker 2: to go after drug cartels as terrorists, terrorists who are
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  Speaker 2: endangering American lives. Again, this is something that Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: deeply up said about. It seems there's nothing that could
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  Speaker 2: upset a Democrat more than law enforcement actually going after
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  Speaker 2: murderers or rapists or gang members. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is doing. And by the way, that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what he promised the voters he would do if he
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  Speaker 2: was elected.
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  Speaker 1: I got off of yelling at the commis over at CNN.
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  Speaker 1: They're literally unhinged right now, going insane over the fact
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  Speaker 1: that that would be trying to fight crime. That would
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  Speaker 1: be all of them, Yes, that would be all of them.
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  Speaker 1: And it was hysterical because they're like, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: what dictators and tyrants. He I was like, hold on
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  Speaker 1: a second, dictators and tyrants are trying to put criminals
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  Speaker 1: in jail and save people's lives. That's your talking point, Like, well,
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  Speaker 1: where's he gonna stop if he does this in d C.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, he did it in DC because there's
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  Speaker 1: special rules for DC. There's a reason why I did
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  Speaker 1: it there, and he's not done it anywhere else. They're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's just gonna do there can be a
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  Speaker 1: dictator and take over La or Baltimore. I'm like, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are crazy. And again you're angry at Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: for fighting crime, which is out of control in DC,
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  Speaker 1: a place you spend a large part of your week
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  Speaker 1: every week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, DC has gotten seriously dangerous and and I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you, people going to work in d C, people
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  Speaker 2: living in DC are concerned for their safety. They're concerned
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  Speaker 2: for the safety of their families. They're concerned for the
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  Speaker 2: safety of their spouses and their children. You know, Rand
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  Speaker 2: Paul had a Capitol Hill staffer who was stabbed walking
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  Speaker 2: along the sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon. There
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  Speaker 2: was a man who served in the first Trump administration
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  Speaker 2: who was in his car at five pm on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: He was shot in the head and murdered. This violence
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  Speaker 2: is the direct result of disastrous Democrat policies that have
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  Speaker 2: handcuffed the police, that that have limited the ability of
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  Speaker 2: the police to go after violent criminals. And the result
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  Speaker 2: is d C has become a very dangerous place. So
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  Speaker 2: what happened President Trump Monday morning? He announced it a
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  Speaker 2: press conference, quote, this is Liberation Day in d C.
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  Speaker 2: And We're going to take our capital back. And he
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  Speaker 2: declared a public safety emergency, and he took two actions.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, he invoked section seven forty of the d
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  Speaker 2: C Home Rule Act, placing the DC Police directly under
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  Speaker 2: federal control. And number two, he signed a memorandum to
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  Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense to utilize the National Guard. He
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  Speaker 2: placed DA administrator Terry Cole as the interim Federal Commissioner
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  Speaker 2: of DC Police, and he also announced plans to temporarily
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  Speaker 2: reassign one hundred and twenty FBI agents in d C
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  Speaker 2: to night time patrol duties. All of that was announced
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  Speaker 2: today and the reason he did it is he walked
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  Speaker 2: about the statistics about DC crime. D C's murder rate
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  Speaker 2: is higher than that of many cities around the globe.
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  Speaker 2: DC's murder rate is higher than Bogota, Columbia. DC has
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  Speaker 2: one of the highest murder rates among large US cities nationwide.
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  Speaker 2: The homicide rate is more than twenty seven murders per
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand residents. That was in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Vehicle theft in DC is more than three times the
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  Speaker 2: national average, with eight hundred and forty two point four
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  Speaker 2: thefts per hundred thousand residents. It is among the most
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  Speaker 2: dangerous cities globally, and in recent years, the number of
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  Speaker 2: car thefts has doubled and the number of car jackings
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  Speaker 2: has tripled. Look, I had actually while I was recording Verdict.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this story, but years
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  Speaker 2: ago when Verdict just started, while I was recording Verdict,
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  Speaker 2: we had the truck that I was driving in parked
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  Speaker 2: on the d C streets and we went down to
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  Speaker 2: the TV studios and Basic for that. And while the
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  Speaker 2: truck was on the street, someone broke into the windows,
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  Speaker 2: shattered them open, and stole my briefcase, took my briefcase
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  Speaker 2: with my computer and my iPad and and took the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have classified documents in there, did you? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I did not have them randomly there. Okay, I'm liking sure,
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise that would have been some big news here.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Joe Biden, I've never removed classified documents from a secure,
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  Speaker 2: compartmentalized facility. Unlike Sandy Berger, who was Bill Clinton's National
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  Speaker 2: security advisor, I've never stuffed classified documents in my underwear
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  Speaker 2: or in my socks to try to smuggle them out.
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  Speaker 2: So no, it was just annoying. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: here's a stat about carjackings. In recent years, the number
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  Speaker 2: of carjackings in in DC has tripled. And one of
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  Speaker 2: those victims of carjackings was was Congressman Henry Quayar, a
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  Speaker 2: Texas congressman. Again, it was the evening time. He was
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  Speaker 2: just coming home with his dinner and he was carjacked
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  Speaker 2: in front of his apartment where apparently numerous members of
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  Speaker 2: Congress live in this apartment building. And he, a member
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  Speaker 2: of Congress, was carjacked. And so President Trump is acting directly.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently one of the motivations from this is that
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  Speaker 2: a White House staffer named Edward Chorusta, and he's a
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  Speaker 2: DOGE staffer, and his nickname is big Balls. And I
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  Speaker 2: will say, by the way, one of the funniest things
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen is because he was working in DOGE,
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  Speaker 2: it forced Data Bash and CNN to say the words
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  Speaker 2: big Balls like nineteen different times on air, which I
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  Speaker 2: have to admit I couldn't watch the segment without doubling
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  Speaker 2: over laughing. Well, apparently, this young man, unfortunately was assaulted
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend by about ten juveniles near DuPont Circle.
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  Speaker 2: And so when a nineteen year old staffer in the
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  Speaker 2: White House can't be safe in DC. The president, I think,
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  Speaker 2: should act and that's what President Trump has done.
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  Speaker 1: So it's amazing how mad they are that he's actually
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  Speaker 1: trying to fight crime. And it's actually pretty simple. He's
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  Speaker 1: saying it's out of control. The numbers are out of control.
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  Speaker 1: The data shows it's out of control, and yes, the
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  Speaker 1: numbers have come down this year, thank goodness. Part that's
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  Speaker 1: because I think law and order and the President advocating
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  Speaker 1: for law enforcement all over the country and allowing law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement to be empowered to do their job and ice
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  Speaker 1: agents to do their job. But they're actually angry at
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  Speaker 1: him because he's doing something that they say is out
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  Speaker 1: of his job description. And they're like, this is what
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  Speaker 1: dictators and tyrants do. And I go back to that line.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, dictators and tyrants are fighting crime, like
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  Speaker 1: that's a bad thing.
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  Speaker 2: Really well, and the federal government has authority over DC
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  Speaker 2: explicitly under the Constitution. Article one, section eight Claus seventeen
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  Speaker 2: of the Constitution gives Congress quote exclusive legislation over D
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  Speaker 2: and Congress, through its delegate, the DC Council designated that
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  Speaker 2: the President serves as the DC National Guards Commander in Chief.
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  Speaker 2: And that's in DC Code Section forty nine dashed four nine,
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  Speaker 2: which reads, quote, the President of the United States shall
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  Speaker 2: be the Commander in chief of the Militia of the
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  Speaker 2: District of Columbia. There's an executive order from nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 2: nine that delegates the day to day authority over the
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  Speaker 2: DC Guard from the President to the Secretary of Defense,
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  Speaker 2: who further delegates it to the Secretary of the Army.
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  Speaker 2: So there's explicit authority to authorize the National Guard. And
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  Speaker 2: also Congress in nineteen seventy three pastor law called the
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  Speaker 2: Home Rule Act. And what the Home Rule Act does
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  Speaker 2: is it gives the President explicitly the power to take
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  Speaker 2: control of the DC Police quote whenever he determines that
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  Speaker 2: special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the
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  Speaker 2: use of the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes. And
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  Speaker 2: that statute the Home Rule Act further says the mayor
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  Speaker 2: shall provide, shall not may shall provide the police quote
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  Speaker 2: as the President may deem necessary and appropriate, not as
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  Speaker 2: the mayor deems, not as the city council deems as
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  Speaker 2: the President may deem. And the authority is limited to
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  Speaker 2: forty eight hours unless the President sends notice to the
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  Speaker 2: Congressional Committees on DC justifying the action, at which point
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  Speaker 2: the authority is limited to thirty days. Trump has said
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  Speaker 2: he sent that notice this morning. This section has never
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  Speaker 2: been invoked before, but it is explicit, unequivocal statutor authority
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  Speaker 2: to do what he did. And the fact that democrats
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  Speaker 2: of the media are losing their mind is they don't
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  Speaker 2: like the fact that he's exercising clear legal authority and
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  Speaker 2: clear legal authority that he's using precisely because the DC
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  Speaker 2: Mayor and the DC City Council have refused to do
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  Speaker 2: their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing that they refuse to do their job. And
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  Speaker 1: even now the police union coming out this is part
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  Speaker 1: of that story. I think it's really important so people
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  Speaker 1: understand reality compared to how the media is covering this.
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  Speaker 1: The police union has come out and said thank you
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  Speaker 1: to the president and said we need your help because
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  Speaker 1: we have so many officers down. And they're like, we
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  Speaker 1: are asking and telling the president thank you. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the police union who is saying this, and yet the
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's still like, well, and I don't know about this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, if your police union is telling you you
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  Speaker 1: need the help, why would you not just say let's
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  Speaker 1: put politics aside here. Let's work with the president, let's
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  Speaker 1: work with the national Guard. Let's get things safe at
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  Speaker 1: the metro stations where we've see a large uptacking crime.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let me tell you where I could use this
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  Speaker 1: national Guard, where you could put it and do this
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  Speaker 1: in a by Parson way. But again it goes back
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  Speaker 1: to this Trump arrangement syndrome, that right, Orange man is
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  Speaker 1: always bad even if he's fighting crime.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not just that it's the today's democrat
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  Speaker 2: part can't stand the police. It used to be there
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  Speaker 2: was a time when when police unions met, many of
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  Speaker 2: them were Democrats. I will tell you as I travel
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  Speaker 2: the country, everywhere I go, and especially blue cities, when
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  Speaker 2: I arrived in a city like New York, in a
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  Speaker 2: city like Chicago, when I when I got off the
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  Speaker 2: plane in Chicago, I'm often greeted by four, five, six,
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  Speaker 2: eight police officers, unified cops, uniform cops who will come
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  Speaker 2: up to me and they just say thank you. They'll
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  Speaker 2: give me their patches and they feel so belieguer and
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  Speaker 2: I tell them this is something I tried to make
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  Speaker 2: a point. And you've traveled with me Ben, you've seen
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  Speaker 2: this when I see a police officer. I'm in Dallas today.
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  Speaker 2: When I landed it in Dallas love Field, there were
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  Speaker 2: several officers there. I thanked, shook the hands of every
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  Speaker 2: officer there, said thank you, thank you for what you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for fighting to defend us. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what I tell the officers in Chicago and everywhere else,
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  Speaker 2: which is it's my job to have your back. And
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  Speaker 2: and why has d C undermined the police so systematically?
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  Speaker 2: Because the Democrat Party has been taken over by the
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  Speaker 2: nut jobs. It's been taken over by the abolished the
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  Speaker 2: police crazies, the defund the police crazies. D C has
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  Speaker 2: in place no cash bail policies so that people commit
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  Speaker 2: violent crimes and get released on no cash bail. That
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  Speaker 2: is madness. And one of the things President Trump asked
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  Speaker 2: Congress to do is abolish DC's no cash bail. I
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  Speaker 2: would certainly vote to do so. I think that's absolutely
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  Speaker 2: the right thing to do. I will tell you, I
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  Speaker 2: think the odds are very high that Senate Democrats will
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  Speaker 2: filibuster any effort to get rid of no cash bail
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  Speaker 2: in d C. Because the Democrats today are the party
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  Speaker 2: of criminals? They are? And look when I say that, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: that sounds hyperbolic, that sounds oh, come on, how can
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  Speaker 2: they really be the party of criminals? Well, they're the
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  Speaker 2: ones that tell you they are. They're the ones that
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  Speaker 2: their dismay is, how dare the president be committed to
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  Speaker 2: arresting murderers and rapists and gang members? And I want
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  Speaker 2: to be clear about something. DC is qualitatively different. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a statute, long standing statute called posse comitatus. Posse
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  Speaker 2: comitatus bars the use of the US military for civilian
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement, except when authorized by the Constitution or another
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  Speaker 2: provision of federal law. And so if the President were
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  Speaker 2: to do this in New York City or Chicago, there
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  Speaker 2: would certainly be a challenge under possecomatatis that using the
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  Speaker 2: military for law enforcement violates that. Importantly, however, the Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice, in nineteen eighty nine, the Office of Legal Counsel,
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  Speaker 2: issued an opinion that found that President George Herbert Walker
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  Speaker 2: Bush could use the DC car Guard to carry out
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement missions in d C as part of the
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  Speaker 2: so called war on drugs. And so you've got a
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  Speaker 2: Department of Justice opinion long standing from decades ago that
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  Speaker 2: says DC is different because it's it's not a state,
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  Speaker 2: it is a federal encclave. The federal government has blanket
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  Speaker 2: authority over DC. And so this is an instance where
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  Speaker 2: where the President is acting pursuant to his authority, and
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  Speaker 2: and and I expect that his actions are going to
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  Speaker 2: prove highly effective, which I got to tell you, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: I think that scares Democrats even more well.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings me the second part of this, which
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  Speaker 1: is you look at how big of the success this
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  Speaker 1: could be pretty quickly, and if it is a success,
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  Speaker 1: it's just going to expose so many other sanctuary city leaders,
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  Speaker 1: the Gavin Newsom's, the LA mayor, the Baltimore mayor, Chicago mayor,
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  Speaker 1: the Memphis mayor, the Detroit mayor, the New Orleans mayor,
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  Speaker 1: all of these top crime cities for exactly what they've done.
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  Speaker 1: It's the policies. You look at just DC and how
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  Speaker 1: soft they've been on crime with juveniles, and juvenile crime
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  Speaker 1: exploded in d C during COVID and after COVID because
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  Speaker 1: they refused to hold juvenile's account for their actions. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen this happen a lot of other places. Around the country.
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  Speaker 1: So if this turns into a major success for the
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  Speaker 1: president and people feel safe in d C, how big
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  Speaker 1: of a political victory for law and order. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about Republican and everyone. I'm talking about for law
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  Speaker 1: and order. Could this be and precedent moving forward to
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  Speaker 1: bring and say hey, I'm willing to help you. You
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  Speaker 1: just got to ask for the help because we can
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  Speaker 1: do what we just did in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, that's exactly right. And I think the obvious
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  Speaker 2: analog is border security. We spent four years under Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden the Democrats, with the Democrats saying they were helpless
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  Speaker 2: to secure the border. It was impossible to do. I
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  Speaker 2: was there a year ago at the State of the
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  Speaker 2: Union address when Joe Biden said he needed new leg legislation.
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  Speaker 2: The only way to secure the borders if Congress passed
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  Speaker 2: new legislation. Now, I was there this year when Trump
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  Speaker 2: gave a State of the Union address, and it was
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  Speaker 2: after border crossings with Trump being sworn into office, had
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  Speaker 2: dropped more than ninety nine percent. And Trump my favorite
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  Speaker 2: line from his whole State of the Union address is
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  Speaker 2: he said, it turns out we didn't need new legislation.
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  Speaker 2: We just needed a new president. Well, the same thing
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  Speaker 2: is true here. Look, President Trump has demonstrated conclusively the
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  Speaker 2: border could have can be secured, and it could have
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  Speaker 2: been secured four years ago. Except Joe Biden. The Democrats
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: wanted open borders because they saw a political benefit. If
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  Speaker 2: we see the kind of successes that I know President
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  Speaker 2: Trump hopes we'll see that, I think we are likely
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  Speaker 2: to see. It will demonstrate not just every resident of DC,
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  Speaker 2: but every resident of every other high crime city in
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  Speaker 2: the country. Wait a second, this can be stopped, My
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  Speaker 2: family can be protected. And the fact that the murder
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: rates in my city are are so high, that the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: rape and child molestations and the carjacking rates are so high,
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  Speaker 2: that is a choice, a voluntary choice from Democrat politicians
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: who put partisan priorities above protecting their citizenry. That, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, is I think one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest reasons Democrats are freaking out. And I want
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  Speaker 2: to make another point about this, which is there used
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  Speaker 2: to be an implicit agreement about d C Home Rule,
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  Speaker 2: which is that Republicans wouldn't interfere day to day, and
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat officials in d C wouldn't run the city
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  Speaker 2: as a social experiment driven by progressive self indulgence like
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  Speaker 2: in other blue cities, and the DC mayor and City
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  Speaker 2: Council broke that implicit agreement. DC is fundamentally different from
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: other major cities because it's the nation's political capital. And
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: if you are serving in the federal government, you have
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to be in DC. If the residents of New York
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: or San Francisco want to elect crazy sold politician uh
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  Speaker 2: district attorneys, if if they want their officials to implement
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  Speaker 2: their combination of communism and anarchy and and and and
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  Speaker 2: woke policies shutting down schools and businesses. You know what,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: if you don't like it, you can leave and and
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: and leaving that, you can get out of a blue city.
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  Speaker 2: To the extent, voters anywhere in America elect representatives to
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  Speaker 2: represent them. Look, the people of Texas, thirty one million
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  Speaker 2: Texans have sent me to represent them in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go to Washington, d C. To do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's where the Senate is. My staff, many of whom
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: are Texans. They have to be in d C to
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: do that job. And and and so the lawlessness the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: president is acting. Look fine, if you've got San Francisco
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Democrats who want to go from one lawless hell hole
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  Speaker 2: to another, that's their choice. But the nation's capital there
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: is an obligation to keep it safe. And I think
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  Speaker 2: the President is doing the exactly right thing by acting boldly.
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  Speaker 2: I want to commend him. This is a bold step,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's really important one.
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  Speaker 1: It also goes back to the second part of the show,
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  Speaker 1: and it deals with the President making very big steps,
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  Speaker 1: bold steps here and look at what he has decided
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  Speaker 1: to now do when it comes to dealing with drug cartels.
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  Speaker 1: He's made them some of them have been named terrorists organizations.
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  Speaker 1: And this was done deliberately on purpose by this president
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  Speaker 1: to be able to go after the drug cartels, which
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  Speaker 1: these cartels are clearly killing Americans each and every day
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  Speaker 1: with the drugs coming across the border and also the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: violence that comes across the border. And the President now
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: has enough. He put out a tweet and he's ordering
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: now the US military to destroy not only the drug cartels,
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  Speaker 1: but the New York Post is reporting as well that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the President has apparently authorized military force against the Latin
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  Speaker 1: American drug cartels classified as foreign terrorist organizations. The Pete
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  Speaker 1: Edgseth went on our Ingram Show tonight was asked about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, look, we know a lot more about these
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  Speaker 1: cartels than they realize. We know a lot more about
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  Speaker 1: where they are, what they're doing, where they're moving. And
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  Speaker 1: the President said this is a top priority and I'm
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  Speaker 1: working on it, and that was a pretty bold statement
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  Speaker 1: from the man in charge of the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yes, Here's what the New York Post reported. Quote.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump has secretly authorized the military to use force
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  Speaker 2: against Latin American drug cartels classified as foreign terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 2: The move is the most aggressive action Trumps taken yet
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  Speaker 2: against Yang's trafficking drugs like fetanol across the US Mexico border,
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  Speaker 2: the activities of which were previously the purview of federal
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement. The order, first reported Friday by The New
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: York Times, gives US forces official permission to engage cartels
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  Speaker 2: on land and sea. Quote. The President is determined to
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  Speaker 2: not just disci Mantle, but completely destroy Maduro's Cartel del
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  Speaker 2: Soles and to obliterate their operations in the Western Hemisphere.
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  Speaker 2: A source close to the White House said the State
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  Speaker 2: Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations include involved in drug
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  Speaker 2: trafficking include Venezuela's trend Aragua and Cartel de la Soles,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: as well as El Salvadores rooted Mara Salvatruca known as
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: MS thirteen. And that is incredibly consequential because it now
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  Speaker 2: sets up the stage I would expect to see military
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  Speaker 2: action taking out the cartels that have been designated as
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  Speaker 2: terrorist organizations. That takes this to a whole new level.
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  Speaker 2: And just like what the President is doing in DC,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: that has Democrats beside themselves because given a choice between
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: siding with law abiding American citizens or murderers and gang members,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Today's Democrats sided with the murderers and gang members. And
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: given a choice between siding with international gangs and drug
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: cartels that are trafficking poison to our kids and murdering
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  Speaker 2: Americans or standing with American families, sadly, the Democrats choose
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  Speaker 2: to get on a plane and go down to El
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  Speaker 2: Salvador and have dakeries with MS thirteen human traffickers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the narrative as well on this
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  Speaker 1: There today I was watching and they were saying, well,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: this is the present sanctioning warld war IREI, this is
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  Speaker 1: the present sanctioning a attack on Mexico and that's going
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to start a war. I think those might be two
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of the most egregious and just absurd statements the president.
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  Speaker 1: If we attack the cartels and the terrorist organizations, that's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: not an attack on Mexico. That's not going to war
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  Speaker 1: with Mexico. Even though the Democrats and those in the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: media are trying to explain that way, I don't think
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the American people would see it that way either, especially
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: with Americans dying on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think that's right, and and and I'll point
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: out also that there is a clear precedent for this.
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  Speaker 2: When George W. Bush was president, you had the nation
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: of Columbia just racked by drug cartels, the Mediine cartel,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the Colleague cartel. And the result of these cartels is
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: crime in Colombia was out of control. The murder rate
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: was out of control. You had acts of terrorism, uh
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  Speaker 2: that that that were attacking and and and the cartels
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: were murdering, were blowing up, We're shooting uh police officers
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  Speaker 2: and judges and and elected officials and mayors and and
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and it was really in bad shape. And and and
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the people of Columbia elected President Eurebe as the President
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: of Columbia, and he asked President George W. Bush, will
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: you help us? And and and Bush launched what was
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: called Plan Colombia. Planned Columbia, sent the military in and
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  Speaker 2: just decimated the cartels. It turns out our military is
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: really good at and the bad guys. And we did so,
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  Speaker 2: and it ended up turning Columbia around. It made a
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: massive difference in the nation of Columbia. So our military
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  Speaker 2: knows how to do this. There's clear precedent with some
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: of these. With some of these cartels, we will be
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: asked in by the governments with open arms. In other instances,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you may have elected officials and governments that resist America
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: coming in. That becomes more complicated. The United States has
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: acted against terrorists and foreign nations, even when the sovereign
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: government is less than thrilled about that. But it's more
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: complicated if the government is asking us not to. But
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: but it is nonetheless how exactly the Trump administration navigates
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: that that will be an open question over the next
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: three years. But I got to tell you this, if
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you're a Mexican drug lord, if you're a drug lord anywhere,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: particularly in one of these gangs that has been designated
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization by the President. I would sleep with
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: one eye open, because you know, a predator drone is
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: really good at making things go boom in the night.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And I think the terrorist and the drug cartels are
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: all sleeping a lot less comfortable right now.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Aim into that. And they have not had to worry
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: about this threat in my entire lifetime, and I think
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that's another part of this story where they've never been
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: treated the way that now the President's treating them, and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the American people are clearly behind this. This is two
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: major examples of the President promising law and order and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: national security and safety, and he's definitely backing it up.
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