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Comer Demands Answers on DC Crime Stats plus WH Targets “Revolving Door Justice” · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We've had zero murders in the last week. Washington was
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous place in this country, and now you
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  Speaker 1: know what, it's probably.
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  Speaker 2: The safest place in our country.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. We've got two big stories
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  Speaker 3: for you coming out of the White House. First up,
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  Speaker 3: the White House working now with a House GOP that
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  Speaker 3: has just launched a probe into the alleged DC crime
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  Speaker 3: data manipulation lies from the Democrats claiming that violent crime
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  Speaker 3: and crime in general is actually down big time this year. Well,
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  Speaker 3: there's now an official probe into it and what they're
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  Speaker 3: finding is truly shocking. Also, also the present signing an
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  Speaker 3: execut of order. This time it deals with cashless bail.
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  Speaker 3: It's something Democrats ran on. It was a way to
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  Speaker 3: flood the city streets with extreme criminals, not holding them accountable.
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  Speaker 3: to two Patriot. It's the forty seven Morning Update and
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  Speaker 3: it starts right now.
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  Speaker 5: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: There is a big story brewing and it involves the
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  Speaker 3: House GOP launching a probe into alleged DC crime data manipulation.
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  Speaker 3: And it's happening right before our very eyes. Yes, Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are now being accused of covering and lawing claiming that
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  Speaker 3: crime was dropping when in reality it was still extremely high.
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  Speaker 3: And that is where you insert House Oversight Committee Chairman
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  Speaker 3: James Comer. He has launched an investigation into President Trump's
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  Speaker 3: allegations the DC crime DOTA is being manipulated by local
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  Speaker 3: police leadership. Now you may ask yourself this question, like
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  Speaker 3: why do I care? Well, let me explain. The action
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  Speaker 3: actually comes less than a week after the Justice Department
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  Speaker 3: announced a federal probe into the statistics. That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: The Trump administration is facing escalating pushback over the present's
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  Speaker 3: decision to frame federal agents involved in DC as a
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  Speaker 3: public safety issue when violent crime in the city they're
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  Speaker 3: now claiming, is that a quote thirty year low. The
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  Speaker 3: problem is the citizens are saying that's a lie. And
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  Speaker 3: now whistleblowers are coming forward a whistle blower quote with
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  Speaker 3: direct knowledge of internal IMPTY operations and crime DUTA discussions
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  Speaker 3: also informed the committee the crime statistics were allegedly manipulated
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  Speaker 3: on purpose, on a widespread basis and at the direction
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  Speaker 3: of senior MPD officials. That is what Comer wrote in
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  Speaker 3: a letter to the Metropolitan Police Department's chief, Paulina Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Quote well, MPD took action against the single district commander.
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  Speaker 3: The issue potentially affects all seven patrol districts, as MPD
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  Speaker 3: leadership allegedly instructed commanders to routinely downgrade the charges to
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  Speaker 3: quote artificially label crime at a lower statistic. So you're
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  Speaker 3: going to artificially lower crime the District of Columbia's crime stats,
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  Speaker 3: so then you can then say it's safer, even though
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  Speaker 3: it is actually not and it maybe is even more
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  Speaker 3: dangerous than it was the last time you look. So
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  Speaker 3: if you know that you do what they're doing, you
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  Speaker 3: just do. You just make it up as you go, right,
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  Speaker 3: you say, no, no, no, everything's great. Crimes down right,
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  Speaker 3: crimes down, crimes down. Who could be against how great
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  Speaker 3: things are now? Aka? Donald Trump? We don't need you
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  Speaker 3: to send in the National Guard.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Comber noted in his letter that the DC Police has
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  Speaker 3: suspended a commander Michael Pulliam for allegedly manipulating crime statistics
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  Speaker 3: like I mentioned on purpose media accounts of the incident. Additionally,
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  Speaker 3: note that the police union claims police supervisor in the
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  Speaker 3: department in fact manipulated crime downa to make it a
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  Speaker 3: peer violent crime was fallen considerably compared to last year. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as committee is requesting documents and transcribed interviews with the
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  Speaker 3: commanders of each of the seven patrol districts in Washington,
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  Speaker 3: d C. And then you have Donald Trump. He has
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  Speaker 3: called the statistics released by the FBI quote fake to
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  Speaker 3: justify federal intervention in DC and his plans to intervene
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  Speaker 3: in other cities. The President has also said that he's
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  Speaker 3: interested in using DC as a tests for operations in
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  Speaker 3: other cities. And on Sunday he even raised the ear
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  Speaker 3: of Maryland's Governor Wes Moore when he threatened to send
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  Speaker 3: troops to Baltimore. Now, Democratic leaders, what they do well?
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  Speaker 3: They lost their minds. They started picketing, they started screaming,
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  Speaker 3: they started yelling, And what do they do well? They
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  Speaker 3: were angry, Yes, they were angry that the president United
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  Speaker 3: States America isn't buying into as many would describe it,
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  Speaker 3: business as usual. This is exactly why Donald Trump keeps
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  Speaker 3: winning on the issues because he's not backing down. Now.
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  Speaker 5: Story number two.
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  Speaker 3: So Donald Trump has come out and he is seeking
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  Speaker 3: to end cashless bell nationwide. He's starting with Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: And his order directs federal law enforcement to hold arrestees
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  Speaker 3: in custody and prosecute them on federal charges when possible
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  Speaker 3: to avoid two things, pre trial release and pre trial
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  Speaker 3: release with cash bail. Now, the President has made it
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  Speaker 3: clear he's not messing around. In fact, Trump is threatening
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  Speaker 3: to withhold or revoke federal funding from states and local
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  Speaker 3: jurisdictions that have substantially eliminated cash bail for offenses deemed
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  Speaker 3: a threat to public safety, violent or sexual crimes, burlery, looting, vandalism,
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  Speaker 3: and the Attorney General is ordered to identify those jurisdictions
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  Speaker 3: within thirty days. Federal agencies then determine which funding to
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  Speaker 3: quote suspend. Now, the framework for all this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be big. You also have a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that are frustrated in and around the President of the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. Why well, because he's not backing
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  Speaker 3: down from what he promised, and they can't believe that
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  Speaker 3: they can't get him to just be quiet on this
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  Speaker 3: issue of Cassius Bell to go. Listen to how MSNBC
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  Speaker 3: described this signing.
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  Speaker 6: So first, let's start with the big topic, cash list bail.
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  Speaker 6: Cash List bail, of course, allows a defendant to be
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  Speaker 6: released from jail while they're awaiting trial that's based on
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  Speaker 6: their commitment to appear in court instead of paying a
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  Speaker 6: specific cash amount.
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  Speaker 5: I know some.
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  Speaker 6: Supporters of cashless bail says it avoids penalizing low income defendants.
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  Speaker 6: But Gabe, what is the President and White House saying
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  Speaker 6: about this order and they're hopes for what it will do,
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  Speaker 6: not just for Washington, but the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, I was think Clay, the President and
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  Speaker 7: his administration, I've been railing against cash list bail for
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  Speaker 7: quite some time. It's something that Janine Piro, the US
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  Speaker 7: Attorney here in d C, has been talking about a
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  Speaker 7: lot in the last couple of days. And this executive
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  Speaker 7: order that President just signed aims to eliminate cashless fail
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  Speaker 7: here in d C by potentially withholding federal funds from
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  Speaker 7: this jurisdiction. And also he ordered his Attorney General to
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  Speaker 7: look at different jurisdictions across the country and identify those
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  Speaker 7: that have cashless bail policies and explore ways to withhold
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  Speaker 7: some federal funding. Now, that is something that the administration
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  Speaker 7: has done for a variety of issues, trying to explore
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  Speaker 7: ways to stop federal funding or to the threat of
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  Speaker 7: withholding federal funds in order for those jurisdictions to agree
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  Speaker 7: or to go along with their policy. But that is
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  Speaker 7: just one of the executive orders that he signed this morning,
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  Speaker 7: sent Clact.
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  Speaker 3: Now, cashless bell has been something that the left is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely obsessed with. I'll give you a great example this
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Representative Kelly saying this about cashless bell. Now again,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats have been campaigning on it. Black Lives Matter was
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  Speaker 3: created around it. George Soros and the activist das are
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  Speaker 3: the ones that implement it. They wanted cashless bail, They
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  Speaker 3: wanted prison reform, which meant get everybody out of jail.
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  Speaker 3: These are the radical left ideas now destroying cities. Yet
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  Speaker 3: you even look at Chicago Democratic Representative Kelly Again talking
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  Speaker 3: about Chicago saying this about National Guard troops and cashless bail.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you, we only have a been
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  Speaker 1: at left congresswoman about no cash bail because the President
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  Speaker 1: signed an EO today ending that practice aim too. At least,
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  Speaker 1: your state of Illinois was the first in the nation
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  Speaker 1: to pass a cashless bail law. What does Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: not understand?
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't understand that this gives judges the discretion, more
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  Speaker 4: discretion to make that decision. You know, they can say
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  Speaker 4: no if they think it's someone that will, you know,
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  Speaker 4: go out and be violent. They're not, they're too risky.
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  Speaker 4: But if you know, they have nothing in their past,
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  Speaker 4: or the judge feels that, you know, they'll be safe
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  Speaker 4: and it's okay to you know, let them out, they
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  Speaker 4: have that discretion. So but Donald Trump doesn't care. Again,
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  Speaker 4: this is part of his you know, fear. This is
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  Speaker 4: part of his distraction from other things going on in
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  Speaker 4: the world, you know, or other things going on in
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  Speaker 4: the United States. He said he would lowell prices. That
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  Speaker 4: hasn't happened. So these are all distractions.
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  Speaker 3: All distractions, she says, nothing good Donald Trump's done. Prices,
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  Speaker 3: she says, aren't lower, even though they actually are. Gas
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  Speaker 3: prices is a perfect example. That the price of eggs,
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  Speaker 3: the price of butter, the price of milk. There's countless
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  Speaker 3: items that are lower. Since Donald Trump got back into office.
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  Speaker 3: But you can hear this representative straight up lying about it.
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  Speaker 3: I also want you to hear from the Miami mayor
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  Speaker 3: about what he had to say about cashless bail and
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  Speaker 3: what happens when you have it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you were at the White House, you
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  Speaker 2: spoke about this. You went to the White House for
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  Speaker 2: that summit, and you talked about cashless bail contributing to
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  Speaker 2: the nation's crime spike. Tell us more about that and
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  Speaker 2: why you don't see more cities and states turning over
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  Speaker 2: a page from cashless Bail.
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  Speaker 8: Well, as president of the US Conference of Mirrors, it's
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  Speaker 8: my responsibility to lead and to put forth an agenda
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  Speaker 8: based on policies that have worked in my city and
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  Speaker 8: that can work across America. And you know, this cast
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  Speaker 8: just fail. Is another example of a failed liberal policy
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  Speaker 8: where you create a revolving door of people who commit
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  Speaker 8: crimes and are back out on the streets immediately. It
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  Speaker 8: makes it impossible for law enforcement to do their job.
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  Speaker 8: It puts an incredible burden on cities and on law
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  Speaker 8: abiding residents that have to deal with people who are
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  Speaker 8: habitual criminals. And it just doesn't work. And so you know,
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  Speaker 8: we have to get away from politicizing again law enforcement
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  Speaker 8: and get to things that work, policies that work, that
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  Speaker 8: make our city safer, because safety is the number one
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  Speaker 8: concern whenever you've done a polts I've been around a
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  Speaker 8: public service for thirteen years. Okay, they're like dog years.
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  Speaker 8: And I'll tell you, whenever you do a poll, the
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  Speaker 8: number one issue is always crime and the economy. You know,
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  Speaker 8: one and two and they and they vacillate between one
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  Speaker 8: and the other. So safety is the biggest concern for
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  Speaker 8: citizens across the world. So it's something that we cannot
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  Speaker 8: afford to politicize. We've got to do things that keep
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  Speaker 8: our citizens safe.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the Miami Mayor absolutely right. Cashust bail
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  Speaker 3: is another example of a failed liberal policy, something that's
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  Speaker 3: been implemented, and the data shows overwhelming the majority of
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  Speaker 3: Americans are in favor of what Donald Trump's doing, not
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  Speaker 3: allowing those that are committing HAINUS crimes to walk among us.
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