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Trump Takes D.C. Back! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump promised all Americans, no matter where you lived,
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Speaker 1: even in a liberal city, that he was going to
0:07
Speaker 1: do everything in his power to keep you safe. He
0:10
Speaker 1: also said he was going to crack down on drugs, cartels,
0:13
Speaker 1: naming them terrorists organizations, and stopping the flow of illegal
0:17
Speaker 1: immigrants across the southern border. Well, the president is making
0:21
Speaker 1: good on all of those promises, and now there's a
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Speaker 1: new one, and it's making liberals lose their mind. The
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Speaker 1: President invokes section seven forty of the District of Columbia
0:33
Speaker 1: Home Rule Act, allowing him to take over the Metropolitan
0:37
Speaker 1: Police Department and deploy the National Guard under declaration of
0:42
Speaker 1: a public safety emergency. Democrats, of course, are angry that
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Speaker 1: the president United States of America may actually save lives,
0:50
Speaker 1: get drugs off the streets, and restore law and order
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Speaker 1: to our nation's capital. So what are they doing. They're saying,
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Speaker 1: this is what a dictator and a tyrant would do. Yes,
1:00
Speaker 1: Democrats are so unhinged now they're claiming that as the
1:03
Speaker 1: President's trying to save lives, that he's somehow a dictator. Now,
1:08
Speaker 1: the scale of the deployment will be up to eight
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Speaker 1: hundred National Guard troops and around five hundred federal law
1:15
Speaker 1: enforcement personnel, including over one hundred FBI agents, plus members
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Speaker 1: from the DEA, the ATF, ICE, and US marshals. They're
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Speaker 1: all being deployed to patrol the streets in Washington, d C.
1:29
Speaker 1: Trump's justification very simple. He described the city as descending
1:34
Speaker 1: into chaos, using words like bloodshed to frame the intervention
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Speaker 1: as a liberation day. He warned similar federal actions could
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Speaker 1: extend to other big cities, such as New York and
1:47
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Now, what does the crime data show? It
1:51
Speaker 1: actually shows, thank goodness, that violent crime across the country
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Speaker 1: is coming down. Why because the present's backing law enforcement
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Speaker 1: and allowing them to do their job up and we're
2:00
Speaker 1: also witnessing ICE agents taking hardened criminals off the streets
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Speaker 1: that are in the country illegally. This is exactly why
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Speaker 1: the president is having such success. Now, local responses are
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Speaker 1: obviously different depending on if you're a Democrat or Republican.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Bowser condemned the move as quote unsettling in DC
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Speaker 1: and unprecedented, asserting the city doesn't meet legal criteria she
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Speaker 1: claims for a federal emergency. Yes, she cares more about
2:30
Speaker 1: playing politics than saving lives. She puts instead for more
2:34
Speaker 1: judicial resources and staffing. Again, bureaucracy over policing. DC's Attorney
2:41
Speaker 1: General is exploring legal options. They're saying as well, and
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Speaker 1: the DC City Council members called the move an intrusion
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Speaker 1: on local authority quote unquote, this is all politics for
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Speaker 1: them instead of actually protecting Americans. I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear what the President had to say as he announces
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Speaker 1: to the White House in his own words.
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Speaker 2: I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
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Speaker 2: from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
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Speaker 2: Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
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Speaker 2: capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
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Speaker 2: in me as the President of the United States. I'm
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Speaker 2: officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
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Speaker 2: Home Rule Act. You know what that is, and placing
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Speaker 2: the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
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Speaker 2: you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
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Speaker 2: with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they
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Speaker 2: know what's happening, and they've done it before. In addition,
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Speaker 2: I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
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Speaker 2: order of public safety in Washington, d C. And they're
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Speaker 2: going to be allowed to do their job properly.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
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Speaker 1: That is the core point of what President Trump has
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Speaker 1: been saying over and over again when it comes to
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Speaker 1: law enforcement. Let law enforcement officers do their jobs the
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Speaker 1: right way. Now, how do we get to this point? Well,
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Speaker 1: the President also talked about the radicals in DC, for example,
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Speaker 1: having no cash bail, and it's putting people's lives at risk.
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Speaker 2: This dire public safety crisis stem is directly from the
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Speaker 2: abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left
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Speaker 2: city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every
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Speaker 2: place in the country where you have no cash bail
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Speaker 2: is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York,
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Speaker 2: and they don't change it. They don't want to change it.
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Speaker 2: That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians
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Speaker 2: started and bad leadership started it. But that was the
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Speaker 2: one thing that's central, no cash bail. Somebody murders somebody
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Speaker 2: and they're out on no cash bail before the day
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Speaker 2: is out. We're going to end that in Chicago. We're
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Speaker 2: going to change the statute. I spoke with Pam and
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Speaker 2: Todd and everybody. We're going to change the statue. And
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to get the Republicans of oh because
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Speaker 2: the Democrats are week on crime, totally, week on.
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Speaker 1: Crime, totally, week on crime. The stats say he's absolutely accurate,
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Speaker 1: and the President of United States of America saying, this
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Speaker 1: is our moment to shine, to take back our nation's capital,
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Speaker 1: and we're not going to allow Democrats to hold us
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Speaker 1: hostage any longer. Ag BONDI also saying this about what's
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Speaker 1: happening in DC.
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Speaker 3: Let me be crystal clear. Crime in d C is
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Speaker 3: ending and ending today. We are going to use every
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Speaker 3: power we have to fight criminals here. President, thank you
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Speaker 3: for caring about our capital. Families come here every summer.
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Speaker 3: Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo, we
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Speaker 3: have the National Gallery. There should be a place where
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Speaker 3: everyone can come and feel safe.
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Speaker 1: It's all about safety. That is the present's number one
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Speaker 1: priority for all Americans, and yet Democrats are doing everything
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Speaker 1: they can to try to stop the President from accomplishing
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Speaker 1: this goal. Donald Trump also saying this as well about
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Speaker 1: what's happening in DC.
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Speaker 2: Becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we're
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Speaker 2: getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here,
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Speaker 2: we're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct,
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Speaker 2: you'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of
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Speaker 2: the slums where they live.
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Speaker 1: We're getting rid of the slums. Now. You listen also
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Speaker 1: to something else on this Liberation Day, and that is
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Speaker 1: again the President saying we're taking our capital back. The
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Speaker 1: man who's in charge of the Department of Defense, Pete Headseth,
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Speaker 1: went on Laura Ingrams Show, and this is what he
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Speaker 1: had to say about what the President has ordered him
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Speaker 1: to do.
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Speaker 4: This capital belongs to all Americans, and starting now, we're
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Speaker 4: taking it back. And that's the angle. Secretary of Defense,
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Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth, was given the tall order of handling this
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Speaker 4: and he's here with me exclusively. Mister Secretary, thank you
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Speaker 4: for joining us tonight. So the President called this a
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Speaker 4: public safety emergency, and you said, we're going to start
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Speaker 4: seeing the National Guard this week, tell us.
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Speaker 5: More this week and incoming weeks, and we're going to
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Speaker 5: work right alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers.
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Speaker 5: This is what the American people voted for Laura. This
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Speaker 5: is what the common sense clarity strength. I hadn't heard
7:33
Speaker 5: that story from President Trump before the story he told
7:35
Speaker 5: about his father that he told them, hey, son, if
7:38
Speaker 5: you look at the front door of a restaurant and
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Speaker 5: it's dirty, then I bet the kitchen you can count
7:43
Speaker 5: on the fact that the kitchen is too And sat
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Speaker 5: there thinking that's exactly right. If our capital city is
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Speaker 5: a mess, if we can't control our capital city, then
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Speaker 5: what does the rest of the country look like and
7:52
Speaker 5: what signals does the rest of the country take from that? So,
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Speaker 5: just like we did in Los Angeles, alongside our federal
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Speaker 5: law we took a lot of criticism for four thousand troops,
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Speaker 5: seven hundred marine You know what we didn't get. There
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Speaker 5: was no summer of love in twenty twenty There was
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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five. There was a summer of law enforcement,
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Speaker 5: and we quelled the protests of the attacks on ice officers.
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Speaker 5: We're going to help get DC under control by working
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Speaker 5: with local officials who have been federalized, with federal officials
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Speaker 5: who were coming in. The DC Guards proud to be
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Speaker 5: a part of it. Other states will contribute this week,
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Speaker 5: going into the weeks to come. Whatever's needed, the DoD
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Speaker 5: will provide to make sure this is a safe city
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Speaker 5: for those who live here, for those that work here,
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Speaker 5: and the Americans who want to come visit here and
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Speaker 5: love our capital city.
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Speaker 4: The question of martial law keeps getting raised by the
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Speaker 4: left that Donald Trump and Pete hegsith they want to
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Speaker 4: impose martial law as authoritarians would. To that, you said to.
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Speaker 5: That, I say, look at Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: They said the exact same thing.
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Speaker 5: Oh look, oh look, four thousand troops California National Guard.
8:52
Speaker 5: Oh look the Marines. You can't put in the Marines.
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Speaker 5: They were the troops available to ensure that we de
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Speaker 5: escalated the situation and didn't allow other law breakers to say, look,
9:02
Speaker 5: it's wide open, we can do whatever we want in
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Speaker 5: these sanctuary cities. I was told, oh, you're going to
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Speaker 5: lock up political opponents, You're going to go after democrats, YadA, YadA.
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Speaker 5: It's the same stuff every time, mischaracterizing our intentions. The
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Speaker 5: intentions of this president is to establish law and order
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Speaker 5: using legal and lawful and constitutional means, which he completely
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Speaker 5: has and you know what, you know why they don't
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Speaker 5: like him. He's got the guts to do it. He's
9:23
Speaker 5: got the guts to say, I'm going to federalize the
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Speaker 5: police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring
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Speaker 5: in the National guard. I'm going to bring in federal marshals.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to bring in the park police.
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Speaker 4: What is the cost money?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 4: It cost money? And the question is are you there
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Speaker 4: for a year? Are you there for six months? And
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Speaker 4: when the troops pull out? What happened?
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Speaker 5: I would call this conditions based. I would say it's
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Speaker 5: a situation where we're here to support law enforcement. Uh
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Speaker 5: and the more we can free them up to do
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Speaker 5: their job, the more effective they can be, the more
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Speaker 5: we can work it. I mean, this isn't my realm,
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Speaker 5: but the justice system to make sure people who are
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Speaker 5: arrested are actually locked up. That's why the president's talking
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Speaker 5: about cash list, bear bill and sanctuary cities. If you're
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Speaker 5: illegal here in DC, that's going to be a problem.
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Speaker 5: So all of these things that apply to law and
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Speaker 5: order are are front and center for us. And I
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Speaker 5: don't know, weeks, months, what will it take. That's the
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Speaker 5: President's call, but we're going to be there for him
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Speaker 5: to execute as swiftly as possible.
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Speaker 1: Then as swiftly as possible. This is what you voted for,
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Speaker 1: of the conversation that Centator Cruz and I had early.
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Speaker 1: He's in DC all the time, I used to live there.
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Speaker 1: I'm there all the time, and just how bad crime
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Speaker 1: has gotten and exactly why the President's got the support
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Speaker 1: of so many in Congress behind this issue as well.
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Speaker 1: And I want you to hear again how bad it
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Speaker 1: is and the reality on the ground in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: So you understand more of why the President's doing this now.
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Speaker 1: All right, So, Senator you and I are doing the show,
13:23
Speaker 1: and just a half hour ago I got off of
13:26
Speaker 1: yelling at the commis over at CNN. They're literally unhinged
13:30
Speaker 1: right now, going insane over the fact that that would
13:33
Speaker 1: be a trying to fight crime. That would be all
13:36
Speaker 1: of them, Yes, that would be all of them. And
13:38
Speaker 1: it was hysterical because they're like, well, this is what
13:40
Speaker 1: dictators and tyrants. He I was like, hold on a second,
13:43
Speaker 1: dictators and tyrants are trying to put criminals in jail
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Speaker 1: and save people's lives. That's your talking point, Like, well,
13:49
Speaker 1: where's he going to stop if he does this in
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Speaker 1: d C. I'm like, well, he did it in DC
13:53
Speaker 1: because there's special rules for DC. There's a reason why
13:57
Speaker 1: I did it there, and he's not done it anywhere else. Like, well,
13:59
Speaker 1: you know, he's just going to do this and be
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Speaker 1: a dictator and take over LA or Baltimore. I'm like,
14:04
Speaker 1: you guys are crazy. And again you're angry at Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump 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 6: Well, look, DC has gotten seriously dangerous and and I'll
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Speaker 6: tell you people going to work in DC, people living
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Speaker 6: in DC are concerned for their safety. They're concerned for
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Speaker 6: the safety of their families. They're concerned for the safety
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Speaker 6: of their spouses and their children. You know, Rand Paul
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Speaker 6: had a Capitol Hill staffer who was stabbed walking along
14:35
Speaker 6: the sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon. There was
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Speaker 6: a man who served in the first Trump administration who
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Speaker 6: was in his car at five pm on the streets.
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Speaker 6: He was shot in the head and murdered. This violence
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Speaker 6: is the direct result of disastrous Democrat policies that have
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Speaker 6: handcuffed the police, that that have limited the ability of
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Speaker 6: the police to go after violent criminal and the result
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Speaker 6: is DC's become a very dangerous place. So what happened
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Speaker 6: President Trump Monday morning? He announced it a press conference, quote,
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Speaker 6: this is liberation Day in d C. And We're going
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Speaker 6: to take our capital back. And he declared a public
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Speaker 6: safety emergency, and he took two actions. Number one, he
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Speaker 6: invoked section seven forty of the d C Home Rule Act,
15:23
Speaker 6: placing the DC Police directly under federal control. And number two,
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Speaker 6: he signed a memorandum to the Secretary of Defense to
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Speaker 6: utilize the National Guard. He placed DA Administrator Terry Cole
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Speaker 6: as the interim Federal Commissioner of DC Police. And he
15:40
Speaker 6: also announced plans to temporarily reassign one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 6: FBI agents in d C to night time patrol duties.
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Speaker 6: All of that was announced today. And the reason he
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Speaker 6: did it is he walked about the statistics about d
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Speaker 6: C crime. D C's murder rate is higher than that
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Speaker 6: of many cities around the globe. DC's murder rate is
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Speaker 6: higher than Bogota, Columbia. DC has one of the highest
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Speaker 6: murder rates among large US cities. Nationwide, the homicide rate
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Speaker 6: is more than twenty seven murders per one hundred thousand residents.
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Speaker 6: That was in twenty twenty four. Vehicle theft in d
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Speaker 6: C is more than three times the national average, with
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Speaker 6: eight hundred and forty two point four thefts per hundred
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Speaker 6: thousand residents. It is among the most dangerous cities globally,
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Speaker 6: and in recent years the number of car thefts has
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Speaker 6: doubled and the number of car jackings has tripled. Look,
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Speaker 6: I had actually while I was recording Verdict. I don't
16:48
Speaker 6: know if you know this story, but years ago when
16:49
Speaker 6: Verdict just started, while I was recording Verdict, we had
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Speaker 6: the truck that I was driving in parked on the
16:57
Speaker 6: d C streets and we went down to the TV
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Speaker 6: studios in the basement for that. And while the truck
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Speaker 6: was on the streets, someone broke into the windows, shattered
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Speaker 6: them open, and stole my briefcase. Took my briefcase with
17:10
Speaker 6: my computer and my iPad and took the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: You didn't have classified documents in there, did you? You know?
17:16
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 6: Unlike Joe Biden, I've never removed classified documents from a secure,
17:26
Speaker 6: compartmentalized facility. Unlike Sandy Berger, who was Bill Clinton's National
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Speaker 6: security advisor, I've never stuffed classified documents in my underwear
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Speaker 6: or in my socks to try to smuggle them out.
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Speaker 6: So no, it was just annoying. And by the way,
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Speaker 6: here's a stat about carjackings. In recent years, the number
17:45
Speaker 6: of carjackings in in DC has tripled, and one of
17:50
Speaker 6: those victims of carjackings was was Congressman Henry Quayar, a
17:55
Speaker 6: Texas congressman. Again, it was the evening time. He was
17:59
Speaker 6: just coming home with his dinner and he was carjacked
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Speaker 6: in front of his apartment where apparently numerous members of
18:09
Speaker 6: Congress live in this apartment building. And he, a member
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Speaker 6: of Congress, was carjacked. And so President Trump is acting directly,
18:19
Speaker 6: and apparently one of the motivations from this is that
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Speaker 6: a White House staffer named Edward Korusta, and he's a
18:29
Speaker 6: Doge staffer and his nickname is Big Balls. And I
18:32
Speaker 6: will say, by the way, one of the funniest things
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Speaker 6: I've ever seen is because he was working in DOGE.
18:37
Speaker 6: It forced Data Bash and CNN to say the words
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Speaker 6: big balls like nineteen different times on air, which I
18:44
Speaker 6: have to admit I couldn't watch the segment without doubling
18:47
Speaker 6: over laughing. Well, apparently, this young man, unfortunately was assaulted
18:52
Speaker 6: over the weekend by about ten juveniles near DuPont Circle.
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Speaker 6: And so when a nineteen year old staffer in the
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Speaker 6: White House can't be safe in DC, the President, I think,
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Speaker 6: 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
19:16
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
19:21
Speaker 1: for law enforcement all over the country and allowing law
19:23
Speaker 1: enforcement to be empowered to do their job and ice
19:26
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
19:35
Speaker 1: of his job description. And they're like, this is what
19:39
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
19:44
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing, really.
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Speaker 6: Well, and the federal government has authority over DC explicitly
19:52
Speaker 6: under the Constitution. Article one, Section eight, Clause seventeen of
19:56
Speaker 6: the Constitution gives Congress quote exclusive legislation over DC, and
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Speaker 6: Congress through its delegate, the DC Council designated that the
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Speaker 6: President serves as the DC National Guards Commander in chief,
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Speaker 6: and that's in DC Code section forty nine, Dash four
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Speaker 6: O nine, which reads, quote, the President of the United
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Speaker 6: States shall be the Commander in Chief of the Militia
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Speaker 6: of the District of Columbia. There's an executive order from
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Speaker 6: nineteen sixty nine that delegates the day to day authority
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Speaker 6: over the DC Guard from the President to the Secretary
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Speaker 6: of Defense, who further delegates it to the Secretary of
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Speaker 6: the Army. So there's explicit authority to authorize the National
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Speaker 6: Guard and also Congress in nineteen seventy three pastor law
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Speaker 6: called the Home Rule Act. And what the Home Rule
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Speaker 6: Act does is it gives the President explicitly the power
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Speaker 6: to take control of the DC Police quote, whenever he
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Speaker 6: determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which
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Speaker 6: require the use of the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes,
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Speaker 6: and that statute. The Home Rule Act further says the
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Speaker 6: mayor shall provide, shall not may shall provide the police
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Speaker 6: quote as the President may deem necessary and appropriate, not
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Speaker 6: as the mayor deems, not as the city Council deems
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Speaker 6: as the President may deem. And the authority is limited
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Speaker 6: to forty eight hours unless the President sends notice to
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Speaker 6: the Congressional Committees on DC justifying the action, at which
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Speaker 6: point the authority is limited to thirty days. Trump has
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Speaker 6: said he's sent that notice this morning. This section has
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Speaker 6: never been invoked before, but it is explicit, unequivocal statutor
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Speaker 6: authority to do what he did. And the fact that
21:44
Speaker 6: democrats of the media are losing their mind is they
21:46
Speaker 6: don't like the fact that he's exercising clear legal authority
21:50
Speaker 6: and clear legal authority that he's using precisely because the
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Speaker 6: DC mayor and the DC City Council have refused to
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Speaker 6: do their job.
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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
22:20
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 is still like, well, I don't know about this.
22:28
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
22:34
Speaker 1: put politics aside here, Let's work with the president. Let's
22:38
Speaker 1: work with the National Guard. Let's get things safe at
22:41
Speaker 1: the metro stations where we see a large upticking 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
22:51
Speaker 1: to this Trump arrangement syndrome, that right, Orange man is
22:54
Speaker 1: always bad even if he's fighting crime.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's not just that it's the today's Democrat
23:01
Speaker 6: party can't stand the police. It used to be there
23:05
Speaker 6: was a time when when police unions, many of them
23:08
Speaker 6: were Democrats. I will tell you as I travel the country,
23:13
Speaker 6: everywhere I go and especially blue cities, when I arrived
23:16
Speaker 6: in a city like New York, in a city like Chicago.
23:18
Speaker 6: When I when I got off the plane in Chicago,
23:21
Speaker 6: I'm often greeted by four, five, six, eight police officers,
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Speaker 6: unified cops, uniform cops who will come up to me
23:28
Speaker 6: and they just say thank you. They'll give me their
23:30
Speaker 6: patches and they feel so belieguer and I tell them
23:35
Speaker 6: this is something I try to make a point. And
23:37
Speaker 6: you've traveled with me, Ben, You've seen this. When I
23:39
Speaker 6: see a police officer. I'm in Dallas today. When I
23:42
Speaker 6: landed it in Dallas love Field, there were several officers there.
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Speaker 6: I THINKED shook the hands of every officer there, said
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Speaker 6: thank you, thank you for what you're doing, thank you
23:52
Speaker 6: for fighting to defend us. And I'll tell you what
23:55
Speaker 6: I tell the officers in Chicago and everywhere else, which
23:57
Speaker 6: is it's my job to have you or back. And
24:01
Speaker 6: why has d C undermined the police so systematically? Because
24:07
Speaker 6: the Democrat Party has been taken over by the nut jobs.
24:11
Speaker 6: It's been taken over by the abolished the police crazies,
24:15
Speaker 6: the defund the police crazies. D C has in place
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Speaker 6: no cash bail policies so that people commit violent crimes
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Speaker 6: and get released on no cash bail that is madness.
24:26
Speaker 6: And one of the things President Trump asked Congress to
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Speaker 6: do is abolish d c's no cash bail. I would
24:34
Speaker 6: certainly vote to do so. I think that's absolutely the
24:37
Speaker 6: right thing to do. I will tell you, I think
24:39
Speaker 6: the odds are very high that Senate Democrats will filibuster
24:45
Speaker 6: any effort to get rid of no cash bail in
24:48
Speaker 6: d C. Because the Democrats today are the party of criminals.
24:53
Speaker 6: They are And look when I say that, Ben, that
24:56
Speaker 6: sounds hyperbolic, that sounds oh, come on, how can they
24:59
Speaker 6: really be the party of criminals? Well, they're the ones
25:02
Speaker 6: that tell you they are. They're the ones that their
25:05
Speaker 6: dismay is how dare the president be committed to arresting
25:11
Speaker 6: murderers and rapists and gang members? And I want to
25:14
Speaker 6: be clear about something. DC is qualitatively different. So there's
25:18
Speaker 6: a statute, long standing statute called posse commatatus. Posse comitatus
25:23
Speaker 6: bars the use of the US military for civilian law enforcement,
25:28
Speaker 6: except when authorized by the Constitution or another provision of
25:31
Speaker 6: federal law. And so if the President were to do
25:37
Speaker 6: this in New York City or Chicago, there would certainly
25:41
Speaker 6: be a challenge under possecommatatus that using the military for
25:45
Speaker 6: law enforcement violates that. Importantly, However, the Department of Justice,
25:51
Speaker 6: in nineteen eighty nine, the Office of Legal Council issued
25:54
Speaker 6: an opinion that found that President George Herbert Walker Bush
25:58
Speaker 6: could use the DC car Guard to carry out law
26:02
Speaker 6: enforcement missions in d C as part of the so
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Speaker 6: called war on drugs. And so you've got a Department
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Speaker 6: of Justice opinion long standing from decades ago that says
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Speaker 6: DC is different because it's it's not a state, it
26:16
Speaker 6: is a federal encclave. The federal government has blanket authority
26:20
Speaker 6: over DC. And so this is an instance where where
26:24
Speaker 6: the president is acting pursuant to his authority and and
26:27
Speaker 6: and I expect that his actions are going to prove
26:31
Speaker 6: highly effective, which I got to tell you, Ben, I
26:33
Speaker 6: think that scares Democrats even more well.
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Speaker 1: And that brings me the second part of this, which
26:38
Speaker 1: is you look at how big of a success this
26:41
Speaker 1: could be pretty quickly, and if it is a success,
26:45
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,
26:54
Speaker 1: the Memphis mayor, the Detroit mayor the New Orleans mayor,
26:57
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
27:03
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
27:13
Speaker 1: they refused to hold juvenile's account for their actions. We've
27:17
Speaker 1: seen this happen a lot of other places around the country.
27:19
Speaker 1: So if this turns into a major success for the
27:22
Speaker 1: president and people feel safe in d C, how big
27:26
Speaker 1: of a political victory for law and order. I'm not
27:29
Speaker 1: talking about Republican or everyone. I'm talking about for law
27:31
Speaker 1: and order. Could this be and precedent moving forward the
27:34
Speaker 1: break and say hey, I'm willing to help you. You
27:37
Speaker 1: just got to ask for the help because we can
27:39
Speaker 1: do what we just did in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, that's exactly right. And I think the obvious
27:45
Speaker 6: analog is border security. We spent four years under Joe
27:49
Speaker 6: Biden the Democrats, with the Democrats saying they were helpless
27:53
Speaker 6: to secure the border. It was impossible to do. I
27:55
Speaker 6: was there a year ago at the State of the
27:57
Speaker 6: Union address when Joe Biden said he needed new legislation.
28:02
Speaker 6: The only way to secure the borders if Congress passed
28:04
Speaker 6: new legislation. Now, I was there this year when Trump
28:07
Speaker 6: gave a State of the Union address, and it was
28:09
Speaker 6: after border crossings with Trump being sworn into office had
28:13
Speaker 6: dropped more than ninety nine percent. And Trump my favorite
28:17
Speaker 6: line from his whole State of the Union address is
28:19
Speaker 6: he said, it turns out we didn't need new legislation,
28:23
Speaker 6: we just needed a new president. Well, the same thing
28:26
Speaker 6: is true here. Look, President Trump has demonstrated conclusively the
28:30
Speaker 6: border could have can be secured, and it could have
28:33
Speaker 6: been secured four years ago. Except Joe Biden, the Democrats
28:36
Speaker 6: wanted open borders because they saw a political benefit. If
28:40
Speaker 6: we see the kind of successes that I know President
28:43
Speaker 6: Trump hopes we'll see that, I think we are likely
28:45
Speaker 6: to see. It will demonstrate not just every resident of DC,
28:49
Speaker 6: but every resident of every other high crime city in
28:51
Speaker 6: the country. Wait a second, this can be stopped, My
28:56
Speaker 6: family can be protected. And the fact that the rates
29:00
Speaker 6: in my city are so high, that the rape and
29:03
Speaker 6: child molestations and the carjacking rates are so high, that
29:07
Speaker 6: is a choice, a voluntary choice from Democrat politicians who
29:11
Speaker 6: put partisan priorities above protecting their citizenry. That at the
29:17
Speaker 6: end of the day is I think one of the
29:19
Speaker 6: biggest reasons Democrats are freaking out. And I want to
29:21
Speaker 6: make another point about this, which is there used to
29:24
Speaker 6: be an implicit agreement about DC home rule, which is
29:28
Speaker 6: that Republicans wouldn't interfere day to day and the Democrat
29:32
Speaker 6: officials in d C wouldn't run the city as a
29:34
Speaker 6: social experiment driven by progressive self indulgence like in other
29:39
Speaker 6: blue cities, and the DC mayor and City Council broke
29:44
Speaker 6: that implicit agreement. D C is fundamentally different from other
29:48
Speaker 6: major cities because it's the nation's political capital, and if
29:52
Speaker 6: you are serving in the federal government, you have to
29:55
Speaker 6: be in DC. If the residents of New York or
29:58
Speaker 6: San Francisco want to elect crazy Soros politician uh uh,
30:03
Speaker 6: district attorneys if if if they want their officials to
30:06
Speaker 6: implement their combination of communism and anarchy and and and
30:12
Speaker 6: and woke policy shutting down schools and businesses. You know what,
30:19
Speaker 6: if you don't like it, you can leave and and
30:23
Speaker 6: and leaving that you can get out of a blue city.
30:27
Speaker 6: To the extent voters anywhere in America elect representatives to
30:31
Speaker 6: represent them. Look, the people of Texas, thirty one million
30:34
Speaker 6: Texans have sent me to represent them in the Senate.
30:37
Speaker 6: I have to go to Washington, d C. To do that.
30:40
Speaker 6: That's where the Senate is. My staff, many of whom
30:43
Speaker 6: are Texans. They have to be in d C to
30:45
Speaker 6: do that job. And and and so the lawlessness the
30:48
Speaker 6: president is acting, look fine, if you've got San Francisco
30:52
Speaker 6: Democrats who want to go from one lawless hell hole
30:54
Speaker 6: to another, that's their choice. But the nation's capital, there
30:58
Speaker 6: is an obligation to keep it safe. And I think
31:01
Speaker 6: the President is doing the exactly the right thing by
31:04
Speaker 6: acting boldly. I want to commend him. This is a
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Speaker 6: bold step, and I think it's really important.
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