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Fed Chief Signals Rate Cuts plus Trump Signs Exec Order to End Cashless Bail · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: You know that Donald Trump has been saying for quite
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: some time that he believes that interest rates are far
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: too high, holding back America's economy and making it harder
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  Speaker 1: for Americans to own a home and to borrow money
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: for small business loans and things like that. Well, there's
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: been a war with Jerome Powell, and Jerome Powell actually
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  Speaker 1: opened the door finally to cuts in his August to
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  Speaker 1: twenty second Jackson Hole's speech, saying quote conditions may warrant
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: easing soon and stressing the Fed will move carefully based
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  Speaker 1: on inflation and the softening labor market. Now, part of
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  Speaker 1: this revolved around the real concern in the labor market.
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  Speaker 1: There are real worries and stress tests. Powell highlighted the
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  Speaker 1: job market as quote red flags, reinforcing why a cautious
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  Speaker 1: cut could now finally be on the table. CBS News
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  Speaker 1: even reporting on this, saying the inflation risks still matter,
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  Speaker 1: saying he flagged terraf related prices pressuring the related FED
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  Speaker 1: and said that look, we're trying to do what we've
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  Speaker 1: got to do. They won't allow a quote one time
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  Speaker 1: price bump to become persistent inflation, so deep rapid cuts
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  Speaker 1: are quote unlikely as well. Now, the market reaction to
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  Speaker 1: this was interesting. Stocks rallied Friday on the Davis tone,
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  Speaker 1: then cooled at Monday's open as enthusiasm faded for what
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  Speaker 1: he actually said. Now, I want you to actually hear
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  Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. Peter Navarro at the White
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  Speaker 1: House talking on Fox Business Jennal with Maria Bartiromo, and
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear what he said about all
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  Speaker 1: of this happening in Jackson Hall, and Powell said, Look,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we all knew all along. He's finally
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  Speaker 1: acknowledging what the Trump camp has been saying all along,
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  Speaker 1: that interest rates are too high and holding us back.
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  Speaker 1: Here there is again Peter Navarro at the White House.
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  Speaker 2: In his own words, Peter, it's great to see you
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Welcome, and I know you have an op
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  Speaker 2: ed out on j. Powell which is going.
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  Speaker 3: To be coming out later on in the week.
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  Speaker 2: Give us your assessment of the Chairman's speech and this
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  Speaker 2: new thinking for September's cut.
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  Speaker 4: Marie, very great, thanks for asking. Look, it was twenty
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  Speaker 4: minutes of Powell gobbledegook in thirty seconds of pure Trump beauty.
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  Speaker 4: Powell finally acknowledged what we've been saying in the Trump
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  Speaker 4: camp all along that tariffs don't create inflation. He had
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  Speaker 4: two sentences that said, one, they don't, even if they
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  Speaker 4: might create some inflation, it's only a one shot deal,
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  Speaker 4: so there's no inflationary spiral. And two, in the second sentence,
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  Speaker 4: he said that's not going to stop him from cutting rates.
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  Speaker 4: The markets off, they went, Maria, I'm on record is
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  Speaker 4: saying Dallas hitting fifty thousand. I said that, Maria, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, when we were at the plunge, the drop
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  Speaker 4: when Donald Trump first introduced the tariffs this term, and
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  Speaker 4: the markets rebounded, and it's going to be a rocket
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  Speaker 4: ship because we're going to have price stability and economic
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  Speaker 4: growth from the various aspects of Trump policy. It's a
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  Speaker 4: deregulation of tax cuts, the strategic energy dominics, and guess
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  Speaker 4: what fair trade, which is getting us tariffs. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to pay down our debt, pay down our debt, pay
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  Speaker 4: down our debt, and pay for the big beautiful tax bill.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, the markets obviously liked what he had to say.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting how Navarro said, Look, this
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  Speaker 1: is thirty forty five minutes of gobblygook with a you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds of Trump brilliance where he's admitting what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump has been saying along you're holding back the economy.
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  Speaker 1: I also want you to hear what Charles Pain, good
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine, had to say at Fox Business Channel
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  Speaker 1: about this as the stock market is responding and soaring
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  Speaker 1: and why why did that happen? Because they understand that
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  Speaker 1: lowering interest rates in September could have a big impact
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  Speaker 1: not only on our debt I'm talking about the federal
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  Speaker 1: government's debt, all right, but also could have a very
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  Speaker 1: big impact on something else. That something else is on
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  Speaker 1: you and your dollars every single month.
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  Speaker 6: Take a listen and everyone, I'm Charles paying this is
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  Speaker 6: making money. So last week was monumental on several fronts, right,
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  Speaker 6: notably the stock market, which you could see the red
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  Speaker 6: all week long. In fact, we had a five day
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  Speaker 6: losing streak and that made Friday really this face it.
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  Speaker 6: There was sort of a do or die session, major interseries.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, the sword swored on that Jackson Hole speech,
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  Speaker 6: but the composition of the rally change, and I think
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  Speaker 6: that's one of the big newsworthy things. This is for
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  Speaker 6: the week, right. You rarely see this, but the big
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  Speaker 6: red boxes, the big red rectangles, and those are your
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  Speaker 6: tech names, those are your mega cap names. And Summer
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  Speaker 6: down a lot, Polunteered down over ten percent, Microsoft Apple,
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  Speaker 6: They're all took pretty good hints. Meanwhile, more broad, look
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  Speaker 6: at this, all the other stocks at fort ninety three
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  Speaker 6: stepping up to the plate, and then they're small caps.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of false starts this year, but for the week,
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  Speaker 6: small cap well, there were small cap value small cap
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  Speaker 6: corps or small cap growth actually outperforming huge. One of
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  Speaker 6: the best weeks for small caps in a long time.
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  Speaker 6: The question is will it sustain itself? Can it be sustained?
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 6: The other big news of the week, going back to
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  Speaker 6: Jackson Hall, is where many thought that Jay Powell will
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  Speaker 6: be confrontational, right, or at least at least, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 6: the media trying to nudge Jay Powell into the corner
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  Speaker 6: of sort of with these non stop stories. He's going
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  Speaker 6: to stick to his guns. He's going to give it
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  Speaker 6: to President Trump. You know, he's not going to be
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  Speaker 6: pushing around. Well, they were disappointed. Many people were disappointed
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  Speaker 6: because Powell, you know, he didn't hold back in certain ways,
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  Speaker 6: though others actually said this whole thing this whole not
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  Speaker 6: a charade, but whatever you want to call it might
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  Speaker 6: actually be the twilight of the central banking elite. I
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  Speaker 6: got to tell you, I came away thinking that Jay Powell,
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  Speaker 6: he's kind of dealing with realities.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Things aren't written into textbooks that necessarily pertain today. You
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  Speaker 6: have two hundred year old economic theories that don't necessarily
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  Speaker 6: apply completely today. This political rhetoric that aging, there's.
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  Speaker 7: So many things.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe just maybe he cracked the current code.
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  Speaker 1: Now, look, what Jerome Powell is now having to do
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  Speaker 1: is probably what he knows he should have been doing
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  Speaker 1: long before September. He's not in the political battle against
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  Speaker 1: the president as he was early on. Why because I
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  Speaker 1: think he understands he looks like an idiot. The President also,
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  Speaker 1: I think willing to take this win, this w and
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  Speaker 1: take it and just move on from it because it's
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  Speaker 1: going to help the economy and the American people so much.
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  Speaker 1: When I look at where we are and what the
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  Speaker 1: President has been saying and what the President's been advocating for,
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  Speaker 1: He's wanting Americans to be able to do things for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: He wants them to be able to build or buy
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  Speaker 1: a house. He wants them to be able to pay
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  Speaker 1: for things or borrow money at a low rate. He
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  Speaker 1: wants them to be able to expand their businesses or
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  Speaker 1: their small businesses. I mean, these are just basic things
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  Speaker 1: that the President of the United States of America has
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  Speaker 1: been in favor of. And unfortunately, Democrats have been obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with fighting the president no matter what, every single time
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  Speaker 1: they get a chance. If they can fight the president,
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  Speaker 1: they will fight the president time and time again. And
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  Speaker 1: Democrats or Pale, the list goes on and on. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's some pople say that the president should have just
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  Speaker 1: gotten rid of Powell.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's independent, however, and there's a lot of questions about that,
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  Speaker 1: and the Federal Reserve should not be quote political. I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that Powell has been political. Should there be
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  Speaker 1: accountability for that?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 1: We can debate that on another show another day. What
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  Speaker 1: I do know right now is it looks like that
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve chairman is finally going to do not
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  Speaker 1: what I want. I think you can argue maybe not
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  Speaker 1: what you want. He's going to do what the market needs,
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  Speaker 1: what the market deserves, what the market should have already done,
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  Speaker 1: what he should have already done. I should say, for
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  Speaker 1: the market. And the only reason why he's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it now is because I think he realizes he's
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  Speaker 1: actually holding back the American economy and he's hurting many Americans.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Americans still live paycheck to paycheck, a
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  Speaker 1: lot are trying to get ahead. A lot of them
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  Speaker 1: have debt, credit card debt, or home debt, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: maybe are. There's people trying to buy their first home,
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  Speaker 1: So Donald Trump has come out and he is seeking
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  Speaker 1: to end cashless bell nationwide. He's starting with Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: And his order directs federal law enforcement to hold arrestees
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  Speaker 1: in custody and prosecute them on federal charges when possible
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  Speaker 1: to avoid two things, pre trial release and pre trial
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  Speaker 1: release with cash bail. Now, the President has made it
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  Speaker 1: clear he's not messing around. In fact, Trump is threatening
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  Speaker 1: to withhold or revoke federal funding from states and local
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  Speaker 1: jurisdictions that have substantially eliminated cash bail for offenses deemed
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  Speaker 1: a threat to public safety, violent or sexual crimes, burlery, looting, vandalism,
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  Speaker 1: and the Attorney General is ordered to identify those jurisdictions
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  Speaker 1: within thirty days. Agencies then determine which funding to quote suspend.
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  Speaker 5: Now, the framework for all this is going to be big.
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  Speaker 1: You also have a lot of people that are frustrated
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  Speaker 1: in and around the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Why Well, because he's not backing down from what he promised,
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  Speaker 1: and they can't believe that they can't get him to
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  Speaker 1: just be quiet on this issue of cashless bell. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to how MSNBC described this signing.
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  Speaker 9: So first, let's start with the big topic, cashless bail.
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  Speaker 9: Cashlest bail, of course, allows a defendant to be released
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  Speaker 9: from jail while they're awaiting trial that's based on their
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  Speaker 9: commitment to appear in court instead of paying a specific
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  Speaker 9: cash amount. I know some supporters of cashless bail says
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  Speaker 9: it avoids penalizing low income defendants. But game, what is
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  Speaker 9: the President and White House saying about this order? And
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  Speaker 9: they're hopes for what it will do, not just for Washington,
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  Speaker 9: but the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you know, I was in clay the President and
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  Speaker 10: his administration. I've been railing against cashlest bail for quite
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  Speaker 10: some time. It's something that Janine Piro, the US Attorney
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  Speaker 10: here in d C, has been talking about a lot
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  Speaker 10: in the last couple of days. In this executive order
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  Speaker 10: that President just signed aims to eliminate cash list fail
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  Speaker 10: here in d C by potentially withholding federal funds from
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  Speaker 10: this jurisdiction and also he ordered his Attorney General to
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  Speaker 10: look at different jurisdictions across the country and identify those
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  Speaker 10: that have casualist bail policies and explore ways to withhold
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  Speaker 10: some federal funding. Now, that is something that the administration
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  Speaker 10: has done for a variety of issues, trying to explore
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  Speaker 10: ways to stop federal funding or to the threat of
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  Speaker 10: withholding federal funds in order for those jurisdictions to agree
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  Speaker 10: or to go along with their policy. But that is
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  Speaker 10: just one of the executive orders that he signed this morning.
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  Speaker 1: S and collect Now, cash list bell has been something
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  Speaker 1: that the left is.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely obsessed with.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a great example this Democratic Representative Kelly
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  Speaker 1: saying this about cashless bell. Now again, Democrats have been
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  Speaker 1: campaigning on it. Black Lives Matter was created around it.
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  Speaker 1: George Soros and the activist das are the ones that
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  Speaker 1: implement it. They wanted cashless bail, They wanted prison reform,
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  Speaker 1: which meant get everybody out of jail. These are the
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  Speaker 1: radical left ideas now destroying cities. Yet you even look
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  Speaker 1: at Chicago and Democratic Representative Kelly again talking about Chicago
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  Speaker 1: saying this about National Guard troops and cashless bail.
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  Speaker 11: I want to ask you, we only have a been
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  Speaker 11: at left, congress Woman about no cash bail, because the
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  Speaker 11: President signed an EO today ending that practice aimed too
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  Speaker 11: At least your state of Illinois was the first in
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  Speaker 11: the nation to pass a cashless bail law. What does
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  Speaker 11: Donald Trump not understand?
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  Speaker 12: He doesn't understand that this gives judges the discretion, a
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  Speaker 12: more discretion to make that decision. You know, they can
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  Speaker 12: say no if they think it's someone that will you know,
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  Speaker 12: go out of me buy they're not, they're too risky.
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  Speaker 12: But if you know they have nothing in their past
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  Speaker 12: or the judge feels that, you know, they'll be safe
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  Speaker 12: and it's okay to you know, let them out, they
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  Speaker 12: have that discretion.
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  Speaker 13: So but Donald Trump doesn't care. Again, this is part
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  Speaker 13: of his you know, fear, This is part of his
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  Speaker 13: distraction from other things going on in the world, you know,
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  Speaker 13: other things going on in the United States.
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  Speaker 7: Like he said he would lower.
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  Speaker 10: Prices, that hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 13: So these are all distractions.
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  Speaker 1: All distractions, she says, nothing good Donald Trump's done.
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  Speaker 5: Prices, she says, aren't lower, even though they actually are.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Gas prices is a perfect example that the price of
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  Speaker 1: eggs the price of butter, the price of milk. There's
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  Speaker 1: countless items that are lower since Donald Trump got back
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  Speaker 1: into office. But you can hear this representative straight up
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  Speaker 1: lying about it. I also want you to hear from
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  Speaker 1: the Miami mayor about what he had to say about
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  Speaker 1: cash list bail and 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.
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  Speaker 5: 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 spy. 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 cash less bail.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 8: As president of the US Conference of Mayors, it's my
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  Speaker 8: responsibility to lead and to put forth an agenda based
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  Speaker 8: on policies that have worked in my city and that
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  Speaker 8: can work across America. And this castless bail is another
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  Speaker 8: example of a failed liberal policy where you create a
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  Speaker 8: revolving door of people who commit crimes and are back
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  Speaker 8: out on the streets immediately. It makes it impossible for
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  Speaker 8: law enforcement to do their job. It puts an incredible
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  Speaker 8: burden on cities and on law abiding residents that have
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  Speaker 8: to deal with people who are habitual criminals, and it
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  Speaker 8: just doesn't work. And so you know, we have to
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  Speaker 8: get away from politicizing again law enforcement and get to
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  Speaker 8: think that work policies at work that make our city safer,
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  Speaker 8: because safety is the number one concern whenever you've done
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  Speaker 8: a pults. I've been around a public service for thirteen years. Okay,
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  Speaker 8: they're like dog years. And I'll tell you, whenever you
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  Speaker 8: do a poll, the number one issue is always crime
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  Speaker 8: and the economy. You know, one and two, and they
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  Speaker 8: and they, and they vascily between one and the other.
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  Speaker 8: So safety is the biggest concern for citizens across the world.
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  Speaker 8: So it just it's something that we cannot afford a politicize.
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  Speaker 8: We've got to do things that keep our citizens safe.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the Miami Mayor absolutely right, cash list
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  Speaker 1: bail is another example of a failed liberal policy, something
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  Speaker 1: that's been implemented, and the data shows overwhelming the majority
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  Speaker 1: of Americans are in favor of what Donald Trump's doing,
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  Speaker 1: not allowing those that are committing heinous crimes.
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  Speaker 5: To walk among us.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is the Ben Ferguson Show. So nice
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us. I want to take you
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  Speaker 1: back to oh what a week and a half ago,
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  Speaker 1: when the as the United States of America announced he
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  Speaker 1: was going to federalize law enforcement in Washington, d C,
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  Speaker 1: take charge and fight crime. What did the left in
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  Speaker 1: the media say, Well, I can tell you because I
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  Speaker 1: was on TV that night on CNN, and they said
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  Speaker 1: the president all this was was him being a narcissist,
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  Speaker 1: a dictator, and this is all about Donald Trump wanting
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to be in charge. And I asked the question, why
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: is it you guys hate Donald Trump so much to
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  Speaker 1: the point where you won't even advocate from fighting crime
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  Speaker 1: when people are dying in Washington.
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  Speaker 6: D C.
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  Speaker 1: They then said Donald Trump doesn't know how to fight crime,
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  Speaker 1: and that this is all for the cameras.
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  Speaker 5: It's all theatrics.
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  Speaker 1: That he wasn't actually going to fight crime in high
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  Speaker 1: crime areas in Washington, d C. He was just going
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  Speaker 1: to put him around the national mall. Well guess what
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  Speaker 1: that was also a lie? How do we know it?
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  Speaker 1: Take a list in the White House Press Secretary Caroline
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  Speaker 1: Levitt is she explains exactly what's happened in just over
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  Speaker 1: a week of data they've now received.
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  Speaker 14: President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
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  Speaker 14: There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 14: five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
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  Speaker 14: August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty
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  Speaker 14: two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS
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  Speaker 14: thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.
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  Speaker 14: Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of
• 19:30
  Speaker 14: both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like
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  Speaker 14: the one picked up last night will not be allowed
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  Speaker 14: on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrests last
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  Speaker 14: night included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole
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  Speaker 14: violation for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault
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  Speaker 14: on federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more
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  Speaker 14: homeless encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period. To date,
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  Speaker 14: a total of forty eight homeless encampments have been and Washington,
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  Speaker 14: d c by multi agency teams. MPD patrol units are
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  Speaker 14: actively working with city officials to locate in clear additional
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  Speaker 14: encampments and remove homeless residents off of Washington streets. And
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  Speaker 14: despite fake narratives from the media, again, a significant number
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  Speaker 14: of the arrests have been in high crime areas of DC.
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  Speaker 14: In fact, nearly half of all of the non illegal
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  Speaker 14: alien related arrests have occurred in Wards seven and eight,
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  Speaker 14: the two wards that have the highest number of violent
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  Speaker 14: crime as well as homicides and assaults with dangerous weapons
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  Speaker 14: last year. So while Democrats continue to caudle violent criminals,
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  Speaker 14: President Trump and this administration are focused on putting them
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  Speaker 14: behind bars and unapologetically standing up for the safety of
• 20:45
  Speaker 14: law abiding American citizens. And the White House will continue
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  Speaker 14: to provide all of you with the results of this
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  Speaker 14: operation in the days ahead.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to what she said, they went into the
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  Speaker 1: most violent neighborhoods to protect the least among us. You also,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and if you listen to Democratic Party, they're obsessed with
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  Speaker 1: black lives matter. If I remember correctly, they even painted
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a street with Black Lives Matter on it, the mayor
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of DC making sure it was headed straight to the
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  Speaker 1: White House. And so why wouldn't you advocate for more
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement? Now the liberal media narrative has been well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: things are incredibly safe in DC.
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  Speaker 5: They're so much better than.
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  Speaker 1: They were when they had a quote bad year in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Well, we now know that there may
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: be massive lives have been told to us in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty twenty five. What am I talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Insert the DC police union chairman who's now exposing saying
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  Speaker 1: there's a very good chance, based on what they've seen,
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  Speaker 1: that the numbers were deliberately manipulated to make crime look
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  Speaker 1: like it was lower than it actually was in DC.
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  Speaker 1: See another Democrat cover up, caring more about faking the
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  Speaker 1: numbers than fighting crime. Listen to what the DC union
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  Speaker 1: police chairman had to say on Fox News Channel.
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  Speaker 3: Can you confirm for us that there have been police
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  Speaker 3: officers and detectives and members of law enforcement in DC
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  Speaker 3: who on the scene of crimes have been told don't
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  Speaker 3: write that one down, or don't add that to the list,
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  Speaker 3: or put that down as a more minor offense.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 15: That's one of the chief complaints of our members when
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  Speaker 15: we go around and talk to them, is that they
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  Speaker 15: respond to the scenes of these violent crimes, and inevitably
• 22:41
  Speaker 15: you'll have a captain or a commander or sometimes a
• 22:43
  Speaker 15: lieutenant show up on the scene and advise them.
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  Speaker 7: To take a report for a lesser offense.
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  Speaker 15: One of the things that we see them do often
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  Speaker 15: is Sometimes they'll be a shooting or a stabbing, and
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  Speaker 15: if the victim is uncooperative with the police, which is
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  Speaker 15: not uncommon in some areas of the city, they'll be
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  Speaker 15: directed to take an injured person to the hospital report,
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  Speaker 15: which is not even a crime at all, it's an
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  Speaker 15: incident report. Sometimes you'll have a robbery, it'll be reported
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  Speaker 15: as a theft. Other times you'll have burglaries that are
• 23:09
  Speaker 15: reported as unlawful entry or thefts. This is something that's
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  Speaker 15: been unfortunately part and parcel of the police department for
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: some time, and we're very skeptical that these crime stats
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  Speaker 15: are accurate.
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  Speaker 3: That's extraordinary. What is the motivation? Why are these commanders
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  Speaker 3: or higher ups arriving on the scene during apprehensions and
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: telling police officers to indicate something other than what actually
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: happened at the scene.
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  Speaker 15: Well, the only explanation you give be to keep the
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  Speaker 15: crime stats down because politically that's expedient for the police
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  Speaker 15: department and elected officials in the district. I mean, let's
• 23:45
  Speaker 15: go back to how we got here, which is that
• 23:46
  Speaker 15: in twenty twenty, the Dccity Council passed the Comprehensive Policing
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: and Justice Reform Act, which was a sweeping piece of
• 23:52
  Speaker 15: legislation designed to hamstring police officers, to reduce the size,
• 23:56
  Speaker 15: scope and responsibilities.
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  Speaker 7: Of police officers.
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  Speaker 15: Addition, it also prevented us from holding criminals accountable even
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  Speaker 15: when they're convicted of crimes. And so now here we
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: are five years later, the police department, with an authorized
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: strength of four thousand sworn members, we only have three
• 24:11
  Speaker 15: thy one and eighty, leaving us with over eight hundred
• 24:14
  Speaker 15: vacancies for the position a police officer. And in order
• 24:18
  Speaker 15: to make up for that gap, the police department uses
• 24:20
  Speaker 15: two million hours of mandatory overtime to cover the demand
• 24:24
  Speaker 15: for police officers. And so because of that, crime has
• 24:26
  Speaker 15: skyrocketed in the district. And one of the things that
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: we think is going on in the police department, which
• 24:32
  Speaker 15: who knows.
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  Speaker 7: How high up that those directives.
• 24:34
  Speaker 15: Are coming from, is to make sure that these crime
• 24:37
  Speaker 15: stats are reported in the most favorable way possible.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what you're saying obviously substantiates what we heard
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: from President Trump. He said they were opening an investigation
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and that he didn't believe because what happened. I don't
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: have to tell you I'm speaking to the audience at large,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: But when President Trump said he wanted to bring a
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: national guard. All we heard from many quarters in the
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: media and in leadership in Washington, this is ridiculous. Our
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: numbers are lower than they've been in a long time
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, DC. We don't need national guard presence on
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  Speaker 3: our streets. I mean, this sounds very, very egregious. This
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  Speaker 3: is lying to the people at the constituents of Washington,
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  Speaker 3: d C. And lying to the federal government about what
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  Speaker 3: your numbers really are.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you're right, Martha, it is a crime under DC Code.
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  Speaker 15: It would be false swearing and it would be false reporting,
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  Speaker 15: and those are statutes in the DC Code that make
• 25:27
  Speaker 15: it illegal to do that, to false fy police reports
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  Speaker 15: or to change the data. So if the DOJ is
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: in fact investigating, I hope they do, and if they
• 25:34
  Speaker 15: find that somebody was intentionally manipulating the data, they should
• 25:37
  Speaker 15: be held accountable. It's a crime in the District of Columbia,
• 25:40
  Speaker 15: and frankly, it's a disservice to the police department, it's
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: a disservice to the city, and most of all, it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 15: a disservice to the victims whose police reports are not
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: being properly handled. And we're not dedicating the proper resources
• 25:52
  Speaker 15: to the crimes that they've been victims of. So something
• 25:54
  Speaker 15: needs to change here, and this is an important issue.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So let's just go over the DC crime stats. Now,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: DC crime since the announcement of federal control versus the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: seven day prior numbers, forty six percent is how much
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  Speaker 1: they are down when it comes to robberies, six percent
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  Speaker 1: down when it comes to carjacking, eighty three percent down
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  Speaker 1: for car theft, twenty one percent, violent crime, twenty two
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: percent down, property crime six percent of all crimes.
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  Speaker 5: This is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And now the Justice Department is investigating whether the DC
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: police deliberately manipulated crime data. The police chief also saying
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: this about DC crime under the Democrats to the Republicans.
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  Speaker 15: The criminal justice system here in the District of Columbia
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  Speaker 15: is broken. Every aspect of it is broken, whether that's policing, prosecution,
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: judges and trials, sentencing and supervision, all of it is broken.
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  Speaker 15: And you can trace every aspect of it back to
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  Speaker 15: a piece of legislation that was passed by the council.
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  Speaker 15: They have destroyed policing, they have destroyed prosecutions, they have
• 27:03
  Speaker 15: destroyed the way that the courts are allowed to operate,
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: and they've destroyed our ability to sentence criminals to sentences
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: that are commensurate with the crimes they've committed. And so
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  Speaker 15: the only way to fix this holistically is to go
• 27:14
  Speaker 15: back and look at all of this legislation that the
• 27:16
  Speaker 15: Council passed it back in twenty twenty when there was
• 27:19
  Speaker 15: all of this anti police rhetoric and work to undo that.
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: I know from my experiences the DC Council will never
• 27:26
  Speaker 15: do that on their own.
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  Speaker 7: And so what we're.
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  Speaker 15: Hoping over the course of the next thirty days is
• 27:30
  Speaker 15: that whether that's the White House, whether that's these federal
• 27:32
  Speaker 15: law enforcement agencies, whether that's Congress, that people get an
• 27:35
  Speaker 15: insight into exactly how the system got so broken, because
• 27:39
  Speaker 15: the only way to fix it is if we can
• 27:41
  Speaker 15: get rid of that legislation. And my main concern is
• 27:43
  Speaker 15: that thirty days are going to go by, all of
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: these folks are going to go up about their merry way,
• 27:47
  Speaker 15: and we're still going to be stuck with all this
• 27:49
  Speaker 15: bad law.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: We're only going to be stuck with bad laws. So
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: just remember this. Remember what the Democratic Party is doing.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: They're not actually trying to fight crime They just want
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump to be a failure, even if it means
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  Speaker 1: Americans dying.
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  Speaker 5: Don't forget.
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