1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Yesterday, President Trump, he pledged to make DC safe, smart, 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: and beautiful. This all happened during a White House press conference. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: So he signed a memorandum to activate the DC National Guard. 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: Okay, and he's doing this because what violence and tomfoolery 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 2: is even by what Look Washington, d C. You'll back 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: me up on this case. It's a pretty crummy. 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 3: Place parts of it. Yeah, it could be dangerous. 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: I mean that's some saying. Like you get in your 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 2: mind these great visuals, which they are. They're incredibly you know, 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: Lincoln Memorial. 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 3: The Washington Monument, everything, all of these things, right. 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 2: And they're incredible things. And if you've never been to Washington, 13 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: d C. I drove by force. Never told you the story. 14 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 2: This is how wasteful our government is. This was one 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: of the many reasons. 16 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: That when you were on the licensing board. 17 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one of the Rob Kendall origin stories 18 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 2: where they the state made me when I was the 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 2: Pharmacy board, when I was the head of the pharmacy board, 20 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: they made me go on a trip to Washington, DC. 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: And I told them, I'm like, there's nothing I'm going 22 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 2: to learn there that is of any value to this 23 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 2: that we're doing here in terms of serving people, like 24 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 2: I'd be far more valuable to the taxpayers to just 25 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 2: sit here and help our understaffed customer service reps answer 26 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: phones and process paperwork, you know, because that's who we serve. No, 27 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,279 Speaker 2: you have to go, but why because we've always gone. 28 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 2: That doesn't really seem like a a good reason and 29 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: be a great use of tax payer money. But I 30 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 2: went by force, got in my automobile and charioted myself 31 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 2: halfway across the country and went for two days in 32 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 2: very brief amount of time. I got to walk around 33 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: down there, because, as I said, it was a complete 34 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: waste of time. 35 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 3: When what's that that you went? What year was that? 36 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: Oh that'd been twenty fourteen. 37 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: A thing, okay, so that predates the zoom meetings or teams. 38 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 3: Something you could have done online. 39 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 2: They'd have telephones back then, though they did have for 40 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: any information that would have been would have been pertinent. 41 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 3: What time of a year was it, Oh it was fall. 42 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: Ish late, No, it was it was some late summer ish, 43 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: it was. 44 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 3: Past the cherry blossom season. 45 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, again like just but the point is it was 46 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 2: it was fine. But you're very aware when you're down there, 47 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: there's certain areas, certain alleyys you ought not be turning in. 48 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: And as it has been more than a decade since 49 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 2: I've been there, I'm only guessing it's gotten progressively worse, just. 50 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 3: A little bit better. 51 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: Trump cited total lawlessness with youth gangs on ATVs and 52 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: entire neighborhoods that have emergency curfews. He said his efforts 53 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: are going to include removing trash, graffiti, repairing broken marble panels, 54 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: and cleaning up the homeless. 55 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but but does the federal government do anything? 56 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 3: Well? 57 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 2: Is what are we gonna have the National Guard clean? 58 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: Cleaning up the homeless? 59 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: He said that the one hundred to two hundred troops 60 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: are going to support law enforcement with administrative, logistical, and 61 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: physical rest. 62 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 2: To the babysitters. How did that go in Iraq? The 63 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: National Guard as babies? Just Look, it's fine if you're 64 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 2: going to say a single event like oh, I don't know, 65 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 2: say the riots of twenty twenty. If you know there's 66 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: going to in a moment or a day or days 67 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: or whatever, be the potential for mass chaos and calamity, 68 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: and you're saying, hey, we're shutting everything down like should 69 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: have been done here in twenty twenty. That's okay, no 70 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: problem with it. But they're not designed to be infinite 71 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: baby sitters. And what does that say about your city? 72 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 2: You're not addressing the root cause, because what sort of 73 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 2: visual is that, Hey, come see us, it's great here, 74 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: it's so safe. We got to run out the National 75 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 2: Guard to keep things under control. The visual, it's horrible. 76 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: And until you address the root cause, whether it's there 77 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: or whether it's here, this is just some bizarro band 78 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: aid that may or may not even actually help. 79 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: Said troops are going to work alongside DC police and 80 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: also federal law enforcement. And everybody is saying, but crime 81 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: is being reported to be down in DC and the 82 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: Jenine Pierrot, a former Fox Yes she had a crime. 83 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: I got in trouble for saying she was the mouthy 84 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 2: lady on Fox News. Yeah, somebody mad at me about. 85 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: It was she had a comment about that when she 86 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: was asked about crime being down in DC? 87 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 4: Why now? Because you know it may be down, but 88 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 4: the question is always down from what if we had 89 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 4: the fourth largest homicide rate, highest homicide rate in the 90 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 4: country two years ago, all of a sudden, it goes down, 91 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 4: people want to pat themselves on the back. Now, way 92 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 4: took don into crime victims. I was just at a 93 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 4: college a couple of weeks ago where I had photos 94 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 4: of young kids who were victims of homicides of shootings, 95 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 4: and it happens over and over again. It's not okay 96 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 4: because it's down from last year. It's bad. This is 97 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 4: a nation's capital. This is a shining city on the hill. 98 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 4: We're not going to tolerate it. People are afraid to 99 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 4: come to this city. 100 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: But what is the city now. It's the home of 101 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: a cesspool of rotten, corrupt people who regularly put themselves 102 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 2: and their own interest ahead of the American people. That's 103 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 2: what that city does, That's who it houses. So don't 104 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: give me this moral high horse, bs when that's the 105 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 2: core of your existence is bloated, inefficient, ineffective government that 106 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 2: regularly rewards donors and lobbyists and power over the people 107 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: that it's elected to serve. Don't give me some moral 108 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: high horse argument about how we must do this or 109 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 2: we must do that on behalf of it. You're doing 110 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 2: that on behalf of yourself. 111 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: So Donald Trump gave a little story about something that 112 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: his father told him when he was young. 113 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 5: City. You know, my father always used to tell me 114 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 5: I had a wonderful father, very smart, and he used 115 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 5: to say, so, when you walk into a restaurant and 116 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 5: you see a dirty front door, don't go in because 117 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 5: if the front door is dirty, the kitchens dirty. Also, 118 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 5: same thing with the capital. If where capital is dirty, 119 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 5: our whole country is dirty and they don't respect us. 120 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 5: So it's a very good question. 121 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: An it sounds to me like he's using the uh, 122 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: you know, the Rudy Giuliani move of the broken window, 123 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: like clean it up and then the crime will go away. 124 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 2: That's fine that, there's nothing wrong with that, or pressing 125 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 2: for a better, more efficient nation's capital. But as long 126 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: as there is an element of local control about that, 127 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 2: you're not going to solve that. You have to have 128 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: all hands on deck, all hands on board, everybody moving. 129 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 2: I always heard it described as everybody moving with their 130 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 2: hand on the football in the same direction, and you're 131 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 2: not You're not going to have that. I mean, you 132 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: can spin it back here with that budget meeting last 133 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: night with the City of Indianapolis one point seven billion, 134 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 2: and it's not going to make a damn bit of difference. 135 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 2: They could be three billion. It wouldn't make any difference 136 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: because you don't have the same people pulling in the 137 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: same position for the same desired outcome. And thus, you know, 138 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 2: Braun couldn't loose the National Guard here. It wouldn't make 139 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 2: the city any better. I mean, sure maybe for pockets 140 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: in moments, but you can't have about twenty four hours 141 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 2: a day, seven days a week, and if a bunch 142 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 2: of them are doing administrative work anyway, it's just it's 143 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 2: it's a societal thing, it's a governmental thing, and it's 144 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: a belief system thing, and it's just we don't have 145 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: the will in most of our major metropolitan cities now 146 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 2: because they've been overrun by crazy people and a lot 147 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 2: of the decent people have gotten out to the political 148 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 2: will to fix the thing.