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Speaker 1: and maybe more than you know about, and what the heck,

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Speaker 1: you might enjoy it. One of the things I've been

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Speaker 1: noticing more and more of is how many people in

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Speaker 1: blue cities, Democrat cities, are stepping up and talking about

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Speaker 1: crime is out of control there. Black's doing this, gays

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Speaker 1: it's a bold thing to do because one of the

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Speaker 1: things that Democrats do, and especially black Democrats, is they

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Speaker 1: enforce a crab in the bucket theory. Don't you try

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Speaker 1: Don't you try to go over and talk to the

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Speaker 1: You're a traitor to your race. That's what they do

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Speaker 1: to them. Anyway, here's the decland Morgan is a Chicago

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Speaker 1: pub owner and robbery victim. The credit goes to CBS

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Speaker 1: News Chicago for the story.

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Speaker 2: Today, you hardly see a police car in a neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Decland Morgan has owned and operated Irish Nobleman Pub and

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Speaker 3: Whattstown for more than twenty years. Yet in recent years,

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Speaker 3: violent crime has literally walked through the front door. This

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Speaker 3: is video from the bar from when the armed robbery

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Speaker 3: crew came in right before closing, taking cash and belongings

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Speaker 3: He and many in the neighborhood contributed to the closure

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Speaker 3: of that police station and cops in the twelfth district

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Speaker 2: We're six hundred north here, we're by Chicago Avenue, and

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Speaker 1: Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker is big in the Democrat Party

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Speaker 1: right now. I mean big, like fat, really really fat.

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Speaker 4: Oh wait, she ain't a great, big fat person.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's not what I meant. Though he fancies himself

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Speaker 1: is because he's rich. The family is very, very wealthy.

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Speaker 1: So here he is trying to show the Democrats. I'll

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Speaker 1: fight Trump. Hey, I know we got murders every day,

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Speaker 1: I know we got crimes. I know the people are

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Speaker 1: begging us to make Illinois safer, but I don't. I'll

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Speaker 5: Tell the President that his proposed actions will make our

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Speaker 5: jobs harder and the lives of our residents worse. Earlier

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Speaker 5: today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the

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Speaker 5: assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, mister President,

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Speaker 5: can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead,

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Speaker 5: I say, mister President, do not come to Chicago. You

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Speaker 5: are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about

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Speaker 5: continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit

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Speaker 5: seem to lack any appropriate concern as our commander in chief,

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Speaker 5: for power. As a governor, I've had to make the

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Speaker 5: As I've said many times in the past, members of

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Speaker 5: They are trained for the battlefield, and they're good at it.

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Speaker 1: And then you get somebody like Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson's

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Speaker 1: a dumb dumb He's a guy who's not very smart,

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Speaker 1: but he's learned to use words in such a manner

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Speaker 1: it's really one of the only things that's ever worked.

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Speaker 1: If you want to know the truth.

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Speaker 4: As the mayor of this city, I can tell you

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Speaker 4: that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. They are

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Speaker 4: calling for the same thing that we've been calling for

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Speaker 4: for some time, and that's investment. What safe cities across

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Speaker 4: America all have in common, they invest in people, and

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Speaker 4: that's what we're doing in Chicago. We need the federal

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Speaker 4: expanding mental and behavioral health care, education, all of these

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Speaker 4: Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for publicity

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Speaker 4: spend that money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction.

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Speaker 4: We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already

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Speaker 4: tried that. If we've ended up with the largest prison

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Speaker 4: and violence, the addiction on jails and incarceration in this country,

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Speaker 4: we have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral,

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Speaker 4: it is unholy, and it is not the way to

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Speaker 4: drive violence down. We cannot return to the same failed

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Speaker 4: the previous presidential administration, we requested more federal resources to

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Speaker 4: address gun violence in our city. We continue to make

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Speaker 4: that same call. We have made significant progress on our own,

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Speaker 1: And then it was a tough week for Brandon Johnson

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Speaker 1: because he's not smart. He's a dumb dumb the mayor

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Speaker 1: of Chicago. He went on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough, not

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Speaker 1: or not five thousand police officers would make his city safer.

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Speaker 1: There you know why he refused to answer.

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Speaker 6: Would you also like to get federal funding to help

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Speaker 6: put five thousand more cops on the street in Chicago?

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Speaker 6: Would that help drive down crime?

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Speaker 4: Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.

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Speaker 6: I understand if you've talked about the other things you want,

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Speaker 6: and I said, those are good and important programs, But

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Speaker 6: I'm asking also, would five thousand more police officers on

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Speaker 6: all of those social programs And a lot of cities

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Speaker 4: Well, look, here's the best play I can put it.

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Speaker 4: Joe is that in the nineties when I was in

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Speaker 4: high school, we had three thousand more police officers and

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Speaker 4: in Chicago. It's just not policing alone. Of course we won't.

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Speaker 6: I know it's not. But I know it's not policing alone.

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Speaker 6: You've told me everything else you want. I'm curious and

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Speaker 6: this this does come down to it an ideological difference

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Speaker 6: Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police

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Speaker 4: I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America

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Speaker 4: would be safer if we actually had you know, affordable housing.

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Speaker 6: Look, Ok, not the question I asked my question, but

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Speaker 6: of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, which

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Speaker 6: do have a history being successful. If that's if that's

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Speaker 6: complimented by having five thousand more cops on the streets

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Speaker 4: I don't believe that we should narrow it down to

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Speaker 4: just police officers. On what I'm saying that is an

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Speaker 4: antiquated approach. I'm saying, I've invested.

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Speaker 6: In hearing what I'm saying. I'm I'm bringing with you

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Speaker 6: that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important.

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Speaker 6: I just need a yes or a no, and then

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Speaker 6: this will be the last time I ask if you

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Speaker 6: get all of those other social programs that that eight

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Speaker 6: other people do with great success, would an additional five

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Speaker 6: thousand cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those

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Speaker 6: programs to make Chicago safer.

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Speaker 4: Look, we are working hard to make sure that our

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Speaker 4: simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is

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Speaker 4: the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing.

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Speaker 4: It's policing and mental and behavior health care services, is

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Speaker 4: policing and youth employment. It's a full package. Of course,

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Speaker 4: we want to make sure that our police department is

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Speaker 4: fully supported. That's why I've invested in our Detective's Bureau,

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Speaker 4: because what we have seen in the city of Chicago

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Speaker 4: it's policing and all of the other efforts that we're doing.

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Speaker 4: Here's the last thing that I'll say to that the

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Speaker 4: federal government could work stronger to coordinate with my police

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Speaker 6: What historically has been Baltimore's greatest challenge? Why has Baltimore

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Speaker 7: And I think about Baltimore used to be a city

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Speaker 1: we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the

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Speaker 1: man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,

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Speaker 1: if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp

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Speaker 1: a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.