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Speaker 2: Trump is making safe streets great again and Democrats don't
Speaker 2: know what to do about it. This is not a
Speaker 2: surprise if you've been paying attention for the last week
Speaker 2: or so. President Trump has taken it upon himself and
Speaker 2: he has these powers. You'll notice even Democrats have to
Speaker 2: admit that because of the Home Rule Charter of nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy three, the District of Columbia has a special status
Speaker 2: when it comes to federal oversight of the day to day,
Speaker 2: including things like budgets and yes, law enforcement.
Speaker 3: And this is where they have.
Speaker 2: Boxed themselves into a corner and I don't know how
Speaker 2: they're going to get out of it. Fundamentally, the Democrats,
Speaker 2: because their biggest voices in the media are pandering to
Speaker 2: an increasingly left wing and delusional audience. They are completely
Speaker 2: disconnected from the react of where most Americans are on
Speaker 2: this issue. It turns out that people do not agree
Speaker 2: with Democrats on things like, hey, the crime situation is
Speaker 2: not that bad. You're having all kinds of folks. Democrats
Speaker 2: way in on this and say hey, guys, now I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about the ones who are calling the shots
Speaker 2: in the party. I mean in the media saying hey, guys,
Speaker 2: you're making this worse for yourselves. In fact, here is
Speaker 2: CNN's guy Harry Entin saying, yeah, Trump's crime numbers in
Speaker 2: terms of approval are going through the roof.
Speaker 1: I think this sort of gives the game away here
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump is like Eric Jordan, towering over Joe
Speaker 1: Biden when it comes to their handling a crime. Look
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, look at where Biden's net approval
Speaker 1: was on crime, way on the water there at minus
Speaker 1: twenty six points. It was one of Biden's whare sishus? Granted,
Speaker 1: pretty much every issue was one of Biden's whare sishers?
Speaker 1: And again look at where Donald Trump is, way, way,
Speaker 1: way above Joe Biden. What is that? That's twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: So Americans prefer Donald Trump's approach to crime, then they
Speaker 1: diet you Joe Biden. And again, I think it gets
Speaker 1: back to the point that Americans are far more hawkish
Speaker 1: on crime than a lot of Democrats want.
Speaker 3: To way, so, what are the realities of this?
Speaker 2: Then Democrats have created the situation where they just oppose
Speaker 2: anything that Trump wants to do, including saving lives and
Speaker 2: keeping people safer, and that's going to be a huge
Speaker 2: issue for them. Now, if you were to add, say
Speaker 2: a Mom Donnie mayoral mayorship or mayoralty or whatever you
Speaker 2: call it in New York City into the mix, then
Speaker 2: you will have, I think a.
Speaker 3: Twofer.
Speaker 2: You'll have a crime in DC national story that will
Speaker 2: be told all throughout twenty twenty six going in the midterms,
Speaker 2: and the economy and the socialist madness in New York
Speaker 2: City that will become a story as well. So I
Speaker 2: think these are going to be very important, very important
Speaker 2: storylines that will have an effect on national politics. And
Speaker 2: the fact that you have Trump with much higher approval
Speaker 2: than Joe Biden on the issue of crime already just
Speaker 2: goes to show you that this is an area of
Speaker 2: strength for Republicans, just like on immigration, and the reflexive
Speaker 2: anti Trumpism that is apparent when they say they don't
Speaker 2: agree with this stuff is a negative. Is drawing the
Speaker 2: fortunes of the Democrats deeper into the depths.
Speaker 3: As I've told you before, I left lived in DC
Speaker 3: two separate.
Speaker 2: Periods of my life. Once when I worked for the government,
Speaker 2: and once when I was in media, and it was
Speaker 2: separated by over a decade, about a decade, and sure enough,
Speaker 2: what you ended up seeing all over the place in
Speaker 2: DC were people who didn't even go into certain areas
Speaker 2: of the city. Everybody knows this, and in fact, even
Speaker 2: Joe Scarborough knows this.
Speaker 4: The answer to this problem for Democrats is not everything's okay,
Speaker 4: there's nothing to see here, move along, move along. Oh,
Speaker 4: Washington has dropped twenty four percent or whatever in crime. Well,
Speaker 4: let me give you some other numbers. The Washington Post
Speaker 4: took a poll in late April early May. Ninety one
Speaker 4: percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem. Ninety
Speaker 4: one percent, fifty one percent it is an extremely serious problem.
Speaker 4: And John Heilman, we've had people before put this in
Speaker 4: racial terms, and this is what I must say. This
Speaker 4: is one thing that I think Democrats have gotten so
Speaker 4: wrong about crime, so wrong about crime. Let me just
Speaker 4: read let me just read the Washington Post. Here there
Speaker 4: are stark divides among the lines of race and income
Speaker 4: in the poll, with black residents and lower income residents
Speaker 4: significantly more worried about crime than white residents and those
Speaker 4: with higher incomes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out that pretty much everybody in DC
Speaker 2: thinks the crime problem is out of control.
Speaker 3: And here's the truth of it. If they do the enforcement.
Speaker 2: I know that Trump has, for example, Cash Betel FBI
Speaker 2: director already dozens of arrests of serious criminals on the
Speaker 2: streets of DC. Also illegals being removed from the streets
Speaker 2: of DC. But when you look at the change, the
Speaker 2: number of people that you would have to incarcerate to
Speaker 2: bring the crime down, I mean serious crime down dramatically
Speaker 2: in DC is actually quite small. Any statistical analysis of
Speaker 2: this will show you you're talking about a couple thousand people.
Speaker 2: But that's not a couple thousand people who you arrest.
Speaker 2: It is a couple thousand people who you are going
Speaker 2: to have to keep in prison for five, ten, fifteen,
Speaker 2: perhaps life depends on what they've done. But repeat felony offenders,
Speaker 2: repeat violent felony offenders, they are responsible for the overwhelming
Speaker 2: majority of all of the violent crime in DC. If
Speaker 2: someone doesn't wake up one day and just shoot somebody
Speaker 2: in the streets. This is such an important concept, and
Speaker 2: this is what Democrats refuse to understand, refuse to take
Speaker 2: into account if somebody is involved in a fatal shooting
Speaker 2: in DC on the streets, the chance that they have
Speaker 2: been arrested many times, the chance they've committed many serious
Speaker 2: crimps before that is overwhelming, overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Just look at the numbers. And once you're.
Speaker 2: Talking about a city that is allowing people to be
Speaker 2: arrested ten twenty, maybe even thirty forty fifty times without
Speaker 2: spending serious time incarcerated. And I just want to say this,
Speaker 2: People say, well, what about reform. Does incarceration reform people?
Speaker 3: Will they have the skills.
Speaker 2: They need to Well, if they're not out in the
Speaker 2: general public, they're not praying on their fellow human beings.
Speaker 3: So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: We can worry about the reform part of this after
Speaker 2: we've done the public safety part of this, and incarcerating
Speaker 2: violent felons is public safety number one move, the number
Speaker 2: one move for it. And I think more and more
Speaker 2: people are recognizing this, or quite honestly, they've already recognized it.
Speaker 2: It's just that the Democrats are waking up to the
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Speaker 2: just do a little preview of what's coming up with
Speaker 2: Russia this summit, which as I'm talking to you now,
Speaker 2: this will be tomorrow. Somebody be listening to this on Friday.
Speaker 2: So if it's Friday, it's today. But the preview that
Speaker 2: I have for it is as follows. I think Putin
Speaker 2: is going to try to appeal to Trump the swaggering showmen,
Speaker 2: and give just enough to make it seem like progress
Speaker 2: is being made so that he can continue a ward
Speaker 2: that he thinks he's winning, but have the pretense of
Speaker 2: he's willing to stop this war.
Speaker 3: Or if only we would meet or Ukraine would meet
Speaker 3: his conditions.
Speaker 2: I think on the other side of this, Trump is
Speaker 2: going into it already knowing this guy's been jerking me around.
Speaker 3: This guy Putin has not been a good faith actor
Speaker 3: in this.
Speaker 2: And look, Trump is a big ego guy, no question,
Speaker 2: I think he deserves it in a lot of ways. Right,
Speaker 2: He's the most powerful person on the planet. That's just
Speaker 2: a fact that people can scoff at that. But Trump
Speaker 2: is the most powerful human being on the planet today.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know, Putin also a big ego guy. And
Speaker 2: one thing that you know, this can be a weakness,
Speaker 2: it can be a strength. Putin is going to try
Speaker 2: to use the Trump ego to maneuver here and make
Speaker 2: this about the personal two titans on the world stage.
Speaker 2: And oh, you know, Donald, of course I'm willing to
Speaker 2: I want to be reasonable, and this is in Russia's
Speaker 2: interest and all this kind of stuff, right, So that's
Speaker 2: his that's his goal. But Trump his ego matters here
Speaker 2: because he has been treated really poorly by Putin on
Speaker 2: the world stage so far on this. As Trump has said,
Speaker 2: I'm not even really putting words in his mouth. I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 2: but he says, he says beautiful things to me, and
Speaker 2: then he blows up hospitals.
Speaker 3: Trump doesn't like that, So Putin's in a little bit
Speaker 3: more of a spot here.
Speaker 2: Now. The problem is it's very easily, very easy for
Speaker 2: Putin to escalate what he's doing. He can do that overnight.
Speaker 2: For Trump to escalate sanctions, for example, that will take
Speaker 2: a little more time to kick in, right to have
Speaker 2: you can Putin can blow up hospitals the next morning
Speaker 2: and show that he still thinks he's in charge and
Speaker 2: doesn't have to negotiate Trump raising the economic costs sanctioning
Speaker 2: India for buying oil, sanctioning China for buying oil from Russia.
Speaker 2: That can be effective, but it takes time to kick in,
Speaker 2: so we should all be aware of that. I think
Speaker 2: the other aspect of this is how much more can
Speaker 2: we give in terms of materil, more advanced material to
Speaker 2: the Ukrainians so that they can raise the cost on
Speaker 2: Russia even higher. The cost that Russia has paid in
Speaker 2: this war in manpower dead is astonishing. They've everyone that
Speaker 2: I know who has access to people even well, this
Speaker 2: is the classified and the unclassified for casualties, as far
Speaker 2: as I know, are probably going to be pretty close.
Speaker 2: Everyone's saying hundreds of thousands of casualties, so that's people
Speaker 2: that have been killed or wounded on the Russian side,
Speaker 2: But it's hundreds of thousands. So the cost in human
Speaker 2: lives doesn't seem to be slowing Putin down at all,
Speaker 2: which is well, not very much. It's slowing them down,
Speaker 2: but it's not slowing them down that much. But I
Speaker 2: would like to say the hopeful part of me sees
Speaker 2: this as maybe Trump can pull off a miracle here.
Speaker 2: I think that Putin wants to continue this war because
Speaker 2: I think that he believes eventually he'll just break the
Speaker 2: back of the Ukrainian resistance and then he'll have anything
Speaker 2: that he wants, and he'll have Zelenski fleeing the country
Speaker 2: and he'll get any piece of territory he wants from
Speaker 2: whatever you know leftover government there is in Kiev, and
Speaker 2: that's that. I think that's what Putin believes. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that will happen. I'm just saying that's Putin's belief,
Speaker 2: so for him, will negotiate anything. To me, this is
Speaker 2: more about as long as the US stays out of this,
Speaker 2: and the sooner we can stop paying for a large
Speaker 2: portion of this, the better. But this is really this
Speaker 2: is a humanitarian mission. It's in the sense that we
Speaker 2: just want to we want people to stop dying. Putin
Speaker 2: is an evil soob no question about that. But I
Speaker 2: care much more about young Russian and Ukrainian men not
Speaker 2: getting their limbs blown off by hunter killer drones operated
Speaker 2: by infantrymen on the front lines then I do about
Speaker 2: you know, the geopolitical implications of this or that piece
Speaker 2: of territory in Ukraine going to one side or the other.
Speaker 2: Like I just we just want the bloodshed to stop,
Speaker 2: and I think that Trump is pushing for that very much.
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