August 29, 2025 • 33 mins
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Crime & Policing
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is described as reversing her stance and acknowledging that Trump’s federal crime crackdown reduced carjackings and violent crime.
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Statistics cited include:
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87% drop in carjackings during the 20-day deployment.
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22% reduction in violent crime.
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0 homicides in a 7-day stretch.
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Commentary portrays Democrats as “soft on crime,” contrasting Trump’s law-and-order stance with Democratic city leadership in places like Chicago and New York.
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Partisan Framing
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The narrative criticizes Democratic leaders for resisting federal help, suggesting they are more concerned with politics than citizen safety.
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References to the 1994 Crime Bill and claims that Democrats have since abandoned tough-on-crime policies in favor of “defund the police” and bail reform.
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CDC Leadership Shakeup
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Shifts to a controversy involving RFK Jr. (serving in the Trump administration in this scenario) removing Susan Monarez from her short-lived role as CDC director.
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Multiple senior officials resigned in protest, citing political interference in science and public health.
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The piece frames this as Trump and Kennedy restoring accountability and realigning the CDC with “Make America Healthy Again” policies.
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Cultural & Social Commentary
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The speaker ties high-crime cities to failing schools, declining church attendance, and weakened community bonds.
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Personal anecdotes about growing up in Memphis and comparing it to safer small-town life (Botno, North Dakota) reinforce the message that safe communities foster strong faith and civic life.
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Call to Action
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The conclusion urges Trump to continue direct engagement with high-crime cities, bypassing resistant Democratic leaders, and presents this as a winning political and social strategy.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
So the DC mayor has had a major change of
her rhetoric when it comes to reversing what crime is
doing in her city. Yes, she's totally reversing course now
admitting that Donald Trump's federal crime crackdown is in fact working.
Mayor Bowser cited an eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings
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during the twenty day federal law enforcement deployment. Just take
a listen to the conversation that was had on Fox
News Channel about what she said and also the data.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
MPD has been able to do in this city. Well,
we know it's not working. Is a break and trust
between police and community, especially with new federal partners in
(01:01):
our community. We know having massed ice agents in the
community has not worked.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, but let's listen to some residents here.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Navy Yard has kind of been a hot area before
all the you know, additional security. It was a little
dicey at times, especially at later times in the hour.
I would see fights break out whenever I just walking home.
But now it's a lot more quiet.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea and
I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
the highways and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What about the fallout of all this stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Well, we just had a poll come I yesterday the
ap poles here, eighty one percent of people think that
crime is a problem in major, major problem in urban areas.
Trump's approval rating on crime was fifty four percent in
that pole and the Harvard Harris pole was fifty one percent,
his highest rating of any of the issues that they
they questioned VS about. So, I think what you saw
from the mayor, which she said, is a bit surprising.
I think that's her responding to her constituents. She's hearing
(02:06):
from people who are saying that, especially in the areas
where crime is the worst, that they feel safer and
that's not a bad thing. Democrats have managed to box
themselves in on another eighty twenty issue and are trying
to find a way out, and I think the mayor
has recognized that, and she's obviously in the middle of it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yet again, here Democrats on the wrong side of the issue.
This is an issue where the majority of Americans say
that they want to feel safe In fact, for decades,
Democrats have been saying this, and now what is happening. Well,
President Donald Trump says, I'm with you. I want to
drive down crime in some of our most dangerous cities.
And Democrats are angry. Why they're coming down once again
(02:49):
on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions
of Americans. And the question you should ask yourself is this,
Why would the leaders of high crime cities like Washington,
DC or Chicago project to the president helping to make
their streets safer. I'll tell you why they're panicked. Their
panic that Donald Trump is succeeding, exposing them as inept,
(03:11):
as corrupt, as leaders that really just want to control cities,
even if it means they're filled with crime. For decades,
by the way, Democrats have been struggling to overcome the
accusations on the facts that they were soft on crime.
Go back to nineteen ninety four. Trying to combat that charge,
(03:31):
President Bill Clinton signed a law the most sweeping anti
crime bill at the time in history, and funded actually
the hiring of one hundred thousand new police officers. It
also authorized the construction of new prisons and introduced that
three strikes law manditing lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders. Now,
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Democrats are furious. They are furious that crime is actually
going down in DC, and they're also even more angry
that the President said this about you know the prospect
of places like Chicago getting some extra help.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
And after we do.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
This, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe.
Al So we're going to make our country very safe.
We're going to make our cities very very safe. Chicago's
a mess. You have an incompetent mayor grossly incompetent. And
we'll straighten that one out probably next. That'll be our
next one after this, and it won't even be tough.
And the people in Chicago, mister Vice President, are screaming
(04:31):
for us to come. They're wearing red hats, just like
this one, but they're wearing red hats. African American ladies,
beautiful ladies, are saying, please, President Trump, come to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Please.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
I did great with the black vote, as you know,
and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago
will be our next, and then we'll help with New York,
and we're going to help with and I think, really,
I think a lot of and a lot of these
people that you see on television, they are, including the
people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me,
and then they'll say, thank god he's here, because half
(05:08):
of them got mugged and they don't want to get
mugged again. But you know, they work for a ladder.
They work for stupid people that are radical left, and
they're made to do things and say things that they
don't want to be saying.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This goes back to the real problem. And if you
look at the present and what he's saying there, he's
absolutely right. You had Democrats that used to be in
favor of fighting crime and saving black lives. Now they're
soft on crime. Democrats' literal high water mark for cracking
down on crime was in nineteen ninety four. The party leaders,
(05:41):
including former President Joe Biden, are now at a point
where they apologize for being tough on crime. They literally
apologize for the nineteen ninety four crime bill it is
and then post George Floyd in that that error. Democrats
have adopted policies as open we want to defund the police,
(06:01):
we want to have no bail, we want to have
prison reform, we want to shut down prisons. And that's
what made our cities, or especially the cities they run,
liberal cities so dangerous because they favored criminals over their citizens.
They also did this on the issue of I legal immigration,
flooding these liberal cities with criminals. President Trump saying, hey,
(06:25):
I'm going to do this. I'm going to save people's lives.
We're going to reverse course on this. I'm going to
go wherever I can, and if I can send troops,
I'm going to do it for one reason, to stop
the violence and to stop the killing. And what a
Democrat say, You're a dictator and a tyrant if you
do it. So now you go back to the mayor
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in DC. Why is the mayor in d C saying
what she's saying now because the citizens are telling her
that they're glad this is happening. You look at Chicago's mayor,
for example. He is the complete opposite of this. Right,
He's saying, well, President Trump, if you send the National Guard,
we're going to stand up to you in the Windy City.
The most flagrant violation of our constitution the twenty first
(07:08):
centuries I described on X and then he boasted the
city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. Those
are his words. It actually does, by the way, One
headline from the summer sets it all quote at least
fifty five people shot, eight fatally in the fourth of
July weekend. So Brandon Johnson's like, no, no, no, no, you don't understand,
I don't want any help. Well, you clearly need it.
(07:30):
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mayor talking about crime. I want you to hear what
(09:44):
he had to say. Listen carefully.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Potentially next for more expanded deportation efforts, potentially military deployments.
But I'm wondering in light of that, have you seen
anything to confirm that or what would be the process
for you all learning if that where to come to pass.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Thank you for the question. It's not like the federal
government has given us any heads up, right, there's no
communication from the federal government or the local police department.
It's quite problematic. This is why we're relaunching our Know
Your Rights campaign. There's a great deal of resistance in
this city around a host of things from the Trump administration,
the fact that again that he's removing black history right,
(10:25):
that he's you know, attacking the LGBTQ plus community as
much as we possibly can, whether it's in the courts,
whether it's in the streets with policy, we're going to
continue to defend and center for working people.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And just to follow up, would you know, in like,
is there a procedure or anything that the federal government
needs to notify you before something like that were to happen,
a National Guard deployment or marines or something like that.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
I think it's important that the president respects the Constitution.
And if you're asking me if this president is going
to work with city leaders, it's clear that he's not
interested in doing that. He's not even interested in working
with Congress, which this is where these issues should be
taken up. They have not moved on anything substantive at
(11:14):
the federal level. There's no effort for comprehensive immigration reform
that could help repair a broken system. There's no commitment
to help transform our economy. There's no commitment to invest
in our public education system. The only thing that we
received from this president is his ugoing attack against equity, diversity,
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hisgoing attack against working people. Establishing policy that ultimately protects
the interests of the wealthy in this country is the
priority that he has carried out. Anything other than that,
he's been a miserable disappointment and failure.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Isn't it amazing that the President is actually lowering crime?
And the Chicago mayor is like, Oh, he's just an
evil guy that likes the rich people and then goes
on these ti raids that have nothing to do with
protecting his citizens. And the President says, I'm not waiting
around any longer. I am going to protect the citizens
of the United States of America wherever I can. I've
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got some pretty nice news for you. The CDC is
finally getting a new acting director as leadership has had
a major shakeup at the agency. You may remember this
is where Director Fauci got paid more money than anybody
else to be in charge of the agency, the same
people that were giving me to China and other countries
around the world. Well, Jim O'Neill, a top deputy to
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the Health Secretary RFK Junior, we now know we'll serve
as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention that according to an administration official. The official
also requested Amininity to discuss a personal change that has
not been quote formally announced. The administration want to O'Neil
to replace Susan Monarees, whom the White House is trying
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to remove only after a month starting the job. Minariz
is fighting to keep her job. Her removal has left
the nation's top public health agency reeling, and three senior
officials were escorted from its headquarters on Thursday. The turmoil
triggered bipartisan alarm as Kenny tries to advance anti vaccine
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policies the left says that are contradicted by decades they
claim of scientific research. Now the turbulence comes weeks before
a key advisory committee, which Kennedy has reshaped with vaccine skeptics.
By the way, I love how they say anyone that
ask a question about a vaccine is a quote vaccine
skeptic is expected, by the way, to meet to issue
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new recommendations on immunizations, which, of course the big pharma
companies are dreading. Two Republican centers also have now called
for a congressional oversight, and even Democrats are saying that
Kennedy should be fired. He's scheduled to testify on Capitol
Hill on September the fourth. Our FK Junior has not
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explained the decision to als Susan Manares as the CDC
director less than a month after she was sworn in,
but warned that more turnover very well could be coming,
saying this quote, there's a lot of trouble at the CDC,
and it's going to require getting rid of some people
over the long term in order for us to change
the institutional culture, Kenny said a news conference in Texas.
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The White House has only said that Manares was not
aligned with President Donald Trump's agenda. There is no word
on winter replacement, by the way could be named. Minars'
lawyer said that she refused to quote rubber stamp unscientific,
reckless directives and or fired dedicated health experts. She's fighting
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her dismissal, saying the decision must come directly from Trump,
who nominate her in March.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The saga began Wednesday night with the administration's announcement that
Minarias would no longer lead the CDC. In response, three
different doctors three different officials resigned from senior roles at
the agency. The officials returned to the office Thursday to
collect their belongings and staff. Members of the agency had
planned to gather in the afternoon to applaud them as
they left the Atlanta campus, but the removal by security
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personnel earlier in the morning squelts those plans, according to
current and former employees. Some of those that resigned in
protest told the Associated Press that Minarrez had tried to
guard against political medaling and scientific research and health recommendations.
We were going to see if she was able to
weather the storm, and when she was not, we were done,
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is what one of the doctors said he resigned. She
had been the agency's deputy director and chief medical officer.
Giving up a big job is what the media wants
you to believe. Another one of the people that resigned
was also the head of the National Center for Immunization
and Respiratory Diseases, and they said, it is time for
us to stand up to what's actually happening. Now you
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go back to all of this, and if removed, all right,
Manarias will be the shortest serving director since the CDC
was founded in nineteen forty six, exacerbating a leadership vacuum
that has persisted since Trump took office is what the
media is saying about this as well. Trump initially chose
David Weldon, a former Florida congressman who is a doctor
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in vaccine skeptic, but yanked the nomination in March. Minaire Is,
a longtime government scientist, was tapped next to lead the
nine point two billion dollar agency while she was serving
as its interim director, but questions immediately emerged within Kennedy's
circle about her loyalty to make America Healthy Again movement,
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especially given her previous support for the COVID nineteen vaccines
that Kennedy has well publicly criticized. Now, Kennedy rarely mentioned
manara Is by name and the way he did other
health agency leaders, and that was when many people thought
there could be a problem. A flashpoint has been Kenny's
handling of the CDC's Advisory Vaccine Committee, which he has
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tried to reshape since taking over the Department of Health
and Human Services. By the way, this isn't controversial. This
is literally what he said he was going to do.
I don't know why anyone's shocked by Kennedy doing this.
So here we are. We have all of this now,
and people are mad. They're mad that the people that
are always green lighting things like the COVID nineteen vaccine
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are now actually having to answer questions and they don't
get a rubber stamp from the Trump administration. As for
the idea of firing someone right after they get their job, if,
as the Trump administration said, they're not actually aligning with
the values that you have for the agency. And remember,
no one voted for any of these people. They voted
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only for Donald Trump, then it's Trump's job to make
sure that those people are in a good place, a
place where they are representing what he ran on. And
that's what this ultimately boils down to. You have Donald
Trump that has said I'm listening to the people. You
have Donald Trump that said the CDC has lost the
faith of the American people, especially with what we witness
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with COVID. I think we can all agree on that point.
And so what the President's doing is he's listening to
the people and then saying I'm going to find people
that are aligned with it. RFK Junior, by the way,
was a perfect example of that, an unorthodox individual who
the President said deserve to have a voice in his administration. Now,
the question is going to be what happens next. I
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expect the President to not flinch on this one. I
expect the President of the United States America to stand firm,
and I expect the president of United State, It's America
to trust RFK Junior to make sure they get the
right people aligned with the values that were promised. In fact,
that's exactly what Caroline Levitt said at the White House
as she talked about President Trump having every right to
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fire the CDC director on.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
The firing in the CDC director first will replace her,
and then also overnight the White House said that she
did not align with the president's agenda. Doctor Manards's attorney
say that she refused to rubber stamp unscientific breakfast directives
and fired dedicated health experts, what specifically.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
To shooting moment.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Look, what I will say about this individual is that
her lawyer's statement made it abundantly clear themselves that she
was not aligned with the president's mission to make America
healthy again. And the Secretary asked her to resign, she
said she would, and then she said she wouldn't, So
the President fired her, which he has every right to do.
It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly re elected on
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November fifth. This woman has never received a vote in
her life, and the president has the authority to fire
those who are not aligned with his mission. A new
replacement will be announced by either the President or the
Secretary very soon, and the President and Secretary Kennedy are
committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the
CDC by ensuring their leadership and their decisions are more
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public facing, more accountable, strengthening our public health system, and
restoring it to its core mission of protecting Americans from
communicable diseases, investing in innovation to prevent, detect, and respond
to future threats. That's the mission of the CDC, and
we're going to make sure that folks that are in
positions of leadership there are aligned with that mission.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So there you have. The White House may get very
clear that even if they pick someone to be in
their administration for a job, if they are not pushing
for the agenda items that the President of the United
States of America has told them to push for, then
they will get rid of them. And that's exactly what
the President should be doing, not wasting any time when
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he sees clearly that someone is going against what he
believes their job should be. You step back and you
look at this country right now, and it is very
clear that every major city in America that is run
by Democrats is a city that is filled with violent criminals.
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Many of them are filled with violent criminal, illegal aliens.
Many of them are filled with child rapists, sex offenders,
and a network of drug cartel members. And by the way,
I'm going to talk about the drug cartels and going
after them because they've been designated terrorist organizations in a moment,
something I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of going
after them, and there's a very good chance that may
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be what the President's going to do in Mexico very
very soon. But they're filled with the lawlessness. This is
the time where we as Republicans and conservatives, I think,
have an opportunity to make real inroads in inner city
America where overwhelming they've been voting for Democrats for decades.
It's seventy eighty percent. This is that moment where you
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can look at Washington, d C. And show them that
there is an actual chance of safe and secure neighborhoods
regardless of where you live. If you restore the law
and order, and then once you get that safety and
you get that secl scurity, you're then in a much
better place because at that point you have citizens that
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start to be inspired to go out in their communities,
to be involved in their communities. By the way, you
know what, there's two things that are very interesting about crime.
If you're in a high crime area, did you know
that it's almost guaranteed that your kids are in a
failing school. Yeah. If black lives really matter to the
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Democratic Party like they claim, then they would want young
black lives to not be set up for failure, but
set up for success in a public school that is
not a failure. By the way, it's also the reason
why I'm in favor of school choice. You may not
know this, but did you know if you're in a
high crime city, not only are you more likely to
be in a failing school than a successful school, but
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you're you're also more likely to let me rephrase that,
you're less likely to go to church. You'll look at
the most high crime cities in America and look at
the church attendance numbers. They are in historic declines. Why
is that? Because you've killed community. It used to be
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you walk to church in your neighborhood with your family,
your friends, your neighbors. If you live in a violent
city and a violent neighborhood, the chances of you knowing
your neighbors, going out with your neighbors, spending time with
your neighbors, spending time in a community, spend time outside
of your home with your family is very low. And
if you want to know why we have so many
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empty churches on Sunday mornings and so many these violent cities. Yes,
there is a direct correlation between failing schools and lack
of faith in America. In cities where there is crime
and the criminals are running the city, there are some
of the most beautiful churches that's seventy eighty percent empty
on Sunday mornings in these violent cities because the elderly,
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by the way, who I truly believe the elders, there's
a reason why we have elders in the church are
the backbone of our community. They're the backbone of our churches.
The elder statesmen. And if they're afraid to go to
church because they're afraid of the crime and they don't
feel safe in their own neighborhood, they don't feel safe
to go to church, they don't feel safe to go
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to the grocery stores. What happens They end up becoming depressed.
They end up sitting in their homes, and they end
up dying like hermits. Crime isn't just killing people, it's
killing cities. It's killing hopes, it's killing dreams, it's killing education,
it's killing faith in America today. And so what the
President I encourage him to do is to keep doing
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what he's doing Number one, but to go to these
cities regardless of what the local leaders say, and talk
to the people directly. In these top twenty most dangerousies.
Do a tour of America's worst cities, and don't walk
in and criticize. Walk in and say, life should be
better than the Life should be safer for you and
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your grandparents and your kids. Our churches and our schools
should be places that people can't wait to go to.
Your children should be able to play in your backyard,
in your front yard and not be behind bars on
the windows because it's so crime ridden. Your kids should
be able to sit on the front porch at night
and not be inside in case there's a drive by shooting. Yes,
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that's a reality in many of the most dangerous cities
in America. I don't care who you are, you know,
if you're not safe, can I get an amen on that.
You know that if you were in an unsafe area,
you know, if you're in a community that is not safe,
you know it. I know it, you know it, everybody
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knows it. You how many people are stuck in a
neighborhood that they wish they didn't live in because they're
on a fixed income, they're retired, they're in social security,
they live their life, they did well and unform. Actually
now they live in a community that they can't afford
to get out of, and so they're stuck literally in hell.
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This is not hard to fix. Let me give you
some stats to prove my point. DC violent crime has
dropped twenty two percent after Trump's crackdown. They've had zero
homicides in the last week. I'm gonna read you this
article and every American. By the way, I will repost
this article on my ex account at Ben Ferguson Show.
I'll put it up on Instagram, follow me at Ben
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Ferguson Podcast, and I'll put these stats in my podcast
so you can share it. But here are the stats.
Violent crime in DC has dropped twenty two percent over
the last week following Trump's crackdown the city. The article says.
Fox News Digital detailed the stunning findings, which include the
fact that as of Wednesday afternoon, there were not one,
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not two, not three, not ten, not fifteen, not twenty.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
But zero.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Murders in washing in DC over the last seven days.
That is a feat that has not been seen for months.
Fox News Digital also said a few other studying statistics
from the local police union revealing that since Trump's federal takeover,
carjackings have dropped by eighty three percent, robberies have dropped
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by forty six percent, zero murders in d C during
the past week. The White House Officials Rapid Response page
also shared the news detailing the quote dramatic reductions in crime.
Here's a local report about it.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
When the National Guard hit the ground in Washington last week,
that city's crime fight went into overdrive. And now we're
seeing the impact and the dramatic reductions in crime. When
the National Guard rolled into Washington last week, the locals
seem skeptical.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
The crime is minimal here, it's not really a lot
of crime here. Lived at the window dress up to me.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
But with the Guard on the ground, crime is on
the decline for the first time in a long time.
DC has gone seven days without a homicide, and that's
not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
down forty six percent, carthif's down twenty one percent, and
overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
When you have these kind of numbers going down, it
basically says this is a success and that means people
feel safer.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
Like many big cities, Washington's police department is critically short staff.
Speaker 12 (28:33):
People who don't feel safe aren't free.
Speaker 11 (28:36):
Sergeant Betsy Smith with the National Police Association says it
is ripe for federal health.
Speaker 12 (28:41):
More police generally equals less crime.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
More police, what an idea, More police generally means less crime.
This is not hard to figure out. Why would all
these other cities not want Donald Trump's help. Forget the
mayor's forget the politics. Why would any city right now
not be screaming, mister President, please help us. We need
the National Guard. Send them in. We want our carjackings
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down eighty three percent. We want robberies down forty six percent,
we want car theft down twenty one percent. We want
overall violent crime down twenty two percent. That is in
a seven day period. This is the dramatic reduction crime,
and these numbers do seem shocking to me. I also
want to be clear about that, and probably it's because
we've been living in such an abusive relationship in these
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big seas or so long that it seems impossible to
stop the violent crime. When you grow up in a
violent city, one of the most violent seas in America,
it's a it's an abusive relationship. I grew up in Memphis.
I say it again. I love my city, I really do.
But I can tell you this. I wouldn't tell anybody
to move there right now. In fact, I tell most
of my friends when we talk about this stuff, get out.
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It's not worth your family's life. It's not worth living
in fear. When I moved out of Memphis, I moved
from one of the most dangerous cities in a ma America,
the murder capital of America, to one of the safest
cities in all of America. And do you want to
know what happened. It took me about sixty days to
figure out just how much my life was consumed with
(30:15):
thinking about safety. About six months in I actually forgot
to lock my door one night at my house and
I laughed the next morning, because there's no way in
hell I would ever do that in Memphis and sea
like it would. That accident doesn't happen in Memphis, Tennessee.
The idea of not locking your door would not be
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an option when you live in a violent city. And
if you're listening to me right now and you live
in one of these cities, you know exactly what I'm
talking about, Like you understand it. You're like, yeah, there's
no way in hell. When I was a little boy,
we went to Batano, North Dakota, seat my great grandmother.
And when you grow up in Memphis, there's a lot
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of rules. My dad was by the way law enforcement,
so there was like he knew and we knew just
how dangerous the city was. And I remember going to Botno,
North Dakota my great grandmother, she was I think in
her eighties at the time, and we got there and
there was two things this little child, I'll never forget.
Number One, they always left the keys and the ignition
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in the car and the driveway. No one was stealing
cars in Botno, North Dakota. They had a real sense
of community. Number two, and this is even more important,
they had a community where everybody walked and everybody went
to church. When you have a safe city, you have
a real community. People don't stay in their houses and
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lock their doors. They go outside and they have an
open door policy to their family, their friends, and their neighbors.
And the most amazing thing that ever happened when I
was a little kid. It was one of those moments that,
like they say, is a core memory. Was when I
was there, My gr great grandmother looked at me and
I was a little kid, My sister was little, and
she handed us money and she said, you guys, walk
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down the store and go get yourself some candy. And
my parents said, yeah, yeah, y'all go down there. We
looked at my mom and my dad like they were insane.
You wouldn't I When I lived in Memphis, you had to.
My mom would walk out into the street to watch
me walk down to our neighbor's house to make sure
(32:23):
I made it safely. And I wasn't allowed to walk
home until I called, so they could walk outside and
watch me walk back down the street. And those same
parents are telling me and bot, no, North Dakota, you
can go the grocery store and go shopping by yourself.
I was like, what, I didn't even know what drugs were.
I was so young, but I knew something wasn't right.
Wouldn't it be nice if we got back to that
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way of life? And the President of United States of
America is telling every one of these cities you can
do this. We are ready to do it with you,
we are ready to help you. And the only thing
that's holding these cities back is the arrogance of the
Democratic Marxists and socialists and communists that are running these cities.
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They would rather their constituents live in fear. They would
rather than ode on fetnyl. They would rather than be raped,
they would rather than be shot. They'd rather them be
murdered than to actually work with Donald Trump, because Orange
Man apparently is so bad that they just can't work
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So the DC mayor has had a major change of
her rhetoric when it comes to reversing what crime is
doing in her city. Yes, she's totally reversing course now
admitting that Donald Trump's federal crime crackdown is in fact working.
Mayor Bowser cited an eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings
(00:27):
during the twenty day federal law enforcement deployment. Just take
a listen to the conversation that was had on Fox
News Channel about what she said and also the data.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
MPD has been able to do in this city. Well,
we know it's not working. Is a break and trust
between police and community, especially with new federal partners in
(01:01):
our community. We know having massed ice agents in the
community has not worked.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, but let's listen to some residents here.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Navy Yard has kind of been a hot area before
all the you know, additional security. It was a little
dicey at times, especially at later times in the hour.
I would see fights break out whenever I just walking home.
But now it's a lot more quiet.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea and
I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
the highways and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What about the fallout of all this stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Well, we just had a poll come I yesterday the
ap poles here, eighty one percent of people think that
crime is a problem in major, major problem in urban areas.
Trump's approval rating on crime was fifty four percent in
that pole and the Harvard Harris pole was fifty one percent,
his highest rating of any of the issues that they
they questioned VS about. So, I think what you saw
from the mayor, which she said, is a bit surprising.
I think that's her responding to her constituents. She's hearing
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from people who are saying that, especially in the areas
where crime is the worst, that they feel safer and
that's not a bad thing. Democrats have managed to box
themselves in on another eighty twenty issue and are trying
to find a way out, and I think the mayor
has recognized that, and she's obviously in the middle of it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yet again, here Democrats on the wrong side of the issue.
This is an issue where the majority of Americans say
that they want to feel safe In fact, for decades,
Democrats have been saying this, and now what is happening. Well,
President Donald Trump says, I'm with you. I want to
drive down crime in some of our most dangerous cities.
And Democrats are angry. Why they're coming down once again
(02:49):
on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions
of Americans. And the question you should ask yourself is this,
Why would the leaders of high crime cities like Washington,
DC or Chicago project to the president helping to make
their streets safer. I'll tell you why they're panicked. Their
panic that Donald Trump is succeeding, exposing them as inept,
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as corrupt, as leaders that really just want to control cities,
even if it means they're filled with crime. For decades,
by the way, Democrats have been struggling to overcome the
accusations on the facts that they were soft on crime.
Go back to nineteen ninety four. Trying to combat that charge,
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President Bill Clinton signed a law the most sweeping anti
crime bill at the time in history, and funded actually
the hiring of one hundred thousand new police officers. It
also authorized the construction of new prisons and introduced that
three strikes law manditing lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders. Now,
(03:52):
Democrats are furious. They are furious that crime is actually
going down in DC, and they're also even more angry
that the President said this about you know the prospect
of places like Chicago getting some extra help.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
And after we do.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
This, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe.
Al So we're going to make our country very safe.
We're going to make our cities very very safe. Chicago's
a mess. You have an incompetent mayor grossly incompetent. And
we'll straighten that one out probably next. That'll be our
next one after this, and it won't even be tough.
And the people in Chicago, mister Vice President, are screaming
(04:31):
for us to come. They're wearing red hats, just like
this one, but they're wearing red hats. African American ladies,
beautiful ladies, are saying, please, President Trump, come to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Please.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
I did great with the black vote, as you know,
and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago
will be our next, and then we'll help with New York,
and we're going to help with and I think, really,
I think a lot of and a lot of these
people that you see on television, they are, including the
people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me,
and then they'll say, thank god he's here, because half
(05:08):
of them got mugged and they don't want to get
mugged again. But you know, they work for a ladder.
They work for stupid people that are radical left, and
they're made to do things and say things that they
don't want to be saying.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This goes back to the real problem. And if you
look at the present and what he's saying there, he's
absolutely right. You had Democrats that used to be in
favor of fighting crime and saving black lives. Now they're
soft on crime. Democrats' literal high water mark for cracking
down on crime was in nineteen ninety four. The party leaders,
(05:41):
including former President Joe Biden, are now at a point
where they apologize for being tough on crime. They literally
apologize for the nineteen ninety four crime bill it is
and then post George Floyd in that that error. Democrats
have adopted policies as open we want to defund the police,
(06:01):
we want to have no bail, we want to have
prison reform, we want to shut down prisons. And that's
what made our cities, or especially the cities they run,
liberal cities so dangerous because they favored criminals over their citizens.
They also did this on the issue of I legal immigration,
flooding these liberal cities with criminals. President Trump saying, hey,
(06:25):
I'm going to do this. I'm going to save people's lives.
We're going to reverse course on this. I'm going to
go wherever I can, and if I can send troops,
I'm going to do it for one reason, to stop
the violence and to stop the killing. And what a
Democrat say, You're a dictator and a tyrant if you
do it. So now you go back to the mayor
(06:45):
in DC. Why is the mayor in d C saying
what she's saying now because the citizens are telling her
that they're glad this is happening. You look at Chicago's mayor,
for example. He is the complete opposite of this. Right,
He's saying, well, President Trump, if you send the National Guard,
we're going to stand up to you in the Windy City.
The most flagrant violation of our constitution the twenty first
(07:08):
centuries I described on X and then he boasted the
city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. Those
are his words. It actually does, by the way, One
headline from the summer sets it all quote at least
fifty five people shot, eight fatally in the fourth of
July weekend. So Brandon Johnson's like, no, no, no, no, you don't understand,
I don't want any help. Well, you clearly need it.
(07:30):
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mayor talking about crime. I want you to hear what
(09:44):
he had to say. Listen carefully.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Potentially next for more expanded deportation efforts, potentially military deployments.
But I'm wondering in light of that, have you seen
anything to confirm that or what would be the process
for you all learning if that where to come to pass.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Thank you for the question. It's not like the federal
government has given us any heads up, right, there's no
communication from the federal government or the local police department.
It's quite problematic. This is why we're relaunching our Know
Your Rights campaign. There's a great deal of resistance in
this city around a host of things from the Trump administration,
the fact that again that he's removing black history right,
(10:25):
that he's you know, attacking the LGBTQ plus community as
much as we possibly can, whether it's in the courts,
whether it's in the streets with policy, we're going to
continue to defend and center for working people.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And just to follow up, would you know, in like,
is there a procedure or anything that the federal government
needs to notify you before something like that were to happen,
a National Guard deployment or marines or something like that.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
I think it's important that the president respects the Constitution.
And if you're asking me if this president is going
to work with city leaders, it's clear that he's not
interested in doing that. He's not even interested in working
with Congress, which this is where these issues should be
taken up. They have not moved on anything substantive at
(11:14):
the federal level. There's no effort for comprehensive immigration reform
that could help repair a broken system. There's no commitment
to help transform our economy. There's no commitment to invest
in our public education system. The only thing that we
received from this president is his ugoing attack against equity, diversity,
(11:35):
hisgoing attack against working people. Establishing policy that ultimately protects
the interests of the wealthy in this country is the
priority that he has carried out. Anything other than that,
he's been a miserable disappointment and failure.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Isn't it amazing that the President is actually lowering crime?
And the Chicago mayor is like, Oh, he's just an
evil guy that likes the rich people and then goes
on these ti raids that have nothing to do with
protecting his citizens. And the President says, I'm not waiting
around any longer. I am going to protect the citizens
of the United States of America wherever I can. I've
(12:19):
got some pretty nice news for you. The CDC is
finally getting a new acting director as leadership has had
a major shakeup at the agency. You may remember this
is where Director Fauci got paid more money than anybody
else to be in charge of the agency, the same
people that were giving me to China and other countries
around the world. Well, Jim O'Neill, a top deputy to
(12:41):
the Health Secretary RFK Junior, we now know we'll serve
as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention that according to an administration official. The official
also requested Amininity to discuss a personal change that has
not been quote formally announced. The administration want to O'Neil
to replace Susan Monarees, whom the White House is trying
(13:05):
to remove only after a month starting the job. Minariz
is fighting to keep her job. Her removal has left
the nation's top public health agency reeling, and three senior
officials were escorted from its headquarters on Thursday. The turmoil
triggered bipartisan alarm as Kenny tries to advance anti vaccine
(13:27):
policies the left says that are contradicted by decades they
claim of scientific research. Now the turbulence comes weeks before
a key advisory committee, which Kennedy has reshaped with vaccine skeptics.
By the way, I love how they say anyone that
ask a question about a vaccine is a quote vaccine
skeptic is expected, by the way, to meet to issue
(13:50):
new recommendations on immunizations, which, of course the big pharma
companies are dreading. Two Republican centers also have now called
for a congressional oversight, and even Democrats are saying that
Kennedy should be fired. He's scheduled to testify on Capitol
Hill on September the fourth. Our FK Junior has not
(14:11):
explained the decision to als Susan Manares as the CDC
director less than a month after she was sworn in,
but warned that more turnover very well could be coming,
saying this quote, there's a lot of trouble at the CDC,
and it's going to require getting rid of some people
over the long term in order for us to change
the institutional culture, Kenny said a news conference in Texas.
(14:34):
The White House has only said that Manares was not
aligned with President Donald Trump's agenda. There is no word
on winter replacement, by the way could be named. Minars'
lawyer said that she refused to quote rubber stamp unscientific,
reckless directives and or fired dedicated health experts. She's fighting
(14:54):
her dismissal, saying the decision must come directly from Trump,
who nominate her in March.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The saga began Wednesday night with the administration's announcement that
Minarias would no longer lead the CDC. In response, three
different doctors three different officials resigned from senior roles at
the agency. The officials returned to the office Thursday to
collect their belongings and staff. Members of the agency had
planned to gather in the afternoon to applaud them as
they left the Atlanta campus, but the removal by security
(15:23):
personnel earlier in the morning squelts those plans, according to
current and former employees. Some of those that resigned in
protest told the Associated Press that Minarrez had tried to
guard against political medaling and scientific research and health recommendations.
We were going to see if she was able to
weather the storm, and when she was not, we were done,
(15:44):
is what one of the doctors said he resigned. She
had been the agency's deputy director and chief medical officer.
Giving up a big job is what the media wants
you to believe. Another one of the people that resigned
was also the head of the National Center for Immunization
and Respiratory Diseases, and they said, it is time for
us to stand up to what's actually happening. Now you
(16:06):
go back to all of this, and if removed, all right,
Manarias will be the shortest serving director since the CDC
was founded in nineteen forty six, exacerbating a leadership vacuum
that has persisted since Trump took office is what the
media is saying about this as well. Trump initially chose
David Weldon, a former Florida congressman who is a doctor
(16:28):
in vaccine skeptic, but yanked the nomination in March. Minaire Is,
a longtime government scientist, was tapped next to lead the
nine point two billion dollar agency while she was serving
as its interim director, but questions immediately emerged within Kennedy's
circle about her loyalty to make America Healthy Again movement,
(16:49):
especially given her previous support for the COVID nineteen vaccines
that Kennedy has well publicly criticized. Now, Kennedy rarely mentioned
manara Is by name and the way he did other
health agency leaders, and that was when many people thought
there could be a problem. A flashpoint has been Kenny's
handling of the CDC's Advisory Vaccine Committee, which he has
(17:11):
tried to reshape since taking over the Department of Health
and Human Services. By the way, this isn't controversial. This
is literally what he said he was going to do.
I don't know why anyone's shocked by Kennedy doing this.
So here we are. We have all of this now,
and people are mad. They're mad that the people that
are always green lighting things like the COVID nineteen vaccine
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are now actually having to answer questions and they don't
get a rubber stamp from the Trump administration. As for
the idea of firing someone right after they get their job, if,
as the Trump administration said, they're not actually aligning with
the values that you have for the agency. And remember,
no one voted for any of these people. They voted
(17:52):
only for Donald Trump, then it's Trump's job to make
sure that those people are in a good place, a
place where they are representing what he ran on. And
that's what this ultimately boils down to. You have Donald
Trump that has said I'm listening to the people. You
have Donald Trump that said the CDC has lost the
faith of the American people, especially with what we witness
(18:14):
with COVID. I think we can all agree on that point.
And so what the President's doing is he's listening to
the people and then saying I'm going to find people
that are aligned with it. RFK Junior, by the way,
was a perfect example of that, an unorthodox individual who
the President said deserve to have a voice in his administration. Now,
the question is going to be what happens next. I
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expect the President to not flinch on this one. I
expect the President of the United States America to stand firm,
and I expect the president of United State, It's America
to trust RFK Junior to make sure they get the
right people aligned with the values that were promised. In fact,
that's exactly what Caroline Levitt said at the White House
as she talked about President Trump having every right to
(18:57):
fire the CDC director on.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
The firing in the CDC director first will replace her,
and then also overnight the White House said that she
did not align with the president's agenda. Doctor Manards's attorney
say that she refused to rubber stamp unscientific breakfast directives
and fired dedicated health experts, what specifically.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
To shooting moment.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Look, what I will say about this individual is that
her lawyer's statement made it abundantly clear themselves that she
was not aligned with the president's mission to make America
healthy again. And the Secretary asked her to resign, she
said she would, and then she said she wouldn't, So
the President fired her, which he has every right to do.
It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly re elected on
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November fifth. This woman has never received a vote in
her life, and the president has the authority to fire
those who are not aligned with his mission. A new
replacement will be announced by either the President or the
Secretary very soon, and the President and Secretary Kennedy are
committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the
CDC by ensuring their leadership and their decisions are more
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public facing, more accountable, strengthening our public health system, and
restoring it to its core mission of protecting Americans from
communicable diseases, investing in innovation to prevent, detect, and respond
to future threats. That's the mission of the CDC, and
we're going to make sure that folks that are in
positions of leadership there are aligned with that mission.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So there you have. The White House may get very
clear that even if they pick someone to be in
their administration for a job, if they are not pushing
for the agenda items that the President of the United
States of America has told them to push for, then
they will get rid of them. And that's exactly what
the President should be doing, not wasting any time when
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he sees clearly that someone is going against what he
believes their job should be. You step back and you
look at this country right now, and it is very
clear that every major city in America that is run
by Democrats is a city that is filled with violent criminals.
(21:01):
Many of them are filled with violent criminal, illegal aliens.
Many of them are filled with child rapists, sex offenders,
and a network of drug cartel members. And by the way,
I'm going to talk about the drug cartels and going
after them because they've been designated terrorist organizations in a moment,
something I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of going
after them, and there's a very good chance that may
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be what the President's going to do in Mexico very
very soon. But they're filled with the lawlessness. This is
the time where we as Republicans and conservatives, I think,
have an opportunity to make real inroads in inner city
America where overwhelming they've been voting for Democrats for decades.
It's seventy eighty percent. This is that moment where you
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can look at Washington, d C. And show them that
there is an actual chance of safe and secure neighborhoods
regardless of where you live. If you restore the law
and order, and then once you get that safety and
you get that secl scurity, you're then in a much
better place because at that point you have citizens that
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start to be inspired to go out in their communities,
to be involved in their communities. By the way, you
know what, there's two things that are very interesting about crime.
If you're in a high crime area, did you know
that it's almost guaranteed that your kids are in a
failing school. Yeah. If black lives really matter to the
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Democratic Party like they claim, then they would want young
black lives to not be set up for failure, but
set up for success in a public school that is
not a failure. By the way, it's also the reason
why I'm in favor of school choice. You may not
know this, but did you know if you're in a
high crime city, not only are you more likely to
be in a failing school than a successful school, but
(22:52):
you're you're also more likely to let me rephrase that,
you're less likely to go to church. You'll look at
the most high crime cities in America and look at
the church attendance numbers. They are in historic declines. Why
is that? Because you've killed community. It used to be
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you walk to church in your neighborhood with your family,
your friends, your neighbors. If you live in a violent
city and a violent neighborhood, the chances of you knowing
your neighbors, going out with your neighbors, spending time with
your neighbors, spending time in a community, spend time outside
of your home with your family is very low. And
if you want to know why we have so many
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empty churches on Sunday mornings and so many these violent cities. Yes,
there is a direct correlation between failing schools and lack
of faith in America. In cities where there is crime
and the criminals are running the city, there are some
of the most beautiful churches that's seventy eighty percent empty
on Sunday mornings in these violent cities because the elderly,
(23:58):
by the way, who I truly believe the elders, there's
a reason why we have elders in the church are
the backbone of our community. They're the backbone of our churches.
The elder statesmen. And if they're afraid to go to
church because they're afraid of the crime and they don't
feel safe in their own neighborhood, they don't feel safe
to go to church, they don't feel safe to go
(24:20):
to the grocery stores. What happens They end up becoming depressed.
They end up sitting in their homes, and they end
up dying like hermits. Crime isn't just killing people, it's
killing cities. It's killing hopes, it's killing dreams, it's killing education,
it's killing faith in America today. And so what the
President I encourage him to do is to keep doing
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what he's doing Number one, but to go to these
cities regardless of what the local leaders say, and talk
to the people directly. In these top twenty most dangerousies.
Do a tour of America's worst cities, and don't walk
in and criticize. Walk in and say, life should be
better than the Life should be safer for you and
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your grandparents and your kids. Our churches and our schools
should be places that people can't wait to go to.
Your children should be able to play in your backyard,
in your front yard and not be behind bars on
the windows because it's so crime ridden. Your kids should
be able to sit on the front porch at night
and not be inside in case there's a drive by shooting. Yes,
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that's a reality in many of the most dangerous cities
in America. I don't care who you are, you know,
if you're not safe, can I get an amen on that.
You know that if you were in an unsafe area,
you know, if you're in a community that is not safe,
you know it. I know it, you know it, everybody
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knows it. You how many people are stuck in a
neighborhood that they wish they didn't live in because they're
on a fixed income, they're retired, they're in social security,
they live their life, they did well and unform. Actually
now they live in a community that they can't afford
to get out of, and so they're stuck literally in hell.
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This is not hard to fix. Let me give you
some stats to prove my point. DC violent crime has
dropped twenty two percent after Trump's crackdown. They've had zero
homicides in the last week. I'm gonna read you this
article and every American. By the way, I will repost
this article on my ex account at Ben Ferguson Show.
I'll put it up on Instagram, follow me at Ben
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Ferguson Podcast, and I'll put these stats in my podcast
so you can share it. But here are the stats.
Violent crime in DC has dropped twenty two percent over
the last week following Trump's crackdown the city. The article says.
Fox News Digital detailed the stunning findings, which include the
fact that as of Wednesday afternoon, there were not one,
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not two, not three, not ten, not fifteen, not twenty.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
But zero.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Murders in washing in DC over the last seven days.
That is a feat that has not been seen for months.
Fox News Digital also said a few other studying statistics
from the local police union revealing that since Trump's federal takeover,
carjackings have dropped by eighty three percent, robberies have dropped
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by forty six percent, zero murders in d C during
the past week. The White House Officials Rapid Response page
also shared the news detailing the quote dramatic reductions in crime.
Here's a local report about it.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
When the National Guard hit the ground in Washington last week,
that city's crime fight went into overdrive. And now we're
seeing the impact and the dramatic reductions in crime. When
the National Guard rolled into Washington last week, the locals
seem skeptical.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
The crime is minimal here, it's not really a lot
of crime here. Lived at the window dress up to me.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
But with the Guard on the ground, crime is on
the decline for the first time in a long time.
DC has gone seven days without a homicide, and that's
not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
down forty six percent, carthif's down twenty one percent, and
overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
When you have these kind of numbers going down, it
basically says this is a success and that means people
feel safer.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
Like many big cities, Washington's police department is critically short staff.
Speaker 12 (28:33):
People who don't feel safe aren't free.
Speaker 11 (28:36):
Sergeant Betsy Smith with the National Police Association says it
is ripe for federal health.
Speaker 12 (28:41):
More police generally equals less crime.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
More police, what an idea, More police generally means less crime.
This is not hard to figure out. Why would all
these other cities not want Donald Trump's help. Forget the
mayor's forget the politics. Why would any city right now
not be screaming, mister President, please help us. We need
the National Guard. Send them in. We want our carjackings
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down eighty three percent. We want robberies down forty six percent,
we want car theft down twenty one percent. We want
overall violent crime down twenty two percent. That is in
a seven day period. This is the dramatic reduction crime,
and these numbers do seem shocking to me. I also
want to be clear about that, and probably it's because
we've been living in such an abusive relationship in these
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big seas or so long that it seems impossible to
stop the violent crime. When you grow up in a
violent city, one of the most violent seas in America,
it's a it's an abusive relationship. I grew up in Memphis.
I say it again. I love my city, I really do.
But I can tell you this. I wouldn't tell anybody
to move there right now. In fact, I tell most
of my friends when we talk about this stuff, get out.
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It's not worth your family's life. It's not worth living
in fear. When I moved out of Memphis, I moved
from one of the most dangerous cities in a ma America,
the murder capital of America, to one of the safest
cities in all of America. And do you want to
know what happened. It took me about sixty days to
figure out just how much my life was consumed with
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thinking about safety. About six months in I actually forgot
to lock my door one night at my house and
I laughed the next morning, because there's no way in
hell I would ever do that in Memphis and sea
like it would. That accident doesn't happen in Memphis, Tennessee.
The idea of not locking your door would not be
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an option when you live in a violent city. And
if you're listening to me right now and you live
in one of these cities, you know exactly what I'm
talking about, Like you understand it. You're like, yeah, there's
no way in hell. When I was a little boy,
we went to Batano, North Dakota, seat my great grandmother.
And when you grow up in Memphis, there's a lot
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of rules. My dad was by the way law enforcement,
so there was like he knew and we knew just
how dangerous the city was. And I remember going to Botno,
North Dakota my great grandmother, she was I think in
her eighties at the time, and we got there and
there was two things this little child, I'll never forget.
Number One, they always left the keys and the ignition
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in the car and the driveway. No one was stealing
cars in Botno, North Dakota. They had a real sense
of community. Number two, and this is even more important,
they had a community where everybody walked and everybody went
to church. When you have a safe city, you have
a real community. People don't stay in their houses and
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lock their doors. They go outside and they have an
open door policy to their family, their friends, and their neighbors.
And the most amazing thing that ever happened when I
was a little kid. It was one of those moments that,
like they say, is a core memory. Was when I
was there, My gr great grandmother looked at me and
I was a little kid, My sister was little, and
she handed us money and she said, you guys, walk
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down the store and go get yourself some candy. And
my parents said, yeah, yeah, y'all go down there. We
looked at my mom and my dad like they were insane.
You wouldn't I When I lived in Memphis, you had to.
My mom would walk out into the street to watch
me walk down to our neighbor's house to make sure
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I made it safely. And I wasn't allowed to walk
home until I called, so they could walk outside and
watch me walk back down the street. And those same
parents are telling me and bot, no, North Dakota, you
can go the grocery store and go shopping by yourself.
I was like, what, I didn't even know what drugs were.
I was so young, but I knew something wasn't right.
Wouldn't it be nice if we got back to that
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way of life? And the President of United States of
America is telling every one of these cities you can
do this. We are ready to do it with you,
we are ready to help you. And the only thing
that's holding these cities back is the arrogance of the
Democratic Marxists and socialists and communists that are running these cities.
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They would rather their constituents live in fear. They would
rather than ode on fetnyl. They would rather than be raped,
they would rather than be shot. They'd rather them be
murdered than to actually work with Donald Trump, because Orange
Man apparently is so bad that they just can't work
with him. Don't forget Share this podcast with your family
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