August 12, 2025 • 31 mins
1. Federal Control of D.C. Police
- Trump invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act to place the D.C. police under federal control.
- He declared a public safety emergency, citing high crime rates including murder, carjackings, and assaults.
- Additional measures included:
- Reassigning FBI agents to nighttime patrols.
- Deploying the National Guard.
- Appointing a federal commissioner for the D.C. police.
2. Legal Justification
- The podcast outlines constitutional and statutory authority for Trump’s actions:
- Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution.
- D.C. Code Section 49-49 and the 1973 Home Rule Act.
- Reference to Posse Comitatus Act and DOJ opinions that D.C. is legally distinct from other cities.
3. Criticism of Democrats and Media
- Hosts argue that Democrats and mainstream media are unfairly criticizing Trump’s actions.
- They claim Democrats oppose law enforcement and support policies that increase crime (e.g., no cash bail).
- The podcast accuses the media of misrepresenting Trump’s actions as dictatorial.
4. Military Action Against Drug Cartels
- Trump reportedly authorized military force against cartels like MS-13 and Cartel de los Soles.
- The move is compared to Plan Colombia, a U.S. military initiative under President George W. Bush.
- The podcast suggests this could be a turning point in combating drug-related violence and trafficking.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Donald Trump promised all Americans, no matter where you lived,
even in a liberal city, that he was going to
do everything in his power to keep you safe. He
also said he was going to crack down on drugs, cartels,
naming them terrorists organizations, and stopping the flow of illegal
immigrants across the southern border. Well, the president is making
(00:21):
good on all of those promises, and now there's a
new one, and it's making liberals lose their mind. The
President invokes section seven forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act, allowing him to take over the Metropolitan
Police Department and deploy the National Guard under declaration of
(00:42):
a public safety emergency. Democrats, of course, are angry that
the president United States of America may actually save lives,
get drugs off the streets, and restore law and order
to our nation's capital. So what are they doing. They're saying,
this is what a dictator and a tyrant would do. Yes,
Democrats are so unhinged now they're claiming that as the
(01:03):
President's trying to save lives, that he's somehow a dictator. Now,
the scale of the deployment will be up to eight
hundred National Guard troops and around five hundred federal law
enforcement personnel, including over one hundred FBI agents, plus members
from the DEA, the ATF, ICE, and US marshals. They're
(01:25):
all being deployed to patrol the streets in Washington, d C.
Trump's justification very simple. He described the city as descending
into chaos, using words like bloodshed to frame the intervention
as a liberation day. He warned similar federal actions could
extend to other big cities, such as New York and
(01:47):
Los Angeles. Now, what does the crime data show? It
actually shows, thank goodness, that violent crime across the country
is coming down. Why because the present's backing law enforcement
and allowing them to do their job up and we're
also witnessing ICE agents taking hardened criminals off the streets
that are in the country illegally. This is exactly why
(02:08):
the president is having such success. Now, local responses are
obviously different depending on if you're a Democrat or Republican.
Mayor Bowser condemned the move as quote unsettling in DC
and unprecedented, asserting the city doesn't meet legal criteria she
claims for a federal emergency. Yes, she cares more about
(02:30):
playing politics than saving lives. She puts instead for more
judicial resources and staffing. Again, bureaucracy over policing. DC's Attorney
General is exploring legal options. They're saying as well, and
the DC City Council members called the move an intrusion
on local authority quote unquote, this is all politics for
(02:53):
them instead of actually protecting Americans. I want you to
hear what the President had to say as he announces
to the White House in his own words.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me as the President of the United States. I'm
(03:23):
officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act. You know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they
(03:46):
know what's happening, and they've done it before. In addition,
I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
order of public safety in Washington, d C. And they're
going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
They're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
That is the core point of what President Trump has
been saying over and over again when it comes to
law enforcement. Let law enforcement officers do their jobs the
right way. Now, how do we get to this point? Well,
the President also talked about the radicals in DC, for example,
(04:20):
having no cash bail, and it's putting people's lives at risk.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This dire public safety crisis stem is directly from the
abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left
city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every
place in the country where you have no cash bail
is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York,
and they don't change it. They don't want to change it.
(04:46):
That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians
started and bad leadership started it. But that was the
one thing that's central, no cash bail. Somebody murders somebody
and they're out on no cash bail before the day
is out. We're going to end that in Chicago. We're
going to change the statute. I spoke with Pam and
(05:09):
Todd and everybody. We're going to change the statue. And
I'm gonna have to get the Republicans of oh because
the Democrats are week on crime, totally, week on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Crime, totally, week on crime. The stats say he's absolutely accurate,
and the President of United States of America saying, this
is our moment to shine, to take back our nation's capital,
and we're not going to allow Democrats to hold us
hostage any longer. Ag BONDI also saying this about what's
happening in DC.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Let me be crystal clear. Crime in d C is
ending and ending today. We are going to use every
power we have to fight criminals here. President, thank you
for caring about our capital. Families come here every summer.
Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo, we
have the National Gallery. There should be a place where
(06:01):
everyone can come and feel safe.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's all about safety. That is the present's number one
priority for all Americans, and yet Democrats are doing everything
they can to try to stop the President from accomplishing
this goal. Donald Trump also saying this as well about
what's happening in DC.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we're
getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here,
we're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct,
you'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of
the slums where they live.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
We're getting rid of the slums. Now. You listen also
to something else on this Liberation Day, and that is
again the President saying we're taking our capital back. The
man who's in charge of the Department of Defense, Pete Headseth,
went on Laura Ingrams Show, and this is what he
had to say about what the President has ordered him
to do.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
This capital belongs to all Americans, and starting now, we're
taking it back. And that's the angle. Secretary of Defense,
Pete Hegseth, was given the tall order of handling this
and he's here with me exclusively. Mister Secretary, thank you
for joining us tonight. So the President called this a
public safety emergency, and you said, we're going to start
seeing the National Guard this week, tell us.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
More this week and incoming weeks, and we're going to
work right alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers.
This is what the American people voted for Laura. This
is what the common sense clarity strength. I hadn't heard
that story from President Trump before the story he told
about his father that he told them, hey, son, if
you look at the front door of a restaurant and
it's dirty, then I bet the kitchen you can count
(07:43):
on the fact that the kitchen is too And sat
there thinking that's exactly right. If our capital city is
a mess, if we can't control our capital city, then
what does the rest of the country look like and
what signals does the rest of the country take from that? So,
just like we did in Los Angeles, alongside our federal
law we took a lot of criticism for four thousand troops,
seven hundred marine You know what we didn't get. There
was no summer of love in twenty twenty There was
(08:04):
in twenty twenty five. There was a summer of law enforcement,
and we quelled the protests of the attacks on ice officers.
We're going to help get DC under control by working
with local officials who have been federalized, with federal officials
who were coming in. The DC Guards proud to be
a part of it. Other states will contribute this week,
going into the weeks to come. Whatever's needed, the DoD
(08:24):
will provide to make sure this is a safe city
for those who live here, for those that work here,
and the Americans who want to come visit here and
love our capital city.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The question of martial law keeps getting raised by the
left that Donald Trump and Pete hegsith they want to
impose martial law as authoritarians would. To that, you said to.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
That, I say, look at Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They said the exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh look, oh look, four thousand troops California National Guard.
Oh look the Marines. You can't put in the Marines.
They were the troops available to ensure that we de
escalated the situation and didn't allow other law breakers to say, look,
it's wide open, we can do whatever we want in
these sanctuary cities. I was told, oh, you're going to
lock up political opponents, You're going to go after democrats, YadA, YadA.
(09:10):
It's the same stuff every time, mischaracterizing our intentions. The
intentions of this president is to establish law and order
using legal and lawful and constitutional means, which he completely
has and you know what, you know why they don't
like him. He's got the guts to do it. He's
got the guts to say, I'm going to federalize the
police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring
in the National guard. I'm going to bring in federal marshals.
(09:31):
I'm going to bring in the park police.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
What is the cost money?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It cost money? And the question is are you there
for a year? Are you there for six months? And
when the troops pull out? What happened?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I would call this conditions based. I would say it's
a situation where we're here to support law enforcement. Uh
and the more we can free them up to do
their job, the more effective they can be, the more
we can work it. I mean, this isn't my realm,
but the justice system to make sure people who are
arrested are actually locked up. That's why the president's talking
about cash list, bear bill and sanctuary cities. If you're
illegal here in DC, that's going to be a problem.
(10:07):
So all of these things that apply to law and
order are are front and center for us. And I
don't know, weeks, months, what will it take. That's the
President's call, but we're going to be there for him
to execute as swiftly as possible.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Then as swiftly as possible. This is what you voted for,
and the presence delivering on that promise of having safer cities,
safer streets, safer capital, and making sure we are protecting
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two Patriot. I want to also let you hear part
of the conversation that Centator Cruz and I had early.
He's in DC all the time, I used to live there.
I'm there all the time, and just how bad crime
has gotten and exactly why the President's got the support
of so many in Congress behind this issue as well.
(13:12):
And I want you to hear again how bad it
is and the reality on the ground in Washington, d C.
So you understand more of why the President's doing this now.
All right, So, Senator you and I are doing the show,
and just a half hour ago I got off of
yelling at the commis over at CNN. They're literally unhinged
right now, going insane over the fact that that would
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be a trying to fight crime. That would be all
of them, Yes, that would be all of them. And
it was hysterical because they're like, well, this is what
dictators and tyrants. He I was like, hold on a second,
dictators and tyrants are trying to put criminals in jail
and save people's lives. That's your talking point, Like, well,
where's he going to stop if he does this in
d C. I'm like, well, he did it in DC
because there's special rules for DC. There's a reason why
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I did it there, and he's not done it anywhere else. Like, well,
you know, he's just going to do this and be
a dictator and take over LA or Baltimore. I'm like,
you guys are crazy. And again you're angry at Donald
Trump for fighting crime, which is out of control in DC,
a place you spend a large part of your week
every week.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Well, look, DC has gotten seriously dangerous and and I'll
tell you people going to work in DC, people living
in DC are concerned for their safety. They're concerned for
the safety of their families. They're concerned for the safety
of their spouses and their children. You know, Rand Paul
had a Capitol Hill staffer who was stabbed walking along
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the sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon. There was
a man who served in the first Trump administration who
was in his car at five pm on the streets.
He was shot in the head and murdered. This violence
is the direct result of disastrous Democrat policies that have
handcuffed the police, that that have limited the ability of
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the police to go after violent criminal and the result
is DC's become a very dangerous place. So what happened
President Trump Monday morning? He announced it a press conference, quote,
this is liberation Day in d C. And We're going
to take our capital back. And he declared a public
safety emergency, and he took two actions. Number one, he
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invoked section seven forty of the d C Home Rule Act,
placing the DC Police directly under federal control. And number two,
he signed a memorandum to the Secretary of Defense to
utilize the National Guard. He placed DA Administrator Terry Cole
as the interim Federal Commissioner of DC Police. And he
(15:40):
also announced plans to temporarily reassign one hundred and twenty
FBI agents in d C to night time patrol duties.
All of that was announced today. And the reason he
did it is he walked about the statistics about d
C crime. D C's murder rate is higher than that
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of many cities around the globe. DC's murder rate is
higher than Bogota, Columbia. DC has one of the highest
murder rates among large US cities. Nationwide, the homicide rate
is more than twenty seven murders per one hundred thousand residents.
That was in twenty twenty four. Vehicle theft in d
C is more than three times the national average, with
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eight hundred and forty two point four thefts per hundred
thousand residents. It is among the most dangerous cities globally,
and in recent years the number of car thefts has
doubled and the number of car jackings has tripled. Look,
I had actually while I was recording Verdict. I don't
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know if you know this story, but years ago when
Verdict just started, while I was recording Verdict, we had
the truck that I was driving in parked on the
d C streets and we went down to the TV
studios in the basement for that. And while the truck
was on the streets, someone broke into the windows, shattered
them open, and stole my briefcase. Took my briefcase with
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my computer and my iPad and took the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You didn't have classified documents in there, did you? You know?
I did not have them randomly there? Okay, I'm liking sure.
Otherwise that would have been some big news here.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Unlike Joe Biden, I've never removed classified documents from a secure,
compartmentalized facility. Unlike Sandy Berger, who was Bill Clinton's National
security advisor, I've never stuffed classified documents in my underwear
or in my socks to try to smuggle them out.
So no, it was just annoying. And by the way,
here's a stat about carjackings. In recent years, the number
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of carjackings in in DC has tripled, and one of
those victims of carjackings was was Congressman Henry Quayar, a
Texas congressman. Again, it was the evening time. He was
just coming home with his dinner and he was carjacked
in front of his apartment where apparently numerous members of
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Congress live in this apartment building. And he, a member
of Congress, was carjacked. And so President Trump is acting directly,
and apparently one of the motivations from this is that
a White House staffer named Edward Korusta, and he's a
Doge staffer and his nickname is Big Balls. And I
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will say, by the way, one of the funniest things
I've ever seen is because he was working in DOGE.
It forced Data Bash and CNN to say the words
big balls like nineteen different times on air, which I
have to admit I couldn't watch the segment without doubling
over laughing. Well, apparently, this young man, unfortunately was assaulted
over the weekend by about ten juveniles near DuPont Circle.
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And so when a nineteen year old staffer in the
White House can't be safe in DC, the President, I think,
should act, and that's what President Trump has done.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So it's amazing how mad they are that he's actually
trying to fight crime, and it's actually pretty simple. He's
saying it's out of control. The numbers are out of control.
The data shows it's out of control, and yes, the
numbers have come down this year, thank goodness. Part that's
because I think law and order and the President advocating
for law enforcement all over the country and allowing law
enforcement to be empowered to do their job and ice
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agents to do their job. But they're actually angry at
him because he's doing something that they say is out
of his job description. And they're like, this is what
dictators and tyrants do. And I go back to that line,
I'm like, wait, dictators and tyrants are fighting crime like
that's a bad thing, really.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Well, and the federal government has authority over DC explicitly
under the Constitution. Article one, Section eight, Clause seventeen of
the Constitution gives Congress quote exclusive legislation over DC, and
Congress through its delegate, the DC Council designated that the
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President serves as the DC National Guards Commander in chief,
and that's in DC Code section forty nine, Dash four
O nine, which reads, quote, the President of the United
States shall be the Commander in Chief of the Militia
of the District of Columbia. There's an executive order from
nineteen sixty nine that delegates the day to day authority
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over the DC Guard from the President to the Secretary
of Defense, who further delegates it to the Secretary of
the Army. So there's explicit authority to authorize the National
Guard and also Congress in nineteen seventy three pastor law
called the Home Rule Act. And what the Home Rule
Act does is it gives the President explicitly the power
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to take control of the DC Police quote, whenever he
determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which
require the use of the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes,
and that statute. The Home Rule Act further says the
mayor shall provide, shall not may shall provide the police
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quote as the President may deem necessary and appropriate, not
as the mayor deems, not as the city Council deems
as the President may deem. And the authority is limited
to forty eight hours unless the President sends notice to
the Congressional Committees on DC justifying the action, at which
point the authority is limited to thirty days. Trump has
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said he's sent that notice this morning. This section has
never been invoked before, but it is explicit, unequivocal statutor
authority to do what he did. And the fact that
democrats of the media are losing their mind is they
don't like the fact that he's exercising clear legal authority
and clear legal authority that he's using precisely because the
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DC mayor and the DC City Council have refused to
do their job.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's amazing that they refuse to do their job. And
even now the police union coming out this is part
of that story. I think it's really important so people
understand reality compared to how the media is covering this.
The police union has come out and said thank you
to the president and said we need your help because
we have so many officers down. And they're like, we
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are asking and telling the president thank you. And that's
the police union who is saying this, And yet the
mayor is still like, well, I don't know about this.
I'm like, if your police union is telling you you
need the help, why would you not just say, let's
put politics aside here, Let's work with the president. Let's
work with the National Guard. Let's get things safe at
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the metro stations where we see a large upticking crime.
Let's let me tell you where I could use this
National Guard, where you could put it and do this
in a by Parson way. But again it goes back
to this Trump arrangement syndrome, that right, Orange man is
always bad even if he's fighting crime.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Yeah, but it's not just that it's the today's Democrat
party can't stand the police. It used to be there
was a time when when police unions, many of them
were Democrats. I will tell you as I travel the country,
everywhere I go and especially blue cities, when I arrived
in a city like New York, in a city like Chicago.
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When I when I got off the plane in Chicago,
I'm often greeted by four, five, six, eight police officers,
unified cops, uniform cops who will come up to me
and they just say thank you. They'll give me their
patches and they feel so belieguer and I tell them
this is something I try to make a point. And
you've traveled with me, Ben, You've seen this. When I
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see a police officer. I'm in Dallas today. When I
landed it in Dallas love Field, there were several officers there.
I THINKED shook the hands of every officer there, said
thank you, thank you for what you're doing, thank you
for fighting to defend us. And I'll tell you what
I tell the officers in Chicago and everywhere else, which
is it's my job to have you or back. And
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why has d C undermined the police so systematically? Because
the Democrat Party has been taken over by the nut jobs.
It's been taken over by the abolished the police crazies,
the defund the police crazies. D C has in place
no cash bail policies so that people commit violent crimes
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and get released on no cash bail that is madness.
And one of the things President Trump asked Congress to
do is abolish d c's no cash bail. I would
certainly vote to do so. I think that's absolutely the
right thing to do. I will tell you, I think
the odds are very high that Senate Democrats will filibuster
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any effort to get rid of no cash bail in
d C. Because the Democrats today are the party of criminals.
They are And look when I say that, Ben, that
sounds hyperbolic, that sounds oh, come on, how can they
really be the party of criminals? Well, they're the ones
that tell you they are. They're the ones that their
dismay is how dare the president be committed to arresting
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murderers and rapists and gang members? And I want to
be clear about something. DC is qualitatively different. So there's
a statute, long standing statute called posse commatatus. Posse comitatus
bars the use of the US military for civilian law enforcement,
except when authorized by the Constitution or another provision of
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federal law. And so if the President were to do
this in New York City or Chicago, there would certainly
be a challenge under possecommatatus that using the military for
law enforcement violates that. Importantly, However, the Department of Justice,
in nineteen eighty nine, the Office of Legal Council issued
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an opinion that found that President George Herbert Walker Bush
could use the DC car Guard to carry out law
enforcement missions in d C as part of the so
called war on drugs. And so you've got a Department
of Justice opinion long standing from decades ago that says
DC is different because it's it's not a state, it
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is a federal encclave. The federal government has blanket authority
over DC. And so this is an instance where where
the president is acting pursuant to his authority and and
and I expect that his actions are going to prove
highly effective, which I got to tell you, Ben, I
think that scares Democrats even more well.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And that brings me the second part of this, which
is you look at how big of a success this
could be pretty quickly, and if it is a success,
it's just going to expose so many other sanctuary city leaders.
The Gavin Newsom's, the LA mayor, the Baltimore mayor, Chicago mayor,
the Memphis mayor, the Detroit mayor the New Orleans mayor,
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all of these top crime cities for exactly what they've done.
It's the policies. You look at just DC and how
soft they've been on crime with juveniles, and juvenile crime
exploded in d C during COVID and after COVID because
they refused to hold juvenile's account for their actions. We've
seen this happen a lot of other places around the country.
(27:19):
So if this turns into a major success for the
president and people feel safe in d C, how big
of a political victory for law and order. I'm not
talking about Republican or everyone. I'm talking about for law
and order. Could this be and precedent moving forward the
break and say hey, I'm willing to help you. You
just got to ask for the help because we can
(27:39):
do what we just did in Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Yeah, Look, that's exactly right. And I think the obvious
analog is border security. We spent four years under Joe
Biden the Democrats, with the Democrats saying they were helpless
to secure the border. It was impossible to do. I
was there a year ago at the State of the
Union address when Joe Biden said he needed new legislation.
The only way to secure the borders if Congress passed
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new legislation. Now, I was there this year when Trump
gave a State of the Union address, and it was
after border crossings with Trump being sworn into office had
dropped more than ninety nine percent. And Trump my favorite
line from his whole State of the Union address is
he said, it turns out we didn't need new legislation,
we just needed a new president. Well, the same thing
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is true here. Look, President Trump has demonstrated conclusively the
border could have can be secured, and it could have
been secured four years ago. Except Joe Biden, the Democrats
wanted open borders because they saw a political benefit. If
we see the kind of successes that I know President
Trump hopes we'll see that, I think we are likely
to see. It will demonstrate not just every resident of DC,
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but every resident of every other high crime city in
the country. Wait a second, this can be stopped, My
family can be protected. And the fact that the rates
in my city are so high, that the rape and
child molestations and the carjacking rates are so high, that
is a choice, a voluntary choice from Democrat politicians who
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put partisan priorities above protecting their citizenry. That at the
end of the day is I think one of the
biggest reasons Democrats are freaking out. And I want to
make another point about this, which is there used to
be an implicit agreement about DC home rule, which is
that Republicans wouldn't interfere day to day and the Democrat
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officials in d C wouldn't run the city as a
social experiment driven by progressive self indulgence like in other
blue cities, and the DC mayor and City Council broke
that implicit agreement. D C is fundamentally different from other
major cities because it's the nation's political capital, and if
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you are serving in the federal government, you have to
be in DC. If the residents of New York or
San Francisco want to elect crazy Soros politician uh uh,
district attorneys if if if they want their officials to
implement their combination of communism and anarchy and and and
and woke policy shutting down schools and businesses. You know what,
(30:19):
if you don't like it, you can leave and and
and leaving that you can get out of a blue city.
To the extent voters anywhere in America elect representatives to
represent them. Look, the people of Texas, thirty one million
Texans have sent me to represent them in the Senate.
I have to go to Washington, d C. To do that.
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That's where the Senate is. My staff, many of whom
are Texans. They have to be in d C to
do that job. And and and so the lawlessness the
president is acting, look fine, if you've got San Francisco
Democrats who want to go from one lawless hell hole
to another, that's their choice. But the nation's capital, there
is an obligation to keep it safe. And I think
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the President is doing the exactly the right thing by
acting boldly. I want to commend him. This is a
bold step, and I think it's really important.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
One.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Don't forget share this podcast please with your family and
your friends wherever they are, and I will see you
back here tomorrow
Donald Trump promised all Americans, no matter where you lived,
even in a liberal city, that he was going to
do everything in his power to keep you safe. He
also said he was going to crack down on drugs, cartels,
naming them terrorists organizations, and stopping the flow of illegal
immigrants across the southern border. Well, the president is making
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good on all of those promises, and now there's a
new one, and it's making liberals lose their mind. The
President invokes section seven forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act, allowing him to take over the Metropolitan
Police Department and deploy the National Guard under declaration of
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a public safety emergency. Democrats, of course, are angry that
the president United States of America may actually save lives,
get drugs off the streets, and restore law and order
to our nation's capital. So what are they doing. They're saying,
this is what a dictator and a tyrant would do. Yes,
Democrats are so unhinged now they're claiming that as the
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President's trying to save lives, that he's somehow a dictator. Now,
the scale of the deployment will be up to eight
hundred National Guard troops and around five hundred federal law
enforcement personnel, including over one hundred FBI agents, plus members
from the DEA, the ATF, ICE, and US marshals. They're
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all being deployed to patrol the streets in Washington, d C.
Trump's justification very simple. He described the city as descending
into chaos, using words like bloodshed to frame the intervention
as a liberation day. He warned similar federal actions could
extend to other big cities, such as New York and
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Los Angeles. Now, what does the crime data show? It
actually shows, thank goodness, that violent crime across the country
is coming down. Why because the present's backing law enforcement
and allowing them to do their job up and we're
also witnessing ICE agents taking hardened criminals off the streets
that are in the country illegally. This is exactly why
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the president is having such success. Now, local responses are
obviously different depending on if you're a Democrat or Republican.
Mayor Bowser condemned the move as quote unsettling in DC
and unprecedented, asserting the city doesn't meet legal criteria she
claims for a federal emergency. Yes, she cares more about
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playing politics than saving lives. She puts instead for more
judicial resources and staffing. Again, bureaucracy over policing. DC's Attorney
General is exploring legal options. They're saying as well, and
the DC City Council members called the move an intrusion
on local authority quote unquote, this is all politics for
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them instead of actually protecting Americans. I want you to
hear what the President had to say as he announces
to the White House in his own words.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me as the President of the United States. I'm
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officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act. You know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they
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know what's happening, and they've done it before. In addition,
I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
order of public safety in Washington, d C. And they're
going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
They're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
That is the core point of what President Trump has
been saying over and over again when it comes to
law enforcement. Let law enforcement officers do their jobs the
right way. Now, how do we get to this point? Well,
the President also talked about the radicals in DC, for example,
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having no cash bail, and it's putting people's lives at risk.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This dire public safety crisis stem is directly from the
abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left
city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every
place in the country where you have no cash bail
is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York,
and they don't change it. They don't want to change it.
(04:46):
That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians
started and bad leadership started it. But that was the
one thing that's central, no cash bail. Somebody murders somebody
and they're out on no cash bail before the day
is out. We're going to end that in Chicago. We're
going to change the statute. I spoke with Pam and
(05:09):
Todd and everybody. We're going to change the statue. And
I'm gonna have to get the Republicans of oh because
the Democrats are week on crime, totally, week on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Crime, totally, week on crime. The stats say he's absolutely accurate,
and the President of United States of America saying, this
is our moment to shine, to take back our nation's capital,
and we're not going to allow Democrats to hold us
hostage any longer. Ag BONDI also saying this about what's
happening in DC.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Let me be crystal clear. Crime in d C is
ending and ending today. We are going to use every
power we have to fight criminals here. President, thank you
for caring about our capital. Families come here every summer.
Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo, we
have the National Gallery. There should be a place where
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everyone can come and feel safe.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's all about safety. That is the present's number one
priority for all Americans, and yet Democrats are doing everything
they can to try to stop the President from accomplishing
this goal. Donald Trump also saying this as well about
what's happening in DC.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we're
getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here,
we're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct,
you'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of
the slums where they live.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
We're getting rid of the slums. Now. You listen also
to something else on this Liberation Day, and that is
again the President saying we're taking our capital back. The
man who's in charge of the Department of Defense, Pete Headseth,
went on Laura Ingrams Show, and this is what he
had to say about what the President has ordered him
to do.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
This capital belongs to all Americans, and starting now, we're
taking it back. And that's the angle. Secretary of Defense,
Pete Hegseth, was given the tall order of handling this
and he's here with me exclusively. Mister Secretary, thank you
for joining us tonight. So the President called this a
public safety emergency, and you said, we're going to start
seeing the National Guard this week, tell us.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
More this week and incoming weeks, and we're going to
work right alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers.
This is what the American people voted for Laura. This
is what the common sense clarity strength. I hadn't heard
that story from President Trump before the story he told
about his father that he told them, hey, son, if
you look at the front door of a restaurant and
it's dirty, then I bet the kitchen you can count
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on the fact that the kitchen is too And sat
there thinking that's exactly right. If our capital city is
a mess, if we can't control our capital city, then
what does the rest of the country look like and
what signals does the rest of the country take from that? So,
just like we did in Los Angeles, alongside our federal
law we took a lot of criticism for four thousand troops,
seven hundred marine You know what we didn't get. There
was no summer of love in twenty twenty There was
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in twenty twenty five. There was a summer of law enforcement,
and we quelled the protests of the attacks on ice officers.
We're going to help get DC under control by working
with local officials who have been federalized, with federal officials
who were coming in. The DC Guards proud to be
a part of it. Other states will contribute this week,
going into the weeks to come. Whatever's needed, the DoD
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will provide to make sure this is a safe city
for those who live here, for those that work here,
and the Americans who want to come visit here and
love our capital city.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The question of martial law keeps getting raised by the
left that Donald Trump and Pete hegsith they want to
impose martial law as authoritarians would. To that, you said to.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
That, I say, look at Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They said the exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh look, oh look, four thousand troops California National Guard.
Oh look the Marines. You can't put in the Marines.
They were the troops available to ensure that we de
escalated the situation and didn't allow other law breakers to say, look,
it's wide open, we can do whatever we want in
these sanctuary cities. I was told, oh, you're going to
lock up political opponents, You're going to go after democrats, YadA, YadA.
(09:10):
It's the same stuff every time, mischaracterizing our intentions. The
intentions of this president is to establish law and order
using legal and lawful and constitutional means, which he completely
has and you know what, you know why they don't
like him. He's got the guts to do it. He's
got the guts to say, I'm going to federalize the
police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring
in the National guard. I'm going to bring in federal marshals.
(09:31):
I'm going to bring in the park police.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
What is the cost money?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It cost money? And the question is are you there
for a year? Are you there for six months? And
when the troops pull out? What happened?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I would call this conditions based. I would say it's
a situation where we're here to support law enforcement. Uh
and the more we can free them up to do
their job, the more effective they can be, the more
we can work it. I mean, this isn't my realm,
but the justice system to make sure people who are
arrested are actually locked up. That's why the president's talking
about cash list, bear bill and sanctuary cities. If you're
illegal here in DC, that's going to be a problem.
(10:07):
So all of these things that apply to law and
order are are front and center for us. And I
don't know, weeks, months, what will it take. That's the
President's call, but we're going to be there for him
to execute as swiftly as possible.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Then as swiftly as possible. This is what you voted for,
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safer streets, safer capital, and making sure we are protecting
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two Patriot. I want to also let you hear part
of the conversation that Centator Cruz and I had early.
He's in DC all the time, I used to live there.
I'm there all the time, and just how bad crime
has gotten and exactly why the President's got the support
of so many in Congress behind this issue as well.
(13:12):
And I want you to hear again how bad it
is and the reality on the ground in Washington, d C.
So you understand more of why the President's doing this now.
All right, So, Senator you and I are doing the show,
and just a half hour ago I got off of
yelling at the commis over at CNN. They're literally unhinged
right now, going insane over the fact that that would
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be a trying to fight crime. That would be all
of them, Yes, that would be all of them. And
it was hysterical because they're like, well, this is what
dictators and tyrants. He I was like, hold on a second,
dictators and tyrants are trying to put criminals in jail
and save people's lives. That's your talking point, Like, well,
where's he going to stop if he does this in
d C. I'm like, well, he did it in DC
because there's special rules for DC. There's a reason why
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I did it there, and he's not done it anywhere else. Like, well,
you know, he's just going to do this and be
a dictator and take over LA or Baltimore. I'm like,
you guys are crazy. And again you're angry at Donald
Trump for fighting crime, which is out of control in DC,
a place you spend a large part of your week
every week.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Well, look, DC has gotten seriously dangerous and and I'll
tell you people going to work in DC, people living
in DC are concerned for their safety. They're concerned for
the safety of their families. They're concerned for the safety
of their spouses and their children. You know, Rand Paul
had a Capitol Hill staffer who was stabbed walking along
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the sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon. There was
a man who served in the first Trump administration who
was in his car at five pm on the streets.
He was shot in the head and murdered. This violence
is the direct result of disastrous Democrat policies that have
handcuffed the police, that that have limited the ability of
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the police to go after violent criminal and the result
is DC's become a very dangerous place. So what happened
President Trump Monday morning? He announced it a press conference, quote,
this is liberation Day in d C. And We're going
to take our capital back. And he declared a public
safety emergency, and he took two actions. Number one, he
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invoked section seven forty of the d C Home Rule Act,
placing the DC Police directly under federal control. And number two,
he signed a memorandum to the Secretary of Defense to
utilize the National Guard. He placed DA Administrator Terry Cole
as the interim Federal Commissioner of DC Police. And he
(15:40):
also announced plans to temporarily reassign one hundred and twenty
FBI agents in d C to night time patrol duties.
All of that was announced today. And the reason he
did it is he walked about the statistics about d
C crime. D C's murder rate is higher than that
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of many cities around the globe. DC's murder rate is
higher than Bogota, Columbia. DC has one of the highest
murder rates among large US cities. Nationwide, the homicide rate
is more than twenty seven murders per one hundred thousand residents.
That was in twenty twenty four. Vehicle theft in d
C is more than three times the national average, with
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eight hundred and forty two point four thefts per hundred
thousand residents. It is among the most dangerous cities globally,
and in recent years the number of car thefts has
doubled and the number of car jackings has tripled. Look,
I had actually while I was recording Verdict. I don't
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know if you know this story, but years ago when
Verdict just started, while I was recording Verdict, we had
the truck that I was driving in parked on the
d C streets and we went down to the TV
studios in the basement for that. And while the truck
was on the streets, someone broke into the windows, shattered
them open, and stole my briefcase. Took my briefcase with
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my computer and my iPad and took the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You didn't have classified documents in there, did you? You know?
I did not have them randomly there? Okay, I'm liking sure.
Otherwise that would have been some big news here.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Unlike Joe Biden, I've never removed classified documents from a secure,
compartmentalized facility. Unlike Sandy Berger, who was Bill Clinton's National
security advisor, I've never stuffed classified documents in my underwear
or in my socks to try to smuggle them out.
So no, it was just annoying. And by the way,
here's a stat about carjackings. In recent years, the number
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of carjackings in in DC has tripled, and one of
those victims of carjackings was was Congressman Henry Quayar, a
Texas congressman. Again, it was the evening time. He was
just coming home with his dinner and he was carjacked
in front of his apartment where apparently numerous members of
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Congress live in this apartment building. And he, a member
of Congress, was carjacked. And so President Trump is acting directly,
and apparently one of the motivations from this is that
a White House staffer named Edward Korusta, and he's a
Doge staffer and his nickname is Big Balls. And I
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will say, by the way, one of the funniest things
I've ever seen is because he was working in DOGE.
It forced Data Bash and CNN to say the words
big balls like nineteen different times on air, which I
have to admit I couldn't watch the segment without doubling
over laughing. Well, apparently, this young man, unfortunately was assaulted
over the weekend by about ten juveniles near DuPont Circle.
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And so when a nineteen year old staffer in the
White House can't be safe in DC, the President, I think,
should act, and that's what President Trump has done.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So it's amazing how mad they are that he's actually
trying to fight crime, and it's actually pretty simple. He's
saying it's out of control. The numbers are out of control.
The data shows it's out of control, and yes, the
numbers have come down this year, thank goodness. Part that's
because I think law and order and the President advocating
for law enforcement all over the country and allowing law
enforcement to be empowered to do their job and ice
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agents to do their job. But they're actually angry at
him because he's doing something that they say is out
of his job description. And they're like, this is what
dictators and tyrants do. And I go back to that line,
I'm like, wait, dictators and tyrants are fighting crime like
that's a bad thing, really.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Well, and the federal government has authority over DC explicitly
under the Constitution. Article one, Section eight, Clause seventeen of
the Constitution gives Congress quote exclusive legislation over DC, and
Congress through its delegate, the DC Council designated that the
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President serves as the DC National Guards Commander in chief,
and that's in DC Code section forty nine, Dash four
O nine, which reads, quote, the President of the United
States shall be the Commander in Chief of the Militia
of the District of Columbia. There's an executive order from
nineteen sixty nine that delegates the day to day authority
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over the DC Guard from the President to the Secretary
of Defense, who further delegates it to the Secretary of
the Army. So there's explicit authority to authorize the National
Guard and also Congress in nineteen seventy three pastor law
called the Home Rule Act. And what the Home Rule
Act does is it gives the President explicitly the power
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to take control of the DC Police quote, whenever he
determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which
require the use of the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes,
and that statute. The Home Rule Act further says the
mayor shall provide, shall not may shall provide the police
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quote as the President may deem necessary and appropriate, not
as the mayor deems, not as the city Council deems
as the President may deem. And the authority is limited
to forty eight hours unless the President sends notice to
the Congressional Committees on DC justifying the action, at which
point the authority is limited to thirty days. Trump has
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said he's sent that notice this morning. This section has
never been invoked before, but it is explicit, unequivocal statutor
authority to do what he did. And the fact that
democrats of the media are losing their mind is they
don't like the fact that he's exercising clear legal authority
and clear legal authority that he's using precisely because the
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DC mayor and the DC City Council have refused to
do their job.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's amazing that they refuse to do their job. And
even now the police union coming out this is part
of that story. I think it's really important so people
understand reality compared to how the media is covering this.
The police union has come out and said thank you
to the president and said we need your help because
we have so many officers down. And they're like, we
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are asking and telling the president thank you. And that's
the police union who is saying this, And yet the
mayor is still like, well, I don't know about this.
I'm like, if your police union is telling you you
need the help, why would you not just say, let's
put politics aside here, Let's work with the president. Let's
work with the National Guard. Let's get things safe at
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the metro stations where we see a large upticking crime.
Let's let me tell you where I could use this
National Guard, where you could put it and do this
in a by Parson way. But again it goes back
to this Trump arrangement syndrome, that right, Orange man is
always bad even if he's fighting crime.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Yeah, but it's not just that it's the today's Democrat
party can't stand the police. It used to be there
was a time when when police unions, many of them
were Democrats. I will tell you as I travel the country,
everywhere I go and especially blue cities, when I arrived
in a city like New York, in a city like Chicago.
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When I when I got off the plane in Chicago,
I'm often greeted by four, five, six, eight police officers,
unified cops, uniform cops who will come up to me
and they just say thank you. They'll give me their
patches and they feel so belieguer and I tell them
this is something I try to make a point. And
you've traveled with me, Ben, You've seen this. When I
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see a police officer. I'm in Dallas today. When I
landed it in Dallas love Field, there were several officers there.
I THINKED shook the hands of every officer there, said
thank you, thank you for what you're doing, thank you
for fighting to defend us. And I'll tell you what
I tell the officers in Chicago and everywhere else, which
is it's my job to have you or back. And
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why has d C undermined the police so systematically? Because
the Democrat Party has been taken over by the nut jobs.
It's been taken over by the abolished the police crazies,
the defund the police crazies. D C has in place
no cash bail policies so that people commit violent crimes
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and get released on no cash bail that is madness.
And one of the things President Trump asked Congress to
do is abolish d c's no cash bail. I would
certainly vote to do so. I think that's absolutely the
right thing to do. I will tell you, I think
the odds are very high that Senate Democrats will filibuster
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any effort to get rid of no cash bail in
d C. Because the Democrats today are the party of criminals.
They are And look when I say that, Ben, that
sounds hyperbolic, that sounds oh, come on, how can they
really be the party of criminals? Well, they're the ones
that tell you they are. They're the ones that their
dismay is how dare the president be committed to arresting
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murderers and rapists and gang members? And I want to
be clear about something. DC is qualitatively different. So there's
a statute, long standing statute called posse commatatus. Posse comitatus
bars the use of the US military for civilian law enforcement,
except when authorized by the Constitution or another provision of
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federal law. And so if the President were to do
this in New York City or Chicago, there would certainly
be a challenge under possecommatatus that using the military for
law enforcement violates that. Importantly, However, the Department of Justice,
in nineteen eighty nine, the Office of Legal Council issued
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an opinion that found that President George Herbert Walker Bush
could use the DC car Guard to carry out law
enforcement missions in d C as part of the so
called war on drugs. And so you've got a Department
of Justice opinion long standing from decades ago that says
DC is different because it's it's not a state, it
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is a federal encclave. The federal government has blanket authority
over DC. And so this is an instance where where
the president is acting pursuant to his authority and and
and I expect that his actions are going to prove
highly effective, which I got to tell you, Ben, I
think that scares Democrats even more well.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And that brings me the second part of this, which
is you look at how big of a success this
could be pretty quickly, and if it is a success,
it's just going to expose so many other sanctuary city leaders.
The Gavin Newsom's, the LA mayor, the Baltimore mayor, Chicago mayor,
the Memphis mayor, the Detroit mayor the New Orleans mayor,
(26:57):
all of these top crime cities for exactly what they've done.
It's the policies. You look at just DC and how
soft they've been on crime with juveniles, and juvenile crime
exploded in d C during COVID and after COVID because
they refused to hold juvenile's account for their actions. We've
seen this happen a lot of other places around the country.
(27:19):
So if this turns into a major success for the
president and people feel safe in d C, how big
of a political victory for law and order. I'm not
talking about Republican or everyone. I'm talking about for law
and order. Could this be and precedent moving forward the
break and say hey, I'm willing to help you. You
just got to ask for the help because we can
(27:39):
do what we just did in Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Yeah, Look, that's exactly right. And I think the obvious
analog is border security. We spent four years under Joe
Biden the Democrats, with the Democrats saying they were helpless
to secure the border. It was impossible to do. I
was there a year ago at the State of the
Union address when Joe Biden said he needed new legislation.
The only way to secure the borders if Congress passed
(28:04):
new legislation. Now, I was there this year when Trump
gave a State of the Union address, and it was
after border crossings with Trump being sworn into office had
dropped more than ninety nine percent. And Trump my favorite
line from his whole State of the Union address is
he said, it turns out we didn't need new legislation,
we just needed a new president. Well, the same thing
(28:26):
is true here. Look, President Trump has demonstrated conclusively the
border could have can be secured, and it could have
been secured four years ago. Except Joe Biden, the Democrats
wanted open borders because they saw a political benefit. If
we see the kind of successes that I know President
Trump hopes we'll see that, I think we are likely
to see. It will demonstrate not just every resident of DC,
(28:49):
but every resident of every other high crime city in
the country. Wait a second, this can be stopped, My
family can be protected. And the fact that the rates
in my city are so high, that the rape and
child molestations and the carjacking rates are so high, that
is a choice, a voluntary choice from Democrat politicians who
(29:11):
put partisan priorities above protecting their citizenry. That at the
end of the day is I think one of the
biggest reasons Democrats are freaking out. And I want to
make another point about this, which is there used to
be an implicit agreement about DC home rule, which is
that Republicans wouldn't interfere day to day and the Democrat
(29:32):
officials in d C wouldn't run the city as a
social experiment driven by progressive self indulgence like in other
blue cities, and the DC mayor and City Council broke
that implicit agreement. D C is fundamentally different from other
major cities because it's the nation's political capital, and if
(29:52):
you are serving in the federal government, you have to
be in DC. If the residents of New York or
San Francisco want to elect crazy Soros politician uh uh,
district attorneys if if if they want their officials to
implement their combination of communism and anarchy and and and
and woke policy shutting down schools and businesses. You know what,
(30:19):
if you don't like it, you can leave and and
and leaving that you can get out of a blue city.
To the extent voters anywhere in America elect representatives to
represent them. Look, the people of Texas, thirty one million
Texans have sent me to represent them in the Senate.
I have to go to Washington, d C. To do that.
(30:40):
That's where the Senate is. My staff, many of whom
are Texans. They have to be in d C to
do that job. And and and so the lawlessness the
president is acting, look fine, if you've got San Francisco
Democrats who want to go from one lawless hell hole
to another, that's their choice. But the nation's capital, there
is an obligation to keep it safe. And I think
(31:01):
the President is doing the exactly the right thing by
acting boldly. I want to commend him. This is a
bold step, and I think it's really important.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
One.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
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