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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mike Roger's with us right now. Thank you, sir, appreciate
you taking the time to be here with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Justin thanks for having me. You know, And this is
the oddest thing when you look at across America, and
this is not really political if you think about it.
This is about people who are being mugged, robbed. These
are people being murdered, raped. I mean, Detroit rape numbers
are one hundred and eighty percent higher than the national
(00:26):
average one hundred and eighty percent. They're aggravated assault five
hundred and thirty six percent. Why wouldn't you take advantage
of a president who is willing to surge federal law enforcement,
something you and I even talked about last year about
how we needed to do this in our high and
CRIBD cities. This, to me is the perfect opportunity to
(00:46):
stand up for those people who clearly don't have a
lot of folks standing up for them. You know, nowhere
in the world would you tolerate and be excited that
you've gotten murders down to two hundred and three in
twenty twenty four to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That, Yeah, that's a ghastly number. And yeah, I think
you're right about this because unfortunately, look, we have to
deal with the reality is that politics are at play.
But you know, not to the people who are in
these cities. You've got people in blue cities that may
have voted Democrat all their life in there begging for
President Trump to send help because they just want help.
(01:21):
They don't care where it comes.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
From, exactly right. And you've got to remember every one
of it. And so here's something else that people don't realize.
Detroit is still listed as the number two most violent
city in America. It's not just murders, its rapes, it's robberies,
it's aggravated assault. All of those numbers are way off
the chart over what the national average is. And so
(01:47):
and every one of them. As the former law enforces
a guy can tell you every robbery, every rape, every
aggravated assault is a half a degree away from somebody
losing their life. And so why you want to intervene
on these these types of crimes and gang activities and
drug activities is for that very reason. And what you
saw in Washington, DC is that you know, the National
(02:08):
Guard presided presence there. That's great. The arrests, the criminal activity, arrests,
were done by this surge of federal law enforcement in
conjunction with local police, by the way, and so when
you look at that, it's been wildly successful. You may
not need the National Guard, but that would you know,
the mayor doesn't have to ask for the National Guard.
He can ask for all the other stuff right up
(02:29):
to it and say I want your help. This would
be great. They won't do it because they do think
it's political and they're willing to accept a five hundred
percent higher aggravated assault rate in Detroit based on them saying, well,
we've got murders down to just two hundred and three
and twenty four. Well, think of those families they've lost
(02:50):
a loved one, That families disrupted. Somebody hopefully is going
to jail that family's disrupted. I mean, the problems that
come with each and one every one of these crimes
is exponential. That's why we should take advantage in Michigan
and take advantage of this. You have a presidence willing
to do this. Let's do it. Let's have these surges
in the communities, and mister mayor, you get to ask
(03:10):
for it. You know, if they ever get here and
decide they have to come in. It's so bad, that's
a number story. But guess what you get to drive
this train. Why wouldn't we do this and save lives
and save all the heartache and heartbreak and emotional damage
that a crime, a violent crime does to an individual
and their family. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I hate to say it because I don't want to
give political advice to the guy, but it really would
be a fantastic move on behalf of Mayor Mike Dugan
to do that. Is he's running it as an independent.
Now we know he's actually a Democrat, but that's what
he's running as now is We've got real no evidence
of any of any of that. But if he stepped
(03:50):
out today and see, you know, I'm putting politics aside,
I'm gonna do the right thing for people in Detroit,
that would that would make a big move for him,
and I think I think I helped a lot of
people take a little closer look at him. Unfortunately, like
I said, I did not want to want to give
him any political advice that would pay off, because I
(04:11):
don't think he's going to be good for the state
at all. But at the end of the day, I
think that would be the right move Now I got
to ask you about this. Hailey Stevens camerass women out
of Birmingham there once called for the National Guard to
be deployed in Chicago to combat crime, and now she's
against your call for it here. Well, which one is
(04:36):
right there? Help must make sense of us.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
This is not the first time we've seen Hailey Stevens
think more of people who live in other states than
they do in our own state, home state here in Michigan.
I remember when she voted to allow California legislators to
impact our automobile industry here and regulate and mandate evs.
She voted for that not that long ago. Now she's
(05:00):
got this double standard where she called for the National
Guard to go in because the violence was so bad
in Chicago, and now she's saying, well, we don't want
any federal help for these cities that like Detroit, that
could desperately need it. And remember this isn't about some
statistic in a crime book or how everybody's fludging these numbers,
(05:21):
and how they're saying, well, the partial year in twenty
twenty five, carjackings are down a lot. And look at
twenty thirteen, and look at twenty well, twenty twenty twenty
five not over yet, and so every carjacking, everybody, the
Democrats find themselves defending criminals and crime rates because they
don't associate them with people I don't think. I mean,
(05:43):
these are not statistics. Again, as a far law enforce guy,
I saw victims. I met with them and their families
for everything from murders or drug cases or kidnappings that
were filling the blank, human trafficking cases, all of bombing cases,
all of those things. And I'm telling you it has
as much impact on the victims family as it Obviously,
if the victim's dead, that's about the ulphlement bad outcome,
(06:07):
but the families are traumatized throughout this as well. Why
wouldn't we try to provide some relief. And by the way,
if you know, they're very proud about arguing how many
houses they tear down in the city, they don't tell
you how many they build because they're pretty slow at it.
And so my thing is go and help these neighborhoods
bring up the value of their front. If people feel safe,
(06:30):
they're going to feel better about their lives and their
kids' future. And by the way, that helps, you know,
the schools as well. Why we would just let this
thing burn out of control so somebody has a political
talking point is beyond me. It is absolutely beyond me.
It just tells me you really don't care. You are
accepting violence as a way of life for a whole
segment of our people in Michigan that shouldn't have to
(06:52):
live that way.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Mike Rogers running for Senate here in Michigan. I know
you've been on the campaign trail. This isn't the only obviously,
this is a big piece of it. But what else
are you hearing from folks on the trail right now?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, Listen, people are fired up about the reinvestment
happening in American manufacturing. General Motors announcing four billion dollars
in the United States, and the Lake Orient plant there
is going to get They're actually going to be able
to build cars that people want to buy. Imagine that.
If that's happening. Whirlpool is back, Apple has said they're
(07:27):
coming back. I don't know if you saw this, but
Japan just announced that they're willing to invest five hundred
and some billion dollars because the President's deal with Japan
that he gets to spend on the American people's behalf
on investments for our future and our jobs. You know,
some of it could go to an expanded Alaska pipeline
(07:48):
he's talking about. Or we can finally think of this.
Ninety percent of all our precursors for every prescription drug
in America comes from China. Guess what what if we
can invest in those companies and allow them to build
and make sure that we're not dependent on our medicine
from communist China. I mean, these are big and exciting things,
(08:09):
and I think you pointed out you can't. You have
to let this thing go a little bit. You have
to give the president some rope here to get through
as negotiations and do all of this so that the
economy is better and more importantly, we are less dependent
on China. If you saw what happened justin when you
have Modi of India and you had Putin and President
(08:34):
She all standing there looking at a pretty impressive military
hardware display by China, and they're all have their chests
puffed out. That tells you this is a fight we
cannot lose. And what the President is trying to do
is realign that so that we're not so dependent on China,
and we can build things again here in Michigan. So
(08:54):
I have a lot of people talking about how fired
up they are. I mean, I believe that we can
revitalize Michigan manufacturing. We can get a skilled worker pool
like no other in the country. Because we've done it before,
we can do it again, and we can get back
into being part of the arsenal of democracy. We remember
when I was growing up justin we had the Air
(09:16):
Force base in the up really really great, good for
the economy, good for national secrety. We had a naval
sub tracking station up in the up good for us.
We used to build tanks. Tanks are now building Ohio.
They don't build them here anymore. You know, you looked
at Selfords was almost dead on arrival until Trump, you know,
puffed them up with the some F fifteens, which is
(09:37):
important not only for our economy but for our country.
All of those things. For thirty years, we haven't had
a senator that gives a rats behind. All of that
went away because we've had two Democrat senators. This particular
seat was held by a Democrat since nineteen seventy nine.
It is time for a change for all the reasons
we just talked about.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Now Mike Rogers looking to be the tip of the
spear on that change. Rogersfir senate dot com is the
is the website where you can find out more and
uh maybe get out shake his hand and ask some questions.
We want to answer them all, Michael. We appreciate taking
the time to come back here and give us the
updates as they as they roll in.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love it. Thanks, thanks, and I hope to hope
to talk to you and your listeners again real soon.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You got it. Always a pleasure.
Mike Roger's with us right now. Thank you, sir, appreciate
you taking the time to be here with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Justin thanks for having me. You know, And this is
the oddest thing when you look at across America, and
this is not really political if you think about it.
This is about people who are being mugged, robbed. These
are people being murdered, raped. I mean, Detroit rape numbers
are one hundred and eighty percent higher than the national
(00:26):
average one hundred and eighty percent. They're aggravated assault five
hundred and thirty six percent. Why wouldn't you take advantage
of a president who is willing to surge federal law enforcement,
something you and I even talked about last year about
how we needed to do this in our high and
CRIBD cities. This, to me is the perfect opportunity to
(00:46):
stand up for those people who clearly don't have a
lot of folks standing up for them. You know, nowhere
in the world would you tolerate and be excited that
you've gotten murders down to two hundred and three in
twenty twenty four to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That, Yeah, that's a ghastly number. And yeah, I think
you're right about this because unfortunately, look, we have to
deal with the reality is that politics are at play.
But you know, not to the people who are in
these cities. You've got people in blue cities that may
have voted Democrat all their life in there begging for
President Trump to send help because they just want help.
(01:21):
They don't care where it comes.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
From, exactly right. And you've got to remember every one
of it. And so here's something else that people don't realize.
Detroit is still listed as the number two most violent
city in America. It's not just murders, its rapes, it's robberies,
it's aggravated assault. All of those numbers are way off
the chart over what the national average is. And so
(01:47):
and every one of them. As the former law enforces
a guy can tell you every robbery, every rape, every
aggravated assault is a half a degree away from somebody
losing their life. And so why you want to intervene
on these these types of crimes and gang activities and
drug activities is for that very reason. And what you
saw in Washington, DC is that you know, the National
(02:08):
Guard presided presence there. That's great. The arrests, the criminal activity, arrests,
were done by this surge of federal law enforcement in
conjunction with local police, by the way, and so when
you look at that, it's been wildly successful. You may
not need the National Guard, but that would you know,
the mayor doesn't have to ask for the National Guard.
He can ask for all the other stuff right up
(02:29):
to it and say I want your help. This would
be great. They won't do it because they do think
it's political and they're willing to accept a five hundred
percent higher aggravated assault rate in Detroit based on them saying, well,
we've got murders down to just two hundred and three
and twenty four. Well, think of those families they've lost
(02:50):
a loved one, That families disrupted. Somebody hopefully is going
to jail that family's disrupted. I mean, the problems that
come with each and one every one of these crimes
is exponential. That's why we should take advantage in Michigan
and take advantage of this. You have a presidence willing
to do this. Let's do it. Let's have these surges
in the communities, and mister mayor, you get to ask
(03:10):
for it. You know, if they ever get here and
decide they have to come in. It's so bad, that's
a number story. But guess what you get to drive
this train. Why wouldn't we do this and save lives
and save all the heartache and heartbreak and emotional damage
that a crime, a violent crime does to an individual
and their family. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I hate to say it because I don't want to
give political advice to the guy, but it really would
be a fantastic move on behalf of Mayor Mike Dugan
to do that. Is he's running it as an independent.
Now we know he's actually a Democrat, but that's what
he's running as now is We've got real no evidence
of any of any of that. But if he stepped
(03:50):
out today and see, you know, I'm putting politics aside,
I'm gonna do the right thing for people in Detroit,
that would that would make a big move for him,
and I think I think I helped a lot of
people take a little closer look at him. Unfortunately, like
I said, I did not want to want to give
him any political advice that would pay off, because I
(04:11):
don't think he's going to be good for the state
at all. But at the end of the day, I
think that would be the right move Now I got
to ask you about this. Hailey Stevens camerass women out
of Birmingham there once called for the National Guard to
be deployed in Chicago to combat crime, and now she's
against your call for it here. Well, which one is
(04:36):
right there? Help must make sense of us.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
This is not the first time we've seen Hailey Stevens
think more of people who live in other states than
they do in our own state, home state here in Michigan.
I remember when she voted to allow California legislators to
impact our automobile industry here and regulate and mandate evs.
She voted for that not that long ago. Now she's
(05:00):
got this double standard where she called for the National
Guard to go in because the violence was so bad
in Chicago, and now she's saying, well, we don't want
any federal help for these cities that like Detroit, that
could desperately need it. And remember this isn't about some
statistic in a crime book or how everybody's fludging these numbers,
(05:21):
and how they're saying, well, the partial year in twenty
twenty five, carjackings are down a lot. And look at
twenty thirteen, and look at twenty well, twenty twenty twenty
five not over yet, and so every carjacking, everybody, the
Democrats find themselves defending criminals and crime rates because they
don't associate them with people I don't think. I mean,
(05:43):
these are not statistics. Again, as a far law enforce guy,
I saw victims. I met with them and their families
for everything from murders or drug cases or kidnappings that
were filling the blank, human trafficking cases, all of bombing cases,
all of those things. And I'm telling you it has
as much impact on the victims family as it Obviously,
if the victim's dead, that's about the ulphlement bad outcome,
(06:07):
but the families are traumatized throughout this as well. Why
wouldn't we try to provide some relief. And by the way,
if you know, they're very proud about arguing how many
houses they tear down in the city, they don't tell
you how many they build because they're pretty slow at it.
And so my thing is go and help these neighborhoods
bring up the value of their front. If people feel safe,
(06:30):
they're going to feel better about their lives and their
kids' future. And by the way, that helps, you know,
the schools as well. Why we would just let this
thing burn out of control so somebody has a political
talking point is beyond me. It is absolutely beyond me.
It just tells me you really don't care. You are
accepting violence as a way of life for a whole
segment of our people in Michigan that shouldn't have to
(06:52):
live that way.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Mike Rogers running for Senate here in Michigan. I know
you've been on the campaign trail. This isn't the only obviously,
this is a big piece of it. But what else
are you hearing from folks on the trail right now?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, Listen, people are fired up about the reinvestment
happening in American manufacturing. General Motors announcing four billion dollars
in the United States, and the Lake Orient plant there
is going to get They're actually going to be able
to build cars that people want to buy. Imagine that.
If that's happening. Whirlpool is back, Apple has said they're
(07:27):
coming back. I don't know if you saw this, but
Japan just announced that they're willing to invest five hundred
and some billion dollars because the President's deal with Japan
that he gets to spend on the American people's behalf
on investments for our future and our jobs. You know,
some of it could go to an expanded Alaska pipeline
(07:48):
he's talking about. Or we can finally think of this.
Ninety percent of all our precursors for every prescription drug
in America comes from China. Guess what what if we
can invest in those companies and allow them to build
and make sure that we're not dependent on our medicine
from communist China. I mean, these are big and exciting things,
(08:09):
and I think you pointed out you can't. You have
to let this thing go a little bit. You have
to give the president some rope here to get through
as negotiations and do all of this so that the
economy is better and more importantly, we are less dependent
on China. If you saw what happened justin when you
have Modi of India and you had Putin and President
(08:34):
She all standing there looking at a pretty impressive military
hardware display by China, and they're all have their chests
puffed out. That tells you this is a fight we
cannot lose. And what the President is trying to do
is realign that so that we're not so dependent on China,
and we can build things again here in Michigan. So
(08:54):
I have a lot of people talking about how fired
up they are. I mean, I believe that we can
revitalize Michigan manufacturing. We can get a skilled worker pool
like no other in the country. Because we've done it before,
we can do it again, and we can get back
into being part of the arsenal of democracy. We remember
when I was growing up justin we had the Air
(09:16):
Force base in the up really really great, good for
the economy, good for national secrety. We had a naval
sub tracking station up in the up good for us.
We used to build tanks. Tanks are now building Ohio.
They don't build them here anymore. You know, you looked
at Selfords was almost dead on arrival until Trump, you know,
puffed them up with the some F fifteens, which is
(09:37):
important not only for our economy but for our country.
All of those things. For thirty years, we haven't had
a senator that gives a rats behind. All of that
went away because we've had two Democrat senators. This particular
seat was held by a Democrat since nineteen seventy nine.
It is time for a change for all the reasons
we just talked about.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Now Mike Rogers looking to be the tip of the
spear on that change. Rogersfir senate dot com is the
is the website where you can find out more and
uh maybe get out shake his hand and ask some questions.
We want to answer them all, Michael. We appreciate taking
the time to come back here and give us the
updates as they as they roll in.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love it. Thanks, thanks, and I hope to hope
to talk to you and your listeners again real soon.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You got it. Always a pleasure.
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