8-12-25 - 7am - DC Liberation Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael, I was watching the same documentary last night
as well, and I believe that the administration of New
Orleans had no right to Blastphema right away. It's their
responsibility to get everything under control and get everything organized.
They waited till last minute, and for you for them

(00:24):
to blame you guys as far as FEMA not read
at all.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Not trying to sell books, because I mean, the book
is now more than ten years old.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
But I went through a lot of those.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Inflection points during the disaster and presented what I thought
to be because I also included in the book the
email exchanges that went back and forth about things that
were happening that became those inflection points, including the failure
to evacuate and the use of the Superdome as a

(01:11):
shelter of last resort. There is a the Associated Press.
I have to give them credit. During one of the
initial pre landfall briefings before I had even left for
New Orleans, took place. We were in the situation room.

(01:34):
Trump Bush was in Crawford and nagan Or, one of
his aides, announced that they had designated the Superdome as
a shelter of last resort and I whispered to somebody
on my staff, go get me that engineering report, because

(01:57):
we had an engineering report that indicated that the superdome
could not withstand a category three, let alone a category five.
Now Katrina was a category five as it approached as
it was coming up through the Gulf. Once it made landfall,

(02:19):
it degraded down to a category three. But still the
engineering report stated very clearly, unequivocally, there was serious doubt
among third party objective engineers, which I know is a
contradiction in terms about objective engineers, but insert joke there,
and so I pulled that report and explained to now,

(02:42):
you remember that when you're sitting in one of these
operations centers, like the situation room, you have all these
people that are on not just some are on just audio,
most are on video and audio, so that everybody can
see everybody else, and you can see the entire room,
and everybody can see everybody where they're located, and you

(03:03):
can get the reaction you can see you know that
people are paying attention or not paying attention. So I
emphasized that the engineering report shows that it cannot withstand
a category three, and the use of the superdome as
a shelter of last resort has two unintended consequences. First

(03:25):
and foremost, you tell people, yeah, you don't need to evacuate,
because we have a shelter for you. So if you
want to, you know, be a tough guy, or you
don't have transportation, you can always run to the Superdome.
But they're going to be as much in danger there
as you are in your home. Maybe in some cases
not quite as much danger, but you're still going to

(03:46):
be in danger. And that came true. Nobody believed me
about that. Drove me crazy. That's not true, it's not true.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I went back.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I contacted a friend of mine who was a reporter,
and I said, would you be interested in a copy
of a videotape in which I'm briefing Potus and all
the governors And when I see all the governors, I'm
talking about governors from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky,

(04:27):
all through that zone. Would you be interested in a
videotape that shows that I warned that you should not
be using the Superdome as a shelter of last resort.
And of course their ears perked up and they were like,
we would love that. Can you obtain that? And I said, well,
I'll try.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
So.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I contacted friend of mine for actually I won't name her,
but someone who worked directly for me. He said, I
need a copy that video tape, set a time and
a date, and I parked. She brought the videotape out

(05:12):
to me. The reporter watched it was like a plantestine operation.
The reporter watched her hand me the video tape because
he was parked several cars behind me, and then he
walked up to the car where on the driver's side
where I'd received the tape, and I handed him the

(05:34):
tape right directly to him, and they blew up and
wrote an entire story about it that ended up being
a huge bone of contention because the congressional investigators didn't
believe me, the media didn't believe me, and of course

(05:55):
it showed that indeed we knew that that was a
mistake and you shouldn't be doing that. It's just another
example of how if you're going to watch that particular documentary,
it has an agenda and it has a narrative. They
never asked me to be a part of it, and

(06:16):
even if they had, who knows what, if anything I
had to say would ever make it off the editing
room floor into the documentary itself. I will say that
I've just come to accept that that's the way it is,
and I can't change that, and that's something that I

(06:38):
have to live with for the entirety of my life.
And it's really frustrating, and honestly, I get tired of it.
I truly get tired of the epithets and you know,
the racism, all of the things that they say about me.
Sure it stings because I'm a human being, but also

(07:00):
I've learned to just like eah, I just don't care,
just don't care, because people buy into a narrative. They
accept that narrative regardless of how much data, information or
even an actual video tape you show them. It's not
going to change their mind. Dragon, you've hijacked today's program.

(07:23):
You're welcome, You've hijacked today's program, So real quickly let
me I want to move on to crime in DC,
but I'm want to wrap up this about the heat
wave because once again, this is a narrative that is
established that we hear all the time, that Dragon and
I make fun of about, oh my gosh, it's scorching
out there, and it's the hottest ever. The if you

(07:44):
compare the nineteen thirties anomalies with the station coverage that
I mentioned above, that you know, was so sparse back then.
If you were to take a Marketer's map of the
world in nineteen thirty six and then say twenty twenty five,
the warmest land areas in the nineteen thirties are parts

(08:06):
of the United Is, the United States, all of the
United States.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
And then parts of Europe.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, that's exactly where the stations, the temperature sensor stations
are dense. Elsewhere the pattern is cooler or near zero,
especially across the southern hemisphere and the interior continents, exactly
where the stations are scarce or absence, Which then becomes
a question is that physics or is that sampling plus

(08:38):
sampling plus the algorithm? Well you decide. I think it's
sampling in the algorithm, and I think it's designed to
fit a narrative. The pre satellite surface temperatures come from
chip engine intakes and buckets.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Do you realize that.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Coverage followed the trade routes, not climate gradients, because the
oceans dominate area. What analysts decide to do in ship
sparse regions drives that global number leave gaps blank, and
the nineteen thirties global means stays closer to the observed
warm continents fill creatively, the global mean cools. Those are

(09:22):
editorial choices somehow couched in science. So then that leaves
the hottest year ever mantra. Once you begin to acknowledge
the thin and the bias nineteen thirties network, add to
that the reliance on infilling the data, then you look

(09:45):
and add to that today's contamination. The bumper sticker claims
that you'll hear meteorologists claim about this as the warmest ever,
and the climate activist latch onto and put onto a
bumper sticker to tell us all that we're warming, and
it's all because the COE two.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
No.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
The evidence, the actual evidence is consistent with the nineteen
thirties being as warm or warmer globally than the twenty twenties.
Once you strip away the painting by the algorithms and
the urban heat index at the very least anyway, the
uncertainty bars swallows the indifference the difference. I should say,

(10:29):
it swallows the difference, and if the past is uncertain,
then whatever certainty we're being sold today is just marketing,
is just the gospels from the church of the climate activists.
It's not actual measurement. The same kind of narrative is

(10:52):
true when it comes to yesterday's so called liberation Day
for Washington d C. I talk probably too much incessantly
about the fact that the corrupt propaganda media, the cabal,
they didn't learn anything for the twenty twenty four election

(11:13):
debacle in terms of their cherished Democrat party. And now
the response to Trump's DC liberate Liberation Day yesterday is
actually a good case in point. This is how the
New York Times Peter Baker, a true newsfaker, responded on

(11:33):
x yesterday, citing a This is Peter Baker, New York Times,
citing a non existent crime crisis. Really, we'll talk about
that in a second. Citing a non existent crime crisis,
Trump plans to take over the Washington d C Police
and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital.

(11:56):
Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at
a thirty year low. Well, if that's right. According to
mister Baker, no crime exists in the federal city in
the district, in the district itself, despite its.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Leading the nation in the rate of violent crime, and some.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Parts of the city, some parts of the district, I
want to be very precise, some parts of the district
are in constant chaos now. Peter Baker's story cites the
government's published crime stats as if they were gospel handled
down from the Church of the Climate activists, in this case,
the Church of the of the Trump Derangement Syndrome activists.

(12:42):
The police commander in d C was fired just a
few weeks ago. Do you know why I haven't heard
this reported anywhere. Maybe it hasn't. I've just missed it,
so maybe I shouldn't say it that way. I've not
heard it reported anywhere. But the police com was fired
just a few weeks ago in DC four doctoring the

(13:05):
crime statistics. That DC Cops Union has told reporters that
the doctoring is a department wide issue. The fp chairman
Greg Pemberton says, and I quote, when our members respond
to the scene of a felony offense where there is

(13:27):
a victim reporting the felony occurred, inevitably there will be
a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on
the scene and direct those members to take a report
for a lesser offense. So instead of taking a report
for a shooting or a stabbing or a car jacking,
they will order that officer take a report for a

(13:48):
theft or an injured person to the hospital, or a
felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.
Go check it out, could do your research. This doctrine
spree started in early last year. That was after DC

(14:11):
recorded two hundred and seventy four murders and two hundred
in twenty twenty three. That was an all time record,
and despite the attempts to downgrade the nature crimes committed
in DC, the department was still forced to admit to
two hundred and two murders in twenty twenty four. Believing
any stat kept by the DC cops is like believing

(14:33):
economic data coming out of Beijing.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, it's you know, it's a joke.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
You may not know the extent of the joke, but
you know it's completely unworthy and unreliable. But if you're
a fake reporter, if you're a journalist, a member of
the cabal, like Peter Baker is in the new York
Times and all the fake editors of the New York
Times that just take everything up. He writes a face value,
because their overriding goal is what get Trump. That's the

(14:59):
gospel of that church, that's their religion. Yet Trump, even
with the doctrine, the district has a murder rate many
multiples higher than international cities Baghdad, six times higher than
New York, higher than Atlanta, Chicago, even Compton. But Peter

(15:23):
Baker and the New York Times say the problem is nonexistent,
nothing to see here. Just move along, move along, move along.
And then the media wonders why Americans don't trust them,
the legacy media, the New York Times, the Washington Post,
the LA Times, although La Times is beginning to change
a little bit. The Denver Composts why they wonder why

(15:46):
we go to other independent, freelance sources of journalism or
information because we don't trust you. Here are the facts.
In twenty twenty four, DC saw homicide rate of twenty
seven point three per one hundred thousand residents. That's the
fourth highest homicide rate in the country. That is nearly

(16:07):
six times higher than New York. As I said, it
is higher than Atlanta, Chicago and Compton. Now, if we
took d C turned it into a state, it would
have the highest homicide rate of any state in the country.
In twenty twelve, prior to COVID twenty twelve, the homicide
rate in d C was only thirteen point nine per

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one hundred thousand compared to today, or at least as
of the end of twenty twenty four, it was thirteen
point nine per one hundred thousand and twenty twelve and
twenty seven point three per hundred thousand at the end
of twenty twenty four. That makes d c's murder rate
three times higher than that of Islamabah eighteens times higher

(16:55):
than Havana. The number of juveniles arrested in d C
has gone up every single year since twenty twenty, and
most of those had prior arrests for violent crimes. In
terms of just raw numbers, there were twenty nine thousand,
three hundred and forty eight crimes reported in DC last year,

(17:15):
three four hundred and sixty nine violent offenses, one thy,
twenty six assaults with a dangerous weapon, twenty one hundred robberies,
and fifty one hundred motor vehicle thefts. The New York Times.
It's nonexistent. It's a non existent crime wave. Who are
you going to believe? Oh and by the way, they're

(17:37):
even lying about those steps.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
Hey Michael, did they contact you to find out what
really happened during the dust ball? Go Dani, we've we've
let loose the dogs? Who let the dogs out?

Speaker 7 (18:01):
I can only assume that's an old joke. So that there,
I have no idea you being one hundred and eighty
seven you were yeah, well, yeah I was there.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
You were there?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah I was there, Yeah, yeah, I was there. I
was responsible for placing the thermometer in the Earth's famous.
That's what I did for a living. Of course, the
reaction from the politicos inside the Beltway is typical. We
don't need no stinging help. This is the Attorney General

(18:37):
for the District of Columbia, in essence, the.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Prosecutor joining us.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Now, d you see Attorney General Brian Schwaw. Mister turney, General,
thank you so much for ing with us this morning.
You just heard President Trump rather dark painting, or rather
dark picture of life in Washington. The crime, he says,
is running out of control. Can you for the viewers
set the record straight as to the nature of crime
stistics in DC and as President Trump moves had cederal

(19:05):
law enforcement evolved.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Do you want the help, Well.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
Thank you for having me this morning. Look, violent crime
is a serious concern for all of us in the
District of Columbia. Nobody should be a victim of a crime,
and we as public officials need to do everything we
can to drive crime down, and we have done that. Unfortunately,
the President's characterizations of what's happening on the ground here
in the District of Columbia is not consistent with the facts.

(19:31):
We have seen meaningful, significant drops in crimes since I
was elected in twenty twenty three, when there was a
crime's fight.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Crimes.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
Violent crimes have consistently gone down every year, and we're
going to continue to do that. The work is not done.
Every city, including Washington, DC, needs to be laser focused
on that and that is something that I and the
other folks here at the Office of Attorney General are
focused on every day. We do not believe we need
this takeover of MPD. Our Home Rule Act provides that

(20:04):
while we do have limited authority to govern ourselves, local
affairs like local policing are entrusted to our mayor and
our chief of police who are doing the job. There
are things the federal government could do to help us.
We certainly have a problem with the fact that more
than twenty percent of the judges on our superior Court
that are required to be on the bench to handle

(20:25):
criminal matters, juvenile matters, housing matters, and other matters are vacant.
And that's something that the federal government, the President and
the Congress could make sure we had some meaningful help
right away in terms of the administration of justice in
our city.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
They don't need no sting of help. Everything's just fine.
He doesn't really address the statistics because there's really not
a lot that he could say about that. If he
really did, Let's go to the former Capital police chief
in terms of what he thinks about deliberation.

Speaker 10 (20:59):
Day joining us now former US Capital Police Chief Tom Major.
He's an MSNBC law enforcement analyst. Thank you very much
for coming on the show this morning. What's your sense
of how this will work?

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well, I will tell you after listening to the press
conference yesterday, I feel much better this morning, just in
the last twenty four hours. Keith pam Smith of the
Metro Problem Police Department has spoken with Terry Cole, the
interim Commissioner for the Metro Problem Police Department, at.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Least for the next thirty days. They have spoken.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Mister Cole has told Chief Smith that we would like
MPD to lead this effort. He wants this to be
a collaboration, and frankly, that's the only way I see
this as being successful. As as a former police chief,
if somebody would have come to me and and said, hey,

(22:00):
we're going to bring five hundred thousand more law enforcement
officers in to assist you, what's not to like about that?
You could certainly make an impact on crime with that
kind of surge. But this is going to be a
temporary thing. Make no mistake about that. This is not
something that can be sustained over a long period of time.

(22:25):
So I'm very sorry. Ahead, Yeah, I'm very encouraged that
Chief Smith and mister Cole have talked about this being
a collaboration and that MPD is going to basically lead
the decisions on how these resources are deployed.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Wow, I'm not sure that MSNBC really expected to hear
that kind of response.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
They must not have done the pre interview interview.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
So far in twenty twenty five, there have already been
nearly sixteen hundred violent crimes nearly sixteen thousand total.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Crimes in the district.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
There have been nearly one hundred homicides, including the fatal
shootings of in its civilians. Vehicle theft in DC is
more than three times a national average you met, ranking
it among the most dangerous cities in the world. Carjackings
increased five hundred and forty seven percent in the five
years between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three. Last year

(23:28):
there were triple the number of carjackings compared to twenty eighteen.
And of course we know that the MPD is cooking
the books to make crime stats appear more favorable. This
is kind of like the Biden administration continuing to tell
us that the economy is doing great, the plan is working,

(23:50):
while we're all out there going to the grocery store going,
holy crap, look at these prices. People in DC are
walking around going look at this crime.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'm going to expand on an analogy that the text
is sent in. It's like needing to lose fifty pounds,
gaining seven, then losing three and celebrating it.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Which is kind of the way DC operates about everything.
A spending cut is just a decrease in the increase
in spending. Yeah, so that is a great example. WUSA
TV in DC says, DC residents voice frustration over rising violence,
questioning police stats, and demanding real action to make neighborhoods

(24:35):
feel safe. Again, that apparently, to Peter Baker in The
New York Times, is nonexistent. Fortunately, amid all the cacaphony
of the media bull crap, at least CNN still gives
time to one voice, obviously, Scott Jennings, who is pro

(24:55):
Trump and conservative. Here's what he had to say during
a panel just last night.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Do you think that is an appropriate use of those
federal resources?

Speaker 6 (25:06):
I do.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Actually, I think it's a disgrace that our nation's capital
is crime ridden. I think it's a disgrace that tourists
and visitors come to Washington, d C. And they don't
feel safe. I think it's a disgrace that, you know,
roving bands of teenagers are riding, you know, hundreds of
dirt bikes around Washington.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
D C.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Shooting guns, shooting off fireworks, and you have these roving
bands of carjackers it's a disgrace. This is our national capital.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
You shouldn't have.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
To feel that way, whether you live there or whether
you're visiting on the streets of Washington, d C. It's
a unique place because it's a federal district. It's not
in a state, and uh there I think I think
the president, you know, has rightly decided that something has
to be done. You know, it has a very high
homicide rate when you compare it to other world capitals,
and so I'm anxious to see how far he wants

(25:52):
to take this. But frankly, I think for the people
who live there and the people who visit there, uh,
they're going to welcome extra police presence on the street.
That carjacking that happened to the White House stafford the
other night, you know, there were a couple of cops
sitting there. Had they not been sitting there and witnessed that,
I don't know what would have happened to that poor kid.
He got beat up by ten people, a ten person gang.
And so I think the more patrols you have, whether

(26:14):
it's park police or whoever, the safer people will feel
going around our nation's capital. They exist in a state
of lawlessness. I mean, we have blue cities all over
this country and blue states that have sanctuary laws where
they have encouraged illegal immigration. I mean, that's the problem
in California is that illegal immigration has been welcomed and coddled,
and then when you go in and try to enforce

(26:34):
federal law, there was you know, all sorts of unrest
and violence and mayhem on the streets, and so that
was a situation brought about by the local officials there
trying to resist. I think the enforcement of federal immigration
law in Washington, d c. Everybody who lives there and
everybody who visits there on a regular basis knows it's

(26:55):
not safe. It is not safe, and there's even a
discussion in the ranks of the police department there. I
think one guy's been put on suspension because they've been
downplaying the crime statistics there to try to give people
a false sense of security. So I don't think this
is political. I think it's about safety, and in the
case of California and other Blue states, I think it's
about the enforcement of federal immigration laws that are on

(27:16):
the books, and you have democrats in those places trying
to resist that. I do not understand it.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Perception is reality, and let me give you some perception.
Let me get back.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Michael.

Speaker 11 (27:31):
With Donald Trump taking over the DC area, what if
crime rate does drop, I guess I will just prove
to them that action does work. And what if Colorado
continues to be number one in a lot of these categories,
and now that DC can't overtake us with number one,
We're going to stay there for even longer. Yay Colorado,

(27:52):
Hey we're number one.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're number one.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
DC really is like most other American studies, just like
dirty crime ridden in some pockets, adilic in others. But
DC is not just another city. It is an amazing place,
the center of American power, the seat of this republic,
the gateway to America. When I was really struck by

(28:20):
Trump talking about his dad, Fred, who had told him
when he was young, something to the effect that some
when you walk into a restaurant and you see the
dirty door, don't go in, because if the front door
is dirty, the kitchen's dirty too. And Trump responded to
something like, the same thing is true with the Capitol.
If our capital is dirty, then our whole country is dirty,

(28:40):
and they don't respect us. It's a very strong reflection
of our country. That's probably the deepest tragedy of DC.
It really does reflect the nation. It reflects class dynamics,
It reflects our inability because of these stupid poverty programs,
because of our social welfare system, because of our abdication

(29:03):
of our compassion to the government. It reflects our inability
to end cycles of poverty and crime. Trump's critics are
correct that Washington is lovely in like many cities, has
improved since a you know, kind of a high point
in the nineties. In the early odds and COVID did

(29:27):
ravage the city to the point where downtown streets sometimes
resembled these surreal scenes from some sort of dystopian future.
Now there are more storefronts, and there are still too
many empty storefronts. Fentanyl affects DC just like it does

(29:48):
any other homeless community in any homeless community, any other
homeless encampment, any other community, and heinous violence still visits
corners of the city, just like it does every other
city in the country. I think, now I've been back
once or twice, it does feel better than it did

(30:11):
amid the riots and lockdowns of say twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
But is that really something to be proud of.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
The population is growing again. The police union accuses the
leadership of manipulating data. But perhaps most important, and this
gets to the heart of a lot of our problems,
not just DC, The school system in DC is completely crumbling.

(30:45):
The Washington Post, of all places, did an investigation.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Just this last summer.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
The number of students in the public school system who
missed at least two weeks of class in a year
increased one hundred and ten percent over the past decade.
More than eighteen thousand reports of truancy went uninvestigated in
the last three full school years. So what are they doing.
They're roaming the streets. They're bored. There's nobody at home,

(31:15):
there's nobody supervising them. They're not in school, They're not learning.
The cycle of poverty becomes entrenched. The local media in
DC reported that the number of juveniles arrested in DC
has gone up every single year since twenty twenty. More
than two thousand arrested in twenty twenty three and twenty

(31:36):
twenty four. The NBC affiliate in DC quote juveniles also
accounted for more than half fifty one point eight percent
of all robbery arrests in twenty twenty four. About sixty
percent of all car jacking arrests to date this year
are juveniles, and nearly two hundred juveniles arrested in twenty

(31:58):
twenty four. Violent had previous violent crime arrests, completely out
of control, completely disintegrating before our very eyes, and DC,
in my opinion, is a reflection of the rest of
the country, including Colorado, including many states where the urban

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areas are becoming truly dystopian areas.