Judge Jeanine Pirro On THe Brett Winterble Show

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We're joined by Judge Jeanine Pirro in a exclusive interview from Washington, D.C. to talk about the alarming rise in violent crime and the urgent need for real accountability in the justice system. In a passionate and sobering conversation, Judge Jeanine details the failures of local leadership in cities like D.C., where soft-on-crime policies and judicial leniency have allowed violent offenders to walk free. She highlights shocking statistics, including unsolved murders of Black teens, and calls out the hypocrisy of political leaders who claim to care about safety while resisting solutions that work.

She credits former President Donald Trump for taking direct action to restore order and protect vulnerable communities—something she says no one else has done. Drawing from decades of experience in law enforcement, Judge Jeanine warns that pulling back on enforcement only leads to regression. Her message is clear: without decisive leadership and legal reform, public safety will continue to deteriorate across American cities.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Dow's talk eleven ten out of nine to three WBT.
All right, So yesterday I had a chance to catch
up with, of all people, Judge Janine, who was at
the radio row that we did at the White House yesterday,
and I had a chance to get some time with
her to talk about what it is she's trying to
do in Washington, d C. What it is the President
is trying to do in Washington, DC. And the conversation

(00:40):
went like this, cut nine. We've been following very closely
all the stuff that you've been doing, especially to try
to make the city safer here in Washington, DC. Can
you talk a little bit about the passion you have
for these people who are underrepresented typically and how they
have to deal with this and incredible nonsense murders, rapes, killings,

(01:04):
things like that, and the President and you are the
two folks who are pushing hardest for this to get
to get resolved.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Talk about you know, I appreciate the question, I really do,
And it's a very different question from what I normally get. Yeah,
our heart breaks for the crime that is being committed
in minority communities, for the crime that is being committed
against even in DC black teens in twenty twenty four,
twenty nine of them shot and killed with a gun,

(01:35):
and only more than seventy percent of the cases have
not been solved. Seventy percent of those murderers are still
running around with a gun, all right, And then in
twenty twenty five, so far they've been nineteen. It was twenty,
it was twenty six last year, and this year there's
nineteen again, twenty nine percent of the cases are solved.
The President is making it clear that he's not going

(01:57):
to tolerate crime, you know, in the minority community. So
while you know, these people on the left can say
black lives matter, the only one who's actually acting on
the fact that black lives matter is President Trump. And
what we're trying to do is make sure that that
community is protected. And for those people who are complaining
about the surge and saying, oh, they're only sending them

(02:18):
into the wealthy areas, that's nonsense, right. That's why crime
is down now. The criminals know we're out there. One
thousand and seven arrests have been made, one hundred and
eleven guns have been seased, and what they know is that,
you know, we're out there watching for them. And so
they are kind of at the back end. For twelve

(02:39):
days there hasn't been a homicide. I think about that.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
We're up to one hundred and one.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Homicides through August eleventh or twelve, and now we haven't
had any because they know we're there.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
You know, at a different time, in a different place,
I lived in the Bronx, I lived in Morris Park
in the Bronx, and I remember the day that Juliani
was inaugurated, how he came in strong to defend people,
to do all of the stuff that needed to be done.
Did you have the same sort of power when you
were in New York? Did you have a stronger ability

(03:11):
to put people behind bars versus d C?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
No question. I mean coming to d C is it's
a shot between the DC Council and the laws that
they've passed. You know the judges, and you know many
of them are almost unaccustomed to holding people putting them
in jail. Last week, two weeks ago, I had a
case where a nineteen year old gets on a bus,

(03:34):
takes an illegal gunshore somebody. He doesn't die, and the
judge gave a probation. We convicted him of assault with
a deadly weapon went right through the chest of the victim.
Park was a family on that bus. And in the
end the judge is in probation and says, go to college.
That's nonsense, is okay? That would not happen to the jogion.
For all the things they say about New York, sure

(03:55):
we were a lot better off. Cash list veil is absurd.
It's only the president who's saying, you know what, we're
getting rid of this nonsense. And but for President Donald Trump,
this city would continue to go down. And in twenty
i think it was twenty four, we have the fourth
highest homicide rate in the country. It's ridiculous. You know,

(04:16):
if we were a state here, we'd be the number
one murder state.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
What was so shocking for me yesterday was to hear
from the governor of Maryland saying, take your mouth, take
our mouth out of your or take our take our
city out of your mouth. Mister President. That is an
unbelievably disgraceful comment to make. He is trying to save
people around the country, and these governors they think it's

(04:41):
a game. Lowesome West call. You know, all these folks
are just they're out of their minds.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know it's more than just a game. These governors
are so so addicted to power that they have to
do and say anything they can to try to take
power away from the president and say, look, he's doing
these terrible things. But if you were a citizen who
can now go to dinner and not worry about it
and walk the streets, if you're a family member who says,

(05:08):
you know, a month ago, you know, my son was
an intern here and got shot at ten thirty at
night in a decent area because he wanted to go
to McDonald's for a hamburger. Okay, I mean, don't buy
into that leftist nonsense. And what we've got to do
is change the laws of this left leaning DC council.
I've written many OUTFEDS on this stuff, and change the

(05:30):
law and bring in a prosecutor like myself. He's going
to push the envelope the tip of the spear. You know,
it's no more live and let live in DC. What
life lesson has been most important to me here and
how has it impacted what I'm doing. The life lesson
that I've learned is you can never ever pulled back

(05:52):
on the throttle. Because we think that once we've solved
an issue, we're good, but we're not good because we'll
fall back into, you know, the negative territory if we
don't continue to push the throttle. And that's what I
learned at this stage of my career. Issues that I
thought were resolved long ago are still at the forefront now.

(06:13):
It's just different people learning to deal with it for
the first time. And that's where my institutional knowledge and
my years thirty years two years in law enforcement benefits me,
you know, because I've solved this before and I can't
believe World Square one having to solve it again. You
just assume everybody learned from what you did. They didn't.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Great stuff. We really appreciate you being with us here today.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I love talking to you because my sister lives in
North Carolina, in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It was a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Thank you so much for that question.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
I was Judge Janine