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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. On Monday, President Trump held a
press conference. Now let's go over what happened on Monday.
Put this into perspective. He announced that they're considering reclassifying
marijuana from a Schedule one, which is the most dangerous

(00:20):
and addictive drugs, to Schedule three, which is I mean
some steroids are three. Three is still a schedule. It's
still a restriction, but it's not treating marijuana as if
it's the most dangerous drug in America. It should be
declassified my opinion. But that's where we are. But this
is progress. This is progress. On that day, he also

(00:43):
announced that he was declaring war effectively on the cartels,
and the Mexican president immediately said, you're not coming into
our country because the Mexican president is probably being paid
off by the cartels. I'd be willing to better. He
also talked about the meeting with Putin, and the left

(01:07):
began jumping up and down trying to sabotage that meeting
because I did not want that to be successful. I'm
going to leave those other things inside for a second,
and I want to go to that press conference where
he announced a federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington,
d C. Now, if you listen to our show on

(01:27):
Monday evening, you heard me play some of this audio.
But what I wanted to do, because I think the
press conference was very important, is I wanted to post
this now and go over what he said anew. So
if you didn't hear me talking about this, this will
be the first time you have. If you did hear

(01:48):
me talking about it, you're going to hear some of
the press conference that you did not hear because we
had too much to fit within the constraints of the show.
As you may have noticed, this is the Sunday Podcast,
and being the Sunday Podcast, we get to go long form.
We can go as long as we want on a segment.
I don't have to stop on an artificial time constraint.

(02:11):
So let's start with the press conference where he announced
a federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington, D C.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
And we're here for a very serious purpose, very serious purpose.
Something's out of control, but we're going to put it
in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
And worse.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
This is Liberation Day in DC, and we're going.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
To take our capital back.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me
as the President of the United States. I'm 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

(03:09):
good people, but they're tough, and they know what's happening,
and they've done it before.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
The President announced as a course of action that he
will deploy the National Guard to help restore order in
the nation's capital. Now notice what Trump does here. He
doesn't just point to there are problems in the country.
He always has an action item. That's a big difference
in most politicians.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
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.
And you people are victims of it too. You know
your reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend
to be on the liberal side, but you don't want
to get You don't want to.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Get mugged and raped and shot and killed.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
And you all know people and friends of yours that happened,
and so you can be any anything you want, but
you want to have safety in the streets. You want
to be able to leave your apartment or your house
where you live and feel safe and go into a
store to buy a newspaper or buy something.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
And you don't have that now.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that
of Bogata, Columbia, Mexico City, some of the places that
you hear about as being the worst places.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
On earth much higher. This is much higher.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
The number of carthfs has doubled over the past five years,
and the number of car jakins has more than tripled.
Murders in twenty twenty three reached the highest rate probably ever.
They say twenty five years, but they don't know what
that means because it just goes back twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Can't be worse.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
And we're not going to let it happen anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
We're not going to take it, just like we did
on our southern border. Nobody comes to our southern border,
and with three months in a row, we had zero.
I don't know if that's right, but the people that
do the work, it's a very liberal group of people, actually,
and they actually said zero. For the last three months,
nobody thought a thing like that was possible.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
President Trump said that every American has a right to
petition their government. That means to come before our United
States Congress in peace and safety. This is our nation's capital.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
After all, every American is a constitutional right to be
able to access and petition their government in safety, and
countless federal officials and employees likewise have the right to
carry out their jobs in peace without being shot. As
you know, I lost a very good person a while ago,
was shot waiting for his wife. He was in the car.

(05:53):
They robbed this car. They shot him.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
They killed him like there was nothing to it. She
was walking to the car. She was a horror show.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
This issue directly impacts the functioning of the federal government
and is a threat to America.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Really, it's a threat to our country.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
The President made the point that this will not stop
with the streets of Washington, d C. We're going to
street clean up the streets of our major cities, the
San Francisco's, the LA's, the Seattles to Houston's, DC, Atlanta, Philly, Detroit,
New York. I love this.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
We have other cities also that are bad, very bad.
You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look
at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other
cities that are very bad. New York has a problem.
And then you have, of course Baltimore and Oakland.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
We don't even mention that anymore. They're they're so far gone.
We're not going to let it happen.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
We're not going to lose our cities over this, and
this will go further. We're starting very strongly with DC
and we're going to clean it up real quick, very quickly.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
As they say, President Trump is very smart with me
with staging events, creating moments. He took the time to
read some of the higher profile crimes over the past
few years. Because this is what makes it it matter
to people, you know, this is why when Paris Hilton
carries at Chihuahua. Chihuahua has become the most popular a

(07:19):
drug dog in the country. You understand that a high
profile situation makes people pay attention to it.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Days ago, former member of the Doze staff was savagely
beaten by a band of roving thugs after defending a
young woman from an attempted carjacking. He was left dripping
in blood. He thought he was dead, with a broken
nose and concussion.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Can't believe that he's alive. He can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
In June, a twenty one year old congressional intern was
tragically killed after being hit by a stray bullet and
a drive by shooting. A former Trump administration official named
Mike Gill, fantastic person was murdered last year in cold
blood in a carjack in blocks away from.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
The White House.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
We all knew him, great person, waiting for his wife
as she was.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Walking to the car.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
A Democrat congressman was also carjacked at gunpoint not far
from the Capitol.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
And in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
And aid to Senatorround Paul was stabbed in the chest
and head by a demented lunatic as he walked down
the street, just absolutely for no reason, horrifically. Last July
fourth weekend a three year old girl was shot in
the head and killed while sitting in a car near

(08:42):
the Capitol. It's becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I don't think we played this audio during the week,
but this was important. The President talking about getting rid
of the slums where the criminals live. Now, this of
course occasions people saying, oh, he doesn't like black people's
going to kick black people out of No, that's not
what he's talking about. There are vacant homes and hotspots

(09:11):
that are basically the headquarters of hedonism and crime, and
he's saying, we're not going to allow the criminal element
to gather together and coordinate. We're just not going to
let that happen.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
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. He'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're
getting rid of the slums where they live. Caravans of
mass youth rampage through city streets set all times of
the day. There are ATVs motorbikes, they travel pretty well.

(09:50):
Entire neighborhoods are now under emergency curfews.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Just this past.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Weekend, gunfire through, went through and you saw that the
Navy yard.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I saw it this morning. They saw that.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
They fought back against See they fight back until you
knock the hell out of them because it's the only
language they understand. But they fought back against law enforcement
last night.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
And they're not going to be fighting back long.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Because I've instructed them and told them, whatever happens. You know,
they love to spit in the face of the police.
As the police are standing up there in uniform.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
They're standing and they're screaming at him an.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Inch away from their face, and then they start spitting
in their face, and I said, you tell them you
spit and we hit.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
President Trump said the public safety threat is caused by
the failure of the local governments. He's right, it's exactly right,
and that he will end the no cash bail, which
means when someone gets arrested and they go, oh, we'll
just let you out and trust that you'll come back
in three months. No, we always had a mail system.

(11:04):
You have to put something up as collateral to say
you will be back, and we're going to make you do.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
This dire public safety crisis stem is directly from the
abject failures of the city's local leadership, the radical left
City Council.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Adopted no cash bail.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
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. That's what started it
in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started it. Bad leadership
started it. But that was the one thing that's central.
No cash bail. Somebody murders somebody and they're out or

(11:45):
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 Todd and everybody. We're going
to change the statue. And I'm going to have to
get the Republicans of oh because the Democrats are weak
on crime, totally weak on crime.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
They don't know why they want.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
To stop because they get mugged too. But we're going
to change no cash bill. We're going to change the
statute and get rid of some of the other things,
and we'll count on the Republicans in Congress and send
it to vote.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
We have the majority, so we'll vote. We don't have a.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Big majority, but We've gotten everything, including the great, big,
beautiful bill. Got that done, and that's one of the
greatest things that's ever happened to people in this country.
They're starting to figure it out. How good it is.
Biggest tax cut in.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
History, so many things. But we'll be able to get
that done.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
So Todd, if you and Pam can draw up things,
working with.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
The people, we will, I'll get it passed.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
We'll get it passed with the Republicans probably won't think
of this, probably won't get one Democrat vote because they
have no idea what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
President Trump went on to say that in twenty twenty two,
nearly seventy percent of the criminals in Washington, d c.
Went unprosecuted. Then the President made a very simple statement.
You got to have rules and regulations, rule of order,
rule of law in order to establish order, and the
right people to implement them. This is not hard. It

(13:15):
can be done if you have the mindset that you want.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
What you need is rules and regulations, and you need
the right people to implement them. And we have the
right people here that I can tell you. Look at
the border. Biden said, there's nothing you can do. Kamala
as the borders are. She never called one of the
border patrol agents who are great. Isis great, never spoke
to anybody, never went there, but she was the borders are.

(13:40):
And everybody said it was impossible to fix. I fixed
it in three months. No, really, I fixed it the
first week, but really fixed it over the last couple
of months.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
And I mean literally to a point where as I.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Said, zero illegals entering our country in the last pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
And then the President made a statement. I thought it
was very important. It was revealing for him where he
said it's embarrassing that he has to stand up at
the podium and say these things that he has to
talk about fixing his nation's capital. It's embarrassing when he's
going into meetings with world leaders. He shouldn't have to
do this.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Today, we're formally declaring a public safety emergency. This is
an emergency. This is a tragic emergency. And it's embarrassing
for me to be up here.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
You know, I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
See Putin, I'm going to Russia on Friday. I don't
like being up here talking about how unsafe and how
dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti
all over the walls.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
It's another part of it.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
By the way, because we're talking about safety, we're also
talking about beautification. We're the most beautiful, potentially capital in
the world.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
We always had. But people come from.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Iowa, they come from Indiana, they come and then they
get mugged.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Not going to happen.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Keep coming because within by the time you get your
trip set, it's going to be safe again, and it's going.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
To be cleaned very quickly.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
We're going to replace the medians that are falling down
all over the roads.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
We're going to replace the potholes.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
We're going to put a nice new code of asphalt
over the top. No, we don't have to rip the
road out and spend seven years building a new road
because they cut everything because some designers said, well we
need a quarter of an inch more turn for safety reasons.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
We're going to do it right. We're going to get
it done quickly.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
So today we're declaring public safety emergency in the District
of Columbia.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
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