August 20, 2025 • 42 mins
📰 1. Foreign Policy: Ukraine-Russia Peace Negotiations
- Main Theme: The podcast claims that President Donald Trump has made significant progress toward ending the war in Ukraine.
- Key Events Discussed:
- Trump’s meetings with Vladimir Putin in Alaska and Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington.
- European leaders, including those from Finland and the UK, expressing optimism about peace talks.
- Discussion of NATO-style security guarantees for Ukraine, with emphasis on Europe taking the lead rather than the U.S.
- Trump’s stance against Ukraine joining NATO and his push for energy agreements that favor U.S. exports over Russian oil and gas.
- Tone: Strongly supportive of Trump’s diplomatic efforts, critical of media portrayal and Democratic opposition.
🚓 2. Domestic Policy: Crime Reduction in Washington, D.C.
- Main Theme: The podcast praises Trump’s decision to federalize the D.C. police force, claiming it led to a sharp drop in crime.
- Key Points:
- Cited statistics from the DC Police Union showing reductions in robbery, carjacking, and violent crime.
- Criticism of the DC Council and Democratic leadership for allegedly enabling crime through legislation.
- Mention of a Justice Department investigation into possible manipulation of crime data by DC police.
- Anecdotes about rising crime in DC and praise for Trump’s intervention.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
with you, so nice to have you with us, and
Senator We've got two big stories that we're gonna be
talking about. One of them is this incredible movement we've
seen with Russia and also with Ukraine. This is significant movement.
The media is fighting against us, saying no to it.
Now look what we're seeing deals getting done.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, Listen, I'm cautiously optimistic. Let's not get ahead of
ourselves and celebrate, but we are making progress towards peace.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We had in the last several days, President Trump met
with Putin in Alaska, had a positive meeting, and then
on Monday he had a meeting with President Zelenski, multiple
European heads of state in Washington in the White House,
again another positive meeting. We are making real significant steps
towards peace. We're gonna break it down. We're gonna tell
you where things stand right now. We're gonna tell you
(00:52):
where each of the players are, and we're gonna tell
you what's.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Likely to happen next.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We're also gonna talk on today's podcast about DC and
when President Trump federalized the police department in DC pursuant
to his authority under the Constitution, his authority under the
DC Home Rule Statute. The Democrats freaked out, the media
freaked out. The worst thing they could imagine was having
a Republican president step in and actually stop violent crime.
(01:18):
Well that has happened. The numbers are stunning. Violent crime
has plummeted. We're going to break down the results of that.
And the attendant freak out from the Democrats. This is
yet another week of real, meaningful successes for the Trump
presidency and its differences that are making a difference for
Americans across the country.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, it's certainly going to be very interesting to see
what happens with all these others.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
As you mentioned, all these other cities.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And if this is so successful, how do you then
say we don't want help to save lives in our cities.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
We're going to break all that down, I promise you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
The Democrats will say that they don't want help in
New York, they don't want help in Chicago, they don't
want help in la they don't want help in any
city in America run by a Democrat mayor, because they
rather crime be high than actually allow the police to
arrest the violent criminals. That's spoiler alert, but we're going
to get to that in the second story today.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 2 (03:59):
I want to all right, before we do, I gotta
tell you. You mentioned you're on the road, Yes, so
where are you? You could see Bennis in front of
the most drab uh drapes in a hotel. I'm actually
wondering if you're like in the red Light district, if
this is something that you pay like by the minute
you put a quarter in the bed. So where are
(04:20):
you and and and and why are the drapes so
drab behind you?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So it's a very bougie room. I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't book it. I think it's called the Conrad.
It's very nice. But the drapes they have, otherwise you'd
be seeing the skyline behind me. I hit the clothes
button beforehand, and they're like these tan drapes. But they
look very as you mentioned. Yes, I agree with you.
It does look like I'm in a motel six outdoor
entry hotel right now.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So that's I'm in now?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So in what in web site Nashville? All right? All right,
so pull the drapes behind.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Let's see the Skytish Vegas.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All right, let's see it on, let's see it. They'll
open there we go, hold on, they're automatic drapes. I
love that you're making me do this. Can you see
the skyline? You guys? You see it's real nice back there?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
All right, that's that's uh, you know it did. There's
not just actually a crack dealer your window.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Look look look automatic drapes behind me. Can you see
the moving automatically? All right?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
From now on, we'll have to address you aie Ben.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm just glad you dressed up for me. You know
I was. I'm in my travel gear right now.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You know, I'm just glad you're wearing travels.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's that's, that's very true. So let's talk about this.
That the implosion of the media over what we just witnessed.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
So let's just go back a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
They said, like uniformly the media that a guy by
the name of Vladimir Putin played Donald Trump, that this
was a disaster, the meeting in Alaska, it was gonna
go nowhere. They were saying that there was no movement,
no real deal done. You fast forward days the Lensky
shows up, Your and leaders show up, and they're all
(06:02):
sitting there going, let's get this done. Let's move forward.
Zielenski even wore a suit. Some said it looked like
a ten year old. After they get their first suit
at j C. Pennies. The way he was dressed up.
It is kind of funny if you saw that meme
going around, because it is exactly what I looked like
when I was smiling when I wore my first suit
when I was like ten years old.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
It was one of the best memes I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But he show up for his suit instead that you know,
I know, I know, except for instead of the military.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You know, Garby normally wears.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And he clearly was there in a very different tone
than he was the first meeting when he was very
combative with Donald Trump. And now we have a structure
that is being laid out publicly.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So look, we had this weekend, the meeting in Alaska
between President Trump and and Putin, and you're right, the
media freaked out. We did a deep dive on that
meeting in Monday's podcast. If you didn't listen to Monday's podcast,
you got to go back and listen to it. But
the disconnect between what actually happened between President Trump in
Putin and what the media reported is night and day.
(07:04):
Because they are rooting for the president to fail. They
are rooting for America to fail, and the Democrats are
rooting for the president to fail in America to fail,
and I have to say we're making real and material progress.
I believe the war in Ukraine will be over by
the end of the year. I think we are on
a path to do that. Understand, Donald Trump campaigned on
(07:25):
ending this war. The American people elected him. That was
part of the mandate.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think the American people are done with a blank
check with sending billions of dollars to Ukraine with no limit,
just on and on for NonStop war. The American people
are ready for this to be over. Now, what I've
advised the President, what I've encouraged the President, is it
needs to end. It's going to end in a negotiated settlement,
(07:50):
but it needs to end in a way that is
a clear and discernible loss for Putin.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Loss for Russia because Russia is not our friend. They
are our enemy, and we want weaker and not stronger. Now,
the media tried to say the meeting with Putin was
a disaster. The world was on fire, cats and dogs
living together, signs of the end, time to armageddon. And
then we had the meeting, yeah, in the White House,
with Zelenski and with the European heads of state, and
(08:18):
even with the dishonest corporate media, they couldn't spend this.
I want you to listen to the finished president his
assessment of what has happened in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Give a listen. And by the way, Alex, I'd like
you to say a couple of words too. You're a young,
powerful man.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Before I finish up, I want you to say a
couple of words. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I'll take the notion of youth back to my wife
and try to convince her. Thank you very much, mister President.
I think in the past two weeks we've probably had
more progress in ending this war than we have in
the past three and a half years. And I think
the fact that we're around this table today is very
much symbolic in the sense that it's team Europe and
(09:02):
team United States helping Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I mean, wow, well, Ben, that's exactly what you and
I said on Monday's pod, which is that we made
more progress towards peace in Ukraine in the last couple
of weeks than we have in three and a half years.
But when you and I were saying it, the media
dismisses it. You've now got the President of Finland saying that,
and by the way, not just Finland. I want you
to listen now to Keer Starmer from the United Kingdom,
(09:26):
give a listen.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Thinks it is such an important meeting as a group.
I think we've had a discussion on the phone a
number of times, was the President, but be able now
to be around the table to take it forward, and
I really feel that we can, I think, with the
right approach this afternoon, make real progress, particularly on the
security guarantees, and your indication of security guarantees of some
(09:48):
sort of Article five style guarantees fits with what we've
been doing with the Coalition of the Willing, which we
started some months ago, bringing countries together and showing that
we were prepared to step up to the plate when
it came security. With you coming alongside the US, alongside
what we've already developed, I think we could take a
really important step forward today. A historic step actually could
(10:11):
come out of this meeting in terms of security for
Ukraine and security in Europe. I also feel that we
can make real progress towards a just and lasting outcome.
Obviously that has to involve Ukraine and a trilateral meeting
seems the sensible next step. So thank you for being
(10:31):
prepared to take that forward, because I think if we
can ensure that that is the progress out of this meeting,
both security guarantees and some sort of progress on trilateral
meeting of some sort to bring some of the difficult
issues to a head, then I think today we'll be
seen as a very important day in recent years in
(10:54):
relation to a conflict which has gone on for three
and a bit years, and so nobody's able to bring
it to this point.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So I thank you for that no one's been able
to bring it to this point.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I think that is a very big accolade from the
leaders at the table. He also and I want to
get your explanation for people say understand this, because if
you don't understand it, it's complicated. Trump has pledged US
quote support for NATO style security guarantees. You heard it
mentioned there in that quote for Ukraine, while emphasizing that
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Europe would serve quote as the first line of defense.
NATO officials also urge that this would be vitally important
to getting a deal done and even a ceasefire. So
explain NATO style security guarantees. What does that mean? For
people that don't understand.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
That, well, listen.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
One of the things that we covered in Monday's pod
is that Putin in the meeting in Alaska, he conceded
explicitly that there needed to be some clear security guarantees
for Ukraine that when this war comes to an end,
which I believe will happen this year, that Ukraine has
some confidence that they're not going to wake up in January, February,
and March and see Russian tanks once again crossing their borders.
(12:08):
I think the negotiated settlement will include some monokoo security guarantees. Now,
what it will not include is Ukraine joining NATO. And
I oppose Ukraine joining NATO. I've been vocal for a
long time Ukraine should not join NATO. Why is that
because under NATO, under Article five of NATO, the member
States of NATO take on an obligation to defend any
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one of the members if they are invaded. And I
am not interested in a treaty obligation to put US
troops in harms way. I don't believe President Trump is
going to enter into any agreement that puts US troops
in harms way. And so the emphasis and you put
it exactly right, Ben, is that security guarantees should put
Europe on the front line. If the Brits, if the French,
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if the Germans to want to commit, if Russia violates
the borders, they'll come in and defend Ukraine. Knock yourself out.
You guys believe in it. That's fine. We will facilitate
the resolution. But I do not think there is any
will to war on the part of the United States
to put US troops on the ground. And it's not
(13:14):
just me saying this. So I want you to listen
to Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, when she
was asked about this.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Here give a listen to what Caroline.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Had to say.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
The President has definitively stated US boots will not be
on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help
in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security
guarantees to our European allies. The President understands security guarantees
are crucially important to ensure a lasting piece, and he
has directed his National Security team to coordinate with our
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friends in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and
discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
As well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You listen to Caroline Levitt there, and there's a theme
that we continue to get from the Trump foreign policy doctrine.
It cannot always be America everything. He is holding other
countries accountable, saying you need to step up, Yes you
need to lead, Yes you need to do this. President
clarified three times, and that was my counting. It may
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even be more, but I heard him three times clearly
say he had continued and saying it for a long time,
just like you mentioned opposition to Ukrainian NATO membership and
noted even that there may have to be territorial concessions
for a deal to get done. So again he's saying
to Europe and all these other leaders, you guys need
to step up. America is not going to fund all this.
(14:34):
We're not going to get in these wars. We're not
gonna do everything on the backs of American taxpayers. I
think that's very popular in this country right now.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And listen, the contrast between this meeting and the last
meeting with President Zelensky in the Oval Office is night
and day. The last meeting, and we covered that extensively
on this podcast. The last meeting with Zelensky was a disaster.
It was a train wreck. It will go down in
history as the worst as the least successful Oval Office
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meeting in history. Why because President Zelensky came in looking
to pick a fight with President Trump. He came in
arrogant and belligerent and demanding. He was like a petulant child.
You need to defend me, You owe it to me.
And I think Zelensky had spent too much time with
the New York Times and with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
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Schumer and believe their talking points. And I got to
tell you, look in this no US president would allow
a foreign leader to come into the Oval Office and
address him the way Zelensky did the last time, and
especially not Donald Trump. So it went very badly. This
time was night and day. As you noted, he put
on a suit, he demonstrated some respect. And listen, I
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understand why Zelenski's position has been they don't want to
give up one inch of their territory. If if you
were the president of Ukraine, you'd probably say the same thing. Man,
I understand why he's said saying that, But that is
not America's national security interest. What is our national security
interest is that Russia and Putin not gets significantly stronger
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because they're an enemy to America. And I'll tell you
I want to throw it down a marker that I
think is really important in terms of the negotiated settlement
that occurs here. I think energy is front and center.
We've talked a lot on this podcast about how Joe
Biden caused the war in Ukraine, that his weakness, the
disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan emboldened Putin and all of our enemies,
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and also how Biden's waiving the sanctions on Nordstream two
caused this war. I authored those sanctions, I wrote that legislation.
Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and as Putin
said in Alaska just a couple of days ago, if
Trump had still been in the Oval Office, there would
be no war in Ukraine. Russia would not have invaded
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in this settlement. What I think is very important, I
would like to see Ukraine and the rest of Europe
sign an agreement to buy their energy, buy their oil
and gas from the United States. And let's be clear
from Texas. Texas, we have the resources. That's good for America,
but they should not return to buying oil and gas
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from Russia. When I meet with European heads of state
and foreign ministers, this is the number one question I
asked them. When this war is over, are you going
to go back to buying Russian oil and gas? Are
you going to go back to sending billions of dollars
to fuel the Russian war machine? Or are you going
to use this as an opportunity to pivot towards a
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friend and ally.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And I think.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Leaving resolving this war with a major energy agreement for
Ukraine and Europe to buy their energy from America. I
think that is a powerful America first outcome, and it's
also an outcome where Putin will not have scored a
major victory. If that is the resolution, I hope very
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much that's the direction the President takes this.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
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let's go down this path because this is a very
interesting point and I want to ask you because I
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look at Russia right now. Russia's economy is teetering. A
lot of people don't realize this. They really cannot afford
for this war to go on much longer. Part of
the reason why I'm guessing you're saying you believe this
timeline that we're going to end this war by the
end of this year, is the financial impact this is
having on Russia. And Vladimir Putin does not want to
get to the point where there's a revolt in his
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country because they're so gone. Economically, there's also he needs
to start selling oil because that is what gives life
to his you know, being in charge of this country.
It gives him his power, or it makes the people
kind of sit back down and and and just go
along to get along in essence, which is the way
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of life unfortunately under Vladimir Putin in Russia. But if
he doesn't get this done soon, he's in trouble economically.
You mentioned this agreement with the US these other countries.
How does that work. Does it say we're not buying
Russian oil and then Russia says, fine, we would just
keep lowering our price so eventually you'll bit it again.
Explain to me how that would work.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Look, I think you negotiate an agreement. Ukraine wants to
buy American oil and American natural gas, and this is
a little bit like predatory pricing in the antitrust context.
I think many European countries realize that Russia uses energy
for economic blackmail, that they offer low prices to get
Europe hooked. It's kind of like a drug dealer going
to a junior high saying here, try a free sample,
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just enjoy it, and they're trying to get you hooked.
And Russia and Putin in particular, has a long history
then of jacking up prices when he wants to extort
Europe or cutting off energy supplies when he wants to
get concessions from them. Look, if you're in Europe and
it's the dead of winner and you're relying on gas
to heat your houses and Russia can shut you off,
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that gives them enormous leverage. And Putin is demonstrated he
will use that leverage to engage in economic blackmail. So
it's not in Europe's interest to be dependent on Russia
for energy now. Right now, Russia is selling the bulk
of their oil and gas to China and to India.
And this is one of the lever points President Trump
has is that he is threatened or in post sanctions
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against both India and China if they continue buying Russian
oil and gas. And that's one of the things I
believe that's bringing Putin to the table is that if
President Trump cuts off his market in China and India,
Putin is in a world of hurt. And so that's
an incentive for Putin to come in and say, all right,
let's reach a resolution. And I think we're going to
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and it's going to be a resolution. Is Ukraine going
to get everything they want? No, but Russia's not going
to get everything they want either. And I'll point out,
you know, one really important point. I want to read
a tweet from Mark Penn. Now, Mark Penn is a
polster for the Clintons, for Bill Clinton, for Hillary Clinton.
He is a Democrat. Here's what Mark Penn tweeted out.
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I think it's really important. He said, quote from what
I can see, nearly a million people have died in
the Ukraine War, and Biden was unable to attend G
seven meetings without embarrassing the country. In contrast, Trump is
pulling off unprecedented diplomatic feats to advance serious negotiations. That
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has a reasonable chance of being successful, and the press
coverage of it has been ludicrous. If Obama had pulled
off these meetings, it would be hailed as a tour
de force rather than downplaying in naysaying every we see
in the press. He may or may not be successful,
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but it is an incredible effort that should be respected
and applauded, and for the people involved, a new hope
for designing a lasting piece with real enforcement, unlike previous
empty security guarantees. That is a big deal for Mark
Penn to say that, and listen, I retweeted him today,
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I said, bravo, bravo for saying that he's a Democrat.
I feel confident that Mark Penn is not a fan
of Donald Trump, but he is acknowledging reality. And I
don't know of an elected Democrat who is. I don't
know of a Democrat governor. I don't know of a
Democrat senator who is saying this and the media. I
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don't want us to get over confident. You know, Reagan
famously said about the Soviet Union trust but verify. This
could go off the rails a thousand different ways. But
I believe President Trump is doing everything humanly possible to
resolve this at achieved piece, and that is unequivocally good.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Final two questions on this, and it deals with the
next steps for people that don't know what we're looking
at is by the way, Donald Trump apparently walked out
these meetings by himself, went to the Oval by himself,
made a phone called Vladimir Putin and said, let's let's
get a meeting. Apparently meeting number one would be between
him and Zelensky they're working on that, and then there
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would be a trilateral meeting where he would in essence
be the negotiator in the room between Zelenski and Putin.
I found that very interesting that he said, you guys
meet first, I'll meet the next meeting, and said the
other way around. What did you think about that strategy
and why do you think he decided to do it
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that way?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Look, I think he believes he's got the leverage to
try to push through a deal. And there's no doubt
he's got enormous leverage over Ukraine because the United States
has been the major funder of this war, and he's
got enormous leverage over Russia because the ability to impose
sanctions to shut down their ability to sell oil and
gas anywhere in the world that is powerful. And those
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two together and listen, I just think force a personality.
I got to say, some of my favorite things watching
the last couple of days have been the memes and
and and and everything that has come out. When when
Trump and Putin were walking together and the b twos
fly over and you see Putin do a double take
as he like, yeah, literally buzzes Putin with American military might.
(26:36):
I think Trump is trying to use every tool he
has to resolve this. You know, it was striking Bill
Maher this week. He went on TV and to be clear,
Bill Maher is is no friend of Donald Trump. But
Bill Maher said, I'll tell you this, Trump wants peace,
he hates war. That is a really positive thing. And
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and Hillary Clinton may well regret her tongue in cheek
comment that she would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace
Prize if he resolved this. Now she put wiggle words
in there. So no matter what happened, she's gonna claim no, no, no,
he didn't resolve it to my satisfaction. But she's gonna
see that quote played back at her one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You talk about the President having leverage, let's move to Washington,
d C. And everyone that said the President was like
being a dictator and a tyrant by sending in the
National Guard actually trying to fight crime. They said, this
was just him being a bully. He was obsessed with
the media. This is what tyrants and dictators do. He's
gonna roll the National Guard and militarize every city in
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America that he doesn't like. That was the narrative. Well
guess what they got it wrong again. DC Crime since
the announcement of the Federal control versus the seven day
prior to that, we have that data NOL Center. Please,
for everyone that's listening, go through every category of a
shock right. I say that sarcastically. More law enforcement on
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the street, law and order, what happens less crime?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, it turns out when you arrest criminals, you get
less crime. I know that's a shocking outcome. It's one
Democrats don't understand and the media doesn't understand. But everyone
whose head is not fully inserted up their rear end
gets that point. Here is a tweet from the DC
Police Union DC Crime since the announcement of Federal control
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versus the seven Days prior robbery down forty six percent,
carjacking down eighty three percent, car theft down twenty one percent,
violent crime down twenty two percent, property crime down six percent,
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and all all crimes down eight percent. That is in
one week, in seven days. And if you hear a
wailing in the distance, that is the collective wail of
pain and unhappiness of Democrats in the media. Because understood,
this is not hyperbole. They are rooting for the criminals.
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They do not want crime to go down, because if
crime goes down, it vindicates President Trump exercising his constitutional
authority to concerning d C and exercising his authority is
explicit statutory authority under the DC Home Rule Act. The
Democrats do not want that.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No, they don't.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And there's also another aspect of this story, and that
is we now have the Justice Department that's investigating whether Washington,
DC police manipulated their crime data. Remember I was shoot
I was on scene in a week and a half,
two weeks ago, and they're like, your stats are wrong.
Crime is way down. The President doesn't need to do this,
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everything's moving there direction. Well, it may have looked like
crime was down, but now the Justice Department's investigating whether
the DC police purposely willfully manipulate the crime data to
basically fake people out lie to the systems of DC.
And they said, no, no, everything's getting better from last year
when it was really, really, really bad.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Now it's not as bad.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And apparently they may manipulated the numbers, including a whistleblower
that they've settled with.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Look, I can tell you from someone who works in DC.
So most weeks I am in d C in the
Senate when the Senate's in session. And in the last
four years under Joe Biden, the violence in DC has
gotten much worse. We've seen Rand Paul had a staffer
who was stabbed on a public street at like four
in the afternoon, stabbed in the gut. There was a
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guy who served in the first Trump administration who was
shot in the head. It killed at about five pm,
sitting in his car on a street in d C.
This is not two in the morning in a rough neighborhood.
This is in a major metropolitan street.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
We we had, uh, you know, not long ago, we
had to Israelis murdered by a radical Prohamas pro Palestinian
leftist zealot from Chicago and and and DC. As someone
who works there, you know it used to be when
when I started in the Senate. You know I would,
as you know, I love movies. We've done a couple
(31:25):
of podcasts where we talk about movies. When I started
in the Senate, I used to sometimes if there was
a night that I was done, Let's say I was
done at eight or nine o'clock at night, there's a
movie theater about five blocks from my house. I used
to routinely walk up to the movie theater and just
go see a movie. I don't do that now. I mean, frankly,
at nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
At night, I know it's movie theater talking about Yeah,
no way you do that now.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
At nine o'clock at night. You don't walk five blocks
in d C. I'll tell you. I've got a guy
in my security detail in Washington who's a tough guy.
He's he's he's been in some some some pretty rough
combat situations, you bet him. And he was walking back
to the Capitol at ten PM and he had two guys,
(32:09):
two teenagers, jump him and try to rob him. Now,
now Mark's a pretty tough guy, so he picked picked
up one of them. And body slammed them into the
back of a car and the two of them ran off.
But the violence in DC has gotten really significantly worse.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And you know, it's been interesting the reporters that are
his chairman, what he said about it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, the reporters that are honest, who are interviewing d
C residents, many of whom most of whom are African American.
The residents are saying, thank god, we think this is great.
Lock these criminals up. Look, the DC residents don't like
living with the risk of dry by sittings. Henry Quayar,
who is a Democrat congressman, was carjacked again in the
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early evening. He was coming home with dinner to his apartment.
His apartment building, apparently five other congressman lived in. Carjacked
right out in the front of it. And here's what
Greg Pemberton, I want you to listen to Greg Pemberton,
who was the DC Police union chairman, what he said
about the security of DC under Democrats.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Give a listen.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
The criminal justice system here in the District of Columbia
is broken. Every aspect of it is broken, whether that's policing, prosecution, judges,
and trials, sentencing and supervision. All of it is broken,
and you can trace every aspect of it back to
a piece of legislation that was passed by the Council.
They have destroyed policing, they have destroyed prosecutions, they have
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destroyed the way that the courts are allowed to operate,
and they've destroyed our ability to sentence criminals to sentences
that are commensurate with the crimes they've committed. And so
the only way to fix this holistically is to go
back and look at all of this legislation that the
Council passed it back in twenty twenty when there was
all of this anti police rhetoric and work to undo that.
I know from my experiences the DC Council will never
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do that on their own. And so what we're hoping
over the course of the next thirty days is that
whether that's the White House, whether that's these federal law
enforcement agencies, whether that's Congress, that people get an insight
into exactly how the system got so broken, because the
only way to fix it is if we can get
rid of that legislation. And my main concern is that
thirty days are going to go by all of these
folks are going to go up about their merry way
(34:19):
and we're still going to be stuck with all this
bad law.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Like He's like, we know what's wrong, we know it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We know exactly what's wrong, and if they don't fix it,
we're going to be back here. Thank good as the
President stepped in here and the citizens. I go back
to the media narrative here center, the citizens overwhelmingly trust
Donald Trump to fight crime more than they trusted Joe Biden.
And the citizens in Washington, d C. Overwhelmingly or trusting
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the strategy of Donald Trump then their own city council
members and their mayor. And that is a threat I
think to all these other high crime cities Memphis, Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Detroit, New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
That'll still fish on.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
San Francisco, LA.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Because yeah, if this works, how do you then say
no when the President offers you help or national guard.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So understand, this is the same principle with securing the border.
So a year ago at the State of the Union address,
Joe Biden said he could not secure the border. He
needed new legislation from Congress in order to secure the border.
We had at the time the highest rate of illegal immigration.
In our nation's history, we had criminals and murderers, and
gang members and rapists and child molesters and terrorists streaming
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across the border, and he said he was helpless to
fix it. Donald Trump came in and the rate of
illegal border crossings dropped over ninety nine percent. As President
Trump said in the most recent State of the Union address,
it turns out we didn't need new legislation, We just
needed a new president. The same is true in DC.
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If we see violent crime numbers continue to go down
and stay down, that demonstrates we can solve crime in
other cities too. And the reason residents of your city
are being murdered is because the Democrat mayors and the
Democrat city councils care more about the radical leftists who
hate the police, who want to defund the police, who
(36:12):
want to abolish the police, than they care about your family
and your children. Look at spoke Volumes when China's president.
She came to visit San Francisco a few years ago,
and Gavin Newsoen came in and cleaned up San Francisco
and took out the homeless people, and took out the
drug addicts and the streets were sparkling, and I got
(36:32):
to say, even if you are a left wing Bolshevik
in San Francisco, a tiny voice in the back of
your head must have said, wait a second, if they
could clean up the streets today, why didn't they clean
up the streets last week? Why do my kids matter
less than the president of China? And so this is
(36:56):
an existential threat to Democrats who want to say, where
they are helpless, we can't stop crime. And by the way,
part of their message is the only way to stop
crime is to disarm law abiding citizens. That gun control
doesn't solve it, but locking up violent criminals does, and
spoiler alert, that is what works in stopping violent crime.
(37:17):
Then the Democrats have a massive challenge. And I want
you to listen to Caroline Levitt talking about some of
the results.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
We've seen in just one week in DC. Give a listen.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty
two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS
thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.
(37:47):
Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of
both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like
the one picked up last night will not feel allowed
on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrest night
included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole violation
for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault on
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federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more homeless
encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period. To date,
a total of forty eight homeless encampments have been cleared
in Washington, d C. By multi agency teams. MPD patrol
units are actively working with city officials to locate and
clear additional encampments and remove homeless residents off of Washington streets.
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And despite fake narratives from the media, again, a significant
number of the arrests have been in high crime areas
of DC. In fact, nearly half of all of the
non illegal alien related arrests have occurred in Wards seven
and eight, the two wards that have the highest number
of violent crime as well as homicides and assaults with
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dangerous weapons. Last year. So while Democrats continue to caudle
violent criminals, President Trump and thisstration are focused on putting
them behind bars and unapologetically standing up for the safety
of law abiding American citizens. And the White House will
continue to provide all of you with the results of
this operation in the days ahead.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
By the way, this goes back to the narrative when
this was announced the President was going to do this.
That night, I was doing Abby's Phillips show on CNN
and all of the panelists are losing their minds saying,
Donald Trump, this was going to do nothing. They said,
He's putting them on the National Mall where there's no crime.
He's a dictator. They're not going to put the law
(39:35):
enforce it where the real crime is. That's why this
is a waste of resources. This is just him showing
and flexing his muscles that he can do this because
the present and this is what a dictator does.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Yet you're the crime set there.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Where are they fighting crime where the criminals are?
Speaker 4 (39:51):
And I said it, then I'll say it again.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It's amazing how much the left and the media hates
Donald Trump so much. They don't even care if they're
able to save lives through this. They just hate the
fact that Donald Trump wants to fight crime. So whatever
he says he wants to do, we're going to fight
it and lie and slander him. And regardless of how
many people lose their lives in DC or any other
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city when this comes out.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, look, that is exactly right. And I will point
out those very high crime neighborhoods in DC are overwhelmingly
African American and the woke left wing Democrat mayor painted
the words black lives Matter on the street at a
giant mural. They've removed that now, But when it comes
to actually protecting black lives, understand that a very significant
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percentage of the murder victims from these violent criminals are
African Americans, and so Donald Trump and Republicans are stepping
in and saving black lives. And the position of Democrats
in the media is those black lives do not matter.
They'd rather they be victims of murder then actually have
law enforcement put violent criminals in jail. And ben when
(41:05):
I say that, that sounds unbelievably harsh, But I want
to ask you seriously, give me an alternative explanation. If
the explanation is not sure that the Democrats do not
give a damn about whether black lives matter and whether
they're saving African Americans from being victims of homicide, Then
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why are they so adamantly opposed to supporting law enforcement
putting violent criminals in jail.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
No, this is the Democratic Party now. They'd rather see
Donald Trump fail than actually save American lives.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Don't forget. We do the show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Also, this episode is up on YouTube, so if you
want to watch it we put up there on YouTube
as well, hit that subscribe or auto download button. We're
gonna keep giving you the stats out of DC because
I promise you the media is not going to do it.
We cover these stories, give you the facts. Please share
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and I will see you back here on Friday morning.
Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
with you, so nice to have you with us, and
Senator We've got two big stories that we're gonna be
talking about. One of them is this incredible movement we've
seen with Russia and also with Ukraine. This is significant movement.
The media is fighting against us, saying no to it.
Now look what we're seeing deals getting done.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, Listen, I'm cautiously optimistic. Let's not get ahead of
ourselves and celebrate, but we are making progress towards peace.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We had in the last several days, President Trump met
with Putin in Alaska, had a positive meeting, and then
on Monday he had a meeting with President Zelenski, multiple
European heads of state in Washington in the White House,
again another positive meeting. We are making real significant steps
towards peace. We're gonna break it down. We're gonna tell
you where things stand right now. We're gonna tell you
(00:52):
where each of the players are, and we're gonna tell
you what's.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Likely to happen next.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We're also gonna talk on today's podcast about DC and
when President Trump federalized the police department in DC pursuant
to his authority under the Constitution, his authority under the
DC Home Rule Statute. The Democrats freaked out, the media
freaked out. The worst thing they could imagine was having
a Republican president step in and actually stop violent crime.
(01:18):
Well that has happened. The numbers are stunning. Violent crime
has plummeted. We're going to break down the results of that.
And the attendant freak out from the Democrats. This is
yet another week of real, meaningful successes for the Trump
presidency and its differences that are making a difference for
Americans across the country.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, it's certainly going to be very interesting to see
what happens with all these others.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
As you mentioned, all these other cities.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And if this is so successful, how do you then
say we don't want help to save lives in our cities.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
We're going to break all that down, I promise you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
The Democrats will say that they don't want help in
New York, they don't want help in Chicago, they don't
want help in la they don't want help in any
city in America run by a Democrat mayor, because they
rather crime be high than actually allow the police to
arrest the violent criminals. That's spoiler alert, but we're going
to get to that in the second story today.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 2 (03:59):
I want to all right, before we do, I gotta
tell you. You mentioned you're on the road, Yes, so
where are you? You could see Bennis in front of
the most drab uh drapes in a hotel. I'm actually
wondering if you're like in the red Light district, if
this is something that you pay like by the minute
you put a quarter in the bed. So where are
(04:20):
you and and and and why are the drapes so
drab behind you?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So it's a very bougie room. I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't book it. I think it's called the Conrad.
It's very nice. But the drapes they have, otherwise you'd
be seeing the skyline behind me. I hit the clothes
button beforehand, and they're like these tan drapes. But they
look very as you mentioned. Yes, I agree with you.
It does look like I'm in a motel six outdoor
entry hotel right now.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So that's I'm in now?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So in what in web site Nashville? All right? All right,
so pull the drapes behind.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Let's see the Skytish Vegas.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All right, let's see it on, let's see it. They'll
open there we go, hold on, they're automatic drapes. I
love that you're making me do this. Can you see
the skyline? You guys? You see it's real nice back there?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
All right, that's that's uh, you know it did. There's
not just actually a crack dealer your window.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Look look look automatic drapes behind me. Can you see
the moving automatically? All right?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
From now on, we'll have to address you aie Ben.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm just glad you dressed up for me. You know
I was. I'm in my travel gear right now.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You know, I'm just glad you're wearing travels.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's that's, that's very true. So let's talk about this.
That the implosion of the media over what we just witnessed.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
So let's just go back a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
They said, like uniformly the media that a guy by
the name of Vladimir Putin played Donald Trump, that this
was a disaster, the meeting in Alaska, it was gonna
go nowhere. They were saying that there was no movement,
no real deal done. You fast forward days the Lensky
shows up, Your and leaders show up, and they're all
(06:02):
sitting there going, let's get this done. Let's move forward.
Zielenski even wore a suit. Some said it looked like
a ten year old. After they get their first suit
at j C. Pennies. The way he was dressed up.
It is kind of funny if you saw that meme
going around, because it is exactly what I looked like
when I was smiling when I wore my first suit
when I was like ten years old.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
It was one of the best memes I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But he show up for his suit instead that you know,
I know, I know, except for instead of the military.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You know, Garby normally wears.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And he clearly was there in a very different tone
than he was the first meeting when he was very
combative with Donald Trump. And now we have a structure
that is being laid out publicly.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So look, we had this weekend, the meeting in Alaska
between President Trump and and Putin, and you're right, the
media freaked out. We did a deep dive on that
meeting in Monday's podcast. If you didn't listen to Monday's podcast,
you got to go back and listen to it. But
the disconnect between what actually happened between President Trump in
Putin and what the media reported is night and day.
(07:04):
Because they are rooting for the president to fail. They
are rooting for America to fail, and the Democrats are
rooting for the president to fail in America to fail,
and I have to say we're making real and material progress.
I believe the war in Ukraine will be over by
the end of the year. I think we are on
a path to do that. Understand, Donald Trump campaigned on
(07:25):
ending this war. The American people elected him. That was
part of the mandate.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think the American people are done with a blank
check with sending billions of dollars to Ukraine with no limit,
just on and on for NonStop war. The American people
are ready for this to be over. Now, what I've
advised the President, what I've encouraged the President, is it
needs to end. It's going to end in a negotiated settlement,
(07:50):
but it needs to end in a way that is
a clear and discernible loss for Putin.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Loss for Russia because Russia is not our friend. They
are our enemy, and we want weaker and not stronger. Now,
the media tried to say the meeting with Putin was
a disaster. The world was on fire, cats and dogs
living together, signs of the end, time to armageddon. And
then we had the meeting, yeah, in the White House,
with Zelenski and with the European heads of state, and
(08:18):
even with the dishonest corporate media, they couldn't spend this.
I want you to listen to the finished president his
assessment of what has happened in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Give a listen. And by the way, Alex, I'd like
you to say a couple of words too. You're a young,
powerful man.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Before I finish up, I want you to say a
couple of words. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I'll take the notion of youth back to my wife
and try to convince her. Thank you very much, mister President.
I think in the past two weeks we've probably had
more progress in ending this war than we have in
the past three and a half years. And I think
the fact that we're around this table today is very
much symbolic in the sense that it's team Europe and
(09:02):
team United States helping Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I mean, wow, well, Ben, that's exactly what you and
I said on Monday's pod, which is that we made
more progress towards peace in Ukraine in the last couple
of weeks than we have in three and a half years.
But when you and I were saying it, the media
dismisses it. You've now got the President of Finland saying that,
and by the way, not just Finland. I want you
to listen now to Keer Starmer from the United Kingdom,
(09:26):
give a listen.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Thinks it is such an important meeting as a group.
I think we've had a discussion on the phone a
number of times, was the President, but be able now
to be around the table to take it forward, and
I really feel that we can, I think, with the
right approach this afternoon, make real progress, particularly on the
security guarantees, and your indication of security guarantees of some
(09:48):
sort of Article five style guarantees fits with what we've
been doing with the Coalition of the Willing, which we
started some months ago, bringing countries together and showing that
we were prepared to step up to the plate when
it came security. With you coming alongside the US, alongside
what we've already developed, I think we could take a
really important step forward today. A historic step actually could
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come out of this meeting in terms of security for
Ukraine and security in Europe. I also feel that we
can make real progress towards a just and lasting outcome.
Obviously that has to involve Ukraine and a trilateral meeting
seems the sensible next step. So thank you for being
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prepared to take that forward, because I think if we
can ensure that that is the progress out of this meeting,
both security guarantees and some sort of progress on trilateral
meeting of some sort to bring some of the difficult
issues to a head, then I think today we'll be
seen as a very important day in recent years in
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relation to a conflict which has gone on for three
and a bit years, and so nobody's able to bring
it to this point.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So I thank you for that no one's been able
to bring it to this point.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I think that is a very big accolade from the
leaders at the table. He also and I want to
get your explanation for people say understand this, because if
you don't understand it, it's complicated. Trump has pledged US
quote support for NATO style security guarantees. You heard it
mentioned there in that quote for Ukraine, while emphasizing that
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Europe would serve quote as the first line of defense.
NATO officials also urge that this would be vitally important
to getting a deal done and even a ceasefire. So
explain NATO style security guarantees. What does that mean? For
people that don't understand.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
That, well, listen.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
One of the things that we covered in Monday's pod
is that Putin in the meeting in Alaska, he conceded
explicitly that there needed to be some clear security guarantees
for Ukraine that when this war comes to an end,
which I believe will happen this year, that Ukraine has
some confidence that they're not going to wake up in January, February,
and March and see Russian tanks once again crossing their borders.
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I think the negotiated settlement will include some monokoo security guarantees. Now,
what it will not include is Ukraine joining NATO. And
I oppose Ukraine joining NATO. I've been vocal for a
long time Ukraine should not join NATO. Why is that
because under NATO, under Article five of NATO, the member
States of NATO take on an obligation to defend any
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one of the members if they are invaded. And I
am not interested in a treaty obligation to put US
troops in harms way. I don't believe President Trump is
going to enter into any agreement that puts US troops
in harms way. And so the emphasis and you put
it exactly right, Ben, is that security guarantees should put
Europe on the front line. If the Brits, if the French,
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if the Germans to want to commit, if Russia violates
the borders, they'll come in and defend Ukraine. Knock yourself out.
You guys believe in it. That's fine. We will facilitate
the resolution. But I do not think there is any
will to war on the part of the United States
to put US troops on the ground. And it's not
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just me saying this. So I want you to listen
to Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, when she
was asked about this.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Here give a listen to what Caroline.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Had to say.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
The President has definitively stated US boots will not be
on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help
in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security
guarantees to our European allies. The President understands security guarantees
are crucially important to ensure a lasting piece, and he
has directed his National Security team to coordinate with our
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friends in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and
discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
As well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You listen to Caroline Levitt there, and there's a theme
that we continue to get from the Trump foreign policy doctrine.
It cannot always be America everything. He is holding other
countries accountable, saying you need to step up, Yes you
need to lead, Yes you need to do this. President
clarified three times, and that was my counting. It may
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even be more, but I heard him three times clearly
say he had continued and saying it for a long time,
just like you mentioned opposition to Ukrainian NATO membership and
noted even that there may have to be territorial concessions
for a deal to get done. So again he's saying
to Europe and all these other leaders, you guys need
to step up. America is not going to fund all this.
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We're not going to get in these wars. We're not
gonna do everything on the backs of American taxpayers. I
think that's very popular in this country right now.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And listen, the contrast between this meeting and the last
meeting with President Zelensky in the Oval Office is night
and day. The last meeting, and we covered that extensively
on this podcast. The last meeting with Zelensky was a disaster.
It was a train wreck. It will go down in
history as the worst as the least successful Oval Office
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meeting in history. Why because President Zelensky came in looking
to pick a fight with President Trump. He came in
arrogant and belligerent and demanding. He was like a petulant child.
You need to defend me, You owe it to me.
And I think Zelensky had spent too much time with
the New York Times and with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
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Schumer and believe their talking points. And I got to
tell you, look in this no US president would allow
a foreign leader to come into the Oval Office and
address him the way Zelensky did the last time, and
especially not Donald Trump. So it went very badly. This
time was night and day. As you noted, he put
on a suit, he demonstrated some respect. And listen, I
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understand why Zelenski's position has been they don't want to
give up one inch of their territory. If if you
were the president of Ukraine, you'd probably say the same thing. Man,
I understand why he's said saying that, But that is
not America's national security interest. What is our national security
interest is that Russia and Putin not gets significantly stronger
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because they're an enemy to America. And I'll tell you
I want to throw it down a marker that I
think is really important in terms of the negotiated settlement
that occurs here. I think energy is front and center.
We've talked a lot on this podcast about how Joe
Biden caused the war in Ukraine, that his weakness, the
disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan emboldened Putin and all of our enemies,
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and also how Biden's waiving the sanctions on Nordstream two
caused this war. I authored those sanctions, I wrote that legislation.
Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and as Putin
said in Alaska just a couple of days ago, if
Trump had still been in the Oval Office, there would
be no war in Ukraine. Russia would not have invaded
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in this settlement. What I think is very important, I
would like to see Ukraine and the rest of Europe
sign an agreement to buy their energy, buy their oil
and gas from the United States. And let's be clear
from Texas. Texas, we have the resources. That's good for America,
but they should not return to buying oil and gas
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from Russia. When I meet with European heads of state
and foreign ministers, this is the number one question I
asked them. When this war is over, are you going
to go back to buying Russian oil and gas? Are
you going to go back to sending billions of dollars
to fuel the Russian war machine? Or are you going
to use this as an opportunity to pivot towards a
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friend and ally.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And I think.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Leaving resolving this war with a major energy agreement for
Ukraine and Europe to buy their energy from America. I
think that is a powerful America first outcome, and it's
also an outcome where Putin will not have scored a
major victory. If that is the resolution, I hope very
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much that's the direction the President takes this.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
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tell us what happened?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
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You know, this is one of those things where he
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Of course, he sends his family on down the trail,
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going away, so uses his burner, fires a few rounds
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this mountain lion appears again, at which point he realized
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(19:21):
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Speaker 1 (19:38):
And I'm going to guess that burner has been used
to stop other types of animal attacks as well.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
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let's go down this path because this is a very
interesting point and I want to ask you because I
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look at Russia right now. Russia's economy is teetering. A
lot of people don't realize this. They really cannot afford
for this war to go on much longer. Part of
the reason why I'm guessing you're saying you believe this
timeline that we're going to end this war by the
end of this year, is the financial impact this is
having on Russia. And Vladimir Putin does not want to
get to the point where there's a revolt in his
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country because they're so gone. Economically, there's also he needs
to start selling oil because that is what gives life
to his you know, being in charge of this country.
It gives him his power, or it makes the people
kind of sit back down and and and just go
along to get along in essence, which is the way
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of life unfortunately under Vladimir Putin in Russia. But if
he doesn't get this done soon, he's in trouble economically.
You mentioned this agreement with the US these other countries.
How does that work. Does it say we're not buying
Russian oil and then Russia says, fine, we would just
keep lowering our price so eventually you'll bit it again.
Explain to me how that would work.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Look, I think you negotiate an agreement. Ukraine wants to
buy American oil and American natural gas, and this is
a little bit like predatory pricing in the antitrust context.
I think many European countries realize that Russia uses energy
for economic blackmail, that they offer low prices to get
Europe hooked. It's kind of like a drug dealer going
to a junior high saying here, try a free sample,
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just enjoy it, and they're trying to get you hooked.
And Russia and Putin in particular, has a long history
then of jacking up prices when he wants to extort
Europe or cutting off energy supplies when he wants to
get concessions from them. Look, if you're in Europe and
it's the dead of winner and you're relying on gas
to heat your houses and Russia can shut you off,
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that gives them enormous leverage. And Putin is demonstrated he
will use that leverage to engage in economic blackmail. So
it's not in Europe's interest to be dependent on Russia
for energy now. Right now, Russia is selling the bulk
of their oil and gas to China and to India.
And this is one of the lever points President Trump
has is that he is threatened or in post sanctions
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against both India and China if they continue buying Russian
oil and gas. And that's one of the things I
believe that's bringing Putin to the table is that if
President Trump cuts off his market in China and India,
Putin is in a world of hurt. And so that's
an incentive for Putin to come in and say, all right,
let's reach a resolution. And I think we're going to
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and it's going to be a resolution. Is Ukraine going
to get everything they want? No, but Russia's not going
to get everything they want either. And I'll point out,
you know, one really important point. I want to read
a tweet from Mark Penn. Now, Mark Penn is a
polster for the Clintons, for Bill Clinton, for Hillary Clinton.
He is a Democrat. Here's what Mark Penn tweeted out.
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I think it's really important. He said, quote from what
I can see, nearly a million people have died in
the Ukraine War, and Biden was unable to attend G
seven meetings without embarrassing the country. In contrast, Trump is
pulling off unprecedented diplomatic feats to advance serious negotiations. That
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has a reasonable chance of being successful, and the press
coverage of it has been ludicrous. If Obama had pulled
off these meetings, it would be hailed as a tour
de force rather than downplaying in naysaying every we see
in the press. He may or may not be successful,
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but it is an incredible effort that should be respected
and applauded, and for the people involved, a new hope
for designing a lasting piece with real enforcement, unlike previous
empty security guarantees. That is a big deal for Mark
Penn to say that, and listen, I retweeted him today,
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I said, bravo, bravo for saying that he's a Democrat.
I feel confident that Mark Penn is not a fan
of Donald Trump, but he is acknowledging reality. And I
don't know of an elected Democrat who is. I don't
know of a Democrat governor. I don't know of a
Democrat senator who is saying this and the media. I
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don't want us to get over confident. You know, Reagan
famously said about the Soviet Union trust but verify. This
could go off the rails a thousand different ways. But
I believe President Trump is doing everything humanly possible to
resolve this at achieved piece, and that is unequivocally good.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Final two questions on this, and it deals with the
next steps for people that don't know what we're looking
at is by the way, Donald Trump apparently walked out
these meetings by himself, went to the Oval by himself,
made a phone called Vladimir Putin and said, let's let's
get a meeting. Apparently meeting number one would be between
him and Zelensky they're working on that, and then there
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would be a trilateral meeting where he would in essence
be the negotiator in the room between Zelenski and Putin.
I found that very interesting that he said, you guys
meet first, I'll meet the next meeting, and said the
other way around. What did you think about that strategy
and why do you think he decided to do it
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that way?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Look, I think he believes he's got the leverage to
try to push through a deal. And there's no doubt
he's got enormous leverage over Ukraine because the United States
has been the major funder of this war, and he's
got enormous leverage over Russia because the ability to impose
sanctions to shut down their ability to sell oil and
gas anywhere in the world that is powerful. And those
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two together and listen, I just think force a personality.
I got to say, some of my favorite things watching
the last couple of days have been the memes and
and and and everything that has come out. When when
Trump and Putin were walking together and the b twos
fly over and you see Putin do a double take
as he like, yeah, literally buzzes Putin with American military might.
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I think Trump is trying to use every tool he
has to resolve this. You know, it was striking Bill
Maher this week. He went on TV and to be clear,
Bill Maher is is no friend of Donald Trump. But
Bill Maher said, I'll tell you this, Trump wants peace,
he hates war. That is a really positive thing. And
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and Hillary Clinton may well regret her tongue in cheek
comment that she would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace
Prize if he resolved this. Now she put wiggle words
in there. So no matter what happened, she's gonna claim no, no, no,
he didn't resolve it to my satisfaction. But she's gonna
see that quote played back at her one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You talk about the President having leverage, let's move to Washington,
d C. And everyone that said the President was like
being a dictator and a tyrant by sending in the
National Guard actually trying to fight crime. They said, this
was just him being a bully. He was obsessed with
the media. This is what tyrants and dictators do. He's
gonna roll the National Guard and militarize every city in
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America that he doesn't like. That was the narrative. Well
guess what they got it wrong again. DC Crime since
the announcement of the Federal control versus the seven day
prior to that, we have that data NOL Center. Please,
for everyone that's listening, go through every category of a
shock right. I say that sarcastically. More law enforcement on
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the street, law and order, what happens less crime?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, it turns out when you arrest criminals, you get
less crime. I know that's a shocking outcome. It's one
Democrats don't understand and the media doesn't understand. But everyone
whose head is not fully inserted up their rear end
gets that point. Here is a tweet from the DC
Police Union DC Crime since the announcement of Federal control
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versus the seven Days prior robbery down forty six percent,
carjacking down eighty three percent, car theft down twenty one percent,
violent crime down twenty two percent, property crime down six percent,
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and all all crimes down eight percent. That is in
one week, in seven days. And if you hear a
wailing in the distance, that is the collective wail of
pain and unhappiness of Democrats in the media. Because understood,
this is not hyperbole. They are rooting for the criminals.
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They do not want crime to go down, because if
crime goes down, it vindicates President Trump exercising his constitutional
authority to concerning d C and exercising his authority is
explicit statutory authority under the DC Home Rule Act. The
Democrats do not want that.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No, they don't.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And there's also another aspect of this story, and that
is we now have the Justice Department that's investigating whether Washington,
DC police manipulated their crime data. Remember I was shoot
I was on scene in a week and a half,
two weeks ago, and they're like, your stats are wrong.
Crime is way down. The President doesn't need to do this,
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everything's moving there direction. Well, it may have looked like
crime was down, but now the Justice Department's investigating whether
the DC police purposely willfully manipulate the crime data to
basically fake people out lie to the systems of DC.
And they said, no, no, everything's getting better from last year
when it was really, really, really bad.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Now it's not as bad.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And apparently they may manipulated the numbers, including a whistleblower
that they've settled with.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Look, I can tell you from someone who works in DC.
So most weeks I am in d C in the
Senate when the Senate's in session. And in the last
four years under Joe Biden, the violence in DC has
gotten much worse. We've seen Rand Paul had a staffer
who was stabbed on a public street at like four
in the afternoon, stabbed in the gut. There was a
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guy who served in the first Trump administration who was
shot in the head. It killed at about five pm,
sitting in his car on a street in d C.
This is not two in the morning in a rough neighborhood.
This is in a major metropolitan street.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
We we had, uh, you know, not long ago, we
had to Israelis murdered by a radical Prohamas pro Palestinian
leftist zealot from Chicago and and and DC. As someone
who works there, you know it used to be when
when I started in the Senate. You know I would,
as you know, I love movies. We've done a couple
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of podcasts where we talk about movies. When I started
in the Senate, I used to sometimes if there was
a night that I was done, Let's say I was
done at eight or nine o'clock at night, there's a
movie theater about five blocks from my house. I used
to routinely walk up to the movie theater and just
go see a movie. I don't do that now. I mean, frankly,
at nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
At night, I know it's movie theater talking about Yeah,
no way you do that now.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
At nine o'clock at night. You don't walk five blocks
in d C. I'll tell you. I've got a guy
in my security detail in Washington who's a tough guy.
He's he's he's been in some some some pretty rough
combat situations, you bet him. And he was walking back
to the Capitol at ten PM and he had two guys,
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two teenagers, jump him and try to rob him. Now,
now Mark's a pretty tough guy, so he picked picked
up one of them. And body slammed them into the
back of a car and the two of them ran off.
But the violence in DC has gotten really significantly worse.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And you know, it's been interesting the reporters that are
his chairman, what he said about it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, the reporters that are honest, who are interviewing d
C residents, many of whom most of whom are African American.
The residents are saying, thank god, we think this is great.
Lock these criminals up. Look, the DC residents don't like
living with the risk of dry by sittings. Henry Quayar,
who is a Democrat congressman, was carjacked again in the
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early evening. He was coming home with dinner to his apartment.
His apartment building, apparently five other congressman lived in. Carjacked
right out in the front of it. And here's what
Greg Pemberton, I want you to listen to Greg Pemberton,
who was the DC Police union chairman, what he said
about the security of DC under Democrats.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Give a listen.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
The criminal justice system here in the District of Columbia
is broken. Every aspect of it is broken, whether that's policing, prosecution, judges,
and trials, sentencing and supervision. All of it is broken,
and you can trace every aspect of it back to
a piece of legislation that was passed by the Council.
They have destroyed policing, they have destroyed prosecutions, they have
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destroyed the way that the courts are allowed to operate,
and they've destroyed our ability to sentence criminals to sentences
that are commensurate with the crimes they've committed. And so
the only way to fix this holistically is to go
back and look at all of this legislation that the
Council passed it back in twenty twenty when there was
all of this anti police rhetoric and work to undo that.
I know from my experiences the DC Council will never
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do that on their own. And so what we're hoping
over the course of the next thirty days is that
whether that's the White House, whether that's these federal law
enforcement agencies, whether that's Congress, that people get an insight
into exactly how the system got so broken, because the
only way to fix it is if we can get
rid of that legislation. And my main concern is that
thirty days are going to go by all of these
folks are going to go up about their merry way
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and we're still going to be stuck with all this
bad law.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Like He's like, we know what's wrong, we know it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We know exactly what's wrong, and if they don't fix it,
we're going to be back here. Thank good as the
President stepped in here and the citizens. I go back
to the media narrative here center, the citizens overwhelmingly trust
Donald Trump to fight crime more than they trusted Joe Biden.
And the citizens in Washington, d C. Overwhelmingly or trusting
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the strategy of Donald Trump then their own city council
members and their mayor. And that is a threat I
think to all these other high crime cities Memphis, Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Detroit, New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
That'll still fish on.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
San Francisco, LA.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Because yeah, if this works, how do you then say
no when the President offers you help or national guard.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So understand, this is the same principle with securing the border.
So a year ago at the State of the Union address,
Joe Biden said he could not secure the border. He
needed new legislation from Congress in order to secure the border.
We had at the time the highest rate of illegal immigration.
In our nation's history, we had criminals and murderers, and
gang members and rapists and child molesters and terrorists streaming
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across the border, and he said he was helpless to
fix it. Donald Trump came in and the rate of
illegal border crossings dropped over ninety nine percent. As President
Trump said in the most recent State of the Union address,
it turns out we didn't need new legislation, We just
needed a new president. The same is true in DC.
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If we see violent crime numbers continue to go down
and stay down, that demonstrates we can solve crime in
other cities too. And the reason residents of your city
are being murdered is because the Democrat mayors and the
Democrat city councils care more about the radical leftists who
hate the police, who want to defund the police, who
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want to abolish the police, than they care about your family
and your children. Look at spoke Volumes when China's president.
She came to visit San Francisco a few years ago,
and Gavin Newsoen came in and cleaned up San Francisco
and took out the homeless people, and took out the
drug addicts and the streets were sparkling, and I got
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to say, even if you are a left wing Bolshevik
in San Francisco, a tiny voice in the back of
your head must have said, wait a second, if they
could clean up the streets today, why didn't they clean
up the streets last week? Why do my kids matter
less than the president of China? And so this is
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an existential threat to Democrats who want to say, where
they are helpless, we can't stop crime. And by the way,
part of their message is the only way to stop
crime is to disarm law abiding citizens. That gun control
doesn't solve it, but locking up violent criminals does, and
spoiler alert, that is what works in stopping violent crime.
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Then the Democrats have a massive challenge. And I want
you to listen to Caroline Levitt talking about some of
the results.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
We've seen in just one week in DC. Give a listen.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty
two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS
thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.
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Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of
both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like
the one picked up last night will not feel allowed
on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrest night
included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole violation
for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault on
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federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more homeless
encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period. To date,
a total of forty eight homeless encampments have been cleared
in Washington, d C. By multi agency teams. MPD patrol
units are actively working with city officials to locate and
clear additional encampments and remove homeless residents off of Washington streets.
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And despite fake narratives from the media, again, a significant
number of the arrests have been in high crime areas
of DC. In fact, nearly half of all of the
non illegal alien related arrests have occurred in Wards seven
and eight, the two wards that have the highest number
of violent crime as well as homicides and assaults with
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dangerous weapons. Last year. So while Democrats continue to caudle
violent criminals, President Trump and thisstration are focused on putting
them behind bars and unapologetically standing up for the safety
of law abiding American citizens. And the White House will
continue to provide all of you with the results of
this operation in the days ahead.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
By the way, this goes back to the narrative when
this was announced the President was going to do this.
That night, I was doing Abby's Phillips show on CNN
and all of the panelists are losing their minds saying,
Donald Trump, this was going to do nothing. They said,
He's putting them on the National Mall where there's no crime.
He's a dictator. They're not going to put the law
(39:35):
enforce it where the real crime is. That's why this
is a waste of resources. This is just him showing
and flexing his muscles that he can do this because
the present and this is what a dictator does.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Yet you're the crime set there.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Where are they fighting crime where the criminals are?
Speaker 4 (39:51):
And I said it, then I'll say it again.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It's amazing how much the left and the media hates
Donald Trump so much. They don't even care if they're
able to save lives through this. They just hate the
fact that Donald Trump wants to fight crime. So whatever
he says he wants to do, we're going to fight
it and lie and slander him. And regardless of how
many people lose their lives in DC or any other
(40:14):
city when this comes out.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, look, that is exactly right. And I will point
out those very high crime neighborhoods in DC are overwhelmingly
African American and the woke left wing Democrat mayor painted
the words black lives Matter on the street at a
giant mural. They've removed that now, But when it comes
to actually protecting black lives, understand that a very significant
(40:41):
percentage of the murder victims from these violent criminals are
African Americans, and so Donald Trump and Republicans are stepping
in and saving black lives. And the position of Democrats
in the media is those black lives do not matter.
They'd rather they be victims of murder then actually have
law enforcement put violent criminals in jail. And ben when
(41:05):
I say that, that sounds unbelievably harsh, But I want
to ask you seriously, give me an alternative explanation. If
the explanation is not sure that the Democrats do not
give a damn about whether black lives matter and whether
they're saving African Americans from being victims of homicide, Then
(41:26):
why are they so adamantly opposed to supporting law enforcement
putting violent criminals in jail.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
No, this is the Democratic Party now. They'd rather see
Donald Trump fail than actually save American lives.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Don't forget. We do the show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Also, this episode is up on YouTube, so if you
want to watch it we put up there on YouTube
as well, hit that subscribe or auto download button. We're
gonna keep giving you the stats out of DC because
I promise you the media is not going to do it.
We cover these stories, give you the facts. Please share
it wherever you can on social media and the Senator
and I will see you back here on Friday morning.
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