September 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Fox News Contributor Liz Peek on government funded asylums; plus, Chicago Mayor signs executive order to keep crime high
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's spend a couple of minutes with one of our favorites.
It's Liz Peak on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone line.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You can see Liz on Fox.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You can see her on Fox Business of course here
every Thursday a little after eight o'clock, and everything she
does lives on her website, lizpeak dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Liz, good morning, How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning? I'm terrific. It's back to school week and
you know I've been away on vacation and it's back
to school for me too. It's a little bit of
a bitter pill to swallow, but here we are.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here we are yet.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I hope you enjoyed your time away, and yeah,
we're back back in it with both feet. And one
of the stories I'm reading on lizpeak dot com, and
this is an interesting one to me, is President Trump
said that he is open to sort of reopening government
run asylums for the mentally ill, something we haven't really
dealt with for a long time in this country.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, look, when you visit cities like where I live,
New York, or Washington, DC, or heaven knows, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Chicago, one of the biggest problems is people
living on the streets. Some of them are drug addicts,
some of them are simply homeless and they can't afford shelter, etc.
(01:13):
But a lot of them are stark, raving mad. And
I had an experience yesterday with a guy following me
down the street screaming at the top of his lungs,
obviously destitute and truly who knows whether it's on drugs
or whatever, but it's frightening, and people should not be
walking around on the streets of their cities being frightened
(01:34):
by people who sometimes, let's face it, turn the corner
and actually assault people, etc. We've had a spate of
those incidences in New York where randomly people get punched
or they get nice or whatever. So look, I think
President Trump is completely right, by the way, this hapless
mayor Eric Adams in New York has actually had the
(01:55):
same been making the same effort to get people off
the streets, not just because they pose a danger or
because they don't smell very good or whatever, forgive me,
but also because it's a humanitarian thing. These people are
dangered themselves, they cannot care for themselves, and in the
olden days, these people were indeed and made to stay
(02:19):
in mental hospitals or other kinds of facilities. And then,
of course you had a tremendous backlash from the ACLU
and other groups saying, oh, you're impinging on their liberties. Well,
you may be impinging on their liberties keeping them alive,
and you may also be protecting their fellow citizens. So
I think this is a slam dunk. I hope it
(02:40):
goes forward. I don't know how the president can affect
such a change, but it's clearly the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean, these people are sick and they need help,
and you know, so what do we do Because it's
politically incorrect to put them in an asylum, So we
just open the doors and let them out. And I
mean they're in the general population, if you will. And then, yeah,
they do a whole host of things, whether they're just
(03:06):
homeless on the street and they get addicted to drugs,
or they actually go out and commit crimes and you know,
petty crimes here and there.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But you know, when you start looking at some.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Of these school shooters, Liz, I mean, don't tell me
these people don't have mental issues. I mean, these are
people with deep, deep seated problems that probably needed some
help a long time ago. And for whatever reason, I
don't know the history of this, well, why we started
closing down some of these mental asylum facilities.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, in fairness, again, it became a sort of civil
luck rights issue, but also some of the facilities were horrific,
and I think when you had teams and reporters go
into some of I remember there was an upstate asylum
in New York, and I'm pretty sure it was pretty
god awful, and people decided that was really not the
(03:52):
way we should be taking care of people who could
not take care of themselves. So instead of improving them,
putting new people in charge, whatever, spending a little money
to make it better, they basically close them. And that
was a mistake. You know, I don't know the entire history,
but I just know what I have observed, and I
(04:14):
think it was a matter of budget, It was a
matter of people protesting the filth and squalor that some
of these facilities had people living in. But at the
end of the day, again, it was a bad policy decision.
And you know, one thing after another. If you look
at what really causes many of us to become disgusted
(04:35):
with our local administrations. It's policy. It's not the weather,
you know. I remember when someone asked Andrew Cloma, why
are people moving to floor, and he said, well, the
weather's really good. No, it isn't the weather. It's all
kinds of things, including quality of life. And I think
I hope the next generation of politicians, I hope that's Republicans,
(04:58):
but I also hope that they' spend a little more
time concerned about taxpayers, about residents, about people who vote,
and less time worrying about criminals and the mentally ill,
et cetera. All those people need to be obviously cared
for in some way, but it's also the people, those
of us who are trying to go to work every day,
et cetera. We also should be taken into consideration and
(05:22):
not at the mercy of elements in our cities and
states that are just out of control, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And if you want to talk about, by the way,
that story is at lewispeak dot com. If you want
to read more you want to talk about local politicians
just not getting it. How about Mayor Johnson in Chicago,
one of the one of the largest cities in the
country deadly weekend Labor Day weekend, there was eight people dead,
fifty eight people shot. And yet, and yet, Mayor Johnson
(05:50):
signed an executive order called Protecting Chicago Initiative that prevents
local police from collaborating with federal agents should they arrive,
and I think they will. It prevents them from collaborating
on joint patrols or arrests. So essentially, the mayor in
Chicago signed an executive order to keep crime high in
that city.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, and by the way, two things that are of
interest in it. When he ran for this office in
twenty twenty three, the number one issue for Chicago voters
number one issue was crime, and by the way, it
was way number one, way ahead of jobs, unemployment, anything else.
Crime was their biggest concern. That's why they hired this guy,
(06:31):
and he has done absolutely nothing to bring it under control.
Number two, Brandon Johnson has the distinction. This is literally
a fact of being having the worst approval ratings of
any mayor in the entire country. He is so god awful.
In the spring, I think his approval ratings sank to
about eight percent. Nobody likes this guy. He's doing a
(06:52):
lousy job. He is simply a puppet of the teachers' unions,
meaning the teachers' unions run that city. They provided over
half of the funding for his campaign. They made sure
he won. And the only thing he has done is
pocket is pushed enormous amounts of money into the teachers' unions,
not the schools. There's a big difference there, and basically
(07:16):
done the bidding of the union. So the schools are horrific.
I think there's something like, I don't know, eighteen Chicago
schools where not a single kid can perform at grade level.
The overall performance of the city's schools is horrific. Parents
have every reason to bounce this guy out of office.
(07:38):
I hope they do, just like they did Lori Lightgood,
his predecessor, and I hope they get a little smarter
about who they elect. I mean, he ran against a
moderate Democrat, Paul Ballace, who actually had good credentials on education,
on crime, on budgets, even a really terrific experienced administrator.
(08:00):
The teachers unions decided they could better control Brandon Johnson,
and that was honestly a tragedy for that city.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, it's troubling when you look at really with a
microscope what's going on there? And I like what Trump said.
He said, this isn't political. I have an obligation, and
he's right. He was elected to do this. Crime was
one of the top things, not only just in Chicago
but nationally that people wanted to see a change.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And he's like, I'm just doing what people voted for.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And can you imagine opposing that? Can you imagine not
accepting the help? After all, we've seen what happened in Washington, DC.
The results are excellent for the people who live in Washington, DC,
and as important for the people who visit there. The
tourists who come to admire our great country. Sure basically
go to Washington, and now they can do so without
(08:49):
looking over their shoulder, without worrying about whether they're going
to get mugged or their car is going to get hijacked.
I mean, really so, Brandon John, he's up a clown,
nothing to stand on. Uh And And basically, as you
said starting out, he is voting in favor of crime.
And I hope, I just hope people completely destroy his
(09:10):
political career as a result.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, look at the look at the results in DC.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We're at like sixteen hundred arrests since the National Guard
has been there, and it's uh, it's been cleaned up
in a hurry, and I would hope the same for Chicago. Liz,
great to talk to you. I wish we had more time.
Everything we talked about it's up at lizpeak dot com.
Give it a look if you have a chance today,
have a great rest of your week. LIS's thanks for
the time.
Let's spend a couple of minutes with one of our favorites.
It's Liz Peak on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone line.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You can see Liz on Fox.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You can see her on Fox Business of course here
every Thursday a little after eight o'clock, and everything she
does lives on her website, lizpeak dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Liz, good morning, How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning? I'm terrific. It's back to school week and
you know I've been away on vacation and it's back
to school for me too. It's a little bit of
a bitter pill to swallow, but here we are.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here we are yet.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I hope you enjoyed your time away, and yeah,
we're back back in it with both feet. And one
of the stories I'm reading on lizpeak dot com, and
this is an interesting one to me, is President Trump
said that he is open to sort of reopening government
run asylums for the mentally ill, something we haven't really
dealt with for a long time in this country.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, look, when you visit cities like where I live,
New York, or Washington, DC, or heaven knows, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Chicago, one of the biggest problems is people
living on the streets. Some of them are drug addicts,
some of them are simply homeless and they can't afford shelter, etc.
(01:13):
But a lot of them are stark, raving mad. And
I had an experience yesterday with a guy following me
down the street screaming at the top of his lungs,
obviously destitute and truly who knows whether it's on drugs
or whatever, but it's frightening, and people should not be
walking around on the streets of their cities being frightened
(01:34):
by people who sometimes, let's face it, turn the corner
and actually assault people, etc. We've had a spate of
those incidences in New York where randomly people get punched
or they get nice or whatever. So look, I think
President Trump is completely right, by the way, this hapless
mayor Eric Adams in New York has actually had the
(01:55):
same been making the same effort to get people off
the streets, not just because they pose a danger or
because they don't smell very good or whatever, forgive me,
but also because it's a humanitarian thing. These people are
dangered themselves, they cannot care for themselves, and in the
olden days, these people were indeed and made to stay
(02:19):
in mental hospitals or other kinds of facilities. And then,
of course you had a tremendous backlash from the ACLU
and other groups saying, oh, you're impinging on their liberties. Well,
you may be impinging on their liberties keeping them alive,
and you may also be protecting their fellow citizens. So
I think this is a slam dunk. I hope it
(02:40):
goes forward. I don't know how the president can affect
such a change, but it's clearly the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean, these people are sick and they need help,
and you know, so what do we do Because it's
politically incorrect to put them in an asylum, So we
just open the doors and let them out. And I
mean they're in the general population, if you will. And then, yeah,
they do a whole host of things, whether they're just
(03:06):
homeless on the street and they get addicted to drugs,
or they actually go out and commit crimes and you know,
petty crimes here and there.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But you know, when you start looking at some.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Of these school shooters, Liz, I mean, don't tell me
these people don't have mental issues. I mean, these are
people with deep, deep seated problems that probably needed some
help a long time ago. And for whatever reason, I
don't know the history of this, well, why we started
closing down some of these mental asylum facilities.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, in fairness, again, it became a sort of civil
luck rights issue, but also some of the facilities were horrific,
and I think when you had teams and reporters go
into some of I remember there was an upstate asylum
in New York, and I'm pretty sure it was pretty
god awful, and people decided that was really not the
(03:52):
way we should be taking care of people who could
not take care of themselves. So instead of improving them,
putting new people in charge, whatever, spending a little money
to make it better, they basically close them. And that
was a mistake. You know, I don't know the entire history,
but I just know what I have observed, and I
(04:14):
think it was a matter of budget, It was a
matter of people protesting the filth and squalor that some
of these facilities had people living in. But at the
end of the day, again, it was a bad policy decision.
And you know, one thing after another. If you look
at what really causes many of us to become disgusted
(04:35):
with our local administrations. It's policy. It's not the weather,
you know. I remember when someone asked Andrew Cloma, why
are people moving to floor, and he said, well, the
weather's really good. No, it isn't the weather. It's all
kinds of things, including quality of life. And I think
I hope the next generation of politicians, I hope that's Republicans,
(04:58):
but I also hope that they' spend a little more
time concerned about taxpayers, about residents, about people who vote,
and less time worrying about criminals and the mentally ill,
et cetera. All those people need to be obviously cared
for in some way, but it's also the people, those
of us who are trying to go to work every day,
et cetera. We also should be taken into consideration and
(05:22):
not at the mercy of elements in our cities and
states that are just out of control, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And if you want to talk about, by the way,
that story is at lewispeak dot com. If you want
to read more you want to talk about local politicians
just not getting it. How about Mayor Johnson in Chicago,
one of the one of the largest cities in the
country deadly weekend Labor Day weekend, there was eight people dead,
fifty eight people shot. And yet, and yet, Mayor Johnson
(05:50):
signed an executive order called Protecting Chicago Initiative that prevents
local police from collaborating with federal agents should they arrive,
and I think they will. It prevents them from collaborating
on joint patrols or arrests. So essentially, the mayor in
Chicago signed an executive order to keep crime high in
that city.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, and by the way, two things that are of
interest in it. When he ran for this office in
twenty twenty three, the number one issue for Chicago voters
number one issue was crime, and by the way, it
was way number one, way ahead of jobs, unemployment, anything else.
Crime was their biggest concern. That's why they hired this guy,
(06:31):
and he has done absolutely nothing to bring it under control.
Number two, Brandon Johnson has the distinction. This is literally
a fact of being having the worst approval ratings of
any mayor in the entire country. He is so god awful.
In the spring, I think his approval ratings sank to
about eight percent. Nobody likes this guy. He's doing a
(06:52):
lousy job. He is simply a puppet of the teachers' unions,
meaning the teachers' unions run that city. They provided over
half of the funding for his campaign. They made sure
he won. And the only thing he has done is
pocket is pushed enormous amounts of money into the teachers' unions,
not the schools. There's a big difference there, and basically
(07:16):
done the bidding of the union. So the schools are horrific.
I think there's something like, I don't know, eighteen Chicago
schools where not a single kid can perform at grade level.
The overall performance of the city's schools is horrific. Parents
have every reason to bounce this guy out of office.
(07:38):
I hope they do, just like they did Lori Lightgood,
his predecessor, and I hope they get a little smarter
about who they elect. I mean, he ran against a
moderate Democrat, Paul Ballace, who actually had good credentials on education,
on crime, on budgets, even a really terrific experienced administrator.
(08:00):
The teachers unions decided they could better control Brandon Johnson,
and that was honestly a tragedy for that city.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, it's troubling when you look at really with a
microscope what's going on there? And I like what Trump said.
He said, this isn't political. I have an obligation, and
he's right. He was elected to do this. Crime was
one of the top things, not only just in Chicago
but nationally that people wanted to see a change.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And he's like, I'm just doing what people voted for.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And can you imagine opposing that? Can you imagine not
accepting the help? After all, we've seen what happened in Washington, DC.
The results are excellent for the people who live in Washington, DC,
and as important for the people who visit there. The
tourists who come to admire our great country. Sure basically
go to Washington, and now they can do so without
(08:49):
looking over their shoulder, without worrying about whether they're going
to get mugged or their car is going to get hijacked.
I mean, really so, Brandon John, he's up a clown,
nothing to stand on. Uh And And basically, as you
said starting out, he is voting in favor of crime.
And I hope, I just hope people completely destroy his
(09:10):
political career as a result.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, look at the look at the results in DC.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We're at like sixteen hundred arrests since the National Guard
has been there, and it's uh, it's been cleaned up
in a hurry, and I would hope the same for Chicago. Liz,
great to talk to you. I wish we had more time.
Everything we talked about it's up at lizpeak dot com.
Give it a look if you have a chance today,
have a great rest of your week. LIS's thanks for
the time.
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