00:00Excuse me. I'm going to suggest because could you do you have any other questions on DC because I don't want them. I don't want them to be. Wait, wait, wait. These are these are incredible people. I don't want them to be standing up here on subjects. Does anybody have a question of them? And then you guys can leave.
00:27OK, a question. Brian, go ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. And by the way, this is only in D.C. and then they're going to leave because it's unfair to have them stand up here all day long. Brian, I've got two questions for you. First about D.C. This is personal for me as well. Last year I was robbed on the streets by one of these teenage folks had a gun. Got away with it. Let's talk about the effort that between law enforcement
00:57prosecutors and judges because it's a, you know, recycling belt that these kids go. They don't fear the police. They know it. If you talk about how we've got to get these judges and put these kids behind bars, adult crimes deserve adult penalties. And my second question, I'll have to you answer that.
01:16Do you want me to answer it?
01:17Do you want me to answer it?
01:18Do you want me to answer it? Here's the problem. Assuming that they're 17 years, older than 17 years old, I can get the case. If they're under 18 years of age, I can only get the case if it's murder, rob one, rape. Even if they shoot a gun but don't kill you, I can't get it. So the law has to be changed.
01:44As the president said, counsels bail. That has to be changed. All right. Then even assuming I get the case, I get jurisdiction, I get a conviction, the D.C. council has given the judges the ability to give probation on shootings. And so then it's up to them. All of these things, the Youth Rehabilitation,
02:03Incarceration Reduction Act, and now they want to seal records. So if we work hard and we get a conviction, they want to wipe it out. So that needs all to be changed.
02:10So that needs all to be changed.
02:12Okay, Mr. President. Pam, would you answer that?
02:15Yeah, and just back to that topic. Let's be clear, though. We're going to charge them. And we're going to track every single thing they do throughout every step of the court process and report back to you and let all of you know what's happening to them.
02:33Because the people who are prosecuting them, the judges who are trying them, they also need to be held accountable.
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