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00:00:00First, we go to Bill Malugian with a look at these dangerous street takeovers. Bill,
00:00:03what are you seeing there? Well, John, these street takeovers have been plaguing the city
00:00:09of Los Angeles for years now, but they're not just a nuisance. They have turned deadly before,
00:00:14and that's why the LADA out here, Nathan Hockman, says he's going to start going after the drivers,
00:00:20the spectators, and the online promoters behind these takeovers. Take a look at this video. This
00:00:25is what we're talking about here. This was this weekend here in downtown L.A., 3 a.m. Saturday
00:00:30morning, right in front of Crypto.com Arena, where the Los Angeles Lakers play. This was all organized
00:00:37on social media. You can see hundreds of people blocking all lanes of traffic as they watch cars
00:00:42do stunts and dangerous donuts in the middle of this intersection. There were even some people
00:00:47throwing fireworks into the middle of that intersection. Well, LADA Nathan Hockman says
00:00:53misdemeanors and felonies alike are being committed at street takeovers like that one. And anybody
00:00:59arrested for participating in one will start facing reckless driving charges with up to 90 days in jail.
00:01:06And even being a spectator at one can land you jail time in a $500 fine.
00:01:13And my entire office is absolutely laser focused on going after these illegal street takeovers,
00:01:19because, again, we're trying to avoid death, injury, and also this consequential harm that is
00:01:27destroying the quality of many of these communities.
00:01:32And we talk about the danger behind these. On Christmas Day in 2022, a young nursing student
00:01:38out here named Eliza Guaxaca was killed at one of these street takeovers in South Los Angeles. That's
00:01:44when a driver lost control of his car while he was doing donuts. That driver was just sentenced
00:01:49last week to 13 years in prison for her death. Here's Eliza's mom.
00:01:55Her life was taken away. It's been long and hard for me and my family. We have put the person
00:02:05and we have him where he belongs. Eliza is our purpose and our hope.
00:02:15We will always remain lost without her.
00:02:20And LADA Nathan Hockman says he is now pursuing conspiracy charges against the online promoters
00:02:27behind these street takeovers, the ones who are announcing them and organizing them. In the
00:02:32meantime, LAPD just announced this year alone there have already been three people who have died
00:02:38in connection with these street takeovers here in Los Angeles. I'll send it back to you, John.
00:02:43Enough is enough. It's come to that point. All right. Bill Malujan for us. Bill, thank you.
00:02:48I understand it's two years probation to go to college with no mandate for getting on a public bus
00:02:55with an illegal gun, shooting an individual in the chest, which to me is intent to kill.
00:03:02And he walked away after we convicted him. He walked away with no jail time. If that's what you
00:03:11want in this district, then I'm the wrong person to be United States attorney.
00:03:15So new U.S. attorney for D.C., Janine Pirro laying down the law at yesterday's DOJ news conference.
00:03:21Pirro took on reporters for exciting crime stats, saying she's more concerned about the victims and
00:03:26their families. She joins us now. And I think you are the living embodiment of the phrase
00:03:31right place at the right time. And you've been there for a few weeks now. Some of the
00:03:37things that you've seen are very disturbing. You have thoughts on how you think things could get
00:03:41solved. But in the commercial break, you are talking about one thing that has really troubled
00:03:45you, and that is the homicide rate of young people.
00:03:48Yeah. Yeah. First of all, it's great to be with you, Bill and Dana. Of course, I miss all my friends
00:03:53at Fox, but I am, you know, in my element here. The truth is that I just, you know, kind of on a whim,
00:04:00just said, let me see the number of homicides of teens last year in D.C. and this year in D.C.
00:04:08You're looking at the 2024 kids who were shot and killed with firearms in 2024. There are 29 of them.
00:04:17OK, every one of them is an African-American minority community. This is a community that's
00:04:23being victimized by violent crime. Now, in 2025, we've got 16 again under the age of 19 who have
00:04:33been shot and killed as a result of a firearm. So totally, we've got 45 African-American kids who've
00:04:42been killed. And the crucial point right now is that the clearance rate is 30 percent. What does that
00:04:49mean? That means that they've only solved 30 percent of the homicides of these teens in the
00:04:55last year and seven months. That means that 70 percent of the murders that were committed with
00:05:02guns against teens in the minority community, of those 70 percent of the murderers are walking
00:05:09around free. We don't know who they are because the cases have not been solved. And therein lies
00:05:15the problem. Young criminals in D.C. have been emboldened to commit crimes because they believe
00:05:23that they're not accountable. And why do they believe that? Because they are not accountable.
00:05:28We've got a D.C. council that has passed laws that make it almost impossible for me as both federal
00:05:38prosecutor and kind of quasi-local prosecutor to be able to incarcerate these kids. I can't even
00:05:44prosecute a teen who's 17, 18, 19 years old, forget the 14, 15-year-olds, who shoot someone
00:05:52with a gun. If you shoot someone with a gun in D.C. and you're up to 19 years of age, I can't even
00:06:00indict you. And so this is a message. Well, you could if, yeah, just to jump in here, you could
00:06:05if the D.C. council changes the laws. Right, but the laws are tying my hands. I got you. Let me just
00:06:11show our audience what you're trying to get the D.C. council to do. You want them to repeal the
00:06:15Youth Rehabilitation Act, the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act, and the Second Chance
00:06:21Amendment Act. I read through this, Janine. You're basically trying to eliminate the reductions
00:06:28and sentencing for serious crimes especially, and also to get away from hiding the record from those
00:06:34in the future who would look back on their, on the crimes for which they were convicted.
00:06:40Yeah. Do I have that right? And if I do, how would that change crime in Washington?
00:06:45Well, what it would do is it would make people accountable, number one, and we're also looking
00:06:49to lower the age of criminals. What's happening is even if you shoot someone with a gun, someone
00:06:54with a gun, you go to family court where the purpose is rehabilitation, you get to go to an ice cream
00:06:59social, and you get to go to yoga classes. That's nonsense. And that's not what we need in the
00:07:04nation's capital. And that's not why the president put me here. The president wants to make the capital
00:07:10safe and beautiful. And that's exactly what we're going to do. And the only way to do that is to change
00:07:16the laws that have protected young children who are committing adult crimes. And all of these
00:07:23statutes that they've passed don't allow me to incarcerate. They allow the removal or the erasure
00:07:30of convictions. How fair is that to a parent who wants to find out whether or not a nanny is someone
00:07:36who's been convicted of a prior assault? How fair is that to an employer who gets, who doesn't get to
00:07:42understand or know who he's hiring? Everything about the D.C. Council and the laws that they've passed
00:07:47are liberal, they're defense leaning, and they're not in favor of the citizens of D.C. And that's what
00:07:54President Trump is fighting. And that's what we're going to change. We're going to change the laws. We're
00:07:58going to lower the age of criminal responsibility. We've seen too much of it. We've seen homicides
00:08:05against young people. We've seen assaults in areas where just a couple days ago a kid gets a fractured nose
00:08:12and gets a severe concussion by 12 and 13 year olds trying to steal a car. Why? Because they've been
00:08:19allowed to do it. Not anymore. If we have our way, we will be able to make D.C. safe again. And the
00:08:27president's going to do it. And we've got this. Last night, there were 700 federal and local cops on the
00:08:33streets. And this is what the community wants. They want to be able to be safe. They want to come to
00:08:38the nation's capital and look at the fabulous museums and the monuments that we have here.
00:08:44And last night, there were 43 arrests and we seized seven handguns. And every night, it's something
00:08:49else. But this is a message that we're not going to tolerate crime as if that's just the way things
00:08:56go. And I'm tired of hearing that crime is down. It's not down for people who are suffering from
00:09:01violent crime. Indeed. And one thing I've admired about you, when you got there, you reached out at
00:09:06your hand. And Muriel Bowser, the mayor, took it. And you guys have a good relationship. I know she's
00:09:12under a ton of pressure from her left flank and maybe her city council. Here's what she said last
00:09:17night at a town hall. This is a time where community needs to jump in. And we all need to do what we can
00:09:27in our space, in our lane to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule and
00:09:37get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect the Democratic House so that we have a
00:09:44backstop to this authoritarian push. So I know there's always tension between local, state and federal
00:09:51governments. That always happens. How can this work best for everybody in the long run?
00:09:57Well, you know, yesterday I was in a meeting with the mayor, along with the police chief, Pamela Smith,
00:10:01and with our attorney general, Pam Bondi. And the meeting went very well. And our effort is to make
00:10:08D.C. safe. And I think that in the end, you know, we will all come together and make that happen. You
00:10:14know, politics and ideology are something that, you know, you can go sell to the left or sell to
00:10:20whatever. But the truth is, uh, the, the mayor and the police chief have an obligation to make
00:10:26this city safe. But didn't she, didn't she sort of, didn't she change her public message within
00:10:3112 hours? Sure she did. At noon, it seemed like she was saying one thing about cooperation and the
00:10:37evening it was different. Sure. I mean, that, that, that's the, that's how you heard it, right?
00:10:41Yeah, that's how I heard it. But does it matter to me? No. Okay, so another question for you.
00:10:45We got to wrap here. But you're in a unique position because of the laws in the District of
00:10:50Columbia, you have federal authority and you have local authority, right? That makes you
00:10:55kind of a double threat. And, and based on your relationship with the president that I know
00:11:03goes back decades, is that the reason he picked you? You'll have to ask the president why he picked
00:11:09me, but I'm back to my roots, Bill. I mean, this is what I did for 30 years. I've been a prosecutor,
00:11:14a judge and a DA. I fight crimes. I fight on behalf of the victims. I fight on behalf of those
00:11:20people who simply want to be safe and want to be able to walk outside their homes and not worry
00:11:25about a bunch of thugs or young punks going after them and beating the hell out of them. Those days
00:11:30are over and we're going to make sure they're over. Politics is something else. I'm all about making
00:11:35sure that criminals are made responsible and accountable for the crimes they commit. Okay.
00:11:39Thank you for coming. Miss you. Thank you. Okay. Take care. Nice to see you. Good luck. Thank you.
00:11:46So the Trump administration already reporting success after deploying the National Guard and
00:11:50federal agents to help police the streets of DC. Senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergam is
00:11:57live on Capitol Hill with the latest. Good morning, Chad. Lawrence, good morning. Wednesday was the first
00:12:02full day with the feds helping to safeguard Washington, DC. The push comes as violent crime remains high in
00:12:09Washington. Despite recent declines, Republicans say DC residents deserve to live and work in a safe city.
00:12:18You tell these families crime has dropped. You tell the kid who was just beat the hell and back with a
00:12:25severe concussion and a broken nose crime is down. No, that falls on deaf ears and my ears are deaf to
00:12:31that. And that's why I fight the fight. FBI director Kash Patel says his agency teamed up with
00:12:39local cops to make 10 arrests. That included a search warrant for a murder charge, various gun
00:12:45violations, warrants for DUI and an arrest for violating a restraining order. Democrats still
00:12:51challenged the need for help in DC. We have this decision by the president to essentially federalize
00:13:00the DC police at a time when actually crime in the district of Columbia is at a 30 year low last year
00:13:10and has been continuing to decrease in the first six months of this year. That said, we can always do
00:13:16better. Under the law, the feds can help patrol Washington for a month after that Congress must
00:13:23approve an extension. When it comes to DC, Congress serves as a super city council watching over the capital
00:13:30city. However, it's doubtful Congress could approve an extension for federal forces. That's because
00:13:35such a plan needs 60 votes to clear a Senate filibuster. Lawrence. Good copy. Thanks, Chad.
00:13:43First day of president Trump's DC police takeover yielding nearly two dozen arrests. And that includes
00:13:48suspects wanted for murder and gun crimes. Meanwhile, DC mayor Muriel Bowser, she is somewhat blasting the
00:13:54crackdown. She calls the deployment of national guard troops unsettling and disturbing. Also, Dana,
00:13:58the mayor and other Democrats pointing to numbers that show DC crime at a 30 year low,
00:14:03but top DC prosecutor, Janine Pirro, fresh on the job, less concerned with stats, she says,
00:14:10and more concerned about the victims. Thanks.
00:14:13It's never enough. This changed. This changed. It's never enough. You tell these families crime has dropped. You tell the mother of the intern who was shot going out for McDonald's near the Washington Convention Center, oh, crime is down. You tell the kid who was just beat the hell and back with a severe conciliation.
00:14:43And a broken nose. Crime is down. No, that falls on deaf ears. And my ears are deaf to that. And that's why I fight the fight.
00:14:54So we will talk with Janine Pirro in a matter of minutes here and we'll get the lowdown on what's happening thus far. Do not miss that. First though, our coverage begins today. David Spunt is live in Washington. And David, let's begin there with you. Good morning.
00:15:07Bill, good morning. 28 days left of DOJ control over the DC Police Department, unless Congress steps in and extends it. But both the House and the Senate have to agree.
00:15:19Now, National Guard troops took to their post last night, patrolling the streets and neighborhoods of the nation's capital. No major incidents that we are aware of overnight. Things seem to go smooth. And that watch continued through the night.
00:15:30We also joined Attorney General Pam Bondi exclusively as she met with federal agents from the FBI, the ATF, Park Police, National Guard and officers from the Metropolitan Police Department.
00:15:42Joining her, U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro for District of Columbia, Police Chief Pam Smith and the heads of the ATF and U.S. Marshals.
00:15:49We know when you leave your homes every day, your spouses, your families, there's no ordinary day in what you do. And thank God for all of you and for what you're doing for DC, for our country and our world by keeping us safe. We're here for you. We're here for you 24-7.
00:16:11Yesterday, Bondi, FBI Director Cash Patel and others met with DC's Mayor Bowser and the city's police chief to discuss a transition plan that gives DOJ temporary control over the department.
00:16:24I think it's something that is doable. We know that we have to get illegal guns off of our street.
00:16:29Mayor Bowser, not a fan of using the National Guard. Her response, though, has been somewhat measured over the past few days.
00:16:34She held a virtual town hall last night and upped the ante a little bit with her rhetoric. Watch.
00:16:39We don't live in a dirty city. We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks. And we don't have neighborhoods that should be bulldozed.
00:16:52More so than other critics of the move who insist the president is making the wrong move by federalizing the police department.
00:16:59This is about the president playing king, trying to be the authoritarian leader, the dictator. He sees a little opening in the law here.
00:17:09And against once the 30-day period is up, Congress could authorize an extension. It's unclear, though, if that's going to happen. Bill.
00:17:16Hey, David. Thank you for that. Talk to you throughout the day here. David Spunt, DC. Thank you. Dana?
00:17:20And we want to bring in Charlie Hurd. Of course, he is the host of Fox & Friends Weekend.
00:17:24And we want to get your take on it because you're a DC guy, meaning that you're not like a DC guy, but you've lived there for a long time and you know it very well.
00:17:31You've worked there. Joe Scarborough had a lot of cars and bikes stolen. Yes.
00:17:36I know. I know. And trees. Don't forget the trees. But Joe Scarborough talked about some of the journalists down there. Watch here.
00:17:42This is an interesting thing where I'll hear, you know, I actually heard a reporter, heard from a reporter when this happened going,
00:17:50Well, you know, if he doesn't overreach, this is actually a good thing for quality of life, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:17:56Because DC, right now, I had this happen to my family and I had that.
00:18:01And they go down the list and then saw him tweet something completely different.
00:18:09So, DC, there has been a problem in DC.
00:18:12I mean, at least he's calling him out on it.
00:18:16Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's kind of interesting because, of course, nobody knows the depth of the problem more than those of us in the media who have worked in DC and lived in DC for a long time.
00:18:27Because we have endured a lot of the crime.
00:18:30You know, everybody knows somebody that, you know, has been held up, has been mugged, has been.
00:18:35And, of course, we all know people who have endured far worse things, you know, personally, we know.
00:18:42And so it's kind of interesting.
00:18:44And I do think that one of the reasons that the White House press conference the other day was so jam-packed is because, on a personal level,
00:18:52so many people who cover the political news are deeply invested in this and they are kind of curious about it.
00:18:59But I think it's interesting that the immediate reaction from Democrats is to object to it.
00:19:05And you do have to kind of wonder because, of course, if they, you know, it wasn't that long ago that these same people were talking about wanting to make DC a state because they,
00:19:16you would assume, because they want to help the place.
00:19:19But I don't think that's what they're interested in.
00:19:21I think, at the end of the day, they're just interested in making DC a state because they want the power, but they don't really have any solutions to fix any of it.
00:19:30And Donald Trump comes along and says, hey, I'm going to try this.
00:19:33It's something different for sure.
00:19:34And maybe he'll have some success.
00:19:37Charlie, what do you think of this story about the crowds on demand literally renting people for the day or for the evening?
00:19:45That's up 400 percent in terms of paid protester requests.
00:19:48That's Washington, D.C.
00:19:50I assume they come from northern Virginia or parts of Maryland.
00:19:53What do you know about this?
00:19:54And will we see them?
00:19:58Yeah.
00:19:58So and we've already seen some reports that that that there that these crowds have been activated right now to protest this right here,
00:20:07which you're seeing, I think, on the screen there from I guess that's Monday.
00:20:10And, you know, it's a it's another reminder that there are massive, heavily bankrolled interests who are interested in that.
00:20:21You know, this is a major political story for those people.
00:20:25This is not a matter of basic safety, which is all it should be for politicians.
00:20:31You would think that politicians could agree whether you're Democrat, Republican, whether these people vote for you or don't vote for you.
00:20:36You would want the safest federal city on Earth.
00:20:39You would want people to be able to go to school without being worried about getting mugged or worse.
00:20:45But for whatever reason, and, you know, I, you know, I've wondered a lot about it over the years.
00:20:51I can't give you an answer to it.
00:20:53But for some reason, there is massive amounts of money, very wealthy interests that are deeply invested in keeping this chaos going
00:21:03and opposing even the most commonsensical solutions to real problems that affect real people.
00:21:11It's interesting to imagine that their biggest fear is that crime goes down.
00:21:17And I know what the statistics are.
00:21:19I don't need any lectures on it.
00:21:21Pirro answered that for me.
00:21:22I wanted to ask you about this as well, because President Trump is going to head over to the Kennedy Center.
00:21:26He posted this.
00:21:27Tremendous work is being done and money being spent on bringing it back to the absolute top level of luxury.
00:21:33Glamour and entertainment.
00:21:35It had fallen on hard times physically, but will soon be making a major comeback.
00:21:39That's a nice little jewel there, part of D.C., and a lovely bit of architecture.
00:21:44And he aims to make it better and is headed over there today.
00:21:48And I think of this as being a lot like the situation with crime.
00:21:51All of us who have covered politics that have sort of paid attention, lived in Washington, D.C., know that the Kennedy senator is a true gem.
00:21:58It is in one of the most spectacular places in the country.
00:22:04The views of the Potomac River and across are absolutely spectacular.
00:22:09And if you've been there, first of all, you get absolutely – you talk about getting robbed.
00:22:14You get mugged if you buy a ticket for anything at the Kennedy Center.
00:22:18And it is rundown.
00:22:19It is drab.
00:22:20And so this is another one of those things where I think the president looks at this and says, you know what, this should be the crown jewel that it really is and wants to do something.
00:22:30And then you wind up with opponents rooting for it not to be a spectacular, clean place where you – it's also totally inaccessible, by the way – where you get the most amazing attractions that everybody can enjoy.
00:22:46So we will see – the word's leaked out, hasn't it?
00:22:50Like some of the –
00:22:51The names?
00:22:52Names?
00:22:52I didn't see them.
00:22:54I was studying other things.
00:22:56Maybe a rock and roll band that used to paint their face like it was Halloween every time.
00:22:59I'll give you a hint on that.
00:23:01And maybe a great legendary –
00:23:02I heard it's going to be Bill Hammer.
00:23:04No, it will not.
00:23:05But my middle name is George.
00:23:07And that is your clue for another one of these who will be announced today.
00:23:12Okay.
00:23:13We'll see.
00:23:14I don't know.
00:23:14I'm terrible about this movie.
00:23:15You guys don't have any guesses here?
00:23:17No, I don't.
00:23:17I have no guesses.
00:23:18Oh, I mean, obviously that one was fine.
00:23:21George Strait?
00:23:21George Strait.
00:23:22George Strait deserves it.
00:23:23Keep an eye on him.
00:23:24Thank you, Charlie.
00:23:25See you soon.
00:23:25Thank you, Bob.
00:23:26Let's bring in Maryland Governor Westmore to the program.
00:23:29Good morning, Governor.
00:23:30Thanks so much for joining the program.
00:23:33Good morning.
00:23:33Thanks for having me.
00:23:34Well, Governor, I'm so glad you decided to come on the program.
00:23:37I know you care about your community, and I care about mine as well.
00:23:41And I'm hoping that we can get to some resolutions on how we can come together to make this happen.
00:23:47I want to bring you to one of your cities in your state.
00:23:50And you're a neighbor to Washington, D.C.
00:23:52And we know the actions that the president is taking right now.
00:23:55When you look at the numbers right now, the most dangerous cities list, Baltimore is on number four of that.
00:24:01And when it comes to the murders, it's number three.
00:24:04Now, I know you have been surging resources to Baltimore, investing in the police there.
00:24:11But you don't like the actions that the president is taking right now.
00:24:15Why?
00:24:15Well, you know, when I came in, I said that the number one priority that we had as administration was to make sure that our communities were safe.
00:24:25You know, before I became governor, for the eight years before I became the governor, Baltimore City went eight straight years of 300-plus homicides.
00:24:33The year before I became the governor, Baltimore City averaged about a homicide a day.
00:24:36And I said, I refuse to be a governor who's going to spend my time offering eulogies and giving thoughts and prayers that we actually had need to have resources and coordination that was going to help to fundamentally address the problem.
00:24:49As people of my state have learned, you know, I don't come from a political background.
00:24:53My background is I'm a soldier.
00:24:55And so what we did was we made historic investments in local law enforcement, that we invested over $50 million in the Baltimore City Police Department alone,
00:25:02that we made historic investments in technologies and predictive analytics and saying if someone commits a violent crime, particularly with a firearm, I want them in handcuffs in 24 hours.
00:25:12And saying that we made historic investments in our community groups, working with the mayor, working with our county executives,
00:25:17working with the community groups and our violence intervention and violence interruption groups to making sure we can stop crime before it happens and making sure we don't have this retaliatory cycle of violence.
00:25:27And while I know that we still have more work to do, I also know this is that despite the fact that the year before I became the governor, Baltimore City, again, had on had historic strike in her streak in violence that now that the last time the homicide rate was this low in Baltimore City, I was not born yet.
00:25:46So we're making real progress where Maryland is now amongst the fastest dropping states in this country on violent crime.
00:25:54There's ways you can do this and you have to be able to make sure you're using the right tool to get to the right result.
00:25:59You know, Mr. Governor, you're right.
00:26:02Y'all have made progress, but there's still some issues there.
00:26:05And this is a resident, and this is what they said in the Baltimore Sun, a 77-year-old woman from Curtis Bay who asked to remain anonymous due to threat levels she's received from drug dealers on her block,
00:26:19compared the morning drug traffic to fast food drive-thru when a real estate agent assessed her property about a month ago and a half.
00:26:28She said that the agent told her he can't sell this house with that, referring to the 10 or 12 people involved in the drug market, loitering across the street.
00:26:38I'm going to get hurt one day.
00:26:40I know I am, she said.
00:26:42But the mayor responded this way, Governor.
00:26:45I'm sure you read the article in the Baltimore Sun yesterday talking about how so many Baltimore residents don't recognize their neighborhoods anymore.
00:26:54What do you say to those residents of Baltimore who may think that citing falling crime statistics glosses over some of the harsher day-to-day realities and needs that they have to their lives in Baltimore,
00:27:10need for things to change even further in terms of just regular drug trafficking?
00:27:15Yeah, so we don't, we're only having that discussion because the president is having that discussion.
00:27:20And this, I want to be very clear.
00:27:21I didn't read the Baltimore Sun article.
00:27:23I don't read it because they're a part of the president's propaganda machine.
00:27:28So, Mr. Governor, I know people go back and forth in the politics and Donald Trump and all this, but this is what the locals are saying.
00:27:36This is not some partisan thing.
00:27:40Well, I mean, my heart breaks for that woman in Curtis Bay.
00:27:44And it breaks for anyone who does not feel safe in their own neighborhoods and in their own communities anywhere in the state of Maryland.
00:27:51And I think the people of the state of Maryland know and have seen through our actions that the number one priority that we have is making sure that people can feel safe in their own neighborhoods, in their own communities, and in their own skin.
00:28:02That we're making sure that we're making sure that people who commit crimes, that they are held accountable for the crimes that they commit, but also that we're improving better systems that are making sure that they are also accountable to having actually focusing on rehabilitation and helping people get back into the community with a real pathway for long-term success.
00:28:21And so, whether it's a person in Curtis Bay or whether it's a person in Catonsville, they know that their governor is prioritizing their safety.
00:28:31Pardon my interruption, Governor, but the people of D.C. feel the same way.
00:28:36The people of Philly feel the same way.
00:28:38I'm just curious why you've been so critical of the administration trying to solve this problem.
00:28:45Is it the process that you don't like?
00:28:47Because it looks like they're doing the same thing that you're doing, which is surging resources to the city.
00:28:56It's because I'm proud to be the 63rd governor of the state of Maryland, and I'm honored to be the commander-in-chief of the Maryland National Guard.
00:29:03I stand with the remarkable men and women who have raised their hand, the citizen-soldiers, who, frankly, are trained to fight and win our nation's wars.
00:29:14The people who, in times of emergency and in times of crisis, that I have the unique authority and the unique ability to mobilize them,
00:29:22and where I have done so as the governor of the state of Maryland, whether it is historic floods that we've seen in western Maryland,
00:29:27or whether it's the fact that I still currently, right now, have men and women who are deployed overseas doing operations.
00:29:34This is something that I take very seriously, particularly as someone who's worn the uniform,
00:29:38particularly as someone who's had to say goodbye to my family,
00:29:41particularly as someone who has had to trust the judgment of the commander-in-chief,
00:29:46knowing that the decision that they made was one that had not just the best interest of the national security in mind,
00:29:52but the best interest of me and my family.
00:29:53And so all I'm saying is this, is if we want to have a serious conversation about violent crime,
00:29:59we can have a serious conversation about violent crime,
00:30:01and I would love to be able to share the multitude of things that we are doing in the state of Maryland,
00:30:06where we are surging support for local law enforcement, surging support for predictive analytics and technologies,
00:30:12surging supports for community groups and allowing more supports for the mayor and the county executive
00:30:16and the people on the ground doing the work,
00:30:17and we were able to receive some really encouraging and historic results in Baltimore and around the state of Maryland,
00:30:23and I never once had to mobilize the National Guard in order to accomplish those feats.
00:30:29Governor, it's a different war now.
00:30:32There's more brothers dying here in these cities than overseas.
00:30:37So isn't it fair to have them there?
00:30:41And it's Democrats that agree with this measure.
00:30:43Don't take my word for it.
00:30:44The local cop there, the police chief, agrees with this.
00:30:48The mayor of the city agrees with this.
00:30:52And it's because people that look like me, you are dying.
00:30:58No one needs to explain to me the pain that is taking place in so many communities.
00:31:04No one needs to explain to me the pain that is taking place in so many communities,
00:31:08urban, rural, and suburban, who are being besieged by this issue of gun violence,
00:31:14who's being besieged by this issue of chronically and generationally not feeling safe inside of your neighborhoods.
00:31:22And it's the reason that we have made it our top priority to make sure that people are feeling safe.
00:31:26But I can tell you right now, what people want more than anything in those communities is they don't want performative.
00:31:32They want performance, right?
00:31:34They're not looking for someone to walk around with military fatigues and a big gun.
00:31:39They're looking for someone who actually understands how to make people feel safe
00:31:43and how to make people actually safe in their communities.
00:31:46Our National Guards are not trained for this.
00:31:49I'm very specific about my role as commander-in-chief of the Maryland National Guard.
00:31:52And we know the missions that they are trained for.
00:31:54And municipal policing is not one of them.
00:31:57So I'll tell you this.
00:31:58And so if we want to be serious about making people safe, let's actually do the things that make people safe.
00:32:03I'm way over time, Governor.
00:32:05I'll do two things.
00:32:07I would ask you, this is going to be only for 30 days until Congress gets involved.
00:32:12So let's see the results.
00:32:13If the results are true, then we stay with it.
00:32:16But I would also ask you, can I come to Baltimore with you?
00:32:20I want to visit the community with you.
00:32:22I've been there many times.
00:32:23We'll walk the block together.
00:32:25And we'll figure out all the programs that you have suggested.
00:32:28I would love to meet all of them.
00:32:29But I also want to see the metrics as well.
00:32:32I want the impact to be there.
00:32:34And I hope you'll take me up on that offer.
00:32:36I would be honored to take you up on that offer.
00:32:40We are walking our streets all over the state all the time.
00:32:44And I also know that when you look at the cost of this National Guard deployment, we also have to understand there's a real cost to it.
00:32:52Not just a financial cost, but also an opportunity cost.
00:32:55Because when we have real tragedies and real disasters that our National Guard has to respond to, they're not going to be able to because they are currently doing municipal policing operations.
00:33:04And that's not right.
00:33:05I got to go, Governor.
00:33:05But there's a disaster happening right now.
00:33:08And we got to focus on the crisis right now.
00:33:10All right, brother.
00:33:11I'll see you soon, Governor.
00:33:12I appreciate the time.
00:33:14All right.
00:33:14Thank you so much.
00:33:15You got it.
00:33:16So National Guard troops who were officially deployed in Washington, D.C. overnight, beginning their work to help tackle crime in the city.
00:33:23But they will not be acting as direct law enforcement officers, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explained on Monday with Laura.
00:33:31Under Title 32, which is the authorization they'll be using, they have broad latitude.
00:33:38But they're not going to be involved in law enforcement functions.
00:33:40But there's also the application of common sense.
00:33:43We're not going to have National Guards sitting there like this, seeing a crime committed and not do something about it.
00:33:48You can help somebody interdict, temporarily detain like we did in Los Angeles, and hand over to law enforcement.
00:33:54Those are the types of things that National Guard can be trained to do.
00:33:57Right.
00:33:57And just their presence should be a deterrent.
00:33:59Let's bring in former National Guardsman and political strategist Chuck DeVore.
00:34:03Chuck, if they gave Puget, you asked you to put the camouflage on and help out in Washington, D.C., what would you be able to do?
00:34:10What would you not be able to do?
00:34:12Yeah, that's a great question.
00:34:14So like the Secretary of Defense said, this is under Title 32.
00:34:17The president is acting as if he's the governor of D.C.
00:34:20So he has the same authority that a state governor has in our nation's capital.
00:34:25It's designed that way on purpose.
00:34:27And so if you're a National Guard member under Title 32 doing a law enforcement function or preventing riots or what have you, you can do whatever you're told to do.
00:34:36You could arrest people if you wanted to.
00:34:38The problem with that, Brian, is that we're not trained to make a Miranda arrest, right?
00:34:43So what you end up doing, as the Secretary of Defense explained, is you detain someone.
00:34:47You hold them until you can hand them off to law enforcement to be properly arrested and to be read their rights.
00:34:55So that's what we're looking at in D.C.
00:34:57The other thing that's to me very interesting is that the shortfall of police in D.C. today is about the same as the shortfall of police were in Los Angeles in 1992 when I was deployed for the 92 riots.
00:35:10We had 10,000 guardsmen that came in for the riots, plus another 4,500 active duty army and marines.
00:35:18And I was under Title 32 for about three or four days, and I was federalized under Title 10.
00:35:23And I was still able to do the same work as I was under Title 32 because the president invoked the Insurrection Act.
00:35:30Now, President Trump doesn't have to do that in D.C., again, because he is the commander in chief of the D.C. Guard.
00:35:37I want to make sure, and I hope the president is aware, and I hope that came up with the discussion yesterday, that you get some of the National Guardsmen in the areas where crime is high.
00:35:46A lot of the urban communities and the projects, do you think there's legitimate worry that they're going to focus too much on the monuments and the tourist attractions?
00:35:54Yeah, so this is all about where their priorities are.
00:35:57It's a great question to ask.
00:35:58Even if they are focused on the monuments, as you say, it still frees up D.C. metropolitan police to go into the more difficult areas.
00:36:07But, again, you're looking at about 1,000 guardsmen.
00:36:10There's about an 800 sworn officer shortfall in D.C.
00:36:14Here's another interesting thing, Brian.
00:36:16Other governors can loan their National Guards to D.C., and then they're going to fall under the command of the president.
00:36:24And so we can augment that pretty small D.C. guard force of 1,000 with additional guard members, for example, from Virginia.
00:36:32So two things.
00:36:33After 30 days, the president's got to go ask Congress to extend it if it works.
00:36:38Number one, if he's seeing progress but not completion, would you do that if you're the president?
00:36:44And do you expect, if this is successful, it'd go to other cities, obviously in need?
00:36:50Because I know in the other cities and states, you're going to need permission from the governors.
00:36:55Right.
00:36:56So this is something I predicted several years ago during the whole defund the police mania.
00:37:01I predicted that you were going to see a breakdown in urban police departments, low morale, experienced police officers leaving the forces, and then leaving the governors with no alternative other than to deploy their own National Guard.
00:37:16Now, you bring up a challenging point.
00:37:19You know, what if the governor doesn't want it?
00:37:20Well, you saw that in Los Angeles a couple of months ago, where Governor Gavin Newsom, wanting to position himself for running for president and trying to get progressive support, opposed that measure, as well as did Mayor Bass, whom I served with in the California State Assembly.
00:37:36So as a result, the president was somewhat limited in his ability to deploy the guard.
00:37:41He did, but because they were under federal orders, they could only do things like protect buildings or cover the six of immigration officers who were in very difficult situations.
00:37:53So they were basically providing security for those immigration officers.
00:37:58It's going to be very interesting.
00:37:59I just hope it's successful.
00:38:00Twenty-three arrests yesterday.
00:38:01I like some of the comments coming out of the D.C. mayor's Democrat mouth yesterday.
00:38:05So it was kind of encouraging.
00:38:07Chuck DeBoer, we'll wait and see.
00:38:08Hopefully it'll be effective.
00:38:10Talk to you soon.
00:38:11U.S. Attorney for D.C. Janine Pirro doubled down, maybe even tripled down, on the idea of getting control over juvenile criminals in particular.
00:38:21We're also looking to lower the age of criminals.
00:38:25What's happening is, even if you shoot someone with a gun, you go to family court where the purpose is rehabilitation, you get to go to an ice cream social, and you get to go to yoga classes.
00:38:35That's nonsense.
00:38:36All of these statutes that they've passed don't allow me to incarcerate.
00:38:41They allow the removal or the erasure of convictions.
00:38:45How fair is that to a parent who wants to find out whether or not a nanny is someone who's been convicted of a prior assault?
00:38:53How fair is that to an employer who doesn't get to understand or know who he's hiring?
00:38:58Everything about the D.C.
00:39:00Council and the laws that they've passed are liberal.
00:39:02They're defense-leaning, and they're not in favor of the citizens of D.C.
00:39:08Republican Congressman Byron Donalds of the great state of Florida, member of the House Oversight Committee, also a candidate for Florida governor.
00:39:15Great to see you today.
00:39:17Look, this is making huge news in part because the left is so angry over this.
00:39:23And Janine Pirro there, the U.S. attorney for D.C., laying out why this is necessary and how young some of the perpetrators are.
00:39:30Your take.
00:39:32My take is the U.S. attorney is absolutely correct.
00:39:35D.C. has a history of being substantially weak on crime.
00:39:40That's why the District of Columbia continues to be unsafe.
00:39:43Last Congress, I filed legislation, we just refiled it again, that would actually put D.C. in line with every other jurisdiction in America.
00:39:52What I mean by that is, in the District of Columbia, if you're 22 years old and you commit a crime, they can try you as a juvenile.
00:39:59No other part of America does that, but they do that in D.C.
00:40:02That's the kind of stuff that needs to change.
00:40:03With respect to what President Trump has done, it is his responsibility to take the safety and security of the nation's capital seriously.
00:40:11And I'm glad to see that he's dispatched National Guard to keep the streets of D.C. safe for everyone.
00:40:18Look, I want to dig in a little bit deeper on this point.
00:40:21A crowd rental company says it's seen a massive surge in requests.
00:40:25The CEO has told Fox News D.C. and the inquiries just from that district are up roughly 400 percent compared to the same period of time in 2024.
00:40:36Most of the attendees are being paid or are there because it's their job.
00:40:41To protest.
00:40:43That doesn't mean they don't support the cause, but it does mean that these crowds are not as organic as they appear to be on TV.
00:40:51Look at this.
00:40:52Our home, you can't have it, Trump, D.C. is our home, you can't have it, Trump, D.C. is our home.
00:41:09All right.
00:41:10So recent protests include this one on Monday during President Trump's crime crackdown announcement.
00:41:17The singing, some of it rather cringy and had his name in it.
00:41:22You know, I want to make it clear.
00:41:24We don't know if these people specifically were paid or not, but that is certainly happening in many places around this issue.
00:41:32And against this president, it has tended to be the norm.
00:41:36Congressman.
00:41:37We know that there's paid astroturf from the radical left.
00:41:42They do this all the time with a lot of their phony protests.
00:41:45When you talk to some of these people on the ground, they don't live in the jurisdictions.
00:41:48They tell you they're being paid.
00:41:50They're bused in.
00:41:51And then when the issue's over, they leave.
00:41:53This is part of the astroturf of the Democratic left.
00:41:55We're far too familiar.
00:41:57At the end of the day, what is most important is that the security of Washington, D.C. is paramount.
00:42:03And if you're a Washingtonian living in Washington, D.C., you know that the streets are not safe.
00:42:09Members of Congress, Angie Craig, Henry Cuellar was held up at gunpoint and carjacked in Washington, D.C.
00:42:15If it happens to members of Congress, it happens to regular citizens as well.
00:42:19D.C. City Council has not prioritized safety and security.
00:42:23They have prioritized woke criminal justice reform policies that simply do not work, never have worked.
00:42:31And that's why President Trump is doing the right thing.
00:42:33He's stepping up and making sure that the federal seat, that is the Washington, D.C., that's what it is, the federal enclave, that the federal enclave is safe for all Americans.
00:42:43You know, you pointed out, and the history of D.C. in particular, and I have to say this.
00:42:48I said this yesterday when we saw, again, Mariel Bowser, the mayor, Mariel Bowser, standing up there with Pat Smith, who is the chief of police of MPD, Metro Police.
00:42:58And they were talking about having just met with the A.G. Pam Bondi and how they want to work with, you know, the federal government and all of this.
00:43:07Yeah, this is politics, too.
00:43:10I mean, they had an opportunity to ask for help.
00:43:13They had an opportunity to make some change and to attack this in a different way.
00:43:17And it was by choice that they didn't.
00:43:19So how much do you trust that the cooperation is going to be sustainable from the left?
00:43:25To be honest, I don't trust that they're going to want to actually cooperate with President Trump, which is why we have to continue to make light of this issue and make sure it's aware for everybody.
00:43:35This is similar to what happened at George Washington University when Mariel Bowser would not send in the Metropolitan Police Department to arrest the people trespassing on that university's campus until the oversight committee, the committee I sit on, subpoenaed her testimony in Congress.
00:43:51And the second we did that, all of a sudden MPD was allowed to make the arrest.
00:43:54We have to make sure that we shine light on this.
00:43:57We have to keep it a focus of not just the people of Washington, but the American people.
00:44:01And that is the true way that you have accountability in this matter.
00:44:05Look, I want to pop this up on the screen.
00:44:06About 400 D.C. National Guard troops have now reported for duty in the nation's capital.
00:44:13We expect that to reach that 800 point by the end of the week.
00:44:17The president was serious, and this is moving forward.
00:44:19I wanted to get that backed in.
00:44:21Congressman Donalds, it's always great to have you in focus.
00:44:26We're going to be essentially crime-free.
00:44:29This is going to be a beacon.
00:44:30And it's going to also serve as an example of what can be done.
00:44:37That's President Trump talking about a possible extension after a successful night one of his D.C. crime crackdown.
00:44:44National Guard troops taking to the streets patrolling neighborhoods of the nation's capital.
00:44:48No major incidents, but there were plenty of arrests.
00:44:5143 folks were sent to the slammer Tuesday night alone.
00:44:55But guess what?
00:44:57Not everybody was a fan.
00:44:58D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser hopped on a Zoom call to trash the crackdown.
00:45:03Watch.
00:45:04This is a time where community needs to jump in.
00:45:07And we all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule, and get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect the Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push.
00:45:34Authoritarian.
00:45:35That's fun.
00:45:36And the liberal media hacks who live in D.C., well, they know crime is a big problem.
00:45:40And yet, they're too chicken to admit it out loud.
00:45:44Thankfully, Morning Joe is a gossip queen.
00:45:47I want to read you a text from someone who, I won't say their name, but we'll just say that they're very liberal.
00:45:59And he says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in D.C.
00:46:07I know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant.
00:46:10I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at.
00:46:13None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8 p.m.
00:46:16And 13-year-olds are committing many of these crimes.
00:46:19Joey, is there liberal relief?
00:46:23They obviously must virtue signal that they are disgusted by the authoratorium crackdown.
00:46:30But then, in private, they're telling each other, I'm quite happy about this.
00:46:35Listen, a fellow with this accent can't make fun of the way anyone says anything, if you've heard me read the prompter.
00:46:40But authoratorium, I like that.
00:46:42I've been to one of those once.
00:46:44It was a good old hoedown.
00:46:45Okay, listen, she said this on her X account.
00:46:49She said this to her people.
00:46:52And she said other things to a press conference, which went to everyone.
00:46:56She's trying to talk out both sides of your mouth, and she's not realizing that people hear everything.
00:47:00And so that's her problem.
00:47:01I was very perplexed by how seemingly welcoming she was to President Trump in the press conference and in her public statements.
00:47:09But the truth is, if you're a city mayor, your goal should be to make the people of your city happy.
00:47:14And that's what's going to get you reelected.
00:47:15But when you're the city mayor of a big city with a high profile, your goal is to be in another office.
00:47:20And she's trying to navigate the politics of her office in this very hard-to-navigate-if-partisanship-is-what-you're-trying-to-do moment.
00:47:28Because, listen, I went to school at Georgetown.
00:47:30Georgetown, those are the most hypocritical, progressive liberals you could ever meet.
00:47:35They won't allow the D.C. metro to come on top of that hill because they don't want the riffraff to come with it.
00:47:40But they'll yell at me my very first day because I drive a truck.
00:47:42Literally, that's what happened to me.
00:47:44They said, go back to the country where you belong.
00:47:46And I said, I can't get there quick enough, but I need an education to get there, so get out of my way.
00:47:51But that's just the type of people that are in D.C.
00:47:53I mean, you know, Georgetown's the worst of it, probably.
00:47:55Not the community, but just the institution and all of it as far as the hypocrites and the ones that want to live their elitist lifestyle and tell the rest of us in blue-collar America we need to do more to take care of the people they don't want in their neighborhood.
00:48:07That's exactly what President Trump's trying to do.
00:48:09He's trying to give everyone on the pay scale some peace in their homes.
00:48:13And to be against it, it blows my mind.
00:48:16But Muriel Bowser wasn't.
00:48:18We were talking about this on your show just a couple days ago because, you know, to Joey's point, everyone was kind of surprised that at the press conference she was backing the president.
00:48:28So when you make an about face like that, is that because the progressives have gotten to her and threatened her, or is that just bad leadership?
00:48:36I also think it's a little bit like if you're President Trump, you have to understand she's got a base, too.
00:48:41And just like, for example, when he goes to Alaska on Friday, Russia has an audience, Zelensky has an audience, NATO has an audience, and he has an audience.
00:48:49So you have to understand, like, what can you ask people to do that are within their realm of politics?
00:48:54I think who she was initially when we saw her say, OK, well, let's try to work with him on this, is where she really is.
00:49:02She went along with President Trump's decision.
00:49:04At least she didn't push back too much on shuttering the Black Lives Matter thing.
00:49:07She supported a crime bill a couple of years ago that the leftist activists were, like, very much against.
00:49:14And she also is trying to get the commanders, Redskins, whatever.
00:49:18But she wants that team back in Washington, D.C.
00:49:20And a lot of progressives don't want that.
00:49:22So I think that she has been willing to do that.
00:49:25But I will also say this.
00:49:26Just I know this, and I don't think she'd mind me saying it because she said it on TV this morning.
00:49:30When Judge Jeanine first got to D.C., one of the first people she reached out to and had established a very good relationship with was Muriel Bowser.
00:49:39And I think that if we can get past this, that she's going to have some politics that she has to deal with, but that she knows this is happening, one.
00:49:49And she's trying to figure out, OK, how do we get to the other side of this in a way that is better for the city?
00:49:53I think just to understand that everyone has politics that they have to deal with and still work with her is probably the best way to do it.
00:50:00So the people who are pushing back on this, people like Zoran Mamdani, who's obviously the Democrat socialist running for mayor in New York City,
00:50:08they're saying, well, if it can happen in D.C., it can happen anywhere in any big American city.
00:50:13But that's not true, isn't it?
00:50:14That's not true.
00:50:15So what could happen, though, in those cities, which we would love to see in those cities, is enforcement of the laws and dismantling these acts and these legislative,
00:50:27these legislatures that have been put in place by these city councils.
00:50:30I was reminded when we were told about these incredible just, you know, two days of this, how efficacious it's been,
00:50:37how many people have collaborated together to get these arrest warrants out and the like.
00:50:41So we know that there was almost 1,500 participants in, for example, one of those night operations, Border Patrol, FBI, DEA, U.S. Park Police, in addition to D.C. Metro Police.
00:50:53And it reminded me of in Portland when they tried to dismantle the police altogether and they put covering and they charged them with enforcing safety for residents was like park volunteers, park employees.
00:51:06And the first perp that they tried to either get or protect themselves against obviously brought out a weapon and they then had to call the police to come and save them.
00:51:16So when people call this tyranny or when they say, look what can happen in your cities, it's like, exactly.
00:51:22This is what collaboration looks like when the safety of Americans is at stake and when the safety of Americans is the priority.
00:51:28I would love to see Muriel Bowser's call log.
00:51:30That was the first thing that I thought of.
00:51:32Who texted?
00:51:32Who called?
00:51:33Was it Pelosi?
00:51:34What person in charge said, you need to walk back your comments a little bit to toe the line?
00:51:38But I'm not quite sure how the narrative stops just short of saying we have buy-in and support protecting these minority and low-income communities that purportedly that party was set to protect this entire time.
00:51:51And final point, for all of those people crying on the left, this is unprecedented.
00:51:56No, what has been unprecedented is the crime.
00:51:58What is unprecedented is for how many years it has been allowed to fester and foment, how many lives were discarded, how many people looked the other way because they were discardable type populations.
00:52:10That is horrifying and that is unprecedented.
00:52:12This is what it calls for.
00:52:13So Joe and Mika here, you know, they're the odd heroes because Joe is saying what I think is very obvious, that, you know, there are a lot of liberals who publicly are signaling that they're disgusted by this, but privately they're quite relieved.
00:52:27And Mika's like, we are walking into a trap.
00:52:30If we don't say we hate crime, Donald Trump has laid a trap for us and now we have to say we love crime.
00:52:36Yeah, this is why the media is evil, okay?
00:52:42If you know the truth and you don't like it, then maybe just stay out of it.
00:52:47Just don't say anything.
00:52:49But instead, they know the truth and they lie because they find that their status, losing, they're more terrified of losing their status than losing their lives.
00:53:01So, you know, they could be murdered on the way home, but what if they don't get that cocktail invite?
00:53:05And all of these, this is like, I think, one of the, there were a few more examples yesterday of people anonymously talking about the crime and then saying, I'd rather not put my name onto this because, you know, I just, what they're saying is they don't want to lose their friends, you know?
00:53:22I thought it was interesting that she said, the mayor says, how do we get to the other side of this or him?
00:53:30What, what is that?
00:53:32I mean, the other, you can't get to the other side of common sense.
00:53:36And that is the reason why they are stuck with narratives.
00:53:40So they use the authoritarian narrative, which is a great one because you can fit anything into it.
00:53:45It's just like the racist filter.
00:53:47So it's like increasing law enforcement, authoritarian, arresting juveniles, authoritarian, curfews, authoritarian.
00:53:54They're all authoritarian.
00:53:55They could all be racist because, but none of them are, but they can look like it.
00:53:59But Trump, whether it's border or crime or trans invading sports, he takes the lane of common sense.
00:54:05So they're stuck with these narratives because they can't, what alternative do you have to common sense?
00:54:13There is none.
00:54:14You can't get over this.
00:54:16What happens when you remove the narrative, the narrative of authoritarianism?
00:54:21If you took that out and just watched what was happening, it was just crime fighting.
00:54:25That's all it is.
00:54:26It's an apolitical act that we all agree with fighting crime.
00:54:29It's common sense.
00:54:30They know that it works.
00:54:32The fear is that it will work.
00:54:34And if it works, God help the left, because success is a threat to the preservation of their failures.
00:54:41So I think what they're trying to pull vote into is the other side of the Trump administration.
00:54:47And she's assuming that it's going to be a Democrat president in 2028 who will take with them both houses of Congress.
00:54:54And then D.C. will achieve statehood.
00:54:56And then Muriel Bowser will be governor.
00:54:58But she might also have been trying to say the other side of this next 30 days because it has to be approved in the Congress after 30 days.
00:55:04So that could have been also.
00:55:06I'm not her spokesperson.
00:55:07What am I doing?
00:55:08I don't know what you're doing, Dana.
00:55:10Really?
00:55:10Never mind.
00:55:11Stop it.
00:55:12You're being very pro-Bowser right now.
00:55:13Yes.
00:55:14Oh, wow.
00:55:15You're barking up the wrong tree.
00:55:16Ahead socialist Zoran says, forget his train wreck Marxist policies.
00:55:21The orange man is back.
00:55:23John Yoo joins me now.
00:55:25John, welcome.
00:55:25Good to have you with us.
00:55:27You see this pushback from Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.
00:55:33Here's something that she said on The Breakfast Club.
00:55:36Let's watch this.
00:55:37It is a step in fascism when the federal government can bigfoot sovereign states.
00:55:46That's not us.
00:55:47We should be.
00:55:49We should be the 51st state.
00:55:51I think that is what he is trying to make it normal, where citizens say the federal government should overtake local policing.
00:56:00So she's saying that President Trump is trying to normalize a federal takeover of local city police departments by using the one place where he has the authority to do that.
00:56:13As you pointed out in your piece, John, what do you say about that?
00:56:18I think the mayor needs to look more closely at the Constitution.
00:56:22She may be right when it comes to other big city mayors who are also experiencing rising crime.
00:56:28Crime under the Constitution is primarily for state government and local government, but not Washington, D.C.
00:56:36Washington, D.C. is unique.
00:56:37It is the only federal city.
00:56:40It is uniquely under the control of the federal government.
00:56:42The mayor herself is confused.
00:56:44She's not a local government official.
00:56:47She herself is a federal employee.
00:56:49D.C. is just a subagency of the national government.
00:56:53And President Trump has the constitutional authority and responsibility to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.
00:57:00That includes Washington, D.C.
00:57:03And so if these federal employees, the mayor, the police chief, the city council are not getting the job done and getting violent crime down, then President Trump has the constitutional authority to send to the National Guard, to send in federal law enforcement.
00:57:17And one other thing, Martha, that people are missing, this 30-day window you hear about, that's only with regard to the president taking over the police force in Washington, D.C.
00:57:28That does not limit the National Guard.
00:57:30That does not limit the FBI.
00:57:31President Trump can keep those forces on the ground for as long as he thinks is necessary to get violent crime under control in the city.
00:57:39Well, let me ask you about this.
00:57:40We saw Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in D.C., talking about changing the law.
00:57:47She said, we're going to change the laws here because the laws are so restrictive around juvenile offenders.
00:57:53And let's put up the screen about how many of these crimes that are happening in D.C., 51 percent done by juveniles, 52 percent robbery and arrest.
00:58:04You can see these numbers up on the screen.
00:58:06But the three laws that are in effect by the city council, the Youth Rehabilitation Law, the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act, the Second Chance Amendment Act, these really hamstring leadership in Washington, John, because you can arrest someone.
00:58:25But then all of these laws that are in place give them the opportunity to let them go and to limit the amount of time that they're going to stay in jail.
00:58:34So how can these efforts by Pam Bondi and Jeanine Pirro get around those laws?
00:58:41You know, Martha, I hate to see any Fox News host leave the channel, but in this one case, I think this is a great thing that she has left Fox to be U.S. attorney.
00:58:52She's not just the top federal prosecutor in Washington, in Washington, D.C., again, because it's a federal city.
00:58:57She is the top prosecutor for all crimes in Washington, and she put a finger on it.
00:59:01She wrote this op-ed I read in The Washington Post this morning saying that D.C. has too lenient an attitude in its laws and its practices towards kids who are committing crimes.
00:59:12You could be 17, you could be 16 and commit a violent crime and still maybe serve no jail time under D.C.'s relaxed attitude.
00:59:20So I think she's right. Ultimately, she should go not just to the D.C. city council, but Congress could actually change these laws, too, and say if you're committing crimes that are violent, that would result in serious punishments for adults, children should be tried that way, too.
00:59:36So Congress could change those city council laws in D.C., John, quickly, if you can?
00:59:41Yes. Under the Constitution, D.C. is ultimately – I'm sorry, Congress is ultimately the legislature in charge of D.C.
00:59:49They can override the city council.
00:59:51You put your finger on it. That's exactly how they're going to try to get around the city council that has put in such lenient laws.
00:59:58There's also this issue of truancy. A lot of these kids are out on the street. Their parents don't know where they are.
01:00:04Some of them aren't showing up for school. And that is also on the books as a way to reel them in if they're not showing up for school.
01:00:11But it's almost never enforced, right? Quickly, if you can, John.
01:00:15I think that's a very good idea. Congress can take into account new strategies to get crime down and try them in D.C. first rather than letting this kind of woke ideology about crime go run rampant in D.C. with the city government.
01:00:28Yeah. These lenient rules do not seem to be creating a more positive society or stronger, more able young people in these situations.
01:00:39John Yoo, thank you very much. Great to see you.
01:00:42Thanks, Michael.
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