BREAKING: Trump deploys National Guard to 19 states amid crime crackdown

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Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson reports the latest on the Trump administration's crackdown on crime nationwide from the White House. Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, and former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky also weigh in on the effort to reduce violence across the country and the FBI raid on John Bolton's home and office. #foxnews #crime #trump #us #breakingnews   Subscribe to Fox News: https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ Download the Fox News app: https://foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS/cd5yhg3o Become a Fox News Patriot member! www.youtube.com/@FoxNews/join  FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched television news channel for 18 consecutive years. According to a 2020 Brand Keys Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index report, FOX News is the top brand in the country for morning and evening news coverage. A 2019 Suffolk University poll named FOX News as the most trusted source for television news or commentary, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Analysis survey found that FOX News was the most trusted cable news brand. A 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey also found that among Americans who could name an objective news source, FOX News was the top-cited outlet. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.  Watch full episodes of your favorite shows The Five: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/the-five Special Report with Bret Baier: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/special-report Jesse Watters Primetime: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/jesse-watters-primetime Hannity: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/hannity The Ingraham Angle: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/ingraham-angle Gutfeld!: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/gutfeld Fox News @ Night: https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/fox-news-night  Follow Fox News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/ Follow Fox News on X: https://x.com/foxnews Follow Fox News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foxnews/  # news #breaking #24x7

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00:00President Trump's crime crackdown sweeping the nation after deploying the National Guard to

00:06Washington, D.C. Now the White House plans to extend its effort across 19 states, all with

00:13the goal of curbing crime and supporting immigration enforcement. We'll talk to Republican Congressman

00:18Pat Fallon in just a moment. Plus, an illegal alien accused of killing three people in a truck

00:23accident is due in court today. What he's facing as yet another illegal alien, Kilmar

00:29Abrego Garcia, was set free. And we're getting new details this morning on the raid of former

00:35National Security Advisor John Bolton's home and office. So what was the FBI looking for and why?

00:41Welcome to Fox News Live, everybody. I'm Kevin Cork in the nation's capital. We begin at the White

00:46House just across the road where the president wrapped up a fairly busy week, I think it's easy

00:51to say. Lucas Tomlinson joins us from the North Lawn. Hey, LT. Good morning, Kevin. We just received

00:58some new numbers. Over 2,000 National Guardsmen are this morning patrolling the streets of Washington,

01:04D.C. This comes as the D.C. police force we know is over 800 cops short. And those National Guardsmen

01:09are coming from a number of states. Part of President Trump's crackdown on crime here in

01:14the nation's capital. And yesterday in the White House, the president says they could be going to

01:18other cities in the future. We're going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a mess. You

01:25have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out probably next.

01:30So I think Chicago will be our next. And then we'll help with New York.

01:36So Chicago and New York, Kevin. Now, for context, last year, the murder rate in D.C. was on par with

01:41Chicago and nearly four times higher than Los Angeles and nearly six times higher than New York,

01:47as you can see there. And you mentioned off the top, 1,700 National Guard members will be sent to 19

01:52states. That's less than 100 per state. The White House says they will be helping DHS with clerical

01:57support and other logistical tasks for processing illegal aliens at ICE facilities. Now, speaking of

02:03law enforcement, yesterday, FBI agents raided the home of Trump's former National Security Advisor,

02:08John Bolton, outside Washington in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland. And FBI agents were

02:13also seen in his office, the one he rents here in Washington, carrying boxes of documents,

02:18likely searching for classified information. Yesterday, the president admitted he's not a

02:22fan of Bolton, who wrote a book criticizing Trump after Bolton left the White House.

02:28I'm not a fan of John Bolton. I thought he was a sleazebag, actually.

02:32And he suffers major Trump derangement syndrome.

02:36Now, since returning, the White House Trump revoked the security clearance from Bolton and also took

02:44away his protective detail. And we've also learned the FBI director yesterday during that raid tweeted

02:51that no one is above the law and said the FBI is on mission, Kevin.

02:55I said in the in the new forward to the paperback edition of my book, I think it is a retribution

03:02presidency. And that security clearance was pulled after the president returned to office. And that

03:10also came at the same time he had some threats on his life from Iranian officials. Of course,

03:14Bolton had a lot to do with that strike on Qasem Soleimani. Kevin, that he did LTE on the North

03:21Lawn. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate that. The president, meantime, calling it a miracle,

03:25saying D.C. is safe again after he cracked down on crime right here in the nation's capital.

03:29And now that effort is actually expanding across the country. Texas Republican Congressman Pat

03:35Fallon is here with us this afternoon. It is this morning. It is great to have you with us.

03:39This is one of those situations. Frankly, you and I have to live here and and anything that we can

03:44do to make it safer for citizens like us or for visitors in particular, I think is a very strong

03:49move by this White House. Oh, yeah, Kevin, it's bold action. I mean, consider that the chairman of

03:57the police union in D.C. has admitted and shared that they were told to downgrade serious crimes like

04:04shootings and carjackings to lesser crimes. And even with D.C. hooking the books on their crime

04:09statistics, you're three and a half times more likely to be killed in D.C. than you were in 2012

04:15when a serious crime is committed. And from 2018 to 2023, carjackings are up 550 percent.

04:21So things are out of control. And thank goodness President Trump has taken these, again, bold actions.

04:26Yeah, bold actions. And in particular, when you look at the numbers and you talk about homicides,

04:31none for several days over a week. I mean, this, again, is the little slow march toward what we

04:37should expect in our nation's capital. Quite frankly, there's absolutely no reason to expect to get

04:42mugged or carjacked or assaulted just because you live here. And so I think this is great action.

04:47I think most Americans can agree with that as long as they don't have TDS. Meantime, in your home state

04:52of Texas, the state Senate there actually passed a GOP-drawn congressional map, paving the way, as you

04:57know, for five more seats. The president, without question, praising that effort. But I have a three-part

05:03question. Why do it? Could this be a harbinger of things to come across the country? And is that a good

05:09thing? Okay, so that's a great question. All fair questions. Why do it? If you look at, and let's

05:16just talk data, no spin, because Newsom, all Gavin Newsom was good at is slicking his hair back and

05:21spinning. So if you take the five largest states that are completely controlled by Democrats, which

05:27are California, Washington, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, there are 117 congressional seats in

05:32those five states. And 93 of them were Democratic seats and only 24 Republican. That's a 79% to 21%

05:39ratio. If you take the five largest red states, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio, and Florida,

05:48there's 104 seats. And that ratio is 72-32 for 69% to 31%. So the Democrats were very good at

05:55gerrymandering. In fact, very effectively, because we had 5 million more votes, GOP candidates for

06:01Congress in 2024, and we almost lost the House. So all this is doing is slightly rebalancing the

06:05scales. It's still skewed in the Democrats' favor. So to say that this is a threat on democracy

06:10is ludicrous in the absolute definition of hyperbole. Yeah, and I'm so glad you mentioned

06:15that, because if you really get down to brass tacks here, if all the GOP-led states decide to do

06:21just what Illinois and California have done, you can see a major swing in the balance of power

06:27here in the nation's capital. And a lot of people feel like you have to make this happen now,

06:31especially when you consider what's been happening previous elections. If this happens before the

06:36midterms, let me tell you, Katie barred the door. The GOP could be in very good shape for the final

06:41two years of this term of President Trump. Finally, I want to ask you about the raid on former National

06:49Security Advisor John Bolton's home and office. The president said he had no prior knowledge of that

06:54raid, but you sit on the House Intel Committee, and leadership there said, look, yeah, we were

07:00notified. So what seems to be the reason for the raid, and what, if anything, can we expect moving

07:05forward? Clearly, there's probable cause. So I want to explain to your viewers what it's like when you

07:11handle classified documents. It's not as if they come into our office in the Rayburn building and give

07:16them to us. We go to a SCIF, which is a secure area where this classified information is not

07:22supposed to leave. And sitting on the House Intel Committee, there's a SCIF that I go to. And even

07:26if I want to take notes on what I read, the notes that I take, Kevin, stay in the SCIF. So there is

07:32no reason in the world, unless you're the president of the United States that has the authority to

07:36declassify, that classified documentation is outside of a SCIF. So we'll find out. If John Bolton isn't in

07:42possession of any classified documents, he's in the clear. But if he is, he's going to have to face

07:46justice just like everyone else. And there are a lot of people who feel like there were

07:51unfortunate leaks coming out of the SCIF on a fairly regular basis during the last administration

07:56and maybe even before that. So we're going to see what, if anything, amounts to much here

08:01as we continue the investigations and keep an eye on it from our perch here at, of course, Fox.

08:06Thank you, my friend. Appreciate your time today, Congressman. Have a good weekend.

08:09Thanks, Kev. God bless. Take care.

08:11God bless you. Now with more on the John Bolton raid and what's at stake for the former National

08:16Security Advisor, we want to welcome former federal prosecutor Andrew Tchaikovsky. Andrew,

08:21this is fraught with peril, especially if, again, big if, he has some documents in his possession that

08:28he ought not. Well, I think that whoever ordered this raid believed that there is very strong

08:35evidence. I think more than even just what the search warrant required, which is probable cause,

08:41that there was evidence of a crime inside that home. Probable cause means that there was good

08:46indication of it, that it was probably there, and had to have been specified to a federal judge what

08:52they were looking for, why they were looking for it, and why they believed that it was still there

08:56at this time. And so when you put all of those factors together, I don't think this is just

09:01something as simple as, oh, they saw in a book that he referenced something that might have once

09:06been classified, or even that they knew that some time ago, a matter of months ago, that he had

09:12something that was questionably classified. This signals to me that in the very recent past,

09:19they knew that he had something that was classified, or that was evidence of a crime,

09:25and they acted on that now, and were able to go in and justify that to the district judge.

09:32This is the real question I think many people will ask. Okay, let's say he had something.

09:38What, if anything, will ever happen to the big insiders here in Washington? We hear these stories

09:43all the time. If you're GOP-affiliated, or if you're a friend of the president,

09:47chances are you're going to perp walk. They'll come to your house with guns a-blazing at

09:510600. Will anything happen here, do you think? Or is this, again, a situation where a lot of

09:59saber-rattling, but not much to finish with? Well, I think that there's a risk with any

10:05executive presidency using lawfare to a political advantage. And I hope that the Trump administration,

10:13and I trust that the Trump administration, are going to enforce the law fairly, and as it needs

10:19to be enforced, without engaging in specific lawfare, using the standards, perhaps even that the

10:26Democrats set in raiding homes. But I think that what we're going to see in the John Bolton case

10:32is that this isn't a close call. This wasn't something that they went in with just a little

10:38bit of evidence. I trust that the Trump administration, after seeing what happened during

10:43the raids on Mar-a-Lago and so much more, that there is something very, very solid here,

10:50that they went in to get this evidence because there was an urgent risk here and real evidence

10:57of a crime. This isn't just a matter of something where they're pushing back so that they can try to

11:02get even. I think that, and the law requires them to have had real evidence of a crime, either ongoing

11:09or having been complete with the evidence there. Well, this is going to make for a very, very

11:15interesting case. And unfortunately for John Bolton, a man who has served his country in a variety of

11:21roles, this could really turn out to be very, very painful for him, especially if, again, big if,

11:27he is in possession of materials that he ought not be. Andrew, thank you so much for your time today.

11:31We appreciate it. Have a good weekend.

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