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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