00:00Our president Trump holding a marathon cabinet meeting yesterday where he called out Democrats
00:04for defending crime instead of fighting it. The Republicans are the party that wants to stop
00:11crime. We're against crime. The Democrats like crime. I don't know why. I mean,
00:19we talk about common sense. I think I got elected on talking about common sense.
00:24Yeah, more than conservative, it's common sense. Our next guest credits President Trump's policies
00:28with reducing crime and questions why it was not prioritized under the Biden administration.
00:33So I want to bring in former Clinton advisor and pollster Mark Penn. Mark, it just struck you as
00:39a American why Democrats seem to have dropped any interest in the border and dropped any interest
00:46in drug trafficking during the previous four years. Well, not only did they drop it, but it's
00:53pretty clear in retrospect, the border was just open. And seeing people like the governor of Illinois
01:00say, hey, well, you know, there's no crime emergency here when they're losing, you know, 800 people,
01:07nearly 1,000 people every year in Cook County to murders. And the country is losing 75,000
01:16to 100,000 people a year between fentanyl and crime. I mean, that those are staggering numbers
01:23of deaths. And when I worked with President Clinton, they were some of the first issues
01:28that we tackled when we wanted to reach out. So I'm puzzled that Democrats, you know, rather
01:33than coming forward, make a compromise, come out with a with a counter plan, try to figure out
01:39some joint message, just seem to be putting themselves, you know, almost on the side of
01:45being, hey, just let crime be. And that, of course, is a disastrous policy for the party in
01:51the country. And I know I could get I could pull up soundbites that shows Harry Reid and Chuck
01:56Schumer and Bill Clinton sounding like Donald Trump when it comes to border policy, sounding like in the
02:0190s, you could have Joe Biden talk about how the need to bring law and order back to the streets.
02:06But when Trump says it, they just do the opposite. So let's look at the results in D.C. so far
02:10over the last two weeks. Over 1,000 arrests, 115 illegal guns seized, eight known gang members
02:17scooped up, two missing children recovered, 49 encampments cleared, just walked by Union Station,
02:22they're just not there anymore. So you're saying, look at these results. But yet the Democratic leaders,
02:28Pritzker, that ridiculous mayor, and of course, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass,
02:34Governor Hochul here, we don't want the help. Crime is fine.
02:42Yeah, well, just remember, the FBI got started in the first place because states and localities
02:48couldn't deal with crime. That is the whole history of federal involvement in law enforcement.
02:56And I'm not saying the Democrats should say, fine, send the National Guard. I'm saying Democrats
03:00should have responded strongly and said, yes, let's work together. I'll meet you in the White
03:05House. We'll see how we could reduce these murders. The fentanyl deaths are 50,000 a year.
03:11You know, how we deal with that problem, how it's connected to the border, how we put criminals
03:17behind bars, because small numbers of criminals commit a lot of crimes. But you just hear none of
03:22that. It really is quite astounding to me that they're just ceding the entire issue over to Trump,
03:28hoping there'll be some kind of backlash for reducing murders.
03:33So, Mark, you live by the polls. 54 percent of D.C. residents are happy with the results
03:38of what has happened over the last two weeks, 90 percent of which voted for the other party,
03:43for the Democratic Party. So if you care about your people and you want to even give the perception
03:49of law and order, you wouldn't say everything's fine, things are trending in the right direction.
03:54People are saying, well, I don't feel like everything's fine. So in the big picture,
03:58what should Democrats be saying coming out of Minneapolis once it comes to law and order?
04:04Democrats are saying we're not going to allow problems like murders and fentanyl persist,
04:10that we really want to reduce those problems, that we care about the lives that are being lost,
04:16thousands of lives every month lost here in America needlessly and get on the side of stopping
04:23these deaths. That's why it's not about the criminals or the crime or the guns. It's about
04:28stopping these needless deaths. They're about stopping Trump and that ship has already left port.
04:35Mark Penn, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
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