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In a press briefing at a steel plant in Wisconsin, Vice President J.D. Vance spoke in support of National Guard crackdowns on crime and blasted Democrats critical of the tactic.
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00:00Good afternoon, Charles Benson with TMJ4 out of Milwaukee.
00:04As you know, the President this week signed an executive order around the National Guard.
00:09And so I'm curious if you can give us some more detail on that, wanting the National
00:13Guard members to be available for rapid mobilization and establish a quick reaction force.
00:20My question would be, would that quick reaction force be deployed to help with day-to-day
00:25police work, and would a governor, like the governor of Wisconsin, have the option to
00:30say no to any deployment nationwide?
00:33Well, let me say a few things about this.
00:36First of all, the principle at stake here is very simple.
00:40Americans ought to feel safe on American streets.
00:43How many of us have crossed to the other side of the street because there's a person on the
00:54street corner yelling and screaming at our kids or at our family?
00:57How many people have felt scared to walk down the street of an American neighborhood in daylight
01:04or at night because those streets are considered no-go zones?
01:09How ridiculous is it that we ever let there be no-go zones on streets paid for by American
01:15taxpayers?
01:16You bought those streets.
01:17You ought to be able to enjoy them as American citizens.
01:20It's very, very simple.
01:22So that is the principle at stake here.
01:23In Washington, D.C., let's step back a little bit, Washington, D.C. got to a point where
01:28it was having a murder more than every other day.
01:32The national capital of the most powerful nation in the history of the world had a murder every
01:37other day, carjackings, armed robberies that rivaled literal third-world countries, and
01:43the President of the United States said, this is America's city and enough is enough, and
01:47he'd deploy the National Guard to fix it.
01:49Now that was the right decision at the time.
01:52But I don't know how anybody can look at the results over the last 14 days and say anything
01:56other than thank God Donald Trump did what he did.
01:59Because armed robberies, carjackings, murders are down between 40 to 90 percent.
02:05Even the very Democratic mayor of D.C. said yesterday that she was grateful for the additional police
02:11presence because it made it possible for people, Americans, black, white, rich and poor, to
02:17enjoy the nation's capital again.
02:20And that's what I want.
02:21I mean, all of you, Washington, D.C. is your town.
02:25You literally built it with your tax dollars.
02:28You should be able to come and go to one of these beautiful museums or see one of these
02:31incredible monuments without fear that you're going to get mugged.
02:34And that's what we have changed in just a short period of time.
02:37And you asked the Wisconsin-specific question.
02:40What the president has said is that, very simply, we want governors and mayors to ask for the
02:47help.
02:48The president of the United States is not going out there forcing this on anybody, though
02:52we do think that we have the legal right to clean up America's streets if we want to.
02:55But what the president has said is very simply is, why don't you invite us in?
02:59Is Milwaukee a super safe city right now?
03:04It's had some crime problems.
03:05It's a beautiful city.
03:06There are a lot of beautiful, incredible, hardworking people who live there.
03:09But let's be honest, Milwaukee has had some crime problems.
03:12So have other parts of our community.
03:14Chicago, I know we're not too far from Chicago, Chicago's had a lot of crime problems.
03:18Why is it that you have mayors and governors who are angrier about Donald Trump offering
03:24to help them than they are about the fact that their own residents are being carjacked and
03:28murdered in the streets?
03:29It doesn't make an ounce of sense.
03:39And the last point that I'll make about this, sir, is, and I actually, I'm going to violate
03:44the advice I gave to the president of the United States yesterday because we were having lunch
03:48yesterday and the president said, J.D., I don't know how I did it.
03:52I have actually got the Democrats to come out in defense of crime.
03:55And it's, it is crazy.
03:57If Donald Trump came out tomorrow and said he really likes puppies, you would have AOC
04:02come out and say puppies are terrible.
04:05So you have Donald Trump who has reduced murders, carjackings, and armed robberies in 14 days
04:11in Washington, D.C.
04:12And now you have national Democrats coming out and saying, oh, we love murders and carjackings
04:17and armed robberies.
04:17Why won't Democrats just use some common sense?
04:21We're going to disagree about stuff from time to time.
04:23I'm sure Democrats want higher taxes and I want lower taxes.
04:26We may disagree about some foreign policy issues, but on this basic principle that murdering
04:32people, armed robberies, carjackings are bad, wouldn't it be nice if the Democrats just
04:37worked a little across the aisle for once?
04:39Yeah.
04:40Cool.
04:41Next.
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