00:00You know, they're soldiers. I want to see it end. Yeah, you decided you're definitely going to send National Guard troops to Chicago. I didn't say when, but the answer is, look, Chicago is very interesting because I watched Pritzker get up and say about we don't need help. We're safe. But two weeks ago, they had six people murdered, murdered, and they had 24 people hit by bullets last week, as you know, with seven people, 24
00:29people hit and seven people died. And then over the last two days, it was the that was the crown jewel. They had, I guess, nine killed, nine or 10 killed and 50 hit with bullets. And you have this governor get up, who's a terrible governor, probably he and Gavin Newsom would be probably the two worst and most naive. They're naive. Either they're naive or they're very untruthful. And he'll say, we don't
00:59want any protection. We don't need. So in the last three weeks, he's lost almost 20 people killed. There's no place, there's no place in the world, including you can go to Afghanistan, you can go to places that you would think of. They don't even come close to this. Chicago is a hell hole right now. Baltimore is a hell hole right now. Parts of Los Angeles are terrible. If we didn't put out the fires, and I mean the other fires, the bullet fires,
01:29they didn't do a good job with they should have had the water coming down. Like I said, you know, we had to release the water, we had to go in and release the water to LA. It's so badly run. But if we didn't get if I didn't send the National Guard into Los Angeles, you wouldn't, I would be making an announcement today, I'd be talking about Huntsville. And I'd simultaneously be saying, by the way, the Olympics is not coming to Los Angeles. If we didn't do that, if we didn't do that.
01:59Los Angeles said, we could not have handled it without them. So that's what he said.
02:04Can you make your mind up on Chicago, though?
02:07Well, we're going in. I didn't say when, we're going in. When you lose, look, I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing.
02:13I have an obligation. When we lose, when 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks, and 75 are shot with bullets.
02:24So let me tell you a little story about a place called DC, District of Columbia, right here where we are. It's now a safe zone. We have no crime. We have, it's in such great shape. You can go and actually walk with your children, your wife, your husband. You can walk right down the middle of the street. You're not going to be shot, Peter. You're safe.
02:45Everyone likes you anyway. They probably wouldn't do it. But it's so dangerous. And there are people in this audience that have, you've suffered greatly. There are people in this audience that have been mugged and hurt badly. And they don't want to talk about it. Maybe you were very brave in talking about it. You made quite an impression on a lot of people. I appreciate it.
03:06But there were other people in this room that have been hurt very badly just walking down the street in DC. Washington, DC is a safe zone right now. It's a safe city. The restaurants are open. They're booming. You can't get a restaurant. New restaurants are announcing that they're going to be open. This took place in 12 days. Now it's 15 days. But three days ago, it became what's known as a safe zone. It's a safe city.
03:33And this city was really bad. Really, really bad. We took 1,600 people out. Hardcore criminals that will not be coming back anytime soon. And we're very proud of it. You know, to have our nation's capital lose every week. You know, it was like years, many years where every single week somebody was killed for many, many, many consecutive weeks. This went on for years.
04:01And then we had last week, it was announced that nobody was killed last week. And I made that announcement in front of a very distinguished leader of a country. And I'm saying proudly, ladies and gentlemen, nobody was killed in Washington, DC this week. He looked at me like, was that, what's that all about?
04:21I say, yeah, we have a little bit of a crime problem. And we don't have a crime problem in Washington anymore. And the mayor has been very helpful. And the police commission has been very helpful. And it's been a great team. And I would love to have Governor Pritzker call me.
04:36I'd gain respect for him and say, we do have a problem. And we'd love you to send in the troops because you know what, the people, they have to be protected. I saw today on one of your networks, not a friendly network, except really the opposite, I would say very unfriendly network.
04:54And they interviewed about 12 people on this morning. Most of them were African American who were black. And they were saying, please, please, please let the president send in. These were people from Chicago. Please, we need help. We need help. We can't walk outside.
05:14We're petrified. If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country. And that includes Baltimore.
05:29I saw where Governor Moore was asking me to take a walk down the street of Baltimore. Well, Baltimore is a very unsafe place. It's rated number four in the city. One of the worst, one of the most unsafe places anywhere in the world.
05:42But, you know, we took care. This was a beautiful thing that happened in Washington because we showed we showed that it could be done.
05:49And this wasn't just sending big, strong guys. And they are big and they are strong.
05:54You know, we had a great decision from the Supreme Court that had to do with sort of talent.
06:00It had to do with you are put down based on merit.
06:07You can hire based on merit. So merit for a soldier, for a policeman is,
06:12strong, physically fit, something, you know, having a certain ability, not a person that is woke and got the job through woke, but wasn't strong enough to lift a gun out of the holster, et cetera, et cetera.
06:27Now, I looked at the police. As you know, last week, I went over. We had a meeting with there had to be 300 people.
06:33And they were all very impressive looking. And when the bad guys see them, they're not going to do a thing.
06:39And so I'm very proud of Washington. It serves as a template. And we're going to do it elsewhere.
06:45But Chicago is certainly going to be high. I would love to have him call.
06:50I would love the governor of Illinois. I'd be honored to take his call. All he has to do is say, sir, we need help. It's out of control.
06:58And everyone knows it is. He's not kidding anyone. I would love to have, I would say, Governor Moore call because I watched him over the weekend trying to explain that Baltimore, what they need is housing.
07:10No, they don't need housing. They need to get rid of the criminals. These are hardcore criminals.
07:16You know, we took many people off the streets of Washington, D.C. They're hardcore. They're not going to be good in 10 years, in 20 years, in two years.
07:26They're going to be criminals. They're going to be they were born to be criminals. Frankly, they were born to be criminals.
07:32And they're tough and mean. And they'll cut your throat. And they won't even think about it the next day.
07:37They won't even remember that they did it. And we're not going to have those people.
07:42Washington, D.C., is now a safe zone. It's a safe place. And you can walk, Katie, you can walk right down the street with, by the way, one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen, which is her husband.
07:53He was a football player for like 11 years in the NFL. He's a big person. But big doesn't mean anything when they have guns and when they have knives and everything else that they have. Right.
08:04But you can walk right down the street, even by yourself, and you're totally safe. Washington, D.C., is a great thing. Yes, ma'am.
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