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The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
The Ingraham Angle 9/9/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TODAY September 9, 2025
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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingraham. This is the Ingraham Angle from Washington tonight.
00:05As always, thanks for spending time with us inside the violent world of Chicago's gangs.
00:11Are you walking around strapped? You got a little baby on you?
00:15This s***, this s***, you know what's going on.
00:17You know what's going on.
00:18Okay, so we do got some backup if anything does happen.
00:21Plus, someone should tell Kathy Hochul that this is racist.
00:26Don't stop by the liquor store!
00:30Okay, buy something for the kids. Buy them some food.
00:35And imagine thinking that you're flying to France, but you end up in Africa.
00:39Is this going to me?
00:41Two years, yeah.
00:43I thought you said to me, which is in France.
00:48In my Angle and Moments, but first, a few hours ago, I forced myself to watch the full, unedited video of Irina Zartuska's murder.
01:00Now, every adult American should see what this monster did to her.
01:05To see what's at stake here.
01:07What we're talking about when we talk about crime.
01:10In moments, I'm going to show you some of it.
01:12I have to warn you, it's extremely upsetting and graphic.
01:16It's heartbreaking.
01:16The surveillance video shows Irina Zartuska getting on the train by herself, in her work uniform, sitting down by herself, in a row, that just happened to be in front of DeCarlos Brown Jr.
01:31Approximately four minutes later, Mr. Brown pulled out a pocket knife.
01:36You see him on video open that pocket knife, and he stabbed her three times in the neck.
01:40He then walked off the train with blood dripping from the knife.
01:43This is obviously a horrible, horrible situation.
01:52With her throat slit and beginning to bleed out, 23-year-old Irina Zartuska covered her mouth.
02:03She grabbed at her throat and looked up in disbelief at the man who had just stabbed her.
02:10As if to ask, why?
02:12As DeCarlos Brown Jr. casually strolled away, her face fell into her hands.
02:19She obviously knew she was about to die.
02:22So blood splattered through the aisle, and seconds later, she bows her head, slumps over her seat, and falls to the train floor, lying in a pool of blood, her own blood.
02:33Now, by the time police arrived, Irina was dead.
02:36So now the Trump administration is involved, and it's supplementing state charges with a federal one.
02:44Career criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr. is facing life in prison, or the death penalty.
02:49And while we hope this brings justice for Zartuska, we have to make sure we never forget who she was.
02:57She worked at a senior citizen center.
02:59She worked at a pizza place.
03:03She took care of animals in the neighborhood.
03:07She was building her young life.
03:08She had recently moved in with her partner.
03:11She was probably tired after a long day of work and just trying to get home to her loved ones, but she never made it.
03:18In an instant, her life was over, and her mother, her father, her siblings, her brother and sister, and her other family and friends, their lives will never be the same.
03:28So Zartuska had fled Ukraine trying to escape the war and might make a life here that was better than the one she left behind.
03:38After Irina's death, the embassy in Ukraine called and said, we'll help you bring her home.
03:44And her family said no.
03:45They said she loved America.
03:47We're going to bury her here.
03:48So I think we can give her an America to be proud of.
03:51As Mr. Barnacle said, something here is broken, and we're here to fix it.
03:54Here with Reaction is Russ Ferguson, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, the man you just saw.
04:03Russ, I watched your press conference.
04:07You got choked up.
04:09I think anyone watching that and thinking about the terror this poor young woman felt was choked up as well.
04:16Tell us what you know so far about how this was allowed to happen in Charlotte, North Carolina.
04:28Yeah, well, thank you, Laura.
04:29Thanks for your attention to it.
04:30I'm getting choked up again just listening to your monologue about this terrible, terrible situation.
04:34This is a career criminal.
04:36He had been released from state custody 14 times.
04:38He had served some sentences.
04:41I think he had served about six years in state prison, but had a very violent past and had done a lot of terrible things before he did this.
04:48Just very random crime on a very, very innocent 23-year-old woman who was working three jobs to save up for a car and taking the train home from work.
04:56It's just an absolutely tragic situation.
04:58Now, explain the federal nature of this in your view, given the evidence that you've already looked at.
05:07Yeah, I mean, classically, this is a state crime.
05:09It's a stabbing.
05:10It's a murder.
05:11Those are all state crimes.
05:12But this is a unique crime because it happened on a public transit system, and that affects the American way of life.
05:18Those are people that are trying to get to work.
05:20They are trying to get to college for their classes.
05:21They are trying to get to their families.
05:23And because of that, Congress was very wise and created a federal statute that said,
05:28is it a federal crime to commit an act of violence on a mass transportation provider?
05:31And that's exactly what we have here.
05:33So we've brought that charge.
05:34With that charge, we have the ability to supplement the state first-degree murder charge.
05:40And so we're seeing this more as an add-on to that charge, a supplement, a backup to that charge to make sure that violent people like this don't see the light of day again.
05:47Have you had, or any of your men, I should say, had the chance to interview witnesses?
05:54There were a number of people on that train when this horrific murder took place.
06:00Yes.
06:01Local police and the FBI have both interviewed witnesses.
06:03They've interviewed the defendant.
06:05I talked today with the family of the victim just to touch base with them.
06:09So that investigation is underway.
06:11We filed this by criminal complaint today.
06:13But we're still investigating, and the FBI is still investigating.
06:16We may see additional charges.
06:17We're going to charge whatever the facts will support in this case.
06:20So that investigation is ongoing.
06:22Now, Russ, there are reports that Brown was heard on the video saying, I got that white girl.
06:29Do you have confirmation that that, in fact, was said?
06:32That obviously brings it to a possible hate crime as well.
06:35I do not have confirmation of that.
06:37We are looking at civil rights violations and hate crimes and all of that if we have the evidence to support an additional charge.
06:44We have some statements from him.
06:46We have some eyewitness statements.
06:47We do not have confirmation on any of that yet.
06:49But we continue to investigate.
06:51And if that turns out to be true, we'll bring the appropriate charge.
06:53We also understand that, and you referenced this, that her parents, obviously heartbroken, did not want her body to be returned to Ukraine knowing that she came to the United States for a better life.
07:12I know her mom speaks almost no English, but tell us about that conversation.
07:18Yeah, I spoke to her mom through a translator today, and I spoke to her uncle.
07:24And shortly after her death, the embassy in Ukraine reached out and said, you know, we'll help financially or whatever we need to do to get her body home so you can bury her at home in Ukraine.
07:32And the family said no.
07:33They said that she came to America, she loved America, and they buried her here in America, which is a true testament to what this country is.
07:40But it's also very fragile, and if we allow things like this to happen, that won't be the America we live in anymore.
07:45And that's why we're bringing the federal government in on this, to try to bring appropriate charges and put bad folks behind bars.
07:52And, Russ, I had been thinking about this today as a mom, and I have a 20-year-old daughter, and I have two sons.
08:00And how people, you know, it's just commonly understood that you can get on a train or a bus, and a lot of people wear earbuds.
08:09It's not smart to wear earbuds, and I tell my kids this all the time, because you have to be situationally aware, especially, you know, given the crime situation in some cities,
08:19although Charlotte's probably one of the better cities in the United States.
08:22But what can you tell us about reassuring the American people tonight that the federal government will indeed step in, if necessary,
08:34if safety is simply not achievable in some of these cities under the current regime of laws, judges, prosecutors?
08:44Yeah, I mean, that's the worst part about this case, Laura, and I'm a dad, too.
08:48And now the whole thought process is different.
08:50Can I take my daughter to the park to play on the weekends?
08:53Is it like the light rail?
08:54Is it not safe?
08:55And I totally get that concern, and as a parent, I think it's a completely reasonable concern to have.
09:00And where state and locals won't do anything, this administration has been very clear we're going to step in and do something.
09:05Now, that doesn't mean in an instant every train in America is safe, or every park is safe, or every city street is safe.
09:11This is going to be a long process, because, unfortunately, some of our cities have gone down the wrong road.
09:16They let people out of jail when they shouldn't be.
09:18They've let people get away with crimes, and it is time to turn that vote around, and that's what we're doing with this case.
09:24And hopefully it sends a message to people out there that if you think you can commit crimes, commit violent crimes,
09:29and go through a state system and be out on the street the next month or the next year,
09:32that is not going to be the case in federal court, and we are going to do what we can to bring these cases to the federal system.
09:38Well, I think right now the response from some, not all, but some in the Democrat Party and some in the pundit class
09:46is that the Trump administration is, quote, using crime and personal tragedy to deflect from issues with the economy
09:56or deflect from Epstein or, you know, one of the other issues that they don't want to talk about, and your response to that.
10:05You know, you cannot make up these crimes.
10:08These crimes are happening, and I wish that this crime that happened in Charlotte was made up,
10:13and I could snap my fingers and say, you're right, and it's gone, and it didn't happen, and it was a distraction.
10:17But it's not. It happened. A 23-year-old woman lost her life, and this is the news of the day,
10:23and this is important, and this is what's happening.
10:25And if you think this is a distraction, then the distraction is the distraction,
10:29and you need to focus on what's important because people are dying, and there's enough.
10:33I know the suspect, we understand, has given a statement.
10:37Can you tell us anything about that statement?
10:41I have not seen the statement that the suspect gives, and, of course, that's on an investigative hold for now
10:45while we investigate leads from that statement, but he did talk to police after the incident,
10:50and we do have a statement from him.
10:52That statement did form part of our charges and part of our confidence in bringing these charges,
10:57so we do have that. That will come to light in the trial in this case,
11:00but right now we're still using that statement for investigative leads to shore this case up.
11:04We charged this case very quickly. We charged it by criminal complaint,
11:08and we don't normally do that, but because we don't have the confidence in the state system,
11:11we had to do that here, and so it's kind of odd to be at this stage
11:15and still be investigating, but that's where we are by necessity.
11:18A lot of Americans see this, and I urge people to watch this, as difficult as it is,
11:25because people have to understand what is at stake.
11:27When you're going about your daily life, when you think everything is fine,
11:31when you're blithely unaware of your surroundings,
11:35tragedy or horrific evil can strike, and sometimes you can't prevent it,
11:39but sometimes you can, and I think it's important for people to watch this,
11:43and she was in disbelief. You could see it in her eyes, Russ.
11:48She couldn't believe this had happened, and in her eyes, in my view, you look at her eyes,
11:53she knew she was dying, and she couldn't believe it.
11:57She was on a bus, as your colleague said, trying to get home from work or a train,
12:04and this is what's happening?
12:06And so people watch this going, we need the death penalty in this case.
12:09We need the maximum penalty against this individual, and that is the death penalty.
12:16It is such a random crime. It is absolutely terrifying.
12:20It could have been anyone. It could have been anyone's daughter.
12:23And it's so sad to me that you have to tell your kids not to wear their earbuds on the train,
12:27because that is not the society we should live on.
12:28You should be able to sit in a row by yourself in peace without being stabbed in the neck.
12:32Russ, thank you, and I'm glad you showed your emotions today,
12:37because all of us were feeling what you were feeling,
12:40and I think it really made this day and what you are trying to do all that more impactful.
12:47So thank you very much for joining us.
12:50Here to react, Ned Ryan, American Majority Founder and CEO,
12:54along with Jonathan Fahey, former federal prosecutor.
12:56Ned, as I said, I watched that entire video.
13:00I'm still sick to my stomach.
13:04What struck me also in watching it is how long it took for people to react
13:11or provide any sort of aid to her as she slumps over.
13:15She grabs her throat, slumps over slowly, and then falls to the floor.
13:20Your reaction?
13:22I can't watch the video.
13:24It's extremely troubling.
13:26I mean, this was not in New York City.
13:28This was not Chicago.
13:30This is Charlotte, North Carolina.
13:32And watching just even a few of the clips, I couldn't watch the whole thing.
13:37It's the stuff of nightmares.
13:40And I was thinking about what a good friend of mine said,
13:42that every time progressive ideology empowers these predators,
13:46it unleashes darkness that envelops the vulnerable and destroys them.
13:51And that's exactly what we saw happen.
13:54And I think it's time for us to confront these idiotic policies of cashless bail,
14:00defunding the police, replacing police with social workers.
14:04I mean, what those so-called compassionate policies are doing are actually elevating savages over society.
14:09And that is the antithesis of good and just government that I think the American people are owed.
14:16And we saw a complete and total failure of progressive ideology on that light rail in Charlotte.
14:22And Trump is right to highlight these failures, not only in D.C., but other places around the country.
14:28And he's not making it up, despite what the progressives are saying.
14:32These things are real, and they're happening, and they're happening in places that we never expected.
14:36Yeah, Auburn, Alabama, where a former professor left for dead in a dog park on Saturday.
14:44It's suspect in custody in that case as well.
14:47I mean, Auburn.
14:49Jonathan.
14:50Yeah, this whole thing is shocking.
14:51And when you think, you know, one of the first things that comes to mind is, you know, Daniel Penny.
14:56You know, back in New York, if somebody does come to help, they go after that person.
15:00Yeah, good point.
15:01Excellent point.
15:02And you look at some of these things, and some things are not preventable, but some things are.
15:06And this guy had multiple times he's been convicted, he's been arrested, and yet he's out on the street with this revolving door.
15:13And now you look at what's going on in Chicago, and what are these Democrats doing?
15:17Trying to stand in the way of Donald Trump and ICE, arresting and removing the most serious, violent criminals.
15:23They don't learn their lesson, and the community suffers because they always put politics ahead of public safety, and it's so shameful.
15:30And that's why we have instances like this.
15:33Ned, today the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police president called out Charlotte leaders and judicial activists.
15:41Watch.
15:42The biggest issue that we have in Charlotte is that our judges are committing judicial activism from the bench.
15:47And it needs to stop.
15:49We've been very vocal about it, and unfortunately it's taken this incident for attention to be had on this topic.
15:55We've been very vocal against our mayor and her completely out-of-touch comments on this murder.
16:01You know, I mean, it really kind of highlights just how convenient and good it is to commit crime in Mecklenburg County.
16:07Ned, again, we're talking about crime wherever it occurs, wherever there are activist judges, and we don't know all of what went into this.
16:17He's being let out.
16:18He was diagnosed as schizophrenic, held for two weeks in a psych ward, released.
16:24There are issues with that as well.
16:26But we got a lot of mentally ill people on the street, and then we got a lot of chatter and classes telling everyone that it's a race war out there and that white people hate you and that white people want to kill you.
16:38We heard that after Floyd, that reverberated across the country, and I warned that we were going to have horrific instances of race-related violence.
16:48We don't know all the facts here yet.
16:49We don't want to prejudge it.
16:51But this sure doesn't look good.
16:52Well, we're in defiance of common sense, all of these policies.
16:57I was looking at a clip from the D.C. chief of police from a couple years ago, and there were 11 incidents for those people that eventually committed homicides that they had been convicted of before they actually committed that.
17:10We see patterns.
17:11It is common sense.
17:12We are in defiance of what actually takes place.
17:15This person, DeCarlos, was arrested 14 times.
17:18And we know those that commit violent acts, there has been a previous record, not once, not twice, up to 11 times.
17:25And yet we refuse to actually accept the basic facts that violent people will commit crime.
17:31Remove the criminals, and you will reduce crime.
17:34And I do think we have to have the maybe uncomfortable conversation, Laura, in which over half of the homicides in this country are actually committed by about 6% of the population.
17:47And by that, I mean the black males.
17:49We have a serious situation that has to be addressed, and we have to have an honest conversation about it.
17:53Well, we've had pastors in Chicago discuss this and say, you know, the family unit is completely smashed and broken.
18:01And, Jonathan, again, you get the sense that there are certain politicians out there, rather than condemn this murder, they think, oh, if I condemn the murder, I bring publicity to it, or I talk about it, it's going to help Trump.
18:14So I'm not going to empathize with her parents.
18:17You see that in Chicago, and it's just so shameful.
18:20And we saw this with the BLM riots, movement, whatever, and it was always, you know, the criminals are the good guys, the cops are the bad guys, and no one cared at all about the victims.
18:30And we're seeing crimes like this that are sort of the result of that, because we had many, many years where people want to put the sign in their yard to show how virtuous they are while other people suffer from criminal activity.
18:41Jonathan, Ned, both of you, thank you very much.
18:44And coming up, more proof that Biden's jobs numbers were a fraud.
18:48My angle, next.
18:52They lied again.
18:55That's the focus of tonight's angle.
18:58He's been out of office for almost eight months now, but every now and again, Joe Biden wanders out into public view.
19:05And that ice cream moment only reminds us that his entire presidency was built on lies, including the one that was obvious to anyone with eyes and ears.
19:28Does the president have the stamina, physically and mentally, do you think, to continue on even after 2024?
19:35Oh, my gosh.
19:36He's the president of the United States.
19:38You know, he, I can't even keep up with it.
19:42Our stumbling, mumbling, bumbling former commander in chief and the Democrats who enabled his lies, they all put our nation at risk.
19:52They destroyed faith in our cherished institutions and upended our economy.
19:57Now, from day one, they were dishonest, needlessly extending the COVID emergency.
20:01Remember that with their idiotic masking?
20:05Then they were lying about the state of the economy.
20:08We've had several months of high inflation that most economists, including me, believe will be transitory.
20:18Transitory? Well, the lies were brazen, even when we saw the truth with our own eyes.
20:25The message is quite clear. Do not come.
20:28The border is closed. The border is secure.
20:31Here in Lukeville, we are quite literally in the middle of nowhere.
20:35Thousands are crossing here illegally every day, and the situation is completely unsustainable.
20:39A massive caravan of 2,000 migrants making its way to our southern border.
20:45The border's secure.
20:46And we certainly can't forget the nonstop lawfare and the myriad lies about Trump himself.
20:52Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
20:56Yes, I do.
20:57Yes, I do.
20:59She doesn't even know what that means.
21:01Now, those are some of the top lies of the Biden era.
21:04Inflation was transitory, border was secure, and the big one, that Biden was totally with it.
21:08And today we learned about another lie.
21:10One that they call a revision downward.
21:13And the benchmark year, March 2024 to 2025, shows that the job growth was vastly weaker during the Biden administration than ever previously reported.
21:23Between this revision and last year's job growth was actually overstated by approximately 2 million jobs.
21:30So from March 2024 to March 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, should just be called BS, got the jobs numbers wrong by almost 1 million.
21:42So is this a lie, or is it just incompetence?
21:46Like, how can an agency be this wrong this often?
21:49In 2023, they were off by 306,000.
21:52In 2024, they were off by 818,000 jobs.
21:58On Sunday, the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, hinted that this was coming.
22:02I'm not sure what these people who collect the data have been doing.
22:07It's good.
22:08We need good data.
22:09Secondly, what we are seeing is the jobs that are being created are going to either native-born or legal Americans.
22:19Most of the jobs created under the Biden administration went to illegal aliens.
22:25Oh, 100% correct.
22:27Now, back before the election, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its final jobs report.
22:33And the New York Times was giddy, writing in part,
22:36Vice President Kamala Harris probably could not have hoped for a better run of pre-election economic data
22:43than what the United States has enjoyed over the last month.
22:47Yeah.
22:47But smart people saw through this.
22:50Marco Rubio tweeted that he thought the BLS was cooking the books,
22:54since 16 of the 17 jobs reports had all been revised downwards
22:59after the media helped them with their fake headlines.
23:03But Shufflin' Joe, he just laughed it all off.
23:06The report is Senator Marco Rubio described today's jobs report as having fake numbers.
23:12What do you make of that?
23:14Anything the mega Republicans don't like, they call fake.
23:20Anything.
23:21The job numbers are what the job numbers are.
23:25They're real.
23:26They're sincere.
23:28They're sincere.
23:29Now we know, Trump, Rubio, Besson, they were all right.
23:36But do not hold your breath if you're waiting for a mea culpa from the media for comments like these.
23:41When Donald Trump moves in and says, I don't like the numbers,
23:46and he says, off with her head, we're getting rid of her,
23:49what he does is he politicizes the numbers themselves.
23:53And when you get rid of the reporters and bring in your own fact finders, that's a problem.
24:02And I think we'll hit it toward alternative facts going forward.
24:08This is what an autocrat does.
24:10If you don't like reality, you try to change it.
24:12Well, but Harris's crowing about buying the strong economy, buoyed by those inflated jobs numbers,
24:21that was just another convenient lie, meant to give voters a false sense of optimism before they went to the polls.
24:29Now, Democrats, of course, they love screaming about how Trump's trampling norms.
24:34He's blowing up our trust in our most cherished institutions.
24:37How many times have you heard that?
24:38But as usual, the finger is always pointed back at the Democrats.
24:43Because no group, and I mean no group, has done more to shatter our faith in public institutions than today's progressives.
24:51What did they do to public health and our children during COVID?
24:55How about our military?
24:56How about how they had to be humiliated in the Afghanistan pullout?
25:00Or how they cratered our trust in the FBI with Russiagate?
25:03How they turned our Border Patrol agents into welcome wagons for criminals?
25:08The trauma their lives caused, including what they did to our parents, how they turned schools against them.
25:16And today, with the true picture of Biden's jobs record in view, we see how they turned the BLS into a PR arm of the Democrat Party.
25:26So congrats, guys.
25:27We don't believe you anymore.
25:30And that's the angle.
25:30All right, coming up, the angle takes you inside the dangerous world of Chicago's gangs.
25:37We have a Fox News alert.
25:47President Trump addressing reporters heading to dinner in D.C. with some members of his cabinet.
25:51Let's check in.
25:52People are walking.
25:56The restaurants now are booming.
26:00People are going out to dinner where they didn't go out for years.
26:03And it's a safe city.
26:04And I just want to thank the National Guard.
26:06We loved working with the mayor and the chief.
26:11And we all work together.
26:13And the outcome is really spectacular.
26:15We have a capital that's very, very safe right now.
26:18The Press is going to talk about the Israeli strike earlier today.
26:23Well, I'm not thrilled.
26:24I'm not thrilled about it.
26:26The Press is going to talk more about your goal for safety.
26:28I don't have to do that.
26:29I'm just, I'm not thrilled about the whole situation.
26:32It's not, not a good situation.
26:34But I will say this.
26:36We want the hostages back.
26:38But we are not thrilled about the way that went down today.
26:41We don't call you in advance, Mr. President.
26:43But this will tell you in advance.
26:46So you were caught by surprise, sir?
26:48I'm never surprised by anything.
26:50Especially when it comes to the Middle East.
26:52How did you worry about this?
26:54I'll be giving a full statement tomorrow.
26:57But I would tell you this.
27:00I was very unhappy about it.
27:01Very unhappy about every aspect.
27:03And we got to get the hostages back.
27:06But I was very unhappy about the way that went down.
27:09Mr. President, when you came to speak to him, then, I mean, you said soon.
27:12Is that going to happen this week?
27:13Yeah, it'll happen.
27:14We have that one and we have Gaza going on.
27:16We want to get them both solved and ended.
27:18So it's going to happen, all of a sudden?
27:20I think so.
27:21I think this week or early next week.
27:24Enjoy it.
27:25Mr. President, did you sign the WFC post-day letter?
27:30It's not my signature.
27:31And it's not the way I speak.
27:33And anybody that's covered me for a long time, no, that's not my life.
27:36It's not my language.
27:37It's nonsense.
27:38And, frankly, you're wasting your time.
27:41All you do is trying to get off the great success of D.C.
27:44and about 200 other things we've done that are so successful.
27:47This is a great, great success.
27:49And we have so many.
27:50I don't think any president in their first eight months has had anywhere near the success that we've had.
27:57Will you meet with the Epstein victims?
28:00Do you plan to meet with?
28:01I don't know about nobody suggested that.
28:03Certainly, I don't like that whole situation with respect to anybody being abused or hurt.
28:09But I haven't even thought about that.
28:11Thank you all very much.
28:12Have a good time.
28:14Well, the president just leaving a short gaggle with reporters.
28:24And he decided, look, I'm going to see for myself Washington, D.C. hitting the streets.
28:30It looks like it's the neighborhood near the Treasury Department, which is not too far from the White House compound.
28:39I believe that's where it is, if I'm not mistaken, or close to Pennsylvania Avenue.
28:43But, nevertheless, he wanted to make a statement tonight.
28:46And remember, President Obama, President Clinton, Biden occasionally, they would go out to restaurants in D.C.
28:53I think that's great.
28:55We should live in an era where the president of the United States can go to a restaurant.
29:00That should be possible.
29:02And I think he wants that.
29:04And I think we talk a lot about what's wrong and what's wrong with the country, what's wrong with this city, what's wrong with that.
29:10How about when things are calming down?
29:12How about the pursuit of happiness?
29:14And I think he wants people to say, look, this is a great capital city, and we've made some good progress here.
29:21And so it was Rubio.
29:23It was Pete Hegseth and J.D. Vance.
29:28It's a small, you know, now we're seeing the rewind of this.
29:32It's a small group.
29:33Not all members of his cabinet were with him.
29:36People tried to get him to answer questions about Epstein.
29:39He's like, you're wasting your time.
29:40This is stupid.
29:40Not my signature.
29:41You probably heard that at the very end.
29:44But he came out to, I think, reassure the public, maybe take a little bit of a victory lap, but not really.
29:51I think he just wanted to say, I'm here, and the city is safer, and isn't that a good thing?
29:57Isn't that something we should all be pretty happy about?
30:00So I think it's, I like seeing President Trump out there.
30:03Not everything has to be a fight.
30:05All right, and next, when the left accuses President Trump, by the way, of declaring war,
30:11they did that in D.C. for a while, declaring war on D.C. or declaring war on Chicago for
30:16even considering the possibility of some type of federal intervention, look, they know they're
30:22lying.
30:23Because if there is a war in the Windy City, it's being waged by the cartels via their emissaries,
30:31gang members.
30:32Gang members engaged in drug and human trafficking.
30:35Because these people do not think twice about killing anyone who gets in their way, day
30:40or night.
30:42Every weekend, the city streets certainly look and sound like war zones with dozen shot.
30:47Remember, gang members, you know, they're worried about retribution.
30:50They're worried about being knocked off themselves.
30:52They wouldn't think about walking the streets without a weapon.
30:55You walk around strapped?
30:57You got a little baby on you?
31:00This s***, this s***, you know what's going on.
31:02Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
31:04Look at this one.
31:05Kill, I don't kill nobody.
31:06So people just walk around with this stuff?
31:08I just had this s*** for fun.
31:09I don't know how it was coming.
31:11Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:13Independent journalist Nick Shirley spent the day with Chicago gangbangers trying to understand
31:18how things got this bad.
31:21What's the point of all this gang violence I have in here in Chicago?
31:23Man, I ain't gonna lie to you, bro.
31:25Once, because it's a lot of, you feel me?
31:28Trauma, man, that's just like, you killing my s***, I'm not close too.
31:32I'm close too.
31:33I want to go kill you and the s*** you close too.
31:37It s*** like a cycle, bro.
31:38You feel me?
31:39That ain't gonna ever stop.
31:40If you guys could drop all this stuff, like not have to worry about walking around with
31:43guns or anything like that, would you guys do that?
31:45Or do you guys enjoy this lifestyle?
31:47I mean, hell yeah, we ain't have to walk around with these s*** and everything.
31:50That'd be cool, you feel me?
31:52I don't enjoy this s***.
31:53Being so young around all this s*** is just, you know, we grew, you know what I'm saying,
31:59we basically just grew into it.
32:02Nick Shirley joins us to share more about what he saw.
32:06First, Nick, I want to say you're crazy, okay, for going in this situation, but you've put
32:12yourself out there in a number of dangerous circumstances.
32:16I salute you because you want to try to find out what the heck's going on.
32:19So thank you for doing that.
32:21We heard from Governor Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, and I know you know this, that there
32:26is no emergency in Chicago.
32:29We don't need the feds to come in.
32:31We don't need the National Guard.
32:32What did it feel like and seem like to you up close with some of these gang members?
32:38Yeah, it's a little interesting, and this video was filmed just a few blocks away from Mayor
32:42Johnson's house.
32:43And these people are walking around with guns, everything like that, as gangsters, and they
32:50told me they don't want to kill anybody, but like they said, if somebody kills them, it
32:54makes them want to go kill somebody too.
32:56And I don't know if these guys have killed anybody, but it is a little crazy to be walking
33:01around knowing that people are walking around with big ARPs or with big guns just in their
33:05pockets.
33:06They both said, I think, from what I gathered, that this is just the lifestyle they grew up
33:12in.
33:13This is what they, you said, would you get out if you could?
33:17And they didn't, it's like this is kind of what we, it's a cycle.
33:21They said the word cycle came out of one of those young men's mouth.
33:27Yeah, and they said they would love to break the cycle, and they don't hope for this for
33:30their children either, because they know that this lifestyle obviously isn't the best.
33:35It's been happening for years and years.
33:36That's why they call it a cycle.
33:38And these gangsters, they were good guys.
33:41They were cool with me.
33:42But you don't want to see this happening in the streets, and you don't want to see the
33:46switch turned.
33:48Nick, the gang culture you showed us starts young.
33:51Let's watch.
33:53How old are the kids out here when they first get their first guns?
33:55When they first walk around, they first get a f*** initiative?
33:5813, 14, f*** like that.
34:0111?
34:01Really?
34:02Hell yeah.
34:0411?
34:05It's a heartbreak for the victims of this gun violence, and it's also infuriating, because
34:15I know you talked to a kid who dropped out of high school and started getting involved
34:20here.
34:20What did he tell you?
34:21Yeah, it's a sad reality for a lot of these kids.
34:24They get caught up inside of this cycle, and they feel like, well, if I'm going to be walking
34:28around with these guys, I also have to walk around strapped, and if there's a gun on the
34:31table, maybe they'll just put it in their pocket.
34:32And it's very concerning that youth in America are growing up, and they're growing into that
34:37cycle, like they say, because there's so much opportunity for anybody here in America to
34:41do anything else but violence, or to go into that gang lifestyle.
34:46And given what you saw, the National Guard in Chicago, in your view, would that be welcomed
34:54by people who will be affected by gang violence, even if there are people in the gangs?
35:00Would the National Guard itself be useful or welcome?
35:05I just called the guy before I came on here and tell him, I'm going to go on here, I'm
35:08going to talk, and is there anything you guys would want to say?
35:10And he said, bring them.
35:13These other illegal gangs, they don't play by the same rules these guys play by, and they
35:18believe that it actually helped clean the streets as well.
35:22Well, Trender, Aragua, obviously they've been busted.
35:25The O-Block gang has been busted in Chicago, but an enormous amount of work has to be done.
35:32Nick, thank you for sharing this video with us, and please take care of yourself.
35:37Please.
35:38And coming up, fighting the oligarchs.
35:41Well, like, living the high life.
35:43Well, how can you do both?
35:44AOC has some splainin' to do.
35:46Fox News alert.
35:51Donald Trump is out on the town, dinner with members of his cabinet in D.C., showing it's
35:56safe to walk around the city after deploying the National Guard.
36:00Crime, as we know, has plummeted in the city, but President Trump talked to reporters just
36:04a few moments ago.
36:06The restaurants now are going.
36:07People are going out to dinner where they didn't go out for years, and it's a safe city,
36:12and I just want to thank you.
36:13Here to weigh in, Katie Miller, host of the new Katie Miller podcast, which I've already
36:18watched two episodes of.
36:20Mike Tyson, very, very cool.
36:22Katie, first of all, you're married to Stephen Miller.
36:25You have three beautiful children.
36:26You've been in politics for many years.
36:28Now you're doing a podcast.
36:29We're going to get to that.
36:30How important is this moment for President Trump to be out and about?
36:33It's incredibly important for President Trump to be seen out and about in D.C., because
36:38once again, D.C. is safe again.
36:39For years, we didn't take our children out in D.C. because we were afraid of being carjacked.
36:44You know, years ago, I had a gun pulled on me in Chinatown in D.C., and when I called
36:48the police, their first response was, well, we can send someone out, but we're not going
36:52to take a report because this is so commonplace here in D.C.
36:55I didn't even know that.
36:56Yeah.
36:57I was driving in Chinatown.
36:58It was about...
36:58Okay, that's terrifying.
36:59Absolutely terrifying.
37:01And so because of that, you know, you live a different life, especially with children,
37:05right?
37:05You're parking your car, then you're getting out to their car seats.
37:08My children and I took in the monuments last weekend, and it was so great to see so
37:12many National Guards so proud to be able to serve their country and make our city safe
37:17again.
37:17I saw, when I was over at Union Station heading to New York, I guess it was last week, I went
37:22up to a couple of the National Guard troops, and I just said, you might be getting grief
37:27from some people.
37:28It's so cool that you're here, and thank you very much.
37:30Everyone was in such a good mood.
37:32I mean, people are usually in a pretty bad mood somehow coming around Union Station because
37:35there's a pot smell, or there's the protesters banging the pots, and there's the homeless.
37:40People were...
37:41They seemed pretty chipper.
37:42That was nice to see.
37:44It's nice to see the graffiti being removed from D.C.
37:46Oh, God, the worst.
37:47I hate graffiti.
37:48It's nice that there's no longer homeless sleeping on every bench, right?
37:52When you take your kids and push them in a stroller around the city, you don't have
37:55to explain why someone is drugged out on the corner.
37:57That's not acceptable, especially in our nation's capital, where you want to show off the beauty
38:01and the grandeur of America to foreign nationals and to those who want to visit our country.
38:05So, Katie, how is it that you're a young mom, you have a high-powered job, you have a podcast.
38:14How impossible is your schedule?
38:16I mean, mine's insane, but your kids are really little.
38:19So how are you doing this?
38:20Our kids are now 4, 3, and 2.
38:22I told you, you've got to have more kids.
38:23We've got the declining fertility.
38:25You've got to make it up for the rest of us.
38:26The Millers will continue to have more children.
38:29Single-handedly repopulating.
38:30Terrifying the left hearing that.
38:32That's why conservatives are having more children than liberals.
38:34Yeah.
38:34But what's, to me, is very important in our family is that one of us, either myself or
38:39my husband, we try to make it both of us, is home every night for dinner and bath time
38:44and bedtime with our children.
38:45I think there's nothing more sacred than those moments with our kids.
38:48But again, it's a game of Tetris between Stephen's schedule and mine, who has a dinner
38:53and who's on TV.
38:54And, you know, our kids are exceedingly proud of us, but they think everyone's mommy and
38:58daddy are on TV.
38:59They don't get it.
39:00They love President Trump.
39:01They see him and they say, oh, that's President Trump, mommy.
39:04And they think of him just like so many Americans, is they're so proud and so grateful to look
39:09up to someone who is doing such great things to protect them.
39:12And again, you're exploring a lot of those issues in your podcast.
39:17Everybody's got to tune in.
39:18Thank you very much for joining us and come back soon.
39:21Thank you, Laura.
39:22Absolutely.
39:23Great to see you.
39:23And up next, clueless tourists get into the ultimate travel nightmare.
39:28Oh, my gosh.
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