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| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| There's a few polls that just came out by YouGov, so we'll go over those. | ||
| And this was the question. | ||
| How big of a problem, if any, do you think crime is in major U.S. cities? | ||
| 67% said it was a major problem. | ||
| And 23% said minor, 3% not at all. | ||
| If you break that down by politics, you'll see here that the major problem for Democrats goes down by 53%, still a majority, but less. | ||
| Republicans, 90% said it was a major problem, independents at 63%. | ||
| Then a minor problem or not a problem was 35%. | ||
| For Democrats, 5% for not a problem. | ||
| Republicans, only 7% said it was a minor problem, and only 1% of Republicans said it was not a problem. | ||
| Independents, those numbers are 26 and 4%. | ||
| They also took a poll asking about D.C. specifically. | ||
| And the question is, do you approve or disapprove of putting Washington, D.C. police under federal control and deploying National Guard troops to the city? | ||
| This was just taken after the announcement on Monday. | ||
| 21% strongly approve. | ||
| 38% strongly disapprove. | ||
| And again, we'll look at that broken out by politics. | ||
| Only 2% of Democrats strongly approve of that move. | ||
| 68% of Democrats strongly disapprove. | ||
| On the Republican side, 52% strongly approve. | ||
| And 5% strongly disapprove. | ||
| Well, yesterday, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was talking about actions that newly deployed law enforcement officers took on Monday night in D.C. Here she is. | ||
| On another matter, yesterday, President Trump took bold action to finally restore law and order right here in our nation's capital. | ||
| The president declared a crime emergency in the District of Columbia, federalized the D.C. Police Department, and mobilized the D.C. National Guard to end violent crime in our nation's capital. | ||
| As part of the president's massive law enforcement surge, last night, approximately 850 officers and agents were surged across the city. | ||
| They made a total of 23 arrests, including multiple other contacts. | ||
| Last night, these arrests consisted of homicide, firearms offenses, possession with intent to distribute narcotics, fare evasion, lewd acts, stalking, possession of a high-capacity magazine, fleeing to elude in a vehicle, no permits, driving under the influence, reckless driving, and a bench warrant. | ||
| A total of six illegal handguns were seized off of District of Columbia streets as part of last night's effort. | ||
| This is only the beginning. | ||
| Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest every violent criminal in the district who breaks the law, undermines public safety, and endangers law-abiding Americans. | ||
| President Trump will not be deterred by soft-on-crime Democrats and media activists who refuse to acknowledge this rampant violence on our streets. | ||
| He is going to make our nation's capital the most beautiful and safe city on earth, just as he promised on the campaign trail. | ||
| I'm taking your calls this morning. | ||
| How worried are you about crime where you live? | ||
| We'll start with Eugene and Boston Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm very curious as to why C-SPAN has not had the mayor of the city of Boston, Michelle Wu on, to talk to her about crime fighting. | ||
| In the city of Boston, she has dropped the murder rate to the lowest level since 1957. | ||
| Why isn't that national news? | ||
| Why isn't it being talked about more? | ||
| Why hasn't she been on C-SPAN to explain to the American people how she's accomplished that? | ||
| All Donald Trump is doing is smoking mirrors to redirect and divert attention, controlling the narrative. | ||
| You know, crime is bad all over America. | ||
| I think most people know that. | ||
| But America is a nation that was given birth through crime. | ||
| So it's really not a listening to me. | ||
| Eugene, what is the mayor of Boston saying about how she's been able to do that? | ||
| What are the lessons learned from Boston? | ||
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Okay, but why don't you have her on C-SPAN to tell the American people that? | |
| I'll tell you what she did. | ||
| She didn't put troops in the street. | ||
| She didn't put National Guards in the street. | ||
| What she did is that she showed people how much she cares. | ||
| When she first took over as mayor, crime was out of control. | ||
| But what she did is that every time it was a crime involving a young person, she was there. | ||
| She showed up. | ||
| She gave young people more safe space, safe spaces. | ||
| In the city of Boston, if you're in school, you can go to the science museum, to the art museum. | ||
| You can go to places like that anytime for free. | ||
| Also, what she did is that through the inner city, through areas that were a little problematic, she made all the buses free so that people working those dead-end, low-weight, minimum-wage jobs that are struggling to get to work in the morning, they don't have to worry about paying a fare. | ||
| You know, and what she's done is really just been miraculous. | ||
| And they've got Bob, not Bob Kraft, but his son, Josh Kraft, running against her to, I think, get the murder rate back up. | ||
| All right, Eugene. | ||
| And this is Tony in Houston, Texas, Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Tony. | ||
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Hello. | |
| How worried are you about crime where you live, Tony, in Houston? | ||
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I'm not too worried. | |
| I'm just worried about that so-called president of ours. | ||
| You know, crime would be way down if he didn't let all the crime out of prison. | ||
| You know, like the White House. | ||
| He's going to pardon everybody. | ||
| So, really, crime is not too bad here in Houston. | ||
| All right. | ||
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And here's the Hill. | |
| The Hill saying this. | ||
| Conservative pundit and social media personality Benny Johnson used an appearance in the White House press briefing room's new media seat to rail against crime in Washington, D.C. and suggest a Department of Government Efficiency Doge staffer who was recently assaulted in the district be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | ||
| Take a look at the exchange with Benny Johnson and Caroline Levitt in the press room. | ||
| As a D.C. resident of 15 years, I lived on Capitol Hill. | ||
| I witnessed so many muggings and so much theft. | ||
| I lost track. | ||
| I was carjacked. | ||
| I have murders on my ring camera and mass shootings. | ||
| I witnessed a woman on my block get held up at gunpoint for $20. | ||
| And my house was set ablaze in an arson with my infant child inside. | ||
| And so to any reporter that says and lies that D.C. is a safe place to live and work, let me just say this. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for making the city safe because a parent should have to go through what my family went through having the fire department rip open their door to save their infant child. | ||
| And so thank you for your work on securing this city. | ||
| My question to you is this. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi has attacked the president for deploying the National Guard to the city, saying that it is to cover for his incompetence. | ||
| Hillary Clinton has also attacked the president for securing the city of Washington, D.C. I'd like to get your response to Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Well, first of all, Benny, I'm so sorry that happened to you and your family. | ||
| There have been, unfortunately, far too many victims of crime in this city, and I know the majority of residents in the District of Columbia agree with you. | ||
| In fact, a new poll from the Washington Post I was reading this morning, this was released in May of 2024. | ||
| So it's quite funny how many of you in the media agreed with what the president was saying yesterday. | ||
| But now once the president says it, many of you are disagreeing with him. | ||
| But this poll released by the Washington Post found that 65% of district residents think crime is an extremely serious or a very serious problem. | ||
| And this was up from 56% last year. | ||
| So the concern that you share with so many other residents in the District of Columbia is real. | ||
| And that's why this president is taking action to address it. | ||
| To get to the heart of your question, I think it's despicable that Democrats cannot agree that we need more law and order in a city that has been ravaged by violence, crime, murders, property theft. | ||
| This should be a winning issue for all Americans. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| It's just anything President Trump does the Democrats want to disagree with. | ||
| I think the president would love to work with Democrats on this issue to bring law and order to America's cities, but unfortunately they have failed. | ||
| And that's why he's taken this historic action to federalize the National Guard. | ||
| And as you're seeing from last night's numbers, we already have seen success. | ||
| We are removing violent offenders. | ||
| We are arresting criminals. | ||
| And we are removing drugs and firearms off of the streets of the city to make it safer for all of its residents. | ||
| We're asking about your level of concern about crime where you live. | ||
| Checking in on Facebook, we've got Jeff who says, I'm definitely concerned. | ||
| For D.C., I think sending the National Guard after crime decreased is a bit much and very confusing. | ||
| Martin says, not very much, not even worried when I go into D.C. | ||
| And Sue says, small town in Oklahoma, really not much crime here, but Oklahoma City morning news always showing shootings during the nights. | ||
| And Lane says, somewhat worried, but I am armed and ready. | ||
| Anthony is in Detroit, Independent Line. | ||
| Hi, Anthony. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| Crime, I guess, in Detroit. | ||
| I would say it's a big issue, one of the top issues. | ||
| But personally, it hasn't affected me too, too much. | ||
| So, you know, I'm not too worried about it myself. | ||
| And, yeah, we have a new mayor coming. | ||
| And after 12 years, we'll have a new mayor for the first time. | ||
| So, we just had the primary election and it got narrowed down to two candidates. | ||
| So, it's a big topic right now. | ||
| And, Anthony, are you worried about certain areas of Detroit? | ||
| Do you not go during certain times, certain places that you won't go in Detroit? | ||
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No, I'll go anywhere, but I'm not going to be out at 2-3 in the morning, but yeah. | |
| All right. | ||
| Linda in Mississippi, Line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Linda. | ||
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Yes. | |
| If they're so concerned about crime in D.C., why don't they march over to the White House and arrest the number one criminal that has more felons than anybody they're picking up out the streets today? | ||
| Jim in Arkansas, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning, Jim. | ||
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Yeah, I don't know why people don't want to talk about the elephant in the room. | |
| All of these cities that are run by black mayors and black chiefs of police, whether they're women or men, whether it's Memphis or LA or Chicago, it's all black people committing these heinous crimes against innocent white people. | ||
| Wake up. | ||
| And in a press conference with a reporter, D.C. Mayor Mural Bowser discussed her approach in working with federal law enforcement to reduce crime. | ||
| She made these comments yesterday. | ||
| What I'm focused on is the federal surge and how to make the most of the additional officer support that we have. | ||
| We have the best in the business and MPD and Chief Pamela Smith to lead that effort and to make sure that the men and women who are coming from federal law enforcement are being well used and that if there's National Guard here, that they're being well used and all in an effort to drive down crime. | ||
| So how we got here or what we think about the circumstances right now, we have more police and we want to make sure we're using them. | ||
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Are you concerned at all that some of the police that are out there are FBI agents who are assigned to offices who are now patrolling the streets at night? | |
| I'm going to rely on the police chief to work with her counterparts to make sure people are being deployed in a useful way. | ||
| And on X, Fred says, I live in a mountain community above San Bernardino, Riverside in California. | ||
| My community has a little bit of crime like most, but down the hill in San Bernardino and Riverside, they've got a lot more crime. | ||
| I try not to be down there after dark. | ||
| And on Facebook, Bob says, the more that is allowed, the more I worry. | ||
| It's time for zero tolerance on certain crimes. | ||
| Immediate dispatch upon discovery. | ||
| It's not that difficult. | ||
| Denise, Indiana Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Denise. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Yes, I am concerned about crime on the streets. | ||
| I live in Indiana, but I'm not concerned here. | ||
| But in Washington, D.C., I'm only concerned about the January windows, insurrection is that that's what I'm concerned about. | ||
| And some of those people that are mad, are they part of the January 6th, those guys? | ||
| And that's what I'm more concerned about. | ||
| And I think every time the president opens his mouth, he tells a lie. | ||
| So I'm concerned about him too as well. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Here's Stacey in Waldorf, Maryland, Democrat. | ||
| Sorry, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, Stacey. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How are you? | ||
| I've been living in the DMV area, which is D.C., Maryland, all my life. | ||
| And even though crime has gone down in D.C., it's still really, really bad. | ||
| And I don't understand why people are so upset that we're getting more police presents for 30 days. | ||
| I mean, literally a couple years ago, like two years ago, an Uber driver was dragged to his death by two teenage girls trying to carjack him. | ||
| Last summer, a gentleman sitting outside of a new Apple store was shot to death waiting for his wife in a carjacking. | ||
| So crime is really bad in certain areas of D.C. | ||
| And those families that live in low-income areas, you know, they have bullets flying through their windows at night right above their heads where their children are sleeping. | ||
| So something needs to be done. | ||
| So Stacey, you said, you know, 30 days, this is a temporary solution. | ||
| What do you think would be a good permanent solution? | ||
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We have to be, well, I think you got to be stricter. | |
| I mean, with the laws and execute them. | ||
| And unfortunately, there is a lot of the juveniles in these cities are definitely out of pocket. | ||
| I mean, that's where the crime is really rampant is with the juveniles. | ||
| So get some social service programs going, after care. | ||
| I mean, there's a lot of different things we can do, but to sit back and do nothing and say, oh, the numbers have gone down, so it's okay. | ||
| The numbers need to keep going down. | ||
| There was a spike in D.C. during COVID. | ||
| So now those numbers are coming down, but it spiked up. | ||
| So, Stacey, what here in D.C. Regarding those social programs that you talked about? | ||
| Who's going to pay for that? | ||
| Do you think that the federal government should be allowing more funding to go into D.C.? | ||
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Oh, absolutely. | |
| And I mean, and taxpayers need to do it. | ||
| I mean, you got to do what we got to do to protect our family. | ||
| And that's the American citizens. | ||
| So if I have to pay higher taxes to keep these kids off the streets so they're not like little victims of the gangs and being plucked off by the drugs and all that, then so be it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And here's James in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. | ||
| Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, James. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| I'm responding to that fellow that called here from Arkansas said, all your crime is in your black areas. | ||
| Like I call all the different states where black males is controlling. | ||
| He got to remember, just here in Arkansas, all mass shootings and shooting and rapes and stuff are done by white males. | ||
| But you never hit nothing on, you're never hitting on it on C-SPAN and buddy. | ||
| But every time you look around, white males are doing mass shootings. | ||
| They never talk about it. | ||
| White males are doing this porn on their kids in Arkansas, never talk about it. | ||
| It's a lot of things going that white males do that no one will talk about. | ||
| So every time you have somebody come on there, it's always white. | ||
| Put somebody on there of color, if we're Hispanic or black, and let them describe the situation. | ||
| I've been here 80-something years, never had a problem, go where I want to go. | ||
| So for this man to call here and say, all your crimes in black areas, he is completely wrong. | ||
| And we know exactly where he's coming from where a bunch of these people in Arkansas are racist. | ||
| It's period, point blank, and they know their president is because he let all those people out there beat cops. | ||
| Some of them died behind it. | ||
| And he pardoned them. | ||
| They talked about law and order. | ||
| Where's the law and order at? | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Adam is in Washington, D.C., Independent Line. | ||
| Adam, go ahead. | ||
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Yes, thank you. | |
| So I grew up in the Washington area myself, then moved away to Chicago and returned to D.C. about five years ago. | ||
| And for a short time, I rented an apartment on U Street, which is a very heavily trafficked area with restaurants and bars and retail. | ||
| And it is a complete mess. | ||
| It looks like a dystopian, post-apocalyptic scene. | ||
| You have noise, loud, loud music playing until 2 in the morning. | ||
| You have a lot of open-air drug transactions going on. | ||
| You have police that park their cars along U Street, and they have their, they're flashing their sirens. | ||
| They don't have their sirens on, but they have the lights on. | ||
| They don't do anything. | ||
| They just stand there and sort of observe, which actually makes it feel even more menacing. | ||
| And I had to move into a different part of the city to get away from that. | ||
| Also, the area around the convention center feels very menacing and dangerous. | ||
| I don't think crime is under control in D.C. | ||
| It may be true that homicides are down and violent crimes are down, but there are a lot of different other, there are other crimes going on, drug crimes, other types of vandalism going on, cars being, you know, their windows being smashed and their tires being slashed when they're just sitting there parked on the streets. | ||
| So I do think there's a lot of work to be done. | ||
| I think the mayor has ignored the problem. | ||
| I think the police chief has ignored the problem. | ||
| And as an independent voter, I don't appreciate Democrats telling me that I don't see what's going on, that the statistics show that violent crime is down. | ||
| But as a resident, I still feel very menaced walking around D.C. Thank you very much. | ||
| And Adam, before you go, what have you seen so far? | ||
| Have you seen any federal agents? | ||
| Have you seen the National Guard? | ||
| What have you seen on the streets so far? | ||
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So in the neighborhood that I'm living in, which is around Logan Circle, I haven't seen a large presence. | |
| You do when you walk around. | ||
| You'll see the trucks. | ||
| You'll see the Army trucks. | ||
| You'll see some people patrolling. | ||
| I'm not sure what parts of the city they're focusing on, but they don't seem to be focusing on the part of Northwest Washington where I live, at least not right now. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And this is WSA 9 reporting this at Senator Van Holland and Delegate Norton to reintroduce a bill to grant D.C. full control over the National Guard. | ||
| Here is Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Holland on Congress's role in federal resources. | ||
| So here he is. | ||
| Our understanding is that Congress would have to step in if you wanted to make this longer than a 30-day deployment. | ||
| Republican lawmakers seem on board with this initial move. | ||
| Speaker Mike Johnson saying Trump is right. | ||
| And Majority Leader Scalise saying this will make D.C. safe again. | ||
| They have the majority. | ||
| Does the president have any guardrails? | ||
| Well, they may be able to move this quickly through the House, but in the Senate, we have guardrails with respect to getting over the filibuster and cloture. | ||
| Look, I think that this is an example that everybody should be following closely around the country. | ||
| You know, Republican members of Congress, they're all rah-rah when the president wants to do this to the people of the District of Columbia. | ||
| But the precedent that he is setting is one that really is a dress rehearsal potentially for other places. | ||
| In fact, he himself, you know, mentioned a couple other cities around the country. | ||
| So this is part of the very dangerous slide towards authoritarianism. | ||
| It's also an effort to distract attention from other vulnerabilities the president has, like releasing the Epstein file. | ||
| So I think there's a lot going on here, Ana, but it is a dangerous, it is a dangerous slide that we're witnessing. | ||
| Back to your calls now, Jim in Hudson, Florida, Republican. | ||
| Jim, how worried are you about crime where you live? | ||
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Well, I'm worried about crime where I live too, in Florida. | |
| And we don't see much here in Hudson. | ||
| But let me give you an example of how politicians feel about crime. | ||
| Back in Trump's first administration, Chicago has always had crime. | ||
| They got crime now. | ||
| Well, the mayor Lightfoot, Trump offered to go help her with her problem, and she wouldn't let him come. | ||
| She says, no, you're not coming because you straighten this out, which he would have. | ||
| He went on bloviating about how wonderful he was and how he helped her. | ||
| And she wouldn't let him come. | ||
| So he goes out of office, and Biden comes in. | ||
| She asked Biden to come and help her. | ||
| And she asked Biden to come and help her. | ||
| And he wouldn't go help her for the same reason. | ||
| He said, if I come and help you and this don't work out, you're going to blame me for this. | ||
| You're going to get off the hooks. | ||
| So the politicians, they don't care about the people. | ||
| They care about how they look when it's all over with. | ||
| And it's just terrible how politics plays such a role in the way things get done in this life. | ||
| And that's all I've got to say. | ||
| And have a good day. | ||
| Jamal in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning, Jamal. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| Back to you. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| Good. | ||
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Listen, you asked about a permanent solution to these issues, right? | |
| I would not disagree with what the other callers will say. | ||
| I just want to compliment their conclusions. | ||
| If you leave this at the nucleus of the family and you give those families the resources, whether they be programs, extracurricular activities for the kids, or just general education for parents that might not have the resources or the tools to be effective parents, you can end up, because I do agree with one of the callers who said that the juvenile issue was a situation. | ||
| You can make society a little more improved if you give parents the ability to be better parents. | ||
| That's just one issue. | ||
| But as far as using federal law enforcement to intimidate people into better behavior, I think it's a slippery slope because this is happening in a predominantly black city. | ||
| So imagine when an independent socialist becomes president and then they decide, you know, I think the real crime in America comes from white racist men with poor ideology. | ||
| Let's get into these predominantly white municipalities and bring federal law enforcement into the mix. | ||
| A combination, you know, of the appropriate things will ultimately help the situation in a more effective way. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And Mark from New York sent us this text. | ||
| He says, not concerned about crime in my area. | ||
| I believe parents should be held more accountable to what their kids do and be charged alongside them. | ||
| However, parents need and can't get help to put their kids somewhere to get help. | ||
| The system has failed us. | ||
| Here's Jim Riva, Maryland Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Jim. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Hi, go right ahead. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Yes, I want to mention one thing about this whole takeover with the National Guard. | ||
| That didn't come about until a young man from Dog got beat up on the streets. | ||
| And there's some controversy about that. | ||
| But the name of the young man was Big Balls. | ||
| It's kind of amazing to me when a young Jewish couple was murdered in the district. | ||
| They didn't call out the National Guard. | ||
| But when Big Balls gets beat up, they call out the National Guard and all this other stuff that goes on. | ||
| I don't think that I've worked in the District of Columbia my whole life as a stagehand. | ||
| Got off at some very odd hours. | ||
| You had to be street-wise. | ||
| Everybody understood that. | ||
| If you're out at three o'clock in the morning and you're not street-wise, well, you're going to be in trouble. | ||
| And it's a lot of times these assaults come in areas where there are prostitutes, there are gambling, there's all sorts of drugs and everything else. | ||
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You have no business being in them areas in the first place. | |
| But I think it's a show of force. | ||
| It's unnecessary. | ||
| But shouldn't you be able to be safe all the time, Jim? | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| Shouldn't you be able to be safe all the time? | ||
| I mean, shouldn't. | ||
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I never, I never in the District of Columbia since I was a teenager felt 100% safe. | |
| And I never felt safe in any city if I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And here's Dion in Chesterfield, Virginia, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, good morning, Mimi. | |
| Okay, so first of all, I do agree with that last guy. | ||
| I am a little bothered by the guy that called earlier that was saying it's just black people beating up white people. | ||
| Obviously, that's not like an all-the-time case. | ||
| I do feel like it is, and like that one lady said, a lot of like low-income areas. | ||
| But I guess what bothers me the most is you really have a lot of people calling up here who don't even live in those type of areas or never really frequent those type of areas that call up here and give their opinion, especially that it's like all these black cities. | ||
| And it just bothers me, especially because you just get like a lot of white people, in my opinion, giving them an excuse to like be racist and say like racist things, like that man said about it's just black people beating up white people when that's not the case all of the time. | ||
| So I just wanted to say that. | ||
| And as far as like the resources with the kids, I do agree with that. | ||
| I just feel like, because I think somebody was saying that yesterday about like the lack of resources and things like that. | ||
| I feel like with these kids, like there's nothing for them to do, especially like these teenagers. | ||
| And then like they're probably working all the time because life is expensive. | ||
| So they're gone all the time at work trying to make ends meet. | ||
| And so just like leaves these children like with a lot of idle time. | ||
| And a lot of times, in my opinion, that's also how they wind up getting in with the wrong crowd, hanging out, like hanging around the wrong type of people, and then doing the wrong thing. | ||
| So I just wanted to give my opinion on that just because, you know, this topic is just really, really bothers me. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right, Dion. | ||
| And this is the Washington Post. | ||
| Man shot and killed near sites of two slayings cited by Trump. | ||
| It says the fatal shooting came hours after the president said he would take control of the DC police. | ||
| One more call on this topic, then we'll go to Open Forum. | ||
| Here's Gay in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I'm so disappointed in C-SPAN. | ||
| You have an opportunity to provide stats and facts to people. | ||
| You have a laptop there, which would be simple to Google for states and cities with the highest rate of crime. | ||
| By doing that, it would provide people with facts. | ||
| This is a narrative. | ||
| It's crime all over the country, everywhere. | ||
| There are pockets of crime. | ||
| And yes, it's bad and it needs to be resolved. | ||
| But facts matter. | ||
| Not a narrative. | ||
| People are calling up based upon what they hear on different media outlets. | ||
| But again, crime, let's be specific. | ||
| You have a laptop there. | ||
| Google it. | ||
| So people know what cities are the most crime-ridden today. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| I'm so disappointed because we are living in a time where this narrative, there's no facts. | ||
| We used to get facts, and then people can make a decision based upon the facts. |