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Well, coming up shortly here on C-SPAN, we're going to take you live to New York City, where the United Nations Security Council is meeting today to discuss Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territory. | |
| This, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with President Trump at the White House later this morning. | ||
| While we wait for this to get underway, we're going to show you a portion of our Washington Journal program from earlier today. | ||
| You can go ahead and start calling in now. | ||
| I want to take you first to the Gallup organization's monthly tracking poll of the most important problem facing America. | ||
| The September report is out. | ||
| The top five answers from those who were surveyed. | ||
| The number one answer at 28% of respondents. | ||
| Poor leadership of the government is the most important problem. | ||
| Followed by those who said economic problems in this country are the most important problem. | ||
| And then immigration unifying the country at 10% and crime and violence at 8%. | ||
| Those are some of the numbers from that report that you can find at gallup.com. | ||
| A little bit more digging into the crime numbers there. | ||
| Gallup noting in its wrap-up of that report that mentions of crime and violence have more than doubled over the past month, rising from 3% in August to 8% in September. | ||
| That's the highest level since August of 2020. | ||
| The uptick comes amid a spate of violent events, including the Minnesota Catholic school shooting that killed two children August 27th, the stabbing death of a Ukrainian woman on a North Carolina train on August 22nd. | ||
| However, they note most of the increase in crime mentions in this month's poll occurred after Charlie Kirk's murder on September the 10th. | ||
| Those are some of the numbers from Gallup. | ||
| We're asking you what you think the most important issue, the most important problem facing America today is. | ||
| Give us a call. | ||
| Democrats 202-748-8000. | ||
| Republicans 202-748-8001. | ||
| Independents 202-748-8002. | ||
| As you're calling in, it was Attorney General Pambondi over the weekend noting the increase in crime in this country, specifically concerned about a new era of political violence in this country. | ||
| In the wake of that shooting at the Dallas ICE facility, she released this message on Saturday on her social media page. | ||
| We're witnessing a new era of political violence. | ||
| Assassins have tried to murder President Trump twice and tried to kill Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. | ||
| In Minnesota, legislators and even children attending mass were gunned down in cold blood in two separate incidents. | ||
| And an assassin targeted and murdered our friend Charlie Kirk. | ||
| A sniper shot three people at a Texas ICE facility, and now more than 200 violent rioters were at a Chicago ICE facility chanting arrest ice shoot ice. | ||
| At least one had a gun. | ||
| We've seen this before. | ||
| We saw it in Portland and with the LA riots. | ||
| These are not peaceful protests. | ||
| These are coordinated attacks by radical extremists and they end now. | ||
| Anyone who threatens or assaults our federal officers will be arrested and charged federally, not in some liberal state court. | ||
| Same goes for anyone who's funding and aiding these extremists. | ||
| You will be dismantled brick by brick. | ||
| We are taking our country back. | ||
| Make America safe again. | ||
| Pambondi, with that message released over the weekend. | ||
| This morning, we're asking you about what the most important issue is facing the country today. | ||
| The top issue, according to that latest Gallup report, again, more than a quarter of respondents saying that it's the federal government, it's government and unity is the problem in this country. | ||
| That's the top response, economic responses coming in at second. | ||
| We want to know what you think this morning. | ||
| Michael is up first out of Texas. | ||
| Line for Republicans. | ||
| Michael, what's the most important problem facing the country? | ||
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Yeah, am I on? | |
| You're on, Michael. | ||
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All right. | |
| I think everyone talks about the national issues and stuff like that, but I think more people should be involved in their local issues. | ||
| For example, I live in the city of Katie, and our local leadership is a massive joke. |