Congresswoman LaMonica McIver demands dismissal of her assault charges, citing political retaliation and comparing her case to January 6 pardons while facing a potential 17-year sentence. Host Trish Regan contrasts Mayor Muriel Bowser's praise for federal law enforcement with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's refusal, noting rising support for federal intervention in Chicago. The episode also details Tulsi Gabbard's purge of intelligence officials, including revoking a CIA Russia expert's clearance linked to alleged 2017 operations against Trump, and investigates John Bolton's potential mishandling of classified information. Ultimately, these segments highlight a shifting political landscape where safety concerns drive support for federal authority amidst ongoing investigations into past administrations' alleged interference. [Automatically generated summary]
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Political Enthusiasm in D.C00:02:55
We're live.
We have so much going on today at never a dull moment, right?
Never, ever a dull moment, shall we say.
What I'm most struck by is the enthusiasm that we're suddenly seeing out of Washington, D.C. Who would have thought, right?
So the mayor of Washington, D.C. is now caught on live camera praising one Donald Trump, D.C., going totally MAGA because you know what?
Results matter.
We're going to get into that story.
Chicago, pay attention.
Okay, Brendan Johnson out there in Chicago where you get a disaster of a city, maybe you could learn.
Thing or two.
He just got totally humiliated this morning on Morning Joe.
It's really phenomenal to see.
Um, it's sort of strange, I mean really.
I'm like it's Msnbc, like this is friendly territory, for goodness sakes.
Buddy boy, La Monica, she's getting desperate, La Monica Mcgiver, totally desperate.
You ought to hear the new legal theory.
We talked about it a little bit yesterday.
We're going to get into it some more in depth today.
Tulsi is purging again.
She's getting rid of some big wig people in the Intel Department, specifically people that are associated with Russia, will explain.
And who knew?
John Bolton was actually already under investigation.
You know that?
They want to say this is political.
They want to say this is retribution.
They want to say this is just Donald Trump going after John Bolton because he doesn't like him very much, which he doesn't.
But you know what?
Biden was investigating him too.
And we get some new Trump polls to talk about.
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DC is going MAGA, baby.
Yeah, totally MAGA.
I want you to hear Muriel Browser.
She is the mayor of DC.
And she's actually, I'm like, whoa, am I hearing things?
This woman, a Democrat, is praising Trump.
Watch.
And we greatly appreciate the surge of officers.
That enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.
The most significant thing that we are highlighting today is the area of crime that was most troubling for us in 2023.
Now we have driven it down over the last years, but I'm gonna get my glasses so I can make sure I can see it correctly.
But for carjackings, the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge, and last year represents a 87% reduction in carjackings in Washington, D.C.
Crime Surge and Accountability00:03:24
We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer.
So this surge has been important to us for that reason.
Hmm.
I would say it has.
You know what?
When you're saving lives, that's all that matters, right?
Can we get away from the politics?
Because when you are saving lives, that is what counts.
In other words, the Chicago guy, New York, forget about it.
LA, forget about it.
This woman, I'm actually impressed by.
I didn't think I was going to be, but hear her again.
She's praising Donald Trump.
She is recognizing that they needed these resources and that this is a game changer.
This is what we think in just a couple of weeks of experience has worked having more federal law enforcement officers on the street.
We think having more stops that got to illegal guns has helped.
We think that there's more accountability in the system, or at least perceived accountability in the system, that is driving down illegal behavior.
We know that we have had fewer gun crimes, fewer homicides, and we have experienced an extreme reduction in carjackings.
What we know is not working is a A break in trust between police and community, especially with new federal partners in our community.
We know having masked ICE agents in the community has not worked, and National Guards from other states has not been an efficient use of those resources.
What's still needed is in the city, we are going to continue to need more police, we continue to need more prosecutors, more judges.
More effective prevention programs, and we need to ensure local control.
Yeah.
Okay.
Like, this is not rocket science.
For goodness sakes, it's not rocket science.
And Muriel, she finally gets it.
She loves the guy who's helping her because you know what?
If you can save lives and clean up your community, it shouldn't be that hard.
Honest to God, it shouldn't be that hard.
For the mayor, could you say why you believe the Trump administration exerting greater control over Union Station would be a good thing?
They own Union Station.
It's owned by the Department of Transportation.
And it will be a good thing because that station has suffered from needing some say $12 billion, but let's call it at least $8 billion worth of investment in the renovation.
And that is not something that the district will be able to support.
It is an important regional asset, it is an important asset for the Eastern Seaboard, it is an important asset for the nation.
So, it is appropriate, in my view, for the federal government to make the necessary investments in the transformation of Union Station.
Thank you.
In other words, just get out of the way.
Federal Investment for Union Station00:15:45
Like, let all the politics stop.
Let Donald Trump do what Donald Trump can do.
Let the federal government do what it can do.
Take the help, for goodness sakes.
What do they say?
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Just actually embrace this.
I mean, what he's trying to do is clean things up.
Yes, he wants to get rid of people who are here illegally that have committed crimes.
No-brainer, right?
Like, how is that such a hard thing to understand?
Brother Bowser, I'll tell you, she's a survivor.
She knows how to preserve her political career, unlike the likes of La Monica, La Monica MacGyver, who is actually learning in real time that she's going to be facing 17 years in the Slammer because of this.
Unbelievable.
I mean, again, just look at that video.
I know we've been through this before, guys, but like she's actually like pounding on somebody.
Did you see that?
Okay.
Like, let's go back.
Did you see that?
Boom.
Okay.
Right into the police officer's back.
Like, you can't do that.
Okay.
I don't care if you're a member of Congress.
I don't care who you are.
I mean, this is not acceptable, right?
Like, I'm just saying it's not acceptable.
I don't care, LaMonica.
You may think you're the hottest thing since God knows what, but it is not acceptable.
You cannot act like that, whether you are a congressperson.
That's her big thing.
Oh my gosh, if they can do this to me, they can do this to you.
No, no, no.
Like, you're a congressperson.
If anything, we've got to hold you to a higher standard.
So now she's asking, as we speak, to have her sentence thrown out.
She does not, not sentence, her indictment.
She's going to be sentenced probably to 17 years.
I don't know if she's going to get the full 17.
I think she should, but she probably won't.
I'm just being a realist here.
She might get something, though.
I mean, she might get something.
She's trying to fundraise off of this.
She's trying to make a big deal out of this politically.
She's like, oh, woe is me, woe is me.
They're just picking on me because I'm a poor black woman.
They see me as a threat because I'm a black woman.
No, no, no.
LaMonica, they see this.
And you know what else I see?
Alina Hobbes saw the fact that you weren't willing to actually come to terms and make some kind of agreement like the mayor of Newark, New Jersey did.
No, no, no.
You wanted to double down and say, well, I'm not going to actually admit any wrongdoing.
I think what I did was absolutely fine.
I mean, if you think what you did was fine, then, well, hey, you got 17 years that you're looking at for real.
So she is asking that they throw this out, the indictment out, because, oh, wait for it.
Wait for it.
Because somehow this is akin to the pardons.
She thinks she should be pardoned like the J-6ers.
I mean, first of all, like, there's no legal argument in there, just, you know, for the legal eagles out there.
That, like, actually doesn't fly.
The court is not going to look at it that way.
The legal standard doesn't work that way.
And so Monica doesn't really have a prayer in terms of that.
In order for this sort of, you know, theory to fly, she'd have to show both a discriminatory effect as well as a discriminatory purpose.
And I think that that would be really, really hard.
She's pointing at the 160-plus J6 dismissals, but the court does require defendants to be similarly situated and that's not the case here at all.
So she's got a very, very steep hill.
She's making the argument anyway.
Let's face it, guys, because this is a political person and she's trying to seek some kind of opportunity in all this, which is why she's doing the rounds on MSNBC, who by the way, hasn't had her on lately.
You know, MS now, as they're now being known, is trying to actually sound like they're more fair.
So maybe they don't want to put the likes of La Monica on all day long.
But here she was saying, they're just picking on me because I am a powerful black woman.
I'm young, I'm powerful, and they don't want me.
They're threatened by me.
Is there something about you that is so threatening or scary to them?
Not that I thought.
I mean, I am a young African American woman from the city of Newark.
I love serving people.
I don't find myself to be intimidating or dangerous or any of those things that the Justice Department have been saying about me.
You know, it's truly unfortunate to be in this situation, but at the same time, it's just, it goes back to the political intimidation about this administration.
And because I'm speaking out, because I'm doing my job, I think they want to continue to silence leaders and, you know, stop their critics from, you know, speaking out against them.
And so they'll go to any extent, especially any extent of cruelty, to make an example.
And I am that example now.
And you say to silence you, did the Trump DOJ float or push anything other than going to trial?
I mean, absolutely.
The acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey wanted me to admit to something that I did not do that was not right.
That's what she put in her tweet that we saw that night.
If you had done that, were they saying they would drop the whole thing?
Yes.
Yep.
That is exactly what she said.
So that's a lot.
I mean, again, that's a lot of pressure because some people would say, gosh, let somebody else fight this out.
You're saying the whole thing could go away if you just said something.
Correct.
And I was not doing that.
I was not going to waver on that.
Like I said, I went to Delaney Hall with my colleagues.
We went there for an oversight visit and we didn't do anything wrong.
The whole tent situation that took place, DHS and Homeland Security and ICE, they created that, not us.
And so absolutely, I was not going to do that.
Excuse me.
They gave you an opportunity to make good and you didn't take it because why?
Because you think that that kind of behavior seriously is appropriate?
I mean, if you think that's appropriate, then you know what?
I don't think you should be a member of Congress, frankly.
I think you got to get kicked out of Congress.
Here she is doubling down on this recently.
Remember, this is what's new in this story.
LaMonica MacGyver, the representative from New Jersey, is demanding that her indictment be dismissed.
And she's saying it must be dismissed just the way the J Sixers got dismissed.
And it's a bizarre legal theory, but she's trying to ride it all the way to the political bank.
A developing story the Justice Department filed charges Monday against a Democratic member of Congress, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey.
DOJ is accusing her now of assaulting and interfering with law enforcement during a confrontation.
I mean, it kind of looks like that to me, right?
I mean, we're watching the video together.
They get a nice little highlight on the lady in red.
What do you think?
It looks like she assaulted an officer.
With Homeland Security officers outside an ICE detention center in Newark earlier this month, you're seeing video that we've played before of the moments of the chaos that ensued.
The situation first grabbed attention when the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested on grounds of federal trespassing.
That charge has since been dropped.
The mayor was on CNN with Abby Phillip last night and spoke about all of this.
Listen to this.
I didn't see any of the things that were stated.
I didn't see any of those things happen.
So I think that the Congresswoman will be vindicated.
And the videos are clear.
Everybody can see those videos.
They'll see the whole thing, and it'll be clear to me and it'll be clear to her in court.
Speaking up in defense of the Congresswoman, joining me right now is the Congresswoman at the center of this, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for being here.
The charge is specifically.
For assaulting, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement.
What is your reaction to this charge?
First of all, thank you so much, Kate, for having me or allowing me to come on for a few seconds today.
I think the charges are absurd.
You know, it's ridiculous.
I was there to do my job along with my other colleagues.
We have done this before.
This is our obligation to do.
It's in our job description to have oversight over a facility.
And the entire situation was escalated by ICE.
They caused the confrontation.
Homeland came and, you know, caused this chaos that we see.
It was a very tense situation.
Situation, but it could have been, you know, easily not, it could have easily not happened.
They had every opportunity to not allow this to happen.
It was very unnecessary.
And it just, once again, we were there to do our jobs.
And, you know, if I'm going to be charged with a crime for doing my job, it just speaks to, you know, where we're headed in this country and what we're dealing with as leaders and as Congress members, you know, here in this country.
Congresswoman, just specifically on the issue at hand with now that you're facing this charge, I mean, what is the Plan today?
I mean, are you turning yourself in or showing up in court?
I mean, what is your understanding of what happens now?
So, we are still trying to get more information on what the next steps are.
My attorneys are in contact with the federal courts in New Jersey, in Newark, New Jersey.
So, we're just waiting on direction for now.
It's business as usual.
I'm going to do my job.
This week, we all know that Republicans are trying to take away Medicaid and important funding to services that impact those over 800,000 people that I represent.
In New Jersey and across this nation.
And so I'm going to do my job, Kate.
That's why I was elected, why the people from New Jersey sent me here.
So it's a full day of work for me here on the Capitol.
On Capitol Hill, excuse me.
No, of course.
We were just covering it as President Trump is heading into a Republican role.
I mean, I can't listen to her.
She's just so blatantly irresponsible.
And it really becomes kind of disgusting after a while because this is nothing but an opportune moment for her.
And you know how I know that?
You know how I know that?
Take a look at.
So she's trying to get this thing thrown out right.
Simultaneously, let me share with you some new articles that just crossed within the last couple of hours.
Well, here's one, for example, in none other than the Rolling Stone okay uh, Rolling Stone magazine, rather um.
So here she is looking all spiffy.
Uh, Trump is prosecuting a Democrat congresswoman.
Well, you can't do that right, you can't go, especially because she's black.
You know, you definitely can't go after her, just like you can't go after Lisa Cooke, even though she may have committed mortgage fraud and she's sitting on the board of Federal Reserve Governors.
You're not allowed to go after her because, as Skeem Jeffries said, you know what?
She is the first black woman to be on that board.
So somehow she's untouchable.
Not not, not.
And this lady is not untouchable either.
So again, this is the big article.
Look at the headline, Trump is prosecuting a Democrat congresswoman.
She isn't flinching.
We know why we're here.
We're here to do our jobs.
That was just doing her job.
A visit to an ICE detention center where she was just doing her job.
Guys, I'm curious.
Let me just look at your comments.
Like, how is that doing your job?
You saw what I saw.
That is not doing your job.
That is being a public nuisance at the least.
And at the most, it's assaulting a federal officer.
You know what?
She's not going to get those charges thrown out.
As I said, she doesn't have a legal argument to stand on.
So she can go out and do all the interviews she wants in Rolling Stone.
And I think there's another magazine.
Oh, Mother Jones, of course.
Rolling Stone.
Both of them are out simultaneously.
LaMonica MacGyver and the Lock Her Up President.
That's what they're saying.
I mean, for goodness sakes.
It's like just because, I got to show you this headline, just because you happen to be a black woman, you are not.
somehow subjected to the same kind of standards as anybody else in society, I'm sorry, but those days are gone.
And you know how I know those days are gone?
I know those days are gone because I'm looking at what's going on right now in Washington, D.C., where, by the way, you have a black woman, Mariel Browser, who's sitting there saying, thank you, Donald Trump, for actually coming in and helping us.
And she's a Democrat at that.
Here's the headline I wanted to show you in Mother Jones, okay?
The charges against the New Jersey congresswoman, which screen pretext for political prosecution, are unprecedented.
in modern U.S. history.
Well, you know what else is unprecedented in modern U.S. history?
It is unprecedented that you would have a lady who happens to be a representative for the U.S. Congress out there powwowing, I mean, alleged, but I saw the tape and you saw the tape, a federal officer.
I mean, that's kind of unprecedented too.
Just saying, okay, so we actually have to have some responsibility in this country.
This is about accountability.
They're all being held accountable.
And that's an important thing to remember, right?
Accountability is everything.
You can't let the La Monica's of the world get away with this.
You can't let the Letitias of the world get away with this.
You cannot let the Adam Schiffs of the world get away with this.
And you certainly got to take down everybody that was part of Obamagate.
And that's what's going on.
This is a new era of accountability.
And I'm telling you, Tishy Baby, Schiff, Lisa Cook, La Monica, you guys are all in trouble and you should be because you know what?
The rules apply to everyone.
You don't get a pass just because of who you are.
I mean, Byron Donaldson said this so well.
He was on with my friend Maria Botaroma this morning, and I want to show you how he framed it.
He is spot on.
Okay?
This is a new era, and there will be accountability.
No more, Mr. Nice Guy.
This is accountability.
Number one, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
And it is crystal clear that Letitia James has been under investigation for quite some time with her mortgage fraud issues.
We know Adam Schiff was leaking to the press, leaking classified information.
And apparently he has mortgage fraud issues as well.
And so what you're going to see out of this administration is everybody's going to be held accountable.
The law will be upheld.
Um, justice will be done.
There's not going to be a picking and choosing the way it was done under Nancy Pelosi, under Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, where they were just using the Justice Department and the intelligence community to go after their chief political rival.
You couple that with the fact that this mortgage fraud case in New York, which, which, uh, which was the most silly case we've ever heard in our life, where Letitia James was saying like properties like Mar-a-Lago were worth $15 million.
I mean, complete insanity.
Uh, the right thing was done that that ridiculous, uh, judgment was thrown out by the appellate court in New York.
You know, you think about what's happening right now.
I'm just looking, look at this list.
Okay.
You've got a whole bunch of these.
You've got basically Bill Pulte is very busy.
Policing Strategy and Justice Dept00:16:49
He's working overtime there in D.C. All these alleged mortgage fraud scandals.
Adam Schiff, primary residents in Maryland and California.
And before you sit there and tell me, like Paul Krugman tried to tell us yesterday on CNN, that somehow this is akin to like cheating on a third grade test.
No, This is real, this is real world stuff.
And if you're Lisa Cook and you're on the board of the Federal Reserve and you're actually pushing for higher interest rates.
which means everybody's going to have to pay more for their mortgage rate.
And then you're out there and you're getting a special sweetheart deal trying to claim two primary residents.
If this is what she in fact did, my gosh, that's a problem.
And you certainly can't be doing this.
Again, as Adam Schiff allegedly did, Senator from California, Letitia James, for goodness sakes, she's the DA, AG, forgive me, from New York.
I mean, this is bizarre, not to mention the father thing, which gets kind of Ilhan Omar-esque.
Lisa Cook, primary residence in Georgia and Michigan and then, you know, the lady that likes to suck it to them, La Monica out there doing her thing.
they're all going to be in trouble because you can't do that anymore.
I realize, you know, they're going to try and say, oh, well, we're just getting picked on because we're Democrats.
And they got Abby Lowell, you know, who's Abby Lowell, who's making a killing.
He's a lawyer that used to work for Hunter Biden.
And now he's working for the Biden appointee, Lisa Cook, who just got fired from the Fed.
He's actually also working for Letitia James.
Oh, we just found out last night he's in negotiations with John Bolton because John Bolton's in a lot of hot water too.
And rightly so, because guess what?
He's got an investigation that's carrying on from the Biden years.
We're going to talk about this.
I'm telling you, make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff.
Don is going to get so mad at you guys.
I'm looking at the chat.
If you do not hit the like.
So hit the likes, pound the likes.
It's really important right now.
Accountability is here.
Tulsi Gabbard is making that clear.
Tulsi Gabbard has a huge purge that's going on right now as we speak.
But think about.
When we talk about accountability, right, think about it not just in terms of what the Trump administration is going to do, but also what voters are expecting.
Because voters are looking at what's going on in Washington, D.C. and how it's effectively going magically.
You've got the mayor there who's saying, hey, fantastic.
You're going to help me fight crime.
And she's a Democrat and she's welcoming this and she's praising Donald Trump saying carjackings are down in the last 20 days, 87%.
What do you know?
So at what point then do voters also start saying, we want accountability?
We want accountability in our city.
I mean, you're going to have the crazies out there, the delusional ones like this fella I'm about to show you in D.C., who's really off his rocker and perhaps is watching too much of the view.
We believe that the National Guard and the military occupation is the first step into rounding black people up and putting them in detainment camps here in Washington, D.C. and around the United States of America.
We believe that.
Oh, I get it.
Like, that's your truth.
That's your truth.
Oh, you know who else's truth it is?
I think I've heard that from Whoopi.
I didn't even hear that from Whoopi Goldberg.
Mm hmm.
All of you.
He's not going to be, he's not going to, you know, say, oh, you're with a white guy.
I'm going to keep you from being deported.
No, he's going to deport you and put the white guy with someone else.
The man is out there.
He's also.
No, no, no.
You're out there.
You're out there.
That gentleman we just saw who's so delusional is out there.
You know who gets it?
Most of the people of D.C. who are looking at this and saying, thank you.
Thank you for bringing our crime rates down.
Hello.
Take a look at those numbers.
This is just in the last seven days.
But you know what?
You heard Muriel.
She said in the last 20 days, the numbers actually higher.
Carjackins are down 87%.
They went 12 days without a murderer.
That's like a record in D.C. You're talking about a city.
Where they allegedly cook the book so that it's not as bad as it really is.
Like they try to make it less and it is.
But you're looking at, sadly, a homicide rate of 44 out of 100,000, which is in line with what you would see.
Well, actually, it's worse.
It's worse than what you would see in Colombia, in Bogota, or in Lima, Peru, or in parts of Africa.
I mean, for goodness sakes, and this is our nation's capital.
So that has to change.
And you know what?
Not just in our nation's capital.
Thank you very much.
I'd like for it to change everywhere.
I'd like every city in America to be safe.
Now, wouldn't you?
Some people, they don't want that.
Some people, like the delusional Chicago mayor, is not taking a hit from the mayor of D.C., but rather listening a little too much to Whoopi Goldberg and some of those delusional people on the street.
Take a listen to him.
Once again, fan in the flames.
He's working to eliminate black history.
He is trying to eliminate black existence from this country, but he's also attacking the LGBTQ people.
I wouldn't say he's trying to eliminate black history.
I mean, even the CNN anchor had to jump in and say, Whoa, you're going a little too far.
Exactly.
Okay, that's from my shorts feed, by the way.
I hope you guys follow that as well.
Look, these are the numbers, and the numbers now don't lie.
And this is encouraging, and this is good stuff.
And so, why wouldn't you want this everywhere?
Well, I'll tell you.
Tom Homan's willing to take it everywhere.
Tom Homan coming out this morning and talking to reporters and saying he's ready, willing, and able to go.
He's going to take ICE all over the country.
They're going nationwide, specifically to some of those Democrat states that aren't enforcing the law.
And this is the law.
If you're not cooperating with ICE, you are in violation of the law.
Thank you very much, Mayor of Chicago, Mayor of Boston, Mayor of Los Angeles.
So, this is what Tom is going to do about it.
He's up in the ante.
Watch.
But you can see a ramp up of operations in Chicago, absolutely.
You're going to see a ramp up of operations in New York.
You're going to see a ramp up of operations continuing in LA.
And, you know, Portland, Seattle.
I mean, all these sanctuary cities that refuse to work with ICE, where we know public safety threats are being released every day into this country, especially those cities, we're going to address that.
We don't have that problem in Texas and Florida where all the sheriffs are working with us and they're actually holding people for us and letting us know when someone's being released.
So, We're going to take the assets we have and move them to problem areas like sanctuary cities where we know for a fact they're releasing public safety threat illegal aliens to the streets every day.
That's where we need to send the majority of the resource and that's where they're going.
This shouldn't be that hard.
Like it's actually, it's amazing to me that it's that complicated to them because, you know, when you look at the new poll numbers, and we're going to go through those a little bit later in the program, when you look at the new poll numbers, what do you see overwhelmingly?
People are very impressed with how Donald Trump has handled crime.
And how Donald Trump is cracking down and they like what they're seeing in Washington, D.C. So much so that the people of Chicago are saying, hey, please come here, come here.
We need your help.
We need your help.
And yet This mayor out there.
He doesn't want it.
He doesn't want more police.
He doesn't want Donald Trump.
I got to show you something because I saw this clip on Morning Joe this morning, you know, from that MS Net, whatever you call it, MSNBC.
They tend to be obviously extraordinarily liberal, but, you know, I think Joe's trying to come around because he knows where his bread is buttered.
And, well, let's just say the network's in a very tough spot, not to mention the ratings have completely sunk.
So he brings on the Chicago mayor who thinks he's going into friendly fire territory.
But Joe actually asked him a real question and it gets really interesting because this guy just literally sunk himself.
Sunk himself in real time.
I couldn't believe it.
I'm like, wow buddy, you need help.
You need your head examined, like can you not understand where this is going, like you just did yourself in.
I guarantee you he's going to lose his next election and this is going to be one of the reasons he does.
Let's watch it together.
So let me ask you, Mr. Mayor, those all sound like great programs.
I'm curious, would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago?
Would that help drive down crime?
Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
No, I understand that.
You've talked about the other things you want, and I said those are good and important programs, but I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago be helpful to go along?
With all of those social programs that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with.
Well, look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe: is that in the 90s, when I was in high school, we had 3,000 more police officers and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago.
It's just not policing alone.
Of course, we want more detectives.
Of course.
I know it's not policing alone.
But I know it's not policing alone.
You've told me everything else you want.
I'm curious, and this does come down to an ideological difference between.
Uh, people, do you believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago?
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America would be safer if we actually had you know affordable housing.
Look, that's not the question I asked.
My question is, and I just need a yes or a no, do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put back into place?
Which do have a history of being successful, if that's complemented by having 5,000 more cops on the streets of Chicago?
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to just police officers, John, is what I'm saying.
That is an antiquated approach.
I'm saying we've invested in detectives.
Mr. Romero, are you hearing what I'm saying?
I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important.
I just need a yes or a no, and then this will be the last time I ask.
If you get all of those other social programs that 800 million that New York City does, Los Angeles, other people do with great success, would an additional 5,000 cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those programs to make Chicago safer?
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our police department is fully supported.
I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is the answer.
What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing, policing and mental and behavioral health care services, policing and youth employment.
It's a full package.
Of course, we want to make sure that our police department is fully supported.
That's why I've invested in our Detectives Bureau, because what we have seen in the city of Chicago, when we solve crime, it acts and serves as a deterrent.
It's policing and all of the other efforts that we're doing.
Here's the last thing that I'll say to that the federal government could work stronger to coordinate.
With my police department to get guns off the streets of Chicago.
We've seen these coordination efforts work.
Just a couple of weeks ago, the ATF working with my police department, we removed over 150 guns off the streets of Chicago that were trafficked in through Mississippi and Indiana.
No one is saying that police officers don't play an incredible role in driving safety.
They play an absolute pivotal role in that.
But we have asked law enforcement. to do too much.
Police officers are being asked to be social workers, counselors.
What I'm simply saying is if we're going to build safe and affordable cities across America, the one thing that safe communities all have in common, they invest in people.
We have a poverty issue in the city of Chicago and cities across America.
Police officers alone will not put food on the table.
Police officers alone will not guarantee a high quality education.
Police officers alone won't drive down unemployment.
We need all of it.
The president of the United States of America and the federal government could restore Medicaid.
They could restore SNAP.
They could stop defunding our public education system.
Here's the most important point here.
Justice Brandeis, over 100 years ago, the first Jewish American to sit on the Supreme Court, he said that we could either have a democracy or wealth in the hands of the concentrated few.
He said, but we cannot have both.
We are fighting for our democracy and our humanity right now.
This president's nescience. of the Constitution will leave irrevocable harm on posterity.
That's why as mayor of the city of Chicago, we are standing up to tyranny and American cities across this country are doing the same.
Oh my God.
He just wants to help you, Brandon, okay?
Okay, he wants to help you get some more police on the streets so that you can actually have safe streets so that, you know what, the kids can go to school and the parents don't have to worry about them so that people can go to work, go to work and come back.
You know, that's how you build an economy.
That's how you build prosperity.
You got to have safety first.
I mean, what moron doesn't get that?
Oh, I know somebody who wants to defund the police.
Listen, those days are over, baby.
Like it's a whole new game.
And you know what?
Whether you look at the revolt we saw with Cracker Barrel, where they had to actually change what they were doing because consumers didn't like it in fact, we're going to talk about that because they even changed what they got on the website or whether you see the revolt from the people in the city of Chicago because they got idiots like this and that guy's an idiot.
That guy's an idiot.
He doesn't want to accept any help, any federal help, because he doesn't want anybody policing his streets.
You just want more crime and you want to then take more money and put it into the teachers union so that you can graduate more kids that aren't going to school because they can't even get to school Without a threat on their life, I'm sorry.
No, you got to start with basics and then we can worry about art and music and the rest of it, okay?
Yeah.
This mayor is under fire from his own residence, as we pointed out in a recent short.
Take a look.
Stand in the way of any DHS efforts.
Got a little bit of a scolding by one of his constituents because he wouldn't even look at the guy.
I am speaking right now, so I will love your undivided attention, please.
I'll wait.
And wait.
So, this just proves to you the lack of leadership that you show in this city.
You can't even give me straight eye contact.
Now, I'm going to let you know now the people of Chicago, we're done with you.
It is insane how we have been voting Democrat for over 60 plus years and we've never seen a change from people like you, Lori Lightfoot, Rob Emanuel.
It is insane.
Chicago was 37% red.
In 2020, it was only 15%.
So, we're waking up.
So, you can pretend that.
This isn't happening, but I know for a fact that you will not have that seat the next election.
Boom!
Did you hear that?
Mayor Johnson, they don't like you.
You're going to be out.
You will be.
I'm telling you, you will be.
Like, he doesn't get it.
He doesn't actually care about the people enough.
He cares about, I don't know, the teachers union and getting more money for this pet project to that pet project.
And then, by the way, don't forget his hiring practices are very suspicious as well.
Like, this is not a colorblind hiring practice.
No, no, this is DEI on steroids, which, by the way, is illegal and certainly should be eradicated.
There's this one reporter that called him out, and it's magnificent.
I want to share this clip with you because, listen, this nut job of a mayor was just exposed on Morning Joe and got exposed in a press conference by a Chicago reporter.
Listen.
Mayor Johnson's Racist Accusations00:02:49
Racist.
Mayor Johnson.
Yeah.
Please turn the mic on.
Thank you.
Real Chicagoans woke up this morning relieved that the Department of Justice is finally investigating your race hustle.
As someone who grew up on the south side of Chicago, I've heard a lot of race hustlers in my life, trust me.
But they were usually marching around outside of City Hall, which is what makes this so embarrassing and dangerous.
For over a year, real Chicagoans, white and black, Have been telling me that your black power rhetoric is bringing the city backwards from a place that we need the question had overcome.
You want the question, please?
Real Chicagoans want to know why are you a racist?
You know, first of all, I reject the idea and the premise that somehow that that's an actual legitimate question.
All right, we're going to go to the next one, Alice.
The next question, my follow up question, is a businessman, Robert Gomez, had his riverfront.
Restaurant license was yanked.
You said that the reason you hire black people is because they're the most generous race on the planet.
His riverfront restaurant license was yanked and given to a black restaurateur.
That seems to, that has once again reinforced the belief among real Chicagoans, white and black, and Mexican, that you are a racist.
What do you say to those people?
Again, I reject the premise that somehow your question has any legitimacy.
Thank you for your time, sir.
Thank you.
We'll go to Alice.
The number one employer of our people is our people.
What I'm saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else.
We are the most generous people on the planet.
The deputy mayor is a black woman.
Department of Planning and Development is a black woman.
Infrastructure, deputy mayor is a black woman.
Chief operations officer is a black man.
Budget director is a black woman.
Senior advisor is a black man.
One thing that I know for sure that I have to do over these next two years, every single dime that our people have been robbed of, I want to make sure that that is returned two, threefold.
We have six developers that have received the first $30 million for investment.
Six developers.
Of those six developers, five of them are black and three are women.
BOA Construction. received the prime construction contract at O'Hare under my administration.
Race Baiting Must Stop Now00:02:33
You get the idea, right?
You get the idea.
Like the entire problem here is that he's stuck in a different time period.
We're moving on.
We're getting away from all the labels.
The labels, they don't matter.
What matters is safety.
What matters is opportunity.
And the people of Chicago know it.
So, Johnson, you're gonna be out.
Chicago's going red.
I wanna say thank you to our president, the people's president.
Like I keep seeing the real MVP, President Donald J. Trump.
Thank you, President Trump, for hearing us, for listening to us.
We need you here in Chicago, not just to see the National Guard.
He says he's willing.
Boom.
You know what this guy?
He made a fool of himself on Msnbc.
He's making a fool of himself in these town hall meetings.
He is stuck in a different era, in a different century.
He's race baiting and it is time to move on.
Okay, it's just time to move on.
We've had enough with it.
By the way, like all the race baiting in a world where, like your truth, is your truth right, how is that even effective anymore?
I just kind of wonder, because you know they want to say, well, you know, i'm this, that and the other, but yet simultaneously, you're allowed to be this, that and the other right, like I can identify, I guess, as a man if I want, or you, if you're a man, can identify as a woman if you want, and I, I think that this is kind of reaching a tipping point.
Um and, by the way, you know, my heart goes out.
I've said this before and we can talk about a little bit later um, to all the victims in Minneapolis, and it's just, it's a horrible horrible, horrible story and there's a lot of reasons for it and it's very nuanced, and we've learned, of course, that it was a transgender person That did that.
But I just want to say something because, you know, they're so obsessed in Chicago with race, okay?
Race is everything.
And yet, you know, the woke say you can be whatever you want to be.
Well, like, which is it?
This guy gets it.
This guy is a total legend for this one.
Watch.
This guy is epic.
I have gender skin color dysphoria.
I am a white lesbian trapped in a black man's body.
I'm six months pregnant and I love my husband, but the LGBTQ community.
Won't accept me, and they tell me you could be what you want to be.
Yeah!
Tulsi Gabbard CIA Investigation00:13:25
Yeah!
That's good.
You get it, right?
I mean, it's so asinine.
For goodness sakes, just get over it, everyone.
You know, the one thing about Donald Trump, and I'll say this about him, and I've always known this about him, is he really is a true opportunist who believes in a real meritocracy.
So it doesn't matter what color skin you have.
It doesn't matter if you're a male or a female.
It doesn't matter if you're gay or straight.
He's like, and you did the job.
And if you can do the job, you get the job, right?
Look at Scott Besson, first gay.
Treasury Secretary.
Doesn't matter.
Like, I don't care.
You know, wonderful.
Okay, so what?
You look at the first female chief of staff, Susie Wallace.
Listen, she's female.
Guess what?
Doesn't matter.
Not like he gets any credit for it.
I mean, if it were Biden, it'd be like, and I got this one, I got this one, I got this one, I got this one.
It doesn't matter.
Let's get away from it and just say, hey, ownership for oneself.
Okay?
You got one shot at this, one life.
Make it the best you possibly can and take some damn responsibility.
And this is what this moment in time, ladies and gentlemen, is really about.
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Tulsi Gabbard.
Ooh, she is out for some blood, and you know what?
She's firing some more people.
She's like purging away.
It had to be done, right?
I mean, it had to be done considering what went down.
The newest, latest, and greatest is that she just fired a top CIA Russia expert.
This is days after the Alaska summit.
So this CIA agent was actually about to take up this really, really prestigious assignment overseas in Europe, and it was actually already approved by the CIA director, John Radcliffe.
But instead tulsi took away her security clearance.
And that means no more going over there for the big gig.
And the reason she took away the security clearance is because this particular person is alleged to have been involved in the 2017 operation that was trying to take one President Trump down.
Detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.
They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
To help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't.
The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out.
So apparently, and you know all the details, we've been through this at length, and I don't want to repeat too much, but don't forget, Tulsi has been doing this massive investigation, and what she has discovered is that there seems to have been a very deliberate effort by the Obama administration. to taint and make difficult the Trump presidency because, you know, they couldn't believe that Hillary Clinton didn't win.
And they knew that Russia was not involved.
They knew that they didn't actually work with Donald Trump and that they didn't have any goods on Donald Trump.
And don't forget the Russian dossier, which was nothing but a bunch of garbage.
It was actually opposition research, which had been bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign courtesy of, was it COI?
Perkins COI.
I had a Biden moment.
Perkins COI was the law firm.
that bought that, that paid for that.
And then they are the ones that then went out and got Fusion GPS, which was that opposition research firm.
Interestingly, like a bunch of ex Wall Street Journal reporters that were running that.
And then they went out and hired Christopher Steele, who was the ex British spy, kind of washed up in the UK.
And then he went out and hired some people, including somebody that the US government actually believed was suspicious about being a Russian spy himself.
So it's like super convoluted.
But the point is, you know, they're out there trying to say Trump is this.
Russian asset.
I mean, that's a heck of a thing to say, but you know, Tulsi went through the same exact thing herself.
Think about what they were saying about Tulsi.
What did Hillary Clinton do when she realized that Tulsi Gabbard was a threat?
She started saying that Tulsi might be a Russian asset herself.
So I think Tulsi's kind of had it up to here.
Tulsi Gabbard, however, kind of blindsided, according to the Wall Street Journal, the CIA over revoking clearance of this undercover officer.
The naming of an agency Russian hand on the list of officials has alarmed people apparently with inside.
The CIA within the spy agency.
So they're a little caught off guard.
She basically put forward a list of 37 current and former officials and said, We're stripping every single one of them of their security clearances.
And obviously, that this person who was supposed to go overseas to the plum European gig couldn't actually take that job because this person no longer had the security clearance that would be required in order to perform the job.
Gabbard apparently didn't know that the CIA officer had been working undercover.
According to the Wall Street Journal and some of their sources, Gabbard's office apparently delivered, again, that list of 37 people to the CIA the evening before the list's release with the knowledge that all 37 of them were losing their security clearances.
So that meant that the one person who was sort of the Russia expert couldn't go over and continue that out.
Now, there are some people that are worried that, oh my gosh, you know, we're not going to have the same access and level to intelligence.
And what's going to happen with all these people leaving?
I think there's also the flip side of this, which is that, you know, if this particular person was indeed involved, as Tulsi has alleged, in the construction of this narrative to try and take Donald Trump down, how are you going to trust that person?
Like you actually do have to clean house and get people.
I realize it's hard.
You know, you're going to have to go out and scour the earth for intel assets, but you need to have people that you can trust there that aren't going to be trying to take down a government, specifically Trump's government.
So this is where we are.
According to a spokesperson in Gabbard's office, the director of national intelligence directed the revocations to ensure individuals who have violated the trust placed in them by weaponizing, politicizing, manipulating, or leaking classified intelligence are no longer allowed to do so.
Makes sense, right?
Makes sense.
Look, you know, she's differed occasionally with Radcliffe.
We saw some of those differences come forward in July when she declassified a lightly redacted document about Russian influence in the 2016 election.
Apparently the CIA had wanted to redact a greater portion of the report because it revealed sensitive things like agency sources, et cetera.
And she's like, nope, it's all coming out.
It's all coming forward.
So these are some of the things that they're working through right now.
But I can just assure you that she is absolutely focused on rooting out any of this.
insane bias that we saw against Trump.
I mean, if you're willing, as these people were, I mean, you have 51 ex spooks that drafted that letter.
Not just drafted, they published the letter in Politico, I believe.
51 ex spooks and hacks from Brennan to Comey.
I mean, you know whose idea it was?
Our former Secretary of State, for goodness sakes, under Biden.
Think about that.
Blinken, Tony Blinken had the idea that they should do this.
And he worked with the rest of them to round them all up.
And they put this thing together.
And it's like they're treating it like it's gospel.
And the next thing you know, The New York Post loses its Twitter account.
Thank God for Elon.
I mean, what a different place the world would be without Elon.
It's really quite, quite staggering.
So at present, right now, there are people that are worried, okay, we don't have the same kind of security apparatus team there.
I would just say that one of the biggest issues you've got to face is that you cannot have people who are political in the ranks, right?
You need to wipe that all clean.
And that is what Tulsi is trying to do right now.
So it's a big purge, and she's going to continue at it.
37, losing their security.
security clearances.
Now, Tulsi Gabbard's doing that.
Meanwhile, you get the media out there saying, oh, they're just going after John Bolton because it's a personal vendetta.
And granted, Trump didn't like him very much, but it turns out new information today showing it may not just be a personal vendetta.
This is actually an investigation that was ongoing, that had already been initiated under the Biden administration.
John Bolton was already in hot water.
Why?
Because John Bolton got a little sloppy allegedly with his emails.
This is the headline in the New York Times today.
John Bolton inquiry eyes emails obtained by foreign government.
It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton's private emails.
I'm betting on Iran, but you know, hey.
But the investigation into President Trump's former national security advisor picked up momentum under the Biden administration.
So forgive me, this is the problem with not having any commercial breaks.
Sometimes I have to gulp my water live on the set or refresh my lipstick.
Transparency, transparency.
Anyway, so Bolton, Bolton basically is now in trouble because this is my conjecture.
I think that he was probably emailing some stuff on his book, his really boring book.
I mean, don't take my word for it.
The New York Times.
We were like tortured to have to read this.
They gave a terrible review.
They said it was like completely long-winded.
He just kept rambling and rambling and occasionally it sounded like he was really off his rocker.
They were brutal to him in the review.
Anyway, maybe as he was trying to shop this book, it's quite possible that he was sending what we call in the industry a treatment.
When you want to write a book, you usually put together what's called a treatment and you send that to a book agent.
So you might have a thesis and then you've got an outline of some chapters and you may have some tidbits of information in there.
And what I'm, I mean, I have no particular knowledge.
This is all conjecture.
I'm speculating at this point because I'm trying to make sense of how these emails were intercepted.
And maybe he was a little sloppy.
So maybe he actually sent some of this book material onto a book agent.
And then one of the foreign governments, China, Iran, whoever it would have been, one of those spy agencies intercepted perhaps the book agent's email because it would not have been as secure, hopefully, as John Bolton's would have been.
Although, you know, John, I'll tell you about John.
You could be walking down the street and this happened to me actually at GOSH, it was the RNC.
I was anchoring at the RNC event for FOX Business and I remember it was me and Lou Dobbs poor Neil had just had a quintuple bypass or something it was.
So they said Trish, can you fill in and do primetime every night?
And I said sure, and you know I come on right after Lou and I'd always convince him to stick around with me for an hour or so.
We had a good time.
But that was the RNC event and and I remember one point, walking down the street and Bolton's like coming towards me and he's like in la la land.
It was like we know each other right, we're working together regularly.
He'd probably been on the show the night before and i'm like and I, you know i'm full hair and makeup, i'm there with my producer and i'm like hi, he like he.
I don't think he saw me.
He seemed at some point he was like hi, and it almost seemed like he was in another world and he had no one with him.
He was kind of like a mad professor and so I was like gee, sort of strange.
Like you know, you kind of think that John Bolton would be a little bit more on his game, but no, I think he was kind of like off in the clouds sometimes And maybe it was a little sloppy.
Remember the time that he was in the meeting with the president, the press briefing, and he had on his notebook something about 10,000 troops to Colombia?
And everybody was like, what is that that he had scribbled on?
He just let everybody see it.
Again, sort of mad professor, right?
Like not paying attention to his surroundings, not really like, you know, maybe he's a little on the spectrum.
He doesn't really get.
I mean, I think he must be because he's never met a war he doesn't like.
John Bolton Financial Diplomacy00:01:42
Really.
I mean, he's very, very much about being so aggressive.
And I'm always like, diplomacy, diplomacy, money, money, money.
Use your financial tools.
He's like, why use your financial tools?
I'm like, because then you don't lose lives, right?
We've had this argument before at Bolton and me.
Anyway, the point being, he's now being exposed as having already been under investigation.
The New York Times says that they were beginning to pick up momentum on an investigation during the Biden administration when U.S. officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information.
Okay, the U.S. gathered data from an adversarial country's spy service, including emails with sensitive information about Mr. Bolton while still working in the first Trump administration.
It appeared to have been sent to people close to him on an unclassified system.
So close to him.
So maybe it was, I don't know, producers at Fox, if he was going to go on and do a television show.
Maybe it was book people.
I don't know.
Maybe it was his friends and family.
But you can't do that, right?
Like you can't actually use classified information.
And apparently he was speaking to all of them about these sensitive things.
And this is what has come out.
Now, this is important, guys, because you know what?
It totally complicates what the left is trying to say.
They're trying to say this is nothing but a vendetta.
So think twice about that.
Because as the Times reports, while those searches have raised fresh questions, you know, you had the big raid the other day about the extent to which Mr. Trump may be using the Justice Department and the FBI to try to punish those that he dislikes, the new details in the case present a more complex chain of events.