Discussion on Crime and Politics in Cities

Well, question number one is a lot of the cities with the most crime

in the country

are led by Republicans. This is not just a Democratic city problem.

So the president doesn't talk about those, but there are a lot around the country

in that l- in that list of murders, cri- violent crimes that are

Republican led. Number two, I've lived in Washington since 2006,

in the Washington, DC area and in Washington itself. Um, there's...

Of course we should have fewer carjackings, fewer crime. I believe that.

You don't put a federal agent checkpoint on 14th Street in

Washington D Street, DC, which is what happened last night.

That is not the locus of crime in Washington, DC.

That's where, you know, senators and congresspeople and, and

people that work in the White House go to dinner.

They put a federal checkpoint on 14th Street and stopped every car.

That is not actually addressing the crime problem in Washington.

So while I hope they make Washington safer,

I hope they make all of these places

safer, that's not how to do it. That's performative.

And the third point I would make, as a Washingtonian for many decades,

is that it is very rich to say we are going to charge the

sandwich thrower with a felony when I was there on

January 6th, and all of those people that assaulted police officers got

pardoned. Not just the non-violent ones, not just the ones that went into the

Capitol, everyone, including the ones that went after police officers, got

pardoned. So don't tell me we care, that this administration cares about

protecting police officers when they did not care about those on

January 6th.

Respectfully, can we just stay for one-

But they got pardoned. No.

Well, come on.

Those were, those were police officers-

I just wanna say that-

... and they got pardoned.

Can I, can I talk about DC for a second?

But that was in DC.

For once without having-

That was in DC.

Without having-

Those were DC police officers.

Can I just start with the fact-checking on what you said?

Those were DC police officers-

So the top 10 cities-

... that got assaulted

... the top 10 cities for murder in 2025, St.

Louis, Missouri. Who's leading it?

Where's cities like Memphis-

Yeah, hold on

... Nashville.

Hold on, hold on. Memphis is second.

You said-

Memphis.

Nashville was number nine.

You said a vast majority, a lot of-

I said a lot of-

You said those were... Okay, top 10.

Okay.

St. Louis, Memphis.

Memphis.

One for your column. Baltimore, Detroit,

New Orleans.

Mm-hmm.

Little Rock.

Little Rock, right. A lot of-

Two for your column. Two.

Okay.

Two out of the 10. We're not even-

Who's the mayor of New Orleans?

Okay, listen.

Oakland.

That one that was in first class headed to France.

Oakland.

That got, uh-

Cleveland

... corruption charges.

Cleveland.

Tacoma and Kansas City.

So how many of those are red states? Ohio's a red state.

Stop the same-

The majority-

... the mayor of the city

... of the-

I thought he was talking about the cities, right?

You were talking about the ci- I'm just listening to what you said.

No, Harris, I said cities that are, that are red, some of those are, and many,

all of, almost all of those are in states that are led by Republicans.

Okay, but who's in charge of the city?

Yeah, but the city, the city runs their criminal justice

system.

In part. No, no, not, not entirely.

Furthermore, that's their duty.

But wait-

The district attorney-

The majority

... is the one who makes the call as to

what's-

But can I just say-

... going to be prosecuted