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Josh Holmes (0:00)
Long been advocates on this program of federalizing D.C. the way the Constitution envisioned, by the way, that it should be a federal.
Michael Duncan (0:10)
Wait, you're telling me they didn't envision two United States senators from D.C. no.
Josh Holmes (0:14)
You know, it's funny that they, they didn't see that they could have sworn.
Michael Duncan (0:18)
Because the Democrats keep talking about that. Yeah, that our government needs two senators.
Josh Holmes (0:23)
They do keep talking about. You mean to say that the falling crime might not actually be the case?
John Ashbrook (0:31)
It's amazing. When you legalize crime, crime goes down. And for the journalists. The nerve of these people. It makes me so angry to see this because I sent this tweet out and I was so proud of it is. It breaks my heart when innocent people in D.C. are the victims of crime instead of these journalists who are enablers and who try to like, say, oh, there's no real crime. You see, it didn't happen to me when I was having brunch in Georgetown. I wish it had. I really wish it had.
Josh Holmes (1:01)
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John Ashbrook (1:38)
Keep the faith, hold the line and own the lids.
Josh Holmes (1:41)
It's time for our main event. Good Tuesday to you. Welcome back to the Ruthless Variety program. It's Al the Week here in Washington, D.C. and across the nation. I am Josh Holmes, along with comfortably smug Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, left or right across your radio dial. As always, big news out of the nation's capital. It turns out that our President of the United States, Donald Trump, is finally going to do something about inner city crime. He's decided to focus on the one place that a president of the United States has jurisdiction, which is Washington, D.C. you recall a couple of weeks ago we did an episode where we talked about, we first floated the idea that you could invoke a home rule, but Recall constitutionally, Washington D.C. is under the jurisdiction of the federal government. This has gotten perverted over the world over the years where you've got a city council that basically wants to decriminalize crime and a mayor, several mayors who have had, shall we say, less than enthusiastic response to what is violent crime in the nation's capital. Now, what does it mean to you? You don't live in Washington, D.C. in all likelihood. Even if you do, this is a fairly provincial conversation. It is a demonstration project, from my perspective, of what can be done and should be done with city, inner city crime across this country. No doubt, you live in a state where there is a city that has a heavily populated urban area that in the last four or five years has become unrecognizable. Like, you can't go take your kids to games, you can't go to a theater, you can't go to a concert. You can't do all these things because it's. The risk outweighs the reward.