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How can this be a good thing to defund the police? are you glad your party some of them are pulling back? >> people are moving away from the defund the police rhetoric. it hasnt been helpful to the conversation. you talked about policy. we need to discuss the 21 states many led by republican state leather that are making it easier for americans to carry guns. there are 5 million allocated to the build back better bill, another policy that republicans refuse to pass that the president is trying t...

New york, where he will talk about community intervention programs. so hes trying to address both sides of this issue here. and were told the president will talk about what he calls smart policing, and say that, you know, that cops need better tools to do their jobs, and they need to, and that its important to emphasize things like these community intervention programs but obviously as you noted hes going to a place that is really dealing with rising crime, and gun violence, something that ameri...

So its good that youre back with us, mara. mr. memoli, ill start with you there. welcome back to new york. the white house sharing some details about this gun violence reduction strategy as its being called. its going to be a big part of messaging heading into the mid-term elections. mike, what do we know about what the president plans to say today? >> reporter: well, craig, there are really three pillars to the presidents crime strategy that hes eager to talk about here in new york today. first...

They need people who are in the department who can deal with the crisis that the police are going through as well, dealing with their crises, dealing with their mental stage and how theyre handling things. they need social workers engaging with them. i lay it all out. it works. you can see these community intervention programs, they reduce crime. significantly reduce crime. thats a big piece of it. >> is any of it related to political pressure from republicans saying that democrats are soft on c...

Crisis that the police are going through as well, dealing with their crises, dealing with their mental state and how theyre handling things. they need social workers engaged with them. i lay it all out and it all works. you see these community intervention programs, they work. they actually reduce crime. they significantly reduce crime. so thats a big piece of it. >> just a follow-up, is any of it related to political pressure from republicans saying that democrats are soft on crime, that you gu...

Crack down on gun dealers who break the law. redirect billions of dollars in covid relief funding to help local police departments and invest in community intervention programs. republicans are trying to blame democrats for the rise in crime. as some democrats are now stressing their own law and order credentials. in new york, eric adams, a former nypd captain, so far in first place after yesterdays mayoral primary. >> if we are going to turn around our economy, we have to make this city a safe ...

Textbook, they need to be commended for what they did, what a fantastic job to not use force. they waited out as long as they could and only went in when they needed to. but we need to get down to the root cause. we need to develop community intervention programs. we need to look at trying to bridge, trying to work some of these individuals in as far as preventing this feeling of alienation. theres a lot of areas where for socioeconomic reasons they need to be addressed. tony abbott said its not...

And there are some steps the white house says lawmakers and the administration have afforded local communities through the american rescue plan, that relief package as it was branded and passed earlier in the year. theres $350 billion for states and local communities to use. and a bit of a roadmap coming from the white house, how they can do that to shore up and support law enforcement, as well as use community intervention programs that they believe have a track record of being helpful at quell...

Of more liberal democratic candidates and of course elected president. nancy pelosi, the house speaker, does not support defunding the police, nor does chuck schumer. there is a relatively small group of progressive lawmakers who have adopted that slogan. most of the rest of the party considers it a liability. now, there is a significant overlap between some of the things that joe biden is for and some of the things the defund the police crowd are for. for example, he wants to as part of his ant...