Public safety and Crime Reduction is a top priority for my administration and for me and has been for a long time back when i was chairman of judiciary committee. You know, since day one my administration has been working with Law Enforcement, mayors and Community Leaders to do what we know works to keep people and communities safe. As was referenced during the pandemic, states and cities saw Violent Crime rising and their budgets were strained as they faced deep cuts in Law Enforcement and Public Safety. But we stepped up. Thanks to my American Rescue plan which i might note not a Single Person on the other team voted for, we provided 350 billion, 350 billion that was available to deal with these issues. You know, and the fact is that we find ourselves could use this money to keep Law Enforcement on the beat, communities safe from violence. Invested 15 billion, 15 billion to make their communities safer and we added billions more in grants to help. Justice department invested in Law Enforcement and Community ViolenceCorruption Programs because the American Rescue plan, we have the largest federal investment of fighting crime and preventing Violent Crime any time in our history. And thats a big deal. You know, we know being in Law Enforcement is harder than ever but and we expect you to be everything to everybody. Thats why we have invested in more Crisis Responders who work alongside Police Officers as chief said, Mental Health and social workers respond to nonViolent Crimes as well. More investment in recruiting, retaining and training officers. More investments in violence prevention to get guns off the street. On top of that, hiring more u. S. Attorneys, recruiting more u. S. Marshals and investing more in technology and training to clear the court backlog, solve murders and deal with apprehending violent fugitives. And we also are working hard to ensure bonds of trust between officers and the people you all serve. My budget calls for more officers in the street, trained in community policing, walking a beat, working hard handinhand with Community Leaders and partners and public, to gain public trust and advance Public Safety. Chiefs in this room know when their Communities Trust the police we can solve a hell of a lot more crimes a hell of a lot faster. Thats why i signed the historic Executive Order for executive and Accountable Community policing and very effective so far. You know, and im going to continue to call on congress to pass the George Floyd Policing And Justice and policing act so we can make Police Reform the law of the land. We also made historic investments improving strategies to interrupt and prevent crime and violence in the first place. These programs used trusted messages, including people who are in the neighborhood, people who have been incarcerated and released now. People who have been through it, people who know what they are talking about. And we have a track record reducing Violent Crime as a consequence of that by 30 to 60 for those programs exist. And finally, my plan goes after the scourge of gun violence in america. Ive taken more Executive Actions to stop the flow of illegal guns and any other administration in history. And we beat the nra when i signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years. We are going to finish the job. Ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines next time around because it has to be done. I formed the first ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and i thank Vice President harris for overseeing this important effort. Let me close with this. Our plans working. We still have much more to do as everyone at this table knows and thats why we are here today. My administration is going to choose progress over politics and communities across the country are safer as a result of that policy. There is no greater responsibility to ensure the safety of families, children, communities and our nation and with that, turn us over to my domestic policy adviser and get this discussion going, ok . Thank you. [applause] thank you. I would like to invite the press to exit. Mr. President , how did your physical go this morning . Your physical, sir. How did your physical go . Sandra so the president wraps his remarks on crime without a single mention of the growing Immigrant Crime Crisis happening in this country right now. Not a mention of laken riley, 22 years old, who was just violently killed on her College Campus in georgia. Not a mention of the minor who was just brutally assaulted in virginia by someone here illegally, john. That is certainly part of the crime crisis that he was attempting to address. John it is, but it goes well beyond that. He says crime is going down across the country. Tell that to the families of mike gill and Alberto Vasquez killed in the Carjacking Spree in d. C. A few weeks ago, the mother of audrey cunningham, 11yearold, at the hands of someone on the property. Its difficult to convince americans they are safe or becoming safer when they do not feel safe. Sandra and tell that to the rosenberg family, lost their son in 2010, killed by an illegal immigrant, driving his car illegally, drove over their son in an attempt to drive away. Meanwhile, kerri kupec urbahn, thank you for joining us. That was difficult, you know, for what is happening in this country right now, and what is a reality for so many, we have been talking to parents who have kids on College Campuses who are frightened this could happen to their son or daughter but that was not addressed. If you really want to know how the Biden Administration feels about Violent Crime and their policy about police, come to washington, d. C. And here is why. Washington, d. C. Is unique. The only area in the country where the federal government also operates as local Law Enforcement and yet 2023, last year, was the deadliest year in washington, d. C. History and at least over two decades. Secondly, in 2022, bidens doj declined to prosecute 67 of people arrested. We got an email, sandra, at fox news recently from the capitol police, because we are on the hill, we are in a building with other News Organizations and the message from the police was, read directly from it, to drive in the center lane in general to deter carjackers. Also avoid driving alone, especially at night. This is washington, and again, the federal government operates as local Law Enforcement in washington so it really gives you insight into joe bidens thinking about law and policing. John i spent a lot of time like you kerri living here in washington, d. C. And up until very recently, you know, there were certain areas that you needed to be careful in and times of day you needed to be careful, im looking over my shoulder in the middle of the day these days, you never know where its going to come from. In response to laken rileys murder, the mayor of athens held a briefing this morning. Watch what happened during that briefing. Here in clark county. Youre fired, youre fired. You need to go, sir. We dont want to hear from you no more. You are not defending us. You are not upholding your oath of office, sir. You are lawless. You are equivocal. If nonmembers of the press. Im a press member, too. We the people, we created this government and we pay your salary. You do what we want you to do. Not what you want to do. Thats the first problem with this lawlessness in this country. You are not upholding john so, first rule when you are an elected official, if you are giving a Press Conference and there are a number of concerned members of your citizenry who are there and they are upset, dont tell them to leave. Thats right. And you know, john, one thing that struck me from the president s speech and i think its something people often gloss over. I remember delving into this myself when i ran communications for doj and we would talk about the grant money that doj put out, for policing and Law Enforcement initiatives and all of these things. Is that if you actually do the math, what joe biden announced today basically amounts to 1 or 2 Police Officers here or there across the country. Its actually not that much, and anyone can do the math, read the numbers and its clear. Sandra play this out as well, you mention the messaging. A former Biden Communications director this morning sounding the alarm, telling this administration start taking this seriously. I think its smart for democrats to be more aggressive on it. People are feeling i dont subscribe to the trump vision of america as a decaying waste land where packs of people are running wild committing crime, but it is true that people across the country, particularly in cities, are concerned about crime. Sandra while slamming the Previous Administration noting oh, yeah, people dont really feel safe in this environment right now. But thats the question. And i think thats i think thats what it comes down to. You talk to we talk to our family and friends, people dont feel safe and a reason for that. Between the carjackings in d. C. , the migrant issue, homelessness, its not come to washington, d. C. And you are afraid Walking Around the corner to get your parked car. Sandra you feel it here in New York City and people at home probably feel it in their own towns. John South Carolina congresswoman nancy mace, and kate says not like there are packs of individuals running around committing crimes. How Many Department stores have we seen exactly that same, that thing happen . How many Convenience Stores have we seen that happen. That bakery in los angeles in compton. It happened to the owner of that bakery as well. So, it is happening. But democrats want to say its not happening. Right. Just like the border crisis, they want to say its not happening but in blue states and in blue cities they let rapists and murderers and thieves out without bond, without bail, and it sounds like joe biden just today, just in time for an Election Year has decided that defunding the police is a bad idea in an Election Year and not only that, but he gave a speech right in the middle of his own sons testimony and deposition today to distract from our investigation into joe biden, his family and all of their corruption. Sandra you know, im just looking at the list of participants in that room and the cities from which they come, philadelphia, buffalo, miami, milwaukee, chicago, i mean congresswoman, i dont know who he thought his audience was by standing up and touting, maurts, rapes, aggravated assaults dropped sharply without context or time frame, thats a brutal message to people when they are saying loudly they dont like the crime on the rise in their cities. They are saying it pretty loudly and seeing it loudly. We know that your last guest said, d. C. , for example, had the most violent year yet inside of 20 years. That is the math. Everyone knows when you go to new york, chicago, San Francisco, major blue cities, its more violent than it ever has been and the first thing that joe biden should do is stop talking about crime and start working to fix it and to do that, number one, shut down the border. He could do that today. We just we hear constantly about laken riley. It is a tragic situation in georgia. People are angry about it. But there are laken rileys in every city across the country. In fact, in South Carolina, not far in upstate of South Carolina, maddy heinz was a 4yearold girl murdered by an illegally alien that joe biden let in after donald trump deported him. I mean, this is going on across the country, crime everywhere and up by huge margins. John you mentioned we keep hearing about laken riley but the one person who has not mentioned her name is the president of the United States, even during that address he just made on trying to reduce crime in this country. Is that, you believe, because the murder of laken riley for this president is an Inconvenient Truth . Absolutely. I want to hear him say her name. Im quite shocked he did not say laken rileys name. What happened to her is horrific, it is every parents worst nightmare, if you have a kid in college right now. But we have heard about these stories for years and it has only gotten worse under his leadership as president of the United States and he fails to recognize that we have a huge problem in this country. Congresswoman, appreciate you joining us through this Breaking News this hour, thank you. John thank you, congresswoman. Thank you. Sandra as we have been talking about, these are very real life situations and something familiar to too Many American families right now, the consequences of the unlawfulness happening at our border. Just this week, four Illegal Immigrants accused of separate Violent Crimes from the murder of that 22yearold Nursing Student in georgia to the murder of a 2yearold in maryland. Our next guest knows this pain all too well. His son, drew, was killed by an illegal immigrant in an Motorcycle Crash in 2010. Dan rosenberg has now become an advocate for victims of illegal alien crime. We are incredibly sorry for your familys loss and you live with that every single day. What is your reaction, sir, to the president still not even mentioning the death of that 22yearold university student. I really have no expectation he will ever say anything right about anything. So it doesnt surprise me at all. I dont know if hes aware this happened. Certainly if he watches the liberal news media he has no idea because they are barely covering it and what they do, they are lying about. So so that doesnt bother me one bit. I just want to see this guy go. He should be put it this way. They talk about impeaching him, no. Its treason at this point. He is he is he is aiding and abetting. Sandra we just had a picture of your son on the screen, 25 years old. I know you felt compelled to respond when you heard a democratic lawmaker from california of all places thats dealing with a lot of crime, katie porter, say this about the heinous murder of that 22yearold girl. Listen. Whenever we are dealing with Violent Crime there is a sense of outrage. The important thing to focus on is any one instance shouldnt shape our overall Immigration Policy which has so many different facets. Sandra well, so this just this one instance, she says. Your reaction. Well, obviously first of all, shes vile and disgusting, to put it mildly. But obviously she has no idea that laken riley is not the First American killed by an illegal alien. We are talking about tens of thousands. This is a woman thats been five years in congress, shes now running for the senate and shes unaware of how much illegal alien crime there is . Its inexcuseable. Sandra i want to make sure we get the full story here, we are crunched for time. What happened to your son . Ok, my son was on his way home from law school and an illegal alien tried to make a last second left hand turn, collided with him and then trying to flee he drove back and forth over his body three times, and you know, drew was, you know, dead at the scene. Had he not tried to flee, my son would have walked away with a couple of cuts and bruises. But when you allow people in the country illegally and they do something bad, they are not going to stick around most of the time. So you know, and that story, i could repeat that story with literally thousands of other people. So its just shouldnt be a shock to this woman that people are upset over this. Sandra people hear you, don, and i know that you are out there and you are telling your story and you have been and you are trying to get your message across and we are about to hear this White House Press briefing moments from now. See if they say anything then. Don, thank you, and deepest apologies for your family and all that youve been through. Thank you, sandra. Appreciate it. John just 24 hours from now, President Biden will head to brownsville, texas, a sector that has minimal illegal immigra