democrats the chalvin trial wasn't about
seeking justice but about
seeing their anti-police narrative take
hold
now this is so they can upend our entire
criminal justice system
it's a system that needs to be
reimagined reoriented and revamped it's
got to be transformational it's got to
be meaningful
it's got to be comprehensive in order to
meet the moment we
are not the america that we should be
but i think yesterday signifies that we
are moving
in the right direction to become the
america that we were
created to be so what does
transforming mean well it means fewer
cops
and more social workers woke training
sessions for officers of a certain skin
color
and shakedown payments for groups like
the aclu and the
naacp joining me now arkansas senator
tom cotton senator thanks for being with
us
so when people hear the george floyd
policing act
i think there a lot of people have the
impulse to think oh this is long overdue
but what is actually in this bill that
people
might not know that could damage law and
order in public safety
you know what they should think about
when they think about that bill laura is
the need to get security systems to
their homes and firearms to their
families
and talk to their police officer friends
who are probably heading for retirement
because that bill would make it so
dangerous to be a police officer and so
dangerous for our communities just look
at the fact that it would
open up police officers to more lawsuits
from the very criminals that they are
arresting to protect
our communities the last thing we need
to do is make it even harder
to police our streets in america at a
time when we see a crime
wave crashing across america cities
well when you think of police officers
in this climate today
i actually really worry about their
safety we want all americans of all
colors to be safe
and secure on the streets but if you're
a police officer
in a uniform and you're on a patrol by
yourself today
especially in areas that are having
triumph trouble with crime
is it more dangerous than it was you
know a week ago
or less dangerous i say more
yeah i think it's very dangerous large
just look what happened in columbus ohio
you had an officer who showed up
apparently in the middle
of an attempted murder and he shot
this woman who apparently had a knife in
her hand and saved the would-be victim
now that's just the video tape we've
seen we don't want to jump to
conclusions but that's
what appears to happen from that
videotape we'll have a thorough and fair
inquiry into it um but what did lebron
james one of the most famous
and influential people in the world do
today he posted that officer's picture
on social media and said you're next i
mean
that is the kind of incitement to
violence against police officers that is
revolting now
lebron james later took down that
statement
but you can't erase the kind of terrible
judgment
that shows especially when it comes from
someone who is so deeply in bed with the
chinese communist party
yet he will slander his fellow citizens
who are simply
trying to protect innocent victims from
an attempted murder
now you mentioned a senator rising crime
across the country and
and that might happen regardless well
while their bosses at the doj says that
you know say that policing needs to be
changed and reduced
others are pre the fbi is preemptively
sending a warning to local police
departments
about a spike in crime this summer your
response
yeah well we just saw the biggest
one-year increase in the murder rate
on record in america um and as more
police officers are worried about the
feds coming down on them like a ton of
bricks you shouldn't be surprised
if the police become more hesitant to
aggressively do their job to protect our
communities
which just means there's going to be
more crime and then you have big cities
or sometimes even states eliminating the
bail system and turning out
violent criminals who just got arrested
and arraigned for committing crime
onto the streets again so many times
we've seen crimes committed by people
who should be locked away in prison the
media and the democrats are saying you
guys are absent
from the conversation over policing
watch
they have no real plan to put forth for
the american people
republicans aren't on board with this
legislation
and in part because their constituents
other republican voters are not
necessarily
acknowledging that there is a problem it
faces an uphill battle in the senate
where republicans
are reversed to doing basically anything
except virtue signaling to their base
your virtue signaling senator oh that's
rich
yeah laura if they're waiting around for
the republican plan to make it easier
for criminals to sue police officers
they're going to be waiting for a long
time
what we need to do is support our police
officers support law enforcement
as they're confronting this epidemic of
crime
across our country senator great to see
you tonight thanks so much