unfortunately tonight democrats continue
to rush to judgment exploit tragic
officer-involved shootings before any
facts are fully known
to fuel vicious anti-cop rhetoric we've
lost over 100 police officers this year
they vilify officers regularly for
example vice president harris saying
today
folks will keep dying if we don't fully
address
racial injustice and inequalities in our
country
from implicit bias to broken systems is
that
is this proven to be what happened madam
vice president
minnesota and some democrats
congresswoman to leave is one
calling to outright abolish the police
altogether
well that prompted louisiana senator
john kennedy to say
i guess next time you get in trouble
call a crackhead joining us now
senator kennedy senator it does raise a
fundamental question
okay let's let's imagine the squad's
vision is reality
okay somebody's breaking into your house
wants to bring harm to you and your
family
who are you going to call what are you
going to do i know what i'm going to do
i'm pretty sure i know you well enough
that you know what you would do
well i'm going to call i'm going to call
a a cop
and you may not and i think most people
will
you may not believe in god and you may
not believe in
guns but if you uh somebody breaks in
your house
might be too late senator if you're
waiting for a cop it might be too late
yeah well if they break into my house i
mean i have
i have weapons to defend myself
uh in terms of this entire
discussion about police officers and
race it seems to me
i can tell you what i believe sean i i
don't i don't think most or even many
americans are racist
i don't think most americans even think
that much about race i think they
think about character i don't think that
most cops
or even many cops are racist
in fact many of our police departments
are a
majority minority i think they do the
best they can
the horrible incident that happened
north of minneapolis i think it was
yesterday that
dan and and uh haralda we're discussing
i was thinking as they were were talking
and i hope nobody got stabbed in that
last segment
but um as they were as they were talking
i was
thinking how many interactions did
police officers in this country
yesterday
uh have have with the american people
and my guess is it was in the thousands
tens of thousands
um and this instant that happened it was
just horrible
it was it was horrible for for the
person killed
for the person's family it's horrible
for the police officer
i think we we owe it to ourselves and to
them
to let's just wait and try to get the
facts about
what happened it doesn't appear to me
that the officer
did it intentionally and i'm not
pretending to be a criminal lawyer and
say she committed this crime or that
crime but i think we owe it to all of us
ourselves and them to uh to wait and
let's just get the facts
but i mean what i said if you think you
know
one other quick point when a radical
muslim giadas blows up a school
we're always told don't judge
all people of the muslim faith by the
acts of
a few and i agree with that how come the
same rule doesn't apply to police
officers
and and and that's why i said if you
hate cops
just because they're cops i'm not
defending bad policing
but if you hate cops just because
they're cops then you're wrong and next
time you get in trouble just
you know call a crackhead see how that
works out for you
senator we now have the body cam footage
i will tase you i will tase you taser
taser taser
we hear a discharge holy shift
and i just shot the guy
i i i can't make a conclusion
yet we need a full investigation
i do believe in something that is called
due process
city manager got fired for saying that
even joe biden got something right and
he said it too
we need a full investigation this
officer of 25 years deserves due process
um you know we talk about a fog of war
there was a
this was an instance where somebody was
out on bail firearm offense
and that this person attempted resisted
arrest and attempted to flee
um i don't know if it's similar but
adrenaline's flowing do you see that
that's a possibility that this
was in fact an accidental discharge well
well of course
but but look let's cut to the chase here
sean
instead of cursing the darkness why
don't we try lighting a candle
this debate let's call like it is this
is a debate about
about crime it and its relationship to
race
that's what this is about and just as
it's a statistical fact that more men
than women commit crimes just as it is a
fact
statistically that more young people
than older people commit
crimes it is a fact that some
ethnic groups have higher crime rates
why poverty okay duh
nobody wants to be poor if my democratic
friends really want to solve this
problem
they'll to do two things they'll help us
clean up some of our inner city schools
and stop them from being failure
factories
and number two we will have a frank
discussion in this country
about about family formation
and the fact that the pec a child of a
single parent
is six times more likely to grow up poor
than the child of a two-parent household
i'm not saying a single mother
cannot be a good parent i'm not saying
that i am saying that two incomes are
better than
one now if you want to do something
about poverty and well senator let me
let me just interrupt you for a second i
want to bring something up here
because we now have seen
these deep blue states run by democrats
for decades
cities run by democrats for decades we
pay more per capita per
child on education with the worst
results and
if you look at the cities that are that
have
are less safe and secure with it rudy
giuliani showed you could clean up new
york city there's a way to do it he
saved lives by doing it
it could be duplicated in places like
chicago they don't do it
and i would argue that if we care about
our national treasure our children in
every town
and every city we owe it to them to keep
them safe and secure with law and order
and we owe it to them that they get a
quality education
and that has not happened because you
know what they have failed spectacularly
excuse me i'm sorry
you know what i would do in new york if
i were king for a day tomorrow
i would i would take all of the money
that state and local government puts up
for elementary and secondary education
and i would go to the parent or parents
of every child
in a cd or f school in new york and i
would say
here's a check take it and take
and go uh spend it at any school
you want to i don't disagree
and provide let's have vouchers let's
have charter schools
let's have competition it'll make public
schools
better it will help break the cycle of
poverty
because so many of our schools violently
if you go there you'll see that violence
is common and
learning is rare and so often that's
determined by
zip code and the people who need an
education the most
are in in in the worst possible schools
and i don't see
how my democratic friends can possibly
want to keep people trapped in failure
factories
i gotta run senator because we got some
breaking news
but we appreciate you being on thank you
sir