but the traditional norms. to have a congressional committee investigating a prosecutor in the middle of the prosecution investigation, not after the fact and then announced this before there was even an indictment. there was actually it was after donald trump put out a social media post saying that he s going to get arrested. the investigation was still ongoing. at that point, republicans wanted to move forward and bring alvin bragg to come testify. that simply does not happen. they contend there s a legislative purpose. it s unclear exactly what that is, or then perhaps legislation to prevent a prosecutor. local prosecutor for being charges against the presidential candidate. that s their argument they re trying to advance to contend that this is not an effort to interfere with this investigation will be interesting to me is that if donald trump is charging any of these other cases in georgia or on the federal level, will this republican russia defense also happened right now? they t
claims of violent crime and murder being at all time highs? we ve heard these claims from former president trump himself. they are not even close to true. now. nypd numbers boris are public, so anyone who wants to find them can find them. let s take a look ourselves. so if you look at murder in manhattan s peak year, 1990 manhattan had 503 murders last year. 2022 under d a brag 78 clearly nowhere close to a record. it s not just murder similar declines for other kinds of crimes. you look at rape there were 689 reported in 1990 down to 350 in 2022. how about robberies well and even bigger decline from 29,907 to 4167. yeah so not even close to a record and we should know the early nineties, trump was a resident of new york. this is new york in his heyday in new york city before eventually moving to mar-a-lago. let s talk about alvin brags time as district attorney. he took over in 2022. what trend? what transpired since then. there s
jordan s house judiciary committee coming here holding this field hearing on alvin brides turf to try to take aim at his record and highlighting victims of violent crime in this hearing today, democrats have also traveled for this field hearing, which they have not done for previous ones. the gop has held on other topics, and they are saying that this is a political stunt. this is an abuse of power. you know, a couple of them have said to some of the victims, you know, we acknowledge these experiences you ve had this is horrible, but this is not our jurisdiction to be policing crime here in manhattan. and of course, this comes as you said republicans on the house judiciary committee are trying to investigate. elvin brags investigation of donald trump bragged shot back in court . he sued them trying to block a subpoena they sent to one of the former prosecutors who worked in the office today, house republicans via their attorneys responding in court. saying the judge should reject alvin
a it s a real case. there s a real defendant. there s a real problem here. and if people think that, you know, i mean, by the way, this is not the first time that donald trump has been accused of cheating in relationship to his campaign. i mean, the trump foundation case , and that his charitable foundation had to be dissolved. they ve done a fundraiser and spent millions of dollars and they admitted to this ultimately , before they dissolve the foundation. they use part of the money for his 2016 campaign, and it happened to be done by the same district attorney s office that alvin brad came attorney general s office. that alvin bragg came out of. so this is this is sort of a pattern. i think we re going to hear more of this as it develops, but again for people who are disappointed. i don t know if the tardiness of the crime or the smallness of it in some respect is anybody s fault except the people who are engaged today. can you help us understand? uh two quick things. why now? when s
yeah, that s right, and we still are hearing from those same house republican members who are pressing ahead and asking for an investigation into alvin brad calling on him to testify, asking for records. yeah, this came. these requests came before the indictment, news even broke and then i even after the indictment was first leaked to the press, then they pressed forward. they call they sent letters. they had a back and forth with brag, brag, pushed back. but in the aftermath of these charges being unsealed the republican chair german of these committees say they plan to have more discussions later this week about their next steps. that s what james comer house oversight committee chairman said earlier today that he plans to have a discussion with speaker mccarthy about their next steps. well, we re gonna be having a call with mccarthy later this week, jim jordans and myself, and we re going to try to figure out a path moving forward. this is very serious. what s unclear is what exactl