crime. at least that s how they have that is the focus of this hearing is what they re saying so you look at the facts here in new york city, and i ll come to you,mayor deblasio since you were the top dog, so to speak, in new york city for quite some time we note in the last year or so, in 2022 shootings and murders went down in new york city overall major crime went up largely driven by robberies and burglaries republicans say the manhattan district attorney s office should be cracking down on violent criminals instead of going after donald trump for hush money payments. i think it s clear crime is going down rapidly in new york city we were the epicenter. alvin bragg with mayor adams, with all of law enforcement in new york city is working to drive down crime, and the numbers say that it is working
point out these are members of congress takingon a local prosecutor, coming to new york to hold the hearing instead of holding the hearing in washington how unusual is this? highly. it needs to be condemned republicans have subpoenaed members of alvin bragg s office, a former prosecutor. they re asking for documents from bragg unprecedented. what you re seeing today is the effort to remove this from the court of law into the court of public opinion the mayor and congressman rose are exactly right. this is jim jordan s effort to delegitimize alvin bragg and undermine his credibility. if they can project on the conservative voters, the fox news viewers, that alvin bragg doesn t have legitimacy, then the charges don t. if there were to be a conviction, that comes into question as well listen, many of the witnesses today are election deniers,
they re participating and pushing back on jordan s claims that new york city has a crime problem and even argued if you compare new york city s crime statistics to other major cities that new york city is a pretty safe city. this is the backdrop of a hotly contested presidential election, in statehouses and in congress as well where crime is going to be a big issue and republicans believe they have an opportunity here to make that a big issue as we get closer and closer to election day ana. ryan nobles reporting for us. for more on this, we re joined by former democratic congressman max rose, former new york city mayor bill deblasio and former congressman david jolly who served as a republican from florida. congressman rose, let me start with you leading this hearing is republican jim jordan of ohio. according to the columbus dispatch, columbus, ohio, which
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