rudy giuliani and commissioner bratton knew what they were doing and they have active policing. mayor adams he pays a lot of lip service he got elected because he stood next to couple of cops and he said well we ve got we can t defund the police. that s it? you can t defund the police he was treated as a hero just for saying that. common sense, and as it is with this. with joe biden kellyanne i agree with you he wants a check. what did redo when he gave that speech look at the end of every paragraph he s asking for money. from washington so he s basically saying to joe biden you know help me out write me a check. but democrats aren t doing it if he was meaningfully if he said that if he wanted to address the problem of the migrant crisis he wouldn t be a democrat until because democrats are they re running this thing. they re the ones that are they have the border open and all of american cities are they re all democrat run cities. they re proving crime in the same way.
multiple things at the same time so the idea of the focus of his office on this case, certainly detracting a lot of resources, sure, but he has a large operation that focuses on the crime situation. a critic of the district attorney relative to his crime fighting in the city, so make that known but, at the same time, his office is very capable of doing the investigation into mr. trump s activity while, at the same time, trying to foe plus focus on the crime situation in new york. former new york city police commissioner bill bratton and former homeland security secretary jey johnson, thank you, both, for your incite coming up, we ll be speaking to experts throughout the morning about yesterday s historic vote by a grand jury to indict the former president. plus, dan goldman knows a thing or two about investigating donald trump the former prosecutor who served
called for mass protests he referred to the manhattan d.a. as an animal, and a danger who should be removed. he told his supporters the country is being destroyed that prosecutor is doing the work of the devil. called him the gestapo. he amplified a threatening image, suggesting the d.a. could be beaten with a baseball bat, and warned of death and destruction if he is held accountable. couple that with his loaded language in the past about guns and hillary clinton, and his continuing praise of the january 6th insurrectionists, including his collaboration with members of a prison choir who are incarcerated for attacking police. yeah. joining us now, former new york city police commissioner, the now executive chairman of the tenayo risk, commissioner
that makes a lot of sense, but there is so much at stake, so much on the line we should probably treat this a little differently than we treat, let s say, red sox baseball games right. which, on that point, didn t start out good yesterday. we ll get to that. ahead on morning joe, much more reaction to the indictment of former president trump, including what his former vice president mike pence is saying plus, new york city police are stepping up security on the heels of yesterday s announcement former nypd commissioner bill bratton joins us to weigh in on that. and pulitzer prize winning reporter and veteran watergate journalist bob woodward will be our guest this morning. also this morning, newly released 911 calls show the chaos and the terror that unfolded during this week s mass shooting at a school in nashville. and what we re learning about the detainment of an american journalist in russia.
luther king would counsel demonstrations, protests, but always peaceful. after george floyd, many people, millions of americans took to the streets and protested in a peaceful manner. i d count myself as a protester for some of the marches i was in after george floyd, as you were. yeah. and so peaceful demonstration, the peaceful demonstration of rights to assemble, it s part of who we are as americans, but always peaceful. commissioner bratton, one of the talking points emanating from the right in the aftermath of thisindictment is saying d.a. bragg, that he is too focused on donald trump and ignoring the crime that s happening in his backyard, the crime that s happening in manhattan. can you provide context as to whether there is any truth a all to that point? what is the d.a. and nypd doing on crime each and every day in new york city? the district attorney s office is a large operation. they have the capability to do