police, nor does chuck schumer. there is a relatively small group of progressive lawmakers who have adopted that slogan. most of the rest of the party considers it a liability. there is a significant overlap between some things that joe biden is for and some things that defund the police crowd are for. for example, he wants to, as part of his anticrime program, crack down on unlicensed gun dealers. he wants to help former felons who are free from incarceration reintegrate into society. he wants to encourage community intervention programs to prevent violence. he s not against other ways of preventing violence. but when it comes to cutting police budgets, reducing the amount of police officers on the street, joe biden is not for that, he s not going to be for that. in fact he s encouraging the opposite with a lot of the money for state and local governments and the men rescue plan, $350 billion, and they re encouraging localities to use that if needed to support police budgets because c
crack down on gun dealers who break the law. redirect billions of dollars in covid relief funding to help local police departments and invest in community intervention programs. republicans are trying to blame democrats for the rise in crime. as some democrats are now stressing their own law and order credentials. in new york, eric adams, a former nypd captain, so far in first place after yesterday s mayoral primary. if we are going to turn around our economy, we have to make this city a safe city. reporter: now the president says he will continue to push congress to pass gun reforms, but we have seen little to no movement on the hill on this. and realistically, there s only so much the president can do on his own. asked tonight if he s still hopeful that congress will act, the president said, quote, i never give up hope. david? mary bruce live at the white house tonight. mary, thank you. next this evening, america s top general firing back against republican critics of the mil
textbook, they need to be commended for what they did, what a fantastic job to not use force. they waited out as long as they could and only went in when they needed to. but we need to get down to the root cause. we need to develop community intervention programs. we need to look at trying to bridge, trying to work some of these individuals in as far as preventing this feeling of alienation. there s a lot of areas where for socioeconomic reasons they need to be addressed. tony abbott said it s not about religion in many of these cases. their understanding of religion is very shallow, and they don t represent the muslim communities in australia. it s not one community. it s many communities in australia. yeah. caller: i think we can do a lot more on the social level, whether that be through
and there are some steps the white house says lawmakers and the administration have afforded local communities through the american rescue plan, that relief package as it was branded and passed earlier in the year. there s $350 billion for states and local communities to use. and a bit of a roadmap coming from the white house, how they can do that to shore up and support law enforcement, as well as use community intervention programs that they believe have a track record of being helpful at quelling crime and violence in communities, and some of the social support to try to help to discourage, perhaps, some of the draw toward crime with things like summer job programs and help for those who have been incarcerated, returning to life in the open society. so today we ll hear from police chiefs, in addition to the amars, also the san jose, california, mayor will be here. the president will then be laying out his prescription for
of more liberal democratic candidates and of course elected president. nancy pelosi, the house speaker, does not support defunding the police, nor does chuck schumer. there is a relatively small group of progressive lawmakers who have adopted that slogan. most of the rest of the party considers it a liability. now, there is a significant overlap between some of the things that joe biden is for and some of the things the defund the police crowd are for. for example, he wants to as part of his anti-crime program crack down on unlicensed gun dealers. he wants to help former felons who are freed from incarceration reintegrate into society. he wants to encourage community intervention programs to prevent violence. he s not against other ways of preventing violence, but when it comes to cutting police budgets, reducing the amount of police officers on the street, joe biden is not for that. he s not going to be for that. in fact, he s encouraging the opposite with a lot of the money