testimony related to the trump investigation today, house attorneys argued they should be immune from civil lawsuits because their actions are within the legislative sphere. democrats casting today s event is a political stunt. the chairman is doing the bidding of donald trump. the real purpose in coming to new york city is to harass, intimidate and threaten manhattan district attorney alvin brad taking aim at republicans for refusing to crack down on guns in america brag, touting new york s crime statistics on twitter as the hearing played out, violent crime here is nowhere near record levels. but crime numbers rose in 2022. the year. bragg was sworn in from a year earlier. so far this year, crime has falling in key categories like murder, shooting incidents and rape as democrats kept their focus on trump. today they drew the ire of the gop s witnesses. the problem is that this is a charade, and the purpose of this hearing is to cover up for what they know to be an inappropriate
kamala harris is convention. and i m really excited not just for the city of chicago, but for the entire democratic party, and i know that you and so many democrats have talked about how chicago showcases democratic values. it s the heart of a battle grown region. you know, you talk about financial resources as well. but you re already seeing republicans highlighting crime numbers, say public safety issues. and i don t have to tell you that democrats are trying to make sure voters know that they are concerned about crime as well that they are working to address it. how do you make sure that that doesn t become a political problem? not just for president biden but for democrats as a whole. well the mistake that republicans have made over and over again is just simply talk about one facet of fighting crime, which is to make sure that we have police on the streets. and we believe that too, but you know what? that s not the only way to fight crime. you need to make sure you re addressing t
resources as well. but you re already seeing republicans highlighting crime numbers, say public safety issues, and i don t have to tell you that democrats are trying to make sure voters know that they are concerned about crime as well that they are working to address it. how do you make sure that that doesn t become a political problem? just for president biden, but for democrats as a whole well, the mistake that republicans have made over and over again is just simply talk about one facet of fighting crime, which is to make sure that we have police on the streets. and we believe that too, but you know what? that s not the only way to fight crime. you need to make sure you re addressing the underlying causes of crime, and that means addressing poverty and mental health and substance use. treatment and that s what we re doing in chicago and across the state of illinois in order to bring crime down, but you know, every city has been ill affected by rising crime after covid 19, and we re
center or right of center? it s clear just by where the votes came from yesterday that there were parts of the city wh have experienced crime waves, especially along the north shor who kind of switched even more progressive and apparently are not too concerned about the crime. and i wonder if i could back up and put the total crime numbers up because this is kind of very illustrative of what is happening. in 2022, 420 and this is year t date, by the way, so far this year to april 2, 18,000 plus overall crimes, john, up 46%. your final thoughts. it s certainly nothing new. this has been going on for year after year after year and all i can say is we are at the same starting point we were three years ago when i took office with mayor lightfoot i m open t having a conversation and siebel , ground we can find to make the city safer and we will go from there. best of luck to you in your city. john catanzara, thank you so