governor greg abbott called this 30-day special session. lester pete williams in washington, thank you. now to america s crimewave. president biden today urging local officials to use covid relief money to combat surge in violent crime kelly o donnell has more reporter: violent crime on the rise. the president feeling the heat to act. first responsibility in a democracy is to keep each other safe. reporter: convening his own crime summit today to hear from big city leaders these parents and families are looking for real relief right now. reporter: in philadelphia, 77 people struck by gunfire during the first eight days of july smaller cities hurting too. rochester, new york with 37 homicides this year a sense of urgency, what can we do now reporter: police superintendent david brown is from chicago. nbc s meagan fitzgerald is there. it was another violent weekend here 35 people shot, 11 people killed. residents are calling on the mayor, the governor, even the presid
necessary. listen have i put these numbers up on that screen daily. i ve been down to the border ten times. all the way from the reagan all the way to san diego. i ve seen tunnels. i ve been in drug warehouses. i went and i sat through a border patrol the crimewave, what s happened in texas. 642,000 texans have is been victims of a crime by illegal immigrants since barack obama has been president. that includes 2,993 murders. that s a lot of people. including thousands of sexual assaults. i heard today while the press was setting up in anticipation of mr. trump s arrival that there were actually people coming over the border while they were there. and there was an alarm that went off. and people started scrambling to try to round them up. in 2013, the last year we had
president, he was coming off the dukakis campaign where he got a really hammered as what robbie showed in his video on being soft on crime. and we were getting out of a crimewave. everybody has moved to a new position and said wait a minute, those draconian penalties we put in way back then are locking up way too many people, particularly african american men for too long. that s a consensus position. same on inequality. she is talking a lot more about inequality. guess what? everybody has been talking more about inequality since occupy wall street, including the president. so i think she is shifting in a way that the party and large parts of the country shifted. and i suspected bill clinton were running for president right now, he would be taking some of the same positions he circumstances you know, chris, i think e.j. is right there. is this issue now with trade as it relates to baltimore and this magnifying glass on baltimore. no jobs for young men. right. and what happened in b
people who are supporting him. hard choices. hard choices. that s her book. that s what politics is about. making those decisions. can you make it go away. no democrat likes to deal with the trade issue. bill clinton when he ran waited way to the end of the campaign to take a stand on nafta. i was there that day when he gave his speech. he said he endorsed it. and almost everything else he said was critical of it. what happened to the democratic party? it used to be the conservative party was for tariffs and protectionism and the liberal party was for free trade. kennedy was for free trade. the loss of american jobs is what happened. the globalization. it s technology. it s globalization. but i want to say something about this movement of hillary clinton. the whole country has moved. when bill clinton ran for president, he was coming off the dukakis campaign where he got a really hammered as what robbie showed in his video on being soft on crime. and we were getting out o