game of chicken with the mayor s office. it is high stakes for them and the residents of the city. 300 police officers have left the department since 2020, 20% of the force. violent crime including murder has jumped to 30-year high, response times are way up and many 911 calls are not getting responded to. 18% of the department is unvaccinated and could be fired at midnight tonight. 8% seeking religious or medical exemption issue the rest have not uploaded vaccination status. if we lose even 50 officers, due to this mandate, that will be catastrophic to our ability to answer 911 calls in emergency situations at a reasonable time. but like chicago, the politics in seattle and washington state are working against the unvaccinated government workers. democratic governor ensley made
damage that has been done over the last several years under the trump administration. i think it s a prudent step forward and i m hopeful that my colleagues will agree. well, if it comes to that and you have to send the capitol police out to find steve bannon, i suggest you first search the nearest chinese billionaire s yacht you can get your hands on. congressman joe neguse, thank you very much. up next, the worst drama on capitol hill in which the junior senator from texas doesn t even know what he s even talking about. in the game of chicken, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. as two trucks drove toward each other on a country road, one or the other was going to turn or you were going to have a lot of dead chickens. o have a lot o f de chickens. girl, i don t know, i don t know, i don t know why i can t get enough of your love babe oh no, babe girl, if i could only make you see
surrendering and then, unfortunately, yesterday republicans blinked. i think that was a mistake. i think that was the wrong decision. in the game of chicken, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. as two trucks drove towards each other on a country road, one or the other was going to turn or you were going to have a lot of dead chickens. i wish republicans hadn t blinked. we shouldn t have done that. wait a second. wait a second. first of all, how many metaphors are we mixing in there? but second of all, more importantly, does ted cruz think the game of chicken is two trucks full of actual chickens driving towards each other? what movies has he been watching? now, he does happen to be right about one thing, minority leader mitch mcconnell absolutely
but they got to get in with what could be a very term here in the united states. very possible. not saying it will happen. but none of these things are farfetched at all. all right. mark, i got one for you. join us in watching ted cruz on the senate floor on the subject of the debt limit. in the game of chicken, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. two trucks drove towards each other on a country road one or the other was going to turn or you were going to have a lot of dead chickens. i wish republicans hadn t have blinked we shouldn t have done that. so mark, other than the new nihilism which taken at face value means he is would have been triggered for a recession,
because i m telling you, we are getting ready to have an explosive economic recovery here. the covid numbers are starting to look pretty good. and if the democrats, and trump some legal trouble, don t kid yourself, he s in profound legal trouble. so if the democrats show some motion and some momentum here, they re not doomed to have a bad 2022. but they gotta get in, what could be a positive turns to things in the united states. it s very possible, not say it s gonna have been, but many of these things are farfetched at all. all right mark, i ve got one for you. join us and watching ted cruz on the senate floor, on the subject of the debt limit. in the game of chicken, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. as true trucks roads to towards each other on a country road, one of the other was gonna turn, or you re gonna have allotted