under the bloomberg administration assigning to ports in jordan and and middle east, and they couldn t trust the federal government that would sit on information rather than share it. i don t believe we re as vigilant as we should be. neil: if you became mayor, curtis, and you talk about crime quite a bit. and that is the more dominant than people wanting to return to the city after the pandemic, worried about the spikes in cases, they re worried about the spikes in crime. look we have an anti-terrorism task force that s the best that policing in the world have done. but they ve been depleted because of retirements, early retirements, they ve been defunded. so we don t have as many personnel dedicated day in and day out. neil: we don t have as many personnel to handle the everyday thief or guy going nuts and shootings up in times square. that s why the priority in
into a corner as well. brian: also, ed. about what they actually ate at the meal gave clues to the success or failure of this summit? ed: here s what i have picked up from sources is an interesting nugget, back in singapore they had meal. a source of mine went in the meal after and noticed something interesting. all of the american plates were clean. all of the north korean plates they didn t eat. why? they were afraid back then last june that they might be poisoned. they couldn t trust the u.s. what happened this time? the lunch sort of got scraped today but last night they had dinner. a separate source tells me what they did was the americans decided they went dutch. the americans brought steak to the table and the north koreans brought shrimp. and this time everyone seemed to eat. there was trust this time. they didn t have that last time in singapore. again, i m being clear. it wasn t enough to get a deal this time but trust is being built as the president said, slowly but surely.
there s never been a republican woman on the judiciary committee. so that s a problem. that s why they couldn t trust themselves to question judge kavanaugh or dr. ford. i understand there s a gender component. but there s not a race component. and yet liberals constantly keep bringing race into this okay. i m not a liberal, steve. i m a conservative. you sure sound like one. i ve been a conservative my whole life. it s diversity hold on. why do you think it s not about race? there s no racial component? because everyone involved in the case is white. there s not a racial component to the kavanaugh nomination. there s absolutely a gender component. i understand that. what i m saying is i think what liberals are doing here is there s a grievance overlay where they want to inject race even into issues where race doesn t have relevance. and i think it s indicative unfortunately of their fixation how is race not relevant when you don t have people who are making dec
but the fact is there s never been a republican woman on the judiciary complete. so that s a problem. that s why they couldn t trust themselves to question judge kavanaugh or dr. ford. i understand there s a gender component. there s not a race component. yet, liberals constantly keep bringing race into this. i m a conservative. i ve been a conservative my whole life. hold on. why do you think, it s not about race? there s no racial component? because everyone involved in the case is white. there s not a racial component to the kavanaugh nomination. there s a gender component. what i m saying is i think what liberals are doing, there s a grievance overlay where they want to inject race even into issues where race couldn t have relevance. it s indicative of their fixation. how is race not relevant when you don t have people who are making decisions for america who
you everything. and they have an attitude that he shared politically with the people inside. they re all in the same source of point of view. one of the concerns that senior fbi officials had before he sends the letter to congress is that if we don t tell congress and we re using the new york field office to get the search warrant, because that s where the laptop is, this is going to leak. and if it leaks out and we haven t told congress, what does that opinion for us? and is congress going to come after us? and they see the new york office as very leaky and as a place where they couldn t trust this information. let me get back in realtime to what i thought. i thought that comey could have checked out those e-mails sitting in anthony weiner s little desktop quickly and made a judgment after he had seen them to make sure there was anything work doing. and if he had done that, he wouldn t have had to make any announcement. why did he act like if was some big effort ahead of him? he c