Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. With 66 shot and 12 killed in just a 63 hour period, including a boy riding his bike and a this 14yearold, and two 17yearold girls just standing on the sidewalk. We have a heavy heart. Our souls are burdened. What happened this weekend did not happen in every neighborhood in chicago, but it is unacceptable to happen in any neighborhood of chicago. Laura so far this year, 1785 have been shot in chicago and 318 killed. Believe it or not, shootings are actually down 30 from 2017 and murders are down 25 , but still those figures are well above what chicago experienced earlier in the decade. In 2011 when democratic mayor rahm emanuel was elected, there were 436 murders in chicago. By 2016 that number had
ballooned to 771, a 77 increase and while 2017 was down from the high watermark it still saw a devastating 650 slain. As you might imagine there is enormous political pressure now on rahm emanuel to offer solutions to this heartbreaking cycle. Its about time. With that election just months away, he responded today sound more like tom sold than an obama liberal. Can talk about the weather come up with the weather didnt pull the trigger. You can talk about jobs, and they count, but in parts of the city where there arent drops, people did not pull the trigger. There are too many guns on the street, too many people with criminal records on the street and there is a shortage of values about what is right and what is wrong. What is acceptable, what is condoned and what is condemned. [inaudible] get over here now did you hear what i said . Get over here laura thats actually a mothers love. Maybe she used a fourletter word but she could have saved his life that day. Remember barack obama as My Brothers Keeper initiative. It was launched in 2014 and it started out as a way to assist at risk boys mostly of color. In the first year he raised 300 million in corporate donations to help get young men jobs through mentoring and other work fairs, work projects. No real measure yet of the programs real impact, but to the extent that it stresses hard work and personal responsibility, i think its
great. I started caring about my grades and the difference between an a and a b. I started demanding more out of myself. I know experience, excellence is possible and i need to strive for that. Laura too often however the Social Justice warriors fall into the Grievance Trap of excusing rather than punishing what ends up being criminal behavior. Remember the looting and the violence that we saw in ferguson and baltimore a few years ago during what were supposed to be protests about the deaths of Michael Group and freddie gray . President obama used a My Brothers Keeper event to provide context, almost to explain away the violence. Some communities have consistently had the odds stacked against him. But there is a tragic history in this country that has made it tougher for some. That sense of unfairness,
powerlessness, that has helped fuel some of the protests weve seen in places like baltimore and ferguson and too many places in this country black boys and black men, latino boys, latino men experience being treated differently by law enforcement. Laura im sure a lot of them do, but at some point this becomes race baiting and the king of this is al sharpton. Remember his contribution to stemming the violence in chicago . His contribution was renting an apartment in the city for some period of time in 2013. Going to take an apartment On The West Side. And stay among the people and walk children to school. Laura im sure that after he
rented the apartment things got worse. Great idea, al. I dont doubt that young People Living in englewood of the West Garfield Park neighborhood of chicago can feel really hopeless and even distrustful against the police, but the real problem isnt aggressive policing, the real problem are gangs with memberships that have become generational. Young boys without fathers or any male role models, anyone who cares about them who is a male are too often sucked into the cults of criminality. Rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york who knows a thing or two about cleaning up the city thinks its time to show the man they once called rahmbo the door, tweeting, chicago murders are direct results of one Party Democratic world for decades. Policing, genius, he can do for chicago what i did for new york city. He was one of the architects, it slashed homicide over 70 , Tens Of Thousands of lives saved. He cares more about noncitizens, africanamericans, we are citizens and our ancestors, we built this country. He got some good things but he come to come to the people where the crime is. You know what im saying, the crime is on the south side and the west side. Laura and there is abysmally low percentage of murderers brought to justice under his leadership. In 2017 the police solved only 114 of the 650 murders that occurred in the same year. Thats 17. 5 , only. In the early 1990s that figure was 60 . No wonder people in the south side are frustrated. So many have promised to try to help chicago, but few have delivered solutions. Maybe because hard truths are uncomfortable. And maybe because theyre not politically correct. Ive been saying since the campaign of 2016 that we need to see more Bold Thinking conservatives in the inner cities of this country. The risk is not in showing up. The risk is in not showing up. Solutions, not politics, are what is needed. Have to make sure that President Trump recognized that not everyone believes that chicago is a trumpfree zone. If hes serious about helping the people in chicago, especially On The West Side of chicago, i accept his help, we cant turn any help away. We have to make sure that people understand that criminals cannot have their way with our streets. If Chicago Police department and all the other Law Enforcements cant do it, we should seek other help. Laura everyday radicals claim that President Trump is racist. If someone who has known him for, i dont know, 15 years or so, i can tell you that is 100 false and its a slanderous and
defamatory charge meant to deflect attention from liberals own abject failures in leading urban america. Trumps booming economy is benefiting africanamericans and latinos and allamericans who wish to better themselves. The one thing we do know, racial hucksters do not have the answers to prevent another weekend just like we saw in chicago. Thats the angle. Joining us now with reaction gianno caldwell, fox news political analyst and chicago native who conducted those illuminating interviews you just saw with the chicago resident. Illinois state Rerep Leshawn Ford and a former Chicago Police sergeant. Great to have all of you with us. I just want to say to you first, i think what you did was so important in talking to the people who live in the most dangerous parts of chicago. You didnt go up to the fancy neighborhoods, you went to where
the people are, so congratulations and thank you for doing that report. It was really important. Give me the sense from what you experience, and you experienced a lot growing up, you are from the area. Are they blaming any one group of people or are they looking for solutions at this point . Today i come with a very heavy heart and a special message for every chicagoan. Rahm emanuel as we know has been in office since 2011 and since 2011 he has failed. Hes failed to keep us safe, hes failed to keep our family safe, our friends and even outoftown visitors. My family has personally been impacted by the violence in chicago. During memorial day last year my Little Brother was in the car with two of his friends went to a man walked up and shot the car 25 times. My Little Brother thankfully lived with his best friend, bloodied in his arms, died. Considering rahm emanuel has been mayor since 2011 and murders have gone up, what weve seen is a mass genocide in the streets of chicago. The only Silver Lining i see to a solution in terms of reading this outside of President Trump coming in is the fact that weve got an election coming up in the city of chicago and several short months and with that being the case, every chicagoan needs to get out and vote and vote rahm emanuel out of office. It certainly true he didnt pull the trigger. I get that. But his policies and his enaction, rather, has enabled those that pulled the trigger. You know that because the murders have gone up since hes been there. Laura i want to go to representative ford at this point and read for you something that was written a few years ago. This is a piece that was just written today, excuse me, the american thinker. The title of it is its time to hold democrats responsible for chicagos violence. The citys famed violence is all
the result of gangs and democrats being in bed with each other. One hand washing the other. Democratic politicians sidle up to gang leaders for votes and use their thugs as substitutes for their political organizations. They muscle voters to the polls for the democrats and anyone who rebels gets a beating. The left benefits so it gives the gangs what they want. Thats Monica Showalter quoting Glenn Reynolds piece from 2012. Your thoughts on that given the bloodshed that we have seen, representative ford, over the last several years, even with a modest decline in the last year or so . I have to say that chicago is worse than the days of al capone. Its the bloodiest city in america and i have to say that democrats have to step up. Im a democrat and im saying that democrats must step up. All of the democrats, all of my colleagues must step up and put politics aside. We must work with president
trump and we must demand that we get help in the city of chicago On The West Side of chicago and in our Southside Community so that we can bring safety to all communities in the city. There are 77 communities in the Chicago Community and every community is feeling the trauma from the violence and destruction thats happening in the bloodiest city of chicago. Laura representative ford, i remember during the campaign that Candidate Trump in March Of 2016 had a speech scheduled in chicago and they had to cancel it because of threats of protest, violence, people say we dont want you here. I thought that was such a shame because i actually think the more ideas obviously the ideas that have been employed have failed. Hes done pretty well with the economy, maybe he can bring some new thinking and some fresh ideas to this current situation. I think its beyond tragic. I think you are brave as a democrat for speaking out. Thats courageous. Laura i know youve already gotten blowback and i want to hear from former Police Officer in chicago who tell us the way things are on the streets for the police, oftentimes demonized. But he was not allowed to come to chicago, an american city. That was outrageous. That told me a lot about chicago back in March Of 2016. Less than a year less than a year ago i lost my cousin On The West Side of chicago with his girlfriend in the car. I never told gianno that, and i havent told anyone publicly. But they lost their lives in a car with some type of driveby On The West Side of chicago to leave to kids without parents. Laura sergeant unfortunately, its a horrific
story after horrific story after heartbreak after parent losing a child. Peter. Give us your insight, please. Mr. Ford saying the democrats should step up. They should step out. The problem is we have a democrat sheriff, we have a democrat states attorney, kim fox. We have a cook county president that is a democrat. And what theyre doing is reducing bonds, people getting out that commit crimes with guns and they are given no bond. They are left to walk out. A man walks out after doing an armed carjacking. Two days later he does a carjacking again. Now they want to put him on a monitor. You cant do this. I mean, the policemen, they get in a car, they work for eight and a half, nine hours. They get no breaks, they get nothing. Marchers, al sharpton. He rented an apartment, he never was here. Rahm emanuel. He promised he is going to hire 1,000 policeman at seven years later he hasnt hired the policeman. You have marchers that march down lake shore drive. If you have marchers that march down the dan ryan. They didnt close expressways in ferguson. The ministers and the false prophets and everything that we have in this city unfortunately it comes down to one thing, its black young man killing black young men and these two gentlemen talking about my father was murder by a gangbanger in 1969. A 15yearold kid went into a store and shot him so he could pay for the gun that he used to kill him. Im on both sides of the fence. Ive been a victim of it and now i fought against it. You are you hit it with your opening monologue, just perfect. Democrats are doing nothing and i dont care a nonpartisan person running for mayor, you get somebody like lightfoot or somebody like that that actually knows how the system works. Laura politics have to get
out of it. Real common sense solutions. We have to do an hour on this topic because theres so many elements of it. Fantastic panel, i wish we had more time. Coming up, ante far out of control. We will tell you the story others arent. When i touch you like this its so hard to believe but its all coming back me. Baby, baby, baby. All you can eat is back, baby. Applebees. Laura Antifa Strike Out at new conservative targets. This morning in philly, a mob from the radical left group one after commentators charlie kirk and Candace Owens at a cafe. Watch this. [crowd screaming] laura to be clear, this is what looks to be a group of mostly white antifa protesters chanting f White Supremacy at a black conservative. Theyre really bright, too. Joining us now with reaction, dan bongino along with radio host, former Chuck Schumer aid chris hahn. Okay, we are to hit this and this other antifa issue at the marine Recruiting Station in just a moment. I almost think these are paid performers working for the rnc because its so damaging to the democrats. They are always targeting conservatives and for what . Because they are organizing a bunch of young conservative people across the country . Whats their beef with Candace Owens . What their beef with her . If theres a bigger issue than just their beef with Candace Owens. Its not just about Candace Owens. Its about the radical left. I want to be clear here. Im not talking about all democrats. There are a lot of democrats that are fed up with this too and are trying to move away from this because they realize, like you said, that they should be an rnc ad all the time. No one wants to be associated with this kind of insanity but
the radical left, this is who they are. This is who theyve always been. Understand there is no Emergency Brake on their behavior. They are godless people who believe in the brutal force of the state and when they lose state power, which they have, their only outlet is violence. This does not apply to conservatives who have that Emergency Brake. They believe in the rights granted by god, including rights granted to their liberal ideological opponents. Thats why conservatives dont do this. They have the Emergency Brake. Radical liberals dont. Laura chris, if this type of behavior were being conducted against a minority liberal by a group of people chanting the same type of thing, i think the left would rightly be quite upset and probably would hold all sorts of vigils and demands Community Meetings and prayer
groups and so forth, but the democrats, they kind of act like they just want this to go away, whereas i think we need more of a broadbased condemnation of this group. I dont support this kind of protesting. I want to be very clear. I think protesting is important and i think it should happen, i think theres a time and place for it. Going work people are eating breakfast i dont think thats the time or the place. That said, i was very dubious on this protest. I dont know how these people found charlie kirk and mrs. Owens, Candace Owens in philadelphia. Im suspicious of this whether or not this is real or not. Im not saying i know for sure, i dont. But its kind of weird to me, theyre not exactly laura, youre a much bigger star. You can go out to breakfast and nobody is protesting you. So im a little dubious on this whole thing but this kind of protest shouldnt happen. We also Shouldnt Have A president was out there calling the media the enemy of the people. That is a real problem in america and i think that everything has got to calm down
and weve got to debate like were doing right here, right now. Dan and i disagree about just about anything but i love dan and i enjoy debating dan about issues that affect america. And thats what we need right now. Not yelling and screaming. Laura i think what dan is getting at is important. I think with this antifa group is trying to do is intimidate people from actually being in public. I dont know how they knew they were having breakfast, i have no idea. But its an attempt to keep people like