Over how to protect people in a city plagued by Violent Crime. Democratic mayor Brandon Johnson wants to end chicagos shot Spotter Program and that is something that electronically detects gunfire. Police say its necessary. They have had it in most of their precincts now. But the mayor claims the technology is a Walkietalkie And Hasnt reduced crime. It is the Price Tag that would be the Sticking Point for the mayor. I dont know where else he would want to spend millions of dollars. Police say it ought to be on this program because its working. This has gotten to be a spicy conversation over time and now that they are meeting not just once today over a whole bunch of topics at this meeting but we know this one will come up. They have a designated meeting later in the day on this same topic. It is hot. Weve seen emotions run high over how to protect chicagos citizens from the continued Violent Crime in that city. Well get to that when it happens. Lets start here. I think it is very impor
they re being hunted right now in the middle of the night in afghanistan. you and i both know it. so the question becomes, what is next for them but also for americans and their safety? well, i think most americans are secure. but i think that i may be wrong about that. but the reporting i ve seen suggest that most americans are secure. the issues are the afghans who have supported the americans. i think there should be a huge moral, political, strategic cause. look, the taliban has not attacked americans. it has not attacked american forces. and so maybe there s a way to explain to the taliban, you let us get out, the people who worked with us, and we will you know, we will honor this deal. do you think you can get that deal done here, fareed? unfortunately it seems that these people, even though they put their lives on the line, they re getting caught up in the
afghanistan. and that is a strategic mistake. that was a good point. although it put him in a situation that we ve been living ever since, which was to get deeper into afghanistan. just so you understand, it was a republican and then a democrat who put us deep into afghanistan after 9/11. and we would spend over a trillion dollars over 20 years, lose more than 2,400 fighting men and women, many, many more thousands injured in that graveyard looking to avenge 9/11 by getting bin laden and al qaeda, the base. that s the reality. we were attacked by real bullets and bombs and bad guys and i say, yes, i m a journalist. but we re americans and we were hit. i lived it that day and lost people i knew and cared about. while we ve been on the ground fighting in afghanistan, they ve been trying to beat an invisible
troops there than we do in afghanistan. and that is a strategic mistake. that was a good point. although it put him in a situation that we ve been living ever since, which was to get deeper into afghanistan. just so you understand, it was a republican and then a democrat who put us deep into afghanistan after 9/11. and we would spend over a trillion dollars over 20 years, lose more than 2,400 fighting men and women, many, many more thousands injured in that graveyard looking to avenge 9/11 by getting bin laden and al qaeda, the base. that s the reality. we were attacked by real bullets and bombs and bad guys and i say, yes, i m a journalist. but we re americans and we were hit. i lived it that day and lost people i knew and cared about. while we ve been on the ground fighting in afghanistan, they ve
they are not. but they re being told that this is a catastrophic event, an epic failure for america. it s not for a few basic reasons that i can tell you as a counterterrorism official. we collect intelligence that we could never have collected and collated 20 years ago because we have a lot of people, a lot of money, a lot of technology, and a lot of focus. we have a willingness in the congress at the white house to act on that intelligence. that is send a drone or plane in and kill people. you could not have done that 21 years ago, ever. we have partners, people like the saudis, maybe the pakistanis, believe it or not, who are more focused on this than they were 20 years ago. americans won t like this, but it s a reality. we have relationships with warlords, people who murder other people, but warlords who have the ability to collect intelligence to tell us where the foreigners are. i m not saying it s great. it s not. we re not as safe. but it s not a horror show and the media cha