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The same way prevent violent crimes generally. Thats what gets the attention but 92 of violent crime doesnt involve guns in any way. Theres a simple reason why we have had an increase in violent crime over the last year and that is across the country we have had a large number of inmates being released from jails and prisons that in many cases over 50 of inmates have been released, many violent criminals have been released. We have had police being ordered to stand down and police budgets have been cut in cases like new york a billion Dollar Cut in their budget and you have prosecutors around the country that have been refusing to prosecute even violent criminals philadelphia, chicago, st. Louis Los Angeles san francisco and portland. Its been a policy for many prosecutors not to punish many criminals that are there and if you dont make it risky for criminals to get caught and even the ones that do get caught many of them are punished its not surprising that you have these types of pro
anniversary of his agency. admin. wheeler: the air quality is much improved. the air is much cleaner than it was decades ago. today, president trump holds a campaign trail admin. wheeler: our air and our water quality is its core mission. over the past 50 years, the agency has expanded beyond the core mission. too bureaucratic and burdensome, which negatively impacts economic growth. , i obama administration served as the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding the epa. during those years, i found myself constantly reminded that administration does not does not take a bigger bureaucracy to clean up our environment. our tax dollars are much better spent replacing a diesel engine, an old diesel engine on a school bus rather than paying for another bureaucrat in washington, d.c. thankfully, the trump administration has adopted a similar al-baghdadi re-forecast the agency, a similar outlook and re-forecast the agency and refocused the agency.
history, tonight, south dakota senator and u.s. investors are to the united nations, george mcgovern. the contenders, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. epa administrator andrew wheeler commemorated the 50th anniversary of the agency at the richard nixon presidential library in yorba linda, california. the agency was established by president nixon back in 1970. at this event, mr. wheeler talked about the epa s future as well as protecting the environment and cutting regulations. isinistrator wheeler introduced by california congressman ken calvert. it is really appropriate that they are here today. it is my pleasure to introduce ken calvert. ladies and gentlemen, congressman ken calvert. rep. calvert: good afternoon. it is great to be here at the nixon library. i would like to commend you and the entire team for the equitable job you are doing here. what an amazing venue. it seems like it is becoming almost a monthly occurrence to have a cabinet member speaking out a
council or foreign relations since 2003. today we re here convenes to listen to richard haass the prolific author and academic who just came out with yet another book entitled not very ambushesly as he said, slightly ambushesly the world, a brief history in 300 pages. he calls it a little bit of a departure from his previous books. i want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confront by the covid-19 pandemic, and in the roughly two months since that happened, this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book. so i wanted to just ask you outright, what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now? well, thank you, ju-ju, thank you for doing this. thanks always to everybody on the call. hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time or as i ve said, one groundhog day at a time. what i think the pandemic tells us first and for most is that the world matters.