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Mike Johnson: “We brought crime rates down dramatically here.”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins on Balance with Leland Vittert on NewsNation

Published | Video Starts at 12:20

The D.C. mayor here in Washington, where we cleaned it up because the National Guard troops is a progressive Democrat. But she said thank you so much because We brought crime rates down dramatically here. And she is dealing in reality, when these other officials that you just named are dealing with politics, that's all this is. They want to show a fight against Trump, even if it's at their own detriment. (12:20–12:24)

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Asserts that crime rates in Washington, D.C., were reduced significantly.

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