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Mike Johnson: “We've got to end the crime wave.”

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

Speaker Johnson Joins John Berman on CNN News Central

Published August 29, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:36

The first thing to remember is that we cannot allow crime to devastate, ruin our great cities in America, certainly not the greatest capital in the world. And so We've got to end the crime wave. We've got to clean up the city, and we've got to make sure that it shines as it should, is the nation's greatest, greatest nation's greatest capital. (00:36–00:38)

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