Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Dan Crenshaw
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Joining us now with reaction, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Leo 2.0 Terrell.
Congressman, you know, probably all of us, right now, I would assume -- Leo, it's probably happened to you. Dan, it's probably happened to you.
I've been doing this 33 years, it's happened more than a few occasions with me. Yeah, you get threats if you're a public figure and you express political opinions -- Dan.
REP. DAN CRENSHAW (R-TX): Yeah, that's right, and look, I'm happy that she has private security. But I just wonder if the citizens of St. Louis can afford $70,000 a year.
HANNITY: By the way, by the way, so am I.
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CRENSHAW: Exactly.
HANNITY: I want nothing to happen to her.
CRENSHAW: But I wonder if the citizens that she represents could actually afford $70,000 a year in private security and God knows they need it. St.
Louis is one of the most dangerous cities in America. You have a 1 in 51 chance of being a victim of a crime in St. Louis.
There's been 109 murders there this year and a hundred of those victims have been black people. Okay? And they're not being killed by cops. They're being killed by criminals and murderers.
And you know who chases criminals and murderers? Well, it's cops and that's exactly who she wants to defund.
This goes directly against where her community actually wants and needs.
Eighty-one percent of the black community favors the same or more policing.
And here's the big takeaway here. We have to do away with this notion that that the Democrats are not this radical party. They are a radical party.
This isn't some fringe activist that you just played on TV. That was a Democrat member of Congress and a very popular one at that, right?
Member of the squad, they have the highest social media following. They have real influence into the Democrat Party. Defunding the police is not just some radical talking point. It's happened across the country and in American cities, murders have gone up 33 percent this year. It's because of defunding the police, it's because of this sort of social justice bail reform where they're letting criminal criminals out on bail instead of putting them in jail and our communities are being killed and hurt, and she doesn't seem to care, she doesn't seem to care.
She relies on these horrible social justice talking points and she's doing exactly what her -- what her citizens and the people she represents don't want.
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