The Daily Signal - Democrats Fight for Crime, SCOTUS Rules for ICE, & Oversight's Epstein Letters | Sept. 9, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk, business. Democrats take a hard line against police arresting criminals following the stabbing video from Charlotte. The Supreme Court pauses a lower court ruling that had previously prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles, and House Oversight Democrats lock in on alleged Trump letters to Jeffrey Epstein. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kennedcast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Tuesday, September 9th, 2025. This is the Daily Signals. Top News in 10.

Starting point is 00:01:05 As national outrage continues over the video of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Irana Zerutska being stabbed by 14-time arrested to Carlos Brown Jr. in Charlotte, Democrat officials across the country have continued to push back against law enforcement by police, suggesting we will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. Of course, Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. has said similarly that you cannot arrest your way out of crime. As the mayor of this city, I can tell you that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. They are calling for the same thing that we've been calling for some time. And that's investment.

Starting point is 00:01:48 What safe cities across America all have in common, they invest in people. And that's what we're doing in Chicago. We need the federal resources to make sure that we're building more affordable housing, expanding mental and behavioral health care, education, all of these things that could reduce crime and provide real community safety. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a publicity stunt to invoke chaos and terror, the federal government should spend that money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction. We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already tried that, and we've ended up with the largest prison population in the world,

Starting point is 00:02:29 without solving the problems of crime and violence. The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence down. We cannot return to the same failed strategies that got us here in the first place. Under the previous presidential administration, we requested more federal resources to address gun violence in our city. We continue to make that same call. We have made significant progress on our own. But there is so much more that we can do if we had real support from the federal government.

Starting point is 00:03:10 Now, Democrat candidate for mayor in New York City, Zoran Mamdani, has openly called for the reduction in prison time, suggesting that 100 days in Rikers is far more terrible than 50 days in Rikers. The jail population of Rikers has increased since Eric Adams has come into office by more than 1,000 additional incarcerated New Yorkers. And what is quite staggering to me is that we know that we can reduce that jail population to less than 4,000. Vital City had an article about a number of different proposals

Starting point is 00:03:46 that could reduce it to 3,700. And some of this also just has to look at the average stay on Rikers in the 90s was 50 days. Now it's more than 100. There are more than 1,500 people on Rikers who have been held there for more than a year. So I do think many of the reforms that have to be made are also reforms around the court system and ensuring that people are actually having speech. Mamdani also came out in support of abolishing the New York Police Department's gang database.

Starting point is 00:04:18 Let me ask you about a bunch of different policies just to kind of get you your thinking out there. If city council legislation to abolish the NYPD gang database were to pass, would you support inside that? I have supported that proposal. It's one that I've supported because of the vast dragnet has meant the inclusion of New Yorkers on the basis of

Starting point is 00:04:47 whether they go out late photos they put on social media. There's no question that we have to take gangs extremely seriously and yet I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases is one that that doesn't actually do exactly that. Representative Jasmine Crockett of Dallas suggested in a recent panel that police officers weren't there to prevent crime, but were there to solve crimes after they occurred. I want to be clear that, like, law enforcement isn't to prevent crime.

Starting point is 00:05:24 Law enforcement solves crime, okay? That is what they're supposed to do. They are supposed to solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening per se. Meanwhile, in a six to three decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court paused, a lower court ruling that had previously prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles via means of federal agents. While a lower court in Los Angeles made the case, that the Trump administration could only target illegal immigrants via racial profiling,

Starting point is 00:06:03 thus suggesting that the immigration customs enforcement teams couldn't actually make arrests by checking individuals' documents around Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. The Supreme Court's majority ruled that's patently ridiculous, and if you can't check someone's documents for illegal immigration, how are you supposed to uphold the laws on immigration? Of the three liberal justices who dissented, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent was particularly interesting and rather hyperbolic. She wrote in her dissent, That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino,

Starting point is 00:06:44 speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent, end quote. Not only is it completely and utterly legal for immigration officials to question suspected illegal aliens, any of you, including yours truly, is allowed to be temporarily detained by law enforcement if suspected criminal activity is ongoing. If after the preliminary questions, including something like, do you have your driver's license with you, is answered in the negative. and according to the Supreme Court's decision, if an officer has reasonable suspicion, the key words being reasonable suspicion, that someone is committing a crime,

Starting point is 00:07:27 the officer has the right to ensure that a crime is not taking place. This means that simply stopping individuals in Los Angeles suspected of committing a crime is, in fact, the very opposite of indiscriminate. It is by nature a discriminatory decision to infer what, whether someone is or is not committing a crime by actions that individual is currently undergoing. Now, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she, quote, dissents from the Supreme Court ruling.

Starting point is 00:08:00 Today, the Supreme Court, the very body that used to advance civil rights and defend personal liberties, liberties, has now given the green light for law enforcement to profile and detain Angelinos based on their race. I want the entire nation to hear me when I say this isn't just an attack on the people of Los Angeles. This is an attack on every person in this city and in every city in our country. Justice Sotomayor said it best in her dissent. She wrote, live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speak Spanish, and appears to work in a low-wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms

Starting point is 00:08:53 are lost, I dissent. And I agree with her, I dissent. We all dissent because from the beginning. And lastly, the House Oversight Democrats have released what they claim to be a letter from President Donald Trump back in the day when he sent a card allegedly, according to the Wall Street Journal's story, in 2003 to Jeffrey Epstein as a part of a card for his 50th birthday. The particular card in question is supposed to be a transcription of a conversation that then allegedly Donald Trump then drew the silhouette of a naked lady over and then signed with his first name underneath. Now, members of the Trump administration have contested this letter suggesting that the signature being the president's first name is nothing like how the president signs his name typically, being his first and last name.

Starting point is 00:09:50 While there are letters from around that time in which President Trump signed his name just Donald, the matter is left yet unsettled as to whether or not this particular letter really came from the Epstein estate or whether the letter actually came from a third-party source. investigations ongoing. When we have information on that, we'll update you. There's also a letter suggesting that President Trump and Epstein joked about selling an individual for over $20,000. That also remains disputed. Again, as soon as we have additional information on what these letters contain, what these do and don't mean, whether or not Trump did or did not write these letters, whether they were facetious, et cetera, we'll bring that to you on the Tony Kennett cast as soon as those updates are verified. You're going to speculate, make sure you have the stuff to back it up. With that said, before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed

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The Daily Signal - Democrats Fight for Crime, SCOTUS Rules for ICE, & Oversight's Epstein Letters | Sept. 9, 2025

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