if they want to come up, i don't think they will be forming is very much compared to the people who will be there today but they want to come up thursday in addition, not an replacement of this hearing, that's okay but the obstruction of this administration are a crucial issue like this the lives of american service members at stake their obligation and undermines the principles of accountability and oversight that safeguard our democracy we don't care. i think you will just give us talking points.

he probably knows more about the military operations both now and in the future that anybody. >> get involved in classified information for congress is entitled to know how much of the nuclear material is destroyed. you remember what happened saturday night about an hour report or an hour and a half before, we did know the exact time but shortly before or during, not sure which he called me up and said, we are taking imminent action and can tell you

what country, can you give me some details? i said no. that is the extent of the precincts i got. the speaker is very wrong and not unconstitutional and they have legal obligation until congress the details and fulfilling their legal obligation to tell congress what is going on.

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♪♪ >> the u.s. conference of mayors conversation with business leaders and talk about business relations on the state level in homicide and crime issues. here's a look at the event. >> as we celebrate our cities and successes the last few years the transformation and significant. the results of their efforts are paying off and other reports about crime.

and climbed 20% across eight cities of 2025, compared with the samef in 2024 aggravated assault 11% in the cities. top officers in homicide reductions in the reader% and 36%. so the cities joining the in this discussion this morning, his eyes were reduced by 43%. 27% and work 20% here so let's get to itle and democratic to he new jersey mayor and ray dyer,.

>> let's talk about one or two initiatives, most significantly in this reduction, that in your city. >> thank you. we saw a 61% deduction. we created an ecosystem of organizations joined with rutgers university and community organizations to help us and begin to put resources and services and care in those

communities and work credibly well in our police department has worked more and not just brought create a better relationship with the community high level offenders at theim se time and reduce crime. i could take you back to 2003 of the with one of the highest crime rates in the nation and we change the way the 80% in all categories and they could look atoo and for crimes and lend

themselves to investigation and not only did the bring them down into those categories for residential and aggravated assault and robbery that have a ripple effect on all other crimes as well and we also put our resources into our substations. ... no such thing as a small crime, but really it's the relationship with the community that will help. your cities become safer, and i also agree that there are a few what we like to call the dot makers, those individuals that are committing the majority of the crime out in your community. and so that's what we focus on in a very surgical manner so

that the rest of the community has that trust in law enforcement and they will cooperate. with the police department and that is critically, critically important. one of the things that we look at, i think, is just as important, if not more important than your homicide rate is your aggravated assault because those are the individuals that tried to kill somebody but weren't successful. and so focusing on those categories is very important as well, but having that community support and making sure that your police department organizational change is the most difficult thing you'll ever go through, and there the two groups that have the resistance on that change are firefighters and police officers, really only two things that they don't want or don't like, and that's the way things are and changed.

and so changing your police department is very difficult. but there are proven, proven tactics out there, and i can tell you with 100% certainty if you ask any of the officers around here, they have an incredible relationship with our community, and their job satisfaction has risen so much because they're making a difference in this city and we're one of the safest cities our size in the nation because of that collaboration, yeah. --collaboration. >> yeah. just should mention uh before going to mayor dyer, uh, how incredibly valuable it has been to have two former police chiefs now serving as mayors in their community. think about that just for a

>> this is what you guys have to accept? >> i think that lots of pregame meetings. i think when good spot. >> you said economic growth -- cbo accounts are economic growth. the deficit over the next decade. >> cbo doesn't account for economic growth. they had a 1.8 -- of spike and then down which we have treasure disagree with. [inaudible] >> report says -- [inaudible question] does administration feel -- [inaudible]

>> what we feel is we have to get the short term taken care of and then we'll take care of the long-term. you can't do the short-term mess we were left, and before we get to the long-term. and i will point out that it was the biden administration rule that brought the social security problem forward a year. >> euboea for saturday night talking individually to some of these members of some of these amendments come together to try to get them on board if they have reservation? >> look, we are at treasury, , e administration here for the members. president trump's leadership on this has been fantastic. chairman smith in the house started working on this bill a year ago. senator thune has been very ambitious. so my sense is it won't come to that. [inaudible question] >> president has been involved all the way.

thank you all. >> thank you. the gunshot detection has been very, very effective for us in our community. we have about 14 square miles covered with gunshot detection. cell phone forensics. when you retrieve a cell phone from a gang member, be able to do the forensics and connect the dots there is very important. and i'd say the last thing is sometimes we overlook the prevention side of violence disruptors, and we have a number of those. we have 9 of them in our community, people that we pay, former gang members that go out, and they intervene when a shooting occurs. are the ones that the on scene. they're at the hospital.

they're at the funeral. they're calming the emotions and preventing that next shooting from occurring. so i think collectively all of those things together have allowed us to see the dramatic decreases in shootings and murders in our city. i think this is another great example. i would say the us conference of mayors rejects false choices, and so many of us in cities across the country 5 years ago were hearing you support the police, you support reform. and we have clearly rejected that we can do both, yeah, we we can fully fund our police. we can have the police work more closely with the community, and we can demand reform, accountability and transparency, and i think your cities definitely reflect that. um, talk a little bit about. how the federal government uh, could support your efforts locally. what else could we be asking the federal government specifically for to fund this historic drop in in violent crime? >> well, i would say as soon as this administration took office, they closed the office of violence prevention.

which i think it was a mistake and they took hundreds of millions of dollars away from cbi organizations, community violence intervention organizations. uh, this work has been professionalized now throughout the country. you have people going to training. uh, we have the, the hospitals, the universities involved giving us key data. they, they identify hotspots in the city. they begin to treat crime like public health, and we begin to send resources to those communities to prevent crime from happening in the first place or retaliatory violence and hospital-based violence intervention programs and, and as we said, mayor dyer said sending. uh, credible messengers into the community as well, but it's more than just credible messengers. we're talking about trauma informed care. we talk about employing people in the summertime, giving help to people's parents, their families, helping communities stabilize themselves, that that money taken away from that, uh. it's a problem, uh, especially at a time when this work is becoming more professionalized and more widespread not through just in newark but throughout

the country at the same time so we need a commitment uh to community violence intervention organizations and alternative forms of policing at the same time we have social workers in every precinct. in the city of newark and lock up uh as well and in the youth detention facility all that stuff helps us over and over again to stop a kid who at 14 years old who was a who was committing robbery stop him from committing homicide uh by the time he turns 1819 so that work is incredibly important and we need that. >> mayor castro. >> well, a couple of things that specific programs like jerry mentioned, nibi, if your police department isn't involved in that, the bullet casings, the bullets themselves and the casings are the equivalent of a fingerprint for a gun. and so being able to trace that and put it into a database has been incredible. we, we solved the homicide of a 15-year-old girl that was shot

in the head and dumped in the middle of the street, and all we had was one shell casing. and it took a while to get it back to the gun that had been used in another crime, and then we were able to connect it to that. so without that nibin database, that that homicide would have gone unsolved. and one of the things that i would ask of the government, federal government, is to provide more of those types of technologies. one of the issues that i had, and i'm sure. i will agree during my law enforcement career is that the federal government would provide funding for a lot of technologies and other solutions, but instead of doing that and everybody trying their own pilot a small portion and then provide that information to law enforcement nationwide instead of, you know, they just didn't want to identify this product as the one to use, and i think that that would be very, very helpful and also to continue, well, one is to take

the handcuffs off of atf. atf is incredibly restrained in what they can and can't do, and they could do so much more with firearms, illegal firearms in our country, but we have great relationships. i know in my community. at the local, state, and federal level, and everybody brings different skills, different experience, and different assets to criminal investigations. and so being able to have those types of task forces has been incredibly meaningful, something that you don't think about on a local level. you can get a search warrant written and signed by a judge. in a matter of hours in an emergency at the federal level,

it would take them a month to do it. and so those are the kinds of things that you know that are very important in those relationships, and i don't, i hope they don't go away and i hope that they continue to be fostered. jerry fresno, what else could the federal government be doing to help work it out of the way with respect to your work in fresno? >> yes, you know, much to what jane said. really at the line level, there's an incredible cooperative relationship that occurs between local law enforcement and federal officials, whether it's fbi or atf, and so i think we're having a lot of success locally with our federal partners, including the us attorney. i would say that for the united states attorney's office to be very focused on prosecuting those crimes that impact us in our neighborhoods, human trafficking. a gangs, any type of gun crimes, the amount of time that criminals, serious criminals are getting in the federal system versus the local system is a strong deterrent, especially when they do 80% of their time in the federal system.

and then i think that the funding, making sure that we don't lose the funding that that is so important to us for innovative technologies as well as funding some of our what's called t3s or wiretaps. there are gang members out there that operate anonymously behind the scenes. they're the ones directing shootings. they're the ones involved in human trafficking. you may never see them. and the only way to really get to those who are referred to as the untouchables is through a wiretap of being able to monitor their cell phone calls to each other in many cases to be able to head off the next shooting because they're given direction, but to be able to fund those operations are very, very expensive in terms of overtime and then i think the last thing is making sure clear direction is given to.

the federal agencies of focusing on those crimes that are important to us locally, making sure fbi atf, as jane said, is given the permission and the direction to work with local law enforcement. to be able to go after those crimes in our communities, and i would add one more if in your -- >> to be able to go after those crimes in our communities, and i would add one more if in your community you have the opportunity to be involved with a us marshals fugitive task force that is from your region. they bring in detectives and there's local, state, and then clearly federal involved in that and they go. after the absolute worst of the worst, most violent individuals in your community, and they are highly trained, equipped with the best to keep them safe and to keep the community safe as well, and it's been an incredible success in the tampa bay area.

>> yeah, definitely a force multiplier. i would also add that. you know what we try to do to make sure we work with our federal partners is we assign officers to each of those departments to atf, dea, fbi. we have officers assigned there which keeps them focused on newark and some of our high level crimes at the same time and it allows us to work well. uh, with our partners and intelligence based policing, as you were saying is right on the money. i've been we have the forensics lab right in newark. we have that stuff right there so our partners get to use our resources in the city of newark so we have a better relationship with them because they use our our resources at the same time. >> great. >> that's great. i would like to add what mayor baraka said about funding some of these cbo's and organizations that really prevent violent crime and all crime fromm accruing in first place. i know this year's there's already been our violence disruptors, their organizationa organizational, so right a t