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JOE SCARBOROUGH, 'MORNING JOE' HOST: Well, my concern is you have leaders in Chicago that see this as you say, we've been reading about this for years now. Every weekend and maybe crime has gone down, but you know, we had the mayor of Chicago on last week saying, oh, we don't need any more police officers. Police officers aren't the answer. No police officers. I get it. I think he said no five times.

You look what's happening this weekend. He looks so, you know, I, I, I actually think that JB Pritzker should do something radical. I think he should pick up the phone, call the president and say, you know, and I know you don't have the constitutional authority to deploy the National Guard here and to police my, my, you can do that in DC. You can't do that in Chicago, but let's partner up. These are the most dangerous parts of my state. We would love to figure out how to have a partnership that's constitutional, that respects the, the, the, the sort of balance of federalism between the federal government and the state government and let's work together to save lives because right now just the, hey, nothing to see here moving along. No problem here. Hey, Donald Trump, we don't need you.

And you know, the mayor talking about we're, we're going to protect people's dignity in our city. We'll protect their lives. That's protecting their dignity. You know, it would be radical for us to figure out a way to actually do what I've been saying from the very beginning on Washington, and that is seeing politicians creating partnerships that protect their people.

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