Fox News contributor Dan Bongino reacts to the news of the day on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Steve what a story
all right Todd! Thank you very
much
on this Monday morning, bring in
Dan Bongino former secret
service guy, no police officer.
He has done it all
Dan. We have been talking about
the violence and protests across
the country, Seattle and
Portland
here in New York, Eric Adams,
the Brooklyn Borough president,
and he used to be a police
officer.
He said if you have a problem
with one of your neighbors
dont call. Nine hundred and eleven just go Troy to
talk to Themtryto talk to them.
This woman, by the name of walls,
asked people to stop setting off
illegal fireworks because there
was a group of kids right there.
Do you know what they did.
They shoot her eight times
she just died.
Thats the whole idea behind
some of this co responder
activity that some towns are
talking about, while
redistributing police money, its
to send out a social worker,
send out somebody without a gun
to try to appeal to people who
are breaking the through, stop
it
yeah.
This was in this case.
Tragically bad advice.
I mean, could you think of a
worse outcome?
The answer is, of course you
cant.
There is no worse outcome.
You know Steve. I have been
speaking out on the network
about this often
and Eric Adams was a police
officer.
I know who Eric Adams is
having been former Nypd myself.
He has spoken out against some
of Mayor DE blasios awful
policies to be fair on this,
but this was really brutally
horrible advice.
Let me tell you why
easy to pile on
suggestions that maybe we dont
need a police officer at these
scenes?
Maybe we need a social worker.
This advice is typically given
outlines of Eric Adams, who was a
police officer by people who
have no experience with policing
what so ever
Steve my experience with
policing having been there
actually on the streets. The
reason you get called to say a
mental health scenario. Nine hundred and eleven is
because the situation is not
controllable by the people
involved.
If you have someone in your
household with some kind of a
mental health condition- and you
know its manageable,
you typically call your
psychologist and psychiatrist
and it gets handled
maybe worse case scenario. You
wind up in the emergency room
if you are calling the police
its usually because what we
would call at that point, a
violent Edp,
a violent, emotionally disturbed
person.
I dont think people get that
thats the reason the cops show
up in these mental health
scenarios.
Again you dont get a lot of
these folks. Dont call the cops
if the fireworks are going up.
Dont call up mental health
scenario because have you never
been there? You dont understand
why it happens.
Im not an anchor for Fox AMP
friends.
I dont know what you do. Every
day
I have guest hosted.
I dont have no idea how it
works every day.
I dont comment on it.
People who comment on policing
who are in public responsibility
are literally getting people
hurt, is literally a damn shame.
I wish it wasnt happening.
I wish they would educate
themselves. First
Ainsley Eric Adams says his
heart does go out to the family.
Our call is to continue building
an ecosystem of public safety
includes community response and
police.
Whenever someone exhibits
violence, we should call the
police
whenever we can communicate
peacefully with our neighbors. We
should do so.
Let me get to the next topic.
Tim Scott, great senator from
South Carolina, is calling on
Democrats.
He is upset because a lot of
these Democrats are saying they
might not come to the table to
talk about police reform now,
because they want to wait until
two thousand and twenty one.
Here he is yesterday.
It would be easy for us to
find the right voices in
Congress if the Democrats were
to come to the table.
This is an issue issue for easy
federal reform of police,
easy thing to do, because we
dont control local law
enforcement.
We can do things that encourages
incensed, compels behavior
bottom line. There is one place
to go for leadership.
The Democrats have diffused
leadership.
There is chaos. I see anarchy in
the streets.
This is not in the best interest
of the most vulnerable
communities that are typically
communities of color living in
poverty.
Ainsley Dan. Have we forgotten
what this was all about? In the
beginning,
it was George Floyd.
You look at the numbers in
Chicago over the weekend.
Teenagers killed.
Do we have time to wait any
more? More months? More years to
work on police reform as a
country,
you know, let me answer your
question directly.
No,
you and I havent forgotten near-
have Griff or Steve or anyone
else on this network.
The Democrats have
im very sorry.
The Democrats had listen. Let
me be candid with you. I dont
even agree with a lot of the
tenets of Senator Scotts Police
Reform bill.
I applaud him for taking on the
issue
thats what people in power
should do if they think they can
fix a problem.
I dont believe all those fixes
were actual fixes.
Having said that, the Democrats
were never interested in police
reform.
I hope some of the viewers
understand that heres what they
are really interested in
Democrat police reform.
They want to reform, they could
go and use as a political
football to say, hey, look what
we did
not look. What the country did
and again im saying that from
someone who doesnt actually
agree with a lot of the tenets
of the bill,
they did not want police reform.
Can we all just put that aside?
They wanted Democrat police
reform.
Believe me, when I tell you
Ainsley, you get anyone with a
few beers in a bar on Capitol
Hill. They will tell you what im
telling is you absolutely true?
They wanted to take credit for
it.
If the Republicans did it, it
was the greatest bill in the
world. They were going to shut it
down it didnt matter,
Griff Dan. Let me ask you: on
Friday, we had a little bit of
news that is Lindsey Graham
Senate of the Judiciary
Committee released a 57 page
document of the interviews with
the Steele dot Yeas primary
source, completely debunking it
and indicating that Peter Strzok
may have known about it.
This comes as we are still
waiting for the Durham
Investigation to complete.
We were told it. It would be. This
summer,
Mark meadows was asked about
Maria Bartiromo about two million four hundred and fifty six thousand seven hundred, and eighty nine
here is what meadows said.
I think the american people
expecting indictments.
I know I expect indictments
based on the evidence I have
seen.
Lindsey Graham did a good job in
getting that out.
We know they only not knew there
wasnt a case. They continue to
investigate and spy. And, yes, I
use the word spy on Trump
campaign officials
youre going do see a couple of
other documents come out in the
coming days. That will suggest
that not only was the campaign
spied on, but the FBI did not
act appropriately as they were
investigating
its all starting to come
unraveled to unravel.
I tell you its time that people
go to jail and people are
indicted.
Griff key take away more to
come
Dan, your reaction
Dan. I want everyone in America
to understand the bombshell this
stuff was that came out this
weekend.
We now know for an absolute
fact that a fraud was committed
on the FISA court that
Christopher Steeles source for
all this information. You know
all the gross stuff and the
ridiculous collusion stuff. We
now know for a fact that that
source himself said no. No
most of that stuff was just
garbage and people in the FBI
and Department of Justice swore
it was true. Despite knowing in
January of twenty seventeen, it was garbage
swore to it multiple times
saying it was true:
a fraud was committed on this
country,
a literal fraud
and its a disgrace,
Griff so criminal prosecutions.
Do you predict that Dan?
Do you think we will actually
see that
gosh im, not sure Griff?
I have been let down some times
on this.
I will leave with you
this. There is no question,
no question amongst reasonable
people. A fraud was committed on
the court
where the Doj goes. I dont
know
im out of predictions game.
I have been disappointed before
Steve stay tuned for that Dan.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.