Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf joins Sean Hannity with insight on 'Hannity.'
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In the meantime, ask them to
clean up the graffiti on local
facilities
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tonight the acting DHS
secretary is condemning the
violence refusing to stand
down.
He joins us, live on the ground
in Portland.
Thank you for being with us.
I guess the first question is
okay in every case, where the
president has offered and given
Help Minneapolis D, DOT C, for
example, things have gotten
under Control
Seattle. We had reports and then
confirmed by the president. He
said yeah we said we are going
to go in which precipitated
finally, the end of the chop zone
where innocent people died.
Now it has happened in other
cities. You see the violence in
Chicago New York other places.
So now you are going to get
lectured by a mayor who is doing
nothing to stop the violence or
protect businesses in that city.
Thank you for having me, and
that is exactly right.
Earlier this week I called not
only the mayor but the governor.
I offered DHS support to help
them locally address the
situation and their only
response was please pack up and
go home.
That is just not going to happen
on my watch, so we need to make
sure we are supporting our
law enforcement officers here
and making sure that they are
going to continue to protect the
courthouse.
That is what the DHS does.
That is our mission. We are not
going to advocate our mission
responsibilities, however, with
the local leadership is telling
us were going to do our job.
We are going to do it
professionally, but we are not
going to have these violent
anarchists who show up about the
same time every night for a
series of hours and having that
federal destruction to property.
I was able to tour the
courthouse. I saw the graffiti
the broken windows, the broken
doors.
There is a facility right across
the street from the courthouse
that has forty seven coats of paint on
it.
You have to the facility every
night after he gets graffiti
its time. We take a stand its
time. The local leaders here
publicly condemn with the
violent anarchists are doing,
and only them, I think, will local
police get this under control.
Ive been saying if
you like what is happening in
Seattle. New York and other
places cities run by liberal
Democrats for decades. That
would be a preview of coming
attractions. If Joe Biden is
elected,
im trying to wrap my mind
around this youre offering to
help create safety and security
for the people of Portland,
the president has offered all of
these cities.
Now he can constitutionally use
the one thousand eight hundred and seven insurrection act, but
the president has also said that
he is going to go in and he is
going to restore order in these
war zones.
What will that entail?
We are going to hear apparently
very soon,
absolutely and again, we
continue to offer that support,
specifically here in Portland,
wanting to make sure that they
have enough assets, whether its
personnel capabilities- and that
was my direct, ask and offer to
the mayor and again, the only
response was please pack up and
go home
again. I ask the mayor and I ask
others: what do you think is
going to occur?
We are going to have a
courthouse federal facilities
overrun by these violent
anarchists.
What im asking you all state
and local leaders here in
Portland in Oregon, is come out
specifically and publicly
condemn these violent
anarchists, because otherwise
youre creating an environment.
You are fostering an that
continues to breed this type of
lawlessness.
We sell this back in twenty eighteen,
unfortunately, here in Portland,
where they set siege to a I dot ce
facility for over twenty eight days.
This is the type of environment
again that is fostered here.
Weve had enough of it were
going to continue to protect the
courthouse and you are do our MI
the end of the day.
That is mind numbing
to me. Protecting a business.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.