As Crime Surges, One GOP Governor Has A Unique Solution

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Crime is on the rise in many big cities across America as law enforcement prepares for an uptick in violence this summer. Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) weighs in on the surging crime rates across the U.S. and what is driving them. He also discusses the disparity in crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencings and why he supports removing it to help repair community relationships with law enforcement and improve confidence in the criminal justice system. The United States continues to turn a corner on COVID-19 with cases of the virus sharply declining across the country and citizens continuing to get vaccinated. However in May, two small counties in Missouri saw their coronavirus numbers surge. Medical Director of the Linn County Health Department, Dr. Kendal Geno joins to discuss how the circumstances in his county aligned to create a large spike in coronavirus cases, how the county saw many people who had the virus become re-infected and how the issue of vaccine hesitancy contributed to his county's recent COVID-19 spread. Plus, commentary by Jimmy Failla, host of "Fox Across America." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
0:01.7	Five questions, five minutes a day, five days a week.
0:04.3	Take the quiz every weekday at the Quiz dot Fox
0:07.3	and then listen to the Quiz podcast to find out how you did.
0:10.2	Clay, share, and of course listen listen to the quiz at the quiz.
0:13.7	I'm Emily Campagno.
0:15.7	I'm Guy Benson.
0:16.7	I'm Shannon Brem and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.6	Wednesday, June 9th, 2021. I'm Lisa Brady. For decades now, crack cocaine has been treated
0:30.0	differently under federal law than the powder version.
0:33.0	Could changing that help answer calls for racial justice?
0:36.6	It is time to pass the legislation that would eliminate that disparity,
0:40.6	and I do believe that would increase trust and confidence and fairness in our system.
0:46.0	We speak with Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.
0:49.0	I'm Dave Anthony. With so many people vaccinated, COVID is on the decline, but not everywhere.
0:56.0	There's been a spike in some rural parts of America, more cases than ever.
1:01.0	Honestly, it has been, it's been a perfect storm of things, but unfortunately I think a perfect
1:07.4	storm that could happen anywhere.
1:10.0	And I'm Jimmy Phela.
1:11.0	I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:18.5	You may have noticed a pattern in the national headlines lately, crime on the not only shootings but hate crimes and other attacks
1:26.8	often raised by critics of defunding the police as a reason to increase funding and manpower instead. Cities have responded in a variety of ways.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.