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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, thanks, Scott Chanon. Hour 2, Sean Hannity's show, toll free on numbers 800, 941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, so many issues to get to with former Speaker of the House, New Kingrich, who is with us. Mr. Speaker, great to have you back. How are you, sir? I'm doing great, and I've always delighted to have a chance to chat with you. I love

you say that, but you really don't mean it. I know that perfect. I have a chart in front of me.

I've shown it on TV before. I'll show it on TV again tonight and it shows all the different

capitals around the world from Uruguay to Baghdad to Nigeria,

Panama City, Panama, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Mexico City, you know, Lima, Peru,

Ethiopia.

So it also has with it the homicide rate. The top capital homicide

rate by far is Washington, D.C. with 41 per 100,000. And the next highest is Uruguay, 16.1 per 100,000. The next highest is Uruguay, 16.1 per 100,000.

The next highest is Baghdad, 15.2.

And it goes all the way down to Istanbul, Turkey at 1.8 per 100,000.

And so President Trump announced this morning that he's going to federalize D.C. police and deploy

National Guard troops in an effort to keep people alive in our nation's capital and fix what

has not been dealt with by local officials. People like Al Sharpton are calling President

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