Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, no chipchat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is Joe Biden and

the Democrats' chronic crime problem, been a problem for the party for many years generations.

Still is today and there's probably going to be a problem for a good while longer.

We were talking about this with immigration the other day.

But there's one more sign here. What is one good sign? One clue that President Biden

really intends to run for re-election in 2024. I mean, some of you think he's going to look

in the mirror one day and say, you know, I really am too old. But what's one good sign that he

really, really actually intends to run for re-election. That sign is he is trying to distance himself

from the Democratic Party's soft approach to crime. Now, remember back in 2020, he

distanced himself from Democrats who advocated defunding the police. And now he has stunned many

in his party when he announced his opposition to this lenient local law in the District of Columbia

that would reduce sentences for car jackers and other criminals who use guns in the commission

of their crimes. I mean, it was astonishing that the D.C. Council did it. The mayor opposed.

The mayor vetoed it. The council overruled the mayor. It caught the attention of Republicans

in the House. The Constitution gives Congress the ability to control legislation in the District

of Columbia if Congress chooses. And now we saw the House and the Senate vote with big

majorities to overturn this district law. And President Joe Biden said he would sign it that he

approved of it. Okay, so that was a big deal. Now, now that's ancient history. Now we have

events in Maryland right next to Washington, D.C. That show that Biden is going to have a lot to run

away from. Now, he has singled out, President Biden has singled out the new Democratic

governor of Maryland, Westmore, has singled him out for praise in recent weeks. You've got a hell

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