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Carl Rove, former deputy of staff, deputy of staff for George W. Bush, senior advisor there, Fox News contributor, bestselling author.

Carl, what do you think about the president's crime problem, crime attack plan?

Well, you know, look, we saw a little bit of this in Los Angeles where there were, you know,

disturbances. He has special authorities that allow him to, for a limited period of time,

to control the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. 30 days, right? Yeah,

30 days under the home rule law. It's not clear to me that he has authority to deploy, you know, federal forces and

National Guard into the other city just because he believes that the crime rates there

are too high.

It's one thing going back to remember in Portland several years ago, when left-wing demonstrators

were trying to attack the federal courthouse, that he would have authority under federal law

to deploy federal forces in order to stop that.

And they did send additional federal law enforcement there, but he would have authority to do things

in a situation like that. It's unclear what authority you would have to do to deal with crime

in Oakland or Philadelphia or Baltimore as opposed to Washington, D.C., which is a special district

that has governed by a specific law that gives him specific authority for 30

days to basically take command of the Metropolitan Police Department.

You know, the most deceptive thing in Ari Fleischer talked about it last night is everyone says,

well, crimes down, why now?

Well, I mean, there's little things that are going on when it comes to crime figures.

The thing that emerged yesterday out of the D.C. figures, they left off felony and aggravated assault in their violent crime categories.

Also, they have a little problem with the Metropolitan Police.

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