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The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

The Great Chicago Crime Cleanup of 2025; Guest: Breitbart Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak

The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

SiriusXM

News, Politics

4.7896 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has suggested that he'll be sending federal troops into the American city of Chicago to clean up its crime problem like he did in our nation's capital. Is this a good or bad thing? Our memorable host, Mike Slater, has some commentary on this that you'll want to hear! Following the opener, Slater converses with Joel Pollak, Breitbart's Senior Editor-at-Large, about the whole situation since he's a Harvard-educated lawyer. Is all of this legally sounded? Tune in and find out!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Breitbart News Daily.

0:17.0

Thanks to being here.

0:17.5

We kicked off the show talking about Trump firing the rocket

0:21.5

or missile or whatever we call it from a drone on the trend of Aragua gang members on the boat

0:26.5

off the coast of Venezuela. It seemed pretty newsworthy. So we spent some time talking about that

0:31.0

and the latest of the crackdown on the cartels from this administration, particularly from the

0:35.0

Treasury Department, but now it seems like not just the Treasury Department. So it did that for the first hour, but it seems like the big story of the day is what's happening in Chicago or what's going to happen to Chicago. So let's start with when we introduce that topic in the beginning of the second hour. And then we'll go to the great Joel Pollock, who's just awesome. And tied in so nice what we were talking about with his posse

0:54.5

commentatus analysis and where that came from, what that was born out of.

0:59.7

And my analysis is that the clan loves Brandon Johnson.

1:03.8

The clan could not have a better partner than Brandon Johnson as mayor of Chicago.

1:30.1

Yeah. than Brandon Johnson as mayor of Chicago. They're sick.

1:31.2

They're sick people.

1:33.1

And they're dishonest people.

1:36.2

And they don't want to have, as an example, a crime.

1:37.7

You know, you have this Slav Pritzker.

1:40.0

He's a governor of Illinois.

1:42.6

So Chicago, Illinois is there. And it's got last night night they had like 10, 12 murders.

1:46.1

They had 44 people shot.

1:48.2

The weekend before, they had seven murders and 24 people shot.

1:52.2

The week before that, they had six murders and 28 people shot.

1:56.6

And he's trying to say that there's no problem with crime.

2:00.6

These are sick people

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