Holden: We [New York City] have the lowest incarceration rate of any major city in the United States…and that's because Mayor de Blasio, before Mayor Adams, started releasing everyone from jail. So of course crime was going to go up.
Scanlon: Today, at the urging of the former president and his lawyers, the chairman has dragged the entire house judiciary committee to New York, inserting the federal government into a purely state and local matter, with no credible pretense of jurisdiction.
Scanlon: Our republican colleagues aren't in New York City to prevent crime, they're here to protect someone whose been charged with committing crimes…we know that the choice of place for this hearing isn't a coincidence, it's about protecting Mr. Trump, because it's being held in the city where Mr. Trump was indicted and arrested just two weeks ago…we know that it's about protecting Mr. Trump, because it's being led by the disgraced former president's closest allies.
Dean: We're only here today because chairman Jordan and his colleagues want to make a show of defending a former, failed, twice-impeached, crooked president.
Holden: We had seventeen straight years in New York City of crime reduction, up until 2019 when they pushed bail reform and discovery through the state.
Goldman: We're already heard two members of the majority reference what one called the Sorosization of the criminal justice system, which is of course a reference to George Soros, a holocaust survivor who lived the American dream.
Cline: The DAs office [New York City] receives $204,730 in federal grant money during the current award period from the Department of Justice's, Justice Assistance Grant Program…the DAs office received $583,111 in federal grant money yearly, this past year, from the Victims of Crime Victim and Witness Assistant Grant Program.
[opens door for federal oversight and investigation]
Goldman accusing the committee of collusion with President Trump, using the power of the committee to interfere in his prosecution.
Kessler claims he is 'not familiar' with Bragg's first-day memo that announced he would not prosecute numerous offenses. There is no possible way that is true.
Harrison: We have over three hundred and five people that are dead in New York because of bail reform.
['bail reform' amounts to Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law; when death results, it is a capital offense]
Almost all the democrats have left the hearing; they are out of time and can't attack President Trump, so they scurried away.
Hageman: Across the country, there is a sickness pervading our communities that is destroying who and what we are.
Hageman: As we talk about thes mass shootings, nobody has talked about the drugs that these people were on. Nobody has talked about the psychology of this. We just had a woman shoot and kill three young children and three teachers, and yet no one has talked about what kind of drugs she may have been taking, what kind of psychosis she was suffering from. Clearly she was suffering from a psychosis; she claimed that she was a boy when she was a girl.
DOJ: The two complaints charge more than thirty officers with China's national police force, the Ministry of Public Security [MPS], and two New York City residents with violations of US law…charged these MPS officers in engaging in transnational repression schemes…and as shown in these complaints, the MPS has repeatedly and flagrantly violated our nation's sovereignty, including by opening and operating a police station in the middle of New York CIty.
DOJ: As a result of our investigation, the world now has a unique, never before seen view, of how the PRC government deployed this army of internet trolls.
DOJ: Not only was the police station set up on the order of MPS officials, but members of the Chinese Consulate in New York even paid a visit to it after it opened.
DOJ: Our understanding at this point is that it is no loner operating. [Chinese secret police station]