NewsNation Host Reminds Dem Strategist About High Profile Crime Cases Involving Juveniles After Saying D.C. Is Safe

BEESON: “Well, I want to get to — “
Smith: “That’s an interesting dystopian picture she’s painted, but I actually live in the District of Columbia, and I can tell you they do get our garbage, that they do plough the streets when it snows, and that people could walk the streets without being gunned down. So I would invite Republican strategists, who I hear this talking point that it’s essentially Baghdad, to come in, you know, they can have dinner with me at Le Dip, we can walk around, it’s safe. This is an interesting picture they painted and it’s not in tune with reality.”
BEESON: “Well, and I think some of those higher profile or cases that made headlines, I should say, in recent days regarding especially some juveniles or or teenagers, 19-year-old, the gentleman who was badly beaten and attacked in that carjacking incident, those really appeared to bother the president and prompt some of this action.”