NEWS: All Hell Breaks Loose As Hawley Ruthlessly Confronts Ex-Biden Advisor Over Report

[0:00] uh thanks to all the witnesses for being here mr cook i want to say thank you especially to you [0:05] thank you for being here thank you for telling your story and i'm i'm sorry for what you and [0:10] your family have had to endure and it's powerful to have you here today thank you very much i want [0:14] to talk about some of these policies that have gotten to where we are today mr jackson if i [0:18] could just start with you you were deputy director in the in the biden white house for gun violence [0:25] and a special assistant to the president is that correct sir you're also affiliated with the [0:29] community justice action fund is that correct yes i'm also a survivor of gun violence you were [0:35] their executive director or when was that the community justice action fund uh 2021 to 2023 [0:41] and you're affiliated with them now uh yes as an executive advisor okay uh the community justice [0:46] action fund is do you disclose your donors uh yes all of the donors are are public yes you're funded [0:53] by the tides advocacy group among others they're a fiscal sponsor this is right yeah uh-huh this is [1:00] a george soros funded group uh he's one of the donors no he's he's a donor of the to the tides [1:06] advocacy group yeah that's our fiscal sponsor so they handle our hr our back office our operations [1:11] great okay great so in other words i mean that we're one of 300 organizations right that they that [1:17] they run you are a subset of them pay them to be a fiscal well you you are a subset of that organization [1:23] which he helps to fund right okay all right just wanted to get a level set here so let's just i want [1:28] to ask you about some of the policies that you've advocated because they're exactly what we see [1:31] implemented in these in these blue cities like defunding police no uh oh indeed let's just we [1:36] advocate for i haven't asked a question yet we'll get to i've got a lot of questions believe me and [1:40] i'll give you time so let's talk about this report that you issued when you were executive director a [1:45] policy makers playbook and uh i'll ask you to enter into the record mr chairman great without objection [1:52] thank you in this report you advocate and i quote now defunding the police because the long-term goal [2:00] is fundamentally to reimagine how the state serves its in the project of public safety you go on to [2:06] say police departments traumatize residents through a destructive cycle of racist over policing and the [2:12] answer is not to add any more money to police budgets talk to me about i mean why is it that denying [2:21] policing to the most vulnerable communities is a solution i know that's what the blue cities are doing [2:25] but why is that a good idea well look um i in no way stand with uh defunding law enforcement i mean [2:32] my that's what your report says sheriff mike sheridan who taught me how to drive when i was 16 years old [2:36] wait wait your report when your executive director said you wanted to defund the police do you renounce [2:41] this report mr jackson do you renounce the report that you authored as executive director here it is [2:47] you're the second senator to bring up an op-ed for or this is an op-ed this is your report a policy [2:52] maker's playbook to reduce gun violence without policing communities okay community justice action [2:58] fund copyright 2023 when you were executive director now you say you don't know anything [3:02] about it now you say that you you haven't heard of it just like the democrats who all all of a sudden [3:07] say oh we're all for the police they've been advocating defunding them for years okay well you [3:12] look you can look at documents or you can look at my question is do you do you renounce this report [3:16] now you say you know this and my answer is that i led the efforts to invest 42 billion dollars in [3:22] law enforcement you've advocated defunding the police as executive director of an organization [3:28] that you still lead and are affiliated with never see me advocate for that directly what you see me [3:33] advocate for is a comprehensive approach to reduce it right the comprehensive approach is [3:41] this is so typical of what the democrats do now after your policies have transparently failed [3:46] and led to the deaths of millions of americans now you say you've never heard of defunding the [3:50] police your own report recommends it on page after page after page let me ask about something else you [3:56] say here's what you say we ought to invest in instead of funding the police here's what we ought to [4:02] invest in we do need to invest in programs that acknowledge the need for safe space initiatives yes [4:08] led by lesbian gay bisexual two-spirit trans and gender non-conforming people what's two-spirit [4:17] well look i don't know exactly you guys are pulling some some interesting quotes this is from [4:22] your report look at the if you look at the report the focus is on investing in violence intervention [4:27] outreach workers what is do you say you say that you shouldn't invest in the police but we ought to [4:32] invest in two-spirit community programs that acknowledge two-spirit and we are not going to [4:37] we're not going to discriminate against any non-profit what is it to spirit violence what is [4:41] two-spirit you say don't fund the police but do fund programs that create safe spaces for two-spirit [4:47] people what is what what is i just want to know i don't know what that is i have no idea what that is [4:51] well i honestly i'm not uh completely aware of the language you wrote the report written but what [4:57] i'm telling you is that what we what is a two-spirit individual i mean really i'm saying this is your [5:02] policy this is your policy makers playbook you are the witness called by the democrats on this [5:07] committee so i assume you reflect their views well you don't want to fund the police you want to fund [5:12] safe spaces for two-spirit individuals what is a two-spirit person i feel like i'm looking at a [5:17] two-faced individual because you talk about oh no sir you're looking at somebody who's reading you [5:21] your own words and i'd like to hear an answer here's the answer the answer is you don't have any solutions [5:27] you want to invest in gobbledygook and take away money from police officers who actually keep our [5:31] communities safe and when you're called on the record you deny it it's all there in black and white and [5:36] your record is there in black and white and it's a disgrace we reduce homicides by 31 and as someone [5:40] who's been shot and nearly killed i take offense that you would think that the last 13 years were [5:46] not focused on your own words and that you are leading this committee astray and frankly sir [5:51] your policies are absurd they're absurd i don't think we're getting any place so let's uh