White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller dissects Democrats’ stance on crime and public safety, and President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime on “The Ingraham Angle” with host Laura Ingraham.

LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: Apparently they’re going to be surging law enforcement in key places in California. That sounds positively authoritarian. I thought they didn’t have a crime problem in California. Joining us now is Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. Stephen, that’s quite a change of tone. I guess once he sat down, he had to govern or think about it, or is it that he was just embarrassed by the crime issue, and Donald Trump’s actually providing solutions for America. STEPHEN MILLER, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Look, Laura, we’ve seen the polling. This is a 99 percent to 1 percent issue. In other words, 99 percent of the public says crime is either a problem or a major problem in their community, only 1 percent of the country says crime is not a problem in our nation’s major cities. Think about that for a second. Democrats have chosen a 1 percent issue, and over 80 percent of the country says crime is a major problem. President Trump has shown in just the last two weeks in Washington D.C., that if you have the willpower and the strength that you can break the back of these criminal gangs. There has been a steeper drop in crime in D.C., as the mayor herself has acknowledged that any city has seen in American history over just the last two weeks. Meanwhile, compare that to Chicago, where last weekend, 34 Chicagoans were shot, multiple were killed, and among the dead a five-year-old boy gunned down by gang violence in that city. That is the Democrat policy, bloodshed, gang violence and suffering. President Trump and Republicans are offering no crime, security and peace.

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