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And then crime did tick down, and there was that famous clip of her where she was praising the administration for that decrease.

And it seems clear that Americans are aware of things getting safer, at least at the numbers we're looking at.

If you look at polling data, President Trump had the highest approval rating on the topic of crime compared with other issues, according to a Gallup poll from last month.

Correct.

So there were only 30,000 total encounters at the border in November, according to Customs and Border Protection.

Now, if you go back two years to December 2023, that month had over 300,000 encounters at the southern border.

Now, nobody's been released from these arrests that were made in the past seven months, and the border has largely gone quiet

which is really fulfilling a major campaign promise made by the president last year and really a push from Republicans on that effort.

Now, as that relates to crime, the Department of Homeland Security has been largely touting the arrest of illegal immigrants who have an additional rap sheet in addition to being in the country illegally.

Thank you.

Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the highlights of this high stakes sit down.

Hey, Cabot.

Hey, John.

I know you missed me.

Merry Christmas.

I don't know how I've made it through, Cabot.

So let's start with an overview of where things stand coming into this meeting.

What do we need to know coming into this?

Right.

Now, this meeting comes just days after President Trump waded into another conflict abroad, this one in Nigeria.