Wes Moore
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Like, I'm good.
Like, I'm fine.
But it was very odd.
And the thing about it that really- Who else was uninvited?
Is it just you or-
It was just me, and then Jared Polis also was added onto it as well.
But my dispute with him about, well, actually it was the National Guard, when someone put the National Guard in Baltimore.
My dispute with him on that actually came months earlier.
And the reason was because when he was saying, well, you have to deal with your crime problems, so therefore I'm going to deploy the National Guard like you did in Washington, D.C.
And I just told him, I was like, Mr. President, listen, you know, numbers are numbers.
Let's be clear.
Baltimore has had a faster drop in violent crime than Washington, D.C., even post the introduction of the National Guard folks.
And I said, if you want to talk about ways to reduce crime, like we just talked about, I was like, you can come to Maryland to learn, but don't come here to lecture.
Because actually we're doing the work.
We're doing the thing.
This is a call you guys had.
Yeah, but it turned into a back and forth on Twitter, which I can't stand.
But then he was just like, you know, then he started from the Oval Office.
He's like, you know, that place is a hellhole.
No one would walk through it and so on and so forth.