was with us now Ohio resident news Nation correspondent at large me and P body award-winning journalist uh I don't know about you I'm not a media critic you're you're better at this and you've been around longer than I am I find the the lack of caring about the people in Springfield Ohio both disgusting and telling because the only time anybody has cared about them in the past few years is when they could use it against Donald Trump well you know it's a a very uh compelling story when you're talking about Haitians coming into a town taking over the town and then kidnapping all the pets uh you know that uh that whole story that uh uh that that absolutely bizarre madeup fake story uh is so outrageous and it plays in you were talking about how the big big media how mainstream media is seizing on it to prove racism on the other hand you had the uh the right wing of the uh political Spectrum seizing on the pet eating to show the foreignness uh you know to show how uh how Traditional Values in America are being trampled or devoured in this case but are't we ignor we we're obsessed though with this concept About Pets okay and I would say doesn't really matter does Donald Trump say outrageous things absolutely but you've got 60 ,000 Americans who are being put through hell for a lack of a better better term okay it's not their fault certainly and it may not be the fault of these 20,000 people who have showed up but there is real and enormous problems that are being completely and totally uh ignored summary crime reported by the Springfield Police Department 2012 to 2022 they have had a 100% increase in crime um in just a couple of years that's a real problem I I get maybe it's not as good at TV but it's certainly important wouldn't you say I do think it is important and I applaud our wonderful Governor my friend Mike dwine uh who after rebutting and uh uh you know discarding that whole uh pet eating uh Ridiculousness uh as has as you have indicated sent state aid to Springfield so whatever it takes I'm I'm glad that the spotlight has shined on this community and I'm glad that someone is doing something about it because the Immigrant overload as you correctly point out no Community could sustain that that dramatic a population uh you know infusion it would totally change the character of any Community it was it was nonsense uh and insensitive to begin you've called you've called it you've called it nonsense you've called it ridiculous you called it silly you've called it all these things that Donald Trump said um that Haitians were eating pets but at least in terms of those voters right if we want to just look forward rather than look back if you're those voters in Springfield Ohio you say the only reason there's been any attention paid the only reason Mike dwi's sending in the highway patrol the only reason people are telling our story is because Donald Trump stood up for us kamla Harris says oh just deal with it these are newcomers that need to be welcomed with government depit Hearts regardless of what the catalyst is let's let's just applaud the fact that let's let's you know make a you know a a silk purse out of a sa's ear uh yes there's been this uh this this this uh what's the word this tumult this earthquake that has rattled this Old Town uh but the fact of the matter is it is as you point out illustrative and instructive this is now let's see let's make it a model for how you deal with this you're not going to expel the 20,000 who have settled there and I I do disagree a little bit about why they came they didn't come Uninvited they were there were advertisements about affordability there were advertisements about the Honda plant and the and the do advertisements by jobs there were people who got them a lot of money yeah no 100% there is a there is a that is the American dream