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EMANUEL: “Look, there's no mayor of any city that does not want a day where their kids are going to school thinking of their studies, not their safety, who isn't tired of driving by a tree from a weekend with a yellow ribbon around it from somebody who's been a victim of senseless gun violence. Work with the cities. Every mayor would die for that. But this is a president who's doing performative violence on a city, violence on its residents, driving a wedge without the effort to actually stop this senseless gun violence. And he -- he would have a welcome hand from every city, of every mayor, of every political stripe, of every size city if he would partner rather than cut the funding for police, rather than cut the funding that helps us dealing with carjacking. So I just think that you see it what it is. It's performative. It's a distraction from the failed economic policies of Donald Trump.”