前阿肯色州州长。阿萨·哈钦森周一公布了一项联邦执法改革计划，他称之为“至关重要”且早该实施的计划，以及他将推动的立法预览如果他在2024年当选总统.
“如果说我的生活代表了什么，那就是我的信仰，但也是对法治的支持，”正在寻求共和党总统候选人提名的前联邦检察官哈钦森告诉“GMA3”“我花了我的私人生活，我的公共事业，捍卫法治和我们的司法系统——它需要纠正。我们已经有20多年没有对联邦执法进行重大改革了。”
哈钦森说，他的建议旨在通过赋予联邦执法机构更多的责任来帮助恢复人们对他们的信心，例如，要求对特工的采访进行记录，而不削弱公共安全和保护国家的使命。
该提案包括八项改革:将缉毒责任从联邦调查局移交给缉毒署;将联邦调查局总法律顾问领导下的隐私和公民自由办公室提升为联邦调查局局长办公室;要求联邦调查局记录特工面谈;将联邦调查局内的行政支助办公室重新分配给司法部;为联邦执法机构制定统一的章程;建立一个关于联邦执法未来的委员会;根据《外国情报监视法》第702条改革情报收集，并重申总统和司法部长之间的关系。
哈钦森将于美国东部时间下午3点在华盛顿的国家记者俱乐部召开新闻发布会，讨论这项提议。
他在“GMA3”上说:“这些将是非常大胆的改革提案，对于确保我们的系统再次运转至关重要，这是全世界羡慕的。”
在前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的领导下，其他参加2024年竞选的共和党人越来越多地批评联邦调查局和其他执法机构，声称他们被政治化了——这是高级执法官员反对的一项指控。
“在某些方面，我们已经对联邦执法失去了信心，这种信心需要重建。这就是这次改革的目的，”哈钦森周一说。
周一公布之际，他正努力争取40，000名独特的捐助者参加他的竞选活动，以便有资格参加下个月在密尔沃基举行的初选辩论。截至周五，就在第二季度申报到期之前哈钦森的竞选团队表示，他已经收到了7000名个人的捐款，这意味着他大约有一个月的时间来获得30000多名新的捐款人。
“我们还没有到那一步。哈钦森在“GMA3”上承认:“我们需要很多帮助才能实现这一目标，但这真的很重要。”“显然，选民们现在开始关注六个月后的爱荷华州党团会议。...所以这场辩论是一种对比候选人自身和他们想法的方式。”
共和党总统候选人阿萨·哈钦森(Asa Hutchinson)于2023年7月17日出现在“GMA3”上。
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哈钦森强调的一些“对比”之处是边境安全和对乌克兰的支持。虽然一些共和党候选人，如生物技术企业家Vivek Ramaswamy，主张结束出生公民权和美国对乌克兰军事努力的支持，认为后者不如对抗中国重要，但哈钦森表示，他提供了真正的保守政策，如强大的军队和削减联邦支出。
他周一说:“这些是我想展示的巨大变化，这也是我们希望出现在辩论舞台上的原因。”
哈钦森一直直言不讳地批评特朗普，称他破坏了法治。(特朗普否认所有不当行为。)
他呼吁前总统退出2024年的竞选对特朗普行为的各种刑事调查已经成为竞选的“干扰”，他说。
尽管如此，特朗普继续在共和党选民中遥遥领先，在早期的全国调查中平均支持率约为50%。根据五点三十八分。相比之下，哈钦森的支持率在1%左右。特朗普也对哈钦森自己的前景不屑一顾。
周一，当被问及共和党是否已经远离哈钦森认为自己代表的更温和的共和党时，哈钦森说，他将继续反对特朗普，并称这是“我一生中见过的最不可预测的选举季”。周日，他在佛罗里达州的转折点美国会议上发表讲话时，一度被嘘，并被“特朗普”的口号淹没。
“首先，这是一件大事。那里有成千上万表现良好的年轻人。他说:“一些成年人失去了控制，但正如你所说，走向这些可能支持特朗普的观众并阐述你的观点真的很重要——因为获得提名必须经过唐纳德·特朗普。”。“你必须提出反对他的理由。你必须对比它，我们每天都在这样做。随着时间的推移，这将会有所不同。”
“关键是人们想在2024年获胜，唐纳德·特朗普不是通往胜利的道路，”他补充道。“所以现在，它是完全开放的。”
Asa Hutchinson previews new plan to reform federal law enforcement if elected in 2024
Former Arkansas Gov.Asa Hutchinsonon Monday unveiled a federal law enforcement reform plan that he's calling "critically important" and overdue -- and a preview of legislation he would pushif he is elected president in 2024.
"If there's anything that my life has represented, it is both my faith but it's also support for the rule of law," Hutchinson, a former federal prosecutor now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told "GMA3." "I've spent my private life, my public career, defending the rule of law and our justice system -- and it needs a correction. We haven't had a major reform in our federal law enforcement in over 20 years."
Hutchinson said his proposal is intended to help restore confidence in federal law enforcement by giving them more accountability -- by requiring agent interviews be recorded, for instance -- without undercutting the mission of public safety and protecting the nation.
The proposal includes eight reforms: transferring drug enforcement responsibilities from the FBI to the Drug Enforcement Administration; elevating the Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties now under the FBI's general counsel to the FBI director's office; requiring the FBI to record agent interviews; reassigning administrative support offices within the FBI to the Department of Justice; creating a unified charter for federal law enforcement agencies; establishing a commission on the future of federal law enforcement; reforming intelligence collection under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and reaffirming the relationship between the president and attorney general.
Hutchinson is holding a press conference at 3 p.m. ET at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the proposal.
"These will be some very bold reform proposals that are critical to make sure and our system works again, which is the envy of the world," he said on "GMA3."
Other Republicans in the 2024 race, led by former President Donald Trump, have been increasingly critical of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, claiming they are politicized -- a charge that top law enforcement officials have pushed back against.
"We've lost confidence in the federal law enforcement in some ways, and that confidence needs to be rebuilt. And that's the purpose of this reform," Hutchinson said Monday.
Monday's unveiling comes as he works to reach 40,000 unique donors to his campaign to qualify for the primary debate stage next month in Milwaukee. As of Friday,just before second-quarter filings were due, Hutchinson's campaign said he had received donations from 7,000 individuals -- meaning he has about a month to acquire more than 30,000 new donors.
"We're not there yet. We need a lot of help to get there, but it's really important," Hutchinson acknowledged on "GMA3." "Obviously, the voters are now starting to get tuned in with the Iowa caucus six months away. ... So this debate is a way to contrast the candidates between themselves and their ideas."
Some of those places of "contrast" that Hutchinson highlighted were on border security and support for Ukraine. While some GOP candidates, like biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, have advocated for ending both birthright citizenship and U.S. support for military efforts in Ukraine -- arguing the latter is not as much of a priority as countering China -- Hutchinson said he offers true conservative policies, like a strong military and cutting federal spending.
"These are dramatic changes that I want to present, and that's why we want on that debate stage as well," he said Monday.
Hutchinson has been an outspoken critic of Trump for, as he claims, undermining the rule of law. (Trump denies all wrongdoing.)
He has called for the former president to drop out of the 2024 race asthe various criminal investigations into Trump's actionshave become "a distraction" to the campaign, he's said.
Still, Trump continues to hold a commanding lead among Republican voters, polling at an average of about 50% in an average of early national surveys,according to FiveThirtyEight. Hutchinson, by contrast, is polling around around 1%. Trump has also dismissed Hutchinson's own prospects.
Asked on Monday if the GOP has moved too far away from the more moderate Republican Party that Hutchinson sees himself as representing -- after, on Sunday, he was booed at one point and drowned out with chants of "Trump" while speaking at a Turning Point USA conference in Florida -- Hutchinson said he'll continue to make the case against Trump and called this "the most unpredictable election season that I've seen in my lifetime."
"First of all, it was a great event. There were thousands of young people there who were very well behaved. A few of the adults got out of hand, but it's really important, as you said, to go to these audiences [who] might be pro-Trump and make your case -- because the way to the nomination has to go through Donald Trump," he said. "You have to make your case against him. You have to contrast it and we're doing that every day. And over time, that's going to make a difference."
"The key is people want to win in 2024, and Donald Trump is not the path to victory," he added. "And so right now, it is wide open."
