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Walsh Interviewed President Obama For The Show’s 1,000th Episode

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In 2010, Fox commemorated the 1,000th episode of the series by featuring an interview between Walsh and then President Barack Obama. The interview took place at the White House and centered on the President’s crime-fighting initiatives. Walsh advocated the collection of DNA and gathering it in a single database.

Obama agreed, noting: “It’s the right thing to do. This is where the national registry becomes so important, because what you have is individual states — they may have a database, but if they’re not sharing it with the state next door, you’ve got a guy from Illinois driving over into Indiana, and they’re not talking to each other.”