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york. hour number two, good to be with you. i feel we should be in a different city. >> gillian: it's a little weird, i have to say. cut us loose. >> john: we should have a model of the white house in between us. >> gillian: make the people feel comfortable. sandra smith is on assignment. i'm gillian turner. we are waiting for two more suspects to appear, five of them as john mentioned have already been arrested and arraigned only to walk out bail-free. one of the released migrants appearing to treat his entire apprehension as a joke, you can see there smiling, blowing kisses at the cameras. >> john: another suspect casually flipped the double bird as he strolled away, again without having to post any sort of cash bail. we will talk to fox news legal editor kerri urbahn, and brian kilmeade of the crisis reaching a new tipping point. >> gillian: but first c.b.

cotton in time square. some lawmakers are now calling for the suspects to be deported, is that an option? >> hi, gillian. new york officers, state and local, are not allowed to hold any migrant for federal immigration enforcement. and members of the nypd specifically are not allowed to ask the immigration status of anyone involved in a crime because of sanctuary city laws. >> here are seven people who have clearly displayed they have no respect for our laws or city and they really should be deported immediately. but there's not active cooperation between the nypd and any kind of federal agency that would deport these folks. operate as two different entities, really a breakdown in bureaucracy but is the way it is. >> total of seven migrants arrested for the assault which left two officers with bruises and scrapes. a cell phone was also stolen.

five of the men were arraigned and released without bail. the manhattan district attorney's office confirms to fox cash bail was not requested, saying its investigation is ongoing, and the role of each suspect needs to be specified. >> mayor adams, any response to the migrants being released? new york city mayor eric adams did not stop to answer questions about the attack but told a local station "those migrants are here because they want to be part of the american dream. we say yes to that. but those who are breaking our laws, we need to reexamine the laws that don't allow us to deport them because they are doing violent acts." two more suspects arrested last night are expected to be arraigned in criminal court as you mentioned. so far, at least two of the suspects arrested in this case have previous criminal cases open against them. back to you.

>> gillian: c.b. cotton, thank you. >> john: kerri urbahn, let's get you to talk on a couple of things she mentioned, first of all, you can assault a police officer and be on the streets with no cash bail and in a sanctuary city you cannot ask what the immigration status of a perpetrator is. >> it's a two-fold problem, and not just when you assault a police officer. i was looking through the laws that are qualifying offenses under this new bail reform legislation and it includes criminal use of biological weapons, all kinds of sexual abuse and the list goes on and on. people who commit the acts but yet get sent out right after that with really no consequence unless, of course, and this is what is a bit confusing to me, unless the judge determines the

individual is a flight risk. one would think if someone is here in this country illegally, that would be a de facto flight risk. why not, you know, apply that here. and that remains unclear to me. >> gillian: kerri, what about the distinction -- i guess what about the federal government? what role do they have here, what legal options, if any? >> yep, and this is the problem. when a city is designated as a sanctuary city. laws on the books in new york because it's a sanctuary city, make it very difficult for law enforcement to coordinate with ice, which is an arm of the federal immigration agency that can take illegal folks and deport them if necessary and in a nonsanctuary city, what would happen here, even if a person was released after arrest, what local law enforcement could then do would be to call and say we have someone who committed a crime, meet with them and apply your own proceedings against them. in a sanctuary city that does

not happen. >> john: william sent me a few notes on this as well, this is something he knows very well. he said that in the biden administration ice is only directed to begin deportation proceedings against somebody who has been convicted of a crime, not just facing charges. and he said that ice doesn't even bother to file detainers in sanctuary cities, nothing will happen anyway. what about this point, the biden administration has told ice, don't begin removal proceedings against anybody who has only been charged with a crime, you have to wait until they are convicted. >> yeah, multi-layered. that's what the problem is. you have a bad law on the books in new york, you have new york designated as a sanctuary city, almost impossible for ice to do their jobs and on top of it, administration who is actively telling their people to not enforce federal immigration law or look for ways to get around that. so, it's no wonder there is such a problem in new york and no

wonder we saw what we saw unfold in times square, given how the laws are not enforced or they are being abused. >> gillian: we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time with us. appreciate it. let's go ahead and bring in brian kilmeade, "fox & friends," host of one nation, and brian kilmeade radio show, also, author, did i leave anything out? >> john: soccer coach. >> gillian: dog dad. >> brian: i think we are done. when we saw this video emerge on monday that saw what happened on saturday night at 8:30, when this lieutenant and officer walking down 42nd street see the guys just making a lot of noise, blocking the street, they say guys move ahead that's all and they turn around and jump them, and seeing the actions here. and because of that, four get arrested, then a fifth, and let out without bail and you just see the look on their face as

they look in our face, basically saying you pay for our shelter, you are doing our laundry, we are getting free food. what we don't need a job, they might even get a stipend and what we get as americans in our face, these people that are putting together immigration laws, the people taking advantage of laughing at us and nothing but disdain for us. i don't think the lakers are happy for that publicity, by the way. >> john: a point i was thinking about earlier today, when immigration sympathizers and democrats scream from the rooftops that we have to let anybody and anybody and everybody in and when the biden administration refuses to close the border, are these the people whose entry into the country they are promoting? >> brian: he helps the cause for people that want a sealed border more than anything else. him flipping the bird with both fingers. this guy throwingis kisses, mocking us. sells the story that it's not anti-hispanic or anti-immigrant,

just doing what every country does, seals their border, gets control of their immigration system. mayor adams was wrong again, walking on the steps back there, what did he say? he said if you want to pursue the american dream i'm all for that, not this way. no, no, you came in, go through the port of entry, your reason for asylum is i feel under threat. those reasons for asylum were not accepted under trump, they are accepted here. you now have -- you have proof under trump you were under threat and why can't you go to another portion of the country. these are able-bodied single male. the neck tattoos think they are hooking up with gangsters over here. this one guy is really something else. this guy punched and bit a nordstrom worker, he also punched a prevention officer. third run-in with the law. >> gillian: and the nordstrom incident while he was trying to

rob the store. >> trying to shoplift. what the people are laughing at us. no other country with allow this and we are giving taxpayer dollars. has anyone -- do yourself a favor today. look at your other side of your paycheck. i know a lot of people get direct deposit. 49% or 40% of your money going to the federal government and the state government and the local government. are you comfortable giving to that? >> john: the governor is expressing outrage over the incident. listen here. >> any response to the police searching for additional suspects in the time square attack on police? >> get them all, send them back. you don't touch our police officers. you don't touch anybody. >> john: get them all and send them back, and oh, let's expedite work permits for the people to get work, increase the pull factor for people. >> gillian: it's just temporary work. >> brian: it's a magnet, more people will send for the family, go up to the border, tell people

you are looking for asylum, a free bus ride to port authority, report to 42nd street, pick out the shelter hotel of your choice, three meals and mini menu every day, and may wash your laundry, randall's island, a small island, once a park to play soccer and rugby. >> john: and people say they should have the laundry done at rikers island, not randall's island. >> and rikers island, no solitary confinement and no recourse, 25 years, you beat up a guard, she's a lot of the problem, a huge part of the problem. if you want to help out, give the cops qualified immunity. they are worried every day of not necessarily surviving but somebody will have a camera and misinterpret what they did and sued and lose everything. about 6,000 cops down by the way in new york city. >> john: thankfully there was a

camera on this incident and has sparked a national debate over how it should go down. great to see you. >> brian: one nation, i'll cover a lot of this with john walsh off the top. >> john: now this. >> what's the ultimate -- when she met someone on instagram who offered to sell her prescription pill and it turned out to be pure fentanyl. >> john: too many children have died after buying drugs over social media. heart broken parents back on capitol hill lobbying for tougher regulations against big tech. >> gillian: also this new polling out, shows nikki haley is not getting a lot of love from her home state of south carolina. is she going to be able to drum up enough support before the primary? ask byron york that question coming up next. hey lexus, show alternate routes. technology that's ready for the road ahead. the lexus nx.

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>> john: 2024, nikki haley coming up short in iowa and new hampshire, can she turf her homs primary. let's bring in byron york on that question, byron. a little bit of a hint from a poll that shows president trump 26 points ahead of haley, 58% to her 32%. that's the same split in a trafalgar poll the beginning of december but down three points from an emerson poll at the beginning of january. does that potentially suggest that there is a little bit of movement in her direction? >> well, this is the first big poll of south carolina that we have had since the iowa caucuses and the new hampshire primary so we were operating in the dark before this. but it's basically unchanged, i mean, she is still 26 points

behind, based on the old polls and the clear politics average of polls, she was 28 points behind. so not a huge change. i think one thing that this poll shows, you remember the theory a lot of anti-trump opens said look, the race has to narrow, everybody drop out except one candidate and that candidate can defeat donald trump in a one-on-one match-up. all the candidates have gone and what we found out is, is that some of their support did indeed go to nikki haley. but some of it went to trump, too. in the same poll we have from september, haley is up 14 points from back then, that's good. but trump is up 12 points, so there wasn't a lot of big net difference. >> john: let's take a look at the various constituencies in the republican party. trump has a big lead among conservatives, very conservatives, 80-13. somewhat conservative, 59-30.

she leads among moderates and liberals, 56 to 33%. we should point out the south carolina primary coming up at the end of the month is an open primary. so democrats and independents can play in this one if they want to. could that change the outcome? >> it could, it could. you are right. democrats and independents -- everybody can vote in any primary they want, but only in one of them, can't vote in both primaries. but we saw in iowa and in new hampshire a real desire on the part of haley supporters to get moderates, independents and even democrats to vote for her in those primaries. it was not as easy in iowa and new hampshire as it is in south carolina. but it didn't work a lot. and trump has such solid support among republicans. it seems to me there is really only two ways for haley to try to go here. the first one is to try to get more republicans to support her, to vote for her, to build her

republican support. the second thing i think we are going to see a lot of is some anti-trump forces really calling on maybe begging independents and democrats in south carolina to please go vote for nikki haley in the hub primary. >> john: it's thought a real weak spot for president trump is among college graduates. but this poll, people with no college degree, he leads 68 to 22%, but she only leads him by two points for college graduates, and when you put up the issues, he's trounsing her on every major issue that voters care about. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. we are talking about the economy, immigration, foreign affairs, they really prefer trump. part of that is the fact that they know what he did as president. this is an extremely unusual situation. nikki haley and everybody else are facing an unprecedented

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better with age. boston is relocating hundreds of migrants sleeping on the floor at logan airport, moving them to a rec center in roxbury. officials plan to spend half a million dollars outfitting that facility for housing. a lot of locals whose kids rely on the center for sports and after school are outraged. they are left scrambling to find now ones. joining us us, organizer of the boston bengals use athletic association. thanks for being with us. talk to me, how do you feel about everything that's taking place? >> well, you know, it's disheartening when you pin one community versus the next. folks here are looking to help and support folks who are coming into the community but at the same time, we are also looking for the support we have been asking for for decades. >> gillian: well, to that point, how do you feel about

specifically the fact that the government has come up with enough money when i understand residents have been asking for funding for the rec center for a long time? >> it shows you the urgency they take when it comes to matters here in boston. depending on what the conditions are, you know, they are quick to move money around and make things happen. again, this idea folks have been asking for an upgrade for the last 10 to 15 years, and overnight we are finding funding to rehabilitate the building to fit the state's needs. >> gillian: one resident in your neighborhood, a guy named rodney singleton asked why the government singled this out, it's a pro -- predominantly

black neighborhood, has the community received a response to that question? >> no, not a concrete answer, but again, you know, myself and others who have been asking this discussion over years of neglect of roxbury, we all know it goes back to voting percentages here in the district. they seem to use roxbury and certain parts of boston where black and brown predominantly live, they make changes without asking for the community's approval. >> gillian: take a listen to the bos ton mayor talking about the folks, 125 families roughly who are going to be moved into the rec center. >> their stories are the same as our. people who just want to try to give their kids a chance and a better life and we are a little bit stuck in a system where the federal machinery needs a lot of fixing. >> gillian: how do you feel about those comments? >> passing the buck, you know.

this is -- passing the buck. boston itself does not have the infrastructure as people might project here, you know. we have families always displaced because of natural disasters, fires, emergencies, and we place them in the red cross hands and that's 1 or 2 days in a hotel, but once that voucher is expired, what do we do next, we don't have that system here in boston for residents. so you know, we don't want to see the buck passed. we want folks to actually take accountability and say hey, this is a bigger picture, which it is, but at the same time, the same resources we are looking to provide for others don't exist for the people of boston themselves. >> gillian: we have to leave it there, but like to stay in touch with you on this, see how things shake out moving forward and what the experience is like for you and all your neighbors there. we wish you all the best. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> john: you know, you've got to

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>> gillian: a look at pro-palestinian protestors swarming the streets of the nation's capital earlier today demanding a ceasefire in gaza. this comes as president biden's campaign events have been met with relentless protests. some people there chanting ceasefire or no vote, and even

genocide joe. organizers say they have no plans to halt any of these protests until a complete ceasefire is called. >> john: the pressure is really mounting on joe biden, particularly in michigan where he is really feeling the political heat. recent poll found donald trump was up eight points in michigan. debbie dingell was on the program a couple days ago, she said biden is looking at a bad fortune in michigan and a lot is because of this. >> gillian: and certainly not an issue that's going to be resolved or hope of resolution between now and the 2024 election. so it's a matter of where the president is going to take a stand and double down on defense of israel or continue to slide away from that. >> john: in terms of a permanent ceasefire, i think we are a long way away. but a potential temporary ceasefire, the head of hamas

discussing a three-stage plan, initial six-week halt to fighting and more aid deliveries to gaza. what are the chances there could be as john kirby said in the briefing an extended ceasefire that goes well beyond what we saw in november? >> yeah, hey, john, good afternoon. it's day 118 of the war between israel and hamas as pressure grows to find a deal that would temporarily pause the fighting. dozens of protests gathered at the crossing between israel and gaza to demonstrate against aid going into the strip. after days of similar acts, israelis closed two crossings to prevent disruptions to aid delivery. protestors then shifted tactics and started to block another port where some aid was arriving. the group is calling for the release of hostages from hamas. >> i know this this war is getting longer and longer, and

endangering our soldiers and sons because of the trucks going into gaza. >> a ceasefire agreement is being discussed today and reports indicate the leader of hamas traveled from doha to cairo for talks with egyptian negotiators. israeli forces are pulling out another reserve brigade, trying to keep them fresh and trained. battles are taking place near khan younis as civilians are running out of places to evacuate to. at a water distribution point in the southernmost city of rafah, palestinians say disease is starting to spread across the strip, with limited aid flowing in and unsanitary conditions. >> the water is not clean. we struggle to use it and we are also seven people, one gallon is not enough. after an hour you need to refill it. the children are catching diseases and spreading it to others. there are field hospitals and they can't keep up. >> if the ceasefire is

implemented, it could see a pause in fighting for up to six weeks. more aid entering gaza and more hostages released. john. >> john: trey yingst with the latest from tel aviv. thank you. gillian. >> gillian: president biden will meet with the families of three service members killed in the iran-backed drone attack in jordan. he has promised a strong response and with secretary austin back in action, how and when will that come about. retired u.s. army colonel joe pacino, thanks for being with us. we are just getting into the newsroom now a word that the houthis have launched three more attacks into the gulf of aden and the red sea today, making the 42nd, 3rd, and 4th since november 19th. >> attacks there continue, disruption in the red sea and throughout the region and thinking about the families of sergeants kennedy sanders,

breonna taylor and sergeant rivers in this moment. strikes continue. nobody has been deterred. we have been talking about a response to the strike in jordan on tower 22 that killed three american soldiers. we are in the fifth or sixth day of talking about that, telegraphing the blow and have not seen anything of yet. >> john: looks like the u.s. determined the drone that hit tower 22 and killed the three brave service members was iranian drone, manufactured in iran. kataib hezbollah is a terrorist group. what happened of the material support for terrorism, means you are just as guilty as the people who pulled the trigger. if iran sells or gives the drone, rather, to kataib hezbollah and whoever else was involved in this, does that not make iran as culpable in this crime as the people who actually fired the drone? and should iran pay the consequences? >> absolutely, in fact, this

really is not an acceleration here, but it's not an acceleration of the fighting, it's what's been fighting since october. so, this is consistent with all the strikes in iraq and syria since october. they just got one through this time. and so you know, this is the kind of war, this is a low grade war, the kind of war iran would like to fight with the united states. they have subcontracted all the fighting to these groups, the shia proxy groups like kataib hezbollah and iran's thinking is america has the superior fire power but iran has the superior will and will wins out in these situations. >> gillian: at what point does, i think you characterized it as a low grade war, erupt into a full blown war. we know iran is as little as a week away from having a nuclear weapon. >> two weeks away from enough

uranium enrichment, and months from the weapon -- bottom line, they are too close, too close to that point. i think what iran is trying to do with all this, they are trying to see what is the red line. what they can get away with. what the magical line is that's going to trigger a response that's going to cause them to feel pain. they want to inch up to the red line and then spit over it. and so if this doesn't -- if this doesn't cause the red line, if it does not trigger a significant response, it's really going to embolden iran. >> john: the fact that kataib hezbollah and other iran-backed proxies said after the attack on tower 22, we are suspending attacks in the region, that would have been tehran calling them up and saying this wasn't supposed to happen, maybe they thought they would shoot it down, and this one got through with the american drone coming in, or thought that was never going to happen. but clearly iran is worried about this.

i don't think kataib hezbollah and the other groups of their own volition say oh, we are going to stand down. that order had to come from tehran. but, at the same time, unless you whack tehran, as biden did, as ronald reagan did, there's a chance to sit back and wait for the heat to come off, weather whatever brief storm out of the pentagon and then back at it again. >> this is a wait and see. is anything going to happen. are they just going to strike empty buildings in iraq again, hit drone facilities in yemen again, are they going to hit things that iran cares about, that's the calculus from iran, what they are thinking. so they have pulled back on these shia proxy groups. the commander who replaced soleimani, the big time commander killed in the trump administration in january 2020. his replacement, this guy,

is ismail khani, he does not have as tight a grip on the groups, so they pulled back and see what is going to happen. >> gillian: much have been made in the reporting the biden administration's response to this, whenever it comes, reporters using the term multi-tiered. what does that mean to you in military talk? >> multi-tiered means it's a phased approach that goes from a low level of violence to a higher level of violence over a period of days, not hours. so you are talking about striking fast boats offer the iranian coast, then maybe -- they have a destroyer, a very, very old destroyer operating in the persian gulf, and then an i'll refinery in iran, like some calling for, so you phase up the level of violence over a period of days. >> gillian: colonel, we have to leave it there. >> john: we want to clarify the names of the three brave

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>> john: another two suspected arrested in the beatdown of the new york police officers. this is a picture of the two perpetrators being brought in. they join five others that were arrested. the first five have been released and back on the streets after not having to post any bail. we'll follow these two and find out what happens in their particular case. highly likely they'll get the same treatment as the previous five. gillian? >> the parents of children harmed by social media are bringing their calls for change to the halls of congress today.

the lobbying effort comes a day after lawmakers grilled big tech ceos. aishah hasnie has the details for us from capitol hill. high, aishah. >> hi, gillian. good afternoon to you. dozens of parents are fanning out the capitol right now going door-to-door and talking with their representatives and trying to lobby support for tough legislation against the social media companies. i caught up with one of those moms. she's julianna arnold. she lost her 17-year-old, coco, when she took what she thought was xanax but was pure fentanyl. she found that pill on instagram. elise stefanik wants to get the house on board with the senate bills like the kids online safety act. >> we know the situation that's going on in the house of representatives and getting people to agree on things. we hope like it did in the senate, it brought everyone together. our children are at risk.

i think anyone that can't see that is not doing their duty as a representative of our people. >> this is all part of a day of advocacy today hosted by senators blackburn and blumenthal. they co sponsored the kids online safety act. they don't want to lose the momentum of yesterday's hearing. that got so intense, mark zuckerberg was compelled to stand up and apologize to all of those parents that were in the audience. what happens next with senator lindsey graham and senator josh hawley? they said that they will try to force votes on some of these social media bills as well as senator graham telling me that he will caught up speaker mike johnson and suggest to him to hold a similar hearing here in the house. guys? >> aishah hasnie on capitol hill. thank you. we'll be right back. each day is a unique blend of people to see and things to do. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day.

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>> john: this is really ironic and weird. you and i when we worked together, we're always in washington d.c. here we are in the big apple

today. how does that happen? >> we took the train. you flew. i took the train. >> john: we're getting together for dinner after this. should we see a broadway show or concerts or something? >> i don't know what broadway show i'd see given the choice. i'm so out of the loop on what is available here. >> john: we can go to the tickets thing on -- >> ticketmaster? >> john: no. no. the kiosk at times square. see what is out there. >> come say hi. tell us what broadway show we should get tickets to. >> john: great being with you today. >> thanks for having me. good to be with everybody at home. martha is coming up next, i believe. >> john: yep. >> martha: happy for some recommendations, guys. thanks. good to see you both. i'm martha maccallum. this is "the story" right now. only on fox, look at the voices of american cities in distress. i'm going to sit down with lawrence jones w