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here is "america reports". >> john: president biden will attend the dignified transfer of three american soldiers killed by an iranian proxy attack in jordan. he will face the families as the remains of their loved ones return to u.s. soil. >> sandra: the moment will be playing out on video, but no audio. we will bring that to you when it plays out as we honor these three soldiers' brave service. >> john: right now, we are waiting to hear from new york governor kathy hochul at an event here in new york city. outrage growing over a migrant mob attack on police officers in times square and now we are learning some of the suspects may have left town. hello, john roberts, good to finally be with you. >> sandra: in new york city. good to have you here. >> john: missed you yesterday. >> sandra: but the show today, and nice to see you last night as well. thanks for joining us, everybody, sandra smith, and we are in new york. this is "america reports".

immigration on the mind of many voters on the border crisis leads to chaos, cities coast to coast, like this scene playing out in new york saturday, a group of migrants beat officers trying to disperse a crowd. governor hochul says send 'em back. sources tell fox news five suspects could have already skipped town, boarding a bus to california. >> john: why you say would they go to california? some nice incentives for noncitizens who are living in the golden state. migrants can apply for housing assistance, food stamps, cash payouts, free healthcare, even financial assistance for college. >> sandra: former acting ice director tom homan will join us on the far-reaching effects of border crisis. christina coleman will have more on human smugglers taking advantage of migrants in california. >> john: c.b. cotton has the

latest on the altercation with police involving the seven suspects. >> nypd continues to look for others involved in the initial attack, my police sources say five, some of the migrant suspects, rather, who have been arrested and arraigned in this case may now have skipped town, boarded a bus headed for calexico, california, borders mexico. the manhattan d.a. office not saying too much on this, only saying they are still investigating the circumstances. now, my sources say it was a worker who recognized these mug shots from the news and told the nypd the men had used phony names getting the bus tickets and boarding early thursday morning. comes after five of the suspects were released without cash bail despite charged with felony offenses. the judge, and manhattan d.a. alvin bragg oversaw the decision. a spokesperson for bragg saying

it is paramount we identify each defendant and specify each role in the incident. the only defendant held in jail on bail so far is brito, he was arraigned in court yesterday. he is the man in the yellow jacket who resisted arrest leading to this brawl. now police are looking again for at least a dozen other men who were involved in this melee. republican senator ron johnson from wisconsin saying this is a result of policies in blue cities. >> we have democrat governance in all these cities creating lawless cities. we are treating migrants with kid gloves and it's costing us billions of dollars. billions of dollars we could be using to help americans. so this is absolutely outrageous. >> sources say the nypd believes at this point some of the

migrants involved in this assault had been in times square over the weekend pick pocketing people. back to you. >> john: just doesn't stop. c.b. cotton in times square. >> sandra: southern california has become the epicenter of a growing human trafficking crisis. christina coleman is live in los angeles for us. >> hi, sandra. warn the viewers, some details in the report are graphic. street gangs are working to stop these cartels, they are contributing to the onslaught of human trafficking in this border state. during this bust in a high prostitution area, san diego police and other law enforcement agencies worked together to rescue eight teenagers ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old. the district attorney says most of the victims involved in sex trafficking in san diego county are local but about 20% of them are brought from across the southern border.

>> cartels definitely have an influence on sex trafficking but we are finding that it's more our street gangs which work for the cartels. >> sex trafficking survivor now works with law enforcement to draw awareness to the dehumanizing crime. she was a 14-year-old high school freshman in san diego when she was kidnapped, beaten, forced into a sex trafficking ring and sold in more than a dozen states. she says she was raped repeatedly and that her trafficker would torture her when she tried to escape. >> he would force me to sit in ice baths for extended amounts of times. he would have me carry heavy objects and i would have to stand in the corner for hours. and any time that i would want to sit down, he would beat me or punch me. what i remember is him for the first time physically beating me, and as he's kicking me and hitting me telling me i can't leave, and that if i tried to

leave, not only would he kill me but kill my mother, too. >> just horrific, and last month during a single week long operation to rescue victims of human trafficking, law enforcement agencies throughout california made a total of 539 arrests and recovered 55 victims, including 11 who were minors. sandra. >> sandra: christina in l.a., thank you. john. >> john: a lot of people have a lot to say about this, including tom homan, perpetrators beat up the police, arrested, released without bail and the very definition of a flight risk by getting on a bus and heading to california. how in the world does this happen? >> you know, i think personal reasons, i own a home in new york, i pay a lot of taxes in new york and i take it personal.

governor hochul, i don't care what she says. her actions speak louder than her words. she can say they should be deported but only because a video going worldwide, it's political cover, if she really cared about the illegal aliens committing crimes, the two separate ones she opened in erie county raped a hotel lady they turned into migrant center, and another one a mother was raped in front of her 3-year-old. why don't they call for the deportation of the people arrested, she has several laws from preventing ice and border patrol from doing their job. green light saw says ice and border patrol cannot have access to new york state criminal databases or dmv data.

even though sheriff's office has access, they have to sign a promise if they share any of that information with ice or border patrol they lose their access. so she's giving them driver's license, stopping ice and border patrol from doing their job and get this, even a law in new york that ice agent can be arrested if he arrests an illegal alien leaving the courthouse or entering a courthouse or in a courthouse. she has made it impossible for ice to enforce the law in new york. i don't want to hear what she has to say. blood on her hands, this is her problem, she created it and she can fix it but she won't. >> john: you say you don't want to hear what kathy hochul has to say but i think it's valuable, tom, to play out what she had to say and then go over things in more depth that you mentioned. >> any response to police searching for additional suspects? >> 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. i know the biden administration

has told ice that you can't begin deportation proceedings in the criminal justice system until they have been convicted, and the fact new york is sanctuary city and ice cannot file detainers against people there anyway, but kathy hochul has said in this case she would make an exception. what do you say to that? >> i say she's all talk. i say there's many crimes committed by illegal aliens, i mentioned two that committed rape in buffalo, new york. what action is she taking on that, and why isn't she taking actions to ice and the border patrol to do their job in the state of new york without putting all the roadblocks, can't have criminal data, dmv data, can't arrest an alien leaving the court or going to a court or in a court. she's preventing them from doing the job but says deport them. if ice would arrested them out of the courthouse she could have charged them with a crime. she says one thing but actions say another. >> john: the bigger issue, too,

not an assault on somebody walking down the street, this was an assault on two police officers. what the head of the police benevolent association said about the crime. >> why did these four individuals be released on their own recognizance. why aren't they in jail right now. brutally attacked a new york city police officer and a lieutenant. our criminal justice system is upside down. what message does it send to every new york city police officer who is out on the streets of the city of new york every single day risking their lives to protect new yorkers. >> john: so you've got the two issues here. people not being prosecuted, not kept in jail, anyway, for beating a police officer, and then retention problems. you've got recruitment problems and here the police officers or anybody who wants to maybe serve in the nypd is looking in this and saying the city doesn't have our back, why should we become

police officers. >> that's why they are having recruiting problems. border patrol can't hire anybody, because the agents can't do the job and the oath they took, they are not protected. secretary of homeland security lying about the horse patrol at the white house podium. but this is the problem. if these -- people don't understand how dangerous these guys are. if they are brave enough and brazen enough to attack an armed uniformed officer, no one is safe. because they can do that to uniform officer, think about what they can do to an unarmed civilian. isis arrested one at large person, and two in rikers island, but rikers island don't honor ice detainers, we'll see. four others out after by ice but ice is doing the job despite the roadblocks by the state of new york. >> john: so many aspects of the

case causing outrage in so many different ways. thanks for kicking us off. appreciate it. >> sandra: really interesting discussion there and our coverage of the spreading border crisis will continue as we turn next to the state of illinois now offering money to suburbs of chicago to take some migrants off the city's hands. >> there was a grant money made available from the state to settle migrants in glenn ellen. what do you think we should do? $11 million. >> sandra: glenn ellen village president asking residents for their thoughts. wait 'til you hear how one local resident in that room, a local carpenter responded. john, no doubt this is no longer a border state issue. you saw it pop up in importance in iowa and new hampshire. we now have immigration ranking over the economy as the most pressing issue facing the

country today. and so many states nowhere near the border and that is why, because they do not have the resources in some of these cities to deal with this. >> john: do we have call four number 4 from the tom homan segment, and governor kathy hochul is about to give a news conference about all of this. listen to this guy in boston who comes to his local community center to find that police are guarding it and not letting people in because it's now being used to house migrants. >> can't afford to live here, you bring other [bleep] here, doesn't [bleep] add up. it doesn't make no [bleep] sense. none. none. i'm [bleep] not home less, i work a full-time job, 40 hours, and can't pay to live here. >> john: that community center is part of his life and now told by police officers who are just doing their job you can't come in, you can't use this community

center because the state has taken it over. >> sandra: i feel for these people and the carpenter we are going to play out in the council meeting in illinois, says i work so hard every day to provide for my family and nice town to live in. you see what's happening to some of the schools, the hospitals in denver, this is affecting everyone. and there is no more money to deal with it. and there's more and more migrants coming out of the cities into the suburbs. we are going to cover that story coming up. >> john: and other community centers as well, looking for money to renovate like a new basketball court, things like that, told no money, no money, and then the state came in and they renovated for the migrants. so taxpayers are wondering where on the ladder of society they fall these days. latest jobs report posing another challenge in the fight against inflation and what it means for interest rates. what they are saying at the white house. plus this. >> in the last 24 hours i raised over $19,000 for you.

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>> john: january jobs report out, adding 353,000 jobs, unemployment steady at 3.7%. larry kudlow digging deeper into the numbers next hour, but for the moment, let's go to ed lawrence at the white house. ed, what does the labor number mean exactly?

>> yeah, so it's a blog number, the last time 353,000 jobs, last january, and means federal reserve is not going to cut interest rates. many people wanted to see that in march, looks like that is possibly not going to happen. now you have to understand in this report, this is a benchmark resetting report. every year these numbers are always skewed, either too big on the up side, too big on the low side, it's a reset of the data is really what we are seeing in this. so, this report is not weighted as much as some of of the other job reports throughout the year, john. >> john: whatever that meant, edward. but what does it mean, though, in terms -- >> it's a lot of noise. >> john: what does it mean in terms of fighting inflation, interest rates, we thought when the fed held steady there was maybe a bias toward cutting rates at some point. 172000 jobs expecting, maybe

178, and now 353,000. what do you think powell is saying right now? >> saying it adds credence to what he told me, does not look like they will get there in march to reduce rates. the president is touting this, saying it's proof that his economy is working and i talked with the acting labor secretary about three hours ago, listen to what she said about this cheerleading for this report. listen. >> this is bidenomics in action. 353,000 jobs created, low levels of unemployment, labor force participation rate, lowest gap in unemployment between average workers and workers of color, this is exactly what it means to leave no one behind. >> but you have to square this with a report showing the job losses, layoffs are coming, 136% increase from december to january, and announced job layoffs. so, that is going to be

interesting in the next report to see when the layoffs actually hit the data. back to you, john. >> john: and the weird thing, we have all the jobs created and a lot of job loss at the same time. it's a conumdrum, on the one hand, and the other hand -- ed, thanks. >> sandra: illinois -- the state of illinois is offering grant money now to municipalities to set up housing for illegal migrants as the immigration crisis spreads. the small village of glen ellyn, about 30 miles west of chicago, is now turning down $11 million in state offered money after residents there said that they don't want migrants to permanently settle in their community. mark is here, village president of glen ellyn and joins us now. mark, thanks so much for coming on with us. >> thanks for having me. >> obviously you have seen this is a huge problem in the city of chicago. there has been a large number of migrants sent to that city and the mayor has said we can't keep

doing this. so, is it an effort on the part of the city, then, to send some of these migrants out to the suburbs, to try to have them help them and deal with the crisis. what are you seeing? >> let me begin by saying the $11 million offered was not for glen ellyn, but for all the communities surrounding chicago. it's just not for us, it's to settle migrants in the surrounding communities. i'm not sure what the motive is. but from my standpoint, we decided not to apply, primarily as of now, the deadline has passed. so it became available on the 16th of january, we had until the 31st to apply and i just did not see a plan that was being put in place that would allow us to make this a workable solution. one of the problems i have, i don't have physically the location where we could take in a large number of migrants and house them. and then of course, you know, we

have to deal with the impact on the schools and as i understand it right now, migrants do not have work permits to be gainfully employed. so a lot of holes in the plan and until we could get some answers to these questions, i'm not going to commit my village to that effort without knowing those answers. >> sandra: we are just showing video a second ago, reminded me how much we have covered the story and how much it has affected chicago, as i mentioned to in the commercial break. i grew up in the town next to glen ellyn, wheaton, but we covered the south side of chicago, schools were so run down they had to close them and kids could not go there, yet they are opened and house migrants. and communities are outraged. you put the question in a village meeting, we played that in the tease. you put the question to residents and said what are your thoughts on this? this was a local carpenter who

responded to your question in that meeting. listen. >> i can't afford myself, i love this town, it's a beautiful town. i'm blessed to be a carpenter in this town. i've worked on some of the most beautiful houses i've ever encountered, i've done it four years and i would like to see the high end homes, the high class of our neighborhoods stay the same. this is our country, not theirs. >> sandra: that was david forchow, it's now published who that was, a local carpenter in the area as he said, he said i can't even afford myself right now but i loves this town, it's a beautiful town, blessed to be a carpenter in the town but does not want to see things change and his fear is that if you were to do this and take on that funding, i know you were also asked the question, would this be for permanent residency and you said yes, right, mark, what was the overall response from residents when you put that question out there?

obviously that was one voice. >> look, i think the overall response from our community is, you know, we are a comparing, compassionate group of people. we try to do what we can to provide humanitarian support and a lot of people see this as a 0 sum gain. they think that by providing humanitarian assistance to the migrants somehow we are going to be disadvantaging our residents. to this point that's not been the case. we have been able to manage this in a way that does provide the type of humanitarian relief to migrants passing through our community without disadvantaging our residents but that will change as the numbers continue to increase. there is going to come a time where the interests of the migrants are going to conflict with the interests of our residents and i can tell you, you know, everybody says the migrants, they are human beings and they need to be treated as human beings, but my residents are human beings too. they have paid taxes, they make glen ellyn a great place to live. and if the interests of the migrants conflict with the interests of my residents, the

interest of my residents are going to predominant. >> sandra: you are an incredibly important voice in all of this, something that so many cities, towns, municipalities are dealing with all over this country right now, and i know so many are figuring out on the fly, it's happening so fast. mark, thank you for joining us today. appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: ok. >> how many times are we going to watch this as cops are getting beat up. this isn't the first time. this criminal justice system is geared for the criminals. >> john: new york governor kathy hochul geared to take the podium after meeting with the state's district attorneys. we'll watch that for any news that may come out of it. >> sandra: moments away from the dignified transfer of the three soldiers killed in jordan as the biden administration readies its response to iran. dan hoffman will join us live on that next. but because it's gold - they think it must be complicated.

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>> john: we are awaiting the dignified transfer. plans have been approved for a series of strikes over days inside iraq and syria, no mention of iran. so is this the right move? dan hoffman, former cia station chief and fox news contributor. lindsey graham thinks unless you hit iran directly it's not going to do anything. >> they are not going to stop until we hit iran itself. i don't want to invade iran but want them to stop killing americans and the only which that will happen is if you hit their oil infrastructure, which they care about, where they get their money, or start punishing some of their soldiers inside of iran, the revolutionary guard. >> john: so two questions here. the first, if they don't target inside iran, is that going to have effect, and five days out from the drone attack against tower 22 and still no response.

do you find that puzzling? >> i do find that puzzling. we should have responses on the shelf ready to go. right now, iran owns escalation dominance over us and that's a very precarious place to be. i would differ slightly with senator graham. i don't think it's necessarily about the location of the targets. i think it's about whom we target. remember that after u.s. contractor was killed in baghdad in late 2019, trump administration hit soleimani and that restored it for a period of time. and going back to the directed attacks 40 years ago, iran is using proxy terrorists to target us. we are at war with iran. i think we should acknowledge that. iran owns militias in iraq, in

yemen, in lebanon and they own militias in syria as well. and we are under siege. >> sandra: you know who has a completely different take than that, our defense secretary, lloyd austin. here he is in a news conference yesterday saying exactly the opposite, dan. >> we are not at war with iran. and houthis continue to do some things that are very irresponsible and illegal. and so our goal is to make sure that we take away, we continue to take away capability from the houthis. >> sandra: how can we expect we are going to go hard on iran if that's where we stand? >> if iran is using their proxy terrorists like the houthis, like kataib hezbollah in syria and iraq, lebanese hezbollah among others, to target and kill american servicemen and women and officials overseas, i would

argue we are at war with iran. the question is how we prosecute that war in such a way that we restore escalation dominance without risking a wider war that iran does not want. we have a lot of room to maneuver as the trump administration demonstrated by killing soleimani, that did not lead to a wider war. and israel targeted the head of iran's nuclear program, that did not lead to a further escalation of a wider war with iran. iran will fight to the last palestinian and hamas to the last yemeni, but because they are concerned about unrest, civil unrest. we have seen that, particularly over the last couple of years. >> john: former president bush had a doctrine, if you gave material support to a terrorist you were as guilty as the terrorist was. don't quite know what happened to that doctrine. seems to be soft pedalled these

days. the next few minutes, the parents, families will receive the remains of their loved ones at dover air force base. they are thinking of the loss they have lived here as a result of this and listen to what the parents of one of those brave service members said. >> it's hard for the parents to endure. that's why i honor her so much and believe she's a hero. >> as a grieving parent i would not want to see any other parent go through what we are going through right now. however, the president of the united states decides to respond, it won't change our situation at all. >> john: how biden chooses to respond it won't change their situation at all. but some critics are making the point if he hadn't been tougher earlier they might not have suffered the loss they did. >> my heart breaks for the

families. i went through this in the year i served in iraq, and all we asked for, wep don't -- we are fine serving in harm's way to protect our country's national security. i would emphasize our servicemen and women in jordan were doing just that, providing logistical support to a very small u.s. military base in syria conducting counter terrorism, they are not building schools for girls in afghanistan, they are fighting terrorists to keep us safe here at home, god bless them for that. all we ask for from a policy perspective, from the administration, give us everything we need. give us the military equipment we need, give us the policy support we need so we can be as safe as possible. we know we are taking a risk. but give us everything that we could have to lessen that risk as much as possible. i think you know, that's the question that is fair to ask right now. >> john: we'll be watching for that dignified transfer. the nation has a heavy heart this afternoon.

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obviously we would have big interest in anything that comes from that meeting over whether or not she will certainly seek to deport and send back those migrants seen flipping off cameras here in new york city. this happened just moments ago. one of our reporters was able to fire off a question to the d.a. as they walked in. let's listen. >> letitia james, what do you think of the migrants being let go? >> sandra: no answer from james, but she just arrived a few minutes ago, and again, we could be hearing from kathy hochul soon. she says she's looking into it. she said send them back, as she was getting on that train, the subway train, we'll see. >> john: memo to the governor, you got to find 'em first and some of them have left the state for california, and i'm sure that new york has an extradition agreement with california, but this is a federal matter. so i'm not sure she's going to have any success in trying to

deport them. some blue states trying to toughen up their soft on crime approach after lax policies lead to a spike in retail theft. crime figures to be a big issue with the ballot box in november. bryan, is this new approach by democrats kind of too little too late? >> john, good afternoon. well, look, republicans certainly think so. when you look at the national polls, voters rank crime low on the list of the most issues facing the country but it is a big deal in cities where retail theft has soared. since 2019, retail theft in new york city has spiked 64%, that's the highest in the nation, followed by los angeles with the 61% spike according to the council on criminal justice. kathy hochul is proposing the creation of new police units targeting shoplifting, tax credit to small business owners

to boost store security and increase in penalties for assaulting workers. republicans argue it's just not enough. >> democrats can try and do an election year ploy by saying they are tackling the issue but not willing to hold criminals accountable and prosecute them and put them behind bars, what good is it really doing? >> we have all seen the videos of brazen smash and grabs and organized retail theft after republicans regain control of the house in 2022, successfully campaigning on the issue of higher crime. democrats are hoping by addressing shoplifting with tougher on crime proposals it will pay off this november. california's democratic governor newsom is proposing increasing penalties and prison time for thieves and washington, d.c., the democratic city council is going from $1,000 to $500 for a

felony. >> some democrats could appear soft on crime and course correcting, that's what you want any small political party or politicians to do, we are doing that. >> question is, can democrats convince progressives to enact these ideas into law. john. >> thank you. >> when a walgreens leaves a neighborhood they disrupt the entire community. these closures are not arbitrary and are not innocent. they are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination. shame on you walgreens. >> sandra: squad member blaming walgreens for abandoning low income communities after closing another one of its stores in boston. it comes as walgreens has shuttered many stores nationwide as rampant theft takes hold. rafael is here, senior fellow

and author of "criminal injustice." what do you think, accusing walgreens of racism. >> it's an obvious ploy. they do it for two reasons. one, easier than actually fixing the problem and the problem driving the retailers out of the states and cities is crime. which is rampant. but the more sinister reason why they tend to go this route, instead of dealing with the guts of the problem, they have to go back on the narrative they spent so long crafting and that robust enforcement program is by definition racist because it's going to sweep up minorities at a higher clip than the population, than the representation in the population. and they just cannot, you know, it's so central to the left's brand that they just simply cannot go back on that as a policy. >> john: what walgreens said about closing that store. as a result of the current operating environment and financial performance, we have had to make difficult decisions, including corporate head count reductions as well as store

closures. roxbury closure was cost of operating, i take it as code for we were ripped off, low prescription volume and reimbursement rates. people are coming in and robbing the store blinds, how are you supposed to stay in business and if the lawmakers looking at the problem, look and say wait a second, a lot of bad apples in the community are ruining it for everyone, so let's enforce the dang law. >> that's exactly right. and what i think the lawmakers tend fo forget, there is a robust body of research showing crime is also bad for the economy. it discourages investment in the places that need it the most and encourages disinvestment, something the left loves to decry. if they were truly about economic justice they would have to reconcile this reality, which is allowing crime to fester is only going to leave these communities worse off in every

aspect, including economic. >> sandra: what's amazing, closed up and cases, under lock and key, it's out in the suburbs, it's everywhere. you remember the freezers, the pictures of all the ice cream chained up, locked up. talk about an economic impact, who is going to wait around for somebody to open thacht it has to slow down sales. thanks for being here, rafael. >> john: good to see you, rafael. first time we have seen each other in person. >> second. >> john: second time. i made such an impact on you. breaking news out of georgia, d.a. fani willis addressing the allegations of an affair with another attorney on her team, nathan wade. what she is saying now. >> sandra: that story continues. and how ron desantis is helping take action for texas to defend the border. n a home and need moy for your family? newday usa can help. veterans have earned a lot of va benefits with their service, but the va home loan benefit is a big one. by using your benefit

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>> that's right, john. fani willis did come out swinging, called the accusations an improper relationship with the chief prosecutor nathan wade, called it a spectacle, salacious and a circus. she says the judge should dismiss all the accusations and not even hold an evidentiary hearing set for february 15th. one additional revelation coming out in the affidavit of that prosecutor nathan wade. he did say that he had initially a professional relationship with the d.a. who hired him, and who paid him $650,000. but then he had a personal relationship with her as well. so nathan wade, the prosecutor, saying he did have a personal relationship with fani willis. as far as accusations that the two enriched themselves and wade in a sense kicked back money, used his big salary to fly them around the world, wade said basically sometimes i paid, sometimes she paid, i never gave her any money at all.

and as this all happens, four different investigations into this d.a. not only the georgia house, the georgia senate, fulton county officials and now the house of representatives as well, jim jordan issuing a subpoena. he wants documents as well. >> john: steve, thank you. >> sandra: israel facing new pressure for a ceasefire deal as the u.s. seeks to avoid a wider regional war. idf spokesman jonathan conricus will join us live on set in new york with re-x a. >> john: nikki haley offering a new version of "groundhog day." trey will tell us what to expect with five weeks to go to super tuesday.

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