reports". look at this, gunfire on a packed rush hour train after two men got into a fight. a warning, some viewers may find this disturbing. >> let me out! let me out! let me out! [gunshots] >> john: documenting riders scrambling for safety as shots were fired. a victim who police say was shot in the head with his own gun, dodging the subway fare to guest on to the platform before this all happened. >> it's important that we enforce service and people not paying the fare. often time we see people enter to the subway station looking to cause harm and they never pay the fare. >> sandra: fox team coverage for you. lucas tomlinson is in washington

on a new push to enforce laws against fare jumpers. first alexis is live in brooklyn with more on the shooting. alexis, no charges filed against the shooter? >> sandra, that's right. for what we are hearing, the d.a. office in brooklyn says it was an act of self-defense. more to what happened in a second. but basically one guy you just saw there skipped the fare, pulled out a gun, he was d disarmed, one man is in critical condition. but you are getting on the subway, evening commute during rush hour, people are heading to their house from work and the shots ring out in the subway car, people yelling for help as they ducked for cover. watch. >> let me out, let me out! [gunshots] >> police say that fight there

led to the shooting on the train yesterday as it traveled between stations in brooklyn during rush hour. the violent incident comes days after kathy hochul called in the national guard to patrol the subway system following a series of deaths and attacks. national guard helping with random bag checks but has that helped make the subway system safer? i asked the nypd. >> anybody coming into the system to help keep it safe we we welcome that. the results of it i'm not sure if we have any data to support whether it's helped or not. but having more people trying to keep it safe is no bad to that. >> what we do know, even with the extra man power, the suspect was still able to walk on to the train with a handgun. the new video released by the nypd shows the man entering the subway without paying, and he started a fight with man who ended up disarming him and shot

with his own weapon. he's in critical condition. and another question, sandra and john, the issue at hand about the governor adding the national guard, hundreds of national guard members to the subway system, has it helped? they can only make arrest if there is an imminent threat and they will not have the guns when they are patrolling the system. people wonder what is the point when they can't take any impact off. sandra. >> sandra: alexis, live there in brooklyn for us. it is something everybody is talking about, on the cover of "the new york post". hell ride. it's crucial for new yorkers, how you get where you need to go and expensive to hop in ubers and cabs and less and less safe to get on them, and bigger and bigger economic obviously and crime problem as well, and danger to new yorkers. >> john: the years i lived in new york, i took the subway everywhere, even found a way to

get to laguardia and then a bus as well, and so for there to be a shooting in broad daylight scares the you know what out of people. and remember when eric adams said of crime in the new york subway, it's the perception of crime. >> sandra: not so much. >> john: perception of somebody brandishing a gun and then shot in the head. >> sandra: it's happening far too often. that's for sure. >> john: here in d.c., the city council is asking the police to enforce laws, this time against fare evaders. similar to new york efforts in the 1990s to curb fare jumpers. >> that's right, john. it appears that d.c. is bringing the broken windows theory to the streets of washington, trying to catch mostly teenagers from jumping the turnstyles behind me at union station and metro, all in an effort to reduce crime

after last year's spike. >> if they stop a fare evasion, they are required by law to give their name and address. anyone who refuses to be subject to a fine of $100 or arrested. making sure everyone pays their fare. >> john, last month three cops were shot while carrying out a warrant for animal cruelty. the suspect was in the united states illegally according to i.c.e. the d.c. mayor signed a new crime bill to combat the issue that has outraged many. and they are thinking of moving the capital one arena across the river. and metropolitan police department left 1400 officers at the height of the blm movement

due to early retirement and cops quitting. two weeks ago a d.c. housing authority officer was shot, home to some of the finest restaurants and bars and the home of the u.s. navy top admiral. last year homicide was up 35% in d.c., 274 murders, a number not seen here in over two decades. robbery up 67%, motor vehicle theft up 82%. this year crime that is come down compared to the record high. homicide down 36%, robbery down 5%, motor vehicle theft down 30%. one thing that is not down this year, john, is carjackings. those numbers remain at last year's record high, doubled, d.c. police have announced new initiative instituting drug free zones, including outside the capital one arena, good news for many basketball fans in town for the acc tournament, john. >> john: what drugs are they talking about?

i came out of a concert there close to christmas time and the smell of pot was heavy in the air, and that's pretty much legal here. not sure what they are going to stop. lucas, thank you. now this. >> remains strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to our 2% goal. >> do more in terms of monetary policy, we will get back to 2%. >> we understand the hardship high inflation is causing and remain strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to the 2% goal. >> sandra: that was federal reserve chair jerome powell, says 2% is the target, appears some democrats want to move away and settle at maybe 3%. what's to fear from that? bring in larry kudlow, you know, i pitched this to you this morning because i feel like this is something economists are chewing on, we had austin goldzby on, and robert wolf was on here, obama guy saying maybe 2% is, it's not going to happen,

maybe we should move the goal post. steve more, your good friend, says 2% should be the target. what does larry kudlow say and say it in the context of if we move the goal post and say ok, no, 3% is the new target, are we just settling for high prices forever in this country and never come back down? >> larry: that's true, but also, if you go to 3, then you wait to go to 4, then wait to go, the target will be 5. left wing democrats want to go to 3, but what they are -- they don't know anything about monetary policy. what they are really saying is please goose the economy in the election year is the only way we are going to win. >> sandra: is that going to happen? >> larry: i don't think the fed will get into the crossfire. and can i give you some numbers on this, allowed to do numbers? >> sandra: let's do it. >> larry: just the last few months, three-month cpi, 4%

annual rate. the target is 2. the core excluding food and energy, 4.2. >> sandra: the fed loves to look at and wait a second, that matters to people at home, food and energy prices. >> larry: and the core services excluding rent. >> sandra: that's the problem. that's the problem. >> larry: jay powell says it has gone up 6.9% annual rate and wholesale producer prices, 3.3%, finished goods, 6.4, intermediate goods, 4. so in other words, inflation story is the wrong way again. so, if you are talking about going from 2 to 3, wait a second. you never hit 2. so you'll go to 4, and then you'll go to 5, so it's very -- what they want is election fed goosing of the economy and jay powell makes a gigantic mistake if he gets into the crossfire.

>> sandra: i know austin goldsby and you go way back. >> larry: and when he's being straight, he's one of the best economists around. >> sandra: the federal reserve chair from chicago, he joined us on friday and a bit from the panel with steve moore and robert wolf. >> target is 2% and it should be. the fed said they would get inflation to 2% and so we got to get inflation down to 2%. >> i don't think we should surrender on the 2%, i think surrendering -- >> target is too low. >> sandra: and austin on, from the federal reserve in chicago, sticking with the 2% target. >> one of my best friends, i disagree with him on it. >> sandra: now you know why i love this conversation. what powell is worried about. still 30-year fixed mortgage rate 7%, credit card, these are the interest rates on credit card debt, by the way is soaring

under this presidency, up 45% in three years. that's at 21%. five year new car loan, 8%. and then there's this, the mortgage rates, ok. how it started, how it's going. monthly mortgage payment on a $400,000 home up 59%, so paying 1349 then, now up to 2150 a month, larry, that is not sustain bl a. they have to be worried about that. >> once inflation accelerates, and then the year to year change, looks like it's down to 3 or 3.1. the last few months is the wrong direction. but individual goods, essential consumer goods, those don't come down. or differently, they do not come down for years. the lagged effect of the federal reserve mistake way back in 2021, when they said inflation was not a problem, and then they

said it was transitory. we are still suffering from that and it permeates the entire economy. and gasoline prices have moved over 3.40 again. now, that's not 5, which was the worst nationwide but it was 3 or under 3, so gasoline prices are going up, crude oil prices and the wholesale market are going up. that affects everybody. so you have a big problem. the fed must hold its ground for its own credibility sake. am>> sandra: i'll cut that sound bite. now are in there. i'll see you at 4:00 today. >> larry: we might continue this conversation. don't change your mind. stay where you are. >> sandra: change my mind on the interest rate or joining you at 4:00? thanks for having me. >> john: she will be there, larry, fear not. we are waiting to hear from fani willis after a judge in georgia allowed her to stay on the trump

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from the case, but in many ways, even though she gets to stay, while nathan wade has to be booted, this case would seem to be tainted, andy. >> yeah, that's right. i didn't have tennessee williams on my reading list this morning, john, but when they're saying the odor of mandacity and they are talking about you, that's not a good day, especially if you are the prosecutor on the case and i think this is a huge win for trump, maybe more than he realizes, because she is tainted, she's lost the confidence of the court, it's possible this could be appealed, which could result in more delay, and i think it underscores what i've been trying to say since we first saw the sprawling indictment, i don't think they are very confident. >> john: may not be the end of her problems, the judge wrote other forums or sources of authority such as the general

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list of potential investigations of her by these different bodies, he left out prosecutors, and you know, they could be the subject of criminal investigations by both state prosecutors and federal prosecutors on grounds of potential fraud, potential perjury. she's got a lot of problems. >> john: you mentioned the word taint. former president trump is bringing that up in connection with the alvin bragg case on the hush money payment. that's delayed for 30 days. the former president said on social, the things that took place at the manhattan d.a. office in conjunction with the doj put in charge of "getting trump" are truly a sight to behold. withheld thousands of pages of documents and the shady pomerranz issue. and it will make fani and her

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to bring is not the hush money stormy daniels case, it was the big fraud case. and when bragg would not bring that after the federal prosecutors would not bring it and cyrus vans, bragg's predecessor would not bring it, tish james tried it as a civil case and got such from anti-trump progressives and democrats, trump had the dog breakfast of a stormy daniels case, involved something that happened seven years ago as we are seeing this week they could not get their discovery together. basically dumped over 100,000 documents on trump, on the eve of trial for something that happened seven years ago that should have been a misdemeanor that he's trying to carve into 34 felonies, bragg is. so, it's a mess. >> john: that case was supposed to start on march 25, it's been pushed back to at least the end

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>> peter: the things she's talking about. a couple months back, officials deployed to college campuses to get young people interested in the process and now the one they are sending to a planned parenthood abortion clinic so she can make the case there that republicans are extremists when it comes to abortion access. >> how dare these elected leaders believe they are in a position to tell women what they need, to tell women what is in their best interest. we have to be a nation that trusts women. >> peter: the biden-harris campaign has been trying to reach young people on tiktok, even though the official staff are arrange it should be banned until the parent company should be sold and what could be an october surprise, president biden teasing major reforms to federal marijuana punishments.

>> president biden: don't want you to be jailed for just using and possessing marijuana. [applause] it's a different deal -- should be wiped off the record. >> peter: we know officials think making jokes about president biden's age is a way to make people less worried about it, but that is not something that we are going to hear the vice president doing, making jokes about the president's age. so far he's the only one, john. >> john: that would likely be impolitic. >> president biden: a year before i took office murder rates went up 30%. 30% they went up. [indiscernible] >> the biggest increase in history. >> sandra: seeing and hearing the gold star father, he was arrested at the state of the union. he says he still is facing charges for shouting remember

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disturbing. i've had a profound honor of meeting and befriending a lot of these families of the fallen 13. >> sandra: we have their pictures on the screen. put them up now. >> absolutely. i think what sticks out to me the most, once the ultimate sacrifice foundation, it was at the tail end of 2021, after i came on last, the 20th anniversary for 9/11 and abbey gate incident happened. but stuck out to me the dover air field story. everyone saw that, president biden checking his watch, disrespecting a formal military ceremony as the sons and daughters were unloaded and loaded to the back of vans. 12 out of the 13 families left because president biden thought it was more important to show parity than to show compassion.

basically told these families that he knows exactly what they are going through, instead of putting himself in their shoes and giving them empathy and compassion. >> sandra: why that father stood up, he wanted the president to say his name you heard it for him and felt for him. he was arrested, walked out, still facing charges today. this was steve, mike, shortly after the state of the union address in that moment. >> this is a reactionary president, and the poor riley family, they are killing my kid, killing their kid, and what are you going to do, america, i've been waiting for three years for him to say my son's name and he never did. on this day the name was said. >> sandra: you are in touch with so many every day, several even recently, they have spent thousands and thousands of dollars out of their own pocket to travel and demand

accountability for their sons and daughters, mike. >> yes, and that's the number one thing. i can get on national news and i can, you know, tell these families from the bottom of my heart i am deeply, deeply sorry for what happened. but the end of the day, president biden owes it to the family at the very least to get on television and honor these fallen 13, and say their names. he needs to say their names. >> sandra: and charges should be dropped. >> charges should absolutely be dropped. if they're not, steve, my foundation will cover every single fee that you have for these charges. >> sandra: how are the gold star families doing? i know you reach out to them in so many different ways and also the veterans, you try to take them in, some of them disabled and you try to improve their lives as they changed so dramatically for so many of them. mike, you have done multiple deployments. my friend mike duty, a former army sniper, you have been in it, you know what they go

through, and you come home and you are there for them. incredible what you do. >> that plays into our mission whole heartedly. you go into the military, you come from the nation. you form a bond and a tribe and build a community unlike anything else and when you exit the military torques have that slowly dissipate and to have it broken apart is the hardest in the world. we bring some of these families on retreats, we are looking to expand on that. >> sandra: you do incredible stuff and that comes from a personal space in your mind and your body and your heart, and you are there for them. it's really incredible. >> can i add on that, sandra. since 9/11, the inception of 9/11 and the global war on terrorism, over 30,000 veterans, service members or gold star families, commit suicide. so to combat that as well, we have partnered with the top

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candidates representing diverse views. we have seen the russian governments, not just in the past months in the lead-up to the election but years crack down on the ability of russian civil society to operate. >> john: the big question i have today, will vladimir putin win a fifth term with 100% of the vote or held to 99.9? >> yeah, sadly, john, this russian "election" is a joke. it is why we are laughing today. but it is, you know, historically significant. this would be for another six-year term. by the end of that term, that would take him to 30 years of being leader, president of russia, dictator, probably a more accurate term. you know, i agree with the state department spokesperson. the russian people do deserve free and fair elections and that's not what this is, unfortunately. there are about three candidates that are -- "opposing putin".

there was one anti-war candidate and he got kicked off the ballot, isn't that interesting? >> john: and his opponents have a habit of losing their lives. >> if he fall out of windows. >> john: happens with alarming frequency. troubling development, russia says it has moved tactical nuclear weapons to belarus, just shy of 400 miles closer to nato. nato countries think it's a lot of bluster on putin's part but you have to pay attention. >> yeah, absolutely. you have to take it seriously and we in the united states should not be held hostage, john, by nuclear diplomacy, whether it is russia, whether it's iran trying to obtain a nuclear weapon or even north korea. you know that, is, i think, the

fundamental difference between the way we conduct foreign policy and the trump administration and the biden team we believed in a much more american muscular approach. we want our enemies to be worried about what we were doing every night, not us worried about what our enemies were doing and so as it relates to putin, listen, i think it's a somewhat -- it's a little bit of a scary move on putin's part. went to belarus in 2020, and he is not the most stable man. putin has a relatively good handle of what's going on in russia, we may disagree with him but he has not completely lost his mind and looks like lashenko has a long time ago. it certainly does alarm nations like the baltics, like poland

because of the proximity. if this were president trump and i was advising him, if you are going to put nuclear storage facilities, that's fine, like poland, we can put them there. you cannot fall hostage to the guys. when they make big chess moves you have to make them back. >> john: putin, a dictator, getting older, a fifth term, looks like he's going to go into a fifth six-year term, grand designs, leave a legacy like the czar of a resurgent russia. that makes him dangerous. >> he's been dangerous for a long time, waves of terror as well. it's not anything new. his playbook has been consistent

over the 24 years he's been in office. i was highly critical of the biden administration when they came in, they simply -- essentially did a copy and paste exercise with putting the united states back into the new start treaty and the trump administration, we were heavily negotiating that through a very tough negotiator, marshall billingsly and we told the russians no we are not going back into the treaty, even though you want us in it, it limits the united states, china was not part of it, and one of the deterrence, they did a copy and paste. the point is, all the little steps and things you do, p utin takes everything as a signal and if you go easy on him like the new start treaty, easy on the nord stream two pipeline, and

stop delivering lethal aid to the ukrainians as the biden administration did at the beginning of their term, i takes the signals and reads into everything. >> john: it's pretty easy to read those tea leaves. morgan, great to see you. although i never sleep well after our engagements. >> i know, i'm sorry. >> sandra: lawmakers getting closer to passing that tiktok bill that would either ban it or force the chinese owners to sell it. who could step in to buy that app, and keep it up and running for users in america? estyle libre 3 system... you'll know your glucose and where it's headed. no fingersticks needed. now covered by medicare for more people managing diabetes with insulin. visit freestylelibre.us/medicare. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano. you're replacing me? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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