we are talking to the mayor of baltimore, brandon scott, about how he has been able to cut crime in his city. i'm symone sanders-townsend, and i have something to say. o say. 2023 has almost been over, and we are to 16 days from the iowa caucuses. but first and presidential election battle of 2024, and several states are wrestling with the constitutional question, with huge implications for next year's election. and until now, had never been answered. can a former president be disqualified from a presidential primary ballot for aiding an insurrection? in a bombshell ruling on thursday, the top election official in maine, secretary of state shanna bellows, said the answer is yes. and former president donald trump is ineligible for remains primary ballot under section three of the 14th amendment. the ruling cited trump's constant election lies that, quote, lit the match for the january 6th attack on the capitol. secretary bellows wrote in her 34-page decision, quote, i do not reach this conclusion lightly. democracy is sacred. i am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived a pr

at that time you were city councilman, brandon scott. so great to see you. and when i started, it was right after the death of freddy gray, right as charges were announced against the officers. i learned there was a time when baltimore was consistently under 300 homicides in a year, because all i had personally known of the city, a lot of it stemming from the 2015 year, was a city that was over that number. that was my norm. but why are we seeing such a drop, do you think? >> omar, we have to think about what we're talking about. we did have those years where we were under, but also in the '90s we had years we were above. that's what pushed me into public office, growing up in a city where violence was so overbearing. but when you think about what we did, when i took office, the city had been stuck between 300 and 350 since 2015, and we were able to do something that hadn't been done before. i created the first ever comprehensive violence plan for baltimore city, bringing everybody together and putting the emphasis on the ecosystem, creating a community viol

. ♪ ♪ >>> thank you very much, scott.th brandon copeland and go with my niners for the super bowl champion. i'm dominic chu, in for kelly evans today on "the exchange." rate cuts are coming and coming fast. that's been the theme out there on wall street so far this week, and quite sometime. but one of our next guests sees it differently. he doesn't see any rate cut until the fourth quarter of next year. he sees a significant slowdown ahead for the economy, and given what we just heard from fedex, could he be right?

. ♪ ♪ >>> thank you very much, scott.ill respectfully disagree with brandon copeland and go with my niners for the super bowl champion. i'm dominic chu, in for kelly evans today on "the exchange." rate cuts are coming and coming fast. that's been the theme out there on wall street so far this week, and quite sometime. but one of our next guests sees it differently. he doesn't see any rate cut until the fourth quarter of next year. he sees a significant slowdown ahead for the economy, and given what we just heard from fedex, could he be right? he's here to make the case coming up. >>> the office sector has been hit harder by higher rates, but it's also been given a rare opportunity. he joins us with what he means by that and now to take advantage of it. >>> and positioning for the new year, our market guest is looking for opportunities. she tells us where and what she's buying with those themes. but first, we begin with the markets right now, which are just about near their session highs right now. at some point today, we

cheryl: this after brandon williams and marjorie taylor green swatted on christmas day and happening to every day americans and serving jewish institutions in the country and risking people's lives as senator scott said and wasting time and wasting presence resources for law enforcement -- precious resources for lawsuit and is there anything that congress and senate can do about this because this is happening to lawmakers but also happening to many average american z as well. >> it's republican re-hence and will it's meant to create a deadly situation. we need the fbi putting a approximate of the effort they put enteronning up january 6 protesters to rounding up and bringing people to justice. who is doing the swatting ask and we need to throw the book at them and prosecute them and throw them in jail so it stops. cheryl: before you run, senator, there's going to be a lot of legislative priorities on the docket for you and your colleague when is you return for 2024 and what's your biggest priority right now, sir? >> has to be securing the border. biden open border policies is clear a

georgia's marjorie taylor greene and new york's brandon williams. we need to find out who's doing the swatting, and we need to throw the book at them, prosecute them, put them in jail so that the stops. florida senator rick scott's home in naples was also swatted this week. police have not linked the incidents or announced any arrests. >> now to the latest on the war between israel and hamas. as the israeli offensive ramps up in central gaza, hamas is rejecting a key component of an egyptian peace plan. fox's matt finn has the latest out of gaza for the israeli offensive is ramping up in central gaza. >> idf soldiers, tanks and planes taking the fight to hamas in densely populated areas, displacing thousands more civilians. right now, about 85% of gaza's population has fled from their homes. they claim there is no safe zone. israel says that's not true and the idf will keep moving forward while also working to minimize civilian casualties. >> we are conducting intensive actions in the gaza strip, which will continue until our goals are achieved. our