galvanizing. >> yeah, i think you major such a great point that when we actually talk to people, it is amazing what those conversations can be. what they can lead to and reveal, cal dobbs, congratulations on a very impressive feat -- feat, i didn't mean to it, but i know you have a lot of important work ahead of you as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> 2800 miles no small feat -- no small feat. congratulations to cal. thank you for starting your morning with us, i'll see you back here tomorrow. "cnn news central" is now. ♪ any moment, the grand sure holding the power to indict donald trump and special counsel jack smith's january 6 probe is expected to meet. that means that very soon they

could hold a vote to charge donald trump with new federal crimes. also, a battle over razor wire, and a massive floating barrier in the rio grande now heading to court. the law governor abbott is accused of breaking as the justice department sues texas. the alabama woman who claimed she was kids napped admits it was all a lie. sara and kate are off today. i'm john berman with rahel solomon, this is "cnn news central." we expect a federal grand jury investigating former president trump's election interference to convene today. and it comes as we're getting new details about what special counsel jack smith is focusing on. overnight, cnn learned that the special counsel, now in possess of a batch of documents from

former trump attorney, rudy giuliani's team, trying to find fraud after the 2020 election. the documents include affidavits claiming there are widespread irregularities and shoddy analysis supporting and supposedly revealing fraudulent activities. and cnn has also learned that the special counsel is interested in a february 2020 oval office meeting where sources say that trump actually praised u.s. election security. i want to bring in katelyn polantz who is cnn's senior crime reporter outside of the court in washington, d.c. katelyn, bring us up to speed, what more are we learning about the stack of documents now in the special counsel's possess? >> reporter: well, the special counsel documents, the documents they have now, are documents they're go they're going to go through. we don't know if they're documents that are working to a different case or one indicated to donald trump that had may be charged with. or if it's that same case.

but these documents come from a key figure, a person working very closely with rudy giuliani after the interaction. bernie kerik, a longtime friend of new york and kerik is basically an investigator, a coordinator, someone sharing information with rudy giuliani. and keeping a lot of paperwork along the efforts that giuliani and others were taking to try to undermine the vote of joe biden as president. reports on dominion voting systems, some of that election secure information that was the computer systems. there was also information that they had in reports about voter fraud that they believed could say that donald trump was the winner of the election. that's information that now, these records, these special counsel has, en masse, that they didn't have before. kerik has been holding it for them, but also from the house select committee. and so, just in the last couple of days, the trump campaign has decided they're going to allow kerik to share these documents

with the special counsel's office and others. there were also some private plaintiffs in a lawsuit that are suing giuliani, they're looking for those doubts, too. and so those documents, they're going over the special counsel's office, what they're going to do with them, what they're going to find in them, it is remaining to be seen. rahel, it's early on tuesday, one of those days that the january 6 grand jury, that the special counsel's office has used for months, typically meets. we have not seen the prosecutors from the special counsel's office over at court yet today. so, we don't have an indication if that grand jury is going to be in as expected today. but anytime the grand jury is meeting, they can do a lot behind closed doors. they can learn about documents that the special counsel's office has collected. and also learn about witness interviews. also hear from witnesses, though, we haven't heard of any witnesses scheduled to come in after a whole bunch came in on thursday and had pretty dramatic

sessions on that grand jury. and of course the other thing that can happen anytime a grand jury is meeting is they can be asked to approve an aindictment. we're still waiting to see what happens with the possible indictment of the former president, after the justice department told him he's very likely to be charged related to the 2020 election. >> that could come any moment now, keep us posted if you see any key figures coming in and out of the courtroom. katelyn polantz, live in washington, thank you. >> the senior legal analyst elie honig, for the southern district of new york. elie, the way we find out, really, if the grand sure is meeting to have the prosecutors going in and out because it's supposed to be secret what happens behind closed doors there. so, we don't know for sure if they are there today working on the january 6 case, but if they are, how is the process to indict work? what would the prosecutors do exactly and how long will it

take? >> it's really important to understand. the grand jury is solely in the control of prosecutors. prosecutors do not need permission from a judge or anyone else to seek an indictment. there's no particular pomp and circumstance around it. here's what happens, as a prosecutor, when you get to the point when you decide we're ready to ask for an indictment, you go into the grand jury. typically, you would give them some summary of the evidence, especially in the case like this, you've heard testimony over the last eight months. here some of the highlights, here's the transcripts. do you have questions? then you present a draft indictment. you say there are however many counts in the indictment. let me walk you through the law and then you lead them to vote. and this can happen very quickly. we don't know when as katelyn said properly, you can walk in at 9:30 a.m. and walk out with a signed indictment at 11:00 a.m. it can be that quick. >> we don't know, of course, if they're walking in at all at this point. iffer, and they did indict, when and how we find out about it?

>> there's a couple ways this can go, typically as you get a signed document with the prosecutor, you then get it in court, under seal. meaning the judge can see it but that's about it. then you give a heads-up to the defendant. you say, hey, we've indicted you. in a case like this where you're not having an arrest, you have a surrender, you need to set that up. the defense would say, thank you, you can send me a copy of the indictment. that's up to the prosecutor. then donald trump is free to tell all of us, as he's done in the past, hey, i've been told i've been indicted. or perhaps i have the indictment. here it is. the latest we can see this indictment would be at the arraignment. that is the latest point when the indict can get unsealed. but i should also note, doj can actually unseal it before the arraignment. that's what happened last time. day one, they told donald trump's team, you've been indicted. day two, jack smith unsealed the indictment and then the arraignment. >> and part of that, the trump

team started leaking details they were aware of. >> it's not even leaking, they're entitled. >> providing, i should say. so, you heard katelyn polantz talk about the documents, the bernie kerik/rudy giuliani documents that were outlining potentially research on the election fraud claims. now, these documents may be ludicrous. these documents may say things that are flat-out wrong. what would make them criminal? >> well, in a prosecutor dream scenario, there would be some documents, you say hey look, i know we're trying to gin up something, this is the best we've got but if it's just a stack of documents purporting to the evidence of election fraud, the question is would a normal person looking at that understand that was nothing, that that was just a filpile of nonsense. so it's going to depend what's in the documents. i can see them used in the prosecution primarily but also

the defense. if you want to defend donald trump, you say look, people are giving him stacks and stacks of documents. he didn't necessarily read all of them, but there's a lot of evidence. >> there's a lot coming from rudy giuliani world. including the eight-hour testimony. what does that tell us where rudy giuliani is in this investigation? >> it's sort of hard to peg where rudy is. ordinarily, as a prosecutor, you would not bring someone in for the type of voluntary interview he gave without warning you're a target, you're indicted here. and rudy who is a former prosecutor and his own lawyer, robert costello who is a former prosecutor would not walk rudy in for that meeting unless they have assurance. so it doesn't look like rudy is in the immediate defendant crosshairs of the sdny. on the other side, i cannot see a world where defense calls rudy giuliani to the stand as a witness. my assessment here, they're

trying to do due diligence. see what rudy has and see if it's information you can corroborate and move on. >> elie honig, we have many eyes on it, don't go far. thank you very much. r rahel. this morning, division in israel that limits the power of the israeli supreme court. new law sparking mass protests and a strike of the country's health system. i want to show you, you can see medical professionals there protesting as clinics sit empty. mean time, prime minister benjamin netanyahu standing by the legislation and also calling on the military to stay out of politics. that's after thousands of military reservists threaten to serve. i bring in cnn's hadas gold joining us from jerusalem this morning. hadas, what's the latest now? >> reporter: well, i can tell you the move this morning from much of the major newspapers, i want to show this to you, almost

all of them have this blackout on their front pages. this is an advertisement that was taken out by a protest organization that represents high-tech ceos. and there's small text on the bottom calling this a black day for democracy. even though this is an advertisement, just goes to show you the fact that the newspaper would accept this advertisement to take over the front pages, that gives you a sense of the mood. all in all of the people are unhappy with what happened yesterday. but for many people in the country, especially the protesters that we saw all of yesterday and throughout the night they see this as the beginning of the end, as they say, of israeli democracy. overnight, we saw even further protests getting violent, clashing with police. dozens of protesters were injured as they clashed with police on major highways in tel aviv and jerusalem. we know at least a dozen police officers were also injured in the melee. this morning, thing have been calmer. last time prime minister

benjamin netanyahu giving a statement saying the step was necessary for what he said was strengthening democracy but still said the door is open to further negotiations with the opposition because keep in mind, the legislation that was passed yesterday, it's gist the beginning. it's just one step to the massive new overhaul plan that the government is planning to push forward. this would completely overhaul the israeli judiciary. divisions have been filed. no injunction has yet to be filed. earlier on cnn, erica hill asked one of netanyahu's most important ministers about whether the government would heed a supreme court ruling striking down this legislation, take a listen to what he had to say. >> i have no idea whether or not the supreme court will make such a decision. it would seem to me a very strange decision for the supreme court to make. to put it in american terms, imagine that -- >> would you believe -- we're almost automatic of time, sir, would the government heed that ruling? yes or no? >> the government will always

obey and abide by the rule of law in israel. we have israel the rule of law, what we don't have is the rule of judges. >> really interesting to hear him say we don't have the rule of judges we have the rule of law. not exactly a direct answer. you can see how a potential ruling by the supreme court on this legislation could set up israel for a constitutional crisis. israel has no written constitution but could set israel for very much a constitutional crisis. a lot coming in the changing days. >> hadas, as you say, this is not the end, this is just the beginning. we have to wonder, hadas gold, you've been following it from the beginning, john. explosive mines placed around european largest nuclear power plant. new accusations about the russian occupation of ukraine. new overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy said impeachment inquiry into president biden might be close. and frozen pizza, ice cream,

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♪ welcome back. on our radar this morning, the justice department charging a third person in the fire bombing of a california planned parenthood clinic. 21-year-old xavier batten was arrested friday and held in custody. prosecutors say he conspired with two other men to ignite and throw a molotov cocktail at the clinic last year. his lawyers said he's pleaded not guilty. at noon, president biden will sign a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring emmett till and his mother mamie till. the teenager was abducted and shot for allegedly whistling at a white woman. the prospect of the woman at the

center of till's case had recanted her testimony prompting calls to reopen the investigation. and it galvanized the human rights movement. his cousin told us why it's so important. >> we know at the time, that we didn't have a seat at the table, our family have a seat at the table so the erasure, the reimagining of the truth is not told in a way that removes the dignity, the sacrifice and the horrific nature of what happened here. because we don't want that repeated. > >> today is emmett till's birthday, he would have been 82 years old. active duty military spouses hand delivered a proposition to senator tommy tuberville. they're furious over delayed promotions, tuberville has been

blocking promotions over the abortion policy. they say they are being used as pawns and the delay tactic is, quote, inappropriate and unpatriotic. john. rahel, we're getting some news just in, we are learning that florida governor ron desantis and republican presidential candidate ron desantis has been involved in a car accident. this happened in tennessee while he was on the campaign trail. let's go right to cnn's steve conturno who roughers ron desantis for us. what are you learning, steve? >> john, we just received confirmation from the governor's campaign manager telling us he was involved in an accident. also one other person in the car. we have confirmation that no one was injured, neither the is

governor or his team. this morning, the governor was traveling to chattanooga, he was not injured on the campaign trail. desantis is in tennessee where he's holding a number of fund-raisers today. obviously, that's a big part of his campaign, trying to get the flow of money coming back after after having spent quite a bit of what he had raised in the first quarter. now, we don't have a lot of details about the accident itself, who was involved, who was at fault but but what we do know, from covering the governor, his operation, when he travels he's often in a large suv. he has a sizable presence, both because he is a presidential candidate and he's also an acting governor and typically travels with a decent amount of security, a large team, multiple vehicles in front of him and behind him.

it's not clear how many of those vehicles are involved. who might have been at fault. at this point, what we do know, the governor and his staff are okay which is most important. >> that is good news. steve contorno, ron desantis involved in a car accident. he and his team are said to be fine. rahel. meantime, the battle over a controversial floating barrier at the southern border is now heading to court. the justice department has sued texas and governor greg abbott who demands that they immediately remove a 1,000-foot buoy system and razor wire from the rio grande. the barrier was put in place to prevent migrants from crossing. the white house calls it unlawful and inhumane. abbott's poresponse, see new court, mr. president.

>> they're using an obscure statute to deploy it the buoys it's not grounded in law whatsoever. we believe we have the right to do so, we will take this lawsuit all the way to the united states supreme court. >> let's bring in rosa flores in eagle pass, texas for us. rosa, bring us up to speed, what law is the doj focusing in on here? >> reporter: well, the doj is saying that there's a law that doesn't allow for the obstruction of a waterway. and let me show you what we're talking about here. this -- the buoy system that you see in the middle of the rio grande, this is what's at the center of this legal battle. now, you see some construction equipment right now. and according to the u.s. doj, these buoys were deployed unlawfully. and they violate a law that doesn't allow for the obstruction or construction on these waterways. and you can see equipment, construction equipment, on trio

grande right now as they do maintenance or adjustment to the buoys. according to the doj's filing against the state of texas this also raises public safety and humanitarian concerns. now texas governor greg abbott digging in his heels saying that the state of texas has sovereign authority. that is gets that sovereign authority from the texas and u.s. constitutions. and the office of the texas attorney general also telling cnn that they're ready to duke it out with the u.s. doj in court, to defend the state's right to have and use these border buoys along the rio grande. now back to the humanitarian concerns. we were on this property when a pregnant woman needed help. and we have video of this. you can take a look at your screen. the property owner actually filled us in on the story. they witnessed this. she said there was a pregnant woman from honduras along the banks of the rio grande.

she needed help. law enforcement had to cut two sets of concertina wire and fencing to bring her to her property to be able to provide medical attention. take a listen. and i believe we don't have that sound, but in essence, what this property owner is saying, just imagine that you're eight months' pregnant, it is hot. it's three-digit heat. you're overheated and you're asking for help. and, rahel, law enforcement has to cut through concertina wire, several layers of it, to providprovide help. those are concerned with the u.s. doj filing that are concerns. these are migrants, men, women and children, trying to turn themselves into u.s. immigration authorities and all of these barriers just up the danger on the ground. >> abbott and the biden administration heating off.

showing no signs of slowing down, rosa flores, thank you. u.n. atomic experts say they have discovered explosive mines around the zaporizhzhia power plant. this is the largest facility in europe since russia occupied. you can see on the map right there the zaporizhzhia power plant noted by the atomic symbol is on the border, in russian-controlled territory, across the river where ukraine is very much in control, including the city of zaporizhzhia itself. let's go to cnn's alex marquardt who is odesa this morning. alex, obviously a concern when something as sensitive as a nuclear power plant has mines placed all around it. >> reporter: yeah, john. you never really want to see the word "explosives" next to a nuclear power plant. i think in this case, it's less about the danger imposed to the plant and more about the fortification that's russia seems to be reinforcing in this

area that they have controlled essentially since the beginning of this war. just after the war began they took over this area and took control of the plants. what we're learning comes from the iaea, as you mentioned, their experts visiting the power plant over the weekend. they saw what are called directional anti-personnel mines. directional being important because importantly, the direction of these mines are facing outwards away from the plant. personnel mines, relatively made to kill humans. but this does speak to the fact that russia is very much in control of the plant. at iaea says they had been told prior to this there were mines not just outside, but inside the plant that raises concerns. ukrainians have said that russians have placed explosives on the roof, and that could lead to a terrorist act, something that russia firmly denies but, john, perhaps in the understatement of the week, the statement from the iaea, after

seeing the mines on the periphery on the plant in the buffer zone outside of the plant said they are inconsistent with iaea safety standards and nuclear security guidance. john. >> inconsistent. alex marquardt in odesa, alex, keep us posted. thank you for being there. rahel. john, coming up for us, there was no baby on the side of the road and there was no kidnapping. the strange indication of the missing alabama woman was all a hoax. rising to the level of impeachment. house speaker kevin mccarthy with the new threat against president biden. new reporting on his new step, and his next step, when we come back. ♪ ♪ helps you stay connected, ♪ safe ♪ and charged. ♪

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today, house speak kevin mccarthy is stepping up this threats of an impeachment inquiry against president biden. mccarthy told fox news that the gop investigation into hunter biden's business dealings will prove that when biden was vice president, he weighs involved with his son's activities. >> we only follow where the information has taken us, but rising to the level of impeachment inquiry which provides congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed. >> we should say, that biden has repeatedly denied such claims. let's bring in cnn lauren fox who is on capitol hill. lauren, what evidence did mccarthy claim to have? >> reporter: yeah, mccarthy didn't outline any specific evidence. instead what he argued is his strongest comments yet that the house could take up an

impeachment inquiry against president joe biden. this comes, of course, as house republicans have been pushing for months, potentially, to continue their investigations into alejandro mayorkas, as well as merrick garland. that just shows you that house republicans are hungry for a fight with the biden administration. and now biden himself. we should also note that kevin mccarthy has also been talking to the former president specifically telling him in a phone call just a couple weeks agatha he supported the idea of actually erasing the record of donald trump impeachment in the house of representatives. but he was going to continue the conversation with his broader republican conference. that just goes to show you that as house republicans are marching potentially forward with an impeachment inquiry into the president, they are also looking at erasing the record from former president donald trump. we should note that the white house suggested last night that the house of representatives has better things to do.

than move forward with an impeachment inquiry. of course, there is no discussion yet of timing, or any specifics. but the strongest comments yet that we have heard from the house speaker about this topic. rahel. >> lauren fox, live for us on capitol hill. lauren, thank you. john. joining us now is pennsylvania democratic co congresswoman madeleine dean, who was the second impeachment for donald trump. congresswoman when you hear kevin mccarthy is talking about expunging the record of donald trump's impeachment, what's your reaction to that? >> my reaction is he ran for his life just like the rest of the house members who were there and staff, the senators. he knows exactly what happened on january 6th. he knows exactly what happened with impeachment one. with the phone call with president zhen of

he's kowtowing to mr. trump, he's kowtowing to the extremists in his conference to appease them to hold on to the power of speaker. but history will not be erased. mr. trump was twice impeached, i had the solemn, sad honor of being on the impeachment management team to prosecute in the senate. forever, history will remember what mr. trump did in the days leading up to january the 6th. what he did on january the 6th, and when he has done since. >> and when you hear house speaker kevin mccarthy suggest that they may be close to an impeachment inquiry of president biden, what's your reaction to that? my reaction is, where's the evidence? there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by the president.

and mr. mccarthy knows that. this is all -- everything in, upside down. because the former president who was so corrupt and crude and based, and engaged in such criminal activity, now we're going to try to deflect. or mccarthy is going to try to deflect and try to drag mr. biden into this. it's actually completely upside down, again, it's failed leadership. and what it's also showing the extraordinary contrast between what democrats have done, particularly under president biden in the last congress. look at what we did in the big bills we passed. everything from arpa that was actually in the bill, the infrastructure bill, the c.h.i.p.s. and science act. the s.a.f.e.r. act, i.r.a., as the company is growing.

last night i had a 12 town hall which was informative. i love the opportunity to talk to my constituents. we had more than 6500 folks on the call. and what they tell me is they have a growing confidence in the economy as jobs are back, inflation is cooling. manufacturing jobs, 800,000 created. but they have an exhaustion with the low-base place this criminal, corrupt former president has taken our country. so we're at a time of great contrast, democrats leading, investing in america. and republicans chasing conspiracy theories. >> on the subject of what could be an impeachment inquiry into president biden, what questions, if any, do you have about joe biden's connection to hunter biden's business dealings? >> i don't have any at this point. but, certainly, there are questions that can be asked.

and should be answered. if there was any connection. but we don't see any evidence of that whatsoever. so, they're making it up. >> and where would you learn that evidence, if not for an inquiry? >> well, sadly, we won't learn it by way of our judiciary committee which is now led by jim jordan. he's chair of judiciary. and he's proven himself to be very weak in the hearings that we have had this congress. he's just not hitting the mark on any of the things he's trying to prove. and what is so dangerous is the willingness of mr. jordan and others on the republican side of the dias in judiciary to absolutely peddle in lies. they call all of our witnesses to swear to tell the truth. and yet, they peddle lies as they ask their questions. so we're not going to get good information under any kind of

leadership from mr. mccarthy or mr. jordan. again, they ran saying that they were going to improve our economy, they were going to make the lives of everyday americans better. they have not done that. they've done everything they can to undermine the institutions that our government, undermine the confidence in our elections and in our independent institutions when we are not seeing leadership out of this group. >> i want to harken back to when you were an impeachment manager, trying a case before the u.s. senate and donald trump's second impeachment. when you were delivering your case there. that was more than two years ago now. at that time, do you think that donald trump broke the law as the president? i understand the impeachment inquiry is different than the issue of whether he broke the law, but do you think he broke the law at that point? and do you think -- what do you think of the timing that it's now taken two years for the justice department to get to the point where they may indict donald trump for that? >> of course, impeachment was

for constitutional crimes. crimes against the constitution. insicitement to insurrection, reluctance on the part of republicans to call it what it was is shocking and shameful. i do agree it's taken so long, but i know mr. trump and anybody else involved will be held to account. we see have seen that with those who have experienced the capitol and violently attacked our police officers. we will see it for others and mr. trump must be held, he's indicted twice on two sets of indictments, we're seeing one, two, three more possibly coming forward. i'm sorry it's taking this long. our country needs to heal from this, the only way to heal is not to whitewash it as mr. mccarthy would have, but to actually hold mr. trump to account. no man is above the law. and we must make sure that we

are that governing body rule of law. >> congressman madeleine dean, thank you for joining us on "cnn news central." look forward to speaking with you again. rahel. john, thank you. still ahead for us, candy bars and other goods swiped right in front of our eyes. shoplifting is so widespread in one store that nearly every product is chained or locked away. found out where our cameras caught not one, not two, but three thefts taking place in just a matter of minutes. did that guy pay? >> no. >> did that guy pay? he didn't pay? igh prototein. boost® high prprotein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv

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>> a new twist in the case of the alabama woman who appeared to go missing after calling ing 911 seeing a toddler on the highway. now carlee russell says that she lied about this. this is a big twist. >> yes, and folks want to know what happened in those hours. this tale got spun widely. this is a call about a toddler on the side of the road, and then carlee said that a man with orange hair kidnapped her, and the law enforcement said that they were pretty much sure that it didn't add up, and now the apology letter, and the chief giving some details in the

statement. >> there was no kidnapping on thursday july 13th, 2023. my client did not see a baby on the side of the road. my client did not leave the hoover area when she was identified as a missing person. my client did not have any help in this incident. this was a single act done by herself. >> yeah, so many questions about, this and the police have been able to detail that she stopped at the target and got snacks and went on the side of the road and left her purse and apple watch and then they have been digging to see what happened next, but we don't know what happened for 49 hours, and they went into the search history and they looked up movie "taken" and how old you have to be to get an amber alert. and one reporter asked a question in the future, how much did this search cost with the state and local investigators

and when that plays out, will she have to pay the charges, and thinking of her parents who went on tv begging for her return, and especially that they have not talked to her when she returned home of where she went for those 49 hours. >> it is good to have her home, but so many questions to come, and as ryan said, it is a search that expanded beyond alabama and people were posting about it, because question about the law enforcement resources that might have been used to find this person, and still a lot of questions to come. >> yeah, indeed to say the least, but from the very beginning, something very fishy here. mitt romney to make a plea to donors and his plea to keep

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all right. this morning, locking up the merchandise even frozen pizza and ketchup. this is because of widespread theft inside of the stores. our senior correspondent kyung lah was there, and you have seen this happen before your eyes, kyung lah? >> yes, john. within 30 minutes we went to visit the walgreens that has become infamous on the internet, and i witnessed three people walk out with the arms full of stuff, and this is generally coffee, food, king-sized candy bars and we watched them walk simply out. walgreen's told us that it is the number one store for retail

theft in all of the 9,000 u.s. locations for walgreen's. and so employees who had become so frustrated by the rampant theft had put bike locks and chains around the frozen food section to deter it, and walgreen's did ask them to take it down, because it is not the messaging, butt is not just wall green's, john, but it is grocery stores that coffee is locked up, mustard and mayo and barbeque sauce, and this is leading us to wonder what is going on in the city. listen to interesting statistics that the city gave us. property crime and violent crime is lower at the end of 2022 compared to before the pandemic. the population has grown, but the homeless population is down. so what is going on here? the city supervisor matt dorsey says he believes it is a number of things, the lack of police

officers, but the fentanyl crisis. lis ep. >> when you are seeing the level of retail theft, it tends to be sustenance theft. >> fentanyl. >> it is happening at levels that we have not seen in san francisco. what i am hearing from my residents and san franciscans, it is time for tough love. >> when dorsey says that, he is saying that as a recovering addict, and something else to point out, there are multiple food banks within walking distance of some of those stores, and within that walgreen's, you can walk around the corner and find access to services. walgreen's did say that retail theft is a problem, and especially in san francisco. >> it is amazing what you saw kyung, and thank you for putting

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