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bombers that took off came out of the united states, they lifted off this morning. they could have lifted off two days ago, three days ago. larry: i don't know why, you know, i was going back and looking at way back, ronald reagan's statement when he smashed the iranian navy back in 188 -- 1988. they hit an american frigate. the other thing is trump made a strong statement with soleimani. my point is joe biden hasn't said anything today. he just hasn't said anything, and it seems to me that's missing. it's almost -- that lack of noise is deafening. last word. >> no, great catch, larry. you're absolutely right. why is not the commander in chief the person who sent these troops in harm's way in front of the american people to say this is the happening. larry: keith can kellogg, general kellogg, look forward to the talking much more. we're going to hand the baton
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over to my good friend david asman if in for lizzie macdonald. david: larry, thank you very much. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ david: and we start with breaking news, u.s. airstrikes happening now in syria and and iraq as the united states responds to that drone attack that killed three american soldiers in jordan on sunday. grady trimble has more from washington, d.c. on this. grady. >> reporter: the u.s. central command just confirmed these airstrikes in iraq and syria in the last half hour or so. since they started around 4:00 this afternoon, just hours after the dignified transfer of those three service members killed on sunday in a strike by a drone in jordan carried out by iranian-backed militants. i want to read you part of the centcom statement because it provides details about the targets that were hit and what those targets are. it says u.s. military forces struck more than 85 targets with
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numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from the united states. it goes on to say the airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions. the facilities that were struck included command and control operation sensor -- centers, intelligent centers, rockets and missiles and unmanned aerial air vehicle or drone storages as well as logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their irgc -- that's the islamic revolutionary guard corpses of iran or -- sponsors who facilitated attacks against u.s. and coalition forces. it's important to remember that throughout the week the white house has been signaling that this response was coming and that it would be a multitiered response. our colleague, jennifer griffin, who is extremely plugged in at the pentagon, says it will likely be a multi-day response, that this is just the beginning. but republicans in congress
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including senator lindsey graham and others, congressman byron donalds to name one, say that president biden is not acting despites icive -- decisively enough or quickly enough. listen. >> these strikes should have occurred later that same day when our service members were killed. and the weakness that they've shown with respect to iran has really empowered them in the region. the economic sanctions are critical if we're going to put them back in the box. finish. >> reporter: and, again, the white house, the defense department all the way up to president biden himself, they have been signaling all week that a response is coming. the question is, or david, as some republicans are already saying, was this response too little, too late? we will wait and see because as the white house and president biden himself pointed out, that this is not just a one can and done, that there will be multiple strikes from the air and from sea assets as well. so this is just the beginning of
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what could be several days of retalia a story response. -- retaliatory response. david: grady trimble, thank you very much. we'll come back to you throughout the hour as you get updates. with me now is retired four-star air force general philip breedlove who served as the commander of u.s.-european command, and from house homeland security committee, congressman carlos gimenez. gentlemen, great to see you. thank you very much for being here at this moment general, i want to ask about the strikes themselves. as much as we know, we have learned more information than i thought we were going to get by now. we had 85 targets that were hit. numerous aircraft including manned and unmanned. of the manned aircraft, it included some long-range bombers flown from the united states. that's a bit unusual, is it not? >> well, thanks for having me on, and it's unusual that we exercise it or use it, but it's not unusual that it is a capability that we rerye on
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concern we lie on x. this bomber, what it brings is a very heavy load of independently-targetable weapons, and the weapons can be of multiple sizes and use multiple fuses to give different effects. so this is an incredibly versatile weapon for what they're doing right now. david: now, just staying with you for another question, general, what about timing? we have heard that perhaps there was too much telegraphing going on, that maybe we should have hit sooner. i can imagine it must have been quite an effort to put together aircraft that were to fly in a unit all the way overseas to this area, but i don't want to make excuses. what about the timing? was it too late? >> with, i both -- well, i both agree and disagree with your private speaker orer. i agree, we should have hit them much quicker, much quicker. but when we got close to the dignified transfer, i'm glad that we honored those three fallen soldiers by not confusing
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that ceremony with this strike. so just to recap, i believe we should have hit 'em quicker and hard. but once we decided that was not what we were going to do, then i'm glad we didn't cover over a dignified transfer with the start of these strikes. david: and congressman, i want to start with the service people who were killed about a week ago now. do we have to wait until there's another serviceman killed before we take actions if these prove insufficient? to deter iran? >> absolutely not. i mean, no, we gave them a week to, hey, we're coming. hey, we're coming. hey, we're coming. okay, you hit 85 little, you know, separate targets, but they knew you were coming, so how effective actually was it? then, you know, on the other side, look, you know, the big problem here is iran has got, has increased its revenue
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fivefold since president biden took office. the sanctions that president trump had in place were incredibly successful. they had dissent inside of iran. and iran wasn't spreading discontent and chaos throughout the region, and so what is president biden going to do about sanctions against iran -- david: right. >> choke them off. can cut them off from their revenue so that they can't themselves spread chaos, but then they also can't fund those surrogates that are spreading chaos throughout the middle east. this president is weak, has always been weak. our adversaries know he's weak, and they're going to continue to harass and, unfortunately, kill american servicemen and women around the world because our adversaries know that this president is incredibly weak, and his response is going to be telegraphed. and i completely agree with representative byron donalds. look, the hot stove rule says that once you touch that hot
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stove and america should be the hot stove, you're going to get burned, and you're going to get burned right away. that's the message we need to send to the rest of the world. david: yeah. but, general, you know, there's a misidentification, i think, of military people as a being war hawks. i've got a son in the marines. if you're in the military, if you've been in action, you are not in favor of war, and we have this option that the congressman is talking about, sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. iran was down to single-digit billions of dollars in reserves. now they have double, maybe even triple digit billions because the sanctions were removed. shouldn't that be the fist step that the -- first step that the president makes unilaterally, to put those sanctions back on iran and bring 'em economically to their knees so we don't have to put our service people's lives at risk? if. >> i would argue that we have more tools even above and beyond the sanctions that we need to use. there are diplomatic tools to bring pressure.
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david: absolutely. >> there are informational and intelligence capabilities we haven't used. we are now using the military capabilities, and as you have brought up, we also have economic capabilities. and so i believe we should use every tool in the toolkit to make sure iran knows what they need to stop. this is about iran. all roads start in iran and all roads end in iran. david: i agree. gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. we had you on for different subjects, but we appreciate you shifting to the breaking news. i appreciate it. and turning now to the top economic story, u.s. job growth unexpectedly surging in january with employers adding 353,000 jobs in january with. unemployment held steady at 3.7%. edward lawrence has more details from the white house. now, edward, you warned us yesterday that today's numbers might seem a little out of whack. explain. >> reporter: yeah. and that's because there was an
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update to the underlying data, the rebenchmarking of this. it happens every year, it and puts these numbers -- it gives them noise in this number here. but, yes, the latest, the last time the economy beat 153,000 jobs was a year ago, january of 2023. now, this is running much hotter than expectations and, in fact, the federal reserve see this hotter than expected jobs report and say this could push off another rate hike from march going forward. now, you add in average hourly wages at 4.5% year-over-year which puts, again, more pressure on inflation and, again, the federal reserve sees this and it would push interest rates off past the next meeting which is what the market expertses are now starting to realize are. listen. >> i think rates, i think at the earliest, earliest are going to be in the third quarter, but my if guess would be towards the end of the year unless something drastic happens and, let's be honest, we don't want something drastic to happen. >> reporter: so and this is what i asked the fed chairman and what he told me on
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wednesday. listen. >> i don't think it's likely that the committee reach a level of confidence by the time of the march meeting to identify march as the time to do that. >> reporter: so back to the report, government still one of the leading sec odors in -- sectors in hiring, the average number of government jobs added over the past three number sits at 40,300 per month. those jobs have to be supported from now on. what is not reflected in this report is slew of companies announcing layoffs. challenger, gray and christmas found planned layoffs jumped 136% from december, and january marked the lowest planned hiring for companies since 2009 when the measure began. we'll see if those layoffs or proposed layoffs end up getting into the next jobs report that a comes out a month from now. david? david: all right, edward, thank you very much for that. with me now, syndicated columnist liz peek and former acting white house council of
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economics chairman tomas philipson. we've got to keep it short, i'm afraid, but, tomas, first to you. you heard one of the guests that was quoted in edward's report saying maybe third quarter there will be a rate lowering but not until then because of this strong report on jobs and other good information about gdp if growth. do you agree? >> yeah, i think people, you look at the forward markets on interest rates, they're certainly backing a off rate drops more recently, essentially. but i've argued that the fed model is essentially broken. we had a lot of slow in 2022 with inflation, and we have a lot of good in 2023 with inflation coming down essentially. so i think, you know, the fed is taking credit for this. it's not really clear what world they're operating in because in their world you have to kill the economy to kill inflation. david: right. well, liz, clearly, americans fill feel the economy's not doing them well.
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this was an abc poll just a couple of weeks ark the most recent on the economy, 71% of voters, 71, say the economy's in bad shape. only 23% -- 24% think it's in good shape. do you think these good jobs numbers might change voters' minds? >> david, i really think it continues to be about the cost of living and where you see that really impacting, for example, is with young voters. young voters are particularly negative on the economy because they can't afford to buy a home. they're looking at mortgage rates that are still way too high even though they have come down a little bit. we're all a going to the grocery store, and president biden is trying to bash grocers -- [laughter] for being responsible for if higher prices. the reality when you walk out of the grocery store, i don't care who you are, you look at what you bought and what you spent, and you sort of say, wait a minute, how did that happen? david: right. >> that has not gone away, and that continues to be a real weight on this administration. david: tomas, let me just be specific, the president said,
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and i'm quoting here, too many corporations in america are ripping people off. price gouging, junk fees, greed-flation. it's a new word that he invented. what do you think of his blaming the private sector for inflation? do you think that's going to sell? >> yeah, i think he's a career politician. career politicians have a hard time understanding that the best consumer protection out there is not government, but competition. it's very hard to believe that food companies -- [laughter] or food delivery companies don't have a competitive market enough to basically want to lower prices. david: tomas and liz, i'm so sorry but, again, because of the breaking news, we had to keep this short. thank you both so much for being here. >> you too, david. david: still ahead, congress month. monica: ca de la cruz, creighty mcgee white and paul mauro. we're going to be digging into the senate expected to release their border security bill this weekend. that's next on "the evening edit." ♪
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bill -- bipartisan border bill will be released this weekend. with me now from the house border security caucus is texas congresswoman monica de la cruz. congresswoman, thank you for being here. i want to connect what's happening with the border with what's happening overseas. really there is a connection there, and it's the concern that iran, which is clearly in our targets now, has a very active terrorist organization around the world. in fact, hezbollah -- which is pretty much wholly owned by irar cell here in the united states that was busted way back in 2001. so with this open border, there's more of a possibility that we could have terrorists here in the united states. we have all these gotaways. that has become a national security issue now, hasn't it? >> look, numbers don't lie. and what we have seen on our border is hundreds of terrorists that have been on the terror watch let's. this is very concerning. and you said it right, those are
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just the ones we know of. there are the over a million known gotaways. that's just known gotaways. when you talk to border patrol union, border patrol union says that won't even be half of what the gotaway numbers true -- truly are. this is a very concerning time. biden has shown weakness not only on international policy, but on our own southern border. and it's time, thank god, that governor abbott has acted because the biden administration has failed to act. david: and, by the way, lest anybody think we're accentuating what's going on inside our border, we had the former assistant fbi director, chris swecker, he busted that hezbollah terror cell in the united states about 20 years ago. and he thinks it's so serious that, in fact, he does call what's happening in our southern border an invasion. he says it could be a soft invasion, but wait until if they
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come out with hard stuff against the united states maybe including terrorism. so do you also agree with him what's happening at our southern border now is an invasion? if. >> absolutely. i've said it over and over. we have over 10 million all illegal immigrants who have crossed through our borders. we have immigrants who are on the terror watch list. s it is absolutely something that we need to be concerned of. national security is of utmost importance especially because the biden administration has shown the weakness that they have with iran, with china, with every part of their international policy. it's simply unacceptable. the american people should be concerned. david: well well, and, of course, the border was pretty much opened by president biden without a bill in congress. the senate is saying we have to have a bill in order to give the president the authority to close the border, but he could do it. president trump closed the
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border with executive actions. this president opened the border with executive actions. but there's some of your colleagues including dan crenshaw, republican, who believes that we should pass the bill or at least consider it. we still don't know exactly what's in it. we're supposed to find out this weekend. let me just play dan crenshaw and get your reaction. roll tape. >> the height of stupidity is having a strong opinion about something you know nothing about. i'm extremely disappointed by the strange maneuvering by many on the right to torpedo a potential border reform bill. we have a bill that on net significantly decreases illegal immigration and we sabotage that, that is inconsistent with what we told our voters we would do. people will make up whatever reasons they want to, there's a number of them, i'm sure. but it would be pretty unacceptable dereliction of your duty. david: congresswoman, to me, it's kind of simple. this bill would give the president a lot more authority, power than he already has. so far he's used that power to open the border, not to close
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it. that's why it seems like this bill is counterproductive if you want to close the border. what do you think? >> look, the president already has the tools that he needs. we saw this under the prior administration. it's very simple. this is not brain surgery here. we've got to stop the catch and release program. we need to have the remain in mexico policy, and we've got to build the wall. it's that simple. we don't have to reinvent the wheel. i'm interested to see what the senate comes up with, but i can tell you we can't throw money at the problem. it is absolutely policy which is going to slow the migration and tell people our borders are closed. that's what needs to happen, and it needs to happen now. david: well, you said it, it's not about money, it's about a policy and leadership. the president has a the authority he needs to close the border. i don't see why we need another bill. congresswoman, thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. well, too little, too late. president biden announcing this week he will visit east palestine, ohio, a year after the major train derailment
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devastated that community. we have town resident linda murphy with her reaction. also the washington examiner's kaylee mcghee white is here on new polls showing trump leading both fellow republican presidential candidates nikki haley and president biden in key states. and trump firing back with against the biden administration if's green moils on "the evening edit," that's next. ♪ >> i don't know a lot of people who think that americans in 2050 are still going to be driving that old technology, that combustion technology -- >> americans like it. americans like it. >> the big question is -- well, no, you're not going to meet a lot of people who ever go back after they've gone electric, and i think that really tells you something. ♪ it's odd how in an instant
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information with key battleground states starting with wisconsin which is essentially a dead heat now between biden and trump. that seems to be the tightest of all the key battleground states, right? >> correct. trump is leading biden in basically every other swing state, but even the fact that trump is tied with biden in wisconsin is significant because if you think back to 2020, trump didn't even come close to tying with biden in any of the polls in this situation. so he's making serious ground here, and he's going into this race stronger than he was back in to 2020. david: we have georgia which, of course, biden won by just a sliver back in 2020. it was a highly contested race. now trump has an 8-point lead there, and what gets me not only are those numbers impressive on the left, but also the enthusiasm, 7% of voters say -- 78% of voters say they're extremely interested in the race. so the people going for trump, their enthusiasm seems to be
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stronger than that for biden. >> and that could make all the difference in the race. it is a very big difference in that a lot of people are very excited about supporting trump again. very few people are excited about casting their vote for biden. now, the demographic breakdown in these polls is also a really interesting because it proves what we've known for a long time now, which is that the democratic party is becoming the party of the wealthy and educated. you're more likely to see college-educated voters, wealthy voters, suburban voters voting for biden than they would be for trump. for trump it's mostly rural americans, hispanics are flooding to trump as a well and working class americans. so there's a very big demographic divide that's happening between the two parties that we should really keep our eye on in the next year. david: and, of course, the migrant crisis is making it worse in places like boston, chicago, new york, all these formerly solid democrat constituents are really unsettled by what's happening with the migrants including black citizens who think that the migrants are being dumped on their community centers and
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everything, taking away from the little that they have. so it's really concerning, but i want to play a little sound from an interview ma maria bartiromo had with donald trump about a union support. take a listen. >> well, i never spoke to uaw. they're a hopeless case. they've led their industry the right into the poorhouse. and now they've finished it off because if you -- if biden gets elected, you won't have an autoworker working in the united states. everything's going over to china and other countries outside. this electric car mandate is insane. they don't go far, they cost too much, and they're going to be made in china because they have the material to make 'em. we have a thing called gasoline. david: so, kaylee, is it possible that the green agenda -- it's certainly separating a lot of the union leaders from their constituents. i'm wondering if, in fact, these union members are so fed if up with some of the green agenda that they may go for trump. >> definitely. but ultimately, this all comes back down to the economy.
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the labor unions, the workers who are in them, the blue collar workers are ultimately going to cast their votes for whichever candidate they believe wants them to make the most money. biden has proved over the past few years that he's more interested in taking their money and preventing them from taking home their hard-earned wages. so that's what this is going to come down to. david: kaylee mcghee white, thank you. you knew we were short on time, you were right on point. appreciate you being here. well, tomorrow marks one year since that norfolk southern train derailed and spilled has does chemicals in east palestine, ohio. but people living and working there are still picking up the pieces, and president biden still hasn't visited the site though he appears to be going there. kelly saberi is live on the ground in east palestine with all the a details. kelly. >> reporter: hi, david. we are at the derailment site right now just a day before the one-year anniversary, as you mentioned. this is where one of the companies in east palestine that works in the high heat industry,
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so steel and cement, and it uses machinery that is quite heavy, and part of the structure of this building so the people who work here are unable to relocate it. there are three businesses that are part of it, they're all interconnected. only one of them was able to relocate across the border in pennsylvania. now, the owner, edwin wang, filed a $500 million lawsuit against norfolk southern. the business was told cleanup would take eight months. a year later, it's apparent this won't be finished anytime soon. >> we lost all our skilled workers. we lost the people, you know, maintenance crew. we lost pretty much everyone. and as you know, like, when that happens, you don't just come back from that. >> reporter: with the enhance chanted salon is almost a mile if if derailment site. owners jackie and thomas snedeker opened the business in
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2022. they say they feel regret because the women lost 30% of their clientele and received zero help from norfolk southern. when they opened the business, their intention was to give back to the community. >> i was hoping to reach out to some of the cancer patients and bring them in to help them with wigs and getting through what they needed to with the cancer. but now that things are the way they are, they're already sick. they don't want to come to town. >> reporter: yeah, because they're afraid, you know? they're afraid of what they don't know of. >> reporter: meanwhile, the railroad says that they'll pour $25 million into the city's park, but those owners that you just heard from say it would be better or invested into the local businesses to give folks a reason to come back to town. we spoke to the governor who told us that the payments that those ladies are waiting for should be coming next week.
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there's 18 businesses like their own that are going to be receiving forgivable loans, but it's been a year, and they're still waiting for that money, david. david: too long. thank you very much, kelly, appreciate it. for more on biden's promised trip, let's welcome resident linda murphy who experienced health issues after the toxic derailment. linda, thank you for joining us. what kind of health issues were you suffering from? >> thank you for having me. we were suffering from a myriad of symptoms. initially, at the time of the derailment it was a lot of, for me, it was a lot of eye pain, difficulty with my vision. i'm still having difficulty with my vision. i have a lot of issues with my ears, my throat. breathing was difficult. just numerous things. and now some of those symptoms are still around. they come and go. but sad enough to say a year later it's almost like the new
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normal. david: what do you think about the president's coming visit? first of all, is it going to do any good? >> you know, i would like to hope it would do good. if anybody has the power to make something happen, i would hope it's the president of the united states. we've been waiting. we sure have been waiting. i don't know if it's going to do any good. it's like throwing -- is it going to be like throwing a grain of rice at a starving lion? because we're in bad shape here. and, you know, like your last little blurb said there, you know, the business owners are waiting. but if there's no residents here to get to the businesses, that's going to be a problem. what about the residents? what about us? david: yeah. >> what are we receiving? and that is, that is definitely something that's not being addressed, what are we supposed to do. david: linda, i'm getting a cut point from my pricers -- producers telling me we've run i out of time, but i have to ask
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quickly, real estate values. have they stabilized? gone up, gone down? what's the story there, quickly. >> i think most homes are just sitting and waiting, you know? it's not a hot market here. there's no bidding wars in east palestine, that's for sure. david: linda murphy, best of luck to you. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. david: for you and your family. coming up, paul marrow is here on migrant with accused of attacking n nypd cops in times square walking free from court as police fear four have now pled -- fled to california amid calls for them to be deported from the governor. but first, let's check in with our friends dagen and sean to see what they have coming up on "the bottom line." sean seine hey, david. after months of attacks on the u.s. from iran proxies, the u.s. finally responds. so tonight we have ben ferguson and tim kennedy to talk further about the american attacks. draw dawg we'll ask congressman andy biggs on why the biden administration is funding both
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david: and now back to the breaking news. grady trimble is live on capitol hill with new developments in the u.s. airstrikes on iraq and syria. grady. >> reporter: hey, david. we just got statements from defense secretary lloyd austin and president biden who, of course, said he directed these airstrikes in iraq and syria with starting around 4:00 this afternoon. and just hours after the dignified transfers of the three service members killed in the drone strike in jordan sunday. of course, that attack carried out by iran-backed militants. u.s. forces struck 85 targets including operations and intelligence centers, rocket,s missiles and drone storages and other facilities and employed 125 precision munitions. the white house all week has been saying that this is going to be a multi-tiered response, and the president indicated that again in his statement saying, our response began today. it will continue at times and places of our choosing.
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the united states does not seek conflict in the middle east or anywhere else in the world, but let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: if you harm an american, we will respond. but republicans have said tata this response -- that this response didn't come quickly or forcefully enough. i want to read you a statement from the top republican on the senate armed services committee. that would be senator roger wicker. he says the biden administration spent nearly a week foolishly telegraphing u.s. intentions to our adversaries, giving them time to relocate and hide. it is past time for our commander in chief to adopt a new approach to targets -- that a targets the actual sponsors of terrorism in the region. the implication there is what some other republicans like senator lindsey graham are saying more directly, which is that president biden should have in this case and should be in the future hitting iranian soil directly like oil infrastructure
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there or members of the iranian military and government there which, of course, has not happened. but this is a multi-day response, and it is certainly could happen. we'll see how this develops. david? david: at least start with the sanctions again or reimplement the sanctions that we had under donald trump. grady trimble, thank you very much. now on to the new links between crime and migration. let's welcome refired -- retired n nypd inspector paul mauro. the latest on the police still searching for the migrants who brutally assaulted police officers in times square earlier in the week. four of the migrants are allegedly fleeing to california after they were released without bail. and the incredible thing is kathy hochul is saying we've got to dethe port them. -- deport. we don't have hem to deport. one, because of her crazy no bail laws which she signed into and lobbied more and, two --
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lobbied for and, two, because we have a soros, radical d.a. a who is letting criminals out even though they're violent and pose a threat to the community. she could fire that d.a., but she's not doing it. >> she'll never do that. and, you know, this thing is starting to feel like something of a water shed moment in the criminal justice world. and i hope they're showing this video down in d.c. in the mayorkas impeachment hearings, because this is where those policies terminate, on the ground in our cities. you articulated it perfectly, this is the result of a cascading series of events that have just undermined public safety in our cities that we're losing. realistically, the tax base in all our major cities is eroding as people head for the hills. it's very easy to say, you know what? if who daughters then, let the cities have it -- who cares then? let the cities have it. 80% of people live in the cities. legal immigration, we're forgoing that and we'll suffer for it. david: and the reason migrants
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are coming here is because we have a system of law and order. >> preicely. david: ironically, they're going to be very disappointed when they figure out this stuff is going on on our streets, and it also has an effect if on what's happening worldwide. if the u.s. loses its anchor to law and order, how can we possibly project it abroad? if. >> we are, in today's world, the indispensable nation. and as others have said, if you lose america as the city on the hill, as the place where this stuff is supposed to work -- and, obviously, it's not just america, but we have set the standard. and if the idea is that our criminal justice system is a joke, it can be weaponized for political purposes and we're going to have this sort of progressive regimes where people who leave these countries come here and say it's no better, then where? if not us, then where? if. david: well, you used the p-word, progressive. we are living in a progressive experiment. this is -- you know, that old broken windows theory which suggests if things are out of control on the street, criminals
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are going to feel more free, and it's just going to cascade. we are now living the proof that the progressive experiment if doesn't work. how long before it change, we change the political structure, the mayor, the governor, the city councils so that we get results on the street? >> you'd like to think people would wise up, but, you know, every election cycle particularly here in the city you have that kind of a hope, and it never comes through. the real truth of it is we kind of get the government we deserve because people don't vote. they complain a lot, but the progressive members are the ones that get the vote out. well funded. soros and others, they also fund themselves through the lawsuits that you hear about, read about, you roll your eyes, but they're very adept at this. i go to this recent law that was just passed, the how many stops bill here in new york city. the cops are now -- in the video where those cops got attacked, understand something. in that exact incident, those cops who got attacked would be required to file paperwork about
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the fact that they approached these guys -- david and that's why the response time is extended so much now, because they're too busy being bure bureaucrats, filling out papers. very quickly, ten seconds on the morale of the misforce right now when you see things like this. >> imagine whatever work you do in our audience, whoever you are. imagine you go to work, you work very hard. you think you're on the side of the angel, and at the end of the day, it's undone by people who are hostile to your work that are supposed to be on your side. imagine that, you'll have some idea how they feel. david: paul mauro, former inspector for nypd, such a pleasure to have you on, really appreciate it, paul. >> inflation, rise in prices pitching -- pinching into food banks. "the ending dead -- edit," that's coming next. ♪ ♪
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>> we have a couple of new headlines coming in in iraq and syria. the tenant sims who is in charge of operation seen initial indication that we hit exactly what we meant to hit. the white house john kirby says they did inform iraq he government prior to the strikes
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and he ended with the comment that we are not looking for a war with iran. tell that to iran. it seems like the looking for a war with us. switching gears let's welcome executive director of rise life services charles f dose, nonprofit organization in long island. good to see you. i have to tell you i have a couple of food pantries in my neighborhood one across the street from my apartment on the upper west side of manhattan. that line is every thursday night it is extended from 20 - 30 people over the past couple of years now several hundred people, the line goes around the block and i suspect it's happening all over but a number of people grow in the number has shrunk because of inflation, right? >> absolutely. were up 300% from two years ago. what is amazing people living
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paycheck to paycheck and the migrant crisis has created a major issue for many in this country. elizabeth: now of course you have the migrant situation. and that's involved a normative public service because we have the shelter laws in new york that they say make it necessary to shelter, feed, provide medical care, how much of that is pulling away from the work that you do or are you jumping in and helping with the migrants as well. >> we're jumping in, our goal is to purchase a couple of refrigerator vans so we could take the food to the individuals or the areas that are really needed and we also delivered to the elderly that cannot come to a food pantry. >> i have to tell you some of the situations.
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i take the subway every day some of the situations break my heart where i see mothers with their little kids trying to sell candies on the street, i have my own issues with the legality of the situation of the border. but when you see people suffering in front of you, you want to do something but the money just doesn't seem to be there, does it? >> no it does not. iit is a shame. >> what you do are you relying more on local government support or is it still basically private donations? >> it is basically private donations we don't have any funding from the state or the government. we are very lucky, many of the farmers lawn and harvest lawncare support as but it puts a strain on our agency. no question. without that support we have had three food pantries close in our area. it is a shame, it really is because the funding is not there.
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and we need people to help. >> what about volunteers? are there people, more people aware of what's happening with volunteering? >> absolutely we can use volunteers in the money go to life services.org there is a donation button for food pantry, hit the button and give us a helping hand and we could definitely use it. >> we wish you the very best. you can think what you want about the situation. particularly when you see some of the migrants throwing away food it makes you serious and utensils onto what you have. but there are a lot of people in need. charles evdos. i am david asman. here is elizabeth macdonald. thank you for watching. now it is time for "the bottom line" with dakin and sean. >> thank you

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