i think that you really embody your grandfather george middle. he sounds like he is an amazing man. super generous, good friends with everyone. >> bill: good man, good spirit. tomorrow i'll evaluate dana's christmas as a child. >> dana: great book. get it. >> harris: fox news alert. all that bail reform by democrats is creating a horrifying new normal and it is spreading. police arrest criminals who end up back on the streets within hours and the far left is showing no signs of backing down from this controversial policy. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". last week in los angeles, 14 suspects tied to a string of smash and grab robberies were out on the streets just hours after police had arrested them. the union chief who represents nearly 1,000 prosecutors in

l.a. county is accusing the district attorney, george gascon, of staying completely silent despite the explosion of violent crime. the lawyers are fighting over this now. in new york city a homeless man charged with beating a person last year was let back out on the streets. he did it again. he is out free again. republican congressman jim jordan said democrats only have themselves to blame. >> this is intentional. the democrats have legitimized crime. when you defund the police you shouldn't be surprised when you get more crime. when you get rid of bail you shouldn't be surprised when you get more crime. maybe they should focus on the real issues and we would be in a lot better position. >> harris: we know why it's happening. we have to fix this. florida republican is in focus. jonathan hunt reporting live from -- for us in los angeles.

jonathan. >> good morning, harris. los angeles has seen a rash of smash and grab robberies since the recent wave began in san francisco and moved south. high-end stores, malls, pharmacies altar g*eted in recent weeks and law enforcement has responded including arresting the 14 who were then quickly released under a zero bail that was introduced at the beginning of the pandemic as a way to reduce l.a.'s crowded and therefore deemed at-risk prison population. police chiefs claim that policy along with other justice reforms are at the root of the current problem. >> we're catching the criminals. the problem is we're catching them over and over again and they are being released very quickly without bail and they are not staying in prison. so we just continue to deal with the same people again and again. >> the zero bail move was made before l.a. county district

attorney george gascon took office. as the lead prosecutors his critics want to see tougher action from him. a group of activists is now launching a second recall attempt against the d.a., having failed badly in their first effort earlier this year. the other district attorneys are hitting out at gascon and others for their reform agendas. >> this is rampant, it is systemic and yet george gascon and the d.a. in san francisco and all the woke district attorneys across the country are doubling down. >> the l.a. office says we will hold those responsible accountable. bail reform harris an increasingly big issue in several cities across the country, including new york, of course, with the news you mentioned at the top. a homeless man who beat two women in the city last week now out on supervised bail because

the charges, according to the d.a.'s office, are not harsh enough to have the man held on bail. both women were allegedly punched in the face. both needed hospital treatment for their injuries. >> harris: you have to kill somebody, i guess. it has to be that dire for them to think he deserves bail? how can they stop repeatism is that the point. these are rhetorical. i will get into it now. appreciate the reporting. los angeles p.d. detective jamie mcbride said soft on crime policies have wrecked los angeles. and it could happen to your city. >> los angeles is like the movie purge. instead of 24 hours to commit your crime they have 365 days to go out and commit their crimes and that's how it is now. it is so violent. we're telling people don't visit. we don't think we can keep you safe. >> harris: are you familiar

with the movie purge? for a 12 hour commit you can do anything you want. the premise of the movie. it is so gory when you watch it and that's what he says l.a. feels like now. country superstar john rich tweeted this. when you disarm law-abiding citizens and turn loose the violent criminals you get current-day los angeles. i don't know how anyone can live there at this point. this issue is personal for my first guest. her husband is a swat medic and firefighter and paramedic. she is a member of the house. we know what's causing it. how do we fix this? better yet how do we get the white house to acknowledge this is going on? talk to the country about this. why won't they? >> it is wild to me, harris. they can't even acknowledge we have a crisis on the southwest border. we have hundreds of thousands of gotaways which are

criminals, gang members, sex offenders, pouring into our communities. they want to defund police. they want to take away guns from law-abiding citizens and somehow they are still in a position to continue to deny that there is something bad happening despite the fact that all of the data is pointing to a sharp increase in crime and americans that are republicans, democrats, independents across america are screaming for something to be done. you hit on it. this is personal for me. i can't tell you how us from -- frustrating it is as the wife of a first responder to see my husband go out on swat calls. dangerous situation, they apprehend these violent criminals and then the next day they are back out on the streets doing the exact same thing they were just locked up for. what's the point? i think that frustration is what is pointing every single american towards 2022 mid-terms saying you know what? we need to get back to the

basics. if this administration is not going to do their one job, which is keep us safe nationally and to support those stangd up and fighting to protect us we need to put people in office who will. that's why you are going to see a red wave coming because the crime across the country is sad. you hit on it. it is like the movie the purge. people have no accountability, no consequences and you have democrats that are hey louing this to continue to go on. it is ludicrous. >> harris: that's next november. this is ticking up so quickly. you are right. the voters will be the people who have to fix it. think about that. we have to live many, many more months through this. you mention it was personal. your husband is there along with his team that he works with and there are teams across the country who answer the call when you call 911. portland police with a frightening warning yesterday. the department had to tweet this.

due to critical incidents and staffing shortages officers were only responding to priority calls. warning response times will be delayed for certain calls. i am reading they are hours long. it comes as the city has hit a grim milestone, congresswoman. 80 murders so far this year surpassing the city's all time high of 67 killings for the entire year and that was way back in 1987. last year the department lost 84 police officers. they either retired or quit when the portland city council cut the budget by $15 million. the council is now scrambleling to fix the problem. 5.2 million was restored to the budget. the problem is you can't replace what you lost. you lost experience on the job. >> absolutely. my husband has been a member of our local community's department for 14 years. coming up on 15 in march. when you talk about the

institutional knowledge that comes and experience that comes with being a first responder, law enforcement officer, there are some things you can't teach in a book or class. it comes with real world experience. when you vilify these men and women who wear the badge and take away the critical lifesaving resources they need to do that job and enforce an unconstitutional mandate saying they need to get the jab or they have no job, you are hit with a trifecta of issues that will drive good men and women out of the profession and they'll go find a community that values and respects them and maybe not in the law enforcement profession anymore. i can speak from experience. we just had to fight this battle in gainesville. i can tell you when it comes to swat teams especially the high-risk situations with gangs and violent offenders, when you have leaders like the biden administration, like homeland security mayorkas. when you have people like that,

a.g. merrick garland sending out memos that they need to be soft on crime and let's not mince words here. they are literally pushing down directives to be soft on crime, release criminals and, of course, that right there is the message that gets sent to our first responders saying it doesn't matter that you were trained and equipped to do a job. we don't want you to do that job. if you do we'll punish you for it. back if march when i took my husband's swat vest to the capitol to fight against the defunding of police. when i got home my husband got written up for that. that is what we're up against. >> harris: you doing your job and he got written up at his job. >> yes. that's when we have a democrat-run city like gainesville and we, the people who are fighting for our first responders on the front lines, he got written up. a perfect record blemished by something i did in defense of his department. that's what we're up against and it is just one of thousands

of stories i have heard spouses and first responders across the country. crime will be a major issue in the mid-term elections and be sure in the 118th congress all of our first responders, law enforcement officers and their families know they have someone in washington who has their back. time to hold these liberal d.a.s and prosecutors responsible for the bail reform. we'll enforce the laws on the books and get tough on crime. >> harris: i am sorry that that happened. in america we have freedom of speech and on the hill you have a nickname they've given you. that is a rock star broker of deals, right? but when you speak up, your husband a first responder, pays the price on the job. that's a story we don't hear and you are right, we need to hear from the people from the families of these first responders and police officers because you are giving us another side to all of this. you talked about the layering of the vaccine mandates, the

jabs for the job, so on and so forth. if you speak up and it costs them their livelihood that affects the spou, it affects the community. i will give you last word on this. democrats, as you said, are going to get a punch at the polls over this very issue in mid-terms in 2022. >> they are. i think americans have realized that they have had enough. enough government interference, enough of big government telling them how to live their lives. it is truly the undermining of who we are as americans. not republican versus democrats but just as americans. when these liberal left policies want to undermine who we are and how we operate down to the community level, that is when people -- everyday citizens are standing up and saying i've had enough and they are going to go to the polls and they will vote hell no for the biden/pelosi agenda. >> harris: we just popped up the party popularity and you

can see for democrats they are underwater with people saying they approve them. by the way, we are talking independents and everybody. republicans a little bit better. there is enough movement on the blue side for republicans to start to take advantage of this, all these months out. the crime doesn't seem to be slowing down. i appreciate your time so much today and you sharing what is going on from your perspective and also on capitol hill. congresswoman from florida, thank you very much. >> thank you. have a great week. >> harris: that was eye opening. president biden taking fire now from his critics ahead of his high-stakes video call with vladimir putin of russia. >> nobody will go down in history as one of the most if not the most pro russian u.s. president that we've ever seen. they know that joe biden is projecting weakness on the world stage. maybe worse than we've ever seen it before. >> harris: they started that call last hour and we'll get into what to expect from the

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jarring economic sanctions if it invades its neighbor, ukraine. russia has already massed tens of thousands of troops along the border with ukraine. republican senator tom cotton says the crisis is of president biden's own making. >> joe biden has no one to blame but himself for this situation in russia. i would say this call is even an example how he is appeasing vladimir putin. he builds up 175,000 troops on ukraine's border and what does joe biden do? rushes to get on a video call to beg him not to invade ukraine when he is unwilling to specify exactly the kind of measures the united states will lead europe in taking should he invade ukraine. >> harris: we're perched to see what they talk about on the call. jackie heinrich has more from the north lawn while we all wait. >> russian state media allowed the press to go inside to get a short video spray off the top of that call between biden and

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>> bill: you want your vice president to be ready to lead. she can't lead her own office. the problem is that she really was elevated above her ability. she was chosen by joe biden not because of her quality of her work or her intellect. it was because she was a woman and she was a woman of color and that puts her in a bad position and it puts america in a terrible position. >> harris: that's "new york post" columnist miranda devine getting into it over vice president kamala harris amid reports of a toxic work environment and exodus of her staff. but at least one top aide is insisting nothing to see here. critics still roasting the vice president's deputy director for operations after he have tweeted this. he absolutely loves his job. one reply blink twice if you need help. white house press secretary jen psaki asked if somebody put him up to do that. >> i'm not aware of any asks

for a positive tweet or specific tweet. i would point you to the vice president's office. but i work with a number of people in the vice president's office who certainly are looking forward to continuing their jobs. >> harris: fox news contributor joe concha in "focus" now. this isn't just a bit of palace intrigue. talking with lawmakers saying look, this may be a forecast of what's to come within that party as far as leadership. we need to know if people can do the job. >> great point, harris. you look at the numbers, right? forget about the palace intrigue, it is clear to see why kamala harris's office is in turmoil. polling at 28%. rarely speaks to the press. as many democrats will tell you she has a likeability and authenticity problem. when asked in a recent poll by the hill who would you support if joe biden doesn't seek a second term? kamala harris locked in at 13% supporting the idea just ahead of michelle obama who finished

second who said she have is not running and off the grid for five year. that's how plan b in 2024 is going. you know there is trouble when you have to have staffers look being like they're in a hostage situation saying they love their job. it is an 80 something joe biden doesn't run will they be open to an open primary and start over? i think that is going to be the plan if joe biden doesn't run. so that's where we are at this point. again, we're only 11 months in since they took office. >> harris: we're only 11 months away from the next go around of elections in mid-terms. chris cuomo announced yesterday and you and i have been talking about this, that this was possible, that he is leaving his xm radio show and plans to sue cnn for a big chunk of change. chris cuomo facing sexual misconduct accusations as is his fellow anchor, don lemon who faces claims he acted

inappropriately toward a man in a bar on long island in 2018. that accuser went after the network saying quote, they are a predator protecting machine. they slander and smear victims with impunity. they are implicit. that's who they are. this is from an alleged victim. >> speaking of if you recall moil they should be called the chaos news network. chris cuomo who wasn't rep reremanded for coaching those on questions and answers. received covid testing before everyone else in new york courtesy of his brother the guy who attempted to smear accusers and he will sue cnn for millions because he says top brass knew about everything he was doing and was okay with it. boy, if this goes to trial can

you imagine what the discovery stage will look like? you get the feeling there is a paper trail here, harris, emails, texts, you name it. then you have to your point anchor don lemon who now -- >> harris: hold on. you mentioned a key point when i call receipts. you talked about that paper trail. the digital trail with jussie smollett. did you see this one coming? the intersection of jussie smollett on trial right now and don lemon. yesterday he testified, smollett, that he got text messages from don lemon supposedly relaying that the chicago police department didn't believe smollett's accounting of what happened. and at the time lemon told his viewers the story was personal since they were acquaintances and had texted after the alleged 2019 incident. what to make of this? >> it's like watching the whole cuomo episode now replay itself

with don lemon. he tipped off somebody who was under investigation about the chicago police department not believing his story. that prompted smollett according to smollett, for whatever that is worth, to withhold evidence such as his phone and those records. cnn needs to address this next. they haven't. they don't do that until they have to. you have to wonder, harris, while all this is going on, what the top shareholder of liberty media is thinking. he is the top shareholder of cnn because he recently said cnn neefds to get back to journalism and prailsed fox news for its performance in the process. he did so on cnbc. ist is all crazy. >> harris: just quickly your last thought on where this goes now because, you know, don lemon can say i was trying to buddy up so i could get the booking of this person for an exclusive interview or something. but when you talk about receipts, when you have those text messages your last word. >> the problem is he told

smollett what he heard from his sources within the chicago police department. it is no longer like i'm trying to help a friend. you are trying to affect an investigation. this is serious stuff. this isn't the last time this is going to go away. i think many changes will be made at cnn both in front of the camera and behind it because this cannot continue. particularly when you have lost nearly 80% of your audience since the beginning of the year. >> harris: that's cash and the big boss watches fox, headline. good to see you, thank you. we're talking about jussie smollett. he is back on the stand today and with that bombshell about cnn's anchor don lemon. he is facing questions from prosecutors after testifying in his own defense first yesterday accused of orchestrating that attack on himself and blaming it on racism and homophobia. matt finn is in the courtroom for all of this and he has come up to update us. matt.

>> jussie smollett has been testifying under oath for an hour now getting a little snarky and testy with special prosecutor dan webb. the judge asked smollett to use yes or no answers and dan webb has been focusing this morning on the alleged dry run. the brothers testified smollett took them on a practice round to show them where he wanted them to beat him. there is surveillance video showing smollett picked up the brothers up and circled a stairwell where he wanted the brothers to beat him three times. smollett claimed he liked to drive around and smoke weed and listen to music and why he circled that location three times and he was calling and messaging with one of the brothers on the night of the attack about a diet plan and nutrition plan. dan webb just asked jussie smollett why one of the brothers never showed up for a scheduled work-out plan on the morning after the alleged

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so why is he doing it now? because he wants to run for president? what's the point? >> harris: wow, that new yorker had a lot to say. new yorkers in general are reacting after lame duck new york city mayor bill deblasio yesterday announced a covid vaccine mandate for all private companies beginning a couple of days after christmas. and the move drew immediate criticism from the business community. a trade group leader says she was blind-sided by the announcement adding there is no forewarning, no discussion, no idea whether it's legal or who he expects to enforce it. there is no consultation. mayor deblasio defended the mandate. he went to cnn to do that. >> you talk to business leaders for months about the reality of the delta variant and the whole reality of covid, you know what they tell us? when the government acts it makes it easier for them to act. what we also heard is whatever you do, don't let us go back to

shutdown. don't let us go backwards. this is a preumtive strike to get ahead of something threatening us in a new way. >> harris: really, though? he is leaving office and being replaced by eric adams who used to be a republican. so maybe that one woman on the street was right trying to do this to get it in there before it's gone. it won't help and likely won't last once deblasio leaves office on december 31st. "media buzz" host howie kurtz wrote it is hard enough trying to build public support for vaccinations which have become embroiled in partisan politics. this heavy handed move by an outgoing mayor isn't going to help. rachel campos-duffy co-host of "fox & friends" weekend and co-host of moms on fox nation and kevin walling former biden campaign surrogate. where do you see the mayor doing this, rachel? >> he may want to make a point. i have to tell you that eric

adams the incoming mayor of new york should do more than say well i'll review the mandates. the business community especially the small business community and especially in new york city have been through hell. they have seen big businesses get away with things they couldn't and this will absolutely -- this kind of uncertainty will absolutely hurt the business community and he ought to come out and say i will not -- i will reverse this order. i will not stand for this. i wish he would do that. it is three or four days before mayor deblasio is out of office but i this i the business community deserves a new mayor who is not just tough on crime but pro-business. >> harris: he is a former cop. kevin walling i saw you on the streets of new york city yesterday and i have to say if you are hitting retail and restaurants, democrat, republican, you have to see the insanity of trying to do this with all these tourists here. how will you mandate vaccines for private businesses? you have tens of thousands of

tourists on the streets going into those businesses. >> they are, harris. it was great to see you and great to see everybody out. i don't think it is a well thought out policy by the mayor. new york city is getting it right. you nearly have a 90% vaccination rate with one dose. so the encouragement from the private sector, mandates for the public sector which have been upheld by the court have made sense and have really secured the city and put it in a great place. it is 20% more vaccinated than the rest of the country on average. so new york is getting it right. i don't quite understand what this mayor -- i'm not here to defend him. i'm not a fan of bill deblasio but i don't understand what he is doing in the last month of his administration. i am hopeful that mayor adams will reverse course and encourage more work with the private sector. these mandates i don't think will work in the end. >> harris: he says he is trying to help out the federal government. just helping out the government, whatever. when you lose kevin walling

from the biden campaign. >> amen. >> harris: white house press secretary jen psaki blowing off hunter biden's business with chain yand laptop. >> can you commit to basic transparency about that transaction including the name of the buyers, dollar amount and timing and the second question is my colleague has a new book out called the laptop from hell and i was hoping that you could confirm that the laptop is indeed authentic and not russian disinformation. >> the president's son is not an employee of the federal government. point you to his representative. as it relates to the book i have neither had the time or interest of exploring or reading the book. >> harris: note the timing. the white house just issued a report warning about money laundering in the art world after hunter biden's paintings were on sale for up to a half million dollars apiece. some twitter comments here. the white house issued a report flagging that money laundering

is a problem in the art sale industry. plus i guess they waited until hunter's art sales were complete to issue that warning, report. and how about you start with your own corruption? rachel. >> yeah, for sure. her excuse is hunter doesn't work for the federal government bust he is the son of the most powerful man in the federal government. i could care less about the artwork stuff. it is shady, corrupt, expected from all the dirty stuff that hunter does. what really concerns me is the sale of that cobalt mine in the congo. it went from american ownership to chinese ownership. cobalt is essential for making electric cars, electric cars are an essential part of the climate policy of the biden administration. this as they shut down american oil and took us from being the number one producer of oil in the world to not being that and also to policies that raise the price of gas and oil and

pushing people into electric cars and therefore more dependent on china. i just want to make one last thing. i know we don't have a lot of time. the laptop from hell said that 10% of whatever hunter was making from deals like this girt dirty deal with china over the cobalt mine was going to have 10% go to the big guy. tony bobulinski, a business partner of hunter biden said the big guy is joe biden. that laptop was not russian disinformation. it was real and they are lying about this. >> harris: you just spit out a lot there. let's see if kevin walling can unpack it. there is so much there. that's how i don't understand how they can ignore it at the white house. they can try. kevin, answer back for some of that if you can. >> this is a headache for this administration. a lot of this was already litigated in the 2020 election. i know -- >> harris: these are brand-new art sales and new money.

>> certainly. to rachel's point a couple hundred thousand totally. i don't think it will sway anything the white house is doing in the end. he is a private citizen and allowed to make a living for himself. >> harris: it is not about money and doing the right thing? i have to let you go. i'll bring you both back. thanks for watching "the faulkner focus". right after this commercial break "outnumbered" is next.

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