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>> bill: is that something perino would do? >> dana: that's a great question for "the five". i don't know. i think i would call someone and get somebody to do it. he said it was worth it to get sprayed but my dogs used to get sprayed all the time in colorado. that's not worth it. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: law breaking pro-choice activists showing up to intimidate u.s. supreme court justices just reached a more vile level. when they showed up outside conservative justice amy coney barrett's home covered in fake blood and carrying baby dolls. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". [chanting and shouting] >> harris: the group is rise up for abortion rights and it is protesting the potential
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overturning of the landmark abortion case roe v. wade. and this is the fallout from the leaked supreme court draft opinion on it. the actual ruling could come as soon as this week. president biden's justice department and attorney general merrick garland so far are doing nothing to protect the justices and their families at their homes. critics say this inaction is basically condoning violent attacks on pro-life centers. here is utah senator mike lee on the federal law you hear me cite here daily. >> the justice department has turned a blind eye to blatant violations of of the provision that prohibits people from showing up at the home of a supreme court justice to protest. by not condemning and prosecuting them the biden administration is legitimizing and propelling the attacks.
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>> harris: ron johnson from wisconsin, great to have you in "focus" today, senator. let's start with what we're seeing. that is what i call a leveling up potentially more of this from activists and it is gory. >> good morning, harris. i could not agree with senator lee more. sadly every day it is more obvious we don't have equal justice in this country. one for democrats and their elite friends and the one for the rest of us. so the fact that senator schumer was on the steps of the supreme court threatening justice kavanaugh saying he had unleashed the whirl wind and he would pay the price and wound know what hit him. had a congressional republican leader said that first of all i don't think that leader would be in congress. he certainly wouldn't have been elected leader as chuck schumer was elected to the leader of the senate after he issued that threat against the security.
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this is part and parcel the democrat party and our justice department is doing nothing to enforce the law. it is very sad. >> harris: i don't think any of us thought we would see the situation where the soft on crime bled all the way to the top. we're looking at people who don't care about that 18 u.s. code 15.07 and they sit at the justice department and inside the white house. is that soft on crime or something i'm missing? >> it's definitely soft on crime going back to what schumer said on the steps of the supreme court. he was issuing a direct threat against justice kavanaugh and justice gorsuch and the media won't be upset about it. democrat colleagues in the senate weren't upset and elected him leader. turn the tables. there is no way the republican would survive that. that republican leader would no longer be in congress and wouldn't have elected that person leader. no, it's a complete double
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standard but it is made possible by the biased media and their complicity in this. >> harris: i wonder what happens when you lose the american public on this. according to new fox polling the majority of americans say they believe it is wrong to protest outside the homes of u.s. supreme court justices. that group includes a majority of republicans but 58% of democrats say they are okay with the protests. what do you make of it? >> they're listening to their leaders who wanted to fundamentally transform america. i often ask the question do you even like or much less love something you want to transform? open borders, 40 year high inflation, record gasoline prices, rising crime and intimidation of supreme court justices. democrat leaders are fine with that. i do believe, harris, the vast majority of democrats love this country. many are concerned about the path we're on. my message to democrats and
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independents, if you love this country and concerned about the direction this country has taken, join us, let us work together to unify and heal this nation, and save america. >> harris: the white house is trying out a new talking point and unfortunately it doesn't really match up with the data economy experts are working with. watch. >> i would expect the economy to slow its natural and we expect to transition to steady and stable growth but i don't think a recession is at all inevitable. >> inflation obviously is happening globally, recession is not inevitable. >> not only is a recession not inevitable but we as policymakers can take steps to build on our unique strengths in the american economy and try to get to that stable and steady growth that we all want to get to as quickly as possible. >> harris: okay. these people at 1600 pennsylvania avenue are sitting
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somewhere dark in a kitchen apparently alone. if they simply turn on the lights and look outside even the treasury secretary under obama has a very different take. watch. >> if you look at what's happened in markets, if you look at the relative levels of interest rates of different durations, the dominant probability would be that by the end of next year we would be seeing a recession in the american economy. >> harris: in other words, if you look at the facts. let's talk about the dominant probability of a recession. "wall street journal" surveyed top economists who said we had a slim chance of sliding into a recession months ago. now they put that probability of that happening within the next year at 44%. so senator johnson, what are people waking up about to this? >> first of all it's very hard not to recognize inflation when you go to the grocery store or fill up your car with gas.
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even though you have a complicit media they can't hide our economy. these individuals got to the talking point. threes the same people saying that inflation would be transitory. our economy ought to be booming. i was shocked the first quarter had negative growth. predictions with zero growth and possible negative growth which is the definition of a recession. our economy ought to be booming. there was so much pent up demand. democrat policies put a kibosh on a strong economy. they won't accept responsibility but they're the root cause of our economic ills. >> harris: to borrow linger from kamala harris. she is looking for root causes down south of the border for the border crisis. i want to get to this.
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treasury secretary yellen who apologized for not knowing what she was talking about with inflation -- she said this about the biden administration's energy policies while pushing for climate change. it is rich. watch. >> i don't think that policies are responsible for what is happening in the oil market. the way in which we can assure reasonable energy expenses for households is to move to renewables to address climate change. >> harris: let's look at the reality. still we're just right up against that record level of $5 national average for a gallon of gas at $4.98. i fully expect she will be apologizing for not understanding that, either, senator. >> we were energy independent. it was a bipartisan goal for decades. we achieved it under the
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previous administration and president biden canceled the xl pipeline and makes it difficult forutilizes the leases are available. they can't get the permits to drill on the lands. this is something that democrats and president biden caused. they are the root cause to open borders, to four year high inflation, record gasoline and high energy prices. they are the ones who caused it. it didn't just happens. hopefully americans can look past the media that's complicit in carrying this narrative. >> harris: some would say there is an agenda afoot. barrasso hit democrats for pushing americans to drive electric cars. >> what the administration secretary of energy and transportation and what joe biden want them to spend their money on, john, are electric vehicles. it's a smug superiority of some of these who just say well, you realize we'll save the world. does than matter what happens to you. you can't afford it, tough.
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>> harris: boy, we're a far cry away from i feel your pain from democrats. >> they don't recognize the reality they won't allow us to mine the rare earth minerals we need to be independent on china. we don't have enough to produce the number of electric vehicles they're contemplating. they are denying reality. they have the narratives and this wonderful future based on wind and solar power and it is not possible. at some point in time it may be but not now and their poll -- policies are killing this economy. >> harris: i was reading this morning. when you look at europe and russia cutting off the natural gas they are now going to use coal more than ever. so biden has single handedly potentially put the world in a position, right, because he says we lead the way. are we also going to maybe call senator manchin in west virginia and say maybe we can help you resurrect your coal industry there that too many including obama wanted to crush.
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>> we need to realize we need energy to power our economy. right now it's primarily provided by fossil fuels. if you are concerned about climate change let's push nuclear. there is better technology available. smaller nuclear power plants that could be safer >> harris: why aren't they? >> environmentalists don't want it. they don't want to mine for rare earth minerals. they are denying reality that the policies they're pushing are impractical and harming our economy and real people. >> harris: we're having serious grid issues out west as the heat wave pulled through. it's every summer. i don't know how they plug in the electric cars. is anybody gaming it out? senator johnson, it is always great to have you in "focus." thank you. >> stay well. >> harris: a major decision on whether transgender swimmers like lia thomas can compete in women's events. what it means for her olympic
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dream and for fairness inside the competition. and a metaphor for the democrat party right now. >> in biden's case he doesn't just fall off his bicycle he takes the country with him. >> harris: oh, the president apparently is healthy, fine after taking that tumble during a weekend bike ride. he was at a full stop trying to pull his feet out of the slide-ins. politically he may not be that healthy. multiple reports of democrats disenchanted as americans struggle with historic inflation and horrific gas prices ahead of the mid-term elections. power panel in "focus" next.
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>> harris: a trio of brutal headlines on the feelings some democrats are confessing. the associated press is reporting anxiety over the disconnect between president biden's rosie messaging and the actual reality americans are feeling over raging inflation and the high cost of food and just about everything. from the "wall street journal," white house aides frustrated with the president's inaction on policy initiatives saying they need some legislative wins before the mid-term elections. and democrat lawmakers are expressing those same concerns. the journal also reporting democrats are increasingly worried about 2024. while they expect joe biden to run, they are less sure he actually should run. power panel now, doug collins former republican congressman of georgia.
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david car lucci former new york state senator. great to have you. doug, i'll come to you first. when republicans look at this politically ahead of the mid-terms, what do you make of it? >> exactly where i think republicans want to be at this point. focusing on the economy, focus on the things that frankly we've heard from a democrat from years ago, 30 years ago it's the economy, stupid. it plays into the narrative of the disconnect between the biden administration and what people are feeling. i'm not sure a legislative victory would help. because people are looking for relief that will affect them now. legislative victories are not happening. republicans are letting the democrats continue to fight with the perception they're out of touch. >> harris: normally when you look at polling you can say let's see what the voters do.
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but this was staff. these are people who work on the hill some of them. these are lawmakers and the people closest to the messaging of a president of the united states and they're worried. what do you make of it? >> well look, i think republicans are right to be excited about the mid-terms. but the reality is that most americans are in the middle. all they have to do is tune into the january 6 hearings, learn what trump did and did not do, see that you still have these dye in the wool loyalists to trump and add to it the unwillingness of republicans to do anything on gun violence. >> harris: i asked you about your party and you went to a president who has not been in office for over a year and i want to give you another shot at it because i think it is important for you to start with the very first words you started with but aim it at the democrats. you said most people are in the middle. what are you going to do with the far left. our president, your party.
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>> i think many times when we're running for office we're running against ourselves. there are issues like inflation and the economy going bonkers but we cannot blame our president because they have little to do with inflation. the reality is that trump -- yes, is a problem for democrats but at the same time is our blessing because it excites people and gets people excited. >> harris: inflation, something that the treasury secretary yellen had to apologize for and she got it so wrong and she was touting what the white house was saying. i feel like i'm doing doug's job for him. i'm going to move on now. gas prices low hanging fruit for me to throw back at you. exactly. you are baiting me. you don't blame the weather for high gas prices when you cut off pipelines and want to buy your oil from dirty
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manufacturers like venezuela. let's give doug a shot. the president's tendency to proceed with caution as annoyed some of his own aides at times. democrat lawmakers have expressed both public and private frustration that the white house is not acting fast enough on a host of policies. they say mr. biden needs to do everything he can to notch policy victories that could result in heavy losses for his party amid high inflation or gas prices or known as per david, doug, the weather. >> look, if i was -- i wouldn't want to talk about the biden administration, either. i get it. i don't want to talk about anything else that's going on that you can focus or deflect away shaping up to be a bad november for democrats. look, you can't go at an energy crisis when you've taken the position that you are against the american emergency independence and the fact you're down playing trying to not talk about inflation when it was the influx of a lot of
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money into the system last year that larry summers and others said would do exactly what's happening here. now when you have the treasury secretary taking the fall saying yeah, this is a problem and we misread it and the biden administration going against them. they put her out there to take the fall. i think it's wrong. i wouldn't want to talk about anything else right now. everything else except the economy because that's where people are focused now. they see it in gas prices and food prices and everywhere. you want to talk 2024? we'll get there eventually. democrats don't want to talk about it either. when they go to biden. they don't have anybody else. >> harris: david is a nice guy. i bet he could figure out some root causes at the border. david, 141 days to the mid-terms i have to let you go quickly. i want to know the strategy now. you think it is a lot of time. summer is over and it will be
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here. >> i think it's very simple. for republicans to think it's a slam dunk is delusional. the reality is most americans are in the middle. you have the january 6 hearings. you have donald trump playing a really critical role here >> >> harris: you like him. >> he is a gift to the democrats. most people are in the middle. they see what has he done. >> harris: is he running in 141 days? did i miss something? >> he might be. i don't see him stepping aside for anyone and the candidate in 2024 and it will be a blessing to democrats. reality is there are issues like inflation but not much that we can do about it. if we blame biden for inflation, we have to blame trump just as much. and that's the reality. these are the things that are beyond our control. >> where do you start? david, i appreciate but you are making my case for me and it's easy. there is an election between
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2022. democrats are no answers, no solutions and they've been down playing the biden administration is out of touch. they aren't in the middle. look at the polls. he is upside down badly because he is disconnected from the american people pushing agends they don't care about. >> harris: if they come to the for the bench of democrats for the white house will you announce it here? >> can i be on with you? >> i think biden will be a winning candidate. if not we have plenty to choose from. >> harris: great to see you. new polling on americans fading belief in god. we'll tell you who has the most faith and who has the least. plus the border crisis turning deadly for young people around our nation. teenage drug deaths have exploded as fentanyl is now pouring into the country. remember who makes it. most of it is coming from china. dr. marc siegel goes in depth on the crisis on the
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>> over 100,000 americans died from fentanyl overdoses coming across that border. this is unprecedented. no enforcement strategy, no deterrents or consequences. everything they have done is to send more people to process quicker and release quicker. they haven't done anything to slow the flow. >> harris: tom homan and so many people with the former administration warned us this was coming. fentanyl is pouring into america over the southern border fueling an explosion in teenage drug deaths. it has seized more than 7700
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pounds of synthetic opioids at the southern border since october. that's almost four tons. and overdose deaths have jumped by more than 71,000 in 2021. look at that. that's up nearly 96% from 2019 and last year the drug accounted for three out of four teenage deaths in this nation. dr. marc siegel with a look at the devastating impact of this crisis with an example, an american family that could be any of us. doctor. >> the mental health and substance abuse christs due to the pandemic is growing rapidly and we don't have the treatments or doctors to keep up with it. it spread to social media and to our teens. parents need to be made aware. >> how does a vibrant, healthy, physically capable 17-year-old just no longer live? >> it's been more than a year
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since chris and laura found their 17-year-old son slumped over his desk inside their home near sacramento. >> chris just said our baby is gone. >> zach died of fentanyl poisoning in december 2020 after taking what he thought was a single percocet pill. instead it turned out to be fentanyl. synthetic opioid up to 100 times more powerful than morphine. >> there was no percocet at all in his system. >> a recent study finds fentanyl-involved fatalities among adolescents ages 14 to 18 have skyrocketed every year since 2019. zach, a straight a student, athlete, musician was set to be a first-time user who bought the drugs on snapchat. dr. wright says many patients consume fentanyl without their knowledge. >> they seem shocked and they think the dealer wouldn't do that to them.
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>> it can be disguised as another drug. >> it is poisoning, not overdose and the deception that's happening. >> apps like snapchat have faced heavy criticism by parents who say they are an open market for the sale and purchase of drugs. >> young people are on social media. it is often anonymous and it is accessible and easy. >> in 2021 the drug enforcement agency seized more than 20 million counterfeit pills. >> the criminal drug cartels in mexico are making pills to look exactly like an oxy, a percocet, vicodin, xanax, two milligrams of fentanyl is enough to kill someone. 10 or 20 tiny crystals of salt. >> we've got to talk about what our kids are being exposed to. >> what is in our warning and sharing our story we can save some of these other kids and we
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knew it's what zach would want us to do. >> many people heard of narcan but it is short acting against fentanyl. it is a great tool for an overdose but we need other drugs that lasts longer and fights addiction. it places you right on the road to recovery. unfortunately, that drug is still a prescribed drug. >> harris: the investigative journalist in me can only help but put two things together. a lot is coming from china and we found out how much china snoops into tiktok, one of the number one places. you mentioned snapchat but tiktok. they can manipulate the messaging and find out who is doing what and a lot communicated in emojis. parents have to wake up. dr. siegel, thank you for being part of that wake-up call. i want to go to pete hegseth, "fox & friends" weekend co-host. great to have you in "focus"
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today. this is more than a broken record type of situation. we've been listening to tom homan and others tell us it was coming down the pike because of biden policies. can you please take that deeper? explain how that is possible. >> you can look at a graph. it's a hockey stick of poisonings of fentanyl coming across our border more or less unabated and frankly in some ways facilitated through illegals. they have open season on the facilitation of drugs. we do very little to stare down china, the production facility. they work hand in glove with the cartels. if you are a parent today the nuance is gone. the nuance is gone. paging nancy reagan just is a no. you don't say a little bit of this and that. you have no idea what it could
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be laced with. it is not the kid's fault they are taking something innocent and beneficial and they die. this is an all of the above approach that now the biden administration is not taking seriously. inner city mayors are encourageing open drug use. we have to go the other direction. >> harris: let's talk about that for a little bit. in an effort to get people to use clean needles and get them off the streets are we, in fact, enabling? i'm looking at places like maybe out west. >> how could we not be? make sure you don't share the needle. here is an additional one in order to facilitate. we say there aren't crack pipes in the kits but when we look there are. you talk to parents and friends of those tragically addicted and they say because it's so easy to use and they're told it's safe to use there is no incentive for them to kick the habit. people can get it open & where
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to do it openly. the excuse of liberals say it's safe. more safe if more people are doing it? you are making the problem worse. >> harris: is it fair to say that this is happening predominantly in liberal areas? >> i don't think it's fair to say it's happening in liberal areas predominantly. it is happening in middle america as well. it's all communities. drugs are cheaper and more available today than they have ever been and we've been less aware of what's actually in them than we've ever been. you don't have to find a drug dealer on a dark street corner. tiktok, snapchat, your buddy is delivering it in an uber eats. you have to draw a brighter line. you can't do it because you don't know what's in it. >> harris: the policies of enabling and those we're seeing in liberal cities more often
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than not. our teenagers being in harm's way is across the country. i want to get to this. texas congresswoman elect flores delivered a scathing response to the vice president's claim that progress is being made at the southern border. let's watch together. >> she is honestly useless. i don't know why she is in that position. she hasn't been here in south texas to see what their policies are creating, the mess that they are creating in our country. and that their policies are hurting real people. >> harris: pete, your reaction. >> go, i love that someone like here is the future of the republican movement. she lives there. her husband a border patrol agent and understands the stakes and speaks blunt le. she is honestly useless. she is right, of course. vice president harris is useful for the hard left dedicated to
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the open borders. she won't go because she doesn't want to cross them by actually having to see it and do something about it. instead dhs and others are announcing more facilitation into the interior of the country. the democratic party never expected someone like her and she is speaking truth. >> harris: we can wake up some on the left including the president of the united states. they think some people of color are monolithic in what we believe. if you don't vote for him you're not black is what he said. let's move to this. the number of americans who believe in god is at an all-time low according to a new gallup values and belief poll. gallup notes religion is a major factor in u.s. political divisions but the poll finds 81% say they do believe in god, which is down 6 points from 2017 while 17% say they do not
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believe in god. belief in the almighty is highest among political conservatives, 94% and republicans 92%. it's lower among democrats, 72% and even lower among liberals. those far left at 62%. your reaction to that. >> you used a lot of statistics and so do we that are scary. this is the most dangerous. another graph. 40, 50, 60, 70, 80s. 2010 it's down to 91%. now down to 81%. it is an immediate and precipitous dropped. what happened in that time ?raim our culture has rejected god from the public square and stripped the hymn from the classroom. most people don't even encounter it. now that only it is not there and now it's scoffed at.
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our founders understood you can't keep a republic unless you know where your freedoms come from. that's the point indeed. >> harris: it is being woke but not awake, right? they want to hold the moral majority on what they think. the moral high ground on what they think is cancelable if that's a word. it is for today. but they don't want to help protect christianity and we're a judeo-christian nation. >> different religion, government, or climate change or the latest social justice activity on the guise of progress. it's a different religion but all a rejection of god. >> harris: we'll move on. we should be able to get a lot of things done at once, including keeping faith in wherever we need it to be. in says in god we trust on my $1 bill. we believe it somewhere. pete, thank you. transgender swimmer lia thomas will break no more records swimming as a woman after a
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major decision by the body that governs international swimming. so what do you think about this ruling? we'll get into it. plus this. >> he needs to be recalled immediately. we're completely devastated. he has left children without fathers, mothers destroyed. >> harris: that's the mom of one of the fallen police officers blaming los angeles county district attorney george gascon for her son's killer being on the street and roaming free. jason rantz in "focus" next.
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>> harris: america's crime crisis not letting up. a bloody weekend in cities predominantly run by democrat. in new york at least four people were killed in separate shootings. in d.c. a 15-year-old was murdered at a music festival celebrating juneteenth. mark meredith live in washington >> multiple stories involves crimes in cities coast to coast. washington, d.c. a 15-year-old boy was dead and others wounded including a police officer. it happened in a trendy part of the district.
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it occurred at a juneteenth celebration but not a city-sanctioned event and organizers did not have a permit. even before the shooting began officials were trying to break up the crowds over fears of violence. witnesses say the 15-year-old victim could be heard calling for his mompremierents -- mom moments after being shot. >> it bothers me to see him go. all of this going on here bothers me and needs to come to a stop. >> police are vowing to crack down on crime data shows there is a lot of work to do in the district. homicides are up in d.c. as well as violent crime up double digits from last year. d.c. is now offering new police officers a $20,000 sign-up bonus. that money is on top of a $6,000 housing stipend. d.c.'s mayor up for reelection now says the money could help with patrols and lowering response times. also watching another violent weekend in chicago where at least 38 people were shot and 4
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people killed. majority of the shootings taking place in the city's south and west sides of chicago. back east in new york's harlem neighborhood one person was killed and others shot. they couldn't believe how many gunshots were heard. the man killed was only 21 years old. it's not just shootings plaguing new york. police released new surveillance video showing two masked men robbing a 74-year-old woman in an elevator happening last wednesday in brooklyn. it appears the woman was not hurt in the robbery but suspects made off with her property. the videos are coming out on a daily basis. crime is a concern not just in new york but in cities coast to coast. >> harris: not for the liberal d.a.s in some cities. mark meredith. thank you very much. pressure is growing on those liberal district attorneys especially in los angeles. the man you see there now a being held without bail and that's in baltimore on rape charges after a two-week crime
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rampage in new york city where he was arrested and released multiple times. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is one of the progressives pushing lax bail log as crime is spiking across his city. a recall effort is underway against that other district attorney from l.a. george gascon. two police officers there, santana and another were shot and killed responding to a 911 call last week. his mom here. >> the criminal that shot on killed my son and michael should have been locked up. they both would have been here today. now we're just here to mourn their loss and just suffer. gascon should be recalled immediately. he has left children without
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fathers, mothers destroyed, wives destroyed. and they are never coming back. they are never coming back. i blame it all on gascon. >> harris: george gascon. they have enough signatures now to recall him, to kick him out. jason rantz, ktth seattle radio talk show host. your top line thoughts, jason. >> i fear that we are going to be in for a summer of historic violence. there is this possibility of course correction coming. we saw it with chesa boudin being recalled in san francisco. hopefully george gascon is next and hopefully an impeachment of crassner in philadelphia and alvin bragg. until we get the course correction there is going to continue to be needless violence and it will take a
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long time to undo the damage that has already been done because you have to get rid of policy and change laws in some cases and simply getting rid of a d.a. doesn't necessarily do that. we cannot be surprised when criminals take advantage of policies that do not punish them. this is happening over and over and over again. people are dying and you hear relative silence coming from the left other than oh no, it is not our problem. we didn't cause this. yes, you did. >> harris: you are pointing out something that's really valuable to know. you can kick out the d.a.s and that's the first step but there are city councils and so much behind it. >> there are laws. take just for an example in washington state. democrats in the capital passed a series of bills that now prohibit, for example, vehicle pursuits almost entirely. you get rid of all the democrats in olympia you have to replace them with the republicans to promote policies
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that undo the bills passed. that's a small example. it's happening in california, new york, across the country. >> harris: i have to point out the relative sitting next to the officer's mom there. that was his dad and during the interview as you watch it. he pipes up and says gascon's office, no one has even called us. >> they don't care. they don't care. they look at this and say it would be bad p.r. if they made the phone call. it would be conceding his policies were responsible. screw the bad p.r. just do what's right for the family and community. the policies are killing people. i don't know why we have to talk about this every single day for george gascon to make up unless see a blind ideologue. when you have those they don't see the damage they're doing. >> harris: the money to put you in office requires that you do what the guy who gave it to you
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wanted you to do. george soros's vision, that $40 million go to silence. he expects the liberal d.a.s to jump through the hoops he is paying them to do to get into office. the recall again signatures reached against gascon we'll monitor and tell everybody what happens next. "outnumbered" after the break.
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