earth and gave me a gift every year which today is her birthday, so happy birthday, mom. >> happy birthday, emily's mom. >> generosity of gifts and she thinks its a sweet tradition, you look here in the eye and say thank you, you wear it. >> spirit of the season, moved a mountain, faith still does that. >> yes. >> one best seller. >> you've got a christmas book out, you've got a christmas book out -- ok, "america reports." >> do you think he should go to the border? he only did a drive-by, he's never physically been to the border, especially in the past two years. >> vice presidents, senior leaders, absolutely. senior leaders should deal with the crisis in the country. >> do you think the president should visit the border himself? >> i think the president knows what's happening and the dhs secretary has been there many times. >> do you think there is value to the president going?

>> i think there is value to the president going everywhere. >> sandra: democrats are urging the president to visit the border after he claims there are more important things to do, word a border agent has died, it happened overnight while a group were chasing illegally. >> john: will the crisis spiral further out of control in two weeks, arizona attorney general will join us on his state's efforts to block the end of this crucial policy. >> sandra: a major plot twist in the twitter shake-up as elon musk fires a top company lawyer over his possible role in suppressing the hunter biden laptop story. hello, welcome everyone. hello to you, john. >> john: hello to you, sandra. and our floor manager just showed himself there, it's his 70th birthday.

so happy birthday to dario. the firing of twitter lawyer jim baker comes a few days after elon musk had released internal company emails about blocking tweets in the run-up to the 2020 election. >> sandra: and baker may have also been involved in the blocking of the hunter biden story while taibbi accused him of secreting vetting the documents he published last friday. >> john: new york post summing it up, inside job, democratic lawyer secretly blocked release of internal twitter files. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage for you, marc thiessen and jessica tarlov moments away on that. >> john: first to gillian turner, here with details and what new information has come. >> independent journalist matt

taibbi said general counsel jim baker got involved in vetting the first batch of the twitter files before they were released without any knowledge of new management, elon musk. this is prompting from elon musk himself, suppression of information, he was exited from twitter today. and he also reported the vetting of internal documents delayed publishing of a second batch over the weekend that had been planned. during the trump administration, baker served as chief lawyer for law enforcement. >> remember this guy was the chief counsel at the fbi 2016/2017 spying on president trump's campaign, and then goes to twitter, the counsel making the decision, oh, it's reasonable to assume that the hunter biden story just days before the most important election, it's reasonable to assume, he said, that that's a hack and leak operation from the russians. >> now congressman james comer

is calling on twitter employees past and present, including baker, to testify about alleged censorship. writes the american people deserve to know why twitter took down the hunter biden laptop story even when your colleagues were questioning the rationale for suppressing the story. and they are now looking at the story and saying a long form report is going to be forthcoming hopefully any day now. >> john: they got delayed over the weekend. >> maybe in time for christmas. >> john: yes, beginning to look a lot like christmas. good to see you. thanks for kicking us off. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, marc thiessen and jessica tarlov are here. you are warmed up. we have been chatting away. andy mccarthy takes this on in his piece he says twitter files miss the real scandal.

fbi interference in the 2020 election, the fbi as the pointy end of the executive branch spear would have us believe they have not interfered in the election yet the evidence is leaps and bounds stronger than that the trump campaign conspired with russia in the 2020 election. >> andy mccarthy is right. this is a scandal, and not just -- the fbi was meeting with twitter, talking to them once a week and warning them there was going to be a fake news dump to basically spread fake news and so they were on the lookout for this, and then the new york post story came, perfectly legit, we know it's true, they censored it. the scandal is deeper than that. it was not just that twitter censored out, joe biden said this was fake news. he stood up with donald trump and he raised this, said it was

a russian plant. no one in the media questioned it, and questioned whether donald trump had lied, spreading disinformation by raising this. and it was completely suppressed by twitter. we need to get to the bottom of how it happened and whether it was done at the behest of the government or security agencies and officials, who were they talking to. >> sandra: things would have been more different if the media was hungry in that moment. timing is everything. >> back to the comey letter, and the out come there. listen, if everything that conservatives are telling me is true, they have to prove it, and that's really what this comes down to. the taibbi files of friday night were disappointing. said underwhelming and have to

do better. at this point, no reason to think all the things we have been told are actually true. also, people are playing fast and loose with the term first amendment violation, since joe biden was a candidate for president, he was not in office and i brought this up on the five, especially disappointed the way matt handled this, also requested for administration, first amendment applies to infringements by the government on terms of your free speech and he did not release what the government itself actually asked to be -- >> kind of a dodge. we are hanging on -- hold on. jessie, jessie, jessie. you are hanging everything on this, on the argument about a first amendment. this is a scandal. this is the fbi and 51 former intelligence officials, and by the way, i've signed letters like that, not that were false, but always somebody who generates the letter and then

sends it around, who was that, who got it going. and all of those people need to testify before congress. collusion between the national security officials, the fbi, going to twitter to get them to suppress a news story, it was fake news, it was a disgrace that this happened and the entire media establishment went along with it and did not question it and went with the whole narrative. >> i've been for an investigation, but the most shady chain of custody and fox newsroom turned down the story. >> the fbi had the laptop by then, they knew better. >> sandra: do you concede there were not enough people who wanted answers in the moment, jessica, and that would have -- >> for that 48 hours? >> more than 48 hours. come on. >> it was technically 48 hours. let's not play -- >> more evidence for this than the russia collusion conspiracy

theory. >> i don't think mueller is available. >> sandra: georgia senate run-off, you can see the final results of the election, and we have another democrat holding a seat in the senate as a result, affecting the balance of power, 51 seats, results up on the board. 51 to the democrats. we have frozen graphics, live tv, yay. does that mean i cannot call for mr. speaker, newt gingrinch as well -- sot working, all right, play out the reaction to the democrat. >> we don't change anything. same people in place in leadership, apparently the rnc, perhaps that's not changing, we keep doing the same thing over and over again. i'm pissed tonight. >> you have to play the game by the rules that are existing. if you want generations of voters, you have to be on tiktok, you have to recognize early voting. does not do republicans good to save tv money to october if they had a third of the vote come in

in september. >> sandra: he's saying republicans need to learn a lesson and make some major changes. what was your reaction? >> 100% but a little different lesson, the reason walker is not a senator today is because 203,056 georgia voters voted for brian kemp but did not vote for herschel walker. if those voters had not split their ticketed, he would be a senate. they approved of brian kemp, did not approve of walker, this is a trump effect on the ballot. trump's candidates, five losses, two wins, the two wins in ohio and north carolina. >> sandra: do you blame republican leadership? >> first of all, the reason why it was not even worse is because mitch mcconnell spent $57 million in georgia to hold on to that seat. in the run-off, donald trump did not spend a dime, and only spent

3 million. >> rick scott also did not spend much money. bad candidates number. but for newt gingrinch to think if they post a funny dance video on tiktok it will undue the fact that the republican agenda is so bad for young people and i see you shaking your head. >> not why the republicans lost. a lot of reasons why they lost, about you not because they were not good on climate change. >> we are staying, actually. you can't even kick us out of here. >> we are not done here. sandra -- another segment. >> sandra: i feel we could go on forever. >> sandra: and john, i hope you don't mind i borrowed marc. >> i defect, i defect. >> john: all yours today. >> sandra: great discussion. we have congressman jim jordan and lee zeldin, new york congressman who ran for the gubernatorial race in new york

city and was thinking about challenging ronna mcdaniel is going to be here as well. >> sandra: it's floated around the possibility of lee zeldin, speaker lee zeldin. so, not sure if you are hearing anything about that. >> we are -- we are still here. >> interesting idea. >> john: i'm hearing mccarthy and andy biggs challenge. customs and border protection confirm a border patrol agent has died after a high speed chase involving a group of illegal migrants. a group of bipartisan lawmakers held a conference about suicides and mental health concerns among border patrol agents. >> border security is not a democratic or republican issue. if you are overworked, it impacts your life. >> idea somehow we can either have border security or humanitarian policy toward

immigrants you have one or the other is crap. you can have both. >> john: bill melugin is live in texas. what have you learned about this morning's crash? >> john, good afternoon to you. multiple federal sources tell me that border patrol agent was 38 years old and that he was a father of two children. and cbp does confirm the agent died in the rio grande valley early this morning as he was driving an atv in pursuit of a group of illegal immigrants in the middle of the night and he crashed into a gate which resulted in his death. his death is the latest headline in this border crisis which shows no signs of slowing down. case in point, take a look at the video in eagle pas this morning, another large single group of about 200 migrants crossing in illegally there. in two days span this week, more than 14,000 migrant encounters at our border. average of 7,000 every single

date. astonishing numbers, and human smuggling rampant. and dash cam video showing a trooper pulling over a human smuggler after a pursuit in maverick county. everybody goes baling out of the vehicle, they ran off, the trooper was by himself. he has to make a split second decision, he stays with the smuggler, she was a female u.s. citizen from san antonio, charged with human smuggling. and more in arizona, border patrol in the tucson arizona sector stopped this pickup truck driving at extreme speeds and had 13 illegal immigrants, including two small unrestrained children and six in the bed of the truck dressed up in camouflage, rare to see little kids involved in smuggling events like that. but it goes to show they don't

care about how dangerous their tactics are. and also in arizona, another major fentanyl bust, this is he nogales port of entry. cbp officers seizing 440,000 fentanyl pills in a single bus. they found it in a drug smuggler's vehicle, and huge busts multiple times a week. title 42 set to drop two weeks from today. we are averaging about 6 or 7,000 illegal crossings every day, and dhs projections show once title 42 drops, the upper projections say we could get upwards of 18,000 illegal crossings every single day. almost a tripling of the current record breaking situation. back to you. >> can't imagine what would happen if that comes to pass. we will talk with mark brnovich, the attorney general of arizona about this coming up. police in germany have arrested

25 people suspected of planning an armed coup, they call an anti-terrorism organization. we'll talk with robert o'brien, and what putin said about nuclear war and increased chances of that, and xi jinping in saudi arabia trying to firm up contracts for oil for his country. >> sandra: that is a big development. should unelected judges have the power to overrule how elected lawmakers handle voting integrity. a pivotal case before the supreme court. why that ruling could have lasting effects in 2024 and beyond.

>> john: more than three weeks after four idaho college students were murdered, police are back inside the home where it happened. why are they now removing items from the scene of the crime. and talk to a former fbi agent who has specific theories who the killer could be. >> we have great pride in our university, great pride in our town. we wilou l continue to servics situation until we reach an endt

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>> sandra: supreme court hearing arguments in a case that have a major impact on voting in 2024 and beyond. over the power of state courts

to regulate federal elections. david, how does it look like justices will side in this case? >> sandra, arguments ended after three hours, they were scheduled for an hour and a half. you can never predict what the justice will do, we need to watch chief justice john roberts, justice amy coney barrett and kavanaugh. they could be the swing votes in this case aside from the liberal and conservative justices. this is the biggest, one of the biggest cases dealing with voting rights before the supreme court ever and that is not an exaggeration. the important question before the supreme court today ultimately will the control over federal election rules without traditional oversight from state courts be in effect. those in favor of change cite what is the independent state legislature doctrine. argue the u.s. constitution actually gives state lawmakers

power to oversee federal elections such as mail-in ballots, district boundaries and voting rules. opponents worry that state lawmakers could throw out the electors chosen by voters on election day, and putting their own in, meaning that they could pick a president of the united states. what then president donald trump pushed after he lost in 2020. former federal judge michael ludwig, a staunch conservative wrote recently, of this case, the supreme court will decide before next summer the most important case for american democracy in the almost two and a half centuries since america's founding. >> if you rewrite history, it's very easy to do. >> i'm not rewriting history. it says all elections, referring to the offices created by that constitution. >> sandra, in the past when there is problems with elections, it goes to state

courts. what the state lawmakers are doing is ask the state courts to be taken out of the mix so they have control over some of these election rules and regulations and really the question is how will the nine justices rule, again the ones to. watch, the chief justice, amy coney barrett and brett kavanaugh. sandra. >> sandra: keep us posted. john. >> john: president biden was in arizona yesterday but did not visit the border saying there were "more important things going on" as experts warn the situation at the border could get far worse when title 42 expires. set to be lifted on the 21st. our next guest is trying to stop in a from happening. arizona attorney general mark brnovich joins us, you are in d.c. today. >> thank you for having me on. >> john: so stunning yesterday when the president uttered the words on the way to the helicopter to go to phoenix, let's replay the question and answer. listen here. >> why go to a border state and

not visit the border? >> because there are more important things going on. they are going to invest millions of dollars in a new enterprise. >> john: more important things going on. you are the person who has to deal with the fallout from the border. tragic incident early this morning of a border patrol agent in the rio grande valley sector driving one of the four wheels atvs have a high speed crash and was killed. you think of what the president said. >> our hearts obviously and prayers go out to the agent's family, but it's absolutely disgusting, someone like me that spent so much time as a prosecutor to keep the community safe and we get numb to the statistics, but when you think about last month, 73,000 got-aways, escaping and evading detection, and 200,000 people surrendering. a huge fiscal impact. but the deaths related to fentanyl, more than 100,000 americans dying, cartels have seized operational control of

the border. enough fentanyl seized last year to kill potentially everyone in this country. we know americans are dying, losing not only our precious treasured lives, but also financially, a huge impact on border states like arizona and texas. >> i want to put the statistics up. fiscal year 2022, 2,378,944 apprehensions. unbelievable. estimated 1 million got-aways, 782 deaths, cartels making $100 million a week off this human trafficking. what the national border patrol council president brandon judd said about what the president uttered yesterday. nothing is more important than the safety and security of the american people but to president biden it's an afterthought, deadly fentanyl crossing the board illegally and evading apprehension. and oh by the way, a huge

fentanyl bust in nogales at the crossing. i mean -- what the president said yesterday looks tone deaf at best but you have to wonder. do they really care at the white house? >> when i first heard president biden's comments i thought he's lying because his biggest private has been opening and undermining our border. he's been encouraging people to break the law, undermined the rule of law. when you decriminalize or incentivize an activity you get more of it. since joe biden became president, the numbers you just put up, that's more than 5 million people illegally entering our country, like the entire population of louisiana. so, this is -- >> john: population of new zealand or ireland. it's huge. >> unprecedented. this is a generational problem now, john. >> john: curiosity we have been exploring today and your background as a prosecutor and attorney general. georgia gascon sent out a memo to prosecutors saying before you charge somebody in this country illegally with a crime because they have committed one or

alleged to have committed one, take into consideration their immigration status. if the prosecution will lead to deportation we may not want to file charges. >> it's absolutely heartbreaking, especially like me, a first generation american, people come to this country because the rule of law has to mean something. what joe biden is doing is undermining that and when someone like gascon does that, it puts other immigrants in danger, hard working taxpayers in danger, lady justice is blind for a reason. treat everyone equally. if you break the law you should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. and what about the victims, what about the impact on society? we need to aggressively prosecute people. >> john: i love arizona but great to see you in d.c. >> thanks. >> sandra: the search continues for a suspect, approaching four

weeks since four idaho college students were murdered in their home. a detailed profile of what he thinks had committed the crime. >> john: and gun sales through the roof, where? oregon. why dos the state passed a law that one store owner says will essentially shut gun sales down. we'll ask him about the controversial measure that oregon is trying to implement so fast police don't know how to enforce it. >> who is responsible to do that training. it can't happen safely in the front lobby of my police department and so we need to figure out how this is going to work.

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members as the search for a suspect continues. former fbi special agent jonathan gilliam will join us, but first alexis mcadams live in moscow, idaho. you had an interview with the police chief yesterday. what's happening there today? >> hi, john. the police chief gave us great new information and says they are on good track to hammer out the timeline and where the victims were the night it went down in the house behind me off of campus, a private rental. today this is the most that we have seen of investigators at the home in quite a few days. they have gone inside, including the police chief himself back into that crime scene to try to gather belongings of these victims. because they had been talking to the families about some of the things they wanted from the girls and the police said we'll go in and give it to you at a later date. this is a step in the grieving process and in the

investigation, but the crime scene is still sealed. they are doing everything they can to find the killer. >> it's part of what we do and we need to do that for the family. need to go in and pack up stuff and get it, take it at that a secure place. is it easy, no, but they need that and it's our job to do that for them and our job to help with their closure, hopefully. >> it's been nearly a month since they were murdered in that off campus rental home in moscow, idaho. police are focussed on finishing the timeline on the night of the murders and i just learned a short time ago about some of the whereabouts of the victims that night. investigators had said in the past 48 hours they were trying to figure out what happened during an almost five-hour gap between the time two were seen at a frat party nearby and got home, but they believe those two

were at the fraternity party the while time. police have questioned dozens of people, including members of the frat, trying to figure out some clues in the case but no arrests yet. >> just because someone has been cleared right now, does that mean they might be reinterviewed? >> many, many hours have gone into that. and several investigators and investigative team have all looked at the information that comes in and verified that those people can be cleared. so what i want to assure them is we are doing everything we can and we are taking our time to do it right. >> and doing everything they can including talking to neighbors. i talked to some neighbors who live nearby, too, john a few hours ago, we have been talking about the backsliding door. but the front door by a neighbor said it was wide open 8:30, 9:00 a.m. he said he gave that information to investigators but had not heard too much about the front door, and that would have been a

pretty good amount of time before police ever are got the call the students were dead inside. >> john: thank you, sandra. >> john: former fbi special agent jonathan gilliam. this is something you've been following closely, the idaho murders and you are also writing with them, saying a lesson to be learned in identifying a killer through behavioral analysis. what should we be noting about the way this killer may be behaving and how that can help people identify this person? >> well, i think there are several things. one, i can guarantee that the behavior that we see exhibited in this murder was most likely an escalation, and somebody who was killed before or had a pattern of very odd, violent behavior, and that's why i thought at first probably was not a college student but if they are, they might be a newer

college student because the likelihood this person has had interactions with police before or that they have had interactions if they were in school, for instance, they would have had trouble. because this is the type of person that knows enough about society not to get into too much trouble but somebody that has such a desire to kill they actually lack empathy, the ability to sympathize with others and not having a conscience. this is the type of behavior we can easily identify. we know in the past with these types of killers that people have said later on well, he was very odd, they had an aura of danger or they were very violent. we never thought to report this, and i think this is somebody in reflection that the general public in that area, it's a small area, that they can reflect on and somebody that's within about three-hour

travelling distance and potentially i'm starting to kind of revise that where i believe they live actually in the community, quite possibly, within an hour. >> sandra: and i know the police have said they cannot rule that out, that that person could be walking amongst them there in that community, still today, to the point where they were asked to be vigilant as there was candlelighting ceremonies and vigils taking place. jonathan, give us your analysis of what we know, the layout of the home, three floors there. two students were murdered on the top floor, the couple were murdered on the second floor, and two survivors on the first floor. you believe he most likely entered on the second floor and never went down to the first floor, why? >> right. well, i think when you are looking at that house, it's basically like two separate apartment buildings. you have the lower level and the upper level and there was no disturbance that we can see so

far at all with the lower level, and when you enter in through where the sliding glass door is, or if they came in through a window in that area, there is a stairwell directly to the right which could have invited the person to go up first and went upstairs because whether they had been in the house or not, most likely when you go upstairs there are going to be bedrooms up there. so i think this might explain a little bit of why you've heard some reports, mostly from the goncalves family that they believe their daughter had the deepest stab wounds or the most violent attack. but you have to realize that killing with a knife, especially a large knife like this, is a very physical activity that would drain somebody rapidly. so if they went upstairs and started there, move to the second person and then back downstairs and finish off those attacks. and by the time they get to the

last person they would pretty much be exhausted, as well as have spread the dna from one person to the next by the time they get to the last victim, probably going to be dna from all the victims on that individual. >> sandra: make clear one last point there, two days ago the police issued a statement basically dismissing the parents' belief that because that one of their daughters suffered the most wounds that she was targeted. the police are saying they have not determined that independently. jonathan, we are now almost four weeks out from when the horrific killings happened. we will surely circle back to you when we know more. thank you, jonathan. >> thank you. >> john: fascinating per pecktive. >> twitter's general counsel

canned. can a republican-led investigation get to the bottom of it. >> sandra: it's officially a battle for the house speaker as andy biggs throws his hand in the ring against kevin mccarthy. can the incoming house majority keep coalition together. that is a big question right now. ohio republican congressman jim jordan will attempt to answer it when he joins us after the break.

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this time but have not confirmed if they have a suspect yet in custody. the shooting reportedly began after the noon hour when shoppers rushed for the exits for safety. we will bring you more details on this developing story as we learn more. john. >> john: back to the top story, elon musk firing one of twitter's top attorneys, jim baker, after he secretly vetted which documents could be released in last week's twitter files. now questions are growing over baker's role at twitter in 2020 when the company suppressed the hunter biden laptop story and cake baker's connections to the fbi where he used to be, coincidence of coincidences, general counsel. bring out ohio republican counsel jim jordan. congressman, the front page of the new york post this morning said it all, inside job, democratic lawyers secretly blocked the release of internal twitter files. i mean, you can't make this stuff up, and all of this is

going to land in your lap on january 3rd. how will it all unfold? >> we'll see, i'm very concerned about the government influencing big tech, and keeping information from we the people. it's important to fully understand jim baker's history. he's the chief counsel of the fbi when the fbi spies on president trump's campaign in 2016, the guy who accepted information, the information from michael sussmann who's lawyer for the clinton campaign, took that information, used it as part of their investigation and then goes to twitter and he's the guy who helps suppress the hunter biden story and says oh, it's reasonable to assume the hunter biden laptop was a hack and leak operation when everyone knew it went, and oh by the way, he's the guy filtering, he's still involved in it there. so, this guy is history, then

you ask this fundamental question, john. elvis chan, the agent doing those weekly briefings in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. i want to know if that fbi agent, elvis chan, was he talking with jim baker at the time, jim baker getting a readout can, how did it play out. we want to talk to mr. chan and ultimately to mr. baker. >> john: something you may be able to find out if and when you hold hearings in the house. apparently elon musk did not know jim baker worked there. matt tweeted out over the weekend while we dealt with obstacles to searches, someone releasing the files was jim. she called to ask jim's last name, jim baker. my jaw hit the floor. so a lot of people were surprised by this. but you laid it out for us, look at the suppression of information prior to the

election and the fbi the center of that with briefings to the social media companies, that they may become the "victims" of a hack and leak separation, you get the sense the government law enforcement agency was putting its thumbs on the scales here? >> it sure seems that way. you couple all that with what we know zuckerberg told us facebook was getting the same briefings. and 51 former intel officials wrote the letter, who by the way, still maintain their security clearance, the letter was the pretext for the weekly briefings happening. so yeah, looks like as i said, big tech, big government, big media, all colluding to keep valuable information from we the people. and we know the consequences are that joe biden was -- became president and 41-year high inflation, a border no longer a border, rampant crime and the other problems with this administration not least of which is the fbi has been

weaponized against we the people, no longer treating americans equally under the law. that to me is the big concern and when we take control next month, we are going to focus on that political structure that now exists, unfortunately, at the federal bureau of investigation. >> john: congressman, when you take control next month, one of the lingering questions, who is going to be the speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy is the nominee, however, andy biggs is saying we cannot let this all too rare opportunity pass us by because it is uncomfortable to challenge the republican candidate, a creature of the status quo or because it's accompanied by some minimal risk. it would appear bigg does not have a chance becoming speaker. the republican party over who might be speaker, is it detrimental to the party? >> i think we will settle, and kevin mccarthy, i think he's

earned that right and you mentioned change. i'll tell you the change that i think is significant that we are talking about today, getting rid of the vaccine mandate in the defense bill. that is huge. something we have pushed for. >> john: nothing to do with the speakership. >> a lot to do with the leadership, that happened because kevin went to the white house and said that has to come out, something we republicans have been pushing for and goes to show, john, when you stand and fight you can accomplish things the american people talk about. and we want all the woke stuff out of the military. andy is a good man, a friend of mine, but i think kevin mccarthy will be the speaker and what happened today, who was announced last night and what happened today with the bill is a huge example of what we can do when we unify and how crazy the left is. >> john: plenty of opportunity

before the new year to talk with you again. appreciate it. >> you bet, john, thanks. >> all nonsense, robbery, drug trafficking, all kind of hanging around the gangs. forcing us to hire the security, state level. >> sandra: owner of a philadelphia gas station says he has hired private security to protect his business because the city is not doing enough to combat crime. bryan is on this for us, the thieves targeted his store recently, bryan? >> yeah, sandra, look, after some 20 years owning a business, neil patel says he was forced to hire his own security in north philadelphia after a string of crimes. first, young vandals trashed the inside, others stole his atm machine, and vandalized his car.

three weeks ago guards armed with kevlar vests and shotguns watched over customers. there has not been an issue since. most customers told our affiliate, look, they are ok with it. >> this is supposed to be a city, right. you got the kids walking around guns like this on the battlefield. >> if are trying to get gas, you live in a bad area and the only place is here and they are robbed all the time, i support the owner. >> compared to last year, armed robberies in philadelphia are up 32%, retail theft up 51%, and car theft up 23%. amid surging crime, republicans state lawmakers are trying to remove philadelphia's district attorney, larry krasner from office. he's being accused of a dereliction of duty. the head of the private security company guarding the gas station andre boyar creiticized krasner

on fox news. >> lack of action, uncle larry, a d.a., who is not a d.a., acting like a social worker. elected to office, we wanted a prosecutor, not cum buy ya. >> gas stations are facing legal liability. at least nine people are suing gas stations after being shot while visiting them in philly. owners must protect customers from known dangers. you can understand why he is doing what he's doing. sandra. >> sandra: remarkable story and caught the attention of many. thank you very much, bryan. >> of course. >> john: the security guard was an amazing guest last night. knew at 2:00, a book about body image turning into a major american girl controversy. giving young children advice how to change gender, even how to circumvent their parents to do it. independent women's forum reacts

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