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folks caught chasing and spraying bear spray. or like these police officers who saved a family from rushing water. this military mom who reunited with her kids after more than a year overseas. no matter what the new year brings, one thing is for sure, technology evolves, even more buzz worthy moments will be captured. in chicago, i'm garrett tenney, fox news. >> julie: biden administration slamming southwest airlines calling the carriers nation width meltdown unexcept -- unacceptable. i'm julie banderas >> rich: i'm rich edson.
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another day of travel chaos with thousands more flight delays and cancellations. southwest struggles to recover from holiday storms and system-wide operational problems. the u.s. department of transportation says it is launching an investigation. >> as a wash dog we'll hold them accountable and have to take a deeper look what's going on with their scheduling systems. we all understand you can't control the weather but this is clearly crossing the line from what's on uncontrollable weather situation to something that's the airline's responsibility. >> julie: president biden dodging the travel chaos and winter weather as he jets off to a tropical vacation. peter doocy is live at the white house. >> we have a heater right here. it's pretty warm. not that bad. it's not that bad. as we look at some of these images from airports, julie, people who are stranded and
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looking to the federal government to maybe help them out, help them get home faster are out of luck. and there is really nothing the feds can do to get people to their final destinations any faster. and that's coming from the head of southwest himself. >> our plan for the next few days is to fly a reduced schedule and reposition our people and planes and making headway and optimistic to be back on track before next week. we have some real work to do in making this right. >> he is saying their systems are the problem. republicans in congress tried to call out the transportation secretary buttigieg by saying where is secretary pete? he caught that the morning and wrote back. i'm on capitol hill not far from your offices. will keep getting results from passengers using our authorities and resorrurces as an agent cis
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i would welcome dialogue. there is no exchange of ideas here. it is just a look at punishment for southwest eventually. >> everybody understands that there is extreme weather across the country. but where most airlines saw their performance start to improve, southwest has moved in the other direction. you have passengers who are stranded. you have passengers who can't get ahold of customer service. it is an unacceptable situation. >> president biden among those who had a delayed flight yesterday but that is just because he wanted to leave the white house later. air force one still took him to st. croix. we expect him and the rest of the first family back from their vacation from st. croix in the new year. >> j >> julie: thank you so much,
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peter doocy. >> rich: supreme court temporarily halting the termination of title 42. neil gorsuch sided with the court's three liberals in dissent. it stops a surge of migrants at the southern border. >> if it weren't for title 42 we would have a full blown catastrophe at the southern border right now. we have already seen they were preparing for it whenever it was to expire. i applaud the supreme court. if they had not done that, i hate to think what would be happening at the southern border right now. >> rich: attorney general mark from arizona is standing by. >> title 42 remains in place for a few more months. the debate over the law brought some unlikely allies together from the supreme court. the 5-4 ruling stopped the
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planned termination originally scheduled for december 21st. title 42 is a public health law put into effect during the trump administration to simply expel migrants at the border citing the health crisis, the covid-19 pandemic. it was originally supposed to end earlier this year. the deadline was extended just a few times. conservative justice neil gorsuch joined in alliance with the three liberal justices in the dissent arguing that title 42 should not be extended, full stop. he wrote the current border crisis is not a covid crisis and courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for the emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. we're a court of law, not policymakers of last resort. which right now there are 600 immigration judges in the united states that fall under the department of justice. that's a small number compared
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to the nearly 2 million cases that are in a backlog right now that need to be heard. immigration judges continue to be overwhelmed. this is nearly 2 million before title 42 officially ends. that number will only swell. i spoke with a number of former immigration judges over the past year and a half who warned that ending title 42 will put a tremendous burden on the court system. judges are simply not addressed to deal with this influx. right now, rich, there is already a six-year backlog of cases and that will grow. the supreme court will hear arguments on the merits of title 42 in february ruling once and for all by the end of the term, late june or early july. rich. >> rich: thank you, david. joining us for more on this now arizona attorney general. i want to get to what neil gorsuch, justice gorsuch wrote in dissent from what we heard from the supreme court last night. he wrote the current border
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crisis is not a covid crisis and courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. we're a court of law, not policymakers of last resort. is he right? >> well, with all due respect to justice gorsuch the majority got it right. arizona led the coalition to try to stop the biden administration from rescinding title 42. here is why. what is good for the goose is good for the gander. for years the left has sued president trump and president bush before that over procedural ways the federal government operated. what the states argued is when the federal government won't do its job, they don't want to defend the law, the states have a right to come and intervene. in this instance we know the biden administration has completely incentivized and
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decriminalized people breaking the law. if he won't enforce the law we'll do everything we can to protect our people. title 42 is one of the only tools we have left. >> rich: are you preparing this to go away or will you prevail and title 42 will be extended beyond that? >> look, what we have said, our argument is that if any president wants to rescind title 42 they can but they have to do it in a legal manner. consistent with administrative procedures act. joe biden isn't doing that. he is not a king or emperor. at some point title 42 wasn't meant to be a permanent solution. in that regard yes, washington, d.c., needs to start doing their job and get off their can. we lurch from crisis to crisis. the american people are fed up with it. so we know that as a result of the failures of the biden administration more than 5 million people have illegally entered our country. states like arizona are getting
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hit hard with billions of dollars of cost. $20 million of unreimburse i had healthcare costs in tucson. others have incarceration costs. not just about the money. there are millions of people every day, families being torn apart as a result of the surge of fentanyl and heroin and methamphetamine flowing into this country because the cartels have seized control of the border. >> rich: we've seen new approaches like from and texas involved busing or flying migrants. others involved putting shipping containers at the border. does arizona have anything else it's trying to do from the state level? >> i use the tools in my tool box. we're in the courtroom nighting joe biden trying to get him to remain in mexico to remain in place and led the charge trying to stop joe biden from rescinding title 42. our governor settled with the biden administration so the shipping containers are coming
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down. i wrote an opinion earlier this year with the argument what is happening on the southern border constitutes an invasion. you see folks like governor abbott follow that lead by deploying the guard and erecting barriers. this is the federal government's responsibility, not the states. the white house has power when it comes to border security and nat national security and failing on both counts. they're failing miserably. >> rich: thank you for joining us. >> julie: that was my phone. sorry about that. unbelievable, an interesting new year coming on. now that the house and sen rat in a different position interesting to see if anything gets done. if any changes will be on the horizon or more of the same. economically it doesn't look good. i don't know. >> rich: state governments
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change. new governors and attorneys general. >> julie: we have to keep up the optimism here. maybe they should do that in washington. covid lockdowns and remote learning hurting american students particularly hard and some of those devastating effects may stay with them for decades. it is a sad fact. former education secretary bill bennett on that coming up next. six weeks and still no suspect in the quadruple murder of four university of idaho students. why investigators are pleading for more tips. behind schedule and overbudget. the city of angels carving out more than $1 billion in 2016 to build homes for the homeless but where did that money go? >> the time that it is taking and the costs that it is taking are so much so that people are dying on our streets. our traditions are grown and sewn
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>> rich: the massive effects of the covid-19 pandemic may not even be felt for a while. a new study suggests the loss of learning students suffered during the lockdowns could cost them as much as $70,000 in lost earnings over their lifetimes. fox business news lydia hu is live with more. >> the $70,000 per student will mean the country could lose $28 trillion over the rest of this century according to a new study by a stanford university economist. it is based on declines in scores on eighth grade national math tests which found eight point decline since before the pandemic. it means there is a correlation between the policies that forced children to stay at home and the
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largest drop in mass test scores in more than 30 years. we talked with a mom of four kids who all attend public school here in new york city to get her thoughts and also she is an advocate for public schools. >> we heard so much about equity, equity this and that, about how to improve our school systems over the years. and then when covid hit, the equity concerns went out the window because it was the poorest kids and children of working class parents got hit the hardest and it didn't keep our kids safe. >> various studies, learning losses mean lower graduation rates, higher rates of arrests and incarceration and lower skilled and less productive adults who earn less money during the course of their lives. some are asking what exactly is being done to address the learning loss now? schools received more than $190 billion in pandemic aid.
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there is concern because less than 15% of those funds have been spent by school districts. now with the $28 trillion on the line for the future of the country, the learning loss is coming into focus and learning it will touch every american life regardless of whether they had kids in school during the pandemic. >> rich: lydia, thank you. julie. >> julie: let's bring in former education secretary bill bennett and fox news contributor and author of the book of virtues, 30th anniversary edition. thank you for talking to us. we'll get more into your book in a second. we knew the pandemic hurt students academically. to hear what it could cost them over their lifetimes is more infuriating. the loss of $70,000 in lifetime earnings could mean $28 trillion over the next century. it is possible for the biden administration to make this up
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to them? >> for a lot of kids it's too late, sorry to say so. this loss of $73,000 per child is not evenly distributed. the poor had and disadvantaged kids and little ones learning to read weren't learning to read. if you aren't learning to read and reading by the third grade you are in serious difficulty. it mainly focused on math. reading is the key skill and the key to everything else and math later. the other point is -- this is very important -- is that there were kids in idaho, utah, alabama, who did not suffer these losses. how come? schools didn't close. they kept their schools open for the most part and learning continued. so there is a lesson to be learned. if i could just tie it to the book, the book of virtues 30th anniversary edition we talk about things like honesty. what we had here is large-scale
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big-time lying to the american people about what works and what doesn't and what we had to do for our children. ended up damaging our children because of that lie. it is time to come back to fundamentals. >> julie: core values. reading and writing instead of the woke agenda. they need to learn to succeed later in life. look at the nation's report card for 2022. the national assessment of educational progress has a grim report. 4th and 8th graders, math alone, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. eighth graders fell eight points. reading scores declined by three points for both grades and i was reading students in oklahoma, delaware, west virginia fared among the worst with declines of 12 points. now it is up to us parents who are put in that between the rock
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and a hard place. we couldn't force our kids to go to school, administration was locking down our schools and forcing them to learn on zoom, which by the way i was there for all of it. it stunk. but they learned nothing. so now what are we as parents supposed to do to try to catch them up? it's almost impossible. >> find out if your school is doing the job or not. go to the school board meetings and maybe run for school board. if your school is not doing the jerks look for an alternative. school choice is now the case in many states in the country. homeschooling has increased dramatically. charter school enrollment has increased. be a smart consumer about your child's school. one thing covid did was gave parents a look into what was going on in the schools. so back to those fundamentals. the fundamental values, honesty, responsibility, telling the truth, being an honorable person
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still go a long way and if you are not telling the truth, if you are lying, it can have consequences of the sort we are looking at here. terrible thing. but back to basics, please. math, reading and virtues. >> julie: you look back at 2022, americans could use more virtues like self-discipline and others. tell us about your book and what we can expect when we pick it up. >> you know, what's plaguing the country, high-level lying. the border is secure, no one coming across who shouldn't be. that's a big timely. high-level sinnedling. a look at ftx. we could use more honesty there. high-level cheating. how about the f.b.i. and twitter and so on? so, you know, people say what can we do?
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maybe we should think first about the fundamentals about our children and grandchildren, teaching them what it means to be an honorable and decent and responsible human being. it's what this book is about. i think we need this about as much as anything else. it starts early. reading and understanding what a decent and honorable thing life can be. that's where we need to focus our attention. reading, math and learning the virtues. >> julie: you are right. thank you for writing this book. a lot of patients like myself want to thank you. about time somebody addresses what's the root most important base for our children to grow into successful and also good people as adults. bill bennett, thank you so much for talking to us. >> rich: state and military police are taking a travel ban in buffalo this morning as the city recovers from a historic blizzard. with intense fighting ongoing
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more than ten months into the war, russia is rejecting ukraine's proposed peace plan. >> i don't hold out a lot of hopes at this point. putin is not serious about peace talks right now and he won't be until he thinks he will lose something big.
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>> rich: officials say 30 people have died this western new york after the historic blizzard blanketed the area in nearly six feet of snow. officials fear the number of casualties could rise even higher, state and military police are enforcing a travel ban in buffalo this morning as crews work to clear snow from roadways. >> julie: after more than ten months of russia's war on ukraine, u.n. says nearly 18,000 people have been killed or
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injured throughout the war with intense fighting ongoing on the front lines. russia is rejecting ukraine's proposed peace plan. what's next? nate foye is live in ukraine's capital of kiev. good morning, nate. >> good morning. russia rejects that so-called peace plan because they refuse to give up territory they claim to have annexed like kherson, a city liberated from russian occupation. russia continues targeting civilians there. look at this video, maternity hospital that was hit by russian shelling last night. this is new video, unbelievably nobody was hurt in the strike but they launched 33 missiles at kherson in 24 hours. moscow believes it is 1 of 4 regions now part of russia. listen to this. >> there is no peace plan for ukraine yet. let's start here.
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again, there can be no peace plan for ukraine that does not take into account today's realities regarding russian territory with the entry of four regions into russia. >> another one of those regions is here in the donetsk region where intense continues in bakhmut. russia does not fully control any of the four regions it claims. a russian aircraft took off from belarus. they have been doing military drills preparing for a possible second invasion from the north. intelligence officials believe russia is testing ukraine's air defense. back out here live president putin is banning the sale of russian oil to western countries that imposed a price cap on it including the g7 which the united states is part of as well as the e.u. and australia. the ban starts february 1st and lasts for five months until july.
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send it back to you. >> rich: let's bring in michael allen and a former national security council member under president bush. you look at some rhetoric coming from yesterday. some discussion that maybe there would be negotiations, but the russians really quickly shot that down. ten months into this are we any closer to having these two sides sit down or having russia want to leave ukraine or leave any part of ukraine? >> i don't think we're anywhere close to peace talks. neither side is conditioned in that direction. you all played the quote from putin's spokesperson, truly absurd. they don't control the territories that they say are an absolute prerequisite for russia to come to the table and ukraine is doing well. they are on the verge of taking an important city in the earn province of luhansk this
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morning. i see incremental fighting ahead but i don't see either side willing to sue for peace just yet. >> rich: other than what is a massive personnel and material advantage for russia going into it but exposed as tough supply lines. fighting force that wasn't ready to take over another country what gives vladimir putin any type of hope this will go his way, ultimately? >> i don't see at all what he could be thinking is going in his direction. it may be that the manpower, the mobilelizations they recently levied across russia will have some impact. i have seen military experts begin to say that these converts are coming in and being put onto the front lines. they may be in a meat grinder, it may be ukrainians are able to kill them quickly but helps
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exhaust the ammunition of the ukrainians and therefore russia feels like it has many cards to play before it sues for peace. >> rich: the president of ukraine went from the front lines in ukraine to the halls of congress in 24 hours last week. here is some of what he had to say to lawmakers. >> we have artillery. is it enough? honestly not really. to insure -- it holds back the russian army but for the russian army to completely pull out. >> rich: is it time for the united states to provide more offensive weapons to the ukrainians? >> i think so. if we want this war to end as soon as possible, we need to be able to give the ukrainians what they want. they want longer-range missiles and firing capabilities. i'm not sure the biden
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administration has a good reason to hold them back. it seems like president biden and his administration are deterring themselves from sending some of these important weapons over to the ukrainians. but ukrainians have the momentum. let's not let russia catch up. we ought to press our advantage while we have it and deal a strategic defeat to vladimir putin. >> rich: if we go farther east you have china flying more incursions into taiwanese airspace over the last few days here. what do the two conflicts have to do with one another? is the united states distracted here by events in europe taking the military's attention away from turning to east asia? >> this is a heavily debated topic in the united states. can they walk and chew gum at the same time? i think we can. i think what we're doing is largely putting munitions and other weaponry into ukraine and as we do it, and as we sanction
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russia, it sends a powerful message to xi in china that the west, led by the united states, isn't going to take this type of aggression lying down. i think xi has to look at the struggles the russian military has. look at what the west has done in terms of sanctions and arming the ukrainians and say they might do this also to the taiwanese. let me think twice before i mount an invasion to try to take taiwan. >> rich: thank you for joining us. very much appreciate it. july the clock is ticking for tiktok as law makeser on capitol hill impose a total ban on all official devices issued by the house. is it time for the white house to take action? let's find out next. republicans are gearing up for majority control when the house reconvenes in january. what are their top priorities?
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>> rich: congress taking action on tiktok ordering the removal of all its official devices immediately calling it a security risk. hillary vaughn reporting for fox business live on capitol hill. hillary. >> good morning, rich. this applies to anyone who works on capitol hill. if they have a government-issued cell phone and have tiktok on it, they have to delete it immediately. this tiktok ban just applies to government devices right now but could be the first step towards a broader ban. >> spy on americans and the algorithm they are spying on our data is wrong and ban it from all government devices should be step one. >> tiktok spokesperson blasting the move saying this, it is troubling rather than encouraging the administration some members of congress decided to push for
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politically-motivated bans to do nothing to advance the national skufrt united states. tiktok is trying to convince government officials they aren't a national security threat and get the nod to stay operational in the u.s. while still being under chinese ownership as part of its parent company bytedance. the app is drawing concerns for a recent scandal where bytedance employees inappropriately accessed u.s. user data to track some tiktok users as an attempt to get to the bottom of leaks at the company. >> tiktok over the course of 2 or 3 years have been giving assurance after assurance to the united states about data security. they violated all of those assurances. and remember, they were tracking those journalists because they were trying to figure out who leaked to buzz feed. >> four were fired because of this. not a good development for
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government officials who are concerned that u.s. data is ultimately going to end up in the hands of the chinese communist party. rich. >> rich: hillary vaughn live from capitol hill. >> julie: for more on that is claudia tenney, thank you for talking to us. let's get to the point. will the white house get on board with the decision that congress made to remove tiktok app from all their devices snow >> they will have to. president biden is signing the omnibus into law. it will be the law in the land and have to comply with it. this is just the first step. there are several states around the nation who have taken the steps to ban tiktok because they are using all kinds of technology to follow and trace us, bio met tricks, everything they can see on our phone and where we search, everything. i'm sure that google and other big tech companies also have that power as we've learned with the interactions between the
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f.b.i. and twitter thanks to elon musk unfolding that dramatic issue in terms of corruption in our government. but we have to follow these things and i think it's really important we keep the chinese communist party in check. and keep -- prevent them from continuing to do surveillance at the mass rate they're doing and influencing not just our children but our entire society. >> julie: not the first we've heard that it is high risk to users, what about national security risk? is that something the government should be wore eft about? >> absolutely. once they infiltrate individuals and get into the individuals it doesn't matter where the government does at that point. there are over 100 million users in the united states right now of tiktok. i don't happen to be one. i've been suspect on it. i don't have time. it seems silly to me.
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some don't even care. the government already looks at everything. that may be true but much less surveillance would impact us and it is definitely a national security risk for all of us when each individual has been impacted. >> julie: the security risks that could infiltrate to the government don't stop at congress. what other places do you believe the app should be banned? >> i think it's everywhere. if the states are banning it all together. i think that's an interesting issue. if all 50 states banned it, you would have the end of tiktok in the united states as we know it. it would turn into an underground mission, of course. once you do that, though, it makes it more intriguing. this is an issue that we need to analyze and energy and commerce committee to make sure we know what's going on. the intel committee will be looking at this to make sure we have effective means of preventing tiktok from doing
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surveillance on other individuals. all you need to do is cover up your camera and it limits all the governments, u.s., chinese and russian government from looking at your phones. who knows who is looking at you >> julie: the white house hasn't taken it too seriously. marco rubio said this to ban tiktok. the federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect american users from the threat of tiktok. not about creative videos, it is an app collecting data on tens of millions of american children and adults every day. the app does have an age range. you are not supposed to be using it any younger than the age of 13. there are plenty out there minors using this and parents that are letting them. so i guess the white house needs to maybe take this more seriously. >> the white house doesn't take much seriously. look at the southern border, look into the origins of the
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covid-19 virus coming from china where millions were killed. where we had shutdowns and lack of ability to really monitor or have smart policies other than in some states able to do this. the administration will be in for some oversight when the republicans take over the majority. it will be a narrow majority. i hope the republicans will continue to use their constitutional power to enforce our laws, to enforce our constitution, and to provide oversight. that's something we need to do. we need to stick together to do that. that's essential next year when we take over the majority. >> julie: congresswoman claudia tenney, thank you for talking to us this morning. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> rich: the man charged in the attack on nancy pelosi's husband paul is set to appear in court
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>> rich: the new mayor of los angeles declared a state of emergency over the city's homeless population. six years ago there a $1.2 billion budget was set aside to build houses for the homeless. what happened? senior national correspondent william la jeunesse is live in l.a. with more. william. >> rich, about 40,000 live on the streets of l.a. city said give us a billion dollars and we'll solve the problem. didn't happen? why? instead of building low cost shelters they wanted high-end apartment near groceries, shopping and farm socialities taxpayers and the homeless are
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paying the price. >> we have done everything wrong that we could possibly do to address homelessness in los angeles. >> in 2016 voters approved more than a billion dollars for los angeles to build 10,000 housing units for the homeless. six years later the city is 8,000 short and the units they have built are ridiculously expensive. >> when units are costing $6 hundred thousand a door, you are never going to have enough public money to create as many units as you actually need. some of them estimated to cost a million dollars a door. that is utterly unacceptable. >> case in point, 140 proposed apartments in venice cost $1.2 million per unit. a nearby apartment building set taxpayers back $640,000 per unit and 668,000 for 45 studio apartments each about the size of a single car garage. by comparison, an average house
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in the u.s. is four times larger and costs about half as much. >> you focus on housing a few with very expensive housing while you leave the many, the thousands on the streets without a shelter to go to. >> he blames politicians for focusing on housing instead of shelter. >> you can't take four years to build something that people need today. >> why is housing so expensive? land obviously. bureaucracies some 3 to 5 years to get approvals and permits just to great down. lawyers and consultants to fight homeowners who don't want the housing and another 15% to pay union wages. now the new mayor says we aren't going to do this anymore. we'll put people in hotels and motels and a new tax, a mansion tax to give the city a billion dollars a year to address the problem. we'll see if it works. back to you. >> rich: a lot of cities are doing the hotel thing.
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thank you so much. >> julie: a man accused of attacking paul pelosi will be in court for sentencing today. >> good morning, julie. in about an hour the man will be formally arraigned on half a dozen felony charges following a preliminary hearing a few weeks ago that revealed some pretty indisputable evidence in the attack on paul pelosi in which the defendant is accused of using a hammer to bludgeon him. they played pelosi's 911 call and had one of the responding police officers reach into and evidence bag and pull out the five pound hammer used in the attack to reenact how it happened. the court saw police body cam footage showing the man hitting him in the head. the district attorney ticked off
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the charges the man faces. >> he was held to answer to all of the charges that were filed against him which include attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon. elder abuse and threats to a public official. >> in ordering the case to proceed the judge cited the man's repeated claims he had no intention of surrendering during his mission to, quote, take out a list of high-profile politicians and celebrities, including tom hanks and hunter biden. as well as, of course, house speaker nancy pelosi who was in washington, d.c. at the time. the man's public defender argued there was no previous intent to harm paul pelosi. rather it happened in the spur of the moment once officers arrived. but he refused to answer questions about a possible defense strategy or if any kind of plea deal was in the works. now in a parallel case, the man
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faces federal criminal charges. he is being held without bail here at the san francisco county jail. >> julie: thank you very much. this is a fun two hours. should we do it again tomorrow? >> i think we should and the next day. j >> julie: thanks for watching us at home. >> rich: molly line in is for harris. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> molly: reaction pouring in after a supreme court order keeps title 42 in place against the white house's wishes at least for now. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm molly line in for harris. the nation's high court in a 5-4 order will not expire just yet. 19gop led states asked the court to keep it in place. there is a february timeline to hear arguments i

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