me to sit in his seat. i hope you have a chance to check out my website. or my twitter handle, or my podcast, which is jason in the house. it's time to turn it over to "the angle." we have raymond araegard -- aratio. >> good to see you. this is a special edition of the img from new york city but first we have a fox news alert. we're learning that the health of pope benedict has taken a plastic turn. the former pontiff is sick. it's being reported that benedict is experiencing kidney failure. we'll monitor any breaking news on this situation and bring it to you as it comes.

but first. our major cities did not get the merry christmas citizens wanted this year, for some it was a downright scary christmas there. were many cities where santa stayed in the air. we report isolated crime events throughout the year particularly in l.a. and new york but the national crime picture often gets ignored. when you look at the year it was it takes your breath away or at least it should. this is video of linda fricke, a 73-year-old grandmother from new orleans who was in her car when four teens rushed it, forcing her out. she got caught in the safety belt and they dragged her, it severed her arm from her body and she bled to death in the street. at least they capture her four attackers but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than 260 homicides in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital

of the country this week with a 52% in homicides since 2019. today another man was shot in the french quarter and just two days before christmas comedian brandon boogie b. montreal was visiting his family for the holidays. he went to the grocery and was shot to death. possibly by a stray bullet involving a shoot-out between others. his mother, mrs. price, explained it this way. >> the erosion of the community and the care for the community and the neglect, not of the city and not of the tourists, the city has neglected its children. >> jason: mrs. price is so right. the community and those vowed to protect it have little regard for human life, even young ones. what's driving this pattern of criminality among young people? it's not just new orleans. nationally homicides and theft

have skyrocketed. shooting deaths in chicago have become so routine they barely get mentioned nationally. little children are shot. pedestrians and innocent citizens are caught up in this mal strom of lawless violence. chicago will likely end 2022 with 700 murders. just imagine the families missing relatives. neighborhoods without children. yet mayor lightfoot says things are going great. look at the improvements. the murder extends to places like milwaukee, ending the year by breaking his homicide record for the third year in a row or kansas city with the second bloodiest year on record. over at the mall of america, in minneapolis, inside norm stromas, day before christmas eve, this happened. [indistinguishable noises]

>> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> yesterday was the first firearms-related homicide in the history of the mall of america. five people were arrested. three juvenile males who are 17 years old, and two adult males who are 18 years old. >> jason: 19-year-old juante hudson died in the store shot. authorities got a second charging extension for the five suspects today. if they don't charge them by noon tomorrow, they will be released. this is just outrageous. we're neglecting our children by not enforcing the law, and by not making them subject to hard consequences for deadly actions. it's not justice to allow kids to kill or steal without consequences. it's gotten to the point where i know people who actually hire security to accompany them to the gas station for a refill.

if you live in a place like philadelphia you can't blame them. the city of brotherly love just broke an all-time record for carjackings. they had over a thousand. criminals just pull up to gas station with guns and take whatever vehicle they like. it's sort of a thug car dealership. this is now a full-scale epidemic across the country. in chicago, there were 19,784 car thefts in the city so far this year. a 99% increase. haven't they heard of uber? you can't rent a ride, guys. you don't have to boost it. this dizzying cycle of criminality all across america should startle us and rage us into action. we forget the lives altered. meanwhile, our public safety and our children continue to suffer. let's have a true new year in 2023 and not one that continues. the bloody track record of the

year dying this week. for answers about what we should be doing next are some true professionals. joining me now is captain mike -- of the new orleans police department and brandon tatum. he's former tucson officer and host of the officer tatum show and podcast channel. thank you for being here. captain, i want to start with you. your department in new orleans is operating with 40% less cops than they need. i know they are promising bonuses but what's the answer? i know there are other extenuating circumstances, suppressing and not allowing the police to do their job. >> well, suffering from the same national trends that most departments and most progressive cities are in the country. however, new orleans has additional problems. we have a very restrictive federal consent decree, which has strangle hold on the police department which allows us to effectively handle crime.

between january 1 and now we have 163 officers who have left the job. 274 murders as of this evening and nothing changes. and that's the problem. nothing ever changes. >> and you've got a d.a. who won't prosecute crime. a mayor who is leaning politically on the police department at times, and you mentioned the consent decree. the federal government still policing our police force, what, since 2013. this has been going on for too long. a california bail group backed by multiple celebs is shutting down its las vegas operation, after being sued for one of its benefactors. it posted a $3,000 bond for a serial burglary suspect who six days later shot a waiter 11 times. brandon, do you think these bail organizations will learn a lesson from this particular

story, and aren't releasing repeat offenders a huge obstacle to public safety? >> i hope they learn their lesson. he had firearms. dangerous suspect. it resulted in another person getting shot. almost killed. the man got hit seven times. i'm hoping this is an eye-opening experience and they won't be able to stand the lawsuits that will come down the pipe if they continue to do these things. some people need to stay in jail. some people need to be incarcerated. many who are incarcerated need to be separated from the criminal activity they are involved in. most of the people who are involved as victims, most who are suspects, the leadership,

are left wing with african-american individuals. >> speak to me for moment. every time i walk through the french quarter or new york city, or l.a., you smell pot everywhere you go. tell me the role of drugs in all of this. the legalization of drugs. we just had colorado which legalized the use of hallucinogens. what burden does this place on cops trying to maintain order and enforce the law? >> when you're trying to deal with behavior, i think allowing people or encouraging people to use drugs and to alter their behavior make it even worse cannot be a good thing. there are reasons for us having the drug laws that we've had. they are not good things for us, and encouraging it is causing more problems than the freedoms that people think they want to have with that. there are penalties and consequences. we see it all the time with alcohol. we have a lot of problems with

dwi with alcohol and now we're going to add to it and make it worse. >> it's amazing to me. the public pays the consequences, not the perpetrator. a final quick question. bran don, i'll start with you, people in l.a., new york, hiring personal security squads. is this the answer to public safety in america today, brandon? >> it's going to end up being that way because if you continue to de moralize, dehumanize, and not give them the tools that are necessary and the support that's necessary to do their job, you're going to have nothing left. police departments are decimated. people are leaving the force. people aren't signing up anymore and this is the result of bad policy. i'm hoping that one day people get their act together and allow police officers in america to be police officers again and we wouldn't have to have people hiring their own independent security force. it's a waste of money. people are all paying taxes.

it should be done efficiently and effectively. >> i'll give you the last word, captain glasser. >> well, you know, we're the murder capital of the country and it's a sad fact but there is hope on the horizon. we just swore in a new superintendent six days ago and we're hoping she'll bring some changes in management, and hopefully she'll have the autonomy to run the department without the political interference, without the federal judge and without the federal monitors, and just have the autonomy to do the right thing and let us become police officers again. >> both of you seem to be saying it's policy driving this in addition to extenuating circumstances but the policy we can control. the rest of it, hopefully in time, we'll be able to. gentlemen, thank you for being here. more than half a million illegals have been arrested at the border since october 1 and nearly 234,000 just in the month of november alone. a new record. but some partisans insist it's

all a mirage. look away. >> the developing situation at the border is being described by some as a crisis. >> people are overstating what's happening at the border. if you close border for so long of course there will be a temporary influx of people bullet nationally it will even out. >> part of this story is the failure of republicans for the past 10 years to actually cooperate with democrats in finally reforming our immigration system. >> joining us is molly hemingway, editor and chief at the federalist as well as stephen moore, former trump senior economic adviser and freedom work senior economic contributor. thank you both. molly, it's not a border crisis at all and if it was the republicans are at fault, right? . >> it's really amazing how much work went into tearing down our boarder. we have no southern border. we've handed over control of the border to murderous and dangerous cartels in mexico who engage in all sorts of human rights abuses which we're

allowing because of our refusal to just have a functional border, where we enforce rule of law, where we enforce, just following the law, about how and when you come to this country, if you want. it's great that we have immigrants in this country but this needs to be done in an orderly way and the humanitarian crisis, the human trafficking, the drug trafficking, the abuse of women and children that takes place because cartels are functionally controlling our border, you can wish it away, you can pretend that it's not a big issue but it's really a very important issue. >> i love the comment about title 42. if you just get rid of title 42, we'll go back to how things were. stephen, last time i checked things were pretty good. under the trump administration, you didn't have this. they were turning people away. we had the stay in mexico policy. it seemed like the border at least at that time was under control. >> there is no doubt about it,

raymond. we did under trump have the most secure border we've had in 25 or 30 years. it was a top priority of donald trump. i've talked to trump many times about this. we wanted to get the border secure, build the wall, make sure we had the security forces and the board agents there, and then we would have a policy, raymond that we could get the immigrants who wanted to come into this country really, and contribute to our society, but you can't have one without the other and trump, i think, realized that, and to see the difference in just two years, raymond, from where we were when trump was president, and we had that border secure, and then, you know, you're seeing on your screen now the travesty of what's going on. by the way, most of those immigrants are not criminals, who want to come into this country but some of them are, raymond. and some of them are real security threats but unless you have an orderly process you can't tell who is who. >> raymond: steve, you hit on

it, though, we want an orderly process and we've not had that in years and that's terrible. i want to talk to you about the economy. inflation is still a major problem for americans. grocery prices up 12% but to put that into dollars. our senior producer was food shopping for her family. she found the pies of a bag of romaine lettuce was $9.99. she asked if it was a typo. the cashier said it wasn't. how can they sustain this >> it's a tax on the american worker. as we close 2022, the taxpayer has lost $4,500 in income in terms of take home pay and it's the reason why people run up their credit card debt. they can't afford the gasors heat up their home. the grocery prices are going up every year and it's been one of the worst years for americans in terms of incomes and their savings, too, are being depleted by this high inflation. >> molly, all of this, again, policy, policy, policy, whether

it's criminal justice policy, border policy, or economic policy, the effects are r ruinu0us. the best and worst political stories of the year. listen to this. >> what's the worst political story of the year? >> ukraine, inflation, the border, crime. there are a lot of them. >> the border, the economy. >> are these the winners or the losers of the year? >> the losers. >> what are the winners? >> we live in new york and we flipped a lot of seats in new york. so i'm happy about that. >> i think border is the worst. >> obviously the border, loss of control at the border. open borders. >> best political story was elon buying twitter. >> the best was elon musk buying twitter.

>> the best. >> i hadn't even thought of that story. >> the biden administration, worst story. >> the worst political story? >> really, anything to do with the bidens. molly, that musk story actually surprised me. i mean, my best political story, i think is yours as well. what's your best and worst of the year, you cover this so closely. >> far and away the best story of the year was the dobbs decision which overturned roe v. wade. this was a huge success. many human rights activities, christians, conservatives, pro-lifers, worked for 50 years to overturn roe, a decision which invented a constitutional right to abortion. dobbs clarified, it's not in the constitution and it returns it to the states. just a massive victory and you can't forget that. i also thought that the twitter file story, the twitter story was big. elon musk buying twitter was the first time we saw any kind of pushback to this horrible thing that's been happening in this

country, this move against free speech, tolerance, free debate. elon musk purchasing twitter and releasing information about how our own government is conspiring to limit free speech or work against our first amendment rights was very important, and i do also have to say great year for wyoming, and the country by ousting liz cheney who had become a rabid hater. great work by wyoming. >> molly, that was kind of a best and worst in one with liz cheney. pretty good. steve, your best and worst political stories of the year? >> the best story of the year is the incredible job that the government of florida ron desantis has done in terms of running that state in such a professional way. wouldn't bit a wonderful way if he were president someday. the worst story to me is what's happened to our schools. we have the worst test scores in 30 or 40 years. this is child abuse. we should never, never, never ever shut down our schools again.

i agree with you both. great insights. >> my worst story of the year was the targeting of supreme court justices and people you disagree with politically with hatred, violence and docking. that should never happening in the new year or beyond. molly and steve, merry christmas, happy new year, thank you for being here. coming up, for of your answers from my adventures on the streets of new york but first, secretary buttigieg loves calling roads race effort but he's having a hard time getting americans home for the holidays. house transportation committee member republican nicole -- says she's ready to hold mayor pete accountable. she's here next. : travelers acre

country are stranded in 80s some even for days as the airlines canceled thousands of flights. while many airlines have recovered and are back in action southwest canceled another 2,500 flights today and nearly 2,400 tomorrow. fox news senior correspondent mike tobin is at midway airport in chicago with all the details. mike?

>> raymond, it would be a little inaccurate to say it's -- it's gotten smaller to me throughout the day. low-tech just finding their bags but still you have a lot of people who are stuck away from home. you've got a flight staff that can't communicate with that you are scheduling center to make themselves available for flights so you have a lot of tired people and all they want to do is get home. >> our luggage is missing. it's mia. >> we canceled southwest entirely and we're hoping we'll get a refund. >> 2,885 domestic flights were canceled today. 86% of them were southwest. the southwest pilots union as well as the flight attendants union says the meltdown was predictable because southwest executives did not invest in and modernize the logistic and communication technology. the c.e.o. of southwest offered an apology. >> the tolls we use to recover

from disruption service, 99% of the time but clearly we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what's happening right now. >> southwest airlines did receive over $7 billion in federal assistance. a spokesman said it was used for payroll to prevent furloughs. >> raymond: back to you, mike. >> what this indicates is a system failure. earlier this year especially over the summer we saw a lot of problems with a lot of airlines and i pressed them to increase their customer service commitments, to put it in writing, and now that they have put it in writing we can enforce that so i reminded them of their promises and reminded them that we'll be here to hold them accountable. to things like taking care of the expenses of those passengers. >> raymond: mayor pete will hold

them accountable. this guy is bragging about making southwest put customer service commitments in writing. yes, people want to get refunded for the chaos and have their expenses paid but that doesn't help them right now. to hold the airlines accountable you have to understand the problem and it's not clear this administration does. there was a rash of cancellations last winter and even during the summer. but so far, there have been no concrete solutions offered to remedy this travel gridlock. joining me is congresswoman nicole malliotakis, a member of the house transportation and infrastructure committee. congress, the republicans, take control next week. you sit on the transportation committee, lucky you. will there be an investigation into this mess? >> we definitely should bring in these airlines and find out what's going on. in this case southwest got $7 billion and there was tens of billions that went out to all the airlines to keep them afloat

and they still furloughed employees. they did not choose to upgrade their system there for scheduling, and that's what created a lot of the headache that you're seeing now. as a matter of fact, i think what's really frustrating the taxpayers foot the bill, $7 billion, and then they decide they are going to issue dividends to their stockholders instead of making those necessary improvements to make sure they can keep these flights on schedule and avoid these types of cancellations. southwest, as you know, point-to-point, is a hub system so if you cancel one it creates this domino effect and that's exactly what happened but it could have been avoided had they had a more modern system in place. >> i've been speaking to a lot of pilots over the last few days. they claim the biden administration rejected a bill that lindsey graham and others put forward in the senate that would lower or, rather, extend the retirement age for pilots from 75 to -- 67.

i guess it's okay to be president at 85 but you can't fly a president beyond 65. i got that. why would they be opposed to something so elementary as lowering the retirement age, extending it, to let pilots with proven experience stay in the skies a little longer? >> sure, especially if you have an assistant pilot if something were to happen there is a back-up. there are a lot of bills that are in play right now that we need to take up seriously, i think, in the house majority. what's really frustrating is that pete buttigieg brought in all of these airlines and said he was holding them accountable, and he was going to push them to fix their operation so there wouldn't be cancellations and he actually said coming out of these meetings that they would be prepared for the holidays. if he had fixed this for the holiday season. look what happened. i think that's what's frustrating to the american people. you hear the administration talk about accountability and fixing things and yet we find out the same problem keeps getting worse. we see it at the boarder,

inflation, supply chain issues, the administration is so out of touch. we have the president on a private plane to st. croix. you've got energy price through the roof. people can't afford their heating bills. they are choosing between putting food on the table and heat because of the inflation and energy crisis that the president created and now we see a border crisis continuing to be made worse by this administration. >> speaking of private planes, buttigieg, an advocate of increased government action to curb carbon emissions, he's taken at least 18 flights using taxpayer funded private jets since taking office. it's unclear the exact number but the f.a.a. has charged federal agencies roughly $5,000 an hour to use its fleet. congre congresswoman, rules for them, not for me. remember, poor all tom price and the trump administration had to resign for taking 26 flights. pete buttigieg is almost there. >> we have to continue to shame

them because there is hypocrisy there. aoc takes not one, but two gas guzzling suvs two blocks to go vote from the house legislative building to the capitol. why? you claim to be the advocate for climate change and want all electric vehicles by 2035, there is just a hypocrisy here. i'm all for clean energy but we need diversification. like new york, they are closing the indian point power plant. they won't extend gas fired plants and now they are complaining the electric rates are too high. there is a hypocrisy here, and they are about politics, not policy. the house republicans will be different. we're going to pass bills to push for energy independence and border security and to address supply chain issues. we'll see what the senate does in turn. that's the only leverage we

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>> raymond: it's time for our seen and unseen segment where we repeal the story behind the headlines. we have actor and director robert -- merry christmas. you came costumed. i love it. a woman named maryjane copps has cornered the market on

overcoming phone phoneia. she charges $480 per hour for her services. she says gen's were never taught how to speak on the phone. she teaches them how to overcome their fear by giving them advice like this. >> let's visit the idea of taking care of your voice. your voice is your brand. i'm going to talk to you about the importance give viewing all your phone calls as meetings. we want to use this discover call to display our confidence, if there is background noise, it's a distraction on a phone call. >> raymond: robert, the average age children get their phones is 11 years old. why would they be afraid to use something they have had since elementary school? >> because they don't phone. they text. and a lot of adults have the same kind of phobia, raymond. they are afraid of talking on

the phone. they have lost that art. they would rather text, and this is, i think, it's for tik tok, it's for instagram, other kind of aps, but they don't speak on the phone. they don't call up and say what are you guys doing? i have kids that text me. you go to a restaurant, adults are texting back and forth. they have lost -- look, genx needs a lot more training on other things besides the phone. >> raymond: how about interaction. it's vocal queues thcues. she needs to -- hear -- here are some people we talked to today. >> some people are afraid to talk if they are ordering pizza. it's a good skill to have. >> i would rather text because it's easier.

i decline calls. why not just text me. >> mostly i usually text but phone calls are not like trouble for me. if someone calls me, i'll answer and i'll talk to them but i'm not usually making a phone call. >> raymond: you've acted your whole life. it just occurred to me. could this be why acting is degraded and degrading in our culture today because, you can't replicate motions and sensitive details that you've never seen in your life? >> apparently that's artificial intelligence. we plug in our brain and lose human reaction. with acting classes, skype classes, kids aren't getting up and doing scene study like they did with strasburg and the rest of them. those are few and far between, and it's endemic of whole

society. look. you call up a service. you don't speak to a human being. you have 45 prompts to get through to somebody. maybe who is a human being that can speak english. >> raymond: it's all meant to delay human contact. robert, i need to move on. director james cameron has been out promoting the sequel to his new film after tar. he spoke to someone about his past use of guns in films. he says i look back at some of the films that i have made and i don't know if i would want to fetish-ize like i did in terminator a couple of years ago. what is happening turns my stomach. i'm happy to be living in new zealand where they just banned all assault rifles. he also went on to say he cut about 10 minutes of gun play from his newest movie. hollywood should take note, robert. this is one way to get james

cameron to cut down his movies but it strikes me, this is like dolly parton. he made his money on gun play. terminator, true lies, all of this stuff had gun play. it feels like latter day virtue signalling to me, what say you? >> yes, i used to ride motorcycles with him and arnold schwarzenegger. look, there is a crisis in hollywood whereby white men, white show runners, white riders, white directors, older guys, are not getting hired. they want younger or people of color. so there is a fear i'm sure in terms of saying, i don't want to feel out of touch with this gen-z generation. whatever is happening out there in society. that's part of the issue. there is a fear. there has to be.

it can also be, because i don't know his current state of being, but there could also be a revelation in terms of, you know, the violence in hollywood films, what it portrayed. i say what about the gaming? the gaming is even worse? the gaming is an active participation of violence to a nonhuman object that's pretending to be a human. >> raymond: you're absolutely right. the gaming is far more pervasive and influential than films. kids are spending hours immersed in it, communicating with each other through these gaming platforms. the other thing that he said robert cameron said is that he regretted the toxic masculinity of his films in the past. now, in the year that saw top gun as the number one movie in the country, it's an odd time to pick a fight with masculinity, isn't it? >> it's a sign of the times.

it's an unfortunate, very unfortunate thing that's happening. i talked to a friend of mine, my new neighbor here in tabta, he's an ex-green beret guy, wonderful person, i won't mention his name but highly decorated. he told me that in the military now, this toxic masculinity, that women who cannot do the job, let's say for men, they have to do eight dead lifts. a woman can do half a thing, and then when they get into situations, a woman was jumping out of the plane and she couldn't pull herself up to untangle -- so it's a problem. >> raymond: robert, i were i had more time. we'll discuss toxic masculinity in all its varieties when we return in the new year. >> i'm also a singer, don't forget. >> raymond: okay. amid rising inflation, open border and travel crisis the "washington post" is publishing

a massive year long investigation into acceptable and unacceptable art work at the u.s. capitol. the "post" is now saying this historic painting of the signing of declaration of independence is racist. horace cooper is here on the push to erase american history next.

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>> raymond: erasing our history, west point starts the new year by removing robert e. lee's uniform from the library. planning to change basically anything named after him. the focus is now turning to the u.s. capitol. the "washington post" just published findings from a years' long investigation into congress's not -- not how much money they waste but about congress's relationship with slavery, examining more than 400 statues and paintings, and wouldn't you know, they found issues with many of them particularly when it came to the founders. many of the works depict multiple enslavers like the painting of the signing of the decoration of independence in the capitol rotunda. joining us now horace cooper, author of "put you all back in

chains." they have identified 139 art works and 13 confederates. what do you make of this year long investigation into this? >> this is pitiful. this is sad. i worked on capitol hill for more than a decade. not only was i never in any way troubled, dismayed, or bothered but instead, i found fascinating the history of america. none of the other employees and co-workers that i interacted with had these kinds of complaints, including blacks, whites, and browns. what we're seeing is a rewrite of america. we must start, what i refer to as the hate america first plan, whether it's the "washington post", or whether it's some other progressive group. why aren't we focusing on

reconciliation? the biggest war -- >> raymond: go ahead. >> the biggest war that we americans have ever been in, the one that's left the most life lost is the civil war. we made an amazing and remarkable sacrifice. now, are we going to avoid the kind of reconciliation that we were able to do with the japanese and the germans? did we insist that mitsubishi not be allowed to sell their products in america, that they had to redesign their logo? are we banning volkswagen, hitler's people's car from being able to be sold in america? we have adopted reconciliation for some of the most hateful incidents that have ever

happened in modern times. why aren't we able to reconcile with the past? >> raymond: horace, without acknowledging the dark shadows of your history, you're right, you can never reconcile and you can never move on and it seems to me by just stripping away anything, nancy pelosi removed the portraits of four speakers of the house because of their ties to the past and things she found disagreeable, yet robert byrd's image in 2007, senator robert byrd, whom they all knew, you can see joe biden there on the left side of your screen, this guy was an excited cyclops in the ku klux klan but his image continues to hang in the capitol. there seems to be a double standard here. >> our president is the great grandson of a slave holder. are we really going to be this foolish where we pick winners and losers? progressives get a pass and

others who made this amazing country don't? this is just sad. >> raymond: the "washington post" should spend its time going through the line items of the budget that would serve america far more than playing curator. the virtue signaling. thank you. when i was out talking today on the streets of new york i came across a family celebrating a particular milestone, one that should give us all hope. the last bite explains. stay there.

>> if you look hard enough you can find inspiration at christmas time, even in new york. this little girl and her family were in town to celebrate the last of her chemotherapy treatments. watch. >> what are you looking forward to most in 2023? >> madeleine being all finished with treatment. we can't wait to have madeleine back to being a kid. >> madeleine came through with flying colours and we're so proud of her.

congratulations, and you look beautiful. >> thank you. >> you look spectacular. >> mom and dad i know take good care of you, right? >> i want to the american girls store. >> i want to go, too. >> they may have to mortgage the house to pay for that doll but we're so proud of her. the wise men have found christmas everywhere. see you tomorrow. >> i'm filling in for greg. he said he's off skiing with a glass table an