>> jacqui: big tech has long come under fire for the notorious algorithms accused of getting kids hooked on brain rotting filth. the latest accusations are farther than before. saying the big tech got their loved ones killed by isis. now supreme court is taking up the high stakes case and it could change the face of social media in a very big way.

>> bill: also the debate that has everybody taking sides, while some restaurants let kids eat free, one restaurant is letting kids eat free from kids. no children allowed, people who want to dine in peace. some parents say it's a slap in the face. we'll take you there coming up this hour. >> jacqui: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into the second hour, jacqui heinrich in washington. bill, good to be with you. >> bill: nice to see you, jacqui. sandra and john have the day off. first, a fox news alert from overseas, check it out. >> jacqui: begin this hour with a duelling display on the world stage. president biden making a surprise visit to war torn ukraine all while china prepares to send its top diplomat to russia. >> bill: so that's happening as president putin gears up for a major address, marking one year since the invasion began.

tomorrow morning early our time. he's hoping for some support from the communist nation, he might just get it, jacqui. >> jacqui: the u.s. is warning china may be ready to send lethal support to moscow, that as ukraine fends off a new russian offensive. >> bill: president biden pledges unwavering support for the nation, billions more in aid. critics question if and when there will be an off ramp. >> effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified, and it can escalate, and i don't think we should get into a proxy war with china. behoof them to identify what is the strategic objective they are trying to achieve. >> jacqui: rebecca is standing by to tell us what putin's path

might look like. >> bill: and russia's deepening ties with communist china. >> jacqui: and peter doocy travelling with the president in poland. >> when the president gets to warsaw, a big speech in the evening warsaw time tomorrow, and we expect to hear him call putin out by name. >> putin's war of conquest is failing. russia's military has lost half its territory it once occupied. he thought he could outlast us, i don't think he's thinking that right now. >> he, putin, got a head's up that biden was going to drop into ukraine today. of officials are not saying how they responded, but every precaution was taken. the president took a train and got, he traveled with a much smaller footprint than usual.

>> travelling party accompanying the president wag basically of a handful of his closest aides, medical, photographer. >> biden officials we are talking to in poland are not sweating a potential russian response to the kyiv trip. instead, keeping the focus on the half a billion dollars in new aid that biden brought to fight putin. >> i guess the question would be what the response would be worse than what the russians are doing now. russia has been brutally invading and attacking ukraine for the last year. there were air raid sirens we heard going off in kyiv while the president was on the ground. >> president biden did not give the ukrainian f-16 fighter jets they have been asking for but zelenskyy is not too bothered.

he says it's the most important visit by a u.s. president in the history of the u.s. and ukraine relationship. >> jacqui: and did not look certain until we heard about it after the fact, obviously for security reasons. >> bill: as the visit happens in ukraine, russia may be enlisting help from another american adversary. secretary of state antony blinken warning that china may consider giving putin's army lethal support as that war approaches year number two. jennifer griffin from the pentagon with the details on that, and jen, how has china reacted to the state department's allegations that they may begin helping putin's army? >> well, bill, a war of words has erupted between the u.s. and china a day after secretary of state antony blinken said he told china not to begin arming russia. secretary blinken while visiting turkey to provide earthquake assistance again warned china today there would be "real consequences" were china to

provide lethal assistance to russia or help russia evade sanctions as the war in ukraine enters a second year. blinken said sunday u.s. intelligence suggests china is preparing to provide arms and ammunition to russia. >> the concern that we have now is based on information we have that they are considering providing lethal support, and we have made very clear to them that would cause a serious problem for us and in our relationship. >> putin and president xi spoke virtually on december 30th. so far, china has stopped short of providing russia weapons, claiming to be neutral, while blocking criticism of russia's invasion at the u.n. >> it is the u.s. who kept providing weapons to the battlefield, not china. u.s. is in no position to tell us what to do and never being an except the finger pointing and coercion and pressure on china-russia relations. who is calling for the dialogue and striving for peace and who

was fanning flames and stoking confrontation, the international community sees clearly. >> meanwhile, russia and china joined south africa for ten days of joint naval exercises to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the war. a russian frigate alleged to be carrying a hypersonic weapon docked in cape town with z and v on the flanks, symbols they use to promote the war in ukraine. a bipartisan congressional delegation, including sop members of the china select committee on competition began a fi five-dayvisit, viewed as the father of the chip industry. the delegation, includes silicon valley congressional representative, congressman will meet with the taiwan president as well. by the deputy assistant

secretary of defense for china. >> bill: a lot going on, thank you from the pentagon. >> jacqui: more on this, rebecca, former defense intelligence agency officer and author of "russia's secret plan to defeat america." rebecca, thanks so much for coming on. i think what strikes me is to hear antony blinken not parsing words, sounding the alarm that china is possibly going to be providing lethal support to russia, would indicate there's a real concern there and how are we to read china's response that this is all nonsense? these are the same people still claiming this was a weather device, not a spy balloon. >> oh, this was absolutely not a weather device. this was an unmanned high altitude vehicle that was sent here specifically because the chinese have identified a glaring gap in our air space

security. ok. so, china indeed is already providing lethal support to russia. >> jacqui: already. >> already. unmanned aircraft. these are drones that the russians have been using to target ukrainians, right. and so given that russia and china have announced the so-called no limit partnership, which is not really a true partnership but they are joining forces to challenge the united states and the biggest threat for us right now, especially when we have one war in the european theater, is a two-theater war, that right now our military analysts are concerned that we are not going to be able to handle because we are depleting our own stockpile of weaponry by having provided $196 billion worth of high-tech military hardware. we are talking ammo, the ukrainians have a very high burn rate. >> jacqui: i know what you are

talking about on the drones, the dji drones to track ukrainians on the battlefield and monitor uyghur camps and the u.s., a number of our agencies have used them in the past, department of the interior dropped them a couple years ago because of concerns china could be hacking them but still in use all over the country, state and local police departments, so that's a risk. but when we are talking about lethal support, that would be a significant change from, you know, this drone software that is to be found all over the planet. turning to one other thing you said about a concern that we might be burning through our stockpiles. obviously there could be fatigue in the coming days and weeks and years, especially among the american public about continuing to support ukraine when there is not an end to this war in sight. that being said, we have been hearing that the moldovan

president warning of a coup, and russian could use tactical nuke, chemical weapon could change the trajectory of this war. do you see any indications this is heading in a more concerning direction, that putin is, you know, going to move forward at all costs and we need to, even though we have concerns about our stockpiles, maintain support and maybe change our posture and how much we produce? >> ok, first of all, putin is indeed a rational actor. i spent my intelligence career on this target. russia, in doctrine strategy and putin. his thinking is not american thinking. he's not suicidal. i would like to point out a cognitive disconnect in president biden's assessment of russian strategy and putin's decision calculus. president biden says russia has failed in ukraine. well, if russia has failed in

ukraine, why do we need top of the line high-tech weaponry to them and how in the world if russia has exhibited this tremendous tactical incompetence, which it did, that it's going to go after poland, moldova, and any of these countries. first of all, it will trigger article 5, collective defense if putin were to invade poland. he's not suicidal. he's 100% rational, ok. so, i don't assess that putin is going to use chemical weapons or even nuclear weapons unless the russian intelligence concludes that we are about to deploy forces into the theater or we are about to deploy, you know, war planes or any kind -- take any action that will significantly flip the battlefield. >> jacqui: you are saying he could take some significant action if the u.s. provides war

planes. that's an interesting point you are making there. >> absolutely, because the war planes could strike russia proper, and look, we have war gamed all of this back in the intelligence community. dozens of war games. every conflict ended up in cyber armageddon, nuclear armageddon, and the president knows that. >> jacqui: we have to leave it there. >> bill: big topic. more on that, jacqui. new threats from another u.s. adversary, north korea firing two short range missiles into the waters toward japan earlier today. the latest launches coming after dictator, kim jong-un powerful sister could turn it into a firing range. one official says they will only strengthen calls for the south to have nuclear weapons of their

own. seems north korea is on something always. >> jacqui: you have to keep your eye on so many places, not north korea, it's china, russia, and only monday. >> bill: getting help from somewhere. >> jacqui: the toxic train derailment, is the response diminishing trust in washington? >> bill: hard landing, soft landing, how about no landing at all. a new warning from wall street on the fed flight against inflation and where the stock market may go as a result. our money team is on deck to talk economics. my name is joshua florence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future

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>> jacqui: in custody after a beloved catholic bishop was shot and killed in his los angeles only. david o'connell served 45 years in the community and remembered as a peacemaker who often worked with gang members. the jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with the details. they got the suspect in the last few hours. >> just a couple hours ago, in fact, jacqui. the suspect in the murder of bishop david o'connell taken into custody this morning after an hours' long barricade situation at a home in torrence, south of downtown l.a., and 30 miles southwest of the murder seen in hacienda heights. tells fox the suspect knew the bishop through a relative, which might explain why there was no sign of forced entry at the home where the bishop died on saturday from a single gunshot to the upper body.

since the news of the bishop's murder first broke, parishioners have gathered near his home to pay tribute to a man known for his work reaching out to gang members, as a champion of immigrant rights and as a friend to the homeless. >> he was so soft spoken, he was a humble soul, he was not the type that would have confrontations with nobody. he was very loving and he had like a gift appealing. >> i was actually scared to tell my wife, because my wife loved him so much. >> bishop o'connell first came to prominence in the wake of the riots that followed 1992 acquittal of the los angeles police officers who beat rodney king. and for decades the bishop worked to build bridges in the communities he served. we are expecting a news conference with the sheriff's department here later today where we should learn a lot more about the suspect and exactly

how and why this tragic murder happened. jacqui. >> jacqui: terrible story. >> bill: sure is. experts have debated whether there will be a soft landing with a stable economy or hard landing with a deep recession. what happens if there is no landing at all? the scenario bank of america predicts for the first half the year. interest rates will remain high for longer with inflation still way above the fed target number. robert wolf worked for president obama, steve moore for president trump, and gentlemen, start your engines, here we go, all right, daytona 500 words. michael hartnet, bank of america warns no landing scenario could clobber stocks later this year. no landing means no fed pausing, he warns, the fed will always break something, he projects s &

p 500 could tumble 7%, quite the fall. how do you see it, is he on to something? >> he's too negative for me. one, i think inflation will stay above the fed target, probably into 24. that being said, i don't see recession and don't see the stock market being off 10% in the next 30 days. the the reason i don't see a recession coming is although inflation is going to stay higher than 4% likely, i think purchasing power, wages are going to do much better and we know the inflation was caused from partly covid, partly the war, but durable goods inflation to the service sector. we need wages to come up, so we can spend more on goods and services. >> bill: pretty optimistic outlook, steve, care to differ or agree? >> look, i'm not going to say we are headed to any kind of crash landing. i certainly agree with robert on that. and he makes some good points

about, you know, this -- the employment situation has been very strong. here is what worries me so much about this economy, buill, we talked last week on the show, the situation, great consumer retail spending number last week, but guess what, how are people paying for that increased retail spending? bill? they are borrowing more. not only would we have record amounts of debt in washington with our national debt headed to $50 trillion over ten years, but then we have consumers that cannot pay their bills because of the problem that robert just mentioned, that wages are not keeping up with the inflation rate, so you have more people, you have a trillion dollars of credit card debt right now, you have people digging into their 401(k) retirement plans to pay their bills. big, big problem. i don't think consumers can keep up this space of spending>> bill: airlines are up 25%,

electricity is up double digits, so is poultry and milk, on and on it goes. what i hear from you and steve every time we get together on moments like this is that both v you gentlemen look for pro growth policies coming from washington. that will help spur growth. what is the pro growth policy from this administration now? >> yeah, so, listen, unlike president trump, which could not pass the infrastructure bill, president biden did and it's going to be executed a lot of it in 23, north of 100 billion. fastest multiplier of gdp growth and wages, 1.6 times multiplier, building things, whether it's manufacturing plants, whatever it may be, and so i feel very optimistic, actually, that we are going to see wages outperform inflation in most sectors. look at hospitality and leisure. wages are up north of 15%,

double what inflation is today. so yeah, there's going to be a hang, i think energy is probably where i'm most nervous, i think the ukraine war will be longer than expected and also think unfortunately with the china opening, you know, energy demand will stay high. >> yeah, they can't get infrastructure built because the biden environmental protection agency is not allowing any permitting of the green energy projects, of the pipelines, you can't get roads, bridges, everybody is complaining about that. and what i would say, too, the most important infrastructure we need is not government funded infrastructure, we need our businesses, private infrastructure. all we need to do is get the government out of the way of the energy area and we would be producing about $200 billion a year more oil and gas and coal in this country. >> bill: i don't know if you can get your way right now, steve, but you can help. steve moore, robert wolf, thank you, gentlemen. good to have you on today. >> jacqui: one italian

restaurant deciding that family style dining does not mean bring the whole family. the restaurant is hoping to cater to people looking to dine in peace without little kids around. but not everyone is happy with that idea. >> bill: how is that going to work out, right? and growing backlash for the response in the ohio train derailment. critics say it's part of a larger pattern for how the federal government treats middle america, wow. mollie hemingway on the ongoing disaster, she's next. >> the people of east palestine are down trodden, feel abandoned and disrespected. month?ayment every car loans can be expensive and the payments high. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month.

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worried washington will leave them hanging. team fox coverage now, garrett, what was his message? >> alan shaw, the c.e.o. of norfolk southern's second visit since the derailment, he met with first responders, clean-up teams and folks living through the disaster his company caused. his message to them. >> devastating to this community and i want to make sure you understand i am terribly sorry this happened to the community. norfolk southern is fully committed to doing what's right for this community. >> we are told alan shaw promised city leaders to make the town whole again and have it be like it was back on february 2nd. but almost every single person that we have spoken to this past week has said their town will

never be the same again, and they don't believe the railway will ultimately be willing to spend the kind of money to even get close to that. >> i don't think it's possible. >> it's going to take a while to get everything back. >> i'm very uncertain, you know, i've never been afraid to go home and this was the first time i've ever been afraid to go home. >> the mayor says he is going to hold norfolk southern accountable. >> we have to hold him to it. right now we are believing, but for one second he doesn't do that, we'll be on the bully pulpit saying hey, you know, everybody come back and we'll show you what they did to our town. >> one thing folks here are looking forward to is a new medical clinic that will be opening at this church behind me tomorrow with experts in toxicology, disease and medicine, and answers the folks wish they could have gotten sooner. >> bill: they want them fast.

garrett, thanks. jacqui. >> jacqui: mollie hemingway, i think what the story comes down to for certainly people living in the community and people watching this unfold, has the response allowed anyone to have confidence in their elected leadership from the state and local to the white house, can you believe what you are being told, that you are safe and is this response sufficient. >> it's one thing to have an accident like this happen. these types of derailments or horrific toxic accidents, they happen. it's entirely another to talk about what the response has been, particularly from the federal agencies tasked with overseeing things like this. you did see in ohio, the governor got down there immediately, mike dewine, he's been talking about, some quibbles even how he is handling it, but the federal response has been nearly absent. it took forever for pete

buttigieg to even talk about what was going on, the secretary of transportation. this is a guy who you would would be on top of this as a way to show he's committed to his job, he's had so many troubles with other issues that are under his purview in the airlines and you know, previous railway issues, president biden has not really been talking about it, he's actually in a different country right now, rather than focusing on this horrific situation that is affecting east palestine and there's a lot of concern that it's because this is not a group that they want to cater to. but it's a really curious serious problem how the federal response has been lackluster. >> jacqui: the biden administration makes so much about the kids will drink clean water and clean air, and transportation secretary had a lot of big issues fall on his lap would have had an opportunity here to get out and say look, you know, this is -- there's a party responsible for this, it's norfolk southern and

we are doing it and do what we can. missed opportunity but the same time, are they trying to avoid public perception this is their fault, and is that what's driving this? >> you have the situation where sometimes people try to calm people down by something something is not a major issue. in this case, because the community understands it's a major issue, they are experiencing the animals dying, seeing the effects of the accident and the toxic situation, we have had a break down, like a system wide breakdown trust in the federal agencies, most is self-inflicted of the public health response was to the covid pandemic, agencies say one thing and then change in a few months to something opposite, issue mandates with no bases in science and not just affected trust in the larger public health agencies, it has affected trust in all sorts of agencies,

and this is a time when federal agencies could restore credibility and trust, and they seem to be nowhere to be found. >> jacqui: you are hearing the water and air are safe but then thousands of fish are dying and animals are dying. and sherrod brown admits the concerns are valid. >> they are right to be skeptical. e.p.a. administrator when i was there, both the state and the federal e.p.a. administrators said that but when you return to your home we think the water is safe but when you return to your home you should be tested again for your water and your soil and your air, not to mention those that have their own wells. >> jacqui: what does this whole debacle do to people's trust in science? >> well, you've got this toxic situation, these are not the most common types of situations. we have dioxins.

it's understandable if they are not clear what the risk is, they seem to be not exhibiting the caution you would hope they would show or shown in previous situations, dioxins in the environment, they tell people to clear out of the area. it's a difficult thing they need to tell the town they need to be cautious and the town cannot return to their homes. in this case the caution would be better and restore trust in people. >> jacqui: rather than this is what the facts are and yet people are living with the concerns. >> you have to accept it. >> jacqui: plenty of discussion about the sensitivity of the devices that measure the toxins and need for certainly a review of how you measure that and what -- and after action report, i'm sure that will be happening soon. thank you, appreciate it. bill. >> bill: coming up on week

three, too. big tech companies facing supreme court scrutiny in a case brought forward by some unexpected plaintiffs. why families of isis victims say google and twitter bear some responsibility for the death of their loved ones. we'll check that out, jacqui. >> jacqui: capitol hill is taking new action on tiktok. the latest push to crack down on the china-linked app and why bipartisan support for it seems to be growing. >> when it comes to china, if they tell bite dance, i want the info on the 70 million, 60 million americans, they have to turn it over. the "good news of " and, boy, do we need it. [ chuckles ] well, this safe driver saved money with the snapshot app from progressive. -how do you feel? -um, good? he's better than good. he got rewarded for driving safe and driving less. sorry, barb, just to confirm, this is the feel-good news of the week?

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>> jacqui: potential big tech crackdown is coming, thanks to a lawsuit with an unlikely plaintiff. families of isis victims say google and twitter allowed their algorithms to steer violent content toward potential extremists. the supreme court is set to hear their case. david spunt is here with the case. i understand two separate cases. >> two separate cases argued on two separate days, tomorrow and wednesday, but one overarching theme, and the overarching issue is immunity for big tech. the high court will hear the cases over the two-day period. the nine day justices will

review section 230 of the communications decency act from 1996, 230 gives social media companies, think of the big ones and other digital platforms, protection from some criminal and civil claims. the issue in one case, whether companies like google and twitter can receive civil immunity when algorithms recommend what video and websites should be shown to users. the families sued twitter and google after the companies steered extremist online material to viewers most likely be interested in that. in congress, members from both sides of the aisle have complained about the scope of section 230, may sound bipartisan but democrats and republicans essentially, jacqui, want different things for different reasons. listen. >> i think we need to be blunt from the beginning. because we know right now the central truth. big tech has relentless trumped

up profits by kids and parents pain. >> they will receive protection under the law since they have since 1996, they cannot moderate content in a way biased against conservatives. >> the first case will be argued tomorrow at 10:00, the second wednesday at 10:00. a decision is expected by late june. what both parties can agree on, the internet is vastly different than 1996, where you had 300 million people on the internet, now 400 billion people. >> jacqui: this could certainly change legislation stalled for any number of reasons in congress, and potentially, you know, influence the future from the top down. so, interesting to watch. david spunt, thank you. >> you are welcome. >> bill: support growing from both sides of the aisle to take action against tiktok. bills proposed in the house and senate to ban the social media app throughout the u.s., and the chinese spy flight the military recently shot may have given this all a new sense of urgency.

meet kara frederick, director of tech policy, heritage foundation, former employee of facebook in california. nice to see you, kara, good morning to you. i said good morning. i meant good afternoon, i usually work in the morning. >> feels like morning. >> bill: thank you for being here. if this is so invasive, how did we allow it to get this far, embedded in our phones just about everywhere. >> your guess is as good as mine. people remember not cognizant of the national security threat when it came to tiktok. we knew china has engaged in i.p. theft, espionage, forced tech transfer, but the datasets, you are familiar with the anthem hack, marriott hack. with tiktok, they can take a social media and add the information, so how you use your cell phone, use the keyboard. >> bill: let me come back to

that. even if you ban tiktok, wouldn't they have another app? >> it's possible. we know the problem -- proprietary algorithm, that's the secret sauce, and works differently than something at meta, my old place of business or twitter and what it does, it looks at your engagement, so how you engage with specific videos and then feeds you what you are most interested in making it a lot more highly addictive. >> bill: instagram does that, too, and other apps. here is angus king, a senator from maine, independent, watch. >> i think what's changed is the level of chinese activity in the united states. i just think it's downright dangerous to have a company that potentially is a pipeline to the chinese communist government that's collecting data on americans.

>> bill: let me take the other side of all this. what's the harm if someone has my data? what's the harm if they know what i search on google? because google has the information already. >> yeah, but it's not just someone. and google is still incorporated in america, still an american company. tiktok by virtue of the parent company, bite dance, headquartered in beijing, every private company has to work in service of the state if beijing asks and technical component, and also the fact that the ccp has leverage over a massive group of people. so if you have a data engineer looking in singapore they said our servers are only hosted in u.s. and singapore, this is tiktok speaking, if they want to put their thumb on family members in china they can have access to the data over leverage of the human terrain as well. all sorts of elements when it comes to the ccp and how they can get your information. >> bill: as you know on screen,

put up the map, 29 states have banned downloading tiktok on government-owned devices. what do you think about the possibility tiktok would sell their entire company to an american-owned business and therefore continues to operate in the u.s.? is that feasible? >> what the trump administration was trying to do with oracle, it did not come to fruition, but i submit this is only a partial solution because we know that some personal devices can access government wi-fi. we know tiktok has your device identifiers, it collects those as well. i used to be in the intel community and what we tried to do, paint a comprehensive intelligence picture. so take little pieces of information like a device identifier, if a personal device connects to a wi-fi and figure out people's patterns that way. it's just a partial solution if they only ban it from government devices. >> bill: i'm out of time, but do

you think it will be banned at some point, not just government but personal. >> if we can get more democrats on board, like senator mark warner, angus king, that would be great. march 23, the tiktok c.e.o. testifies, i'm interested in that testimony, first time ever. >> bill: we shall be there. kara frederick, nice to meet you in person. >> jacqui: a taste of italy for me and chef boyardee for thee, or for your kids. one restaurant has a ban on children, sparking a debate that has just about everyone choosing sides.

♪ >> a popular italian restaurant in new jersey is cooking up controversy with a new policy

here. nett's house of spaghetti will ban children under 10 citing the necessaries and noise disruptions that they can cause for other customers. here to break down this food fight, madison alworth. so madison, are parents in the area upset about this? >> so they're not upset because one restaurant's loss is another one i gain. that's how applebee's looks at it. they started a promotion to allow kids 10 and under to eat for free. they made the decision to stop allowing customers under the age of 10 because of all of the concerns. so the restaurant came out and said this news, we reached out for a statement. they didn't intend offend anywhere.

so we've been spending the day here at applebee's where family are taking advantage of this all the. the adult comes in, the kids eat for free. families excited about the opportunity. you understand where nettie's is coming from. >> totally upsable. i wouldn't have brought them anyway. we wouldn't have brought them. so i don't blame them. >> their whole approach was wrong. if they had said no kids after 6:00 p.m., i think social media would not have had the backlash. i don't blame them. it's their business. >> you know, so there seems to be things on both sides. people understand. even though with kids. but ever that we have spoken with here today, they're happy because in the end for them, they get a free meal. this promotion is running, started yesterday, runs through the end of this week and so far it's bringing a lot of people in. people are seeking out

applebee's to get this. so if you're in the garden state, good news for use. otherwise, you'll be paying full price. back to you. >> thanks. bill, i don't know. anyone who has seen a kid eat spaghetti has thoughts on this. >> that's funny. let the kid ride free. jacqui, good to be with you. >> you, too bill. >> i'm bill hemmer. "the story" starts right now with martha. >> martha: i restaurant that didn't want my kids after we were there once. good afternoon. thank you. i'm martha maccallum. great to have you with us. "the story" today governor ron desantis in new york city. then he went to pennsylvania and then he will be off to illinois. he's talking law and order. really specifically in three states where there is a lot of crime and it's fuelling all kinds of talk about a law enforcement message from him in siding with police in 2024. but at this point, there's no speculation about nikki ha