>> can you toast the bagel as well? >> yes, we put it in a convection oven. 375, 2 minutes. convection ovens in all our manhattan location and fresh out of the ovens. >> here is your sesame, hemmer, headed to 12. see you in a minute. >> great working with you guys. >> thanks for having us. >> as we say good morning at 9:00 in new york city, crime in the crosshairs in gotham city. republicans setting sights in new york in town for a field hearing, they call it, on crime in america. expected to get heated. hope you had a great weekend. i'm bill hemmer. new week begins now. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." they won't be short on material to talk about. any minute now there is a house judiciary committee.

how alvin bragg's policies are empowering criminals. >> bill: democrats dismiss it. ] 's indictment of donald trump is the reason they're here. the victims of crime tell a very different story. >> dana: one of the people we're hearing from today is jose alba. last year a repeat offender attacked him last year in the deli where he worked. he fatally stabbed the attacker in self-defense. bragg's office initially charged him with murder. >> bill: that prompted a massive public outcry. bragg dropped the case under great pressure. republicans say that this points to a larger problem with progressive prosecutors. >> it's driven by these left wing d.a.s who come in with a political agenda. instead of focusing on protecting people, families, communities an small business owners they are about politics and it's almost like every night you see some senseless act of violence on our screens that happen on the subway or city street and it is just wrong.

>> dana: we have reaction from john levine and harold ford junior. let's go to bryan llenas to set it up for us in new york city. >> good morning. eight witnesses are set to testify against manhattan district attorney alvin bragg including the father of -- actually the father of joseph who was a jewish man beaten nearly to death in 2021 near times square. one attacker was given a six month plea deal. his father says the cushy deal was disgusting and would only encourage more hate crimes. overall crime in new york city jumped 22% in 2022 with major felony crimes hitting a 16-year high under bragg's first year in office. this morning house republican chairman jim jordaan says it's

arguing about progressive policies like bragg harm americans. >> when you don't put bad guys in jail they do bad things. when you don't lock up criminals you get more crime. that's what we're seeing not only in new york city but every big city around this country driven by the left wing d.a.s who come in with a political agenda instead of focusing on protecting people. >> bragg points out overall crime in his jurisdiction of manhattan is down 2% this year with shootings down double digit percentages. bragg calls today a political stunt. today's hearing is seen by democrats as another effort by jordan to impede d.a. bragg's criminal prosecution of former president trump. here is ranking democrat gerry nadler at a press conference moments ago. >> jim jordan and his republican accomplices are acting as an extension of the trump defense team trying to intimidate and deter the duly elected district

attorney of manhattan from doing the work his constituents elected him to do. >> bragg was elected with 83% of the vote. mayor adams called new york the safest big city in america. >> we have panelists with us this morning. good morning. 2022, 52% of all felony arrests in new york city were downgraded to miss demeanors compared to 39% in 2019. new york crime stats over the past two years decent for now. flat in 2022. murder is down, robbery down slightly. assault up 8%. numbers don't lie. we have an issue in the big city. >> without question. i think it's important that you hold these kinds of hearings and ask all the questions. is there some politics here? politics in everything when you have politicians involved. i hope that after coming here

maybe the committee might convene some of the gun manufacturers at all and ask them questions and allow democrats to do the same. i would take it to chicago and san francisco as well and a city where you don't have the cashless bail that you have here in new york and some of the other places find out if their crime rates are going up or down. if they are perhaps things cities like new york should adopt there and maybe in fairness to d.a. bragg and the chief of police here. i live in the city as we all do. crime has come down a bit. here is the thing. you never tell constituents or voters that you are safer if they don't feel safer. there is a long line of politicians who lost elections who said that. i don't have an issue with this today. politics is involved. i hope they get to the bottom of some of the root issues. >> dana: do you think new yorkers can look at this and say thankfully maybe we'll get some attention on this and drive some change? >> the first thing we have to admit is there is a political element to these hearings. if president trump wasn't indicted by bragg i have a hard time thinking we would see in in

new york today. there is a real problem here. if you go into a subway or cvs at night you'll see it. to the extent we can get a federal light shown on it and how do we have to live this way? we don't have to live this way. >> bill: they took it to the murder and in new york city. jim jordan is chairing this. >> his office to do the bidding left wing campaign funders. one of the mr. bragg's first actions upon taking office in january of 2022 was to put out a memo that directed his assistant strict attorneys not to prosecute certain crimes including trespassing and resisting arrest. memo also stated that armed robbery should not be prosecuted as felonies. instead, they were to be considered as misdemeanor larceny unless someone was shot during the course of the

robbery. thank goodness after a backlash from police groups and the public, mr. bragg agreed to prosecute some robberies as felonies but left the rest of the memo in place. the president of nypd detectives endowment association said bragg gives criminals a roadmap to freedom from prosecution and control of our streets. bragg's manhattan you can resist arrest, deal drugs, obstruct arrests and even carry a gun to get away with it. guess what happened under this new policy? more crime. in 2022 mr. bragg's first year as district attorney new york city saw a 23% surge in major crimes. felony assaults rose 13%. robberies spiked 26%. burglaries up 23 percent. auto left increased 32%. transit crime surged nearly 30%. imagine that.

you leave criminals on the street, you get more crime. patrick lynch, the president of the police association said police officers don't want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won't prosecute. there are already too many people who believe they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers and face 0 consequences. if you take a minute to think our brave men and women in law enforcement. thank you for what you do. we have a number of them in this building. [applause] last few years police are villainized and harassed by the left and defunded. these men and women put their lives on the line every day. every single day. and they deserve our deepest gratitude. that's not what they are getting from left wing district attorneys here and around the country. police do their jobs, they do the hard work, they go out on the streets and catch the bad

guys and then the d.a.s don't do their job. instead, they let bad guys roam the streets. as we'll hear today, repeat offenders are plaguing new york city. april 26th. commissioner said repeatism is the undertow pulling against everything we're doing to keep our city safe. counterproductive to public safety and frankly is a perpetual carousel of police resources. he said 327 individuals were arrested more than 6,000 times for retail theft. think about that. 327 individuals responsible for 6,000 retail thefts. what we used to call stealing. taking someone else's property. each person arrested on average 20 times. maybe they wouldn't have that problem if they kept them in jail after the first, second or 19th time. average of 20 times. given the record of crime, the

record level of crime we're seeing around the country, our plan in this congress has been to include field hearings in some of our greatest cities to analyze and highlight how soft on crime policies hurt families, hurt communities, hurt small business owners. we believe it's important to hear from victims and their families who simply want to share their story hoping -- hoping it will help create change so other families don't have to suffer like they did. what better place to start than new york city where videos of violence, senseless attacks appear almost daily and the d.a. cared mort about the perpetrate horsed of crimes than the victims. thanks to all our brave witnesses for being here and the nypd , capital police and federal protective services for all they do to keep people safe. [applause] now recognize the ranking member

mr. nadler for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me be very clear. we are here today in lower manhattan for one reason and one reason only. the chairman is doing the bidding of donald trump. committee republicans -- [laughter] to intimidate and deter the duly elected district attorney of manhattan from doing the work his constituents elected him to do. they have demanded access to the inner workings of an on going criminal case. subpoenaed a witness who used to work for the district attorney who they know can't answer their questions and earned a lawsuit they risk future congressional oversight as a result. perpetuated the racist tropes that mr. trump has directed at both the prosecutor and judge in this case. they are using their public offices and resources of this committee to protect political

patron donald trump. it is an outrageous abuse of power. it is to use the chairman's favorite term a weaponization of the house judiciary committee. [laughter] i do not know if mr. trump will be found guilty. i do not -- >> the gallery should refrain from commenting and let the gentleman from new york finish his statement. >> i don't know if mr. trump will be found guilty by a jury of his peers in new york or for that matter in georgia, washington, d.c. on charges that may follow but i do know that he will have his day in court. using this committee to undermine that process as it unfolds is cynical, unethical, and given the violence unleashed on the capital by the former president just plain dangerous. now we all grieve for the victims of violent crime. here in manhattan and everywhere. it is shameful that the republicans on this committee would use the pretext of violent crime as an excuse to play

tourist in new york and bully the district attorney. it is particularly disgraceful they use the pretext after doing nothing, nothing to stop the gun violence that terrorizes our nation. according to the gun violence car carve there are at least 146 mass shootings this year alone. that means more mass shootings than days so far this year. three people were shot dead and five others injured at michigan state university. three children and three teachers shot and killed in a private school in nashville, tennessee. five people are dead and eight others including two police officers are injured after a mass shantey at a bank in louisville, kentucky. these tragedies have taken place nearly every corner of our nation although i note in the study by every town that in states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws fewer people died by gun violence.

although there has not been a recent shooting in manhattan we must do more to stem the iron pipeline. the flow of illegal firearms from states that do less to protect their citizens to new york and elsewhere. unlike our republican colleagues democrats have consistently advanced policies that make all of our communities including new york safer places to live, to work, to worship, to go to school. last congress over the objection of every republican here today, we passed the first gun violence prevention package in decades. we can and must do more. we must pass universal background checks. we must implement red flag laws to keep guns away from those who a r a danger to themselves and others and reinstate the assault weapons ban. each of these proposals are popular with the american public and each is opposed by house republicans. we also advanced the victim act

to provide funding to law enforcement to improve murder clearance rates. republican colleagues were serious about that and serious in efforts to law enforcement they would have joined us in that effort. 178 republicans opposed that measure last congress on the house floor. we supported legislation to improve policing through additional funding. better training and accountability to strengthen public trust because we know that public safety requires law enforcement agencies and communities partners working together. again, every republican on the committee stood opposed. here in new york, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have per sued violence intervention, diversion programs, targeted law enforcement and youth engagement programs that have pushed crime and incarceration to the lowest levels in decades. over the past year under the leadership of mayor adams and district attorney bragg crime in

manhattan dropped nearly every major category including murders down 14%, shootings down 17%, burglaries down 21%, and robberies down 8%. all in one year. compared that to mr. jordan's ohio where the homicide rate is 73% higher than in manhattan. specific topic of gun violence the district attorney is to be commended for securing indittiesment against ghost gun manufacturers and other criminals leading to a 20% reduction in shootings last year. the chairman says it's about violent crime in manhattan. new york remains one of the safest big cities in america. i'm sure my colleagues talking points to the contrary but the evidence is on our side. the evidence shows unfortunately that the chairman could have held this hearing back in washington or in ohio or in any other jurisdiction where the

numbers are trending in the wrong direction. instead he rushed to hold a hearing in manhattan in defense of donald trump. i understand that in the days leading up to this hearing republican members were intruckeded not to speak about mr. trump during these proceedings. don't take the bait they were warned as if we cannot do a straight line from the chairman's attacks on the district attorney in the wake of the indictment to those attacks on the district attorney here today. we know better. we all know better. new yorkers gathered outside of this building certainly know better. you can pretend you aren't here on donald trump's behalf but you cannot stop the new york criminal justice system from running its course and not intimidate new yorkers with your brief visit to this city. thank the chairman and yield back. >> thank the gentleman for his statement. all other opening statements will be included in the record and now introduce today's witnesses mr. jose alba. he was forced himself. he was attacked by a repeat

criminal on parole for assaulting a police officer. during the attack he was stabbed and defended himself with a knife. despite video showing he acted in self-defense alba was arrested and charged with murder. these charges were dropped after public outrage including from mayor adams and bill brat en. thank you for being here. miss jennifer harrison. the founder of victims rights that advocates for victims and survivors. her boyfriend was killed in 2005. we've heard you talk about this and we appreciate you being here. two of the assailants allowed to walk free while the third spent only a few years in jail. mr. kessler is the executive vice president for policy and co-founder of the third way. previously served as legislative and policy director to senator schumer. ms. brain is the new york state

woman of the victims rights reform counsel. formed to provide an advocate for victims of crime. her son, sergeant hanson, was murdered in 2018 by four assailants. his father was stabbed during the attack. we are sorry for your loss and thank you for being here. councilman holden represents district 30 and leads the common sense counsel with another congressman and a member of the community board five queens for 30 years served as first chair for seven years and on the public safety committee for 13 years. thank you for your service. ms. fisher is the executive directors of new yorkers against gun violence. organization seeks to inform youth about gun violence to prevent it. the president of the new york police detectives endowment

association representing 20,000 active and retired new york city detectives. he served with nypd for 40 years. thank you. mr. bore began. his son was a victim of a violent crime tar geted because of his jewish faith while walking near a pro israel rally his son was attacked and beaten by four men and sprayed mace in his face and said terrible things. we're sorry for what happened to your son. thank you for being here today. we welcome all witnesses for appearing today. you will get to five minutes. when it gets to yellow it's close. we'll try to be strict on the time. thank you all for being here. mr. alba you are up first. we have to swear you in. would you all stand and raise your right hand.

do you swear and affirmed the testimony are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief so help you god? let the record reflect the witnesses have all answered in the affirmative. please know your written testimony will be entered into a record. we ask you summarize your testimony in five minutes. mr. alba, begin. >> representative jordan, my name is -- [inaudible] i'm mr. alba's attorney and delivering an opening statement on his behalf before the testimony begins. this is the opening statement from mr. alba so i am asking to read it. >> you saw the opening statements from chairman jim jordan and ranking chairman jerry nadler.

unprecedented hearing. you don't get out of d.c. very much to have these. the reason we wanted to break in here is because jose alba is the first witness. the microphone is not great. it is hard to hear and he will be speaking with an interpreter. >> i want to make this year. >> can you pull that mic close right in front? >> okay. >> i'm here on behalf of my client, mr. alba. i deliver his opening statement. first i want to make this year, my testimony is not motivated by a political agenda. i am not here to support or side with any particular political party. i am not here because i am supported republicans. i am not here because i want to criticize the democrats. i just want to tell the public

about the horrible experience i had to go through because of crime in this city. an experience that has changed my life and that i will never forget. on july 1, 2022, i went to work at the bodega just like any other day. i took pride in the hard work i put in every day at the store to earn my own money and support myself and my family. that is when i encountered a true and real threat to my life. after i simply told the woman she could not have potato chips because her payment was declined. i was face-to-face with her boyfriend who seemed ready to kill me. he attacked me violently, threw me around the store. the woman stabbed me herself. i truly believe they were there to kill me. so faced with this, i did what i knew i had to do to save my life. what the law allows me to do to

save my life. i stabbed that man in self-defense. but when the police came, even though i was injured myself, i was placed under arrest. i was taken to jail. when i came before the judge, the prosecutor said i was being charged with murder in the second degree. they asked for bail, even though so many people are being let go these days. i couldn't afford it. so i went to ryker's island and forced into a crowded and unsafe intake sell. even though i was injured i didn't get the medical treatment i should have received. i spent almost a week in ryker's island before bail was lord and i could be released. forced to endure the harsh conditions as an innocent man there. i still don't know why i was charged with murder. i believe that law enforcement and the d.a.'s office didn't investigate the case fully.

they rushed to judgment and i suffered because of it. even though the charges were ultimately dropped, they should not have been brought against me to begin with. i am now traumatized from the incident, i am not working because i'm terrified for my life that someone in a gang will come after me for revenge. i was injured physically and mentally because of the incident and my unlawful arrest and incarceration. my story is one that shouldn't happen again. crime doesn't discriminate. it needs to be addressed by law enforcement on the street and prosecutors in the court. bust it has to be aimed at the people committing crime, not an innocent man like me. the next time an innocent man does nothing but protect their own life in self-defense from a violent attack, they should not be made the villain but instead treated with care and compassion as the victim.

>> thank you, mr. alba. thank you. [applause] >> miss harrison, you are recognizeed for your five minutes. >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity to speak today. my name is jennifer harrison, the founder of victims rights new york. sadly, i was thrown into this world and forced to become an expert we're here to discuss when on january 15, 2005, both my boyfriend and his best friend were murdered. three brothers were arrested and charged but justice was not served as two of these brothers both who had records were freed in a sweetheart deal. only one person served just 9 1/2 years for killing two people. i connected with the groups on local and national level and became an advocate against some of the atrocities i witnessed and tried to help other survivors of homicide victims

connect with the resources they need to go through the nightmare. i have been doing that for 18 years. i became more poll itically involved in 2017 when i learned of bail reform and other so kerb dallied social justice reforms. nobody wanted to listen to us. the victims that have to live with the consequences of these decisions for the rest of our lives when we warned of the harm this would cause. victims have no voice in politics or government so i want to thank this committee from the have very bottom of my heart for giving victims that voice. there is a depraved indeference around life. here we have the one that is supposed to prosecute them as the one showing it. if alvin bragg was doing his job none of us would be here to talk. we aren't poll it sizing our issues or loss. he announced he would not

prosecute very violent crime in his infamous memo. we saw an immediate result. two police officers shot and killed, a 19-year-old girl was murdered while working at burger king and multiple police officers were shot in separate incidents. things haven't gotten better, only worse. bragg's office has downgraded 52% of felonies and even when his office does decide to prosecute a case they only have a 50% conviction rate. no one is safer as he promised as a result of his delusion or difsh versions. the crime index went up, violent crime up 11.3% and in one precinct murders were up 40%. you'll hear many horrible stories. we read about them daily. the testimonies will speak for themselves today. i am here on behalf of the many other victims that reach out to me and our afraid to speak out

who are distraught with the way they're being treated by career public defenders in bragg's office being told the office does not have the resources to prosecute their case. we have heard nothing about murdered victims crystal, michelle, christina or how their cases are being handled. christina lee was murdered by a mentally ill homeless man supposed to be under supervised release in a shelter run by a nonprofit. who was supervising this man. how did this happen? the manhattan d.a.'s office has the authority and duty to investigate and indict or make recommendations in situations like this that will keep new yorkers safe and prevent it from happening again. none of it has dab. bragg's does does not have the resources for this, either? i have heard from victims of domestic violence and hate crimes not charged who are also unable to get the support services they are not only entitled to but that the

manhattan d.a.'s office receives funding to provide. why are they not providing these services efficient sfli over 65 assistant district attorneys left the office in 2022. most were experienced prosecutors that cannot be replaced. only a few are left in that office to fight for victims. what resources is alvin bragg using to replace those that left instead of using their exit as a scapegoat for not prosecuting cases? this is very scary time to be her. good forbid you or our family are victimized. you have no one to fight for you. bragg has given excuse after excuse to not -- the entire justice system and we have no resource when our rights are violated. we cannot file for prosecutorial misconduct. only criminals can even when they violate our rights. alvin bragg's dereliction of duty has caused tremendous harm.

in our new society it is not with innocent cash le , the victim. i thank you for giving a voice today and allowing us to shed light on what is happening here in hopes it will change everywhere. >> thank you, ms. harrison. >> dana: you have heard from the first two witnesses in the field hearing on crime in new york city. we have our guests with us, john levine and harold ford junior. it was interesting jerry nadler the ranking chairman and represents new york city had a take that this was just political. it was all if response to donald trump's indictment. however, harold, i wonder as jerry nadler sat there and listened to the first two witnesses including jose alba who went out of this way to say it wasn't a partisan point. he was -- he acted in self-defense to prevent himself

for what he thought he would be murdered and they were there to kill him at the bodega and he got charged with murder. it is not political. he just responded to the request to testify because his life has been changed. he is so stressed he can't work and he is traumatized from the event. i wonder if jerry nadler had a different perspective. >> my heart goes out to him and the young lady who lost loved ones as well. i was struck by him as well when he said he was afraid. he couldn't go back to work because he was afraid for his life. the trauma around that is heartbreaking and i can't imagine that. to say you can't go to work because you think may someone may kill you out of retaliation for you defending yourself on an attack on your life is an amazing thing. i think these kinds of hearings are important. i think even when you leave washington i think it is even more compelling because you actually are in someone's community. jerry nadler represents the part

of manhattan where the hearing is taking place. i think john is right. no doubt there is politics here. two things can be right at one time. these are real stories and a real public safety issue here we have to address. if that man is not alone in fearing for his safety at work we have to address the issues. >> bill: this is madeleine brame. her son was killed. you get in the halls of washington, d.c. 57bd the halls of congress and everything is so sterile and controlled. you could clearly hear the protestors in the hallway outside. bryan llenas described it as a half dozen people calling jim jordan an insurrectionist and want him out of town. they are ushered out of the hallway but others that support jordan and this hearing today. they did it at the border about a month ago and got very little attention. in part because there were other significant breaking news stories. you don't have that now. to hear this woman talk, it is

very real and very raw to her and the others still to this point. >> these are very powerful testimonies. we've heard two. the third woman speaking now. we have five more to go. one story after another someone's life destroyed bought of bragg's failure to enforce the law. when i watched the alba thing two points i want to make. number one it is such a blessing we have that video because if we didn't have the video showing he was acting in self-defense he would be in prison for his life. they would have put him in prison and no resource to be like this was self-defense. second thing i'll say it draws attention to the fact we talk about how the felonies are being downgraded to misdemeanors. we don't talk about how we've lost the right of self-defense. if you are attacked and make an effort to defend yourself you have no right to defend yourself. the alba case shows that. that injustice was rectified because it received enormous

press attention. how many are out there railroaded every day and we don't hear about them. there aren't the resources to cover it. >> you have the right to self-defense. he would not have been able to assert that right successfully but for the video. >> it's a blessing. >> dana: you see that more and more. i was struck by the witness jennifer harrison who said we don't have information about several cases about how these are going. >> bill: one last point. bragg's problem is that he has not pursued the prosecution of so many who are guilty of petty crime. "new york times" a tiny number of shoplifters commit thousands of new york city thefts. the cops know it, the criminals know it, if you get caught you are back on the street the next day. there is no punishment for this in new york today. >> when you walk in a drugstore and can't buy toothbrushes and razors and deodorant without

having someone unlock it. it is very telling where we are in our community. >> bill: john and harold thanks. that hearing continues. we'll bring you updates and highlights from it. we have breaking news from elon musk and spacex starship. scrubbed for today. the bad boy of bad boys trying to find a way to take big, heavy payloads deep into space. they have at least 30 rockets on the bottom of this sucker. we were waiting for it to go. it has been scrapped for today. musk teased that last night. maybe it will be up tomorrow. >> dana: in the deep south police continue to investigate a deadly shooting at a sweet 16 birthday party in alabama. at least four people shot dead saturday night. 28 others injured. so far no word on any suspects

or motive. charles watson is live with the latest. hi, charles. >> good morning, dana. police are calling on the public to help them figure out what led to the deadly mass shooting in dadeville and why. this morning we learn the names of two of the four victims killed. multiple people including family and high school football coached have identified phil do you del as one of the deceased. he was a high school football player recruited to jackson state university university in alabama. he was set to graduate in a few weeks. the grandmother of a 17-year-old girl who was a senior in high school who we're told played volleyball and ran track and was just an all around good student. everyone we have spoken to about these victims say they were just great kids. listen. >> she was a great student.

she would get mad in she made a b. if you get mad because you made a b. she was a good a student and good girl. >> kid never got in trouble, ever. i'm here, i know. i've been here since i was nine. something happened. we still don't know what happened. >> folks who live here tell us the mass shooting gripped the community. people try to make sense of what happened. they came out to honor the four victims killed and pray for the 28 others injured at a sweet 16 birthday party late saturday night. most of the day sunday police focused their attention on where the shooting happened. investigators haven't pointed to a suspect or motive and asking for patience as they work this tragedy. >> there is no words to express

what some of the families are having to try to now understand and cope with. we just ask that you continue to be patient with us, please, please be patient with us as we go through this process. >> police are asking folks to reach out to crimestoppers if they have any tips, dana. >> dana: charles watson in alabama. >> bill: the calls are growing louder for dianne feinstein to step aside. that's coming from democrats now. why they say they cannot afford to have her keep missing votes in d.c. elon musk sounding the alarm on a.i. artificial intelligence and the human beings behind it. preview of tucker carlson's exclusive interview on this. >> a.i. is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production. burger and fries... soup and salad. like your workplace benefits and retirement savings.

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>> i have a lot of respect for senator feinstein but she has missed 75% of votes this year. you need to have a deference to the senators who served so long. how about deference to the american people and an expectation if you sign up to do a job you show up?

>> dana: one of several democrats saying his california colleague senator dianne feinstein should step down. she turns 90 in june and not shown up for work in weeks after being diagnosed with singles as democrats have a nay -- narrow majority in the senate. this debate within the democratic party has ramped up. you have some democrats like kirsten gillibrand and pelosi defending feinstein. khanna is not talking down. what do you think? >> he is a young guy who hasn't been around washington long. the senate has a long that digs of continuing -- dianne feinstein is 89 years old. thurmond resigned two weeks shy of his 100th birthday. there is a famous story in the senate about senator berdych

senile an the floor one day, mitchell asked him for his vote on a bill and he said sure and voted the wrong way and mitchell came up and started screaming at him. you promised me your vote. bur dick looked at him and said who are you? he had no idea the majority leader was. there is a long tradition of people serving beyond their expiration date. >> dana: the democrats wanting to confirm progressive democratic judges. and so that's one of the big pushes. and you have republicans who are saying there has to be cooperation from republicans in order to make the committee swap appear en. they aren't on board with that, either. democrats are stymied here. >> fetterman was out sick for a long time. down two members with a two-vote majority. it is cause ping a problem.

feinstein is now an impediment to their agenda. why are they asking dianne feinstein to resign because of her age and declining mental competence but not asking joe biden? dianne feinstein isn't running for re-election. >> dana: kim strassel point out democrats discover the age issue. they might view the feinstein warning as they continue to close their eyes to what the rest of the country so clearly sees talking about joe biden. your thoughts there. >> yeah. she is 100% correct. look. dianne feinstein isn't running for re-election. joe biden apparently is. this is speeding her way out. she said she is stepping down and clearing the path for somebody else. joe biden hasn't done that. a poll came out just recently said 68% of americans think joe biden is too old for another term. and they are right.

we often look at those of us who served in previous administrations look at the picture of the president on his first day in office and then compared it eight years later and how much the job aged them. look at a picture of joe biden two years ago compared to today. it is not the same person. imagine what he will look like six years from now if he serves. he is still useful to them. they don't have an alternative. why is nobody president today? the democrats tried to find somebody other than joe biden who could be elected in 2020 and couldn't find anybody and why joe biden became the nominee. he was the least worst candidate. the genial moderate who wouldn't offend the swing voters who were concerned about the left wing turn of the democratic party. who is there to replace him now? kamala harris? >> dana: where you sit today do you believe joe biden is running for re-election or become the

nominee? >> yes, i think he probably will. barring some sort of health incident, i absolutely think he will. >> dana: marc thiessen. i'm glad you kicked us off for a great week this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill: talking about crime and that hearing in lower manhattan. harrowing video surfacing in suburban rocky hill, connecticut. check this out. broad daylight now april 10th. a man fights off four suspects trying to steal his car out of his driveway. he took them all on and then his wife came out, came to the front door and screamed she was calling the cops. at that point the thieves took off. it goes on for a little bit. >> dana: something john levine said, this video is hard to stomach. >> bill: but he won. the guys ran off. he took some bruises, wife comes out. police are on their way. you guys better scram and they did.

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a lot of damage to our standing. it's very hard to get people to come forward right now to tell us about things we need to know about this if he feel like they will be compromised. how did he get it and why did he do it? some people need to be fired over this. >> bill: calling for heads to roll. 21-year-old air national guardsman charged with posting documents online in a chatroom. dan hoffman knows the topic as well as anyone. former c.i.a. station chief in moscow, dan is with me now. good morning to you. i'll make a point in a moment. your big point is how to deal with this. the bottom line is that it's an insider threat. he worked there, he was in i.t. what do you do? >> yeah, look, he had access well beyond his need to know and so the questions that d.o.d. will have to deal with are why

wasn't this sensitive information compartmented? why was this low level airman allowed access to this highly classified information when he didn't need it to do his job? were there background investigations done on him? reinvestigations done him? >> the d.o.d. track his information and intelligence he had no reason to search for. those are some of the questions we need to consider. but for me it's also about leadership. when i served overseas particularly in war zones the most there thing was taking care of your people and making sure everything was okay with them especially carrying loaded weapons as we were in war zones. in this case i wonder whether leadership was tracking on the issues this leaker had. >> bill: maybe it was hard to do that. snowden had an ideological disdain for the fact the u.s. government collected phone information and data from your

phone. it appears this 21-year-old was just looking for something to brag about in his online chatroom. and i don't know how you defend against that. i'm sure you have an idea. >> i wonder about his psychological profile and whether he was a loner and searching for camaraderie. he had a trusted group of individuals on discord. i don't think he knew who was on the network. some were using ail eye ass and disseminating some of the leakers intelligence. the problem with operating online. if he was obtained these documents so easily, then what about china and russia running other sources in our government, low-level sources? china hacked into o.p.m. years

ago. what if they run low-level sources with massive access to intelligence that could do us great harm? are we doing anything about that? >> bill: mike turner was with us. >> we have documents classified because we don't want them to get in the hands of adversaries. these are widely circulated. these are damaging both to the united states and allies. these that relate to real people. the marks on maps are real people and they can impact people's lives and that's our concern. >> bill: do you think if there are changes that are made will we ever know about it? >> we have to make changes. we should be transparent about it to convince foreign governments it is okay to trust us and share intelligence and those sources thinking about working with us who might be afraid getting a bullet in the back of their head because they are risking their lives on behalf of u.s. national security. we have a lot to do. some needs to be open and

transparent. >> bill: good to have you on today. dan hoffman, thank you. >> hearing from victims. hearing from families who have been impacted by this soft on crime policy. turns out when you don't put bad guys in jail, they do bad things. when you don't lock up criminals you get more crime, imagine that. >> dana: house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan earlier as we keep an eye on the field hearing underway in new york city right now. several violent crimes in manhattan are telling their stories at lawmakers shine a spotlight on district attorney alvin bragg saying his soft on crime policies have led to a rise in crime in the city after bragg sued jordan after his indictment of president trump. we'll monitor the hearing and bring you any news as it happens. race for the white house is heating up. a pac supporting desantis

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