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please. >> absolutely not, absolutely not. >> john: ah, absolutely not but the numbers tell a different story. have a look here. the president has held 23 news conferences since he took office and this time in his presidency, president trump had held 41, and obama had held 53. so, what gives with 23? >> sandra: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour on this monday afternoon. i'm sandra smith in new york. and great to have you back. >> john: maybe channelling michael jordan with 23. joe concha has a theory. why hold a news conference when tiktok influencers can do the work for you. we'll talk to him how in the world the white house is spinning the press access as a good thing and the army of influencers pushing the president's lies. but first -- >> sandra: chaos on chicago

streets after hundreds of rowdy teens flooded the downtown area over the weekend. police responding to reports of gunshots and scenes of juveniles smashing cars, blocking traffic and fighting in the streets there. >> john: no wonder why the city's businesses are fading as the crime surge pushes retailers out and residents worry it's only going to get worse with the warmer weather. >> sandra: and tourists are in jeopardy as the chicago mayhem is playing out, similar scenes on the west coast as teens break down the door of a gas station. what exactly was going on there? >> saturday night, sandra, the sheriff's department took calls on six mobs taking over the streets in l.a. that looted and damaged two restaurants, two businesses, and two gas stations, including this arco in compton, smashing the door and grabbing the beer, wine and food they could get, stealing

thousands in merchandise. the sole employee locked himself in a bathroom and survived unharmed. a street takeover in south central, 500 teens watching drivers doing donuts in the street when the mob decided to take over the arco. they are part of the criminal code. in december, ended with seven injured and the death of a 24-year-old woman when a driver lost control of his camaro and crushed the woman against a light pole. police say the street racing mobs, they attract, they are difficult to control. >> these guys will tell you, street racing task force back here and they see it every weekend, people are getting ran over, hit, attacked, assaulted and we are waiting for like where is the police report and they never come forward. it's kind of sick in the way that this culture is -- that's kind of what they do, like i

guess, they go by -- >> street takeover usually begins with an instagram post noting an intersection and in hours as they tag each other on instagram, suddenly hundreds at one location, police are outnumbered and police nearby are a potential target. >> john: back on the east coast, teens who want to hang out at one of new jersey's largest malls will soon need supervision. all due to an increase in bad behavior. lydia hu is live in the north carolina newsroom with the latest on this story. >> this is happening at the garden state plaza mall in paramus, new jersey. it houses hundreds of stores, neiman marcus, nordstrom and macy's, a destination for many including scores of teens who act unruly and disrupt business. take a look at the video posted to tiktok showing dozens and dozens of young people in the

common areas and mall management says it can lead to rule breaking, running and fighting and disrupting business. in response the mall, operate by westfield, a chaperone policy. like many shopping centers we have experienced an increase in disruptive behavior that violates the center's code of conduct by a small minority of younger visitors. the new policy requires people under 18 to be accompanied by an adult who is at least 21 after 5:00 p.m. on weekend nights. i.d.s checked. anyone too young will be asked to leave and reaction is mixed. >> it's like a spot that people come to to fight, yeah. i do see where the mall is coming from, but obviously going to create a lot of conflict. but i do think it is needed. >> it's not the first mall to

require chaperones. malls from georgia, pennsylvania, maryland, north carolina, after they have encountered similar issues. large groups congregating and acting unruly. john, back to you. >> john: i know the garden state mall very well. lydia, thank you. sandra. >> do you believe that the criminals who murdered your son received justice? >> absolutely not. if you take a life, you do life. ok? there should be no plea deals for murder. >> you feel your family was treated appropriately in the criminal justice system? >> absolutely not. we were treated like garbage. >> sandra: harrowing system from new york city crime victims. fearing for their safety while business owners say it's impossible to conduct business due to crime, as well as rising amount of trash that is covering the city. joe germanata, owner of a

restaurant and father of lady gaga, and sam sanchez out of chicago, also a business owner. sam, your take first, having this happen in your city, how can you go on like this? an reality for far too many who have tried to hang on, so many have fled, businesses and residents. what is it like for you? >> we have been working, trying to bring customers back into the downtown area to chicago, after the pandemic, struggling. this mob of kids happened previous years, the past two years. they tried to enforce new rules, new laws, but what they are missing is accountability. we understand mars incarceration is not the answer but also the kids, they want to call them kids, they are out there creating vandalism, breaking windows, cars, mass chaos. without accountability, a few bad ones out of the 100, maybe

20 bad ones that have to be arrested. you have to press charges and you have to keep them in prison. the problem is that the system, the justice system in cook county allows them to get out and when it's time to go to court three years later, sentence served and never really do time, not unless they are held accountable for actions will we see the city change. >> sandra: sam, i don't know about you, and joe, the video, a more than a few bad actors. climbing on city busses, running through the streets in the middle of traffic. two teenagers were shot over the weekend. many more shot, multiple fatalities, but only 15 arrests. i mean, the police have their hands tied. their numbers are way down, it's hard to even get back-up in situations like this. but joe, you know the scene all too well, you are living through it as a business owner here in new york city.

you actually said to us on this program you don't feel like you would raise your two daughters here again. >> no, i wouldn't. i think what's going on is tragic. i mean, i can see what just happened in chicago, i'm fearful it's going to happen here sooner or later. the stores -- the streets, a lot of vacant stores, the streets are messy, there's people hanging out, time square is a mess between 8th and 9th avenue on time square, guys sitting in the doorways shooting up, you know. it's really kind of -- it's upsetting to, you know, business owners here in new york. we spend a lot of money to get -- get going and to build our businesses and the city is letting us down. >> sandra: you mentioned vacancies at the city buildings, i should not say city buildings, at the buildings in the city and sam, you don't have to look far to see the published rate of office vacancies in your city.

it is at an all-time high right now. you are talking to somebody, i used to work in the sears tower, the trading floors there. population, there was safety in numbers. those offices are empty more so than they have been. the trading floors are shut. people do not feel safe walking down the street. my question to you is as a business owner trying to hang on, you are trying to continue business in that city, what is your message? how do you turn things around? you've got the democrat convention coming s we met with attorney kim fox and chief justice evans, people keep electing them. if they do their job we wouldn't have a problem. we want people held responsible. put a few people in jail bad people, people would think twice. the kids are following the leaders, put the leaders away

and see the kids go away. social media makes it very easy to follow the bad leaders. we have to take care of that problem with the social media. not enough police. >> sandra: that's how they are organizing, the street racing causing so much havoc. joe, chicago, they have elected another far left mayor in the city, he is saying this, in no way do i condone this activity i saw in the loop over the weekend, he says it's unacceptable and no place in the city. however, it is not constructed to demonize youth to otherwise starved of opportunities in their own communities. no message what he's doing about it, the chicago tribune, the front page did not have a message of it after a weekend of horror for the residents there. i have spoke to people who live down there and looked down and saw the chaos and would not leave their apartments.

and if i could put up the chicago map, the team was gracious to put this up. anybody who has visited or went there on work, millennium park, the heart of the city, lakeshore drive, michigan avenue, the chicago loop, the main business district there. everybody knows navy pier, it's right there. it's only april, and the big warning we are just heading into the warm tourist months and this could get a lot worse. >> oh, sure. i mean -- all i can say is i would just ask the prosecutors to start prosecuting crimes again. you know, just to get things under control. if somebody goes out and does something bad and they are not prosecuted and they let them right back out on the street and they do it again and they keep doing it again and again, i mean -- how are we ever going to get this behind us? >> sandra: and it is absolutely

terrorizing the residents still there and many who cannot afford to leave, they can't just pick up and leave like some have chosen to do over the last few years. really great to have both of you on, both business owners, in cities seeing this happen. thanks to both of you, joe and sam. >> thanks, sandra. >> sandra: thank you. john, a reality for way too many. you have walmart shutting four stores in chicago, you've got a lot of these businesses over time who have fled, tyson, boeing, citadel, they just pick up and leave and the main reason they say is because they can't get -- recruit top talent to work for them in a city they can't raise their family and send them to school safely. >> john: it's really a shame what's happening to chicago. it has been such a great city over the decades and now people are fleeing the city, maybe even fleeing the state as well for places that are not quite as dangerous as that, and yet it just keeps happening. >> sandra: we'll see, you know, last year remember there was a

curfew imposed, perhaps they'll go that route but i have not seen any word on that to try to stem the violence over the weekend. >> john: something definitely needs to be done. 2024 could shape up to be another crowded field for the republicans, and all eyes, of course, on florida governor ron desantis pushing ahead business as usual in florida. >> sandra: today he took another step in his war on disney and signed an abortion ban into law. chris -- >> every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings. and we are a red state but pro choice like new hampshire, scars us, or folks in ohio or arizona. >> john: is desantis backing himself into a political corner? byron york joins us on that coming up next. when everything is going up except your income, it's time to cut your monthly expenses.

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>> sandra: budz releasing a new ad after sales dropped big time after a partnership with transgender dylan mulvaney. jeff flock is live from philadelphia, changing their tune, huh, jeff? >> if they brought out the horses got their attention somehow. one of the hundreds of beer distributors across the state and around the country, thousands around the country, you know, beer sales overall have not been hurt but not drinking bud light. take a look at the numbers, we cannot say this is directly in relationship to the boycott but

there is a boycott and down in sales. down 10%, coors light, competitor, up 10%. and the folks at -- wait a second, i have the number wrong, 10% bud down, coors light up and miller lite up as well. got my numbers off. the ad that you talk about there, sandra, something called the shared spirit, and that is, they say, rooted in the heart of america is budweiser, a story bigger than beer, patriot ad, different than the transgender actress and social media influencer. depicted with a face on a can. you cannot buy the can, it was a one-off for her. also a spokesman and you know, not an ad campaign around it, but you know, companies contract

with multiple people to do social media posts. she also has arrangements with kitchen aid, ulta beauty and nike, have not heard about boycotts there. as to what the company is saying, the words of the ceo of anheuser busch. says we never intended to be part of a discussion that drives people apart. we are in the business of bringing people together over a beer. talked about the importance of accountability and values on which america was founded, says are freedom, hard work and respect for one another and they suggest perhaps they have not gotten here. one final note in terms of the boycott, donald trump, jr. has weighed in on it, and while he says he did not like the whole idea of the partnership with a transgender actress, he says don't boycott the beer. it's a great american company and by the way, they contribute more to republicans than democrats. >> sandra: that was pointed out over the weekend. you know, and i think people came to realize through all

this, jeff, they like their beer like they like their sports, without the politics. nobody wants controversy when you are throwing back a cold one. all right, jeff. thank you very much. you are going to need one after this day. >> john: not everybody is as generous as donald trump, jr. brandon morris, deputy editor at red state said this about the new budweiser said, referencings 9/11 to run to the store to salute a 12-pack of bud light, hoping we are stupid enough to buy this ad is insulting. so a variety of opinion out there. >> sandra: the theory that all p.r. is good p.r., spell the name right, did not seem to be the case looking at sales after this. >> john: the company lost $5 billion in market value almost overnight. >> sandra: numbers speak for themselves. >> john: not all public relations is good public

relations. moving on now, florida governor desantis unleashing another round of fireworks on disney, as a super pac supporting desantis launched a national ad campaign over the weekend directly attacking former president trump. the new ad is the latest sign the florida governor is getting ready to jump into the race and what could be a very heated fight for the republican nomination. byron york, so, desantis has said he wants to wait until after the florida legislative session is over. meantime, fighting to forestall more endorsements among the florida congressional delegation for donald trump, so far four have gone for trump. the longer he waits, the harder it's going to be. >> i think this plan of waiting 'til may, maybe even june did not take into account how much trump would be attacking desantis, and whether desantis would respond with a full bore

of his own or ignore it. in politics you cannot quite ignore. the problem is the hardest job in politics is running against donald trump in a republican primary. here is the big thing. you are trying to appeal to republican voters. you have to tell them that you really support and respect what trump did in office. he did a great job in office. and then you have to say but it's time to move on and trump is saying wait a minute, here i am, i'll do it again. >> john: desantis has tried to fly above the fray when it comes to responding to attacks on him from former president trump, but pacs are out there full. watch the new ad. >> we are not going to mess with social security as republicans. >> what did trump say? >> entitlements. >> at some point they will be. >> trump should fight democrats,

not lie about governor desantis. what happened to donald trump? >> john: the group is called never back down, a question for desantis. if he does not jump into the primary, will it be seen as backing down? >> i think so. desantis, everything he is doing looks like a run, and he says i want to concentrate on being governor of florida, of course it would look down. very conventional attack ad they did. in attacking other candidates, trump sounds like a democrat, accusing them that they want to cut social security and medicare. >> john: nobody is going to run on entitlement reform in 2024. >> trump really -- he almost looks like the push grandmother off the cliff in the wheelchair ad. on the other hand, this looks like a very conventional ad when

you say donald trump is lying about republicans, that is going to grate on a lot of republican ears. >> john: donald trump, according to a poll came out on april 7th, remains the odds on favorite. 58% to desantis 21, pence the next at 5%, cheney, haley, all rounded out. georgia, trump is up 21, kentucky up 39. south carolina, up 21. massachusetts, 41. pennsylvania is a more close race, at 6. but trump leads across the board and by almost 50 points in some states. >> average of polls, average i think is something like 52-23, almost a 30-point lead. >> john: things change during the primaries but change that much? well, there was president jeb bush, right? >> i think you could say right now it's a two-man race. i mean, even though desantis is

far back, he's way ahead of anybody else. so a lot of republicans who do want to move on from donald trump say desantis is really the guy. it's either him or somebody else who is below 5% right now. >> john: possibly can't come up from 5%. could you come up from 24 to beat trump? is there a way to do it, given -- >> it's april 2023. >> john: i know it is, but trump, and supporters, can you beat that. >> unspoken part about this, some republicans are perhaps thinking that some prosecutor in the next several months is going do their job for them. but of course as a republican, they have to oppose anything like that and condemn it if it's done. >> john: makes him more popular. >> there you go. >> john: thanks for kicking off the week with us, politically.

sandra. >> sandra: wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich remains locked up in a russian jail. a new development on the diplomatic front. we have new information on his detainment. >> john: the white house press corps fed up with president biden not answering their questions. but will he have to face music at the microphone if he wants to win re-election. joe concha says don't get your hopes up. every month? car loans can be expensive and the payments high. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month. quiet please. okay. wow! [light bulb breaks] hey! i said get a pro. i did get a pro. an orkin pro. [mosquitoes buzzing] i got you. got mosquitoes? don't call any pro, call the orkin pro. orkin. the best in pests.

>> new developments in the detainment of evan gershkovich. the ambassador was able to meet with him in the russian jail. senior foreign affairs respondent greg palkot has more from london. how did the ambassador say evan is doing? >> it's news, i would call it great news, but any good, any

news we are getting about evan gershkovich is better than nothing. she visited him at his tough moscow prison, the 31-year-old american reporter of course charged with espionage, the u.s. ambassador to russia is lynn tracy, a bit of what she wrote. i visited the wall street's evan gershkovich in prison, he is in good health and remains strong. reiterate our call for his immediate release. in another online post, she added he feels well and is holding up. it's not clear how much time she had with him, but what we do know his lawyer is appealing his detention at a hearing tomorrow. it could mean that he could be moved to another jail, put under house arrest or even released on bail. but we have seen no indication of any of that happening. and it won't be a hearing on the spy charges which gershkovich, the wall street journal and the

u.s. flatly deny. one russian official said the american could gain via prisoner swap but would have to wait until his trial is completed and it could take at least a year, according to the experts. and more word on evan's status, his parents recently received a letter from him, handwritten, in russian, he said he was not losing hope. he joked that his mother's cooking prepared him for prison food. he closed, john, with the words until we meet soon. let's all hope it's soon. back to you. >> john: amazing he's still got a sense of humor after what he's been through. wish him well. greg, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: the u.s. appears to be responding to china's war exercises in taiwan, that happened last week, an american missile guided destroyer was seen sailing through the taiwan strait. it's getting reaction from china, beijing has said since that they are sending troops to

follow and monitor the u.s. destroyer throughout its operation. john. >> john: sandra, we will not hear from the president on that topic today because the white house called a 9:00 lid this morning after president biden returned home from ireland and he took a few questions from reporters during his trip, he once again avoided holding a formal news conference while on foreign soil. marking five months since he last held a formal press conference. as his 23 news conferences held this two years plus far behind the pace set by his predecessors. now the white house press corps is sounding a bit fed up over avoid you think the podium. >> is the administration trying to protect the president from our questions. >> absolutely not, absolutely not. also unprecedented that a president takes as many shouted questions as this president has and he has. >> john: hang on a minute --

mark meredith is live on the north lawn here. i'm sorry, mark. what did she say? because i covered the last guy. >> john, i remember all those mornings and nights we were in that booth downstairs we basically were saying oh, my gosh, he keeps taking questions. good afternoon to you. the white house showing no signs of changing its strategy. it argues the press gets plenty of access to president biden, even though like you said today there were no public events on his schedule and as you mentioned, there was a lid at 9:00 a.m. this morning, meaning no chances to ask the president. you know, last night the president got back from his delaware beach home he chose not to take questions and on occasion if he chats on the south lawn it can be hard to hear. you have marine one nearby and hard to get substantive answers. the white house still also continuing to dodge questions about what the president will announce his campaign plans for 2024. the president has repeatedly

said he does plan to announce soon. what does soon mean? that's anyone's guess. one question he did answer last week in ireland. >> the last few days have changed your calculus when you will make an announcement on -- >> no, no, no, i made the calculus, we'll announce it relatively soon. the trip here reinforced my sense of optimism about what can be done. >> you made a decision? >> i told you, my plan is to run again. >> the plan is to run again, the "new york times" had this in there this morning saying there is increasing discussion among the broader biden team about the notion of a low key video announcement on april 25th, the fourth anniversary of his entrance to the 2020 race. symmetry mr. biden is said to appreciate. we may see a semi announcement in the next eight days but it's not a guarantee, things could change. and we talked about, john, the

white house not taking any questions today. we'll see if that changes as the campaign gets closer. >> john: mark meredith for us. and just as we say good-bye to you, rerack and replay the karine jean-pierre statement. >> is the administration trying to protect the president why our questions? please -- >> absolutely not, absolutely not. also unprecedented that a president takes as many shouted questions as this president has and he has. >> john: i just got to say, mark, i don't know where she got that from. thank you, mark. appreciate it. >> sandra: i have somebody to respond to that, john. john is at a loss of words. joe concha is here, i'll go on in a minute. first your reaction. >> ok, there isn't one sane or sober person on the planet who believes that joe biden takes more questions than any other of his predecessors, particularly donald trump. he was the most accessible

president in history. share some numbers, not just opinion. joe biden last held a solo press conference 160 days ago. you can walk across the entire country. and went 200 days sandra without one tv interview with an american news outlet. when karine jean-pierre says that, it's pure cringe and it could leave even a guy like john roberts speechless. >> sandra: when it's so obvious, what's the point of even making that statement? by the way, i think you acknowledged, the president called a lid at 9:00 this morning. >> he received the daily briefing at 9:30 a.m. and that was it. >> sandra: the media is asking questions, where is he, why is he not accessible to us. >> his advisers are terrified he will say something very bizarre, a kid asked him what's the key to success in life and the president responded by saying

not getting covid, and a speech he talked about people there, the attendees in the audience, we have to go out and lick the world, that is just bizarre stuff. so either saying something like that or profoundly dishonest, he blames inflation on his predecessor, blames crime, the crisis that is a catastrophe at the u.s. southern border on his predecessor, and even the afghan withdrawal was somehow donald trump's fault. he can get away with it. basement strategy is alive and well. the current president is not in a front of a tv screen, more myopic press concentrates on the guy there 27 months ago and donald trump and that's the way the white house likes it, sandra. >> sandra: even the white house is trying to take care of the comment he takes more questions as predecessors combined. and tiktoker, worked out for

biden in 2020, a ready excuse for avoiding the press when covid-19 was at the peak, but this time biden will have to make his case for re-election if he runs, both on the campaign trail and in the east room where formal press conferences are held and invariably lead the news cycle. you expect anything different? he still says -- he's running. >> exactly during the campaign, and during this presidency and the irony, you have the president last week saying tiktok is a national security threat to this country. >> sandra: and then posting a tiktok. >> and depending on the influencers to get young people to the polls. never judge by his words, always go by his actions. >> sandra: very, very interesting. 23 news conferences, press conferences, this is since the first year in office, right. trump has held 41 by that time, obama 53. so, not as accessible clearly. joe, thank you so much.

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>> john: new hope in the ongoing debate on free speech on college campuses in america. a group of harvard faculty are launching the council on academic freedom, dedicated to the exchange of free ideas as a cornerstone of reasonable and rational discourse. could it be the start of something productive? jonathan turley has written about the death of free speech on college campuses, and it would seem to be a pushback from the intolerance of the left. >> it is a pushback and many of

us are hopeful this could be replicated at other universities. leader on free speech and education remains the university of chicago, has made very clear that they are going to allow free speech and not accept this notion that free speech is harmful. they believe all ideas have to be given the ability to be spoken as part of this diversity of viewpoints. my concern, however, is that it's not just about the commitment to free speech, but the diversity of the faculty. most faculties have virtually purged their ranks of conservatives. hilarious article, it was not meant to be funny but quite chillingly funny in the harvard crimson, they interviewed an elderly faculty member who was portrayed as the last republican at harvard, and did everything

but poke this guy with a stick describing to students what a republican on the faculty is like. and you know, the students went on to say by the way, that's not a problem, we really don't need republicans on the faculty. well, that's really the problem i'm raising. it's hard to get this cat to walk backwards if you don't have a diversity of viewpoints on faculties to begin with. >> john: you have to wonder, too, if some of this is sort of survival on the part of some of these universities. some wrote confidence in american higher education is sinking faster than for any other institution with barely half of americans believing it has a positive effect on the country. no small part of this disenchanment is the impression that universities are repressing differences of opinion like the inquisitions and purges of centuries past. you know, you could always blame this at snowflake gen zers who

have blinders on and ideology, but it's not just young students. remember what happened at stanford, some faculty participated in that tirade against judge kyle duncan. so -- trying to change the culture, you have to go through a hierarchy of people, personnel and ages. >> you are absolutely right, john. actually, professor pinker who co-authored the piece, was himself the subject of a cancel campaign we defended him years ago. he was an early case. there is an orthodoxy taken over on the campuses. faculty are part of this. intolerance is driven by faculty and many students have only heard that speech is harmful. they have been raised in this speech phobic environment and that's coming from educators, not from the students.

and so you have all of these recent incidents where universities as you note refuse to punish students who shout down and disrupt events, even at stanford, where they said they were standing with free speech, they refused to take any action against those students. >> john: we'll see if maybe this is a small glimmer of hope or if it's a light at the end of the tunnel, actually an ongoing train. jonathan, always good to talk to you. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: all right, you've heard of chatgpt by now, elon musk is warning something different must happen. he wants to launch truthgpt, artificial intelligence aimed at seeking the truth. what could go wrong? that's next. so we're hard at work helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere, in investing for the retirement they envision.

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