if i give you all of them you will think i'm bragging. coming up next according to reports, lawrence jones at 9:00 on "cross-country." can't wait to see what he's wearing. lawrence: welcome to cross-country. we have a lot to cover tonight. america is in peril, criminals are running over our billing cities and giving our nation's kids the worst example to follow. our world is upside down. is it too late to undo the damage from liberal city

leadership? our top story is the tale of two stories. first the case of a 16-year-old kansas city teen. he rang a doorbell to pick up his brother but he was at the wrong house. the homeowner claimed he was in fear for his life seeing someone he thought was trying to break in. so he armed himself and fired shots. lester has been charged with assault as investigators try to figure out what exactly led up to the shooting. then you have the 20-year-old from upstate new york who was killed after she pulled into the wrong driveway. she was on her way to a party. but instead her life was cut short by a suspect who started shooting from her front porch.

the only one getting the attention of the biden administration. there may be a racial motive but we don't know. caelyn's funeral was yesterday. but nobody even called the family. one running the wrong doorbell and the other only pulled up to a house. where is the equity they preach about. kellyanne conway thanks for joining me tonight. i want to play this response from the white house press secretary. >> monday you will have three lawmakers who protested after. >> peacefully protested after the nashville cover snant school shooting. have any of the victims or

victims' families been invited to the white house? >> i don't have anything to read out to you about any invites. what i can say is the president is focused on getting things done. we cannot have weapons of war in our streets, we cannot have weapons of war in our schools. that's why he's bringing them here, to continue that conversation. lawrence: this seems to be a pattern with this administration. selective outrage. what are your thoughts? >> you always see the press secretary flick her wrist. why can't he pick up the phone and call these victims' families. kamala harris didn't go to the covenant school or go to their homes or go by the hospital when was was in nashville.

i worked in the white louse. you have great power to make people know that politics have nothing do with grief and death. this is a president who ran and unifying and they can't even do that when it comes to grief and tragedy. lawrence: i understand everybody has their political narrative. but when lives are lost, this is a pattern of behavior. >> actually all the press secretary had to do was say, what we feel for all of them, we feel compassion, we feel consolation. but this is a different invitation. she didn't say that. she said, i have nothing else to add. i was there in the room, the state dining room with president

trump when he invited in the parkland families, and the angel moms and dads whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants. so many different times you are there because people say that's the people's house. the white house is the people's house. you have to be the president of all people. we never asked any of them, did you vote for donald trump, did you vote at all. i understand you can't invite everybody to the white house. but you can pick up the phone. what they spend their time doing. lawrence: it's like treating some people like they don't matter. kellyanne conway thank you for being here today. i want to bring in paul morrow.

there is a real fear -- we don't know all the details of this case. but as i traveled the country i warned people that you are going to get vigilante justice. you will get someone to fill the void. now we are facing all these case. we just had another case in texas with those cheerleaders. this is becoming a real problem. what are the solutions? >> you are right, lawrence. i would never advocate vigilante justice. but are we looking at a trend? is there something going on here that goes through all these cases that indicates there is a vacuum in the safety that people feel. you can talk about numbers, you can talk about trends. but wait comes down to at the end of the day, do people feel safe? to your point, the reporting on these cases, particularly the

ralph ural case. blaming right wing news, this network must be implicated. he's just imbibing a steady dit of right-wing news. that's a simplistic response that plies into what you are talking about. are we looking at a real problem across the country or is it a coincidence that some of these cases seem to be popping off all at once. lawrence: what can we do to turn this around. i haven't seen any evidence about that one case yet. if there is more evidence we'll correct the record. but we have got to wait and see. if you remove that case, we still have two other incidents. what can we do differently.

the cops don't want to do the job because they have been demonized. >> we know what to do. back the police, you go to incarceration in cases where you have chronic offenders, and you don't villainize the police department. and you don't put in prosecutors who decided they are in fact social workers and not prosecutors. there is no place where it says it's your job to take entire statutes off of the books and you can only prosecute what you feel like doing because you want to tinker with the american social fabric. that's not the job of a prosecutor. that's the job of a legislator. all of these prosecutors decide to allocate the ability to take entire statutes off the books. there is a lot of legalistic stuff involved in there.

any reasonable person is nothing but happy that in yural is okay. thank god he's home and thank god he's okay. the rush to judgment just goes to the same stuff making all of our prosecutors heroes for not doing their jobs and the cops villains trying to do their jobs. lawrence: if prosecutors want to defend the criminals they can join the public defend's office. >> that's where most of them came from. lawrence: in los angeles progressives are pushing a radical initiative to empty the jails. the so-called cite and release ordinance, they wouldn't be broad to jail, would only be made to sign a promise they will show up in court. my next two guests serve on the venice neighborhood council.

and they are pushing back. i have been out there to l.a. with you. what's your reaction to this? this is just nonsense. >> we need laws to be enforced. we are facing things every day that are not being put in the books and people are living lawlessness with freedom to do whatever they want in l.a. >> you recently came face to face with one of the criminals out there on the street. tell us about your experience. i saw your tweet. >> i was coming home and a homeless person driving an rv parked outside of my neighbor's house. i went up to them and asked them if they would kindly move. it went very badly. the homeless person chased me and threatened to kill me. when the police arrived an hour later they said there was no

crime to report because i wasn't injured. for two weeks the homeless person was outside my home and i was afraid to go out my front door. crime is spiraling and what is down is reported crime flips almost no reason to report these crimes anymore. even my crime, i am not a statistic, even thousand was threatened and chased for blocks. lawrence: this point to the problem. 329 rapes. we are just barely into the year. over 6,000, almost 7,000 motor vehicle thefts. do you feel like the leaders even hear you guys? >> not at all. i had a horrible thing happen with my children at home. someone broke into our house creating environmental trauma to my kids. they came home from school with

a imagine in front of the house who went around and broke up to the house. this is something that didn't go reported. it's happening every day in our neighborhood and our kids are having to suffer through this. lawrence: ways it gthis.lawrenc- lawrence: what is it going to take to turn this ship around? >> we are seeing an odd re-fund the police effort. we are almost 9,000 officers, that's dangerously low. this will be a challenge for lax. we are set to host the world cup and the olympics. how can the city host an international tourist destination if the city is not safe for visitors. lawrence: i was there for the super bowl.

the city will clean you have the area for that weekend and the week leading up to the festivities. the minute it big game is over it goes back to usual. >> soledad and i live where people come to visit california which brings in most of the money from tourism. it's devastating when you see people defecating on the streets. even before events come, we need the basics taken care of. lawrence: they still allow the homeless population. they give them the opportunity to get mental health services, but they choose to stay out there because they get three meals a day. they give them cell phones, give them needles. sometimes teaching them the amount of drugs they can use so they won't overdose. it's nonsense.

ladies, thank you so much for joining the problem. maybe some of this nonsense in los angeles makes sense when you remember who is in charge in california. this week governor newsom was asked what he's doing to confront the fentanyl crisis. >> what are you going to do about the fentanyl epidemic. i want to know what you are going to do about the fentanyl epidemic. >> you tell me what we need to do. that's why we are here. >> darren goodman did not mince words. he called out gavin new comes smug attitude. he joins me now. you are a straight short, i can tell by your tweets. what is your message to the governor. >> we need to solve problems and we should have a plan to do so. if i answer a question for my

community the way he did, i think i would be in hot water to say the least. we need help and right now we are not getting much help from our legislators. a lot of the things they are proposing or enacting are tying our hands. you are seeing that with law enforcement across the country. lawrence: when you go out to the scene and you are seeing the homeless defecating in the middle of the street. and you see people with needles in them selling drugs. we are reporting on the bill that says you can just rob a store as long as it's less than $850. >> it's devastating, and for a variety of reasons. we understand, homelessness is a tragedy. it's not something that in and of itself should be

criminalized. but there is a flip side to that. that means we have to consider those people who haven't made miss nation their lives. the business own horse have done everything they could to own and operate a business, to serve others and provide jobs to people in our community. and the homeowners who want to enjoy parks take their kids count sidewalks without encountering some of this decay. as public leaders we have to considered the fact that we are allowing people to rot in their skin on the sidewalks and that's not acceptable. one of the things i do know we should consider is many of these people are mentally ill. and perhaps more of them are devastatingly addicted to drugs. you can't someone who is mentally ill or in the throes of addiction to make a rational decision coming off the streets. we have to consider imposing at

least mandates on some of these people who can't make decisions for themselves. lawrence: it's clear that america is in peril here. the picture they paint is that the public doesn't have you guys' backs. law enforcement. do you believe you have the support of the public? >> i think the vast majority of the public does support us. and i think many of the members of the public who don't, either are, you know focused on some of those mistakes we have made in our industry. and there have been some mistakes. but right now our legislation or our legislators are not focused on police reform, they are punishing the communities that we serve in an effort to take away our ability to do our job. this proposed legislation right now as we speak in california that would take away police

k-9s. it would take away our ability to stop a vehicle for a low-level traffic violation. the majority of the drugs and guns we seize off our streets are found in vehicles. every single death that occurs has a vehicle come point to it. either the suspect arrived in a vector transported guns or drugs in the vehicle. if you take away the ability to do low-level traffic stops many, many more crimes will go unsolved and people will die. lawrence: you are pot-on, chief. especially with the k-9 units, i can attest to what you are saying. a global chinese company tries to set up shop in america's

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lawrence: we are in michigan. this community came together in

droves to stop a proposed ev battery chinese plants from moving in. the project was green lit by grief inwhitmer and american farmers have been bullied out of their lands. i went to see for myself. >> residents in a rural michigan community are in a fight for their lives as they try to fend off a threat to national security. buying up farmland and a group of senators is work on a bill to block companies deemed to be u.s. security threats from making purchases. gotion global is purchasing planned for their electric battery plants. but they are facing growing

opposition from local residents. lori brock is a farmer with lands directly across the street from the company's proposed site. when did you find out a chinese company was trying to get your lands? >> somebody left me a note in my mailbox and said i should show up at the township meeting five weeks ago. we had no idea this was happening. nobody wanted to sell their lands. they were kinds of bullied into it and they are scared. they gave them a few hours to make the decision or we'll have it right up to your backdoored and you will have 24-7 moist pollution and lithium dust. so you better sell now.

lawrence will be a big rapids township homee farm owners joined us. what did your council see that otheon the the other council dit see. >> they said they will double and trim the size of the communities in a couple of years. then the chinese influence, once that came to light and became the top concern. lawrence: one thing i notice is the speed on this project. why is this happening? >> another good question. the timing has been sped up, now they are talking about breaking grounds in july. the environmental impact results are not in. there is a lot of unanswered questions. my opinion is they are jamming

this through just as fast as they possibly can to seal the deal. lawrence: why aren't we seeing more bipartisan action on this. >> our leadership here is corrupt in my opinion. letting this come through in our area is awful. we talked to a lady in north dakota is helping us. she says they'gotion and won. she said they have a playbook. she told us everything they were going to do because she said this ways they did to us. lawrence: if this is allowed to happen, how does this change the community? >> how will this change the footprints of this town we have come to know and love. our local health food store, they are moving. my friends and neighbors are moving. people are listing their homes for sale already in an is pace of it happening.

i'm going to lose a lot of close friends we built in this community. >> no matter which side of the aisle you are on you should be concerned about the american dream. lawrence: despite their claims of job creation. the government is spending $150 million to fund the money. gotion's parent company has by laws requiring total loyalty to the chinese communist party. how much damage will this plant do to the communities in. >> their claim is it's perfectly safe and there is no concerns bit at all. here is the truth will lithium. lithium dust spontaneously explodes. just add water. you need trucks, five firefighters and they need to be

there immediately. the answer i get when i ask the question, what's your plan, was mutual aid. that meentsd other taxpayers will have to pay for it. gotion high-tech is the chinese communist party linked organization. lawrence: that's the parent company. >> they are based out of china. the articles of association are almost 100 pages long. you get to page three and four and you see the communist ties. and they are saying the quiet stuff out loud. the chinese party stated they want to end the american way of life. lawrenclawrence: congressman, tu for joining me. i had a call yesterday from gotion's vp in north america. i wanted him to answer the question about the ccp loyalty.

>> that's a boiler plate statement that must be included in publicly traded companies of our size in china. having said that, there is no active ccp organization with gotion whether it's gotion hi tech or north america gotion inc. i have been here for 3 1/2 years and i never heard anyone anybody reference that. lawrence: they say they have no over them. what is your response. >> anybody following china. xi jinping is in charge of the military civil fusion. which basically says talk about a chinese private sector, all business has accountability and responsibility to the chinese communist party and political

applications. when a parent company has in its by laws, articles of association to set up a communist party association and carry out the activities of the communist party. i believe any subsidiary also has that tie and i think that's flat out wrong. lawrence: why did the michigan senate allocate $175 million to this project? that's still taxpayer dollars. >> absolutely. it was an historic mistake. there -- there was a bipartisan vote against that. the democrats carry the day on that. and there are non-disclose our agreements which created distrust. people aren't transparent and aren't telling the full story and that has residents throughout michigan very

concerned. lawrence: what is the danger for our national security here? >> many countries, many companies are actually moving out of china, moving further away into safer locations. the idea that michigan is doubling down on making that our number one growth strategy is a huge mistake. less than 100 miles away we are training military leaders from taiwan to prepare for possible invasion from china. the idea that we are going to have a company that has ties to the chinese communist party 100 miles away is a non-starter. lawrence: unbelievable. i hope you keep us posted. thanks so much. lawrenc

lawrence: chicago facing another potential might unrest as the city grapples with more and more hordes of teens causing chaos on

the streets, running into traffic and vandalizing cars and starting fights. one non-profit is lawns lawns much -- alertsystem. these people are in despair. they have a broken education system, a broken home. but this cannot be the new normal. what will it take to get back control of the street? >> we need to start rebuilding our families, lawrence. you have been in my community, you have seen the loss of life from our youth trying to live their lives in a normal way. now you are encouraging them to do these wild surges and street takeovers. this is not the path forward for

our youth. we need too work with our police, our schools and libraries to put together opportunities for youth into action. lawrence: why didn't this what we saw here get squashed immediately. do the cops have a hands-off approach in chicago in. >> our police are still end the consent decree that was extended for another four years under lori lightfoot. that has not allowed them to figure out their path forward. often times only reaction we get out of police leadership is to stand down while they are trying to work through the consents decree. oftentimes they are told to stand down and don't engage because they don't want a lawsuit and the finger of the mayor being pointed at them and accused of being racist. if you have young people, if

they are breaking the law they must be addressed quickly in a constitutional manner. what we are seeing is a different approach and unwillingness to hold them and their parents accountable for this madness. >> you know, raymond. let's talk about this alert system. i understand people are trying to do whatever they can. but my parents knew when i was out of the house. i'm not sure what this is going to do. >> what is old is new again. we remember when we were growing up, you would see the disclaimers on television, the psa saying it's 10:00, do you know where your children are. if we can bring that back to we can make parents cognizant. what we can't do is sit back and

do nothing. there are many people stepping up for free trying to bring our families back together. but we need to be willing to hold our families accountable. the dirty little secret nobody wants to acknowledge is we have a value system that's in decline. >> my dad hat one simple rule, when the streetlights are on, you have to be in the house or we knew we were going to get it. nearly hatch of parents are still supporting their full-grown

lawrence: financial expert dave ramsey out with a new column warning parents against financially supporting their adult children. he warns they may be make their children too reliant on them.

i asked the people of oklahoma city their thoughts on the trend. watch. >> more and more parents are paying all their kids' bills. you feel like this is a good idea? >> i have to say no. how are you going to learn responsibilities if someone is take care of you your whole life. >> you disagree. are you a mom? >> yes, five. lawrence: would you pay the bills like that. >> if you are helping them create independence, i don't see anything wrong with it. >> we don't pay all their bills. but we got to the point where we are not going to bail them out anymore. >> helping kids, i'm all for that. family is family. but there is a fine line. >> i teach them. i don't help them. if they struggle, then yeah.

but at the same time, there is boundaries. >> it's good to help them save but you have to show them what the real world is like. >> my friends helped me when i was a student. are you working? in school? >> they need to learn responsibility. they made the bills, they pay the bills. lawrence: i want to break down some polling on this and what they are using the money for. 76% is groceries or food. 63% cell phone. 56% rent or mortgage. the leisure or vacation. 43%. my parents did not pay for one vacation. >> my parents never paid for a vacation for me. if you stop paying their cell phone bill you can be darn sure they will finds a job and start

paying it themselves. lawrence: i posted this on my instagram and facebook. i want to know what should the parents -- in chicago those are kids. what age should you cut the kids off. 51% said 21. what age is right? >> full disclosure. i have four kids. three of them are off the payroll. one is still on the payroll. she is still in school. if you are 30 years old living at mom's house sleeping in your power ranger bedroom drinking dad's beer something is wrong. a young adult at some point has to launch. parents aren't doing their kids any favor by preventing that launch. i am a parent, it's hard. your heart tells you one thing.

it's not done until we get them off our payroll and on someone else's payroll. lawrence: my paints kicked me out, either the military or school. how does this hurt society in the long run? >> at the end of the day we are seeing a lot of under employment by young adults where they have very expensive educations but the basket weaving degree doesn't pay off in the real economy. that's the first issue. we have young adults faced with high housing costs, inflation, where wages haven't kept pace. that's not their fault. the economy can be unfriendly to these adults. i'm not giving excuses, it just means they have to work harder or make different choices. but this is not good for our society or economy. we want them to be out there

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fox news alert sources confirm into fox tonight that american troops have evacuated all of our embassy staff and their family members from sudan via military aircraft this as fighting persist for a niepght day in the nation's coop toll state department officials say they're in direct contact with all american citizens in sudan over security precautions stay with fox news channel for the latest developments on this story. now to portland oregon latest city to see retail giants to pardon their community over the uncheck rise in crime. outdoor retail store plan to shut down portland location as a result of repeat break-in and theft this comes after wal-mart announce last month they will be taking their business out of portland as well former nypd inspector back with us. paul, i mean this is going to be

a continuation right because, i mean, how do you support the bottom line if they're stealing off your product? >> is it not get together point where it is starting to feel like ground hog day how many story dos we do about big drivers of jobs of commerce, of aspiration for young people, pulling up stakes and disappearing out of our major cities. you know, what the people mook the progressives right and let's cut right to it progressive yeedz and the progressive prosecutors what they don't understand is that they're killing the host. our cities have traditionally been in america particularly this is the magnet for whether you're born in this country immaterial it is an old story you move to the big city to make it. right, and when you kill that golden goose you can't expect too many golden eggs. and that's what we're seeing so as a result people are voting with their feet and i really would like to say what point dot

powers that we decide you know what it is not working let's change the narrative. because if it is not going to end -- >> it is a failed experience from a law enforcement stand point, is it because the economy is so bad or is it because the lack laws progressive d.a.'s or is it both? >> i mean it definitely could be both. but you know, sitting from where i am i go to the latser. just because you have a bad economy doesn't necessarily mean that we have to say shifting is okay. this is a policy decision and you know they're starting i'm starting to see pushback among left. you have "the new york times" this past week did an articling about fact that there were 327 shoplifters who were committed over 6,000 shopliftings in compton it is the same folks and i can tell you on the grounds what happens. cop makes the arrest you take the to the precinct under new bail law there's couple of pieces of paperwork that are processed he gets right back out. cop is not at lunch hour and guy

is right back out and what do you think he's going to do because he has no other options -- the perp will do it again and maybe do a tirchght story and security guards are told don't get involved because what they don't want to civil liability is lawyers out there waiting for that. but also, if the security guard fights with him, a misdemeanor shoplifting is a robbery a felony nobody wants that number. so there are all kinds of incentives to say let it happen it's o.c. okay it's not okay and we have blocks that are empty in this city and in portland. >> america in peril. paul

back with another fox news alert american troops have been evacuated all of our embassy staff and it their family members from sudan via military aircraft. our chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins with us the latest. jennifer. >> lawrence i can report based

on conversations with two senior u.s. officials that all u.s. embassy personnel are now safe a military plane transport plane carrying them as crossed out of sudan and they are safely out of sudan's air space. and we will bring you more details about 75 -- >> thank you so much jennife >> he has a lot of time on his hands. emily compagno is next. "gutfeld!" is next. yes indeed! oh, yeah. happy tuesday everyone. our first order of business, did you buy cat's book yet