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price. just real quickly, what does that mean? >> this was a story of why freedom is not free, you know, a huge shout out to fox family, fox nation and our producer, she would kill me if i did not give her a shoutout, she worked so hard for it. but this was the whole story about my family, about basketball, mba. they asked picture of my family, i barely found them, only few of them. but it's all about freedom. >> harris: tune in, fox nation, "america reports" now. >> sandra: a hearing earlier today in a courtroom in arkansas could be key for federal investigators and house republicans looking into the biden family and allegations of influence peddling. hunter biden appeared before a
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judge. he is refusing to turn over documents about his finances. >> if the judge rules documents must be handed over, lawmakers want to use the information as evidence in their own investigations against the president and his family. we will speak with house oversight committee james comer on when the child support case could uncover a spoking gun in his probe. that's coming up. >> one of the people who was killed saw my wife, she was agonizing on the ground, and she told me to jump out the window because my children were already without their mother. and one of us would have to be left alive to take care of them. >> we have over 200 law enforcement personnel from federal, state and local agencies trying to bring the subject into custody so we can bring justice to those five victims and to ensure this community is safe. right now we have 0 leads. >> sandra: begin with the
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manhunt for a mexican national accused of killing five people, shocking display of violence that has sparked fresh concerns over america's immigration system. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. trace, great to have you today. >> trace: this is "america reports," police are warning 38-year-old suspect could be anywhereby now, and is considered to be armed and dangerous. >> sandra: situation began on friday when he was asked by his neighbor to stop shooting his gun so that his baby could sleep. he responded by grabbing his ar-15 rifle and walking over to the neighbor's home where he then killed the man's 9-year-old son, wife, and three others, execution style. >> trace: and a source is saying he has previously been deported from the u.s. at least five times, and is well-known to immigration officials. >> sandra: casey stegall is in the dallas bureau.
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any progress locating the suspect at this hour? >> the fbi did not expect to release information today but as you heard from the sound bite at the top of the show, more than 200 police from multiple agencies are all working this case trying to locate this man, 38-year-old who police say used an ar-15 to open fire on a group of neighbors friday night north of houston. investigators believe they recovered the murder weapon but also say the suspect owned multiple firearms. police say the suspected shooter had a prior history of firing shotguns in his front yard, but things escalated quickly friday when the man was asked to keep the noise down. witnesses say he returned to the house and opened fire on the group of neighbors and their friends. five people lost their lives in the melee. a total of 15 were in attendance of the church party. among killed, a mother and
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8-year-old boy. >> that's when my friend told me to run, sonia is dead, you have two kids, run. we will take care of ourselves. went through the window. two died covering their children. they died defending their children. >> friends, family and members of the community clearly still in shock. they attended a vigil there over the weekend. federal agents tell fox the gunman, who does remain at large at this hour, was not in the country legally. trace, sandra. >> sandra: thank you. trace. >> trace: legal troubles are growing for hunter biden. earlier today he appeared before a judge in arkansas but this child support fight could open the door to new revelations about his financial records. something federal investigators looking not biden family business dealings will be watching closely. growing questions about hunter's
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relationship with secretary of state antony blinken when he worked in the obama-biden administration. house oversight committee chair james comer will have more on that in moments, but first to fox news david spunt in batesville, arkansas. >> today's hearing lasted almost two hours, focus on a child support dispute, the overarching theme was hunter biden finances, he's been under federal investigation by the department of justice since at least 2018. so the president's son, hunter and his legal team walked into court 20 minutes before court, we were there, he was inside with london roberts, and his attorney abbey lowell. no opportunity to question hunter biden as police kept the media back and mentioned london
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roberts, she's suing hunter biden, says he needs to help more with child support involving their 4-year-old daughter, she is right there. dna test showed with near scientific certainty it is hunter's and originally they agreed on childcare can payments but she believes he is not living up to his end of the bargaining and stalling. but in court, learned several important facts. hunter biden is paying london roberts $20,000 a month. we also learned today that roberts has cooperated with the u.s. attorney in delaware involving that federal investigation into hunter biden. federal prosecutors in delaware are looking into his finances, including tax affairs, and overseas business dealings. hunter's attorneys were at the justice department in washington last wednesday to get a status update on that probe, the closed door meeting could signal a
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possible plea negotiation or charges may be imminent. it's also possible hunter biden could walk away completely. the next date is the 23rd. but more than the paternity issue or the child support issue, a lot of folks in washington, including your next guest, looking to see what we can find out, i should say, about hunter biden's finances. a lot of mystery there. back to you. >> trace: indeed they are, sandra. >> sandra: congressman james comer, chairman of the house oversight committee. thank you very much for joining us. while this particular court hearing was about the child support dispute, it does bring in hunter biden's finances, you are deeply concerned about and have great interest in. so, how will this play into your investigation into hunter biden and his business dealings with his father? >> well, this has the potential to be very helpful. two things in particular i'm interested in determining from this court case.
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first of all, what, in fact, is his income from his artwork. remember, he became an artist after his father became president, that was after the gig was up on all the influence peddling and the llcs had been determined when we began our investigation, and started questioning for -- and subpoenaing bank records. he shifted his primary source of income to supposedly selling art. we want to know how much money he's made from the artwork and who the buyers are. that's the most important part. who the buyers are the artwork are. we fear the same ones laundering the money into the llcs, particularly the chinese communist party. secondly, we want to know if hunter biden has any offshore accounts because we are learning more every day about the complex scheme that the biden family had to try to disguise the source of the revenue and to try to distract from the irs, the tax liability on their influence
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peddling scheme. so i think this court case has a lot of potential to assistis in our investigation. >> sandra: very interesting. on the paternity case, jonathan turley suggests this is backfiring. >> karma is a tough thing. they really, i think, overplayed their hand here. his own counsel went into this arkansas court and tried once again to suggest well maybe this isn't his laptop, and the judge jumped all over him and said wait, hold it. you are his lawyer. is it his laptop or not? and the guy back pedalled. >> sandra: interesting analysis there. you over the weekend made some pretty explosive claims, mr. chairman about hunter's lawyers to which jonathan turley was just referencing there, that lawyers for the president's son are intimidating possible witnesses and whistleblowers. obviously that's not something you are sharing publicly, but do you have hard evidence of that?
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>> in communication with our witnesses and with people who are cooperating, from a subpoena standpoint, we know that they have been contacted by the attorneys for hunter biden. we feel this is really close to crossing the line. obviously their objective, in my opinion, is witness intimidation. this will not stand. we are going to continue to press forward. this subpoena authority that i have has proven very fruitful. we have bank records, we have access to all the bank violations in treasury cabinet. >> sandra: witness intimidation, whistleblowers being intimidated by the president's sons lawyers, you stand by that and say you have evidence of that? >> it depends on your definition of intimidation. if you get a call from the lawyers and they remind you of your potential liability in some of these business schemes, then yes, i would consider that witness intimidation.
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now -- >> sandra: why for someone who has seen this for years, why wouldn't you show the goods, why wouldn't you get protection thor that's witnesses, protection from the whistleblowers. can congress do that so you can come forward with this evidence? >> no, but we are going to ask for immunity for some moving forward. i think that's going to be the next step. >> sandra: that's a big deal. >> that is a big deal and hopefully the department of justice and merrick garland, the attorney general will grant immunity. this is a major investigation we plan on in the next 7 to 10 days having a public press conference to give the press and the american people the facts, what we have uncovered thus far, and then we'll take it to the next step. i know there are many people coming forward now. we have seen it with the irs whistleblower, i think you will see a few more come forward in the coming days and weeks. >> sandra: five seconds left,
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we'll wait on the news conference where you say you'll share more information, but quickly, you are also claiming that democrat officials in congress are bank rolling dark money groups to throw off this probe, you said. you said that democrat leaning lawyers are pressuring banks cooperating with the congressional investigation but have not given examples of that. can you do so right now? >> we will in time, but the message is sent loud and clear that this legal team needs to be very careful moving forward. they have dark money groups that are trying to intimidate both me and chairman jim jordan of judiciary. this isn't helping their cause any. they are not intimidating us. we are going to press forward with the facts and present the facts to the american people and then we'll go from there. but you know, i'm seeing a lot of things out of the biden attorneys, this level of arrogance. they believe because they have represented both republicans and
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democrats in times of need that they can come in and, you know, someone like me is just gonna bow down and let them get away with what they have gotten away with, and those not the case. i don't care. we are trying to present the american people with the facts. we are getting evidence in every day. gaining the confidence of potential whistleblowers every day and the coming days and weeks a lot of information will come forward that's going to tell a very compelling story to the american people about the extent of this family's influence peddling. >> sandra: we approach you stopping here and we will look for the press conference and more information from the investigation to come. thank you very much, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: all right. and obviously trace, jonathan turley has a lot to say on this, he'll be joining us next hour. pretty big statements about the lawyers for hunter biden and james comer and his investigation claiming they are intimidating witnesses and
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whistleblowers. and more to come. >> trace: and jonathan turley has a theory the attorneys and hunter biden are working on a cap stone plea where they plea guilty to something in an effort to kind of get the rest of this stuff put and the back burner. fascinating to talk to him coming up. another massive american bank has now collapsed. regulators seizing first republic bank, rising interest rates to blame for the turmoil. moments ago president biden addressed the government's decision to intervene, watch. >> regulators have taken action to facilitate the sale of first republic bank and assure that all depositors are protected and the taxpayers are not on the hook. it will make sure the bank is
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safe and sound. >> trace: bulk of first republic's assets have been sold to j.p. morgan chase. deal should calm investors' fears the banking failures will spur another financial crisis. >> sandra: state department set to give an update on efforts to get americans out of sudan as fighting resumes. what the u.s. is doing to rescue them right now. plus this. >> trace: a year since the dobbs leak at the supreme court. justice samuel alito says he has a pretty good idea who was behind it. will he or she ever be named? our panel reacts to that next. use the three p's: plan ahead by getting a va cash out home loan from newday. pay off your high rate credit cards. pay yourself cash.
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court justice samuel alito sitting down with the wall street journal to discuss the dobbs opinion leak ahead of the ruling that overturned roe v. wade. it made conservative justices targets for assassination and thinks he knows who is responsible. with us now, juan williams and david avella. gentlemen, thank you for coming on. juan, put this up on the screen, what justice alito said, quoting here, i personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible but that's different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody. it was part of an effort to prevent the dobbs draft from becoming the decision of the court. i mean, i don't know, juan, only 36 clerks, right. you would think if there was an urgent desire to name this person they would have done it by now or in high tail process
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of doing it right now. your thoughts. >> i agree. i think if they had been serious about this, i think they would have gone beyond court personnel in terms of conducting the investigation because obviously even in justice alito's opinion that person did not provide evidence of a culprit. my sense is that given the damage done to the court, trace, i don't think there is any dispute, everyone has says it has chilled the relationship among the justices and the justices previously really cherished the notion that it was a family, despite political divisions, that those people trusted each other and has put a chill on that relationship, much, you know, to the detriment of the operation of the court. you said 36 clerks. but you know, there are also nine justices. and early on apparently they did not even have the phones from the justices. so, what we are hearing is alito's opinion but widespread discussion in washington not
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only about the purpose of the leak, but who might have been politically advantaged by the leak and the fact you have a 6-3 majority has hurt the court's credibility with the american public. >> trace: that's a matter of opinion. ted cruz thinks there should be very serious punishment. >> i believe the chief justice should call in the fbi to assist with the investigation. the marshal's office conducted the investigation, marshal's office are very good people but they don't have the equipment, don't have the experience in forensic investigations. the fbi does. >> trace: what's going on, david, in your opinion? >> if ever the supreme court would have an h.r. consultant and do team building, now would be the time. you have a supreme court as juan alloweded to that there's a lot of mistrust amongst one another, and there is big court cases
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coming down that have been argued and will be decided this year, whether it be on immigration, whether it be on college admission, whether it be on college debt, whether it be on land management, this supreme court has some big cases and those -- and their teams have to be able to trust one another. despite what senator cruz said and he has his thoughts on how this should be handled, chief justices made clear he's going to handle this internally. and what we don't know is perhaps it has been handled internally. it could be the justice -- let's keep in mind, if this was a lawyer in just about any state supreme court in the country you would lose your law license. if you are a civil servant there, is a process for removing someone. if the justice has someone, he should follow those procedures. he's made clear he's going to make the decision on this. >> trace: we shall see.
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vi vivek ramaswamy, he always does his homework. i want to play this sound byte and your reaction. >> created a culture that teaches parents they are bigotted or bad people if they don't take the steps. gender disforeya is a condition of suffering. why on earth are we going out of our way to create even more of it, and there's no doubt that the cultural movement in the country, even education, is creating more gender disforeya, if it's a condition of suffering, let's not create more. >> trace: put this on the screen, the polling, vivek ramaswamy about 3%, not really resonating. but he is making a lot of noise in the last couple weeks. >> i think he has tremendous support, especially among establishment republicans. he's trying to break out of that by taking on issues like the
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trans sexual argument and i think it's a culture wars argument intended to stir up some support for him. he has the entrepreneurial background, i think he will get some donor support. but the base of the party, a ripple at best. >> and what people forget about donald trump's message of 2016, it focused on personal and economic security. talked about securing the border, talked about his ability to create jobs, which would put more money in people's pockets. that's what ultimately lifted donald trump in 2016. we'll see if the message will lift him. >> trace: and with that, we've got to go. thank you both. sandra. >> sandra: 29% approval rating in our latest fox news poll. but, lawmakers may have gotten a
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witness stand and trying to poke holes in her second day of cross examination. >> trace: awaiting an update from the state department on the evacuation efforts in sudan, as the u.s. is now warning u.s. citizens to avoid the airport just north of the country's capital because of increased fighting and the air field. meantime, a u.s. convoy carrying hundreds of americans and foreign nationals just reached the part of sudan over the weekend and now the pentagon is moving naval assets there to help out with more evacuations. the chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. >> trace, state department is reiterating americans to avoid the airport, fighting has increased in recent days. u.s. official we spoke to this morning says sudan's warring
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generals have agreed to negotiate for another ceasefire. the general who leads the armed forces and the general who leads the rapid support forces paramilitary group could send representatives potentially to saudi arabia. hundreds escaped the deadly fighting over the weekend, joining two u.s.-led convoys driving 15 hours, the u.s. military flying surveillance aircraft to ensure the americans remained safe. u.s. navy ships took them to saudi arabia and personnel are positioned to assist them. and there are drones over the convoys as they traveled eastward, looking out for threats. the pentagon moved the naval assets to port sudan to assist with more potential evacuations
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and has also deployed intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance assets to support evacuation routes. >> u.s. africa command has established a decon fliction area. >> u.s. has helped 1,000 americans escape since april 15th. 5,000 u.s. citizens have reached out for help according to the state department. >> trace: jen, thank you. >> sandra: house lawmakers finding a rare issue to reach bipartisan consensus, and on bumping up the pay. leaders have a deal to pocket $34,000, food, travel, and housing on official business in
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d.c. kennedy, it is a pleasure to have you here, kennedy. wonderful to see you. the american people might say members of congress are already, they already have some hefty paychecks. why do they need more? to that you say what. >> they have not had a pay raise since 2009, they would really like one. only thing less popular than congress is a congressional pay raise. they make 93% more than the american american salary and work in session 117 days a year. many are millionaires, own houses and have different streams of income, and it's actually -- there was a constitutional amendment, the 27th amendment passed in 1992, that made it much more difficult for congress to inflate their own salaries. james madison originally wanted to be part of the original bill of rights but it took, you know, a couple hundred years for the states and for congress to get together and actually pass that.
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tom foley tried to derail it but realized the ground swell of americans saying no, you guys make too much money. i don't know they make too much but i think this work around of reimbursements smells very, very fishy and essentially equates to a $50,000 a year pay raise. >> sandra: it depends how you break down the numbers. if you consider $34,000 reimbursement per member, 440 members, you are talking about $15 million and the american people say that and that's why they are questioning this. chad pergram had this exchange with hakeem jeffries, from friday. >> is there a concern public may think it's a pay raise, are members getting something on top this, is it a problem? >> no. >> why no the? >> effort to make sure reimbursement for housing expenses has been bipartisan in nature from the very beginning. >> sandra: and by the way,
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reminder as a member of congress, this is not a bump pushed on you, you don't just get the check, you have to account for the expenses, it is optional. but jeffries was defending it and many democrats making the case for this, and maxwell frost said his application for a d.c. apartment was denied due to bad credit despite his salary, and aoc says congress can exclude working class people who get elected. shocking how detached from reality a lot of the details are, but i've got you, says aoc. defending this. >> $174,000 is not poverty. there was a financial services company that did a survey of what it takes to be middle class, in cleveland, middle
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class when you make $23,000 a year. someone making $23,000 is not moved by aoc crocodile tears. this is taxpayer money and i hope kevin mccarthy stands up to this. this is not the way they are supposed to get pay increases and that's exactly what this is. do you get reimbursed for lunch at work, do you get part of your rent paid for by work? i don't think most people do, so also you know, the sympathy sort of runs a little thin in this department. >> sandra: and sneaking this through, and those with low credit, maybe the member of congress buy a place. >> 620 credit score, oh, your year, well done. >> sandra: more on that. today's the day, right? may 1st, when, if you have, you know, not good credit score you are going to get preferential treatment over somebody who does. >> and worked your tail off to
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have a good credit score, good night, sally. you'll be paying for everybody else's. >> sandra: thank you. trace. >> trace: as they were just saying, biden administration new mortgage plan in effect today. why americans with good credit are forced to pay more to subsidize riskier borrowers. >> sandra: state of emergency in some border cities. will the biden administration do anything to help? >> we figure that it's anywhere between 10 to 12,000 people that are ready to come on may 11, may 12. we do know there is additional coming right behind them. ny of d our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is your eligibility for a va loan, which lets you buy a home with no down payment. now, there's no reason to rent
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>> sandra: today's the day president biden's controversial new mortgage policy now goes into effect. it imposes higher fees on good credit home buyers to cover riskier borrowers. jeff flock is live in princeton junction, new jersey on this. this was a bit of a shocker and sort of seemed to be sneaking by all of us, it was not a major announcement but it was certainly out there. so, why are they doing this? >> well, sandra, you know, building generational wealth is perhaps achieved by owning your own home and the government is trying to make it easier for folks with lower credit scores to get into that game. unfortunately, critics say they are doing it at the expense of people with higher credit scores who have done a better job keeping their financial house in order. take a look at one example of how this is playing out.
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say you have a 640 credit score, that would be considered a below average credit score, and you put 20% down on $350,000 mortgage. in the past, before today, you would have paid more than $10,000 in fees. now you are paying less than $8,000. so a nice break for you if you have lower credit scores. problem is, if you have a 740 credit score, considered a very good score, in the past you would have paid less than $2,000 in fees and now you will pay more than 3,000. not fair, say a lot of people. rewarding folks with lower credit scores, also one real estate economist points to the housing bubble and the mortgage crisis then and says we could be in for another run there. listen. >> the end result could very likely be the same even though the inputs are different. it's not a subprime mortgage crisis but it's a general
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irresponsibility of the government. >> and in a day, sandra, we are talking about difficulties with banks, you know, the banks making the loans and if lower credit scores folks are getting loans, could be foreclosures down the road. never good for a bank. sandra. >> sandra: we had an adviser to president obama during the financial crisis join us on the program and says he sympathizes with the goal to get people into the first time homes, that's great and should always be a goal. but he said this is not the way to do it. brings back and echos times people are in homes they cannot afford. hurts them and the country, all eyes will be on this, jeff. >> doesn't help anybody, you are right. >> sandra: trace, it's boggling. >> trace: and part and parcel,
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in california, if you make more money they are putting more on the electricity and gas bill, so those who are doing better are penalized and the mortgage is one more thing. >> sandra: ask yourself, what are we incentivizing with all this. >> trace: newly uncovered documents reveal more prominent people and jeffrey epstein, who is on the list. >> sandra: and the homeless crisis, by encourage more of it? a portland mother on a new proposal that some residents are warning will not help anyone. helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere, in investing for the retirement they envision. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive.
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>> there's a lot of drug and alcohol abuse and mental illness, too, so i think maybe sometimes those resources could be used for those things instead of just hey, here is $1,000. >> i go down there all the time and have seen especially over the last couple of years how things have gotten significantly more crowded. >> the homeless situation has been pretty good and the vandalism of the businesses. >> trace: hearing from residents in oregon about a new controversial bill that would decriminalize home less encampments in public
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places and even they could sues if they are told to leave. evelyn is a mother of seven and raises her family in portland and vehemently opposes the bill. i don't think people realize it's not just giving homeless the rights to camp where they want to, it's taking the rights away from everybody else who can no longer use this public property. >> yeah, i could not agree more. i think that clearly these public spaces need to be usable for the public and unfortunately -- unfortunately it doesn't seem to be that we all have those rights to these spaces anymore, especially if a bill like this were to pass, hopefully this one doesn't. >> trace: it's interesting, in states like california they have done the same thing, you can no longer take any property from homeless people and so the encampments are everywhere, and in essence, they start
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incentivising this, and when you incentivize something, people will show up and take you up on the offer. >> right, exactly. i think that we have a lot of people from other places that have come here because it is so easy to be on the street and it's so easy-to-use drugs here and you know, a bill like this even coming forward is a really scary thing. >> trace: and i want to point out that it's also a safety issue because, you know, and you know this firsthand, it's a safety issue because these are in many cases these are open air drug markets and we had some people who are in portland who, you know, leading into this segment were saying look, this is a problem and you know firsthand that this is a bad drug problem. >> oh, absolutely. i know some of the tents are unoccupied as homes and are used as drug hubs. i've seen that firsthand and i know it's not a safe situation
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for people that are on the street and it's not a safe thing for the neighborhood that they are in. so i don't think it's good -- i don't think it's good for anybody. so if we really care about the people on the street, we need to be unified on the idea that this is not -- this is not the answer. >> trace: and i want to point out, you see your name at the top of the screen, some of the pictures you have taken. play the sound from the portland mayor, ted wheeler, and your response. >> i've always been pro public safety and as the police commissioner, make sure it's safe on the citizens. i hear on your network all the time about what a dangerous city the city of portland is and that's factually not true. we don't make the top list of the top 30 most dangerous cities in america. bottom line for me, we are improving public safety, we are improving the number of police officers we have on our streets. >> trace: but they are not
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improving public safety, that's the concept, statewide in oregon and what they are trying to do is they are trying to make oregon this sanctuary state for homeless people and virtually any kind of drug. what would you say to that? >> i think it's so true. i look around me and i -- i've traveled in and out of the state over the last couple years and realized that as much as yes, it is absolutely up and down the west coast, it is very unique to portland that we tolerate it to the level we do. i -- i don't know what portland or voters are thinking, i do think the tide is turning, though, with voters. i read through a lot of the testimonials, i found seven out of hundreds of oppositions that were in favor of this bill, and so i do have hope that we are changing the tune. >> trace: we are pulling for you. best of luck for you, evelyn mcpherson. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, have a good
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