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no one will feel sorry for you because you have the big payroll and the expectations. their bull peg is unbelievably good and it will get them the world series championship if the bullpen gets it done. for the yankees taking out the power. >> brian: in may you walked into fox with me at the same time and said john, the yankees great start. do you believe they are this good and you said yes. once again you are 100% right. they are in the world series. see you when you get to new york. hopefully you'll be on the couch. game one of the world series will be tonight at 8:00. >> ainsley: 8:08. very specific. >> brian: it will be fun. whatever you do, stay within yourself. >> kamala, kamala, you are
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fired. get out of here, fired, fired, get out! [cheers and applause] >> bill: here we go now. it is 11 days and counting. the campaigns are across the country. not all sunshine and rainbows as we're finding out. welcome. hope you had a great week. here we go on friday morning. live in new york i'm bill hemmer. i like the blue rick it's very good. >> dana: thinking of you when i put it on today. this is "america's newsroom" and i'm dana perino. vice president harris bringing out the big guns last night in georgia. the rally featured former president obama and this guy you might recognize. ♪ >> bill: as we have seen for several national presidential cycles, springsteen hits the road firing up the crowd.
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when the audience was not just daysing in the dark they were hearing dark rhetoric. >> donald trump has become more confused, more unstable, and more angry. you see it every day. he has become increasingly unhinged. >> dana: another busy day on the trail. both nominees will be in texas. former president trump talking border security in austin. and vice president harris holding a rally in houston and beyonce is reportedly joining her for that. >> bill: the former house speaker kevin mccarthy has analysis coming up in a moment. the reporting in houston. jackui heinrich. we were told beyonce would show up in chicago and that didn't happen at the convention. what is going on now, jackui? good morning. >> well, we should know the answer by tonight. we don't have it now as far as beyonce goes, bill. harris has virtually no chance of winning texas.
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the campaign is coming here to spotlight the state's restrictive abortion rights in hopes of generating headlines to mobilize voters in states that will decide the election. states like arizona and nevada where abortion is on the ballot taking a page from trump who generated a lot of coverage with his stops at coachella and madison square garden this weekend. a maris poll shows trump has a seven point lead over harris in this state among likely voters. campaign hopes tonight that people who are having freedoms rolled back in harris's words will make the case another trump presidency would go even further and support harris's efforts here. >> let me tell you the idea that someone who survives a crime of a violation to their body would be told they don't have the authority to make a decision about what happens to their body next, that is immoral. it is immoral.
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>> most voters who feel strongly about abortion have already made up their minds who they are supporting in the election making clear that harris's strategy in the final stretch is less about pulling in undecided voters than mobileizing the base. ahead of her trip here she dodgeed answering how she would handle a top issue for undecided voters, immigration. >> i will tell you my highest priority is to put the resources into insuring our border is secure and been very clear i will bring back up as president the bipartisan border security bill and make sure that it is brought to my desk so i can sign it into law. >> that's the second time in as many days harris has refused to detail decisions she would make as president. instead redirecting the focus to something she sees as a trump liability. another unknown is whether
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beyonce is appearing here tonight and whether it would end with an endorsement. the campaign has not confirmed that willie nelson will be here. we heard a sound check. pretty confident that will be happening, bill. >> dana: i wanted to ask you a question. is the event so late tonight because it's with beyonce and that's when the concert is? what about the closing messages? seems to have taken a turn. >> it does. it seems like in her final days on the election -- on the campaign trail she is 0ing in on this discussion about january 6th the threat to democracy that trump poses, she says, about abortion rights, all things that people care about if they already support kamala harris. very rarely for undecided voters are those the top issues. if those are the issues that have mobilized them in this election they've already made up their mind. a pretty clear indication that they are really trying to generate the base, mobilize the base and get turnout up because
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they have not been sort of teeing in on the questions that undecided voters are concerned about, which is immigration, the economy and stuff like that. >> bill: see you later tonight. jackui, nice to see you leading the coverage in houston. want to bring in former house speaker kevin mccarthy. here is hillary clinton. she went to bat last night on cnn. go ahead and roll this. here we go. >> one other thing that you'll see next week, trump actually reenacting the madison square garden rally in 1939. president franklin roosevelt was appalled that neo-nazis, fascists in america were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in germany. a lot of others may think i don't want to go there or i don't want to say that. please, open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to
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our country. >> bill: okay, all right. before you answer, our research team found out the following republicans who have been labeled as fascists or hitler. nixon, ford, reagan, bush, romney, paul ryan and donald trump. >> if you listen to democrats on the house floor they have named every republican this. it is desperation. when you listen to the hillary clinton it seems like she never got over losing the presidency. she is angry. she will always go to the other side and she is known to do this. this is real desperation. the key parts i would look at today, kamala harris has spent a billion dollars and nobody can tell me the three things she would do if she was elected president. she can't answer that question. you've got the swing states that are key for whoever will win the presidents, wisconsin, pennsylvania, those incumbent democrat senators are running ads with trump, not against him.
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but hugging him. that's a bad sign for her. and then if you watch these polls, if you compare them to where we were four years ago, even "the new york times" poly think it had probably biden up eight today. it is tied. fox poll has trump winning the national vote. then you have president trump coming to madison square garden. what republican could do that and sell it out in three hours? he just came from california big crowd. and if you look at kamala harris during the convention, it was joy. it was happiness. i see none of that in her face. >> bill: joy has gone out the window. >> a bad sign for her. you see it in her body language and the articles, the infighting. who will they blame? that's the body language we read. all the polls are tight. we know before they have been wrong. what do we see at the end of the day? whoever gets the low propensity voters out will win. >> dana: former speaker of the house, you pay attention to that. i would say democrats eight
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weeks ago were like wow, we could win back the majority. now they are singing a different tune. in axios today house dems anxiety spikes over november 5th and this quote, house democrats in battleground districts feel much better than the top of the ticket. one house democrat told us. everyone feels like they are out performing vice president kamala harris. >> that is true. if you look at polls today president trump is out performing the republicans running for congress. but you look at districts that he lost. there are 16 districts that republicans sit in that biden carried. what i'm finding is trump's numbers are better. ones he lost are now tied or he is ahead. that should lift everybody's boat. those republican candidates haven't got there yet. democrats in the congress have much more money than they've had before. they are utilizing it. but i think in these last seven days that's usually when it starts to move. i think if someone votes for president trump, they will definitely try to help make sure
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the democrats don't come in and want to impeach him and not let him govern. >> bill: the point you make in the senators of wisconsin and michigan, was it michigan, too or just bob casey. >> slotkin was a congresswoman running. >> bill: the ads they're running linking to trump's poll socialities an extraordinary closing argument for them. >> they are bragging that trump signed their bill and bragging they voted with trump. could you imagine if wisconsin that joe biden only won it by 20,000 votes but in the polling would say he was up 6% today and he only ended up won by 20,000. the senator is hugging your point. that's not working together and seeing something in the polls. in michigan slotkin running for senate has been yelling for a long time almost three weeks ago that kamala harris is not strong in michigan. >> bill: here are the numbers
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from four years ago. wisconsin was 20,000, pennsylvania was 81, michigan 154. out of millions of votes cast. >> more than 150 million votes cast, 48,918 people determined who won the presidency. but also think of this. there is a green party candidate on the ballot, which democrats didn't have before. >> dana: i've been thinking about this all week. we should bring this up. jill stein is actually gutfeld had a great line. instead of having any political signs in his yard he has jill stein signs. it makes democrats more mad than a trump sign. they think she is the reason hillary clinton didn't become president. >> what they normally do when you bring out bruce springsteen. georgia hasn't had a green party ticket since 1992. that makes a difference when you talk like you did, the 20,000,
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80,000, 100,000. in michigan the debate in the middle east biden had more than 100,000 people vote against him in the primary. in the democratic primary mad at his policies there. where are they going today? she has done nothing to bring people home. >> bill: see what happens in 11 days? thank you, kevin mccarthy, nice to have you here. overseas now. iran bracing for war as israeli forces weigh the military retaliation in the middle east. we'll take you there live and let you know what's happening now today. >> dana: the menendez brothers could be getting a second chance at freedom over three decades later as the la district attorney issues a shocking recommendation for resentencing. >> today is a day filled with hope for our family. we are here because district attorney gascon has taken a brave and necessary step forward by recommending a resentencing for lyle and eric.
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>> another big day. both campaigns going deep in the heart of texas. first vegas and that's where trump had a rally late last night. clark county, watch that county, 70% of the entire vote in nevada comes from clark county. alexis mcadams is traveling with the former president, donald trump and joins us now live. alexis, good morning. >> bill, good morning. you can see behind me we're back to get on the press plane in vegas. the former president waking up in las vegas hitting the campaign trail once again. a packed schedule today. here you can see his airplane heading out straight to austin, texas and do the sit-down interview with joe rogue an for 30 minutes to an hour hitting all different topics and will talk about border security. back out here we can tell you
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this is just starting right now. we're getting on the plane and keep you posted. we show you behind the scenes. cool to be traveling with the former president and let you no he what happens next. >> see you from vegas, catch you later in texas. >> bill: the sun has yet to come up there. >> dana: i have had to refresh my memory. i was only a junior in high school when this happened with the menendez brothers and this is news. they could be getting a second chance at freedom after the los angeles d.a. george gascon recommends they be eligible for parole immediately. jonathan hunt has a details for us. hi, jonathan. >> good morning, dana. bottom line the menendez brothers could be home, whatever home means to them now, by thanksgiving some 35 years after they killed their parents jose and kitty menendez. they have always argued, including at their trial, they acted out of fear after years of sexual abuse by their father. a letter not seen by the trial
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jury but written by eric months before the murders has added to the weight behind those claims with eric writing to a cousin that he was fearful every night that his father might come into his bedroom. now la county district attorney george gascon, having studied the case and new evidence, is recommending a judge change the brother's sentence to life with parole rather than the current sentence of life without the possibility of the parole. now if the judge agrees, eric and lyle menendez could then be freed very quickly by the parole board given that they have already been behind bars for more than three decades. >> we're very sure not only that the brothers have rewhat bill tateed and safe to be reit greated to our society but that they have paid their dues not only for the crimes they committed but because of all the other things they have done to improve the life of so many
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others. >> many members of the extended menendez family agree. >> this gives us hope the truth will be heard and lyle and eric can begin to heal from the trauma of their past. >> others believe they should stay behind bars. among them kitty menendez's brother milton anderson who released a statement through his attorney saying in part, quote, it is unconscionable that gascon whose ethical obligation is pursue justice with integrity has ignored my multiple notifications about individuals coming forward with information that seriously questions the credibility of the so-called new evidence in this case. dana, even da gascon says there are some in his own office who oppose his decision here. nonetheless, the paperwork will be filed in court today. then we wait for a judge to schedule a hearing likely within
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a month and then, if the judge signs off on gascon's decision, it will be up to the parole board. dana. >> dana: jonathan hunt, thank you so much. this took place a long time ago so the parents, jose and kitty menendez were shot in august of 1989. lyle and eric were not he have arrested until march of 1990. they go to trial in 1993. america is watching this as it goes forward. both juries deadlocked. it was a big moment. they have another trial in 1995 and convicted in 1996 and convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. so what changes? the brothers' attorneys in may of 23 asked the court to consider possible new evidence and there has always been questions were they sexually molested by the father. well, here is the big one, september 24th, netflix releases the crime drama, tons of people
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watch it and gascon, la district attorney says they are getting flooded with lots of calls and yesterday during "the five" gascon recommended resentencing and there are no shortage of opinions about this. we'll bring in two people who can talk about that now. fox news contributor leo terrell and criminal defense attorney m >> what do you think of the decision by gascon today? >> this is a horrible decision. it is pure politics because gascon is losing by 30 points, dana, regarding his re-election. he has just opened up a pandora's box. everyone needs to understand. i remember this case very well. you did a great job in outlining it. it is important for people to know that gascon in his 27-minute press conference says i was inundated with all these requests for information. therefore i have to move up the timeline.
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this is not a case about the evidence. he is basically resentencing them based on their rehabilitation skills. he has basically acknowledged that they were guilty of first degree murder, lying in wait and what was kitty menendez problem? what did she do wrong? these kids reloaded a shotgun to make sure she was murdered and they went on a shopping spending spree. one final point, dana. they filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus regarding the note. let that play out. that will be heard in november. what gascon did was circumvented that and had this resentencing which doesn't look at the evidence but looks on rehabilitation. it is a politically motivated decision. half of his office disagree with him. they are going to challenge this in court. >> dana: mark, you might have a different view. how do you see it? >> i don't disagree with everything that flowed from leo's mouth.
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i think politics plays a huge role in these cases and certainly in this one. i also don't think that they should be getting any relief because of the reason that the d.a. stated because they paid their debt to society. well, thousands of people in prison, especially many murderers have paid their debt, one would argue but not tiktok famous or have a netflix show or have kim kardashian in the corner. the reason i think they should get relief due process requires it. in their second trial, they were denied a fair trial. the prosecutor mocked the sexual abuse claim saying, and i quote, men cannot be raped as they lack the necessary equipment to be raped. what? so the jurors in the second trial never had the opportunity to find them guilty of a lesser offense like the first jury did. the judge tied the hands of both
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the defendants on their attorneys in what they could present as far as a sexual abuse claim goes. we know it would have made a difference. in the first trial it ended in a hung jury. all i'm saying is that due process requires it especially in light of the newly discovered evidence. >> mark is absolutely wrong and knows it. let me tell you why. they have exhausted appeals from 1996 to 2005. they have taken these issues up and what mark did not address there is a current petition for writ of habeas corpus now before the court. if mark's evidence is so powerful they will make a reversal. let me be clear. how can you justify -- you are wrong. how can you justify the alleged allegations that the menendez boys are making to justify buying shotguns, they were panicked for their lives and didn't have any escape route.
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18 and 21 years old. they could have gone to the police, they could have gone to seek help. they got nothing. mark didn't mention any of those facts. shame on you, mark. >> leo, mark didn't mention a lot because i was given a three-minute sound bite. what leo is missing while he passionately yells a prosecutor at any time can change things based upon a finding of lack of due process. i'm not saying they should be cut free because of how they acted but the jury should have heard about the sexual abuse and if the jurors heard it and still chose to give them a life sentence they belong in prison for the rest of their lives. >> dana: meet down at the restaurant and have lunch today. there are strong opinions about this and i appreciate both of you coming with all your knowledge and experience and people will be talking about this for a long time. thank you so much.
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>> dana: with 11 days to go the "new york post" is endorsing former president trump for president. the headline back to the future we'll see if that gives him a little boost and the former president has a busy day as alexis mcadams was telling us. holding events in texas and michigan. >> bill: we shall follow that. kamala harris will be in houston later today for a speech on abortion. she said two nights ago the filibuster should be in play in order to codify roe v. wade with just 51 votes in the senate. that's a move the critics say could lead to the passage of a slough of liberal policies including medicare for all, court expansion and down the
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line. maddy, good morning. >> good morning, bill. vice president kamala harris's comments are another attempt to further herself apart from former president trump on abortion and one of the few issues where she does top the former president on the issue. the "new york times" poll out this morning shows she has about a 15-point lead over trump here. here she is earlier this week doubling down on the possibility of getting rid of the 60 vote threshold in the senate to enshrine abortion rights into federal law. >> i think we need to take a look at the filibuster to be honest with you. the reality of it is this. let's talk about how we got here. when donald trump was president, he hand selected three members of the united states supreme court with the intention that they would undo the protections of roe v. wade. >> harris floated the idea of eliminating the filibuster last month. joe manchin and arizona senator
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kyrsten sinema blasted her position. both are staunch supporters of the tactic. the two are retiring this year. >> anyone says i will eliminate the filibuster or 60 vote threshold for this one subject, harry reed tried that with just a district and circuit judges. and then the republicans came back and did it for the supreme court. so once you start down that policy, you have everything under the sun thrown at it. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer suggested changing the filibuster rule to pass voting rights and abortion rights legislation. that is, of course, if democrats keep the senate next year. >> bill: madeleine, north lawn. thank you. >> if you take a look. look, i'm not supposed to say
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it, but we are oh he leading by so much. they think she is grossly incompetent. let's face it. she is not doing well. we can't have -- we can't have her as president. we can't have her. we have had that for four years. we won't go another four years. >> dana: former president trump lambasting the state of the harris campaign this amid a series of headlines saying democrats are growing more doubtful about her chances. "the new york times" poll shows harris and trump locked in a dead heat 48-48. white house reporter for the "wall street journal" is here and you have been into this campaign. we pull up call for number one. the latest polls show a neck-and-neck race, trump a little bit ahead and fox news poll. with the margin of error this is tied. how do you see it? >> yeah, the national polling is really interesting.
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that's because usually you would expect to see a democratic candidate a few points ahead in the national polling. that's where democrats have been in the last few elections. so when you are seeing whether it's the times poll showing a tie, or the "wall street journal" poll showing trump two points ahead in the national polling, i think that is just increasing jitters for democrats because they are used to seeing their candidate being up nationally and struggling a little bit more in the swing states. so even though it looks tied, because it is not what you would expect to see, i think it has made the trump people extremely happy. >> bill: you were in michigan this week, right? you were in lansing with kamala harris and you were in detroit with her. what did people say? what were your big takeaways? >> i was in two smaller events with harris.
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nice to see the contrast from the big rallies that really bring out the diehard supporters and some of the smaller events you get a little bit more of an intimate experience with the candidate and can talk to people a little bit more. look, the people at these events are excited for her. some of the people i was talking to are doing, you know, doing phone banking for her and they were finding that they were having some real difficulties particularly among younger voters who are saying that they don't know enough about harris. so just talking to some of these harris volunteers who are saying this has been one of the really big challenges that we've had as we've been trying to push our candidate, we're confronting younger voters who just don't know her very well and the polling tells a similar story. >> dana: i want to go back a little bit to the middle of june and you were a co-author on a piece where you had dozens of sources telling you that joe biden had lost a step and this
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is not something you reported with glee but you did report it. the white house came after you and the democrats came after you how dare you and the debate on june 27th and clear to everybody. in the last couple of weeks kamala harris has been asked when did you notice that joe biden had started to decline? or what was it like when you saw it? she has declined -- she is basically saying that it was a fluke. she had never seen it before. if you think back on your reporting, is that even possible? >> i've been really surprised to hear that answer from her. first of all, i will compliment the reporters who have been asking her that question. bret baier on your network was really the first mainstream media reporter to ask her that question. and then jackson also did bring it up as well. what i think is interesting about the question is she sort of does have -- her line on it is to say biden has the judgment
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to be president. she is not saying he has the stamina to be a president. she pivots a way awfully fast. i would have thought this would have been a bigger issue in the campaign just given how much time she spent with the president and how clear his decline was. but she benefits from a very condensed campaign in that regard. >> dana: although now you also have people like david brooks writing today in the "new york times" there is not enough time for her to make the sale. as jim messina said yesterday she has room to grow but not necessarily the time to do it. >> bill: nice to see you, come back soon. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: rams quarterback matthew stafford threw touchdowns yesterday with the win over the vikings. >> stafford chased, escapes, fires, caught, touchdown.
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>> dana: he evaded a would be sack and threw a 7 yard -- >> his name is cooper copp. >> dana: in the second quarter sparking an offensive fireworks. >> i have ptsd every time i see the rams after they beat my boys in the super bowl. you have to brush up on baseball. world series game one is tonight. this could reset the entire sport of baseball because we need -- that sport needs new york and needs los angeles, it needs the country to engage in the sport yet again. >> dana: why they were called the brooklyn dodgers? do you know what they were dodging? >> bill: that's a great question. >> dana: it's in my "new york times" news quiz and i got it wrong so i'll never forget. they were dodging street
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trollies. >> bill: a sign of the times, right? >> dana: i guess. >> bill: i wonder what elon musk would think about that now. colorado, check it out. >> this is a breaking point. i thought this would be an occasion for american citizens to come together and band together against this threat. >> bill: the people in aurora, colorado calling on their leaders to address the threat from a venezuelan gang. now a congresswoman who you will meet in a moment trying to take matters into her own hands and talk to her and find out how it's going. 1600 names removed from the virginia voter rolls after being flagged as non-citizens. the fate will be decided today by a judge and it could happen at any moment. start to slow down. but did you know prevagen can help keep your memory sharp? the secret is the powerful ingredient, apoaequorin, originally discovered in jellyfish and found only in prevagen. in a clinical study,
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>> there is a really real threat. i wasn't made aware by anybody in city leadership or police leadership. it wasn't until i actually spoke with councilwoman danielle that she was forthcoming with me. nobody has been honest with me up until that point. >> bill: the woman she mentioned you will meet in a moment who used to live in aurora, no one was honest with her about the venezuelan gang is threatening her community except that city councilwoman danielle. now she is posting documents she says indicates that authorities knew about the gang problem more than a year ago. there is an email from november of 2023 an officer in the aurora gang union. an ice agent said tren de aragua has decided to make denver their headquarters. the information came from one agent, not federal immigration authorities. wanted to talk to the
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councilwoman now. they never before seen potential bombshell email. good morning to you and thank you for your time. prove your case, make your point. what do you think you have uncovered there in aurora? >> yeah. well, i have a whole bunch of emails and listen, one thing i want to make very clear in what i said are from a beginning of all this. the police officers want to help. they want to help. they want to police and want to help the people of aurora struggling and suffering at the hands of tren de aragua. but it is very much police leadership in aurora and city management at this point that has hogtied them. so i have become aware of dozens and dozens of emails. the city issued a statement confirming the validity of the emails. it is not whether or not the
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emails are valid. they issued a statement. i don't know if you have that statement. but i sent over a couple of emails that i would like to have come out and be able to respond to. >> bill: i do have the statement. let me run off a couple quick questions. who occupies the apartment complexes in question today? is that the gang or not? >> who is controlling them is the gang. >> maybe a better question. you are saying the gang is today. why would police in aurora, as you allege, try to cover this up? >> that's the million dollar question. i never in a million years thought going this year i never saw it turning into a political football game like this. that's the million dollar question. why won't the city tell the truth? if the city will tell the truth, then the mayor would know the truth once and for all and the governor would know the truth
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once and for all. >> bill: did dhs, did ice, did homeland security notify local police that you know of, or conversely, did the police notify any of these federal agencies? >> yes to both. >> bill: the police did? >> the police notified federal partners and federal partners also gave a lot of information to the aurora police department. i have emails that will show there were dozens of law enforcement agencies involved in different meetings over the handling of tren de aragua. >> bill: the reason the question is important because here is the statement that you are referring to a moment ago from the city of aurora. we must remember that police departments and the justice system as a whole must rely an add miss able evidence not hearsay or fragments of information. the city, including apd, has
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remained consistent in responses on this matter. that's their statement. that's their quote. what problem do you have with that? >> well, i don't really have a problem. i would like to confirm that apd and the city has remained consistent to their responses on this matter. and that is to continue to deny, to flat out lie and gas light the entire country at this point on this issue. and that will be proven, bill, in so many more emails that are going to come out. so much more video footage that will come out. too many nights ago we had a city council meeting. at the end of the meeting i made a plea with the governor to please call me. i wanted to discuss this video footage that came out of the woman stating when she couldn't pay the rent to the gangs at nine months pregnant they put scalding water on her. i wanted to speak to the
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governor. what he turned around and did tuesday morning he called the police on me. and he made a public statement about it. he called the police on me tuesday morning. i still haven't heard from him. still nobody is coming forward, nobody wants to have a real conversation about this. >> bill: either way the story is not over. appreciate you sharing your side of it and continue to pursue with the police department there, the mayor, governor defending themselves after this as well. we'll find out the truth in the end. appreciate your time. >> dana: recent conviction shining new light on the leadership between black lives matter. how the social justice stronghold may have misallocated funds.
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questions about the financial issues in the organization that might run deeper than originally thought. jonathan serrie has more in atlanta. what did you find out? >> just this month 35-year-old was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in a federal prison. prosecutors say he benefited personally from donations he continued to collect on behalf of black lives matter of greater atlanta, even after its tax exempt status was revoked for failure to submit financial disclosures to the i.r.s. for three years. it is the latest controversy for an organization that has seen infighting among its leaders over financial decisions including the purchase of this $6 million los angeles area mansion a couple years ago. >> the idea that black lives matter global network foundation received millions of dollars and then i hid those dollars in my bank account is absolutely false. >> the foundation, which says it purchased the property as an
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investment, refuge and creative space for black arts and culture has seen its annual revenue drop from nearly $80 million to less than $5 million over three years according to public tax filings compiled by pro publy ca. independent activitys saying the ideas behind black lives matter remain as relevant today regardless of the financial health of the organization. >> it's very hard to get so many people of strong minds on the same page. i would love to see a central hub but there are a lot of people doing a lot of great work not affiliated with the organization. >> a pew research center survey found public support for the black lives matter movement peaked in june of 2020 around 67%. last year it was down to 51%, bill. >> bill: we'll watch that. live in atlanta following up on that. >> dana: vice president harris is
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