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did he come here because alvin bragg announced he won't be prosecuting them? of course.ou talk about some of these proposals and mentioned richardson jordan, a democratic socialist and she does say it's a tragedy, she's calling for the abolition of new york city will be's department and abolish the police department and says that doesn't mean the best of police officers -- let me read some tweets of hers during the campaign, she said that always remember police and prison systems are creating to preserve slavery to break the chains must must provide total abolition. she tweeted we cannot reform a system of policing has so rooted in racist from the front and abolish nypd. police have never served our communities, they don't prevent crime, there and on occupying force created to terrorize more people and enforce racial hierarchies and finally she apparently wants criminals released. we demand immediate racist classes cash bail systems and immediate release of all new yorkers incarcerated in reference island and new york city jails. she got elected by 104 post, she's now th

now this all comes as manhattan new district attorney you can see here attorney alvin bragg is under fire for controversial plans that he believes will make the criminal justice system more fair. last week bragg sending out memo outlining changes including no longer prosecuting some trespass offenses, the charge of resisting arrest, subway and bus fair beating and also sex work. bragg is reducing charges for stealing from stores or home storage areas and some accounts of drug dealing. though he says he's focused on getting violent offenders off the street the association telling me this morning which represent 13,000 active and retired police sergeants in new york, the policies that he's trying to make are not his job as district attorney. >> last i checked it was work with law enforcement, it was to uphold the laws of the state. he took an oath just like i took an oath 30 plus years ago to protect the citizens of this city. if we wants to change the laws and the pencil laws of the state, obviously he should have ran for a different position. >> we reached out to the da's office here

alvin, you're sort of the elder statesman here, 19 years old. why are you pushing for these two bills? >> yeah. thank you so much for having me. this is just absolutely critical right now, especially given the covid pandemic for our students to be able to finally safely return back to school and create a sense of normalcy. i'm a recent bay area public high school graduate. when i was a junior in high school that's when the pandemic first hit and schools were shut down. since then i've had so many conversations with my fellow peers and the pandemic has really taken a toll on students mentally. and something we're seeing across the state right now too is heavy chronic absenteeism where students simply are just not returning back to school. right now the top priority is really making sure we can safely go back to school for things to return back to a sense of normally but also for students to be safe and healthy and getting the vaccine is critical to that. we're focused on fighting for student voice, equity and education equity. >> katie, are there

it is absurd. >> todd: i want to get to the statement from alvin bragg, the deed gnomic d.a. protesting. a flood of trauma and loss from the covid-19 pandemic. violence has spiked across the country gun violence in particular. criminal justice reform, laws and those without jurisdiction with old-school das. i don't necessarily know if that last part is correct, but you heard him there talk about and blaming all of this gun violence, violence period on the guns and also on covid. aren't those the easy way out when really -- is to put these bad guys back in jail? >> it is common sense. it is that simple. i am sick, we are sick of hearing your thoughts and prayers are with you from the governor to the president of the united states. when they have the power to remove these criminal, loving woke d.a.s. that is the answer. a gun is an inanimate object and you will sit for a thousand years and will never go off if unless somebody picks it up and uses it. the rap sheets, d.a. bragg, they have to be removed. they do not have to change their policies. the mentality is set in stone and

george soros poured over $1 million into alvin bragg's campaign. unfortunately this is what we get.e to lay in the bed that ultimately was made for us but that doesn't -- i really think the governor needs to stand up now and remove alvin bragg, remove any district attorneys. we don't have recall like they do in san francisco and los angeles of. with those district attorneys. so our recourse is to have the governor get up. if i am governor, i can tell you any of these d.a.s who choose to be complicit in this crime, i will fire them on day one. >> rachel: that's good hear. by the way there is blood on george soros' hand. thank you, andrew, appreciate it nerves are kicking in for the democrats ahead the 2022 midterm elections. that's why they are focused more than ever is to change voter laws in their favor. they call it the only way of saving democracy. but, in reality, it's just a last resort against the impending red wave. and they are calling on some old reliables. former first lady michelle obama is now joining in on the new campaign to register 1 million new voters ahead of the m

and alvin bragg is on the wrong side of the fence because, ultimately, we elect a district attorney tors or alexandria ocasio-cortez as the district attorneys. we elected someone that was going to uphold the rule of law, and it's not happening in the county of new york. eric: d.a. bragg has met with the governor and ore officials saying -- other official saying that he's moving toward a common goal to protect the city and public safety while also balancing out the other things. look, he ran for office -- what do you think about this? he said he wouldn't charge a criminal if you steal $250 worth of stuff. under $250, you get free, it's fine. that he wouldn't put a slew of defendants behind bars. and this is exactly what he said, this is now on his web site, alvinbragg.com, quote: i will not waste resources prosecuting petty offenses that do not warrant prosecution because the defendant has a criminal history. the only rationale seems to be to avoid a tabloid headline, fear mongering for pet the city offenses. i will not base it on a fear of tabloid coverage. is that crime fighting or su

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district attorney alvin bragg joins me now. thank you for being with us.evasion, why should i pay a subway fair? >> so i was elected to deliver safety and justice for all. i have seen every side of the criminal justice system. what we are doing now is not working. let me give you an example. if you have an easy pass and you go through the patrol, they don't stop you and arrest you there. what they do is send you a summons, ticket. we need to be directing our prosecutorial resources to our kwrup particular in gun violence. status quo is not working. we have significant public safety issues. we need to be focusing on guns and sexual assaults, not on fares. >> what about stealing a banana from a shop? why should i pay for a banana? >> i don't want to personalize it to you. but i assume you don't have a significant poverty issue. many cases are not driven by someone who wants the banana to throughout the rules. they are driven by addiction, mental health issues, poverty. what we will do is link people to the services they need so we can put an end. we are alre

that's the type of prosecutor alvin bragg is. just ask alvin greene. he's the one who's telling p us he's not going to charge people with gun crimes and fully prosecute them according to the law. so it's just lip service from people like him and unfortunate that has real worlde consequences. every single police actionon, whether it's a domestic violence response like this orei a traffic stop has the potential of going south.se and if police officers are not going to be protected by the law, if the prosecutors are the people, fter then we have to reconsider whether it's even worth the risk of sending cops in the firstke place. and it's unfortunate that we're having this conversation in the wake of the death of two of our finest people. >> now it's open season on law abiding new yorkers and the men and women in blue. but here's the most vocal critic of law enforcement in the entire city is doing. she's grappling with all of this at this moment. the new york times notes that councilwoman kristin richardson jordan, 35 , hasin equated the policing system wi

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that say critics is the message from the new progressive manhattan district attorney alvin bragg.tunning reversal of the traditional law enforcement policies, bragg stressing diversion and alternative to jail time like crisis intervention over putting some criminals behind bars. he will no longer incarcerate lawbreakers unless it's murder, a crime that involves a death or felony. bragg says the goal is "safety and fairness," also wants the defendant's race to be considered. the office will no longer enforce trespass crimes, resisting arrest, sex work, and reducing charges that could mean no jail time for armed robbery, stealing from stores and storage areas of homes and dealing drugs. when bragg ran for district attorney he promised to not charge shoplifters for up to 250 bucks, meaning you could get away with it. police unions and others are outraged, saying bragg is giving criminals a free pass. >> he's paving the way for an even bigger blood bath than what we have seen in new york city already ruining any chances the city has to come back. we don't want to say to criminals come

alvin bragg isn't talking about second chances but endless chances.eological position that argues against all incarceration at all times and favors these restorative justice programs that aren't new and aren't producing the results you would expect them to produce. his approach doesn't take into account the context of the person who is committing these low-level crimes. for restorative justice programs to work, they can work in certain circumstances you have to understand who the person is, what is their background? how many times have they committed these crimes? can you get them on the right path? for many of them the answer is clearly no. look at what has been done in the past and look at their trajectory. that's the problem here. >> harris: there are so many of them now. do we have time in our justice department? most of it in our justice systems across the country is still virtual. do we have time to figure out who everybody is? >> no, you don't. but there are some cases that do pop out and you can say this is someone who can be saved. when you t

i think alvin is a decent person i've had interactions with him is always been a gentleman.hief law enforcement officer in the jurisdiction. it's long been regarded as the most esteemed and prolific in the country you're adopting a platform went to sarah going to try to help people, going to try to deal with crime like shoplifting proportionately see these offenders to rikers are a never done that in new york city. it's a terrible message and unfortunately it is a policy that strikes you disproportionately at the heart of communities of color that rely on national retailers coming into their community for so many decades avoided coming into underserved communities in the inner-city. they rely on these places for jobs and employment. that is a real tragedy in a lot of these policies for progressives. eric: it was offered decades, talk about the shoplifting. i was in my local convenience store and i see a guy on his knees at a shelf piling stuff into a costco bag. iran over the guy walked out. here's the video i shot. he walked right out of the store, his bag was full of stuff

alvin bragg's policy the suspect was charged with only a miss demeanor. that used to be a felony.the city are angry and afraid. >> get out of jail free card like a game of monopoly. it's petry fileing. reduced sentences, having someone come into my establishment, walk out with any cash register at gun point and i don't know if they'll be charged. scary. >> harris: that means escalation. eric shawn live in new york city. >> hello, critics say progressive new manhattan district attorney alvin bragg will go easy on crime. now they claim it is already happening. look at this mug shot obtained by the "new york post." it shows career criminal threatened a drugstore worker with a knife and robbed the place. after cops arrested him, bra*tion office reduced the charges against him dropping the first degree robbery count and criminal possession of a weapon. the type of crime the group victims rights new york says it will keep an eye on to make sure bragg follows the law. the group is led by jennifer harrison starting a watchdog effort to monitor bragg's prosecutions. >> we will have court w

in july he said there is no difference between him and alvin bragg on criminal justice.uation. >> tucker: we are. some of us were hoping that eric adams would be better than the mayor he replaced. i still hope that. seth, thank you. after a lot of depressing stories here is an inspiring one. a teacher who is battling cancer in chicago has announced he will not go remote because of the non-deadly omicron variant. he wants to continue teaching students even though the teacher's union doesn't want him to. we will hear from him next. chicago voted to stop teaching students in person. chicago cancelled classes today. one teacher battling cancer has refused to stop teaching students in person. that teacher is joe. he joins us tonight. thanks for joining us. bless you for this. tell us why you made this decision. >> hello. well, in the previous time i already mead a decision. i joined -- chicago public schools as a teacher. my role should inside the classroom with my students. it should understand be in the [inaudible]. first and fore most i am a teacher. secondly, i believe th

eric: alvin bragg defending his new criminal justice policies. he gave a speech this morning at al sharpton's national action network headquarters in hard harlem -- the harlem are. bragg is facing criticism, the new nypd police commissioner expressed her concern over bragg's progressive approach to crime that includes reducing some felonies to misdemeanors and not charging other lawbreakers. alexis mcadams with more. >> reporter: hi, eric. he's been defending himself very strongly. now, this morning manhattan's new district attorney, alvin bragg, wanting to clear up confusion saying he's going after guns and criminals on the streets of new york. take a look at this, this is him speaking at reverend al sharpton's house of justice this morning in new york in in the city's harlem neighborhood where bragg grew up. he outlined the plans he believes will make the criminal justice system more fair, in his words. you can see here outlines of the major change he wants to make including no longer prosecuting some trespassing offenses, resisting arrest and

when they see the havoc and destruction that woke da's like alvin brag bring to their communities. hopefully they'll finally learn and hopefully before it's too late. more like justice for nobody. you clearly don't give a damn about the people who will be victimized by your policies. as long as you get to a pair woke, being woke is not a virtue. i work in that cesspool, and i can tell you that id, i have every day traveling to and from work. new york city is not a safe place. politicians are playing, walk politics with our lives, if only they reap the benefits of the policies they enact. if only the change comes despite new york, experiencing a crime wave last year, with murders up nearly 4 percent to almost $500.00 robberies were also up around 5 percent to just under $14000.00 and serious assault. increased by 10 percent as well. new york police sergeant seek arkham, told us that although the numbers will go down with these new policies, people in the city will not feel safe at all. has got immediate disastrous potential. i mean, see, voice for a new mayor who said that he was go

manhattan's new district attorney, alvin bragg, joins me now.ing in, district attorney bragg. a lot of things have been said, but let's start with the new prosecuting policies that you are enacting. briefly explain how they work and why you think they make sense. >> thank you, reverend sharpton, for having me on. i appreciate it. look. i was elected to deliver safety and fairness for all of manhattan. as you know, i have seen the criminal justice system from every side. from someone who was stopped by police, someone who had a gun pointed by people who were not police officers, and i'm bringing to bear all that experience. what we're doing is not working right now. we have got crime in terms of gun trafficking, gun offenses on the rise, domestic violence on the rise. so what i have set forth is a plan that will make us safer and allow us to address those issues. in and of itself, it's going to make us safer because we've got a situation right now where we're focusing on matters that are not public safety. more than 80% of the crimes prosecuted i

elizabeth: new d.a., far left, in manhattan now, alvin bragg.nals and armed robbery and drug dealing cases. should he be recalled? >> absolutely. once again we have the voters to thank for this, just as we see mayors across the country starting to backtrack on their previous support of defunding police. and let's remember, liz, defunding police it is not only budgetary. this has turned into a movement, right? it encompasses dismantling any way to inhibit law enforcement from doing their job. things like bail reform. in this example, with the new district attorney of manhattan, we're seeing another example of trying to circumvent the efforts and responsibilities of law enforcement in new york city. elizabeth: so, chuck, no prison time after trial and conviction. how can d.a.s, unilaterally change the law? police officials say the d.a. was elected to enforce the law. if he wanted to change the law he should have run for state legislative offices? >> no, that is exactly right. he has absolutely no right to change the laws. the same way the biden ad

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and steve, you're in new york, what's the reaction there like about the district attorney alvin brag? and his new policy to not seen prison sentences for felonies and misdemeanors. it's outrageous. nobody feels safe. they didn't feel safe before this clown came in. and now they really don't feel safe. i mean, that's it. the mayor came in and was because he said he would turn around what bill diblasio was not doing and re institute the undercover anti crime unit, police officers, et cetera. and now you've got this guy saying, go ahead do it. basically, we're not going to prosecute these people for most crimes. i don't know how we won one because nobody really votes, and this is a trend we're seeing all over the country. these kinds of prosecutors to want to let criminals wrong free and all the da's are leaving in his office. that's what he wants. so he could go get people from the legal aid society and put them in place. and you'll have an office full of people thinking like him, it's a disaster. manila, do you feel as though this new policy would bring forth more incidents like the tr

officials try to combat the surgeon crime amid the corona virus pandemic, manhattan district attorney alvin greg is he mast resignations from his prosecutors over his soft on crime policies. according to an internal memo obtained by the new york post brag, ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hoards of criminals and to downgrade felony charges and cases, including armed robberies and drug dealing. at least a dozen, lawyers have quit within 2 weeks of his term. under brag, soft on crime approach. robberies are directed to be persecuted as petty larceny, if no victim was wounded and there is no risk of physical harm. while prostitution turns they'll jumping weapons and marijuana possession won't be prosecuted at all. i reached out to the attorney general's office for reaction to the growing criticism surrounding his new approach and have not yet heard back in new york trinity sharp as r t. for more on the story we bring in manila chan, host of our team americas in question, and steve miles burg host of r t c. the process. thanks so much for coming on the show today at

alvin bragg boy failing. >> rachel: statement by alvin bragg i'm praying for them every day.milies and violence against nypd police officers will never be tolerated. my office will vigorously tolerate cases of violence against case and work to prevent sendsless acts like this happening. you would like to believe that's true, you guys. but it's hard to believe because people should know that right now there is a rapper who shot at a police, he is charged with shooting a cop. and he is out on the street. and. >> pete: unbelievable. >> rachel: exactly. at the very moment he put out that statement that's true. last week we had lawrence jones on talking. he had been talking to a lot of these police officers. you say power, will, anger as well. he told us when he was talking to police officers, there is a lot of anger. and i think you saw that in the quiet words of that beautiful now widow. just think about when you are married, only four months, and you lose your husband, the love of your life. it's absolutely gut wrenching; but she did something that eric adams didn't do, which i

mean it's not a violent crime it doesn't mean it's a victimless crime that is for certain i think alvincomments saying were knocking to put people away for shoplifting for food, this is not the problem in new york, i'm sure that happens once in a while but were seen an uptick in robbery and theft and these are not people stealing food to get by, this is crime that hurts people and businesses and when you rob businesses the people that go to those businesses and obtain more and subway crime is gone way up and honestly it is the smaller things that you have to look at most of the subway crime is committed by people who are evading the fair, jumping the turnstile. the idea that there's a certain number of lowell level that you can ignore is amazing that a prosecutor is saying this. this man was elected to be the top prosecutor. neil: this has not worked out west. there trying to pull that back as we speak, this guy is unaware and does not care but i am curious i know the police chief she was epileptic over this but curiously we have not heard much about eric adams on this i know is trying

alvin bragg with a far left progressive in manhattan. a deadly weapon in a business or a store and threaten to kill the clerk or the owner, armed robbery is a petty theft and you will walk free. bragg says this will make us safer. that's absurd. his rationale is putting somebody behind bars has a negative impact on their life. he said that. he claims the casualties of crime are not the victims. it's the criminals. they are misunderstood and the victims of racism and housing problems and poverty and mental illness. we need to help them. to hell with their innocent victims. he doesn't care about crime and punishment. he cares about crime and no pavement. instead of embracing law and order he is advocating for disorder and creates an incentedive for criminals to commit more crimes -- now they have free rain. this is the growing trend for democrats with progressive mayors in los angeles, san francisco, philadelphia, and chicago and in wisconsin a man who should have been behind bars used his suv to murder 6-6 -- 6 innocent people. who is to

now alvin bragg says he will attack gun violence at every angle. >> deadly and dangerous start for the nation's police officers. 24 have been shot and four killed since just january 1st. >> brian will kick things off outside st. patrick's cathedral. is the public allowed inside? >> griff and sandra, yes, the general public is allowed inside of st. patrick's cathedral to pay their respects to officer jason rivera. they are allowed in up to 8:00 p.m. tonight. they are encouraged, actually, to come here to show really a sign of unity for the city of new york, a procession of nypd vehicles led the hearse carrying the body of jason rivera from the bronx to the cathedral. along the way, firefighters stopped, got out of their truck on the highway to salute rivera, bagpipes played as some 200 nypd officers saluted rivera's nypd -- [bagpipes playing] >> the bagpipes are playing as some 200 officers saluted his flag draped casket, 27-year-old partner wilbert mohammed morsi -- wilbert mora, and he was married in october, encouraged young students from his high school to work hard. he is described

i really think the governor needs to stand up and remove alvin bragg. they do in san francisco and los angeles with those district attorneys so our recourse is to have the governor get up. if i'm governor, i can tell you any of these d.a.s who choose to be complicit in this crime, i will fire them on day one. >> ainsley: he went on to say well alvin bragg went on to say that the memo he sent to his staffers last week. that was just supposed to be for his staffers but got in the hands of the mayor and the mayor posted and now all of the media is talking about it people are really upset and wondering what this means for our city. he doesn't want to seek carceral sentences except for murders or extremely violent cases. >> i read the whole brian lehrer interview from yesterday all is he doing it s. trying to set up impossible scenarios make them seem like totally logical move. i don't think someone should go to get prison in any get cuffed straighten their arms no. kidding. we are talking about not prosecuting for assisting arrest. or assisting those resist

. >> in new york city district attorney alvin dragon is blaming his soft on crime policies. >> no prosecutorenforcing every single law all the time. what i and others have done as we released footage of a moment an 11-year-old baby girl was shot in the face by a stray bullet while she was sitting in the cart the bronx. that may be just starting to walk will have her first birthday tomorrow. instead of this was in a wake-up call he doesn't know it is. weeks after his own assault a time model is speaking out after being pushed in front of an ongoing train speaking saying i was lucky and she was not. i cannot understand what nothing is changed. there's a lot going on as far as crime in these policies so i'm going to have to some organ have to change, guys, back to you. >> thank you so much for that report. president biden is set to address america's mayors in a crime spike in america's biggest cities. the president is not expected to discuss lenient local prosecutors are judges responsible for releasing repeat offenders back onto the streets. >> look, the president is not going to weigh into th

alvin bragg saying whatever new york has been doing is not working so put out a memo to his staff thisk and a lot of controversy surrounding that memo. advising staff to not prosecutor low level offenses and pursue lesser charges for some drug offenses, burglaries and some store robberies. the d.a. said he is open to having conversations how to improve public safety, listen. >> have some thought about what they are offering, but if it's status quo, we can look outside we know it's not working, increased incarcerations and increased violence, not the end. >> that memo comes as we also just got our first look at newly released data from arrest rates here in new york. the times union did an analysis of the numbers and it found that of the nearly 100,000 people who were released due to bail reform changes, close to 4% were rearrested for violent felonies. 1% of those included a firearm. bail reform experts say the data does not give the full picture because it's too early to see if there is a direct correlation. they say more needs to be done, though, to improve bail reform. >> you hear a

alvin bragg after the group was inunidated about his lenient policies against criminals. >> this guylifornia have a monopoly on bad ideas. >> we voted for mayor adams because he was going to be tough on crime. right now his hands are tied. >> want him to take a walk with us in new york city and see what is going on in 2022. >> cheryl: a memo sparked outrage from sean sewell and democratic lawmakers in this state. >> todd: it is something else, cheryl. why is covid testing money being diverted to the border crisis? >> cheryl: exactly. senator susan collins and others questioning biden officials why funds were being diverted. >> our staff's investigation found that $850 million out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile were instead used to deal with the crisis at the southern border. >> cheryl: $8 billion allocated for covid testing as the nation facing a shortage. collins mentioned a facility in her district, they laid off workers because they didn't have any orders for tests. >> carley: cheryl, did pete buttigieg save christma >> chery

. >> alvin bragg calling for prosecutors to stop prosecuting low-level crimes, charges for certain crimesn't, sentence like murder to 20 years in prison. radical ideas, the new police commissioner concerning she's calling out the new district attorney. she sent an e-mail to nypd saying i study these policies and i'm concerned about implications to your safety as police officers, the safety of the public and justice for the victims. guy, i think we can all agree it's crazy to try to reduce murder sentences to 20 years or reduce armed robberies for a misdemeanor but we have us interesting dichotomy in new york right now, the new mayor former police captain who campaigned on being tough on crime a d.a. who doesn't want to prosecute crime so where could this leave the city of new york? >> we've seen this movie play out unfortunately in places like los angeles and san francisco and philadelphia, it's a ugly result in those places. you cannot have cheap law enforcement officers who aren't interested in prosecuting crime. defining down crime including serious crime so i think you're right, you h

i think that alvin bragg has not yet cleared any of these things.ho of course was a former crime boston police captain. i personally do not believe this is going to really be the way manhattan progresses. i started my legal career in that office. my d.a. was frank hogan, a crime buster. he was famous for going after the real criminals. understand this. that a person can come in, the judge referred to it, can come into a store and say okay, everybody against the wall. and stick the gun in the person's face come i put them on the floor with their head on the floor and put the guns in the back of their head. can terrorize them, can be an old lady, they can jump the cashiers counter there. and then be charged with a misdemeanor. this is preposterous. this is ridiculous. it defies common sense. it is the opposite of what they did with their broken windows policing. this is not the way to fight crime, this is the way to encourage anarchy, to bring down property values, to scare the be out of people. this is horrible bad thinking, i don't know where this p

. ♪ ♪ ♪ mike: several lawmakers slamming manhattan district attorney alvin bragg soft on crime approachesn't understand the pushback, alexis mcadams with the very latest, hi, alexis. >> new district attorney alvin bragg to no longer prosecute trespass and also sex work. he's reducing charges stealing from stores and drug dealing, bragg says he's not soft on crime, though. the union representing the nypd sergeants claiming that the da's office is ignoring key information in police reports so that the office can consider lesser charges. we reached out to the da for comment about that but haven't heard back yet since we reached out this morning. the sergeant association tells me that the changes are only putting new york on track to be on par with chicago and la's high-crime rates. >> you just said it. the other cities where this is happening. we have seen this movie before and we know how the movie is going to end. and i hope that da bragg is not that person. >> now more criticism continues to roll in, new york's mayor eric adams believes that bragg will be a partner that will keep new yo

alvin bragg tweeted his support for the mayor's plan for getting drivers of crime off our streets.y. despite bragg's push to keep some criminals out of jail, now the white house admits what has become more obvious. >> after an year in office people don't feel safe in this country. what do you attribute to rise in crime? >> gun violence, underfunding some police departments and their need for additional resources is something we know we need to take action on. >> harris: a new fox poll shows a huge majority are extremely or very concerned about spiking crime and it will likely be a top issue for this year's mid-term elections november 8th. the polling shows voters believe republicans are better on handling the issue by 15 points that margin is over democrats. power panel now, mercedes schlapp acu foundation senior fellow and former trump white house strategic communications advisor and richard fowler, fox news contributor. great to see you both. mercedes, i'll begin with you and your top line thoughts on all this. >> first of all remember i think that eric adams is about 25 days too

in new york city a new manhattan district attorney alvin bragg critics say it soft on crime comes amidn violent crime across the city including a deadly random attack on an asian woman in a subway station in new york's times square. brian llenas live in new york city with the latest. >> new year but same crime issue in new york city the first nine days in 2022 compared to the same time last year overall crime in the city is up 30%, murders are up 33% robberies up 25%, shooting incidents up 15% auto grant up 32%. on friday a 30-year-old man was arrested for shooting a 19 euro burger king cashier cold blood over $100 in the register. for prior arrest, from the possession of a weapon combination woman was murdered when she was pushed onto an oncoming train in times square by a deranged man. this is the second incident in time square since november here is mayor eric adams. >> our recovery is dependent on the public safety in the city and in the system. we can do that with the right balance the balance of proactively getting giving people the assistance they need in mental health crisis. >

you and i have spoken in "focus" many times about alvin bragg and liberal d.a.s from la, san franciscobragg backed by the money of george soros. at the heart of it the cops are feeling it and that widow let the world know. she put bragg on notice. >> absolutely, harris. in 2021 the f.b.i. just released a study it was the most deadly year for law enforcement for intentional homicide in 20 years. me and my 800,000 brothers and sisters have attended more funerals. there will be more. watching this nypd funeral is heartbreaking. the devastation of this family, the officers in attendance. i beg you if you are watching don't look away. it is difficult to watch these funerals but do not look away because that is the very pain that we are feeling right now. it is the very pain that the country is feeling right now. there will be a lot of people after this that say we have thoughts and prayers and a lot of politicians will come out and say we support law enforcement but i've had enough of the talk. i want action. we all want action. it is more than past time if i are sitting member of congress

alvin bragg wants to -- the partnership is putting pressure on retail.e that work in the stores, the cvss, they're on the front lines and getting harassed, intimidated and quite frankly people are threatening them every day. so you want to focus on that. if you don't prosecute those people that are doing this, remember, bragg doesn't want to prosecute people extent for those committing -- having a deadly weapon. if you have bail reform that allows people to keep doing that stuff and getting back out and doing it again -- i'm continues destroying the city. >> who care what's he says. the business community -- jamie dimon talks tough when it comes to certain things. everybody has to get back to the office. same with dave individual solomon at goldman sachs and the same at stanley. they should talk tough on this guy. >> sandra: they have to. the big banks are having a hard time. it was covid. now they're having a hard time recruiting and maintaining top talent and getting them back to the office. not because of covid but because of crime in the city running

alvin brack.es and transitions but this somewhat unprecedented open criminal probe into the company owned by a former president of the united states. alvin brag is our special exclusive guest right now. the new district attorney of manhattan. thank you for coming on "the beat." i know you're busy. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it, good evening. >> good evening. there is so much to get into including some of the new policies you have on law and justice in new york. we're going get to that. but for national viewers, i want to start with that open case. it was a big deal when the cfo and trump organization itself was indicted. after this much time and after a handoff between the outgoing d and you, it doesn't seem it's building to any type of indictment involving donald trump himself. is that right? >> well, i'm not able to comment on the specifics. as you said, i was newly in the position of a week, it is a matter of consequence where focusing on it. i'm focusing on it personally. we have gr

alvin bragg, you might dismiss him as another progressive prosecutor trying to make big changes in a ideas with data and essentially trying to strike this balance between fairness in the criminal justice system and this need about public safety. he is telling prosecutors in his office, do not get bagged down with low-level petty crimes. because if you do, we cannot focus on the real serious violent crime that everyone really cares about. let's take a look at what exactly he is telling his staff. you do not prosecute any more. marijuana misdemeanors, failing to pay fines for traffic violations, trespassing, resisting arrest and that is one getting pushback, and prostitution. the police union, as you mentioned, a lot of pushback essentially saying, why should we arrest people if they are going to be back on the street. bragg is backing it up with data saying the vast majority of people out on bail do not go on to reoffend, do not committee violent crimes while out on bail. if they are in jail for three days, it has life-altering repercussions. you might wonder how the mayor is reacting

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with alvin bragg being elected, it's going to get much worse. here's the other part of this.cussed. could this have been prevented if the lapd had been given the ability to do policing the way policing should be done, proactively? that's been crushed by the district attorney there and also by the politicians that are in charge of these major cities. >> sandra: we called gascon and bragg, by the way and we have not heard back. we do welcome them to come on the show. we have seen gascon repeatedly defend his policies, his soft on crime policies that many say are leading to this blatant crime that is happening in the streets there. that grad student just going about her daily life when she was stabbed in broad daylight. i appreciate you joining us. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: new images showing russia's military building up on the border of ukraine. we'll have the latest on the scramble to stop russia from moving in. with poll numbers plummeting, president biden still says he's outperforming. so should democrats be worrying? hear what former democratic vice presidential

. >> you have a former colleague at the sdny, alvin bragg, is now the manhattan district attorney.hat's the latest on the criminal investigation into the trump organization for trump and his children? >> so important people understand he's a friend of mine. he's a former colleague from the southern district of new york. we were trained in the same way. the first thing he's going to do, he's made clear in his public statements, is review all of the evidence. i believe alvin bragg in contrast to the attorney general did not run on an explicit campaign of vote for me and i'll nail the trumps. he kept politics out of prosecution. he's going to get all of the evidence. it's going to take him some time. this is a long-term investigation. if the facts are there that justify a criminal case based on the way he and i were both trained, i believe he'll bring the charge. and if not, i believe he will not. >> let's talk about the january 6th investigation. congresswoman liz cheney says the select committee has firsthand testimony that during the capitol attack, that ivanka trump twice asked he

the alvin bragg is doubling down on a soft on crime memo that he put out in january.uld indicate they're doubling down on policies that are leading to this incredible crime spike that we're seeing happen across the country, sheriff. >> it's really up to voters. remember, everybody in office today got elected in 18 -- 2018 or 2020 when it was all the rage in the political world on the left that oh, soft on crime, progressive reform, the criminal justice system. systemic racism. all of these wonderful terms you heard. all of those woke wonders are in office now and it's blowing up in their face. there's no data, there's no science like gascon says that says their policies work. they're a failure. we need to put that pendulum back in the middle where it belongs and voters need to pay attention and hold elected officials accountable for not doing their job. >> sandra: gascon holds the news conferences. he can't believes people are surprised by his policies. we'll see what happens. there's talk about a lot of political implications of the crime as it plays out in america's