now bowser was gagling there. we'll try to turn some of that sound.e bit of what bowser said on monday about trying to get this under control. take a listen. >> i've been at this for 15 years and i've seen spikes in crime. and i see our teamwork together trying everything at prevention, at accountability, at opportunity programs. we try it locally. we try it with partnerships with the feds and we will drive it down. >> meanwhile the crime is gripping this city. residents are afraid to go out. businesses are suffering. one pizza shop owner had this to say. listen. >> it is pretty bad because people are afraid to go out. we have seen a reduction in business. usually we would have a steady crowd of customers coming from the suburbs. they aren't doing that anymore in such large numbers as before because people are afraid. >> bowser said she was confident and it was a good, positive meeting she had here. congress has oversight and the mayor has a bill called act now that she said will solve it if the d.c. council will pass it. >> dana: members are upset fo

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now, to muriel bowser, that qualifies as a blip? well i don't think the washington capital owners shares that opinion. virginia governor glenn youngkin announced today that he struck a deal with the franchise owner to move both his nhl and his nba teams to northern virginia. othis will get new facilities, favorable tax deal and maybe a far safer community for fans and players. well, today, a prominent d.c. radio host explained what happened to lead up to this and how much damage it's going to cause. he said i keep coming back to antidote i saw in the "the washington post" in november. d.c. had always provided 27 cops around the arena to keep his patrons safe until recently. now they provide three. how many other things have trended that way in the relationship? ing moving the teams will be devastating to penn quarteter. it will be crushing to the city. it's telling that youngkin was finalizing the terms of his big get, bowser was hobnobbing with the elites at the climate summit in due by. she arrives back in d.c. to the bad news. al

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but mayor bowser was at a restaurant event and had this to say about decreasing crime. seen spikes in crime and i see our team work together trying everything at prevention, at accountabilities, programs, we try it locally and with partnership with the feds and we will drive it down. >> griff: what do you say to the mayor and does that guy with the meat tenderizer need opportunities? >> well, what needs to be done, support our police and the mayor is working on doing that. the council has to pass her legislation. this was october 23rd, we are in december and they are still debating it. we need to support our police and want to thank the responding police officers that came to business in the middle of the night until we could come secure the door. we need to support our police and we need to act now and the mayor legislation need to act now. >> griff: you are very right, maria, police department in d.c. are fantastic, but they are down to the lowest level in 20 years because of the city council bill passed a year and a half ago. the mayor is fighting against it trying t

. >> dana: mayor bowser addressing the crime crisis in d.c.er returning from the climate conference in dubai. the trend lines going the wrong direction. total and violent crime rising by double digits so far this year. kathy handerson is a member of an advisory neighborhood commission and thinks something has to change. just want to play one more piece of sound from muriel bowser when she got back. listen to call for one. >> while you were gone there were some reports saying why is the mayor over there when there are so many problems in the city with violence? any response to that? >> this is what i know about my job as mayor. it is many fold. the first thing is i have a great team. no matter where i am, my team is working and always in touch with me at a moment's notice. it was no different on this trip. >> dana: i'm sure that's true. there is a crisis raging in the nation's capital, kathy. tell us how you see it. >> absolutely. a serious public safety crisis. we're in the season of peace yet most of my community, most of the neighbors in the

crime factors into that especially as bowser promised to clean up the area surrounding capital one arenauare foot campus in alexandria, virginia for both teams featuring a music venue seat 3,000 next to the new arena and that could hope in 2028. glenn youngkin is holding a press conference at 9:00 a.m. eastern to discuss this proposal. steve, we will see. back over to you. >> steve: we will. and it would be safer over there todd, thank you. meanwhile, talking about making it a december to remember, a recent survey reveals that 25% of americans are still paying off their credit card debt from last christmas. here with tips you need to ring in the new year without too much debt. ramsey solutions personal finance expert, rachel cruze. rachel, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, thanks for having me. >> you know, it's so easy to use a credit card today. but then, mid january, there's a bill, wait a minute. i don't remember that. >> yeah. and then january you usually hate the december you because you are thinking what was i thinking. scientific studies have proven that you end up spe

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>> griff: great point and mayor bo bowser, the numbers are astounding, motor vehicle theft up 84%, robbery 68%, violent crime 39%, homicide 36% and the list goes on and on. i want to hear from you how it is affecting customers and employees who have to worry about being robbed or carjacked. >> we're going across the river to virginia. it's a 15-minute drive, you have a better, safer experience. employees are safer, customers don't have to deal with what they have to walk around and deal with. walk around the arena, walk around in penn quarter and tell me what your experience is like. you are not just getting heckled by panhandlers, it is aggressive and uncomfortable. you are going to take your kids or family to a game to see a show, to go to one of our restaurants, why would you? it doesn't make sense, it is dangerous. >> griff: the washington, d.c. wizards and capitols are doing that and going across the river for this very reason. i guess i want to ask because you have had fantastic restaurants in d.c. and virginia, have you ever seen it this bad? >> no, in 2000 naeb, we were crush crush

mayor bowser is responding to this, she is disappointed by this p proposal. >> we have been through verymes and tough times and some of the times are ripples in history we overcome. d.c. fans and residents are loyal and disappointed today, as am i. our experience with crime is a blip, we will drive it down. >> todd: go to lieutenant governor winsome sears. you just heard that soundbite from the d.c. mayor. a blip? this after an fbi agent is carjacked in her city, joe biden's granddaughter is the victim of an attempted carjacking. more than a blip to me. >> we have solutions in virginia and we know businesses are relocating here and we love it. whenny woo were running for office in 2021, we kept hearing three things from businesses. they were either not coming or not expanded or picking up stakes. it matters we are a law and order state and passing legislation thats you commit cream, you are going to jail. we don't have anything we call smash and grab and you are able to not be prosecuted and you go out and terrorize communities. >> todd: these owners want mixed use and want revenue, how

mayor bowser is not happy about this. partnering to bring vibrancy into the neighborhood and keep them in d.c. she wanted to extend the lease, a facility being offered $800 million renovation and that would start in 2024 and take three years. that press conference is today with glenn youngkin and leonis. it is basically a done deal. if you are a fan, go across the river. >> todd: the owners want that mixed use, it is 365, and the fans, they don't want to get shot. now overto brian kilmeade for a look at what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> brian: let me know if you like this rundown, hunter biden summoned to the hill and house republicans threaten to hold him in contempt if he doesn't show. formal vote on impeachment inquiry into president biden. and jim jordan joins us next, he will not wear a jacket. nikki haley just picked up a major endorsement from new hampshire governor chris sununu. they will both be on the show saying nice things about each other. and harsh words from president biden. former national securit

mayor muriel bowser's administration under a lot of pressure to address the violence and try to restoresafety to the city. stuart: many businesses are beefing up security for the holiday season, shoplifting continues to run rampant. jeff flock at the macy's in philadelphia where security guard was stabbed to death. what are they doing their? >> reporter: the macy's you see behind me is across the street from city hall where the police hang out. you know the story. this happened on monday. a guy comes in, tries to steal some hats, security stops them, gets the merchandise back, they give him a break basically, he comes back and stabs one. we all know the numbers on retail theft, the financial impact, $112 billion, has been on the increase. this the weird year. people protesting israel, gaza, the theft that goes on, the violence in the streets, here is how the fbi director put it. >> i've never seen a time where all the threats were, so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time. the threat level has gone to another level since october 7th. >> reporter: i leave you

this area would like to see downtown and they are on the progressives and city council and muriel bowserng her eye off the ball, and for those criminal statistics. it only continued in other cities, it has dissipated post pandemic, it got under control after a while. and net police since 2020, officers aren't easily replaced and a whole area downtown, once it was a thriving place where they go to games and feel safe, before or after but people don't want to go there because they feel very unsafe. one of the main figures back in the day, they made the decision to go to a business from the environment across the river and glenn youngerken and local democrats welcoming it with open arms. stuart: we will turn to what the white house is saying about the impeachment inquiry. >> what we are seeing is wasted time, a baseless political stunt, 0 evidence. you can ask about engagement and what the president and his family and conversation, no evidence the president has done anything wrong, absolutely none. they are wasting their time instead of doing the work on behalf of the american people. they

you might get robbed, we can give you more security and bank manager pelosi and assistant manager bowserthanks, no need. we're fine. so everything about this motion is premature. a little bit absurd it. might land with a sympathetic audience with a d.c. judge and d.c. jury. >> pete: that's the point. d.c. judge, d.c. jury. why not throw everything at the wall if they can and they are certainly trying at this point. by the way, jim, here was the reaction today concerning the michigan decision. you know, should trump, the leading candidate actually be on the ballot. watch this. >> at a later stage the people who are challenging trump in michigan will very likely go back to the courts and try again. there may need to be revisitation of this if, in fact, he wins the nomination for the republican party in the general election. >> there is still the possibility that there could be challenges that could be successful down the road in michigan. >> pete: jim, they are not giving up hope. they are hoping that somehow this will go the other way and trump won't be on the ballot in niche began and el

mayor bowser last week on the loss of these two teams. >> experience with crime is a blip.nd we can look back over the last several years and see a lot of contributing factors. but we will drive it down. >> dana: not in time to save these teams from leaving. what kind of a gut punch is this for that city? >> huge. bill hemmer and i have something else in common. we started in sports and never lost our passion for it. i was fascinated by the sports business portion of it. that interests me the most. when i saw these two teams lift themselves seemingly. a lot can go wrong still. out and into virginia i tho it's a moment for the city of d.c. to realize when washington commander running backs get carjacked or others get shot you realize when you take a sitting member of congress and his car gets carjacked, you realize nobody is safe. so if i'm with the capitals trying to get free agents and trying to get fans and with the wizards, why would i stay in that city when a suburban community in northern virginia wants me and they are willing to maybe split the difference. they have a

mayor bowser who appears to have lost the washington capitals and wizards to virginia. >> bret: paneleans it's notable quoteables. >> my father was not financially involved in my business. >> that's been prison patently false by evidence and testimony we provided. >> i have no evidence of it. >> disappointed didn't show up. >> seinfeld would have called this the impeachment about nothing. >> i'm not going to vote to send billions and billions of dollars to ukraine when we can't take care of people at home. >> it's not about financing. it's about the morality. >> history will judge harshly those who turn their back on freedom's cause. >> we have to get our own house in order first. >> this is about our own sovereignty. >> it has to be shut down. it hasn't been secure. >> putting people before politics is always the right answer. >> are you going to endorse nikki haley for president? >> hush up a second. >> is president biden okay? >> this is the phone number of hamas' office in gaza. tell hamas to put down their arms. >> we want them to tone it down. >> be more careful. >> we bless the

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mayor bowser has a plan.o, we're hopeful that we will have better numbers at the end of the year than we had at the beginning of the year different pot temperature federal partners. having impact. >> laura: hope is not a plan. and it certainly must not be a relief to the family of the 17-year-old shot friday while he was walking to school. or to the female fbi agent who a assaulted and then carjacked near capitol hill. or even to the restaurant owners like my next guest ramping up private security efforts in order to protect their employees and their customers. joining me now is a great entrepreneur grace greg casston owner of the point a great restaurant here in washington. greg, two months ago there was a shooting outside your restaurant. i have to ask you how much more are you spending on security than you did in years' previous? >> it's probably about 20 to 25% more right now. we'll see where it goes in the future. >> laura: what's the total? >> involved in four restaurants. family-owned restaurants here

commonwealth of virginia and in a desperate attempt to keep the teams in the nation's capitol mayor muriel bowserly know much about her own city. take a look. >> that, that traffic is notorious, so people know about it. and i think which lines go to that station? >> blue and yellow. >> blue and yellow. so every line goes to gallery, place. right? red, blue, orange and yellow. yellow? and green. is that right? i think that's right. >> sean: is it like every liberal democratic mayor in every blue city, are they all really that out of touch with people. look at what's happening in new york with eric adams. >> absolutely. to keep it in basketball terms that was an air ball. i do feel bad, though, for the wizards fans. as a guy who spent a little time in downtown dc, they should move somewhere safer, like baghdad >> sean: oh, man. >> i mean, come on, man. have you been to dc lately? dc right now, sean, looks like gotham city. you know that scene right before batman comes? except batman's not coming because he's not vaccinated so they won't let him show up and fight crime >> sean: now we're adding covi

mural bowser in d.c. >> martha: they won't talk to them. >> i have not understood the argument that this isn't a federal problem. if you want this to be how it is and you're facing a surge of tens of thousands of migrants that are destroying businesses because these hoteling now can't accommodate tourists coming, people will come. i understand they're being paid by the government to do it. you owe them those dollars then to take care of this problem until it is solved. i was particularly struck yesterday, bill melugin reported that there was a woman that came across the border. she went through the asylum system and given a court date of 2 2031. he said i've never seen that before. that's not to say this woman won't show up for it. but if you were telling people to come back in several years when she has i'm sure set up a new life somewhere, et cetera, that is an asylum system that is broken. that's what people like john fetterman are talking about. >> martha: if you get in trouble, you're going to be in court in six weeks, right, lee? >> 100%. >> martha: so what's going on? >> it's nuts

mayor muriel bowser announced a federal law enforcement partnership across multiple agencies to createther technologies. >> the message is real toy to people who would commit crime. if they haven't gotten it already. you are going to be on cameraened you a are going to get caught. >> a shortage of cops is what keeps bo up at night knowing something has to change. >> until we sol the crime crisis. the city going to unravel into chaos. people are afraid to come to the restaurants and bars. >> and, bret, for now, the good news is bo says he isn't raising prices like he had to during inflation doing these security costs as a temporary expense hoping to weather this crime crisis that is seeing a 40% increase in violent crime and 70% increase in robberies. bret? >> bret: griff jenkins downtown washington. griff, thanks. police in las vegas say the gunman suspected of killing three people critically wounding a fourth yesterday at the university of nevada in las vegas, unlv had a list of target at that school and at another in north carolina. 67-year-old anthony pa lit toe was a long-time busi

real quick, here's mural bowser on the reason for -- that crime is a blip in d.c.ng the major stadiums to alexandria. we have a quick thought. >> our experience with criminal is kind of a blip. it's a phenomenon and we can look back over the last several years and see a lot of contributing factors. but we will drive it down. >> martha: is it a blip or is this a situation that is so rough for fans that they are going to welcome being out in virginia to go to these games? >> i mean, i think it's a tough one. it's going to be tough for sure. >> martha: a lot of fans having a tough time feeling safe going to caps games. always good to see you, enes. thanks for coming by today. >> of course. thank you. >> martha: so how about this? i live in new jersey. i haven't seen this in newark off of the train station. it's not what you want to see when you wait for your train. it's a bull, i'm told. looks like a long horn or steer perhaps. i know people will let me know what they're saying. what do people do in this situation? they take pictures no word on how the bull got there.

middle of a mayor who is unable or unwilling to take accountability for her responsibilities, muriel bowsershe oversees the department of youth rehabilitation services. if you just do a cursory google search, you can find stories of guards selling to kids. supervisors being abusive towards their staff. it is just a disaster. now d.c. is being used in the national clinical sphere to spin fear about the nation's capital, donald trump drumming up fear about how he is going to wipe out the people of d.c. and make it a city of marble. i just wanted to ask the guest today if they could provide some greater context around d.c., how we are not a state, we don't have the resources of a state, we don't have representation, senators, voting member of the house, and the people are suffering, while the mayor and the council just passes the bill. thank you for your time. host: what do you think, kevin? guest: d.c. is going through a bad time. there is theft but there is also a rise in homicides, sexual violence, and people are concerned, but we have to be humble about its causes. in a ton of other major

mayor muriel bowser says d.c.'d maintains her administration will work to improve downtown. >> our experience with crime is kind of a blip. it's a phenomenon that we can look back over the last several years and see a lot of contributing factors but we will drive it down. >> virginia legislature still has to approve this plan. thanks to november's elections, democrats will control both chambers in the new year. the president pro tem with the virginia senate tweeted, quote: while some people want sports stadiums, i want tolls to disappear from hampton roads and i want recreational sale of marijuana. guess we will have to find compromise this city. the alexandria city council has to signed off on this proposal. >> rich, thanks very much. up next, bret baier talks about families of americans taken hostage by hamas. here is what some fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york as a federal appeals court rules former president trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by writer e jea

or in d.c., it is literally just muriel bowser. it is just somebody in most states who decides. and so they made a lot of changes since 9/11. it used to be if you moved from tennessee to texas, you can take your tennessee i.d. and they would give you a texas i.d. now, every time you need a new i.d. in a new state you need new documentation. your birth certificate. texas just changed the law -- in most states you do not need your birth certificate if you're just replacing, but now texas requires a birth certificate every single time. that is texas. so, you know, part of white no one knows that this is a problem is that for probably everyone in this room, when we got i.d.s it was a lot easier. when we got our first one. but also because in america we do not actually recognize something as a problem until it has been at least 100 years. like, 20 years, we just discovered there was police brutality four years ago. so we are just very slow on the uptake. and so because all of those things were made so much difficult, the birth certificate, the types of documents that are required, th

mayor muriel bowserer says d.c. is still in the game.ble to improve the arena, but if those two teams move south, the city's ready to move toward. -- forward. >> we have to look at our assets, and we're talking about five acres in the center of the district of columbia. it's a great asset. and we are going to think deeply and broadly about that vision, and we'll make the necessary investments to make it happen. >> reporter: d.c.'s downtown faces some snap challenges, 'em. ty federal offices, rising crime and now two professional teams that draw more than 80 home games a year combined say they are leaving. the wizards and capitals say they're moving suggestion miles south to build a $2 billion complex in alexandria, virginia. monumental sports owns both the caps and wizards. they told us d.c. crime was not a major factor in their decision. monumental reportedly asked the d.c. government to spend $6600 million to -- $6000 million to -- 6000 million to update the arena. the company says they are moving forward on their virginia plan. 600. >

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welleeteam, mayor muriel bowsere a press conference where she proved she doesn't know much about her own city. take a look. look.that that traffic is notos about it.that and i think which lands go to s that station. blue anblue and yellow.yell so every line goes to gallerowyo place, right?red, >> red, blue, orange and. yellow. yellow and green. is that right? i thin k. >> right. is it like every liberaly democratic mayor and every blue city? ueh then they all really that out of touch with people. look what's happening in new york with eric adams t . n ba >> oh, yeah, totally.sker i mean, they keep it in basketball terms. that was an airbalms l. bad, >> i, i do feel bad though, the wizards fans. as a guy who spent a little time in downtown d.c.ow ,they should move somewhere safer, like baghdad. e safee i mean, come on, man. >> have you been to d.c. lately? d.c. right now, sean looks like sean, amgotham city. you know that scene right before batman comes? except batma n is not coming because he's not vaccinated, so they won't let him show up e. inight crim >> oh, so now that we're addi

mayor muriel bowser refused to allow the capitol hill baptist church to hold outdoor church servicesh emergency. the judge in that case found the mayor had exceeded her authority and burden the free exercise of religion. it's important to note thehe application of the so-called public health precautions was not evenhanded. many politicians deemed it unsafe for businesses to operate for churchgoers to attend worship services they seem to have no problem with impact blm riots as in black lives matter riots in the summer of 2020 that because of millions of dollars worth ofof damages. we have a trust issue in a constitutional issue will use the public health approach attempt to strip away court constitutional rights. other problem with homicide and assault is effective criminal while enforcement that means effective police, prosecutors, courts ands, prisons. we note these tools actually work. we know they work because we have historical data in order to prove it. law enforcement efforts were stepped up in the early and mid- 1990s was all dramatic declines in criminal violence of alll kin

middle of a mayor who is unable or unwilling to take accountability for her responsibilities, muriel bowsere oversees the department of youth rehabilitation services. if you just do a cursory google search, you can find stories of guards selling to kids. supervisors being abusive towards their staff. it is just a disaster. now d.c. is being used in the national clinical sphere to spin fear about the nation's capital, donald trump drumming up fear about how he is going to wipe out the people of d.c. and make it a city of marble. i just wanted to ask the guest today if they could provide some greater context around d.c., how we are not a state, we don't have the resources of a state, we don't have representation, senators, voting member of the house, and the people are suffering, while the mayor and the council just passes the bill. thank you for your time. host: what do you think, kevin? guest: d.c. is going through a bad time. there is theft but there is also a rise in homicides, sexual violence, and people are concerned, but we have to be humble about its causes. in a ton of other major ci

could he team up with bowser and save the tories?, but it is. nigel the answer ? or should is. nigel the answer? or should the tories just go and await their own grim fate ? let me know their own grim fate? let me know your thoughts. vaiews@gbnews.com loads coming up in the next hour. but first, your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst. martin thank you and good afternoon to you. >> will the top story from the newsroom is that the government's rwanda legislation provides a partial and incomplete solution. that's according to the so—called star chamber of lawyers. mark francois, chairman of the european research group of conservative mps, says a complete rewrite might now be the only option to stop the boats. >> we all want to stop the boats i >> -- >> there have been two legislative attempts at this already the nationalities and borders act that didn't quite work. the illegal immigration act that didn't quite work . so act that didn't quite work. so this is kind of three strikes and you're out, isn't it? so what is really im