but keisha lance bottoms didn't wait to think about it carefully or at all. out pausing for an investigation she immediately fired the officer and then a press release about it. and later found what bottoms did was illegal but it was too late. hundreds of atlanta police officer had left the force. those who stayed understood very well there was no point in making arrests. who would want to be the officer? nobody. so response times plummeted and called the police but they didn't come from a criminal's found even when arrested for violent crimes, they were back on the street in days. can you guess what happened next? >> eliana and her boyfriend were shocked to learn the man in this video who was accused of attacking them was out on bond. the couple was outside of the mercedes-benz dealership in buckhead last june when a man started to threaten him. >> he took out his knife in his packet and he said he had a gun. he kept telling us he was going to kill us. speak with a violent words soon turned physical. >> he went around the other side of the car, punched my boy

we hope that the city's mayor keisha lance bottoms would notice her city is falling apart, people beingdo something about it. instead, keisha lance bottoms is focused on access to gender-neutral bathrooms. that is her big achievement, she just signed an administrative order, designated more than 100 city owned restaurants as all gender." so you can still get shot when you are out jogging in buckhead but at least you can use the ladies room if you like. so there is enormous social pressure, and in fact, institutional pressure from the corporate media, not to mention any potential downsides of vaccines. while most people agree, they show certainly does, that vaccines are a good thing, nothing is all good. nothing in this temporal world comes without a downside and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar, period. that is always true. sometimes the trade up is worth it but there is always a downside. so we feel honor bound to tell you what it is because it is your choice whether to take it or not, period. way back in january, just as the vaccines had come out, a physician called gregory micha

and the atlanta mayor, keisha lance bottoms, playing the blame game over the city's spike in crime.oment ago and he sounds off as the mayor points her finger at republicans' reopening plan. it's their fault, of course. dan bongino, nancy grace and clay travis are all on tap. we have a busy three hours, kicks off just about 14 minutes from right now, right here on the channel you trust for your morning news. todd and jillian back with more "fox & friends first" right here on the fox news channel. you need a financial plan that can help grow and protect your money. an annuity can help cover essential expenses in retirement, so you can live the life you want. this is what an annuity can do. learn more at protectedincome.org. there we go. look for this in-store display of king's hawaiian hamburger and hotdog buns for a chance to win a flavortown-inspired hawaiian getaway. can i get another restock on king's hawaiian bread? again. everything's better between king's hawaiian bread. obsession has many names. this is ours. the lexus is. all in on the sport sedan. lease the 2021 is 300 for $

in atlanta, the nation's 10th largest economy, mayor keisha lance bottoms has primary cash has pioneered- has pioneered tools and committed to 100% clean energy by 2035 while working to address environmental and equity and on the mississippi river basin, represented by kiersten wallace, states are already working to respond to changes in rainfall and flooding. these are a few of the success stories across america. now it is the time for congress to enact vicious transfers a nation all -- ambitious transformational legislation to help communities large and small protect themselves, their citizens, and their budgets. america's will face unsafe roads, and worsening power outages. these costs are growing. that is why we are here. to pass the american jobs plan. which will make vital investments in resilience. we work towards fulfilling president biden strip -- president biden's provision of solving the climate crisis. the american jobs plan gives us a historic opportunity to modernize infrastructure and the electric grid to be better prepared for when climate disaster strikes and it gives us

calling for citihood with leadership stronger than what they have seen with atlanta mayor keisha lance bottomsnta mayor who could help with buckhead. >> that would be good, but the clinical definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. >> reporter: but no one disagrees a problem, because major rift in how to fix it. bill torpey, a long time columnist for the "constitutionalist" says it would set a bad precedent. >> it is 1962 all over again. >> reporter: while the buckhead neighborhood is about 70% all white as the city of atlanta is about 50%. >> i think that the bigger picture is that it is moving the people away, and moving this big section of the city away from the city of atlanta would just be a devastating impact. >> reporter: a financial impact that would bring uncertainty to the whole area according to the man leading the campaign to keep buckhead in atlanta. >> it is a lot of little details that have to be worked out in this case. >> reporter: ed lindsey, a republican, who represented buckhead in the georgia legislature for a decade sai

then you have the city's mayor, keisha lance bottoms blaming brian kemp saying we reopened earlier so more people in the streets. portland, murders are up not 8, 80% but 800% over last year. seattle, the one-time home of chop, the summer of love, the highest homicide rate. so when republicans take back the house, probably a landslide given the numbers we've seen in the past in the first term of any president, obama lost 63 seats, trump lost 43, the gop needs to five to retire nancy pelosi. crime, illegal immigration and inflation will be the three biggest drivers. particularly crime, this is affecting everybody now and people are fed up. the national media needs to cover it more, not just fox news. >> emily: and these two are the face of this rising crime statistic that joe just laid out. this horrifying stories, these savage murders. we're looking at once were two beautiful faces that are now the face of this spike in crime. >> kayleigh: emily, it's very hard to respond. i was getting choked up listening to your intro and looking at the images. seeing the two little kids. you know, s

joining us now, atlanta's mayor keisha lance bottoms. who can get the shot haven't. who are you reaching, why aren't they, and what's your strategy? >> it's very disappointing, stephanie, there is hesitancy obviously across this state right now. you have to remember this is still, in so many places in the state, still a head state, so we know there is hesitancy on the far right, but also many minority communities are still very concerned about the vaccine, and we know the historical context of those concerns, of longstanding dissonant trust of vaccines, so we are continuing to educate people. i've been fully vaccinated as well as my husband, my mother, and two of my teenagers are fully vaccinated. and so it's going to be important for trusted voices in our community, whether it be elected officials or ministers or teachers, and in this case, the vice president of the united states speaking directly to our communities, letting people know that it is safe and in their best interests to receive this vaccine. >> and as things -- i mentioned

city's as infrastructure into the 21st century and in the nation's 10th largest economy mayor keisha lance bottoms pioneered resilience financing tools committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 all while working to address social inequity and climate adaptation. at in the upper mississippi river basin representative kirsten wallace is working with federal partners to respond to the changes in rainfall and flooding. these are a few of the success stories across america. now it's time for congress to enact ambitious transformational legislation to help communities large and small protect themselves, protect their citizens and their budget. unless congress acts america will be faced with unsafe rooms, neighborhoods and worsening power outages. these costs and risks are growing. that's why we're here, to pass the american jobs plan which will make vital investments in resilience as we work towards fulfilling president biden's vision of solving the climate crisis. the american jobs plan is us a historic opportunity to modernize our infrastructure and our electric grid so that we are better prepared

you have keisha lance bottoms saying it's systemic issues with guns.tting them do their job. rachel: i love that you brought up the point about the vice president, like the vice president doesn't want to go to the border. the mayor of atlanta has to go to the police department, talk to them. they would tell you exactly why. they're going to tell you it's not because kids aren't in school or the kids are, you know, mental illness or whatever she said. >> guns. kenny bruce talked about this on the saturday show. it's not that more law abiding citizens have chosen to become crimes nails, it's not had that -- criminals, what's happening is committed criminals with histories have developed the idea they can get away with it, what that they can act with impunity because of the approach we've taken with law enforcement. it's not free people who are no longer law abiding people, no longer locked in their homes. we're not enforcing the laws. rachel: there is something systemic, you talk about the root causes, there is a breakdown in many families that caused th

police lights reflecting that van and those police officers allegedly told the citizens, hey, keisha lance also bottomsthere's a liability there. you know, so all of that is to say is if you want to prevent crime through gun control, then bring gun control measures that you can convince us that don't believe they work, the ones you're showing works. bring measures that we're supporting so for example,, one of the biggest bills they are arguing over now is background checks. well just so everyone understands, when you purchase a gun in a gun store you do a background check i don't care what county or what city or what state you're in. the only time you can purchase a gun and not do a background check is you can purchase from a private citizen also residing in your state and i want to find the criminals willing to use a gun on the streets that will not buy a gun from their drug dealing buddy because congress passed a law last week so they are willing to do all of the other crimes they do, but they're not willing to break that law, so at the end of the day, this is nothing more than political rhetoric, de