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murder is the leading cause of death among children there, watch what mayor latoya cantrell says are the reason for the sky-high homicide rate. >> it is because one, dealing with covid-19, violence, everyone has guns, the ability or lack of ability to resolve conflict without reaching and pulling a gun. everyone needs to be held accountable. we're focusing on it in the city of new orleans, definitely a -- seeing a decline, moving in the right direction. >> carley: member of the no latoya cantrell campaign, new orleans attorney laura rodrigue, joined us with a different message. >> we never saw covid causing people to carjack other people in the city. murder capitol of the country and world on covid is a slap in the face to citizens of new orleans and i don't think anyone took that interview seriously. there is not a decline in crime happening in new orleans. over 500 cars have been stolen since the first of the year, averaging 20 something cars per day being stolen and we can't blame covid anymore. you keep slapping the juveniles on the wrist and they are out of control and you are a

mayor latoya cantrell of new orleans, the murder capitol of the world, she's facing a recall.but she's a heck of a dance moment. look here, interesting partner, she's with darth vader. >> laura: is this recent? >> i get the pairing. they are both death stars. cantrell presided over 24 murders since the top of the month and she's missing so many cops, 600 by some estimates, she's renting cops to come in to keep the peace during mardi gras. >> laura: i have a question. during mardi gras, which we've had so much fun at over the years, are you going to be on horseback, like on horseback like you were last week? >> i don't think i'll be on horseback. >> laura: are you part? >> i may find myself some way into the mardi gras crew. no more grand marshals. i'm done with that. i'm going to be a masked figure like many others. just a member of the crew. >> laura: all right. >> cantrell is facing a recall, laura, over her spending and alleged affair with a security detour. an officer on her police force, in fact, she responded this way. >> it's none of my business and quite frankly, yours

latoya cantrell is the mayor of new orleans. atlanta mayor, andre dickens along with john giles, the mayor of mesa, arizona. good morning to all of you and thank you so much for being here in person. i want to talk about just what is developing in terms of the shooting in california. nationwide, we are seeing this spike in violent crime. we're seeing reports of an uptick in anti-semitism and hate crimes. all of you are from states where there are fairly permissive gun laws. and i wonder, mayor suarez, how you put those pieces together. what is driving this? >> yeah, it's -- so many different factors are driving this. one of the things we focused a lot on on the mayoral conference we just ended is mental health. mental health is a huge component of what's driving a lot of these, when you look at the root cause and go back and sort of peel back the layers of the onion. mayors are very concerned about it. we also had a panel, obviously, our ban crime. certainly a lot of these mayors have talked about, you know, gun control in their

but watch the mayor latoya cantrell says.-high homicide rate. >> one, dealing with covid-19, violence, everybody has guns. the ability or lack of ability to resolve a conflict without pulling a gun. everybody needs to be held accountable. that is how the folks take a holistic approach in the city of new orleans. definitely seeing a decline moving in the right direction. >> carley: member of the latoya campaign and the attorney joins us now. laura, good morning to us. what do you think of the mayor's answer? is covid and guns the cause of crime? >> covid is the most ridiculous answer. we don't think -- we don't seek covid causing people to carjack a murder people in the city. so, to blame the murder capital of the country and the world, really, on covid is just a slap in the face of new orleans. and honestly, i don't think anybody took that seriously. there is certainly not a decline in crime happening in new orleans or 500 cars stolen since the first of the year averaging's twentysomething cars a day being stolen. and certain

latoya cantrell of louisiana -- new orleans i should say, the mayor there, same thing.t for mardi gras?" need money, this, that, and the other. by the way, bowser, they are vetoing -- that's what they did, they are vetoing. she fought so hard she is willing to vote against what the council is doing, but it won't matter. she's legitimately outnumbered because of her own political choices. it's a revenue story, is what you are saying in a way. cities like new york, we had tourists come for christmas obviously, but overall, tourism was down in new york. >> janice, and your prior book, you talked about your personal stories, reducing the reduction in punishment only covers so many patient burglaries there is an extremely large, over 80% of sexual assaults, home invasions, rapes, a lot of home invasion burglaries. the statistics had a point of requiring those minimum sentences so the rest -- this burns it all. >> i lived in houston 20 years ago, i was a victim of a home invasion. the fellow came into the window, i was sleeping. he woke me up. i was able to talk him out of re

but mayor latoya cantrell, new orleans is facing a recall ,laura , il inn our city and her city is now the murder capital of the country. so cbsntry s invited her on to discuss what else crime prevention. new orleans has the highest pern capita murder rate of any majo?r city. >> why?rder wh ry is because one dealinghy with covid-19 people need to be held accountable acrosswe're sethe board and we're seeingd results. i would say we're moving inight the right direction. >> claude, i .ha i knew pfizer had a side effect of myocarditis. i didn't realize it causedlize carjackings, but apparently it does. ey kee lot of people that keep jacking people at the gas stations, are they going around with covid needles, trying to stab people there? why don't you talk, laura ?s tr well, she she said we're going in the right direction. five and twenty six cars stolen in new orleans since january 1st. n one hundred and one residentil burglaries. that's one hundred andsidentia % increase. that's hardly the right direction. finally,right ion. remember whe me this a few weeks ago? >> i've been thinking abo