in crystal lake, illinois. 45 miles northwest of chicago, this is after a brief meeting with lori lightfoot. by brief a meeting on the tarmac. all of this as mayor lightfoot cannot get control of the blood shed in the city. punctuated by the federal agents, two atf agents and a chicago police officer that were shot and wounded that were working undercover this morning. wbbm is tweeting that a person of interest is in custody. not independently confirmed. mayor lightfoot tweeted this morning we woke up to a city that is reeling yet again from another night of violence, this time not just against our residents but against those that are sworn to protect us. gun violence is a public health crisis and we must address it. mayor lightfoot complains about gun laws. she told our fox affiliate that what she was going to bring up for the president is more gun control legislation. jen psaki indicated what she will get is more resources. a billion dollars to cook county, more than $8 million to the state and task forces to deal with urban violence. so the president is speaking right now. the spector of

president biden had a short meeting with lori lightfoot yesterday, the white house says that she push the president for more federal health clinic help to combat gun violence, but in her city two more people were killed and 19 injured, that's fresh on the heels of chicago's most violent week of the year, that have been over july 4th when more than 100 people were shot. one antiviolence activists says that the city's current billing under the strain. >> mayor lightfoot has a dismal track record in an area of reducing gun violence in chicago, so why would the president meet with her. i would not even speak about it if she would stop saying she has a plan to reduce gun violence in chicago, the superintendent can talk about his big plans over the fourth of july weekend and we had like a massacre in chicago. >> gillian: mike chauvinist following the story in chicago, good morning, mike. >> good morning, billion, three people killed by gunfire on the way when they came to the chicago area, the goal was to talk about what he calls investment in human infrastructure, but the message of the pr

talked to lori lightfoot the mayor right out there on the tarmac.didn't address all the crime that we have seen in chicago and those numbers are just staggering. he went out to crystal lake which is a red area, one of the few red areas in that very blue state of illinois. he was trying to promote spotlight a political candidate there, a congresswoman lauren underwood who is a democrat. she only won by two points last time it's going to be a very tight race probably or contentious race as we should say in the midterm elections. anyway, there he is with lori lightfoot. and let me just give you some numbers. chicago shootings july 4th weekend at least 100 people shot, including 11 children were shot and 18 people were killed from the ages of 19 to 46. pete: that's right. the president was there to give a speech about infrastructure, which he himself called a boring speech. brian: which is crazy. pete: in the middle of the speech. brian: but it's important. ainsley: fell on the stairs the man had to help him. pete: just a slippery ramp. but, nonetheless

mayor lori lightfoot and a coalition of tech leaders visited san francisco last week as part of an initiativeo entice 10,000 employees who took tech jobs elsewhere to return to chicago. joining us now, mayor lightfoot. thank you for joining us. tell us about the chicago tech ecosystem today. how robust is it? what are the biggest companies that have a tech presence? mayor lightfoot: we have a tier one tech community, but part of the initiative and why we went to silicon valley is to make sure we are raising awareness about that community. just this year we have nine new companies to date, which is remarkable, but every industry you can think of in our diverse economy, transportation and logistics, life sciences, food, fintech, there is a tech component that is at the heart of the growth of these industries. we have the most female startups , percentage, in the country. there are a lot of things on the move with us and we just have to do a better job making sure the rest of the country, particularly vc investors on the coast, understand the vitality of our tech community. emily: you launched a

your children, your constituents, citizens, all of this has got to stop but it's people like lori lightfoottic party who have a ghoulish interest in fear and violence as a mechanism of that. >> mark: thank you for that, tammy and you're quite right about that disgraceful mayor. happy post independence day to you. up next, james golden better known to millions as rush limbaugh's up next on fox news prime time live. oh! are you using liberty mutual's coverage customizer tool? sorry? well, since you asked. it finds discounts and policy recommendations, so you only pay for what you need. limu, you're an animal! who's got the bird legs now? only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ advil dual action fights pain 2 ways. it's the first and only fda approved combination of advil plus acetaminophen. advil targets pain. acetaminophen blocks it. advil dual action. fast pain relief that lasts 8 hours. hearing is important to living life to the fullest. that's why inside every miracle-ear store, you'll find better cheers with your favorite fans. you'll find a better life is in

mayor lori lightfoot.d in the very next line, blamed police saying that, "cops need to make a arrest before he reaches the court's door." thank you for joining us and as you probably know, this is a city that i know very well and i dearly love. this is happening all over and the crime continues to worsen. we are seeing from the leaders is finger-pointing. you are looking at the situation and you are pitching changes. what you be done to fix it? >> i said before and i will say it again. if you're not ready for the job, you to step aside or step down. and how we say that it starts at the top and it starts in the judicial system. it definitely falls on kim fox. she's going to blame the police because he is been an inadequate state attorney. she is the highest rate of released prisoners from prison and she has everyone on home monitoring systems. she doesn't want to prosecute and she ran a campaign on being more for -- less event comic against crime and more for justice or social justice. this is the downturn.

chicago mayor lori lightfoot is facing increasing pressure to get the situation under control. met with president biden on wednesday when he was in illinois in the white house as the two discussed the rising violence, president biden's overall approval rating is at 50%. when it comes to fighting crime a recent abc washington post poll says he only has 38% of americans who think he is doing a good job. >> whatever plan they have the plan is not working, chicago is not a war zone, they are failing. >> the white house is president biden expressed his support to mayor lightfoot for the agents shot earlier in the day and the justice department will be working with her and other mayors across the us on a strikeforce to combat rising gun violence. jillian: thank you. >> following mayor lightfoot's request for help, raymond lopez says it comes down to working with police, not against them. >> the detectives in the city of chicago at second and third watches are basically being pulled off their duties and made to stand in uniform to provide presence in downtown and other neighborhoods.

lori lightfoot has been criticized on a number of fronts. the most crucial is the management of crime. other things have been related to her saying she only wanted to be interviewed by reporters of color. i just want to play this for you, this back and forth with a reporter. here's the whole thing. i want your thoughts on this. let's watch. >> recent months, there's questions raised about your temperament and your reaction to criticism. how much of this do you think might have to do with the fact that you're a woman and specifically a black woman? >> about 99% of it. women and people of color are always held to different standards. i understand that. i've known that my whole life. >> martha: leo, is she -- is she kidding herself that 99% of what people are talking about in the city of chicago right now and any criticism that is headed her way is based on skin color and gender? >> let me answer this as clear as possible as a black civil ri. she's using her race and gender to h incompetence. she's basically saying that because she's black, she

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the meeting between biden and chicago mayor lori lightfoot was brief with promise of strike force to depro-to chicago as well as other violent cities. >> from our end, what the president conveyed to mayor lightfoot is that he will continue to work with her in partnership and work with cities around the country to address the rise of violence and specifically the rise of gun violence predominantly the driver in chicago. >> one chicago alderman says a brief chat won't stop bullets. >> this much i know is clear, lori lightfoot does not have a strategy in place that's going to keep chicago safe. >> national level 1600 more gun deaths, 3200 more injuries than the previous year. in terre haute, indiana, a 30 year veteran of a police force greg was ambushed shot and killed. 10 year member of fbi task force on gangs and violent crime. although the suspect was shot, subsequently arrested and charged with murder, police cannot say if the ambush was personal or he was targeted simply because he wore a badge. >> it's not a good time to be a police officer in america. this is an example of someone

. >> lori lightfoot has a dismal track record in the area of reducing gun violence in chicago.own if they would stop saying they a plan. whatever plan they have, the plan is not working. >> president biden was in illinois today, met with mayor lori lightfoot, violence in major cities including chicago, a huge concern right now. let's bring in our panel byron york, chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner" jonathan swan national political reporter for axios and jonah goldberg editor and chief of the dispatch, gentlemen, welcome. byron, your thoughts on the crime problem we are seeing in major cities coast to coast? >> well, we just heard mayor lightfoot saying she is doing absolutely everything that can be done. and that's just self-evidently not true. now, lately she and the police chief have taking to blaming some judges, some of the courts for bonding out for freeing violent suspects and there's something to that. that's really part of the problem. but, they are focused totally democrats, mayor lightfoot, the biden administration on the question of guns. and

. >> lori lightfoot hoping a tentative deal reached the city's police union including a pay raise foricers while adding more community policing and expanding on use of force training saying the agreement also recognizes the stress of the job and provides additional health and wellness support for officers. james craig says deals like this are a start and lawmakers called to defund the police while hiring private security for themselves. >> it is comedy, hypocrisy. they defunded lapd. i better released the size of the security team since she is a defund reimagining. do this. put a social worker on your detail. >> facing scrutiny for her anticrime plan, shootings are up 10% while homicides are up 48%. todd: those numbers are not good. todd: soft on crime policies will punish them at the polls. >> i think there's a title wave brewing. i think it will be 1994 all over again. when you look at rampant inflation, out-of-control crime and a broken border and lack of competency the republican party is going to have a great comeback if we recruit the right people. we have a lot of opportunity t

todd: have you not heard lori lightfoot seeing? she gets up on the one and 2s, she's a musical stylist. on friday morning. jillian: you've got to let them go. start with this, the $100 offer, president biden is making his push to vaccinate america as more new mask mandate go into effect. todd: griff jenkins, republicans walk maskless in defiance, things and sweet music for us. >> reporter: i will spare you of that. we've come a long way since the president said this on the fourth of july. >> today we are closer than ever to declare independence from the deadly virus. >> reporter: 26 days later every federal employee must show proof of vaccination or face rigorous testing, where he mass, social distance and limit their travel they are not calling it a mandate and are sensitive to going backwards. >> using the mask forever. >> that was true at the time, people getting vaccinated, they didn't get vaccinated. it spread more rapidly and people getting sick. >> biden is directing the military to look at adding covid shots, offering $100

todd: crime spiraling out of control in chicago and lori lightfoot says shouldn't subject the policeard. some are saying the biden administration has no one to blame itself are missing its vaccination goals. remember these comments? >> would not trust donald trump. of donald trump tells us i'm not taking it. todd: pete hegseth joins us with his take next. ♪♪ here i go again on my own ♪♪ going down the only road i have ever known there's an america we build and one we explore. one that's been paved and one that's forever wild. but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure. you get both. introducing the wildly civilized all-new 3-row jeep grand cherokee l todd: washington dc taking center stage in america's crime crisis, baseball fans into a panic and a 6-year-old girl is shot and killed in drive-by attack. jillian: she appears >> in her tone when it comes to a solution. >> reporter: good morning, dc mayor muriel bowser authorizing the police to use any overtime necessary to confront gun violence in the district after the tragic shooting death of 6-year-old 9 the courtn

president biden met with lori lightfoot on the tarmac, had that meeting about it.he uncle of that one month old say it isn't going to do anything and things need to change on the ground. two parent households is one of the solutions a lot of community activists talk about. also school choice could help as well, keeping kids active, keeping them away from gangs but democrats are just addressing this as a gun issue. todd: putting the bad guys away is another one. body cam footage capturing the moment kentucky police rescue is 6-year-old after she was snatched off of her bike. >> open the door. it is okay. todd: officers tried to nap the little girl after witnesses followed her alleged kidnapper until cops arrived. the man was arrested, held on a $1 million bond. carley: gop senate candidate sam brown will speak out after being censored by twitter. brown says the platform flagged to live forth posts showing him saluting in your form is sensitive content, the purple heart recipient responded was it my scars or the fact that i saluted the flag neither are going away and

president biden and lori lightfoot cannot do it, we are in a recruiting crisis.resignations are up 18% and police officers are telling everybody don't even think of joining this profession. ambush assaults on officers are up 91% this year. officers are resisted arrest every time they get out of their cars on a regular basis so the democrats are furiously backpedaling and trying to present themselves of a pro-police pretty, it is not going to work, it is not going to fool the american public and it is not going to bring substance back to the city unless they start retracting their long history of anti-cop statements and say we believe the cops are doing the best they can, they are the government agency most dedicated to protecting black lives. laura: the stories get worse and worse. i think there's blood on their hands, they started this and it continues. >> confederates back then never breached the capitol is insurrectionist's did on january 6th. i am saying this because you should be alarmed. laura: by skyrocketing violent crimes in cities across the country bec

lori lightfoot spoke with the president on the tarmac. she said she gets an update on the agents shot and thanked him for listening. the white house as he reiterated his commitment. one chicago alderman doesn't think you can stop bullets with a chat on the tarmac. >> i don't know what lori lightfoot thought she could do on this meeting, but this much is clear. lori lightfoot does not have a strategy in place that will keep chicago safe. more of the same has made our neighborhoods even more deadly. >> the bloodshed is not limited to gangsters. max limits was a student at the university of chicago. he was coming home from an internship when a stray bullet hit him in the back of the neck. he survived on life support when he signaled to his family that he did not want to live on a machine. the funeral is in denver. >> lori lightfoot has the nerve to say that crime is on the decline. that is a lie. crime and homicide are at. >> speaking of innocents, a 1-month-old was in the car in the englewood neighborhood. she was shot in the head and just

president biden will meet with lori lightfoot and illinois. the administration is facing criticism for its response to violent crime. >> hi, white house officials are concerned about some of the violent surges that we are seeing from los angeles to chicago to boston. president biden maintains that he has no desire to defund the police. he has said this many times on the record. instead, they say they actually wanted to find the police by taking coveted pandemic funds and reallocating them to different police departments across the country. he mentioned that president biden will be heading to the chicago area today, specifically crystal lake, to talk about his american families plan. speaking at chicago, the numbers of violent crime continue to search. you just heard that update. 108 people shot, including two police officers, that was just over the weekend from friday to monday. 17 people died from those injuries. that is the most people shot in the windy city over the fourth of july weekend since 2017. >> secretary psaki: unfortunately, we of

biden and lori lightfoot want to refund the police all they want, they are not going to be able to dois. people have been leaving from officers leaving in droves, retirements up 45%, resignations up 18%, and police officers are telling everybody, don't even think of joining this profession. ambush assaults on officers are up 91% this year. officers are cursed at, resisted arrest, every time they get out of their cars now on a regular basis. and so, the democrats are furiously backpedaling and trying to present themselves as the pro-police party. is not going to work and not going to for the american public and it's not going to bring real substance and law and order back to the city unless they start retracting their long history of anti-cop statements and say actually, we believe the cops are doing the best they can, they are the police, they are the government agency most dedicated to protecting black lives. >> laura: heather, the videos are disturbing. these stories get worse and worse. i think there is blood on their hands. they started this, and it continues. heather, thank you.

his exhibit not atomic number 450,000, this is chicago mayor lori lightfoot was destroying our city explainingyone who complains about chicago skyrocketing murder rate, anyone who mentions that is both a racist and a sexist. >> in recent months they've been questions raised about your temperament and reaction to criticism, and editorial using the term, irascible, hot do you think this has to do with the fact that your woman and specifically a black woman? >> about 99% of it. >> expand on that? >> look at my predecessors. did people say that ridge daily held tea sessions with people he didn't disagree on? a polite guy who was a uniter, no. loan then people of color are always held to a different standard. >> tucker: people are fleeing chicago in huge numbers because lori lightfoot has completely mismanaged at the city. dozens of people were shot last weekend, people are dying because of her mismanagement, but she takes no responsibility at all. none of them do. it's always your fault. i wonder how long the country is going to put up with this. no wonder our leaders seem so paranoid about qanon

lori lightfoot does not have a strategy in place that will keep chicagoans safe.had her superintendent before city council for 6 hours where he advocated doing more of the same and more of the same made our neighborhoods even more deadly. what i hope is president biden will do what donald trump offered a year ago and send in a task force to hold those magnets of violence accountable at the federal level because we clearly cannot count on our state attorney kim fox or the mayor to do the job. >> is what the white house says on that conversation between the president and the mayor, quote, president biden expressed his personal support for the two atf officials in chicago police officer who was shot earlier today. he reiterated his commitment to working with the mayor and leaders in chicago in the fight against gun violence and convey the part of justice will soon be in touch about the strikeforce announced a few weeks ago. that is the statement, these are the numbers, we will bring them up for you on the screen, at least 100 shooting victims over the holiday weekend

for today with the president in chicago and talking with mayor lori lightfoot, it was not the dominant concern. certainly not the thrust of his remarks later on talking about the next big stimulus measure and what he's going to do to spend more money still to help the american economy. and today, two attacks on atf agents and one police officer. this after record crime numbers in the chicago area. more than 100 people shot has a summer crime wave that has folks wondering will it ever stop? welcome. i'm neil cavuto, this is "your world." the focus is right now on crime. we're talking about chicago for the time being. we could be talking about new york as well where democrats have gone ahead and nominated for mayor a guy who spend 20 years in the police form and says the defund police movement is hurting. he won. he could be new york's next mayor. this was a guy elected by democrats. who cite crime as their number 1 issue. something to get into right away with mike tobin in crystal lake, illinois where the president was today. mike? >> neil, we have weather whipping up about the time tha

i think it's funny that the president met with lori lightfoot at a chicago airport. crime-ridden cesspools that make up a lot of chicago and i think it's interesting here that we have this culture of nobody on the left wanting to take responsibility. democrats have run the city of chicago for decades and they controlled dose of the houses in the legislature in illinois and they control the governor's mansion yet somehow they need somebody to step in and do something. i've got a solution for them. attend all the criminals in chicago are old ladies who trespass on january 6 and they would be rounding them up in groves. kennedy: leslie let's talk a little bit about the violence in chicago because it's not just gun violence. it's people who don't have respect for human life and decency so how do you tackle that? >> to that point i think they are rounding up the little old ladies. just joking but in chicago between the year 2000 2020 they had crime and gun violence all under democrats. let's look at the facts are the facts are the two areas and i lived in chicago for four

lori lightfoot was asked about the criticism of her city and the crime wave and she blamed i on the factis black and a. he/she said 99 percent of the criticism is because of that. a lot of this has to do with a lot of identity politics. she could just hopefully escape culpability and say it's not al it's because i'm a black gay person. people gave her a lot of room t grow and instead of growing, sh is dying on the vine and the city is going with it. the democratic strategy right now is talk about gun violence, not talk about the gun and. when you remove the person from the act, you remove your own responsibility from it. the elimination of responsibility eliminates the pressure on you to do anything about it. it's gun violence, it's not the we don't have to do anything about the people we need to get more laws, so gun violence pull through the stupidity of cnn were somehow criminals don't exist, our sin doesn't exist, but these guns are walking around, these guns are walking around to shooting at people. they're not being held by anybody. it's just like how they fires mysteriously starte

the president went to chicago i met with lori lightfoot at an airport.e never been to frankfurt i've flown to the frankfurt airport i would not say know the city very well. >> i think it is funny the president met with lori lightfoot in the safest place possible like the chicago airport rate rather than actually going to the crime ridden cesspool that make up a lot of chicago. i think it's interesting here that we've got this culture of nobody on the left wanting to take responsibility. democrats are from the city of chicago for decades they control both of the houses of legislature in illinois predict control the governor's mansion. yet somehow they need somebody to step in and do something. i've got a solution for them from pretend all the legs in chicago though after we rounding them up. >> so, let's talk a little bit about the violence in chicago. is not just gun violence. it's people who do not have respect for human life and basic decencies or how do you tackle that? >> to the point i think they are rounding up the little old ladies, no just joking

he's taken issue with lori lightfoot's response.> martha: lori lightfoot, here's a sound bite of the major in chicago talking about what she plans to do and saying everybody needs to step up, this is july 2. >> this has to be an all hands on deck approach. it's not just on the police department. it's not just on the fire department. it's not just on elected figures. all of us have to embrace our notion of community and step up and think about what we can do. >> martha: so what does that mean exactly? >> we're trying to figure out what that meant. after that speech of hers, came to light that key members of her staff, chief of staff, her deputy mayor, all were open vacation and the run up or during the fourth of july weekend which saw over 100 people shot, nearly 20 people killed. all we continue to see are police officers being overworked with cancelled days off, 12, 14, 17 hour shifts. to be frank, martha, no plan in sight for keeping chicago is safe. >> martha: here's geraldo rivera yesterday on with us talking about this plague t

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lori lightfoot's feet are sticking in the a air. >> yeah.e that are in -- that are dead, that are flat out dead. it doesn't have to be this way. look, chicago is a big city but i tell you what, you need cops on the beat, cops that have the community support, and when they go out and arrest these people they need to be incarcerated. i'm tired of these democrats telling us they need to defund the police, that they don't need to have as much prosecution. you have people within the democratic party saying if you don't want more people in prison don't build more prisons. these people need to be detained if they are guilty they need to be prosecuted. go through that process to figure out whether or not they are guilty. if they are guilty they need to be incarcerated. don't tell me like they do in california and other places where the petty crimes that are supposedly just petty and they are doing shoplifting, those types of things, that they will let them get away with it. how many times do we have to watch dozens of people going into a target and

it may or lori lightfoot who spread with president trump or oversaw the criminal measures, violent gunenders will end up in federal prison. the atf's new strike forces will focus on corridors known or heavy illegal gun trafficking. >> the focus now is the combination of tactics of building cases against gangs the developing community support. getting the trust of the community for the purpose also the technology that's changed and improved dramatically. all respect to our ability to make the cases. speak of the announcement comes after the attorney general's paws just yesterday insisted nationwide crime is down. >> crime is down. gun violence and murder rates are up. guns. and i'm only guy that god passed legislation when i was a senator. make sure we eliminated assault weapons. >> before leaving washington he met with atf agents and said he hopes the senate will confirm president biden's nominee to run the agency david chapman. republicans and the nra do not support chapman. >> shannon: all right, i've gotten another question. were talking about the attorney general an interesting sid

the mayor, lori lightfoot had instituted more of the restrictions regarding covid.ular festival in grant park, which was at full capacity. you have to show that you have been vaxxed or you have got a negative covid test within the last 74 hours. then you could jump in the mud. >> mosh pit. look at that i'm sure joe biden would be going i don't know if that's safe there are so many people next to each other. they have to wear a mask at all times. although that is going to be hard to police. brian: you think so? you don't have the vaccination thing? just wear the mask. absolutely. i will wear it all day until they are about 20 feet away from the cop. brian: would you put down your gun i would like to fine you for your mask. rachel: more interested in policing for masks and whether people have been vaccinated or not instead of policing a city actually falling into massive chaos. by the way she was maskless at the kennedy wedding. they chose her to efficient the wedding of one of the kennedy nephews. brian: i'm sure cardinal dolan was busy. steve: i'm sure she was maskl

i want to create more green spaces for folks to gather. >> on chicago's west side mayor lori lightfootviolence with investment in things as simple as planting trees to constructing a community plaza and roller rink. >> looking at the challenges our city has faced. this is really a generational opportunity to make had a long lasting difference so that the next generation of kids growing up in the community have a very different tra victory. >> light of was elected in 2019 as the city's first black woman and openly gay mayor. and then the pandemic and record jump in violence have complicated her vision and some have questioned how she's handled that stress, especially after a june confrontation with a local alderwoman as the city council meeting recessed and in an email obtained by "the chicago trib up"she wrote to a scheduler i need office time every day, i need office time every day, repeating the phrase sent during scheduled office time. >> a source in city hall said this is who she is. is that true? >> i don't know. am i demanding boss, yes, i am. but i'm demanding on behalf of the r

i mean, lori lightfoot had them nerve recently to say that crime in chicago is on the decline am. that is a blatant lie. it is not on the decline. homicides and shooting rates are up. and as we have seen, chicago had its most murderous weekend of the year. if she meets with him, saving the city of chicago wall not to creating safety on our streets. >> there was two federal agents, they survived and were released from the hospital. and they do have a person they are questioning. back to you. >> benjamin: mike tobin in chicago, thanks so much. >> sandra: from chicago to indiana, police in terre haute say that police officer was shot and killed in an ambush outside and fbi office yesterday afternoon, detective with a 30-year veteran of the force, the fbi says the agent shot and wounded the alleged suspect in custody while being treated at a local hospital. indiana governor eric holcomb calling the attack senseless. no word on a possible motive for that shooting. >> benjamin: a 16-year-old suspect in police custody's facing several charges including attempted murder for a shooting in

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jen psaki lane the staggering spike in crime on seasonal changes in the holiday weekend july 4 lori lightfoot any blame from what's going on in the shootings in chicago to the courts, sexism and racism then you have joe concha in the helsing jen psaki is a professional gaslight or, the washington post gave jen psaki think she was wrong to claimant was the gop defunding the police, what do youry say to this. >> i believe crime fighting happens on a ground-level from anissa polity when i hear a lot of the statements or the red herrings that are being introduced by lori lightfoot stating his racism in the attacks on her are being based as a woman is pure hard lash you need to effectively get into a crime control strategy and incorporated the practitioners in law enforcement because the police no better than n anyone else how to gain a drop in crime and is not happening this energy is nonexistent, therefore you have the politicians going one way and police going in the other and the community is suffering as a result because of crime is going through the roof. elizabeth: darrin porcher, good to s

when i hear lori lightfoot that the attacks on her based as a woman are hogwash.o a crime control strategy and incorporate practitioners in law enforcement because the police no better than anyone else how to gain on a precipitous drop in crime. it is not happening. synergy is nonexistent. politicians are going one way, the police are going the other and the community is suffering as a result because the crime is going through the roof. elizabeth: darren porcher. good to see you. come back soon. >> thanks, elizabeth. elizabeth: okay we'll stay on how americans have been misled by the media. they're still downplaying crime and the border crisis. many in the media are doing that. now we have members of the media flip-flopping on the covid wuhan lab leak possibility. the public was misled for over a year about that. scientists, livermore national labs say investigate it. w.h.o. says investigate it. accuracy in media president adam guillette weighs in next. >> "the washington post" is welcomed to join the party 18 months late. look, anyone with an ounce of common sens

the blame game in the form of lori lightfoot saying the criticism is based on her race and gender.odium saying it's seasonal. it's not seasonal in the number of homicides is dating back to the '90s, as and gillian's gas pointed out paid on the strawman argument, let's go after the guns. even though 90% of weapons using gun crimes are obtained illegally. as a strawman argument. if they don't get serious about this, it's going to be tough for them in 2022. >> emily: and, jesse, we have a community leader in chicago calling this the extinction of our children. at what point do people like mayor lightfoot and president biden listen to the average, ordinary americans that are losing their children by the day? >> jesse: they're never going to listen. it's a bloodbath. they don't care. they are callous about it because it's such an easy solution, emily. you arrest the shooters, you convict them, and then you incarcerate them. through federal beefs at them. it doesn't matter. it is such a simple deal, but they keep coming in wanting to talk about root causes. "oh, let's get after the guns.

as mayor lori lightfoot is publicly insisting that crime in her city is down, which led to this tensely responsible for the -- your rhetoric, your heated rhetoric is responsible for this off the charts violent crime in the city of chicago? >> the premise of your question which is it's chaos everywhere and the fact of the matter is, sir, which you also didn't point out but i will so we get this straight, is that we're actually seeing a decline in homicides and shootings. yes, sir -- >> there are thousands -- >> do you owe an apology to the victims of violent crime, the thousands of unsolved shooting and murders and stabbings and random stabbings, do you owe these people any apology? >> once again, sir, i ask you to get your facts right. crime is not out of control in our city. in fact, crime is on the decline. all of our major indexes show that the decline in crime and our homicides and our shootings year over year are down. that's a fact, sir. >> cnn's omar jimenez is with us now from chicago. omar, i know you've been looking at chicago's crime statistics. what can you tell us about w

chicago mayor lori lightfoot, you see her there among those who met with president biden. then had this message for her city. >> i've heard your pain and anguish and i carry that with me and your suffering feels my daily urgency to use every tool that i have and to urge every stakeholder from the president of the united states on down to local, county, and state and federal officials, we must do better, all of us, for you. >> for his part, president biden, according to white house press secretary jen psaki, "reiterated his commitment to working with the mayor and leaders in chicago in the fight against gun violence and conveyed that the department of justice would soon be in touch about the strike first announced just a few weeks ago that will be working with cities like chicago." soon, though, is not soon enough for the more than 100 people shot over the july 4th weekend in chicago. or those in cities like new york, san francisco, and los angeles, all of which are seeing a surge in violent crime. and shannon, to bring this back to max lewis, the chicago university student

. >> tomi: and actually quite surprised that lori lightfoot met with president biden, because he is white, and we know her feelings on meeting and talking with people of the white race. it's just like the border. those are in charge, especially up to the office of the president, they don't want to acknowledge the problems going on. if you don't acknowledge them, you don't have to solve them. here's the problem they're going to have. although not everyone lives in aboard a state or community, when you have lawlessness spanning across the nation, it might not be something you have to talk about in the headlines, in the media, at a press conference, in a speech, but americans seeing it on the streets and their carbs in their backyards, it's hard to ignore. the tactics the democrats have in the biden administration has of ignoring it and hoping it'll go away, and somehow their pals in the media can give them cover, it's not going to work. people are seeing it with her own eyes, and as we talk about on this program all the time, lawlessness impacts everybody of every race and every socioeconom

he'll be meeting with the chicago mayor, lori lightfoot. she says she is planning to raise the spike in crime with him directly. just today, meanwhile, a gunman fired on a chicago police officer and two federal agents while they were in their car, near a police department. all three were taken to a hospital. they are thankfully expected to be okay. this shooting comes after chicago saw its deadliest weekend of the year. that was 100 people in the city shot, 18 of them killed, over a 72-hour period during the fourth of july holiday. mike tobin joins us from crystal lake, illinois, by the president is going to be in just a moment. hi, mike. >> hi, there, jillian. the meeting will take place at o'hare airport before he comes to this location. the meeting of course will cover the many troubles that lori lightfoot faces, not the least of which is the violent crime problem. you've mentioned the fact that 100 people were shot over the weekend. well, 11 of the gunshot victims were children, and they were a couple of federal agents and chicago polic

gerry: and what must've been a deeply reassuring of sympathy chicago mayor lori lightfoot said she feelsain. >> i want you to know that we are doing absolutely everything that we can to stem the violence i met with many of you and have heard your pain and anguish and i carry that with me and you are suffering fuels my daily urgency to use every tool that i have and to urge every stakeholder from the president of the united states on down to local county and state and federal officials, we must do better, all of us for you. gerry: listen carefully to the language she's not actually taken responsibility she's going to do everything she can to urge the stakeholders, whatever they are to do something it's the same as democratic officials everywhere from the president to governors and mayors the surge and violent crime is not their fault it is covid, guns, climate change and by the way if you criticize ms. lightfoot it's your fault because you're a racist and sexist she said last week 99% of the criticism is because she's a black woman. but of course we know it is their fault or at least a la

raymond lopez joins us now an alderman and lori lightfoot said about the special city council meetingour city is a serious matter and she thinks for some it's being used as a political wedge issue. i look forward to the special meeting on friday to provide another opportunity for alderman can be informed on public safety. why did you think you needed an emergency meeting? >> before she made that statement lori lightfoot has been saying that calls for answers about violence and how we're addressing the non-stop blood shed of our streets was a stunt, political and joke to her. a diversion. she has never taken this seriously. 19 aldermen have asked for this meeting so we can get answers. our superintendent clearly is not up to the job. the mayor is not up to the job to keep the city of chicago safe and we want her on record not in a back room meeting. we want her on record to explain how she will keep chicago safe as we've seen mass shootings on the rise. we had a shooting in front of my house yesterday by gang bangers. it is out of control and we need to get results that keep people saf

chicago city aldermen are criticizing mayor lori lightfoot for allowing two top staff members to takey weekend and that's when staffers are needed the most. they say the mayor is requiring police to work 12-hour shifts with no vacation this summer but two top staffers took a holiday. the mayor's office said they work 24 hours a day 365 days a year and they're often connected via email and phone. back to you. >> bill: that's a lot, matt. matt finn in chicago. >> dana: for more on this let's bring in a columnist for the "chicago tribune." mayor lori lightfoot what she said on july 1st. >> this has got to be an all hands on deck approach. it is not just on the police department. not just on the fire department. not just on elected officials. all of us have to embrace our notion of community and step up and think about what we can do. >> dana: one of those aldermen said it was the wrong thing to do was lopez allowed staff to go on vacation what is the most dangerous weekend in the city in chicago is outrageous. is that fair criticism, sir? >> well, it's the kind of criticism that she has