dozens of crimes in the city of seattle depending on the suspect. we will tell you who could get a free pass, critics wanted it is a green light to chaos and business owners big the city not to do it. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with kevin cork covering the latest on the investigations into hunter biden's business dealings editor resignation by william barr. >> reporter: william barr's fate was in question since earlier this month he said it doj investigation found no major fraud in the election, contradicting the president's point of view but he leaves on fairly good terms and given other high profile administration departures that is saying something. william barr's resignation letter was released after he briefed the president about the doj review in the voter fraud claims. these allegations will continue to be pursued at a time when the country is so deeply divided is incumbent on all levels of government and all agencies acting within their purview to do all they can to ensure the integrity of elections and promote public confidence i

gerry: coming up radio show host jason rantz why the seattle city council is slashing the police departmentget by nearly 20% just as the murder rate in that city continues to spike to the highest levels in more than a decade. >> these are run by new liberal, progressive or socialist democrats with far left policies that are hurting the very people they have always claimed they care about. ♪ i'm greg, i'm 68 years old. i do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my calling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now. people say to me periodically, "man, you've got a memory like an elephant." it's really, really helped me tremendously. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden. nexium 24hr stops a

let's end the year enjoying more. ♪ you are all i need baby baby to get by ♪ >> shannon: seattle cityrty defense fund. if legislation that allows susps considered in poverty to use it as a defense to dozens of crimes potentially triggering for your past. in seedier correspondent rick leventhal taking a closer look at the situation tonight. a good evening, rick. buried >> come shannon, they call it a defense lawyer's dream, the first in america to give a free pass to almost misdemeanor crimes to anyone who can claim poverty, mental illness, or drug addiction. like most major cities, crime has spiked it with drug addiction on the rise. instead of combating the problems they're considering a measure that would forgive suspects for most misdemeanor crimes. including theft, trespassing, and assault if they can claim poverty, mental illness or dependency. they said in a situation where they took the sandwich because you are hungry and trying to meet your basic need of satisfying your hunger, we as a community should know we shouldn't punish it. the seattle city council said the proposals be

the seattle city council candidate sounds off next. [ whispering ] what's this? are we kicking karly out? we live with at&t. it was a lapse in judgment. at&t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gig-speed internet, but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something? [ muffled scream ] stop living with at&t. xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes. >> mayor jenny durkin approved a 20% cut to cops. new city budget signed as homicide in the city had a decade high. here to react columnist for the post-millennial ari hoffman. good morning. it has been a violent year, violent in seattle, 41 have taken place in this be so far and next year police working on it more limited budget because the budget was cut by 18% overnight. you have been very vocal about this, the murder rate goes up. >> literally the city council was disgusting -- discussing cutting the budget by 18 persons, 2 peopl

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to significantly reduce the ability of law enforcement to do their job. >> you've seen it in seattle. the cityir budget by 20%. it is affecting law enforcement in seattle. it is hurting the people that call seattle home. officers are leaving by the dozens, retiring because, think about this, you're a brand new, 25-year-old police recruit academy graduate. you want to get into law enforcement in seattle? you will go out there and make 50 to $60,000 a year. you're going to work night shift. have off on monday and tuesday. you will be there risking your life each and every day to protect those people. you have a servant's heart. then what you're going to do is you're going to have a city -- gerry: sheriff i have to cut you off. thank you for joining us. congratulations on the election. thank you for your service. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. gerry: i'm gerry baker in for elizabeth macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. have a really good in new york, see you back here same time tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the battle for the white house is now a f

l.a., seattle another cities defunding and crime is skyrocketing. >> this is problematic from a political flipped and the house of representatives in relation to the d from police movement, people live in these communities, the local citizens do not want defunding the police because when we see what happened in new york, seattle, portland in chicago, these communities came under siege as a result of people that acted with impunity because they believe that d from the police movement was something that the politicians o were attaching, we need to moveit forward to a betr place and it's unfortunate, i live in new york city and bill de blasio is at the helm in denigrating and the quality of life in new york and it's all based on the prefaces of d from the police. elizabeth: yesterday we had a family coming in to look at the christmas tree in their car in teenagers on bicycles jumped on the car, smashed their windshield and the habited downtown manhattan, we have crime skyrocketing in the community saying you are killing us when you take an oath to defend and protect americans, this is a seri

doing but literally pardon the ban on but handcuffing them from doing their actual job in major cities from seattlertland to minneapolis and new york, simply leaving the department and going to other agencies and policies and policing there. that's good news for those cities, the smaller ones that don't really deal with the level of crime the major cities are but we've seen the statistics, bear out the defund the police movement and the general culture of demonizing police is directly resulting in more crimes. >> it takes a toll and we always say nobody wants a bad cop out more than a good cop and the vast majority of them are and want those cases handled but they feel under attack these days, see you again soon, thank you so much. >> happy new year. some good news before we say good night, check out this military homecoming in florida. he gave his mother the best christmas gift, surprised her when she was out eating breakfast, she can hardly believe it, the crowd broke into applause, in camp pendleton the last eight month set to deploy after a visit home. go online, fantastic video of him surprisi

todd: as homicides soar in seattle, the city's considering easing punishments for some crimes under aed poverty defense. here to react, seattle correspondent, ari hoffman. here's what you can get away with by claiming the poverty defense if it goes through, the crimes include theft, trespassing and assault. you have to claim you're poor, addicted or have a mental issue. is that the answer to solving the rise in homicides. >> of course it's not. right now in seattle they have spiked, the scrims hav crimes hd up to 300%. homicides have more than doubled. seattle politician's solutions is to just decriminalize crime. hundreds of misdemeanors will no longer be considered crimes if you can display you have a mental disorder or a drug abuse or it's a crime of poverty and you display that you have a need. well, i feel the need to go to nordstroms and get some new suits. we can't always get what we want. unfortunately, that's what these people are doing. that's why so many businesses, so many residents are fleeing downtown seattle because the laws right now are not being enforced. todd: there

as they were debating it, two people were stabbed in seattle just near blocks away from city hall. ther personal was stabbed at random just walking in downtown seattle. that person, thankfully, is going to be okay it. really does shine a spot line on what happens on when you defund the police. this shouldn't be shocking to anybody. we have the lowest number of deployable staff of spd since 1990. and at the exact same time we are seeing record homicides, record arson. record burglaries. again, any child could figure out exactly what's going to happen next year once we see more of these cuts. brian: here somewhat mayor said jennjennyjenny durkan laying gr. a plan seeks to ensure the seattle police department has enough officer to meet 911 response and investigate needs throughout the city while acknowledging the need for disporportionate communities on color particularly black communities. good luck as those two people bleed out and homicides continue to rise. we don't know if they are democrats or republicans but i always thought safety didn't have any party or wasn't partisanship. j

minneapolis, seattle, jefferson city, missouri, madison, wisconsin.ay at home or this is the way the pandemic is behaving. your final word, joe. >> my final word your last anchor that you played was chris cuomo telling people what they should do or should not do over the holidays. this is somebody who had covid. broke his own quarantine still suffering from a fever, went 30 minutes from the home he was living in, got into a confrontation with 60-year-old man had to file a police report against him as a result. when you see people lecturing you on tv what to do, should not do, look at themselves in the mirror as far as the way they conducted themselves when they had cove vivid. such was the case with chris cuomo. the biggest hypocrite on television. elizabeth: they are getting paychecks where a lot of people are suffering. joe concha. good to see you. >> good to see you. deneenelizabeth: deneen borellil prompt us what prompted a newspaper editorial board, prior statements of one of the georgia democrats in the senate runoff race should disqualify this

at the same time homicides in the city had the highest level in more than a decade. joining me now seattledio show host jason rantz. jason thank you for joining me. thanks for having me. heard the mayor of your fair city referred to is going on there, the violence, vandalism, the writing jenn love. is the summer of no seat homicide rising with the budget being cut. to be expected winter of love to? ut i would imagine so pray think of the tragic of desperate they were debating how much more there going to deep on the seattle police. there were two stabbings brewed by the stabbings was a random person walking in downtown seattle, stabbed in the neck. the good news is he's going to be okay. the badges is that second stabbing was a caseworker who was working on essentially a facility for formerly homeless people who were getting help to get their lives back in order. she was stabbed to death. this was happening while we were talking about cutting more funds from the police. we have 55 homicides this year. that is up for context from 28 lastth year. things are not going wellin seattle. i can't

prices rising 7.9% in the city index from october 2019, to this october. phoenix, seattled san diego all up at least 11 and a half percent. with the doubter stresses even though it's backdated through october, is that the pandemic has completely encouraged to buyers and potential buyers to flee the city and apartments for space. david: all you have to do is look at new york real estate. thank you. looking at your screen, according to media research center, twitter has censored president trump in his campaign 583 times meanwhile, joe biden and his team have not been centered-- censured at all. joe is here to respond to that and the world health organization saying the current coronavirus pandemic may not be quote the big one. should we really be taking a warning from the who seriously particularly after all of their misjudgments about china and the virus? dr.marc siegel joining me in a few minutes with his take. first, here's a check of futures. they are up significantly and they are growing. we will see how it all turns out in about 15 minutes when markets open. more "varn

seattle need to be careful. prosperity is a fragile thing and it's not guaranteed. detroit was the richest cityby the year 2,000, the poorest city in america. >> mark: and if you look at some of those shots of detroit compared with the way let's say nagasaki looks now, you would think the second world war in japan had won by dropping the bomb on detroit. chris, thanks for that and let's hope the west coast is not headed that same path. amidst draconian shutdown, and number of silicon valley companies as we were just saying, hp, oracle, tesla, or leaving the bay area for texas. for years politicians have assumed unrelenting growth is a good strategy, but could having more californians backfire on texas? governor greg abbott joins tucker to talk about it. >> thank you so much for coming on. first, congratulations. such an obvious success story. people are leaving california and can go to other places, come to your state and that is an endorsement of the way you are running it, obviously. so sincere congratulations. but i do have a question. we have seen this across the country people flee and col

seattle gave us a model. this is what life looks like in the cities without police.like four murders, four attempted murders, two murders and some countless number of sexual assaults all in six blocks in a matter of a few weeks. that is what defunding the police looks like, america. now we know. whether brian stelter thinks it is a big deal or not, the mayor of seattle thinks it's a big deal or not it clearly is. most americans overwhelmingly believe that. even democrats in the house you remember after the elections where republicans did so well in the house, you had democrats screaming to the roofs, you fools who were talking about defunding police and socialism, you're killing us. you're killing us. those ideas destroy america and ideas have consequences and we saw it play out in cities all across the country this year. elizabeth: ken cuccinelli, thanks for joining us. really appreciate it. good to see you. >> good to be with you. elizabeth: we're just about at the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. just ahead former nypd lieutenant darre

. ♪ >> tucker: the city of seattle, one of the nicest places in our country, is being destroyed by theple who run it. seattle marked its 55th murder of year yesterday. that set a new tenure record, but that hasn't stopped the mayor of seattle, jenny durkan, from supporting a new city budget to reduce the budget for the police department by nearly 20%. hard to believe that. meanwhile in san jose, california, officials have learned that an illegal alien who allegedly went on a deadly stabbing spree a local church have been deported three times in recent years and apparently came back to stab people. in a lot of places in this country the violence is completely out of control. it's crushingly sad and it's causing massive demographic changes in this country. people are fleeing. we've got to stop this very how can we do that? heather macdonald's senior fellow at the manhattan institute and we are happy to have her always and especially tonight. thanks for coming on. what do we do about this? >> well, we change the narrative. but we are seeing -- we are going to see the biggest one year incr

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seattle, right now, is on life support, and with a bill like this, you are going to flatline the citythat is a serious concern that even some liberals in the city are starting to speak up about u. >> tucker: yup. letting junkies get by is not compassion. sean hannity right now. >> sean: tucker, thank you and welcome to "hannity" tonight. we are tracking multiple stories, 9:00 on the east, 6:00 on the west coast, including what is a major new rift inside the democratic party. yep, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is now publicly calling on pelosi and schumer to step aside. i'm actually in full agreement withle the congresswoman from new york. she wants them gone from leadership. so do i. it's long overdue. we will play the tape state ahead. a lot of chaos there. later, we will introduce the radical democrats that biden t would love to surround himself with, which includes a top aide that just called republicans a

i don't know they will find opportunities in new york city, chicago, seattle and political affairs.o one will be relocating any businesses with dumpster fires and all the rest. >> we have been saying that through the course of the year. the $2,000 checks, holly, rubio, restrained bedfellows throughout, holly and sanders on this. you wonder if they are doing this for political reasons. switching gears to the topic. they expect stock market to tumble under joe biden. there are the numbers. that is pretty stark. do you agree? >> know i don't. i want to point out, one for 10 years from now, one for next month and one for next year. generally speaking that type of forecast in the worst. i can't foresee things before the pandemic whether the gop holds the senate, the tax legislation we are going to have. over the long-term these things wash out as parties go back and forth. to focus specifically on where the market is is a bit pricey, that is because profits have been artificially depressed. what compiles the forecast of stock analysts in the granular data, these are ideological people, t

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with thousands upon thousands of homeless people, arriving from out of state to cities like l.a., san francisco, seattleonditions are right to set up camp, to buy and sell drugs, and face no consequences whatsoever. >> mark: the middle class is fleeing. cwhat happens when the hip and groovy industries like silicon valley and hollywood, decide it is easier to do their business elsewhere. >> yeah, that is already happening. you are seeing huge companies and entrepreneurs leaving san francisco for places like texas, florida, idaho, even wyoming. what is going to happen is this, san francisco -- or california, rather -- is so dependent on income tax revenue from the wealthiest people who are leaving. unfortunately, california is like the titanic going slowly toward the iceberg and having very little ability to turn, and in fact, the political leaders they are doubling down on the policies that got them in this mess, and i'm afraid over the next 3 to 5 years, you're going to see a kind of total meltdown of some of these cities and states. >> mark: the meltdown can happen very fast. if you lookk at detroit. d

seattle, down 81%. chicago is down 75%. citieslot of big cities in the u.s., that have been really impacted by this in terms of dining activity. we see pockets of growth and activity. what we have seen is that as restrictions lift and people feel safer and more comfortable dining out, they do dynamic. in a recent opentable survey, we found 25% of survey respondents in the u.s. and canada are dining out at least once a week. there are some glimmers of hope here. other times, we are seeing that outdoor dining has really picked up. if you look at dining in september of this year versus, september of last year we have seen an 18 increase -- 18x increase in parties sitting outside. emily: how do you expect the restaurant industry to look different after this? we don't know when life is going to go back to normal. we don't know what normal life is good to look like. are people going to go back to restaurants as much as they ever did? will it ever be the same? through anre going evolution of what dining out means right now. i think there

. >> neil: i also wonder very quickly, charles what is being said in the seattle area, a beautiful cityto stick around? >> well, people aren't sticking around. yeah, i can hear you. companies are moving out. major companies already moving out. by the way they are moving to suburban areas where it's more expensive but that is the price they are willing to pay. what i'm concerned about, again, it can come from a good-hearted place, but it's so misguided. and i'm really fearful this will become just another one of these things that all cities may have to deal with at some point. >> neil: all right, thank you very much, my friend. charles payne, i came very close to wearing that exact same jacket. i'm so glad i didn't. here comes "the five." ♪ iran, greg gutfeld with juan williams, emily compagno, jesse watters, dana perino, the "the five." ♪ sorry to interrupt you while you are getting the vaccine, democrats said would never come but last night joe biden ripped into trump. >> thankfully a unanimous supreme court immediately and completely rejected this effort. the court sent a clear signal

city. and seattle. these republican governors telling citizens to dance in the pea tree dish of covid to the emergency room and the morgue. isn't just leading to needless death. it will have a major impact on how the country as a whole recovers from the devastating crisis. the trump administration is leaving it up to governors to decide who gets the vaccine and when. a test of federalism. and if states executive ability to act as warp speed as the deaths pile up. and struggling businesses face desperate circumstances. joining me now a former new jersey governor. and democratic pollster. and doctor internal medicine physician. thank you for being here. governor, i'll start with you. i understand where she sees it as good politics to let people live life and party hard into the pandemic. if you die, you die. go ahead and have fun now. it's short term fun for long term pain. governor, i want to show you the opposite of that. the hard way to do it is the way the governor of new york has done it. saying no y

cities for stuffiness, seattle, and san diego led the way.he same story as it has been four months with mortgage rates driving up prices. goldman sachs raised its price target from $47 to a street high view of 70. revenue growth as the parent of snapchat. it willggested that outperform initial guidance for the fourth quarter. that is the latest bloomberg business flash. alix: thanks so much. house democrats and some republicans are reproving a measure bashar approving measure for the coronavirus -- are reproving a measure for the coronavirus relief bill. joining us is laura davidson. laura, mitch mcconnell is in a tough spot. what is he going to do? laura: he will go out and do his normal start of the senate speech. he so far has been very mom on m on the sizey mu of the check. anything he says today will give an indication of where he's going. senator chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate, is pushing a fast-track vote to approve the checks. some republicans -- schumer is hoping he can do that in the senate as well. it looks unlikely

stuart: is seattle now or becoming a socialist city?least to an extent. we have a council that has one open a socialist and she does not hide it and then we have another two that are closeted socialists and certainly take positions where they are constantly going after the capitalist system or always going after businesses and created a business environment in which is this is our fleeing. the irony in all of that -. stuart: it's the money leaving town. >> the money is 100% leaving town. think about this. in context, in the middle of a pandemic economy and almost 150 businesses in downtown seattle alone that have permanently closed. the council decided to pass a payroll tax. they went after some of the bigger businesses and it was really to go after amazon. amazon decided that we are done so they found a loophole in the payroll tax law which allows them to allow people to work from home over 50% of the time which means they don't have to pay into the payroll tax. at the same time they are saying no to renewing different leases in seattl

i also message to the minneapolis city council and the other city councils in seattle and portland and to defund the police department i suggest they suit up and go out there and maybe they should plus the thuggery, the crime and devastation that they have fed for months on end. the officers on a daily basis are demonized and demoralized and defunded but they're supposed to go out with the meager resources they have left to clean up the mess encourage and egged on by the left for a summer that lead in to the fall and doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. it's ridiculous. they will reap what they sow. the ones impacted the most, the losers here are the good, honest, decent, law-abiding people and the cities defunding the police will be in danger. i hope they understand the next time they go to cast the vote. >> harris: something confusing to me is it seems like the city council want to make this a binary choice. mental health has been made even worse in the pandemic. the lockdown, the isolation and so on and so forth. everybody doing what is best to slow down the covid-19. homelessnes

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seattle. a radio host from that city has been on top of it and joins us to explain. jason, what is this?ll, it's a group called the moreish sovereign citizens out in you had muns edmund group ext squatters who believe that the law us of the land do not apply to them and they have decided to go into neighborhoods, waterfront properties, very nice homes saying that they actually own the land and they should take it over. the homeowner usually is like what are you talking about? please leave. and it is just very bizarre. it's not just happening in the pew jengt sound. it's happening all across the country. most recently in georgia, for example. a man named joel fed decided to literally take ownership, decide that he is not going to pay rent on property that he doesn't actually own. it's part of, i think, this nationwide trending of laws not really applying to certain folks. in this case they are not activists they are just kind of in they. >> this is illegal. once you see that that means you want it, it's yours. i want it, it's mine. i'm about to start, you know, the process on reclaiming t

murders and assaults are up in minneapolis, philadelphia, new york city, san francisco, portland, seattlefunding the police, guess what, criminals are out committing crime. listen, the places where this is most acute, liz, this is really serious, the communities of color which these democrats give lip service to. guess what, those communities want more police presence, not less. this idea that we will just said social workers and, listen, i am all for counseling, i'm on the board of a restorative justice foundation out here, i believe in rehabilitation. policese want police protection. he is right. theyey will continue to get pounded with this. rightfully so, as far as i'm concerned. >> barack obama being dismissive of the issue saying, you know, calling defund the police "a snappy slogan that cost boats". is it a snappy catchy slogan when it is the organizing mantra? >> no, some of these have actually done it. as you know, minneapolis actually acted to take money out of their police budget. i think they are doing it in los angeles and seattle and portland as well. not only that, a lot of

of doing a job come and sit at telling stories, instead of questioning the policies in cities like chicago, in seattle where the chief of police, a black woman said, i'm resigning because you are defunding our budget and can even protect the people here in seattle. when you see what happens in portland. but when people refuse to cover the stories and, also, i think candace brought up such a significant point, when republicans shy away from the truth, they don't face the truth, they don't talk about it, they don't reach out to the minority communities, they don't realize that people in minority communities, i've covered them,o my mother was an immigrant from cuba. i understand what people are going through, communities reach out to them, they will tell us what we need. >> tammy: the fact you have to say that -- candace owens delma, we've had t donald trump and hes the first republican with an overture to the black community, what do you have to lose, seems like republicans have not learned anything from the most basic thing an american president can do is what your advice be to the republicans to carry

first up, a bar owner, a new york city bar owner in seattle fighting back against draconian restrictions on indoor dining. i should say that it still has some restrictions. they are distancing and taking some restrictions but they are just declaring themselves autonomous. >> dana: it's a sanctuary city. don't we all like that? what they did with those businesses. these guys are just picking up everybody else's leaving off. it's only fair. >> jesse: you have the east coast chas and i you have a west coast chads. who will get shot? and who will get rated? i think we all know the answer to that question. >> katie: will this be a winter of love and peace, greg? >> greg: he's doing the right thing. these bars need to do something because they have razor-thin margins. one month closed, you are done. i feel kind of bad for these businesses because they don't get any exemptions. there is no passionate group protesting on their behalf. so i admire this guy for doing this. other bars should support him. in fact, they should have big bar block party protests. >> jesse: are you going to go have a dr

instead of doing their job and telling the stories instead of questioning the policies in cities like chicago, in seattle where the chief of police of black woman said i'm resigning because you are defunding are budget, i can't even protect th people here in seattle when you see what happens in portland. when people refuse to cover the stories and also i think candac brought up such a significant point, when republicans shy awa from the truth, they don't face the truth, they don't talk abou it, they don't reach out to the minority community and they don't realize that people in minority communities, my mother was an immigrant from cuba, i understand what people are goin through in these communities, just reach out to them, they will be there, they will tell you what they need break you ge the fact that you have to say that and candace, we've had donald trump, and he was the first republican to make a genuine overage to the black community saying what do you have to lose, this is what's important, and it seems like th republicans will not have learned anything from that it's the most basic thing in americ

meanwhile, the mayor of seattle jenny durkan with a new city budget to reduce the police budget by 18%cide reaching high not seen in a decade, and barack obama weighing in on the "defund the police" movement. and it is hurting democrats. >> i guess you can use like defund the police, but you know you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely you will get the changes you want done. the key is deciding do you actually want to get something done? or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with? >> kennedy: do you want to make $100 billion from netflix? ilhan omar is pushing back on the former president on twitter. she posted "we lose people in the hands of police. it is not a slogan but a policy demand. and a demand for equitable investments and budgets for communities across the country get the progress and safety." steve, slashing the police budgets in places like seattle where homicides are on the rise. does that equal safety in progress? >> steve: it is exactly the opposite of that. this is the most disgusting. and this is ridiculo

i believe that seattle did the same thing. so our cities have become more efficient users of water, the industrialization has had some part in that too. the kind of thing that is really i think going to cause infrastructure to play an important role will be the encroachment of the sea and so many of our cities. i recall when the hurricane wiped out the beach in miami, the united states spent something like a billion dollars stroering it, rebuilding it. i can remember haley barber telling his people when the oil spill was threatening, protect the wetlands, protect the marshes. if the oil gets in there, we'll never get it out. forget the beaches. we built the beaches and we can build it again. we're going to see i think particularly the coastal republican senators and congress members become advocates of significant infrastructure investments to adapt their environments to the new reality about sea level rise. i think that's what's going to make possible a bipartisan approach to infrastructure. and i think the president-elect pretty much made

people are scared to death, murders and assaults are open philadelphia, new york city, san francisco, portland, seattleefunding the police about not prosecuting crime, criminals are out committing crime and listen, the places where this is most acute, this is really serious are the communities of color which is democrats give lip service to, they want to help the communities, those communities want more police presence, not less, the idea that will send social workers and, i'm all for counseling, i'm on the board of restored justice foundation and i believe in rehabilitation but let's face it people in these communities want police protection and he's right they will continue to get pounded with this and rightly so as i'm concerned. liz: critics are saying barack obama was being dismissive of the issue, calling defund the police a snappy slogan that cost votes, is it a snappy catchy slogan when it's a far left organizing? >> no, some of these have actually done it, minneapolis actually acted to take money out of their police budget, think you're doing on los angeles and seattle and portland as well, th

minutes to beat sporting kansas city going to the kevin 1000000 a minnesota have had 3 to the final which is on monday where they will meet the defending m.l.s. champions seattle sound is. former new york city boss of patrick vieira has been sacked as head coach of nice in france is shots of him joining in 2 and a half years ago but thursday's europa league defeat by leverkusen it was their big in a row for arsenal captain vieira let me sit to 5th place in the french league last season but they're struggling for form this season they're 11th in the campaign now to italy where 4 members of staff are from the university of paris to have been suspended for helping us to cheat on a tally and citizenship test the form of also to strike a pasta test in september that was when he was trying to secure a transfer to ventus but at least investigation concluded he was given the context of the test beforehand and that the exam was a farce is also being claims that eventers tried to accelerate the price. yes and the club's a sporting director is under criminal investigation suarez never makes its way of course he stayed in spain and signed fact as a madrid is not played it

seattle. a bizarre story. jason rantz, radio host and not city, has joined us tonight. jason, what is this? a group out in edmond, about 20 minutes north of seattle. it's a group of people who were essentially squatters that believe that the laws of the land do not apply to them. and they've decided to go into neighborhoods, waterfront properties, very nice homes saying that they actually own the land and they should take it over. the homeowner is usually like "what are you talking about, please leave." it's very bizarre. it's not just have been in puget sound, it's happening all across the country. a man decided to literally take ownership to decide he's not going to pay rent on property that he doesn't actually own. it's part of, i think, this nationwide trend of laws thatly really don't apply to certain folks. in this case, they are not activists. they are just kind of nullity. >> this is illegal. once you see that, that means hate, you wanted, it is yours. i want it. it's mine. i'm about to start the process on reclaiming the land. you k can keep paying rent, you can think this is a game

the city still has one of the lowest coronavirus case rates of the 20 biggest cities in the united states. seattlers to have the lowest case rate among the big metropolitan area and washington dc a case rate of less than 34. >>> new york times reporting some doctor across the country and around the world are treating a small number of coronavirus patient that have been -- severe symptoms, most have no history of mental illness and then became mentally ill aftergetting the virus. >>> going live to nashville now. new police body camera video shows the moments before and after a bomb exploded in downtown nashville on christmas morning. the recording from one officer's camera starts from an eerie scene as a warning message blair from the rv and then minutes later the officer opened the trunk of the car chaos ensues. >> that's so weird. that's like something out of a movie. >> the officer jumps in to action, helping people evacuate after the massive blast. the camera then captures thick black smoke. >> where is your car? go to your car. >> this morning the fbi is putting together clues about the life o

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our city in seattle has been generous with people, and so there are some local programs that people can talk to their congress members about trying to get access to. but hang if there. just hang in there. we're going to do a little bit right now. hopefully that gets us through the next month . in the midst of a snowstorm, you'll be able to pay another month of heat bills, put food on the table, and we've got to come back in january and pass something that is significant and that meets the scale of this crisis. >> one of the compromises that was made was there's no money going to state and local aid. now, that money helps pay for frontline workers and all kind of essential services. why was that such a non-starter for the gop? >> they're holding that money hostage to a liability shield waiver. now, for the average person out there, what the heck is that? that says that if you're a worker and you, you know, have a lawsuit to file against your employer for violating your rights, workers' rights on the job, things prescribed by law that people can't do, nobody can bring a lawsuit for 18 mon

city. the mayor from seattle that let others control city blocks. he is right up there.g covid. bizarre things anybody has heard about. filling luxury hotels with a homeless population. many problems. people that are mentally ill and on drugs and adds to the decline in the economy as well. the big thing here julie is business. businesses used to say new york is the place to go because we have really smart people here. guess what? all the big businesses that were here, finance, banks, you name it are finding there are a lot of people in texas and florida and nashville and that's why they are moving their vast portions of their workforce there as well. >> julie: it's just really hard to watch. as a new yorker or anybody to see politicians destroy a city that was once the greatest city in the world. it will come back but not with the help of politicians that do nothing to help it. charles, thank you, great to see you. >> merry christmas. >> leland: on this christmas eve a california church is going to court. they want to stay open for christmas worship. we'll tell you what