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need more mental health workers. john: president biden in new york city trying to shrug off the notion that he s soft on crime. you heard the new mayor of new york city eric adams talking about the problem of gun crime pickle let s bring in a panel of fox news media analyst howard kurtz, leslie marshall, and matthew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute. you can be forgiven for having whiplash to a degree because all this talk on the left about defunding the police has now become about refunding the police but the president is focused almost exclusively on guns today, it doesn t really tell the whole story. it doesn t tell the whole story and it won t be enough to stop this big political problem that is emerging on the democratic side. when you look at the public opinion data we show republicans are winning the crime issue. republicans deal with crime better than democrats. part of that is the defund of the police slogan from a couple years ago, part of that is don
officers being gunned down on the job. cnn s kaitlin collins starts us off in new york with a look at the range of new plans unveiled today, aimed at reducing crime across the country. reporter: president biden in new york city to address a national wave of violent crime. enough is enough, because we know we can do things about this. reporter: the president hosted by newly minted new york city mayor eric adams, a like-minded politician when it comes to policing. mayor adams, you and i agree. the answer is not to abandon our streets. that is not the answer. the answer is to come together, policing communities, building trust and making us all safer. the answer is not to defund the police. reporter: biden instead calling for more police funding, not yet approved by congress, as he toured the new york police department headquarters and a crime prevention center in queens. i want him to acknowledge and see what i call the rivers that feed into the sea of violence in