with john madden. we move to this. president biden is looking to take on america s crime crisis with the doj sending $1.1 billion, $1.6 billion to crime ridden cities. lucas tomlinson joins us live from washington with the details. lucas? good morning, guys, the nation s crime wave continues at least 16 cities stretching from coast to coast have broken their all-time homicide records in 2021. hundreds of others are seeing their highest rates in more than two decades. now president biden s justice department wants to fund the police, help reduce violent crime. spending 1.6 billion rising crime, task forces, crime prevents, domestic violence programs, courts, treatment and correction programs, according to the latest fbi stats, murder in 2020 was up 30% from the previous year. the largest single year increase ever. here is a breakdown of where that money is going doj. 187 million to 65 state law
mark meadows is suing the panel for the subpoena, because he s claiming that he s many, quote, in an untenable position to defy his former boss, president trump, or to face prosecution by the justice department. so for those of you who are just joining the news this hour, the january 6th committee has released a report on its reasons for holding former trump chief of staff mark meadows in criminal contempt. this is essentially, julie, they re laying out the case for why they believe that he should be held in criminal contempt. exactly. it s their job to prove why he should be held in criminal contempt. of course, they re not the ons who actually prosecute him. that would be biden s justice department. but basically, what s going to happen is they have to release this 24 hours before the vote. that s happening tomorrow at 7:00. we expect this to be a short and sweet process as we ve seen with jeffrey clark and steve bannon. the committee is going to meet, liz cheney, the vice chair,
something important is going to happen tomorrow morning. the supreme court is going to take up challenges to the near abortion bill in the country. they expedited hearings and added it to their schedule nine days ago which is a rare move that signals the urge against si of the situation. there are two challenges to the texas law that the court is going to hear tomorrow. the first is whole woman s health versus jackson. it s a lawsuit that s filed by abortion providers in texas which challenges the state s tactic of evading judicial review bypassing off enforcement of the law to the general public. some have called it the vigilante provision of the law. the other case is united states versus texas. it was filed by president biden s justice department. the big question is the federal government doesn t have the right to intervene to block the ban. the underlying issue in both lawsuits is specific to the way in which the texas law is
headlines across the country as mostly gop controlled legislatures begin the first legislatures begin the first redistricting since 1960s that does not require approval from the justice department. in houston, texas, black and brown communities are carved up in one case putting powerful house democrats al green and sheila jackson lee now in the same district. it s a blight on lyndon baines johns and barbara jordan who were able to have a seat that all viewed as crucial when barbara went as the first african-american to go to the deep south, go from the deep south, to the united states congress. my mentor endorsed me when i ran and to see this district that had been together for 50 years
she s a senior member of the senate judiciary committee. she s familiar with how these things work. you heard her referencing bannon s short time in the white house and why he should or shouldn t be eligible for executive privilege. bannon, if he does deny the subpoena, the committee made it very clear that they will pursue criminal referral and then it s up to the biden s justice department to take that up. there may be monetary damage as well. we talked it one congressman who is pushing that in a bill. thank you. president trump rallied in iowa saturday to a crowd of thousands of supporters. it comes on the heels of a new poll that shows his favorability hitting a new high. he called out the 2020 election, alleging fraud and cheating. gary is joining us now. you spoke to the people in that audience. they are singing a significantly