district attorney. voters blaming boudin for a rise in crime. the mayor will appoint his replacement. bill: san francisco, one of the many democrat-run cities where crime is running rampant up 35% this year. in chicago 40%. in new york and voters are taking notice. dana: the recall is sending a message to soft on crime prosecutors across the country including los angeles d.a. george gascon. he is facing his second recall attempt in two years. bill: easy to see why. the city has been plagued by smash and grab robberies. staffers looked on helplessly. dana: people are around to ride the subway in new york. a man threw a woman onto the tracks. the suspect has a long rap sheet, the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks against passenger. bill: philly trendy district. gunfire sent people running for their lives. an argument escalated into a shoot-out. three people killed and a dozen more wounded. dana: for more on the recall vote let s go to claudia cowen in san fra
expecting more protests to get underway a few hours from now. that sets the scene for our second hour, welcome back as america reports rolls on. i m john roberts, good to be with you today. gillian: good to be with you, john. interestingly, john, i have to tell you, the protests have spread here, too. covering the state department, walked out, was greeted by 100 protestors who were very rowdy, yelling as officials as they came out of the building, shame on you, even at the nation s capital. and students walked out of classrooms to show solidarity for palestinians. and anti-israel is spreading to others, and calling for a national day of walkouts and the white house is facing criticism from the other side that he is not curtailing hate speech. john: hillary vaughn with more there, but first alexis mcadams kicks things off live in new york city, quite a protest yesterday. hi, john, that s what we have seen. starts with a few dozen and then expands to hundreds and move a
shotgun and i m tired of these people who think that just putting more laws on me is going to solve the problem. but as a republican and as a conservative and somebody who believes in the congressional process, we should go out there and have this debate and discussion. all too often these things go off in directions they have no idea. usually by people who have never shot a gun, don t own a gun, don t understand guns and certainly don t understand the current laws that are on the books. dana: he joins bret baier on special report last night and talking about the meetings he had an capitol hill. do you think this is different? we have been through this before. i ve covered a lot of them. i don t have anything to compare it to up here. but the consensus words that i m hearing and phrases that this time is different. there is more momentum. on the right there are things they are willing to not staunchly say no to and the
the next few months, not just for the holidays, a little bit of joking online. #bareshelves biden was top trending tweets. no joking matter for people that are concerned about jobs, about money, about the economic situation with inflation in this country. cargo ships continue to sit in an ocean parking lot off the coast of california as millions of goods are still in limbo, new numbers from the labor department they show import prices rose last month after falling the month before. transportation secretary pete buttigieg who was on with bret baier on special report last night. he s facing questions about taking some paternity time off with his husband to care for their two little babies in the middle of this crisis but pete buttigieg and the white house are defending the move, arguing, listen, this is important that he take his time and been in touch on major policy decisions and is back working. so you re saying
launch of a the harsh words coming as the south prepares for joint military drills with the u.s. it comes as the u.s. and north korea work to get nuclear talks back on track after the recent meeting between chairman kim and president trump. they continue to engage in malign activity and build out their missile program and continue to work on nuclear systems and yet they want to tell the world that no, they re just defensive and being a normal nation. we all see differently. president trump has been clear. we re watching their actions, not what they tell us, it s what they do that will drive our policy. bill: there is mike pompeo with bret baier on special report last night. tehran has testified a medium range missile ahead of a critical meeting on the nuclear program. walid phares is with us now. good to have you back on our program today. go ahead and in a macro sense what is iran up to do you believe? build quickly. they want to make sure that