former white house council testimonying behind doors with law makers. two years after house democrats requested his testimony into investigations of former president trump obstructing justice. sandra: in order to get a recall vote organizers need to collect 590,000 signatures from registered voters by the fall. john: democratic congress woman ocasio-cortez has a plan to stop violent crimes. calling on authorities to stop building jails and allowing $400,000 to go towards counseling and community outreach. for more on these and other stories download fox news app and scan the qr code on the screen or go to foxnews.com/apps. sandra: in moments a parent joins us to share her shocking
problem. i agree. i take issue with the solution that is being proposed by columbia and by many other cities. what needs to be added to those three options that we were describing? well, i think is that the city would be wise and the business community would be wise to invest in real solutions, like affordable housing, housing that s affordable for very low-income people. jobs, hiring people, helping people get a way out of poverty and homelessness. those are the real solutions. and they re more cost effective. the solution that columbia is now considering and proposing is not only bad policy and not only potentially illegal, it s also very expensive. i mean, building jails and using police resources to arrest people, send them to jail is expensive. all right. and it is less expensive to actually invest in permanent solutions. we ll have to leave it there.
while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runner s status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romney s father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. here s how he explains it. my plan is bold because it throws out the tax code and imposes a business flat tax of 9%, personal flat tax of 9%, national sales tax of 9%. it replaces all of the taxes that people are now having to grapple with and it provides search engine to the business community which is what they re looking for in order to grow this economy. governor perry jumped into the race for the gop nomination. that was just six weeks ago. instantly topped the polls but critics say that perry s debate performances