arrested and then released in a matter of hours. happens all the time. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. dana has the day off. welcome back, j.b. julie: i m julie banderas and this is america s newsroom. the assault was caught on video. this happened over the weekend in harlem. police say the teen jumped a subway turnstile without paying when officers confronted him and things turned very violent very fast. bill: street fight. you can see the suspect hitting the cop. the teen puts the officer in a choke hold when a second officer steps in to try and help. julie: why did it get so out of control? former officer bill stanton has his thoughts. could you imagine if this cop felt so in fear of his life he had to use the weapons there would be riots in the street. a cop now has to worry about getting arrested. losing his job and getting sued civilly. they may well lose their lives. julie: good morning, brian, from new york city. good morning. fox news can confirm
jumped the subway turnstile. he threw multiple punches and gets one officers in a choke hold. prosecutors charged him after he was arrested and then immediately let him go free. a retired nypd lieutenant in disbelief. if this doesn t demonstrate how far things have gotten out of control, i don t know what will. this would never happen years ago. it would never happen like this because they would have the fear of being prosecuted. they would have the fear of repercussions from the police. that s not the conditions today. today cops walk around by themselves, look what we ve come to. harris: instead, the fear is with the people who have to put up with all of this. the citizens. that incident just one example of the out of control crime taking over this particular city new york city, not the only one. check out other democrat-led cities. chicago among them. major crimes in new york are up 40% compared to last year in the city. bryan llenas on the story for us. bryan. well,
saying they need to notch a win ahead of the midterms. and whispers on whether biden should run again are screaming headlines. democrats openly worry about his age and low approval. adding to the president s misfortunes are the optics, president biden after he tried to get off his bike in delaware. thankfully he s okay. he was back on the beach, getting defensive, as more economists warn a recession could be coming. is it more likely than ever? come on. don t make things up. you don t like a republican politician. i m joking. all kidding aside, i was talking to larry summers this morning, and there s nothing inevitable about a recession. i m working with our team has put together at the same time. my dear mother used to have an expression. something good will happen if you look for it. we have a chance to make a fundamental turn to renewable energy. greg, you know what it s like when your feet don t touch the ground on a bike, and you stop and can t get off gracefully.
we re beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel season? cnn s aviation correspondent pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. a lot of unhappy travelers this morning, pete. reporter: no doubt, john. in fact, a lot of people probably still trying to get home even today after traveling this weekend. these new numbers are huge, but the cause of this really is not. we were reporting over and over again that airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic and that has led to these massive flight crew shortages. the deck of cards really comes tum
canceled. can travelers expect more of this as we enter peak travel this summer? also new questions on whether the former vice president, mike pence, will be the next witness the january 6th committee subpoenas to testify. ahead of tomorrow s fourth public hearing in an exclusive interview with cnn, committee member adam schiff said trying to speak to pence for the investigation remains on the table. we re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. we would still, i think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee. so mike expense a possibility still? you know, certainly a possibility. we re not excluding anyone at this point. central to the investigation certainly. new cnn reporting. homeland security and national security officials fear that russia could significantly exploit u.s. political divisions during the upcoming midterm elections. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, let s br