Ambulance sirens and screams of fear common events shattering the peace on a regular basis in new york. Washington, d. C. Strive to enforce the law while confronting safety challenges. A big deal. Dont know how to figure it out. They have to get on it. Dana is back on monday. Sandra k. Smith has the honors today. Sandra no better way to kick off my friday than with you, william. Good to be here, thanks for having me. Im sandra smith. The epidemic of Violent Crime raising serious questions about political priorities as d. C. Crime rates skyrocket. Everything from murder, carjackings to assaults, prob re and rampant shoplifting. Despite the City Council Chairman proclaiming earlier this year there is no crime crisis in the Nations Capital. At this cvs store in northwest d. C. Shelves are just empty. Not because of Supply Chain Problems or booming business, but because thieves are walking in and walking out with absolutely everything. Bill the mayor says the city is doing Everything Possi
phil mattingly. good morning. we are glad you are with us. in just hours from now the house is set to vote to formalize an impeachment inquiry into president biden after a resolution passed yesterday. republicans have alleged that the president biden benefitted from his family s foreign business dealings. they have not provided evidence of wrongdoing. hakeem jeffries with us in moments. rudy giuliani is back in court today. jurors heard voicemails that an election worker said they heard lies about the election. rebuking trump s former attorney as he repeated the lies about the election and the election workers outside the courthouse this week. in half an hour, the labor department will release a key report giving us a critical look at the state of inflation in the country. we will have the numbers for you as soon as they come in. this hour of cnn this morning starts now. trump says jump, the maga extremists say how high? donald trump asks them to impeach joe biden a
harris: we begin with a question. what about bob? the house gave republican george santos the boot. now many people are asking why is accused felon bob menendez still in the senate? he is the democrat senator with gold bars and cash stashed inside his home. some dirty details now are coming out and for one exactly where the gold bars came from. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. congress established a new precedent last week by expelling george santos even though he is not convicted of a crime. the case hasn t happened yet. taking the power right out of the hands of the courts and the voters to decide on him. bob menendez has a rather unique legal predicament. he has been indicted before more than once. this time on corruption-related charges. the democrats are in no apparent rush to give bob on the left from jersey the santos treatment except for one liberal senator john fetterman of pennsylvania. fetterman has been the one outspoken dem since the sto
lear. no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. dana: former president donald trump looking ahead to a second term blasting president joe biden and mostly ignoring his republican rivals last night in iowa. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. bill: i m bill hemmer. kid dynamite. former president trump taking aim at president biden on the economy, energy, foreign policy, border all came up last night. night before the final republican primary debate where he will not be and will not attend. once again, that stage will have four people but without trump as his distant rivals battle it out for second place. alexis mcadams is in alabama for the fallout today. good morning from alabama. where it is a race for second place, right, on that debate stage which we ll get to more on that in the second. the frontrunn
new this morning, the leading republican candidate for president pledged that he will be a dictator. on his first day in office, faced with questions from his pal sean hannity about whether he had plans to abuse power, break the law or use the government to go after people, after not answering for nearly five minutes, this what trump said. under no circumstances, you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for except for day one. meaning? i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. he said you re not going to be a dictator, are you? no, no, no. other than day one. we re closing the border and we re drilling, drilling, drilling. after that i m not a dictator. that was during a town hall last night in iowa. the authoritarian talk didn t stop there. trump also reminded everyone listening of his relationships with dictators. tell you what, we are dealing and