here, like rebuked this call to redirect money to defund this bill system. incarceration and policingi don it is a real political goal. they are not differing positions, i never said we would take funds from police. directing to the consent decree to hire and promote and train more detectivives and impelements laws on the books, never said i was going to cut the police budget. ashley: here is more on the budget. good morning, later this morning, new chicago mayor brandon johnson will be sworn in with no small task, figure out how to stop crime in the city. brandon johnson will need to learn to support police. he says his policies will go after the root causes of crime. chicago police report murders are down slightly from this time last year, but are in the hundreds. motor vehicle thefts are up 130%. just yesterday, a gang went after 10 people in 30 minutes. police are still looking for the suspects, adding to the violence, this past weekend, 25 were shot and six died.
major developments, congress just passed a bill giving $14.3 billion in aid to israel but joe biden has already threatened to veto it because it doesn t money. plus, israeli prime minister netanyahu today says that nothing is gonna stop them from going into gaza and getting the job done and now gaza city is surrounded. we re seeing explosions erupt across the night sky, a live report from the ground later in the show. but, first, loving china but hating us that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right, the preparations for the date are underway so, what is he going to wear? how long will their conversations last? who is better at smalltalk? the president says is he looking forward to meeting to meeting with president xi and and so not going to get into details about this meeting that s going to happen this month, going to be in san francisco. it s going to be a constructive meeting. laura: constructive for whom? jp morgan? goldman sachs? i don t know, new york hedge
state. ashley: switching gears to former u.s. attorney tobin, wants to know why media are not asking more questions about the biden family corruption. listen to this. this is the kind of base that was bread and butter of the doj. this doj refuses to prosecute certain cases now that have a political angle. this is you have it is i back up and look at and say, we re in bizarro world thchl is doj, the heart of what doj was organized for. ashley: correct me if i m wrong, doesn t money leave a trail and if we don t have answers, maybe they don t want to look for them. they don t want to look for them and that is what he was just saying, if you re looking at llc s the biden family is connected to, it is over $10