bernie mcgurk and i mean, he s like a brother. sean: i knew he struggling with cancer and i d been in touch with him. last time he started talking, hannity, it s o connell. laura: we lost a lot of wonderful people lately. incredible americans. he was one of them and i just concur with everything you said. laura: he s amazing man, great show, yeah. they are all messed to messed. sean: that s why i did radio because of that show. otherwise, 17 years, that s why went into radio, being a guest on the show. thank you. laura: we ve got a lot to get to, i m lauren ingram and this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. they dei and the bullies, the focus of tonight s angle. every time you hear some educator or corporate flack reference the important efforts to promote diversity, equity, inclusion. scam. the grouping of innocuous terms has become its own excellence across the landscape. the acronym is dei but it s more like bureaucracy, victim i ll let of, inco
rate rose by more than 4% from 2021 over 2020. but that report is missing some critically important data. for some reason police departments in the biggest blue cities are not submitting their numbers to the f.b.i. the bureau has to resort to estimating how much crime is happening in crime-ridden cities like chicago, philadelphia, los angeles, and new york. question, is the crime crisis much worse than even we think? here are some actual stats from those cities. overall crime is up 37% in chicago. 26% in philadelphia. nearly 12% in los angeles, 32% in new york city. let s take a live look at this. it is so bad in new york that the nypd commissioner is holding a news conference right now to address the crime stats as we speak. we wanted to show you a live look at that and may be able to do that coming up. for now house minority leader kevin mccarthy was just with me yesterday. why is crime at a level it hasn t been in 20 years? because democrats defunded the police. they ele
we re watching all of it very closely as you might imagine. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . doctors have been saying they are keeping queen elizabeth medically comfortable at balmoral castle in scotland. buckingham palace says they re concerned for her health. yesterday the queen canceled a virtual meeting with her private counsel and she was also described as looking frail at an event earlier this week. in fact, many people since that event have talked about how frail she looked. a lot of loss of weight. they were concerned and not necessarily doctors. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live for us in london. greg with the latest. it s safe to say the u.k., perhaps many around the world, are holding its breath maybe saying a few prayers this amongst the troubling news about the health of queen elizabeth ii, the 96-year-old sovereign of this country. we got world from the royal household following further evaluation by doctors there
kids in one major city get off the school bus to find homeless folks and drug addicts everywhere. president biden heading to saudi arabia this week to beg for oil, and he s trying to defend the trip in an op-ed written by him or his team. the president is trying to paint saudi arabia as an important, quote, strategic partner, even though a couple of years ago he calls the kingdom a pariah after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. in the op-ed, biden writes from the start, my aim was to reorient, but not rupture relations with a country that s been a strategic partner for 80 years. today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council and is now working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. i know there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to saudi arabia. my views human rights are c
elections less than two months after winning his second term as france s president. the energy regulator ofgem announces new measures to protect customers if companies go bust. the parents of 12 year old archie battersbee return to court to try and keep him alive, despite doctors insisting he is brain dead. up close and personal we have a special report from uganda on how a conservation effort to increase numbers of mountain gorillas has been a success. and in sport england s matt fitzpatrick wins the us open after clinching his first major trophy, sealing a sensational victory in boston. train services across england, scotland and wales will run on a severely reduced timetable from this evening, ahead of the biggest walkout on the railways in 30 years. strikes will take place on almost all major lines from tomorrow, with disruption expected all week. commuters in london will also face a strike tomorrow on the london underground. the rmt rail union has warned it will