governed. you ll have various war lords and isis groups and the other groups. the u.s. helped stabilize that peace and gave some semblance of order. the taliban will have a lot of the same thing but a lot of warring factions. that s the history hoff afghan stand and that region. neil: you think this raises the threat level in this country? in other words, that because of what s gone down there that we could be attacked again? yes, i do. i think the response to this, the response to the taliban s deadline, the fact that we re claudia was talking about it. the way you use deterrence is through strength. you have to have something to back up the idea of deterrence. if we re showing weakness, which we are here and we re allowing the taliban to dictate to us, that emboldens enemies and terrorism.
68-year-old man beaten early in the morning in new york city. again, this might be hard or to watch. alex hogan is live in the new york bureau with more on that. reporter: hi, jon. this disturbing early sunday morning attack taking place in brooklyn. the suspect approached the victim on a bike. the nypd releasing this video. one man beating a stranger in broad daylight. repeatedly punching and kicking this victim, even flipping him over by grabbing him by his belt loops to flip him over and grab the wallet out of his back pocket. video showed the attacker beating the victim for 17 seconds leaving the 68-year-old without a wallet and with a broken wrist and a broken nose. the detectives responding what used to be the safest bug city city failed law that allows consequences and emboldens criminals. politicians in albany and city hall need to step up now to fix
pulled off their duties and made to stand in uniform to provide presence in downtown and other neighborhoods. they should be out solving crimes and arresting those individuals that the superintendent and mayor late foot pointing the finger at every monday. in chicago you cannot chase after someone and cannot drive after a criminal. you can barely put handcuffs on them. that sends a message and emboldens criminal. it s going to be used as a back door bailout to save the city of chicago while not increasing safety on our streets. ainsley: he ignored the fact that there is so much crime there every weekend, every monday we talk about all the crime. this past weekend the 4th of july was the worst in crime that we have seen all year. and so far this year, 194 kids have been shot. and he ignored it when he was vice president. barack obama s hometown. they ignored it essentially. and these democrats politicizing so many different cases of people that were killed because
manchin, are in some way not allowed to be upset, they are. but it all emboldens joe manchin to hold this position where he s in a state, he got elected to a state that donald trump won by 30 something points. and being a conservative democrat who does not go along with the party s wishes is actually beneficial for him and the more people speak out, the more emboldened he is. i will say one last thing, the thing that democrats logically would need to do at this point is to find what manchin will vote for pass that. he is the weakest link, not the only link. there are a lot of democrats who are not for the filibuster. it s not just joe manchin. there are probably just 40 to 45 votes to get rid of the filibuster. so, you know, that s what i think the reality is right now.
be right at home. there was this old line that we would hear that a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality and now today s liberal is doing the mugging and not talking about good traditional liberals of these young defund the police types that have no idea the science of incentives and disincentives. the past two years have been a lesson in disincentives and incentives. you make it impossible for cops to do their jobs, then they can t. that emboldens criminals. you release criminals before the cops are done with their paperwork, that emboldens criminals. you only focus on law-abiding gun owners, not the illegal handguns being used, you embolden criminals, all of these ideas are coming from places like slate and from academia so we listen to them by this will only get worse, the long-term consequences will be withdrawal of public law enforcement, rise in private security that can only be afforded by the wealthy,