president in a direct challenge to former president donald trump and made no bones about that. back together in new york city. i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: so glad you re here, my friend. bill: miss or not really? dana: 12 on the miss. you were missed, yeah. bill: i ll take that. dana: you should take that. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. good to be back together. more on the wildfires in a little bit. i remember last week my parents saying they couldn t see the mountains from denver because of these wildfires. the east coast dealing with it as well. christie launched his campaign yesterday and attacked the president straight out of the gate. he said president trump made americans smaller by pitting them against one another. if you look back at our history, when we have had great leaders, at every pivotal moment in our history there was a choice between small and big. and america became the most different, the most successful, the most
they are basically the fire class that we have now is basically training in a trailer. so the sooner this facility can be built, we can fill those positions because we have the applicants and we can get more people on the street to respond to ems concerns. i want to point out there are 500 or 600 activist. i m a former activist myself. i appreciate the activism but we have 3,911 calls a day in atlanta. that s not the same 3,000 calling every day. that s new people and so that s proof of the desire for the service. for public safety services in atlanta and we have to do everything we can possible to address that. bill: you both know atlanta will only get bigger, right? keisha, he made two interesting points. he thinks this makes atlanta safer and it makes it healthier. what would you say to that,