pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was k at the pry crime, it s not much better. they hapull up and break into the front door and try to drag off the atm machine. some 2,500 s
pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was a 17% increase in burglaries. if you look at the property crime, it s not much better. they had a truck pull up and break into the front
is the first person to take on permanent washington. in 2017 donald trump dropped on d.c. like a nuclear bomb. the president was finally telling the bureaucrats who pulled the levers of our government. permanent washington then hit trump with everything they had. investigations impeachments, and leaks the useful idiots in the press who cost play like they speak truth to power but, instead, carry the water for the powerful. 2020 comes around and they hide under hunter biden s laptop right before an election only pulling back the curtain after joe biden slips into the white house. now trump s back on the campaign trail, promising, in fact, in ed the ukraine war within 24 hours. no says permanent washington. so a district attorney in new york that almost no one has heard of cobbles together a frankenstein prosecution to take down his party s biggest political enemy. the two star witnesses a disbarred lawyer and a porn actress. both with a lot to gain. stormy daniels is getting r
also, as a former biden campaign surrogate, kevin walling is here and you just pump some news that you re gonna do that job again. it s a big day for the president. you re gonna take out your surrogate button? not today. tomorrow, maybe. we will try to keep you challenged. let s begin with this president bided making a long-awaited announcement he will run for reelection in 2024. it comes as a president is facing very disappointing polling appeared potentially damaging investigations and mounting questions about his age. he is the oldest man to ever run for the white house in our nation. the president kicked off his campaign on video today. confirm vice president kamala harris will return as his running mate. without a thing? was that a mystery? the news comes exactly 4 years to the day after joe biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 election. this time he says he is running with the new promise. to finish the job. around the country extremists are lining up to
first of its kind for a former or sitting president. reaction to last night s announcement of the indictment has fallen heavily along political lines. democrats contending it is justified. republicans expressing outrage. we have fox team coverage tonight chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us what he is hearing on the hill about all of this. david spunt in washington looks at other legal cases involving the former president. we begin with brine llenas in new york where preparations for tuesday s activities are already underway. good evening, brian. bret, good evening. sources tell fox news that manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg requested former president donald trump turn himself in today but his arraignment was pushed back to tuesday as secret service makes arrangements to protect him here at the manhattan criminal courthouse. is he just a tough guy. and he is someone whose knees do not buckle. trump s legal team making clear the former president will not b