defunding the police refunding00 the police, what you think?k? i can definitely say i agree with what you just stated. i think it s important that we keep public safety number one priority in new york city. the crime rate has spiked. and i think it sio time for a mayor that is willing to ensure that nypd is fond of the correct way where they are comfortable to come on and do their job because their jobs are difficult. they come out every day and risk their lives and i think it s something that people need to pay attention to. sean: let me ask, are you under fire for the statements that you re making because you want to save lives and you want strong policing? at this moment, sean, i m not under fire. i have a great connection with the community, i work with mothers that lose their kids affected by done gang and street violence. at this point i have the support of the mothers and local membera of the community.
example, washington, d.c. marked a grim milestone over this past weekend after it hit 100 homicides by july the 10th. that s the earliest a city has hit that number sense, get this 2003. chicago, 11 killed, 35 wounded violence over the weekend. in other words, a typical weekend in the windy city. do you know any of the names of any of the people that were shot and shot and killed this weekend in chicago? i doubt it. why? because the left in his country as we have pointed out for years on this show only seems to carei about the lives of people killed when they can then use their death to politicize an issue. is the real slogan for democrats black lives matter only when we can politicize it? where is mayor lori will lightweight? where is the accountability for
a look there at the new documentary sky and ground which follows the journey of a family of syrian refugees in search of freedom. joining us now are the film s directors. thank you very much for joining us this morning. you follow this family. they leave aleppo. they want to get to berlin. where do they go? it s a very long journey that takes them all the way from syria to turkey to greece, mas done ya, serbia, hungary, austria in germany, and they get stopped in every country. a family of how many and are they able to stay together? it s a family of three generations. there are eight of them, but they travel with some other joiners. so at some point the group is about 15. at another point there are 14.
these new advances in technology make an isolated life obsolete, and for western outlaws, they make crime harder to commit. but to a stubborn bandit like butch cassidy, there is still opportunity, if you know where to look. the last great outlaw of the american west begins life as robert leroy parker, the son of devout mormon immigrants, who, like thousands of others, came west in search of freedom and the american dream. they were pretty poor. his father had homesteaded a farm in southern utah, but the kids were sent out to work in ranches in the neighborhood. like so many legends
about we the people. that s what i believe. i believe it s about individuals, the same kind of individuals ta came here in search of freedom and opportunity. but you re still not answering why you think as an individual you ll have as much power as the megarich who not only can fund a super pac but can also empower committees to get together to influence an issue much more than an individual campaign or an individual can. well, again, as the a fundamental right of selecting our leaders by the people. we don t need the government to select our leaders. we need the people to select the leaders. it s about political assembly, it s a fundamental most important right. we do need we the people to select the leaders. the problem is when a few hundred people are able to spend multimillion dollars over the process, they are the one who have an outside influence over electing our leaders and deciding what those leaders will do once they re in office. are you for total transparency? if yo