possible explosives to deflate the balloon. gillian: in a moment, karine jean-pierre will be asked questions why the president waited nearly a week to shoot it down. john: we will bring you the white house briefing when it begins. john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. gillian: you, too, john. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. he projected weakness at this moment. i think the administration lacks urgency. became a situation of argument and everybody wondering what is the administration doing. this is a wake-up call for the country. gillian: john kirby pushed back, said it gave the u.s. time to study the balloon, as well as chinese s motives. john: seems clear china s motive is to replace the united states as the leading superpower. a list of how china has provoked and escalated tension
philadelphia yesterday, outgoing chicago mayor lori lightfoot, a democrat, put her party on notice for its rhetoric on crime. as democrats if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah , the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest put a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be hon
truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest but a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be honest and forthright about the small numerical number of people who are repeated offenders we have about 2000. people in our city that are extreme result of recidivi
the on the books to keep our borders secure. it s very frustrating. i mean, we are losing countless lives every single day. we have people out there that don t have access to resources don t have access to treatment. san francisco needs to start thinking not only about housing this legislation to help people. but also they need to start thinking about. ah! focusing on how to get people also into recovery and creating more facilities to do so. but i do believe the start of starting to combat are open air drug market would be to pass this legislation. it s a two pronged problem. obviously individuals like your son need the help, but there s a way you can cut it off at the source and at least san francisco the people that were speaking about in office. they are thinking about doing something. you really wish the biden administration would have done something at the start, so this wouldn t even be an issue. tanya tillman, we re praying for you. we re praying for your son. be
northern borders it. it is a war zone. 508% increase of crossings at the northern border. even people who don t like me say this is a terrible thing to do. alvin bragg going forward to bring charges against him. if they can t win at the ballot box. they are going to do this. brian: we begin with a fox news alert. you have been watching this coverage over i guess the last 18 hours. nashville police releasing shocking surveillance footage of a shooter who stormed into a nashville christian elementary school killing three 9-year-old students and three adult staffers yesterday. the suspect who identifies as a transgender was a former student. authorities parents and the entire community in shock after the senseless loss of life. the daughter of the school church s pastor among the dead. i saw little kids coming out that was really tough for me. because they looked a little bit above knee high. they were waving and my heart just dropped. it s like why, why? steve