an end to the conflict as soon as possible and focus on confronting china. john: self-proclaimed political outsider has announced radical policy ideas, as he tries to make inroads with republican voters. will it make him stand out, we will ask him coming up. sandra: as we await that, begin with the leaders of the house oversight committee about to speak in front of those microphones moments from now after finally getting their hands on the infamous fbi whistleblower complaint that allegedly describes a criminal scheme involving then vice president joe biden. hello, welcome, everyone, sandra smith as we kick off a new week here in new york. john: busy already, john roberts in washington. this is america reports. james comer subpoenaed the document in question over a month ago that christopher wray has pushed to keep congress from getting the actual document, arguing it could jeopardize the safety of the source. sandra: republicans have countered they are not interest
john: they ve got to stay in school while they are in the process of being suspended. makes a lot of sense. absolutely. john: baltimore city has the lowest four year graduation right and highest dropout rate of any city or town in the state of maryland. graduation rate, 68.7%. dropout rate, 17.8%. at one high school, 77% of students read at elementary or kindergarten level. and you say, jovani, most of the kids perpetrating the violence are operating at a third grade level or below. that s correct. i mean, we have a school board ceo that makes presidential salary, her total compensation is upwards of $400,000 a year. and yet you know, we expect her to perform as a professional helping our students achieve, providing a safe learning environment for the students but none of that is happening and quite frankly, a lot of our
of baltimore city kids and when you talked about the numbers a second ago, a little skewed, talking about numbers year over year. baltimore has been seeing 300, you know, homicides a year for the past eight years, that s 2400 lives, more than 2400 lives lost over the past eight years. but last year it was a record year, right. and so if we are talking about down from last year, we are on par with the year before that, and the year before that. john: yeah, i mean, there s no question it s a terrible situation there and even a small decline does, as you point out, sort of mask the true nature of the problem in the city. jovani, we will stay in touch with you. you are suing the school board and the school system to try to get some relief. we ll catch up with you later on and see how it s going. appreciate you coming on. thank you for having me, john. sandra: fox news alert now, as we approach the top of the new hour, we are waiting the start of that white house press briefing, expec
sandra: interesting to see what happens in election year when everybody likes to see gas prices down. art, thanks so much. it s exciting, isn t it? sandra: thanks, art. john: sandra, los angeles wants to reduce traffic by taxing drivers for getting stuck in it. will congestion pricing go green or take more green out of people s pockets. plus this. i believe that schools are targets for children to be enlisted. you are going to struggle or get scooped up. sandra: what you are hearing more and more from parents in one american city who fear violent gangs are turning city schools into a pipeline to the grave. we are going to speak to jovani mat patterson who says school children are set up to fail and he s going to fight it in court.