this sunday, crime and punishment. president biden backs down from fighting a republican effort to block dc s more lenient approach to crime. we will make chicago the safest city in america. just after the perception of rising crime took down chicago s mayor. we fought the right fights. can biden s moves help democrats from being seen as soft on crime going into 2024? plus, divide and conquer. florida governor ron desantis isn t officially in the race yet, but he s eagerly courting trump s base. i think there is a strong anti-woke majority across the country. the primary fight is kicked into high gear as more candidates consider challenging trump. for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i will talk to chris sununu who is considering his own white house run. and confronting china. a bipartisan push to face the growing threats from beijing. this is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century.
how else is the legislative branch supposed to conduct meaningful oversight on the damage assessment? okay. so democrats and crime. i ve written op eds on this. i think joe biden and muriel bowser are absolutely right. democrats lose elections, particularly presidents and mayors, who are perceived as soft on crime in blue communities, and it bears emphasis that in big cities, crime is the uppermost issue. just ask people on mlk avenue, across the river in anacostia, michigan avenue in south chicago. crime is an intensely personal issue, and they want to see their leaders address it. this is how we got rudy giuliani in 1993 in new york city. speaking of republican mayors in blue communities, you are
protesters. at least 46 people were killed. you re about to see ads urging people to quit smoking. it s the first time that the cdc has ran a paid anti-tobacco effort. they say they need to spend the money to go up against the multimillion dollar campaigns that get people to smoke. here s one of the ads. we warn you, it is quite graphic. i m mary and i want to give you some information how i get ready in the morning. former illinois governor, rod blagojevich, has one more hour before he hags to report to federal prison in chicago. he s serving a 14-year sentence for corruption including trying to sell the senate seat once held by president obama. here he is shaking people s hands at the airport in chicago. last hour i spoke to a former official about what to expect when he goes to prison. when you go to prison, you re not rod blagojevich anymore. when i went, i wasn t jim laski. rod blagojevich will get this in the next few hours. he will get strip searched and they w
are, and i ll tell you the signs to look for to see if your child is running into trouble. i ll have that at the top of the hour. apple ceo steve jobs makes an unexpected announcement this morning. will his leave of absence take a bite out of its share price? i ll have more at the top of the hour. martin luther king boulevard, mlk avenue, king street. they go by different names but there are at least 800 streets named after the civil rights leader. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they give expedia ginormous discounts with these: unpublished rates. which means i get an even more rockin hotel, for less.
of brazil on its way to miami apparently these are live pictures coming to us from one of our affiliates wplg and also wfor. what s the so the plane is being investigated for something suspicious on board. it s already landed. it came from brazil. is that right? and landed here? miami? okay. something suspicious on board, and they are checking out what exactly that is. we re working the story for you. we ll bring you more information as we get it. all right. martin luther king boulevard, mlk avenue, king street. they all go by different names but there are hundreds of streets named aft civil rights leader. we re pounding the pavement and talking about king s dream on his streets with a group of young filmmakers. you may be surprised what they discovered. without the hope scholarship, she would be depending on student loans and starting life