at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com trace: president biden enters year two with plummeting support. here now lisa boothe, a republican strategist and fox news contributor and michael starr hopkins. thanks to you both. michael, when you look at these numbers, i talk to a lot of pollsters. when you lose 16 points in your own party in one year, that is an all hands on deck situation.
deaf is what that is. trace: chief, thanks for joining us. thank you, trace. trace: also with us, pete hegseth and joe concha. he s a fox news contributor. one thing that i found interesting, pete, i was going through the numbers today, in 2021, 73 police officers were killed as a result of felonies. 51 of those were shot. you look at that and you read the next stat. it says that is the highest number of police officers killed since the attacks of 9-11. it is stunning, pete. it is stunning. if you watched this ceremony today, you did not have a dry eye. you had a much deeper
country. absolutely not. as those numbers are pretty staggering, we re not able to back fill those positions. i know in my former department alone, about 1,000 there s more than 75 vacancies and having little interest in having individuals join our department. i know that s going on around the country as well. this will continue to increase, this lack of wanting to get involved in law enforcement. there s a really good sole reason for this happening. it s called reformed prosecutors. that s what we re seeing in the st. louis metropolitan area and around the country. trace: we hear that again and again. i point not just to this war on cops, the targeting of police officers, buts will respect level. i point things out during a vigil for officers jason rivera and wilbert mora who died in the line of duty, during that vigil, six police cruisers had their
lisa, he s staying the course and bragging about the course. yeah, they re not going to get that from joe biden. i mean, trace, look at who wasn t at that event today. two of the top democrats in this state, the attorney general and the lieutenant governor. one is running to be governor. the other is running for senate. they didn t want to be at the event. they didn t want to be standing with joe biden. he s toxic. it s not manchin and sinema to blame, it s joe biden. thing about how dumb his strategy has been. they barely have a majority in the house. they have a 50/50 split. but joe biden is acting like he s got a mandate. he campaigned as a moderate wu governed as one of the most left winged presidents in history. he failed to overhaul the
so nobody is left behind. nobody is left behind. you know, when pause for a second. think about how many times during the period when covid was so bad and still not good but we re getting there, when covid was so bad and schools were closed, you d ride by mcdonald s and see families in the parking lot. so the kid could use his or her computer to tie in to the internet out of mcdonald s or any other fast food restaurant. this is the united states of america for god s sake. what are we doing? what in god s name are we doing? we ve announced major investment of 858 million to modernize the montgomery lock in northwest pittsburgh. trace: there you have. biden talking about the economy there in pittsburgh, pennsylvania.