migrants crossing the border. and why some are calling it the abbott plan. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our team, ali vitali is on capitol hill, we ll get to what i think you can only call the gut punch of a hearing that happened this morning on the house side. right now you have this debate on changing gun laws. it seems likely these bills will pass the house. then it seems likely these bills will hit a brick wall in the senate. that s why the focus is on the private negotiations on the senate side. where are those negotiations, especially on this idea of raising the minimum wage for semiautomatic weapons to 21, which mitch mcconnell is privately, though not publically suggesting he s open to. mitch mcconnell is someone we ve been tracking closely throughout this process. he both blessed the negotiations, deputizing senator john cornyn to be the republican representative in the room alongside thom tillis and this group of four senators trying to hash out som
might expect to see john fetterman back on the campaign trail. gisele said in a few weeks, but in the meantime she ll be front and center keeping his seat warm. dasha, good to see you. president biden just today on his way out to l.a. weighing in on a different race overnight saying that state and local officials need to step up their policing efforts after san francisco voters recalled the progressive district attorney there. a race that was focused mainly on rising crime in that city. here s the president. it s time the states and the localities spend the money they have to deal with crime as well as retrain police officers, as well as provide for more community policing. it s time they get on with doing that. that s what i think the message last night from the american public was in all the primaries. now we re waiting for san francisco s mayor to pick a
you on. tan thank you so much. i want to layout what the president is proposing and get what you think about the strategy to tackle the surge in violent crime by cracking down on illegal gun trafficking and rogue gun dealers using the american rescue plan dollars to have more law enforcement and other policing efforts. will that help, commissioner? well, actually, what you ve out outlined, don is a portion of the strategy the president discussed today. but i was very surprised to see how comprehensive that strategy was and the various tactics within it. i m encouraged by it that this is something we ve obviously been working on for awhile. not talking only about refunding the police who desperately need that refunding, we are down from over 800,000 police officers in the 90s. i think the latest count is
enforcement and other policing efforts. will that help, commissioner? well, actually, is only a portion of the strategy that the president discussed today. more details, hopefully, will be coming. but i was very surprised to see how comprehensive that strategy was, and the various tactics within it. i m encouraged by it. that this is something we ve obviously been working on for a while. not talking about only refunding the police, who desperately need that funding. we are down from over 800,000 police officers in the 90s. i think the latest count is about 675,000 in police departments around the country are losing additional officers, every day. he is talking about refunding to hire more police, in the short-term, to give overtime money to cities to put officers on overtime in the summer months. but the comprehensive aspect of this plan is that he is, also, talking about other efforts to
by the way, can i use stolen identity? we have serious and violent crimes in our city, probably city you live in as well i m sure. we have to focus our policeou force in our police efforts and law enforcement efforts in responding to serious 911 calls, investigating murders and other serious and violent crimes into doing the good community 9 policing efforts i think he would agree with that. tucker: your police department in oakland is famously rife with problems, three police chiefs in eight days last year, scandals, corruption. you are set to lose over $5 million in federal funding if you don t chase that his policies, will that make oakland safer? we receive no direct communication that any funding is at risk right now.ve tucker: the attorney general just said it. we ve received no direct communication. if that funding is at risk, we will deal with it accordingly, i