my show on sunday night which is that you ve got to look not just at the immediate causes of the crime surge clearly again you can say what do you expect if you bring if you retreat from the police and defund and demore allize them and make them off the streets and make the criminals they have free run you ll see crime surge. longer term we have to look at the deeper causes. there is no question that if you take a sense of respect and discipline out of the lives of so many young people growing up, then a few of them will turn to crime. bringing that back, that sense of respect and discipline and decent values at the center of that, a stable home, parents who raise a child together. that s what we have to get back to. that s a long-term campaign but it is republicans who can lead that because it is their ideas, not just in the family but if you think about the role of schools and school choice, they ve got all the arguments here. so i think they should really press this one as well.
one pound of fentanyl seized. so far this year they have 41. a 4,000 percent increase and the cartels know while they are moving so many humans it distracts agent s abilities to stop the narcotics coming across the border. dana: everybody should be worried about that. as former president trump draws attention to the border crisis will the gop make next year a referendum of immigration. biden says guns are the problem but others say there are other issues driving the crime crisis. we ll talk about that and more with steve hilton. veteran homeowners, this is the best time in history to turn your home equity into cash. because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows.
narrative of a violent and insecure border region is blatantly false. it s not a war zone and the wall they are trying to get americans to pay for it intimidates our communities, harms wildlife and en coaches on landowner rights. you think we don t have the pictures of thousands of people crossing. you might as well say republicans want to defund police. who will believe the statements when we re watching it? exactly. don t believe your lying eyes. it is unbelievable. these are the people that accuse republicans of pedaling false narratives and being detached from the truth and a war on truth and so on. it s unbelievable when you look at the images every day. the testimony from people in the border patrol, people living in the border communities. it all adds up.
feelings among unnamed staffers because they did not know until the very last minute that the vice president was going to make that trip to the border and anita dunn, who works at the white house quoted in the story saying it was a closely held trip but the people who needed to know knew. dana. dana: now that s them. okay, peter, thank you. congresswoman ilhan omar appearing to back pedaling. she said this: new york congressman lee zeldin is co-chairman of the house republican israel comments. her comments, this is not the first time and it happens repeatedly.
reportedly kevin mccarthy house minority leader told republicans if you want her to put you on this committee she can put you on all the committees. i don t know if liz cheney who took a stand and stripped as conference chair is probably glad to be on it. trace: president biden is now in florida. [no audio] president biden: including i think i have the power to be able to get 100% of the cost for the county and state. i think i m quite sure i can do that and so we are going to do that and there will be a lot you want. this could be a lot of pain and