bring to big cities. cb cotton is live in new york city with more, cb? hi jon good evening nice to see you. newly released data from the nypd certainly shows an increase in one type of criminal offense, retail theft. the staffs are belike nearly one third of those committing retail theft or repeat offenders. this comes as house judiciary committee prepares for to field hearing tomorrow. focusing more violent crime. six confirmed witnesses for the harried members of the gop led committee said their testimony will highlight how the policies of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg have contributed to rampant violent crime. the das office though says the hearing is not a real effort to address public safety. but rather a political stunt. the hearing comes as another round of criticism against bragg from republicans who feel bragg s priority prosecuting content being tough on crime. less than two weeks ago trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related
sandra: one of those breaking news thursday afternoons, john. also keeping our eye on nashville as hundreds gathered there to call for gun former at the state capitol. hundreds of young people from high schools all over the area, at times became very tense and confrontations with security happening as you see on the screen there. as there was a big debate and calls for gun reform. there were also those who were making the case for good guys with guns to protect the schools. so things got fiery there at the capitol building. obviously a lot of chanting happening there, and signs were up and that confrontation with security, this all went down a couple hours ago. since taking office, president biden and his team have labored to suppress viewpoints with which they disagree. and in doing so, they have infringed upon the individual freedoms of millions of americans. john: republican senator eric schmidt dropping that accusation on the weaponization of government, he was test
congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us what some lawmakers want to do about that now. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. in a very rare public appearance. the chiefs of the fbi, the cia. nsa and odni and d.e.a. all came together on capitol hill to hand over their annual threat assessment to lawmakers. and it covered a wide variety of topics from the russia war on ukraine to iran s nuclear program, but china, they say, is the most consequential threat to america s national security right now. and lawmakers grilled them on this app. tiktok which even intel officials admit screams national security concerns. it may be the beginning of the end for tiktok as the nation s top intelligence officials testified on capitol hill about the dangers of the chinese-owned app. at a hearing on threats around the world. could they use tiktok to control data on millions of users? yes. could they use it to control the software on millions of devices given the
they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
on religion. that is coming up. sandra: begin with the suspected pentagon leaker appearing in federal court after being criminally charged in one of the largest intelligence leaks in american history. hello and welcome on this friday afternoon. sandra smith in new york. and bill, here we go into the last day of the week. bill: great to be with you, bill melugin in for john roberts. national guardsman jack teixeira is detained in federal custody until next week, 30 miles from his house in massachusetts, heavily armed fbi agents arrested him yesterday and found several weapons in his possession. sandra: teixeira was charged with two counts of removing and spreading classified information as prosecutors say he began sharing top secret information with a group of online gamers all the way back to december. bill: temporarily reassured officials the leak is plugged, they face growing criticism why a 21-year-old held a top security clearance with the i.t. role with the air n