Public safety and Crime Reduction is a top priority for my administration and for me and has been for a long time back when i was chairman of judiciary committee. You know, since day one my administration has been working with Law Enforcement, mayors and Community Leaders to do what we know works to keep people and communities safe. As was referenced during the pandemic, states and cities saw Violent Crime rising and their budgets were strained as they faced deep cuts in Law Enforcement and Public Safety. But we stepped up. Thanks to my American Rescue plan which i might note not a Single Person on the other team voted for, we provided 350 billion, 350 billion that was available to deal with these issues. You know, and the fact is that we find ourselves could use this money to keep Law Enforcement on the beat, communities safe from violence. Invested 15 billion, 15 billion to make their communities safer and we added billions more in grants to help. Justice department invested in Law E
former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things? so for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you re also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process this? i talked about this a minute ago, and i think, you know, when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they re saying it s gratuitous, this isn t appropriate. this is inconsistent with the doj policy and practice. that s them saying it. we agree. you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night. you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we agree that
power, but some residents in remote areas may be cut off for 48 hours. aruna iyengar has the latest. storm gerrit swept across much of scotland, bringing heavy snow, flooding homes, causing power cuts and travel misery for many. the major a9 route has reopened after it closed in the highlands for several hours. meanwhile, thousands of homes across scotland have suffered power cuts. scottish and southern electricity networks said they d restored power to more than 25,000 homes but at least 16,000 are still cut off. for some customers especially those in rural areas it could be up until friday before power supplies are reconnected. but it is far too early for us to say at the moment, with scottish and southern electricity continuing to cause damage to the power network. 0n the railways, lner which runs services up the east coast from london to scotland is warning of major disruption this morning, with some services arriving several hours late. this tree fell on the li
welcome to a special edition of fox news live. problems piling up for president biden at home and overseas. peace looking as el useive as ever in the middle east while the crisis at the southern border spirals further out of control. despite all that merry christmas, everyone. i m rich edson. i m claudia cowen. the president is facing growing pressure to respond to houthi attacks in the red sea. the white house confirming iran has been providing weapons and intelligence on ship locations fueling a crisis in global shipping and raising tensions in the middle east. exiled iranian leader says when it comes to proxy wars, iran wrote the book. this regime has mastered proxy wars particularly emboldened and encouraged when apiecement becomes an element more reason to push the envelope. we shouldn t be surprised to see these are the kind of acts that the regime will take advantage of to try to get as much credit as possible but at the same time not bearing the consequences and
rich: to the migrant crisis. new record breaking numbers at our southern borders and cities further north are taking action. merry chris marks i m rich edson. claudia: i m claudia cowen. he may be in charge of a sanctuary city but chicago mayor brandon johnson is threatening to file lawsuits over the border crisis as his city struggles to house migrants flying in from texas. we have a governor a governor, elected official in the state of texas, that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized. the governor of texas needs to take a look in the mirror of the c chaos he is causing this country. claudia: they ve said the blue city is at fault. how dare this mayor and city council have the guts to give migrants $51 million. they should not be housed in im marginalized black and brown communities where we have food shortages and homelessness. we have not gotten anything for our community. and we are sick and tired of being