right now. and gerry baker on the president s positioning or shall we say repositioning right now. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. let s get to it. fighting crime is the theme for the president today. but is this the answer? maybe 100,000 more cops could be. let s go to ted williams on that. good to see you, ted. what do you make at what the president is proposing? good to see you also. martha: what do you think of what the president is talking about? 100,000 more police. we have to be serious about crime. it s a big worry. seems to be a pivot during the campaign. that was then. this is now. what do you think? well, you re right. he said other things during the campaign. now i believe that we may be on the right track, neil. i think 100,000 police officers over a five-year period is very much needed in these major metropolitan cities. the very problem though they have are the local politicians. as you know, neil, president biden has never call
zaporizhzhia. people in the war torn regions are being asked if they wish to join the russian federation. ben wedeman is tracking the latest annexation live. how is all of this expected to play out, ben? reporter: well, i mean, it s a good question, christine, whether to call it a vote. this is going on from today until the 27th of september. the last day will be in person voting. before that people were getting many people in these regions will be getting a knock on the door and be presented with a ballot box. in some regions the ballot is only in russian. in other areas, in kherson region, 50% of the population has fled because of the war. so it s very dubious about how credible the outcomes will be. you called it a sham. most people are calling it a sham outside those russian occupied parts of ukraine. in fact, ukrainian officials are calling on people to boycott these referenda. the results will be announced several days after the closing of ballot boxes, if we can ev
i m brianna keilar with john berman. the russian leader continues to face major turmoil at home. his order sparking angry protests across the country and leading to more than 1,300 arrests. the move is now causing some russians just to leave. there you see emotional f farewells as the mobilization gets under way. russian men leaving their families. in this video traffic is seen building up at border crossings as men try to escape the war. the demand for flights out of moscow is up dramatically. as of now tickets are said to be sold out, google trends leaving russia saw a sharp spike in searches in the last 24 hours. and one way tickets out of moscow to istanbul are started at $2,000. before the announcement from putin, the tickets were about $350. huge increase there. happening now. look at this map. these are the areas where at this point these regions are holding what the u.s. considers sham referendum, you can see the rough lines of them. parts of them voting to leave
sparked protests across russia leading to more than 130 0 arrests. we ve seen the emotional farewells. look at this, russian men leaving behind families to board buses for military service. others trying to get out of the country altogether. in this video long lines of traffic are growing as men seemingly are trying to escape the war. the demand for flights out of moscow is spiking dramatically. tickets to countries where russians don t need a visa are sold out. and on google trends the term leaving russia saw a spike in searches over the past 24 hours. according to a ticket agri gaiter one way tickets out of moscow to istanbul start at $2,000 a ticket. before putin s announcement, the tickets cost about $350. let s bring in ben wedeman live for us in kharkiv, ukraine. you re in the region where the gains by the ukrainians seem to have prompted this new phase by vladimir putin, ben. reporter: ye and you know, as these referendums go ahead. yesterday we were in areas occup
Before thinking he should have rounded the bases. keep your eye on the ball. andy scholes, have a great weekend. you, too. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now . soldiers died in this war in six months. tens of thousands wounded, maimed, do you want more? no. then protest. fight. runaway or surrender to ukrainian captivity. these are the options for you to survive. that is the president of ukraine calling on russians to revolt as vladimir putin faces an uprising from his own people this morning.