angeles and this is america's late news, fox news at night. breaking tonight it's one giant hoax. first the mainstream media says the rising crime was a hoax. then the border crisis a hoax. now the epidemic of swatting across the united states is also a figment of the rights imagination. or as the washington post calls it a right-wing fever dream. live in new york city tonight with the fever dream that is impacting thousands. >> good evening trace. that washington post article claims that according to experts, squatting is extremely rare and it blames the right-wing media for making much ado about nothing, writing that squatting has emerged as a political cultural for the right wing fuelled by a fury of headlines that feed into the larger narrative of crime which is a political issue. while the post says squatting is not a problem, the white house says it's a local problem. watch. >> in florida there is a new law where victims of squatting can call the cops and have the remote -- have them removed. >> what i can say is that ultimately this is a local issue and it is critical that local governments take action to address it. >> the post article does acknowledge that since november ... to crack down on squatter issues including in florida. >> which will give the homeowner the ability to quickly and legally remove a squatter from a property which will increase criminal penalties for squatting >> they also claim the problem is so rare, there isn't any public database tracking that issue yet last fall the national rental home counsel conducted a study revealing the number of properties affected by squatters in cities with a high number of rental properties. it is more than just a handful of cases. atlanta came out on top as you can see with squatters taking over 1200 homes. some of which according to the authorities were used for a bevy of illegal and illicit activities. >> trace: that is quite the hoax. thank you. while the commonsense department understands that msnbc is slamming the police union for endorsing donald trump, singh the police officers association of michigan quote disgraced itself. how did the union disgrace itself you asked? because trump is facing criminal charges and he called migrant animals. common sense would point out that trump called illegal immigrant of -- accused of killing laken riley and animal. her and tens of thousands of other americans affected by the barrage of illegal immigrant crime is exactly why police are endorsing trump. remember the people who beat up the cops in times square? they are illegal immigrants. do they think the cops should endorse the guy who opened the border floodgates, filling the country with chaos? should police endorse the leader of the party that defunded police? it should police endorse the leader of the party that disrespects police and deputies and marshals and border agents? it was biden who wrongly accused border agents of whipping haitians and never apologized. it was biden... for officer jonathan diller and it was trump who attended the wake. commonsense would note that msnbc doesn't just hate the cops endorsement, they hate the cops. let's bring in the cohost of everybody settle down podcast along with... thank you both for coming on. the washington post says that experts say squatting is so rare there is no reliable data, well how is this for the reliable data? this is a rental home counsel, 1200 cases recently. dallas-fort worth 475. orange county florida which includes parts of orlando, 125. it seems like kind of a thing to me. >> it does seem like kind of a thing to all of us. we've also seen that there are tiktok videos and social media influencers among the community trying to teach people how to do this. it is certainly an issue that we are going to need to deal with. theirs also all kinds of people who are trying to help people prevent this from happening to them. it is an issue across the board and something that needs to be dealt with. >> this is the same media organizations who literally would say that there is no migrant crime problem. you see the family come forward and you think come on people. this is not figments of people's imagination. >> what that article didn't say is that the stories are made up because they are not. we've seen them all over the country. you have squatters that have taken over multimillion dollar mansions that are throwing wild parties at all hours of the day and night. police can't get rid of them. they came to the house, had a fake lease and the police said sorry this is a civil matter. that's what the law in florida does. it changes it from a civil matter to an area where the police can have some jurisdiction to actually make a determination quickly rather than waiting months and months. the people in the neighbourhood have to deal with these parties at all hours of the day and night. lebron james, hardly a conservative, was building a house in that area, they say he is upset about these people in the neighbourhood. >> you think what i they doing in this neighbourhood it? i want to move on here. biden being asked about israel from lucas tomlinson. >> did you threaten to stop military aid to israel? >> i asked them to do what they are doing. >> [ inaudible question by the media ] >> trace: the question is it is a serious question because it appears from all accounts that the president is moving further to the left and further away from israel. what you make of that? >> it's really been fascinating to watch because he's speaking out of both sides of his mouth. he has been saying that he's going to stand by israel. on the other hand he is trying to move away. it's very clear he's being pushed by the part of his party that is really pro- palestinian and pushing him, protesting outside his fundraisers, protesting wherever they can. he can't have it always. he's got to make a stand. he can't make these positions where he is saying... on the other hand he's trying to say he's backpedaling. and he's not going to be able to pleas anyone. not please the people who are pro- palestinian, and i don't think he's going to appease people who are pro- israeli because he's got to take a singular and solid stance and he's not doing it. >> trace: he did take a stand. here's the evolution. >> my administration support for israel security is rocksolid. >> we are really -- willing to reconsider our own policy approaches here dependent on what the israelis do or don't do >> trace: they are saying that we don't abandon israel but we might change the policy a little bit. >> what about the military aid? do they condition that? that would be the point where you would really see a break. i don't think they are there yet but i would be something that would be a real game changer if they were ever to go down that. >> trace: they are very close to getting here. thank you both. fox news has a video... a group of mostly young people beating on a police officer's cruiser. kevin corke live in dc without story. >> this all happen the very same day that a teen was shot and killed at a metro stop in the area. despite the fact that over the last two months, the doj has been trying to help out, citing a rise in carjackings. the fact is the fight here in the nation's capital make it safer for everyone is it necessarily working. -- isn't. >> mayhem, chaos and wanton lawlessness. some of the words critics are using to describe this so-called street takeover early sunday in northern virginia just outside of washington dc. minutes before the dash cam captured them, the officer had found the group driving recklessly, doing doughnuts in a nearby parking lot. as more police arrived to break up the crowd, one driver hit an officer's cruiser and sped away. the officer suffering minor injuries. investigators have identified four suspects with more arrests possible. >> this is not normal behaviour. it can't be tolerated. these are young men acting in a criminal nature. >> it's not just young men. three girls ranging in age from 12 to 13 are facing murder charges in dc after police there say they beat 64-year-old reggie brown to death back in october. they appeared before a judge the very same day, a 14-year-old boy was shot and killed a metro station in northeast dc. local officials including the mayor insist that thanks are improving, pointing to figures that show at least so far this year that homicides are down 28 percent and violent crime is down 21 percent. but youth crime remains a major problem with a juvenile arrest rate in dc -- rate... in january the doj announced it would rule out more to target those most responsible for violent crime and carjacking. >> trace: those dc numbers are coming off a record-setting year of. by the way this extends beyond the nation's capital. they are also searching resources to fight crime and other major cities including sti and harford. >> trace: let's bring in... thank you both for coming on. we have tiffany dozens of examples of these young people committing these crimes across the country. then you look at these headlines. wall street journal says public schools lost more than 1 million students during the pandemic. washington post headline, math scores for u.s. students an all-time low on international exam. you think the correlation of test scores going down, absent -- absenteeism going up and easy youth crime just exploding. is not hard to find the common denominator. >> union bosses lead to learning losses. the truth of the matter is that academic failure is linked to the link when see, of violence and crime. you don't have to take my word for that. those of the words of the department of justice of the united states of america. 70 percent of inmates in america's prisons have a fourth grade reading proficiency. you are five times more likely to drop out of high school if you are not reading on grade level by third grade. we have a real problem here. you want to be able to go to walgreens a night and pick up your prescription? our streets are knocking to be safe now or in the future. >> trace: failing schools is a crime against society because this is what it leads to. >> and we predicted this when schools were closed for prolonged periods during the covid era. a 17-year-old from arlington virginia is one of the young people who was charged in that street takeover earlier this week in virginia and the school district was closed for over a year during covid it. the academic standards have plummeted since then. our arlington superintendent wanted to sweep it all under the rug, saying away -- let's get away from that concept. now the absenteeism has doubled in arlington and across the country. we are talking about 30 percent of students on average chronically absent. everybody is taking it seriously including the dc mayor we're 60 percent of high schoolers are chronically absent. >> trace: they are upset over school district to allowing transgender girls playing girl sports. quoting how a new york city parent meetings got mean. the manhattan borough president and a progressive democrat said the maga movement has come to manhattan. protecting girls and women tiffany is not -- what are they talking about? >> mark levine -- stood outside our ten -- town hall with a bullhorn yelling out a building. we were having a real conversation about academic failure in manhattan's public schools. twenty-three of the top 25 schools are charter schools and yet there is a charter school cap. it's time for politicians to take a hard look in the mirror and realize they are the ones that are responsible for academic failure. >> trace: on want to put this up very quickly because we've done these harvard stories ad nausea him. harvard hires 24/7 security... featuring a quote from a famous terrorist. terrorist wall at harvard they are paying for 24/7 security. you think they just never learn the lesson from this whole anti-semitic outbreak they had. >> they are going to learn the lesson 15 percent of applications to harvard -- applications dropped by 5 percent overall and... the loyalty of students across the country who are not interested in attending a school that is unjust and potentially quite anti-semitic. >> trace: thank you both. new exclusive video from the southern border tonight as our fox news crews captured two men trying to enter the u.s. illegally through holes on the wall. wait until you hear what they shouted at our crew as they fled christina good evening. >> it's very disturbing. they made a very bold claim as they were trying to break the law. a few migrants trying to cross into the u.s. illegally. southern new mexico saw one of our fox news cruised and called him racist. the disturbing moment caught on camera. >> they tell us this happened just outside new mexico. a problem area for the border crisis. just last week, six migrants were arrested by border agents near a middle school. >> with this particular location there is easy access to neighbourhoods, easy access to the interstates. >> border patrols has the cartels cut these holes which they refer to as doggy doors to smuggle people into the u.s. contractors tell fox news that they are preparing about 12 holes a day. the el paso sector covers part of texas and new mexico. this sector was the busiest in the nation several davis week with officials encountering over 1000 migrants a day, mostly from venezuela. >> many of getting -- many of them getting released for some court date 12 years down the road. >> numbers show the san diego sector was the nation's busiest sector on wednesday with nearly 2000 apprehensions, most of the migrants coming from china. the number of chinese nationals crossing our border illegally are now up more than 6000 percent compared to fiscal year 2021. >> and nobody knows what they are going. christina thank you. let's bring it -- bring in reporter... i want to play some sound from matt finn that we just saw and listen to this again what they say and i will get your response >> trace: that's the whole thing is they are learning this. they are learning how this works you go and you called him racist and they let you go. >> exactly. this is a really important video because it showcases that migrants are finding their way outside of what texas has put up in the area up your just on the line from there is where you had migrants writing by the hundreds just a couple of weeks ago where they have erected more razor wire, the state has. migrants have said new mexico isn't more porous so we are going to go there. they act completely brazen. those migrants that tend to cross in the area where it's more treacherous, where the ball is in their way, does tend to be more of the criminal elements. what you are seeing their is what one could suppose is a manifestation of that. >> trace: i think you are right on that. the chicago mayor brandon johnson had this to say. >> we recognize that migration is an opportunity. we are talking about trillions of dollars of investment as a result of the growth of our population. of which we have room. >> trace: he knows they don't have room. he's been complaining about it for the better part of two years. it's an election year so he's jumping on board team biden. >> i don't know where this money comes from. i don't have these clouds of money that reigns over my house. any rhetoric that he can do to get any votes they will do it at the expense of our nation of their own infrastructure, they will ruin their own city to change the census for democrat supremacy, mark my words. >> trace: they had this conversation today about got a ways. >> of 140,000 got a ways, if we don't know who is coming to our country and we don't know what their intent is, that is a threat. does president biden agree? >> along the border we do have significant national security concerns that have to be met. >> trace: if the president believes that why doesn't he close the border? >> it's interesting because if we take this back just a couple of months, the white house and the president himself said there wasn't a crisis of the border. they wouldn't come out and outright say that. but when it came to passing appropriations through congress, then it became an issue that they can tag on another party and that's what we've seen here. when we talk about that we've learned a lot in the last few months... they end up showing themselves in the united states. we just had a million-dollar car theft ring in houston where i am that was busted that is tied to cj ng the mexican drug cartel. one of the individuals that was apprehended came here as a got away. >> trace: it is crazy. i will let you wrap this up. we have no idea who's coming and going. >> i have an idea because i go to the border every two weeks. i meet people from china and turkey... they already have jobs, they already have plane tickets that we pay for and i've seen probably 3000 people in the last two months that i have talked to. know exactly where they are going. >> trace: thank you both for the insight. we appreciated. new earthquake video that keeps coming into fox news. houses, businesses, landmarks shaking in the northeast. even pets like this dog getting rattled. watch him on the tv starts shaking. and earthquake expert joins us live next as the concern turns to aftershocks and if there's a links to -- linked to quakes in other places. the great american clips this monday. next one won't happen until 2044. thousands travelling to different states for a better view so are you going to travel? do you care about the a clips and far would you go? >> trace: now a story that might be commonplace in california but shook up a whole lot of people on the east coast. a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that was centred in new jersey... several dozen big cities including the nation's most populated new york city. kevin corke is back with the continuing aftershocks. >> in fact, it was a shaky ride home for millions of americans who called the tri-state area home. new york connecticut and new jersey. multiple 4.0 magnitude aftershocks on friday mornings quake. it happened at around 6:00 pm. we are talking about the aftershocks. those coming eight hours after the 4.8 magnitude quake hit the area in the mid morning. the latter was felt from philly all the way to the connecticut shoreline. now the preliminary quake struck near lebanon new jersey around 1030 this morning. aftershocks we are told our normal but they are not expected to cause further damage. >> this is one of the largest earthquakes on the east coast to occur over the last century. i immediately directed my team to start doing damage assessments. finding out whether there was any bridges or tunnels that are compromised. so that was the first reaction you'll be hearing from the team that is working on that. >> should make for a very interesting weekend in new york. officials say they are expected to pay particular attention to transportation infrastructure over the next several days to ensure public safety. >> trace: kevin corke live for us in dc. thank you. let's bring in... mr simon thank you for coming on, we appreciate it. we're going to pick up with you. are you surprised? this wasn't a huge earthquake. california has these all the time but in new york where the landscape is different and there's a different effect of earthquakes, a lot of infrastructure and tall buildings. this is one of those things that is potentially devastating in that area. >> i think potentially is the word. the actual seismic reading of the earthquake would not be considered large from the california perspective but i'm going to point out that the soil that you are standing on may have more of a relative impact along with the tectonic plates that sit under the earth. you're primary concern is the infrastructure and the damage to infrastructure. damage to transportation, electricity, pipelines. these are things that utility commissioners cover closely becaus