Morning at nine Sunday Morning to you, im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. We start with Breaking News out of The Middle East this morning, tensions are high across the region with growing fears of a wider conflict. New video for you this morning, shot overnight from a beirut suburb. Cnn crews, there i have reported near constant blast around the city overnight into this morning. And israel says it targeted hezbollah Weapons Facilities and issued new evacuation but just for parts of beiruts suggesting that more strikes could be on the way. But as paula has continued to launch rockets into israel and Israels Military says about 30 projectiles were fired into israel this morning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a defiant tone and then message late saturday seven fronts. Against the enemies of civilization for defending ourselves against this barbarism. Israel is defending civilizations against those who seek to impose a dark age of fanaticism on All Of Us rest assured isra
improve under johnson, who has several conflicting comments on whether he is defunding the city of police. we know the city of chicago rebuked this call to defund this bit. this system of incarceration and policing, this is real political gold. i never said we ll take money from police. the 150 million was not redirecting the funds from police? directing dollars to make sure we hire and promote 200 more detectiveses, to make sure we are implements laws on the books like red flag laws, i never said i would cut the police budget. ashley: here is lauren with more. new chicago mayor brandon johnson will be sworn into a job with no small task, figure out how to stop crime? his city and learn to work with police and his constituents even though he was part of calls to defund police. he says his policies go after root causes of crime. chicago police report murder is slightly down from this time last year, but still in the hundreds and motor vehicle thefts up 130%. just y
i remain on miss stick i m congenital optimist. general desire. joe: that s president biden taking a break weekend in square to down play the very serious issue his administration is facing right now. the fox news contributor joe concha joins us now. good morning, joe. you know, when i was trying to prep for this segment, the first thing i wrote down the president thinks we are all stupid. because he is honestly, he is out there riding his bike. is he eating ice cream. is he dismissing all of these serious problems that s happening and to be quite honest, when there is an american who is not real paying attention say something like the debt ceiling don t know what it means. but see the president of the united states leisurely taking these strolls well, there is nothing to worry about so he is doing a good job. ashley, this is why his approval numbers are currently at 36% approval. he is more than 20 points under water in terms of approval vs. disapproval overall.