pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was k at the pry crime, it s not much better. they hapull up and break into the front door and try to drag off the atm machine. some 2,500 s
pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was a 17% increase in burglaries. if you look at the property crime, it s not much better. they had a truck pull up and break into the front
could we see a verdict and could jill biden inside the courtroom be a deciding factor in this case? are illegal eagles moments from the. welcome everybody, i m neil cavuto and to david spunt in wellington for the latest. this is moving as quickly as you said it would. what s next? it really is. we could get over to cure any time the. court has typically been working at 4:30 pm eastern time every day however if jurors may be closed over there is always a possibility they could signal to the judge, hey, listen we would like to stay a little bit later tonight. we got no such indications at this time but, neil, while there s a lot of big names inside, salacious text messages, also a lot other information inside, it s really about just a simple gun form that hunter biden filled out. you see them working there in october 2018. you give him his right to testify, declining to set up tell his side of the story but as i said he had a big showing of his family inside, including a
all right. we will continue to watch these pictures. top of the hour and right now hunter biden s legal team is making closing arguments in his criminal gun trial. hunter himself did not take the stand. he faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all three counts. at this pace, because the prosecution has finished closing arguments and the defense has begun, the jury could get this case before leaving tonight. hour two of america reports. this case is moving at lightning speed. to be too good to be with you, i m sandra smith in new york. the prosecution gave closing arguments i made it clear to the jury that only one things mattered when deciding the fate of the president s son is evidence. the prosecution open with a bang and this is what they did. they pointed to where the first lady was sitting, where all of hunter biden s family was sitting to support him, and they said this. the people sitting in this gallery are not evidence. to be able to present to the jury
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