Night. Come on. Hop in. Oh, happy saturday, america. It is good to be back in new york. I was on the road doing stand up in florida, sacramento and idaho falls. I saw a deer run up to a hunter in idaho, like shoot me, dude. [laughter] thats where potatoes come from. I love a home fry as much as the next guy. When you are driving through route 80 and see the dead deer on the side of the highway, those arent accidents. They are suicides, people. Every deer says a note on the body, im bored. If you are new to the show, fox news Saturday Night is a news party, where everybody is welcome and we dont care who you vote for, because life was so much better before everybody became a pretend activist on social media. Can i get an amen from panel . Amen. Boom. And i mean that. Facebook needs a button called who asked you . [laughter] because nobody cares. And the point im trying to make is were here for jokes because in normal times, comments are just supposed to make you laugh. Nobody wants to h
bill: we ve got a big and violent storm soaking california. you have torrential rain turning roads into rivers. 11 million under flash flood warnings. we knew this was coming and it is as bad as they predicted. the rain continues into tuesday. we are keeping a close eye on that. we ll get you there when the sun comes up. worse than expected. that s how overnight the house speaker mike johnson describes the bi partisan border bill. the senate has been working on it for months. is there a path to passage? the golden question this morning. hope you had an awesome weekend. good morning from new york. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. so we were waiting for this bill text. it was out there for a while. yesterday senate negotiators released it. they are calling it the bipartisan border bill. speaker johnson declared it dead on arrival in the house. it includes provisions to end catch and release and make it harder for migrants to seek asyl
votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa
Criminals to ensure that the real violent crime is handled. so, new yorkers want that, but they also want us to take a look at the root of the problem, and that s poverty. summer youth jobs. summer is coming right now. we ought to have our young people working and doing positive things. the mayor is pushing for that. we re pushing for that in washington. these are all efforts to really bring down crime. i want people that don t live in new york to get a sense of what s happening here in the city when we talk about increase in crime. it s happening in major cities across the board, crime is up, especially post-pandemic but when you re looking at new york numbers, let s put up some of these numbers. 75% increase this transit crimes in january. that s insane. 139% increase since 2019 of people carrying knives on the transit system. and that s, by the way, just what s happening underground. weaver not talking about what s happening aboveground as well. you got a new administration here.
From the left s anti-police rhetoric. philadelphia mayor jim kenney asking the city council to approve of a $24 million increase in the police budget as the city of brotherly love experiences a spike in homicide with a record 562 people killed last year. we re back with kim strassel and wall street journal editorial page writer jillian melchior. jillian, talk a little bit about crime in the new york subways because i think what for those people who don t live in new york, this was particularly horrifying for those of us who do because the subway is the central nervous system of the city. yeah, you re absolutely right. looking at last year s statistics, 461 felony assaults on the subway, 8 homicides, 8 rapes that happened on the subway. if you go down into the subway system, what you see is homeless people, unsanitary conditions and people acting mentally disturbed possibly in a violent