Steve welcome aboard, folks, its 6 00 in new york city. Its currently 56 degrees and going to be sunny. Carley going to be warm. Steve going to be hot. A hot show for you on this may 21st, 2024. This is fox friends. First up, inflation nation. Its hitting all of us. President biden tries to flip the narrative again, now blaming companies for overcharging. Everyday americans share the true reality of bidenomics right here on fox friends. Youve heard them. I work four jobs and its very difficult with inflation. Its very challenging to survive as is. There is no relief any insight. He is not doing anything. Ainsley plus, fanis fate, the embattled d. A. Begging voters to go out and cast their ballots for her and support, quote the rule of law. I need people around the country to support me big and small, to say that we are going to be a country that Still Believes in the rule of law. Lawrence okay. That was funny. And saluting the stars and stripes. Its allamerican week at fort liberty. So
The latest numbers from the nypd, 48%, i believe, is the increase in the first three months of this year. pardon me, 44%. so, having said that, the nypd is offering a couple of explanations for why that might be. they re saying, repeat offenders are responsible for the uptick in crime, and they re also concerned about what they perceive as being lenient bail laws. what are your thoughts on both those issues? look, the bail law, thank god, there s been some improvement in just the last days in our state legislature in albany. what was missing all along was judicial discretion, and now another step has been taken to putting that in place. that s a good thing. but that s one piece of the puzzle. the absence of a functioning court system. this, to me, has really been a scandal, that in covid, when finally things started to come back, workplaces did come back, you know, sports came back, finally, over time. our court system didn t. which meant a lot of people who
Arms and learn how to use rocket-propelled grenades to defend our democracy the way they have to do in ukraine. the way we do it here, because we have a functioning court system and we have and it is not an external threat, it is a domestic threat. what we have to do is enforce the laws that exist on the books. if there ever was a conspiracy to defraud the united states about something, i mean a million dollars, a billion dollars, it is usually money in these cases, but this was our democracy. this was the whole kit and caboodle. if these laws don t apply here, they don t apply anywhere. so well put. george conway and the washington post s jackie alemany. thank you both very much for coming on this morning. still ahead, we return to our coverage of the war in ukraine. pentagon press secretary john kirby joins us to discuss u.s. troop movements in europe. plus, military analysis from