are fleeing new york, new jersey, california, illinois. these liberal states. there is a reason to million americans left america s big cities just in the last two years. high income taxes, high property taxes, punitive regulations and for what? the roads are covered with potholes. the streets are littered with tons of trash. the homeless crisis is worse than ever. the public school systems are in disaster. by the way, for example, look at baltimore. 23 baltimore city schools, zero students. not one is proficient in math. 23 schools. not the single student. that is what $1.6 billion or 20 grand per student or the taxpayers of baltimore. forget about public safety. here is what public safety looks like in chicago. mob beatings in broad daylight. last weekend hordes of teens taking over the streets, smashing cars, assaulting pedestrians and breaking windows. in a statement chicago s radical incoming mayor responded, quote, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have other
shoulders of law enforcement on the front line. that includes texas dps and u.s. border patrol. today, the head of border patrol told lawmakers the united states have lost control of its own border. does dhs have operational control of our entire border? no, sir. that s border patrol chief raol ortiz, ortiz disputed homeland security myorkas who previously said our border is under control. do we have our border under control? yes, we do. chief ortiz testified there is been a staggering 385,000 known got aways at the border pushing the total to 1.4 million gotaways. they are the threat, they are the migrants who do not surrender. ortiz defended his horse back agent who he is accused of whipping migrants. the chief also told lawmakers that he does not agree with president biden s decision to shutdown construction on the 200 miles of border wall. the goal was to examine the link between president biden and secretary myorkas on the crisis of the borborder. i just got
democrats. kate mitchell donated $50,000 to hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign and staglin owns an estate near nancy pelosi s home and made several donations to democrats totaling $150,000. mary miller did not donate but served for obama at the treasury department. only member of the silicon valley bank with prior investment banking experience is tom king who previously served as ceo of barclays. donations to social causes, sbv donated to groups tied to black lives matter. it is not the only bank that went under to make similar donations, signature bank donated to the democratic party. only $750,000 was given to the gop. they were shut down in the aftermath of svb s collapse and hosted seminar on pronouns less than six months before it went under, watch. we talk about folks that are nonbinary, do not identify male or female, they use they/them as pronoun ze and hir are other pronouns. brooke: top executives starred in a broadway style sketch in 2014. watch this.
have been leading this effort to protect women s sports coming up. john: fox news alert, waiting an update in the pentagon after another suspected iranian missile strike targeting a u.s. military base in syria. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, we made it to friday. sandra: we did, the afternoon will hold a lot of news. we ll watch for the pentagon briefing. this is america reports. tensions between the u.s. and iran turning deadly during three separate incidents in syria in the past 24 hours. a suspected iranian drone hit a coalition base in northeast syria, killing an american contractor and wounding five u.s. service members. the pentagon says president biden ordered airstrikes in retaliation, going after iranian-backed forces in eastern syria. john: and a new wave of missile strikes targeted another u.s. military base. iran s deadly attack on americans comes at the same time president biden faces growing criticism of his handling of the middle east. y
expect november 8th, exactly four weeks from today as we say hello. i m bill hemmer. got your election red on. dana: exactly. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we love the mid-terms and catch you up on these latest ones. a couple changes you will want to know about. the latest forecast shows the republicans taking the house and win 231 seats. it could swell to as many as 246. bill: best case for democrats is 220 seats, about where they are right now. that would be enough for a razor thin house majority. dana: the senate is anyone s game. we have 47 races going democrat, 49 republican. that means it all comes down to the four toss-ups we ve been talking about, arizona, georgia, nevada, pennsylvania. bill: the nationwide conversation is shifting. majority of independents say they re more focused on the economy than voting rights and democracy. a trend that would favor republicans. dana: alexandria hoff has more from washington. the numbers just out. al