Surge in Violent Crime in americas biggest cities. Dana well talk to former minneapolis cop Steve Dykstra about his decision to leave the force. First we go to Garrett Tenney in minneapolis today. Good morning to you. A lot of city leaders across the country who last year got behind the defund the Police Movement are struggling to respond to a wave of Violent Crime and minneapolis has become ground zero for this debate. The citys Police Department is down more than 200 officers from a year ago and thats largely due to a wave of early retirements and extended medical leaves following the protests last summer. So far murders are up 130 compared to this point last year. Violent crime up 15 . Other major cities are seeing the same trends as well. Murders up by double digits and more than 800 in portland. In Minneapolis Police are so overwhelmed that this weekend the mayor asked state and federal agencies to send help. The spike in Violent Crime is why efforts to dismantle the minneapolis P
Off. Paul eisenberg is here but we begin with Congressional Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, live outside of the Supreme Court for us. We just wrapped up a Press Conference with the bill sponsors and we asked about House Speaker nancy pelosi saying she has no plans to bring this bill to the floor while the president s commission is still studying the very proposal. They said they are really not surprised at that answer but they expressed faith that pelosi and others will change their minds and come along as more destructive decisions come down. In fact one of the bill sponsors said today they laid blame on the Supreme Court for the january 6th insurrection saying this Supreme Court has been Dismantling Democracy Allowing Dark Money in politics, gutting Voting Rights and paving the way for racist voters suppression and help put donald trump in the white house. They reject the assertion that they are packing the court in response. It will enable us to do justice and rectify the great injus
Reaction. She writes it was not an accidented the repeated outcomes of an indefensible system that grants impunity for State Violence and targets those who question that order. If i were to diagram that sentence i think i could find something that is misleading or false in every one of those phrases. When this type of discussion occurs it is not particularly helpful. We know there are Tens Of Thousands of people a year who are the victims of murder, rape, robbery, child sexual assault, shooting, cybercrimes that Drain Millions of dollars from our senior citizens. Defunding or eliminating the police is simply not well thought out. I would suspect there is research a good question would be in the district that these two representatives represent, what is the percentage of their members of their community that want the police eliminated . Maybe theyre just speaking for their district out of 435. When you think about reimagining policing Getting Police out of the business of Mental Health,
Areas with kids shoulder to shoulder sleeping on mats on the floor. 10 have tested positive for covid and its a problem. Dana there are the pull factors. Why are people continuing to come . Why is there another caravan forming in guatemala . They must think they have a shot of getting in. Bill team fox coverage. We mentioned a lot to get to. Great guests. Marc shortcoming up used to work in mike pence. Peter doocy from the north lawn. Lets start at the border. Casey stiegel is live in eagle pass, texas, there again today. Casey, good morning. Bill and dana, good morning to you. Just as you were tossing out to me the live Drone Pictures thats a live apprehension going on as we speak not terribly far from us. The drone has been in the air for 15 minutes this morning. We already have a group. We got more than three or four Different Groups live yesterday just by the air. To further break out those numbers you were showing before you got to me they are quite astonishing. The orr, the offic
Bill ask yourself if that was your son. We believe that young boy is between the ages of 10 and 12 as we say good morning. Bill hemmer in new york. Dana good morning, im dana perino, americas newsroom. He is one of more than 19,000 unaccompanied minor children in federal custody now. When youre talking about these numbers it can get overwhelming. We talk about Infrastructure Bill or with this, 171,000 people. It is hard to get your head around that figure. We try to figure out a way. Then there will be a moment in a story like this where you see the effects of the parents who told the little boy told the little boy to go. Heart wrenching as that might have been for them and possibly as irresponsible as that might have been. He then gets abandoned in the desert. He was afraid he would be robbed or kidnapped. Thankfully our Border Protection officers have children, and that was very upsetting to me. Bill think of the job they have to do at the border. You are right about these images. So