something on this, trace. trace: those minutes are precious. senior correspondent casey stiegel live in texas. thank you. dana: let s bring in lawrence johns, fox & friends enterprise reporters. dozens of cities have cut police and you have murders and crime rate surging in portland, los angeles, austin, las vegas. you have seen it. it was inevitable? i ve been to all those cities and let s take a look. the criminals are on offense, police in defense mode. solution to this for the response times wasn t to cut law enforcement going to those calls. the solution was to hire more cops. but he can t do that in this current political climb & do it in liberal austin. we see crime across the country. we need more cops to be able to do their job. this just shows you that law enforcement is the enemy now. dana: it happened at the border as well. i want to play a little bit of your coverage there. let s watch this.
in florida. thank you. dana: a move by the cdc director. is she big footing scientists for political reasons? trace: the hits keep coming for hunter biden. explosive new emails linking him to one of the world s most not toreous dictators. dana: how a police staffing shortage in austin, texas could be affecting public safety and also the crisis on the border. i will reiterate this. i m from the state of texas. border agents right now are having to deal with processing right now. the people that are standing right now guarding the border is the texas dps. the national government is not paying for any of this. someones someone else. i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone s unique. that s why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ]
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trace: in just one week it may be hard are, even impossible to get a police officer to respond to your call in austin, texas, if it s not an emergency. they are blaming staffing shortages after the city council slashed millions of dollars from the police budget last year. fox news senior correspondent casey stiegel live for us this morning in dallas. good morning. good morning. the city of austin is still no doubt feeling the impacts of last year s controversial city council decision you just referred to which eliminated more than 21 million dollars from the police budget and diverted another $128 million to other city departments. that took away about a third of their total funding and just last month the austin city council voted to give that money back for the upcoming fiscal year after the state legislature just passed a bill