Toxic and divisive reporting and rhetoric needs to stop. but her critics say that she has pulled some divisive stunts of her own. at one point she said she was limiting interviews to journalists who were not people of color, putting, basically, white journalists at the back of the line, and people gave her some heat for that saying that wasn t really her position to do that as an elected official. as she sate has she set an example leading up to now where she s saying that divisive reporting needs to end, has she set that example? no. you know, she s done what we call in the city of chicago talking out of both sides of your head. telling people exactly what they want to hear, and when you re in front of a different crowd, you tell them something different. she called me and one of my colleagues racist because we stood against the chicago ordinance where it allowed, or
Devastation is or will be, but the early reports are not good. and, obviously, people are extremely anxious here. griff: and as far as your haitian community goes there, are you going to have any sort of response to help them, perhaps to try and reach i know communication in situations like this becomes really very difficult. absolutely. i mean, we have, like you said, little haiti cultural center which was created in the city of miami, and it s probably one of the largest diaspora of haitian-americans are here in the united states. so we will be using that facility to connect with the haitian community and make sure that we re doing everything we can as a city to support them over there. griff: and lastly, mr. mayor, we re glad that a hurricane named fred is not hitting you, but you are going to get a lot of rain. what are you concerned about? we re usually prepared for hurricanes and for large hurricanes, so this, in a sense for us, being the first storm of
Not be enough either. reporter: i ve received numerous messages from anxious afghans desperate to be evacuated as their country gets closer and closer to falling to the taliban as the taliban move on kabul. jacqui: lucas tomlinson, thank you for that. so we ve got more on the situation in afghanistan coming up shortly. we re going to be speaking with retired u.s. army major and afghanistan veteran congressman from tennessee mark green. that is coming up. griff: floridians are keeping an eye on tropical storm fred and bracing for rain, this comes as the state also grappling with rising covid cases and a debate over some pandemic protocols. joining me now to discuss it, francis suarez, mayor of miami. mr. mayor, thank you for taking time. i want to get to the tropical depression fred, but first let s talk about the situation with covid cases.
Of our first responders, no one s going to want to work here and little by little, crime becomes common place. we ve got motorcycles and quads riding all over the someones at wrigley field, the sidewalks, because there s no punishment. there s no law and order and no crime and punishment. jacqui: do you think people feel mayor lightfoot created the conditions by being sympathetic to the defund the police movement or somehow eroding respect for the profession? yeah, i think a lot of people blame the mayor right now, and i also blame the socialist faction in our city council who reeled her in as well. they made her feel like she wasn t going to champion their cause, they weren t going to be behind her when with it comes to the votes in the city counsel that she needed. and i blame her for falling for it as well. i m one of those aldermen that i tell it way it is, and these socialists ruining our city, they re ruining our state and
The season is welch come news, that we re not going to welcome storm that we re not going to great get the brunt, and we re going prepared for it. griff: our thoughts and prayers for your friend and all of those in that hospital. thank you, mr. mayor. thank you. griff: all right. and new video from haiti coming up next. knows everyone s unique. that s why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh, yeah. that s the spot. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty there s no other snack like a planters cashew. what else can go from your car s cup holder to a crystal bowl and seem equally at home? i guess the most well-rounded snack isn t round at all. it s more cashew-shaped. planters. a nut above. when subway® opened they changed the fast food game. but sometimes you gotta refresh .to be fresh.