Washington, d. C. Today and covering the news wherever it happens. Right now its happening on the East Coast as well. Breaking news, democratic mayor Eric Adams is expected to speak at any moment after federal officials have just unsealed indictment charges against him. He is now charged with those federal counts, five of them, including wire fraud, bribery, solicitation of contributions from a foreign source. We are told a federal prosecutor will give an Update And News conference. Dont know if theyll take any questions but certainly have a statement to read, were told. That will also happen in the next few minutes. Were on it. All over this. Eric adams is already making history at this moment as the first new York Mayor to ever be charged with a federal crime while in office. Phil holloway, former Assistant District Attorney and legal Advisor And Marc thiessen, Fox News contributor. Im harris faulkner. This is the Faulkner Focus live from d. C. And are you there focus with me. Lets s
rate rose by more than 4% from 2021 over 2020. but that report is missing some critically important data. for some reason police departments in the biggest blue cities are not submitting their numbers to the f.b.i. the bureau has to resort to estimating how much crime is happening in crime-ridden cities like chicago, philadelphia, los angeles, and new york. question, is the crime crisis much worse than even we think? here are some actual stats from those cities. overall crime is up 37% in chicago. 26% in philadelphia. nearly 12% in los angeles, 32% in new york city. let s take a live look at this. it is so bad in new york that the nypd commissioner is holding a news conference right now to address the crime stats as we speak. we wanted to show you a live look at that and may be able to do that coming up. for now house minority leader kevin mccarthy was just with me yesterday. why is crime at a level it hasn t been in 20 years? because democrats defunded the police. they ele