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tonight. jonathan hunt in los angeles where the county district attorney is defending himself against criticisms of his progressive policies and practices but we start with correspondent bryan llenas in new york. good evening, brian. bret, good evening. numbers don t lie. tonight crime statistics are validating how many people feel in cities across the country. crime is up across the board and leaders are struggling to find solutions and silver linings. new york city, the safest of the top 20 big cities. no, s mayor bill de blasio painting optimistic portrait today of crime in the big apple despite startling headlines like the murder of a columbia university student stabbed to death in a city park sunday or the nypd s own statistics showing crime is up 3.4 percent in the big apple compared to last year. while murders are nearly the same, felony assaults are up about 9%. auto grand larceny is up more than 14%. and hate crimes are nearly doubled. nypd commissioner ....
menendez about context charges. trumps allies try, perhaps successfully to continue to run out the clock on this investigation. well come to meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. as covid cases rise, the biden administration is struggling to sell and implement the vaccination soft mandate. as early as today, the senate is expected to pass legislation that would attempt to revoke the white house s vaccine and testing mandates for private sector workers. at least two moderate democrats are expected to join with all republicans to pass that bill. the white house told reporters president biden plans to veto the legislation if it actually reached his deck. it comes as more than a few prominent democrats in congress and one at the state level, a couple governors, appear to be souring on similar vaccine mandates. the administration is facing another legal setback as a judge blocked the president s mandate for federal contractors. right now all three of biden s vaccine mandat ....
was the white house press secretary gave this explanation for mass robberies in democrat run cities. a huge group of criminals, organizers themselves, went to the store. a root cause and a lot of communities is the pandemic. todd: you are watching fox and friends first this friday morning. carley: more on the top story, president biden is set to speak this morning following the release of the november jobs report. todd: the omicron very inference the economy with half of all americans admitting they are struggling with inflation. griff jenkins joins us with the latest. reporter: as we head into the peak of holiday shopping and travel, driving up heating cost of gas prices continuing to rise a new gallup poll confirms what many of us are feeling. 45% of american struggling the financial hardship triggered by spiking inflation, 10% described it as severe after jerome powell testified inflation is here to stay and time to stop calling it transitory with the preside ....
was because he was acting in self-defense. if he is found guilty on the most serious charge of first degree intentional homicide he could spend the rest of his life in prison. with 500 national guard men and women on stand by now, here is a taste of what we witnessed yesterday. very vocal protestors and counter protestors crowded outside the courthouse. alan dershowitz said it puts the integrity of the trial at risk. when you have a crowd outside threatening jurors and jurors hearing it, it clearly has an impact. so i worry that whatever the verdict, it will be the result more of what was outside the courtroom than was inside the courtroom. harris: alexis mcadams is live in kenosha. some of those conversations with the protestors happening now as day two of jury deliberations in kenosha, wisconsin of kyle rittenhouse continue with the trial. i ll step out of the way to get a closer look at what we re seeing. this is what it looked like yesterday afternoon. more pe ....
the threat of a mistrial continues to hang over the trial. welcome to meet the press daily i m chuck todd in los angeles. meet the press film festival later today. we re excited. happy veterans day to all our veterans out there as leaders in washington and beyond honor our heroes in uniform. we ll show you some of those ceremonies coming up. but we re going to begin with a major challenge facing this white house and democrats beyond the already sour political environment facing this president. he s facing the prospect of souring economic environment or at least a perceived one for many, everyday workers and voters. yesterday s inflation report which showed that consumer prices are rising at rates not seen in three decades is reverberating through the head looinls and for good reason because it erased most of the wage gains workers made over the last year. essentially wiping out wiped out by rising costs for basic goods. you can t help but wonder is this an upward ....