new york state. john: so bill bratton is supporting the new mayor of new york city, the jury is out whether alvin bragg, manhattan d.a. will live up to the challenge. we know what reduces crime. historic crime reduction the prior 20 years. embrace the rule of law, vehemently prosecute violent crimes and need to embrace broken windows and to mr. bratton s point, stopping turnstile jumping, they caught someone with an illegal firearm one out of every times. who knows what this d.a. is going to do. he already put out a memo that said don t worry if you rob someone, if you did not hurt them with the gun or knife we will downgrade the charge. how could anyone in their right mind advocate this when we see shootings up 102% in new york, just had a police officer murdered the other day and this guy is saying he has to be light
globally, it s around $85 a barrel the last time i checked. now, sandra, that is the equivalent of about, almost $4 a gallon at the pump. so that s a lot for people to be paying, and i m so glad you brought up that energy issue, because not only is that an issue with respect to the economy, but also become a real national security issue. you think about where putin is getting the funding for this potential military adventure in ukraine. you know, we should be the world leader in oil and gas production and now we are actually reducing our oil and gas production. sandra: robert to respond to that. robert, get you had in on that, i cut you off earlier. that s a fair point to make because we know and the best that we can get as far as statistics are concerned when you look at germany, they don t really tell you which countries that they are buying their energy from. the best we can tell, about a third of their oil from russia,
president, before we went to him there, saying that he would consider personally sanctioning vladimir putin if he goes in. yeah, that s significant, too. i think the list offings is as are pretty stark as far as how deep they go. but there s real questions about whether they should be put in preemptively and say if you don t go in, they are taken off. this is the question jacqui heinrich was asking, that was called a stupid question at the time by the president, but a lot of foreign policy experts wonder if that s the point wefr at right now. that s not saying that and he s being very careful to what the words he chooses, when he answers the ukraine question. john: i m glad he did not call jacqui what he called peter doocy. before we sign off with you, you have some reporting on the origins of covid. a lot of emails and communications that have just come to us, we have obtained through foya and other means,
district attorneys, the rogue d.a.s in the urban communities, do your job. prosecute the violent criminals to the full extent of the law. john: some appear to be getting religion, others probably not listening at this point. joe gamaldi, fraternal order of police, good to check in with you. thank you so much. john: and the new york post, saying take back new york city, revealed the mayor s crime plan. a lot of hope he s going to do this. the first 25 days of his leadership in new york city marked by escalating crime, police shootings, death of police officers, i think he s looking at, you know, a situation where he s got to do something, he s got to do it fast. sandra: the pressure is on, it s been on, has to act fast. new york post cover back up for a second, tough to find out where to go there, a wild wall street week, right, with the chart of the dow, the wild ride,
one final point. you have to remember the school districts were the ones closed the longest over covid. the teachers union in northern virginia have a strangle hold on the c.d.c., the teachers were put first in line to get the vaccine to protect themselves, yet now they are isolating children as somehow unclean or a threat in auditoriums while the rest of their peers get to go back to learn math and science. john: i mentioned to sandra earlier, we sent our kids to school, the district had the opt-out with the waiver they cannot ware masks if they want to, and we said it s your choice. our son wore the mask all day, our daughter chose not to. that s the way the governor had hoped it was going to work. what the attorney general of virginia said about it all. if you are a parent and you want your child to be masked for 7 or 8 hours a day, you have the freedom and right to make that decision for your child. recognize there are other parents that reach a different