dana: check this out. optimism took a nose-dive. 55% of voters, all across, now say they re pessimistic about the direction of the country. bill: covering this from all angles marc thiessen on the poll we mentioned. mike tobin, another awful weekend in chicago and bryan llenas the news from new york. this video released by the nypd is difficult to watch. it shows the assault of a 68-year-old man in brooklyn. a thief riding on a bicycle stopped to rob the man not before punching a dozen times an kicking him in the face. his body goes limp on the ground. the thief checks his pockets for any valuables and reportedly walked away with the man s cell phone and silver necklace. the 68-year-old man suffered a broken wrist and nose. no arrests, in ypd is asking for the public s house. the detectives, a new york city police union tweeted this. new york city streets. what used to be the safest city, failed laws have no consequences. we need to keep new yorkers safe. the nypd relea
any more elections-elections. voters are not just choosing between the candidates but making critical decisions about the basic fundamentals of the democracy. polling in the last knew 2024 primaries show us everything show us that donald trump will defeat nikki haley by significant margins. and super tuesday will perhaps mark this days away from trump clinching the republican nomination officially. that means today will, if nothing else, crystallize the choices that americans face in november. this between two presidents, one current, one former. one president who has an agenda that commands broad public support. his commitment to our democracy and our institutions has never been in doubt. but he s dogged by some lackluster polling that doesn t match up with support for his policies. and the other, well, you know the other. four times indicted, twice impeached ex-president who currently faces 91 felony counts in four jurisdictions. he s been found liable for sexual abuse. set
we re not safe. if this is something that is that the white house is just kind of brushing off saying, oh, there s no threat. we re watching it. even the president was asking. can we take it down? he said. no there s the concern. obviously there s concern for american lives everywhere in any situation, but if this were to happen in china, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and who s to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is saying. congressman waltz he s basically saying, look, this isn t over downtown l a. this is in a very sparsely populated area. the reason we know it s spa
probably be okay. this is why you will see one person in brookline or bethesda raise a ukrainian flag in the yard, the next day everybody in the street will have one, too. suddenly it s an entire neighborhood of foreign policy experts all specializing in eastern european border disputes. it s amazing. just last year very same people were all eminent veer ol gists with passionate views on pandemic management. this is in other words not a movement of rugged individuals. this is a party based on the idea of the group, the bureaucracy, the blob. it s the party of weak fearful people who are huddled together for collective power. when the democratic party speaks, it is always with one voice, often in a north korean accent. one thing the party often speaks about is gun control. no american has the right to own an effective firearm. a firearm that does what firearms are supposed to do, they ll tell you this at length. having a gun like is too much autonomy for you. believing you are