sandra: all new at 2:00, calling all officers. los angeles mayor karen bass is making good on her campaign promise. looking to recruit hundreds are month police officers in an effort to rebuild the city s reputation in the face of rising crime. john: she says it s long overdue, after the lapd lost nearly 1,000 officers, many pinning it on defund the police and soft on crime policies. sandra: welcome back, john, halfway there. john: halfway there, halfway to friday. the long slow slide into the weekend from here. john roberts in washington. the democratic mayor already warning some in her party may see her proposal as a betrayal, specifically those who have supported defunding the police. but others say safety should be everyone s priority. i remember, and i m old enough to remember where it did not matter if you were a democrat or republican, your safety was one that every party cared about. sandra: right to matt, covering the story closely. matt, there s a millio
Thats where we need him. Entitled to a Presumption Of Innocence and a full trial but i think he should resign. He is entitled to have his day in court, but he does not entitled to remain in the senate and he needs to go. For that reason probably be a good idea if he did resign. John a live look at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan where Robert Menendez pled not guilty. Uphill battle for his freedom and keep his seat on capitol hill. Im john roberts in washington. We climb the top of the hill in terms of the week, sandra. Sandra no kidding, more than halfway there, a busy two hours ahead. Sandra smith in new york. America reports. Long time democratic senator and his wife appearing before a judge after being formally arraigned on charges of taking bribes of cash, gold bars, and a Mercedes Benz in exchange for using his political influence to benefit the Egyptian Government and others. John the calls for menendez to resign growing, more than two dozen of his democratic colleagues have ur
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deserves that criticism. back to you. sandra: thank you, bill. john: i recall several hearings where the shoe was on the other foot, actually. the white house pushing back at a damning new york times report claims the biden administration failed to protect migrant children from being exploited and forced to work dangerous jobs in violation of child labor laws. karine jean-pierre shifted the blame to congress for not acting. bring in texas republican john cornyn. good to see you this wednesday afternoon. on this subject of this new york times report, is this a problem of president biden s own making, i mean, his administration has let in more unaccompanied children than the u.s. has ever seen, and there are also criticisms that homeland security and hhs watered down the vetting requirements for people taking responsibility of the unaccompanied minors.
it is why we chose to end it back in 2019 and 2020. but once you start releasing these individuals particularly minors from hhs custody you release them to sponsors all over the country. it is an administration earlier on this year that actually relaxed some of the vetting requirements that were we re placing these children with the sponsors. they were overwhelmed in numbers and backing up and needed to move the children through quicker and relaxed the vetting requirements. again, wrong decision because of poor border security strategy that is breaking the system. the system is beyond capacity and so i think that s why you see not only images like this, but images of 15,000 haitians under a bridge. they have broken the system and not sure how to fix it. bill: chad wolf, thank you for coming back today. we ll speak again soon. it won t resolve itself on its own as you agree. thanks, sir.