message has really caught on enough to motivate people. >> all right, karen and alice, thanks so much. good to have you here. the cnn town halls begin tonight at 9:00 eastern. cnn's kaitlan collins will moderate the first conversation with ron desantis. then erin burnett will host nikki haley. then next wednesday i'm going to moderate the cnn republican presidential debate with my colleague dana bash. that's january 10th. also live from des moines. you should also by the way tune in toe "the situation room" after this show if you want to see an interview with chris christie himself. in this first week of 2024 several big cities can now report that their murder rates went down last year. that's noteworthy and positive. but in many cases overall crime including violent crime went up. so what can authorities do about this? i'm going to ask one big city mayor next.