dana: we have reaction from john levine and harold ford junior. let s go to bryan llenas to set it up for us in new york city. good morning. eight witnesses are set to testify against manhattan district attorney alvin bragg including the father of actually the father of joseph who was a jewish man beaten nearly to death in 2021 near times square. one attacker was given a six month plea deal. his father says the cushy deal was disgusting and would only encourage more hate crimes. overall crime in new york city jumped 22% in 2022 with major felony crimes hitting a 16-year high under bragg s first year in office. this morning house republican chairman jim jordaan says it s
come to memphis today to tell you the same mistake joseph s brothers made, is a mistake you made. you thought you threw joseph in a pit. you thought you threw dr. king s dream in a pit. but every time you throw something in a pit, god takes the pit and raises it up and changes the whole world. e world. let me be clear, we understand that there are concerns about public safety. we understand that there s needs to deal with crime, but you don t fight crime by becoming
tell em. in the city that they slayed the dreamer, what has happened to the dream? in the city where the dreamer laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes. and you watch him and you were too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s
can tell you one thing, those of you that keep voting against that bill, we re going to vote against you. we got more numbers than the police unions. i believe that god will do for us what we will do for ourselves. and even in the pit joseph never lost his faith. joseph could have gave up. joseph could have gave out, but in the pit, he still believes in the god of his father, and even as i stand over the casket of this innocent young boy, this young man, 39 years old with a 4-year-old son that his mother
too late. what will happen to his dream? well, we ll just tell them something else happened, but we are going to throw him into the pit but i come to memphis today to tell you the same mistake joseph s brothers made is a mistake you made. you thought you threw joseph in a pit. you thought you threw dr. king s dream in a pit, but every time you throw something in a pit, god takes the pit and raised it up and changes the whole world. let me be clear, we understand that there are concerns about