deal for decades. donald trump s tax returns reveal major losses for the self proclaimed billionaire. he wants more those losses than meets the. i could long-awaited loss of his tax returns and to the laundry list of investigations into the former president? and with the new year comes a new congress and a new republican majority in the house. let s just say the gop literally need to get their priorities straight. plus, deadly explosions rocked cave on new year s eve. i talked to a member of the ukrainian parliament about the latest attacks on the capital city. and the suspect arrested in connection with the murder of four idaho college students, will likely be quickly extradited to idaho to face murder charges. velshi starts now. it is, sunday january the. first i am andy hassan, in four ali velshi. we start with breaking. news new york city officials are investigating what could be a targeted attack on police officers on new year s eve. three new york city police officers a
murder rape burglary robbery. it s considered the murder capital of the united states. the worst ghetto in all of the united states. after decades of terror in the big apple, rudy giuliani rode in like a white knight and took care of business. he made life better for his residents and cleaned up the streets. guess what? it worked. he tackled crime and laid out the big city blueprint for safety. enforce your laws, keep criminals in line. and above all, support your police. seems like an easy recipe for success, right? yet, somehow, 30 years later, every democratic big run city has screwed this up. the left has worked tirelessly to defund police and put criminals back on the streets. stupid ideas like eliminating cash bail have put us all at risk. you are officially on your own. nowhere is that more evident than lori lightfoot s chicago. the same lady who tried to cut her police budget by $50 million two years ago has seen a nearly 40% jump in crime in the last 12 months.
alexis mcadams and live in new york city with more details for us. when we were out there last night for new year s eve celebrations we saw a lot of police activity in the area rushed in to help the three officers who are recovering we can tell you the teenage suspect is being called a violent islamic extremist who was on the fbi radar for weeks. take a look on your screen this is where it unfolded in midtown manhattan there were thousands of people out there with the three officers were attacked in the area and it was during the major celebrations with police say the 19-year-old trevor bickford of maine pulled out a machete style knife and started swinging he struck two officers in the head and injured a third nypd officer. what are those officers as a rookie cop who literally just got a job in new york city. all are expectcted to be okay investigators say this could be a possible terror attack, sources tell me the suspect s own family called the police on him back in dece
countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
lay out the cases for us. reporter: arguments in the two cases are teed up for this morning. the supreme court will once again re-examine affirmative action but this time with the solidly conservative court it is quite likely that the justices could ban affirmative action once they release their opinion sometime next year. this is all happening as the groups fighting to end the consideration of race in admissions they have been quite outspoken. diversity as important as it is, cannot come at expense of asian americans. reporter: these asian american students are leading a fight against affirmative action. it s time for asian americans to break up with woke diversity. they re at the center of a law enforcement against harvard, accusing the school of discriminating against asian americans to make more room for hispanics and blacks. calvin yang claims he was denied admission to harvard because of his race. it shows there s a trend here. a trend where asian americans