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
spin this into a win, as they usually do. and the message that we heard from him tonight in his speech was they re coming after me because i m fighting for you. so he is going to stick to that message and try to force his rivals to come out and defend him. but i think what is so funny about that is if you re a 2024 rival taking on donald trump, it s interesting that you aren t making the case, then, for why you re running if you re afraid to criticize him. and i think that they should be out there taking him head-on. it s very hard to understand. there are also a lot of pet theories about what kind of timing benefits and what kind of timing doesn t in terms of these cases moving forward. what s your cake, kristen, about how this plays into the republican primary. as we know, i was coming up in january. and he also has a court date for next march, i believe, in the middle of the primary season. well, whenever something like what we ve seen over the past
to limit government spending, save taxpayers money and grow the economy. president biden and senator schumer have no right to play politics with the debt calling. their extreme positions risk provoking the very crisis they claim to want to avoid. they need to sit down, negotiate, and address this crisis. now that we have introduced a clear plan for responsible debt limit increase, they have no more excuse and refuse to negotiate. i thank the senate can honor maple syrup sandra: we will continue to monitor kevin mccarthy on the hill, making the case president biden has ignored the impending
of ways publicly and privately, we reported. but this was the strategy that the advisers in the willard command center coalesced around in the days leading up to january 6th. the review on october 22nd reported this about john eastman, a name that most people don t know. eastman now tells the national review in an interview that the strategies was having pence reject electoral votes was not viable. eastman was the author of the now infamous legal memo making the case, that pence had that very power. so there were competing legal arguments between the trump white house and the trump campaign about what was actually legal. somehow, and it could ve changed the outcome of january 6th, somehow mike pence decided that one of them was more viable than the other and that the argument that he does not have the legal power to overturn that election