will: did for everyone but you. ainsley: great to be at work. pete: tomorrow is april 18th. it is just finishing their taxes. ainsley: so is everyone else. so stressful. pete: bank statement. ainsley: are yours in? have you completed yours? pete: yes, i need an extension. will: i need extension. it is in my inbox. i need do digital signatures. pete: how about you? ainsley: all mine are finished. done. which is a good feeling. all right, it is 6:01 on the east coast. the house judiciary committee is in new york city this morning to hold a field hearing on violent crime. will: crime victims will testify about the direct impact alvin bragg s policies have had on their lives. alexandria hoff joins us in washington with more. d.a. bragg is calling this is a political stunt which is a term we have heard republicans describe his prosecution of former president trump. spent thousands ton that while declining to prosecute 1200 felony cases last year up from 828
not all of them, but many of them have emboldened the criminal element. they feel empowered and they know there are no consequences when you violate the law. if no one is above the law, then i don t understand how alvin bragg could dismiss murder and gang assault indictments against two of the people involved in the murder of my son. these witnesses really wanted their voices heard. you have senate majority leader chuck schumer listen. the house g.o.p. must be clear and vociferous that defunding the fbi. defunding the department of justice will not happen. they must condemn calls to defund the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation and reject partisan attempts by former president trump and his allies to degrade public trust in public law enforcement.
be right at home. there was this old line that we would hear that a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality and now today s liberal is doing the mugging and not talking about good traditional liberals of these young defund the police types that have no idea the science of incentives and disincentives. the past two years have been a lesson in disincentives and incentives. you make it impossible for cops to do their jobs, then they can t. that emboldens criminals. you release criminals before the cops are done with their paperwork, that emboldens criminals. you only focus on law-abiding gun owners, not the illegal handguns being used, you embolden criminals, all of these ideas are coming from places like slate and from academia so we listen to them by this will only get worse, the long-term consequences will be withdrawal of public law enforcement, rise in private security that can only be afforded by the wealthy,