questioning the role that law enforcement plays in making a city great. we ve doubled down on law enforcement in dallas and made public safety our top priority for the past four years i ve been mayor and it paid off. the poll, while we don t put too much stake in polls, i think the american people are seeing when they come to visit dallas what we who live here know about the city. it s a great city, a safe city and we re working hard to make it safer. bill: here is your competition, total crime in democratic run city. atlanta up 3%. chicago up 33. philly 18%. dallas down 1.5%. the dallas crime drop under your term now murders down almost 16% and rape is down 32%. aggravated assaults down 4%. i think you are right about that. i would give you credit, i would give the police their credit. i give the people who live there
dana: a month from next week you will have a second rnc debate. you increase the requirements to get on the debate stage between now and then. do you expect to have the same number of candidates on the stage next month as you are going to have tomorrow night? i don t know. what i will say is when we put out the criteria for the first debate a lot of people said we can t get 40,000 small unique donors. every single candidate running on our ticket were able to meet that threshold. they ve met a lot of the polling thresholds. we felt this criteria was viable to win the nomination and presidency. we re pleased to see that. we re glad we have eight. that s great. and we look forward to as many can make it to simi valley in september. bill: first step is milwaukee. see you tomorrow. thank you for your time.
thieves proposals cruel. a few months ago robert kennedy junior said we have a crisis at the border and we need to close the border. dana and bill, back to you. dana: good to see you in new york. bill: a long way from that, too. congresswoman malliotakis in studio. between the mayor and governor, how will we figure this out? the bottom line is we need a new president. the house republicans passed legislation that did exactly what those presidential candidates said they want to do. we have a problem with chuck schumer not willing to take up our bill or any bill. he hasn t passed any bill to deal with immigration or the border at all. so we can reconcile them. the reality is i feel bad for my community because we didn t vote for the mayor or the governor. we didn t vote for this president but subjected to their policy because we re part of new york city. reality the mayor needs to stop misinterpreting the right to shelter loss.
talking three years in a row. dana: you have shown people how it can be done. thank you for joining us today and look forward to visiting soon. i have to go to a restaurant, great mexican food. bill: i have to go too. it is a wonderful town. come visit. bill: thank you, mayor. now today more than $100 billion in taxpayer money has been pledged to fund the war in ukraine. where do the republican candidates stand on the biggest foreign policy issue today? it will be a hot topic tomorrow night in milwaukee. accused crypto brook sam bankman freed facing a modified indictment. we re waiting on his fate as we speak. speak. get ready for a shock. the rate on many credit cards is now over 22%.
with the china threat in the pacific. bill: how do you think the cam ander in chief last done. a terrible job. i ve been shocked you have the hunter biden corruption stuff in ukraine, all the politics surrounding that. commander-in-chief absent. the american people support ukraine because we understand we don t like a bully. want to help the democracy pushing back a shared enemy of the united states in the russian federation. the american people s instincts are right. we need global leadership and an american president who can make the case to the american people. dana: this is the overall budget of the defense department is 1.77 trillion. u.s. aid to ukraine is 113.4 billion. those are huge numbers. what is your position at the heritage foundation about the upcoming budget fight we ll have this fall? should the defense department