We have got carley shimkus. John but first, President Biden set to lay out a plan for gun control as crime rates rise in the debate rages over police reform. I am john roberts, and this is America Reports. Sandra agreed to be with you on this wednesday newsday. Thanks for having me. I am Gillian Turner and four sandra smith today, south their plan is to invest in communities and keeping quotes down that cops on the beach. A lot of big cities are having a really tough time recruiting officers, and now departing the four syndromes, so republicans say that the president is ignoring the underlying problem, which is rising and ty cobb sentiments. Only going to attack lawabiding citizens, why doesnt the president just start by recanting the fund of the police . John all of this as we are reminded of the daily dangers that they face. A 19 year veteran of the force was killed in a shootout wednesday. He was targeted because he wore a Police Uniform and a badge, according to the chief, and new video shows that michigan officer breaking down after he shoots and kills a woman who fired at him first. Gillian the congresswoman will join us in just a second, but we began first with a rich at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Good afternoon, gillian. After a nationwide debate over the role that policing in the United States, President Biden and Merrick Garland will announce a series of proposals the administration is going to address crime in the United States here at the white house in just a couple of hours. Many of these target guns, creating Strike Forces to address Gun Trafficking, rules on ghost guns or homemade guns, Revoking Licenses of dealers the first time they violate federal laws and provide weapons to those banned from having them or failing to run a background check. They say addressing guns is confronting crime. There are major cities across the country where it is absolutely increasing, and that will be essential part of what we talk about. It is about more than that. It is about disrespecting and defunding our Law Enforcement. They should not be surprised when american citizens exercise their Second Amendment rights when they do not think that the police will be available. A part of these announcements, the Treasury Department says that is experiencing a surge in gun violence as a result of the pandemic may use covid coveted Release Funding to hire more Law Enforcement, pay for police overtime, or use that money and other ways to address gun violence. The Administration Says that money may also go to help teens get summer jobs or programs. They will call on congress to act as democrats have the slimmest of margins in the u. S. Senate. Gillian. Gillian live from the white house, thanks so much. John gillian, lets bring in nicole. She just met with nypd leadership. Congresswoman, thanks for joining us today. What did the leadership tell you . What are they looking for in order to combat the surge of crime . Well, it is clear that the rise in crime is directly related to policies that have been put in place by the city council and also Governor Cuomo and the state legislature. The bailout that was enacted by the governor is the number one reason why we are seeing crime sewer across almost every single major category. This is something that the fact that they gave us were alarming. 97 of those that are victims of shootings are black and latino. Secondly, when it comes to bail laws, 9 out of 10 individuals who are found an illegal firearm are released immediately right back out onto our streets. 50 of those that actually use a firearm and shoot someone are being released back out onto our streets because of that bail law. That coupled with crimes that are eligible for Immediate Release have led to the astounding numbers that we are seeing. Violence and other crimes. Assault, grand theft auto. That we are seeing in our streets, and on top of that, you have mayor de blasio cutting onesixth of the nypd budget, tying the hands of our Police Department. Taking away their qualified immunity protection, so this is certainly all a recipe for disaster, and last night in New York City, you saw both the democratic and republican side, that they picked individuals that they felt were Law And Order candidates would be most likely to restore Public Safety in New York City, and it speaks volumes because even on the democratic side, 77 of New York City democrats that they want more police on their streets, and they want the funding resort. John the second highest votegetter in the democratic primary yesterday as somebody who supports defunding the police, so you probably heard rich hensons report on what we are expecting President Biden to say this afternoon. A lot of this is going to center around guns. Certainly, there is a lot of Violent Crime that is committed with firearms, but are guns driving crime, or are criminals driving crime . Absolutely, criminals are driving crime, and one of the things that president could do is actually secure our border because if you speak to them, they will tell you that there is Gun Trafficking occurring at our southern borders, so that is number one. Number two, we go after the illegal firearms. We need to give the police the resources that they need to do their jobs. He needs to talk with mayors like mine, bill de blasio, that was responsible for going after those illegal guns, responsible for going after violent criminals, and they dismantled that. Taken off of our streets due to defunding. What does that mean for justice for families when you are investigating crimes and trying to get to the root of the problem . These are the things that we need the democrats to focus on. The kids use this agenda to fit their own narrative. They have to actually change the way that the Democratic Party is viewing our police and making being derogatory towards them, and stop the defunding of our Law Enforcement. Every major city we see the spike in crime . Democraticcontrolled city. John in terms of how the democrats the web, you mentioned that mayoral race and the primaries yesterday that work held in New York City. The top two vote getters, eric adams, the former Police Captain there from the nypd, as well as my oreilly. Lets listen to what they said about policing. Philosophical and intellectual, and talking about the theory of policing. You dont know this. I know this. I want to keep my city safe. I know this. We are going to stop the hiring of the next two police classes. We have a Police Department that is bloated. A 6 billion budget. John so you said that the majority voted in favor of policing, but there you have the top two outs vote getters, separated by 10 here and maybe a little bit more. What does that say about potentially the future of New York City . 77 of democrats that have been polled said that they want more. I think Maya Wiley Get that remaining percentage, and those numbers actually match up with those who would be viewed as anticop in the city. Thankfully i think she hit her ceiling, and she is not going to be picking up more votes in the second round. I hope that eric adams truly makes Public Safety a priority. And the founder of the Guardian Angels spent his career deterring crime on the streets of New York City, great candidate for the republican party, especially when it comes to this issue, so whatever the outcome will be in november, i do believe it is going to be a step up from bill de blasio, at the forefront of this fight. Im going to continue to push and make sure that we restore our plainclothes unit, restore funding for the nypd. Continue to get the resources our city needs to fight crime, and we continue to push for secure borders. John all right. We will keep watching. No question about that. Congresswoman nicole malliotakis, thanks for joining us. Fox news has now confirmed that Vice PresidentKamala Harris and El Hunter Hayek May Arcus will visit the u. S. Mexico border an. This will be just days before former President Donald Trump and republican lawmakers are planning to visit the border. It has been 91 days since President Biden named harris as the borders are. Republicans have heavily criticized her for not visiting the porter since then, though she has made trips to other places like guatemala if youre joining is now, senator ted cruz. It was her hand for us she had to get there before former President Trump . Of course it was. 94 days ago, she was named as borders are, and she demonstrated strong leadership by doing not damn thing, by doing everything she could to hide from the crisis. Frankly, that is the same thing joe biden is doing. She is emulating him and hiding from the crisis, so suddenly they realized, crap, weve got to do something. El paso is a lovely city. Beautiful place in texas. It is not also does not happen to be the locust of the crisis. The Rio Grande Valley isnt and for folks who are not from texas, let me give you a sense. It is on the western tip of texas. The Rio Grande Valley is on the southern tip. It is 800 miles away. To give you a sense of just how far they are, chicago, illinois, is closer to washington, d. C. , then el paso is to there. So she is going where the height of the problem isnt. Let me tell you what kamala needs to do. The kamala, you need to go to the Rio Grande Valley. You need to go to the facility, the tent city your administration has built that is massively overcapacity that has kids in cages. You need to look at the children in cages that you and joe biden put their and i that is endangering their safety, subjecting them to abuse and sexual assault, and there is a reason, john, she is not going there. Its not going to the Rio Grande Valley, because she does not want the cameras to see the joe biden cages with kids in cages. John there are a lot of people who say that she did not want to have that photograph or video to be replayed again and again, but in all fairness, the El Paso Sector is where the House Minority leader, kevin mccarthy, and a lot of republicans went. They also went to arizona. Sorry, the new mexico sectors as well, so republicans have been there all the walls of. Short. I have been to el paso many, many times. It is a wonderful community. It is a very important community, and there are certainly real problems with ilLegal Immigration in el paso, but there is a reason she doesnt want the tv cameras to show hundreds upon Hundreds And Thousands upon thousands of children lying sidebyside by side. You remember a couple of months ago, when i took 19 senators down to the border, and we went down to you that facility. It was built to hold a thousand people. The day we were there, there were over 4,200 people packed in that facility with a 10 covid positivity rate. Kamala harris needs to look in the eyes of the children who are suffering because of joe bidens failed immigration policy, and when she realizes this isnt working, that is when they need to and Catch And Release, and they need to reinstate the everyman in Mexico International agreement that has solved this problem until joe biden and Kamala Harris greeted up here gillian center, this is Gillian Turner along with john here in the d. C. Bureau. I am curious, despite everything you laid out, the criticism of the fact that this is coming late and she is going to el paso rather than rio grande, are you happy she is making this trip . It is something you and your colleagues have been calling for for months. Senator cotton just tweeted out reaction to the news. He said complete mistake. Kamala harris will find some way to make the crisis worse. So now it sounds like she is finally doing what you guys want her to do, but there is still a lot of unhappiness. Short, i am happy she is going to the border, but she doesnt have any solutions. She has gotten a lot of grief for not going to the border. Any rational person would say my gosh, if you are named in charge of the border, gillian, if the president called and said gillian is in charge, i am willing to bet within what . 24, 48, maybe 72 hours, you get on a plane and say if i am in charge of this thing, let me see what is going on . Gillian you well, we would have a lot of problems if i was tasked with handling the border tomorrow, but it is not just your republican colleagues who e been unhappy with this. A lot of americans who live along the border, they say that they need help. They need her eyes on the ground, or the president s eyes on the ground to understand, in addition to the northern triangle underlying problems, americas underlying problems. Speak out i think that is exactly right. We are seeing increased drugs and violence. This is a humanitarian disaster. It is a Public Health disaster, National Security disaster, and the thing that is important to understand, this is manmade. Joe biden and Kamala Harris cost of this when they reinstated the failed policy of Catch And Release. Remain in mexico was an International Agreement that President Trump had negotiated with mexico or mexico agreed that anyone who crossed illegally into mexico, they would stay there in mexico well they are u. S. Asylum case precedent, and it ended up working incredibly well. Last year, and the year 2020, we have the lowest rate of ilLegal Immigration and 45 years. It was incredibly successful. When joe biden and Kamala Harris tour that International Agreement to shreds, we went from the lowest rate in 45 years to today, the highest rate in over 20 years. We have already had half of a Million People come in illegally, and we are on pace for more than 2 Million People in the first year of the Bidenharris Administration. They need to fix it. The people of texas are on the front lines, paying the price, and the reason kamala waited 91 days is she knew if she went, tv cameras would come, and they were documents that human misery, the chaos and disaster that biden and harris are producing, and they dont have any answers because they have given the radical left a promise that they will not enforce the laws. They will not support people. They will have open borders, and they are causing the suffering right now. John we should point out that former President Trump as joss whedon, saying after months of ignoring the crisis at the southern border, it is great that weve got Kamala Harris to finally go and see the tremendous destruction and death theyve created, direct results of the biden ending my very tough but fair border policies. Now it is by far the worst, Governor Abbott and i were not going to the border next week, she would have never gone. You dont have any expectation, do you, that the Vice President will go visit the El Paso Sector and say oh, my goodness, what we are doing isnt working, we need to do something completely different. No, i think what she will say is we need to turn the Revolving Door even faster. As soon as we apprehend someone, we need to let them go even more quickly. They are trying to shift Illegal Immigrants all over the country, and it is really stunning. You go down to the border, and you see this caravan of people. It is not even that were to patrol agents are apprehending them. They turn themselves in because the Bidenharris Administration right now is the last mile of the Human Trafficking and human smuggling network. If the cartels get them just over the river, and then they find the administration, they will ship them to wherever they want to go, and kamalas only solution to that is less process even faster, and the result is tragically goin