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she was in the south tower and she made it out, she got caught up in the ash cloud. my mom fought cancer till her death. >> i don't know, what is it becoming? >> there's a line that gets crossed on the level of lies we talked about. we joked about things like the scarf and volleyball championship team. this is a different level. >> hey, everybody. k kaitlan and i are here, poppy is off today. we were talking about george santos, the question is is there no bottom? where does this end? it's one of his most brazen claims, his mom was inside the world trade center able to survive the 9/...

Was president and obviously, a lot has changed since then. >> yeah. kaitlan, you laid out some of the initiatives that the president is focusing on. the white house announced. i'm just curious. is there more specifics about what concrete steps the president is going to be laying out or wants to see happen in order to, as the chief's pointing to, strike this very difficult balance? >> well, i think that is the challenge really facing the white house is how do you actually bring these numbers down, how do you make people feel like this is something that the president is listening to, how do you ...

In new york and far beyond need to hear from the president, do you think? >> well, they need to hear support. i think that kaitlan laid it out very well toward the end of her comments there. the real challenge, most officers realize there's a need for reform, not only in policing but the entire criminal justice system but at the same time, they have to be able to address the rising violent crime that's occurring in our country. very, very real. and they want to hear something that really gives them the support they need to fight crime as long as they're doing it in a constitutional way. and at...

Has highlighted time and time again, never a theory that president biden himself subscribed to but a challenge for them to push back on some of the republican criticism to that extent and that's why you see biden come here today because he attracted a lot of similar like minded voters eric adams with these, the more moderate voters that have concerns about this. that's something you see him try to talk about today while addressing real concerns and nowhere more prevalent in recent weeks than in new york city where two officers were recently fatally shot, and so i think that is going to be kind...

Biden's first stop when he touches down. let's talk about this. cnn's kaitlan collins live in new york and joining us, chief charles ramsey. led police departments in philadelphia and washington, dc. he's a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. k kaitlan, what does the president want to do, accomplish today? >> the main thing the white house wants to be a takeaway here, president biden is focused on the levels of crime in this country, and the concern that you have seen show up in poll numbers among people about the crime that has been up since the pandemic and they want to make this stop today ...