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New York City Failing - April 1st, Hour 1

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How many of you, maybe this this weekend, this Easter weekend had an opportunity to watch the eulogy of the wife of this slain officer Jonathan Diller.
It was about nine minutes.
We're gonna we're gonna play this and how powerful it was.
She got a standing ovation as she was about to give the eulogy.
And, you know, just as a reminder, I mean, they have a one-year-old, this this one-year-old little boy that they have together, and that's the officer Jonathan Diller, and of course his wife Stephanie.
I my my thoughts, my prayers, my love goes out to them.
Uh, I know the community of Massapequa well.
I grew up in Long Island, have many friends in Massapequa.
It's a town that you know is patriotic.
They love God, family, faith, and and country.
It's in Nassau County, Long Island, where I happen to grow up, which is not it's not New York City, I'll tell you that.
And a lot of a lot of firemen, a lot of policemen, a lot of military personnel out there.
And, you know, very, very interesting.
The Nassau County executive, a guy by the name of Bruce Blakeman, he was there.
Donald Trump showed up there for the wake on on Friday night.
I know it meant a lot to the family, and I can tell you that I know for a fact that it meant a lot to Donald Trump, although he's he's being criticized for doing it.
Meanwhile, you had three other U.S. presidents, Obama, Biden, Clinton.
You know, they were raising 25 million trashing Trump uh at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night when Trump was at the wake for this this slain officer.
I mean, the the recidivism rate of of the people involved in this.
Um, the guy uh guy Rivera, the 34-year-old suspected of fatally shooting Jonathan Diller.
This was a simple traffic stop.
He's now being charged with murder in the officer's death, an attempted murder for allegedly trying to turn the gun on his partner.
And anyway, we'll we'll see what what happens in New York, but it was, you know, he had three presidents in town.
They couldn't go and spend a few minutes with the family.
Uh well, Donald Trump didn't go to every officer's death.
No, but nor was he looking at his watch when he would go uh and and meet the families of slain soldiers uh when they were brought back home to the country.
He wasn't looking at his watch the way Biden did.
I think it was when the 13 Americans were slain in Afghanistan during his his botched pull-out out of Afghanistan.
Uh all this officer did was his job.
They approached a car that police say was uh illegally parked at a bus stop.
That's that's their job.
That's what they're supposed to do.
When they asked the occupants to step out of the vehicle, well, anyway, the the driver, you know, opens fire.
I'm sorry, the guy in the passenger seat, Rivera opens fire against this officer, and the first bullet hit officer Jonathan Diller in the stomach below his vest.
Obviously, we have to rethink that vest.
But anyway, then they tried then they tried to turn the gun on Rosen, who fought back, pushed the barrel away from his body, thankfully, according to court documents.
And allegedly, you know, Rivera allegedly aimed at Rosen again and pulled the trigger, but the gun thankfully jammed.
And anyway, community members poured out the town of Massapequa, wonderful people there.
You know, they were out last week for a candlelight vigil for Diller.
Again, he he leaves behind a a wife and a one-year-old little boy.
Later in the program, I'm gonna play nine minutes of the eulogy so you can hear it yourself and and just you know, just try and imagine for a second.
I gotta thank our friends at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
They immediately, thanks to all of your generosity, uh, they immediately jumped in.
They're gonna help this family out.
Both men involved in this had lengthy rap sheets, prior felony convictions.
Why were they out on the street?
Rivera had 21 Prior arrests, nine of them for felonies.
And he recently got off, got off parole.
The other guy was convicted of attempted murder in 02, served time in prison, but he's out on the streets despite a pending felony firearms case from last year.
Great job with these liberal DAs in this case in the Queen's DA's office.
Anyway, so all these people are out there.
There is a GoFundMe for anybody that would like to donate to the family.
I know David Portnoy apparently over at Barstool raised a fortune for this family.
And I I just, you know, it just is so sad.
And to listen to this widow, thankfully, I was it was heart wrenching, frankly, but I was happy to see it when she got a standing ovation when she approached the church lector and to deliver her remarks, and obviously fighting back tears, thanking the public for the outpouring of support following her husband's death and saying that I'm so proud of the thousands of people across this country calling Jonathan a hero, but the truth is he's always been a hero to Ryan and me.
The rest of the world is just catching up and saying how many more police officers, how many more families have to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them?
I know maybe we take it for granted, but when I when I show you videotape of cops getting the crap beaten out of them in Times Square in New York, I'm not showing it to you for kicks and giggles.
This is what life is now like in New York City every day.
What officer wants that job?
What officer wants to get involved?
She closed her eulogy by saying, When the gates of heaven open for me, I hope I'll I'll see Jonathan standing there looking at me like he did on our wedding day.
How sad is that?
How unnecessary is that?
How is it that our justice system is that broken?
Rest in peace, Jonathan Diller, the man that captured my heart, and now all of New York's, frankly, all of the countries.
You know, it's um it's so sad and it's so predictable and it's so unnecessary.
You know, this doesn't have to be the America we're now living in.
Now, the family of the slain hero, you know, told Governor Hochel she has blood on her hands.
What do you think defund, dismantle, reimagine, no bail laws?
Well, they haven't done a damn thing in the in New York about this.
Want to know one of the reasons I I I couldn't stay there anymore, and I made that decision a long time ago.
I just had obligations that kept me there.
This is one of the main reasons.
One of the main.
Well, you're doing it because you're saving money.
That's one of the reasons, but it's not the top reason.
It's not the same state I grew up in.
It just isn't.
It was good to see that President Trump went there.
You know, I will tell you, I learned this yesterday happened to be the anniversary of my father dying in March 31st, 1997.
Uh, what is that, 27 years ago?
And it was six months after I started at Fox News.
Now, my mom and dad weren't sure if I was gonna, my mom in the prison guard wasn't sure if I was gonna end up on the other side of the prison, and I joke about that, but you know, they were good people that had the hardest of of lives and grew up just poor in the depression.
My dad in bed style, my mom and then the South Bronx, and they just didn't have money.
My dad spent four years in the Pacific, fought in uh World War II, and uh and they just had much harder lives.
My mom killed herself pretty much working 16-hour days at a prison as a prison guard.
She was the valedictorian of her high school class.
She could do the New York Times crossroad puzzle in Inc.
for crying out loud.
And there was no no money for something like college that didn't exist.
And, you know, it's I know I stand on their shoulders.
That's why I say I'm living an undeserved life that others before me sacrificed for.
I just know it.
But I learned at my father's funeral, I mean, and ever since, and Linda can attest to this.
If I hear anybody that I know loses a loved one or a family member, you know, I either send food and or you know, flowers.
Because little little gestures like that mean things to people.
All the people of Massapequa that took time to show up this weekend, it made me proud of them.
I was happy they were there.
But you you probably, you know, you're just part of a crowd, but the sheer size of that crowd meant everything to them.
And we're living now in a upside down world where you still have people on the left that want to defund, dismantle, reimagine the police and no bail laws, but they'll they'll throw the book at Trump.
I can give you a list of crimes that I I just chronicled.
This is part of my research every day.
I don't have time to mention it every day.
You know, but you had a boardwalk empire actor attacked by rock wielding homeless guy in near Central Park.
That's in New York.
Have a woman 75 stabbed multiple times in the head by a parolee, followed her into a Bronx elevator.
You had Chicago, 32 people shot this weekend, a number of them fatally shot.
You can predict that on pretty much every weekend.
How many times have I scrolled the names of people you never heard of before?
Shot, shot, and killed in Chicago.
I've been doing it on TV since 2009, and these politicians don't do a damn thing to make their city safer.
Why not?
Why didn't Obama do it?
It was his home city.
I've been scrolling those names since the first year he was president.
He had eight years to fix this.
Downtown LA slammed as a third world city.
Videos of homeless camped out, trash covered sidewalks, people defecating in the streets, shooting up in the street, urinating in the street.
Oh, finally Gavin Newsom has figured out that they have a crime problem in Oakland.
He's going to put up 500 cameras.
Big deal.
What are they going to do?
Probably nothing.
Three juvenile girls arrested in Connecticut.
Why?
For the murder of a 64-year-old Northwest DC man.
Well, what did they get no bail to?
They get a slap on the wrist.
They'll be out in a couple of years.
It's unbelievable.
A report on Fox that Muriel Bowser is proposing a plan to hold parents in the district accountable if their kids missed too many school days.
Okay, why don't we go after the hard criminals first?
A woman 75 stabbed multiple times in the head by a parolee.
I just told you about her.
A disabled Washington, D.C. man beaten to death by three girls aged 12 and 13.
We showed you the Missouri place.
Know what the latest game in New York City is?
Sucker punching people, just hitting him, just running up to them, breaking their jaw.
I know how to do a targeted strike to break somebody's jaw.
If you know how to do it, it's very effective.
Wouldn't want to ever do it against anybody because it's you know, but but they get away with it every time.
They're not getting caught.
They're not getting arrested.
If they're arrested, they're let out on bail.
You know, remember the the guys beating up the cops?
They were out in just a couple of hours flipping the double bird and heading out to the sanctuary state of California.
You just can't make this up.
These are unbelie unbelievable times we're looking in looking at.
I've been warning you when about Joe Biden's open borders.
How many times have I said this is now it's a matter of when?
It's not if we're gonna have a terrorist attack in this country.
You can't have tens and tens of thousands of people coming from our number one geopolitical foe China, and then you had Russia to the mix, and then you had Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, and then you had Syria, and then you had Egypt and Afghanistan.
Why are they showing up at our southern border?
You think they wanted better lives for themselves and their family?
What about the former retired top FBI officials writing a letter saying this is an invasion of military age men?
You know, there was a piece out today that ISIS is back and the U.S. doesn't care and they're ignoring it.
ISIS in the U.S., I'm telling you, when it happens, I've been warning this is gonna happen in the hopes that somebody might do something.
But they just want more open borders.
More and more and more open borders.
I got a lot to talk about regarding this today.
But this is the country that we're living in.
If this election is about Joe's open borders, about law and Order and safety and security about his horrific economy, in spite of him saying just the opposite.
If this election is about America abdicating its role on the world stage as the leader of the free world, and and now the emergence of a new axis of evil, China, Russia, Iran.
You know, it this is a this is a prescription for unmitigated disaster.
You don't think it can happen?
Go back to the last century.
Mao, China, Stalin, Russia, Hitler, Germany, Mussolini, Italy, Paul Pot, Killing Fields, Tojo, Japan, a hundred million humans dead in that century alone.
You don't think evil, more evil can happen on a mass scale?
Wake up.
Because it's probably now when, not if the election in two hundred and seventeen days, you don't think this is an inflection point for this country?
You don't think this is a referendum on our future?
You don't think that this is a all hands on deck moment?
Then you don't know what the hell's going on.
But you hate Trump.
Trump, Trump Trump.
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Uh also uh huge controversy broke out over the weekend over this issue of not only yesterday being Easter Sunday, but Joe Biden's proclamation that of recognizing the quote transgender day of visibility on Easter Sunday.
We have Caitlin General join us who put on X. I'm absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most holy of holy days, a self-proclaimed devout Catholic as transgender day of visibility.
The only thing you should be declaring on this day is he is risen.
So we'll check in with Caitlin on that issue.
By the way, breaking news, a suspect arrested after crashing the car into the FBI Atlanta gate will update you as necessary on that issue.
The FBI Atlanta gate will update you.
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If you want to be a part of the program, Joe Biden now restoring, promising to restore Roe v.
Wade as the law of the land.
You know, they they're so desperate to shore up their base and literally in invigorate the radicals in their party.
I mean, now Kamala Harris is me going to abortion clinics.
No president or vice president had ever done that before.
Wasn't long ago Clinton said it should be legal and rare.
That party has become that extreme since then.
Uh then, of course, Kamala Harris meeting with the you know pro-drug legalization groups, and then Kamala Harris, of course, you know, turning on Israel in a vicious way, a dangerous way, as they battled their war against terrorists.
Anyway, so there's a lot going on, but that's Biden's pledge is to make Roe v.
Wade law of the land, and that's where pre-born networks come in.
And Linda, I know this is a particular passion of yours.
Yeah, and if this is the thing that we've been talking about, you know, all during holy week, you know, now we've got Easter Sunday, they're trying to take that away.
You know, these these babies have a right, they have their own voice too.
And who is the government to take your money and put it towards Planned Parenthood and let them make the decision?
You make your decision.
You take that money back.
If you want to donate to a place like preborn, you're giving a voice the voiceless a voice, you know, and they need it more than ever now because these people can't wait to take your money and put it to all of their special interest crap.
So it's about time we take it back.
Give it to an amazing organization like Preborn.
They're doing everything they can to give these moms the truth and the options, and a full year of coverage afterwards, formula, diapers, all the things you're not thinking about, because they don't have anybody else to turn to, but preborn is there.
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I told you the headline, ISIS is back, and the U.S. doesn't care, and they're ignoring it.
This is scary.
Now, uh, that was on Fox News.com in the Wall Street Journal.
I mean, this is a one-time top military official that served under Biden, uh, is pointing out America's far more vulnerable to a terrorist attack by ISIS K than it was before Biden became president.
This is General Frank McKenzie in charge of U.S. forces in Afghanistan during Biden's withdrawal.
We now know the military did not want to do what Biden insisted that they do, and he's obviously the commander in chief.
He said, We should believe them when they say this.
They're they're going to try to do it.
I think the threat is growing.
I've not been the biggest fan of Director Ray of the FBI, but he could not be any more clear in his last two appearances before Congress, how dangerous this threat is.
He's never heard chatter this loud.
He's never heard threats on this level ever before in his career.
Are you listening, America?
And maybe they should stop investigating uh moms and dads at school board meeting as domestic terrorists and focus on real terrorists.
Uh, but anyway, McKenzie goes on to say the threat is growing, and it started growing as soon as we left Afghanistan, and he's and we know that Al Qaeda training camps have been growing in Afghanistan also.
Add that to the mix.
You know, that that goes to the heart of all the people coming from Iran, number one state sponsor of terror.
They're satellite Syria, Egypt, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, Afghanistan, home of Al Qaeda and ISIS K. I mean, this is all real.
You know, and this general is saying, you know, expect further attempts of this nature against the U.S. as well as our partners and other wet Western nations abroad.
Biden assured the American people when he left Afghanistan that the U.S. would retain an over-the-horizon ability to monitor terrorists there, but he said that is not true now.
In Afghanistan, we have almost no availability to see into that country and no availability to strike into that country.
Not good.
Add that to Joe's open borders, and we know the countries they're coming from.
And what do we have?
Joe Biden taking Governor Abbott and Texas to court every chance he gets.
We had a ruling this weekend.
An El Paso judge ordering the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants, accused of involvement in the border riot that we showed you to that took place what last week or the week before.
when these weeks run together.
The judge made the ruling yesterday during an online teleconference bond hearing.
He accused the El Paso DA's office of not being ready to proceed with detention hearings of each defendant.
It is the ruling of the court that all the rioting participating cases will be released on their own recognizance.
How stupid are we?
these guys were celebrating after they got into the country i've been pointing out that our government does not keep statistics on on illegal immigrants that are involved in murder and rape and violent assault well Well, ICE did put out a press release, and they're pointing out the mob in the media is telling us that the crime rate among Biden illegals is actually lower than American citizens.
Well, it doesn't sound like it.
ICE said, quote, in fiscal year 2023, that they made 170,590 administrative arrests, a 19.5% increase over the previous year, arresting 73,822 non citizens that have a criminal history.
Who's the one been telling you unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants?
Those that have those arrested had an average of four charges and convictions per individual, including 33,209 charges of convictions for assault, 7,520 for weapons offenses, 1,713 for homicide related offenses, 1,615 for kidnapping removal uh kidnappings, And we don't even we don't even deport these people.
These are the unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants.
Now, Congressional Republicans are accusing Biden of aiding and abetting my term, by the way, an illegal immigrant is accused of raping and disabling a 14-year-old girl.
This in Alabama.
I've been telling you about this case.
Anyway, this is one of Biden's illegals.
Name is Pablo Mendoza.
He's 23, reportedly committed first degree rape, having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
The girl could not consent.
The girl was, quote, physically helpless and mentally incapacitated.
Reacting to this, Congressman Wesley Hunt wrote on X, Joe Biden did this in reference to the president's immigration policy.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville took to X, said he's an illegal alien who was just arrested in South Alabama for raping a mentally incapacitated 14-year-old girl.
Joe Biden is aiding and abetting these monsters.
How many more examples does this country need?
If you don't think this election matters, if you don't think this is a tipping point in 217 days, what is it going to take for you?
Are you happy with what's happening at our border?
Are you not seeing this threat for what it is?
Do you think that I'm lying to you when I say it's 100% it's gonna happen?
That we've now allowed terror cells into our country, unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants from our top geopolitical foes.
You don't have to be a genius, a Havid or MIT grad to figure this out.
It's it's when it's not if.
And I still add, I pray I'm wrong.
I pray to God in heaven that I am wrong.
Massachusetts Democrats say they're gonna use veterans housing for Biden illegal immigrants.
You gotta be kidding me.
And what and what do we get out of Joe Biden?
Did we get a correction to Lake and Riley's family that her name isn't Lincoln?
No.
We got the uh I regret using the term illegal, uh I should have said undocumented.
And now we know that the Mexican uh this this Mexican president uh goes on 60 minutes, and what is he?
He's lecturing America.
We're not gonna shut down our border until you change your policy on Cuba, and you change your policy on Venezuela.
It's okay, and it's it's okay for what, the American people to get lectured by the Mexican president that is aiding and abetting this invasion, according to FBI former top luminaries.
Really?
An invasion of military men to quote them exactly, and then demanding 20 billion dollars and allowing illegal illegals from Mexico to become full-fledged citizens?
You gotta be kidding me.
You think that would happen under Donald Trump?
You know, the guy that sends out mean tweets, that guy?
No, I don't think so.
It's unreal.
These are I I cannot believe.
Do you not know that this is an inflection point for the country?
Do you not see it for what it is?
You not see the radicals now have taken over the Democratic Party.
Joe, Joe Lieberman passed away.
I was friends with Joe Lieberman.
He's a Democrat, got along with fabulously.
Very tough.
We agreed on most foreign policy issues.
We agreed little on social issues, but he was a very kind and decent man.
My thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family, his wonderful wife, Adasa, who I know.
I've reached out to them.
I've not been able to get a hold of them.
I've tried.
I want to just send my condolences.
But I got along great with him.
And then he lost, he was the former vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 2000.
He ran with Gore.
Then he lost the Democratic primary.
That was the canary in the coal mine about how radical left this party was going to go.
And sure enough, you know, then he became part of the No Labels Party, you know, movement.
I don't know how far they're ever going to get.
By the way, we not learning a lot about Robert Kennedy's platform now.
No wonder why Democrats have opened a war Room to destroy that guy.
You know, look at this radical party.
Now you have this guy, Jamal Bowman.
Wasn't he the guy that pulled the fire alarm?
I think it was him.
A squad member.
You know, now joining Biden and Schumer and Harris attacking Israel.
Israel was attacked.
They were victims of a terrorist attack.
And we're trying to tell Israel how to fight their war and when to end their war?
No, they've got to win their war against terrorism.
They lost the equivalent of what it would be if you base it on population and extrapolate out the numbers.
That would be 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
You want them to stop and you want to cease fire, and they're fighting the war to win the war, and you're going to be critical?
Well, would we have taken that?
I don't think so.
But you have more and more administration officials, they're bailing out on Israel day in and day out.
I'm not sure how many of you saw the incident that took place at St. Patrick's this past weekend.
I remember years ago the group act up went in there and they were throwing around condoms all over the church.
Well, this weekend you got attention seeking protesters, you know, previously, who you know, previously, one of whom previously glued his feet to the stands at the U.S. Open as part of their climate alarmism cult.
Anyway, they were now hauled out of St. Patrick's Cathedral, disrupting Easter Sunday Mass with the shouts of free Palestine on Saturday.
Police were called to the Midtown Cathedral because of what was happening.
They literally were racing to the altar of a Catholic mass during during services on Easter.
Unbelievable.
Democratic National Committee now is using AI to attack Laura Trump.
you And anyway, they take a name at the new Republican National Committee co-chair, not unlike the way NBC treated Ronda McDaniel.
And they, you know, they're writing songs to her.
Oh, Lyra Lara, what have you done?
What have you done?
Anyway, she'll respond on Hannity tonight.
It's just unbelievable.
The times we are living in are unbelievable.
We also have Speaker of the House Johnson.
I know a lot of you are angry with him.
I'm I'm I'll tell you, I'm more angry at the Republican rhinos that he has to deal with.
And they have such a tiny majority.
I'm telling you straight up.
And we have more Republicans bailing out.
I guess they have financial motives and incentives to do so.
It's really pissing me off.
You don't think this is an inflection point for the country?
What about the Biden administration having finalized the long-awaited regulations that target emissions generated from 18 wheelers and trucks and buses?
They now apply to uh short haul, long-haul tractor trailer trucks, vocational trucks like delivery vehicles, garbage trucks, school and public transit, buses, concrete trucks, fire trucks.
Let me just tell you right now, this means all of you will pay more.
These rules kick in in 2026 for model year 2027.
They become more stringent through 2032, and they're forcing a larger number of trucks and buses to zero emissions.
They're trying to make them all electric.
America is rejecting electric vehicles.
It's unbelievable.
Want to know how crazy the left is?
You know, they're they're now doing this.
Biden's EV mandate now is severely limiting how many conventional vehicles automakers can produce.
You have one EV maker having to slash their prices because they're trying to avoid bankruptcy.
Fisker is the name of the company.
I'm not even aware of it.
It's it's pretty unbelievable.
You want to know how radical the left wingers are?
Because this is not just Joe, it's the entire Democratic Radical Party.
You have a pair of alleged squatters accused of unlawfully moving into a Queen's duplex.
They're suing the owners of that for refusing to vacate their own home.
Thankfully, Florida just passed a squatter law.
Every other state should pass one as well.
And by the way, you want to think that's you think that's bad?
I happen to like, I don't know how Linda, what you like the most, but I happen to like thin crust uh pizzas that are made with wood and coal fired ovens.
That's my favorite.
Okay, to be my favorite.
Okay.
So now all of these these pizza places are gonna have to adapt and get rid of their coal fired and wood fired stoves.
That's how they make their living.
How many tens of thousands of dollars are they gonna cost these companies?
They can then knock it.
You don't make that much from a pizza.
You can only charge so much before people say the hell with it.
They're gonna do without it.
Unbelievable.
217 days.
Hope you're ready.
All right, when we come back, 217 days till an inflection point in our country.
We'll get the latest on the pending election.
We'll check in with New Kingrich.
And yeah, why did Joe Biden on Easter Sunday put out a proclamation?
Uh transgender day of visibility.
We'll ask Caitlin Jenner.
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