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Readers were asked to rank Chicago nationally in murder rate. The options were first, third, fifth or seventh. Chicago has struggled mightily to contain violence, but its reputation has probably also been shaped by portrayals in film and TV; news coverage; and political messaging.

Former President Donald J. The reasons could include an opportunity to fault President Obama for not keeping his home city safe and to argue that gun restrictions are not able to stop violent crime. In general, Republicans have found big liberal cities inviting targets for criticism as part of racial politics.

Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans and Memphis are examples of large cities that have tended to have higher murder rates than Chicago in recent years, whether measuring by city limit or metro area. Chicago is larger than any of those, and so would tend to have higher totals. New York also tends to be viewed as violent. It endured 2, murders in , but by , the number had fallen below Readers fared a little better in assessing the trend in New York.

Still, 44 percent did not know that its murder rate has been below the national average in recent years, including last year. Nationwide, crime declined consistently for a quarter-century starting in the early s. In the quiz, only about four in 10 readers knew that the national murder rate last year was lower than the rate.

The question has been asked almost yearly since , and every year except for the public — usually by overwhelming margins — has said crime has increased. In other words, people tend to be more interested in hearing about potential threats they can act upon, like an approaching hurricane, a new virus or a crime spree that has been reported nearby. The rise in murder rate for is expected to be around 25 percent, the largest increase in U. That equates to roughly 20, murders last year. And yet overall crime went down, a fact that only 28 percent of readers knew.

Focus on this man, what he's doing that no president has ever done, no president. When I announced that you all said it's not possible, come on, give me a break, man.

It's a good start, million. Thank you. Now rather than seriously cover sippy cup and his failing agenda, his weakness abroad wannabe journalists, well, let's look at "The New York Times" and their full-time Donald Trump stalker Maggie Haberman, even as she is now supposed to be covering Biden.

Well, stalker Maggie appears to be obsessed still with all things Donald Trump and mostly ignoring the ever forgetful Joe, because get this a review foxnews. And remember, it was stalker Maggie Haberman and "The New York Times" and those partisan socialist hacks, remember, they won the once prestigious Pulitzer Prize in for their Russia collusion coverage which, of course, turned out to be completely and totally false, totally based on bad sources, bad information, bad journalism, bad writing and total fake news left-wing partisan radical agenda.

Maggie, I'll ask again, when are you going to admit your mistakes, correct the record, return your fake Pulitzer and admit who you are? You've now become a full-time Donald Trump stalker. You're not covering Joe Biden the way you cover Donald Trump. You're not capable of it. The mob, the media, they miss Trump more than anyone else in the country.

Maybe Maggie and other stalkers at "The New York Times", her colleagues, maybe they want us to get Trump bobbleheads for them so they can put pins in it at night. They were wrong again and again and again.

They spread lie after lie, conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory to you the American people, and it went on for three long years. That never ended up being -- that ended up being a totally misleading story.

It failed to explain that the lawyer in the infamous Trump Tower meeting was tied to Fusion GPS, you know, Glenn Simpson, the guy that hired Christopher Steele to put together the fake Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier, and by the way later was used uncorroborated in FISA applications to spy on candidate Trump and later President Trump. Maggie, and your fellow "New York Times" Trump stalkers, you blew the biggest story in your career.

You never told your readers the truth. You never told them that dossier was garbage, full of lies, propaganda, Russian misinformation. This is not journalism. You know, you have now become basically the press office for all things New Green Deal socialism. And if the Pulitzer committee had any integrity, if you had any integrity, if "The New York Times" had any integrity, you would return that phony Pulitzer or at least they'd take it back. Maggie and her leftist hack colleagues at "The New York Times", they lied, they got a phony reward for it and the paper tonight is already doing damage control, tweeting out: Maggie Haberman is one of the finest journalists of her generation.

No, she's not and let me just say that tweet will not age well. Have they really done a deep dive into Joe's schedule less than what one item a day? What his staff is really, you know, thinking about him? Why aren't they investigating those important stories? They amplify the same lies, the same agenda, they smear Republicans, they obsess over Trump, they hide truth, they protect Democrats.

You know, there's a lot of ways to lie. They lie by just outright lying. They got a Pulitzer Prize for stories that were phony. Now if they had any integrity I would imagine they would give that Pulitzer back.

Do you see that day coming? I'm pretty sure we're not going to see them give the Pulitzer back. It's become a prize for fiction for the most part, and your monologue was spot on about the malpractice of journalism and how it's been so absolutely disgusting. They're still obsessed with Donald Trump. I mean, he's living rent free in all of their heads.

Not only is he living rent free, I think he's charging them. It's just an amazing experience to watch that they can't seem to let go. And part of it is, Sean, they can't really report about the Joe Biden administration because if they did it honestly, they'd be reporting pretty much a scandal every day, not just from the fact that you've got Kamala Harris who's now almost 90 days and still hadn't shown up at the border, but you've got the Hunter Biden controversy.

The fact that Joe outright lied about having never had conversations with his son or anyone else about business when we know he did at the cafe right there in D. I still think about it. I still can. I might do it. I've got other things in my life to worry about uh than they're lying but it's damaging.

I've interviewed James O'Keefe, he said under no circumstances is he ever going to settle. I don't really care how much insurance they have. Discovery, that means we may get to see their emails.

We may get to see their text messages. We may get to see their -- the internal workings of "The New York Times" and I would imagine that that might be quite interesting. It was Justice Scalia who pointed out that it's so hard to win a defamation case against one of these publications because you have to prove actual malice.

Well, I'm pretty sure if you got access to the personal text messages of a "New York Times" reporter or a "Washington Post" reporter, you may find that actual malice against you, a conservative President Trump, James O'Keefe or others, because here is the sad truth about the garbage that is being spewed on the front pages of these two papers in particular, the beat of these reporters is not the White House. It is hatred of Donald Trump and their currency is leaks. They depend on leaks.

If you notice the people who have the worst reputations in conservative circles in Washington or in the TV realm are people who don't leak to these papers. There is a reason for that. They depend on it. They thrive on it, and make no mistake hatred of Donald Trump is their motive.

Why would they not want to cover -- it says at the top of a FISA application "verified", and four of them were signed but yet they're unverifiable because we now know the information in the dossier was false? Why wouldn't they cover that aspect? Why wouldn't they be interested in the fact that Joe Biden appears to be cognitively a mess, to put it nicely? HUCKABEE: The simple answer to that, Sean, is that journalists today no longer wear striped shirts and consider themselves the referees of the game, calling balls and strikes and trying to really make sure the game is played fairly.

These are people who every day put on a team jersey. They're on team Biden. They're on team left. And they go to the field not to report the news but to create the news, and to shield the average American from the news.

I mean, this stuff that's going on right now about Stacey Abrams and we're finding out that she's now saying she'll support Joe Biden's -- not Joe Biden -- but Joe Manchin's bill about voting and voter ID, you just played a number of things where it was revealed -- look, she's got more flip-flops than a Jimmy Buffett concert for heaven's sakes.

So there's just no credibility. And that's why people have so little respect or even confidence whatsoever in the media anymore. All right. We move on tonight. The failures of the Democratic agenda are leading to more and more violence on streets all across the country.

And while Democrats try and run from this truth and reality and run from the destruction that the far left extreme agenda is causing the country and real pain inflicted on these residents, it's now undeniable yet again this weekend, a wave of shootings hit the city of Chicago over four dozen shootings this weekend.

In Chicago alone, 50 plus people shot, including this sick and twisted attack. Look at this, a married couple literally following an apparent fender bender after the city's Puerto Rican Day parade on Sunday, dragged from their car and shot execution style pretty much in cold blood.

The man, year-old Giovanni Arzuaga, he's dead. His year-old girlfriend, she's fighting for her life tonight and police say no one is in custody. Interesting, I doubt you've heard the name before right now. How is it 50 people are shot and most of America doesn't know the name of one of them? We've been running names and scrolling names on this show since when Biden was vice president. And this was Obama's home city.

Mayor Lori Lightweight, you're a complete failure. You have let your city completely deteriorate. It's now devolved into a total war zone. You can't have a pursuit of happiness in any way without law and order in simple safety and security. May be focused a little less on attacking Republicans and looking at the race of reporters that cover you and fueling divisive woke politics and may be focus on what's going on in your backyard, in your city that you claim to care about.

You along with comrade Bill de Blasio, so many others, failed Democratic mayors and governors, complete disgrace to this country and are not protecting the citizens you're supposed to protect, you're not being the public servants you swore to be. If you can't protect basic safety and security, law and order, if you can't support the police and you support no bail -- well, then, it's time for you to resign and let somebody in that will protect the people of your city and your state.

It's not just Chicago. New York City prosecutors, get this, they're now dropping charges against hundreds of rioters and looters that were caught last summer during the unrest better known as rioting, exposing yet again that this is a failed socialist city and state. They're going to stalk Donald Trump and, well, did he pay every penny of every tax going back the last 39 years of his life, but do nothing to save the lives of innocent people? We have people on videotape committing acts of arson and looting.

We have their identities. We have their videos. We have their pictures. We have all the evidence we need. We're not doing a thing.

You know, are we going to create a city with normal common sense law abiding Americans where they can pursue their lives. What's going on in these Democratic-run hell holes is an abomination. It's unacceptable. It's preventable. It's unconscionable. Unfortunately, it's not at all surprising.

It's a natural consequence of what Democratic rule does to everything around it. It works like clockwork. Far left extremist take no responsibility, defund, dismantle, no bail laws, and look what's happened. So this rising crime is not the fault of the movement, it's actually the fault of the police and this has been our point all along. Why should we keep funding systems and institutions that keep rendering themselves ineffective?

We should be talking about gun control, livable wages, fair housing, education. That's where we should be moving the money to, to ensure truly safe streets. You know, Larry, I'm looking at your reaction. I'm looking at Leo's reaction. Larry, I'll start with you. We do this every week every Monday, we can come on the air give you the names of 50 people shot in Chicago, 50 people shot in New York, every other city, nobody knows their names, Larry.

Nobody seems to care about their names because they can't politicize it. And Michelle said, no, because as a black man, Barack could be shot at a gas station in Chicago. She wasn't talking about QAnon. She wasn't talking about white nationalists. She's talking about the crime in Chicago. It's one of those candid moments. And Kamala Harris in Guatemala talked about root causes. Why aren't we talking about the root causes here? And they include, as you pointed out, the defund the police movement, Black Lives Matter, the lie that the police are engaging in systemic racism, the pressure that police officers are now under for fear of being accused of racism.

They're pulling back. Surprise, surprise, crime has gotten up and not least to which, the major root cause, fatherlessness job not just in the black community but in the Hispanic community and in the white community and we're not having a conversation about that at all. They just don't give a Schiff, seriously, about these lives. Or else HANNITY: No, seriously, we would -- we would know the names of the people every weekend shot if they cared about lives mattering, these lives -- names were scrolling would matter.

We have a record number of police officers killed in the line of duty this year. This is all on top of last year's record. So the problem gets worse but we'll hear about the one the two cases that they can use politically to bludgeon Republicans. Because they exploit and they use black people. That's all they use them for.

They don't use them to progress them. They don't use them to improve schools. Lori Lightfoot is a political gangster. She's cut a deal. She's not going to go after the gangs. She's going to go after white reporters. She's going to go after gun control of law-abiding citizen. She ignored the help of Donald Trump but she's begging for help from Joe Biden because she wants to make it a gun issue. She wants to make it a pandemic, a pandemic issue.

But she allows the gang members the career criminals to flourish in Chicago. She got -- Al Capone got nothing on Lori Lightfoot. She is a gangster, and she's cut a deal with the Chicago gangs and she's going to allow them to flourish, and she's going to -- at the expense of minorities. It's ridiculous. It's shameful. But we're the only show doing it. We're the only show saying every one of these lives matter.

We know how to fix this. If they want to fix it, they can fix it. They clearly don't want to. At some point, they're aiding and abetting this ongoing death and violence and destruction. When we come back, shocking examples, two-tiered system of justice -- well, if you don't like Trump, well, you can pretty much get away with anything.

Also, later, a Wyoming rancher, personal story, suing the Biden administration. Wait until you hear her story about racial discrimination, yup, in the year , straight ahead. Now, despite mountains of evidence, including countless surveillance videos and photos and social media posts from offenders, admitting guilt -- well, the New York D.

Cyrus Vance Jr. How do you think you're going to stop arson? How do you stop lawlessness? How do you stop looting if you give people a get-out-of-jail-free card? Meanwhile, even former members of the Obama administration are starting to criticize the zero experience Hunter.

Former Obama ethics chief Walter Shaub, he's now calling Hunter's upcoming art show in which he's selling his art at massively inflated prices to anonymous buyers, he called it shameful and grifty.

Five hundred thousand dollars, what. This art show which, you know, really should be called that, is just the latest of zero experience Hunter and his quest that seems -- well, never- ending to get as much money as possible living off his dad's name. Now, recently revealed text messages show that he called his lawyer the N- word, made several racial slurs about Asian-Americans. He abandoned the mother of his own child and tried to kick her off her health insurance right after she gave birth to his child.

He lied on a gun application, then he put the gun in a dumpster. Imagine if a Trump did that. He took money from the first lady of Moscow. In addition to money from Ukraine and oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Russia and, of course, a Chinese national shopping spree in the bank of China deal, tied to the Chinese military. Imagine the outrage that would ensue with Maggie Haberman and her colleagues at "The New York Times" if one of the Trump kids ever did one of these things.

Well, you'd never -- they'd never stop their coverage ever. Yet zero experience Hunter, Joe Biden, they get their free pass, and one after another for their corrupt actions. Professor, I'll start with you. Just from a pure legal standpoint, if you want to stop arson and you want to stop looting, and you have evidence that includes videotapes and pictures of the people involved in the crimes, that's kind of incontrovertible in a court of law -- at least my understanding of the law.

Why would you let people get off the hook like that? If you're going to prosecute the people who broke into the Capitol building, people who went in innocently, I have a client who was a law student who was invited in by the police didn't do anything unlawful and they're going after him for a felony. If you're going to do that, you have to apply the same standard of justice to people on the left who did comparable things in New York or in Portland, Oregon or other places.

You must have a single standard of justice. The same thing is true with the Hunter Biden or anybody else. You should have a single standard of justice.

There should be an ethics czar that is neutral and non-partisan. And the second rule I think we should have generally is you don't blame candidates or presidents for what their children or family members did. You blame them for what they do hold them individually responsible. But the most important thing is a single standard of justice you can't have Republican justice, Democrat justice, Trump justice and Biden justice.

We know what the media coverage would be like and we know what the prosecutors would do.