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anti-israel protests continued at colleges across the country this week as the growing campus unrest threatens to complicate joe biden's re-election bid. the president is scrambling to shore up support among his progressive base with a focus on abortion rights, student loan forgiveness and climate change, but his handling of the israel-hamas if war is being closely watched by younger voters and arab-americans in key swing states. both president biden and former president donald trump weighed in on the protests this week. >> i condemn the anti-semitic protests, that's why i've set up a program dealing with that the. i also condemn voters who don't understand what's going on with the palestinians. >> what's gown on at the college level at these colleges, column ya, nyu and others is a disclass, and it's a -- it's really on biden. he has the wrong signal, he's got the wrong tone, he's got the wrong words. he doesn't know who he's backing, and it's a mess.

paul: let's bring in "wall street journal" columnists and fox news contributor karl rove. welcome, crm. so, let's talk about the political impact of protests like this across the united states because they're now spreading pretty far and if wide. finish who's likely to be hurt by this, if anyone? >> well, potentially joe biden. pew did a poll of 18 to 19-year-olds, and younger voters have a distinctly different view of the middle east than the rest of the electorate. 33% of voters 18 to 29 sympathize more with the palestinians. 14 support sthietz more with israel, 53 equally or both. compare that, for example, to the 65-year-old plus voters. 9% sympathize more with the palestinians, 47% with the, with israel and its people. so we start off with the democrats facing an electorate that is, a younger electorate that's strongly, far more likely

to sympathize with the palestinians. on the other hand, harvard did its annual survey of the harvard institute of politics of 18 to 29-year-olds. number one issue among the younger i voters was inflation. 64 president ranked it number one -- 64%. conflict in the middle east is down there number 15 out of 16 with 34% attaching some importance to it. only lore item was student debt. so we've got these conflicting things. we've got a strong sentiment among younger voters, some younger voters to be in sympathy9 with the palestinians burke this not being important overall among younger voters. the problem is, in a key state like michigan 10 to ,000 or 15,000 people feeling droppingly about the palestinian cause very a big effect, same with wisconsin, pennsylvania, ads, georgia or nevada. so where these protests are taking place is going to be an indication of where there could be a real problem for biden.

paul: but beyond the issue of israel versus palestine or palestinians or hamas, is the question of public order. and i think, you know, the question i have is as you get a per if sense that somehow these -- perception that somehow these students are acting with impunity, leaders of these institutions will not act with enough force or authority to say, look, you have the right to free speech but not on private property and not when it it is disrupts other students. and usc just canceled its commencement. what about the poor kids who spent four years there, $180,000 a year, whatever it costs, and they can't bring their parents in to watch them graduate? what's the impact of that? >> that's a big impact because, look, the party of law and order is going to win this particular issue. there's little enthusiasm particularly when we see the kind of scenes that we're seeing on television of the nature of the protests around columbia.

you know, vile, anti-semitic chants, you know, attacks on jewish students, the fear of jewish students to be able to attend class. so, you know, we had here -- i'm broadcasting in front of the, at the state capitol in austin, texas. we had the state troopers go onto the ut campus in order to break up a won in straight that was designed to shut down the university of texas as we approach finals for the spring. so, you know, i know how texans are going to feel about this. they were saying god bless governor abbott and the state police for taking -- making certain that our university of texas can finish its semester. this is where the real problem is. and we saw biden in that clip that you had being -- equivocating on this, or or sort of a moral if equivalency between, you know, i con dem the protesters but, you know, i also condemn the people who don't understand what's happening to the palestinians. that's not what the american people are looking for. paul: i want to ask you a question about the economy,

karl, because we got a report on the first quarter economic growth and it was slow, slower. no sign of recession, but slowed down considerably. prices popped back up. when does, politically speaking, when does the public's perception about the strength or weakness or trouble in the economy kind of set in in a fixed way where voters won't change their mind anymore between that point and the election? when is that in an election year? >> normally you'd say maybe late summer, labor day or early fall. but we may be at that point because we've been in this situation for song -- so long. and the administration has sort of set itself up for failure by spending 2023 talking about bidenomics. i took a marketing class as a freshman in college, and i remember well the lesson that if your product stinks, don't put your name on it. [laughter] their product if stunk, and they put their name on it. so we may be at the point where they can't get rid of this issue. normally, it would be late in the summer, early in the fall.

but we may be at that point already. paul: so what do the they do? briefly. >> they've got to change the subject. [laughter] they've got to hope the economy gets better, but that antibiotic a strong recipe for -- ain't a strong recipe for success. paul: elector karl, thanks. still ahead, as a anti-israel colleges spread to colleges across the united states, a closer look at the roots of the current unrest is and who's behind the mayhem at many of the country's elite ♪ by shape and price so it's simple to find a pair you'll love. there are the shapes, that's the price. now you get it. visionworks. see the difference.

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♪ >> anti-israel encampments are popping up at universities all across this country. [background sounds] the madness has to stop. the madness has the stop. paul: that was house speaker mike johnson at columbia university on wednesday as pro-palestinian protests spread to campuses across the united states with hundreds arrested this week in boston, atlanta, austin, los angeles and

elsewhere. let's bring in our panel, "wall street journal" columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, what's the -- we know that the palestinian, israel issue is galvanizing here, but is there something deeper driving these student propests -- protests? >> yeah. i think it goes a lot deeper, paul. it egos back several decades. [laughter] and or you know, these are students at college, and they happen to have gone through high school and middle school, right? and we know what has happened to a lot of the public schools and private schools in the united states. teachers have turned from simply teaching the abcs to teaching people how to be politically correct. wokeness identity, these things are conveyed in schools now as well as universities. we've talked about this endlessly -- paul: the kind of faculty model. >> and here's the irony, they were supposed to be creating a fifth column of poplar people

who would go out into the population and process thelytize the united states about all these issues. and guess what? they're eating their own. they're attacking the universities themselves. they're attacking the professors. and the professors are showing the least bit of courage and now going out in these quads and demonstrating with these people. we're looking at really a significant disintegration of the higher education system in the united states. beyond, i think, these demonstrations. this is something trustees are going to have to get their arms around. paul: kim, you speak once in a while on college campuses so -- and is part of the problem that that universities, some of them, lost the idea of what it means to be a liberal education institution? with the cancel culture that we've seen e over the years getting rid of some speakers, the monoif culture, progressive monoculture in the faculties,

and that's driving some of this. >> oh, absolutely, paul. this goes back decades. and the word here is indulgence. indulgence to the children's wildest ideas, that it's okay to shout down speakers and protest the idea that some people come. ing you don't really doctor have to work that hard on your grades because we're all winners if we just take part and get participation if awards. grade inflation. again, indulgence by different faculty members as dan was talking about, many of whom, with by the way, are out there taking part in these protests right now and giving these students a aid and comfort in the belief that a if they're actually hauled up for discipline because these faculty members sit on disciplinary boards that nothing will happen to them. there's a lack of grown-ups on campus, and this has been going on for way too long. and i remember when we had this discussion a couple months bang about the ivy league add a morers and whether or not they'd made statements that were appropriate enough attacking what happened in israel.

but we said at the time if you do not actually have fundamental change, it's not good enough to have some people step down and issue a statement. you have to have root and branch reform at these places. paul: kyle, of course, this isn't true of all a, you know, students and all institutions. but i hire a lot of these -- [laughter] young people, and they're terrific. okay? and they're open-minded and so on. but we had an interesting op-ed this week from ira stoll who reported that some of these activists at these schools, they're paid to be full-time activists, full-time protesters. rock feller brothers fund, for example, george soros' foundations. so when you ask the question, well, don't these people have jobs, well, they do. it's to be activists. [laughter] >> right. and then those people provide the spark that attracts other people on campus who are interested in the activism lifestyle. i mean, there's a whole spectrum of students on campus, and so it's easy to paint with too

broad a brush. the other thing i keep thinking is don't we have with finals coming up? aren't any of these people worried about a failing their classes? are they having protest study groups? do they go yell about israel at the encampments and then go back into the tent and study their organic chemistry books? my guess is next. paul: i'm not sure organic chemistry is on their -- [laughter] >> exactly. kim mentioned grade inflation a moment ago, and there was a fascinating story last fall in the yale daily news that the average gpa at a yale is 3.7, and 79% of the grades given out are as or a-s. that is astounding. so part of the answer here, i think, for college presidents is to enforce the law, enforce the rules. but another part might be give these kids some more homework, give them something to do. [laughter] paul: boy, oh, boy. the first amendment stakes here, dan -- i've got about 45 seconds left -- is, make, explain to people why this isn't simply a matter of free peach. rights for people in these

protests -- free speech rights. >> well, free speech rights usually requires the government to be impinging on somebody's free speech rights. most of these campuses are private cam pauses and there's no the real constitutional right to free peach under those circumstances, broadly speaking. there should be dialogue, people should be able to have controversial points of view. but what you're seeing here is, it's ironic that they claim these are free speech exercise because they are suppressing, actively, opposing opinions against theirs on the issue of gaza and palestine. so these people are a long way from being defenders of free speech. paul: and when it crosses the line into with disruption and blocking people from attending classes and so on, that is also not a free speech issue. when we come back, president biden eases sanctions on venezuelan oil, but he slaps new restrictions on energy production here at home. finish alaska senator dan sullivan on the administration's latest attack on his state,

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♪ ♪ if. paul: the biden administration continued its regulatory assault on domestic energy production this week with the ep if a a issuing sweep ising new rules on thursday that could force many of the country's coal-fired power plants to shut down unless they undertake costly upgrades. those rules come a week after the interior department blocked new oil and gas leasing on more than 13 if million acres in alaska a's national petroleum reserve and threw up new hurdles to critical mineral production in that state, moves that my next guest says endanger u.s. national security. republican senator dan sullivan, alaska, joins me now. welcome, senator. so explain to me or -- >> good morning, paul.

paul: -- how something called the national petroleum reserve can be blocked from exploring for petroleum. >> well, it shouldn't be. the move was not if only illegal, the biden administration does not have the authority to do that. it's national security suicide with regard to one of our nation's great strengths which is energy and natural resources. and, paul, this is something that's so entour if rating with -- infuriating with this administration. you know, they continue to sanction ag alaska, but from a national security perspective they won't sanction the iranian oil and gas sector which, of course, is the source of the iranians' funding of their proxies, hezbollah, hamas, the houthis all over the world. so the only people who are pleased by this are the far-left radicals that support the biden administration. the president feels he needs to please for his re-election and

our adversaries around the world. this is undermining american strength. of course it's bad for my constituents, but, you know, the national petroleum reserve of alaska is one of the most prolific oil and gas basins in the world. right now we have the highest standards of environmental protection when we produce here in alaska, and i'm back home right now in my beautiful, great state. so this is just maddening, and it makes us more reliant on countries that are, our adversaries, critical minerals, the mining district that they shut down last week probably is one one of the biggest sources of critical min y'all -- minerals in america maybe even in the world. and now we're saying we can't use this for our nation's strength, for alaskan jobs? we'll be more reliant on china. paul: so, senator, i think the administration would say, look, we have had record oil and gas production in this country in the biden years. so what are you worried about?

we're doing better than trump did. what's your response to that in -- to that? >> well, first of all, as you know, the oil and gas sector is a long-term development certain, horizons of 4 to 6-10 years. so some of the production that's actually happened in the biden administration was because of trump policies. finish but, paul, you guys have written about a it. most of the increase in production under the biden administrations is not on federal lands, it's on sate and private lands -- state and private lands. and with regard to policies relative to federal lands, they have locked up and shut down federal land production more than any other administration. they've had the lowest number of leases for sale on federal lands since world war ii, the lowest number of offshore leases ever. so their policy has been to limit production of american energy where they can, on federal lands. unfortunately for alaska, the national petroleum reserve of alaska is federal land.

but with i'll show you where the biggest failure in terms of energy policy is, t at the pump. it's at the gas pump. right now at the end of the trump administration average prices for gas were about $2.10 per gallon. it's up almost are 60%, $3.40 is the average. which has led joe biden to tap the national petroleum reserve for politics, not for emergencies. look, there's a national petroleum reserve he should be tapping, it's called alaska, and he won't do it because he's taking direction from the far left. paul: so what resort do you have here? obviously, you suggested that this would -- it's illegal, so presumably somebody will challenge it in court. i don't know if that'll be in the state of alaska or who -- >> yeah. paul: what else can you guys do, or is this just a question of you have to elect a new president? if. >> well, we can challenge it and we will challenge it. the state of alaska will challenge it.

i'll tell you another group that will challenge it, our alaska native leaders. one of the most sin call things about -- cynical things about this decision last friday is the biden administration, the president himself said i'm doing this on behalf of, in support of and to benefit alaska a natives who live on the north slope of alaska. that's just a lie, paul. the alaska native leadership, the elected leadership of our alaska native communities, our indigenous communities on the north slope of alaska are fully opposed to the rule because it undermines their economic opportunity. so we will challenge it across a whole host of alaska's stakeholders. but i think you're making a really good point. at the end of the day, elections matter. and this administration has been more anti-energy, anti-american resource development than any add administration in history, and we just need to change the occupant in the white house to make sure these policies --

which the vast majority of alaskans certainly support, but americans support -- to use america's great natural resources to our benefit and our strength, not to unilaterally surrender that strength of our country. paul: all right. senator dan sullivan, thanks so much for joining us there from beautiful alaska. still ahead, a busy week many court for donald trump as his -- in court for donald trump as his new york hush money trial continues and is and the supreme court continues his presidential immunity case.a we'll havebu the highlights aftr the break.5-ti i want another option that's not another drop. tyrvaya. it's not another drop. it's the first and only nasal spray for dry eye. tyrvaya treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease fast by helping your body produce its own real tears. .. relying only on drops? not me. my own real tears are my relief.

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>> presi >> this has nothing to do with me. this has to do with the president in the future hundred years from now. if you don't have a minute you won't do anything. you become a ceremonial president. you are not going to take any of the risks both good and bad. imac that was donald trump at the white house where his hush money trial continued the same way the supreme court waived the question over the former president's are immune from kernel prosecution for actions taken during their time in office. we are back with our panel. kyle, the dc circuit court of appeals that was being appealed in this case, said presidents

have no immunity from criminal prosecution. the supreme court justices seem to have a different view. what did they reveal in their questioning? >> they were looking for middle ground. the indictment accuses donald trump of activity including conversations with mike pence and pressuring him to reject the lectures. paul: this is the indictment for january 6th. >> correct. the trump position is all of this is covered by a broad scope of immunity. their scope is there is no immunity. that's what the dc circuit said. that is why the supreme court took this case, john robert seemed to think the dc opinion was wrong so they were looking for middle ground, things the president is a normal course of business he would be protected by the fact that he's the head of the executive branch. he has to be able to do his job

without being harried by criminal prosecutions after the fact the same way the supreme court has previously held there's some immunity for civil lawsuits. paul: the justice department counsel seemed to suggest there is no need for immunity because the prosecutors are not the kind that bring politicized indictments. they have rules of the justice department that would never be a case again that you would invite any other president because donald trump is unique in this regard in his abuse of power. what your response? >> he tried a number of ways to suggest there were plenty of safeguards in place to make sure presidents in the future would not be subject to such harassment whether as prosecutors who exercise such great discretion or for instance, attorney generals who

gave the president advice and wouldn't end up on the wrong side of these questions. some conservative justices were have nothing to do with that and correctly by the way too. there point is they were pointing out the real issue is not a questions about donald trump and this case but how might this have been used in the past if we had a different political environment, standards and norms that have fallen as they have today, could they have been used against fdr because of his internment of japanese americans or barack obama for his drone strikes against individuals. talking about the risk to democracy of having no harder perimeter of additional acts in which presidents can do what they need to do without fear of harassment afterward. they were focused on the fact there aren't many safeguards and this may to be the new norm, what do we do to safeguard against that.

paul: that's the question they are going to explore. ketanji brown jackson on the other side. >> if someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world, with the greatest amount of authority could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, i am trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the oval office into the seat of criminal activity in this country. paul: a powerful statement. justice kagan said what could the president sponsor military coup for example, what's your response? >> the simple response, what they are talking about his trump's claim of total immunity for a president from criminal prosecution as opposed to no

immunity at all. what was made clear by those oral arguments, the conservative justices are not arguing or suggesting they are in favor of total criminal immunity for a president. they are looking good for the middle ground and are a little upset the district court, because that decision waived forward the idea that a president has no immunity whatsoever and they will probably remand this case for a fact finding on the basis of what donald trump did and try to make a judgment about what degree of immunity a president deserves to have and under what circumstances that would allow a president to be free and carrying out his actions as well. paul: the crucial distinction will be what artificial acts? did donald trump commit official acts that could be protected by immunity or private actions that wouldn't be protected? >> things he does like speaking

with his vice president about a joint session of congress would be an official action, things he does potentially as a candidate would be an unofficial actions that would not be covered. paul: aren't all presidents in the first year term running for reelection, being a candidate commensurate with a lot of presidential decisions? >> it depends. if he's on a stump speech announcing what he is doing officially as the government, that's one thing. if he's organizing, fundraising, things like that, that looks like private activity to me. hard to see what precise rule the majority of the supreme court will draw here but it does seem i agree with dan they will say there is some immunity and senator the lower courts to figure out which conduct goes in which box. paul: some of the charges jack smith made could be tossed, others could stay. >> per cicely. paul: president biden sends a

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and fox news senior strategic analyst. welcome. thanks for coming in. good to see you. how is ukraine going to deploy them and are they going to stop a russian offensive? >> let me just echo something that obviously took place here and that is the majority of members of the house of representatives voted overwhelmingly to support the aid to taiwan, to israel, to ukraine, recognizing full well that the united states is a global leader seeking peace and still he. when our allies and partners are confronted they want help, they are there to assist them. recognizing our own security and economic prosperity is tied to that global leadership. the ukrainians have been on the downside as russia made

technical advances in southeastern ukraine. likely to seize a city there in the near future is likely imminent. these are not major advances that will force the collapse of ukrainian offenses and once again, russia is showing to us their lack of effectiveness in conducting mechanized operations. their troops are exhausted. they have taken very high casualties. the advances they made have been at the expense of the cure and because they didn't have the ammunition, or they were not completely out of it. the decision the russians have here is they are planning for spring, summer major offensive operation. vladimir putin is counting on

no aid, it would be rejected by congress. he has a decision to make. will he conduct that operation knowing full well that ukrainians will likely be in pretty good shape to defend against that. remains to be seen what is going to happen. i'm confident ukrainians can handle themselves but hold off the offensive operation. second thing as we see happening here is the administration -- we talked about this over a year, provided long-range offensive missiles to go 190 miles, not the 100 mile version ukrainians have had for several months which is anti-personnel weapon. they used this against infrastructure in crimea already, having arrived there in march and they've taken down a russian air base, not the whole base but significant technology at that base and other items. ukraine's intent is to go after

russian military infrastructure throughout crimea and reduce its effectiveness as much as possible and giving them the means to do this and germany were will release a cruise missile because they were waiting for the united states to do this with the attack in addition to french and british cruise missiles, ukrainians now have real capability to deal with crimea. paul: what about the leaks, the united states advised ukraine. and oil refineries. talking about russia proper. should the united states say don't attack russia even as russia attacks ukraine? >> this is unprecedented in warfare. i don't have a frame of

reference for it, for a country invaded by and restricting the country from attacking the very place the forces came from, that makes no sense. they are using their own drone capability. and the use of capability, and f-16, and restricted them from attacking into russia. and we told them not to do that again. facts are on the table. russia is not escalating because of advanced weapons systems. and the oil issue that results from that. hopefully that's not behind the reasoning here but it makes no -- got to stop meddling with

ukraine and how it fights a war. policy makers, the details of war fighting without knowing much about themselves or recognize the consequences of what they are saying but nonetheless absolutely determined to metal and interfere with the conduct and execution of operations. paul: the worry might be the worry about the overpriced. still had, more on a busy week, the justices consider whether there is a constitutional right to be in a homeless encampment and whether emergency abortions are permitted in states with near-total bands. it's time. yes, the time has come for a fresh approach to dog food. everyday, more dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmer's dog.

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paul: it was a busy week at the supreme court is the justices wrap up oral arguments. the high court taking into question whether cities can be blocked from enforcing bands on homeless encampments and the justices considering whether federal law should allow doctors to perform emergency abortions in states with near-total bands. on the procedure. we are back with the panel. let's take up the homeless issue, supreme court hearing an appeal on a ruling by the ninth circuit court of appeals, when grants pass oregon, the city did in trying to clean up homeless encampments was violation of the eighth amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. how did the oral argument go with the court? >> two things the justices were focused on. one was the question of the

eighth amendment. one of the points that came out here is traditionally we have always viewed the eighth amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment as that, a question of punishment where this seems to be a discussion of entitlements meaning if a state does not have requisite beds to put the homeless people in their area in do they have an obligation to allow them to camp into engaging vagrancy as well? the justices seemed skeptical of that idea but the other point that came up which was good was more about judicial modesty pointing out that any local and state leaders have a lot of competing demands for where they put their money and as justice roberts said, are the nine of us going to make a decision that passed an obligation to make more homeless beds rather than fix a leadpipe issuer put more money into its healthcare priorities, both of those issues were at play.

paul: interesting divide among democrats, california politicians, san francisco mayor and the governor's office leaning in support of grants past regulation are trying to clean up homeless encampments but new york and illinois democrats saying get there is a rental vagrancy. >> which is to say this is primarily an argument about progressive political policy and public policy. why are they on the street living intend encampments? because many of them are mentally ill, they were de-institutionalized in the 1970s and 80s with the promise that there would be care for them in community services. that has failed and now these people are unmedicated on the streets and the problem of drug addiction, the prevalence of

illicit drugs on the streets of these cities. progressives have promoted those policies for decades and now the problems have become unsolvable and the ninth circuit is essentially arguing the solution is to simply build more housing, housing shortage is one of the biggest problems in california and those western states. it's telling us that the governments, democratic governments in california are saying get we do not have the tools to solve this problem. we need the authority to clean up the streets. paul: california spent $25 billion in the last five years on homelessness building more housing or trying to but a lot of the homeless don't want to be in that housing for the reasons you describe to. talk about this abortion case. what was at stake, the question of whether emergency abortions

have to be provided even in states that have banned the practice for the most part? >> there's a federal law that says if you show up at the emergency room with an injury regardless, the doctors are required to give you stabilizing care. you can't be turned away from the emergency room. after the fall of rovers is wait and the dobbs decision the biden administered initial regulation saying abortion is included in that. standard of care for a woman showing up at the er with a complication is abortion doctors are required to provide that abortion. so i think it reflects some nervousness about how these state laws being passed in the case of jobs can be played out with exceptions and so forth, sonya sotomayor asking hypotheticals, what if a woman comes in this state after her water breaks at 16 weeks, what are the doctors going to say? the answer from idaho was that is up to the medical judgment

of the doctors on the scene. it is hard to answer in the hypothetical and that is not what it means, not what the federal losses. it doesn't override state abortion laws. paul: how do you think those are going to go? >> use are more conservative justices very concerned about federal overreach of states laws but you saw amy coheny barrett and john roberts concerned about rights of women in the hospital, we will see. paul: we have to take one more break. when we come back, hit and misses. ooo, that looks complicated.

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paul: time for our hits and misses of the week, start us off.

kim:another miss to lena con and the democratic board of commissioners on the federal trade commission original a warning that invalidates 30 million noncompete agreements with the stroke of the pen. talk to any employer they will talk about how important these agreements are to intellectual property and the investment they have in their employees, damaging a lot of workers but regardless of the issue the bigger point is the ftc has taken action and gone around congress. this administered in things it can. paul: kyle. kyle:i give a miss to the darkening clouds in the us economy, thursday we got gdp report that showed first quarter inflation, economic growth 2024, 1.6%, that's not recession territory but less than half of the previous reading. the fed's favor inflation flavor, 2% year-over-year, that

will make jerome powell fight harder to get to 2%. paul: politically backed, interesting to see. >> i'm giving it to new york state and its public officials at the urging of governor kathy hochul, the state included measures to increase the police effort to shut down the shoplifting epidemic in new york, they raised our salty retail worker from misdemeanor to a felony. some of the legislators are putting in measures that will allow property owners to remove squatters who have taken up residence in their homes. i agree in new york it is like turning around the titanic, at least give him credit for making a try. paul: of the district attorney, that is it for this week's show, thanks to my panel and all of you for watching. we will see you next week. >> right in front of us, guys.