Tourists casually destroy Fox News' narrative of crime-ridden NYC in live interview

Tourists casually destroy Fox News' narrative of crime-ridden NYC in live interview
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In a live television interview on Fox News, two tourists refuted the network's characterization of New York City as crime-ridden.

During her Wednesday program on Fox News, host Martha MacCallum issued a Fox News Alert to report that the NYPD was preparing for pro-Palestinian protests at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony Wednesday night.

"This is an added element of potential tension," MacCallum warned viewers, noting that protesters could be covered in "fake blood."

After providing some background on previous protests, the host asked for a report from national correspondent Bryan Llenas, who was at Rockefeller Center with two tourists from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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"Now I know you have seen, like the rest of the country, these protesters," Llenas told the two women. "Are you concerned at all about protesters trying to disrupt an event like this tonight?"

"No," one tourist said. "Not at all."

"Do you guys feel safe walking around the city?" Llenas asked.

"Absolutely," the first tourist said.

"Yes," the second tourist agreed.

For years, Fox News has pushed the narrative that cities run by Democrats were unsafe because of violent crime, looting, and homelessness.

Watch the video below from Fox News.

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A Michigan lawmaker enraged her MS NOW interviewer Sunday morning as her commentary on President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada left him declaring, "a pox on the federal government!"

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) delved into the many reasons Trump's 50 percent tariffs on America's northern neighbor has hurt and outraged voters in her state — and left Eugene Daniels fuming.

"There are real economic consequences, but they're national security consequences, too," Dingell said. "And we need to be worried about those."

Dingell proceeded to dive into the data.

She noted 500,000 U.S. jobs rely on building parts that go into Canadian vehicles and the number of Canadian visitors in the U.S. and sunk 25 percent under Trump, from 39 million in 2024 to 29 million in 2025.

Michigan households pay roughly $5600 a month in Trump tariffs, according to an Axios report this week, the highest number of any state in the nation, Dingell told Daniels.

He was stunned.

"If it was just tariffs that Michiganders had to worry about, it'd be one thing," he said. "But it's tariffs, it's gas, it's beef, it's fertilizer, it's diesel. Like, it's all of the things that people use to live their lives."

Daniels argued these problems had put Republicans in "dangerous territory" ahead of the upcoming presidential election in 2028 — and Dingell agreed.

She cited a recent appearance at a local parade where outraged Michigan residents called on her to "protect Canada."

"People were screaming," Dingell said. "It really struck me...People are mad."

Then Dingell shared the experience of a union worker who has three jobs and can't afford gas.

"Three jobs?" Daniels replied. "That is insane... it is a pox on the federal government!"

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Republicans face an uphill battle heading into the midterms as a major “grocery price shock” appears poised to surge already-inflated food costs, Axios reported Sunday.

“The next grocery price shock could hit much harder — and wider. And midterms are 65 days away,” Axios’ Mike Allen wrote in the outlet’s Sunday morning newsletter.

A convergence of factors has sent grocery prices soaring in recent months, chief among them being President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his deeply unpopular war with Iran. A recent string of “poor weather” that has sent corn and wheat prices to their highest levels in three years, however, coupled with the ongoing Russo-Ukraine war, risks sending grocery prices even higher.

“Wheat's a key ingredient in pantry staples, and corn is a major animal feed. So as they go up, so can meat, dairy and eggs,” Axios’ report reads. “Add all these pressures to the list of already inflated food items: Instant coffee is up 15.8% year-over-year; tomatoes, 12.8%; beef roasts, 13.5%; apples, 11.1%. There's reason to believe it's only going to get worse.”

A new report from JPMorgan released Friday predicted that global food inflation would “accelerate sharply into 2027,” growing from roughly 2.8% in the first half of 2026 to around 5% by the first half of next year.

“JPMorgan frames the risk around a set of compounding pressures it calls the ‘Five Ws’: War, Weather, Warehousing, Water, and Waste with particular emphasis on fertilizer supply disruptions and the potential for a ‘super’ El Niño event,” reads a summary of the JPMorgan report from the financial news data service Mettis Global.

“Unlike oil, which benefits from flexible substitutes and strategic reserves, nitrogen fertilizer has limited near-term alternatives and must be applied at precise points in the crop cycle, meaning delays reduce yields regardless of later conditions.”

Allen warned that it was not unlikely that Americans would soon see the impact of the convergence of factors in their grocery store bills.

“These forces don't drive up your grocery budget overnight. But compounding strains on the cost of growing, harvesting and transporting food could make an already expensive grocery run even more expensive,” he wrote.

President Donald Trump vowed vengeance against NBC News’ Kristen Welker Sunday after the “Meet the Press” host commented on the president’s endorsement record, the power of which has “faded in recent weeks” following a “string of primary losses.”

“Kristen Welker, the Unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the longterm,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves? Results are attached. Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment.”

Trump has clashed with Welker over the years, most recently during their fiery interview in June in which Welker pressed the president on his false claims of election fraud in the 2020 election. Trump ultimately stormed out of the interview after shouting down Welker and NBC News as a “one-sided, crooked network.”

“Unfortunately, she is not the only one. The Radical Left News is going out of their way to harass, demean, and libel anything ‘TRUMP,’” Trump continued.

“Their new weapon is to say that my 99% SUCCESS Rate on Endorsements, 100% on Senatorial Endorsements (Many of whom were not even given a shot of winning until I Endorsed!), is either a mixed result, or not very good. In actuality, it is, without question, the strongest Endorsement in the History of Politics. If it were not, I would be the first to admit it.”

Despite Trump’s claims, four of his endorsements for governor failed to win their respective nomination, and two Trump-backed congressional candidates lost their primaries in July.

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