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00:00Trump's desk. And for that, we do want to bring in Rich Rubino, friend of the show.

00:03Thank you for joining us on such short notice here. And as I've been saying, Rich, there are

00:07still some questions here. We do know how Speaker Mike Johnson saying there could potentially be

00:12some more pushback as this does head back to the House in terms of a timeline. What can we expect

00:17over the next coming days or weeks? Yes, I think that there's I think that moderate Republicans

00:22are essentially the make or break for this piece of legislation. Some like Don Bacon of Nebraska

00:28has been in there since 2017. He actually represents a congressional district that

00:33Kamala Harris last time won by four percentage points. He's retiring. He's somebody that's

00:38a possible no for the Republicans. Congressman Dave Aledo, a congressman from the Central Valley

00:43in California, another one who represents a district that went last time for Vice President

00:48Harris. There's actually 13 members of the House of Representatives who are Republicans

00:52that represent congressional districts and board for Harris last time around. Those are the people

00:57that Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, really needs to corral and really needs to beseech to

01:02vote for the final piece of legislation. And those are really going to be the people who I think are

01:07really going to be in the limelight in the next few hours. And I did want to share this graphic

01:13again with our viewers. These were the senators, the Republican senators who voted against this,

01:18one of them being Senator Tom Tillis, who announced just a few days ago he will not be seeking

01:23re-election after he came out against President Trump's bill there. Why did they vote no, Rich?

01:29I know that this came down to a very slim margin of VP Vance having to be the tiebreaker. What were

01:34some of those reasons? Yeah, Rand Paul is very much an aberration in the Republican Party because

01:40he's more of a libertarian than a Republican, if you will. He's somebody that I think it's very

01:45similar to Tom Massey, who also comes from Kentucky, who represents a House seat in Kentucky,

01:50who was the only conservative Republican, kind of libertarian type Republican, who voted against it.

01:56Excuse me. In Rand Paul's case, I think that he basically believes that it has to be deficit

02:01neutral or in some way has to actually truncate the deficit. He believes it does not do that.

02:07He also believes that they're under no circumstances should the debt ceiling be raised. He's very much

02:12a deficit hawk. I think he was probably the toughest vote for Donald Trump potentially to get. He actually

02:16took him on a golfing excursion. That did not benefit him. That certainly did not benefit

02:21Donald Trump. So that's one of the reasons. That's one of the ones that I think I voted against. In

02:25Susan Collins' case, she comes from Maine. She's the only Republican who's up in a state for the

02:32United States Senate in 2026 that actually went for Vice President Harris over Donald Trump last time.

02:38Vice President Harris won about 52 percent of the vote in that state. Donald Trump won about 45 percent

02:44of the vote. So she's very much electorally vulnerable. There was a recent poll came out

02:48showing the majority or the preponderance of the population in Maine has a negative view of her.

02:54She wants to show that she has a certain maverick or an independent streak. And I think that's why

02:58she voted that way. Also, she comes from a state that's very rural. Maine is very rural,

03:03extremely rural, as a matter of fact. And I think that she wants to be able to say that she did not vote

03:09for legislation that potentially could close down rural hospitals. So this is probably politically

03:14beneficial for her. Tom Tillis is now a lame duck. He announced that he would not seek a third term

03:19and really excoriated Donald Trump and excoriated the legislation. I think that Donald Trump's plan,

03:25by the way, was that he wanted somebody to potentially primary Tom Tillis. And I think

03:29the Republican Party currently, the mega wing is really hegemonic in the party. So I think he really

03:35did not have an electoral kind of way to go. So I think that that was why he kind of, you know,

03:40he kind of went out. He's kind of going out of the United States Senate, I think a hero to many

03:45Democrats. And he started that recent press conference, Chuck Schumer, really very laudatory

03:50Tom towards Tom Tillis, somebody who in the past he's worked to try to defeat.

03:55Rich, we are also getting in some reaction here from House Speaker Mike Johnson that I did just want

04:00to run by you. This cuts off on the screen, but let me read it in full here.

04:05This is his joint statement with leader Steve Scalise and GOP Majority Whip, as well as Chairman

04:10McLean there. He says the House will work quickly to pass the one big beautiful bill that enacts

04:16President Trump's full America First agenda by the 4th of July. The American people

04:20gave us a clear mandate. And after four years of Democrat failure, we intend to deliver without

04:26delay. Republicans were elected to do exactly what this bill achieves, secure the border,

04:31make tax cuts permanent, unleash American energy dominance, restore peace through strength,

04:37cut wasteful spending and return to a government that puts Americans first.

04:41He ends here by saying this bill is President Trump's agenda. We're making it law. House

04:45Republicans are ready to finish the job and put the one big beautiful bill on President Trump's desk

04:50in time for Independence Day. So again, only a few days there left, Rich. But I wanted to ask you,

04:54you know, we shared with our viewers here on Live Now over the weekend that we saw

04:58on the Senate floor, they were reading the 940 pages of that bill. It took them all night into the

05:05next morning. Did we learn anything new from that? Because, you know, we're hearing from Speaker

05:10Johnson here saying, you know, make tax cuts permanent, secure the border. Was there anything when that bill

05:15was being read aloud that really stuck out to you? No, not really. Most of it is kind of the

05:19Byzantine legislation, rather text of a legislation that most people kind of fall asleep when they hear

05:26about, you know, the nuclear regulatory agencies and how to end that type of thing. But it's really

05:31something that I think that Republicans, there's a few things in there that are very popular,

05:36no tax on overtime, no tax on tips. I think that every Republican running for re-election that voted

05:41for this piece of legislation will try to star that. They will make that the headline or the

05:47flagship part of the legislation. Contrary-wise, many Democrats and certainly any Republicans who

05:54oppose it will say that this is something that's really going to hurt rural hospitals, something

05:58that's going to cut Medicaid. I think the one statistic you might hear is that in Mike Johnson's

06:03congressional district in Louisiana, right around Shreveport, that about 40 percent of his

06:08constituents rely on Medicaid. So you might hear that, you might see that on social media feeds as

06:14Republicans, as Democrats rather try to make the case that Mike Johnson is out of step with his

06:19constituents. Maybe there'll be a Democratic opponent, but they won't really have much of a

06:22chance. It's a very conservative district. But I think Democrats have the talking points. You just

06:26heard many of those with Chuck Schumer. And they're going to try to make this what Bill Clinton, when he

06:32signed the Budgetary Discretion Act in 1993. The Republicans made that about raising taxes. And

06:38they landed up winning in 1994. Barack Obama, of course, signed the Affordable Care Act, which was

06:43unpopular at the time. And the Republicans landed up winning 63 seats. And most any parties won in a

06:49midterm election since the Republicans won in the 1938 midterm elections when Franklin Roosevelt was

06:57president. So you're going to see the talking points. And it's a matter of how the body politic or

07:01the American people, if you will, whether they believe the Republicans version of legislation

07:06or the Democrats version of the of the legislation. And before we wrap up here, Rich, just for some

07:12perspective, you know, we're calling this the one big, beautiful bill. That's what President Trump

07:15is calling it. But based on previous spending bills and previous administrations, how does this

07:20shape up compared to those? Well, if you believe if you if you believe most of the observers,

07:27this is going to add to the deficit. I think some folks, Mike Johnson from being one of them believes

07:33that there's going to be so much economic growth, that eventually that's going to make it so that

07:37this is either deficit neutral, or this is actually going to somehow that because so much so much revenue

07:42is going to come into the is going to come into the federal kitties that eventually it's going to

07:47that that eventually it's going to kind of pay for itself. And that's something that we're going to see.

07:51We're going to see it in the next few years. And it's going to be all about messaging messaging

07:55and messaging when it comes down to the 26 midterm elections. But I think unless there's a major war

08:01or something, this is going to be the main if the flagship issue in that campaign.

08:07All right, Richard, you know, thank you so much for joining us. And I'm sure we'll be checking in

08:10with you more as we do watch all this unfold. Thank you so much for having me on again.

08:15Of course, leaving you with that live look at the Capitol building once more here on live now

08:19from Fox as we go away for our second break of the hour. It is 120 on the East Coast,

08:231020 on the West Coast. Don't go anywhere.

08:49day one.

08:55So

08:57okay.

09:06Okay.

10:38As we've been following this news, the Senate passing President Trump's big, beautiful bill.

10:43Now, as a reminder here, this does have to go back to the House for passage before it can get to President Trump's desk.

10:50He did give Congress that July 4th deadline.

10:53Vice President J.D. Vance broke a 50-50 tie to push it over the top.

10:58And as we've been sharing here, we did have three Republicans who voted against the bill.

11:02That was Senators Tom Tillis, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul.

11:08I did want to share with you some more comments from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

11:12He spoke very briefly on the Senate floor after all of this happened.

11:15I do just want to check in there and see what we can hear.

11:19Minority Leader, Mr. President, today, Senate Republicans betrayed the American people and covered this chamber in shame.

11:29In one fell swoop, Republicans passed the biggest tax breaks for billionaires ever seen, paid for by ripping health care away from millions of Americans, taking food out of the mouth of hungry kids.

11:43This is not a big, beautiful bill at all.

11:48That is why I moved on the floor to strike the title.

11:53It is now called The Act.

11:55But it is really a big, ugly betrayal.

12:00Because of this bill, tens of millions will lose health insurance.

12:04Millions of jobs will disappear.

12:06People will get sick and die.

12:08The kids will go hungry.

12:09And the debt will explode to levels we have never seen.

12:14All so that billionaires and corporate special interests get a permanent tax break.

12:19This is not what the country needs.

12:22This is not what the American people want.

12:25And I must say this.

12:26Republicans bent and twisted and pushed the rules and the norms of the Senate to get this bill done.

12:33And they have done grave damage to this chamber when they did it.

12:38All just so they can pass tax breaks for billionaires.

12:45Today's vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come.

12:50As the American people see the damage that is done, as hospitals close, as people are laid off, as costs go up, as the debt increases,

13:00they will see what our colleagues have done, and they will remember it.

13:06And we Democrats will make sure they remember it.

13:09The American people will not forget the betrayal, the betrayal that took place today.

13:17I yield the floor.

13:18Note the absence of a quorum.

13:19And those were some comments from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer there as he was speaking just a short time ago after this news did come out of the Senate passing President Trump's big, beautiful bill.

13:34I did want to head over to one of our Fox News correspondents as they do have the latest about where this all goes from here.

13:39The bill as amended is passed.

13:45Senate Republicans squeaked out just enough votes to pass President Trump's big, beautiful bill on Tuesday.

13:51You know, I'm waiting, listening to these wonderful words, and they are music to my ears.

13:56The measure slashes Medicaid and clean energy, increases funding for defense and immigration enforcement, and renews the 2017 tax cuts.

14:04Any worker in clean energy, in clean energy industry who loses their job does not think it's beautiful.

14:10Any mom who can't feed her kid on $5 a day doesn't think it's beautiful.

14:14The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Senate bill will add more than $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years.

14:21These Republican senators that know this, this bill is a pig, no matter how much lipstick you put on it, it's going to come back to haunt them.

14:29Former Doge head, Elon Musk, calls the bill insane and says if it passes, he'll establish a third political party.

14:36Trump responded Tuesday morning.

14:38You know what Doge is?

14:40Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.

14:44Wouldn't that be terrible?

14:45After the Senate, the bill goes back to the House for yet another vote.

14:49In Washington, Caroline Shively, Fox News.

14:51Thank you to Caroline Shively, and as we did just hear from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, he did just put this out on social media.

15:00He says, news, I just got the name struck off this bill with a move on the floor of the Senate.

15:06It is no longer named one big, beautiful bill.

15:09The bill is a big, ugly betrayal of the American people by the Republicans, and the American people will remember it.

15:17But we're going to keep an eye on all of this here for you as we do get more reaction into our newsroom, as we always do on Live Now from Fox.

15:24We do have some other live events that are going on as of right now, though, that I did want to take you out to.

15:28This takes us out to New York City right now, as we are hearing from New York City Mayor Eric Adams, as well as other officials, as they are speaking about public safety.

15:39So let's talk about our strategic deployments, which have been one of the most important drivers behind this progress.

15:46In January, we launched a scalpel, data-driven strategy to reduce violent crime, identifying 42 deployment zones across the five boroughs with the highest concentrations of crime.

15:59We sent targeted daily deployments into those zones based on real-time data, because just 3.5 percent of the city's land across the five boroughs accounts for 41 percent of all shootings.

16:14That's not just concentrated violence, that is a clear call for precision policing, and the results this winter were undeniable.

16:23That's why we've now rolled that success into the summer, with our bold and, yes, aggressive summer violence reduction plan expanding into 72 summer zones across 59 communities.

16:37This is the largest deployment of its kind in NYPD history, with up to 2,000 uniform cops on footposts in the places where we know that crime occurs the most.

16:50Those are long, grueling nights in conditions from extreme heat to pouring rain on street corners, in housing developments, and in our subways.

17:00Since the launch of our summer plan on May 5th, major crime in these zones is down 27 percent during deployment hours.

17:09Most notably, shootings and shooting victims have dropped a staggering 64 percent.

17:16We've also seen felony assaults fall by 41 percent, robbery by 27 percent, and grand larceny by 13 percent.

17:25This initiative will continue through the rest of the summer.

17:28We'll keep applying pressure exactly where the data point us to ensure the weeks ahead are just as safe.

17:35Then there's our precision takedowns.

17:38Over the past several months, NYPD detectives have carried out major takedowns of some of the most violent gangs in this city.

17:46Crews like Trenda, Aragua, Los Diablos, Nine Rack, Third Side, and the 18th Street Gang.

17:52These are the groups that drive violence, traffic guns, and terrorize our neighborhoods.

17:58And thanks to the truly extraordinary work of our investigators and, of course, critical tools like the Criminal Group database,

18:06we have dismantled their operations and taken violent offenders off the streets.

18:11So far this year, we have carried out 42 gang-related takedowns, arresting 322 gang members and associates,

18:22and recovering 236 illegal guns as a direct result.

18:27That is part of a broader effort that's taken more than 2,600 illegal firearms off the streets citywide in 2025 alone.

18:36And since the start of the Adams administration, the NYPD has taken more than 22,300 guns off of our streets.

18:43Make no mistake about it.

18:45We are reaping the benefits of those cumulative efforts now in our shooting numbers.

18:52In the first six months this year, overall major crime was down 6% citywide.

18:57It's down in four out of our five boroughs, led by Queens at 12%, Staten Island at 10%, Brooklyn at 8%, and Manhattan at 5%.

19:05While major crime was slightly up in the borough of the Bronx, we saw real progress in some of the neighborhoods, in some of that borough's most challenging areas,

19:14including the 4-4 precinct where overall crime was down 11% so far this year, and shootings and shooting victims dropped there by more than 70%.

19:24Major crime was also down more than 5% in housing and more than 3% in transit citywide.

19:33Let's break down the seven major crime categories.

19:37Citywide murders were down 23%, 146 versus 190, marking the second lowest total ever recorded for the first half of any year in New York City.

19:48Robbery has long been considered a key benchmark crime, a key indicator of how safe people feel walking their neighborhoods, riding the subway, or just going about their day.

19:59It's also a crime that had been stubbornly on the rise in recent years.

20:04But this year, we have broken that pattern.

20:06Citywide, robbery was down 13% through the first six months of the year, with declines across all five boroughs.

20:13Grand larceny down 7% citywide through the first half of the year, thanks to our focused effort on shoplifting.

20:20Shoplifting arrests are up 144% compared to 2020, as we've targeted the crews and repeat offenders driving this crime.

20:31And that strategy is working.

20:33We're seeing fewer of the same individuals cycling through the system again and again.

20:38And we've worked closely with our district attorneys to make sure that these cases are taken seriously.

20:43A few years ago, prosecutors were downgrading up to 66% of NYPD's grand larceny arrests to lesser charges with lighter sentences.

20:53This year, that number has dropped to 34%, the lowest rate in nearly a decade.

21:00In 2025, more serious shoplifters are being convicted on felony charges than at any point since 2018.

21:07We'll keep applying pressure where it's needed to make sure that number continues to decline.

21:12Auto theft, that was down 5% in the first half of 2025, a significant shift for a crime that's been one of this city's most challenging in recent years.

21:22Burglary dropped 3% citywide in the first half of 2025, including an 8% decline in the second quarter and an 11% drop in June alone, marking the second lowest June on record.

21:36While felony assaults are down only slightly year to date, an 8% drop in June suggests that we're beginning to turn the corner.

21:45Rape was the one index crime that rose up by 21% through June.

21:51That increase is in large part due to a change in state law that took effect in September of 2024, which expanded the legal definition of rape to better reflect the full range of these crimes.

22:05Because of that change, we expect to have a clearer year-over-year comparison starting this fall.

22:12In the first half of the year, major crime in the subway system fell by more than 3%, including a staggering 75% drop in subway shootings, a 67% fall in murders, a 7% reduction in grand larcenies.

22:28And subway robberies hit an all-time low for the first half of the year, down 8% year-over-year.

22:35You would have to go back to 2010 to find a six-month stretch this safe in the New York City subway system, including the pandemic years when ridership was at historic lows.

22:49This progress is the result of our transit safety plan, which put thousands of officers in the subway system and focused on where the crime actually happens.

23:0073% of all subway incidents happen on trains and platforms, so that is exactly where we increased our presence.

23:09But we didn't just increase presence. We redefined our approach.

23:14That included enforcing long-standing rules against lying outstretched, taking up multiple seats, smoking, drinking, and more.

23:23For too long, those violations went unchecked, and that eroded the sense of safety for everyday riders.

23:31So we made a change. This isn't a dragnet, and it's not harassment.

23:35It's about restoring basic order and responding to what New Yorkers have told us clearly.

23:42That disorder breathes clear and makes the system feel unsafe.

23:47Take the case of James Williams.

23:49On June 6th, he was lying across multiple seats on a subway car when officers approached him.

23:55When officers checked his name, they discovered that he was wanted in connection with a 2024 rape inside the Union Square station.

24:03He was arrested on the spot. This approach has helped us restore order in the system and take violent action.

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