after atlanta had been preparing them for 21 months in denver has had it for two months. i have to say atlanta is ready and it will happily bring it back, was preparing for 21 months versus the state and city preparing for two months, the people left behind were many, many local and small business owners many of which were black and hispanic small business owners in the estimated impact of the move $100 million, these are real dollars for real people i talked to so many of them and videographer for example one of the interviews he was telling me he was contracted to take the game, he had a 50000-dollar contract which is a quarter of his revenues for the year end that when in the air, so many other small business owners, restaurants, bars, uber drivers, taxi drivers, 8 - 10000 hotel beds that were reserved this is a true tragedy it was all founded on basically lies in mistruths. james: i'm wondering the goal obviously a $100 million suit but is there a goal beyond the dollar amount, messenger trying to send with the lawsuit. >> we are saying that you moved it to denver in

. >> hello atlanta! reporter: the same places that fueled joe biden's first win for a presidential candidate since 1992. why candidates are spending so much time and money. cobb and gwinett conservative strongholds where hillary clinton flipped them are home to shifting demographics. >> gwinnett county has the fastest growing hispanic population in the state. cobb county on the southwest corridor has become rapidly minority. reporter: political analyst bill crane the impact of college educated middle class, upper middle class african-americans cannot be overstated. challenge is turnout. >> might be there for the general election. they have a long runway, eight weeks of early voting, three weeks of early voting, they don't have that in the shorter more compressed cycle. reporter: president trump is not popular with suburban women here, his handling of the economy is appealing to some black voters. >> 11, 12% of black men said they would support him, economic mobility was the number one reason listed for i

maria: you are laying out the indirect impacts of that game leaving the city of atlanta because there are a lot of small businesses that would gain as a result of the game being there. >> absolutely right. this impact is real. the estimate is $100 million of

i spoke earlier to paul brown who is the ceo of atlanta-based inspire brands. it just complete ad 11 billion-dollar acquisition of dunkin' brands. >> it really rounds out our portfolio very well. it puts us in the breakfast day partner. we'll be most balances in the day parts of any restaurant companies. it brings us tremendous amount of scale from loyalty standpoint, digital standpoint and brought us access to the international market where we were very small outside the united states inspire. almost 40% of our restaurants outside of the u.s. with dunkin' brands. connell: will you keep going? that is the question, you have been making acquisitions at quite a pace, is this it? or is there more to come? >> i will never say this is it. if the opportunity comes along we'll be happy to take advantage of it. we're feeling good about the portfolio size of our business. we're the second largest restaurant in the u.s. based on scale. we achieved the scale objective. connell: it is mcdonald's and inspire brands? >> yes. connell: a lot of people might not know that. they

. ♪ atlanta while the road. while they are playing as fast as they can, jerry willis is live with details. jerry. >> that's right. residents of buckhead, while the authentic community known for its mansions and malls is considering from the city. establishing its own police force. i want to show you video here, this is an atlanta resident sprinting for the safety of his own home after seeing a masked man carrying a rifle on his residential street. this is shocking but not unusual according to the atlanta police. robberies in the city are up 40% year over year and assault are up 35% auto theft is up 63%. in one horrifying example, a 7-year-old girl fatally shot in the back of the head while riding in a car with her mom and aunt. the surge in crime as part of the wider search across atlanta, up 80%, shootings up 32% year over year. while crime is higher in most big cities across the country, a dentist experience is extreme, possibly related to the fact that 200 officers left the police force in the wake of the sho

president barack obama and biden support the boycott of atlanta. senator marco rubio blasting the mlb commissioner. he wants to know if the baseball commissioner will drop his own membership in the exclusive augusta national club and stop the mlb trying to make money in communist china and cuba? they are major human rights violators. on the show tonight, top georgia official bob barr, butch miller. ford o'connell with us too. along with douglas holtz-eakin, fred fleitz, chris bedford and congressman bride an babin from texas. we have more on the fight over baseball's boycott and dozens of companies who opposed georgia's voting law when they require i.d. from workers and customers. more from the white house and media, including cnn's don lemon, they are misleading, quote, gaslighting the public over georgia's new voting law. "60 minutes" now trying to claim a cut for quote clarity. governor ron desantis florida explanation, critics say "60 minutes" deceptively he had at this timed their report that governor desantis favored publix supermarkets, when

hoping to bring the all-star game back to atlanta. bernie marcus, of course, one of the founders of home depot. billionaire with big bucks. joining us now, charlie gasparino ready to break this one. charlie. >> what are they saying, no balls, all strikes? [laughter] liz: i'm a hockey fan. i don't know. [laughter] >> i think that was, that was meant for bob manfred, the commissioner of baseball, who moved the all-star game out of atlanta over pressure from activists over the georgia voting law. and and now comes a political advocacy group founded by home depot cofounder bernie marcus called the job creators network. he's trying to turn up the heat on mr. manfred to possibly move the game back. now, i give this very low odds not because the job creators network and its president, alfredo ortiz, that they're not trying hard enough, but today a rally. they've been running a series of ads on billboards, particularly in times square a couple week ago, others again saying no balls, all strikes on mancaving to the pleasure -- manfred caving t

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over half of the population in atlanta is black. the revenue loss from the all-star game going away could total more than $100 million in lost tourism revenue to the area according to one official. but when you're looking at the voting laws, the reason why mlb moved the game out of georgia to colorado, when you compare the two states, colorado has fewer days of early voting than georgia. 15 days to georgia's 17. both states require a valid i.d. to vote by mail and in person. they also both allow no excuse vote by mail. but politicians on the local level in georgia could be having the biggest impact on businesses that are choosing to take a political position on this. georgia house voted to strip delta, one of the outspoken corporations of millions of dollars in tax breaks. the georgia senate still has to weigh in on this before the bill potentially could land on the governor's desk for him to sign offer on. but the bottom line is, there can be consequences on the local level for these corporations. we also, david, did reach out to m

i think about 30 miles north of atlanta and acworth, georgia. there and massage parlor, asian massage parlor with four people shot and killed, too asian women, died instantly. about 50 minutes later a second shooting reported here at golds spot behind me, three asian women killed and while police were there responding to was originally called in as a robbery, just across the street aromatherapy spa another shooting while police were there and they got the report, eighth person killed, asian woman shot and killed some three separate massage parlors yesterday. eight people killed, six asian women. the same suspect seen on surveillance video and in the same vehicle at all three locations identified as robert long, 21 years old from woodstock, georgia, suburb north of atlanta. after a manhunt police him on i-75 headed south about 150 miles south of here and executed up its maneuver and pushed his car from the back and rear, spun it around and he was taken in without incident. unclear at this point in the motive for the shooting, police were asked if

and that they are living in a quote war zone, the area of buckhead atlanta to split from city of atlanta completely, buckhead city committee chairmen ceo bill white joining me with some solutions bill good to see you this morning thanks very much thank you for your leadership, on this issue. assess the situation for us. >> thank you so much, maria, for having us on, this is a -- a crisis of management. i want to say that we love the atlanta police department, they are fantastic police professionals, they just want to be able to do their job but there is a complete lack of -- leadership on behalf of the mayor, and she is basically put handcuffs on police so unable to do their job, she made an announcement, that shoplifters would not be prosecuted a policy where you cannot chase someone shooting out of a car at pedestrians, as what happened on far road here in buckhead. on january 3rd, and these folks were -- shooting pedestrians right in front of two cops the cops said they just can't chase that car. now you tell me that isn't crazy. that is something that needs to be changes, so the grea

from president biden. >> what about the possibility that baseball to move the all-star game out of atlanta because of the political issue. >> i would strongly support them doing that, that is not right, this is jim crow on steroids what they're doing in georgia. david: our next guest says the message coming from biden and the democrats is not just a lie, now they have corporate america pushing their false narrative for them, the wall street jour want to make a name for yourself in gaming? then make a name for yourself. even if your office, and bank balance are... far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses look good, and your books are set for the month! ...going up against this guy... and pitching your idea 100 times. no, no, no! no. i like it. -he likes it! ...and you definitely love that. intuit quickbooks helps small businesses be more successful with payments, payroll, banking and live bookkeeping. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlis

we want to split away from atlanta. we want our own police force because we're seeing atlanta crime skyrocketing. they're talking about a 63% increase in murder. rapes are doubling. psalms are up nearly, about a third. so -- assaults are doubling up about a third. local towns are saying we don't want anything to do with these cities. >> that is exactly right, emac. when you talk about public safety and year-over-year crime increases in atlantas and understaffed resources atlanta police department don't have because of local politics, it isn't a wonder buckhead wants to have their own police department. if the republicans take over the house in 2020 it will be public safety. out of 50 states, only 27 have a republican governor. of top 30 cities in the country, only three have republican mayors. you will see jostling between republican policies and democrat policies. elizabeth: it is like a double-whammy, lockdown policies and defund the police. you're seeing for example in wisconsin, the republican legislature there sayi

federal reserve when i was in atlanta last week. if the vaccine rolls out the economy will get rolling pretty well also. but that the is is the caveat but to your earlier point we need to pick that up, is that right? >> yes the numbers have to be significantly greater. we have to have 70 to 80% of population having immunity or vaccine through the disease. we prefer it to be through the vaccine. hundreds of millions of individuals need to be vaccinated and we're just not on that path right now. if we're going to get there within the second quarter, by the end of the second quarter of this year that we've really got to increase our ability to get these vaccines in peoples arms. so all that we can do to make that happen will improve the economy. imagine if you would the confidence that you would feel or anybody would feel if we got 80% of the population with immunity and knowing that there is not a possibility of the disease to have this kind of spike like we're currently having. connell: do we need a stronger national approach to have

atlanta not having the all-star game costing the city, as much as $100 million. back to you, ashley. ashley: i think baseball misread the whole thing. charlie gasparino, fascinating stuff, more on behind the curtains. thank you very much. spring weather here, time for new beginnings and change. today's closer says change is happening fast. the main street market narrative is not just keeping up. he says he has got picks that are. miles lewis, royce investment partners portfolio manager with 11 billion under management joins us now. miles, why isn't the market keeping up with the narrative? explain that quickly? >> i think there is change happening all around us. the way we live, the way we work, societal, social justice issues government, there is a lot of change to happen and narrative continues to be buy what worked last 10 years. megacap growth, tech stocks, large cap, bonds. when history says works develop 10 years it doesn't deliver very good forward returns. there is mentality buy the dip, not a regime change. we believe we're more on the cusp of a ridge ga

the atlanta fed took expectations all the way down. we'll get the number at 8:30 a.m. >> thanks for having me this morning. i think the gdp growth slowed quite dramatically. don't know if it will be all the way down to the 0.5 that the atlanta fed has us at but you can see it when you're out and about, things are definitely slower and i think that bodes probably not so good for or not so well for stock prices over the next couple months. maria: got a fed meeting next week, mark, as you know, and we're also expecting president biden's federal reserve nominations over the next couple days. a big debate out there, the progressives want to take down jay powell and put a more progressive in there. do you expect powell to get renominated? and this of course just days away from the beginning of the taper plan. >> yeah, you know, i think it's really interesting, maria, in the sense that how could you have anybody who is more progressive in terms of who wants to spend and give injections of qe. i think all the talk of day r -- tapering and redu

they are saying we want to split away from atlanta. we want to have our own police force because we are seeing atlanta crime skyrocketing. you are talking about a 63% in treason murder and assaults are up about one third. we are seeing local parent thing we do want to have anything to dore with the cities. >> that's exactly right and when you talk about public safety the year-over-year crime increases and we have seen it in atlanta and the other in understaffed resources atlanta police department has. it'ses no wonder a suburb like bucket wants to break away and have own police department but if republicans take back the house in 2022 it's going to be largely because public safety and the fact that democrats. particularly in these major cities have turned a blind eye. just so we are clear out of the 50 states only 27 have a republican governor and believe it or not the top 30 cities in this country only three have republican mayors. you will continue to see this jostling between public -- republican and democratic policies. liz: the do

in atlanta we still don't know what the motive was for the shooter. he seemed to have a twisted sexual fantasy he would remove temptation if he could remove the women. ashley: yeah. it is interesting, but do you think the public at large buys that narrative, bill? that it is not only covid but it is trump, white supremacy, all part of the same thing? can we give the public more credit to see right through that? >> i give them credit. i think a lot of people are skeptical but you know, you have this whole architecture of this critical race theory coming out to explain everything and they're documenting more and more crimes. i mean one of the problems is there have been attacks on asian-americans for a long time and they basically been ignored. there is an article in 2010 in the mercury news out in california about a spate of attacks, in this case black on asian attacks in that area. it is not new. it is hard, so relentless, you hardly see someone saying let's find out what the facts are. it is meant to override the facts, to leave an impression and it

separate buckhead from the city of atlanta? >> yes, ma'am. i really do. we are 100% confident in the courageous leadership that we have in the georgia assembly. maria: okay. >> they are fed up with this, and we're going to get this done, or maria, and it's gown to be -- and thanks to you putting us on like this, we really appreciate it. maria: yes. chief craig, go through the issues about the blue. i mean, police don't want to really extend themselves in some quarters because they're afraid they're not getting the support from leadership in the cities, the statements and even the white house -- the states and even the white house. kamala harris on the campaign trail says she wants to go no cash bail at all for the whole country, not just some of these big cities. look at what it's done to new york. we have a graphic here of the resignations of police and why we are seeing people decide, you know what? i'm going to leave the force. 45% higher on retirements, 18% higher on resignations. what else can you tell us, chief craig? the. >> well, i've got to tell

that will hurt a lot of black workers in atlanta. what do you think. >> its way to hurt a lot of families and georgia. when you thing about this, about jim crow on steroids there is no place for politics and name-calling in baseball or business. i don't think it's appropriate, the president misspoke at the very least and he should apologize frankly, it was unfair, ridiculously of what he made. if the president of the united states someone around him should've been helping them. liz: 35 states in dozens of countries have voter id including canada and france but a lot of leading coverage of this let's listen to chris christie go after democrat stacey abrams for hypocrisy on this. watch this. >> stacey abrams was in new jersey in my state praising phil murphy this week for a voting law were new jersey early voting is nine days, half of what georgia is, yet she is on tv in new jersey, i saw it myself say this is one of the greatest voting expansions was ever seen but this is jim crow. liz: what did you think of that. >> chris christie st

but it's quickly jerking into a embarrassment after moving the all-star game from atlanta to georgia over georgia supposedly voting rights laws the prominent colorado's voting rights law, awfully similar embarrassingly sober if you think the hypocrisy is good then pined to your batting thousand for the mlb is when the corporations have spoken out against the georgia laws which do sinister things like calling for voting id requirements. coca-cola, delta air lines, they are among them. early today senate majority said this whole situation is absurd. >> most type major league baseball is pretty important corporation. if they applied the same standard they apply to georgia, they could not have games in st. louis because missouri has a more restrictive voter law than georgia, then the new georgia law. what about the yankees? new york has a more restrictive voter participation law then they new georgia law. where is it at? so, my warning if you will to corporate america is to stay out of politics. >> gave big dumb dumb son let's go yankees by the staff and present biden responded to questi

moving all-star game from atlanta. then the list of states attorneys generals challenging biden's agenda. arizona attorney general mark brnovich is here on his fight on hr1, the border wall and gun control. all here right now on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ maria: first up this morning president biden's unprecedented power grab as new lies surface about the infamous laptop purportedly belonging to his embattled son hunter biden. in a series of interviews, hunter rebound the narrative that the laptop can be part of russian disinformation campaign insisting that he's done nothing wrong and claimed that the office of national intelligence reached the same can go, -- conclusion, fortunately the former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is here once again, once again to set the record straight. good morning to you john ratcliffe, thanks for being with us. john: good morning, maria, great to be with you. maria: it was pretty extraordinary that after you came out and told us the truth about this laptop not be

atlanta is majority african american and yet yet major league baseball decides to punish atlanta. it doesn't make sense. they are so inconsistent whatever they do. i agree with you, if you are going to do this, do it to every state, be fair to everybody but they don't want to go that route. this is a gift, political gift to the republican party in georgia. i think brian kemp has done a very good job. he has been very even-handed on this, as has the state legislature. this was not some bill dropped overnight. it was debated over the entire legislative session. they knew about it. everyone was invited to the table. elizabeth: got it. biden and democrats are accused of misleading, bullying and pulling down atlanta with a phony, with the boycott based on a phony racism charge. like the major league baseball and companies and democrats don't know what they're talking about. they didn't even read the georgia voting law. you got president obama calling for baseball and companies to boycott georgia. remember when obama sat next to raul castro in communist cuba to watch a baseball game in

i'm edward lawrence talking in atlanta talking about georgia law. they want law i makers to listen to one other. some like the law. some doesn't leak the waa. they should allow people all the way up to the polling site door, not 150 feet away. they hope the national attention will push people to change the law. >> people listen to respond, not listen to actually understand. i'm not saying that one side or the other is going to be completely happy with everything that is done but a think a lot more listening can be done. reporter: others agree with the law it actually expands voting by adding 17 days of early voting, including both weekend days. yesterday we were at manuel's tavern that almost went under after 65 years of business during the pandemic. the community rallied to save the tavern. overall the law is not bad but reaction to the law has been disappointing. >> we're manuel's tavern. so much happened in that little tavern between all the different groups that wanted to get stuff done. they all got together, over a beer, made it happen. we're

he's in atlanta and he's talking to voters. what are they telling you? reporter: voters feel slighted by major league baseball and corporations. the conversation has changed on the ground here and one voter i talked with, void for prince said even some of the emergency action that was done in the last election were made permanent by the voting law, but he says it's up to the people of georgia and no one else, not the white house or anyone else, but the people of georgia to sort this out >> should have been more bipartisan as opposed to one side. that always raises problems. but the other side came out with the bill long before was ever ever signed and that site-- that starts a whole other frustrating level. no one is talking to each other anymore. reporter: he's frustrated by the rush to action in the rush to judgment on both sides. in business owner i talked to yesterday heard a lot of things about the bill, but he did what many others have not. >> it was very frustrating to find out it was actually happening and then to do a deep dive, personal dive in

and that occurred in atlanta, georgia. after republican poll watchers were told to go home and the counting was over. it turns out the counting was far from over whether in atlanta, maricopa county or detroit, wayne county, michigan. all those claims have been ignored by with investigative federal agencies and by courts, state and federal. that has prompted 11 republican senators to announce their support for a challenge to certain electoral college votes for joe biden. that challenge will come wednesday. senator ted cruz and ten other republicans said they would object to the 2020 election results. they are standing up for law and order and the constitution. they want an emergency 10-day audit of the election results conducted and conducted straightaway. senator josh hawley, the first to stand up and demand, demand integrity in our election of 2020, has separately announced his plans to object to the certification of certain states' electors. but the rinos in congress are baying at the moon all of a sudden. they've come o

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liz: we hear what you're saying, we hear you, president biden advocated for baseball boycott of atlanta, georgia, they are silent about human rights abuses in china in major league baseball expanded in china, all of them silent about was going on inside of china let's listen to jen psaki talk about the boycott idea, let's watch. >> these are the winter olympics next winter so sometime away as it relates to the second part of your question and our hope that we are at a point that enough people across the country have been vaccinated but we will rely on health and medical experts on that particular piece our position on the 2022 olympics has not changed and we are not discussing any boycott with allies and partners, we consult closely with allies and partners at all levels to define our common concern and establish a shared approach but there is no discussion underway of a change in our plan regarding the beijing olympics on the united states point of view. liz: that is a really strong push back, real shutdown of state department official ned price who suggested this, they are saying abso

it is going to hurt the people of atlanta who are depending on this, who work hard for this. who are counting on this. they pick up and move it, the game out to rockies, out to coors field out in denver. it makes no sense to me especially when you consider the law, the actual facts. facts matter and in this case, there is nothing that i can see in the law itself that limits, that limits voting in the state of georgia. elizabeth: yeah. you know, major league baseball admitted that they moved the all-star game from georgia because of pressure from president biden criticizing the georgia law. you know, we hear what you're saying. the mayor of denver, colorado, he is cheering this on. he said his region, his area will get 100 million bucks. butch miller of georgia, a top state lawmaker broke down what is happening here. guy, i would like your comments after the sound bite of what butch miller said about this. watch this. >> georgia has a voter i.d. colorado has a voter i.d. georgia's voter i.d. is free. colorado charges $1.67 for their voter i.d. colorado has 15 days of early vot

♪ david: a live look at truist park in atlanta. this, of course, is where the atlanta braves play. business around the park were hoping to cash in from this year's all-star game, now they're grappling with huge losses. edward lawrence, how much money are businesses going to lose from this? >> reporter: it's not just the direct impact, it's that money that comes from people coming in and spending here. you know, it's a gut punch, disappointing. those are the terms i've heard from business owners about moving the game over to colorado. this is manuel's tavern, lunchtime here. the owner had planned a bun bunch of activities leading up to this game, but it's not just restaurants. i talked with the owner of atlanta rx, it's a cbd shop, and he says that he's looking at an economic impact. listen. >> according to our analytics, about 10% of our business is from out of town. very touristy area, and we definitely will be affected by the all-star game moving to colorado. >> reporter: are you disappointed? >> yeah, very disappointed. >> reporter: and the cobb county travel ask tourism board s

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you had the atlanta thing, moving from atlanta to denver, you just turned off half of your audience. why would you do that right now? baseball seems like everything bad is happening for them if you're commissioner rob manfred. neil: you know, then we had this sold of wildcard business thrown in about these surges in cases, covid cases right now. i don't believe, and you guys might know this better than i, they're screening people who have been vaccinated or not into denver stadium, but the fact of the matter is they're concerned, the nih and some of these other facilities, about a spike in cases and whether events like this risk being a super-spreader event which as you know, todd, in tokyo they've taken matters into their own hands, no fans in the stands, vaccinated or not. where's all this going? >> there's a much different situation in tokyo versus in the united states when it comes to vaccinations. but where is all this going, i think dr. michael gun zelman dds which i call him because i think that's what his name really should be, i think he brings up a key point. there are prob

you're correct, we are asking that they move the game back to atlanta. quite frankly with the same expediency he moved it out. he moved it out in four days after brian kemp, the governor of georgia signed the law, about four days later they moved it. they can move it out that quickly, have them move it back to atlanta that quickly. if they can't do that, we're asking they set up a relief fund for all small business owners and businesses that were damaged and hurt because of the move. again it was an estimated amount of $100 million, neil, and that's what we're asking for them to do. if they can't move it back, let's set up the relief fund, so our small us owners can have the relief they were expecting for 21 months. neil: you also know what you speak. you've also sit on the georgia chamber of commerce. you know the impact on numbers in the atlanta areas state of georgia. that they call for i.d. at will call windows across all the parks across the country. what is the issue for enforcing for the most sacred right to vote. >> that is exactly right, neil. t

dell computers in texas, and american airlines, and in atlanta, delta and coca-cola. sports business is trillion dollar global scale, trillion dollar domestically ecosystem. they depend on each other, media, corporate sponsors, fans, right now to your point, neil, it is fans that are losing in this ecosystem of imbalance. neil: i'm just wondering whether the fans protest by either not watching on tv or not going to the games, even where there are, you know, limited if any restrictions on crowd capacity such as arlington, texas, where you can fill it to the max and not have any issues? i'm discuss wondering whether it might show up that way? people drop out on the attendance when baseball desperately needs them? >> baseball is absolutely fan attendance driven sport unlike others the does. they don't have the television deals and merchandise, which led to 70% drop in the covid year. baseball is looking at this presumably from a balance sheet standpoint first. within that what are key drivers and indicators, kpis, give u.s. the red flags or green flags in the proverbial

the atlanta braves, you can buy manu if you want to play soccer, europeans call it football. then you look at the entire sports ecosystem. gambling online is going to be more prevalent. those individuals that play fantasy sports, those individuals that were weanedded on fortnite, those that were doing robinhood, when they are going to be able to bet online, they're going to do that. secondly, that means the advertisers are going to have more eyeballs to spend money on, and the broadcasters will do well. so i like sinclair. the stock's 37 because of their investment in bali's, they are a large owner. that's an attractive gambling play. the other one is fox with fox bent. and they own a piece of -- fox bet. they own a piece of the system in the u.k. called flutter which is the name for gvc which is the name for, you know, fanduel. so, maria, gambling ecosystem is new, and i think it'll continue. and you can bet on that -- maria: yeah, i love the ideas. but, mario, look, we've got this $1.9 trillion stimulus package, those checks are going to be going out in the mail soon. you'v

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there are 82 great atlanta police officers that cover that area. it is about the size of san francisco. in san francisco they have 2,000 officers. so right now there are only about 20 cops of that 80 on the job right now in buckhead. we anticipate we'll have as many as 250 police officers in the buckhead city police department patrolling the streets, cop on every corner. you will know this is the wrong place to come to do crime. if you don't realize that, you're going to have a rude awakening coming to buckhead in the coming years. ashley: i read somewhere, the are frightened, residents of buckhead to do the most mundane of things, go out, go to the gas pump to fill up a vehicle, go to the mall, get out and about. there is certainly trepidation about that right now? >> it is very true, ashley. i have very good friends of ours. i don't go to the goose pump without a gun in my pocket, i hate to say it. but i'm afraid. i had two folks come up our driveway to try to steal our car out of our driveway. a very good friend of mine will not go get gas. she