I'm Tom Batchel with my colleague Elizabeth Peek of The Hill, a columnist, of Fox News, a columnist,

and Liz has a new column up that was a revelation to me about Doom Loop.

Doom Loop was the metaphor used by Financial Times for the first time, to my knowledge,

on San Francisco because of its

plague of the so-called homeless who are deeply troubled human beings, mostly associated with

dangerous, poisonous drugs and childhoods that are no, nothing to ignore. However, San Francisco was pulled into a doom loop

and the abandonment of downtown San Francisco by major firms is obvious and the reluctance of people

to travel there for tourism is obvious. Well, there are other cities that are in danger that are

teetering in the same fashion.

And I knew about Chicago. I knew about San Francisco. I knew something about the trouble in New York,

because I have spent many decades in New York, but I did not know about Denver, the Mile High

City, which is always presented to me

at first as an airport hub to change planes from Montana, and then as an upbeat and extremely

well-educated elite in Denver. But I learned there's a mayor there, Johnston, who is taking money from services, vital services,

in order to pay for the needs of the migrants who are without documentation, some of whom

are gangsters. And it is a revelation to me that this mayor believes he's being celebrated because of this.

Is that correct, Liz?

Well, you know, you become a darling of the left.

Yes, if you open your city or your state to people in the country illegally with no restrictions whatsoever until voters begin to realize

that their city is in financial trouble, needs to raise taxes, not because they're adding

more benefits for citizens, but because they are underwriting the very great needs of people who arrive in this country

with no education, no financial background, no ability to get a job, et cetera.

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