this bust i thought really? it looks like it was shot, reminded me of getting my high school portrait done with a weird back drop. how about the palace and a lot of castles and rock walls there ought to be a better place to take a portrait. i would go back to that. >> dana: i agree with her. i wonder if they were trying to be like more of the people. even though they are royal. people like to have a little romance and pomp and circumstance. >> bill: it's not like they are short of ideas. >> dana: it was a definite choice. i read something about the photo shop fail or something and i have to look into that a little bit more. i'll get to that before "the five." we'll see you there. sandra smith is in for harris. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> sandra: thank you very much. she is not going anywhere. harvard governing body says it

unanimously stands in support of its president. one week ago her testimony over calls for jewish genocide and anti-semitism on her campus generated fiery outrage. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm sandra smith is nor harris. claudine gay has faced calls to resign that came after she hedged on whether calls for genocide violate her school's code of conduct of harassment and bullying. fox told the meetings stretched late into the late. the board said our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that president gay is the right leader to help our community heal and address societal issues we're facing. it notes she apologized. the controversy erupted after she was pressed by new york republican elise stefanik. >> do you believe that type of hateful speech is contrary to harvard's code of conduct or is it allowed at harvard? >> it is at odds with the values

of harvard. >> can you not say it's against the code of conduct at harvard? >> we embrace a commitment to free expression even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. >> does that speech not cross that bare year? does that speech not call for the genocide of jews and elimination of israel? you testify that you understand it is the definition of intifada. is that speech according to the code of conduct or not? >> we embrace a commitment to free expression. >> sandra: that was the moment. similar testimony from m.i.t. and u penn led to mcgill's resignation over the weekend. they wrote a letter of public support for their president. anti-defamation league reports more than 2,000 anti-semitic incidents in the u.s. since the hamas massacre on october 7th.

that's a 337% increase. bryan llenas has more on the explosive and emotional story for us. >> president gay is keeping her job since she apologized with how she handled congressional testimony and commitment to redoubling the university's fight against anti-semitism. unanimous decision comes after the fellows of harvard college received three letters urging them not to fire gay from more than 700 faculty. black alumni and 13-member harvard alumni association executive committee. she will remain in office despite complaints she has sponsored an unsafe environment for jewish student. since the terrorist attack some of the headlines include harvard shrugs at jew hatred. harvard student groups called israel entirely responsible for the hamas attack and israeli harvard business school students

are harassed amidst gaza die-in on campus. stefanik who grilled gay last week reacted moments ago. >> this is a moral failure of harvard's leadership and higher education leadership at the highest levels. the only change they have made to their code of conduct where they failed to condemn calls for genocide of the jewish people, the only update to the code of conduct to allow the pledge areist against harvard. >> it included her 1997 ph.d. dissertation. on december 9th the fellows reviewed the results which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation while the analysis found no violation of harvard standards for research misconduct president gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles.

there is a double standard over the last two years. 39 students were forced to withdraw from harvard for violating the school's honor code. sandra. >> sandra: a lot to take in there. a new column of the leaders of these ivy league institutions argues this. the president's fault was failing to explain adequately whether an outright call for the genocide of jews violates their school's code of conduct. and that the school's supposed commitment to the first amendment would have to inform any disciplinary action. codes aren't necessarily limited and sometimes stringent. they can regulate students' dress codes, living rangements and their speech. will cain, that moment, that exchange between harvard's president and stefanik will live on for a long time. what has happened as a result so far? >> unsurprising that today we still see in place claudine gay

at harvard. i agree it should live on. i hope it lives on. a moment of absurdity that is a revelation. we know for a fact and have done stories at fox but it is also the lowest in the rankings of the any measurement of free speech. harvard does not embrace free speech. you ask yourself why is harvard in the moment incapable of containing speech that is ant semitic. a shallow level of morality. it is simply they do what is popular. they follow the wave. victimhood is popular, it is the wave that you ride. in that you find the oppressed and champion the oppressed. harvard and its student body looked at this incident and said the oppressed and victim is the palestinians. the oppressor is the zionist, the jew. so they felt safe in their wave of popularity and felt safe in

their position to all of a sudden say something abhorrent. if you are on the side of the victim you can say anything. if you're on the side of the oppressor you can have that your speech restricted. the most extreme version you have seen an incapability of condemning terrorism. if you are on the oppressed side and the victim, anything you do is in service of justice. i will say this as the second point. it is deeper. i don't care if gay is fired or the president of penn resigns. the rot is deep at an ideological level. identity politics that places people on a totem pole of oppressor and oppressed. no consistent morality or principle. just a measurement to the credit they told the truth. who is the good guy and the bad guy in the drama? the good guy can do anything in their minds. say hateful things and commit acts of terrorism. the bad guy can be restricted. in the totem pole it is based

about shallow characteristics like skin color or whether you advocate for western civilization that is now seen as evil. that rot is so deep that it will survive the firing of any president. >> sandra: as all this is happening critics are tearing into "saturday night live" for this skit, will, mocking stefanik rather than gay's testimony. listen. >> now i will start screaming questions at these women like i am billy eihner. i'm sorry, what? yes, i know, it's call for the genocide of jews against the code of conduct for harvard. >> well, it depends on the context. >> what? that can't be your answer. >> sandra: that is sparking fierce backlash. some reaction on social media painful and unwatchable. the "new york post" cover today with this saturday night lies and one headlines reads this sneeringly out of touch sketch

was as unfunny as the ranted anti-semitism it excused. no wonder it died a well-deserved death. the terminally woke snl should do the same. were you shocked by that, will? >> no, because that is an illustration and example of what i was just talking about. riding the wave of perceived popularity. snl, this is why that rot inside universities is so important. it has been churning out students that walk the streets and serve in mainstream media for decades. now you have casts and writers and producers at snl the popular thing to do is mock the republicans. they're the joke, not the university presidents. and as you point out it shows i think it's bigger than snl. american mainstream pop culture is rotten from the same ideology. present in movies. look at the obama's executive production of a movie on netflix right now that embraces racism.

in music, here in unfunny comedy. the only good thing it is self-evidently unfunny to the point where it is breaking through, i hope. where parents out there go why would i send my kids to harvard? it is not prestigious. why would i watch snl? it is not funny. >> sandra: the supreme court, special counsel jack smith filed an emergency petition asking the high court to immediately step in to decide whether former president trump has immunity from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case. the court agreed to expedite the appeal and ask trump's lawyers to respond to the motion by one week from tomorrow. constitutional lawyer and law professor jonathan turley with this take. >> the priority for smith is clearly to get trump tried and in his view hopefully convicted before the election.

so it sort of flips the d.o.j. policy which has been long to avoid having these trials before elections. smith is fighting to make sure that he can shoe horn this in to that schedule. you know, the supreme court may not have the same priority. >> sandra: timing will be everything here, will. what do you think happens? >> yeah, and i think i would add to what professor turley said. it reveals the intention and motivation of the prosecution. in the beginning you heard no one is above the law, this is about justice. in the counter point the rebuttal has been this is about politics. you are attempting to interfere in a presidential election. the fact that jack smith will skip the appellate level of the federal justice system to try to the to go supreme court in order to preserve his trial schedule, i needs to make sure this happens before super tuesday. in time to interfere with an election. to impact an election shows he is not pursuing justice or no

one is above the law. he is trying to influence your vote with this case. >> sandra: very interesting analysis of all of that. always good to chat with you. thank you for joining us today. >> yeah, thank you. >> sandra: hunter biden's legal battles are piling up. the first son will soon face a judge on new federal tax charges as his attorneys look to dismiss a delaware gun charge. republicans right now are forging ahead with this impeachment inquiry into the president himself. >> the white house has changed their story multiple times but there is more evidence we're trying to get. the white house is blocking that evidence and why we need to exercise more subpoena powers. having this vote on impeachment inquiry gives us the opportunity to get more facts out. >> sandra: tens of thousands documents including emails between biden and his son related to burisma and ukraine. the house votes to formalize the

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>> sandra: house rules committee formalizing an impeachment inquiry to president biden. the full house is set to vote tomorrow. the national archives planning to give house oversight chair james comer almost 1800 requested emails for the inquiry. they include unredacted messages to and from then vice president biden and his son, hunter, related to burisma and ukraine. that's more than 62,000 pages of records. the house, of course, sharply divided on moving ahead with that inquiry. >> we are formalizing the

impeachment inquiry efforts to give the house to pursue needed information and enforce subpoenas. >> this impeachment sham is an extreme political stunt with no credibility, no legitimatey and so integrity. >> sandra: the white house pushing back saying if they priest on wards with the baseless fishing expedition it proves how divorced from reality and take away from issues the americans care about. chad pergram is keeping informed. what do we know now? >> the house talked impeachment for months but never formalized the inquiry because the gop lacked the votes. house leaders are more confident now. house speaker mike johnson contends actual impeachment of the president is not a done deal. >> we are not making a political decision.

it is a legal decision. so people have feelings about it one way or the other, we can't pre-judge the outcome. constitution does not per mist us to do so. we have to follow the truth where it takes us. that's exactly what we'll do. >> the vote tomorrow simply blesses the impeachment inquiry. gop moderates were slow to support impeachment. not the case now. there is concern that dragging the probe into 2024 could look as though the gop wants to undercut president biden before the election. >> i think it's more important to have this information before the elections. let the voters decide and i don't know that you will see a high crime or misdemeanors but voters deserve to know what did the bidens do with $25 million. where did it come from and where did it go? it was the family business. i think the voters should know what's going on. >> democrats are dubious about the impeachment effort. they note that moderates like bacon are now on board compared to earlier this year.

>> they are willing to do anything and everything to get their way. our democracy be damned and my so-called moderate colleagues on the other side of the aisle are unwilling or unable to say enough is enough to those who are dead set on pursuing this extreme nonsense. >> here is the math. the gop can only lose three votes and still authorize the impeachment probe. house investigators want interviews concluded in january but they are mum on an actual impeachment vote. >> sandra: chad pergram. thank you. jason smith joining us now. republican congressman from missouri. thank you, sir, so much for joining us. it appears as chad was just reporting house leaders do seem more confident now that they have the votes. does mike johnson have the votes? >> i believe so without a doubt. but i also would disagree. i think we have had the votes the whole time if we were going

to move forward with an inquiry, sandra. the issue is the white house has continued to stone wall all of our requests for information. in fact, we've asked -- we subpoenaed two doj tax investigators to come before congress and what happened? the white house, administration forbid them to come forward and sent us a letter saying they are not going to comply unless -- unless there is a formal vote of an impeachment inquiry. that's exactly what we'll do tomorrow to make sure we have 100% capability of getting all the information we need to in this investigation. >> sandra: kevin mccarthy avoided a formal vote because he didn't have the votes, correct? >> i believe we didn't do the vote because we didn't find it to be necessary. if you look at what has happened in the past, nancy pelosi started a formal impeachment inquiry without having a formal vote. >> sandra: very interesting. the 62,000 pages of records being made available to the

house gop impeachment inquiry, what do you think they'll reveal? >> i will tell you, we just continue to get more information. just last week, sandra, we had the two i.r.s. whistleblowers come before the house ways and means committee provided over 100 pages of additional documents. included was 327 different communications from president biden to hunter biden and his business associates all around 2014 before and after his three different visits to ukraine. they were all under fake alias names. the more information we get in these emails it will be a lot helpful. >> sandra: will any of it prove to be illegal communication? >> that's what we will have to see whenever we course through all the different emails. time and time again from the whistleblowers it should create

doubt in all americans of is the president compromised? he is the most corrupt in the history of this country? that's what we'll look into. >> sandra: meanwhile hunter biden facing two different indictments. happening at the same time. in delaware his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss one of them, three federal gun charges argue the cases are part of the plea deal that as we all remember fell apart over the summer. meantime in california, hunter was indicted last week on nine tax-related charges. a preliminary hearing is expected this week. his attorney dodging questions about those charges. >> did he file a false return? >> did he file a false return? >> i'm ending where it started, a yes or no. >> it is not a yes or no. you want to drill -- no, of course it's not. you can't ask a yes or no question on a complex area of law. what you can say is hunter was late in filing and paying taxes

in certain years. that is a given. as are millions and millions of americans who do the same thing. the difference is millions and millions of americans who do the same thing are not con fronted with a 56-page nine-count indictment. >> a new piece argues hunter biden's drug addiction defense shattered by new california indictment because he failed to report his taxes after becoming sober. congressman, your reaction. >> i will tell you two i.r.s. whistleblowers came before us and what the indictment last week confirms is everything that the i.r.s. whistleblower said. they said he should be charged with all of these tax crimes. in fact, they thought he should have been charged with tax crimes in 2014 and 2015 tax years as well. but what happened? biden's justice department allowed the statute of limitations to expire so he could not be charged underneath that. it is good to see in california that the tax crimes that the

i.r.s. whistleblowers suggested for 16, 17, 18 and 19 tax years in fact have taken effect. >> sandra: meanwhile one editorial board says the hunter biden charges indict biden's justice department, too, congressman. adding garland repeatedly had denied that weiss had benham strung in his efforts. once the whistleblower testimony and thousands of pages of supporting documentation shamed garland into finally making weiss a special counsel, weiss was able to bring these charges that could have been filed long ago if the biden-appointed u.s. attorneys in california and d.c. had fully cooperated. essentially garland appears to be running a protection racket for president biden. do you believe that to be the case? >> sandra, if any person without the last name biden would have been investigated just like this

process, charges would have been brought years ago. not last week. they would have been brought years ago. the i.r.s. whistleblowers even testified before the ways and means committee last week saying in their more than decade years of service as investigators, they have never seen this kind of obstruction in an investigation. >> sandra: that's a big statement. what sort of repercussions should there be for that if that's the case? >> well, the house needs to be cleaned out if people are using the power of the law to help protect themselves. >> sandra: always appreciate your time. thank you for joining us today. we'll watch where it all goes. a showdown before congress takes its long winter's nap. senate republicans say border security is the top priority just as ukraine's president is in d.c. to lobby for military aid. plus an update on the sorority that got sued after it admitted a transgender student.

one of the plaintiffs on the "focus" just last week. listen. >> basically before we voted said if you don't allow this member in, you don't align with kappa's values and you should drop. so we were bullied into voting. >> sandra: now two life long members who supported this case booted amid accusations of discrimination. they are in "focus" next.

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negotiator james langford. >> we've been very clear we understand the threat of president zelenskyy has faced and continues to face. we provided aid for a year and a half at this point to help him every way we can. the aid will continue to come. we can't just ignore what's happening in our country while we're helping other people with theirs. >> sandra: aishah hosni has the latest details for us. hi. >> some republicans are casting doubts that we could see a border deal and hence ukraine aid attached to it before the end of the year even as president zelenskyy is making the rounds on capitol hill. he spoke with all 100 senators. leader schumer with what zelenskyy told him. >> he needs the aid quickly. if we don't give the aid quickly, several things will happen. first the military needs but second europe and many other allies will say what is going on here? they aren't giving them the aid. >> quickly is not happening,

sandra. last night republican senator langford said he doesn't think they'll get a border deal by thursday or friday when they are set to recess for the holidays. talks are stalled. the white house is only talking to democrats, not republicans about the border. lots of folks want the president to get into this now. zelenskyy is supposed to meet with president biden later today and meeting with house speaker mike johnson now. some folks are hopeful that senator schumer will keep the senate around to keep on talking. we await to see if that's what he decides to do. sandra. >> sandra: aishah with the latest development on all of that. now this. the sorority at the center of a lawsuit over admitting a biological male appears to be retaliating against its own members. an appeals court is hearing the case filed by six kappa kappa gamma sisters against their chapter at the university of

wyoming, the lower court tossed the case. the sisters want the higher court to define the word woman. one of the plaintiffs on this program last week explaining why she had to act. >> there has been a lot of different uncomfortable situations that have made a lot of the girls really not want to even be in the house anymore, myself included. you know, going to shower we have communal bathrooms and supposed to be comfortable and feel safe and not worry about men being there. all of a sudden the table is turned on us. >> sandra: two life long sorority members say they have been booted for speaking out in support of their sisters. the sorority accused the women of discrimination saying they violated the purposes and standards of kkg. patsy and cheryl join us now along with the attorney on the original case and independent

women's law center attorney. thank you for being here. i mean, i feel like women all over the country have been talking about this since it first emerged that this happened. still in disbelief, really. now to see a battle over it and being removed from this after half a century in it. why is this happening to you? >> that's a wonderful question. we have wondered the same thing. what happened was we decided to speak out and when the plaintiffs had to disclose their names in the lawsuit and they were so brave to do that, the young women on the college campus, i thought if they can be that brave, so can i. so i sent out letters to hundreds of alumni associations explaining what was happening in laramie, wyoming. i was told i couldn't do that. >> sandra: patsy, where do you sit in all this? why is this happening to women? >> it is so interesting. i was sort of at their level on

the foundation side working for years as a volunteer and i became a volunteer in 1970 and have volunteered for all those years until 2013, 2012. and in that process, i met kappas all over the nation of the for me to connect with the kappas i didn't have to break anybody's rules to do that. i had a kappa friends all over the country and i raised a lot of money for the foundation at one time. then to have them come back and rereached out. tried to have a conversation. no conversation. and kicked me out. i was surprised. i was quite surprised they went that way. >> sandra: more of your thoughts in a second. imagine a world where now we have a battle over defining the word woman. >> that's at the heart of the underlying lawsuit, which is that woman is now being defined by kappa to be its opposite. these women alongside 450 other kappa alumni filed a brief yesterday in the underlying case

and they explained that would be like hiring a painter and saying will you please paint my housewife and the painter paints it black and says i identify this paint as white. we would never do that in any other circumstance and shouldn't do it with women. women deserve to have sororities, deserve to have single sex spaces and beneficial for women throughout the years. >> sandra: how should it be handled in your opinion going forward when other sororities come up against this and have to deal with this themselves? >> i think one of the things we need to do is make people aware this is happening. so many people are not aware of the language that leadership has put in the policies, not the by laws, but the policies, that we don't discriminate, we take women and people that identify as women. and i think we need to educate people that are women's rights are being eroded. >> sandra: what was it like for those girls who had to live

through this and sort of are at the forefront of having to sort of get through this or pioneer this? >> thank you for that question. that was what really motivated me. i have two kappa daughters, one was a kappa at the university of iowa. one a kappa at wyoming. so when i got wind of this happening, my husband and i were going down to steamboat springs, colorado anyway. we jumped in the car and said let's stop in laramie and see if we can have a conversation with these young women. as soon as we met them, my husband was the first to say these are stellar young women and we need to protect their living space. we need to protect their experience. i grew in leadership, academic, my abilities to do things when i was a kappa. the one thing i couldn't do as a young person was enter into the sports world because there wasn't title ix. there is a carve out to have a single sex experience in title ix. we fought that battle at harvard and won and kept the single sex

space. now we are at the point we have to regain that ground and we won't quit until we regain the ground. >> sandra: god bless you for it. final thought from you. how hard it is for an 18, 19, 20, 21-year-old girl to speak out. they know that they will be in the spotlight and criticized by some. >> these are women who at the beginning of their careers and know they will have to go to future employers. they don't know who they are and their names will be out there. this is extremely brave. they were able to do it in part because of the alumni support. what kappa is doing is they are punishing anyone who supports these plaintiffs in order to squash dissent. it's a opposite of the point that sororities were trying to do. give women leadership opportunities and a voice. >> sandra: we'll follow every detail. thank you for coming on. >> what i'm concerned about is i want to make sure we retain safe spaces for women. so that they can focus on their

education and focus on their leadership and thank you so much for having us. >> sandra: of course, it is an important discussion. thank you to all three of you. voters feeling worse and worse when it comes to the economy. president biden and democrats taking no ditching the bidenomics brand. the white house, though, insisting nothing has changed. >> so when he talks about the economy, that is bidenomics. when he talks about what we're doing and how we are delivering for the american people, that is bidenomics. >> sandra: house republicans are having a field day with the whole issue. we'll show you how and bring in our power panel next. with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ahh, -here, i'll take that.

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>> i think this is a sign that bidenomics is doing what we

would hope that it would be do and people are starting to feel it in their pocket books, too. >> president biden: folks, all this is no accident. bidenomics. >> bidenomics flows off the tongue. here to talk with you about bidenomics. word of the day, week, month and year here at the white house. >> sandra: bidenomics was all democrats could talk about a few months ago. now they are distancing themselves from the term as polls show voters aren't happy with the state of the economy. house republicans are having fun watching it die. they released this parody in meme orum video yesterday. ♪ >> sandra: the white house defends its messaging on economy but the a.p. with this headline just yesterday. biden goes into 2024 with the

economy stronger but voters feel horrible about it. the latest fox news polling backs that up. over 3/four of voters have a negative view. one likely reason, inflation is up 3.1% from a year ago. matt gorman, vice president at targeted victory and doug schoen pollster and former clinton advisor. i'm so excited to see both of you. doug, to you first. should voters be jazzed about this economy? >> well, i think there is much good news about the economy but they are sure not feeling it. the problem is people are having problems paying for their gasoline, paying for their groceries, and even if inflation is coming down, as it is, they are not feeling it and the white house is doing the right thing to abandon or play down bidenomics as a phrase because if it doesn't work, i can tell you in politics, you have to cut your losses and move on and

that's what the white house and certainly the house democrats are doing. >> sandra: matt, i guess there is also a risk with continuing to attach yourself so directly to the economy if things should sour further as we get closer to election day. so should they be ditching bidenomics? >> some already have. i love what they are trying to do there. a story at nbc. 18 of the 19 democratic targets never utter bidenomics. dccc doesn't use it. at the end of the day it is not the tactics, it's the strategy. doug alludes to it. they are going around the country trying to tell people things are better. people don't feel it or see it. when they go to the gas pump or grocery store they know it isn't true. instead of telling them things are better they need to show them and democrats can't do it.

>> sandra: doug, to you now and on where all this goes. when you consider we're about to go through the holidays. we're watching retail spending closely and a recent "wall street journal" poll puts president biden's job approval now at 37%, a record low for that poll. one new op-ed is arguing biden has further to fall to make up this kind of ground. biden will have to hit the campaign trail. if biden's poor performance today without exposure and coverage is any indication, the president has not yet bottomed out. democrats have every right to be worried. today may be as good as biden is going to be. when it's all about the economy, doug, that could pose a big problem for his re-election bid. >> well, it does pose a real problem and with us facing now two conflicts, one in ukraine, another in israel, that has also served to bring his numbers down. so it is all about the economy, yes, but there is very little

good news to buttress his support. this is about where jimmy carter was in 1980 when he faced a record loss to ronald reagan. >> sandra: we have speaker of the house johnson discussing ukraine aid as it pertains to securing the border. >> my state of louisiana. fentanyl is the leading cause of death for americans age 18 to 49 in the country. fentanyl poisoning because it is allowed over the border. human trafficking and all the other terrible things. in the last three months we have had more illegal crossings at the border than in any entire year during the obama administration. american people see this and feel it acutely and see all the terrible societal ills that come from this and it must be addressed. i have made this very clear again from the very beginning when i was handed the gavel we need clarity oh than what we're doing in ukraine and proper oversight of the spending of

precious taxpayer dollars and we need transformative change at the border. thus far we've gotten neither. senate has been mra. the house passed it more than six months ago collecting dust an schumer's desk. i told him and the secretary of state and defense these are our conditions. the conditions of the american people. we are resolute on that. it is not the house's issue right now. the issue is with the white house and the senate. i implore them to do their job. the time is urgent. and we do want to do the right thing here. with that i will take questions. >> sandra: matt and doug are still with us. you heard speaker johnson talking about the border as it pertains to ukraine funding. republicans want to make sure they get something done on that. matt, your response to what you just heard there. >> you know, i'm not surprised. i spent a lot of time in iowa and new hampshire on the

campaign trail working for tim scott. that is something that cuts through not just republican base but independents as well. every county is a border county. i went with him down to yuma. it doesn't strain border patrols but the healthcare system, the town services. you see this across the country. it should be common sense to get some border funding if you areing to go and send money to ukraine, too. keep some in the united states. it shouldn't be that really crazy. it should be common sense. >> sandra: why is he having such a hard time getting through the senate and the white house on the issue? >> that's a good question because politically, it would help the president and the democrats in the senate and house to do border security. i think it is a fair argument and with my own city of residence, new york, having been overrun, it is not just conservatives who are feeling it. liberals are feeling it. that's right, it is not a partisan issue but it would help the country and help the

democrats. i dare say help joe biden if border security and funding for ukraine was memorialized-in-law. >> sandra: i was excited to have both and you came through for us. matt and doug, thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus" on this tuesday morning. i'm sandra smith in for harris, i'll be back on the channel at 1:00 p.m. eastern time for america reports. we have a lot coming up this afternoon. "outnumbered" will be right here after the break.

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