than expectations. pro p -- guess what? more to come. nyc mayor adams saying they'll do even more of these kinds of deals as much as 10 million square feet of office retail space will be renovated over the next 20 years. mike, back to you. >> mike: gerri willis live in new york city. thank you very much. >> molly: nasa launched a mission to intersect a massive asteroid. known to researchers as the god of chaos it was first discovered in 2004. it is more than 1,000 feet wide. expected to pass close to earth in april 2029 within 20,000 miles of the earth's service. nasa is on it. >> mike: that was fun. "the faulkner focus" is next. julie banderas is in for harris.

have a great day. >> julie: senior defense official sounding the alarm on a significant escalation in the middle east. u.s. navy using an anti-ship ballistic missile for the first time to stop incoming missile fire from houthis in the red sea. iran problem front and center stoking major fears of a wider war. good afternoon, everyone. "the faulkner focus", i'm julie banderas in for harris. thank you for joining us today. a lot of news to cover for you. we'll begin with more than 100 attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east since october 17th. iran proxies going after our men and women overseas. one top senate republican not happy with president biden's lack of action. listen. >> weakness. is there a red line? would you tell our enemies publicly if we tell an american we're coming after you? the houthis are completely backed by iran. i've been saying for six months now hit iran.

they have oil fields in the open. they have the revolutionary guard headquarters you can see from space. blow it off the map. if you want to protect american soldiers, make it real to the ayatollah. you attack a soldier through a proxy, we're coming after you. >> julie: in gaza hamas rejected a proposed cease-fire. israeli forces say they are close -- close that's a quote, to dismantling the terror group in the northern part of the strip. the fighting expanding to the central and southern regions. we have trey yengst on the ground in tel aviv, israel with the latest. >> good morning. threats from iran and its proxies are increasing. amid regional concerns about the possibility of a broader conflict. we know yesterday alone there were 12 attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles actually shot down by the american ice en

-- eisenhower strike group. there was an american response against hezbollah. zooming on the situation on the ground israeli chief of staff announced tuesday the idf is expanding operations in both central and southern gaza while forces continue to go after hamas leadership. the idf says three additional soldiers were killed overnight bringing the total to 146 since the invasion began as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a new warning to hamas. >> we say to the hamas terrorists we see you and will reach you. we are continuing the war and intent to fight the fighting in the southern gaza strip and other places. >> israel's northern front remains active as well. more than 20 rockets were fired into northern israel today from

southern lebanon by the lebanese group hezbollah. >> julie: the massive migrant caravan on its way to our southern border as we speak. estimates say there are up to 15,000 people in this group. we first started reporting this over the weekend. the number was 6,000. it has more than doubled at this point. currently in southern mexico now. the secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary mayorkas are en route to the country. they want help from mexican leaders to drive down the crossings. republicans are not hopeful. they blame biden for the crisis. >> we have brave men and women of border patrol who are down there ready, willing and able who want to enforce our laws and fight for our country. instead, as you point out, they are being assigned tasks like

passing out blankets and working as travel agents to bring people in this country. >> julie: this fiscal year alone there have been more than 730,000 encounters at our southern border in the last three months. some migrants released into the country with a court date more than five years from now and doesn't include the gotaways. those are in the tens of thousands and showing no signs of slowing down, either. william la jeunesse joins us with more. hey, william. >> the latest caravan you just mentioned, they walked by the mexican national guard a few days ago on the guatemala border and nothing happened. can mexico do more? yes. it can also point to a dozen pull factors or u.s. policies that encourage illegal immigration. plenty of blame to go around. what does the white house want? several things from mexico. resume deportation buses and flights from its border with the u.s. right now there are thousands of deportable migrants from around

the globe sleeping in camps and shelters along the border. two, resume policing the railroads, the beast. rail is the quickest and cheapest way for migrants to race north through mexico, three, increase interior checkpoints. pull people off trucks and buses. finally, limit or deny visas that allow migrants to transit mexico legally for up to 90 days. this is the visa center where migrants revolted after being denied those documents. it is also where the latest caravan came together on christmas eve. thousands are now marching north in a show of force hoping to prevent mexico and the police from breaking them apart. >> we demand them to touch their hearts. many of us are tired, without eating and with blisters on our feet. we walk 30 kilometers per day.

>> president obrador is open to talks but wants the u.s. to lift sanctions against cuba and venezuela in return. critics say today's summit is only about mexico getting reimbursed for their enforcement. >> the government of the united states will give over $3 hundred million to mexico to curb migration. it translates into giving money to mexico to deport and detain all these people. poor people. people who haven't had money to move forward. >> and that reimbursement is a reality. aside from the chaos at the border there is another reason the u.s. wants to do this. a recent oig audit that found dhs has no idea where 20% of the migrants we release actually are. no address or the address they provided ice doesn't exist. back to you. >> julie: gee, shocker. thank you very much. doug collins, former republican

congressman of georgia joins me now. i know you are not surprised. none of us are surprised and you don't have to be an elected official to know this. first of all some of these court cases wouldn't be heard for five years, no idea where they went. why would they show up? they won't. it is another golden ticket to migrants that come into this country and have court dates they aren't expected to adhere to. what is the president doing about that? nothing. >> doing nothing. they're doing nothing about this. five years is fairly quick, some we've seen eight and ten years out. they won't show up. biden administration has an open door policy at the border . they can deny it all they want but it is true. they are expanding the use of parole, which shouldn't be used the way they are using it to let people come through the main entry gates and putting them on planes all over the country. many will come. they come with little strips of paper that have an address on them. most of them not sure where that

address is but supposed to be going. that's who is supposed to be response soaring them, if you would. this is a sad state of affairs. the biden administration is allowing the cartels to run the show. all along while they are saying they are being compassionate to the immigrants they are letting them get raped, murdered, killed and getting extorted because our administration will not close the border. >> julie: they won't. if you talk about the number of migrants that go across the border on a daily basis you are talking about 12,000. on tuesday they apprehended some 6,000. but you look at this caravan heading this way. on saturday and sunday we were talking about the number was 6,000 people. now 15,000 people. and they are actually, because we have reporters on the ground who interviewed the people who plan on marching over the border have demanded that biden help them. so these migrants are coming here because they expect the united states president is on their side because clearly we have set a very dangerous precedent. >> guess what?

the biden administration's ear is to those migrants. not the ones living in the united states citizens and every state being a border state. one of the thing i've done in a last couple of weeks. we have become numb to the numbers. 700,000 roughly since the beginning of the fiscal year, october 1st. put it in perspective folks watching football this weekend. the national championship game temp football and super bowl times three and four. that's how many people we're talking about. upwards of 6 million under the biden administration. over 60% of the population of the state of georgia where i live. this is not just a few people coming across. this is not just a few people who are longing to be free. these people are basically invading our country and we aren't stopping them. >> julie: antony blinken is there to speak with the president of mexico. i would say it's pure optics. there is an election around the corner and the white house wants to look like they are are taking

the crisis seriously. i need to move to the middle east. one headline on the mounting tension in the region. fears grow of a wider conflict. this is on the hill. quote, everybody is playing a chess game and you have so many different players right now. hamas, hezbollah, houthis, all backed by iran. some argue our own president is not playing the game well enough. or at all. house intel committee member mike waltz says biden's weak iran policy is putting us at risk. watch. >> israel is just going to be mowing the grass in gaza. it is going to grow back. terrorism is going to come back as long as iran is flush with cash. so the biggest thing the administration could do to help israel is do a 180, reverse course on its iran policy. go back to maximum pressure and dry up their coffers that are fueling terrorism across the region. >> julie: this is the trifecta

from hell. you have hezbollah to the north of israel firing back at israel. then you've got houthis getting involved and attacking ships and then hamas right now. iran has been at the center of this. not just this conflict. the war between russia and ukraine. iran has had its finger on the pulse of terror for years. what has the white house done about it? nothing. what do they plan on doing about it? this war is never ending in israel. but this current battle that is going on in gaza right now, how does the u.s. push the stop button on iran in order to facilitate and enable israel to finally come to some sort of agreement eventually? with iran in the mix it won't happen. >> let's first off say clearly. it is not a three or four. all these proxies are proxies for iran. we are in this battle and israel is by way with iran. the first step you have to do is

cut off the money flow. second thing go back to sanctions which a few years ago was the only thing that brought them to the table to begin with because they were literally falling apart internally. biden and obama back to the obama administration took it away. trump brought it back and bringing them down again. now they get money to feed all these groups. none of these have any backing outside of iran that mean anything. the last thing is when they hit americans, we kill them. plain and simple. bully only works with bullies. we have to be part of it >> julie: and why israel will kill anyone who gets in the way of trying to get to hamas. when you kill israelis, you kill yourself and that's what hamas did. unfortunately there are palestinian civilians going to be caught up in the mix and all those pro-palestinian protestors so ignorant that do not understand the meaning and reason why october 7th happened and why this war continues are ignorant and they must be silenced. i understand they have the right to protest but it is pure stupidity. i have to ask you this. we know that hamas rejected an

egyptian proposal for a permanent cease-fire in gaza. a "washington examiner" opinion which says that it underscores why hamas must go. quote, a permanent cease-fire with hamas is impossible. it can only come -- it can come only when hamas ceases to exit. hamas's reason for existence is the destruction of israel. it was hamas that broke the last cease-fire when it invaded israel. no nation would tolerate such a neighbor and israel should not be expected to do so. that is so well said. >> it is. look, we forget we want to focus on october 7th. before that it was a daily occurrence of hamas sending rockets and missiles into israel. my thing is also we need to reverse the obama deal and put the leadership of hamas back into gaza. they need to be in gaza, not qatar. we have to make them pay the

price and what israel has to do. the old process not just where it is at right this second. >> julie: thank you, lovely to see you and happy holidays. >> take care, thanks. >> julie: michigan supreme court just rejected the state's push to ban former president trump from the ballot after colorado justices decided just the opposite. there are more than a dozen states still that are trying to push to block him. we will discuss this coming up. plus house oversight chairman james comer is hitting back at credits who claim there is no evidence to warrant the biden impeachment probe. watch. >> the media can write no evidence all day long. that won't change the fact that there is a lot of evidence. there are a lot of questions here that this family has failed to answer. >> julie: there is also those emails that republicans claim biden sent using a pseudonym account. well, comer says that's the most important information they need to obtain.

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>> julie: fox news alert now. michigan supreme court struck down an effort to get former president trump removed from the 2024 ballot. this comes after colorado's supreme court last week decided to block him. right now, there are currently more than a dozen states pushing to do the same. chad pergram has the story. >> good morning. the michigan supreme court upheld a decision by a lower court. the courts held state law does not give election officials leeway to judge the eligibility of candidates. now former president trump called the efforts to bar him from the ballot a, quote, pathetic gamut to rig the

election. democrats promise to fight mr. trump. >> our focus needs to be on fact donald trump will likely be the republican nominee and we have to do everything we can to defeat him at the ballot box in 2024. >> michigan is more important than colorado in 2024. it is a swing state with 15 electoral votes. unlike the colorado case, the lawsuit to block mr. trump from the ballot never went to trial. >> this is a political decision in colorado. they hate the guy's guts. you talk about radical, they want to pack the supreme court to the left. abolish the electoral college and national voting. this colorado decision won't stand. it is time for averse all to fight back. >> michigan was close in 2020. president biden only beat former president trump by 85,000 votes. some michigan democrats have --

>> i will tell you that i think it was one of the most pathetic christmas greetings i've heard when a former president of the united states who wants to return tells people on christmas day that they can rot in hell. he is contributing to the divisiveness and division in in country. >> opponents of mr. trump are using the 14th amendment to the constitution to argue that the former president, quote, engaged in insurrection tied to january 6th. >> julie: chad pergram in washington. former u.s. attorney brett tolman worked on the senate judiciary committee council. thank you for talking to us. the michigan court of claims judge who first got this case said state law doesn't give election officials any leeway to police the eligibility of presidential primary candidates. he also said that the case raised a political question that shouldn't be decided in the courts. why wasn't this the case in colorado?

>> julie, colorado is a different dynamic. the state does have a provision that requires that the state certify, through the candidate that they are eligible to run. it is nuanced but it still shouldn't have mattered because you are applying the constitution, the 14th amendment to the constitution, and the reality is you don't even get to that question. i'm waiting for the supreme court to actually be the adult in the room, come in and say hey, all of you that are clamoring and stretching the law in ways that it is not meant to be, here is what this provision means. it was articulated to prevent officers of the civil war from running for office when they led the insurrection against the united states. that's plain and simple. never been applied in the manner it is now. it's a radical effort from the left to keep donald trump off the ballot.

>> julie: the colorado supreme court's decision has been paused pending an appeal. with these two decisions in colorado and now most recently in michigan, the expected appeals to the u.s. supreme court because more critical especially with the nation's 2024 primaries around the corner. so what say you as far as the timeliness of all this? does the supreme court come out with a decision sooner than later? will we get that word sometime this week? a decision needs to be made especially with the primaries. >> yeah, you hit an important issue. when you have two supreme courts that are on opposite positions on a question of law, then the supreme court is obligated to step in and to solve that distinction. but what's different here is that the supreme court could simply not decide whether to take the case or not. if they do that, they hold off and wait to see what happens on this legal landscape, president trump will still be on the

ballot in colorado. the supreme court was very wishy-washy when it came to what they were actually doing. they indicated while the supreme court decides, he remains on the ballot. >> julie: interesting. a delay is what the trump campaign wants and so -- >> either a win or delay, that's right. >> julie: if they don't get a decision any time soon it doesn't hurt them. unlike in colorado the michigan courts rejected the case on procedural grounds. they never reached the question january 6th was an insurrection and whether trump engaged in it. the point is there is still an ongoing trial. when you go to trial typically, this is how it works in the legal system, the justice system, you get convicted. either found guilty or found not guilty. there has been no conviction. he hasn't been found guilty. it does beg the question why any state should have a say whether trump is eligible to be a candidate based on a trial that

hasn't ended. >> i think, julie, your analysis was more on the mark than any of the supreme courts that have decided the issue. it's simple. say to yourself, do you have a candidate that we have a finding of insurrection? we don't even have a charge of insurrection yet. he has multiple criminal cases against him. none of them touch the issue of insurrection. you nailed it. it's a political machinery that has been put into place to prevent one candidate from being on the ballot. >> julie: i have to move to the white house and democrats now. as much as i would like to talk about this further. liberal media has been quick to slam the republican impeachment inquiry into president biden but oversight committee chairman james comer is defending it. he also identified the key information that they are pursuing in the case. >> the american people know something stinks here and that's going to be a problem for joe biden moving forward. not only are his policies a

disaster, but the american people think he is a crook. the most important amount of documentation that we need are those pseudonym emails. we found joe biden was using at least three fake names on government email. what we didn't know until recently was that he was, in fact, using those pseudonym emails to communicate with not just his son but also with his shady business associates. >> julie: think about this for a something. you have states removing president trump from their primary ballots but the current sitting president going under an impeachment inquiry and no concern there? just dust it away and tuck it under the rug. >> well, that's right, julie. think about the tax case against hunter biden. i raise that because i've been a federal prosecutor for a decade. i worked on these kinds of

cases. an entire half of the investigation into those tax problems is missing. the investigation on the sourcing of the funds would have revealed joe biden's involvement and it would have revealed the flow of money. comer is having to do that with a very blunt tool, the use of the congress. but he is doing it and exposing it. so when trump was impeached, we had the media saying there was all kinds of wrongdoing, and the impeachment went forward and then we learned there was no facts and no substance to back it up. here we have the media saying there is nothing here but we are now starting to see all of the facts supporting and backing it up. we are living in that bizarre world where up is down and down is up and we have to try to just continue to slug through it. i applaud the congress. i hope one day at d.o.j. will step up and do what it needs to do in order to investigate and root out this corruption. it's vast.

>> julie: crazy town. that's putting it lightly. we appreciate you coming on. former u.s. attorney brett tollman, great to see you. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy back on the trail. they're weeks away, folks. plus we have seen bad poll after bad poll for biden. it is reportedly causing internal frustration at the white house. one ally calling it a messaging problems. critics say it could spell serious trouble for biden in 2024.

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the messaging has not been strong or consistent enough to break through with the public. some critics say things could get even worse for the president. >> biden has not hit rock bottom yet. if you think back to the 2020 campaign, he also had the aid of a media that covered for him and the luxury of being able to hide in his basement during the pandemic. now he has to get out on campaign trail and prove he has the mental acueto to do the job for the next four years. >> julie: power panel, thank you for coming on. loren, start with you. some have suggested that biden is having trouble convincing a key part of the democratic base it should have faith in its leadership after disappointments from student loans to rising rent, mortgage prices, pandemic, followed by the inflation issue

we have in this country and the israel/hamas war that has become divisive in the democratic party and college campuses could be hurting him further. is that why you believe he is now trailing trump in some of these polls? >> actually, julie, i don't think that young progressive voters are the group biden needs to worry about. that's where a lot of this anger on really progressive policies is coming from. the anti-israel sentiment is coming from. if you look at the turnout rates of those groups, only 27% of 18 to 29 year olds turned out in 2022 and 2020, rather, that rate was about 50%. so these are not reliable voters in the same way that older, moderate democratic voters are. so overall i would say the problem is not the message. it is the policies. when you have a situation where the majority of americans feel pessimistic about their future, where they feel worse off than

they were four years ago, i don't care if you are the best messenger on planet earth. it's difficult to spin. >> julie: due think the biden camp is scared? >> i don't think they're scared. they're concerned in the early polling. this is a popularity contest. they can talk about the economy but democrats and republicans aren't feeling the economy despite the numbers being up and inflation trending down. that's a challenge. they need to look at the likeability of the president. if he is being charged with ageism and people don't like him because of his age manifests itself they have to work on making him more likable. that's most important. secondly, we're a long way off. these inflation numbers and the economy are going to get better and americans will start feeling it. here is the other thing, if they cannot make that change, if they cannot make him more likable, i would be more concerned about that. because you need young voters

because he got 60% of those four years ago. trump is beating him on the young voter piece right now. that's got to change. >> julie: trump is also beating him when it comes to minorities as well. that's a problem. minorities helped him get into office, did they not snow >> that's true. 22% of african-american voters are trending towards trump right now. you are right about that. but the think the vice president, their secret weapon, will change that once this campaign starts going despite how unpopular she is. she is still very popular with people of color who are democratic voters and young voters. she is going to be a difference maker regardless of what her critics say. >> scott, she was losing to biden and elizabeth warren among voters of color in 2020. that's why she lost the primary in the first place. >> that was a long time ago. >> julie: i don't know if she has gained any credibility since then. if her credibility has gone

anywhere it has gone down, not up. if she did that badly back then how will she do round two? >> because she is popular with that group and they need her to deliver the votes. when the campaign starts here is one distinction real quick. in the end the voters will have to choose between an aging biden who you may not agree with everything or donald trump who is crass, crude and facing 91 felony criminal counts. what's the choice america will make? we believe they will choose biden given that choice. >> julie: when you are given the choice of an aging president whose vice president is kamala harris. democrats alone i do not believe think kamala harris is a secret weapon to anything. she is more like a bomb when it comes to the crisis at the border. she hasn't done a thing. that was what her job was. one job to find the root cause of the illegal immigration issue

in this country. she hasn't done a thing. >> she is popular with who she needs to be popular with. you may be right or wrong but she is popular with that group. winning campaigns you need one more vote than the next guy. she will deliver on people of color voting democrat and young people. that's a promise i'm making. >> julie: republican presidential candidates are weeks away. iowa caucuses take place in 19 days with the new hampshire primary to be held january 23rd. the candidates still in the race are fighting hard for every last vote. right now vivek ramaswamy is addressing voters in sibley, iowa. nikki haley will be in new hampshire later today gaining some serious ground. according to one recent poll, she has doubled her support in the granite state just since september. she also scored the coveted endorsement of the state's governor chris sununu.

>> she is surging. it is real. there is a lot of momentum here. it isn't just here is a candidate with a campaign. people see this as a movement. all the chris christie voters and desantis voters are galvanizing around nicki. trump voters are saying it's not inevitable? >> julie: what happened to ron desantis? now we are talking about nikki haley. >> this is something perhaps scott and i can agree on. republican voters have not learned the lessons from 2016 when donald trump barreled into the primary with 92% name recognition in 2015. john kasich got second in new hampshire. marco rubio got second in nevada and in south carolina. those developments, ted cruz won iowa didn't change the landscape. i tend to think trump is far ahead and probably stay there. >> lauren is probably right.

new hampshire. that's not a surprise. she is a brilliant individual. >> julie: i love to see you guys get along. >> i will tell you this nicki is surging and if nicki comes in a close second or wins new hampshire we may a real race on our hands. the majority of gop voters are not maga voters or trump voters. they are looking for someone to coalesce behind and she may be able to make a strong case she is the one. if that happens we have a race on the gop side. let's watch it closely. >> julie: a lot of maga republicans find her, i get this on twitter all the time or x. they call her a rhino. that's what a lot of maga supporters believe in nikki haley. she doesn't have their support. without their support it will be hard to top spot. >> she needs to get ten to 20% of the maga voters who label themselves as maga forties. it will be a challenge.

it is trump's too lose. if you are a democrat you want trump on the other side. >> i think she has a long way to go. but she is very impressive. >> julie: lauren and scott, thank you both for coming on. appreciate it. we were talking about vice president kamala harris. she is getting burned by her christmas photo. why it is sparking controversy and new charges of a gas stove hypocrisy. abby hornacek is in "focus" next.

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>> julie: jewish students are now stepping up pressure on their universities to curb anti-semitism on campus. they are launching lawsuits against several universities citing title vi of the civil rights act of 1964. the statute bars federally funded institutions from intentionally treating individuals worse because of their race, color, or national origin. fox business reporter lydia hu has the story. >> that's right. the universities sued include the university of pennsylvania, nyu, carnegie-mellon and berkeley. lawyers for the students say they are afraid to be on campus and identify themselves as jewish. one student who is suing the

university of pennsylvania described a recent on-campus protest. >> when there is class happening on campus and there are people with bull horns chanting intifada, an armed up rising throughout campus, that is not allowed. when this happened for eight hours on a monday, it was during mid-terms. >> the lawsuit asks court to order the universities enforce their own codes lawyers say that argument will not give the universities cover. >> the idea that this is just, you know, neutral free speech that the university has nothing to do with is nonsense.

if any of these students had been selecting out another ethnic group for attack, then action would have been taken. >> we asked the universities for comment. they either have not gotten back to us or refused to comment on their litigation. >> julie: appreciate it. the vice president facing fresh criticism over her christmas photo. it apparently has, if you take a look there on your bottom right, a gas stove again. that is the very same appliance that the biden team considered banning a few months ago. congressman mike collins asking mockingly is that the another gas stove? one critic said gas stove for me but not for thee. another with the hypocrisy. this isn't the first time she stirred up the same fury with this thanksgiving picture. fox news opinion piece said it's

not just about gas stoves, biden administration's targets four other appliances. the energy agenda, these regulations put the climate change agenda ahead of the best interests of consumers. abby hornacek joins me now. they do this

things that regular people need is when it becomes an issue. i think about the people in manhattan. you have a single woman living in manhattan, probably don't have a dishwasher. it doesn't matter if they crack down on dishwashers. you go to a different state with a single mom with eight kids cooking dinners. you have to watch your plates and you can't use plastic. those are the type of people suffering because of these laws. when you run a country you have to realize the u.s. is like 50 individual countries because each state is so different. >> julie: good point. you have a brand-new special. i have to switch gears. who is barbie out on fox nation now. just came out this week. i have to tell my kids about it. a popular toy for decades. it just become a hit movie. as you found out there is a whole lot more to her story. let's watch a quick clip. >> from humble beginnings. >> it started in a garage.

>> to global empire. how a plastic doll went from misunderstood. >> 70s were not a great time for barbie. >> hi, barbie. >> to mega star. >> it's pink everywhere. ♪ >> barbie is an icon. i don't care what anybody says. my kids still play with them. i bought them for christmas and i love them. >> i didn't really know the history before i did this special. we really do cover the rise and fall and then the rise again of barbie and how it did become a cultural phenomenon and it's crazy. you go to ruth handler. the business mind behind it. her daughter, barbara, was playing with paper dolls. let's make this 3d. her husband was making plastics so they ended up making barbie. it has changed. she has changed, i should say, over the years. you add ken and all of the

accessories and it truly is fascinating. it's a wonderful story. outside of my part in it, i think the producers did an excellent job with the interviews and a lot of great information in there. >> julie: they are role models. now they have more human-looking barbies. they did get criticized for having like, you know -- you have career barbies now. these are the future. >> yeah, i like the sporty barbie growing up. the one that bowls. but you do, you have this view of barbie just being this one thing. you watch the special and realize there is much more to it. >> julie: i liked weird barbie in the movie. i'm more like her. great to see you. "outnumbered" is after the break and i'll be here tomorrow. you better be, too. see you.

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