thank you. and thanks for calling me out. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: is big and with his fox news alert, the senate judiciary committee still has not ruled out a hearing accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sexual assault tickets to go. christine ford could testify or not testify. and attorneys says they're willing to talk about fair terms for her hearing next week, but ruling out testimony on monday suggesting thursday instead. sources also saying ford's legal team is calling for the judge to testify first and once only members of the committee, not attorneys to question dr. ford. if you're watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today, melissa francis. fox business network anchor dagen mcdowell, jessica tarlov tarlov, and pete hegseth, a civilian salute for us, so

meaningful from a veteran, thank you very much. >> pete: you wrote the recent book on it which was fantastic. you and i appreciate that. let's get to it. judge kavanaugh for his part has told a senate committee will testify on capitol hill on monday. and says he wants to clear his name. president trump also reiterating his support for kavanaugh during a rally in las vegas last night. watch it. >> i'm not saying anything about anybody else but i want to tell you that brett kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings he will ever have the privilege of knowing for meeting. a great intellect, a great gentleman, an impeccable reputation. we got to let it play out but i want to tell you, he is a fine, fine person. we just got neil gorsuch, i told you we are going to get brett.

>> harris: hasn't happened and now it has come a tweet on the matter. let's get you congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. good to see you. >> foxes told the senate judiciary committee is not willing out the possibility of a monday hearing even though professor christine blasey ford has requested thursday. early senate majority leader mitch mcconnell try to ensure conservative voters that judge brett kavanaugh will be confirmed. >> my friends, keep the faith, don't get rattled by all of this. we are going to plow right through it. if we do our job. >> a hearing where lawmakers were both here from brett kavanaugh and from his accuser. he has categorically and unequivocally denied her allegations and he says he is committed to defending his integrity. kavanaugh brett grassley last night writing "thank you for the invitation to appear before the

senate committee on the judiciary on monday, september 24. i will be there. i look forward to the opportunity to testify before the committee. judiciary committee democrats out with a letter of their own, they written to fbi director christopher wray writing "we are increasingly concerned by reports of alleged death threats against her, the hacking of her email, and the harassment and intimidation dr. blasey ford has placed since being forced into the spotlight late last week. president trump weighing in on twitter writing a senator feinstein and the democrats held a letter for months only to release it with a bang after the hearings were over. done very purposefully to obstruct and resist and delay. let her testify or not and take the vote. and now all there waiting to see if or when there will be a hearing. >> i do hope that she testifies that i deeply respect her hesitation given the way in which her life and her family's life have already been disrupted

by attacks and disrespect and by death threats. >> chairman grassley is expected to meet with members of the judiciary committee, bottom line he needs republicans to stay unified since democrats are expected to be a no on judge kavanaugh. >> harris: mike emanuel, thank you very much. pete hegseth in the center seat today, the president has tweeted about this. we can pop that up, i have no doubt that if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she says, charges would immediately have been filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her loving parents. i ask that you bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time and place exclamation point. your thoughts? >> pete: i think the terms are lawyers have put out or unreasonable at one level and intentionally so that kavanaugh has to testify first and say that's not how it happened.

i think a lot of things are missed here. senator feinstein knew about this, i think she was careful with the information. if you want to get to the truth, you could carefully when privately meeting with judge kavanaugh said i have this person who wants to remain anonymous who said this happen, you talk to me about it. said someone on that side linked to the name in the name gets out there, now she has become, her life is been turned over. so i think this is ultimately a delay and praise strategy by democrats who want us to go on as long as they can and pray that something else comes out. and hope that the testimony goes sideways, there's another accuser, some piece of evidence miraculously shows up from 36 years later. this is going to be a he said, she said, effectively men are believed to often in women are not believed when i have a right to believe and you have a right to believe.

>> harris: historically women have not been listened to. so that's what brought this up to the me too movement. but what you're saying and i completely understand that is is that really what this is or is it something different politically? >> jessica: this is obviously political at the highest levels, but that doesn't take away from what is actually going on here which harris just alluded to there. women have not been believed throughout history when this occurs. i think it's only 30% of women who are sexually assaulted report it. the president's tweet is completely out of line in inappropriate. just look at the church scandal that just blew up to know that victims of sexual assault do not report it. >> harris: under the age of 18 and almost all of them no other person in the room to report it. >> jessica: exactly, very similar circumstances. denies that to happen at this point. we can subpoena mark judge, we

can subpoena the other person who is allegedly in the house and we can have an fbi investigation which is what anita hill got. the president loves to order fbi investigation. i have no idea at the time. the cut should be looking into hillary clinton. we have better to be looking at fusion gps. >> harris: do you think they would ignore him if they actually ordered an investigation? i want to move on and ask her about this next move the democrats say they are willing to make because i don't quite understand it. the statute of limitations has run out on his potentially becoming a crime having to do with ford and the allegations. democrats are now saying that even if he gets confirmed, going to have an independent investigation, what does that accomplish? >> dagen: the need to go back to the state level because of sexual assault is not a federal crime, it is in a state crime and so this would need to be set

erratically theoretically happened in the state of maryland where this allegedly happen. because that's the issue. >> harris: statute of limitations has run out sick and his democrat lawmakers post the issue with local law enforcemen law enforcement? >> dagen: they would need to tell christine for that she would know to local law enforcement. if this is a distraction because again, the issue is making all people listen to women when they said that they have been sexually assaulted, the democrats are not helping women. because they are portraying all men as liars and all women as truth seekers and all women as victims, quite frankly in the same area. and that's the definition of sexism when you say all men lie, all women tell the truth. that is not something that we are born with based on gender, based on genetics. and that's why you need to have the accuser and the accused, the

accuser goes first and says in front of the senate judiciary committee in front of the american people, this is what happened to me, she is cross-examined and then brett kavanaugh gets to defend himself. if that's how you make a judgment about whether someone is telling the truth. >> harris: what you think she was to go first? >> melissa: she wants him to go first so that he can't come up and then rebut what she said. >> harris: how you know what to deny? >> melissa: this is part of brett kavanaugh statement from earlier today. since the moment i first heard this allegation, i categorically and unequivocally denied it. i remain committed to defending my integrity. he wants to come forward at the soonest possible time. he doesn't give himself any wiggle room at all, he is absolutely emphatic and if you had even a hint that anything had ever happened in your past like this, it would be really dangerous to come out the stron strong.

>> harris: dangerously exposing republicans who are backing him because we don't know which party, hasn't given us details so for them to categorically say that this didn't happen. >> jessica: like ed whelan did when he went on a tweet storm last night saying that brett kavanaugh couldn't have done it because he pulled up some floor plans and he put the blame on brett kavanaugh's classmate who had been supportive of kavanaugh and also was clearly close with dr. ford. >> dagen: this is a distraction and i want to say one thing, the fact that democrats are trying to act like we are the party women, somebody was a democrat like this woman's name. >> harris: are you looking for the name? >> dagen: and by the way, they are using this woman and her reputation as a battering ram.

they are not standing up for her and the right to women. they are standing up for their own backside. >> jessica: i don't think that's fair. >> melissa: it is fair, she didn't want to come forward. >> jessica: i hope that it wasn't senator feinstein herself that weakness. >> harris: i hadn't heard that. >> jessica: that would be a complete violation of what dr. ford had asked. >> harris: we just put this out there in terms of being a democrat. if dianne feinstein has been around for a long time. she knows where the snakes are among her group, don't you think? i give her credit for knowing who would leak and who wouldn't. i'm not entirely convinced that she would know who would've done this and maybe even since we are kind of going down that line of guessing because we don't really know, it's hard for me to believe that the democrat would know who the leakers would be among them. space are there going to find a way to get it out, no doubt about that. this is just a distraction.

also, double standards matter. look at the current number two at the dnc. documented accusations. >> jessica: the dnc said that they should be looking into it. i don't disagree with you. a majority of the people have taken down. >> pete: is she saying she should leave? >> jessica: that is an available option. but what it's not saying is that there is any credibility to what dr. ford is alleging. >> pete: the double standard expose of the political core. >> harris: we will no doubt revisit this topic. the point about the leaker, is she being further victimized in a public way now because some democrat decided to pick that a topic which she's going through

and try to advocate for her? is just a question. the dow, the s&p hitting new all-time highs today. if you have retirement money, take a look. most of us have a little bit of a nest egg or something. president trump touting the booming economy both on wall street and main street. can it continue and will it be a game changer in the midterm elections? new site is president trump's attorney may moving closer to a deal for a sitdown interview with special counsel robert mueller. so how could that affect the midterm or should the president be concerned about reports of former attorney michael cohen is talking? we will debate it.

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>> melissa: fox news alert, president tom's lawyers may be moving closer to a deal with special counsel robert mueller's team for the president to be interviewed in the rush of proud. a source familiar with the process telling fox news the president's legal team is "pleased with the progress and believe the odds are in favor of a sitdown." but that is not likely to happen before the november midterms. this comes amid reports of the president's former lawyer michael cohen has met with the team for hours of interviews discussing the president's business dealings in russia. in the meantime, the president

during an exclusive interview with sean hannity before last night's las vegas valley again calling for mueller to wrap it up. watch. >> it has to come to an end, it's so bad for our country, call it a witch hunt. it is so bad for our country and when you see strzok and paige and mccabe with his lies, gets fired for lying, lying and leaking. you see what went on, it's going to come to an end. so bad for our country. >> melissa: when i hear leaning towards a sitdown, i feel like i've heard that a thousand times. >> pete: is like a ping-pong going back and forth. i'm just grateful that it may be in the fourth quarter and nearing an end. to me, i don't know where it stands, hitting the president should do it's in the best interest of his innocence and that may include some form of a response and if it wraps it up more quickly, great.

i think he has the confidence of saying there and saying i didn't do anything wrong in all we found is the investigators built their home scheme to try to take him down and more of that is coming out day by day. which of the fact that michael cohen sat down and talked about the president's business dealings in russia, a lot of people get very excited about that. it's not illegal to do business in russia. >> dagen: one thing we know from "the wall street journal"'s reporting that mueller's came earlier this year the questions they provided to president trump legal team outlying subjects including questions related to mr. cohen's activities and trying to get a trump tower in moscow. around the time of the trump campaign. he was the issue, and i've said this all along. this is a perjury trap. the blasey would be happy to nail them on a processed crime,

no collusion. the fbi can lie to you and it's a crime, it's a felony and i'm sure his attorneys are cautioning to slow down and think about what happens with this. no collusion, but looking to nail obstruction of justice on president trump. they want to get inside the trump organization dealings. the democrats will stop at nothing and i think their team is playing right into that. >> jessica: a agree with it, i disagree with a good chunk of it as well. i don't think this is about the democrats stopping at nothing. bob mueller has gotten praise from both sides of the aisle for how he's conducted this, not a lot of thinking coming up there.

downtown, that was an issue with russians as well, the beauty pageant over there, this is someone who has been dealing in russia a long time to your point they haven't found the president colluded with someone or don jr. but they're still looking at these things, they do have a lot of guilty pleas in indictment so far and let him go about his business. this whole try to figure out what is going to end, everyone has embarrassed themselves time and time again. >> dagen: he's walking around the streets of new york city. >> harris: this is a guy not to disrespect local radio, they're important. real quickly. this also gives with michael cohen and entree into the siblings, the children and their finances and so on and so forth. it allows us investigation to put pressure on different point points. >> pete: not the purpose of the investigation or the scope of the investigation. it is not about every financial

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>> harris: we were expecting as early as today to see some of the russia investing investigation documents which

trump has ordered on monday to be declassified. tweeting this, "i met with the doj on the declassification of redacted arguments. the inspector general has been asked to review these documents on an expedited basis. i believe he will move quickly on this. and hopefully other things which he is looking at." in the end, i could always declassified them if it proves necessary. speed is very important to me and everyone. the information is suspected to include forms from the fisa warrant eating the authority to spy on one time trump campaign aide carter page who had reacting to criticism from the intel officials on the move to declassified. while there are no bombshells, it should be embarrassing for some people. >> i read it, some of it is embarrassing for the department of justice, some of it is embarrassing for the fbi. embarrassment is not a reason to

declassify something. it's a lot of it should be embarrassing and may be there in lies why he is so adamant that this information not be released. i read it, i don't think it's going to change anyone's mind but i've seen nothing in it that is going to jeopardize the national security interest of this country. >> harris: his comment coming off a sort of witticism from john brennan that we've seen before. watch it. >> i think the director of national intelligence and mr. rosenstein should push back against any directive that is going to have negative impact on our capabilities on mr. trump in the white house does not relent, i think that they have some decisions to make whether another going to just not follow that direction and be fired or to resign. >> harris: i'm a little baffled by trey gowdy singh is not going to change anybody's mind. i don't understand it, why can't we see all of it then?

>> pete: i agree with the speed fortune, we need as much sunlight as humanly possible. he may or may not be right, but i don't want to go through trey gowdy or the john brennan filter. the american people are smart enough to get a look at something like this and i understand sources and methods, it's important, but a guy like john brennan is always going to hide behind that but what if they use their sources and their methods to spy on american citizens and a political candidate in the middle of the presidential cycle, i am willing to err on the side of exposure understanding a few things might go wrong in that process but the semite as was needed to restore faith in institutions of a lot of americans lost complete faith in. >> harris: you know what i love about how you just put that is spelling out mistakes in this whole thing, why americans should care and that's important for people to know. they also think it's rather important to know that trey gowdy and chairman nunes don't necessarily see this the same way. let's watch. >> once it comes out, american people are going to get to see

how dirty these people were, what they were willing to do in the links they were willing to go to to get a warrant on somebody within a political campaign so they can go and gather up all the emails and correspondence and phone records to look at what the campaign is doing when you have one political opponent spying on. >> harris: the kind of see it differently, may be able change minds, but just what about this point, if one side is willing to spy on the other side, why would they be afraid of us finding out why they did it? >> melissa: i don't know. i'm struck by the idea that he's not going to change anyone's mind because how could trey gowdy say that if what's in there is proof of using this made up dossier in order to as part of the fisa warrant. wouldn't that change democrats mind? it wouldn't change anyone's mind if you knew that the government had gone through follow the money, money given from the

democrats to fusion gps where they made up this fake dossier, that it was funneled back into the fbi by the wife of the person who is paid to make it in part and he also financially benefited from making it, his wife was paid by fusion gps and then that thing was brought back to the fbi after he was discredited? that's not going to change anyone's mind? >> jessica: i think you do know a lot of it in "the new york times" which is not failing has been covering the bruce ohr story very closely. part of the issue is what devin nunes was saying in his the fisa warrant on carter page started when he was a trump campaign official but it didn't, it started before that so wasn't about spying on a trump person, that was about the fact that carter page has been bragging for years that he is an advisor to the kremlin. >> harris: at some point, he became a campaign person. space is how he is is we've got to get trump. this is about we've got to get

people. to the fake dossier point, i don't think it's fair to call it the fake dossier. you don't have evidence of everything in it is disproved. >> harris: definitely unverified. >> jessica: and there were other sources used. >> dagen: adam shift was all up in arms about the selective release of all this information, let's see at all. where the democrats fighting so hard? they're fighting and screaming to keep the truth away from all americans and by the way, with brennan in shift, chicken little is embarrassed for them. the whole sky has fallen narrative from these guys. >> melissa: house republicans could use the power of the subpoena to compel former fusion gps researcher nellie ohr to testify about her time working as a contractor for fusion gps. that of course is the research firm behind that unverified

anti-trump dossier. fox news learning that the wife of demoted justice department official bruce ohr has refused multiple requests to appear voluntarily before the house judiciary and oversight committees including a deposition plan for today. meanwhile, the two committees could also seek a subpoena for former fbi general counsel jim baker as they continue to probe the justice department's handling of the russia investigation and allegations of fisa abuse. if they call you to testify, they're not happy with you. they're not calling you because they want to see you and say hello so i could see not wanting to go. >> dagen: but a subpoena, you don't show up, you prosecute the individual. unfortunately jeff sessions is the attorney general and in the past, he hasn't been willing to do that. refused to show up for two subpoenas under jason chaffetz on the oversight committee, jeff sessions said i'm not touching

it. i'm not prosecuting this guy because he is acquainted cloning. if i think that jeff sessions running the justice department being the ag at this point is troublesome. number two, bruce ohr, kudos to the reporting of "the wall street journal," this is what is so troubling. bruce ohr knew that christopher steele, he was a conduit between him and the fbi, knew that he was trying to go after president trump. bruce ohr revealed to congress, he warned the fbi that his source was incredible. alerted the bureau to christopher's steel and told the borough that nellie ohr, his wife was working for fusion and contributed to the project. he delivered this information before the first application to be fisa court. against trump eight carter page. he knew that and they went ahead with it anyway and the fbi didn't disclose it. there's a lot to unpack for the american people until we get to the bottom of this. >> pete: maybe they should send her the request in russians and she speaks if you only. >> jessica: is that a problem

in another language? >> pete: she works for fusion gps or she can work with christopher steele, pulled out salacious information that is unverified and handed over to the bodies in the fbi who can try to wash their hands and say we told everybody about it but someone higher up in the fbi was in cahoots for hiding it for a fisa application that we now deserve to see. she should be called to answer these questions just like bob miller gets to call whoever he wants to. it's quite clear. the investigators in the investigation into them, there's a lot more there than anything we are seeing that any amount of russian collusion between the trump campaign in russia. >> melissa: i don't know how you can dispute that because in this case, this is the most obvious when were you just follow the money as it travels from a campaign to fusion gps to nellie ohr into her bank account that she shares with bruce ohr because they are married and it goes back to the fbi. it's a conflict of interest, it's a money trail. of >> harris: is a money trail

that we are looking for an information trail and i brought this up yesterday and took a little blowback on social media, not that i care. but the pillow talk information, judge napolitano and i were talking about this. so does the money trail then lead you to the information trail that she and her husband were having? that's important too. he's at the doj, she's not. >> jessica: i think that she absolutely should testify, we'll talk about it before, whether it's a problem that someone works here and they married to who works there. >> melissa: the reason is she took her work product back to the fbi, they don't just work in places. they already discredited it. >> harris: the only thing going on is the one in our ears getting us to wrap up.

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>> right now, arising in poverty is lower, you see it. poverty is plummeting. jobless claims just hit a 50 year low. the stock market today just hit another all-time high. >> dagen: president presidentp

touting the booming economy as he mentioned that just hours earlier, dow jones industrial average hit a new all-time high. we did the same thing today. some are suggesting also the s&p 500. some are suggesting this shows that investors are shrugging off the trade war between united states and china with new tariffs. followed by retaliation from china. the president tweeting this video on the trade move. >> so we place massive tariffs on china and the tariffs that really had a positive impact. number one in our country is taking in a lot of money. number two, creating jobs like never before. so it's very important that china open its markets to our farmers and everybody else. right now, they are close largely and yet our markets are open to them. >> dagen: if we are talking

economy, we should mention just a few of the statistics, the unemployment rate has reached a 18 year low, the u.s. economy grew north of 4% of the second quarter, 4.2%, it is likely going to grow north of 4% the current quarter, really incredible stuff. the reason that we have reached an even higher growth plateau and is economy which is almost unheard of and given this has been going on since 2009. speak to that growth rate is really the thing that is so staggering to me to see that 4.2% improvement. that's how much you're accelerating and let me explain to you why this is such a bigger deal and there's so much more than what president barack obama did because when obama inherited the economy, he always said look what i inherited and when i made it into. when you're at a standstill, it's easy to go faster. that growth rate should have been huge because you're stopped. so anything is faster. if the economy is already moving to then accelerate again and

push faster than that 4.2%, that is much harder. it's why they say when they have a crash, they have a v-shaped recovery. we didn't have that. >> harris: real quickly to follow up on that just the kind of crack that brain of yours. so also whenever you are moving you accelerate, but you have to be careful that you accelerate at a sustainable rate but not too quickly so that you don't drive things like inflation in recessions and so on and so forth? what i'm saying is it takes manageability to be able to do that. >> melissa: i was a we should be so lucky. >> dagen: inflation i would embrace it at this point. inflation is not crazy. that's why the federal reserve is there. we want to see wage inflation in this country. in fact, wages are growing in the most recent month. the fastest pace since they recovery started in 2009. >> harris: i think most people

think the cost of things. >> dagen: wages are still growing faster than the rate of inflation in this country. disposable income, even after inflation is growing at about 3% year-over-year. >> melissa: i think it's interesting when the democrats tried to trash talk money as it is really not better, people aren't feeling well. do you feel like that's something that's going to sell in the midterms? >> jessica: no. i think it depends on the district. in super liberal districts, they want to hear all about how obama saved us from the economy, and president trump is going off of obama's fumes, that will work there but if you look at the campaigns that are being run in ohio and wisconsin, pennsylvania, they're not saying that. they're saying we are happy that consumer confidence is up, you've an extra thousand dollars in your bank account but i can get you more. >> dagen: 's economy isn't running on fumes. >> jessica: i didn't say that. >> dagen: there is gasoline in

his tank and his tax cuts and deregulation. >> pete: they started off the fumes of obama but if you're an average voter, you don't do like we do every day and try to tease out the latest news nugget and who wins and who loses. looking at the quality of your life, do you have a better job, or wages up, are you confident? i think those things are going to matter as a noise. >> jessica: but health care is going to matter the most which is an economic issue. democrats are winning on that by over ten points. they want obamacare. >> dagen: is just pathetic crumbs. a family of four for more than two months. >> jessica: i would love to have $2,000. the five heaping praise on nevada's incumbent senator while ripping his democratic opponent apparently falling into line with republicans when it comes to midterm messaging.

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>> the congress who fully fund veterans affairs, it's a big deal he's been really great. i just want to say there's been no better friend. you know what? a vote for wacky jackie is a vote for the extreme agenda of those people. >> jessica: president trump in nevada last night for republican senate candidate and it unveiling one of his typical nicknames for congressman jackie rosen. the president heaping praise on from a critic of his now life demi-glace in a tight reelection race. now off talking about a red wave after his party expressed concerns that may send the wrong

message. >> promised me, you've got to get out, don't be complacent. you've got to get out for the midterms. you've got to vote. you've got to vote, we need more republicans. when they say we have a majority, it's like this. if somebody has a cold, we don't have a majority that day. we have to have more republicans in office, will get everything we want so fast. >> jessica: i like what he said that, if someone has a cold, we don't have a majority anymore which is based what was going on. i think the brett kavanaugh comments just think you should is stay away from generally i thought he was pretty on point last night. bigger his political instincts got him to where it is. even now, you can see it with a shutdown conversation about the wall. i personally would love to see that show down now. i think his political instincts want that showdown now. but of think republicans ever

want to give it to them and they sure are going to get that so his instincts have served him well, nicknames have served them well. its reputation repetition and e question will be who has the most clarity? they are running on hate and resistance and republicans have to remember. it's a chain at a rally but the running that trump is on the ballot in 2018, he was the economic numbers that we talked about that were fueled by this president. if >> jessica: or jackie rosen is a first-term congresswoman, very low name i.d., well-known center. what do you think is going to happen here and what you think it says about what's going on that she is really neck and neck with someone with such a bigger profile? >> dagen: bigger profile, may be trump rally helps.

>> pete: has been all over the map. >> dagen: i keep looking at these ten democratic senators that are up for reelection and states that trump won, half of those ten states trump won by double digits some curious to see if president trump moves around the country if he starts giving rallies in places like indiana. >> melissa: you look at nevada, he has the distinction of being the only one running one of those states, but hillary won that one and everyone in nevada strikes me as just angry. if you look at the numbers for everyone involved, they're all underwater. trump is underwater there, in terms of the negatives being higher than their positives. it is just a frustrated state right now, so to be interesting to see if that rally actually helps. i think those ten races are so interesting and it really shows you that all politics is local because when everybody is battling in their own home state is different from the set of circumstances that they're under how much the president is liked

and he is trying to go out and lent his support in all these talks have stayed but the makeup of the constituency there is really the only thing that matters. >> pete: all politics is local but is also on national and the cycle. a guy like him as a textbook case of someone who kind of embraced the president and as a president over 90% popularity within his own party, trump supporters don't love that happened in half outcome it can really hurt a candidate and was out even in 2016, if you were all income he did better than someone who tried to play the local angle in the national ankle. >> jessica: i've been with the president about 80% of things which might not be enough for a trump supporter. >> dagen: i thought all along the message needs to be with the tax cuts, we republicans think you the american people make better decisions with your own money. you earned it, you get to keep more of it. democrats think government make better decisions about your life. >> jessica: august the of the economy is going to be number one and number two alongside with health care, immigration is

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favorite couch. tomorrow morning, tuning in the morning if you're up early. >> melissa: excellent, thanks to both of you as well. it was a spirited show. we will be back on the couch at noon on monday but right now, here's harris. >> harris: fox news alert, waiting on an answer about whether the president's supreme court nominee will have a chance to defend himself in public and still no word if his accuser will accept congress' invitation to tell her side of the story. let's go "outnumbered overtime," i'm harris faulkner. the attorney for christine blasey ford saying in a letter she's willing to testify under the "right terms." only members of the committee can question her. kavanaugh should testify first before he has heard of ford's testimony. a short time ago, president trump weighed in weyden, accusing democrats of using the allegations to stall the