that's why this bird dances across the road. >> bill: hard to find worms on blacktop. enjoy your weekend. >> dana: see you monday month "the faulkner focus" is up next. >> harris: democrats stepped up their power grab with a house vote today to radically reshape the electoral map. i'm harris faulkner. the house is set to vote on a bill that would make washington, d.c. the 51st state. democrats are framing it as a civil rights issue. some rallies are being held now around the nation's capitol in support of state hood for the district. a long-time democrat stronghold as you probably know. nancy pelosi put it this way. >> by voting for d.c. statehood

the house of representatives reaffirms the truth that all deserve a voice in our democracy. for centuries they have been denied their right to representation. it is imperative we correct this injustice which is also a matter of civil rights and security. >> harris: well, hold on because the senate is a major roadblock. democrats aim to use the bill to get pressure to end the filibuster allowing the left to drive forward their agenda without needing any republican support. here with reaction senator john kennedy republican from louisiana. senator, great to have you on the program. an important day, a lot to get to. let's start with statehood and what this means and what republicans can do in the senate if they want to block this. >> well, i'm rather fond of our constitution. i know you are too, harris. and i think the house bill is

unconstitutional. i was reading an interview by mr. jerry nadler about the bill. he is chairman of the house judiciary. and i think his arguments for this bill are typical. i've seen mr. nadler's legal analysis. i don't mean to be cruel but if you want to hide something from him, put it in a law book. i mean, this issue was settled in 1790. our founders did not want the seat of the federal government to be influenced by any particular state so they created a district of columbia, a non-state. and the land was given by virginia and maryland. it is not in the constitution, but our founders talked in terms of having a district that

was i think the language was 10 miles square. now, can that be changed? sure, but you have to amend the constitution. their bill also, i think, is probably going to be found unconstitutional on the 23rd amendment. they create this new mini district and give it which will have a couple hundred or a couple thousand people and give this mini district three electoral votes, which is going to disenfranchise a lot of other people. so i'm not especially worried about it. i think it is anybody who knows a law book from a j. crew catalog knows it's unconstitutional. >> harris: real quickly. any of the democrats you are talking with. you hear the names of kristin sinman and joe manchin.

do they apply here in terms of supporting republicans? >> well, i don't know yet. we haven't seen the bill. i think most people on capitol hill -- and i think most americans understand that this bill is not about civil rights. it is not really about infranchising or disenfranchising people. it is about nancy pelosi and others trying to consolidate liberal power because i think for a longest time the district of columbia, which can vote in presidential election, is heavily democratic. >> harris: i want to scoot to this. los angeles lakers player lebron james is facing some backlash and senator, i know even on capitol hill they're talking about this all over the country because he has such a high profile. huge. it is over this deleted tweet which says you're next over a

picture of the columbus, ohio police officer who shot and killed 16-year-old ma'khia bryant caught on body cam attacking two other girls with a knife. lebron james later wrote this. by the way again he deleted that tweet. we haven't seen the police officer's picture until he put it out there. i took the tweet down because it is being used to create more hate, he said. this isn't about one officer, it is about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. senator kennedy, your reaction. >> harris: well, first i think mr. james did the right thing by pulling down the tweet. look, harris, i admire his passion. he is clearly a leader for many americans for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is his extraordinary physical skills.

i think sometimes mr. james has more zeal than wisdom. he doesn't wait on the facts. i mean, he can go from zero to screw everyone pretty fast and i wish i was as sure of anything as mr. james sometimes seems to be sure of everything. i don't want to be overly critical but on a situation like this, you have to get the facts. what happened in columbus was horrible. a cop had to choose between two lives in a split second. and i know some have said president biden when he was running said well, the cop ought to shoot the gun and the knife out of their hands. this isn't silverado or dead wood. this isn't the movies. cops sometimes have to make quick decisions and we have to wait for the facts and investigation. >> harris: you say the investigation. lebron james is coming under heat because this appeared to

incite violence. even twitter is not responding. they normally would flap a sticker on something like this or suspend the account or something like that. and then what about the commissioner of the league that he plays in? it is crickets. it seemed like he was definitely calling for violence to some. what do you say? >> look, i wish he hadn't tweeted it out. i suspect he does, tao. he did the right thing by pulling it down. i admire his passion but you have to balance your zeal with wisdom. and if you are in a leadership position, you can't just shoot from the hip. now and we have to disabuse this -- people of this idea, which i don't think americans share, that every cop, many of whom are racial minorities, every cop gets up every morning and goes to hope hoping for the

opportunity to hurt somebody included but not limited to a racial minority. i don't think that's true, i just don't. i don't think most cops are racist. some probably are. we need to weed them out. but if you hate cops just because they're cops, you are being unfair and unrealistic and you aren't fooling the american people. they don't believe that. >> harris: you talked about the choice he made in that moment and had to make based on a knife in that young woman's hand. >> it's terrible. >> harris: we don't know all the facts and we'll cover them what they happen. >> what i hate so much about that. one of our strengths in this country is our diversity. diversity because of some of our leaders has become division. and it is tearing this country apart and people need to think before they speak. and i give mr. james the benefit of the doubt but if you are going to be a leader, you

have to lead and you have to choose your words carefully. >> harris: i'll get to this now. there are new details emerging on that columbus shooting. a neighbor who will join us later in the program told the "new york post" he watched the incident after it happened on his home security video. it was secured above his garage so he could see and says that ma'khia bryant was in full attack mode. his words. he believed cops had no choice but to shoot. the white house portrayed the incident quite differently. watch. >> she was a child. we're thinking of her friends and family and the communities hurting and grieving her loss. police violence disimportant portion naturally impacts black and latino communities. they experience higher rates of police violence. our focus is on working to address systemic racism. >> harris: now this headline from an op-ed in the "new york

post." jen psaki baseless list and disgracefully radicalized the killing in columbus. what do you say about that headline? >> immeasurably not the headline, what president biden has done is immeasurably reckless and foolish. he has gone full woke. he has joined those people who believe that america was wicked in its origins and that the american people are even more wicked today. that we have millions of americans who are racist and misogynistic and ignorant, especially if they didn't vote for him. the woke people who mr. biden has joined have contempt for america. they should have gratitude. and i am very, very disappointed in president biden. i knew he would be left of center. i didn't know he would be left of lenin. he knows better.

he knows better. >> harris: wow. i think the wording that you are using, that is going to be something that people will be quoting and thinking about all day long. senator kennedy. >> the president is encouraging this. he has to stop it. he is encouraging this radical thinking that america is bad. the american people are not perfect but they are good. >> harris: what would you say directly to the president? let's step back for a moment and give you a few more seconds to express this. we saw the prosecution in the derek chauvin case not bring up race in the case or in his closing argument. and that was talked about by some congressman maxine waters turned it into that type of event for her own purposes one would imagine, we don't know. your last word. >> i would tell president biden, you are a smart man and you didn't get to be your age with your experience and not know this is nonsense.

america is not rotten to its core. we're not perfect but we are good. and you are turning our diversity, one of our strengths, into a division. and some say, mr. president. i am not accusing you, purely for political reasons. it's wrong and you know it's wrong. it is not worth it, mr. president. lead, don't just follow and do what the woke people tell you to do. >> harris: senator kennedy from the great state of louisiana on the program today. thank you for your time. as i just mentioned ma'khia bryant's neighbor who caught the surveillance video of the deadly confrontation is speaking out. this is the perspective from his garage camera that sits above his garage door. he says the video does not lie. the exclusive interview you don't want to miss with him coming up. plus the white house shutting down a reporter who simply asked about president biden's

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>> harris: president biden's justice department has launched an investigation into the entire minneapolis police department one day after a jury found former officer derek chauvin guilty in the murder of george floyd. but the law enforcement in the city already is under intense pressure. critics say this will make that tension worse. the "wall street journal" editorial board wrote this.

biden indicts police, investigating the entire time will burden the crime-playinged city. tammy bruce, and desirae, a former democratic congressional candidate and president and ceo of innovation, ohio, great to see you both. desirae, i'll start with you. just get your top line thoughts first of all in response to an investigation of the entire unit, the entire department. >> i think that it is a wise decision to send the department of justice to investigate the department. we've seen what that can do in terms of setting a press department for creating new standards, making recommendations and assure there are system in place to prevent another tragedy from happening which we've seen in just adjacent to minneapolis. we saw this with the ferguson mike brown situation.

when the department of justice went in and investigated the ferguson police department we learned some of the tickets they were writing and racially biased and socially economic decisions made to impact people who were working class and poor. what can come from this are recommendations to make a change so we can shift and move away where we can all live and work together. >> harris: tammy, your response. >> well, i agree in part but what we've got here clearly is minneapolis has been struggling with this issue as noted. they did cut funding. they had a surge in crime in the midst of that. there is an issue also of derek chauvin. some people might not realize this, he was reported as being a training officer in the department. so if there is concern regarding that when it comes to the attitudes that have been placed in some of the other officers but we can also

remember that the other officers with him the day of the george floyd now murder which we can call it that with this conviction is that they were trying to intervene. they were telling him to stop. so even with that -- if that attitude prevails it is important to know. what the attorney general could do, what attorney general garland can do is say in fact at the start we're here not to condemn them but to help reinforce trust for us to see what's going on so we can move forward in this regard. so there is a responsibility for setting the tone as you noted in your opening regarding president biden is that, as the senator noted. there is a responsibility to put things in context. to say either stop it or this is why we're doing these things as opposed to what seems to be a political agenda to divide and to place americans into tribes. of course, we know that hasn't worked here or around the world.

an effort to do that will only lead to more problem. >> harris: i started the program and talking to senator kennedy from louisiana about the death of ma'khia bryant, the shooting there. i want to bring that into the conversation a bit this way. comedian leslie jones formerly of snl posted this to her twitter page yesterday. >> guilty. guilty. guilty. now let's get the rest of the -- >> harris: desirae, how is that helpful? >> i think the african-american community we are so used to injustice or zero accountability many people in the african-american community simply weren't even holding their breath to receive the guilty verdict and outcome shows we're on a path to

progress and accountability and assuring that yes you cannot readily go out with your badge and gun and kill people and get away with it without, you know, cause. >> harris: we don't know what happened. >> we've seen this happen over and over again. when you get the guilty verdict. >> harris: you sound like president biden like we're all monolithic. >> no, we're not a monolith. >> harris: so i just why not wait for the facts? leslie knows another high profile person. lebron james. this is like a theme. let's wait to see. isn't there any more faith that justice can work after derek chauvin or was that an exercise in futility for everybody in the streets? call things what they are. >> i think people are excited we're seeing accountability in justice. we've seen throughout case

after case mike brown, trevon martin, over and over again people who are out killing african-american women and children and black men are getting away with it. so to receive a guilty verdict people felt a sense of relief and they were celebrating and i don't want to take away from that, their belief and seeing the system can work for all of us and we saw it and they're calling for accountability and we shouldn't silence celebrities for speaking out and saying yes, we can't -- we need to stand for accountability. >> harris: i would say this i don't see this kind of fury and concern in the fight and leslie jones all over twitter when it's black on black crime that are heartbreaking and back breaking for the backbone of this country. we see spikes if crime and the pandemic across major cities spikes in violent crime.

black on black crime i don't see the response there. where are the protests? i'm bringing you both back. the spot where george floyd was killed by a police officer has become a memorial but if people who are not of color, if white people visit that, they are told that they have to follow certain rules. where are we going with this? remember the signs? you go to the bathroom here, you eat here, and now it is flipped? plus this. >> without border security we will never have true homeland security. americans lives are at risk every single day. >> this isn't a republican or democrat issue, this is an american issue. >> it is a national crisis. it is the united states problem. >> harris: you know i've been talking to sheriffs and they're getting together on this to help out the border patrol. sheriffs speaking out about the crisis on the border. how local governments are responding. we'll talk about it all with

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additional 250 national guard troops. >> president biden, we're getting whiplash out here from all the mixed signals. president biden, if you want to stop the disaster that's unfolding here and will only get worse in the coming months, you should declare a national emergency. >> harris: chad wolf is a former acting dhs secretary and heritage foundation visiting fellow. thank you for being with me. when we've talked in the past we talked about the ramp up to where we are right now. how would you describe, categorize this moment this time? >> well again, we continue to have an ongoing crisis that is now becoming a national tragedy what's occur at the border. you've had over 170,000 illegal apprehensions in the month of march alone. the governor now those numbers increase as we get later into

the months of the summer. so again the biden administration continues to address the symptoms of this problem and not going towards the root causes of it. you need to enforce the law and you need to get serious about border security. you can continue to care for these individuals that come into dhs custody as they should but that alone will not solve the problem. so unfortunately where the federal government won't step up you have governors like abbott in texas and duesy in arizona deploying national guard and their own law enforcement to the border. a sad state when governors have to do that because the federal government chooses not to. >> harris: wow, if they don't, you have to ask the question what happens if the numbers continue to go up? they are not plateauing at this point. >> well, the system is broken. we know that because of the number of unaccompanied alien children, over 20,000. 53,000 last month of family units.

those individuals and those families are largely being released. a small percentage are being turned around back to mexico. a lot are being released into the united states. as the numbers grow the system will continue to be broken and continue to look for additional facilities. >> harris: how do we take care of them all and where are they going? >> it is not going to be enough. >> harris: social services in different states have to be seeing this influx, too. that's part of the story that maybe we jump to next. i want to go here. the white house is finally confirmed that the vice president kamala harris will meet with the president of guatemala on monday. but it will be virtual. so only room for zoom. however, then we're told the vice president will travel to the northern triangle in june but it has been 29 days since she was tapped to lead the administration's response to the crisis and still no news conference. we can't even ask her any questions about this. >> it's really unbelievable.

again either the president or the vice president has not gone down to the border. i understand the president is busy. the vice president should be down there talking the law enforcement and talking to the men and women and sheriffs and ranchers and understanding the impact that that much illegal immigration per month is having on those communities down there. then she will be better armed to talk with the northern triangle countries, mexico and others. to go into those discussions whether on zoom or in person without understanding, without seeing and feeling it on the border makes absolutely no sense. unfortunately the men and women of the border patrol know this. they don't see her down there. they don't see leadership down there. it is a huge problem and a loss of confidence in this administration as it moves forward. >> harris: chad wolf former acting dhs secretary joining us today. thank you very much. "the faulkner focus" has obtained new surveillance video

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>> what's going on? hey, hey, hey, get down, get down, get down. >> harris: that was police body cam video of the moments before a columbus, ohio police officer shot and killed 16-year-old ma'khia bryant. she appears to be attacking two other girls with a knife and now her neighbor is sharing this dramatic footage of that exact same moment from his standpoint, the garage across the street. watch. [screaming and shouting]

>> harris: joining me now in a "the faulkner focus" exclusive that neighbor, donovan. as a first-person witness i want to start with the perspective that you have from your garage and what you say this video shows. >> well, i didn't witness it directly myself first. i didn't witness it until after i looked at the video in my garage. my house is across the street catty corner from the house where the incident actually happened. >> harris: i know from reading the "new york post," because that was your first interview, this is your first television interview, there might have been an altercation or words that were spoken right before this. do you know anything about that? did you see or hear anything

before this? that's the part of the story we don't have fully. >> well, me and my wife were coming home from having a late lunch and there was a young lady in pink and another young lady out front exchanging words. we didn't think too much about it but they were very loud. they were upset about something. didn't take note of what they were arguing about so i had no idea. we went inside our house. they went out to the backyard to play with our dog. i forgot something else in the car, ran out to the car and grabbed it. as i did that one of the girls locked another girl out of the house and they said something about how dare you lock me out of my mama's house, this is my house, too. and i just kind of thought this is going to die down. they will unlock the door and figure it out and be done and over with. well, i went back inside and

about five minutes later me and my wife decided to come inside the house and when we heard the shots. my wife got down on the ground and -- there was no retaliation shots fired. i figured that was a cop out there. so i went to my laundry room and looked outside and that's when i say ma'khia on the ground and everyone else in chaos. i didn't think anything about my garage footage until after more officers arrived and taped off the scene and trying to resuscitate her. then i thought oh my gosh, i have this on film. let me go check my computer. i told an officer on scene i have it on film. i checked and i did. i went ahead and downloaded it and burned it to a dvd for the cops on the scene. >> harris: what in your interpretation, and again this is from your vantage point.

you saw it. you have part of the story we didn't have before. some of the lead-up to this what you and your wife heard and witnessed on your own was an altercation that you thought it would die down. it did not. you watch that police officer. we have had a lot of people guess at what might have been his choices. nine seconds he had to deal with a volatile situation. what in your interpretation were his choices in that moment? >> not much. he only had seconds to respond. from my point of view watching this unfortunately the whole scenario put him in a bad spot regardless of what the situation was. he could have either not fired and the young lady in pink could have got stabbed in the neck or fatally injured and then responded and shot and that would have been two young ladies possibly dead. or he could have responded the way that he did and unfortunately one lady lost her life in the incident that

probably could have been avoided. >> harris: wow, i know one of the things you have said is that the video doesn't lie. quickly before i let you go, what does that mean? >> it shows he has got out of his vehicle and had seconds to respond. so the video doesn't lie. there was an altercation, he responded and he reacted with what he thought was his best judgment. whether that means he is trying to go for the leg which i don't think he had time to take aim and go for a leg to be honest. he did what he thought was best. >> harris: donovan captured footage of the shooting of ma'khia bryant on his above the garage door camera that you shared with me is triggered by motion. and as soon as the squad car pulled up your camera went on and went into action and that's why you have the vantage point, you have audio, you have a

completely different look than what this is, which is the body cam video. donovan, thank you for your time and for sharing your eyewitness account, your video with "the faulkner focus". thank you. >> yes, ma'am. >> harris: meanwhile some media outlets are taking heat for their coverage of that shooting. some noticing that nbc news left out a key part in the 9/11 call. here is the excerpt that they aired. >> officer nicholas reardon who joined the force in december of 2019 was responding to a 911 call. >> we need a police officer here now. >> harris: here is the part they omitted. >> there is a fight. trying to stab us and trying to put when her hands on our grandma. get here now. >> do you see any weapons?

ma'am, do you see any weapons? >> we need a police officer here now. >> harris: and while the anchor did note that bryant was armed with a knife, the network did not show viewers video of the knife in bryant's hand just before the shots. a lot of editing. my power panel is back now. tammy bruce and desirae. tammy, i come to you first for your top line thoughts. >> well, it was a very dramatic video. these days everyone has their cameras, thank goodness in the george floyd situation and here with a body camera. what is shocking about that video is what you see most often being shown and highlighted because it shows the knife more clearly is when the young woman has it down. but as that video shows, she was long enough able to then swing it up and was in the

process of coming down and that's when she got shot. it is a shocking framework. the parents, loved ones of the woman in pink who was able to escape are probably grateful and the media, if they are going especially with something so dramatic, have a responsibility especially in today's day to show context. it is imperative. nbc also was the network that had edited the zimmerman 911 call about trevon martin and made it seem as though he was calling out race when in fact the 911 operator asked him about race. so this is a pattern we see with media behaving in a way as a propaganda framework to move a narrative. >> harris: desirae, it is not helpful when certain items are edited out which play such an important role in the facts. nbc definitely has something to say about this. we'll see what that is. what do you say about it?

>> the media does have an important role in making sure that the framing of all of these incidents are correct and accurate. one thing i want to reflect and say for the record. these are teenage girls. let us all get to a place where we reimagine policing in america where police de-escalate. >> harris: do you think, though, from that vantage point with 9 seconds to go you jump out of your squad car you are able to discern the age and all of that? we don't know the ages of the other people on scene yet. the woman in the pink. we call them that because we are identifying their gender as well as we can see from where our standpoint is. camera on a cop and a camera now above a garage door. so i just am following up on just how you think everybody is going to know everybody's ages at the scene right away. your thought on that, desirae.

>> i just want to give black and brown children the benefit of the doubt they're allowed to be children. we saw the same thing happen with tamarah rice. >> harris: understood. okay. thank you very much for joining me twice today. the power panel with tammy and desirae. this was their idea for the book of the month. educators apologizing after having children read a book on shootings by cops who, quote, don't like black people. tyrus will join me on that next. you don't want to miss it. lows refiplus lets you refinance to save money every month. plus you could get an average of $50,000 cash. that's money for security today and money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus, it's only for veterans and it's only from newday usa.

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and enjoy fresher smelling laundry for up to 12-weeks. >> harris: breaking news, we started earlier this hour that in the house and in the senate they've been talking about statehood and this is the house floor. they voted on a bill to make washington, d.c., the state and as you know, that's historically

democratic and that would give them a two more senators if were to happen. it's not made it to the senate yet, but there is a clock on the bottom and it says time remaining is zero. awaiting the official word about this passing in the house. you can see the vote total there, outnumber the nays and the time has run out, but the numbers are moving. we wait for the official count, sometimes they will tell us exactly what has happened. we will keep our eye on this for you. the d.c. statehood has been something that democrats have been pushing more than just this time around. they're hoping for it now as in 2022 we don't know what's going to happen on capitol hill.

his administration could see losses in the senate. you try to bolster this if you are the party in power right now. numbers are still moving and it looks like it will pass. we will move to the scum elementary school in new york has apologized after police were curious on a book with race relations which included stories about the shootings of african-americans by police officers who "don't like black people." that book is called this spirit "something happened in our town" a child story about racial injustice which was picked up by macarthur elementary as the book of the month for april. the police union says it works to undermine public safety and leaves a blatant anti-police message and the impression that they're racist. the school district says the book doesn't represent their thinking or beliefs about

police. fox news contributor fox nation host joining us now. he will join us by home. his skype just went down, but we will have the voice. your type one thoughts on what's going on? >> we want to make sure our kids aren't reading horror stories or being scared of monsters. and this creating monsters where they see a police officer, this is the only story they're getting, that they're dangerous for people of color. this is a story is good for political science with junior and senior year of high school. any time you push a narrative like this were small children it's the same reason we don't let our children watch scary movies, they think it's real, they think the bogeyman is around every corner so it's really irresponsible. >> harris: you have small children, but what would you do as a parent.

>> i would be furious and i would have a with the principal and i would have to explain to my kids that this is just a story and bad things happen all the time. it's not like. >> harris: thank you for joining me. "outnumbered." "america report" is right now. we began here, critics going after the white house over a portrayal of the fatal police shooting of the 16-year-old in columbus, ohio. as you know that tip-top fears to protest and ignited further division. you are watching "america report." i am harris faulkner. your today is emily compagno, kayleigh mcenany, and in the virtual center seats, fox and friend cohost also host of the show. i'm going to kick it to