sand hill crane. can you pick that up? >> trace: i picked it up. sand hill crane. no idea what that is but it -- >> dana: i will get you a better picture and send it to you. thank you for being with me today. bill hemmer is back tomorrow. appreciate your time and expertise. "the faulkner focus" is up next with harris faulkner. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. shocking firsthand accounts of the chaos and heartache at the southern border. i'm harris faulkner. vice president kamala harris oddly doing a victory lap after her trip to mexico and guatemala. she is calling it a success. her critics are calling it something very different. even some democrats are going after kamala harris and statements that she made south of the border. and news about the crisis hitting this country just does not stop. new drone video illegal immigrants lined up near the

border in texas within the past 24 hours. the vice president now being forced to defend her decision not to visit our u.s. border even though the president put her in charge 77 days ago. >> can you commit right now that you will indeed visit the u su, s mexico border. >> yes, and i have before. i've spent a lot of time on the border. i think it is short sighted for any of us who are in the business of problem solving to suggest we're only going to respond to the reaction as opposed to addressing the cause. >> harris: she does know the difference when she went before she wasn't vice president of the united states. tucker carlson says central america's reaction to the trip proves the american media's hype about vice president kamala harris is overblown.

>> kamala harris isn't just a vice president, she is a star, a major historical figure and indeed she is god. if you say that enough you the end to believe it. that's where our media find themselves. they believe it unquestioningly. for kamala harris that is not how latin americans think. they haven't been censored by their leaders to censor their thoughts. >> harris: in the past 24 hours there have been 829 apprehensions of people trying to get into this country illegally just in the del rio sector. more than 5800 encounters in just the past week. griff jenkins is live in del rio, texas. griff. >> harris, the vice president's message to the migrants did not come falling on deaf ears because of the numbers you just gave. by the way we're standing in

the rio grande river. on this side is mexico, on that side is del rio, texas. of those numbers of the 5800 migrants they were from 29 different countries. as you see along this terrain on the river and you can see it's very shallow that i'm walking it makes it easy to cross but they need an opening in the sugar cain like this property you see here. the owner there, marsha, owned the property for 14 years says she has never seen anything like this. when i asked her about the administration's handling of the crisis and the situation coming across her property, here is what she had to say. listen. >> it angers me as a property owner, it seems we do not have any rights and i'm here and i'm trying to bring awareness. >> yesterday here on the river we got an exclusive ride along

with border patrol chief who was showing us the points where they cross. we had more than four groups crossing in just one hour. as the groups were crossing the chief talked about the dangers the migrants face at this part of the journey. listen to this. >> you can see that we're having to pick their steps. the footing is precarious. gravel bottoms, some silt in some areas. if they slip and fall, you know, we run the risk of someone drowning and -- >> harris, that rock bottom you can see is just pebbles, very slippery. yesterday a 74-year-old grandmother from venezuela making this cross all those migrants in the footage yesterday were from venezuela. it is very difficult for her and dangerous for her. in some parts there are the currents that you see. i'll leave you with this one

thing. i just got from one of my sources at cbp about the numbers we expect for may. that source tells me that it is expected it will be similar to last month. if that bears out and turns out to be true it would be more than 170,000 for may making it the third straight month at that level, which is unprecedented and unseen in the last 20 years, two decades. harris. >> harris: it really speaks to the issue of just how many reinforcements are needed immediately for border patrol and other law enforcement trying to deal with the surge of people coming from, as you pointed out now, 29 different countries. griff jenkins, great reporting. thank you very much. some democrats are conceding that vice president harris's trip to address the so-called root causes of illegal immigration didn't go so well. one democrat strategist told the hill the v.p. will be haunted by this trip and this issue for as long as she is in

politics. the border is a thorny issue and she can't win inside her party and she will be targeted for these comments for a long time from republicans. general jack keane, retired four star general and fox news senior strategic analyst. thank you for being with me today. i specifically wanted to tap into your expertise of strategy at this point because we are not winning at our own border with a foreign country onslaught from now 29 different countries. >> yeah, i think what happened here with the vice president -- they made a strategic mistake. they tried to change the narrative and focus on the root causes of why this migration is taking place in the beginning. we know there are generational problems south of the border certainly. there is major quality of life experiences. people want a better life. they can't find it in their own

country so they're coming to the united states. the socio-economic imbalance is real. the problems of competence and corruption in the governments down there are real and the criminality of gangs and cartels are also real. this is deteriorated that quality of life. it is a generational problem multiple administrations recognized but the primary responsibility of those governments to fix their problem. we can assist them with it certainly and we have attempted to do that in the past. it will take years to turn these situations around. but here is the false narrative. they want that focus to be on the root causes and not what is the primary responsibility of the united states government, which is to have a secure border. we have one in the north, we don't have one in the south. despite those root causes that i just laid out, the previous administration did have a secure border. >> harris: right.

>> that is not what we have now. >> harris: the previous administration seemed to turn off one of the other root causes that is here that biden turned back on very first hours of his presidency, and that was allowing people to come over and not be held in mexico as we dealt with paperwork, so on and so forth to slow down the surge. that is a root cause right now because they've been told by policy you can come. now vice president harris is trying to turn it around with her words. speaking of words from the vice president. she is also getting torn apart on social media for these words yesterday. >> so this whole -- this whole thing about the border, we have been to the border. we have been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i don't understand the point that you are making. >> harris: i want you to see this, too. house minority whip steve scalise this is a crisis, not a

vacation. another critic says cringe kamala harris doesn't get it and another calls our leadership disgraceful. general keane, your reaction. >> certainly. not visiting the border itself and focusing on our major responsibility to have a secure border is in my view is irresponsible. the false narrative of just emphasizing the root causes has not worked obviously. it is tough to push back against the truth. the truth is 170,000 people are coming to our border and encountering our people who are at the border for the simple reason that they know once they step on the soil of the united states, they can stay here. and that fact is rampant all to the south. it is a national security issue also. not just the humanitarian crisis. there are 29 other nations that came across the border in one section of the border in one

week. people from 29 other nations. they are coming from as far away as the middle east and from africa. and that opens up when you have an unsecure border like that, the people coming in here not just for economic and socio-economic reasons. they're coming here to do harm to the united states and we have no means to vet that. that's what makes it a national security issue to include drug trafficking and human trafficking that are pouring across our border as well. >> harris: what about the imbalance they bring in terms of health issues? we're still in a pandemic around the world. it is so much more dire than it has been in the united states for the last few months. our vaccinations are tipping the scale and many of them are coming, being tested and we're finding out that they are not healthy. so that's part of what is a burden right now as well in terms of the numbers. all right, general, i am fortunate enough to have you on this and want to get to it.

secretary of state anthony blinken on capitol hill yesterday suggested global pressure may force china to come clean on the origins of covid-19. however, secretary blinken dodged questions on how the biden administration would actually hold beijing accountable if it refuses to cooperate with an investigation we development he dismissed a trump administration study that found a mrausability that the virus leaked from the wuhan lab. >> i saw the report. on a number of levels it's incorrect. the trump administration it's my understanding had real concerns about the methodology of that study, the quality of the analysis, bending evidence to fit preconceived narratives. >> harris: i know it is his job to be calm and professional. where is the outrage over the fact that that study i

mentioned was from last year. we knew it was plausible why see even today are calling it is it a theory, is it real, what is it? they're not moving very fast, general. >> i don't understand what he is talking about there. he is talking about one contractor investigation and singling that out during 2020. but we all know now that our national lab, which is highly respected in this country, lawrence livermore issued a report in may of 2020 that said it's very plausible that the virus originated as a result of an accident in the wuhan laboratory. we also during the course of that year in 2020, we had our intelligence agencies reporting to the trump administration about the mrausability of that but they didn't have concrete evidence because they didn't

have prime fascia evidence from somebody in the lab. all the circumstantial evidence went in that direction and why secretary pompeo in the later part of 2020 was actually making one public statement after the other pointing the finger at china and the wuhan lab. so listen, there was plenty of evidence that moved in that direction and now it's an avalanche of evidence in that direction. i don't believe for a minute that china will ever give us the original data upon which to make the judgment that it came out of the lab. why? because xi is covering this up is criminal behavior that puts him and his regime at risk as becoming an international pariah as a result of it. they will continue to deflect it. they will continue to lie about it. and they don't want that to come out. it is unlikely it ever will come out unless we have somebody who actually had hands on in the lab who defects from

china or who is willing to give some kind of concrete anonymous report. >> harris: i have to go. i know you've led so many in a time when this country needed you. is there any way our military would get involved to give that person cover and to bring that person here if that person were to exist? what could we do to get to that one or two, those one or two people who might have the answers from that lab? or is that even possible? >> private organizations, ngos and also government has assisted people who are seeking some kind of defection or asylum. i think that's a stretch. i think this is a major issue for president xi and his regime and they will pull out all the stops from getting that concrete evidence out there. >> harris: general keane, thank you very much. always good to have you. >> trace: great talking to you,

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>> harris: shades of is learner. critics say the ira looks like it is being used as a political weapon again. reports of leaked tax documents dropped at a perfect time for democrats. the investigative outlet is dishing the amount of taxes paid by the country's most wealthy people. the "wall street journal" with an editorial read this way. someone leaked the tax information of individuals to serve the left's agenda. the story arrives amid the biden's administration effort to pass the largest tax increase as a share of the economy since 1968. the main democratic argument for a tax hike is that the rich should pay their fair share. the story is a long argument that somehow the rich don't pay

enough. the timing here is no coincidence, comrade. and democrats quick to seize on that report. senator elizabeth warren calling for a wealth tax and senator bernie sanders with a similar message saying we must tax the rich. and senator cory booker said this today. >> we have a tax system that most americans don't really understand. it is so rated against working people. against 90% of americans are not getting the same deal the most wealthy americans are. a lot of folks are getting off now that aren't paying their fair share. >> harris: senators who were tough on the i.r.s. commissioner hat a hearing over the leaked tax documents. >> i can confirm that there is an investigation with respect to the allegations that the source of the information in that article came from the

internal revenue service. upon reviewing the article, the appropriate contacts were made as you would expect. trust and confidence in the internal revenue service is the bedrock of asking and requiring people to provide financial information and we have, as i said, turned it over to the appropriate investigators external and internal. >> harris: bill mcgurn is a "wall street journal" editorial board member and fox news contributor. bill, why is this happening potentially again? >> as you pointed out in our editorial, this is because joe biden right now is proposing one of the largest tax increases in american history. larger in percentage of gdp than anything in 50 years and trying to put it through. this comes through as supporting evidence that the rich aren't paying their fair share. now, we've heard the fair share argument for 40 years. they never say what the fair

share is, right? is it 10%, 30%, 60%? what it means when a democrat uses fair share it just means more. and this is really seedy. it is also a crime to leak or hack into confidential information. and to do it for political purposes is really slimy. >> harris: let's pause right there. that is important to note. there apparently is an investigation being looked at, right? that's what we learned yesterday. that is because we're not sure what exactly was confidential in the information and how it was shared, so on and so forth. don't we want to do more than just look at whether or not we should investigate? regardless of how it was, it is an infringement. >> not only that, harris, you are right about that. the i.r.s. is an extraordinary organization, very powerful. has a lot of say over people's lives. do you think the average

american -- all this is done in the name of the average american. do you think the average american has confidence in the f.b.i. and thinks the other part of the biden agenda is expanding it by 80 billion to go on rich hunts after people? it's really terrible. one of the problems is lois learner was allowed to retire and ride off into the sunset and nothing happened. this is really bad stuff that's coming out there. >> harris: the news media explained why they are publishing the information. we're disclosing the tax details of the richest americans because we believe the public interest is an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations and adding that, quote, the source says they were motivated by our previous coverage of issues surrounding the i.r.s. and tax enforcement but we don't know for certain that is true. what does that mean?

>> that means they have no idea if they are telling the truth. they have no idea who leaked it to them and why. and they are just believing i did it for mom and apple pie. it is really incredible. it's very misleading, too, because much of the argument is resting on the idea they're very rich and they are wealthy. income tax taxes income, not wealth. they are trying to fudge that line and just demonize the rich. if you really wanted a fair tax code get rid of all the special deductions that billionaires can do and let's sign up for the flat tax and make it a simple code. i lived under that in hong kong. it was simple. took you 20 minutes to fill out a form. i would love to see that in the u.s. and we wouldn't have all these people moving money around to get certain deductions. but this is really an

extraordinary thing. and i think no one has any confidence that anyone at the i.r.s. will be called to account or that they will identify the guy who got the information -- who leaked the information. >> harris: people are terrified to get a letter from the i.r.s. a lot of power in our lives as you pointed out. now according to pro-publy ka maybe privacy should be laid down to what they want to publish. we'll get into that on another day. thank you for cracking open the box on this one. >> thanks, harris. >> harris: president biden breaking off months of negotiations with republican senators. the gop lawmaker leading the charge is now accusing the white house of walking back an initial agreement she says she had with president biden just days earlier. >> we had told them before we could do this without raising taxes and we gave them great

opportunity to look at our pay fors and how we would pay for this. when they brought the tax hikes before me the last time when i was in the oval office i knew they weren't really serious at that point. >> harris: fox business blake berman is live outside the white house. >> after a series of meetings at the white house and talks as well with a group of senate republicans led by shelley moore capito of west virginia those discussions on a possible infrastructure deal bipartisan are now over. the white house phrasing it the following in a statement yesterday saying quote he meaning the president informed senator capito today the latest offer from her group did not in his view meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future and retain jobs. >> i am extremely disappointed because we offered the president basically what he asked us to do the first time we met with him. which was a trillion dollars

over eight years including baseline spending and that it wouldn't include a tax increase. i just feel like we've missed a real opportunity here for at least 20 republicans to join with the other democrats to pass the most robust infrastructure package that we could have. >> any hope of a potential bipartisan deal shifts to a different group of senators. one of them republican bill cassidy tweeting yesterday the president just called to discuss infrastructure. goes on to stay strongly support senator capito's efforts. any package must be bipartisan. whether they there be a bipartisan infrastructure deal between the white house and the senators or will the white house go at it alone. the initial proposal that they had put out there was north of 2 trillion dollars. >> harris: we remember. blake, good to see you. thank you. big backlash after a member of

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many flags on oh new york was disturbing. >> those comments are racist. >> this is the culmination of this continuing trying to paint trump supporters, people that are republicans or people that even support america as racist. white supremacists, nazis. >> harris: after backlash she tweeted i see i'm being trolled with the american flag this morning. trolling a black journalist with the american flag is not the own some people think it is. joe concha, fox news contributor and media and politics columnist for the hill. she felt the need to comment. how did she do on that? >> not very well. she is evoking her race, when criticism isn't about race but equating the american flag with white supremacy. "the new york times" editorial board is defending her on this. which isn't surprising when you consider earlier this year san francisco school board actually

voted to remove the names of washington and lincoln from their schools. the guy who won the revolutionary war and guy who freed the slaves. thankfully faced backlash and went back on that. the times had james bennett the pulitzer winner who had the awed -- arguing for the use of the national guard whoo riots get out of control. bennett because of woke staffers at the "new york times" revolted, was gone as a result after being there for 20 years. same "new york times" that hasn't endorsed a republican presidential candidate in 65 years. they call themselves the paper of record. the plan appears to be not only to attack trump out of office for six months but attack the 74 million people who voted for him and maybe a couple days after memorial day they have their american flags up and out to honor the people that gave the ultimate sacrifice and you will attack the american flag

now? this isn't activism, it's journalism. the other way around, not journalism but activism. >> harris: it's like a broken record. 65 years. i didn't know that detail how long they've leaned toward left running candidates. "new york times" is rushing to the woman's defense. righting her comments have been taken out of context. her argument was that trump and many of his supporters have politicized the american flag. the attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad faith. let me get this straight. her mistake is our fault? how is that even possible? >> how is that possible? all that she saw was -- she was on long island and saw a disturbing amount of flags that were out in the middle of summer which people do. in my neighborhood they're out in front of almost every house. a good thing to look at.

how this could go turned into an anti-trump, pro trump thing it is how disconnected "the new york times" is and the fact they're defending this is not surprising at all. >> harris: they aren't talking about all the crime on our streets in america. the border crisis. this is yet another distraction where they can go after the former president and say his name. say his name. that's what they are doing. okay. the media are being accused of teaming up with the white house to bash republicans. this moment from the white house press briefing yesterday is getting a lot of attention. >> republicans and conservatives are, you know, going crazy on twitter sending pictures. sending video with lester holt saying i have not been to europe either. does the president think there is a scenario in which she should visit the border and also the mounting criticism from conservatives? would that ever factor into a

decision to send her down there? >> i will say we aren't taking advice from former president trump or most of the republicans who are criticizing us on this given they were all sitting there while we created this problem we walked into. >> harris: the managing editor of conservative media watchdog news busters called the back and forth pathetic and says going crazy and worked up to the bingo card adding that my fellow conservatives, exclamation point. joe. >> another hard hitting question for jen psaki. now the t-ball session. the republicans pounce and seize moment. you talk to any democrat who watched what we witnessed with the vice president visiting central america and the interview with lester holt where holt pressed her on why haven't you been to the border and she says i haven't been to europe either, i don't know your point, cackle. this was a disaster.

it isn't just republicans saying that. why 2020 presidential candidate kamala harris never got to 2020. she has this authenticity problem and the likeability problem. if you remotely challenge her in any situation outside her comfort zone she provides awkward answers like that and this is why she will never hold a press conference as vice president despite having a myriad of responsibilities. >> harris: she is giving out cookies to the press corps. i think she eventually anticipates talking to them. she is cookieing them up. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and some other progressives aren't happy with kamala harris over her comments either. she is literally taking it from all sides. >> she is and the reason why is that she was handed responsibility to fix the problem at the border. it's not a problem, crisis but a catastrophe. she has no interest in fixing it if you look at her past comments where she compares ice

to the kkk, where she said illegal migrant crossings should be legal. does this sound like somebody who wants to solve the problem? look at her actions where she will not visit the border. you cannot fix something you don't see. and if you don't talk to border officials and you don't see the migrant facilities and all those kids in cages that she described when she last went to the border with a grand gesture in terms of the conditions there. you can't see it, you can't fix it. she won't be able to fix it and it will give almost certainly the house back to the gop in 2022 and really diminishes her chances to be the 2020 nominee if joe biden decides not to run. >> harris: thank you very much. no wonder police in a major american city are leaving in droves. the outrage after city leaders defend an official email branding police officers as white supremacists. and this is first. >> we all know that the

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1800 officers off the force. rank and file officers say the plan to embed atf agents in the nypd is nothing more than smoke and mirrors because the police force has already been partnering with federal agencies and they say the mayor has got to stop blaming the virus for why crime is so big in the big apple and out of control. jason rantz radio talk show host is with me now. first i want to get your initial reaction to this new layer of what? >> you know, i know democrats like to redefine words but are we redefining unprecedented? they've done this before. this is nothing new. while at the same time the optics of saying we're calling in the feds for help but we aren't going to acknowledge that the thing that we did last year that just so happened to coincide with all the violence, defunding the police, had nothing at all to do with it?

really? i mean again, i get that there will be spin politicians on both sides of the aisle will spin. this seems like a little too much. i can't imagine there are many people who will fall for this. >> harris: but it isn't just the politics of it, jason. it is the reality of how many people are dying. violent crime can end in death. 10-year-old little justin wallace. and they did pick up the suspected killer. he turned himself in. it took days but i mean, this is not just they took 1800 cops away and now they are folding in people to look for guns. the violence continues. >> it's not just about defunding. it is also about putting in place these policies that go easy on criminals. when you go in and you look at the background of so many of these criminals they are repeat offenders. not just one or two times have they committed crimes but they sometimes have dozens and dozens of background issues where they've committed similar

cases or they are always escalating. they have installed policies that release criminals, don't punish, don't offer bail, and they refuse to acknowledge that that is a huge part of the problem. and until that is addressed, along with doubling down on investing in the police, none of this is going to change. >> harris: none of it will change. i think my team popped up. we can put it back on the screen quickly. the shooting incidents and victims have spiked by 68% this year alone and it is only june compared to the same period last year. stats for new york city. this is what the citizens here are living through. i want to get to this now, jason, in your hometown of seattle city leaders are defending an all staff email calling police officers white supremacists under the heading black lives matter it was sent by the seattle finance department when the arbiters of justice serve the false gods of

white supremacy they aren't worthy of the power they wield. if police protection and strength are only for white people they are no longer guardians but mercenaries and zelliot had paid in white privilege. >> another cop said this is a prime example why officers are leaving the force in droves. speaking of which, some 275 officers have left the seattle police force since nationwide anti-police protests began in may of last year. that's a huge, huge number. jason. >> this email reads like an unhinged manifesto from a guy whose woke ambitions got so out of control that he has become the monster. it is not the cops. there is little difference at this point between the woke progressives like this and the actual white supremacists that they are attacking.

it's the same intolerance, ignorant and hate just different targets but it's the progressive who now have the influence over policy. the city defends this in a way that stupid people speak while trying to sound introspective and deep. this is meant to make us feel uncomfortable because being comfortable has led to the murders of black individuals by cops. i'm not uncomfortable by the email, i am angry by the email and vile and hateful trash. >> harris: wasn't she your police chief that got defunded out. they would take 40% of her sally and she left? >> they rushed her out. we say black lives matter in seattle we push out the blacks. >> harris: now 275 people are gone. okay, i know you have a lot of thoughts because i read your

op-ed just on how to fix it all. i want to get to this. bryce williams, the fourth and final man charged with burning down a minneapolis police precinct during last summer's protesting has been sentenced to 27 months in price on, order to pay $12 million in restitution. the judge was sympathetic calling him a good person who made a terrible mistake despite noting he was the leader of unrest, jason. >> sounds like a great guy. who among us hasn't tried to burn down a police precinct by mistake? i've done that all the time. one of the underlying causes of the violence as we said is not just the policies. it is a story line that doesn't get that much attention. the judges and prosecutors who share and ideology with the folks out there protesting and rioting. so they have a tendency to go easy on some of these criminals. i think this is an example of that. a case in seattle where a

20-year-old tried to set fire to a police precinct while antifa thugs were trying to seal shut the building. he only got 20 months. >> harris: the op-ed is on foxnews.com. read it. where the problem lies and how to fix the problem is in that. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" is next.

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