the islanders won, nice. >> dana: great. they had the crowd sing the national anthem. >> a great beginning and end for the islanders. >> bill: do you have an elephant taking a bath perhaps? >> that's so random. >> bill: a family of elephants. >> dana: it is so hot in new york yesterday. hiris faulkner is up next. >> harris: some republican senators are gettin they're calling for fauci to exit. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". he remains defiant despite emails that show he may have misled the american people about how covid realsuch as the effectiveness of mask wearing. dr. fauci is lashing out at his

critics painting them as anti-science. >> all of the things that i have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science. sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people and there was pushback against me. so if you are trying to get at me as a public health official and scientist, you are really attacking not only dr. anthony fauci, you are attacking science. >> harris: louisiana senator john kennedy said he is not having any of that. >> i know dr. fauci. i like dr. fauci. i respect dr. fauci. but dr. fauci needs to cut the crap. this isn't about dr. fauci. it is not about his feelings. i'm sorry if his feelings were hurt. maybe he ought to dance moves on tik tok here.

we are talking about millions of human lives. >> harris: senator marsha blackburn is among lawmakers who are now leading the charge for dr. fauci to quit or be fired. you see her there live and she will be with me in a moment. our correspondent lucas tomlinson on the growing fallout for fauci. >> the acting head of the white house budget office declined to tell lawmakers on capitol hill whether president biden's budget would include funding for research carried out by the wuhan institute of virology in china. >> can you commit that american dollars will never be used to fund such research going forward from this budget? >> i started my career at n.i.h. i would never make that commitment as someone who believes we need to be led by science. and we certainly need to wait for this review before we jump to conclusions. >> many republicans are increasingly voicing displeasure with dr. fauci.

rubio saying if president biden is committed to science and finding the truth about covid he needs to fire fauci. he has lost the confidence of the american people. repeated -- dr. fauci said he is open to both the lab leak theory and natural origin theory calling attacks himself him baseless. >> that issue with masks is people want to fire me or put me in jail for what i've done, namely follow the science. i could go the next half hour going through each and every point that they make. >> i know. >> it's preposterous. >> can you imagine any circumstance where president biden would ever fire dr. fauci? >> no. >> many republican lawmakers are eager to have dr. fauci return to capitol hill and testify. >> harris: lucas, thank you very much. critics are hitting back at dr. fauci's remarks.

one tweeted only a sociopath narcissist speaks of themselves in the third person. another writes fauci comes off like an angry tyrant. senator marsha blackburn is with me now, republican from tennessee. thank you for being here. first of all, how serious and what level of effectiveness is this discussion on capitol hill among senators about fauci leaving? >> it is a very effective discussion. and as you can see the american people who have been so heavily impacted by this virus are wanting some answers. when you look through this correspondence and these emails from dr. fauci to his staff, his concerns over gain of function research, his tendency to work with mark zuckerberg to create a p.r. campaign where he would cherry pick facts and details, the way he has been

for things and against things. the way facebook worked to silence any post that had to do with a lab leak theory, then you put that, harris, with what we already know. we know the chinese communist party locked down the province. if you were from wuhan you could not go somewhere else in china. but you could go to the wuhan international airport and fly to the u.s. or the e.u. we know that the w.h.o. and our diplomatic scientists were blocked from going into that lab. we know that dr. fauci had concerns about the money that his agency sent to that lab for coronavirus research. we know the concerns about the gain of function research. these are the things that are known. and then you look at his

actions. he is doing with big media and chuck todd exactly what he did with big tech and mark zuckerberg in trying to build out a p.r. campaign, claim that if you say anything about him you are attacking science. and it is so interesting because i'm one of those. i stand with science and getting to the bottom of what science would tell us about this. the type research they were doing, why were they trying to cover it up? these are answers that we have 3 1/2 million people on the face of the earth that lost their lives. we have hundreds of thousands of families that were affected by death, by illness, by loss of livelihood. we have precious children that lost a year of school and socialization and now have

emotional problems. harris, the people have seen their tax dollars used and now they have questions about how it was used, who benefited from this, and why is dr. fauci protecting the wuhan lab and the ccp? >> harris: you are going back and showing us the facts that were coming in during what you might call the worst part of the pandemic and maybe they went by the wayside because people couldn't concentrate on them. when you talk specifically as you did with the facts about that lab, where does that put dr. fauci? just quickly we'll move on but i am just curious. where does that put him and where does that put president biden? >> dr. fauci should say i'm going to step away while this is investigated. that would be the right thing to do. he is a bureaucrat who has been

caught. he has dug a hole. president biden should say we're going to hold the chinese communist party, the wuhan institute of virology and dr. fauci responsible while we figure out what happened because we do not ever, ever want to go back through this again. >> harris: all right. we'll move to this. iowa is joining several other states in banning teaching the controversial far-left critical race theory that asserts that america is inherently racist as a country. florida's education board could pass a similar ban today. this is happening very quickly. a virginia mom who survived china before coming to america is comparing race theory to the revolution she escaped. here is some of her powerful speech at the loudon county school board. >> i've been very alarmed what is going on in our school.

are you now teaching and training our children to the social justice warriors and loath our country and history. this is indeed american version of the chinese cultural revolution. critical race theory has its roots in marxism and should have no place in our schools. >> harris: where is all of this crt coming from when you hear it compared to that, wouldn't everybody want to at least question if not push against it? >> i hear from moms every single day. and i hear from friends who are naturalized citizens. they are incredibly concerned about this. they do not want our children to be taught to judge people by the color of their skin. they want our children to love this country. they want our children to know that we are a land of freedom. we are a land of opportunity. that everyone has equal access

to opportunity, to make their dreams come true. and as they are looking at what their children are being taught, they are horrified with this. and they want our children to know history, to know civics, to appreciate the freedoms that they have. i think this is why so many school boards and so many states like tennessee have banned the teaching of crt in their classrooms. >> harris: senator real quickly iowa democrats accused republicans going against their own push for free speech by voting to ban critical race theory. here is what they write. we can't say on one hand we want freedom of speech and on the other hand say we want to hear both sides, then stifle those sides. a quick response from you. >> when you are standing on principle and teaching our nation's history and you want

to have a discussion about how our nation has grown, that is one thing. but to say our nation, here is the 1619 project, this is the truth, this is the only thing you are going to hear, that is not right. and i appreciate that our states are putting a stop to this right now. >> harris: senator marsha blackburn, really, really good to have you on the program as you talk to us about the push against dr. fauci on the hill and critical race theory as it's coming into view with more action against it at some places in america. thank you for seeing you. right now f.b.i. director christopher wray is testifying before the house judiciary committee live. his first time testifying since the january 6th riot on capitol hill and he is facing questions on that as well as violent extremism and the enforcement of our immigration laws in

light of president biden's huge border crisis right now. we are monitoring this and we'll bring you the news out of it as it happens. a close eye now on what is happening on capitol hill. the attorney general has told senate lawmakers where the justice department stands on defunding the police. as the movement is facing new criticism over the surge in crime. it is punishing in some cities. one civil rights leader says defund is killing black americans in particular. plus the media and democrats' claims about the clearing of lafayette park crumbling in the blink of an eye. their claims then and now the truth ed about what happened that day. and president trump takes a victory lap on this. all of it with pete hegseth, co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. here he is.

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>> harris: high profile journalists getting it wrong again. the interior department has found the trump administration did not clear lafayette park of peaceful protestors for a photo op. in fact, u.s. park police actually cleared that area so workers could safely put up fencing to protect the park from rioters. however, some news media, not us, at the time were dead set on a single narrative. you remember. >> the president wanted peaceful protestors, the kind he reports, wanted them out of the way for his photo op. it was simultaneously outrageous and dangerous.

who is the thug here hiding in a bunker behind a suit? who is the thug. you could hear the tear gas castor explosions behind him and the park being cleared all for a photo op. >> i want to be super clear about what did and didn't happen right there. nothing happened on the side that the protestors were in. >> the president wanted the photo op and wanted to disperse the crowd because he wants an image of all of these protests being one thing, violent, which of course is not accurate. >> harris: the former president is now saying thank you to the department of interior inspector general for completely and totally exonerating me in the clearing of lafayette park. chad pergram is live on capitol hill with more. so much egg on the faces of those reporters and anchors, chad. >> good morning. it was just not the press corps. lots of democrats tried to pin

it on former president trump in preparation for a photo p. president biden then a candidate condemned president trump for tear gassing demonstrators in the park. house speaker nancy pelosi said it reminded her of a banana republic. elizabeth ware en said it was sickening and appalling but the inspector general said the president did not have anything to do with it. >> we did not find any evidence that the presidential visit influenced the park police's decision making or their deployment in their operation to clear out the park. >> president trump walked through the park shortly after police removed demonstrators and posed with a bible in front of a nearby church. demonstrators swarmed washington, d.c. following the death of george floyd. inspector general called the protest a tumultuous event in a tumultuous time. the former president applauded the i.g. report saying it

exonerated him. harris. >> harris: chad pergram, thank you very much. i want to go deeper now on just how damaging this type of lying or getting it wrong can be. "wall street journal" editorial board writes this. the liberal establishment willed into being much anti-trump wisdom during the 2020 election campaign. among the legends was that the u.s. postal service was manipulated to steal votes. the lab leak theory was racist misinformation and donald trump and bill barr gassed peaceful protestors at lafayette park to make way for the president's authoritarian photo op. the latest of these progressive tribal beliefs to be punctured is the narrative around lafayette park. pete hegseth co-host of "fox & friends" weekends. your reaction to all of it. >> there are two parts. one the particulars of

lafayette park. i was there the next night with the d.c. national guard. deployed there for three or four nights. it was absolute chaos. and when i heard from the guys who were there the night before who had been there when the rioting was in lafayette park they said there was no understanding what was up or down, who was in charge. protestors were right there on the wall of the white house. capitol police and security guards there at the white house were being accosted and beaten. so it doesn't surprise me that a call was made for security reasons to move the perimeter. but the so-called journalists and media never had any interest in cutting through the confusion and chaos of that night and try to get it right. what really happened? we don't know. yes, donald trump went out to st. john's church because it had been burned a few feet from the white house to demonstrate that law and order is important. the next two nights later i was standing in front of that

church as we pushed the security barriers out even further because lafayette park had been under siege the night before. the anyone look into this? did anyone ask people in charge? no. they went straight to donald trump and said he is a tyrant who wants to gas innocent people and you know it and that's the truth. none of it is true. they don't care. they won't do anything about that. that's how they created narratives about donald trump leading up to the 2020 election that satisfied them. that list from the "wall street journal" didn't include the new doozy from this morning there is a new study out that high drox chloroquine is helpful for people facing covid-19 and will need more studies but he was thrown under the bus for getting people killed for suggesting that. add that to the list of things they used to go after the president and they had absolutely no evidence other than their hatred of him. >> harris: we will be in a position of having to investigate and question things for a while now.

and the reflexive lazy task will be we were kind of in the fog of war. not two or three days later as you point out. you could still find out from a public information officer with those authorities what really drove the response from law enforcement to lafayette park. that was still gettable information. and for the rest of it we'll all investigate and see what comes forth with pharmaceuticals and all of that. we should all double and triple down and do our jobs better. what some of them were doing is really stinking to high heaven. >> it is about an agenda and that's sad. there are people who do it right. you do it right. but they don't care about that. >> harris: attorney general merrick garland affirming the stance on defunding the police. watch. >> this justice department and administration does not believe in defunding the police. we believe in supporting the police. we also believe that community

policeing is very important and developing trust between the community and the police department is essential to stop violent crime and we also think that includes holding police accountable. >> harris: this as the founder and president of the woodson center which works to improved troubled neighborhood says the movement hurts who it wants to protect. the defund police that rose to prominence has actually gotten innocent black people killed as police have pulled back. our neighborhoods have become left unprotected. crime has skyrocketed. major american cities saw a 33% the country. that is actually a low number when you take seattle and portland and some others into account. you say what about the wood son take on it? >> the woodson take is one of

common sense and basic application of an understanding of human nature. that's what the left doesn't have. that men and women can remain blameless and utopia is attainable. here on earth man is sinful, man is flawed and makes mistakes. authority is required and violence is unfortunately around us. power finds a vacuum and exploits it. in cases of inner cities you have gangs who are now running entire neighborhoods. autonomous zones in minneapolis because utopians who really know it can't work and they he are ultimately beholding to their activists talk out of both sides of their mouth and that's what is happening at the border. they are saying come here and then they say the border is closed. mixed messaging doesn't work. when you let activists say defund the police and then say we support law enforcement just

need accountability. that's the double talk that activists run a train through. who gets hurt in the process? average citizens who don't have anyone to call. >> harris: really quick. got to be fast here. you served this country, 19% of our law enforcement across the board former military veterans. what does this do to morale to try to recruit the best of the best, and not even leave? just don't go. >> in the tank, harris. if you don't have a commander or leadership that supports you, you don't have the confidence to do your job the way you need to and that's why you signed up in the military or law enforcement. if you can't do your job, you don't want to be in that profession. so you won't choose it. fathers won't recommend it to sons and has a cascading effect that is very sad and dangerous. i pray for our law enforcement every day. >> harris: as do i. pete hegseth. thank you very much. outrage after a report that as much as 400 billion dollars in

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>> harris: later today texas governor greg abbott is set to hold a border security summit that comes as border agents

report more than 180,000 encounters with illegal immigrants in may. griff jenkins is live for us in del rio. that's a little bit bigger number than we have even seen. it was -- it's growing. >> good morning. that number is so important because it is not only unprecedented but if you look back to 2019, the last time the border was called a crisis, the month of may was the highest of the year in 2019, 144,000. look at what we've had for three straight months it has been north of 170,000. what does that mean? it doesn't just mean the border patrol and border officials are being overwhelmed. it means cartels are profiting in unprecedented ways. the chief just telling us this week that in just this sector alone del rio they anticipate the cartels are making $25 million a week on just human smuggling. that's not even counting the drugs. let me take you to the sky drone kam and show you behind

me you are looking at the banks of mexico. that road, that dirt road is coming out of the small town of acuna. it comes right up on the banks there every day like clockwork around 3:00 in the afternoon and they unload 150 or so venezuelans to cross that river as we saw yesterday in droves. it happens every day. officials say it has been happening since january. you figure 150 to 200 migrants every day since january in just this one tiny location organized by the cartels. that's 30,000 so far this year. it is just unprecedented in a way officials have never seen and part of the reason why governor abbott is coming down here to meet with the sheriffs and the local officials the try to get a handle on it. we talked to the valverde county sheriff joe martinez this morning about what he needs to convey to the governor. here is what he told us. >> well, we need more resources.

you know, the -- it can't be a burden on the taxpayers. our budget is not prepared for something like this to be able to handle something like this. it can't be a burden long-term on our taxpayers. >> harris, this sector's numbers just here the del rio up 1,118% if you compare may of this year to last year. i'll tell you right now there is a lot of anxiety about how to solve this. the meeting with the governor will be interesting. he is advocating a tougher stance on the apprehensions coming across. in this local area there is not places to put these people even if you arrest them when they came across. it is going to be a situation that they have to get under control. meanwhile the migrants just keep coming across and every one, every single one has told me when i asked them are you listening to the administration's message, the vice president's message to not

come they say no, we're coming. harris. >> harris: they are watching what's happening and the bigger message is the one put by the president of the united states joe biden day one of his administration that that's the solidifying of policy. they aren't listening to the vice president who said a few words on the trail back to the u.s. just quickly. i heard from your interview just then that they're worried about the local lives of people there, the tax base there. this is starting to eat far beyond just the current livelihood of people now. this is about their future. >> that's exactly right. and that's the impact for all of these border communities, whether it's mcallen, larger than del rio, del rio is smaller or down the road big bend tinier. these communities are being overrun and the local

taxpayers, the farmers and ranchers and communities that live there that can't afford this and cannot sustain it. they are all tapped out. you are looking at problem that's not getting better. in fact, the conversations privately that all of these border patrol officials are trying to have with the administration is are you lifting title 42? that's the health provision, a rule that we've expelled migrants under particularly the single adults. if that were to be lifted and there are signs that's under review from the administration it would open the floodgates and our problems on the border would become even worse. that is perhaps the breaking point and certainly one they've never seen. >> harris: a layering to the pain of what we're already seeing. griff jenkins, great reporting, thank you very much. i want to get to this now. axios with this bombshell report. the outlet says criminals may have stolen about half of the nation's unemployment benefits since the pandemic began.

the estimates as much as $400 billion of taxpayer money gone. the bulk of it likely went to state-backed crime signed cats in china, russia and other countries. the report adds states knew fraud from inevitable but decided getting the money to struggling americans was more important than vetting every claim. no comment from the treasury department. despite the stolen billions americans are not going back to work, though, the number of unfulfilled new jobs has jumped to 9.3 million. >> we're seeing that president biden's economic plans are working. american rescue plan is working and seeing americans more and more go back to work every day. i will say this. i do not feel that the $300 bonus is keeping people out of work. >> harris: larry kudlow host of fox business kudlow joins me

now and always breaks down facts and the truth. so, when the labor secretary says people are getting jobs, what is he watching? >> a partial truth there. employment is rising 550,000 people a month. unemployment is falling the under employment. he is right about that. i think the question here is does the $300 federal plus-up if it actually got to individual people. there will be fraud. there is a big fraud story there, has that slowed down people coming back to work, maybe keeping them at home longer than they need to be?

the so-called numbers you have -- you've got job openings 9.3 million. that is a little bit more than the total unemployed. so i expect to see that get filled. that means a lot of opportunities out there and presuming the pay on an after-tax basis works out i think people are going back to work. i'm glad there is a lot of job openings. one of them is -- one of the indicators is something called the quit rate. that's right, the number and percentage of people who are quitting one job to go to another. the quit rate is very high on a -- >> harris: they're shopping. >> yep. let's see. plus -- the quit rate is 2.7% of the labor force. i believe, harris, that's the biggest quit rate in history of these numbers. so that means you are confident and go out and get a better job. it's not a bad story.

i think the plus-up -- >> harris: what about all the theft? that is a huge amount of money that was taken during the time when people needed it most legitimately the height of the pandemic. >> yes, you are quite right. you know, we had heard reports all last year that the unemployment claims numbers, particularly from california -- and by the way, the california labor department said that there was a lot of fraud in those people filing for first-time unemployment. >> harris: why didn't they fix it? >> here is what's happening. the federal government is throwing more and more money at these state unemployment systems. their labor departments did not have the computer capability to process everything. and we were told ohio is another place, harris, there may have been others.

we were told that fraud was rampant. now axios is reporting that sure enough, hundreds of millions of dollars are probably lost. we'll learn more about this. look, nobody -- it is funny, i don't like fraud, you don't like fraud. i don't like the fact that foreign countries may be stealing our unemployment benefits. i get all that. on the other hand, you know, you are in this pandemic, it is an emergency, a crisis and you are doing everything you can. i was part of the team, you know, last year that was working on this. i don't think we needed it this past january but whatever i think, fraud is fraud. they need to update computer systems. they should do more. >> harris: they have to be able to vet. i know you say no more, no more. but if it happens. if biden rolls alone and doesn't do bipartisan stuff like he said he wasing to. if he does and walking away

about bipartisan conversations about infrastructure, they have to get better at vetting this. that's a lot of money stolen. i have to run. larry kudlow, come back any time. >> you can't do it. economy is booming. bye, harris. >> harris: the president said what? commander-in-chief is raising eyebrows after he told u.s. service members this. >> president biden: elected vice president -- [inaudible] you know what the joint chiefs said the greatest threat to america was, global warming. >> harris: you'll tell us what the greatest threats to america really are next. you are in focus, joey jones.

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security and our alliances is russia. >> harris: but the president now says this when he spoke with u.s. service members in the u.k. just yesterday. >> president biden: this is not a joke. you know what the joint chiefs told us the greatest threat facing america was? global warming because there will be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they are sinking below the sea in indonesia, because of the fights over what is airable land anymore. >> harris: the responses on twitter were brutal. republican congressman andy biggs tweets first it's white supremacist is greatest u.s. threat. now climate change. let's throw in d.c.'s cicada

infestation. and then this. joey jones fox news contributor and fox nation host. joey, your take. you served and given so much to the united states, you and those who served with you. how do you see it? >> first of all i haven't given anything more than this country demanded of me and i did that because i wanted to and it was the right thing to do. i don't get an extra opinion on this just because i served in combat. that's just part of being an american. if you have to start a statement with this is not a joke because it sounds so ridiculous that people probably are going to think it's a joke you might want to skip go on that one and go towards maybe the motivational part of the speech or something. it is not true. i don't believe that in the context that he presented it. i don't believe generals sat around the told the president mr. president one of the most divisive policy issues you are using to big an election is the

big security threat. i don't believe it's true. maybe if we're using solar panels to power our grid or infrastructure in places where we are vulnerable maybe climate change matters in that respect. cybersecurity is where we're being currently attacked. we had our infrastructure attacked by russia and we're talking about climate change. our border is under siege and we're talking about climate change. at the end of the day if you want to go outside the box, outside the military and look at our greatest threat to our security, it is our economy. that's our strength. our ability to be secure financially is our strength and it is under attack by the administration and the white house. that's our greatest threat. >> harris: look at the largest meat processor jbs that we now know paid $11 million in ransom in cyberattacks. okay, so did russia do it? the question is what happens in

russia that russia doesn't do? >> we don't exactly have a friend over there. i know that president biden will meet with putin and there are a lot of calls for him to be stern in rhetoric. three ways to show strength. military strength, action, presence, where you are and your friends are and then posture. i would love for our president to be strong in at least one of those three. it may be posture is his best bet. president trump was really good at posturing. military action we're leaving the region russia doesn't want us in. we do them a favor there. our ability to support oush allies such as georgia is yet to be determined. i hope we do. >> harris: it's interesting that you put it all that way. i look at what both those leaders are doing going up to this meeting. russia is posturing. they are doing some stuff. what are we doing? we're telling our enemies that climate change is the number one threat out of the pentagon. your last quick thought on this

and we'll move. >> posturing is russia's culture and how they have always worked. we had a cold war over it. the end of the day we need to rebuild our economy and be a strong nation and solve problems like the border crisis. doesn't matter what side of politics you're on we need to figure out how to bring in immigrants and make our country stronger with them without having a crisis every two to four years. the 20 year war, 10 two-year wars. whether you bring more troops over might come to the ballot box than strategy. that's where we are in american politics unfortunately. >> harris: before i let you go, russia, china, iran, we are all entangled in this. the way biden sees it is so very different. 15 seconds before we leave. your thoughts. >> well again, i'm no foreign policy expert. i have fought some wars over

foreign policy experts getting it wrong. i would really appreciate an administration geared towards not only making us safer but not fighting more wars in the meantime. injecting domestic policy partisan division is how you do it. i don't know that climate change is the answer. >> harris: always great to see you. thank you for watching the if "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" after the commercial break. loan.igibility fore every veteran, every service member out there if you're thinking about buying a home if you're thinking about a cash out refi whatever you're thinking with a mortgage, you should come to newday usa first. veteran homeowners. three reasons to do a cash out refi right now. home values are high while rates are low.

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