like the cincinnati reds. okay. >> bill: show it again, will you? show it again. the one that is commitment. i hope he doesn't have a bruise. stated we have a big one coming up for you. stay one "the faulkner focus" is up now. >> this is a fox news alert. democrats are divided and has leadership is now facing a firestorm. this is after ilhan omar appeared to equate the u.s. and israel with hamas and the time the band. washington. this is "the faulkner focus." i am gillian turner for harris today. members of the squad are accusing democratic leadership of harassment and is on the phobia after they pushed back and pushed back omar's comment.

she tweeted "we have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the u.s., hamas, israel, afghanistan, and the taliban. she then later tried to walk it back insisting she wasn't equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries that have well-established judicial systems. the republicans are claiming a double standard is clearly at work. they are demanding to know why speaker pelosi is still keeping her on the has foreign affairs committee. take a listen. >> we need to see more democrats in congress speaking out. we need speaker pelosi to remove her from the committee. ilhan omar shouldn't have been appointed to the committee and the first place. this has nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, race, gender, political party. this has to do with her as a member of congress putting out all of this anti-american propaganda. there should be a had a political price be paid. we all know that if ilhan omar

was a republican, pelosi would be the one leading the fight to hold her accountable. >> gillian: all of this is unfolding as president biden is out of the country on his first foreign trip as commander in chief. he met with leaders in the u.k. today to kick off the g summit. hi, jackie. >> hey, jillian. when that group of 12 jewish democratic lawmakers put out that letter to congresswoman omar demanding to clarify why she appeared to equate the u.s. and israel with terror groups, congressman omar's initial reaction was to slam her colleagues. she also accused them of these and is. after nancy pelosi backed them and asking her to explain, members of the squad lashed out at democrats in the media saying that her views were deliberately disregarded, abetting targeted attacks on her.

rashida tlaib wrote "freedom of speech doesn't exist for muslim women in congress. the benefit of the doubt does not exist for muslim women in congress. has democratic leadership should be ashamed." we can't ignore a right wing media echo chamber that is deliberately and routinely attacked a black what muslim women in congress. one of the democrats he wrote that letter says there isn't anyone else to blame. speak out if you make comments like these, you need to be held accountable for them. i would think that applies to all members of congress, democrats and republicans. i don't think there is anybody to blame. i think you just have to be held accountable for your words. >> he said that he was to democratic leadership asked omar to explain. he was also happy that she did. she did walk that comment back saying she wasn't drawing a

moral equivalency between democracies with well-established to get systems and terror groups. she was referring to specific cases. there are some lingering concerns about the history have comments that congresswoman omar has made and how they could undermine the u.s. relationship with its key ally, israel. so far, that is democrats are not pushing for any further punishment. not asking for a vote to condemn these comments. and no place to be stripped of her assignment. >> gillian: thank you for the great reporting. i just want to flag a quick apology. they say that we mistakingly mislabeled congressman lee as a democrat. let's bring in -- even the best people mess up sometimes. >> not a democrat. >> gillian: very decidedly not a democrat. >> marks, let's start with

ilhan omar's words. she said i was not at all equating the u.s. and israel with terrorist groups hamas and the taliban. we just pulled up her tweets twice. it seems like that was precisely what she was doing. the entire point of the entire tweet. right? >> 100%. it is good that democrat leaders are finally speaking out about this, but it is too little, too late. she doesn't need to clarify her comments. she needs to be removed. nobody who thinks that israel and the united states are the equivalent of the town abandon hamas in terms of the atrocities they have committed deserves to be sitting on the has foreign affairs committee. her explanation now that she wasn't equating countries with judicial systems like the united states and israel with groups like hamas and the taliban is completely untrue. the context of her remarks -- she was questioning -- the tweet came out when she was questioning antony blinken about why the u.s. won't allow the

international criminal court, which is an illegitimate u.n. court that the u.s. is not a part of. to investigate and try service members for war crimes in afghanistan. if she believes they have a great judicial system that hold people accountable, then why is she pushing for an icc investigation by an illegitimate u.n. court that could actually try and jail american service members war crimes? >> gillian: i am going to pull on a thread that you mentioned. the even bigger context -- omar's comments, on the heels of one of the worst streams of anti-semitic comments we had seen in decades. it is hard to decouple her criticism of israel and of the jewish people from the violence that we are seeing in u.s. cities across the nation, is it not? >> no doubt. first of all, democratic

leaders -- edit the condemnation only happened when she included the u.s. and the list. she has been saying these things about israel for years. she tweeted out a cartoon by the winner of the holocaust denial cartoon combination. she said they pushed for allegiance to a foreign country, which is accused them of dual loyalty. she compared israel to nazi germany and the soviet union. this is not new. it is fascinating how when republicans during the start of the war on terror and the bush administration referred to islamic radicalism. people set their hair on fire inside you are pushing muslim violence. when president trump talked about the china virus they said you are pushing anti-asian violence. but in the gnome i can go into the worst possible things about israel and the worst anti-semitic comments, and no one blames her for anti-semitic violence. there is a huge double standard. if you are going to go and blame

bush and trump for anti-muslim and anti-asian violence, where is the condemnation of him and omar? >> gillian: i want to make sure we get to our next comp topic. he set us up beautifully. a newly unearthed video from 2016 showing the president of the eco-health alliance making these comments. people are calling them a shocking admission about the type of research that was happening in wuhan. >> he creates it a particles. even through the spiked proteins from those viruses. each step of this -- this virus could become pathogenic. you narrow it down the field. you reduce the costs, and you end up with a small number of viruses that really do look like killers. >> gillian: that is when people are saying that dr. fauci should resign or be fired. his emails show that he has been

honest with the public. take a good lesson. >> dr. fauci should do is 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. >> they have lost confidence and tony's algae because of his invasion and misdirection and politicized. it is time for him to go. >> is not going to pick up steam? what do you think? >> but we are finding is there is growing evidence that the wuhan institute of virology was creating these frankenstein viruses. they were using gain of function research to make the viruses more infectious to human beings. one of the things that they did was i added something called -- this is a scientific term -- they take the spiked proteins and use the cleavage site to allow it to more easily infect

humanls. it was created in the wuhan lab. this guy just said we funded it. who is weak? not just him. the united states taxpayers and dr. fauci. >> gillian: there is a debate about whether gain of function research is in fact ethical at all in the 21st century anymore now that we have lived through this pandemic. they want to get to our final topic. this is a marathon rather than a sprint. some journalists are refusing to accept this inspector general report that has debunked their own reporting. police found through an investigation. the inspector general found that the park police didn't clear protesters from lafayette park in order to make way for president trump. take a look. >> i have to say, when i read to this report, it sounded as though he was auditioning to become the inspector general at mar-a-lago. this is almost a whitewash of

what occurred on june 1st. >> it is laughable on its face. you just need to read the report and read what bid said and what the i.d. does not say. >> that is awfully sane grewal if that is what you are relying on. awfully thin. good luck on that. >> gillian: is it appropriate or ethical for them to rejected the report because they disagree? >> you know it's funny. we just talked about how the media dismissed the lab leak there. they dismissed it because people like tom cotton and donald trump were pushing it and saying we need to look into it. they did the exact same thing when it comes to lafayette square. a narrative emerged which is that he cleared the square in order to do this photo op with a bible in front of the church. it turns out that it wasn't true. why did they clear the square? it was because they found all sorts of poles and weapons that were stored in order to create

violence. they had said st. john's church on fire the night before. they're moving into build fencing to protect the square not the president. this was all known. i wrote about this at the time. this was the reason. the media just -- if donald trump says it, it must be wrong. if the virus came from a lab, tron said it, it must be wrong. and now that he is gone, we can say these things. we don't want to take responsibility for the false reporting. >> gillian: maybe i will stop reporting on things i don't agree with. wish me luck. have a great weekend. now get another state is banning critical race theory in classrooms as more and more parents across the country are taking on school districts of a controversial new curricula. plus this. >> they complete they don't care about the border at all. they haven't come here and they have a talk to us. they don't want to do anything. they are fighting us every step of the way.

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see the unfinished trump wall. the 30-foot plus wall that was trying to be built. that of course was halted. the situation with fencing in del rio, they have built zero new miles before it was stopped. we spoke yesterday with someone he was at the borders i met with the governor. the sheriff out of medina county. he talked to us about what he thinks about building a wall. take a listen. >> i agree with everything he said. it has to start today. we need to get to number eight or nine or whatever number he talked about. we need to finish the ball. that is what we need to get you. >> meanwhile, that migrants keep coming. almost 1,000 in the last 24 hours. hundreds if not thousands of venezuelans pointing across the rio grande onto the private property where we have pain along the river and where we

talked with the head of the department of public safety yesterday. here is what he said yesterday about the situation. listen. >> absolutely. that's what leadership is about. you see the governor down here. i can assure you that he is dealing. unless you sit down and talk to landowners. it is one thing to talk to law enforcement. but you need to talk about landowners. >> here is what he wants vice president harris to see here. you can see that recently migrants pulled this part of using it looks like this blanket. on the top, it looks like they crawled over the top of the air, and other weak spot in the wall. that is what vice president harris should be shown and all members of the administration to try to get this under control. jelly and? >> gillian: wow.

thank you for sharing that with us. interesting insight into how billions of dollars have been spent or missed spent border. we are going to bring in the attorney general of arizona. first democratic congressman henry cuellar says president biden and vice president harris need to get to the border and visit and when they do they need to spend some time. taking the same. >> somebody needs to listen to our local community. with all due respect, a staged visit is not enough. they have to understand. then i need to listen to me. they need to listen to other people that have lived here like myself. we have a lifetime of experience. a couple of hours doesn't substitute a lifetime of experience what we are seeing here. >> gillian: the vice president says she is going to do it but she has yet to set a date. she also appeared to get a bit defensive when a reporter held her feet to the fire. take a listen.

>> vice president harris: i said i'm going to go to the border. >> what are you going to the border? >> vice president harris: i'm not finished. i said i'm going to the border. >> do you have a date? >> vice president harris: i will keep you posted. >> gillian: it has been 79 days since president biden is tasked her to spearhead efforts to tackle the crisis there. the attorney general of arizona also running for senate in 2022. thank you for joining us. interestingly, you are calling on president biden now to throw in the towel, packed up his bags. he is in europe and give up the rest of the g7 to come home here to the u.s. to address the border crisis. what exactly do you think is going to come of your request? >> thus far, the biden

administration essentially told states like arizona and texas to balance. there is a crisis at our border. we were just talking about our numbers. it has been 79 days since vice president harris was appointed. you have seen him as 500,000 people. that is the entire population of minneapolis or kansas city coming across. you talk about the impact that has on the environment and hardworking taxpayers. biden administration is spending tens of millions of dollars to his house people. they are trying to get the benefits. that affects taxpayers. i know as a prosecutor that the cartels are exploiting not only the people. they are exploiting this crisis to dramatically increase the amount of fentanyl and heroin coming into our country. that is going to affect everyone in the entire country. this is a crisis. it is to become a good strategy. the biden administration has done nothing. they're going to europe. please care about america at

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eyes? not only did the stats not lie, but the pictures we are seeing do not lie. the statistics that we have seen in the seizures and the people coming over. those are facts. people are entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. i have a message for the biden administration. you want to know the root cause of immigration? this is the greatest country in the world. instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars in central america, spend that money on securing our border and getting resources to border patrol and ice so they can continue to process the 1.2 million people with deportation orders that the biden administration is refusing to deport. we have a case pending a federal judge decision asking the biden administration to follow the law. complete the law and deport people who have been ordered to be deported. >> gillian: mr. attorney general, we have to leave it there, but thank you for sharing with us. criminals have stolen some 400 plus billion dollars and

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ron desantis is taking it a step further and is calling on the board of education to update civics and history standards in order to highlight what he calls america's great successes. many parents across the country are up in arms over the pledge to include critical race theory and curriculums. mark meredith is here in washington, d.c., with the latest details. >> good morning. nationwide state lawmakers are diving right into this debate. some are giving it is a necessary way to re-examine u.s. history while critics say it teaches some kids to hate their country. critical race theory addresses america's history of slavery and jim crow era policies and how it has impacted people of color. it has become a lightning rod issue in recent months. we hear from the state governor who put out a tweet. he wrote florida's education system exists to create opportunities for our children. critical race theory teaches kids to hate each other. it is state sanctioned racism and has no place in florida

schools. some parents tell fox that they are thrilled to see lawmakers taking action. >> because they'd brought out more parents to actually see what their children were learning online. i was one of us parents. i was listening to what other children were saying and it was terrifying. terrifying what is happening out there. >> florida is only the latest state to say no to critical race theory education. we have seen more than a dozen states have already passed some regulation. not everyone is thrilled from the move away. a supporter of the theory and a public school teacher wrote a op-ed in the "philadelphia inquirer." he is saying instead of them getting uncomfortable, those opposed to crt would rather educators teach lies and simplify history. while this debate is certainly playing out in state houses, it also happening here in washington, d.c.

>> gillian: the issue is getting argued all the way up to the top. thank you so much, mark meredith. let's bring in the power panel now. we are joined by the charlie hurt. an opinion editor at "the washington times." also crystal mike. the founding executive director of director of emergency. great to see both of you. crystal, i'm going to come to you first here. it is hard to talk about this brewing controversy surrounding critical race theory, which at its core is an equity program. it is meant to address racial inequalities in the public school system, without bringing in politics. how do you see the issue? >> i don't see this issue as a challenge. it is actually not taught in schools. it is a theory that says racism is embedded into the fabric of this country. state legislative members don't

want to face the ugly past in this country, they should say that instead of creating a law that would actually affect the way a child learns, particularly in primary school, about the history of this country. we need to be in the position of telling the truth to children so that our ugly past does not repeat itself. at state legislators don't want to do that, they should just say that instead of just wasting taxpayer dollars to create legislation that doesn't mean anything. >> gillian: charlie, is that possible for state legislators to not waste time doing expensive things that don't achieve anything? >> that is nowhere in the cards with politicians. the problem here is that this is not about education. it is not about educating children about our history with all of its words. that is already done. that has been done for many

years. the problem is that this is about weaponizing race and trying to turn race into a political cudgel and which to beat people up. that is not what education should be in this country. that is not what our educators should be doing. the problem with critical race theory is that it is not math. it is not science. it is not history. those are the things that will empower all students, no matter what race or creed or gender or anything like that, to excel in this country. the silver lining is when you look at the school boards across the country, these parents that are coming out in droves, parents of all genders and backgrounds, they are rejecting this idea of dividing the country into segregating the country into races and determining that certain races are forever victims and other races are forever oppressors. all of this nonsense. it is the opposite of what we stand for and what we have been

fighting for for hundreds of years. >> gillian: krystal, i want to make sure we get in this other topic that lawmakers are talking about today on capitol hill, which is byron donalds. he is one of just two black republicans in the house. he is saying the congressional black caucus is excluding him from joining over his political views. he says that media is trying to make this about his support for president trump. take a listen. >> when they try to bring up president trump and the things he has said as justification, i find it to be outrageous. last time i checked, i was born black and grow up black and i made it in america as a black man. i graduated college as a black man and i raise my son as a black man. i come into the halls of congress as a black man. i don't know why donald trump or joe biden or anybody else has to do with it. >> gillian: should byron donalds be allowed to join pastor mike >> i think we have

to wait for them to put out an official statement. i think it is also important to consider when they are making this decision they are thinking will he be an ally, or will he be a distraction? if there is a person who is asked to join a caucus where they are in this business of creating policy and making sure they are pushing forward an agenda that will advance democratic principles in this country, if there is a person within the caucus he does not believe president biden is the rightful president, you have to ask yourself if they become a distraction or will they keep a medium temperature and work with us as we try to push our agenda forward. the real question is will he be an ally, or will he be a distraction? ultimately, it is up to them to put out a statement. we have to wait on that. >> gillian: krystal, here is the rub. these caucuses are supposed to be bipartisan.

he has been elected democratically to represent the beliefs of his constituents. by keeping him from the committee, the committee is blocking the views of the people he has been elected to represent. >> have had other republican members as a part of that committee and a caucus. again, we have not heard officially from the cbc. this is hearsay based upon his own personal opinion and views. it is incumbent on them to come out with a response. i believe they will do what is best for the committee. i'm waiting to actually hear from them and not just go off of what the representative believes. >> gillian: charlie, last word to you. i just have to note that he says this isn't hearsay. this is what he has hurried off the record from caucus members. >> unfortunately, the cbc in recent years has become far less about policy and about trying to

help black voters in this country and far more about political power in washington. i guess that shouldn't be much of a surprise since it is washington. that is what happens to everything that comes to washington with bright ideas and ideals for making america a better place. it always turns into politics. >> gillian: it happened to you and it happened to me. thank you both so much. >> thanks for having me. >> gillian: have a great weekend. this news by cnn is raising a lot of eyebrows today. listen. >> this was deeply and indefensible. i have tried and i am trying now to say how sorry i am. >> gillian: that is legal analyst -- chief legal analyst, jeffrey to then. he is making an on-air return to the network after the infamous zoom call in which he says he accidentally exposed himself to

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>> gillian: yesterday. she is here to join us with emerging details today from capitol hill. >> it is not just fraudsters. it is criminals as well. they are using it like a slush fund to finance international crime. the secret service actually warned congress about this a year ago. they said they were tracking "an international scheme to defraud u.s. state unemployment systems." they told about 70% of the stolen cash has left the country taken by a bye criminal actors aligned with our adversaries like russia and china. >> i don't think it is a coincidence that there has been an increase in the cyber attacks on our core businesses. i believe some of that funding came from the unemployment

insurance money that was stolen. the fraud that got perpetrated on unemployment insurance is $250 billion. what has happened over the last six months is those criminal groups have shifted their focus from the private sector to the government sector. the government isn't ready to defend themselves. >> president biden's american rescue plan did include to billion dollars for states to update their unemployment systems. the white has told me in a statement yesterday that widespread fraud is one of the most serious challenges we inherited. senate republicans say democrats in congress could have done more. the $2 billion at the gate to states to update their systems came with no strings. states where it actually forced to use that money to guarantee that it cut down on fraud and unemployment. >> gillian: i am shocked to hear that members of congress could have done more to prevent a catastrophe. thank you for bringing us all the details. we appreciate it. now to something markham

different. twitter is having an epic meltdown after disgraced cnn legal analyst made his first on-air appearance back at the network. since the new yorker fired him after a zoom meeting debacle. he says he accidentally exposed himself to his colleagues. take a listen to part of his apology. >> i have spent the seven subsequent months miserably. i can certainly confess. i've been trying to be a better person. i have tried, and i am trying now, to say how sorry i am. i have a lot to rebuild, but i feel very privileged and very lucky that i'm going to be able to try to do that. >> gillian: critics are shredding cnn for bringing him back on air. one tweeting "this man must have had dirt on somebody with power. this is just beyond." jeffrey t then is the definition of liberal privilege. any conservative man would have lost his job.

i think it is a pretty solid example of the two-tiered media landscape. let's bring in the fox nation has as well as cohost of got failed. my heart breaks for him. he spent seven miserable months i made a raging global pandemic in which hundreds of millions of people have died. speak out right. they've been sick. not died. >> we should certainly feel the worst for him who had to take a timeout. he did something -- let's be real. if you or i do that, we are not even going to be allowed in public again, let alone to get dressed up and go on tv and talk about it with a smile. i know they say it was an accident. an unfortunate accident. to be clear, a dragon didn't fly down out of the sky and rip his pants off.

this was a disgusting ridiculous thing that is not something that people do. people don't do this. if anybody else had done this, i think that i would change my name and move to another country. that would be the only option that you or i would have. the woman did that? absolutely would not have a career. >> gillian: in the spirit of being generous, we have to look at the other side. what about giving disgraced people second chances? >> right. i understand that, but this is a truly wild type of thing to have happened where you are thinking to yourself am i living in a simulation? this is not just his second chance. he has a repeated pattern of creepy behavior when it comes to the same area of his life. >> gillian: have to ask you.

this is a question i have not heard anybody ask but it's really important. what if this had happened in the workplace? lord knows we have all had to make adjustments during the pandemic and have learned how to be professional and abide by certain codes of conduct while we are working from home. what if this incident had happened at work? where would we be? >> who knows. there is also an argument to say that this was at work. it was on a zoom video call. it is also not that tough. i know camera sign. people can figure that out. children figure it out all the time. they are getting out of classes for the resumes glow. they figure out the cameras in first grade. this is a chief legal analyst. >> gillian: i want to move on to our other story at the day about great men doing great things. disgraced former democratic congressman anthony weiner has

reportedly rejoined a secret messaging. that is one of the sites where he had conducted one of the relationships of the 15-year-old girl. he used the alias that you may have heard of. carlos danger. he is back. >> i am not surprised he is back. i would be more surprised if i never heard of him doing something like this again. he seems to be unable to stop himself. i am shocked that he would actually use the same alias. i guess reverse psychology. there is no way he would do that. but whenever you say there is no way he would do that about anthony weiner, you're probably going to be wrong. >> gillian: that's exactly right. we have to leave it there, but thank you so much for brightening up our friday. >> anytime. >> gillian: thank you for joining us today. "outnumbered" is up next

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