>> dana: this weekend the whole thing maybe this is a sprain and now he is find. crazy weekend. i had this dream i got to the show, working to get all set up and i turned and bill hemmer had left and he didn't even tell me he was leaving. it was a weird combination. i will tell you don't ever do that. here is harris. >> bill: be here tomorrow. bye-bye. >> harris: let's beginning with a fox news alert. crime is spiraling out of control and the issue is taking center stage ahead of tomorrow's primary in the race for new york city mayor. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". disturbing video of a shooting in the bronx days ago. a 5-year-old and 10-year-old caught in the crossfire as a gunman opened fire in broad daylight. a miracle the children weren't hurt. the intended victim is hospitalized and expected to

recover. police are looking for the shooter. it is a pattern of violence we've been telling you about and watching it unfold over the past year amid the push to defund the police. let him loose after a bombshell report that prosecutors droped the vast majority of rioting and looting cases that devastated the city last summer. dan bongino with this reaction. >> what bothers me about these stories we're covering too often. crime exploding. cops being injured and hurt is that we know what works, guys. you guys are in new york. it is not like liberals don't know what works. they know it. they lived through the giuliani broken windows policing and they're reverting back to the old stuff. you want people to get hurt and crime to go up? >> harris: liberals as dan would say are battling it out to be the next mayor of new york city which is growing to be an epicenter for violence in america. aishah hosni with more.

>> good morning to you. i was reporting the looting last year live in front of me. it was pure insanity and highly organized. listen to this. you won't believe this. mayoral candidate eric adams was visiting with the family of the two girls in the surveillance video while at the same time his campaign volunteer was being stabbed multiple times in broad daylight. he has a punctured lung now. here is adams on cnn this morning. >> he is doing fine. he is out of surgery. we visited him and i spoke with him at the hospital. video was horrific. someone came up behind him and repeatedly stabbed him. >> look at this. nearly every single crime category in the city is up from last year. we are talking homicides, shootings, rape and hate crimes.

new yorkers are fed up and tomorrow they will vote with fury. voters telling me they're angry the nypd was defunded by a billion dollars last summer. they don't like bail reform laws and local nbc is reporting half of the arrests made in the riots and looting last year were dropped by the d.a.'s office. others got lower charges that had really no jail time. business leaders are also deeply worried about all of this. city's recovery, surveyed thousands of employees at 108 top companies in the cities and found public safety was the number one concern. >> we left half our fortune 500 companies in the 1970s. it was about crime. so we've seen this movie before. we can't let that happen again. >> who will tackle it all? this race as you can tell is

heavy on democrats because registered democrats outnumber republicans here in the city nearly 7 to 1. what's interesting is thousands of republicans have switched their party affiliation to democrat to try to have a say to sway the election towards a more moderate mayor. andrew yang pitched a new idea to add new plain clothes officers and new crime unit after the city disbanded its anti-crimes units. candidates seem to be tuned into the fact that crime, public safety is the key to city hall. harris. >> harris: some of the most direct and in depth reporting on this yet. i want to bring in jason rantz, seattle radio talk show host. did you catch what aishah just reported? there are republicans now that are going to vote in a democratic primary. they have changed their affiliation so they can sway

where this is going. republicans in the back coming to the front to try to help save new york city from its violence. >> sometimes you have to get strategic in that way. traditional republican doesn't have that much power in new york city. they understand democrats have hurt their everyday life. it snot safe to go to school for their kids or walk to work or take the subway. now they get creative. i hope they are successful here. the clear pattern from the democratic party is they're going further and further to the left. we've seen the results of that. >> harris: when you say further and further to the left i just want to give people an idea. you've heard democrats jason say they'll redefine things. defund the police, no reimagine policing. i still can't get anybody to tell me details of what that means. but the atlanta mayor bottoms is trying to find reasons for the violence.

watch this. >> well, i think there are a couple of things that you have to compare. remember in georgia we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the cdc said it was safe for us to open. so our nightclubs and bars remained open. we had people traveling from across the country to party in our city. >> harris: jason. she is blaming lockdowns. go ahead. >> look at the data. you can see who is getting arrested for these crimes. they aren't people coming in from out of town. it is weird. on the west coast in seattle we had a 26 year high homicide rate when we were completely closed down. democrats can't have it both ways. i've heard them say other he the covid lockdowns causing this. everyone is uncomfortable and suffering and they turn to crime. that's not what is happening. we have very clear line to point to across all of this. we have defunding of the police.

the policies that have allowed people to go out of jail without any charges let alone any kind of slap on the wrist. they've embraced this idea of restorative justice which is a form of rehab. something that new york city, for example, they do with some of the looters. the problem is when talking about a 16-year-old kid who stole a soda from a 7/11 that's one thing. we are talking about murders and other issues that impact the quality of life. to simply say these are just people on the bad track and we'll throw more money to get into programs greting to the root of violence. that's not quick enough for taxpayers and business owners. >> harris: the root causes of what is happening at the border. the root causes. they don't want to look at the root causes. i didn't want it just to play. those were two little ones caught in crossfire. the video we were showing while

jason was speaking. one is 5 and one is 10. the kids are getting caught. i wanted to resay that. it is worth stating. it is becoming such a big issue for democrats. we've been calling it out all along. "politico" is reporting this. the white house have been reluctant to emphasize issues outside of ending the pandemic that we just saw. reviving the economy and passing its american jobs plan and american family plan. we think it is notable that on wednesday president joe biden will be devoting his public event to the issue of crime and how his administration is responding to the uptick in violence. jason, your response. >> i find it notable no one is calling it biden's america with the crime surge. they did it under trump. joe biden could give the best speech he has given on wednesday. that won't change the policies in play at these deeply

progressive cities and states. that's really what he has to do. he has to call them out. he has to call them out by name. he has to take control of the democratic party. at this point it feels like it is too far gone. unless you get rid of these policies, unless you get rid of these politicians proposing these policies. what is the speech exactly going to do? you have the activist groups funneling money into the far left wing politicians who hang onto power. so i'm sorry, what exactly does wednesday mean? >> harris: i just want to quickly. the audience knows there is a bit of a delay here. i want to get to this and move on so forgive me, jason. but you are pointing to policies by democrats. i don't know that the president especially with all the pressure from the far left in his party, do you see him calling people out by name, really, on wednesday? what can he say to directly deal with what's happened in your beautiful city in seattle? >> i think for starters he

should acknowledge there is actually a problem. because we've been hearing from so many democrats this isn't really going on. that it's a figment of the conservative imagination. we see the data and it is clearly rising. he needs to take some responsibility for this and at least say from an administration level they'll come up with actual policies to tackle this including some funding into some of these programs that go at the root causes but he has to back police. at the end of the day he has to say the defund movement was wrong and gone too far. for a democrat to say that is going out on a limb but he has to be honest at the policies they pushed. he said he didn't want to defund the police but he was silent. they have to say cops aren't the enemy. we need to support them. i still find it hard to believe that he will actually say that. >> harris: yeah. you know, speaking of police

officers being stained by the words of some calling them enemies or whatever what have you and some of the words are colorful and here is the former police chief of detroit. >> let me start by saying our profession is in a crisis right now. we can talk about the failed leadership but where is the support for the men and women? this anti-police rhetoric. is there a surprise that nypd officers are leaving in large numbers and chicago police officers are leaving in large numbers? >> harris: jason. >> there is an underlying issue that's important to have about staffing. proactive policing is incredibly important. if you aren't staffed to do that, you can't actually make meaningful change. i don't know many crimes that are being committed in front of a unformed officer.

dan bongino made that point earlier today. you don't see crime directly in front of cops. if cops aren't able to walk or bike the streets of our big cities, guess what? it is more of an opportunity for the criminals getting out of jail or not going to jail at all to further victimize these communities. >> harris: that is such a fine point to end on. that the fact that you point out that these crimes aren't really unfolding where we have law enforcement. but where there is no enforcement of the law, who knows what we will see next? everybody is watching new york. it is a litmus test for defund and for all these other things we are supposed to be reimagined policing. and republicans getting in on that to switch parties to vote to kind of make that primary whittled down to a more moderate candidate is fascinating. i'm glad you were with me as this was unfolding. a devastating highway crash

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>> harris: federal agents are joining the investigation into a horrific multi-vehicle car crash. 10 people died there including

nine children on interstate 65 in alabama over the weekend. it happened at tropical storm claudette dumped heavy rain across the state and spawned several tornadoes. jonathan serrie is live for us in alabama where recovery efforts are underway after a twister leveled dozens of homes. that storm hit hard there. >> it certainly did. minutes ago the governor kay ivey of alabama declared a state of emergency to get the help they need as quickly as possible. the national weather service has determined the tornado that came through this neighborhood in alabama was an ef2 packing winds of 127 miles an hour. we spoke with one resident who had to pull two neighbors out of the pile of debris that you are looking at right now. a pile of debris that was once their mobile home. >> right there by the power

line, matter of fact. and i think she has a broken arm and some lacerations on her neck and stuff. and he was just laid out. and i asked him i said you want to go with me or the ambulance? i'm glad he went with the ambulance. he has some internal damage. >> three people taken to the hospital with serious injuries from this neighborhood. no fatalities reported so far. a different case in other parts of alabama. rain slick conditions on interstate 65 in butler county involved a crash with 17 vehicles. seven cut fired and killed a 29-year-old man and 9-year-old daughter and eight other children were pronounced dead of the scene. four of them were residents were a at a home for abused and neglected children and family members and guests of the camp

director. the ntsb joined the investigation. you can see the extent of the damage here from heavy winds that came through here with the tornado. you see a frame of a trailer that was lifted by the heavy winds and laid across the roofs of these two houses side-by-side. just an indication of what heavy winds from a tornado can do in a trailer park. back to you, harris. >> harris: it's also really a reminder to all of us those things come up the east coast, when they spawn twisters that system is just as dangerous is what moving up the water. so sorry for that community. >> everyone on the coast breathes a sigh of relief from hurricanes but they can cause tornadoes and flooding. everyone needs to remain weather aware. >> harris: our thoughts and

prayers to that community. it is tough. jonathan, thank you. >> it is essential as a scientist that you evolve your opinion and your recommendations based on the data as it evolves. and that's the reason why i say people who then criticize me about that are actually criticizing science. i put very little weight in the adulation and very little weight in the craziness of condemning me. >> harris: dr. fauci working on his reputation going off on his critics in an interview with "the new york times." once again equating attacks on him to attacks on science. one of those critics, senator ron johnson, has this to say. >> 600,000 people died, trillions of dollars of economic devastation. he ignored early treatment. he probably helped sabotage the use of some of these things and you have to understand that dr.

fauci, people in the health agencies, media and social media will never admit they were wrong on this. if they do, they will have to admit that hundreds of thousands of people didn't have to lose their lives but for their censorship and arrogance and dr. fauci's mismanagement. >> harris: will cain is co-host of fox and friends weekend and a new episode on his will cain podcast. for those in defense of dr. fauci saying you can't put this all out on one man. he wanted to be the center. >> yeah, and he is. he certainly is. he has cast himself in the role, harris of the king. in medieval europe and modern day iran the leaders of those nations basically cast themselves as messengers of god. if you question their authority or theired dikt or if you were questioning god you are questioning religion. he is king and he is science.

he is using science as a shield. now, we dare not question him because then we would be questioning science and we worship science in twitter. dr. fauci knows it is not science. he says it is ever evolving. he evolve with the information, a process, not a conclusion. why the question becomes were you so certain? why did you show so little humility? why do you reject anyone who questioned your authority, masks, covid and he was certain on those issues. and to make matters worse, one last more important point, he did not follow that process. he did not evolve with the data as he contends because he had it. we know he had information on the origins of covid. we know he rejected it. he had information on masks. we know he rejected it in order to save masks for front line workers. he wasn't evolving.

he was manipulating. >> harris: will, we know some of that because of those emails that have been put out into public view and, you know, when you look at the back and forth that he had with that chinese analyst, right, and we don't know all the details of their relationship. kind of his counterpart for china. but we do know enough to know he had the information that you are talking about with the origins of covid-19 and that their relationship at least seemed friendly, cozy perhaps. those are details that are bursting. he will have to fight the facts now with science. we'll see how that goes. congressman steve scalise is ripping pelosi and democrats on china. watch this. >> i wish we in congress would investigate the origin of covid-19, pelosi won't do it. when we're in the majority we will do it and we will hold china accountable. they are covering for china

right now. it is a soviet-style cover-up and we'll keep calling them out on it. >> harris: i'm so confused by this, will. you would think it wouldn't be political. republicans again leaning in on an issue that the democrats have basically controlled the messaging of even under a republican president and what we were all supposed to do to survive covid. >> it is because they cast their lot originally with the official chinese communist party line. because donald trump existed on one side of this equation and the chinese communist party existed on the other side the democratic party by default parroted the lines of the chinese communist party. therefore now they have a hard time divorcing themselves from that or investigating the fault in their own conclusions for the past year. they have a conflict of interest just like ecohealth alliance or anyone else who made sure we didn't know the origins of covid for the better part of a year.

they can't be trusted to investigate. they don't want to investigate the origins of covid. you think about why it matters, it really does matter. i asked this question on "fox & friends" and my podcast, why does it matter whether or not covid came from a labor a wet market? it matters because we took advice from these people had either had a conflict of interest and told us lies or showed a large amount of incompetence. we placed trust in these people for a year and we know to know how compromised or incompetent they are. >> harris: we want the truth. we want to evolve after the pandemic and never have some of the mistakes that we made happen again. we want the truth. i want to get to this. president biden's national security advisor jake sullivan with this vague response when he was asked if the united states plans to take any action against china if they keep

stonewalling on covid. >> there are two tracks we're operating in trying to get to the bottom of how covid-19 came into the world. one track is an intelligence community assessment. the second is an international investigation led by the world health organization for which president biden rallied partners saying there needs to be access to china. we won't at this point issue threats or ultimate ums. >> harris: there are more than two tracks. are only two options are intel and the who? what about us leading an investigation? >> how about we also live in reality? 3 million people died. 600,000 americans have died. it will be hard to ever get to the truth behind. we'll never get definitive evidence to the truth behind covid but it doesn't keep us from living in reality and arriving at a probable conclusion. that is that china is our

adversary. they are our adversary in every walk of life. not just mill tehran and economically and culturally and public health as well. if we treat china as our adversary we can act appropriately. >> harris: when i say yes, i mean all hands on deck. we haven't talked about the report that president biden was saying. we're getting closer to seeing whatever it is they would have found out. intelligence is helpful but take everybody. last quick thought. >> that also in the end may not get us, harris, to a definitive conclusion or evidence-based conclusion but we'll still be able to with our eyes know and understand reality. >> harris: curious for the truth. will cain, great to see you. thank you. stunning new video you will only see on fox. smugglers ferrying boat loads of people into the united states defying our overwhelmed

border patrol. the president biden about to put our borders at greater risk for the coronavirus by undoing a rule?

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unless you come down from your ivory tower and actually go and see the border. >> harris: we're live on the border in texas. bill. >> good morning. the people who are profiting the most and benefiting the most from this ongoing crisis are all those human smugglers out there. we got to see that play out this weekend with remarkable video. we want to show it to you now. we went on a ride along with a texas state trooper bringing us to roma, texas. we got to witness for an hour or so human smugglers running a ferry service for migrants rafting them across the rio grande starting in mexico and bringing them to the american side. they did it over and over in front of border patrol and national guard and state traoerps. these smugglers were brazen and confident. they had no fear of being caught.

they were laughing, making jokes. at one point they took their head coverings off so we could see their faces. they didn't care. they were dropping them off at our doorstep. look at this video this is border patrol buses can't get down to the edge of the river so they had to lead the group up a hill to a processing area later processed with other migrants who came across the river. this happening every night in roma. we asked a state trooper why aren't you able to grab one of the smugglers when they come to the american side. he said it would put the migrant's lives in jep or dee. they're so ruthless they would take it out on the families. >> the challenge is when they bring children and families, this happened before where the smugglers they get bold and when they start fearing law enforcement and think they will engagement they start pushing families and children off the rafts and it becomes a rescue

operation. >> what you are looking at now is video from here in texas this morning like clockwork. more migrants apprehended two football fields away from where we're standing. i asked the lieutenant how frustrating is it to watch the smugglers coming here and laughing and you can't do anything about it. it is incredibly frustrating. they will put a stop to it. they are developing a plan and he says they will try to snatch one to do it safely and a way that makes sense from a tactical perspective. >> harris: you want to see heroes on the job? look at what they are up against and the crisp decision making they're making the save lives. that's an incredible part of the story that i'm so glad we're telling. thank you, bill. nearly 90 days after the president put the vice president in charge of handling the border crisis kamala harris has still yet to go. dozens of house republicans

have written the president demanding the removal of kamala harris from that role and democratic texas congressman henry cuellar who told "the faulkner focus" last week he asked the vice president to visit. says he is still trying and still waiting. >> i have not heard from her office. i have talked to the white house. my white house contact but i have not heard from her and again we're ready to help her in any way. this is not our first rodeo. we saw this 2014 under president obama, 2019 under president trump. there are people just coming in. if we don't take those incentives away they will keep coming. that's plain and simple. >> harris: respect to representative cuellar. this isn't like it was in 2014. it hasn't looked like this in more than 20 years. the arizona attorney general. great to have you on the program. i want to get your reaction to what we're learning and finally hearing words that we never wanted to hear and never

thought we would. they're done and overwemd, the border agents. >> it is so disappointing, harris. because these folks are trying to protect us, trying to protect the entire country and if you talk to them they will tell you that not only do they feel overwhelmed but demoralized. they will be punished for doing their job and told to ignore the law and let people go. law enforcement officials. one of our lawsuits we deposed the interim director of ice in phoenix. it is a danger to our community and worried about the impact it will have when you don't deport people who are felons or people being incentivized to come over here. a threat to all our communities and demoralizing to all of this. >> harris: i want to remind everybody about the lawsuits. i hear you say you are suing. catch us up on how that's unfolding. >> in our lawsuit sued the

biden administration for pause on deimportant paitiontations which now has become permanent we're waiting for a federal judge's decision. she was hard on the questioning. she recognized there are people in state and federal custody being released in our communities and the biden administration had no answer why they are doing that. that is a threat and danger to our community. we're waiting for that decision and two new lawsuits going on. one regarding the public charge rule and couple other a.g.s petitioned the supreme court to protect that rule the trump administrations to stop allowing benefits that are costing the american taxpayers and incentivizing illegal border crossings and the last one is environmental crisis being created by all the people crossing the border. >> harris: i want to tell everybody there is another thing that's happening. axios is reporting that president biden will end a trump era rule to mandate

sending family units back to mexico. i want you to talk about it now. the attorney general brnovich of arizona now, what is this rule? how will it change when it goes away? how will we feel this? >> title 42 is a federal statute. what has happened during the trump administration they tried to limit the people coming across the border where they could do these expedited removals based on the fact they could be a public health threat to people in the country. we have seen this last year with covid that we were told as americans that we can't gather, we have to social distance, we can't go to workplaces and yet the biden administration now has these detention centers. 1200 room hotel in arizona where people are cramped together and being released into our community. there is this potential threat to the public health and safety and the administration has some discretion. what i think we've seen is the old pottery barn rule. if you break it, you buy it.

i would submit to all your viewers the biden administration is breaking and destroying it and it is up to them to fix it and by them creating all these incentives or making it harder for ice to do its job encouraging more people to come here. system is being overwhelmed and cartels are taking advantage of the situation. >> harris: from our reporter, no fear of being caught as the smugglers come in and carrying all of these illegals and our guys are protecting the families from the smugglers. thank you for explaining what's about to change. a mayor and the media accused of jumping the gun on the facts and using a deadly pride parade accident as a political weapon. the power panel next. ♪♪

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together a picture is emerging of an accident which a truck careened out of control. the driver of that pickup truck was a 78-year-old man, volunteer at the parade and member of the fort lauderdale gay men's chorus. no sign of any impairment and no arrests were made. harris, back to you. >> harris: important facts always. let's get into it. power panel now. mercedes schlapp and former advisor to president trump. richard goodstein former advisor to bill and hillary clinton. remember the man driving who was called a terrorist and volunteering at the event. >> first of all condolences to the families who lost loved ones in that horrible tragedy but it is really irresponsible of the mayor to make these

comments. it was a knee jerk reaction. not sure why he would have not coordinated with the police department to give the facts. when we elect our leaders we want to make sure that we are given this information. when you say a terrorist attack that's a major, major accusation and you better have those facts right. i understand they might be sensitive when it comes to what happened with the post nightclub that we just recognized the anniversary of many who lost their lives there, but at the same time this mayor really did a disservice to the people of fort lauderdale. >> harris: you know, richard, people make mistakes but he said these specific words that mayor. international terrorism attack without knowing anything that was going on. is there room now for the democrat party in florida, for anybody in your party to say something to this mayor? he needs to apologize perhaps.

what is your take? >> he did walk it back as your own correspondent noted. you can't totally blame the mayor's initial reaction. we saw what happened in charlottesville and we all saw the dozens of incidents of protestors getting mowed into after george floyd and we saw senator desantis sign a bill to give immunity for drivers driving into protestors in the street and maybe the mayor knew democrats in congress were trying to pass the equality act and they are being blocked by their friends across the aisle. if we talk about apologies and facts, i'm waiting for proponents -- this mayor walked it back unlike every supporter of donald trump who insists the election was stolen and january 6th there was hugging and

digging. >> it always goes back to donald trump with you, richard. >> harris: i'm curious, what do you think about richard connecting this in all the ways he did to technically hate crimes. that's what i hear you saying without knowing the facts. >> look, i think obviously there is a sensitivity here within the united states with any of the hate crimes that have occurred in the different states but we have to remember that part of the responsibility of our leaders is to insure that we get the facts before jumping to conclusions. and so i think for this mayor in particular he should apologize and say i didn't get it right. i should have gone out with the sheriff and explained the situation. because when you talk about terrorism it creates an enormous amount of fear for anyone in the area because they are like what's going on here? do we have terrorists in our community? so i think there is a sense of

the need for these leaders to be responsible when it comes to insuring that they get their facts straight before making these comments. >> harris: look, when you say international terrorism attack, too, i'm just hoping that what this mayor wasn't intending to do was layer in all the wokeness he possibly could. are we talking about attacks on the lgbt or is he trying to invoke race into the conversation, culture, ethnicity, international, where are they coming from? he was going everywhere and vocal gymnastics with that. richard, you say he has walked it back. nothing does the job like a true apology when you make such a high-level mistake. politically are we in a place where that doesn't exist anymore? >> yes, of course he should apologize for calling it a terrorist attack. as your reporter noted he did say it was not. i'm waiting for everybody who is so huffy about this instance

to say it's shameful of donald trump call it what you will to say the election was stolen. that is a threat to democracy more than any accusation about -- >> harris: mercedes, respond. >> it is so typical of richard. this is the most typical expected type of interview with you, richard. every time it is always about donald trump. we are talking about an incident that happened down in florida regarding a terrorist attack that has nothing to do with donald trump. your obsession and syndrome continues along with your fellow democrats who can't get over donald trump. >> harris: thank you for watching. "outnumbered" is after the commercial. mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value.

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