attention as we go closer to 20 years removed from the events of 9/11. >> dana: he is one of america great patriots and great role model for people. how did you play? >> bill: terrible. >> dana: he will work on his swing for next year. he will be there. thanks, everybody. here is harris with "the faulkner focus". >> harris: we begin with democrats-led cities under siege as violent crime is polls in the may or's race in the primary. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". stunning violence in the big apple. at least 11 more people shot on monday. two of them killed. that caps a weekend that saw 27 people shot. the nypd is still investigating this. show it. broad daylight shooting on a city sidewalk. we first showed it to you

yesterday. the two children got caught in the crossfire and miraculously not harmed. the gunman firing on a man as the 10-year-old girl and her little 5-year-old brother were trying to escape the bullets. their dad made an emotional plea for leaders to stop all this violence that's plaguing their streets. americans seeing high crime across the country. take a look. fox news poll shows more than 7 in 10 voters say they believe it's on the rise nationally and more than half say it is higher in their own backyards. >> it is not hard to figure out why crime and lawlessness is spiking across the country. mainly in democrat-run cities. it is what happens when you demonize law enforcement and use race as a weapon to excuse bad behavior and convincing looting and lawlessness is justice. it is predictable. it won't end anytime soon. >> harris: aishah hosni is live in new york city for us.

>> i've been talking to voters all morning and one mother outside told me that she has two kids and she is terrified now to let them walk around the city alone. she says something has to change. voters will see this video before they come in to cast this ballot. the brutal stabbing of a volunteer for a eric adams mayoral campaign. it happened in the bronx in broad daylight. a look at the top tier candidates in the mayor's race and where they stand on defunding the police. it got eric andrews, yang and garcia. wiley wants to remove a billion dollars a year. could be why adams holds a strong lead in an online survey just released on monday and followed by yang and garcia. now former mayor rudy giuliani

wrote. i asked giuliani about the thousands of other republicans who switched party affiliation to democrat this year to try to sway the primary towards maybe a more moderate democrat. i asked him about it. he says it is the wrong move. he says it is because a democrat cannot save the city. listen. >> you have to be tough. you have to be tough the way reagan was and the way i was. you have to be tough the way trump was. people may not like trump but he changed things. we need somebody right now who can make this city safe. >> there could be a delay in these primary results because of rank choice voting. new yorkers are voting for the first time. their top five choices. second or third choice could still be at play. we'll get preliminary results. maybe not the official one

tonight. >> harris: thank you very much for that. another disturbing attack in chicago caught on camera. this young couple had just been celebrating a puerto rican today parade when a group ambushed them in their car after a dispute over a minor traffic accident. the husband was shot and killed almost execution style in their words. his wife critically wounded. the national vice president of the fraternal order of police and we've been talking about this for over a year. have we gotten to the point you warned us about where you wouldn't have enough police who wanted to do the job to keep us all safe? >> thank you for having me on. we absolutely reached that point. we sat down and talked about this back in 2019 and said if the anti-police sentiment continued the way it was going and rogue prosecutors and activist judges letting violent criminals out on the streets we

would see huge increases in violent crime. that's exactly what is happening on our streets right now. we've seen the murder rate in new york go up by 48%. in philadelphia 66%, in minneapolis 236%. portland 137% and you just talked about the disturbing video in chicago where that man was executed in the streets. this is happening every single day in our urban communities and it is easy for me to sit and talk about statistics but those are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters murdered in our streets and we don't have the support of our politicians in those communities. >> harris: you listed cities there and i get to portland, oregon next that were already seeing devolving situations. when you talk about the defund movement, what does it do? what's the reality of that? not the politics of it, joe, what's it like on the ground? >> i'm really going to break it down for folks. when they talk about defunding the police what you are really talking about is an increase in

violent crime for our urban communities. that's exactly what happened. you know who is impacted the most by that? statistically our black and brown communities. they are the ones being murdered in our streets and we don't have enough people wlo want to talk about it. we have mayoral candidates in new york still calling to defund the police. thinking this will be some sort of solution. they are charltons selling snake oil to the public. the american police officer, we can fix it and get violent crime under control. we need to embrace the rule of law, we need to make sure we prosecute violent crime, embrace the broken window theory. we can do it again. we need the funding and the support. >> harris: i don't know if you heard from our reporter aishah hosni but she talked with the former mayor rudy giuliani who

said if you don't get it under control in a year you'll have 30 years of what we're seeing now. you have a very short window, a tipping point that you have to avoid before you go forward. i want to get to this. portland, oregon police association had this to say following the resignation of all 50 officers in the city's elite riot response team. watch. >> we're dealing with rioting at a level and sustained violence we've never seen before. looking at violence in our city, gun violence in the city we've never seen before and the most catastrophic staffing levels and budget cuts to defundus like we've never seen before. all those things play into the morale of a police officer trying to do your job right with all these roadblocks in your way. >> harris: fop vice president. i know that half your job is listening. the other half is trying to solve the problems you hear. what are you hearing? >> you know what i'm hearing

and every single police officer on the streets now. morale has never been this bad in 16 years i've been a police officer. officers are desperate for people to come out and support them. we need people just regular folks in our community to step up and say stop giving voice to the activists that show up at city council and scream and yell. we need to touch the real people in our community they don't want violent crime and politicians hear our message loud and clear. we can fix the problems in the country with crime as law enforcement officers. you need to support us and stop calling us murderers at every turn. >> harris: you mentioned the mayoral primary going on. whiley is walking about continuing with the defund. ex cop eric adams putting word out what he wants to do that's completely opposite. and you have another ingredient, joe, to bring in a little politics here. aishah told us yesterday about

this. republicans are changing their registration to be able to vote in this primary to try to get the field down to a more moderate so they can get away from all the things that are spiking the crime, that are part of the problem. the root causes as the biden administration would like to point out. the white house speaking of which is giving us an idea what to expect when president biden addresses the rise in crime tomorrow suggesting he doesn't feel violent protests or defund the police movement are to blame. let's watch. >> the president feels a great deal of the crime we're seeing is a result of gun violence. you can expect he will speak to that. and his commitment to continuing to address gun violence and gun safety in the country. conveying to the american people who he will do now to help the rise in crime we've seen over the last year and a half. >> harris: you get into politics because you have to talk to city leaders. what would you say to the president of the united states as he is about to talk about the violent crime and remember he didn't talk about it in the

run-up to the election. he avoided that but now he can't. it is touching democrats. >> i certainly hope as part of his comments he will call out rogue prosecutors and activist judges. everybody wants the talk about new gun laws. we're not even enforcing the gun laws we have now. we allow violent gun toting gang members to shoot people and get probation or get a pr bond. if we want to talk about what's driving violent crime let's talk about the individuals who are committing these crimes. let's talk about throwing the book at them and restoring the rule of law. that's how we'll get there. not putting out new laws that nobody will enforce anyway. >> harris: obama's policing task force. she is blaming the police for the rise in crime. >> this rise in crime is not the fault of the movement.

it is actually the fault of the police. why should we keep funding institutions that keep rendering themselves in effective? it is not the fault of the movement. it is the fault of the police. this has been our point all along. we should be talking about gun control, livable wages, fair housing, education, that's where we should be moving the money to to insure truly safe streets. >> harris: i don't know if you can have a conversation about wages and education with a gang member. what would you say to her? >> i would say what she said is completely ridiculous and part of gas lighting the american public. let's tell folks don't believe your lying eyes. it is certainly not the police officers fault these crimes are out of control as we let people out over and over again. in new york city they let several hundred looters and rioters and letting them go skol free and didn't enforce the crime. what message is that sending to people? it is easy to blame the police

than come up with real solutions to problems we have in our communities. i would suggest to that individual talk to people on the streets, talk to business owners. talk to mothers and fathers who have lost their sons and daughters to violent crime and talk to me and blame the poils. we're the ones in the community and some of the only ones that care. >> harris: she could volunteer to join the force. >> come do a ride along, open invitation. >> harris: we need to do another town hall. great to have you on the program to get the first on the ground perspective. thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >> harris: thousands of fully vaccinated people in one state have still gotten covid-19. the nature of those infections may show how well the vaccines are protecting most people. we'll get into it. dr. makary is here. plus he thanked dr. fauci for dismissing the covid lab link

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>> harris: the scientist who thanked anthony fauci is now gone from a key investigation panel. you heard it right. he was supposed to be helping to look for the origins of covid-19 and while things may

have pointed to the wuhan lab he was emailing fauci for his gratitude for steering people the other way. the president of the echo health alliance co-signed a letter pushing back on the lab leak theory dismissing it as a conspiracy theory. the lan set medical journal published the letter but didn't note that his organization had secured nearly $1 million in federal grants for the wuhan lab. they tweeted this yesterday. the authors at the time declared no competing interests but that some readers have requested that claim when the lanset reached out, the doctor expanded on his disclosure statement. let me fix the paperwork. dr. marty makary from johns hopkins university. thank you for being with me today. so what does all of this mean in the big scope of things?

>> well, it shows you the group think in healthcare. there have been two political parties within science just like in politics. you have republicans and democrats. in science there are pro-and anti-gain-of-function researchers. dr. fauci was giving lectures talking about the value of gain-of-function research. those of us against are argued the risk of a lab leak was so catastrophic you should never do it. hopefully that camp is no longer viable and hopefully that group can apologize and say we got things wrong. >> harris: is that enough? we have labs in this country. we have had leaks before. this happens and i haven't heard anybody say that it was on purpose but if it happened we still need to know. >> look, this is the biggest liability case in the history of the world and families that have lost loved ones are looking for some sort of closure. i remember telling you on this very channel on this very show harris in april of last year at the beginning of the pandemic

it was an infected lab worker that was patient zero that went to the local hospital. it was very obvious was a lot of group think going the other way. >> harris: what do you mean when you say obvious? >> you go to google maps. the lab is five miles from the hospital where there were outbreaks and doctors were detained. there was gain-of-function research studies published in 2015 and 2016 crediting the nih with the grant funding number. the lack of turnover of any lab samples. it is not for a lack of trying. thousands of animals have been tested of different species it is obvious now an overwhelming circumstantial conclusion. >> harris: you said go to google maps. i caught that. the biden administration is set to announce today that it expect to fall short of its goal to have 70% of american

people, 27 and older partially vaccinated by july 4. an official said they have reached their goal to getting one shot to people 30 and older. you have to get both. we start to see a trend in certain cities where people are only getting one shot. is this more of that mixed messaging mess coming out of the white house? i don't know. >> look, i applaud the biden administration for setting a goal. where they have gotten into big trouble is ignoring natural immunity and alienateing those unvaccinated and the demonization of those not wanting to get the vaccine. we won't convince people with celebrities and politicians running tv ads. we are going to increase the vaccine roll-out making it more available at american life. that's what we need to be doing right now. >> harris: quickly to follow up on what i was asking the first and second shot. they're still important, right?

the messaging coming from the white house okay, i'm part of that 70% that only got one. that must be enough. are they doing a good enough job to make that point clear? >> i don't know. the efficacy of the first dose is 85 to 92% at four weeks. i think if people would choose to space their second dose at three months down the road as i did you get better immune protection. three times better in the study of the pfizer vaccine. i think right now what they need to be doing to be honest with you is putting a pause on the second dose in people under age 30. certain people 12 to 18 because of all these complications they're sitting on. that's a badly needed pause they should do right now. they're afraid to do because of the political band wagon to race toward higher vaccination rates. >> harris: i want to get into that further. health experts have raised alarms, the heart complications in teenagers and young adults who had the covid vaccine. the cdc postponed last friday's meeting due to the observation

of juneteenth. that meeting is set for tomorrow. there is quite a bit of time between when parents were finding out about this in some of the young adults and when they will get some answers. is that okay? >> no, it's totally unacceptable. any doctor or nurse that responds during the holiday to an emergency of their patient finds that offensive. the meeting starts tomorrow but the discussion goes until friday. it was already last friday the federal holiday nine days after they had hundreds of cases a crude. most of the people have said hold off vaccinating kids under 18 because of complications until we learn more. we did that with the j&j vaccine. a higher justty indication now. 100% effective in kids according to the new israeli studies. >> harris: dr. makary, thank you. shameful and grifty, that's what the former white house

ethics chief calls hunter biden's plan to sell his paintings for prices up to a half million dollars. >> no one has objected to proofing who you are. they must surrender their personal information and risk identity theft to receive an absentee ballot. >> a flip-flop on voter i.d. well, maybe some people would call it conversational evolution. next, why critics are roasting the "washington post" on this ahead of today's senate vote on a huge election overhaul bill. the hill's joe concha is in "the faulkner focus" straight ahead. a veteran who may have served in my time, during the vietnam era,

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a call at a shopping center. two other people died including the suspected gunman. a report coming out that a hacker tried to take over a water treatment plant which serves the san francisco bay area. now we're learning about it. it happened back in january. the attacker was able to gain access to the facility's network and alter some water treatment programs. officials discovered the breach the next day and reset their protocols. american airlines has scrapped nearly 1,000 u.s. flights for this summer. american says it's having staffing shortages and increased travel demands are making it harder to maintain operations. a former white house ethics chief is calling out hunter biden's plans to sell his paintings to anonymous buyers at prices ranging from $75,000 to a half million dollars. the former obama add trump ethics official tells fox news this. the notion of a president's son

capitalizing on that relationship by selling art at obviously inflated prices and keeping the public in the dark about who is funneling money to him has a shameful and grifty feel to it. meanwhile, even though president biden has pledged his family would have no foreign business ties, hunter reportedly still holds and ownership stake in an investment firm linked to the chinese government. jen psaki was asked about it if february. >> reports the president's son owns a stake in the chinese investment firm, do you have an update from that investment? >> he has been working to unwind his investments. i would point you to him or his lawyers on the outside. >> harris: now it's june. so the update is he still has ties and an investment in the

chinese firm? john concha is here. media and columnist for the hill. >> maybe a reporter can circle back at today's press briefing and ask the white house press secretary how the whole unwinding thing is going. because obviously it hasn't happened yet. look, it bears repeating that the white house ethics chief that has been criticizing hunter biden's art sales served in the obama administration. what first-time artist got something like $500,000 for a painting? this is another example of selling off the family name and an apathetic media just yawns. if it was a trump it would be the media apocalypse. >> harris: what needs to happen here? the reporting of this outside of fox.

maybe it's happening and i don't watch 24 hours of television on every channel but not making front page headlines. he is a first-timer and he is not picasso. maybe he is talented, i don't know. what needs to happen here. if other people won't cover this. is there enough pressure on the white house to take a look at this? >> there needs to be a constitutional amendment to allow the 11th commandment. you shall not report anything negative on hunter biden. it was set in october before the election when the "new york post" had the laptop of hunter biden and had the contents of the emails showing influence peddling. if you shared it on facebook you got your account suppressed and the story censored. now he writes a book and goes on a book tour and barely gets any criticism. you would think the other media outlets will report on this

stuff. they will not because of the 11th commandment that exists at other news organizations. >> harris: what if he were forced just to use his first name? do you think people would pay all that money for his paintings? i don't know art. i appreciate it. i'm not a curator. the "washington post" taking heat for reporting on what it calls democrats' changing stance on voter i.d. laws with this headline. stacey abrams and the democrats' evolution on voter i.d. the former georgia governor candidate voiced her support for voter i.d. last week but listen to what she said a couple of months ago. >> no one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote. it has been part of our nation's history since the inception of voting. voters wouft a driver's license or state i.d. risk identity theft just to receive an absentee ballot an the 200,000 georgia voters who don't have

i.d. it is fought free when you factor in the cost of transportation and the cost of underlying documents. >> harris: republicans flip-flop, democrats evolve. joe. >> speaking of night and day standards that we just talked about based on party affiliation. she could say her 2018 governor race was stolen. question election integrity and become the most celebrated person in the country who doesn't hold elective office and support boycotts in georgia over its new voting law before being against it to quote john kerry in this situation, after hurting small businesses, local businesses, many minority owned to the tune of $100 million after major league baseball moved its all-star game to colorado. she could be for it before being against it. it is not a cya.

it is evolving on an issue. she is growing as a person, therefore we should all embrace said evolution. she has an r next to her name embracing doesn't happen. >> harris: i imagine if some of the evolution isn't coming from the polling. 80% of americans believe that voter i.d. is a good idea. >> 80% for, only 18% against. so yeah, this isn't a matter of stacey abrams convictions and what she should believe happen when you go to a voting facility. but looking at the numbers and saying this could really hurt my next gubernatorial race or senator you don't want to be other the other side of the 80% issue. she evolved. >> harris: you don't want to be on the wrong side of history as the kids say. always great to have you, thank

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>> me made clear the driving force behind s1 is a desire to rig the rules of american elections permanently and why the senate will give this disastrous proposal no order. >> this bill really doesn't have anything to do with voting rights. this is a politically motivated, federal takeover of elections that would give us the exact opposite of what is laid out in the constitution. >> democrats don't want to talk about the details of this legislature. they don't want you to peek under the hood. they want to just slap a voting

rights bumper sticker on it. jam it through and then disparage and name call anyone who opposes it. >> harris: senate republicans getting ready to try to block democrats' massive election everyhaul bill later today. they call it a blatant power grab. democrats have long argued the i.d. is a vote of former suppression. a recent monmouth poll shows public support is overwhelmingly high with more than 80% of those surveyed in favor of requiring a photo i.d. to vote. chad pergram is live on the hill. >> the democrats' voting rights bill likely dies in the senate tonight. the plan faces a test vote and will die by the filibuster. it's because the bill lacks 60 votes. some democrats oppose the bill but the senate majority leader chuck schumer blames this on the gop.

>> republicans are now doing the dastardly act of taking away voting from millions of americans. millions of americans. making it much harder for them to vote and many, many, many will not. >> today's vote likely reveals the limits of the democratic majority and underscores how democrats may have run out the string on their agenda. republicans abhor the bill. >> it is very ruthless even by washington standards. speaker pelosi and senator schumer call it i think the for the people act. but i think it would be more aptly described as screw the people act. >> today's failed votes also amplify the discussion of altering the filibuster. democrats will use today's votes as another round of pressure for those who don't want to change the filibuster. democrats will try to energize their base to get voters to the

polls next year. >> harris: it will be really fascinating to see what democrat senators sinema and manchin do, too. we know a lot lies there. >> joe manchin is against this particular version of the bill. >> harris: he has said that. >> you can't even start debate. they won't start debate you can't amend the bill. >> harris: politics what they say and what they do you have to wait until they vote. chad pergram. good to see you. a group of parents in northern virginia is fighting for a greater say in what their children are learning in school as debate on critical race theory rages across the country. last night the parents group held a rally demanding they be part of the conversation. >> this is about a parents' movement to take back our schools. to get a seat at the table with how our schools are run. you have special interests, you have activists. that's the only groups they seem to listen to.

where as parents show up every day to try to make their voices heard and we get ignored. >> harris: kevin mccullough, crystal knight and executive of emerge tennessee. crystal and kevin, welcome to the program. crystal, tomorrow to you first. why would there be pushback having parents at the table? >> i don't think there is any pushback on parents wanting a seat at the table. the question is on critical race theory which really is not a real conversation. what we already know is that this is not an actual class, this is an academic term. this is just the republican talking point that they are using to really just decide that they don't want to talk about race in america and the ugly past and the ugly history of this country. so i find it funny we continue to have this conversation

around crt, parents saying and speaking up that they want to be heard about what their children are being taught in schools when this isn't even a subject. so to me it is a no-brainer. >> harris: crystal. kevin, i know you will speak more about this. if you listen to people who don't agree with you you might be able to meet in the middle and not have a fight going on. not everybody would agree with what you said. kevin. >> well, yes, i agree with that but i also fundamentally disagree with how crystal classified it. we are seeing a huge push to introduce the very foundations of critical race theory in history and social study classes across the country if public schools where the wokeism that has overtaken pop culture and left wing democratic party are trying to force their way into america's mainstream. what you are seeing in virginia are parents of all race and ethnicities saying this is not what we want. the most powerful voices against critical race theory right now are the middle class

black parents that are saying i don't want my kids to be indoctrinated in reverse racism which is what crt teaches. >> harris: crystal. i want to get your response to that. i am talking to parents of all cultures and ethnicity. not everybody thinks it is okay to vilify one side. i have biracial kids. i love them both and i won't pick a side. >> we need to be honest in the conversation. if school districts don't want to talk about racism they should say we don't want to talk about racism in our districts. to try to weaponize critical race theory is just false. that's a false notion. >> harris: is that what they're doing saying they don't want to talk about slavery or anything in our past? >> not by any means. >> harris: you can measure where we come. i haven't heard that. what is crystal talking about.

>> at its fundamental core crt teaches america is a racist country. in its factual actuality how it is practiced america is fundamentally an anti-racist company with pockets of racism. we still need to address it. i concur with you, harris, i don't love my haitian adopted son any less than i love my biological white kids. we had them all at the table. we have to live as one if we will be a nation of one. >> harris: at the table is what parents are wanting. let's move to this. a 9-year-old girl called out her minnesota school board for the black lives matter posters on her teacher's wall. >> i looked to the wall and saw a blm poster. i was so mad. i was told two weeks ago at this very meeting spot no

politics in school. i believed what you said. doesn't matter what color you make the posters and fonts you use. we understand the meaning. a political message getting rid of police officer, rioting, burning building downs while king governor walz sits on his thrown and watches. >> she is not incorrect what the fallout has been. i don't think black lives matter in terms of the concept has been criticized by anyone but certainly the organization deserves no place of recognition in our public schools. i just wish that teacher would follow the guidelines that the kids knew better than she did. >> harris: crystal. >> well, i respectfully disagree. blm, amanda gorman are not political entities. amanda is a single individual. a young poet of color. if the teachers wants to highlight a poster and have it

in his or her classroom they have the discretion to do it. i think the real question here we have to go to the principal of the school. we have to go through the school district and see what's allowable. >> harris: we already know that. they already said do nothing political. >> that's not political. >> harris: there is a difference between the movement and the organization as kevin pointed out. that's important to know. remember, patrice colors, having some looks at themselves at some of the premises of the organization, not the movement. i want to get this before i have to let you go. a colorado mayor suspended the pledge of allegiance at all town meetings citing apparent threats and general divisiveness in the community. attendees recited it. check out their reactions to the new rule. >> we will not be doing the pledge of allegiance during the

board of trustee meetings. >> it has been done for a long time. we as a board collectively decided it would be done. >> it's not up for discussion at this moment. i'm sorry -- i note it's out of order. we did have a policy. i won't ask everyone to leave tonight. if something like that happens again tonight we will. >> harris: not only did the mayor stop it. he wanted to kick everybody out next time. crystal. what's wrong with the pledge of allegiance? >> it is a silly fight honestly. this is i think conversations and politics really gone awry. i'm not really here to defend the pledge of allegiance or what the mayor has done. it doesn't seem like it should be in the form of a public discourse. >> some school board in randolph, new jersey thought they would get rid of all the

holidays on their calendar and you saw the same thing with the mayor in the city. americans are having enough of this and we're putting our foot down. there will come some changes in 2022 and certainly in 2024. we'll see. >> harris: you are talking about political changes. crystal i'm curious, what's going on with canceling holidays and the pledge of allegiance? is this a trend that as parents maybe that's why we need a seat at the table to figure out what's coming next. >> i think we always empower parents to speak up and have a say so in what their children have the opportunity to learn. so if a parent wants to say they want something shared or don't want, -- do not want something shared they have the right to do this. it is up to the school district and principal to decide. we can't allow students and parents to continuously dictate how we change our policies. people need to be firm in their stances on what is allowable and what's not. >> harris: do you support the

mayor in this? >> i'm not saying that. >> harris: i put it in the same category ts a national anthem. who gets to decide when we can be patriotic? >> it's real clear what crystal said was opposite of the way it is. the parents and taxpayers tell them what to do. >> harris: "the faulkner focus" appreciate your viewership. "outnumbered" after the commercial. ...

>> harris: fox news alert as rising violent crime across democrat lead cities is serious political issue now for president biden. now the white house appears to blame the trump administration for the surge. this is "outnumbered" i'm harris faulkner. emily compagno and kayleigh mcen knee in studio.