have you seen these rock climbers? it's a great sport. you have to tune in. check it out. >> bill: what was the favorite part of your week in the half being away from -- >> dana: i certainly missed everybody but jasper, peter gets to be with jasper. it was great to have a week after but great to be back. >> harris: mask mandates are on the verge of going right back to where we were. critics say confusion is coming from the white house, though. i'm harris "the faulkner focus" and you are in "the faulkner focus". white house chief medical advisor anthony fauci says it's time for everybody to mask up indoors. some cities are making it mandatory. >> do you think masks should be brought back for vaccinated americans? >> this is under active consideration. you are in a situation where we

have a lot of dynamics of infection so even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a max. >> harris: here is an example starting today. the nation's eighth largest city, st. louis, missouri, is following the lead of los angeles requiring masks for everyone over the age of 5 in indoor public places, even if you are older and been vaccinated. city leaders have a fight on their hands. missouri's attorney general announced he is going to sue over that mask mandate. >> they are doing this under the guise of public safety. it is about control and people have had enough. this is anti-science if you ask me. it will discourage people to be vaccinated and have the opposite effect because to have this sort of mask mandate for people who have already been vaccinated and kids when the science tells me this is not an issue is ridiculous. >> harris: several cities are

requiring masks in schools including the nation's three largest school districts. seven new jersey students have signed onto a lawsuit looking to block any possible mask mandates in their school systems. alex hogan is live in west orange, new jersey. >> hi, unlike other mask lawsuits that center around the freedom of religion, this one centers around freedom of speech and expression. 20 parents and students have come together saying that this mask mandate for schools is limiting the distance, putting them between children and infringing on children's rights to communicate and interact. children make up 14% of all cases to date. this lawyer says his clients have a very strong case.

>> can sit on one side of a basketball stadium packed together and yet 20 students have to be masked. the state can't justify this and i think we'll win. >> los angeles was the first county was to require mask mandates. other schools will require face coverings in class this fall. class action lawsuit named new jersey governor phil murphy, head of the state department of education and the state commissioner of the department of health and it's aiming to prevent a similar mandate here in new jersey. families involved say they fear long-term psychological and social development effects on kids. one mom says mask wearing caused her son to regress during the pandemic. >> he basically missed his junior year. he is very active in school, very sociable in school. he was involved in drama.

he ran for class president and with his asperger's he needs to see people's faces to read social cues and to communicate. >> so far this group has raised more than $47,000. we did reach out to state officials and they say they will not comment pending litigation. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. i want to bring in dr. marc siegel. fox news contributor and professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center. always good to get your expertise. my good friend, trey gowdy, talking about another topic but we lean in on this one. if you want to persuade someone, start making sense. what is up with all of the confusion over the mask? >> that's a very good way to start, harris. the confusion is that they are making it all like one way or the other and that's what is confusing people. here is the science.

it is a diversion airy tactic. masks are of limited value. if you wore an n-95 mask tested for leaks the way i do it would protect you but the surgical mask or cloth mask that isn't fit properly is extremely limited help. then you are asking a vaccinated person to take it when you just finished telling them that the vaccine protects them. we love the vaccine, harris. it does protect you. the chances of you being hospitalized with covid-19 after getting that vaccine is probably less than 2%. it is a really powerful at decreasing severe disease and decreasing rate of spread. if you're vaccinated it is unlikely the mask would add anything. they're trying to say we don't know if you are vaccinated or not so we can't tell you not to wear a mask, we must tell you to wear a mask because you

could not be vaccinated and we can't prove it. that's what it is about. they aren't messaging it properly. unvaccinated people should wear masks. >> the president stepped in it on that message, too. he accused we parents of lying when directly asked whether our 12 and older kids have been vaccinated. just assume, i guess, and go forward. you could just ask us and we do tell the truth. i mean, i'm not so sure how we got to this point. but look, here is another element to put in all of this that really has people worried. when we see surgeons wearing masks they're getting tested for leaks and making sure both sides of the masks are safe. the person on the surgery table who is getting operated on and the doctor behind the mask. we aren't doing that in the wider public. isn't it meant to protect when you cough somebody else more than it is when they cough you being protected? >> that's a great point, too. it's exactly why it is those

that aren't vaccinated that i think should be wearing masks indoors. that's exactly why. if you are vaccinated and coughing you aren't coughing covid-19, extremely unlikely. regarding schools, i want to add another point. people that are vaccinated in schools of course there is no really added value to masks, very little. a big downside as alex reported. what about teachers? 100% of teachers aren't vaccinated yet. we initially said we were worried about spread within schools because we didn't want to get teachers sick. teachers can get vaccinated. >> harris: they ran into teachers unions making the lists longer how they would get back this fall. some things came off the list and other things came on like money. i'll move to this. the white house is facing growing questions about its strategy to convince skeptical americans to get vaccinated. they should talk to dr. siegel. chief of staff ron klain

tweeted this. vaccinations are picking back up. about 790,000 in the past 24 hours per cdc report might be the biggest 24-hour period since early july. thanks to everyone involved. dr. anthony fauci says the unvaccinated are causing america to go in the wrong direction. let's watch. >> it's like we have two kinds of america. we have the very vulnerable unvaccinated part and we have the really relatively protected vaccinated part. so if you are vaccinated, you are really in a very different category than someone who is not vaccinated. >> harris: before i get to the next thing i want you to give me your thought line thoughts on what you've just heard. >> i think he is not taking into account the emotions and fear of the situation. it is not about scolding people. it is about asks asking them why you aren't taking the vaccine. someone that i think should have it. this person -- is a healthcare

worker that seen everybody getting sick with covid found out someone in her family had a side effect from the vaccine. that's what is in her head. we have to find out why people are nervous and reluctant. 80% of those not vaccinated say they won't get vaccinated. a lot of them if they have a conversation, harris, could probably be brought around. >> harris: people are too busy hitting each over the head with a club do what i do. former trump white house press secretary sarah sanders is running for governor of arkansas. dr. fauci and the because science says so crowd of arrogant condescending politicians and bureaucrats were wrong about more than their mandates and shutdowns that have inflicted harm. no one did more to undercut public confident in the vaccine than joe biden and kamala harris. dr. siegel. >> even now that's true. even now that's true. the other night on the town

hall at cnn i was waiting for president biden to finally thank the previous administration. this technology has been in place for a long time. in nine months they put together a team of public, private, army, unbelievable that they got this out there and nobody is saying hey, hundreds of millions of doses have been given safely. so of course you just praise the previous administration and more people will come across the aisle and it will be more nonpartisan. >> harris: i call it intestinal fortitude if my house. stiffen your back and admit when you're wrong. as it looks like the covid lab leak theory may be a fact dr. fauci is defending giving $600,000 in taxpayer money to the wuhan lab in 2014. >> if you go back to when this research really started and lookty scientific rationale for it, it was a peer-reviewed

proposal that was peer-reviewed and given a very high rating for the importance of why it should be done. it was almost as if you didn't pursue that research you would be negligent. >> harris: dr. siegel. >> let me tell you what the problem with this is. we have a covid investigation unit looking into origins of the virus. dr. fauci told me on the radio they were frightened by sars in 2003 and had to do a deep dive and wanted china involved. he was naive about what involving china means. it means the chinese communist party. three possibilities here. one a bioengineered virus which dr. collins said he definitely has ruled out. but this virus could have been played with in a lab, too. it could have been in humanized mice and leaked out of the lab which it is looking for like that. china is refusing to cooperate. it is making dr. fauci look very naive when he said we needed to go after sars. it would be irresponsible. it is irresponsible to work

with scientists when you don't know who is bossing them around. >> harris: the awkward part of this we learn more about dr. fauci than we are about the origins of covid-19. his naivety, we don't care about it. how it started and how we've been damaged by what china was allowing to happen in their own country is what we care about. dr. siegel. you said before words today about the vaccine today. let's talk and listen to each other. that's huge. >> thank you so much. harris. >> harris: a mob of teenagers beating an off duty new york city firefighter. the latest brazen attack stoking fear in cities across america. what will it take to clean up the streets? and there is this. >> cori bush represents st. louis, misin congress. she wants to defind your police not her police. >> harris: he is so right about

that. the height of hypocrisy is what critics are saying about liberal representative cori bush and big city mayors who call for defunding the police while spending a lot of taxpayer dollars on their own private security detail. jason rantz is in focus.

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>> harris: i like to give you a minute to get any children near the tv away from the screen. we're about to play a couple disturbing videos if you're up close. new york city's crime epidemic has taken a savage turn. backing away from the scene but

the scene just came after him. a mob of teenagers went after an off-duty firefighter on friday night in queens. the victim told the "new york post," quote, there were at least 100 kids, one kid took his shirt off and said it's fight night. they were all over him, that firefighter. police are searching for the suspect in a brutal saturday morning robbery in brooklyn. the attacker repeatedly punching a 68-year-old man in broad daylight slamming him to the ground. i don't know -- then he stomps on him, turns him over by his belt loop to go through his pockets. so far this year shootings in the big apple are up by 22% from last year. only seven months in. the number of victims of violent crime is up by 16% which means they're hitting targets. bryan llenas is live for us now.

>> that video you just played released by the nypd shows a 68-year-old man being assaulted on the sidewalk on saturday morning in brooklyn, new york. the suspect was riding on a bicycle when he stopped to rob the elderly man, punching him about a dozen times and kicking him in the face. the victim falls to the ground, body goes limp. the chief checks his pockets and steals the man's cell phone and silver necklace. the 68-year-old man suffered a broken wrist, a broken nose and lacerations throughout his body. the suspect is still at large and the nypd is asking for the public's help. the detectives endowment association, a new york city police union tweeted this. these are new york city's street. it is sent back to the days of high crime due to failed laws that allow no consequences and embolden criminals. politicians in albany and city hall need to step up to fix

their mistakes and keep new yorkers safe. as for that firefighter who was attacked by teenagers in queens on friday night, police have released images of three young men wanted for the attack on the 44-year-old off duty firefighter. he was punched and hit in a head with a glass bottle by the teens who said it was fight night as they approached him. the firefighter was saved from further attack by a nearby ambulance. the expected next mayor of new york city, harris, democratic mayoral nominee adams says there is a sense we have a city where any and everything goes. he says the city's judges are too reluctant to set bail allowing many violent criminals to be released. >> harris: thank you very much. as dire as it is in new york city, chicago is not doing any better. it was yet another deadly, bloody weekend there, 52 shootings and 70 shooting victims.

12 people killed. no end in sight of the violence. jason rantz is in seattle radio talk show host. jason, society right now, whether we want to admit it or not. we're tolerating terror in our midst. we're being terrorized by criminals who feel like they are unstoppable. >> absolutely. just in the last 24 hours here in seattle we had four homicides. we are on pace to set another record. last year we hit a 26-year high homicide rate record. we'll surpass that. what is curious is the way that individuals all political decide to respond. on the one hand if it is black teenagers or black men getting shot to death, don't have a big conversation about that. then when we have the cases in new york that you just played well, when a gun isn't used we don't have a conversation about that. it is either politically advantageous for politicians to get involved or no conversation

at all. where is the biden speech that don't involve guns and democrats step up and say it is happening under our watch. we can't keep blaming trump for everything. we can't keep pretending there is a massive white supremacy threat when they aren't shooting and killing these folks in our cities. certainly what we know is not the case, cops aren't committing these crimes. yet the national narrative coming from democrats on another network police are involved in all this and police are ones responsible for the crime in our streets. it is nonsense. >> harris: while you were talking and i told everybody this is daytime and want to give people a chance to pull away. this violence is going viral in so many different places it is hard to get away from it now. the beatdowns that people are taking particularly people over the age of 65. they are getting pummeled in some areas. some of the most beautiful places to shop, visit and live

in america. we can't tolerate this. we can't. now the question is how do you extinguish it. your quick thought on that and i want to show some numbers. >> you have to make big changes in a very big way. you have to send a message this kind of shift from criminals feeling bold doesn't go away overnight. you have to be very clear that we're allowing police to do their jobs. show them doing their jobs and then on the other hand make sure we put pressure on the prosecutors and judges to do their jobs. police can do everything they can, they can make the arrests. if we aren't keeping criminals in jail and release them to music therapy and other restorative justice programs nothing will change. >> harris: how many days will it take before black lives matter, the organization, actually organizes a protest to what we saw in chicago? people of color, it doesn't matter what they look like. they aren't dying at the hands of cops, right? so i guess they don't protest

that? wow. okay. >> of course not. they aren't about saving black lives. they are about dismantling police departments. we've seen the dismantling of police departments. yesterday we have a new laws that went statewide that remajs policing and there will be more victims as a result. >> harris: reimagine. yeah. according to a new poll only 39% of people approve of how president biden is handling crime. 37% approve of how he is handling gun violence. your quick reaction to that. just to throw in we have a lot of knife violence right now. the stabbing, subway, stabbings in times square. >> the polls are interesting. you can spin them either way. i imagine democrats will spin it saying the reason why they are unhappy with crime is because it impacts people of color and police are out of control. we have to start listening to people on the ground.

hear what it is they're saying but also the people on the ground have to make sure stop voting in these people who pass these policies that are directly leading to the quality of life issues that you are all complaining about. rightly complaining but not doing enough to boot these people out of office. >> harris: congresswoman ocasio-cortez says she gets her notes from the streets. if you are listening to the streets now, they need cops. trey gowdy host of sunday night in america laid into squad member cori bush after campaign filing noted she spent $70,000 on private security. >> she wants to defund the police. let me be more precise. she wants to defund your police but not her police. she spent nearly $70,000 on her own personal security last year. cori bush tells us she is

progressive. the better word might be hypocritical. >> harris: it is not just members of congress. take a look at this. taxpayers foot the bill for costly security details protecting the mayors of big cities who have slashed their own police budgets or in denver's case started sending healthcare workers in place of cops. jason. >> of course it's also the celebrities who want to take away our guns so we can't defund ourselves but they have armed security. the hypocrisy argument is incredibly important. it is hypocritical. if it wasn't so tragic it would be almost funny and a parity. we need to focus on what trey spent time on last night talking about. it isn't about necessarily cori bush and hypocrisy, it's about the hundreds of people her district murdered, shot, assaulted. cori bush doesn't think you are

worth protection. and that's the problem. >> harris: some of their cases their black lives matter for certain. just looking for that organization just to respond where black people and others are dying any time they have time. jason rantz, thank you very much. and when you've lost cnn hunter biden getting flak from all sides now over the optics and ethics of his art sales and business deals. when you've lost cnn, it is tough. and battle lines being drawn over january 6th. republicans have fired back at nancy pelosi, the speaker, after she rejected two gop nominees for the select committee. >> it is absolutely supposed to be bipartisan. not a word in nancy pelosi's vocabulary. it is unfortunate.

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president harris are delivering remarks from the rose garden marking the passage of the american disabilities act. biden co-sponsored the bill signed into law president h.w. butch. the house committee on the january 6 riot is set to hold its first hearing tomorrow. gop lawmakers are going after speaker nancy pelosi for rejecting two of the house minority leader kevin mccarthy's nominees for the panel. one republican aide said this. speaker pelosi's decision to remove republicans from the january 6th committee just took things to an entirely new level. when republicans take back the house, expect endless retaliation. end quote. one of the congressmen pelosi rejected, jim banks, was on "fox news sunday".

>> why does nancy pelosi not want to hear the other side? why does she not want to answer the tough questions that jim jordan and i were prepared to ask and demand answers to? it is clear that pelosi only wants members on this committee who will stick to her talking points and her narrative and why she picked the group she has already picked. anyone she asked to be on this committee from this point moving forward will be stuck to her narrative to her point of view. >> harris: but speaker pelosi is defending her decision. >> i do believe that the work of this committee, in order to retain the confidence of the american people, must act in a way that has no partisanship, is all about patriotism, and i'm very proud of members of the committee and i'm certain that they will accomplish that goal. we have to again ignore the antics of those who do not want to find the truth.

>> harris: tammy bruce is president of the independent women's voice and a fox news contributor. tammy, always great to see you. is it antics of one political side to say look, you know, we would like more people who have a diverse way of thinking to all of the rest. by the way, she is allowing two republicans. she likes adam kinzinger and likes liz cheney. >> yeah, you know, this is the difference between a legitimate investigation where you are actually looking for facts of the matter, and a press conference going for days and days and days. forget about bipartisanship. it is not a matter of what party you belong to. she has assigned people who already have decided what happened on january 6th. whether it's liz cheney or kinzinger who have a history clearly of aggressively going after president trump, former president trump. and having an opinion about the nature of what happened on january 6th. those opinions have been formed.

this is not about fact finding. this is the democrat anti-donald trump campaign being paid for by tax dollars manifesting as a fraudulent investigation and of course, harris, this continues to effect the legitimacy of government as a whole, whether or not american people can trust what congress is doing, and this puts another stake in that heart. and if you want antics, i think it's pretty clear that this is part of that. >> harris: republican senator pat toomey went after democrats saying they're keeping the investigations into january 6th at the forefront for political purposes. >> it is politically to the advantage of democrats to try to keep this issue in the forefront. james carville has been very candid about this. he urged the democrats don't let the election be about joe biden and his policies in 2022. make that election about january 6th and donald trump. it is very clear that democrats

have an incentive to try to drive a political message here. and a purely partisan commission in the house is probably going to do that. >> harris: it would seem that horse is already out of the barn, right? we have had people from "politico" and other media outlets even say this doesn't look anything other than being partisan, why is that madam speaker? >> yes, all of this, of course, has not affected the american people and their view of the biden administration. his numbers are collapsing on things that were supposed to be his bolstering issues, like the economy, and healthcare. certainly it's underwater regarding crime. americans live every day with the debacle of the biden administration. this theater is kabuki theater. it shows you that this commitment to withholding up the fraud of the federal government is on both sides of the aisle.

you have republicans who are willing to do it. democrats willing to do it. i think it will reinforce to the american people the importance of new faces, individuals who think of this country first before their cocktail parties and their power and money. >> harris: and opportunity perhaps for one side or the other to engage this electorate that definitely wanted to vote last fall. you mentioned theaters. i love the arts, let's go there. the gop is calling for an investigation into hunter biden's business dealings. federal agencies refuse to turn over documents. he has an art thing on the side. senator ron johnson is calling out the feds. >> these agencies are covering for the bidens. they've always been covering for them even though they ended secret service protection. they provided it as well. but off the books. who knows what is happening? these agencies are not being

transparent. it is a huge problem. the administration is blowing off congress. >> harris: for those reports that hunter biden's artwork could sell to anonymous buyers for a half million dollars, even a cnn panel has a hard time with that one. >> i find it hard to believe that there is any such thing as a blind sale when you are purchasing art from the president's son. obviously this is a problem. an ethical problem. one of optics but a practical perspective. >> it is a huge optics and ethics problems. they try to come up with an arrangement to make it look better. >> harris: i don't care about the optics. the ethics. this president said he woun do this. there wouldn't be a situation where hunter would have questionable dealings with other countries or what not. what do you say about this? >> well, i think it's much easier to get all of this money

from people who want to have influence with your father's administration, easier than sitting on a board of place like burisma when you have no energy experience and you have absolutely no art experience either. one critic noted that buying hunter biden's artwork is like buying something someone has been painting in a cafe. you only buy it if you're family or friend. they've always gotten away with it. cnn will mention it one day and then it will go because it's so obviously corrupt. it is so obviously meant to curry favor and to support the president's son. we're in -- the only thing missing here, harris, is the acknowledgement that we're living in the twilight zone. rod sterling will have to come

around the corner and auction off the artwork for night gallery. this has become -- it's not just patronizing and insulting, it is a farce at this point. we have to recognize this and someone has to step up at the d.o.j. or one of these watchdog groups like crew who seems to like to go after everyone. where are you? where are these people? >> harris: tammy bruce, always great to see you. thank you. let me brag on you a little bit. be sure to tune into fox news prime time. tammy will be hosting that spot this week. 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. pop your corn, your night is made. they may have caused a covid outbreak. they have been accused of dereliction of duty and now one of those runaway texas democrats is taking some heat for what he just said about his state. possible warning signs for the

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>> harris: possible warning signs for the biden white house at the six-month mark into his presidency. the president's job performance has taken a hit in the latest gallup poll. dropping six points to a new low of 50%. meanwhile a new abc news poll finds 45% of people say they feel optimistic about the direction of the country over the next 12 months. that is a sharp decline of 19 points from may. republican congressman devin nunes says the president's allies in the media can no longer cover for him. >> it's getting bad when the propaganda machine that the democratic socialists control in the country, they control 95% of the media and you take the big tech oligarchs that control and censor what we receive via social media.

when that poison gets to the average independent america, the propaganda. you know it's bad when they can't find a 15 or 30 second sound bite out of a full hour town hall they can plug into their own propaganda machine. >> harris: power panel. matt schlapp chairman of the american conservative union and wendy from johns hopkins university. what is happening for president biden, matt? >> president obama before him really hovered in the high 40s for most of his presidency. joe biden has had a pretty good lift when this idea that he was bringing a sanity back to washington, d.c. here is the problem for joe biden. the issues that he is associated with are toxic. the open border, the increase in crime, the woke corporations, his failure to call out radical groups like black lives matter. the fact that the american working people out there are

really fraught with the idea their wages are no longer increasing and a lot of companies are having trouble getting back to work. the big problem for joe biden. the backbone of his high approvals have been his handling of chinese coronavirus and delta variant. if we are back to lockdowns and mask mandates. the news is full of these reports. this is the central backbone of joe biden's popularity. if the american people start to think see not doing such a good job with covid, things could go down south for him quickly. >> harris: all right. i want to get to this with you, wendy. a "new york post" op-ed argues that president biden has abandoned his promise to heal the nation repeated in his inaugural speech. biden has pursued radical policies and a race-driven agenda by definition that are

divisive. he is reversing nearly every policy of his predecessor at home and abroad even when they were successful. >> president biden came into this under the global pandemic. there are external issues he is facing. when we look at poll numbers even though down 6% it is higher than his predecessor. trump's numbers were 49% and averaged 41%. biden is considerably doing well. we have to make sure we look at this not in the silo and understanding that the world is going through a pandemic. understanding people are looking for jobs and people are still facing issues when it comes to racial inequality and then the bubbling up of the black lives matter movement that everyone is aware of. all of these things are impacting joe biden. it is not his work alone but what's going on in the world. >> harris: answer me just one

question. why not give credit to operation warp speed and the vaccine? why not sell the vaccine better by simply saying one administration got this done, i am going to run the administration that will make sure that people get what they need? why not give credit where credit is due? why does that take away from the good that somebody could do? >> i don't think it necessarily takes away but i do think we have to look at -- >> harris: you don't think it matters to the people for whom it has become so political to see one side take the high road? i realize it is the road less traveled and hardly has any traffic on it but it might help. let me move to this. one of the runaway texas democrats is smearing governor greg abbott and state law enforcement on the threat to be arrested on his return. he warned his son not to drive because of retaliation by state troopers and then he said this.

>> put out a call and you said he was going to round us up and corral us up and bring us back. we've watched all across this country when there is a leader that does something like this, that there are people in their party that will take this and run with it. >> harris: governor abbott said the rogue democrats are wasting their time in washington, d.c. >> they will have gone up there for their mission and done nothing while all at the same time spending texas taxpayer money to pay for the special session to pay for their salaries and pay for the salaries of their staff, etc. but also at the same time the democrats who did remain in the state of texas were able to work on a bill in the texas senate that did accommodate some of the requests by the democrats. >> harris: lightning round. quick answers. wendy, do you think the messaging has gone sideways for these texas democrats? >> i think the messaging from

republicans when you use such terms as round people up and corral them up is divisive rhetoric. >> harris: arrest them that's what they will be doing. that is exactly. then they are going to take them to the state house to get their jobs done. back to my question. what happened to the message of the democrats? we aren't talking about the election laws now, we are just talking about them. >> the terminology used is something that is divisive and inflammatory. you can't say you are rounding people up and corraling people up. if you we look at the jim crow language that same language is being used. >> no, no, no, please. this is not jim crow. this is 50 some odd elected democrats who got elected and have their full civil rights thanks to the republican party and the civil rights amendments in the constitution. they simply don't want to do their job on an issue, voter

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