good place right now and making progress. i can't stay here too long because i have to deal with step-by-step with this but i am only envisioning taking it up and winning it. >> madam speaker. you have a senate problem on your hands. joe manchin said last night the reconciliation bill is the definition of fiscal insanity and vengeful taxes. does that sound like someone open to further negotiation? how do you get some in pre-conference. how do you move forward with that on the other side of the democratic party? >> we're talking about build back better. we aren't talking about dollars. we are talking about what is important in the legislation. where can we find our common ground? if i paid attention to everybody's public statements oh my goodness. maybe some you inadvertently make that aren't quite on point.

he said some other things after that that said i'm for reconciliation and did you see the further. >> did he say something privately to you or the president with the hope that it can move forward? >> i don't think i will talk to you by my conversations with jo manchin in here if you promise not to tell anyone. >> did you have a conversation? >> i think that joe manchin is a great member of the senate. we're friends and fellow americans and we get along. catholic, we have shared values. i have enormous respect for him and one of the joys of my service in congress was to work with him to make sure we had the health pension benefits for our mine workers. not that i think clean coal is anything but -- you know, well, nonetheless about that but i do believe in the workers, their needs and the rest and we did that at the end of last year working together. so we have our common ground.

>> just to clarify your intentions on the vote today. are you planning on delaying the vote if you do not have enough votes to pass this on the floor? >> [inaudible] it is not a fork in the word. it is a path that we're on and right now as i've said the great morning, lots of conversations as we come to the end. let me tell you about negotiating. at the end is when you really have to weigh in. you cannot tire. you cannot concede. this is the fun part. >> is that a problem negotiating the september 27th date? was that a mistake? >> it's important to note that in the reason we could agree to that because in the bill is all

of the realization for highway programs and the rest of that. our best interest is served by passing this bill today. okay. >> so when you -- so when you talk about these concerns and i know you were asking about senator sanders said it will blow up the bill on the floor. the progressives say they have 50 votes. what do you say to those left in the caucus on your moderates to get them together with things going the way they want? >> we are on a path to have something that i can say to my colleagues with integrity and certainty is a path we're on and in terms of timing and the

rest i wish we had more time. over 95% of my caucus supports the 3.5. a week half ago it was all systems go. the president, the leader in the senate. we're having to compress a lot of our discussion here. but i can't say anything to them until i have -- we have an agreement. when i say i, i mean the president, the senate, we have to have an agreement together. i think that the path we're on is leading to that agreement. >> will that happen before the end of the day? >> that's the plan. that's the plan. >> follow up on a question. are you committed to having a vote on infrastructure today regardless of whether you have the votes or not? >> i intend -- we're on a path to win the vote. i don't want to consider any options other than that. that's just the way it is and that's our culture. if you don't understand that

culture you don't understand it. we go in it to win it. >> yesterday you told us the democratic caucus is not a rubber stamp party but you guys have such a narrow majority, eight seat majority now and only able to lose four votes on the floor. you will pass the two biggest spending bills of this congress possibly. have you bit off more than you can chew at this point and confident you can get it across the finish line? >> do you think when we came in with the majority that we have -- we have to remember we had more but we had marsha fudge as the secretary of hud. we're waiting for her replacement to come in in another four weeks. we had hasteing, who passed away and waiting for that replacement. when i infer from what you say we should just have done nothing because we had a slim majority.

that's not who we are. >> that's not my question. >> if you think because you have a slim majority, no. >> [inaudible question] >> it will be a compromise. let's recall our president. president biden has put forth. he put forth the rescue package. for us it was a great victory because it had the essence of the heroes act we tried to get through with the president. the former president and now it's in that package with, of course, viewed with vaccination, vaccination, vaccination. it made a difference in it. now we have a couple hundred million vaccinations in people's arms. people back to work, children back to school. money in people's pockets because of that bill. state and local governments reinforced to do their job honoring our heroes who work there, the ones who provide our

healthcare, food service, or transportation. police and fire, our teachers, our teachers, our teachers. would we not do that because we only had a few votes? no. then we go to the legislation now, the bif with bipartisan support in the senate. i don't know if we'll have bipartisan support in the house. there may be a voou. i understand there is some dynamic going on on the other side. i can't speak to it. maybe we'll have some republican votes. i hope it is bipartisan as it was in the senate. and then we go to the reconciliation act which is the build back better. build back better with women, build back better and addressing what many of our members have concerns about. every time people build our people suffered in our neighborhoods. that's exactly what president biden wants to change and we

will. and now it is not too ambitious because we're meeting the needs of the american people and what that is what our agenda will be. >> you said this -- you said this is a culmination of your time in congress. culmination means the end of an experience. >> remarkable. i take some proprietary interest on that but in terms of finally seeing a time when we can think in a large way about our children, our people with disabilities, our moms. i'm a mom with five children. when i was young and raising my children people don't know this is a challenging job even one or two children. i didn't wash my face some days.

i liked it that way but the fact is that we have to -- if we're going to be really building back better we have to give women the opportunity to work in the workplace and it's about childcare, home healthcare, universal pre-k, family medical leave and like that. other countries most developed countries have that. we don't. we will. and that is each one of those is something we fought for and coming together in a way that's transformative to what we are doing on the infrastructure side of things. they go together very well. and then when we talk about the planet when i was speaker the first time, climate was my flash issue when i came in and president bush was president and we did not with him we passed the biggest energy bill in the history of our country,

the energy bill of 2007. he wanted nuclear, i wanted renewables, we had a big celebration to sign the bill and president obama used that authorities in that bill for some of his executive orders so we take it to this place now and this legislation is about job. good green jobs, preeminent in the world and green technologies. clean water for our children. issues as i said before, about national security. security globally where migrations occur because of drought and famine and national disasters. people are competing for habitat and resources and moral responsibility for our children so it has so many to that. healthcare as i said the affordable care act. i take great pride from the house democrats and senate for passing that legislation and we'll strengthen it in this

bill and part of the affordable care act was the expansion was medicaid that we'll have in this bill. it is so much. that's why i said that, yeah. perhaps i'll see you along the way. hi. see you along the way. okay? >> thank you. >> harris: it looks like the house speaker nancy pelosi is wrapping up waving and saying hello and slow to exit the room here. but not a victory lap. just an announcement that one might be coming. she is boldly saying that quote, unquote, we have a reconciliation bill so they do want to reach and get at least 3.5 trillion in cash if the president wants to do a deal with republicans and democrats at the same time. democrats want to dramatically transform our country. i'm harris faulkner and you are

in "the faulkner focus". president biden's ability to bring his own political party together is on the line. and his legacy is hanging in the balance if democrats block him on his first and maybe only shot at a bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house was supposed to vote on it today but progressives in pelosi's party in the house are threatening to sink it there if they don't get what they want. and what do they want? they want our money. 3.5 trillion dollars in spending which some have said will be more like 5.5 trillion when all said and done. moderates joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are a posed to the larger spending bill. jen psaki says appeasing all sides is not easy. >> how to get more than 50 votes to get this historic passage along the finish line. we're at a precarious and important times.

it's an episode of a tv show. i'm not in a position to look in a crystal ball. maybe the west wing. i will assess tomorrow where we stand. >> harris: i will assess right now. it is our money and our future, not a tv show. you saw speaker pelosi basically playing down the whole thing with senator manchin but then manchin became a problem for pelosi last night. he doubled down on his opposition to the massive bill by writing this. spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can't even pay for the essential social programs is the definition of fiscal insanity. i cannot and will not support trillions in spending for an all or nothing approach that ignores the brutal fiscal reality our nation faces. i want to bring in now will cain and he is weekend "fox & friends" host and fox news

contributor and our friend on "the faulkner focus". first of all, nancy pelosi being very bold in all of this. we know she was called to the white house yesterday to talk with the president. >> yeah, very bold for a bold as you i think accurately described, harris, a bold recharacterization and reframing of our relationship with our government. the only thing that you said in your open that i would slightly alter would be this. what do they want? they want our money. it is what you just said. they want our compliance. i think it's impossible to extract this 3.5 trillion dollar spending bill plus the 1.2 trillion in infrastructure from what we've experienced over the past 18 months from the pandemic, harris. the fear pump has been primed and now it is time to cash in. you have made a population very afraid and ready to turn to someone to solve all their problems. to offer them universal basic income in this case through the

form of child tax credit that's blown up. you offered up everyone a solution to the fear you peddled them for 18 months. we get a redrawn relationship with our elites and government and so what they ask for in the end really won't be our government. they'll pass on the debt to our children or to other countries around the world that will buy our securities. what they really want in the end is our compliance and our reliance on those very seem elites. >> harris: wow, very deep there from will cain. i want to get to this and get your reaction on the other side. if the president's agenda does come together in the end and all of this was performance theater it would mark a huge transformation for our country and a dramatic shift for the democratic party's priorities since the days of president clinton. watch. >> today they are ending welfare as we know it but i hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended but for what it began.

a new day that offers hope, responsibility, rewards work. >> harris: and now we'll flash forward to this moment. president biden and most democrats want to undo that massive expansion of social spending by spending even more. republican senator susan collins laying out what is at stake. she is one of them. watch. >> the expensive entitlement programs the administration is proposing would have profound implications for people's lives and for the values that are -- >> harris: it is so fascinating to hear them and hear your words still ringing in the air like a thought bubble compliance and reliance. >> yes. you know what i was thinking about when you played that bill clinton clip. indulge me for a moment. i spent the last five years in the world of sports. i have other friends as well

clay travis who contributes here at fox, jason whitlock who have played in the sand box if you will of mainstream media. another great example of this is bill maher. is he turning into a conservative? that is not what happened. they say will you've changed. what has changed is the world around me and gotten increasingly radical pulled in a further radical left direction. listen to bill clinton in the 1990s. that was the left talking about the dignity of work and reducing reliance on welfare. fast forward and now the new democratic party say we'll take care of you. turn to us. we have know for 18 months you haven't had to work. we've discouraged work and paid you not to work. let's do some more. we'll take care of you. we are your big brother. >> harris: and to what end you might ask? will cain always great to have you in "focus." thank you for handling the breaking news coming out of the

speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying she will get her way and wrangle everybody in the house to get all that money from the rest of us. thank you, will. democrats may be divided but republicans are unified in going after the president and his party over their multiple ciels east and the president's poll numbers are not helping the situation for him. we'll take a look at those in depth. and this. >> it is clear, it is obvious to all of ufs that the war in afghanistan did not end on the terms that we wanted. the war was a strategic failure. >> harris: america's top military officials answering for the disastrous afghanistan exit and by disastrous we mean deadly for our people and afghans who helped us. and they'll share what they recommended to president biden. the white house now on the defense. veteran homeowners, i have 100 great reasons why you should use your va benefit

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come back -- if it goes down today they voted it down. i voted for it. they have to go back and explain. i don't think -- i don't think we need roads fixed or internet, water, rail, transportation, we need all that in west virginia. i voted for it. if they can explain it they will use one hostage over the other. i've never done that. hold on. hold on. >> you said a number. >> hold on. >> what happened to negotiations today if bipartisan infrastructure does not pass the house or does not come up? >> it makes it more challenging. i'm rationale. the bottom line it makes it very hard. people get more dug in. they don't need to. you have a piece of legislation that has gone through the total process over here and they looked at that and it's a piece of legislation that helps america. it sends a strong signal and makes the economy healthy, full work with good paying jobs for eight years.

that's -- we haven't done anything like this. and i'm willing to talk and work on the other. i've said that in good faith. >> speaker pelosi -- >> you said you want the tax cuts or reforming the 2017 tax cuts to be basically the nuts and boements of the reconciliation and you want the social programs and all of that to be kind of negotiated out separately. >> harris: that's senator joe manchin of west virginia. you hear him there in opposition of what the house speaker nancy pelosi was just saying a few moments ago when we showed you her live that she is going to get what she wants and bring democrats together in the house. but what will happen across the chamber in the senate if they don't see what they passed as a bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in the house? it is really getting interesting. you heard what senator manchin just said. he said we need more time to look at that. let's pass infrastructure. if it doesn't pass it will be

on them. meaning those in his party who don't agree with him. this is really something that is going back and forth now and i mentioned performance theater. it is definitely theater. will the president get what he wants in the end? democrats choosing to fight with each other. republicans are unified and going on the offense now and remember, we're ticking toward the mid-terms. it is all about momentum. during a news conference gop lawmakers called out president biden's multiple ciels east. -- crises and they roasted democrats as they are trying to pass. >> crisis and crisis the democrats are in disray. >> whether it's the border and the very messy exit from afghanistan, which was a debacle by any definition, or whether it is what's happening on the floor right now.

it is constant sort of crisis. >> all that our democratic colleagues have to show as a result of their partisan choice is a parade of failures for the american people. we need to do better and we can do better. >> harris: "new york post" op-ed with the headline get the popcorn, it is wonderful to watch dem's rip each other apart. the hits keep coming for president biden. an average of the president's recent poll numbers shows now more voters disapprove than approve of the job he is doing. and these are overall numbers plus look at the topic and how under water he is. look at immigration. look at afghanistan. the white house may not think that people are focused on this but talk to a few of those folks and this is what you hear. marc thiessen, fox news contributor, former white house speech writer and "washington post" columnist in "focus" now. first of all, i call it theater

because we see this with parties all the time. both of them. right now is critical for the president. why? >> because he desperately needs a win. look at what we've seen in the last few weeks. he announces a big plan for every american to get a booster shot from covid and gets shot down by the fda advisory panel. in afghanistan his withdrawal goes bad. he launches a drone strike instead of killing terrorists kills innocent civilians and we learned we rejected the advice of our military commanders. southern borders he unleashed a crisis the worst in 20 years. a million people apprehended. hundreds of thousands released into the country. most not tested for covid. on capitol hill he can't get his own party that controls both houses of congress to pass his legislative agenda. he needs the win. it seems so self-evident pass

the bipartisan infrastructure bill. have a signing ceremony applauding as there is a bipartisan. the democrats can't seem to get a their own party wrapped around the idea it's a victory for them and they ought to pass it to give the president a win for crying out loud. >> harris: as my 14-year-old daughter says take the w when you can, right? so i don't know if -- she is smart like that. inflation is a big sticking point for senator manchin. inflation. shouldn't that be a sticking point for everybody? he is stuck on inflation and what type of impact a huge spending bill will have on this nation going forward. he says they need more time. we just had him on live saying this moments after nancy pelosi said she will get what she wants in the house, which could be i guess inclusive of tanking the infrastructure bill you just mentioned will be the

president's only bipartisan win if he gets it. >> yep. why are we having an inflation christ ills in the country which joe biden says i won't raise taxes on anybody making under $400,000? 5% increase in prices is a 5% tax increase on every american who buys anything in this country. inflation is a tax increase on every american. why is inflation going out of control right now? because the supply side of the economy cannot compete with the demand side of the economy because the democrats keep piling money out of helicopters and throwing it at the american people and they are spending because we've been locked up because of covid and are really eager to live our lives again. but the demand -- the supply side of the economy can't keep up. they can't find workers to do things because they pay people not to work. their solution is let's throw 3.5 trillion more out of the

helicopters into the country and get more people so we can really heat up the demand side and the supply side can't keep up even more. it is a guaranteed tax increase on every single american. >> harris: i've often wondered why democrats don't see it this way. look, democrats and republicans spent a lot of our money on the hill. let's not get it twisted. i wonder if they want to throw money at the people, your metaphor why not let people keep more of their own money? why do they get to decide which purse they'll put it in? >> because they're smarter than us, harris. they're smaert than us. i am being facetious. they think they are smarter than us. >> harris: did you hear senator manchin's example of what you are talking about with inflation? because it really hits home when you think of going to the dollar store and the dollar store won't sell products that

cost $1 anymore. they'll be $1.50. he started there. that's a problem if you are a democrat in any state. i don't know which one isn't a state in which people need to conserve their funds now just to buy what they were buying with less money yesterday. >> the dollar store is the most popular store in america. every american when they see the price go up to $1.50 in the dollar store and it's no longer a dollar store it will hit home what the democrats are doing. the worst pr disaster the democratic party could have. here is the problem. all of this is intrademocratic fighting? the republicans at the pointed out are standing on the sidelinenes eating popcorn. they are creating all these crises, absolutely. now they create a crises for the debt limit. the democrats and speaker pelosi had that press

conference saying it is fiscal responsibility and paying our bills. she voted against the debt limit increase when the republicans were in power. she voted not to raise the debt limit. total hypocrisy. but they have unified control of government. they have the white house, the house of representatives, they have the united states senate. they don't need a single republican vote to pass the debt limit increase. they try to make republicans do it because they don't want the responsibility of having to say go to the american people and say we raised the national debt to ex trillion dollars in the reconciliation bill because they have to specify a specific number and they don't want republicans to wrap that around their next in the election and they can't seem to get their act together on reconciliation bill to pass it anyway. they have are creating a new crises amid all the ones they have. afghanistan, covid, southern border. do we need a fiscal crisis created? >> harris: i hope people leaned

in and in terms of what's at stake here. good to have in in folk he can. for two days in a row we heard testimony from the nation's top generals repeatedly contradicted many of president biden's claims of the war in afghanistan and the deadly way we exited from there and the death of 13 american military members. joni ernst is in focus next.

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do it is really a state department call. >> harris: you know during the hours of "the faulkner focus" this week that we saw two days running top generals testifying contradicting the president's claims on the afghanistan withdrawal debacle and the situation on the ground there now. the president in august claimed that no one advised him to maintain a troop presence in afghanistan. white house press secretary jen psaki claimed the generals were split whether to keep troops on the ground and defended the president's decision to pull out the way he did. >> there would need to be an increase in troop numbers and mean war with the taliban and it would also mean the potential loss of casualties. the president was not willing to make that decision. >> harris: to keep more people there. we have not yet heard any specifics on that so-called split among the generals and their advice. they didn't indicate that's what happened.

tuesday's senate hearing iowa's joni ernst, senator, questioned defense secretary lloyd austin on the president's order to pull out of the troops out. >> can you then say that the president directed you, secretary austin, to execute an unconditional withdrawal from afghanistan? unconditional, august 31st done. >> we certainly wanted to make sure that we shaped conditions so that our embassy could maintain a presence there and continue to engage the government of afghanistan. >> harris: let's go deeper with joni ernst from iowa and member of the armedselves efs committee in focus now. senator, what did you think about the answers that you were getting? >> well, secretary austin did try to be extremely diplomatic but as we drilled down into the answers secretary austin and

the others were giving we found out the truth, which was that yes, our military leaders did recommend a different course of action to president biden and he chose not to take the advice of his senior military leaders. secretary austin in that clip was also answering basically that we would hand off a military mission to a diplomatic mission and i pointed out to secretary austin that you can't move to a diplomatic mission when there are no diplomats on the ground. the president set no conditions for withdrawal. instead he chose a random date on the calendar and said we're pulling out on this date no ifs, ands or buts regardless to the threat against americans, civilians on the ground and siv holders that had supported us for two decades of war in afghanistan >> harris: you know, senator

ernst, i just want to stop just for a second to acknowledge this. so we've talked about your military service on this program many times and i would have to think in that seat yesterday you were thinking in that part of your experience foremost. when the generals it seemed to contradict what the president said and later find out the president said they presented me a slight argument on whether or not we should leave troops on the ground. we got numbers, 2500 to 5,000. we really saw no daylight between these generals and that's a chain of command issue. what do you make of it? >> that's what i want the american pooh emotion to understand as well. there was a unified recommendation going forward to the president. the president just chose not to do it. and again so diplomatically put by secretary austin is that the president is an elected person. he is elected by the people to make decisions. it is not what the military recommended. the president therefore can do

whatever the heck he wants to do and he made the wrong choice that put americans in jeopardy. we lost 13 souls on the 26th of august because of this president's haphazard withdrawal from the country of afghanistan. >> harris: wow, you said it. he was diplomatic when he put that fact out there but there is no changing the fact. congressman brian mast of florida went after the biden administration between the con tr dikting statements of the president. >> that's what this hearing confirmed. generals were telling the administration no, if you pull out this is what will happen. afghanistan could fall by this time. things that that the opposite were being said in public by president biden. the u.s. service members were killed as a result of not listening what was going on on the ground. an example of failure on every single front.

>> harris: you have it in the senate and house and had hearings with the generals and you are coming out of it with the same information. why does this matter? senator, i would have to think because look, the accountability that joe biden as president wants to talk about is whether or not he left afghanistan. that was never even an argument but it kept coming up and it keeps coming up with this president. >> yes, it does. this president is trying to deflect the actual issue here. the issue at hand is not whether we should or should not withdraw from afghanistan. it is that joe biden made the choice to withdraw from afghanistan but did not take any conditions into consideration whether it was military, whether it was political. what those ramifications would be to our country, the united states of america, with now an increased threat of terrorist action against us emanating from afghanistan. >> harris: we heard that today. in six months we could be

looking at a situation where our enemies, terrorists, are building back better. it's frightening but it fits. >> yes, it does fit, harris. it makes it all the more sad. we have lost so many military members, civilians overseas in afghanistan in the global war on terror and the biden administration wants to pretend that this did not happen. that this was an extraordinary success, and i beg to differ, mr. president. i think the families of the fallen beg to differ. those civilians that have engaged in afghanistan, they beg to differ. this was a debacle of the president's own making. >> harris: and when the people have the truth, they then vote accordingly. >> yes. >> harris: senator ernst of iowa, thank you for being in "focus." >> absolutely. thanks. >> harris: not fit for news? the blowback after a major

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>> harris: things just got tougher on facebook. facebook's global head of safety is facing harsh questioning in the first of two hearings about instagram's effect on teenage girl. publicly down playing the popular platform's negative impact the hearings called after a series of bombshell "wall street journal" reports including an internal report they got finding that 1 in 3 teenagers male and female said instagram made their body image issues worse and even led to

suicidal thoughts. the ensuing outrage on capitol hill is bipartisan. >> we now know that facebook routinely puts profits ahead of kids' online safety. we know it chooses growth of its products over the well-being of our children. >> they also don't want facebook collecting data on their children. call them whatever you want, tweens, teens, young adults, the bottom line is these are children. >> harris: senator blackburn has been in front of this for quite a while know. joe concha politics columnist for the highly in focus now. is this enough, what's playing out now? >> it never seems to be enough. you see these hearings, harris, and they are good for juicy sound bites from senator blackburn or hawley or cruz whenever mark zuckerberg is up there and zuckerberg makes some

meaningless concession and promises to do better and nothing seems to happen. section 240 that provides cover for them from liability remains in place. they don't get broken up. as things stand now democrats don't mess with the social media companies to help them get elected than ever super pac can dream up. facebook's defense is lame. the head of research argues the "wall street journal" report based on facebook's own findings was simply not accurate and not backed up by the facts, unquoe. even though the journal report quoted directly from a leaked internal document. and now facebook is pausing its effort to build instagram for kids. i wonder why that is? as a parent i can see speak to this. the kindergartner and second grader, you hand my kids an ipad you need the jaws of life to get it back. the change in behave qulor and

addiction is very real. >> harris: critics are going after abc news. you know this, joe. the network omitted former president obama's criticism of open borders. they were airing a portion of his intervoou. it appeared in an online transcript. abc left in his criticism of republicans. let's watch. >> unfortunately comprehensive immigration reform has gotten stuck because we can't get enough republicans to support it. >> harris: what's interesting, we can hear the segue down point of his vocal there. we knew there was something, right? that's what we do. left on the cutting room floor obama said this, at the time, we are a nation state. we have borders. the idea that we can just have open borders is something that is unsustainable. joe. >> yeah, president obama employed jay johnson who i met

once or twice and he was on top of this. it wasn't perfect but so different under obama bind than biden-harris. i have this at the top of my syllabus. a former boss of the current president in barack obama saying the open borders we're seeing under this president are unsustainable. i believe that's newsworthy. if it aired in the interview on abc television it would draw attention to the back to the christs. abc servings at the pleasure of this administration. >> harris: we caught it. >> "the new york times," "washington post" or cnn won't talk about this. >> harris: twiger warnings all the rage on campuses across the country. a harvard professor published a piece saying recent studies are

remarkably consistent and differ from conventional wisdom. they find trigger warnings do not seem to lesson negative reactions with students or those diagnosed with ptsd. it could make the material even more disturbing. your take. >> amazing. it seems like we are making our young adults and kids scared of everything, even relatively benign words, right? you see the story and phrases such as killing it or taking a stab at it should be avoided because they invoke violence? what? we're only making our kids weaker. i am narrowing my search are there normal colleges i can send my kids to? it seems to get more insane. now it seems every university this thought process that i can't identify with. many parents can't, either. >> harris: if you're trying to raise a family over taxing.

taking too much of our tax money no matter what level you are. can we all have a bigger discussion about that? maybe we should have a national town hall with the president. we'll move on. thank you for being in focus. thank you for watching. a lot of breaking news this hour. "outnumbered" after the break.

♪ ♪ >> fox news alert on a make or break day for the biden agenda. as two of his biggest legislative priorities and by just a thread. on capitol hill. social policy package and the infrastructure bill. now divisions within the president's own party are threatening to blow it all up which produced serious, serious damage to the potential legacy. this"outnumbered." i and kayleigh mcenany. i'm joined by harris faulkner and then we can pongo