didn't you think the pick up the phone and call? it sounds absurd but these are people who have been in -- i wanted to earn it. i did want to earn it. >> bill: the burger shack looks nothing like a white castle. >> dana: the new book. here is harris. >> harris: dem on dem crime. we're watching progressives shake down the democratic establishment all the way to the white house. the president's big money agenda still is not big enough for them. the fight is on. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". who benefits? republicans. look at virginia. dems pointed fingers at trump and each other the gop stomped in the commonwealth taking the races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general.

ask moderates in congress and many will tell you that youngkin's win in virginia was the result of progressive's policies and stalling the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the house. james carville says his party is out of touch. >> stupid wokeness. don't just look at virginia and new jersey. look at long island, buffalo, minneapolis and seattle, washington defund the police lunacy, take abraham lincoln's name off schools is really has a suppressive effect across the country. the democrats, some need willing to to a woke detox center or something. >> harris: those are strong words and we'll get back in a moment. this the live on capitol hill senator rand paul and he has dr. anthony fauci again in front of him and they are going back and forth over that wuhan lab in china. let's watch. >> we are suffering one today

from a mortality of 1%. they are experimenting with viruses with mortalities between 15 and 50%. yes, our civilization could be at risk from one of these viruses. experiments that combine unknown viruses with known pandemic viruses are very risky, experiments that come bain unknown viruss with coronavirus that have 50% mortality could endanger civilization as we know it and here you sit unwilling to accept any responsibility for the current pandemic and unwilling to take any steps to prevent gain-of-function research from possibly unleashing this virus. you mislead the public by saying the published viruses could not be covid. well exactly no one is alleging that. no one is alleging the published viruses by the chinese are covid. we are saying it was risky

gain-of-function research. risky to share this with the chinese and covid may have been created from a not yet revealed virus. we don't anticipate the chinese will reveal the virus if it came from their lab. you know that but you continue to mislead and continue to support n.i.h. money going to wuhan and continue to say you trust the chinese scientists. you appear to have learned nothing from this pandemic. will you today finally take some responsibility for funding gain-of-function research in wuhan? >> senator, with all due respect i disagree with so many of the things that you've said. first of all, gain of function is a very nebulous term. we have spent not us but outside bodies a considerable amount of effort to give a more precise definition to the type of research that is of concern that might lead to a dangerous

situation. you are aware of that. that is called p3co. >> we are aware you deleted gain of function from the nih website. >> i can get back to a moment. let's get back to the operating framework and guardrails that we operate under. you have ignored them. the guidelines are very, very clear. that you have to be dealing with a pathogen that is clearly shown and likely to be highly transmissible in an uncontrollable way to humans and a high degree of morbidity and mortality and you do experiments to enhance that, hence the word eppp. enhanced pathogens -- >> they took the virus and combined it with wiv1 and caused a virus that doesn't exist in nature and made mice

sicker, mice that had humanized cells. you are saying that's not gain-of-function research? >> according to the framework and guidelines -- >> what you are doing is defining away gain of function saying it doesn't exist because you changed the definition on the nih website. this is terrible and you are completely trying to escape the idea that we should do something about trying to prevent a pandemic from leaking from a lab. the present upon drance of ---you've changed the definition on your website to try to cover your ass. that's what you have done. you've changed the website to have a new definition that doesn't include the risky research that's going on. until you admit it is risky we won't get anywhere. you have to admit this research was risky. nih has rebuked them. your agency has rebukeed them. the thing is you are still unwilling to admit they gained in function with when they say they became sicker. a new virus. that's not gain of function?

>> according to the definition that is currently operable. senator, let's make it clear for the people who are listening. the current definition was done over two to three year period by outside bodies including the nsabb, two conferences by the national academy of science, engineering and medicine on december 2014, march 2016. we commissioned external risk/benefit assessment and then on january of 2017 the office of science and technology policy of the white house issued the current policy. i have not changed any definition. >> that definition appeared on the same day the nih said there was a gain of function in wuhan, the same day the new definition to try to define away what's going on in wuhan. until you accept responsibility

we aren't going to get anywhere close to trying to prevent another lab leak of this dangerous sort of experiment. you won't admit it is dangerous. for that lack of judgment i think it's time you resign. >> senator paul, i would like to give the time to dr. fauci. >> there were so many things that are misrepresentation here madam chair. i don't think i would be able to refute all of them. but a couple of them for the listens to hear. you said i'm unwilling to take any responsibility for the current pandemic. i have no responsibility for the current pandemic. the current pandemic, okay? number two, you said the overwhelming amount of evidence indicates that it is a lab leak. i believe most card-carrying viral virologists would disagree with you. it is much more likely, even though we leave open all possibilities.

much more likely it was a natural occurrence. third, you say we -- >> you tested 80,000 animals and no animals found with covid. >> and third, you made a statement just a moment ago that is completely incorrect where you say we continue to support research at the wuhan institute of virology. >> you approved it in august of last year. >> no, your statement says quote, i wrote it down as you were writing. you continue to support research at the wuhan institute of virology. >> in your committee a month ago you said you support the research. >> i have allowed dr. fauci to respond. >> if he is going to be dishonest he ought to be challenged. >> dr. fauci. >> i don't have any more to say that as usual -- i have a great

deal of respect for this body of the senate and makes me very uncomfortable to have to saying something but he is very incorrect in what he says. >> history will figure that out. >> we'll turn to senator has inn. >> harris: we new it would be heated. one of the topics on the bill in the senate hearing with dr. fauci and dr. walensky with the cdc was the vaccine mandate and pushing against that from a republican perspective and what the president is trying to do. where senator rand paul of the great state of kentucky started with dr. fauci was again the origin of covid-19 which so destructive and destroyed many parts of the world and livelihoods and life. did it come from that wuhan lab because they were doing gain of function?

they were making a virus more spreadable. they essentially were making it worse for the rest of the planet. did it happen there and were you u.s. dollars wrapped up in the research? we just need the answers. as you heard senator paul say we need to know so it doesn't happen again the all of us across america and the world. now, the emails obtained by the daily caller show two dr. fauci staffers were already raising concerns about where u.s. money was going inside that wuhan lab. what was it paying for? this was in one of the emails. it's on your screen. the above referenced grant may include gain-of-function research. that sounds pretty straight forward. those concerns were reportedly played down by fauci. dasek is a nonprofit organization man who gave money to federal agency researching infectious diseases and he is

the same man who had a hand in the world health organization's investigation into wuhan which infamously concluded that the lab leak theory about coronavirus that we're all dealing with now was highly unlikely. now we know just how likely and probable in fact the novel coronavirus did come from that lab. we know how that is. let's get into it now with a former house speaker newt gingrich now a fox news political analyst and author of the brand-new book beyond biden, rebuilding the america we love. that title is right on time and we'll get to that in a moment. yeah, this is part of it, right? it is so great to have you in "focus" today. out of the breaking news your top line thoughts with what senator paul is trying to get to there. >> i think in any reasonable society fauci would be gone. he has violated his own rules and wrote a paper on this back in 2012 talking about dangerous

research and what standards ought to be set and admitting that in the end this was more than a scientific question. this dangerous research was a threat to the whole society. i've known fauci since he did brilliant work on hiv/aids in the 1980s but i'm sad to say he is now destructive, dishonest trying to safe his reputation and doing so at very substantial risk to lives around the planet. and it's very unfortunate and they go through this same conversation every time. and fauci hides behind word games. the fact is that there were running experiments. the very notion that he trusted the chinese when you know that the chinese dictatorship was literally locking up doctors who didn't do what it told them to. you look at the origins of this.

the effort by the chinese dictatorship to cover it up for the first two or three months and for fauci to say i could trust them by itself is an indictment of naivety. >> harris: rand paul is saying are you trying to redefine for all of us and we're all children that we don't have a webster's or the internet the definition of gain of function? which is not a new science. so you don't have to spend all that taxpayer money to figure out what it is. >> you have to ask yourself the question given the degree to which china is still clearly a totalitarian society where the dictator xi defines reall tore why would the u.s. taxpayers be funding research in a chinese laboratory? the answer is south asia and south china is a major center of these kind of diseases. well, i would much rather have

the bats brought to the u.s. or taiwan or japan or singapore but the idea we'll send money to wuhan in order for chinese scientists under the control of the chinese secret police, that we'll trust -- not have people there. by the way, when it did break out they wouldn't let us come in. so they wouldn't even let us look at the research we were paying for. >> harris: they had scientists in the lab getting sick and dying. we didn't know that at the time and find that out until later. >> fauci behaves as though all of this is not reality. so it's as though there is not a chinese dictatorship and scientists didn't die and it is unfortunate because he is probably the most prominent spokesperson on these kind of diseases in the world. and the fact that he is now completely defending his reputation at the cost of the people not just in the united states but worldwide is tragic

and some day historians will write about it. >> harris: you lay it out with your experience having known him and china. a friend would not have kept us out like that. they would have partnered with us on doing the right thing from the beginning but almost like fauci is acting as though, we know it's true, he doesn't have to same much because it's unknowable now. we can't get in. the chinese government have done whatever it is going to do and it might be impossible to get all of those answers in a more contemporaneous. >> which would lead you to shall more cautious and humble. i did a podcast with him in february of 2020 when this was just starting and it is interesting to go back and listen to it now because in february he was pretty passive. this is probably not going to be a pandemic or a crisis. i think -- >> harris: that is code for he is wrong. >> it is not me, it is his voice. >> harris: i want to get to

your new book beyond biden rebuilding the america we love. it is on sale now. >> i decided not to write an anti-biden book that biden would be sufficiently anti- himself, that's not an issue. what we wanted to do this is going to be a mess. we have really big things. by the way, the youngkin his campaign really fits almost exactly what beyond biden talks about because he talked about fixing the schools, he talked about creating jobs, he talked about doing things to bring down crime. so he was talking about in the real world about real change. that's what i think we need to recognize if we don't go through profound modernization we are not going to be competitive with china and we are going to lose in our lifetime. i don't think biden has a clue. i think joe biden is a nice,

pleasant guy who is totally out of touch with reality surrounded by left wing staffers who live in a fantasy world. i always tell people to understand their attitude towards threats whether it's terrorism or china, imagine that they saw the lion king and thought it was a documentary and they believed lions and zebras dance together. they don't understand we're in a life and death struggle with a chinese dictate orship that wants to dominate our society which has hundreds if not thousands of agents in our society which has a methodical strategy of both stealing intellectual property and bribing our scientists and lying to us. >> harris: at the start of a deadly pandemic. i don't know when you started to think about this but it has only been 10 months. >> right after the election we sat down. you could -- the great tragedy

is that big government socialism doesn't work. didn't work in venezuela or zimbabwe. i was -- once you knew who was going to dominate and it was clear that biden gave a very nice inaugural address about coming together and the same day he signed a series of executive orders dismantling what trump had done. you look at what he is doing behind the speech. i knew by then what they were going to try to do would be a disaster. >> harris: now we can read about your perspective in terms of actually. >> what do we do to fix the country once we win? >> harris: could you start with inflation? we could do a whole hour together and glad you were here. congratulations on the new book. >> great to be back in the studio. >> harris: president biden blowing off concerns after a devastating election for democrats this week. he is blaming pretty much everybody and everything but not himself or his own policy. >> here is the thing.

if we talk about paying illegals anything for their trauma, look, i've got some trauma as an american taxpayer. i'm traumatized by the policies of this administration. >> harris: we know huckabee can preach it. the president denying to pay millions to illegal immigrants. president biden says $450,000 to each one? that's not going to happen. some are questioning if he even knew that that was going on and being considered in his own justice department. tammy bruce in "focus" next. veteran homeowners, this is the best time in history to turn your home equity into cash. because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow

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>> harris: president biden did

it again raising eyebrows for a different reason this time. yesterday he appeared to deny reports his administration is planning to pay millions of dollars to illegal immigrants separated at the border under president trump. the reports say payments total $450,000 peril legal immigrant. here is the president. >> do you think that might incentivize more people to come over illegally? >> president biden: if you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah, but it is not true. >> this is a garbage report? >> president biden: yeah, $450,000 per person is that what you are saying? >> separated from a family member under the last administration. >> president biden: that's not going to happen. >> harris: we have tammy bruce to get to that. the aclu who represents 5500 illegal immigrants fired back president biden may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own justice department.

if he follows through on what he said the president is abandoning a campaign promise to do justice for separated families. today house republicans plan to introduce a bill to block any of those payments. tammy bruce host of get tammy bruce on fox nation and fox news contributor. >> it is great to be here with you. >> harris: wonderful to have you. i heard you whispering. i can hear you whisper. what were you saying? >> he didn't know. it was clear. he is free enough to make -- it was a question and he feels comfortable enough to be able to do that which i'm sure irritates his staff. the aclu noticed that as well with their statement. this is what concerns the american people is the president is the one who is supposed to be at least the center of the information, the center of gravity and this is another confirmation that the president who is supposed to be

leading doesn't know who is running things. because that's a very big thing to come out. it is predicated on a lawsuit. this is supposed to be a settlement which i have discussed with you before. that's what the left does. groups sue, administration settles or sets up task forces, we saw it with the schools. >> harris: they can't legislatively solves the problem. >> that's what this is predicated on. it's insane. this must be stopped. even joe biden in his regular normal point of view is thinking this is not right. justice is one thing. justice isn't throwing that kind of money at people whose first action in this country was to break the law. to say nothing of it's more than what you get if your loved one dies in battle in the military. more than victims of september 11th received. it is an insult to the american people. it is not justice. it causes more strife. >> harris: he didn't say all

that. he hadn't thought about it. from what you are saying. if he had that's the policy that actually would be more consistent with what -- fascinating. >> you don't need to rebuke policy or justice you say that's not it. >> harris: you have to know what it is. president biden yesterday looked to blame anyone but himself after key democratic setbacks in tuesday's elections, especially virginia. watch. >> president biden: people are upset and uncertain about a lot of things from covid to schools to jobs to a whole range of things. if i'm able to pass and sign into law my build back better initiative i'm in a position where you will see a lot of those things gotten rid of quickly and swiftly. i'm not sure i would have been able to change the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were trump voters. >> harris: wait a minute.

that was inconsistent. >> when we think about who turned out to vote look at new jersey. it was blue districts that had more people voting for the republican. this is the mistake the democrats always make. when i was on the left i was always like saying wait a minute, you are missing the point here. we aren't communicating correctly. he mentions those issues, not the negativity of them or the fact that he is responsible for what's happened here. an arsonist setting your house on fire and then saying i'll be the one to put that out. >> harris: with a gasoline can in their hand. >> they are trying to blame everyone else and it's narcissism, the belief that they maybe really believe this, it was more conservatives came out. they are missing what is it 3/4 of the american people when polled don't like the direction of the country. nbc news poll. in the 20s among all the issues.

>> harris: we both know -- >> independents. those are the people that move the issues these days and affect the elections. people rejected both parties. the average american to continue to dismiss this as dangerous and it tells you the other problem for us is they won't stop. they will continue. of course, it was a message yesterday i should say for election day that it is about what the american people don't want to have happen. it was a rejection of the nature of what is occurring. parents, on the economy, inflation, all of those things and even james carville. for those of us who had been from the left and classical liberals we see this madness that continues and it must begin to stop. >> harris: is that why you jumped ship? >> yes, my values. i found my values as a classical liberal were the conservative ideal. it is about personal freedom, equality. >> harris: that's everything that is at issue right now with

parents, vaccine mandates. fascinating. >> independents. >> harris: first guest since the pandemic started. >> it will be an exciting time coming up. >> harris: democrats and liberal media calling out white supremacy after virginia elected its first black lieutenant governor. well, maybe that's because those outlets aren't talking about it. winsome sears is having none of it. don't bait her. the power panel next.

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who died and left you in charge of all of us as black people so that we could be corraled into doing what you want us to do. i thought you said you were the tolerant folks. >> harris: i asked my team if we could play that twice. democrats' latest attempt to sew racial division seem to have failed in virginia. voters just elected winsome sears as the first woman and first black woman lieutenant governor. but sears' victory did not stop the liberal media from blaring out that same tired message. here is an msnbc host blasting republicans and calling them dangerous. >> they're dangerous to our national security because stoking that kind of soft white nationalism eventually leads to the hard core stuff. >> i wish joy reid would invite me on her show. let's see if she is woman enough to do that.

she talks about white supremacy. does she know i ran against a white supremacist? joy, come on, get your facts straight and then come talk to me. i'm waiting for you. >> espn host now tweeted this. it's not the messaging, folks. this country loves white supremacy. winsome sears responded simply we beg to differ. social media users pouncing. one person tweeting white supremacy is electing the first black woman lieutenant governor. the "wall street journal" called democrats out. the big racist sale. they elected a black lieutenant governor. power panel now jason meister former trump advisory board member. leslie marshall fox news contributor. how do you defend any of this going on among the liberal folks? >> well, i'm not joy reid or

jamele hill and we don't all speak with one mind on the left any more than people on the right speak with one mind. there are different opinions. let's look at the issue in virginia with education and critical race theory. i see race being used politically on boekt sides. on the left they were saying if you didn't believe in critical race theory you are racist. i don't believe that. i'm a democrat but on the right they were saying that critical race theory makes white people feel bad about themselves. i'm white and i also don't believe that. i think there were racists if both parties. i think certainly racist vote but i don't think just because we have somebody who is african-american in power lieutenant governor in virginia or former president barack obama president of the united states that this issue goes away. race and racial issues certainly are an issue. these three women are african-american. i'm not a woman of color clearly so i can't speak to it

from their point. harris, i think they are both right -- there are three of them we're speaking of. the three of them are right and wrong and also entitled to their opinion. >> harris: you said it just because i'm a person of color i certainly don't agree and see the things way everybody else does. we don't represent an entire race. i think winsome sears said it perfectly. tackle whatever you want, jason. >> look, i think democrats really need to do some serious, serious self-reflection after this mini red wave election. they need to ask themselves whether they should reconsider their approach to things like critical race theory, vaccine mandates, asking children -- mandating children as little as 5 and 6 years old to mask for seven hours a day where they breathe and belittle parents who want a say in their children's education and curriculum. look at critical race theory.

the first they defended it. then they said that attacks on critical race theory are racist and white supremacy. before they then settled on insisting that critical race theory never existed to begin with. parents that i know and i have kids myself these parents are not imagining anything. they see the ideological orthodoxy in schools across the country. the obsession with race and see the people that dare question this orthodoxy, this ideology, get attacked and youngkin made this the closing argument of his campaign and dominated deep blue virginia after 12 years of democrat hold. there is a reason why a no-name gop candidate almost flipped new jersey red and it wasn't because he ran on lowering their taxes. they've been paying crazy taxes for years. >> harris: yep. it is really interesting what you are saying because they came at the same issue so differently.

the left it would seem leslie wanted no one to talk about it. right up until the end, right up until the end. saying that it didn't even exist. great to have you both on the program. breaking news is squeezing us. we're glad we cover it and had you on. a victory for democrats in new jersey kind of. you heard jason talking about this. phil murphy the incumbent won reelection squeaky close as governor but the margin was too close to call for so long and we have this for you, too. i'm being told we have a little more breaking news right now. wonder if nancy pelosi will be asked about the big spending bills. let's watch. >> moderate democrats wanting a cbo score. there are differences between those and they had indicated to me those two things are not quite a same. is that enough to bring them across the line or what has to happen? >> those two things are not

quite a same. >> will it be enough to get them to vote later tonight or tomorrow on that? >> let me say we have been all along not -- this is not sequential. all along we've been sending things to cbo. this is not new to them. and same thing with joint tax and they've come now with our bill come out and said how much money it will absolutely produce. it doesn't include over and above the prescription drug money which is hundreds of billions of dollars as well as $400 billion from the enforcement. by the way, considered to be a low figure. former i.r.s. directors have written and said it could be close to a trillion dollars. but we're counting it low. we have been very conservative in every estimate that we make

so that it truly is formidablely paid for. the ceo -- the cbo, they have most of the information now. they have the new information but they have to correlate it. they have to say if you say we have 3.5 and now we have 1.7, cut it in half, whatever the number is. cut it in half, they have to relate it, what the impact is from one area to the next. it takes a little longer and more subjectivity but we are -- this shouldn't take long to get. the other thing that we're getting are -- we're sending stuff over to the senate. well, most of the product we've done is -- we may have added in the last day or so and some of what we added is senate, a

hearing, bernie doesn't like hearing -- he loves hearing, manchin doesn't want hearing on the bill and all that stuff. so then we have the family medical leave. they are putting things in and we can put something in even if manchin doesn't like it. so we are getting some bird and privilege. most are getting privilege scrub. boldness is important. you have to take it out but privilege violation can take you out. so we're again getting that as we go along as well. but when we pass a bill, then they will see it in its aggregate and make some -- >> can you confirm that any of this is messaging that they have to take some of those things out regardless no matter what you have sent over?

you said you weren't going to send a messaging bill. >> we'll send a messaging bill. we want to be sure what we send is not bird bath or privilege scrub. those are the two -- exercises, bathing exercises we're engaged in and we're getting good -- there is no bad answer. it is what it is. there is certain objectist to it. whatever it is, this is the greatest monumental historic piece of legislation that any of us have ever be a part of it and i say it with great proprietary ownership of the affordable care act which was and is magnificent. this contains that and so much strengthening that and so much more. so if this isn't this or that

isn't that because it's reconciliation we can save some of that for another day when it's regular order but most of what is in there will survive and it will be great and help the american people. it will lower the cost of raising children in our country. think of that. the overarching part of it is about the children. it is about their parents. you are talking climate and jobs and children. if you are talking the health piece of it, you are talking jobs and you are talking children and their families. if you are talking care can't wait, the third bucket. you are talking children and their families and jobs. and how we respect people who do those jobs. home care and how we enable women and dads to participate in the workforce in a more meaningful way. i hope you have a very nice day

and we'll keep you informed. stay tuned. thank you. >> are you approaching a put up or shut up? >> harris: you heard nancy pelosi in the wake of a painful week for democrats. they hold narrowest of margins in the house and the senate now. kevin mccarthy is warning of possible epic defeat for democrats in the mid-term elections. it got worse for them. watch. >> if you are a democrat and biden won your seat by 16 points you are in a competitive race this year. will you bring president biden into your district to defend? will you bring the vice president? terry mccauliffe did and look what happened to him. >> harris: there is reverberation, rnc chair ronna

mcdaniel in focus now. great to see you today. first of all, how pervasive could this be? we see four other races. >> what you saw last night -- or tuesday night in virginia and new jersey and pennsylvania and texas in a 75% hispanic district showed republicans are competitive everywhere. biden's policies are highly unpopular and people want a change in government. the last it happened was in the obama mid-term. we picked up 63 seats in the house and senate and i see that on the horizon for 2022. >> harris: as you plan ahead it is the messaging that happened for glenn youngkin and others. the democrats will lean farther left by their own words. they don't seem to course correct. >> it is interesting to hear democrats after the election continue to ignore the concerns

of parents, continue to say parents are not telling the truth when they are concerned about critical race theory. it is amazing they aren't listening to the american people about inflation, about open borders. common sense won on tuesday. the american people are look being at biden's administration saying what are they thinking? why did they destroy our energy policy and open borders and calling parents domestic terrorists? why is woke culture winning out over all the things that are so important in this country. the republican party stands for common sense and american people embraced that on tuesday and bodes well for 2022. democrats have decided once again not to listen. >> harris: and there is this element of being out of touch. if they don't see inflation as a problem don't they have to buy diapers and dee -- deodorant and basics?

they are so out of touch. i don't understand how it's a political decision if they actually live in the world. some are already pointing to glenn youngkin as a possible 2024 candidate after his stunning victory in virginia. one tweet. glenn youngkin should consider running for president in 2024. he should be the 2024 nominee if it holds. will he be there? probably not. only thing that bodes well for democrats. a piece in today's "new york post" also praising youngkin saying showed how republicans can win. chairwoman your reaction. >> the reason democrats aren't listening is they leave in an elitist echo chamber and not talking to americans all the time. i am one of those moms who had my kids if virtual school. i know what it means to feel unheard and to see democrat politicians keep our kids out of the classroom and for democrats to ignore that, to

ignore the hardships that so many americans are facing just shows they are unwilling to listen to people they call domestic terrorists like moms like me but glenn youngkin he is excited to be the governor of virginia. we need to focus on 2022. i'm focusing on winning back the house and senate. we can talk about other races later. we have to keep our eye on the prize. >> harris: i hear you. want to get to this. former obama white house advisor says democrats are in for a tough time if republicans across the country won an glenn youngkin's message. >> the one thing we need to make sure that republicans in 2022 don't become is the party of parents. because we need to be the party of parents and we are. we're the ones that care about school funding and making sure parents can send their kids to school because they have jobs to go to. we need to own that agenda. we can't let it go.

>> harris: are they the party of parents? you were talking moments ago. we were back and forth at the height of the pandemic how our kids were home all day and doing the double job of sitting next to them and getting a bird's eye view and up close view and emails with teachers. we have know what is being taught in the classroom. that was never discussed by democrats. >> we were on the front lines. in states run by democrats. tell you why republicans are the party of parents. republican governors kept kids in the classroom. balanced the health and safety of their communities and glenn youngkin ran on giving teachers more pay and giving parents a say. democrats are totally controlled by the unions. and they have shut the parents out and our kids are the collateral damage. the republican party is the one delivering for parents and kids.

>> harris: florida governor ron desantis getting in on the cultural phenomena of this. >> when you look at the biden -- the brandon administration. >> let's go brandon, let's go, brandon. let's go, brandon. >> harris: they actually had it in a round. a piece in the "new york post" summing it up this way. the catch phrase of the year that amounts to a dual war head cruise missile raining down contempt. you say what? >> i was waiting for the wave but this is a symbol of everybody's frustration with joe biden and this wouldn't be a mantra or joke if it wouldn't be so bad what they are doing to their country right now. it is not funny but let's go,

brandon, resonates right now because joe biden is a huge failure and the american people recognize it. >> harris: ronna mcdaniel getting in the last few words before we close out "the faulkner focus". thank you for being in "focus." it's a busy hour. breaking news. we covered it all. "outnumbered" after the break. or put it in the bank for real peace of mind. now's the time to use your va home loan benefit to get cash before mortgage rates begin to rise. call now.

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>> fox news alert as election reflection turns into a full-on blame game with president biden pointing fingers at everyone and everything except himself and his own party's big agenda. in virginia watch this. >> president biden: it should have passed before election day but i'm not sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out and the red districts who were trump