mayfield and we have reporters in bowling green. if you drove from mayfield north and east to dawson springs 72 miles and where harrigan was reporting last hour. that's the scope of all the damage. >> dana: and a lot of damage in arkansas. you always figure out the maps and distance. harris faulkner is up next with "the faulkner focus". >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. mask mandates are fully and full steam ahead in effect for fully boostered, vaccinated americans. a question mark there for so many people why? california is now the latest state telling you to put the mask back on until at least next month, maybe longer. i'm hair use you are in "the faulkner focus". the governor of california announced a statewide indoor mask mandate goes into effect on wednesday and it will go until at least january 15th.

it goes deeper than this. he is ordering unvaccinated people to get a negative test if they want to attend an indoor event with 1,000 or more people. new coronavirus cases in the state have jumped by 47% per capita in just the past two weeks. california joining new york and six other states requiring people to mask up in indoor public spaces. but republicans say democratic governors are going about it all wrong. here is florida's ron desantis. >> you give these people an inch they will never let go. they will take a mile. they are going to restrict and mandate. they are going to lock you down and we cannot accept that. there is no reason to be restricting or mandating anybody throughout our country and the fact that this is still going on in these blue states and may even intensify over the coming weeks and months just shows you if you value your

freedom in 2022 if you are in those states you need to make your voice heard. >> harris: william la jeunesse is live in los angeles for us. william. >> if you're traveling over the weekend or over the holidays, rather, bring your mask and your card or get ready to take a test. seven states all run by democrats including vacation hot spots like nevada, hawaii, california require a mask indoors. california also requiring that vaccine or negative test within 24 to 48 hours of any large gathering. rose bowl, holiday bowl, basketball game. concerts including football fans in ohio, north carolina and utah be aware. some health experts call it unnecessary as data suggests the new omicron variant is more transmissible but less serious. california disagrees. it tried it before. max, lock down, curfews.

if the cdc says california is in the highest tier for coronavirus transmission. orange county that did not impose a mask mandate to control the delta variant has fewer cases and same hospitalization rate as l.a. county that did. local businesses supposed to enforce the rules call them a nightmare. >> wearing a mask is not fun. it is hard. not easy to breathe in. we're healthy. we have all these plastic shields up. it is hard one size doesn't always fit all. >> it is not just businesses that were upset. health officials in the bay area are pushing back. they recently lifted the mask mandate after seeing case rates fall as more people got the vaccine. all science driven. now, however, their judgment will be overruled by governor newsom who fears another surge like last winter. so bottom line, harris, 30 days.

over the next 30 days we'll have to do this. bottom line is eight states now require this. a mask indoors as someone who just went from hawaii to arizona like me, it is like living in two different worlds. if you are in a red state and going blue, check ahead. >> harris: check ahead minute by minute, hour by hour. interesting he had the color of the state that you might want to check ahead in. it is not just california taking heat blue state. the cover of the "new york post" this morning is mocking the governors indoor mask mandate this way. face it. this is ridiculous. tomorrow new york city mayor bill deblasio will lay out details of his unprecedented vaccine mandate for private businesses which will take effect four days before he is out of office december 27th. you think it's political? hum. the announcement has many businesses scrambling to trial

to comply. >> it really is like we're going backwards. every time he makes a new rule i lose business. every time he makes a new rule another business loses business. i think he is delusional. he doesn't have a clue what is going on in his own city, which is evident. >> harris: here is how deblasio defended his mandate. >> look at what mandates allowed us to achieve. our schools are safe. broadway is back and restaurants are safe because people go in there and no everyone is safe and everyone is vaccinated and kept them thriving while keeping covid levels low here. why wouldn't we want that for everyone? >> if it was such a great idea how come you didn't do it a month ago when we first new about omicron. polling shows 54% of americans think businesses should require employees to get vaccinated. far more, many democrats than republicans feel that way.

but when asked if it should be illegal to deny service to a non-vaccinated person, partisan agreement fell by half. with each party saying yes, axios points out it could be a big problem for democrats. it carries real political risk for democrats as mandates meet legal challenges across the country and republicans use -- try to use the implementation of mandates as a wedge issue. jason chaffetz joining me now in "focus" and former utah congressman. mandates now get more pub than the actual thing that makes people sick, covid-19. how is that even possible? >> i have to tell you, i don't understand the duplicity of what the democrats are saying. i thought it was joe biden said there weren't going to be any mask mandates and i don't know,

i look at where they are having the best success in places like florida and texas and they're dealing with it totally different than they are in the blue states. i wish there was a magic button that we could all push and nobody has to deal with this. i just don't see more than 18 months into this pandemic why the democrats think that more lockdowns is actually going to solve the problem. >> harris: real quickly, i sincerely mean this because it is so obvious and it is actually really negative, why is it if these mandates were so critical and we know from scientists, not these politicians, scientists that november 10th was about the date that south africa told us about omicron. they have had plenty of time to come up with better ideas than rehashing what we did in 2020. what part is politics playing and particularly since most of this is happening on the left in states led by democrats?

>> look, they came out with the policy and they waited for the science to try to catch up. it ends up i'm not a scientist or doctor but at the same time what they found is that it is not nearly as devastating. hospitalizations in south africa are pretty stable from what i'm reading. what about herd immunity? wasn't that what we were going to do 18 months ago? i got to tell you, give credit, though, to the one democratic governor jared polis in colorado who said it is not the role of government to tell you what to wear and what not to wear. it gets cold in colorado. we don't tell you you have to put on a jacket and you don't have to put on a mask. i think a lot of focus should go to colorado and see what they are doing as democrats and see the difference because i think jared polis is right. he is kind of with the republicans on this one. >> harris: wow. standing alone, something like a manchin or sinema, they stand

alone. democrat congressman eric swalwell not standing alone and very vocal calling for a vaccine mandate to board planes domestically. in a tweet he said prediction. we can go from 60% americans vacsed to 80% if we require vaccines to fly. two other dem representatives have thrown their support behind that as well. what do you think, jason? >> i've always thought that representative swalwell is an idiot. i wouldn't listen to anything he says. i don't trust him. i don't think he has the best interests of the united states of america in place and how audacious of him to say we'll force -- we won't allow you as a 4-year-old to get on an airplane unless you have a vaccination. if you're pregnant and you don't want to have a vaccination, guess what? we won't allow you to fly. come on, get out of here. he is not a serious person. >> harris: jason chaffetz, a very serious person in "focus" with us today. thank you very much.

we have a little breaking in us to get to and i will see you soon. we'll break in with this. the house rules committee in a hearing right now discussing a measure to hold former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows in contempt for defying a subpoena from the panel which is investigating the january 6 capitol riot. meadows has refused to testify. the rules committee is set to vote on that resolution soon. chad pergram will have a full live report later this hour. one of the things i'll ask chad is what are the implications for this for both the commission and for mark meadows? for right now they are voting on that resolution. we'll go deeper as the news pops. the backlash as the white house will not say if soft liberal policies are to blame for the recent surge in crime. as the smash and grab looting continues at stores across the country. they are actually crowding on

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the pandemic is the key reason for the dangerous crime surge across america. and what you are watching on all four screens inside your one screen on your tv is becoming all too common. smash and grab robberies over and over. it hurts businesses, it hurts jobs, who would want to work under these conditions? watch press secretary jen psaki deflecting yesterday when our own peter doocy asked if maybe progressive bail reform policies have anything to do with what they're experiencing? >> do you think it's possible that big cities are dealing with these smash and grab robberies right now increase in criminal activity because some prosecutors are too soft on crime? >> we have seen an increase in crime over the course of the pandemic. there are a range of reasons for that. what our focus is on is making sure that the local leaders,

the police officers and departments who know what they need for these communities have the assistance and funding they need. >> harris: all i heard there was money but no ideas. peter doocy has more from the north lawn. >> this is all causing a lot of new friction in big cities like los angeles where the sheriff says he is trying to keep criminals off the streets but he says that the progressive prosecutor there is making that hard. >> roughly 12,000 cases in his first year in office that he has not prosecuted that we made the arrest, did the investigation, established all the elements of the crime, presented it and they decided well, our special orders say we'll not prosecute at all. that's 12,000 times the crook walked away scot-free. >> because the white house blames covid for the rise in crime they are using covid stimulus funds to try to address it.

they talk a lot about keeping cops on the beat but that doesn't necessarily represent the comprehensive crime-fighting strategy because of what happens next. >> what good does it do if you give police departments extra money if they arrest bad guys and then they bring them to jail and then they are not prosecuted, they are right back out on the streets? >> what our focus is on is making sure that the local leaders, the police officers and departments who know what they need for these communities have the assistance and the funding they need. that's what we're working around the clock on. >> president biden has been very clear he supports police officers. he does not support the defund the police movement. but we have not heard him talk about crime in very much depth at all since this summer. harris. >> harris: yeah, maybe not one of his favorite subjects considering the crime legislation he pushed forth in

the 90s that didn't go well for him. peter doocy, thank you. joe concha in focus now, fox news contributor, media and politics columnist for the hill. i don't mean to take everything back to politics but it seems to be applicable in some areas. why wouldn't you have the president of the united states and his communication staffs be ready to say something other than a coronavirus pandemic is making people show up like mobs at best buy in the san francisco bay area? >> it's the covid crutch it appears. constantly used by this administration. the american people outside of the blind partisans see through it. inflation? not because we've added trillions of new spending and want to spend trillions more arguing it will reduce the deficit and lower inflation in the process. no one above freshman year is stupid enough to believe. it is because of covid. the white house press secretary says covid is the root cause of skyrocketing crime? at least the looters are wearing masks. we saw a groom get mugged

outside of his own wedding in philadelphia. mayors, d.a.s and the president aren't taking it seriously. they know if they get caught they will be on the street at the time it takes to get a happy meal. team biden is trying to spin what everyday americans feel. inflation and crime. more expensive and less safe country. it is making the 70s look like utopia right now compared to 2021. >> harris: the "wall street journal" is reporting and i mentioned mobs. they call them flash mob thefts. plan according to police they talked with in the san francisco bay area people are getting together and showing up at these crime scenes and working it and they don't know each other. they have gotten together on snapchat and now snapchat is being investigated for can they help stop this, that sort of thing. the best buy, the nordstrom. can you imagine and it is happening in the daytime with shoppers. i want to move to this.

senator dick durbin yesterday cut off testimony from a conservative group's witness during a hearing on violence in chicago. watch part of this exchange. >> i believe in all fairness since we did not invite the cook county state's attorneys office to be represented here today that you shouldn't really zero in on any particular individual because that decision was made by the committee to keep this more at the federal level. i hope you will respect that. >> senator, i do in fact respect how we actually enforce is law is done at a local level. these things matter. >> i understand that but what i'm saying to you is there is another side to this story. >> harris: that witness then fired back on twitter after the hearing and she said i was asked to explain the underlying causes of gun violence spikes in chicago. lives are on the line and i

won't be silenced when my answers are politically inexpedient. >> no one wants to tackle this problem. again you commit the crime or you are suspected of committing the crime and back on the streets doing another crime. we saw in waukesha, wisconsin, a guy who tried to run over the mother of his child and he gets out on $1,000 bail and he runs over grandmothers, children and people still in the hospital as we're speaking right now because the bail laws need to be improved but no one is taking this seriously. always judge this administration and the democratic parties never by words. 11 months in and its credibility in terms of team biden is shot. mr. biden has not addressed crime in any speech since july. five months of chaos have erupted since. when was the last time you saw the president flanked by police officers and those here to protect us? you don't see it. he ignored the mostly peaceful riots in 2020.

reallocating police funds and police reforms. the president is in the 30s and inflation and covid where he said he would get it under control he is underwater there. look at this for example. i have the stat. 464 covid deaths in theth country november 13th. december 13th nearly 1300. almost three times as many. we're going backwards in every department and maybe that's why 22% -- think about this, more than 1 in 5 americans want this president to seek a second term. we've never seen numbers like this before so early in a presidency. >> harris: it's one of the reasons why we focus on what would come next and that's when you are looking at people like the vice president and so on and so forth. none of them. she is a former prosecutor. a d.a., the attorney general. that woman has had so many jobs, right, in terms of this being actually in her wheel house of skill sets. she is an attorney.

she could get involved with the crime crisis. quick thoughts on just the fact they don't have anybody purposed for this. >> precisely. who should run instead of joe biden, the vice president clocks in at 13% wanting her to be the replacement ahead of michelle obama off the grid and said she will never run. what a bench. >> harris: they have the figure it out no matter what's coming down the road for them politically wow. joe concha. thank you. nancy pelosi is going back on her pledge to step back from leadership after next year's mid-terms. she said she would sit down. democrats are staring down a red wave and they know it in 2022. plus this. >> i asked the cbo to look at the bill to see if it had budget gimmicks. the bill on the floor is set up to cost 1.57 trillion based on

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again asking how do you solve a problem like joe manchin? democrats are trying to rally votes to pass president biden's massive build back better plan by christmas and the president yesterday called out a key hold-out moderate democrat senator joe manchin of west virginia. they both described the call as quote, unquote, productive. not sure what that means in this context but manchin says dems have to lower the bill's price tag and you know he means it. he wants them to pare it down and avoid the short term financing that many analysts claim will raise the long-term cost. >> everyone has to choose what we can sustain. it's a 10-year program. we're speaking to families now, inflation has hit them and hit them hard. in west virginia and around the country people are seeing it daily at the food stores and grocery stores, at the pumps. we have to find the priorities

we have, make decisions and move from there. >> harris: note to democrats fighting this guy. when he holds those side-by-side on the steps in the hallway it is because he needs to talk to you. maybe you aren't listening but he is talking to all of us in america. new analysis from the congressional budget office also says the bill will cost a lot more than what the white house is telling us if the short term plans become permanent. white house press secretary jen psaki doubled down on calling the cbo, the score analysis, fake. >> what you are talking about here is a fake cbo score that is not based on the actual bill that anybody is voting on. this is a ask request by senator graham to score a bill that is not currently being debated. that is his prerogative to do but what our focus is on is on the existing bill that will lower the deficit, that will also over an additional 10 years pay for the $2 trial tax

cuts that republicans didn't pay for. they're welcome for that. >> harris: she is trying to talk above our heads. let's see if it work marsha [burn. what was she telling about. are there two different bills and what's the story? >> there is one bill. she knows that. but once again, harris, jen psaki is wrong because this bill is not paid for. it is $3 trillion in debt that we know is going to be added onto our nation's debt and our children are going to have to pay for this. another thing, it is not 1.75 trillion in costs, if you say okay, we're going to pay for each year of these programs. not take 10 years of taxes and pay for one year of program. then the true cost of the bill

is nearly $5 trillion. so what this does is bring some sunlight to this discussion. the bill is not paid for. the bill adds to the federal debt. it is not a 1.75 trillion dollar bill. it is a nearly $5 trillion bill and the cost is going to be shifted to our kids and grandkids to try to come up with this money. of course they are higher taxes to pay for all of this spending. >> harris: and i just question the timing, too. let me put it to top obama economist larry summers who again is calling out the administration for its position on inflation in a series of tweets because you have the spending bill and what will that do to the prices of things that are already going up? here is what he said. remember democrat here, former obama team says i cannot understand why so many in the administration and outside cling to the idea that inflation is caused by

bottlenecks and will soon recede to normal levels. of course there is uncertainty but the idea that inflation will revert soon to levels anywhere near the fed's targets looks like a long shot. wow, that's more sunlight or what we call the truth. >> that's exactly right. harris, as you know, a few months ago when they came out with this, build back better i dubbed it build back broke because they were going to bring back those broke economic policies, those broke regulations that had crippled the nation's economy during the obama/biden years. larry summers knows this. this is why he is begging with people in the white house to set this aside because he knows what it is going to yield. it is going to drive up the cost of inflation. you are going to go into 2022, the mid-term elections, grocery store shelves. your shelves at wal-mart and

target will be empty and see main street businesses close because of supply chain issues. because of an increase in taxation. you are not going to see economic growth and vitality. what you are going to see is people who are fearful that the worst, not the best, but the worst of this economy is coming at them. so therefore what are they going to do? they'll hunker down. they aren't going to invest or grow businesses, they aren't going to spend money because they lived through the obama years and they are thinking oh my gosh, and this is worse than what we had with barack obama. >> harris: well look, having larry summers, who i have interviewed many times and we've had him on the show. he is a straight shooter. i wonder if this white house is listening. i want to get to this. this is very main street. it is where the rest of everybody else lives outside

the white house. my dad's favorite restaurant, god rest his soul was ihop. there is an alaska eye hop going viral with a savage note blaming president biden for its lack of staff. a sign on the window reads due to the fact that biden gave out too much free money and nobody wants to work anymore, we are forced to reduce our hours during this week. senator blackburn, that is as raw and real as it gets. will they ever believe what is happening in the u.s. at the white house? >> no. they don't believe that because they don't go anywhere but the east coast, the west coast, chicago, and denver. and harris, look at what they have done to employment. now when you look at your build back broke agenda they are trying to take that template and what are they going to do? put it onto childcare. i know you are hearing this from your viewers. they are going to try to sweep

up and federalize childcare, increase the cost and then prohibit a lot of grandmas providing mother's day out service at the local church in your community from being able to go to work. >> harris: why do that? >> because they don't want grandmas help educate young mamas how to rear babies. they want the federal government to certify people and get them to join a union. have them not show up for work. look at what they have done to restaurants, look at what they've done to the retail sector, look at what their policies are already doing and what build back broke is going to bring to other areas. like childcare. it is amazing to me. it is a socialist agenda. they love the lockdowns, they are ready to go to work for it. >> harris: i'm also watching

what senator manchin is doing and the next time we see each other there may be action to talk about with regard to that. you have put a lot on our viewers' minds. thank you for being in "focus." let's get back to the breaking news now. there has been a full house floor vote that we've been expecting to happen this afternoon and we're still standing by for that on whether to refer former white house chief of staff mark meadows under president trump to the justice department for criminal contempt. now all of this is after meadows failed to comply with a subpoena from the january 6 committee. chad pergram is live on capitol hill. chad, if you could start from the very beginning with what today means particularly on the hill and for mark meadows. >> they are going to have this vote in the house of representatives later this afternoon. this comes after the house voted to hold former presidential advisor steve bannon in contempt for not

complying with a subpoena from the 1:6 committee and he faces prosecution. mark meadows additionally helped and withdrew his cooperation. he is suing the committee claiming executive privilege. >> this is not about me holding me in contempt. this is about donald trump and about actually going after him once again, continuing to go after donald trump. they are going to find that not only did the president act but he acted quickly. >> the committee revealed messages sent by donald trump junior and fox host to meadows during the riot imploring the white house to convince the president to intervene and hurj supporters to stand down. donald trump junior wrote to meadows, quote, we need an oval office address. he had gone too far. strong enforcement of subpoenas when he served in congress. >> maybe he should talk to

former congressman meadows. when he was serving here he complained about subpoenas being ignored. information being hidden and congress being stonewalled. >> bill: meadows' attorney says referring his client for prosecution would do great damage to the institution of the presidency. harris. >> harris: chad pergram with the latest from the hill. thank you very much. the white house and a major media outlet playing dephones for vice president kamala harris. so many say she failed in her role and voters noit, too. then there is this. >> adding a wealthy soon to be 82-year-old woman from the failing city of san francisco leading the democrats after what i believe will be a 2022 gop wipe-out will seem really out of touch. >> harris: speaker nancy pelosi now is reportedly saying that she is not ready to quit, bro*

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>> harris: that's white house press secretary jen psaki again talking with our peter doocy defending the vice president over and over about her performance as in this particular case the border czar. and as the v.p.'s approval ratings continue to tank. it is in the 20s for her. "politico" comes to her aid with this. vice president kamala harris is a pioneer, political celebrity. she is in trouble but not her fault. her boss's numbers are slipping, too and she has policy issues like voting rights and immigration. >> no vice president in u.s. history has a lower approval rating than kamala harris. maybe that's because the vice president is terrible at her job. for example, ever since she was appointed border czar nine months ago, harris has done nothing to resolve the crisis. yet another massive caravan,

another is headed our way, kamala harris has no plan of action, no resolution, no future plans to visit the border, absolutely nothing. >> harris: power panel now jason meister and richard fowler, richard, i'll start with you. no one wants to be put in the position to have to defend what is not happening for the vice president right now. so where would you start with her? would you go where "politico" did and become the fawn patrol? >> you can look at this two ways. one where "politico" is creche issues that require legislation action from the congress. she is doing everything she can. >> harris: has she been on the hill to whip that up? she is the president of the senate. has she gone to the hill to say i need you to do this? >> she has been to the hill. she has been to the hill the most and passed more tiebreaking votes. >> harris: over these issues.

i know over the voting rights, crime, border, haven't seen her on the hill for that specifically for these issues. >> to your point there are issues this white house how to deal with the border. how they treated the haitian migrants who should have been offered protective status in the united states. with that being said we cannot look at this border in a vacuum and say we have to chop it to the white house. even when donald trump was in the white house his problem was trying to get members of capitol hill to do something. >> harris: i'll take it as a no from you that she hasn't been to the hill on these specific points because that's what our reporting shows. jason. >> harris, i am not surprised. i am not going to sit here and defend kamala harris but joe biden ran on open borders. in the first 100 days of his administration he enacted 94 executive actions on immigration. among them was ending the successful trump policy of

remain in mexico and halting the construction of the border wall. meanwhile 65% of voters believe that those executive actions are encouraging illegal immigration. 68% of voters believe they want tighter immigration policy. so i think kamala harris is just a front for what has been done by design. they have opened the southern border and they are flooding the country with 1.6 million untested, unvetd and unvaccinated illegal immigrants, including a million after joe biden falsely claimed. >> there are so many inaccuracy. title 42 was in place and folks not crossing the border. apprehensions and he is expelling people from the country. >> harris: title 42 was brought

back from a judge. you don't get credit for leaving it there. that's not genuine. >> the trump administration -- >> harris: they had to put it back. >> the idea of the southern border is open in a farce period. >> harris: so is that why the vice president kamala harris had to say when she was south of the border don't come? that's a problem. house speaker nancy pelosi is reportedly walking back her pledge to step aside. however, it does not appear that dem leadership in the house has a plan b if they were to do that? jason, you first. >> i'm happy to hear that nancy pelosi isn't going to retire because the democrats have become the party of the walking dead and i don't see a particularly bright future for them. look, the political landscape has transformed since the onset of the pandemic. in my opinion the democrats

have become tyrannical fascists going to lock you in your home, mandate your 5-year-old wear a mask for 7 hours a day. vaccine mandates for everyone and anti-american hatred. >> wow, i'm glad he got his talking points this morning. a couple points on speaker pelosi. the most effective speaker in american history. her indication for running for office doesn't mean she will be serving as the minority or majority leader. >> harris: we have to run. great to have you, gentlemen, wow. like richard didn't have talking points. okay. the realities of the price we are all paying for smash and grabs and flash mobs hitting our retailers. it is dangerous. it can cost profits and lives and eventually jobs. who wants to work in a place that 20 people hit while you are in it? time to do what the white house

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>> most mandates are making a comeback with critics now blasting the true blue states that are we imposing indoor masking for everyone including the vaccinated and even in areas with low covert infection rates. this was "outnumbered." i'm emily compagno jordan bone my cohost harris faulkner, fox business correspondent lauren simonetti and in the center seat pete hegseth.