♪ ♪ >> harris: canada is intensifying its crackdown on the freedom convoy after truckers protested covid restrictions shut down part of a major international crossing, known as the ambassador bridge. you've probably heard about it by now. similar convoys are popping up all over europe and parts of the world, the department of omitted security is now monitoring that they could spread here. i'm harris faulkner, this is "outnumbered." today i'm with studio in the studio with emily compagno and

kayleigh mcenany. democratic consultant laura fink is one of our guests that i appeared at their very first time on "outnumbered." good to see you here. in the center seat, former utah congressman and fox news contributor, jason chaffetz. were going to get at it now be the freedom convoys having major implications outside of canada with major protests picking up speed in france, and the netherland. it's also stalling traffic on the u.s. ambassador bridge between detroit and windsor, ontario. that caused ford to shut down its plant in the motor city because it's car parts couldn't get through the blocked border crossing. this comes as the department of homeland security's tracking reports of up potential truck convoy in america, when they could try to disrupt the super bowl. last hour, sometimes if you just go to the source and you ask people they will talk to you and they'll tell you what's coming. let's watch. >> i think this coming sunday

for the super bowl is misinformation that's being played. it's not that -- it's not really that soon. it's going to come here. the guys in america are going to show the world what we can do. where the land of the fray, god bless america and god bless these truckers for everything they've done and everything they will do. >> harris: you know what i loved about talking to brian about jason is the fact that knowing his place in the world. he said to the audience on the faulkner focus, that truckers ruled the world. i was stunned because he's absolutely right. so for them to walk on this because, it is interesting to watch because there will be some blowback. there will be some traffic in blockage and so on and so forth. >> jason: most americans probably just want to be left alone. if you look at the heroes, as we started the covid pandemic and

all the problems, they were the first respondent scum of the nurses, the parents that suddenly had to homeschool and take care of their kids, and they were the truckers out there doing their lives. here we are two years later and i think they are fed up with these mandates and mask mandates and passports and other things. so when that mass of people led by the truckers now that can go out and take their trucks, take the tools of their trade and be able to express themselves in a peaceful way, it just shows that there are some real tone-deaf people out there who won't even talk to these people and understand the peril they are going through. for justin trudeau to not even talk to these people is just wrong. for the democrats, the woke crowd that thinks these are really bad people and all that, shame on you. the truckers have never been the problem. they are the heart of america. my guess is they are the heart of canada too.

they do a tough job and when we needed them they were there doing their job. they were out on the road delivering our goods. >> harris: we didn't even know. you know it's interesting, i want to make sure we get it right, this is not anti-vaccine. that's one thing brian ilsley and i were talking about. when you're reporting you want to say it's anti-vaccine mandate. jason put it beautifully, mandating anything at this point. that's mandated that they get what they need so they can continue to do their job. 90% of the truckers, they are already vaccinated. this has nothing to do with that. you're asking them to go above and they said no to that what are your thoughts on that? before we have to determine who this really is.

that's from the truckers melts themselves that it has been vaccine. 90% of the truckers are vaccinated but 90% of the truckers don't support the protest. this is allowed on vocal minority of truckers that have -- they are borrowing a page from the teamsters playbook. but i would say be very careful. you have to have the public on your side. more than 80% of canadians are vaccinated, you can't get away with inconveniencing them, stopping small business, and throwing a wrench in things for your minority opinion and cause. i would say to be successful they better be aware of the public and what the public thinks and what other truckers think. >> harris: all right, laura, i don't want to conflate two things. i think what you're reading come of the 90% -- the assumption is that if 90% of them are

vaccinated, then 90% of them must be against this. those two things don't necessarily go together. some of the people protesting are vaccinated. so they are part of that 90%. >> laura: it is a true minority. >> harris: some of the ones who are protesting mandates. it's a slippery slope when you are mandating things. >> do you have a data point, laura? >> laura: there all vaccinated. >> laura, i'm vaccinated, and i'm against mandates. >> laura: that's okay, that's not my point. >> harris: but it's the point you made. >> kayleigh: $10 million of funds raised. that is more than every single

canadian political party in the last quarter of 2021. you don't have a data point and i do. >> laura: here's a data point for you come of the teamsters are against it and have said this is in violation of the teamster. they represent a majority of the truckers in canada. >> harris: laura, one thing that we have to do in this program is we have to give each other a beat and i want to make sure we argue with respect. you brought up a point you know where the money is coming from. it is a go fund me situation. they can tell you where the money is coming from. they have now taken that money, gofundme, and decided they wanted to send it on other things. they don't want to spend it on the cause of helping truckers because they have a political fight in this game. you've opened a bit of a pandora's box with that but i want to give you some information on the pier let's go to emily no. >> emily: yeah i will just say that hearing that point of view

unfortunately the bias and overgeneralized scenario were using delma caring from the left and the canadian leadership. the mayor of the canadian town that borders the bridge, the ambassador bridge, he said were not dealing with rational actors. he said police are doing what's right by taking a moderate approach in trying to create a situation where everyone can walk away and nobody will get hurt. you're trying to have a rational conversation and not everyone is rational bid this on the heels of justin trudeau calling them sympathizers and people have been painting this with a certain brushstroke, including abc, "politico," numerous articles in the media covering it in this country who say immediately of the first paragraph that there is some type of correlation between white supremacy -- >> harris: why do you think they do that? >> emily: ignoring the fact that these people are standing up for liberty.

when they address that and they say the truckers have stated we are simply here for liberties. they try to counterbalance that. they bring up the fact that the 90% that laura brought up as some type of indication of where they stand. i was a federal attorney made which meant i was unionized. i know what it's like to be falsely represented by a union that does not represent my views. the notion that these guys are some kind of french group that i think is belied by everything i just set and the $10 million in donations for gofundme $98 million raised since then. >> harris: i still want to know what they're going to spend that money and because they're not going to give those donations back and that's what senator tom cruise said, would you give all that money to that organization up the truckers, if it doesn't go there they don't have the right to spend it on other things. i want to come back to you though, and i had a thought on what i was asking you become a part the reason the media will

couch it a certain way and make them work the way they do is because the white house doesn't want to talk about this. >> of course. there's a a problem, harris, the political elites are so far out of touch with the people. we are at that point. we see these moments in history. the tea party, breck said, nobody saw that coming. the election of president trump over hillary clinton, nobody saw that coming. the school board meetings where the parents vocalized their opposition to what the school board is doing. we are so fed up with the antiscientific pandemic paddlers in the white house and they're saying we are going to make our voice heard through the honking of trunks and standing up against mandates. not vaccination, mandates. >> harris: laura and jason? we're going to move on right now but will be back in a couple of minutes. president biden's approval rating hitting a stunning new low. and the latest inflation numbers definitely will not help him out. why a retiring house democrats

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>> we are about nine months away from the midterm. that can't come fast enough. president biden has hit a new loan's approval rating. the bulls recently have the president at 39.8% approval. this is the first time his rating with below 40% in the rcp average. earlier today his average approval inched back up a fraction of a percent to 40.

the white house may have trouble keeping it afloat. today we found out inflation is at a 7.5% high. the highest year-to-year price increase since 1982. while americans are struggling to get by, retiring house democrats -- there's a lot of them retiring -- this morning for his party. as usual democrats are not alert to future dangerous. their strategy is blind hope. many of the folks you're listening to have probably never listen to these counties. the democratic party in d.c. is facing extinction. tough boards from an uncharacteristically wise democrat. emily, starting with you when you look at the polling it's brutal. 26% say the economy is in the wrong direction. about 25% say the countries in the right direction. it's not good for president biden. >> emily: it's nodded these are they issues that voters care about. it's why it's so paramount to its success as a president that

67% of respondents say they disapprove of his handling of the economy. they disapprove of his leadership during the pandemic. an area in which he previously excelled in poll's and he touted his success. i think what this choses that while the administration is worrying about what they think their voters care about, pronouns, certain things in schools, what we actually care about are the economy, inflation, the pandemic in terms of the mandates and things that affect our everyday lives but at the children's education, how we are in our living and put food on the table. the congressman was absolutely right. he made the point that the democratic party is not reaching out to rural voters. at the time when you listen to the democratic party there either telling you what they should be saying are they are telling you that they are better than you, they know more than you. therefore just sit down and be quiet and let's tell you how to vote. they're disconnected. this president especially so. the market, the economy, inflation, and so much more. i wonder what leak will come out

soon to pivot that narrative so we don't keep talking about his failures. will it be another justus retiring? whatever leak is going to come out so they don't have to face the music? >> it's true. 83% saying inflation is a serious problem. back in december inflation hits 6.8%. i seem to remember president biden saying this. >> i think you will see a change sooner, quicker, more rapidly than most people think. i think you're going to see -- you've already begun to see and you're going to see over the next couple of months, prices at the gas pump come down. i think it really is a real bump in the road. >> he also called inflation at a peak, laura, it's now 7.5%, the highest since 1982. is he just wrong? >> laura: i think what we are talking about is the low poll

numbers. the only person who's had lower poll numbers is president trump. >> his numbers were higher than joe biden's yesterday. bret baier pulled up on special report. >> laura: that's interesting. they were still low for a long time and we didn't talk about it nearly as much. you have to take those poll numbers seriously because they do impact things. but look, why they are in the place is another discussion. them -- we have to look at who biden has lost. he's lost support from the democratic base and he has lost independence. those voters are likely to get back. it because they're upset about the pandemic. were in the junior year of covid and that's upsetting and hard. so as the country swings back to him of the jobs report was phenomenal, which we didn't talk about. even the face of a mike rohn. one of the biggest recoveries we've seen since they started counting the numbers. but you are right, people aren't feeling it because they see those inflation numbers. wage growth is at an all-time

high but it's getting eaten up by inflation. if numbers start to change them be careful. then you have a choice election and you have to consider the alternative. republicans are talking about january 6th as a legitimate political discourse, the ride on the capital. they say -- >> let me move on to jason, we only have so much time. jason, laura makes the point that democrats are going to come back to the party. well let's walk over to the welcome i think there are 29 democrats in congress who don't agree with that assessment. they wouldn't be a retiring. here are their pictures. 29 house democrats on the wall appeared this is the greatest number of retirement since 1996. that's pretty extraordinary. >> jason: it is an extraordinary amount and jim cooper has been in congress for a couple of decades. i think he recognizes the democratic party of today

doesn't talk to working americans. they really don't. i agree the reason these numbers are so low isn't because of republicans it's because independents and democrats have been fleeing the leadership, the so-called leadership of joe biden and joe harris' been absolutely nowhere. they don't have any policies they can really point to as being successful. i also think republicans have a tendency to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. they better be careful. they better come up with a hey, were not just the other party. here's our agenda and here's over going to do to be the adults in our room and be working in american to deal with foreign policy know these other topics were biden and harris are just flailing. >> they come up with a new plan, jason, the new plan is to throw, lie out on the campaign trail. sadly her approval rating is at 37%. >> harris: did you see her walk away and say she's not

going to take any questions. actually she didn't say that, she just did the biden silent walk away. the key point in all of this is you'll hear critics say those are just outlier numbers. the come after us but defend the white house paired the numbers don't lie. when you look at an average there are higher and there was some lower. that's part of the problem there. i think about laura when i say this, all of this aside, how do you fix it? it isn't about just only speed, which the president -- i don't know if it's going to be faster, it might be slower, it might be faster that she didn't want to say soother of it sooner than later but that'll montage of him trying to figure when he can fix inflation. were not figuring out a date, we want to strategy. were going to need a strategy to get us out of the several ditches we've driven ourselves

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>> democrats across the country are scrambling to reverse course uncovered restrictions at this year's midterm elections with the notable exception of the white house, democratic governors and blue states coast to coast are signaling there are support for returning to normal as they get set to left mask mandates, something most red states have already done away with. president biden has chosen to follow the lead of the cdc, which still recommends masking indoors and in schools. here is press secretary jen psaki. speak out the cdc guidelines still remained that masking is recommended in schools. if you are a parent, as student, a teacher living in a state without is no longer recommended should do still followed the cdc guideline? >> yes. >> even if the state is not requiring you to wear masks? >> this is where we would advise any american to follow the cdc guideline. >> jason, your thoughts?

>> jason: i like what senator braun says, he says the science hasn't changed but the political science has changed. what they are seeing is the polling -- pardon me. you have to make a decision as to whether or not you're going to wear a mask. two years into this year can make your own decision. it's about freedom, it's about liberty. you should be able to make your own decision on this. but i think it's fundamentally wrong to continue. i think where the administration has gone wrong is they didn't focus on the most vulnerable. that's where they should be focused. not on these 5-year-old kids wearing masks to school. >> everything you said is rational, reasonable, and based on common sense. now, laura, we have sound bites from teachers union on how long they want children to wear masks. >> i'm in favor of an off-ramp on masks. the real issue becomes is the spread low enough that there is

no dissemination or transmission in schools? it's not the teachers transmitting the kids, it's more kids and kids, particularly in elementary school right now. >> laura, i'm curious why as we now know the architect of the entire policy coming out of the cdc and the white house was in fact that union, how is it that now the purpose of mask wearing is to prevent any transmission? to reduce it to zero come over the entire point of the lockdown was to flatten the curve and to get this to a manageable level. it seems to me that is never achievable. that lofty goal is for it frankly ridiculous. yet that is what the white house and the cdc rely on? >> laura: i don't know about the white house and cdc but here's what i would say about

mask mandates generally, i feel like i'm in an episode of hamilton because it feels like the conservatives on this panel -- you have local control you like mask mandates can be don't like mask mandates. apparently you don't like it when democrats remove mask mandates. but the challenge really here is masks. when the omicron variant recedes you'll see the removal of mask mandates. the mayor of los angeles county they say numbers are still high, the hospitalizations are still high so they're keeping keeping the mask mandate in place. what you're seeing here is rational decisions based on the numbers of hospitalizations and based on the rate of transmission and that's what we should have moving forward. >> i think that's part of the question is that, for example, in one of the counties where there is the most draconian mask wearing mandates, los angeles county, why are the numbers still so high? if they are so infallible why in states like florida, where kayleigh is from, mask mandates were lifted quite a long time ago -- new zealand, 53 covid

debts and yet they are still under a tremendous lockdown, right? the cd said on one side of the mouth that they need to mask kids in school and on the other side they say it's a mental health emergency. the democrats are unable to swerve from their tunnel vision as well as to see the numbers for what they are, that in fact max don't have a high efficacy rate. it's all of those combining factors, that's what led to a flattening of the curb. that was achieved years ago, laura. >> jason: i don't know where to unpack that because there's so many conflicting flight rates. transmission rates in florida were tremendously hot get all the data suggests that hospitalization rates would've been lower, the consumption of both retroviral drugs would've been lower if mask mandates were in place. they have a lot of data on the efficacy of masks. not just on masks generally by what type of masks work the best. if you want to protect yourself, throw on an n9 >> harris: maybe i can help with that is, if masks didn't

work, surgeons won't wear. okay? so the masks work, but only certain kinds. which is why in the very beginning some of us were reading the science that said that's not going to work out, i wasn't putting my kids in cloth masks. i was already trying to find -- i was already trying to do that online. of course china vacuumed up the ppe because they got the jump on the game. but i know you -- >> laura: that was under trump. >> harris: no, trying to getting a jump continues. we could be here all day. what they didn't do in l.a. that they did in florida, that worked come out they did what you suggested. they made a priority those most vulnerable. they set up monoclonal sites, 25 of them. 25 of them first to have those

therapeutics in the blood strain in florida, such that people got it who were in those protected categories. two and three and four comorbidities. they had great therapeutics for those people. they worked their numbers differently. they had that older population with vaccine messaging and all of that. florida, not anti-vaccine, just and i am mandates bear that the public figure out how to keep itself going and keep the economy going at the same time. now california can make a different type of decision, but apparently it's leadership can't stick to that, which is why you keep seeing the hypocrisy among some like the governor, gavin newsom. he can't wait to go spend $300 of fight for his laundry and take his mask off with his friends early in the pandemic. so we already know there is a group of leaders out there, and you can paint them whatever stripe you want. some of them have a certain color in common, blue, you can paint them any kind of way, but what they do have in common is

they don't look at the most vulnerable first. the white house could do this now. we see the blue states are pulling this back, new jersey has gotten some things under control. we don't want to put our own down, but make sure you're still protecting the most vulnerable. they can weigh in in a positive way. instead they will hunker down and either stay silent or cozy up to the cdc, which is going to continue to fluctuate because that messaging is brittle and you don't know how to do this. >> i'm a floridian, there's license plates from all over. there is a distinct change from this year, last year, two years prior. it's because of governor ron desantis. people are coming to hear because people like what they have done with covid-19. they are the reason everyone vacations in florida. laura raised the question of local control pit i want local control when it comes to

covid-19 but people are questioning why local control is in sync with the science and the cdc has not. you have the pandemic peddlers, what their motives are, is anyone's guess. >> are you applauding the removal of mandates -- >> why did it take so long in new jersey? why did it take so long -- politics. >> do you know our state, new jersey, has fewer people than they do in new york city? the new mayor said the 8.8 million people here -- i'm like but there's a .7 in the whole state of new jersey. some of it is numbers. when you drill down and you look at our population versus others, they will make their own decisions, absolutely. even different than the cdc i might add. because you know the cdc doesn't live in new jersey. it's looking at it differently. is it time to unmask children? parents feel a certain way of about that in the numbers would

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>> and eric adams speaking now as he pushed for tougher bale laws, this after another career criminal who, break from the d.a. just got busted again, this time for assaulting a sanitation worker. this comes on the heels of that shocking video from trader joe's who are thief nicknamed the hamburg letter made off with some pricey steaks from the new york city store.

kayleigh? >> kayleigh: it's amazing. 74% of voters think crime is a serious problem. in two decades that number has not exceeded 60% until now. we are in a blue city, in a very blue state, and voters are saying this is a top issue. the white house is soft on crime policies was literally laughed when jen psaki brought it up. the fox pulling showed it to be the number one issue. they're going to have to have serious problems if they are not serious about it. >> harris: you know the complicated part about all of this is the people the white house said it was wanting to elevate, people of color, those are the people that get hurt most by this. they are in the neighborhoods where the wild green gets hit so much. that they have to close. we've seen what happens when they just take everything -- what little we had on the shelf

and some of the worst weeks of the supply chain crisis where everything just gets emptied. they don't have access to pharmacies and grocery stores already. you know are talking about people who are impoverished. and living within a system that's not supporting them. from my white house who said they're going to build back better with the president who is not popular enough with his own party to get that done, who has either lost is negotiation acumen and can't get it done with the moderates and his party, or risk capitulating those who are arm twisting behind his back. it's a complicated situation. and all of it falls in the hands of the criminal whose when the

criminal. they're going to take it an advantage of the situation. soft on crime das are flexing to get attention. an popularity in their own right. let's get it straight, that's why they are doing it. they don't get called out by this white house. even when the president comes to town. i don't mean to make him sound like a phantom, because he's not. >> laura? >> laura: he's cute like santa, so will start there. you don't think san is cute? >> i don't think joe biden said that. >> laura: well let's talk about crime, more exciting. listen, let's talk about what democrats are doing here in my home state of california. i'm in las vegas today but in my home state of california would busted a crime ring of over -- when you see these things being stolen about that's not one individual, that's an entire market place where people are making a ton of money. you have to cut the head off the snake. that's what democratic attorney general under democratic governor gavin newsom is done producing that response, like our new mayor in new york, do the same thing. you have to be smart on crime. crime is not a red or blue

problem. it exists at high rates in omaha, nebraska, and fort worth, texas, and miami, florida. >> harris: violent crimes exists in other states, most of them -- >> laura: harris it's up 30% and all those places because crime is up across the globe. it's a problem we have to tackle. if you just want to oversimplify it and say it's a partisan issue, it's simply not. if we want to be serious about it we need to work together. >> harris: what about those drains -- that's happening in a lot in los angeles. there international theft rings. they need to have places to go ship and sell those goods. they are sophisticated operations that require targeting, which is something california has done and we have to continue to do it. >> i'm from california and i respectfully disagree with you. i think you prove your point when you say danger is of further simplified.

i agree it's not a partisan issue but what we are seeing is a lack of deterrent consequences exacerbated by elected officials that don't have law enforcement backgrounds, that don't stand up for what they believe in in terms of law and order approach that makes compassion for black and brown communities with over -- he sells it to bodegas on the black market and the walgreens is shutting down because they are being guided now means that elderly and impoverished aren't getting their medicine, they are not -- the damages is really a ripple effect where when l.a. and san francisco failed to prosecute their end of the bargain and the link they represent in the criminal justice chain, that's where everything falls apart. receiving a lack of arrests, because there's a lack of prosecutions, because there is a lack of follow-through in the entire chain. that's what is destroying communities. i don't see california in any

way as a model of strong criminal justice. >> or the biden white house. >> laura: where is your pick of strong criminal justice? >> florida, texas. >> laura: they have crime there too. >> its true but there is a lower crime rate when you are clear about deterrent consequences and when you follow through with what those consequences are and you don't prioritize criminals rights over the citizens rights. >> laura: the violent crime rate is the same in those cities. it's rising at the same right so the fact doesn't match your analysis. >> we have to move on. i doubt getting blasted over her acceptance speech all because she said she loves being a woman. why some are now calling her transphobic. ♪ ♪

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people on social media were outraged. some calling her trans exclusionary radical feminist. this comes just two weeks after adele tearfully postponed her las vegas residency due to covid delays. of course she waited until the last second when the money had already rolled them. but i guess they're going to give some of that back to make it right. >> laura: i'm just going to channel my inner adele and say i was just being a bit cheeky. i understand this conversation, i get it. i think adele will survive while being a public figure and receiving criticism. when i get off the show i'll have plenty in my inbox i assure you. >> harris: we all understand that. >> laura: i also understand that 2021 was the deadliest year for trans people with more than 300 deaths. the presence of trans people, the threats they face is really high up there that's why you see

our reaction like that. trans and nonbinary people have existed amongst us for ever and only recently are starting to be recognized and identified and able to be comfortable in the present without threat of violence. >> harris: jason? >> jason: i don't want there to be violence but i don't want there to be anyone who takes their life or has their life taken from them. but i don't understand this. for her to say i'm proud of being a woman, i like being a woman, what's wrong with that? you don't have to tear somebody down in order to achieve what you want to achieve. if are going to attack one of the most popular people in entertainment, in the country, for saying she likes being a woman. i think the woke police have gone too far. >> harris: emily? >> emily: i would think that part of her strength and being an ally for the trans community would it be that she says i'm not one of you, i'm here proud to be a woman and also i support and amplify you. i'm not sure why she has to be vilified just because she is

comfortable in her own skin. >> kayleigh: for those saying she's a trans exclusionary radical feminist, also known as a turf, all because she says i love being a woman. what's wrong with saying that? what is wrong with the song we just played? i wonder if it's still on spotify. >> harris: you feels very strongly about your opinions and you express them in your confidence, right? not everybody feels like they can do that. so when she expresses herself i guess it comes across that she's trying -- she sat with oprah. >> what i would have said you just combine this category and i took it from all the men, women, and nonbinary people. it's an impressive achievement for adele across the board.

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