cincinnati. life long bengals fan. they changed the electronic sign. i want bengals to win for carol, you and percy. >> bill: congratulations to the rams. you had a fantastic season. i will see you monday. >> dana: here is harris. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. president biden's polling numbers went from bad to utterly horrendous and moderate democrats say the only thing that can save the political party is a major course correction. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". a new cnn poll finds 58% of adults disapprove of president biden's job performance with 41% of them saying they strongly disapprove. what does that mean? they want to fire him? and when asked to name a single positive thing that president

biden has done so far, 56% left it blank. they couldn't come up with a single thing. a "washington examiner" op-ed sums up how many voters say they're feeling. here is the headline. biden hasn't done anything right in his first year in office. that's pretty simple. sean hannity says these numbers should not surprise anyone. >> biden caused america's terrible 40-year high inflation, joe biden literally has once again made us dependent on energy the lifeblood of our economy, killed the keystone xl pipeline. restricted oil and gas drilling all over and exploration all over. joe biden caused the crisis at the southern border. it was easily preventable. joe biden abandoned americans in afghanistan and buckle up because biden is about to abandon more americans abroad in ukraine. >> harris: the american people are making their voices heard loud and clear.

the president was in virginia yesterday greeted by protestors who were chanting you know now the infamous let's go brandon. not as nice as he might think it is. we've seen him get confused about what it really means. moderate montana senator john tester said the political party is toast in november if something doesn't change. >> i honestly don't think the democratic party can be a majority party unless we start appealing to middle america a lot more. the area between the two mountain ranges. and if we're able to do that, i think it will provide success. >> harris: sean duffy is on the mezzanine with me. fox news contributor and former wisconsin congressman and i just want to welcome you. we've been feathering back. thank you for being with me today. >> this is the mez?

>> harris: right. let's start with where the president is and the reality when someone is suffering. you have run campaigns, you have won. what does it mean when someone suffers this badly in the minds of voters? >> what you think of a politician. you have your principle and the policy priorities. if you get it this wrong with the voter you change course. maybe there is a different tack i should take. i think what is happening here joe biden is not running the show. he brought in the globalist leftist elitist. i think old joe biden would change course. these folks don't care about the polls. they care about truly changing the course of america. fundamentally changing america. so they aren't changing. when you say that i fill up my car with gas and the prices have gone up dramatically i go that's joe biden's fault. they attacked american energy. when you borrow and spend money they see inflation and that's the cause of inflation.

americans are smart. you can't serve two masters. do you serve the elites that fund your campaigns or do you serve the middle class americans being just rolled by these policies. he is serving the people that fund him not the people that voted for him. >> harris: how problematic is it that some blue state governors are walking away from the president from mandates at schools and we'll go our own way and john tester who says you are talking to the wrong set of people. which is what you are saying. it is like they are listening to republicans on this issue. >> you would think the president would say i'm a leader and leader and say we'll remove the masks. if you have a significant outbreak in your community you can go back to masks. the science isn't there. the data is not there. let's take them off. instead joe biden is still wearing a mask outdoors with his wife. >> harris: sometimes. >> that's a problem.

harris. that's the problem. change course, lead for america. show them they can have their live back. this is what we hear on capitol hill. joe biden isn't changing course because he wants to wait for the state of the union and roll the policies back on march 1 instead of doing it now and wait three weeks, two weeks to make us suffer. >> harris: that's interesting. some of the blue state governors are doing that, too. murphy is waiting until march 7th and parents like myself who live there we're like what is the difference between february 7 and march 7 if science says it's this way? a group of 76 house republicans demanding president biden release his pandemic emergency powers and they want to see a plan for bringing the nation back to normal. but the president doesn't seem really ready to move forward yet. >> are you afraid that some states and cities are moving too quickly to loosen indoor mask mandates? >> president biden: well, you know, i committed that i would

follow the science and i think it's probably premature but a tough call. >> harris: did you say democrats are premature to make the decisions they're making? a huge billboard in times square that went up yesterday pressing president biden to follow the lead of governors and lift the federal mask mandates. one of those governors is from connecticut. >> they won't say zero infections anybody back on the field. that's not the way it works. we can deal with omicron or zombie con or whatever comes next and keep people safe. >> harris: a "washington examiner" op-ed saying this is all about politics for the left. democrats want voters to forget about vaccine mandates and lockdown fanaticism. your take. >> they do want us to forget

and trying to roll back the policies on masks and some mandates prior to the november november election and they think people will forget the massive power grab and influence in their lives and they think it is good politics. part of the poll numbers people are angry about masks. especially for their kids. you see little kindergartners and second graders with mask for two years. they have the least political powers. they don't give money and go to rallies. kids are suffering and the parents are angry. >> harris: i have always been curious about how you are in the white house, you heard kamala harris when her poll numbers started to go far south and they still are in the basement comparatively to where she should be. she said well i need to get out into the public more. but it seems like the more she gets out the more this president gets out the gaffes are one behind each other. what's the answer now? if tester and other rest saying

you don't see real people, if you can't go out to talk to them successfully you can't zoom for the rest of time. >> you can read the paper and twitter. watch the news. turn on harris on the mezzanine. you get a good dose what america is thinking. if they did that you would know the country is not happy and again open up american oil and gas. stop teaching kids crt and transgenderism to kindergartners and get the -- let's take off the masks. he would be doing great. i hate to give him political advice. the easy solution on the poll numbers. he could fix it. >> harris: he won't listen to you but he doesn't listen to the generals. look at afghanistan. you look at the track record whether somebody is listening to something that is descending to what they believe. shouldn't matter who the messenger is if it's good advice. speculation now. now i'm thinking, sean, who takes advantage of this?

republicans like yourself might. this person certainly will. hillary clinton taking a third shot at the white house ? she is set to speak at the new york state democratic convention next week. cnbc writes it's good for her because it keeps her relevant and her appearance is likely meant to galvanize the party. relevance is something we know she serves for. >> we were talking about covid all the time. have you been infected with covid. she has been infected with the political bug. she wants to be president and run a third time if the opening presents itself. i don't think democrats and america wants her. michelle obama would be a force but hillary clinton 82 years old on election day in 2024 and in all the history and baggage she brings i don't think she will be the answer to the democrat party. she thinks she is and she will make herself a player but i don't think the voters will go for her in the party. >> harris: when you look down

the road as you say at everybody's ages we've only kept company recently with older people. neither party is generating younger people. >> camp hair is but the others aren't. >> harris: lots a talk about ron desantis in florida because of how the covid-19 restriction decisions were made there. >> it has been profound in florida. he has truly led -- allowed for freedom in the state and wonderful results in the economy but not worse off in the states that had lockdowns. >> harris: we'll see. we know alexandria ocasio-cortez, the new york congresswoman thought enough of florida to go there. >> maskless. >> harris: to do whatever she wanted. good to have you on the mez. my best to rachel and all your beautiful children. the sarah palin defamation

lawsuit is exploding a lot and really giving a black eye to "the new york times." the paper has not lost a lawsuit like this one in 50 years. that streak could come to an end. plus this. >> i think the invasion is much more likely than not. russia has troops encircling ukraine and they're exposed on almost every front. >> harris: president biden vows he will not send u.s. troops into ukraine to evacuate americans if russia invades. did we learn nothing from afghanistan? former green beret congressman michael waltz in "focus" next.

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>> the fact is that russia has troops encircling ukraine and are exposed on almost every front. my estimate based on the late troop movements into belarus is that vladimir putin decided he wanted to get to the capital sooner rather than later. days not weeks for that potential invasion. >> harris: we have a lot of americans there like last count it was thousands. fox news alert on this now. president biden is declaring that under no circumstances would he send american troops into ukraine even to evacuate those american citizens if vladimir putin invades. right now russia and belarus are holding major military exercises along the ukraine border. about 130,000 troops are taking part in that.

russian troops surround the country an three fronts. >> what scenario would you put american troops to rescue and. >> president biden: when they start shooting at one another we're in different world. >> the white house says president biden is on the phone at this moment with nato leaders regarding the situation here in ukraine and neighboring poland. boris johnson issued the following warning. >> were russia to be so foolish to make the mistake of invading any part of ukraine, the ukrainian army, which themselves number 200,000, 150,000 in reserve they will fight and there will be blood shed. >> the russian defense minister released this video for the start of the joint military exercises with belarus. tanks moving across an open

plane and air assault. what happens when the drills end? do the russians go home. invade ukraine? u.s. officials say an invasion would be bloody, 5 million ukrainians made into refugees. to protect nato nations on ukraine borders the u.s. air force is sending f-16 fighter jets from a base in germany to romania that borders ukraine to the south. i spoke to the head of u.s. army europe and asked what is putin's motivation behind this build-up on ukraine's border? >> he sees the idea of a ukraine that begins to look like poland or estonia in terms of freedom and prosperity on his border. that is a real danger for him because then russian people are going to say why don't we have that? why is our life so bad compared to how it is in ukraine? that's the danger he is concerned about. >> another shipment of weapons arrived here today in ukraine

including american javelin anti-tank missiles. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. a lot of good information to get me going here. "the new york times" with an op-ed titled america's russian policy has a biden problem. the real problem in administration policy is the president. the insular nature of his decision making lacks rigorous thinking and fuels a kind of arrogance most egregiously. he let russia know it need not fear u.s. troops fighting to help ukraine saying publicly there is not going to be any american forces moving into ukraine. congressman michael waltz now republican of florida, former army green beret sits on the house armed services committee. i imagine that committee is very busy these days. thank you for being in "focus." i have to start with our american citizens. look, what happens with them with enough, you know, lead-up time to get them out must look

different than afghanistan. it just has to. >> harris, here we go with afghanistan all over again if you listen to what the president is saying. we need to be sewing doubt into putin's decision making and we need to be whether troops -- we're prepared to put troops in or not and we also -- you know, we need to have that leverage on the table. i think we need to send a very clear deterrence message that american citizens will not be harmed and we are prepared to act. at the end of the day, what we face is a russian invasion where we have a lot of americans trapped behind enemy lines and now they become leverage for putin just like they became leverage for the taliban that they are still using to this day. >> harris: congressman, if our american citizens left in a

country in danger are not the red line that would tip us further with military action, what is? >> yeah, it is fundamentally unamerican in my view to leave our fellow citizens behind and abandon our allies or like dictators dictate the terms. that's exactly what -- that's exactly what biden continues to do. i think you hit on something in that he came in with such a breath and decade of experience in terms of globetrotting the world and meeting with these folks but he has come in with a level of stubbornness and we're seeing that in the reporting that's coming out where he wouldn't listen to the pentagon in terms of the policy in afghanistan and the withdrawal. and he isn't listening now. in fact, he is taking troops off the table. i'm not advocating for thousands of american boots on the ground fighting russians but you have that on the table because that is how your

diplomacy is effective when they are backed by a big stick and once again and we saw the obama team do this back in 2013, 2014 when you remove any prospect of military response, you are green lighting putin's aggressiveness. >> harris: putin will take advantage of that. biden has been taking numbers off the table in terms of troops. originally it would be 8,500 in the nato nations that surround ukraine, which is not part of nato. but they might be exposed because of humanitarian exits or whatever. now we are down to 3,000. i don't understand the strategy. you mentioned it so i want to get into it. rejected totally completely rejected what biden said about the army's scathing report on the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. these are the leaders in the military, congressman, that you were just talking about that he ignored. during that chaos, 13 u.s.

service members were killed in a terrorist attack at the gates of the kabul airport. the report harshly criticized the biden administration for not listening to the leaders on the ground about what would happen if u.s. troops abruptly pulled out. let's watch. >> interviewed many military officials and officers who said the administration ignored the handwriting on the wall. another described trying to get folks in the embassy ready to evacuate encountering people essentially in denial of the situation. does any of that ring true to you? >> president biden: no, no. it's not what i was told. >> i want to clarify are you rejecting the conclusions or the accounts in this army report? >> president biden: yes, i am. >> they are not true? >> president biden: i'm rejecting them. >> harris: is he calling those military leaders liars? >> it sounds like it. he is absolutely rejecting.

these are sworn testimony under uniform code of military justice. it's like being in a courtroom when you sign the sworn statements. everyone who has been a commander have had to lead and sign off on. taking a step back, harris, he rejected the advice of leaving a small force of special operators and intelligence operatives so we could keep a lid on terrorism. he rejected the notion that if we pulled the afghan military's logistic and intelligence and maintenance support they would likely collapse and they did and then he rejected the advice that we had to begin the evacuation immediately while we still had military assets on the ground for both our american citizens and our allies or it would lead to utter chaos and we saw what

unfolded and now he says i didn't know but i make no apologies for everything that went wrong. those 13 gold star families deserve answers. they deserve better than this and i can tell you what if we get in the majority in the house in 11 months we'll get that accountability and get those answers. >> harris: a lot to unpack there. i can't wait to have you back in "focus." the president now through lucas tomlinson's reporting is on the phone with nato leaders. i wonder what he is telling them this time. he did not give them a heads-up about afghanistan last time. that's something that has come out in the reporting. 2,000 pages from your military leadership and you reject that, 2,000 pages. it is unbelievable. i don't know how the american people can look at this president now and have full faith and trust that we'll get all of our people out with his help. that's my question. maybe they'll have to get out on their own or with the help of congress. >> he said you are on your own.

they could have drug their feet on that and they released all of it unredacted and speaks to their level of frustration. they want the american people to know it. >> harris: congressman waltz of the great state of florida thank you. still looking for answers, republicans not letting the f.b.i. off the hook on a memo that told the feds they could go after concerned parents at school board meetings. remember that? and then there is this. >> right now there is no action on the horizon that will kill inflation. the culprit at this point is really the federal reserve. we're in the midst of a price and wage spiral. >> harris: larry kudlow never sugar coats anything. the highest inflation we have seen in more than a generation. some analysts are saying the crisis falls on one person and the president going off when questioned on the issue that is

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>> harris: a group of republicans are not backing down. they are accusing the f.b.i. of stonewalling on answers about the now infamous department of justice memo. the department green lit the f.b.i. to go after concerned parents showing up at school board meetings. congressman jim jordan of ohio is leading the charge. he called out f.b.i. director christopher wray for ignoring questions about using the nation's counter terrorism resources on parents. quote, your response regrettably highlights the f.b.i.'s pattern of refusing to accept accountability for its actions and explains why public trust in the f.b.i. senior leadership has eroded so significantly. attorney general merrick garland has not rescinded the memo and defended it last year.

>> we are not investigating peaceful protests or parent involvement in school board meetings. we're only concerned about violence, threats of violence against school administrators, teachers, staff. that's what this is about. a place where people who feel that they've been threatened with violence can report that. we did not sic the f.b.i. on parents. that's not what this memorandum is about. >> harris: if he looks for threats of violence go to chicago and new york city and walk the streets. power panel now jason chaffetz, fox news contributor and former republican utah congressman. kevin walling, former biden campaign surrogate. great to see you both. kevin, i will start with you. just get your top line thoughts on what is happening with this issue. >> harris, i'm all about transparency and investigations if warranted. i reread the october memo and

it talked about the increase in threats that we were seeing play out in school board and classrooms across the country. that's a terrible thing. i'm all about ratcheting down threats and violence of things like that. at no point did the memo mention parents. they mentioned increased threats. >> harris: did you think it was toward anybody else? who is showing up at school board meetings? if they didn't mean parents the national school board association group wouldn't have apologized to the parents. they were the ones that sentd the memo to the white house with the wording they wanted in the first place. who did you think they were talking about if not parents? >> i think they were talking about individuals in the country threatening school board members whether it's parents or members of the community. when threats cross a line law enforcement gets involved. it's working with state and local law enforcement to bring down the rhetoric and to track those threats across the board. >> harris: why couldn't we --

jason, why couldn't it be our government would trust local law enforcement municipalities to know their community and respond. when they call 911 whoever shows up i don't see the f.b.i. answering 911 calls. that's not their job. >> as if the f.b.i. doesn't have enough to do. they are supposed to be in charge of counter intelligence and kidnapping and sex trafficking and all these things and they're worried about school boards? that's the question jim jordan and other members of congress are asking. what's the national conspiracy that you see evidence of to justify allocating resources such as you did? it really should be up to the local sheriff if it's a big city or even a small city, the city police can take care of this. there is no evidence out there that this is some nationwide conspiracy that justifies using the resources of the federal bureau of investigation. what is it, mr. attorney general, that you saw that we

should be aware of as a nation that is going on there? i think we know a lot of the answer but the department of justice has not come clean in sharing that information with congress and the american public. >> harris: this group of house republicans won't let the issue go. if there was any hope people would be forgetting about it, they won't be. look at the state of virginia, kevin. this is an issue with parents getting involved in their kids' lives after they were locked up in the house with us for almost two years. we see that their education is and who is participating and want to be a bigger part of it. another hostile moment with the media. the president going after nbc's lester holt, nice guy, over a very fair question. >> said inflation was going to be temporary. i think a lot of americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is? >> president biden: you are being a wise guy with me a little bit. i understand that's your job. the reason for inflation is the

supply chains were cut off meaning that the products -- for example, automobiles. the lack of computer chips to be able to build those automobiles, number of cars were reduced, new cars reduced. made up 1/3 of the cost of inflation because the cost of automobiles are up. >> harris: we see rising prices everywhere. gas prices up by 40% at the same time last year. the average household is paying $276 more per month compared with a year ago. a "washington examiner" op-ed says biden created his own inflation problem with reckless spending that began his administration. he inherited a rapidly recovering economy. all he had to do was get out of the way and let it happen and claim credit. he couldn't manage that. reverse order this time. jason. >> we have a biden problem. it is this biden inflation. when your food is up 7%, when

your fuel is up 40%, when real wages are down 1.7% you have this perfect storm and the only solution that democrats offer is raise your taxes and spend more money. spending more money is going to exacerbate the problem, not solve the problem. the federal government is spending about one out of every $4 spernt in this country is spent by the federal government. you can't continue to sustain that. the only solution that biden/harris and democrats over is build back better. let's spend trillions more and make the problems worse. >> harris: if he can even get that. maybe they'll get something to give the president a win. the big question, kevin, would be, too, what about the american people? why does the president and why does it take him so long to catch up with where everybody is on this issue? they've been saying for months things are really expensive and for months gasoline was headed in the wrong direction.

he told us it was in our heads. supply chain crisis, we'll fix that, his words. he has this lag and it is not good. >> the president has been focused like a laser on this going back to fall where we saw this opening the oil reserves, talking about competition. >> harris: if this is like a laser, it is not working. >> he was talking about inflation in the virginia and stumping for build back better and aspects and lowering the cost of prescriptions drugs and putting more money in middle class families. tangible things this president is focusing on and campaigning on to get past the finish line. i hope that aspects of that build back better plan will pass and maybe they have to be stand alone components. this is a crisis for the american people and the president is focused on that crisis. >> harris: people will ask why didn't you do some of the stand alone things when it could have

helped democrats to have wins going into the mid-terms? it is circular. >> i hope we will. >> harris: what you are pointing to is messaging. when you call lester holt a wise guy you have lost the battle because you can't get the answer to the question. >> it was a joke remark. smiling when he said it, harris. >> harris: i know. inflation is not funny. good to see you. democratic lawmaker facing intense backlash after saying parents who want a say in their children's education should cough up the money for private schools and yes, this really happened. >> there was no secret kabul to indoctrinate kids. they sent the wrong document. >> harris: a connecticut public school is serving up a special lesson for eighth graders, pizza and sex. it sound like a nice friday night for adults. but parents are fuming over what happened that put this

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the closing arguments are currently underway at this hour in sarah palin's defamation lawsuit against "the new york times." the former vice presidential candidate and former alaska governor claims the times defamed her in a 2017 op-ed. the piece claimed her political pac incited a 2011 mass shooting that killed six people and severely wounded gabby gifford. the times admitted it was a mistake and said it acted without malice and corrected the mistake. i tell you what new york is buzzing with sarah palin's name today because it is painful for the times no matter how it turns out. >> sarah palin has beaten "the new york times" in the court of public opinion in what she described on the stand as a david and goliath battle. her testimony showed words can wounds. devastated and having trouble sleeping as a former v.p. nominee after the times

editorial falsely accused her. political incitement in a shooting where six people died, the james bennett said he inserted the mistakes. didn't do research. the whole political incitement was debunked six years earlier and impossible to imagine the paper would have published such a smear against a prominent democrat. >> harris: it is interesting and i have heard some of the response if you will from the times. i don't know if you can call it an effective defense. what they said is every news organization has a way of editing things and vetting things and we all make mistakes. but the facts at the time, all the news that is fit to print had room to fit the part they made up is the real problem here. is this systemic or not? >> not just any mistake that showed the process was broken down and incompetence and bias. he was in a rush to do it he

didn't wait for a woman who wrote the editorial to see it where it could have been corrected. the times defense is it is horrible, awful. we made a mistake, please forgive us. we corrected it online the next day. the main point is sarah palin has exposed how an editorial can be weaponized against someone an editor doesn't like. she is unlikely to win the case but court of public opinion it has been a humiliating week for "the new york times." >> harris: we'll keep up with the outcome. egg on the face of the times. we'll see if sarah palin wins the actual case. thank you for being in "focus." democrat wisconsin state congresswoman is facing serious backlash for a tweet. if parents want a say in their child's education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget. social media users lit her up.

texas republican congressman chip roy. it's astoundingly tone deaf. another one joked only rich people should have school choice. and someone should ask the representative who exactly pays for public schooling. who would that be? the lawmaker deleted the tweet and apologized saying it was misconstrued. critics say it was too little too late. cat tymp, gutfeld co-host is here. the sheer ignorance of people still thinking you can take something down off the internet and the fact those people have anything to do with education is mind blowing to me. >> absolutely. as you mentioned a lot of the backlash had to do with howie -- how elite it was. you want to care and be involved in your child's life? that's basic and healthy. to me the main thing i can't get out of my head is how she never heard of taxes.

these parents do pay for the school. and it makes you think how else might that impact her other decisions and not realizing she is voting on spending on something. she doesn't realize she is spending the people's money. they pay her salary, too. >> harris: i think about what governor ducey in arizona was proposing many months ago with the masking controversy. if you want your child to be in a different environment we'll give you the $7,000 to be paid for your children's education in public school. i didn't see this representative offering up any cash. here, take what we're already spending your tax money and couple this with whatever you would want to do for private school. >> no way it could have been misconstrued. that's a blanket defense people use. i know what all the words mean and she meant what she said. >> harris: let's keep the school theme. parents count. one connecticut school is under fire for handing out a pizza

and consent assignment to eighth grade students. the assignment said that pizza can be used as a metaphor for sex. it instructed students to list their favorite and least favorite pizza toppings in relation to sexual things they like to do. for example, cheese equals kissing. other topics represented feelings and other activities. and imagine this. parents are outraged. the school superintendent said this. >> truth was it was a mistake. and i know that there are some who may not believe that. i know there are some who don't necessarily maybe want that answer. this was simply an error. there was no hidden agenda. there was no way to indoctrinate kids on something. they sent the wrong document. >> harris: how does that happen? >> i don't know how it happens when the document in question is this. i think that you might -- i

would double-check a little bit before i sent something out to an entire school. always good to check before you email somebody. why does this -- i don't know why in document exists? if you're not mature enough to talk about sex without using pizza metaphors maybe you aren't mature enough. >> harris: that's an interesting point. i dug deeper. it is based on a program developed by a guy who did a ted talk and for adults. he didn't get as explicit as these people did. they didn't accidentally send out the document to eighth graders and their families. they took it up a level like it got really nasty what they were talking about in the pizza toppings? >> the fact we can't talk about it here. that we as adults can't talk about it shows maybe it is not appropriate for 12 and 13-year-olds. >> harris: what's the recourse in your mind?

it seems like as parents we are often thought of as the afterthought. okay, you came to this meeting. somebody better tell them what happened. where are we right now? >> i think with a lot of school having been on zoom parents are more involved because it is happening in their home. parents have always wanted to be involved and they should be. i think that we need more choices for parents because every community is differentened every individual student is different. a lot of times the one size fits all doesn't fit so many kids. >> harris: wow, i love that. one size fits all doesn't fit very many. >> no. >> harris: this representative i wonder if she would pitch in some of her tax paid salary to pay for a child's education to get away from the sex and pizza. >> it is the most normal thing in a world for a parent to care about their child. this will be a hot take and i think that's good.

>> harris: i conflated two things there. the woman, the representative who wants if you don't like school the way it is take your kid the private school and a parent objecting to pizza and sex and the way it's taught. we made a mistake and it is tough to swallow. >> if i saw that and was supposed to send it out i would be like, are you sure? >> harris: "outnumbered" after the break.

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