happens. i am comfortable now. >> sandra: the look on his face when he turns around finally and settles in. that's pretty awesome. >> bill: we did not get the verdict. maybe you will this afternoon. >> sandra: we'll be told we'll have a verdict. i'll be back tomorrow. >> harris: suddenly president biden's advisors are out in full force defending their boss. why now? gas prices catastrophically jumped a full 5 cents overnight. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the national average for a regular gallon of gas has hit a new record of $4.67. that's nearly 50 cents in the past month alone. and more than 60% higher than it was a year ago at this time.

we're told to brace, it will get worse. one energy analyst predicting the national average will hit $5 a gallon around june 17th. that's just a couple of weeks from now. the message from the white house, though, continues to be don't blame us. >> when the price goes up at the pump typical families feel it. when the price of diesel goes up it affects logistics and transportation costs and this is unfortunately the impact of putin's war in ukraine. >> this is a global inflation issue that has certainly been affected by things like the aggression in ukraine that were hard to predict. >> give us a forecast. where can you have gas prices by the end of the year? where will they be? >> what you are doing right now is trying to put me in the position of being a forecaster. >> harris: all right, if that weren't so sad, right, we could laugh about it.

that is your job to know what is coming down the pike. wow. president biden's meeting with the fed chair jay powell yesterday kicked off with the white house -- [inaudible]. president affirming a laser focus on addressing inflation while saying he would give the central bank space to do its job. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre pivoted to the administration talking points if biden takes any responsibility for the price of gasoline. >> do you guys think that any part of inflation this year is because of president biden's spending plan or is it all putin's fault? >> since the war we have seen an uptick on gas prices. >> so the next question would be does president biden take any responsibility for his policies potentially contributing to inflation?

>> his policies have helped the economy get back on its feet. >> harris: she seems so nice even if her facts are wrong. house minority leader kevin mccarthy republican of california in "focus" now. i hadn't seen that clip. it is hard to believe people in this administration not only don't want to do their jobs but congressman, don't they know what their jobs are? >> they do not. anybody with economy 101 understands supply and demand. if you have greater supply of something the price will go down. what we watched from the first day of this presidency was to go after the supply of american-made energy. stopping the xl pipeline, stopping leases. in the last month he stopped leases in alaska and the gulf of mexico. no, the price of gasoline is not going to go down, it will go up. what effects does that cause? it creates inflation for the goods being transferred and oil goes into more than just your tank of gas. it goes into the buttons in your shirt, the making of your

phone. everything that we do. so he and what did he just announce in the last week or so? he was happy that the price of gasoline was up because he thinks people can go buy electric cars. we look at moody's analytics. it is now costing families $311 more dollars per month. that's costing people a new car payment without getting the car. and what else did he do? remember it wasn't just republicans who warned him about that $2 trillion wasteful dollars that passed by democrats only, it was larry summers, obama's treasury secretary, steve ratner. now you have treasury secretary yellen apologizing saying she was wrong. but what did that do? it paid people to stay home, which hurt the supply chain, made businesses have to pay more for people to come to work, and then what else did they do in the administration? passed the most regulations in the shortest time period where businesses came out of a pandemic and having inflation again increased inflation by more than 11%. they are the cause of this.

they have created this. now they are trying to spin it as somebody's else's problem but no idea or plan how to get out of it. >> harris: secretary yellen has a lot to apologize for after those comments about how black women can't get abortions we hurt the economy. i don't care about her, though or what she says. she is another one who seems not to know what her responsibility is. when the president says he will tap now the reserves for diesel, you know, diesel, all those trucks that bring us all the things you listed that we can't live without like food, what does that do? >> it weakens america. think about it. this is the reserves in case we got in trouble. we can create more diesel. we can create more natural gas. it harms the world by not being safe. what happened after the action he took? he emboldened putin. putin got more money to put into his own war. it destabilized europe to have

to rely on putin instead of america. if america had more jobs, america energy inkey pendant america supplying our allies with natural gas and american natural gas is 41% cleaner than russian natural gas. the environment would be safer if america was able to produce it. then what do you do in the middle east while we started peace in the middle east with the abraham accords? he went back to iran, upsetting saudi arabia and others. he has done every decision wrong in the process of going and to use our reserves now for in the future why doesn't he create more supply to make the price go down? that would be the answer. >> harris: and we did get answers from you so that we know that there are answers out there. i'm wondering if the president is willing to listen to you. quickly the president is set to meet virtually with infant formula manufacturerers today as that crisis is continuing to go on. a forbes article highlights the

challenges for smaller companies to make baby formula pointing to one company that took five years to get their startup off the ground. quote, the high barriers to entry illustrate why there are so few new baby formula makers and why the united states will continue to be vulnerable to shortages. is there an opportunity to kill several birds with one stone with good leadership here? what would that look like? >> first thing he should have taken leadership a year ago when we warned him about this. they have done this action with every simple problem we see going forward. instead of tackling the problem they push it off until it becomes too great and blame somebody else. if they would lower regulation. meet their fda. why aren't they sitting in the plant months ago? what needs to be corrected today to make this safe to be able to produce it? why wouldn't they work over the weekend? why wouldn't they get this done? >> harris: i took notes on that. those are things that are actionable. have a meeting with the fda.

he met already with the manufacturerers. i don't know what it was like. it was a phone call we got a few notes on. what you are talking about is actionable actions. i would love for them to meet with the fda. i still have dwes what to do next. hillary clinton's campaign attorney is walking away free today but his trial dropped some critical information about what clinton and her operatives were doing behind the scenes to damage then candidate donald trump. republicans on capitol hill are fuming after the not guilty verdict came down for michael sussman. that attorney who was charged with lying to the f.b.i. prosecutors from special counsel john durham's office contend that sussman misrepresented himself during a meeting with the f.b.i.'s counsel in 2016 in hopes of orchestrating perhaps a little october surprise against president rival donald trump. house judiciary republicans tweeted this. the swamp always protects its own. senator ron johnson, further

proof there are separate systems of justice in america. and this from senator marsha blackburn. today's verdict while deeply disappointing is not the end. minutes before the verdict was handed down, republican jim jordan joined the "focus." watch. >> the big takeaway here was what we learned a few days back when we learned that secretary clinton told sussman to take information -- false information to the press that was also then taken to the f.b.i. i think that is huge and so much so that the former attorney general called it seditious. >> harris: your reaction to that? >> despite what the verdict is. the one thing we learned the clinton campaign coordinated, pushed this false narrative out there. it goes further than just hillary clinton. think about it. it goes to jake sullivan that is now in the biden administration at the national security advisor.

why isn't he being removed from that position now that we have all this information? >> harris: that's a great question. all right. we'll move on. the house january 6th committee will begin its series of six hearings next week. congressman mccarthy, yourself, congressman jordan and three of your colleagues have so far refused to comply with subpoenas to testify. an argument there is risk being held in contempt of congress if you don't do so. the minority leader, yourself and mr. jordan accusing democrats of weaponizing the government to attack republicans by cherry picking information and selectively leaking it to the press as the committee works behind closed doors. and your take. >> look, my position has not changed on this committee. it is not valid because republicans were not allowed to appoint anybody. it is purely pelosi appointed. they said pelosi was off limits to know what she did about the national guard.

we're sitting with the highest inflation, gas prices rising more than 50 cents, people struggling to pay their rent, baby formula not being made, aborder that is unsecure. fentanyl the number one killer of americans between the ages of 18 and 45. crime is in our streets and this is what the democrats have planned to go after their political adversaries? this is what's wrong with democrat-control one party rule in washington >> harris: i want to quickly ask you about the pelosi-appointed committee as you put it. was there ever an opportunity to take another look at that as we went on? even the public, when you poll them, people wanted this to look more like a 9/11-type situation where everybody had a voice in there. is there room for that now? my mom used to say never too late to do something great. this needs to be effective for the country to see what happened. everybody would want to participate in that, i would think. is it too late? >> you would think so.

pelosi played politics for seven months. remember, republicans and myself came out right after january asking for that type of situation. she said no. remember what adam schiff just did? he put an email out before i even received my subpoena fundraising off the idea that they would subpoena republicans. this is purely political. why would nancy pelosi never in the history of congress not allow the minority to appoint their own people? it is devised. why would they pick it and ride out the deadline. the senate had a bipartisan committee on both sides look at it and put out a report. why was the capitol so unprepared that day? why were the police officers not trained as well? why was the riot gear locked in a bus down the street? why wasn't the warning given to members themselves? all these different things. what has changed to make sure that capitol would be more prepared so nothing like this could ever happen again. >> harris: all great questions. so glad you were in "focus"

today. thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: a texas community and a warning. funerals beginning for the young victims of the uvalde elementary school shooting. today's "new york post" with this powerful cover, 21 goodbyes for those 19 children and two teachers who died. now fresh questions about the initial police response locally. and what officials have told the public. state investigators say a request for an interview with the school police chief has gone unanswered for days. senior correspondent casey stiegel is live for us in uvalde, texas. casey. >> good morning. in the days following this attack just as you were saying state investigators told the public the gunman had entered robb elementary school through a door that had been left propped open. exterior to the school. that was not accurate.

they say the exterior door had been closed by a teacher but didn't lock like it was supposed to. the changing of key information has angered money as they are trying to cope with the grief with the next 2 1/2 weeks filled with funerals and burials and young survivors trying to process. >> my friend, she started trying to call the police with her friend's phone and when they did that, he started to -- my teacher that was screaming saying no and ms. garcia was. he shot my friend and my teacher and then after that he started shooting everybody. >> the uvalde school district

police chief, the one in charge that day, is under a microscope. dps says he did one interview with investigators but hasn't got ep back with them for follow-ups the past two days. he did take a new oath of office yesterday assuming the city council seat he won in the election about two weeks before the shooting. harris. >> harris: listening to little chloe there, she is so brave, oh my goodness. makes you want to hug all of those who survived and continue to pray for those we lost. casey stiegel, thank you. black staffers reportedly are leaving the white house in droves in what some in the west wing are calling a mass blackist. the white house is pushing back. we'll hear about that. this disturbing news from biden. well, it's from coast to coast for him. >> it's bad when joe biden is even under water in the deep

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>> harris: john hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate president ronald reagan in 1981, is going free. he has been granted full, unconditional release. hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for that attack on march 30th, 1981,

outside a hotel in washington, d.c. he shot president reagan who made a full recovery. he shot and critically wounded press secretary james brady, who was left permanently disabled. u.s. district judge paul friedman says 67-year-old hinckley is no longer a danger to himself and all of his symptoms have been m remission for decades. hinckley's release takes effect on june 15th. the white house denying a new report "politico" with the headline biden sees exodus of black staffers and some frustration among those who remain. they write at least 21 black staffers have left the white house since late last year or are planning to leave soon and more. black staffers say they face little support from their superiors and few chances for promotion. in a statement, the white house

criticizing the -- they devoted -- they present a disingenuous picture of the most diverse white house in history. here is an rnc senior advisor on it. >> i think it just goes to show that this administration is disappointing the black community. not only black american voters who have seen a dramatic decline in support for the biden/harris white house but from their own staffers. they are leaving because they don't feel supported. how can they go home to their communities and tells them that this white house understands them when they don't feel that way? >> harris: our power panel. great to have you. i will heard of brexist not blacksist. when they giving something a nickname for something happening for many people in a

group is a never a good thing. >> i lived in d.c. for many years and this kind of conversation is one that happens in these internal circles with black staffers that work in multiple branches of government under democrats. we know since the 1980s black americans have been the reason for democrats to win any primary and we also know that joe biden had 22% of his voter count were african-americans. he felt the need to make a number of promises as to what he would do for the community. he failed. we continue to see him failing the african-american community to the degree that he lost 20% of black voters in the recent months. so this is a damaging report for the white house especially one that says they care about black america. >> harris: it doesn't work out well when we nickname something. for the people who didn't want britain to exit with its european neighbors it wasn't a good thing and if this is

really happening the way the numbers would show that it is inside the white house, biden has to do something, yes? >> well let's look at the numbers. 20 african-americans who left. 9 who complained. the other people advanced themselves in career educational opportunities. i am a white woman, not an african-american woman and i don't work in this administration. however, when you look at not just the most diverse administration in the first 100 days, 18% of this administration were african-american, you have the first black woman vice president. you have the first african-american supreme court justice and defense secretary. the list goes on. currently there are six african-americans in president biden's cabinet. to say there is not room for advancement just looking at people in these positions makes me, like i said as a white woman, drop my jaw. i don't think that the article was comprehensive enough because they should have interviewed all 20 of the african-americans who left.

so i think this tag line is good for twitter but not sure it's the reality. >> harris: we don't no what the legal situation is for the others who left. i imagine there will be some representation. there always is when employee issues come up. i want to say this. >> a super quick follow-up. >> harris: symone sanders left from the vice president's staff but you are talking about white house situations. you mentioned the vice president. just because people are in certain positions we aren't better than each other. it's all about a high tide rising all boats. it's a little odd to me that you would list six people when 30 people have left. >> the political article said folks that identify as black. that's an important key phrase. that identify as black. 2014 and 2021 in october there

was a letter with 300 black former staffers on capitol hill who complained about what the democratic party has not done for them. we also know that in the senate out of all the staffers in the senate, the two highest placed senate staffers were republican senate staffers, not democrat. scott's chief of staff was one of those people. we have to look at this more broadly. this is democrats in general. they don't support diversity unless they are preaching to a company. they don't do it for themselves. >> harris: despite saying he doesn't look at the polls, president biden is reportedly quote, unquote, twisted over his approval rating. that's the word. across 50 states it's below what president trump's was at the same time during his term. biden's approval rating is 40.7%. trump's was 41.6%. the poll shows president biden is below 50% in 49 states including new york, where he is

only at 42%. it is like cobalt blue politics in new york. he as low as 18% right now in wyoming and 19% in west virginia. hawaii is the only state where he is polling above 50%. only 52% there. these numbers piling on the pain for democrats ahead of the mid-term elections. leslie, you often will say we have so much time. we are inching our way to having a whole lot less time. what does biden do? >> first of all, every president and politician and every person not only looks at the poll numbers of the predecessor especially if their predecessor, donald trump, might be your opponent next time around. poll numbers, these poll numbers are concerning not only to the president but for my party. we know historically that the party in power loses usually control of the house and that might happen. i don't like to see that for my

party. that's reality historically. some people say it will be a tsunami. i hope not. the numbers are not positive for the president. the president i don't believe has always made decisions based on the polls but to say the president doesn't see them, care about them or completely ignores them. i don't buy that. >> harris: she called him out. >> i think joe biden is beginning to believe his own gas lighting. he says everything is going great when gas is as high as it has ever been and a formula shortage and you can't get a burger at the same cost you used to. poor people are hurting in the country including middle class people are hurting in the country and joe biden has doing a terrible job. what do they expect? 90% of the media is supportive of him but people have woke up and don't trust the mainstream media to give them the honest story on joe biden anymore. he have is a disaster. >> harris: the kind of woke that maybe the party on the

left doesn't like. that awakening. good to see you both. thank you. another day, another white house walk back of one of the president's comments. he doesn't like it when his staff does that. he doesn't like to be corrected. the white house denies the new report saying the president is angry over his staff's constant attempts at damage control. one of them happened just yesterday and more controversy over what you are about to see. >> i knew there would be scrutiny against me but i also don't need anybody's permission to be myself and to do the sport that i love. >> harris: former university of pennsylvania lia thomas insisting that trans women are not a threat to women's sports but others say biology is biology. jason rantz in "focus" next.

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>> president biden: 9 millimeter bullets -- the idea of these high-caliber weapons is there is no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection. >> i supports a ban on sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines and expanded background checks to keep guns out of dangerous hands. he does not support a ban on the sale of all handguns. >> harris: white house press secretary breaking a sweat having to clean up again after president biden remarks that left many scratching their heads. those latest damage control efforts come on the very same day that nbc news published a

report saying the president is furious at his aides for constantly walking back his off the cuff comments. according to the report, quote, the so-called cleanup campaign he has told advisors it undermines him and smothers the authenticity that fueled his rise. worse it is the republican talking point that he isn't fully in command. the white house issued a statement categorically denying the report. are they denying they are not cleaning up or denying he is yelling at them about it? jason rantz, host of the jason rantz show on ktth talk radio in seattle. which is it? >> it's a good question. i imagine at this point they are still going to gas light the american people saying we aren't actually correcting the president we're clarifying some things that you guys misinterpreted. that's my guess. the statements coming from president biden, they are

patently false. they are woefully ignorant on his part because i think he believes this kind of rhetoric will sway the american people and certainly when you have a tragedy like we had in texas, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to listen to that rhetoric and it might connect with them even though it's completely false. what this president has been able to get away with through his campaign and until recently is flat out lying or gas lighting. for the most part the media outside of fox news has been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and go along because they support his positions. now we're starting to see a little bit of that starting to crack because the lies are so blatant and the misstatements are so over the top that they have to be corrected. let's be clear. his misstatements get way more coverage than the -- mission accomplished for him. >> harris: that's a sad and often very true statement. so it's interesting because the president seems to have a

shortness of aptitude sometimes when he steps before the microphone and, you know, days after uvalde, texas, which you just acknowledged, if he had to talk politics and had to talk guns he has to know that north of 30% of nra members are democrats. does he not know who the potentially audience for him is politically? make a comment and we'll move on. >> there is such a disconnect between the democratic party that's vocal on guns and the actual democrat base. the progressives don't like guns but democrats in general take a much different view. they are against blanket bans. they want reasonable gun control but disagree on what reasonable means than what the democratic party right now considers reasonable. >> harris: we all agree with the facts and handguns were not on the list of anything being talked about in any of these bills. i don't know where he got it.

"new york post" op-ed argues gas prone blow hard biden is no churchill. have you seen so few to have to clarify so much adding biden is less flagrant than trump. he is not firing top officials on twitter or making pronouncements based on the last thing he saw on tv but he is also less entertaining. he majs himself the adult in the room at the same time he declowns himself and makes consequential verbal missteps. this is the authentic biden but it is not inspiring, praise worthy or reassuring. how much. >> again, you compare what the reality is now when the media is not giving him the coverage they gave him as far as the come pen tennessee goes. it was easy when you had trump giving ammunition and fuel to the left to focus on. the attention wasn't on all the gaffes that biden was committing.

remember, when he was being pushed as the nominee and as the next inevitable president it was about calming things down. going back to normal. getting the adult in the room who will take care of the situation. we've had way more problems under biden than we did under trump. now people have to imagine or wonder maybe it was worth putting up with some of the angry tweets in the middle of the night because at least at the end of the day mothers can feed their kids and we weren't going through the economic crises that we are right now. >> harris: we'll move to this. former u penn swimmer lia thomas is hitting back to critics after backlash of her division i swimming title in march. the first transgender athlete to take that title and set a record in the process. critics call it unfair and even some have her own teammates speaking out against her competing against biological women. but they say they supported her

decision to transition. thomas says you don't have it both ways. >> you can't go halfway and be like i support trans women and trans people but only to a certain point. trans women are not a threat to women's sports. i'm not a medical expert but there is a lot of variation among cis women. some have more testosterone than another cis woman and should that then also disqualify them? >> harris: she was right about that. she is not a doctor or scientist. jason. >> she is not a doctor and also not a biological woman and i think that matters. there is no conflict with supporting transgender people and their right to identify however they want and be free from any sort of discrimination

and just meanness frankly. but at the same time, we can't ignore the biological realities. and when it comes to the mountains of research out there, it says time and time again that a male and a female are different athletically. when we talk about peak athletic performance the ones who are the professionals there is no doubt men have an advantage over women. if there was no advantage they wouldn't be copping up with different rules for transgender folks to try to compete against women. >> harris: there you go. and all of the testing for testosterone and so on and so forth. they aren't testing women for that. they are testing transgender womening not cis women as lia thomas put it. thank you very much. the justice department appealing the judge's ruling striking down the federal travel mask mandate. they want people to wear masks on planes and trains again. it's an effort to get the rule reinstated and this from the border.

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>> harris: a group of congressional republicans are visiting the rio grande valley today and unlike our president, they are getting a firsthand look at the crisis at our southern border with mexico. more than 4,000 illegal immigrants crossing into the united states in the rio grande valley sector over the memorial day weekend. those are the numbers of people we actually saw. remember there are always gotaways in that mix. republican senator roger marshall of the great state of kansas is also a doctor. recently visited the border where he encountered an illegal immigrant who was overcome by the extreme heat. >> she is not making much sense.

>> it's okay. do you have some water? >> harris: that woman was found in a very dangerous area of texas where smugglers often drop off illegals after traveling thousands of miles through other dangerous conditions. senator marshall is in "focus" now. thank you for being here to tell us about your trip. first of all, i was reading and you went with sheriffs and people from texas who were in law enforcement. tell me what the mission was and what you saw. >> right, harris. good morning to you and your listeners. i have five sheriffs of kansas with me. it is now a border state. we have dying every day from fentanyl poisoning in my state, most every state in the union is having people die from fentanyl poisoning. what we saw was humanitarian

crisis. i've done physician humanitarian work across the world and been to poland recently. this is one of the worst humanitarian crises i've seen. certainly the worst in this hemisphere. people put their lives in danger. they are being trafficked and i wanted my sheriffs to see what does it look like to have human trafficking people and realize, the real heroes are the sheriffs officers and border patrols officers and public safety officers, national guard office rs are the real heroes defending this nation. >> harris: it is interesting to get your perspective not only as a leader on capitol hill and senate but also as a physician because what you are talking about is the policies in place now, as we enter some of the hottest months of the year down at the border. i know i'm from arizona, certain times of the year it is 120 plus degrees down there. that it's on our responsibility

and watch and souls when people suffer like this because of those policies. what would you say to president biden? >> please come down and see for yourself. see the inhumane crisis that you created. your policies are creating this. you are harming the very people you think you are trying to help. the young lady we attended to had not had any water for two days. she had probably walked 60 miles through the brush of texas after having already traversed thousands of miles across mexico. she was dehydrated, close to dying from heat exhaustion. so it was a tragic situation. he can turn off the magnet. his policies could stop this. when he said he would end title 42 what all these people heard from the cartel was amnesty. come on this week and you will get amnesty from joe biden. he has to turn off the magnet. he is creating this crisis. >> harris: let's talk about covid-19 right now. there is discussion today among

top officials in the biden administration that well, would they look at reinstating masking us on public transportation? title 42 is something that democrats still want to do away with and what will that look like permanently if that happens? because there is a discussion, maybe we bring it back at certain points. i don't know how it would work. from a doctor's perspective what are we faced with with covid at the border? are people being tested? >> harris, this is the state of confusion our president is operating under. evidently there is no covid at the border but covid in the airplanes. america knows this. as a physician, i think most of us have -- 95% of americans have some level of immunity. of course there are people coming across the border with covid. the ones being apprehended are being tested or vaccinated. but two for one. they get across the border

that's not apprehended. i'm concerned about tuberculosis and mumps and -- >> harris: technically we're still in a pandemic. if you keep people south of the border -- i will let you explain it. how does that work? >> right. so president trump instituted title 42 so we could basically take all the people applying to say no you have to stay in mexico because of this infectious disease and now what is going on is president said we need to end title 42 and what we're worried about. it is happening. you described it in our opening remarks the number of people that went up 50 to 60% since monday when the president told them title 42 would end. so the cartel doesn't care about the course is. the people that are lining up

on the border for weeks now waiting for this title 42 to end have said enough. it will be the california gold rush. they are coming across and know they will get free healthcare and free food and phone and plane ticket to anywhere in the country they ask for. >> harris: we're americans and when we see suffering we want to lean in and you did. we have to fix this. senator, thank you for watching the "focus." "outnumbered" next. going up and up. thousands of veterans are turning their equity into an average of $60,000 with the newday 100 loan. it lets you borrow all of your home's value so you can get at least 25% more cash than you get at a bank. rates are still near record lows, but are starting to climb. call newday right now. looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help.

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>> this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany with emily compagno. also joining us, carley shimkus, gillian turner and raymond arroyo. president biden seems to have an image problem and a substance problem. he's puzzled about his dismal approval