neck pillow from my pile of all my travel stuff. got to the airport. put it on and it felt strange. i took the jasper's dog cone. it was like an inflatable one and i wore it on the plane. embarrassing. >> bill: others notice? >> dana: people were very polite. "the faulkner focus" is up next. >> thank you. more g.o.p. candidates backed by president trump winning and approving the former president's influence in the republican party. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm sandra smith in for harris. in south carolina trump backed russell fry trounced tom rice who was one of 10 republicans who sided with democrats to impeach donald trump in his second trial and in nevada former state attorney general adam laxalt who was endorsed by

trump won. nancy mace took the primary defeating trump's preferred candidate, katie arrington. and in texas republican mayra flores flipped a democratic house district where 85% of residents are latino. senator marco rubio says it is a sign the gop is making big gains among that voting block. >> it is severe losses by democrats. so-called hispanic activitys or people who claim to speak for hispanics but everyday voters and people aren't the same thing. hispanics don't want to pay $5 for gas or criminals running the streets or schools trying to convince their son that he is their daughter. it is voting against the party responsible for those policies. >> dana: alicia has more for us.

>> this is interesting and exactly what the national republican party was banking on here because it dumped more than $1 million on tv ads alone on this special election in a traditionally democratic district and the candidate is now congresswoman mayra flores filling the remaining months in office, a seat vacated by retired democratic representative. flores is the first mexican-born woman elected to the u.s. congress and married to a u.s. border patrol agent. her message was one of conservative values and accusing the democratic party of ignoring latinos. >> the liberal policies from washington are tearing our community apart. as the wife of a border patrol agent i pray for his safety now more than ever. i prove this message. we must stick to our borders and keep our families safe.

>> all the things they are doing now is hurting us. gas, food, we cannot afford that. under president trump we did not have this mess. >> national democrats largely stayed away from this race. nancy pelosi's campaign arm spending about $100,000 in the last days to help boost democrat dan sanchez. washington democrats say they are more focused on the november election when redistricting makes this area even more friendly to their party. but take a look at this quinnipiac poll. the president's approval rating among hispanics at 24%. lower than approval among all voters. sandra, i have to tell you earlier this year i went with a team down to south texas and talked to democrats down there and they say they feel largely ignored by national democrats who are not listening to their

own conservative values and feel the party has been taken over by the progressive wing. >> very interesting. so far this primary season in the most competitive races all trump-backed senate candidates have won their races according to the latest axios analysis. 12 of his picks have prevailed in the house, just three of them lost. and in statewide contests eight of those endorsed by trump won and six lost. "politico" playbook says republicans can survive crossing trump but rarely survive being anti-trump. pete hegseth host of "fox & friends" weekend with your takeaways from these races. >> there is absolutely no doubt to the great rancor of every other news network and the democrat party that donald trump remains the sun around which republican party politics orbit. how you adjust to the way he absolutely reoriented the republican party and how you

talk about his candidacy, presidency and post presidency will impact how voters view you. nancy mace while she crossed him never ran against him and filmed an ad outside of trump tower say i support the american first policy. she ran as trump even though she didn't have his endorsement. the race of flores in texas is immensely important. the sound bite of that add where she says i'm the wife of a border patrol agent. when you consider the democrats have made with open border policies believing they're importing future voters who will automatically vote for democrats was always a racist assumption that because of your skin color you would have a certain ideology. now their policies are driving that voting block away in droves. and into the arms of the guy who said he would build the wall and make mexico pay for it. an irony the democrats would

have never seen coming but republicans have an amazing opportunity to deliver on quality of life issues, inflation, immigration, basic things, crime in your communities which she spoke to. trump spoke to from the beginning. no one else was talking law and order or talking build the wall. he reoriented the conversation and it continues to resonate. >> axios is reporting the democrats are playing with fire in the gop -- they hope it will give democrats a better chance in the elections. a few of those ads. >> david valadao claims he is republican yet he voted to impeach president trump. >> he was rated one of the most conservative members in the state house and says joe biden's election was a fraud. >> he believes abortion should be banned. supports repealing roe v. wade and he will vote with trump

republicans to strip women's healthcare. >> democratic groups have spent more than 20 million dollars so far hoping this tactic will pay off in november. a strategy the hillary clinton campaign used to elevate donald trump back in 2016. as we know, pete, that did not work. >> when you are losing you have a tendency to get cute and creative okay, we know we can't win on the merits. let's elect someone that we in washington, d.c. think is unelectable in said district or state. when ultimately it is the people who -- the candidates and people who have the best policy of what happens to them will make that decision and time and time again the experts, including inside the republican party, say this is who is electable and who is not electable. this is a moderate we can control versus a bold conservative who will buck the establishment. people have been voting on this side and candidates are winning

in this environment. >> critics are accusing president biden of flip-flopping. white house announced it will visit saudi arabia. the president will next month. oil at the top of the agenda as americans are staring down a national average of $5.01 for a gallon of regular gasoline in this country. that's just the average. biden as a candidate promised to punish the country and treat the saudis like the pariah they are. many on the left are not happy. >> i have mixed feelings on this. if the president called me i would say mr. president you can't trust these people. their standards and values aren't ours. >> you would tell him not to go? >> i would give him that counsel. i understand what he is trying to balance this. america is hopeful he is successful in getting more oil into the pipeline so we can reduce the price of gasoline. >> imagine that. more oil, bring prices down. the president's trip appears to have senator schumer's blessing.

>> this president, unlike the previous president, is not afraid to talk tough with foreign leaders. so i have every confidence that president biden will handle this very well. >> the "wall street journal" editorial board with this take quote, while his trip makes strategic and economic sense, it would be less embarrassing now if mr. biden had been more realistic about the world from day one. he is trying to patch up relations even if it means offending his party's left. where does pete hegseth stand? >> it is no strategy. you want strategy in leadership in foreign policy this is reaction. he went to war with the energy industry domestically. we've seen gas prices, stifled domestic production. they say this trip has nothing to do with energy and oil. when you are saying the trip has nothing to do with the very thing it most obviously has to do with, you are adrift. they'll beg the saudis for oil

because they won't drill here or create an environment friendly to drilling. i don't like doing business with saudi arabia or work with them considering the values they hold and the radicals they have harbored for decades. no one does. at least the trump administration had a strategic reason why they were working with the saudis through the abraham accords, recognition of israel, triangulation against iran. they knew why they were working with saudi arabia while working to be energy independent from them. this is no strategy and all dependency. as always. >> oil prices $117 a barrel. the war on cops meanwhile weigh in on that where that will fall in the mid-term elections before i move on. >> absolutely. if it is not issue number one it is getting there considering the recalls of d.a.s who won't enforce the laws. when you don't feel safe that's the first thing you look for. >> the first thing i look for is your book battle for the

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>> sandra: attorney general merrick garland visiting a memorial in buffalo moments ago.

he will also visit with families of the 10 black people killed in a gunman's racist shooting attack last month. alleged shooter 18-year-old was charged today with federal hate crimes. the teen drove 200 miles from his home near the new york/pennsylvania border to buffalo and opened fire at a supermarket in a hate-motivated attack. he already faced a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole if convicted on previously filed state charges. >> president biden: i'm doing everything in my power to blunt putin's gas price hike. i travel the world trying to put things back together. trump did not leave a very good situation. republicans in congress are in the grip of the ultra-maga agenda. still refuse to consider changing any part of the trump tax cuts. under my plan we've made extraordinary progress and put america in a position to tackle a worldwide problem that's

worse everywhere but here. i don't want to hear any more of these lies about reckless spending. we're changing people's lives. >> sandra: that was president biden yesterday deflecting blame in the wake of inflation not seen in this country in over 40 years and it comes as many lawmakers are slamming the biden administration's economic policies and big spending for contributing to the soaring inflation. among the critics south dakota senator john thune and congressman dusty johnson. >> i'm so disappointed with the president's rhetoric. his idea of breaking inflation is by spending trillions of dollars more than yeah we'll stand against that. that is only going to make things worse. >> inflationary pressures we're seeing in the country today have everything to do with the president and his policies and the american people are paying the price for that. >> sandra: the "new york post" editorial board with the headlines. biden pumps out more economic baloney and denials on the economy assure americans more pain down the road.

our power panel joins us now. mercedes schlapp and david car lucci, former new york state democratic center. welcome to both of you. how do you defend this when you stop people in the street and ask them about skyrocketing inflation, soaring gas prices they aren't blaming vladimir putin, they are blaming current leadership. >> it's easy to point fingers and try to figure out who to blame. the reality is presidents have little impact on the stock market or inflation. we just have to point to donald trump who invested over two trillion dollars in stimulus in the cares act. so this isn't just president biden. this is a contribution of president trump and president biden over stimulating the economy. >> sandra: sounds like another deflection of blame like we're from the white house and the american people aren't buying

it. you see what's happening in the most recent races and you look at all the polling leading up to the mid-term election. inflation is the top issue and most people blame big government for the problems we're seeing. >> well, you are looking at -- it is who is in charge and that's who the voters will look to. they'll look to the president of the united states, to those democrats who are in charge of both the house of representatives and senate to get things done. the american people are feeling the pain. you look at the poll numbers as you mentioned nearly 80% of american voters blame biden. they don't blame putin or trump for the inflation surge, for the gas price surge. and in essence it is hurting their bottom line. so for biden, where i think he has not been able to lead effectively, he hasn't been able to bring republicans and democrats together to find a solution. his solution has been build

back better, which we know failed thank god because of senator joe manchin and the republicans. what would that have done? more spending. more environmental type subsidies because they are more focused trying to strangle our energy industry from being able to perform effectively and make sure our country would be energy independent once again. the democrats have ended up focusing more on their radical agenda than they have in trying to solve these economic problems. >> sandra: david, even cnn's don lemon isn't buying it as white house press secretary tries to spin the blame on inflation. watch this. >> we have to remember we're thinking about gas prices and food, this is coming from putin's war against ukraine. >> i understand that but listen, before putin and the war started i remember when the first bombs dropped. they cite the war in ukraine. does the biden administration

some responsibility for this? >> sandra: david, when you have lost the mainstream media you have lost don lemon, where do you go next? >> i wouldn't go so far we lost don lemon. he is asking simple questions. >> sandra: he wasn't buying the white house explanation for why this president can't bring down prices. >> it's a multitude of factors. like i said with the cares act, more stimulus spending. covid, >> sandra: does the president bear any fault for this sky high inflation and gas prices we're experiencing today? >> i really don't think that we can blame the president for inflation that is happening internationally. i believe the president is doing the responsible thing not just looking at short term gains in the stock market, looking at the long-term gains in the life of the american people. the answer is not just to drill more or exploit the environment. the answer is to do the hard things like making sure that we are on track in an

international perspective for the climate. >> david, so it's the typical line from the left where it is like okay, families, let's try to change your behavior, go buy an electric vehicle, which we know is very unrealistic for american families in many cases to spend $56,000 to buy an electric vehicle. what's happening with the democrats is you all are trying to force a change in behavior when we are not ready to move in that direction. we can invest in emergency renewable sources. at the end of the day we're still dependent on fossil fuel and still dependent on oil and natural gas and should be able to utilize those resources while at the same time make sure we're environmental stewards. we can do that. we're in a moment if we're not energy independent it really impacts our national security. it weakens our national security and economic security. >> sandra: oh lot of debate

still to happen. the department of education launched a council for parents to engage if their children's schooling after a wave of parents demanding more input during protests at school board meetings across the country of the supporters welcome the council's creation and says it will help bring diverse parent voices together but critics say conservative voices are totally excluded. >> what we have here is a biden administration going to the establishment groups in order to basically get yes people. there are some nice groups in there but for the most part they are establishment groups and so this is not the answer. the biden administration is just desperate. >> sandra: the new council includes people that supported that controversial letter from the d.o.j. suggesting concerned parents are akin to domestic terrorists. mercedes, how do you think this will go? >> i think that the white house produced the department of education literally had to take some sort of action but they

created a safe space for their lefty education groups that support the administration. and i think really where they should break through is bring in these diverse voices. let's bring in the groups out there going to the school board meetings, supporting these parents to fight against critical race theory and the gender confusion agenda that the democrats are pushing through. look, it is a little too late. i think where we can find bipartisan support is when it comes to insuring mental health resources are available for our children. >> sandra: david, bottom line parents want to be in control of what is happening in the classrooms. they were told at some points that they were not in control of what would happen inside those school classrooms. final thought from you. >> the department of education is doing the right thing. an unprecedented step to try to have inclusion, to make sure they are defining what does it mean to have parents and families engaged and how do you

hold districts accountable? this is a long time coming. it should have been done under the trump administration. it wasn't. you have the panel to have parents at the table to have a voice in how their children are being educated. >> sandra: people want to know all people can be welcome at that table. >> public and non-public advocates at the table and this is going to hold some accountability to the over 100 billion dollars in stimulus funds through the american rescue plan going to education to make sure that families and parents are included and it is not just about the administrators and teachers. it is a collective of responsibility between teachers, parents, administrators, all of them have to be included to make sure our children get the best education possible. >> sandra: that should be the goal for all of us. david and mercedes, thank you very much to you both. >> thank you. >> sandra: as the border crisis rages out of control, morale among border patrol agents reportedly is lower than low. now the biden administration

plans to punish some of them for what the agents say was doing their jobs. plus this. >> let's talk about anything that i want to. the man i most admire in the world, that god to me, thinks i'm a god. >> sandra: all right, more hunter headaches for the white house. sean duffy in "focus" next.

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horseback agents and will be accusing them of administrative violations during the widely publicized incident. pull up the video and rewind the clock to september of last year, del rio, texas, thousands of haitian migrants are crossing illegally. horse back agents are sent to the river's edge to push some of them back. they're falsely accused of whipping haitian migrants. they don't have whips but split reins used to control the horse. nobody was ever whipped. the narrative was pushed by high profile democrats including the president himself. maxine waters said the images were worse than what was witnessed during slavery. mayorkas first defended them and then changeed his tune. >> to insure control of the horse, long reins are used.

>> the integrity and values of our truly heroic personel in the department of homeland security. >> now dhs immediately launched an investigation into the conduct of the agents. secretary mayorkas said at the time the investigation would take days, not weeks. that was nine months ago. the dhs inspector general office previously cleared these agents of any criminal wrongdoing. it was kicked down to cbp for an administrative investigation. a federal source tells me cbp has found some unknown administrative violations and the agents will be notified about it within a matter of days. border patrol sources very angry about this say they feel president biden himself convicted these agents before an investigation was even launched. take a listen. >> president biden: to see people treated like they did, horses barely running over people being strapped is outrageous. i promise you, those people

will pay. there will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. >> and again it's unclear exactly what administrative violations these agents will be accused of. however i'm told the agents will have a chance to respond once dhs or cbp approaches them with proposed discipline. the agents can either accept the discipline or they can fight it. i can tell you this, the border patrol union president says they'll vigorously defend these agents. send it back to you. >> sandra: thank you very much. this couldn't come at a worse time for border patrol agents whose confidence is tanking feeling they don't have the support of the current administration. "the washington examiner" with this headline. border patrol cannot see path forward under biden. there is no morale. sean duffy a fox news contributor former wisconsin congressman. sean, great to have you here. you have morale tanking, that has been happening for quite

some time. you have these agents ripping into the workload they have before them the president's policies and on top of it all many say they feel demonized by this administration. >> bill melugin laid it out well. they were cleared criminally and now the administration comes back with administrative violations. they should get an apology from mayorkas and biden and a badge from great work on the border. bill laid out the history what happened at the border well. this was thousands of migrants living under the bridge in the rio grande valley. bill melugin and fox wanted to put up a drone and pete buttigieg got the faa to stop the drone growing up. the politics was horrible for the administration and they were able to pivot to what looked like a strapping or whipping of black migrants completely untrue. that narrative was driven into the minds of the american

people but the focus switched off the migrants and to the border patrol to make the border patrol look negative and bad and inhumane. if you are a border patrol agent listen i want to do my job and enforce the border and protect american citizens and american communities. the biden administration says if you do that are you in the way of our politics which is we want open borders. now agents the morale is low because they are stuck transporting people from the border to a facility where they process the migrant and release them into the community. all the while the border remains open to drug traffickers and human traffickers, terrorists and they are angry about it and frustrated but have to feed their families. they have mouths at home to feed and mortgages to pay and so you have to sit back and say we can't do anything and morale drops. >> sandra: "the washington examiner" piece saying they call in and don't want to go to work. they don't feel appreciated. on top of that they worried about ended up in the news or punished for doing their job. meanwhile newly released audio

from the infamous hunter biden laptop features the first one bragging about the influence he has over his father. the 77 minute recording was obtained by "the washington examiner". here is a bit of it. >> talk about anything that i want to that he believes in, if i say it is important to me, then he will wish to make it a part of his platform. my dad respects me more than he respects anyone in the world. i know that to be certain. it is not going to be about whether my dad -- it won't be whether or not he will be embarrassed at me. he never will. the man i most admire mt world, that god to me thinks i'm a god. >> sandra: the current white house denies hunter influenced the president and a flashback to candidate biden. >> president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas dealings. i have never discussed with my son or my brother or anything

else having to do with their business. >> you did not discuss any of son's overseas business dealings. >> president biden: i stant by that statement. >> the enoughly released recording revealed more hunter headaches for this white house, sean. >> they don't seem to want to answer questions about hunter. the facts would match the recording from hunter biden. a crack addict was able to travel the world over and earn millions of dollars from foreign clients. he has no skill set or no insight. the only reason he was able to make millions of dollars from foreign clients his dad would do what he said. exactly what he said on that laptop and calls into question if joe biden is doing what hunter biden asks, is joe biden looking out for hunter biden and his clients or the american people? that's a fair question. also is joe biden compromised. if you are doing business on

behalf of your son as the vice president with really bad foreign people, and they know about it, they can use it against you to leverage you, which means you are compromised. i don't know why the mainstream media doesn't want to ask joe biden the tough questions about his relationship with his son. sandra, we all love our children but when you are the president, you might have to distance yourself from your son a little bit when he has these many problems and tied this closely to you. joe biden doesn't seem to want to distance himself at all from hunter biden and it is shameful. he looks out more for hunter than the american people. >> sandra: thank you for joining us, sean. good to see you. all right. extreme flooding out west, shutting down roads and creating very dangerous conditions around. a live report from one of the hardest-hit areas next. after sitting on it for weeks the house finally passing a bill to extend security to families of supreme court

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>> sandra: some 100 million americans facing dangerous heat

today. temps hitting the triple digits in part of the midwest and south. forecaster say it may take weeks for those people to get some relief. in montana and idaho temperatures rose so fast that most of the snow still on the ground did melt. that along with heavy rainfall caused extreme and destructive flooding. so bad at yellowstone national park that officials say the landscape has changed and park is totally closed. max gordon is in southern montana for us at this hour with the latest from there. hey, max. >> good morning from livingston, montana. right now we stand along the banks of the yellowstone river. the floodwaters are starting to go down we have seen unprecedented amounts of flow here in the yellowstone river. incredible damage here. the montana army national guard says over the past few days they've had to rescue 87 people. bridges washed out, roads

destroyed and important link into yellowstone national park has been completely wiped out. u.s. 89 follows the yellowstone river from livingston to the north entrance of the park. national park service conducted an assessment of the road and said many sections are completely gone and take some time to rebuild. officials say it is likely the roads in the north section of the park won't reopen this season. visitors pass through livingston on the way to the north entrance. we saw incredible scenes of damage over the past couple of days. houses swept into the yellowstone river. neighborhoods inundated with all this water. now this region is known for its as a tourist destination and there are concerns from some here that this flooding is going to impact the local economy. >> you have to respect mother nature around here whether it's the mountains or the rivers. there is no mercy.

these places are wild and free and we saw that firsthand. i think the grit of the livingston community in trying to put all our resources together to help where we could is pretty inspiring. >> unclear when yellowstone national park will be able to reopen. mark officials say they have to assess the damage before letting visitors back in. >> sandra: reporting from livington, montana, thank you >> it's insane. the same 27 that want to defund the police. someone who showed up at justice kavanaugh's house was armed and dangerous last week. not where we should be going in that country. we have to make sure the justices are protected and law enforcement not just on the hill but everywhere across the country are fully funded and have the resources they need to keep our communities safe. >> sandra: nancy mace calling

out 27 house democrats who voted no on the bill to give supreme court justices and their immediate families extra security. it all comes after the attempted murder of justice brett kavanaugh and continued protests happening outside the homes of conservative justices as we await the roe v. wade decision. "wall street journal" editorial board saying more than two dozen democrats voted against sensible protections. that will show kavanaugh and his wife. it will tell members of his own parties to call off the intimidation campaign against the high court. ceo of the brewer group and burgeis owens from yu tao. >> why did it take so long the get the extra protection for the justice's families? >> it shows what the hard left of the party is all about. ideology believes there is now a political strategy to bring

misery. whether this antifa, blm or the threat against the judicial part of our country shows what their bottom line is, chaos, fear and american people are not up for that. we'll stand up against this in a big way. wait until november. >> sandra: okay. with limited time here i want to get to our next topic congresswoman answer owens, you are working an legislation to promote fatherhood in america arguing fatherlessness is a crisis. more than half, 57% of african-american households are fatherless. that's the demographic compared to hispanics and white families. jack, why is this such an important issue for you to promote? >> 18.4 million fatherless kids in the united states of america. that should make each and every american's stomach hurt. men need to step up across our country. the thing we see happening in our streets, the violence that we see happening in our streets.

it all stems from fatherlessness. it is a lack of spirituality and guidance. you have young buys running the streets that don't have guidance or fear. they don't have a manly flew to teach respect. we don't hold the kids accountable and we're paying a grim price right now with our reading and math prove i shall en sees levels in the tank across our country. it is time for the fathers to stand up as we head into this father's day week and i'm excited to work with owens who has taken a stand against such an important issue and this crisis in our country now. >> sandra: congressman, your take on this as we put up on the screen other statistics of children who grow up in fatherless homes revealing high school drop-out rate is higher, the live-in poverty strike en

homes. suicide rates and others are higher. >> if you want to bring misery, destroy the family unit. i speak from a time where the black community because we believe in free market education led our country grow to the middle class and -- we had young boys understanding if we love god, country, family, respect for women and authority is simple. we need to get back to that. we are having this conversation and can finally say men, let's man up. we are here to provide, protect and partner with our wives and spouses period. if we do that our families will strengthen our communities and nation. it comes down to the role of fathers to do their job. i'm thankful that we're finally talking about this and it will resonate across the country. it is not just the black community. all americans are feeling the pain of not having men grow up to do what they are supposed to do, provide, protect and partner up with their spouses. >> sandra: a final thought on

this, jack, one of the biggest statistics about fatherless homes, 85% of youth currently in prison grew up in a fatherless home according to the texas department of corrections. final thoughts on this. >> i spent time in the prisons almost every week and see men hurting. most of these men didn't have fathers and they're leaving our kids and nation with fathers that are in prison. we have to get away from just the criminal justice hard lock people up. it has to go back to rehabilitation. we need to rehab the fathers so they can go back and become dads when they return from prison. we have to help the kids stay connected with their fathers. we spend too much money in our criminal justice system not to be rehabilitating fathers to go back and do their jobs when they get out of jail. we owe these kids more than that. i applaud congressman owens and all of the many members here that are going to bring this needed attention to the light

of america. >> sandra: you two are clearly on a mission and we appreciate you joining us to tell your story. congressman, thank you, jack brewer, thank you very much. >> all the best. >> sandra: to you as well. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". i'm sandra smith in for harris. i'll see you at 1:00 p.m. eastern for america reports. "outnumbered" is up next. but 't even know about. it's the va home loan benefit. as a veteran, you're eligible to apply for a refinance loan for up to 100% of your home's value. not just 80% like other loans. the newday 100 va loan lets you refinance your mortgage, consolidate your high-rate credit card debt, get cash and lower your payments an average of $600 a month. so if you need money to take care of your family, use the valuable va home loan benefit you've earned with your service.

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