close enough. >> right down broadway, right down the middle. >> dana: i think i could be right. >> bill: strike. >> dana: it has been great to be with you on this monday. catch you on special report tonight as well. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: this could be a problem. a big one for president biden. fellow democrats are expressing today serious doubts about whether he should run for reelection in 2024. it's not just the lawmakers or the political strategists. it is also american voters who are not in politics at all saying they are worried about biden's age and job performance. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". a "new york times" poll shows 64% of voters on the left want somebody else. a 2024 nominee other than

president biden. 1/3 of those voters say biden's age is the main reason and then in second place is the job he is doing while he is in office. and then the list goes on. he is already the oldest president in the history of the country. the clock doesn't tick backwards. so at the end of the current presidency, he will be 82. are democrats feeling buyer's remorse after going all in on biden? well, take a watch. >> i used to be a biden supporter. i'm not one anymore. >> i feel like i've been lied to by the media telling us biden was the answer to all the country's problems. like that's what i saw him as when i voted for him. >> i cannot see any reason why i would be voting democrat in the next election. >> harris: that's a whole different matter right there. not just not biden but not

democrat. kellyan conway is in focus. rich edson is live outside the white house. shaking some of the apples out of the trees, i suppose. >> another troubling indication in this poll "the new york times" poll is the number of americans who believe the country is on the right track. especially when democrats control the white house, the house, and the senate. here is the number. 13% say the country is on the right track in the poll. 77% say it is moving in the wrong direction. 10% say they don't know. the poll also finds president biden's approval rating at 70% among democrats which is "new york times" describes as a relatively low figure for a president. especially when less than four months away the country will vote in the mid-term elections that will determine control of congress. there is also disappointment among progressives who say the president needs to be more aggressive on abortion and gun issues. biden addressed that yesterday in delaware and encouraged activists. >> president biden: keep

protesting. keep making your point. it is critically important. we can do a lot of things to accommodate the rights of women. in the meantime, fundamentally the only thing that will change it is if we have a national -- >> the outgoing white house communications director defended the president's response to the supreme court dob's decision. she said biden's goal for dobbs is not trying -- president biden has also repeatedly told reporters he does plan on running for reelection if he is in good health. harris. >> harris: all right, rich, thank you very much. i want to bring in kellyanne conway polling expert and senior counselor to president trump. thank you so much for being in "focus." let's begin with what the

polling tells us. go deep for us, kellyanne. >> "the new york times" poll is devastating harris, 33% approve of joe biden. 64% of democrats want someone else. they have concluded joe biden is not even trying to be a good president. they are whistling right past him. note how they are not saying off or on the record. you know what? let's let kamala take over now. thanks for making history with her. we would like the vice president to step in. seems like they looked past her, too. u.s. governors in california and illinois, the high tax, high regulation states that hate school choice, did a terrible job throughout the pandemic. spend way too much money and yet they think they should be running against joe biden. in that same "new york times" polydug deeply this morning. 94% of democrats under the age of 30 say they want someone other than joe biden. they favor joe biden 60 to 30

in the last presidential election. he did five points better among young people than hillary did four years earlier. this is devastating and look, i think for biden and the democrats they are attacking each other for a simple reason. the usual boogie men are not available to them. they can blame conspiracy but the democratic party looking under the hood and say we have a lemon on our hands. lastly, they like to say but trump, trump, trump. every time joe biden says donald trump's name now voters say two things. they say man up. you have been the president for a year and a half. you created this bad economy, energy dependence, putin and ukraine. two, thanks for reminding me about donald trump and how great we had it. i don't want to make it a choice between the trump and biden economy if i'm biden. >> harris: the ultra-maga label, too. people identify with that because it is the equivalent to the deplorable and you only

magnify the issue of what is not working and what they are missing, as you say, when you do the name calling. i want to get to this because you beautifully put it. they are whistling past kamala harris and others. they continue to cast doubt on the president and kamala harris and pete buttigieg insisting biden will run in 2024. >> listen to president biden. he intends to run and if he does, i intend to run with him. so there you go. >> i expect him to run and i'll support him. >> harris: "the washington examiner" is reporting that a number of top democrats are positioning themselves for a 2024 bid. she will have a birthday october 13th. she was born in 1989. everybody doing the math saying how young aoc is. we only grow in one direction. she would be eligible. illinois governor pritzker on

the list and gavin newsom. you mention people jumping into the pot and nobody talking about on or off the record. why is all of that significant? >> it is significant because they actually have the white house. they've been there a year and a half and democrats are the ones saying no more joe biden. for "the new york times" to ask the polling question tells you all you need to know where the professional and hard left is right now. "new york times" did everything it could to get joe biden elected and get rid of donald trump as president. including pretending that the hunter laptop was russian disinformation and nothing to see. they did everything they could. their own polling, the questions they choose to put in the polling tells you there is an urgency among the hard left, professionals to get rid of him. biden white house is in a fight with elon musk and jeff bezos. you won't win the fight. biden saying look at the jobs i created. the second half of 2022. the mid-terms will be a

disaster. we're six weeks away from the afghanistan pull-out. all joe biden. he didn't listen to the generals and left $85 billion of our intelligence and equipment turned it over to the taliban. then you will have people who are job holders facing homelessness not just gas and grocery and inflation on everyday consume sooum abls. they won't be able to afford payments, rent and mortgage. that's the next big problem in the economy. they won't care if you say there are available jobs. people in households saying i have two or three jobs in my household. it is not enough anymore. how did that happen? they blame joe biden. >> harris: still not enough is what i hear from viewers all the time. most people come up say they watch fox or whatever. now people go deeper and i'm sure you see it in your polling. people are willing to tell you what they are feeling as we led up to this at the top of this hour you saw the woman say it

is not just about not voting for biden. she is not looking to the left right now. i have another big issue to get to with you. another big inflation report is expected to come out this week. some experts are predicting dire news. the biden administration is struggling to put some sort of positive message on the issue. well, let's pick on a pig. treasury secretary janet yellen, oh oh, here she comes again. >> i really doubt that we are going to see an inflationary cycle. i have think i was wrong then about the path that inflation would take. i expect the economy to slow but i don't think a recession is at all inevitable. >> harris: the republican governor is now calling her out. >> you had a treasury secretary who was saying it is not inevitable. of course it s. i would fire

the treasury secretary. she completely misled america. she didn't want to own the bad news. you have to own the good with the bad in public service. >> harris: start there, kellyanne. >> yes. she is one of the few people who has ever admitted fault and that she made a mistake and corrected it. it took her aier to do that. when it comes to recession people don't worry what he economists say. that's the problem joe biden has. 13% of the country are not reporting we're going in the right direction and close to 80% wrong track because they are upset about the local water bill. they are upset about the national economy. they are upset about the uncertainty, chaos, crisis. people are looking forward a little bit projecting their economic wherewithal and they see storm clouds, uncertainty, crisis and chaos. what joe biden should say to

people you are hurting, i hear you and sigh. this white house seems unable to admit the basic precepts of politics 101. we don't tell voters what is important to them, they tell us. in every single poll it is unmistakable and by the way, harris, people -- i have never seen an issue set so plain and clear for this long period of time. and so i feel like they are saying to americans now it is the economy and you are stupid. they seem to blame the voters for not doing a better job for finding lower prices. mark my words. it is not just gas and groceries, economists say it will cost us $2,000 more in energy. the big ticket items you won't be able to bear coming. >> harris: the list that you enumerated moments ago close to homelessness as you can't pay your car bills and all those

things that get you on your way to going to work. many people not wanting to come into big cities because of crime. they are looking for ways to get around the public transportation which in places like brooklyn exposes you to all sorts of things. you are talking about having a bill clinton moment i feel your pain. we haven't seen it. i tweeted about this yesterday, sometime over the weekend. people responded with some pretty fiery remarks but here is what got it started. commerce secretary trying to ease inflation fears and telling us there is no serious recession. >> i do think at some point we will see a less rapid growth in the economy but i don't see any reason to think that we'll have a serious recession. inflation is our problem and it is our top priority. perhaps a transition to a more traditional growth level but i don't think we should be talking ourselves into a

recession. >> harris: every recession would be serious. i feel like i just stepped into the land of utopia somewhere in the biden household. >> they deserve more pushback from the hosts letting them say whatever they want. nobody on tv is under oath. let's remind that. we see different cabinet secretaries who basically all had the same message as did the press tech secretary. not the message americans want to hear. joe biden made a huge mistake early on by putting forth $6 trillion in spending. president trump and the congress passed a 2.2 billion cares act in the midst of a one in a century global pandemic. next quarter the economy grew by a third. that's not happening here. he put it in three things. american rescue plan 1.. infrastructure and family support and what not.

but that spending alone has hurt us. the inflation number since then. when people are trying to buy a new home. you have couples now with life interrupted. kids aren't all right. they had to put it at home through covid and now what are they facing? the crazy mortgage rates. when you tell people it is not that bad and they feel that it is that bad. when you take away someone's financial freedom you take away their freedom. roe v. wade is the answer to everything by the biden administration. women are not single issue voters. stop talking about one issue. we can do economy, education, immigration, inflation, abortion. >> harris: we can do everything and everything. we're americans. i don't know why they don't just see us that way. yes, as women we're mighty. kellyanne conway good to see you today. thank you for being in "focus." all right. so we're 120 days out. you know i'm counting every day

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>> harris: president biden is hosting an event now commemorating the achievement. bipartisan safer communities act. the bipartisan gun legislation bill safety bill that they passed on the hill on june 24th. let's step in for a moment. >> president biden: thank the vice president harris and the second gentleman, members of the cabinet as well as mayors and elected officials from across the country. i want to particularly thank the governor of illinois and the mayor of high land park for being here. i mean it sincerely. [applause] we had a number of conversations immediately after the attack there and i've been impressed with the way they've handled things. extraordinary. and as the three of us have discussed, we have more to do. also want to thank the bipartisan group of senators

who worked so hard to get this done especially senators murphy -- [applause] sinema, cornyn and tillis. i hope i don't get you in trouble mentioning your name. thank you for your courage and all the members of congress who worked on this for a long time. 80 who are with us today. i'm sorry senators schumer and blumenthal are working today. they are overcoming mild cases of covid working from home. i know how hard it is to get things done because i know how hard it was the write to first gun legislation. at least the first in my career that was passed nearly 30 years ago. that's how long ago it was. as i look out on this crowd i see so many advocates and families, many who have become friends whose lives have been shattered by gun violence and

who have made it their purpose to save other lives. i've spent so much time with so many of you over the years that we've actually become personal friends and i can't thank you enough for your willingness to continue to fight for other families. nothing can bring back your loved ones but you did it to make sure that other families don't have to experience the same loss and pain you've experienced. and you have felt and you feel the price of inaction. that this has taken too long with too much of a trail of bloodshed and carnage. i know public pull see can seem remote, technical and distant from our everyday lives but because of your work, your advocacy and courage lives will be saved today and tomorrow because of this. [applause] what we're doing today is real.

it's vivid, it is relevant. the action we take today is a step designed to make our nation the kind of nation we should be. it's about the most fundamental of things. the lives of our children, of our loved ones. we face literally a moral choice in this country. moral choice of profound real world implications. will we take wise steps of responsibility to protect the innocent while keeping faith with the constitutional rights? will we match thoughts and prayers with action? i say yes and that's what we are doing here today. [applause] today is many things. proof that despite the naysayers we can make meaningful progress on dealing with gun violence. because make no mistake, sit down and hear what i have to say.

[someone shouting] >> president biden: let me finish my comments. let him talk, okay? because make no mistake about it, this legislation is real progress. more has to be done. the provision of this new legislation will save lives and as proof that today's politics we can come together on a bipartisan basis to get important things done even on an issue as tough as guns and one more thing, it's a call to action to all of us to do more, to take away from the legislation is not all we can do. the takeaway from this is now, now we're opening to get much more done. senator murphy has said when you look at the biggest social issues america has faced

throughout our history quote, success begets success. and that's when you, quote, finally move that mountain, you can ignite a movement when you do that. for more progress to follow. we finally moved that mountain. a mountain of opposition, obstruction that stood in the way and stopped every effort at gun safety for 30 years in this nation. [applause] now is the time to galvanize this movement. because that's our duty to the people of this nation. that's what we owe those families in buffalo where a grocery store became a killing field. what we owe the families in yu valentine's fam -- uvalde and high land park. that's what we owe all those families represented here today and all over this country in the past many years across our schools, places of worship, workplaces, stores, music festivals, nightclubs and so

many other everyday places that turned into a killing field. that's what we owe the families across this nation. where every day a tragic killings that don't make the headlines or little more than passing mention in local news. neighborhoods and streets have been turned into killing field as well. today's legislation is an important start. here are the key things that it does. provides $750 million in crisis intervention and red flag laws so the parent, teacher, counselor, can flag for the court that a child, student, patient is exhibiting violent tendency threatening classmates or experiencing suicidal thoughts and makes them a danger to themselves and others. fort hood, texas, 2009, 13 dead, 30 more injured. the hospital in florida, 17 dead and 17 injured and both

places countless others suffering with invisible wounds. in both places red flag laws could have stopped both those shooters. you know -- [applause] this new law requires young people under 21 to go enhanced background checks before purchasing a gun. how many more mass shootings do we have to see where a shooter is 17 or 18 years old and able to get his hands on a weapon and go on a killing spree? you know, it closes the boyfriend loophole. convicted of assault against your girlfriend you can't buy a gun. according to a recent study over 50% of mass shoongts, the shooters shot a family member or partner. so if we keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers we can save the lives of their partners and we can also stop more mass shootings. one, this law includes the first-ever federal law that

makes gun trafficking and straw purchase federal crimes. [applause] it clarifies who needs to register as a federal licensed gun dealer and run background checks before selling a single weapon. [applause] invests the anti-violence programs that work with communities most at risk for gun crimes. and the law also provides funding vital for funding to address the youth mental health crisis in this country including the trauma experienced by the survivors of gun violence. will not save every life from the epidemic of gun violence but if this law had been in place years ago even this last years lives would have been saved. it matters. it matters. it is not enough and we all know that. in preparation for today's signing i ask to send me --

people send me stories about their experience with gun violence. i received over 2,500 responses in 24 hours. didn't get to read them all but i read some. 17-year-old wrote me saying a school shooting sophomore year shattered every sense of normalcy i have ever felt. almost three years later i still have nightmares. 24-year-old wrote about growing up in what was quote seemingly endless era of gun violence. 40-year-old wrote me about two friends shot and killed by abusive partners and former partners. someone else wrote me about a 6-year-old child who was sitting in his father's coffin asking why is daddy in that scary box? wake up, daddy, wake up, daddy. his father had been gunned down. i read these stories and so many others. so many others. and you know, i see the statistics. over 40,000 people died from gunshot wounds last year in the

united states. 25,000 by suicide. i think can this really be the united states of america? why has it come to this? we all know a lot of the reasons, gun lobbying and gun manufacturers special interest money, the rise of hunter partisan tribal politics in the country where we don't debate issues on the merits but turn on each other and attack the other side. regardless, we're living in a country awash in weapons of war. weapons that were designed to hunt are not being used. the weapons designed as weapons of war to take out an enemy, what is the rationale for these weapons outside war zones? some people claim it's for sport or to hunt. let's look at the facts. the most common rounds fired

from an ar-15 move twice as fast as that from a handgun. a couple of smaller, lighter bullets, these weapons maximize the damage done dumd with those bullets and human flesh and bone is just torn apart. as difficult as it is to say that's why so many people and some in this audience and i apologize for having to say it, need to provide dna samples to identify the remains of their children. think of that. it's why trauma surgeons trained for years for these moments know it's unlikely someone shot with a high-powered assault weapon will make it long enough nor the ambulance to get them to the hospital and why the scenes of destruction resemble nothing like a weekend hunting trip for deer or elk. we continue to let these weapons be sold to people with no training or expertise. case in point, america has the

finest fighting force in the world. we provide our service members with those lethal weapons to protect america and require them to receive significant training before they are allowed to use these weapons. we require extensive background checks on them and mental health assessments on them and require they learn how to lock up and store the weapons responsibly. require our military to do all that. these are common sense requirements. we don't require the same common sense measures for a stranger walking into a gun store to purchase an ar-15 or some weapon like that. makes no sense. assault weapons need to be banned. they were banned. i led the fight in 1994. then under pressure from the nra and gun manufacturers and others that ban was lifted in 2004. in that 10 years it was law mass shootings went down. when the law expired in 2004 and those weapons were allowed

to be sold again mass shootings tripled. i'm determined to ban these weapons again and led mass shooters to fire hundred of bullets in a matter of minutes. i'm not going to stop until we do it. another thing we should do, we should have safe storage laws requiring personal liability for not locking up your gun. [applause] the shooter in sandy hook came from a home full of guns and assault weapons that were too easy to access. weapons he used to kill his mother and then murder 26 people including 20 innocent first graders. if you own a weapon, you have a responsibility to secure it and keep it under lock and key. [applause] responsible gun owners agree. no one else should have access

to it. so lock it up. have trigger locks. if you don't, and something bad happens, you should be held responsible. [applause] i have four shotguns, two are mine and two are my deceased son's. they're locked up. lock and key. every responsible gun owner that i know does that. we should expand background checks. better keep guns out of the hands of felons, fugitives and those under domestic violence restraining order. more background checks including the majority of gun owners agree on. my fellow americans, i'm not talking about infringement on second amendment rights. i've said it many times, i support the second amendment. but when guns are the number one killer of children in the

united states. guns are the number one killer of children in the united states, more than car accidents, more than cancer, over the last two decades more high school children have died from gunshots than on duty police officers and active military combined. think of that. we can't just stand by. we can't let it happen any longer. with rights come responsibilities. yes, there is a right to bear arms but we also have a right to live freely without fear for our lives in a grocery store, in a classroom, a playground, house of worship, in a store, at a workplace, a nightclub, a festival. in our neighborhoods and streets. the right to bear arms is not an absolute right that dominates all others. be neighbors and fellow citizens is that we obey the

laws and customs that insure what the framers call domestic tranquility. that's what civilization is and has been at our best and what america must always be. preserved the rights beautiful fill our responsibilities. i know this, there can be no greater responsibility than to do all we can to insure the safety of our families, our children, and our fellow americans. when i spoke to the nation after uvalde, i shared how a grandmother who had lost her granddaughter gave me and jill a handwritten letter. we spent four hours, almost five hours with her. and i read it and it reads, quote, erase the invisible line that is dividing our nation. come up with a solution and fix what is broken. and to make the changes that are necessary to prevent this

from happening again, end of quote. that's why we're here. that's why we're here. today i want to thank those in congress both democrat and republicans who erased that invisible line dividing our nation and moved us forward on gun safety. it's an important step. now we must look forward. we have so much more work to do. i might add the 75 million dollars in there for mental health reasons, a whole range of other things i won't take time to go into today but it is important. may god bless all of us with the strength to finish the work left undone. and on behalf of the lives we've lost, and the lives we can save, may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. [applause] ♪♪♪ >> harris: the president of the united states talking about the bipartisan legislation that he

signed into law. he thanked the republicans, the 14 of whom, he didn't name them all. just a couple of senators and said he hoped that didn't get those republican senators in trouble for joining democrats on this legislation. there has been a lot of back and forth about what the legislation actually does. i can tell you before i go to my next guest will cain "fox & friends" weekend co-host and bring him up here in "focus." i can tell you that to stop all mass shootings would take more than this one bill. it would take applying the laws that we already have on the books and i don't know where the president of the united states was going with adam lanz's mom in sandy hook. i covered it for this network that day. she purchased those weapons and he made it sound like they were just lying around the house. the kid turned around and shot the computer to pieces so there would be no trail of what had happened purchases online or any sort of searches online.

it made investigating that case very, very difficult and we know she shot his mom. will cain, your top thoughts. >> you are absolutely right. you would be telling us the truth saying it is a complicated cocktail of contributing factors that lead to these tragic mass shootings. the president of the united states hand waving at the end the very end i won't get into that. i don't have time, to discuss the mental health component that leads to an epidemic of young men, lost souls without meaning or purpose turning to the most evil thing they can imagine to take out their onger on society is more complicated than a red flag law. to the republicans. the one that president biden said he hopes they won't pay with their jobs. they should pay with their jobs. the argument from anyone who is an opponent of gun control is all of this is an incremental march toward the confiscation of g*ufnlts it is not about

solving the problem. now president biden gave every gun control opponent the ammunition and the validation that they needed when he said i'm just getting started. i want to ban assault weapons. i want to ban quote, unquote, high capacity magazines. he made it clear this wasn't an attempt to solve the problem. it was a march along an ideological goal to get rid of guns and those republicans participated in that. not a solution to a very complicated problem. president biden's hand wave at the mental health component of this shows it wasn't a sincere effort to solve the problem but rather the first step or the next step in a long march towards the ideological goal of basically confiscating and controlling the united states gun second amendment guaranteed right to gun ownership. i think that was made very clear over the past 15 minutes. >> harris: i'm writing down some of what you said and want to bring this in.

the bipartisan safer community act includes a number of provisions outside of medicaid and the programs to benefit poor income children including $500 million to the school-based mental services grant program to increase the number of qualified mental health service providers so on and so forth. it is the point of contact that we know of in uvalde and the point of contact in high land park, illinois, that started very far -- very long ago with both of those young men. those points of contact when they were children that are being missed. when you look at the history of this latest killer in the mass shooting, things were missed or ignored or poorly handled all along. what about the 62-year-old man who shot up the brooklyn subway train a couple of months ago? he said, you know, they didn't help me. i had mental health problems and the system let me down. do you remember when he said that? there are so many things in

play that we aren't doing. this feels like we're looking for the shiny object to absolve us of all the things we could have, should have, would have done. >> harris, listen, i know that people who disagree with me on my position on the second amendment will think i'm playing a shell game and trying to distract. but if you are truly concerned about this issue. i count myself as a person obvious aall americans truly are. you don't paint your opponent who doesn't care about the loss of children unless you are a dishonest actor. as someone concerned about this issue. if we want to focus on a solution, those points of contact you bring up start so early. a breakdown in families, harris. a breakdown in, you know, men understanding their role and value and meaning in society and then metastasizing into their teenage years of this feeling i assume of loss and

they want to do something vile. there is a reason they go with school shootings. the most vile thing they can conceive of. they have been lost, i think, this may be unpopular. they've been lost to first person shooter games. it doesn't mean everybody that plays video games end up this way. the contributing factors of what creates not the tool but the actor in these horrible acts, then we are interested in solving this problem. >> harris: i would love to cover one of those round tables with everybody present to talk about this issue. you need the parents, social workers. my mom was one for decades. you need everybody there at the points of contact to describe and explain how we got here and what was missed. that's such a part of the conversation that when we just reflexively go to the politics of guns. we thought the administration was hooked on root causes. maybe not. president biden calling for

more protests now after the u.s. supreme court's decision to overturn roe v. wade. watch. >> do you have a message for women protesting? >> president biden: yes, keep protesting and making the point. it is critically important. we can do a lot of things to accommodate the rights of women. in the meantime. >> harris: here is what he is not talking about. the leftist group shut down d.c. is offering bounties for realtime information on the locations of conservative supreme court justices. don't you think that's a bit dangerous, confrontations, we'll give you cash. the group tweeted this. we'll give you $50 and 200 if they're still there after your message. a group targeted kavanaugh last wednesday night at a d.c. steakhouse and forced the justice kavanaugh to escape the

restaurant through a back door. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is defending them. watch. >> people are upset. they are going to exercise their first amendment rights and as long as that's peaceful that's protected. any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment but should never be free from criticism or people exercising their first amendment rights. >> harris: op-ed in the "new york post" noted quote harassment and intimidation are not legitimate protests and democrats need to say so. will. >> well, we're courting a really dangerous situation when we are putting bounties on the location of supreme court justices, harris. it is interesting. protests and petitions are not the same thing as democracy. they are not is supplant for a vote and actually making your voice heard and trying to

change public policy. but yet we see environmentalists laying down in the highway and supreme court justices harassed at dinner. it's interesting when you pause that against parents showing up at school board meetings what their children are being taught and those parents being classified as domestic terrorists. it doesn't seem there is a principle nor a method that one holds to with integrity. rather you just want what you want and get it any way you can take it. >> harris: will cain, thank you for being with me in "focus" as we did the breaking news. let's move to the border now. >> i would suggest that so-called leaders focus on solutions instead of attacks if they really are concerned about a problem so that we can have a humane and appropriate approach to this issue, including, of course, what we'll continue to do in terms of prioritizing

border security but understanding we also need to create a pathway and that's where i think everyone should be focused. if they are actually concerned about solutions instead of flame throwing. >> harris: hang onto that word compassion coming out of her mouth for a second while i say these words. the war of words ramping up between vice president harris and texas governor abbott over the weekend. harris went after the governor for defying president biden and ordering the arrest of illegal immigrants while abbott continued to blame president biden. >> just two years ago we had the lowest number of people coming across the border in apprehensions under president trump. biden took over and eliminated all the policies president trump put in place and has led to an unprecedented overwhelming number of people coming across the border. >> harris: chip roy of texas recently got back from a trip to the border where he saw firsthand just how dire the

crisis is. he joins me now in "focus." i want everybody to concentrate on the word compassion because what you saw down there is the opposite of a government dealing with this crisis with compassion. >> harris, just last week i was in eagle pass. i was in uvalde coming off your last segment. i went by the school and saw the boarded up windows. the vice president and president didn't know where uvalde is. nehf left our borders exposed and wide open to terrorists and some have got evan away. they they have defunded police. it is they who have broken up the family unit and destroyed the ability to have families raising children. it is they who locked down schools and created mental health schools. they who won't to go after our

second amendment rights to defend ourss when they create the lawlessness and now the president of mexico go after my governor, the governor of the state of texas to say he will endorse beto and encourage his countrymen in texas to vote against governor abbott because the governor dares to recognize the crisis and invasion we have on this board. i was with the county officials in south texas last week when they were declaring a board invasion and declaring the governor to do the same. this administration outright refuses to do their constitutional duty. their legal duty to enforce the laws of the united states. and texans are dying. texans are dying from fentanyl. ranchers getting overrun. livestock getting out. migrants are dying. the 108 bodies found in brooks county last year, 48 this year. the bodies found in the rio ground and on ranchs. this is not compassion. you open the segment talking about compassion. they're full of it.

this is a lie. this is not compassion. all of these immigration organizations, ngos, united nations encouraging this, that is their fault what's happening to the migrants dying. i was down on the river with a mom struggling with her child with the heat and heat exhaustion. a border patrol agent picked up the child and carried the child and giving that migrant water. it is not the migrant's fault to seek a better way of life it's the leadership of this country undermining our security. a national security issue and undermining the lives of texans and the migrants who seek to come here. i cannot put into words how bad it is, harris. >> harris: you have given us so much to think about and you do a beautiful job of getting us to visualize what's happening. what we can't even imagine is 110 to 115 to 120 degree heat. those of us who lived along that area down in arizona with no shade, that's hell.

it really is. to put children in that way. the promise -- the broken promises from a government that says if you come it will be okay. that's part of the problem, too. quickly. >> it is. eagle pass i was in a facility and i went there, brand-new facility they'll use to process more people. all they are doing is processing 13 to 1500 people a day and releasing them an parole or notice to appear. no real -- >> harris: we have lost the congressman. we will move on but want to thank him so much for bringing us what he could. technical happens. let's move to this. >> i think for biden and the democrats they attack each other for a simple reason. the usual boogie men are not available to them. they can plain conspiracy. the democratic party is looking under the hood and saying we have a lemon on our hands. >> harris: hitting democrats and biden as we're 120 days

away from mid-term elections. it could be a wipe out for the left. more than 3 out of 4 voters believe the country is moving in the wrong direction. 13% say we're on the right track. 13%? that's almost like negligible. many democrats are now urging members of their own political party to table their differences, try to get along until november. >> you ever hear the republicans four months before a mid-term election criticizing their own republican president? people know i have disagreements with the president but here is what i believe. the party needs to be disciplined. he is our leader, he is the president, let's figure out how to get the agenda in congress and unify. what's at stake. >> harris: democrat strategist calling out those who argue over policy in public. a quote here our house is on fire and it feels like the president would rather criticize the people acknowledging the fire and calling 911 than going after

the arsonist. power panel. mercedes schlapp, acu senior fellow and former trump white house advisor for strategic communications. kevin walling, a former biden campaign surrogate as well. all right. mercedes, i thought that democrat said it succinctly talking about all that's going on and how they have to get along with each other. does it matter what they say in public if they don't get along in priefsh senate it all comes out in the wash. >> democrats are stressed out about the mid-term elections. it's a sign if they aren't asking joe biden to go on the campaign trail with the candidates. you see distance happening between many of the democrat candidates and the administration. this is polar opposite with what we see with president trump and even governor desantis who is out there endorsing candidates and campaigning for republican candidates coming for the mid-term elections. it is really hard for the

party, the democrat party right now to come together because their focus has been so much on climate change, on the abortion issue, and they are missing the big point here that 75% of voters think the economy and the inflation is the most important issue. it is something where i think president biden has not been able to get a handle on it and sell his message on the economy and say what he is pushing for. >> harris: kevin. 13% of those polled said they think america is going in the right direction. that's on president biden. how do you even approach that? forget about turning it around for a second. how do you approach it? >> a good question. i will pick up where mercedes left off. economy will be the number one issue nor the mid-terms in 120 days. i'm with her in agreement that i think you will see the president focusing like a laser on that issue. he was just in ohio last week talking about worker rights and

saving the pensions of 2 million american workers and focusing as he has been -- >> harris: help to the unions is what you are saying. >> the number one issues come november. >> harris: here is the deal. i sound like biden now. >> here is the deal. quote there. >> harris: let me stop. so you go to the unions, that's a clap fest. we carried a little of that on "the faulkner focus" and know it's a cheer crowd for him. but he has admitted there is nothing he can do personally now about inflation. how do you turn it around, mercedes? >> that's a great question. it starts with bringing republicans to the white house. literally like having these conversations of what can we do together in order to find solutions to bringing down these costs. we know it starts with getting rid of burdensome regulations and starts in insuring we can allow and unleash so many of our energy resources within the united states. i think those are just two of the things we need to get moving on in order to bring

down inflation, bring down gas prices. >> harris: a few seconds here with all the breaking news, kevin bring us home. >> i want to see more republican outreach. many republicans at the white house earlier with the bipartisan gun legislation. i want them to get on board and tackle the issue with democrats heading into november. >> harris: you two figured it out getting along. good to see you. "outnumbered" is next. with threr fighting ingredients. just one sheet helps remove pet hair from your clothes! looking good starts in the dryer with bounce pet. riders! let your queries be known. yeah, hi. instead of letting passengers wrap their arms around us, could we put little handles on our jackets? -denied. -can you imagine? i want a new nickname. can you guys start calling me snake? no, bryan. -denied. -how about we all get quotes to see if we can save with america's

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