sky high on the west coast for many years are coming down a bit. you have to get office workers wanting to go back into the office. >> dana: that's a big problem not only seattle but elsewhere. >> bill: great to be back with you. >> dana: a good week and i hope you continue to watch fox news all day. see you on "the five". harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. backlash intense and non-stop right now from political critics to voters. with inflation spinning out of control, the president was meeting with the saudi crown prince trying to hard sell a fresh iran deal that benefits no one but iran and a threat to israel. i'm harris faulkner and are you in "the faulkner focus". the high cost of food is unbearable for many americans. there is simply no way for the biden administration to deflect from that fact. national economic council

director brian deese with this. >> of course what's important is looking forward and the administration and all of us are focused on where else can we reduce costs for families even as we try to bring down the deficit and help to reduce inflation on the fiscal policy side? the united states is in a better position than any other country in the world right now. if we make these right policy choices it will matter and make a difference and bring prices down more quickly and give us a better chance to drive that transition effectively. >> harris: talking points. i wonder if they sit on one card. those don't seem to be fooling anybody. new fox news polling shows just 31% of people approve of how the president is handling the economy overall. only 25% say they approve of how he is doing specifically on inflation. the high prices on everything. republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis says the biden administration needs to talk straight. >> they are playing smoke and mirrors with the american people.

the american people know that inflation is having a true impact. they are losing the value of their wages. they are seeing it when they fill up the gas tank, when they buy food for their families and go to pay their everyday expenses and cost of living. it is caused by the democratic policies both economic and the anti-energy policies. >> harris: former reagan economic advisor art laffer is standing by with reaction. peter doocy is live at the white house first. >> good morning. president biden is back from the middle east and saudi leaders are saying that the president never took the opportunity with all the gulf leaders gathered in the same room for a summit to talk about oil production. but the president is saying that he didn't have to because gas prices are coming down anyway. >> president biden: they're coming down every single day to the best of my knowledge. >> what was the impact of this visit? >> president biden: i suspect you won't see that for another couple of weeks.

>> voters are losing confidence and quickly. just 17% in a new fox news poll say the economy is good. 84% say it is fair or poor. white house officials are blaming high inflation on high gas prices and biden officials are saying just have some patience. >> it is now $4.55 and i expect it to come down more towards $4 and we already have many gas stations around the country below $4. so we're -- this is the fastest decline rate we've seen against a major increase of oil prices during a war in europe. where one of the parties in the war is the third largest producer in the world. >> the president about his trip abroad but nothing on the schedule for him today. we do expect to hear from the press secretary later on this afternoon. >> harris: peter doocy, thank you very much. art laffer in "focus" now.

former reagan economic advisor. because of the talking points the white house is using, you also advised prime minister margaret thatcher on fiscal policy in the u.k. during the 1980s. why do i start with that? the number one talking point that stands out to me from the white house right now is when we're being told to just kind of get through what we're getting through because we're better off than any other country in the world when it comes to inflation. why are they telling us that? >> i don't know but it sounds like -- when you look at what brian deese said and everyone's focusing on oil prices. i understand oil prices are really important and they will go up and they will go down. that's very true. we're in a down slide right now, that's true. let me tell you every other price is on an uptick. every other one. the monthly number we dropped off this past month was 11%. this month's number was 17%.

i had thought the index would come down but it is not. the next three months the numbers that are being dropped off are in the 4 and 5% range. even with lower monthly inflation the cpi number will take off. these are very bad numbers for the administration. i don't know why they are saying just keep patient. it is just not correct. if you look at just oil prices, they're true, they're coming down this month, that's true. the rest of the stuff is going just the other way. >> harris: look, i started with the foreign because i am really legitimately trying to understand and maybe it's because the president thinks well, you know, i'm going to do the middle east thing and european thing and going here and there. as long as we're better off than all the countries where i'm going, americans can't complain. this is the country everybody is trying to get into. i don't know there are very many americans trying to move to where the inflation is better than ours. is that a nuance in news i've

missed. >> very few people are trying to move to ukraine as well. the rest of the world has a lot of problems. if you want to look at the inflation, harris, the way i do it you can look at the inflation, the dollar versus foreign currencies. the dollar is strong. if you look at the dollar versus gold the dollar is fairly strong. if you look it versus goods and services, the only thing we care about, it is as weak as it has been in the last 40 years. this is a terrible situation for the u.s. and just because other countries have the same problems doesn't mean ours is not problem. >> harris: former obama economic advisor says this about the chances of a recession. let's watch together, art. >> where are we on the possibility of recession? >> i'm not that much more worried than i am normally but i don't have any confidence in that. in part because the economic signals are really unclear.

it's certainly possible, but certainly more likely than it normally is. the risks are much greater than they normally are. the idea that a recession is a foregone conclusion or over 50% chance, i don't see that but i'm looking through a cloudy rearview mirror trying to guess what's going to happen ahead of us. >> harris: it's like they all think we're stupid. like what, we don't understand, we can't understand when the experts are telling us that a recession is probably looming based on the numbers we're all seeing? it is up to 50% who believe that among the experts. i don't know where this is coming from. >> i don't understand why we would even look at what people think it is or not. the first quarter was downed by 1.6%. second quarter that is already over is estimated by the atlanta fed to be down by 1.5%. so we've already had a recession two quarters back-to-back with negative growth is the definition for a

recession. that's where it is. now the question is, will it keep getting worse? that's the relevant question. it is a recession already. how long will it last? and from what i see, i don't see any end in sight or anything that looks good on the horizon on the economy. you just don't see it. but maybe i'm missing something that these guys who are politically paid to give positive numbers are better off than i am. but i don't think so. >> harris: you haven't just said the quiet part out loud for this administration you said something they will not say. and if we are already in a recession based on the numbers that you just gave that's pure evidence. nobody can change that. it has already happened, you said. what does that mean for people right now? >> i don't get the questions. it's over. that decision has been lock, stock and put into place. that's the answer. now they are saying are we going to get a recession? we're in the middle of it. how much longer will it last is the relevant question. it doesn't look good.

it just doesn't look good. >> harris: advising presidents and prime minister, what do you tell president biden to do right now? because we only have him, right? i don't know who he is listening to. they aren't even reading what you are or they are lying about it. >> they know the numbers, they just don't say them. the advice i gave in reagan days at the end of jimmy carter. allow interests rates to rise on their own accord. above the rate of inflation. you want money to be tight and scarce and you want to stimulate economic growth. if you have a bump of apples the price calls. a bump of goods and services the price will fall. tight money and expansive growth in the production of goods and services which means deregulation. tax cuts, deregulation. pumping all the oil we can. that's the advice i gave. we had the same oil problem, by

the way, back in the early days of reagan. jimmy carter was worse than biden if you can imagine that. >> harris: i wanted to ask. >> you remember the gas lines? it was horrible. >> harris: i remember my parents talking about it. jimmy carter's economy, joe biden's economy. give me some comparisons and i know you said -- >> very similar. almost identical. when i look at both of them they are identical. anti-oil, trying to control prices in the marketplace, trying to control the price of gasoline, which you can't do. so everyone had these long lines to get in to get your tank filled you had to wait two, three, four hours. those are coming. they did all these silly things and don't believe for a moment that biden won't do them, too. he is. he is already threatening an excess profits tax on oil companies and all this and it is the same rigamarole and when we finally got reagan we

decontrolled oil, cut tax rates on the economy and tightened money and my goodness you can see the inflation rate drop like a stone with economic growth, not a recession or depression or deep root canal work theory of economics. not the larry summers solution but a growth solution. having more goods and services produced will the end to bring down their prices. we want a boom that lowers prices. >> harris: exactly the opposite of what they are talking about. allow interest rates to rise naturally. you know the fed wants to dance. it doesn't have an identity if it doesn't have a spoon in the stew. >> you're right. they think they're controlling. like every autocratic system in the world. every despot want to keep control and never lose that control. the fed thinks it can control and make it better. they are not as smart as the

marketplace. you get tight money and control of that and with economic growth you will get inflation falling. just the way paul volker did it. do i wish he were head of the fed now. >> harris: i think it would be easier for the biden white house. take off your hands off the lever. beautiful vehicle and crashing it. last quick question. my team will yell as me because we're out of time. energy, jimmy carter, did he come into office with the kind of energy independence that trump left biden? >> no, he came with some independence but made it a lot worse in the united states. a lot worse. we had the embargo, opec embargo and the prices skyrocketed. when reagan decontrolled oil the price of went from $32 a barrel to $8 a barrel. how is that, supply side

economics. that's what he did. jimmy carter did the opposite just like biden. >> harris: art laffer, thank you for the evidence of what is happening today. more troubling questions about the president's knowledge of his son's foreign business trips and shady deals after a report finds he had more than two dozen meetings at the white house. and president biden still getting blowback over the fist bump seen around the world. he says we shouldn't even be talking about it. >> president biden, with one hand you know a fist bump with the crown prince and with the other a slap in the face to the american public. >> harris: critics aren't letting the president off the hook after he promised to make saudi arabia a pariah state when he was a candidate when he said that and now he is more than friendly. pete hegseth in "focus" next.

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>> harris: president biden says in the private meeting on friday with saudi crown prince bin salman he brought up the murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. however, a top saudi official who was in the room with him remembers it very differently and says it is not what happened. the president didn't bring it up with the crown prince. then the president had this tears response on his return to the white house. >> the saudi foreign minister said he didn't accuse you the crown prince of khashoggi's murder. is he telling the truth? >> president biden: no. >> harris: all is comes as some

progressive democrats are going after biden over his trip to the middle east. >> you have the leader of the country who was involved in the murder of a "washington post" journalist, i don't think that that type of government should be rewarded with a visit by the president of the united states. >> harris: arguably that fist bump is getting so much more attention pretty much than anything else. critics call it a slap in the face to the american people. the publisher and ceo of the "washington post" called the greeting shameful. pete hegseth, co-host of "fox & friends" weekend, great to have you in "focus." the white house says they were begging the president not to touch anybody. he did that and had all sorts of health challenges. remember the coughing at the east jerusalem church. it was a struggle and he did touch the crown prince with a bump. >> sure did.

so they made up a covid protocol which was too cute by half so they could avoid shaking the hand of the crown prince but then joe biden shakes the hand of netanyahu and the prime minister of the of israel and once he got to saudi arabia the reality is here comes the fist bump which looks a lot more intimate. he comes back to the white house in the middle of night and says can't you guys ask me about something that matters? if something that mattered had happened on the trip we would be talking about it. instead, what happened was the weakness of america was on full display unfortunately. joe biden says he confronts him on the crown prince. contradicted while he is flying home to the united states. joe biden says we made a breakthrough with flyover rights over saudi arabia. they says it has nothing to do with israel. nothing of substance there. joe biden leaves the palestinian area. what do they do? missiles fired moments after he leaves. so from top to bottom on the trip, words were said that

didn't match the reality of the policies being pursued. chief amongst them that the reason, harris, we were going to meet with saudi arabia was not about oil production except it turns out the administration wanted to tout more oil production and the crown prince said you will only get a little bit. so it really was about oil to begin with. we have no foreign policy. we look weak on the foreign stage so yes we're talking about a fist bump at this point. >> harris: you wonder why his approval ratings are dipping to so far low. people can't trust him. he doesn't do what he says he is going to do in the big instances and the world can see it. that's an example that you just gave. the other is on the economy and inflation that's transitory according to his administration. a "washington post" op-ed argues that dealing with dictators is part of the job. president obama bowed to saudi arabia's keep abdullah. i don't know if you could use that as your defense. that didn't go well, either.

the post pointed to harry truman shaking hands with josef stalin. josef stalin and richard nixon. columnists can hold outrage from on high but moral purity is no leader of a great nation can afford. every president has had to pursue both america's ideals and its interests and often they're at odds. pete. >> we are going to meet with people we don't like. the question is what's the disposition of it. are we coming in a position of strength pursuing steely eyed and the interest of the american people are do they know we're coming hat in hand? remember when donald trump arrived in saudi arabia? he arrived in saudi arabia saying we will produce our own oil so we're less dependent on you. foreign wars won't be dictated. you will help us confront iran and we're on the cusp of abraham accords that saudi arabia would be a part of.

he met with kim jung un. he thought engagement could lead to denuclearization on the korean peninsula. confronting our enemies, talking to them can be important if it's in pursuit of our interests. but coming hat in hand like we have only pushes them in other directions and away from things that serve our interests. so the "washington post" is very invested in the story of khashoggi. i get it but you won't be able to -- understandably but you won't go to saudi arabia and change their human rights record, an islamist country. it is not going to happen. what can we get from them to benefit us? joe biden should go to texas and oil producing states to unleash our energy so we don't have to make these trips. >> harris: and drop by border while you're there. the "new york post" reporting that hunter biden met with his father at least 30 times at the white house or the vice president's residence often

just days after he had returned home from those overseas business trips that are such a focal point according to information recovered from the infamous hunter biden laptop. the meetings happened between 2008 and 2016 and raised all sorts of questions whether hunter biden was relaying messages to his dad on behalf of foreign clients. all of it casting new doubt on the president's repeated denials that he had any role in his son's overseas business dealings. her is congresswoman stefanik. >> we intend to investigate. we have already made those document requests and we won't hesitate when it comes to utilizing our subpoena power because again the american people deserve accountability and deserve an investigation to what i believe is the biden crime family. you have the entire joe biden family profiting personally off of joe biden's position when he was a sitting vice president. that is unacceptable in america.

>> harris: even bleach can't clean it up. hunter left the laptop at a maintenance shop. >> biden family happy to meet with shady regimes when it benefits their family business. it advances their family business. this is not a hunter biden scandal, it is a joe biden scandal. when you look at these trips. it is not a couple of weeks later he happened to be. it was visits country a, hunter biden for business meetings, two days later visits the vice president. visits shady country b, three days later goes to visit the vice president. hunter biden was the biden family business person because politics was an avenue to enrichment for the biden family and the "new york post" was suppressed while just trying to tell the basic part of this story in the middle of our election in 2020. it has taken this long to unravel this laptop that they still have not denied. bidens can't deny it is his and shows that type of interaction.

made the republicans show a backbone and look into this in 2022. our republic deserves to know whether our highest leaders are profiting off of connections the government has given them. >> harris: and potentially could be capitulateing to something that whatever leverage they have over our leaders. that's what endangers the rest of us. great to have you in "focus." alexandria ocasio-cortez blasted for another tone deaf comment. this time about what she calls the insane cost of being a congresswoman. plus a minneapolis mom lashing out at black lives matter protestors. >> that man was armed. this man was trying to kill us. >> harris: she says blm supports the man who terrorized her family. and she is defending the police

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>> harris: a minneapolis mom is taking on blm protestors of a man accused of firing bullets into her home. police and that man were in a six-hour stand-off that ended in his death. blm protestors are now going after cops for killing a black man. they say they want body cam footage released. this woman, one of his neighbors, went toe-to-toe with those activists over the weekend and made it very clear this was not a george floyd situation. >> that man was armed. george floyd was not armed.

breonna taylor was not arm. this man tried to kill us. for three years i lived here and none of you guys saw if i was okay. not at all. he played loud music every day. the soft went through my door into the kitchen. i was cooking food for my kids. [inaudible] now i can't get -- all you guys want to be here. my kids are seeing you celebrate a man's life that tried to kill us. >> harris: she is not wrong. jason rantz, seattle ktth radio talk show host. when you watched that video you get a visceral, emotional reaction. when you listen to the words.

listen, not george floyd, not breonna taylor. those people weren't armed. listen. >> the issue here is that blm activists never look at the facts of the case beyond whether or not police were involved in a shooting. that's all they look at. they don't care if the suspect is innocent or guilty because the blm movement is not about the people they pretend are victims. it is always about the police. their goal is to dismantle police departments. their goal is to change laws around policing, not just defund. so when that is your end goal and you are partisan ideologues blinded by your belief you don't care about the folks these people impact. i'm so glad this mother stood up to this mob. that's what people need to do across the country when these things happen. blm activists are almost wrong on basic facts of case. people need to stand up and say that.

>> harris: as you watch that video roll longer she is actually then basically pushed back on by the blm protestors saying you're not dead, you're alive. their reasoning in that moment for a woman who is hurting and frightened and tiring to get to her kids is so out of whack. >> no empathy from the crowd because they don't understand what it is like to be a police officer or a victim to some of the people that police use force against. there are actual victims here and it is not someone who was shot by cops. he was the criminal. he was the bad guy. i understand they make the argument about mental health and it is an important conversation we always have to have. however, the best way to not get shot by cops is to not shoot at them or to not shoot at innocent mothers cooking dinner for their kids in her

apartment. >> harris: she had the greatest question as she stood on the entry way to her door. she said why didn't you guys help him out when he needed it? it wasn't a secret this guy needed help. let's move to this. it seg ways to what you are saying. the criminals will get the support from the street. blm is right there to give them that support. but you know who else is helping out? the liberal d.a.s. critics are piling onto one in particular, george gascon from los angeles facing a recall election there. he is taking heat for scrapping his office's lifer unit which notifies victims and their families about their assailant's parole hearings. prosecutors from his own office are accusing him of turning his back on victims. i spoke to an assistant d.a. last week. we didn't get that. we didn't get that little piece of information. but what we know is that these

victims have a right to be told what is going to go on. why would he do something like this? is this part of his greater plan you're talking about? >> i think this is always an after thought for folks like george gascon and other liberal d.a.s. they don't care as much about the victims as they do about the criminals. in their world and their mind they have completely conflated the two. now the criminal is the victim and that's the one that gets all the focus. because if we said over and over they like to scream about systems of oppression, they need to be dismantled. institutionalized racism and sexism. they believe getting caught up in the criminal justice system has no fault of their own but force folks to drive into a mother while she is walking her child. >> harris: the people in the community. >> that is how it's viewed and it is a twisted and warped way of thinking and why we've seen

the push not just to recall george gascon but we're seeing the movement across the country. this is happening in democrat cities. these are democrats saying you've gone so far to the left that we need to course correct because you aren't going to. >> harris: quickly, and i will ask my team if we can get to aoc. alexandria ocasio-cortez now. critics are calling her out for being what they call tone deaf in a complaint. aoc said in an instagram post said her six figure salary isn't enough because lawmakers are required to have homes in both washington, d.c. and the state they live in and represent that the money doesn't cut it. and you say what, jason? >> i say certainly the timing is not ideal. she is not wrong. believe me, i hate having to agree with aoc but i think when you are requiring someone to have two residences particularly in high-cost

neighborhoods you are self-limiting the type of person who might want to run for congress. aoc did and she is a horrible example. there are a lot of really good people who can't afford to run because they can't afford to be lawmakers. we don't like it when lawmakers somehow get rich while they are in office. maybe because they are taking certain kinds of votes that might have been influenced by people who can make them wealthy down the line. maybe we should have a conversation about stipends for housing. i think that's a reasonable conversation especially when you consider all of the hours that some of these folks are putting on when they work and live -- live on the west coast and have to travel to the east coast. so i do think there is a bigger conversation. i just wish aoc wasn't the person bringing it up. she is not a good example of anyone wants to lead. she is an insufferable millennial. bad timing. >> harris: if we don't want people to be tempted then maybe

we as a society and those on capitol hill have to take a look at our expectations for where they live and how they represent. that's interesting. thank you very much. always great to have your perspective. the first lady is defending her husband saying his agenda is being blocked by constant problems. isn't that part of the job description of being president of the united states? and yet another staffer has left the vice president's team. >> within kamala harris's office we haven't seen an exodus like this since modern day san francisco a couple weeks ago everybody fleeing that city. >> harris: power panel next.

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>> harris: ahead of the vote to give billions of dollars in sup sidy to the microchip industry nancy pelosi's husband bought 1 to 5 million shares in a semi conductor company. here is what congressman james

comer said. >> this is terrible. this is another bad example of nancy pelosi's leadership. this isn't the first time that her husband did this. he bought stock options ahead of all the big tech hearings and, of course, nothing happened there. nancy pelosi is the ultimate insider. >> harris: fox business correspondent hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. two quick questions. 1 to 5 million. can we do a drill down on how much and invidia. >> it is the 1 to 5 million dollar range. the disclosure form when they submit these to the house saying i bought this stock in june. so it gives that price range. we don't know the exact valuation of the purchase but it is over a million dollars and not the first time mr. pelosi's stock trades have come into questions and sparked questions about a conflict of interest. mr. pelosi disclosed he bought

at least $1 million in stops from a major chip maker in june that make chip systems for cars and robots. chuck schumer is trying to get the chip bill across the finish line. it would give $15 billion in aid to the chip industry. but speaker pelosi's spokesperson tells me this about the purchase. the speaker does not own any stock. as you can see from the required disclosures with which the speaker fully cooperates these are transactions marked as for spouse. the speaker has no involvement in any transactions. this is proof why lawmakers and their spouses should not be able to trade stock while in office. >> this stinks to high heaven. as the american people are suffering and looking at their investments continuing to plummet the fact that the pelosis are profiting doesn't smell right and frankly, it is one of the commitments of republicans in the majority to make sure that we have the correct rules in place to make

sure there is no malfeasance and make sure members of congress and family members, particularly spouses are not able to profit at all over these types of investments. >> there are three house proposals to prevent lawmakers and their spouses while trading stock in office. it may not be the lawmaker themselves making the trade. critics argue they can still financially benefit from a well-timed and politically strategic trade from their spouse and lawmakers have a power to vote up or down a bill to make that investment significantly a lot more valuable and benefit from a big return on whatever they are investing in. >> harris: it just looks bad, too, right? it just looks hypocritical for really rich people to continue to lead the way they think we need to be led and live with hypocrisy. i'm sure the $12 ice cream was

delicious for speaker pelosi. >> the biden administration is a bunch of do-nothing people than just blame. this is a referendum on biden. mid-term is a referendum on the president's strategies that are horrible. this is not going to be about 24. it will be about 22. >> harris: critics such as rick scott of florida are tearing into the biden administration as the problems keep piling up. the president faces multiple crises, inflation and illegal immigration surge at the border, raging crime among others at a private dnc fundraiser and the first lady said this. the president had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do. every time he turned around he had to address the problems of the moment. he just had so many things thrown his way. a fox news poll shows 59% of voters disapprove of president biden.

doug collins former georgia congressman and brad woodhouse dnc advisor are joining us now. doug, so many problems for the president, oh darn. >> good to see you. it reminds me of the old mike tyson vote. everybody has a plan for a fight until you get hit in the face. nobody said you would go in and have a clean, easy path to do whatever you want to do. all the hopes and dreams. this is for an administration that can think of multiple levels and you have to deal with domestic and foreign issues and then still work your plan to make whatever agenda that you had or to adapt it to that. to simply whine that we didn't get to do what we wanted to do because so many things are going on or my own democratic party stopped me is simply not an excuse. the people will not buy it when they look at the gas tank, pocketbook and foreign standing. >> harris: you know, it's interesting, brad. the president is missing an opportunity here. he could use this and say look, these are some of the things i

hoped to get done but i have to tackle these problems affecting you and here is where i will start and here is when you will immediately feel it. he is not doing that. >> well first of all i think he is doing that. i would look at what the first lady said and i would have a different perspective. that is that a lot of the crises that the president is tackling, a lot of the crises that have come up, some of which have been over hyped, you know, are obscuring the things he has accomplished. record job growth in his first year, record small business development in his first year. do you know, harris, no one knows this. more people are working in the private sector today than ever in american history. that's under this president. hold on. don't pause me. >> harris: hold on. i will pause you because you put words in any mouth. >> the american rescue plan. investments he has made and i

think the crises of the war in ukraine and inflation have over obscured. this is a record economy and it is indisputable it is a record economy. >> harris: i will pause you. you wanted to guess what i did and didn't know. while i did know what you said what i also know is wages don't match what people are spending money on right now. it wouldn't matter if they had 10 of those jobs. the prices are so high. that's the rest of the truth that i know. but if you want to overtalk, let's include all the facts. i don't want to go back to 1981. art laffer former economic advisor says we're in a recession. you don't have to take his word for it or my word for it. look at the numbers. we're already in that recession. doug. >> look, i would have a hard time. i don't want to focus on -- everything he brings up is the

american rescue plan started the inflation cycle we're in. not the putin war in ukraine. it also the attack on the energy. brad, look, you've got to admit the problem that you have. the issues will come up. i won't deny that every president has things they don't want to have to deal with. a lot of it has been self-inflicted from afghanistan withdrawal. open border. putting more money. all these jobs they are talking about. we were just coming out of a recession, not a recession but the pandemic opening back up. a lot of these jobs that are now being claimed were simply being reopened back up. >> harris: doug quickly. brad, i will follow up with one question. we are talking as a panel. quickly, though, doug, when you say coming out of the pandemic we're facing the fall right now. have we heard anything from the cdc where our kids should be? they already have a gap. you get the last word. >> i think that's the biggest concern i have coming out of

this pandemic. what's the result of coming out of it? talking to educators now there is a lot of concern going into this fall you have had significant detriment to children in public schools. >> harris: another opportunity for this president maybe to talk straight with the american people which is where i positively started. brad and doug, thank you very much. appreciate your time. "outnumbered" is now.

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