about gun safety. >> dana: again it's a sad thing that we have to have these conversations. you have chosen as mom to do what you this i is right. 7 million views and a lot more after this as well. we appreciate you. thank you. griff, it was a joy to be with you today. thank you for being here. >> griff: thank you, dana. great being with you. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: fox news alert now, the d.c. swamp is in full effect with democrats spendsing our money and taxing us like we don't count. fierce reaction to president biden's new enormous spending law. he called it the inflation reduction act. that is not even close to what it actually is. and a new problem for biden and his team. they can't seem to figure out when families will ever get a break from sky high prices. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus".

president biden yesterday claimed a win when he signed that massive tax and spend bill into law. and given the obvious name about reducing inflation, the administration has been selling it as the solution to inflation. fox news's own neil cavuto pressed white house economic advisor on when and how this law could ever lower inflation. >> it won't help in any other area including some of the sharp rise in food prices that have now just not gone down. they have not subsided. >> the inflation reduction act is not the only initiative we're engaged in. >> why do you call it the inflation reduction act? >> i think a year from now inflation will be rising at a slower rate than it is now. >> harris: he thinks a year from now it will still be rising. okay.

studies by the congressional budget office and the university of pennsylvania's wharton school of business have found this information. the spending spree that they are on will have technically zero impact on inflation and could make things worse in the short term and penn wharton says we won't feel an impact any time before 2031. even the liberal media now have skepticism. >> are you personally comfortable calling it the inflation reduction act? >> the fill every pothole act. should voters measure the success of this bill on how much you reduce inflation in the next couple years? >> so this bill spins out over several years. this is really an investment in our economy. >> harris: they meant it wasn't inflation, they meant investment. the wrong i word? jim banks from the great state

of indiana coming up. hillary vaughn live for us on capitol hill now. >> good afternoon. the president celebrated the inflation reduction act becoming law yesterday by bragging a lot about some of the climate perks in the package saying that this is the most aggressive action they've taken to combat the climate crisis so r. but it is called the inflation reduction act and mainstream concerns about why americans are being told it will reduce inflation when the nonpartisan congressional office says what's in it won't do that. the white house insists there are things in the new law that will cut costs. >> we will give people tax credits and rebates right at the point of purchase to buy energy-efficient appliances and energy-efficient dishwashers and washing machines and all those kinds of things. ask the senior citizens who are now paying thousands of dollars for their prescription drugs, if we cap that expense at

$2,000, does it help them with inflation? they'll tell you it does. >> one of the key negotiators told me yesterday they never claimed it would bring costs down for people right away. >> is it misleading to call it the inflation reduction act when it won't make their grocery bill cheaper or everyday goods cheaper for them? >> well, it's not. we haven't said anything happens immediately to turn the switch on and off. >> the inflation reduction act sounds like price relief is on the way for americans struggling to pay for necessities. they will wait for a while unless you are in the market for an electric vehicle or solar panel, you won't see the savings today. the healthcare savings are not going to come until next year, harris. >> harris: thank you very much. that massive new bill now law just the latest stop on a wild spending spree that we've been on since president biden and

the democrats have been the majority in office. both on the hill and in the white house. they've been making it rain with our tax money. 3.8 trillion in new spending since inauguration day. congressman jim banks from indiana, republican study committee chair and armed services committee member. great to see you. first of all your top line thoughts on where we actually are going now that the truth drip, drip, drip is coming out about what's in the bill. >> it should be illegal to name a bill something it doesn't do. one of many cases the democrats get away with this. like the affordable care act to the inflation reduction act, this is misleading to the american people and there should be a rule in congress that makes it against the rules of the house or the senate to do what the democrats have done this time again. so i'll tell you one thing i did do. i introduced a bill in congress with senator rick scott that

would require the cbo to measure the inflationary impact on all of the bills we passed. the cbo tells us how much it will cost but doesn't measure inflation. when i introduced it in the house and senator scott introduced it in the senate the democrats shot it down. they don't want it to be measured by the cbo. in cases like this it will show their bills actually make inflation worse. and the more you dig into this bill, the worse it is. it taxes natural gas. it means you will pay more for energy. it will kill energy jobs in america. then on top of that the 87,000 new i.r.s. agents. the notre dame couldn't hold that many. they are coming after working class americans. $20 billion in new taxes on them and i.r.s. agents are coming after people who make -- would work hourly wages, make a good living and that's what the democrats support. the more you learn about it the more reason there is to be very

cautious and wary of what the democrats have put forward in this case. >> harris: i have read you have an mba and you can tear the numbers apart. the part that caught me, though, is just what you said about the bill that you introduced, hold everybody accountable on inflationary impacts with new laws. the cbo got left out of this conversation from the beginning. they passed it so quickly that americans, the public didn't get to chance to see what the cbo was saying about it. >> totally. what this bill is really about is the green new deal. you go back to when aoc first talked about the green new deal we laughed and thought it was ridiculous. that's what the democrats have achieved with this and some of the other bills they've passed. this bill goes after farting cows. it rewards democrat special interest groups to spend money on green new deal, radical climate change provisions.

think about sill en dra in the obama administration, a corrupt fake business that stole taxpayer dollars. there will be a lot more of that because of bills like this. >> harris: experts are telling me for weeks we would see the gas prices go up because of taxes on petroleum corporations. the late oeft round of spending coming after billions of dollars were stolen from massive spending packages. fraud coming in all shapes and sizes, money doled out to fake names, farms and businesses, people posting videos waving around wads of ill-gotten cash. the d.o.j. inspector general sounded the alarm in the spring. >> i think people made a conscious decision we'll get the money out and if there is fraud you'll chase it later. that's just not an acceptable model. i can't rule out that the fraud could be not only in the tens of billions but maybe as some have estimated upwards of $100

billion dollars. >> harris: it calls fraud a tidal wave and prosecutors are struggling to keep up. it's too bad the president signed this month with a goal of trying to recoup some of your tax dollars. let's watch. >> president biden: american people deserve to know that their tax dollars are being spent as intended. my message to those cheats out there is this. you can't hide. we are going to find you. we will make you pay back when you stole and hold you accountable under law. >> harris: what is your reaction? >> remember when they introduced this bill, we tried in the house, republicans in the house and senate, tried to put provisions in the bill to say the 87,000 new i.r.s. agents and money going toward spending on boosting the i.r.s. go toward attacking working class families and instead that would insure that if we are going to hire that many i.r.s. agents they would go after waste, fraud and abuse. the democrats shot that down, too. that tells you they don't care

at all about the wasteful and fraudulent use of taxpayer dollars in this case. they want the i.r.s. to go after regular people. people who work hourly wages, middle class, middle income jobs. i don't think the president, just like in so many other cases, i don't take the president's word for meaning much based on his record that he cares at all about waste, fraud and abuse. they should have named the bill instead of the inflation reduction act they should have called it the government expansion act. that's what it is going to do. expand government. you will see money used in ways that will make taxpayers ill at the end of the day. >> harris: well, i wonder how it works on the hill. you tell me. can you reintroduce that bill to hold everybody accountable for the inflationary impact and just keep doing it? >> we will. when we get the majority in the house i guarantee we will. >> harris: representative jim banks from indiana.

great to have you in "focus" today. thank you. >> harris: it's become a bad habit. president biden again dodging questions from reporters after signing his massive tax and spending bill into law. the other big issues his critics say he needs to answer for, and now in reaction to congresswoman liz cheney's crushing primary defeat. >> griff: we're ultimately responsible to the people of our district and the people of wyoming decided she no longer represented their priorities. i think obviously the impeachment vote was part of that. >> harris: she have was president trump's gop critic and has plans for what's next. brian kilmeade in "focus." who own a home. rans with home values at record highs, now's the best time in history to turn your

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>> harris: one of donald trump's loudest republican critics goes down in defeat. wyoming congresswoman liz cheney crushed in the gop primary to trump-backed harriet hageman. cheney telling reporters the work is far from over and compared herself to abraham lincoln and grant. her next move is launching an organization with the primary goal of keeping trump out of the white house. >> the republican party today is in very bad shape. the country has got to have a republican party that is actually based on substance and principles. based on a belief in limited government. low taxes, small national defense. we need to get the party back to that. the party has instead embraced donald trump.

>> harris: former president donald trump quick to respond to cheney's loss with this on his social media. this is a wonderful result for america and a complete rebuke of the unselect committee of political hacks and thugs. rich jackson live for us in jackson, wyoming. >> in a speech here she compared the divisions of today during the divisions of the 1860s. this morning shed an announcement saying the coming weeks liz will launch an organization to educate the american people about the ongoing threat to our republican and mobilize a unified effort to oppose a donald trump campaign for president. cheney won a primary with 70% of the vote the last election. she could have stayed in office if she went -- within an hour of polls closing here last

night, cheney had called her opponent to concede. >> harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now the real work begins. >> attorney harriet hageman had former president donald trump's support. she made her campaign about cheney's vice chairing the january 6 committee painting cheney as a representative more concerned with that than her state. >> just like you, i am sick and tired of not having a voice in the u.s. house of representatives. [cheering and applause] today we have succeeded at what we set out to do. we have reclaimed wyoming's lone congressional seat. >> cheney said to the "today" show this morning she is considering running for president but yet to make a decision on that. >> harris: thank you very much.

now for that special time when the kilmeade radio show is on tv and "the faulkner focus" is on his radio show simulcasting gold. brian kilmeade, great to see you today. first of all, liz cheney. is she the one to keep donald trump out? >> obviously not. she lost by 30 or 40 points in a place she won with 70% of the vote last time. liz cheney did something that murcowski and others didn't do. voted to impeach that's one thing. she leads the impeachment. she have is ahead of chuck shierm, nancy pelosi and adam schiff in terms of despising donald trump. that's not something you do if you want to stay in politics at this moment. liz cheney voted with donald trump almost for all four years over 90% of the time. they agreed on almost everything except for certain areas of foreign policy which a lot of people on the right disagreed with different things

he did in syria, the talks that led to afghanistan. besides that they agreed. something snapped in liz cheney after january 6. but to meet with james goldstein of abc, the one who is producing the january 6th hearings who she spend countless hours editing the packages together to sell america on how bad trump is and then to meet with him for the concession speech as they pick jackson, wyoming overlooking the beautiful mountains and wonderful landscape in a jeans jacket she is producing again. the concession speech was produced by a guy from the january 6 hearing makes everything so contrived, harris. >> harris: that is a detail that is very salacious in this whole thing because it talks about a kind of brotherhood/sisterhood that people don't know about. did she use show of that i voted with trump 90% of the

time on the campaign trail. she can't be that yolked to him. >> it's authenticity like the inflation reduction act. nothing to do with reducing inflation. we get used to the head fake. she could have used it to her advantage. the ones that survived. brian kemp as governor of georgia attacked by donald trump almost every day for a while never engaged. i have a state to run. that's it. sorry he feels that way. never had a problem with him. that's how you keep your job and stay a republican and win. that's how you do it. liz cheney says i'll take him on but i will personally -- i don't think you have to make a choice and say i either like trump or like bush and cheney. a lot of respect for the bushes, for the cheneys and i remember liz cheney was here for a long time. you know how smart and competent she is. i have not forgotten that.

but here i think she made some huge mistakes for a lot of reasons. it got very personal. >> harris: you and others with not need to do any of that behavior about, you know, not denying one side whatever so that you can keep in the middle, keep your job. maybe she felt the pressure of that because of her last name and if you saw her dad's ads. maybe what the rest of the family would feel politically. we don't know. i wonder if this is a topic. now liz cheney had this to say about a possible run for the white house. >> i'm not going to make any announcements here this morning but it is something i'm thinking about and i'll make a decision in the coming months. >> harris: we talked to voters about this. they are mixed. >> no, please, no, no, no, no, no, no. >> we need strong women with powerful decision making. >> i don't see her getting a lot of support for republicans. >> i have no use with people to

quit the brand. >> harris: we put up a focus group for her. that was nice. 8 of 10 of house republicans who voted to impeach trump lost their primaries or will retire from congress at the end of the current term. what does that tell you about donald trump, the republican party, versus those 10? >> a couple of things. he is extremely powerful. he is persuasive and the people that like him and they love him. so trump would be off the charts. trump is between 38 and 42%. it won't get you the presidency but a lot in the primary. the ultimate verdict will be for donald trump is november. i am not somebody who thinks a lot of these candidates are off the charts. herschel walker is within 2 points. dr. oz is a better candidate

than fetterman and a lot of the people he supported are a lot better off than people are portraying them. they want to minimize them because they aren't necessarily household names. so i think we'll ultimately decide the power of trump afterwards. since the raid the complications with the raid are many for the trump team, i get it. in the short term as bill maher laments, you've woken up a giant. he is popular again and people are rallying around him again. they are all thinking trump and who merrick garland, i'm not sure he thought this but reinvigorated the trump brand. >> harris: they are seeing him because the other networks also know that if they don't cover him, they don't have legitimacy. they are all over the place. some of the stuff -- i don't watch all of them all the time but they have to come clean about that rage. you saw a democrat joining a

republican atop the senate with rubio and warner getting together in that private letter. we need more information for the american public on that raid. it is an interesting situation with trump. he is back in the headlines. 80% of anything, 8 out of 10 of those who voted for impreachment lost their seats. 80% of anything is more than a trend. let's move. in alaska two trump-backed candidates advance to the general election. sarah palin and senator lisa murcowski's challenger tschibaka. murcowski is fighting to hold onto her seat. palin is vying for an open seat. the former president's influence as we were just talking about in competitive races endorsed candidates have won those senate primaries 8 of 9. 18 of 27 house primaries, 16 of 24 statewide primaries. those numbers don't even include the ones i just gave

you from yesterday's primaries. brian. >> 92% of all, 187 of the 197 endorsed have won. impressive. onalaska in material murcowski lost the primary and ran as an independent and won it for six years. she has a lot of power in alaska and confident. even though she voted against kavanaugh remember that and voted to impeach trump, we understand that. the other thing with sarah palin, i have never been to alaska but she turned off a lot of people and resentful she walked away after getting reelected as governor. they were upseptember she did that and don't think she has been back to the state enough. she is in the runoff for the state. count the mail-in ballots and see who fills in the seat temporary. murcowski did it right. don't make him your enemy just

say this is what i want to do for the people of alaska. i'm a republican. that's what youngkin said. i heard donald trump supported me, that's great. i'm running as myself. that is the key in the purple areas. >> harris: not make an enemy when you don't know what to say. >> right. >> harris: that's a lesson i try to teach my teenagers. if you don't have what you need to say to keep it neutral maybe you don't say anything. enemies are tough sometimes. brian kilmeade we simulcast again. always a fantastic thing to do with you. thank you very much. >> i know my audience feels the same way. thank you so much. see you in the hallway, harris, or the christmas party. >> harris: that's a long time. see you. fixing past discrimination with more discrimination. that's what some are saying about a policy negotiated by the minneapolis teachers union. why critics are saying it could lead to white teachers being laid off first.

plus a new warning for democrats as they pass even more spending. >> there is nothing in the bill that would reduce inflation. when democrats know they are about to face heavy electoral losses they are bold to pass whatever legislation they can in the period of time they do have power. >> harris: the white house hoping the president's big victory will boost the party in the upcoming mid-terms. why some are saying that won't be enough. will they try to do more? power panel next. technically when enamel is gone, you cannot get it back. but there are ways you can repair it. i'm excited about pronamel repair because it penetrates deep into the tooth to help actively repair acid-weakened enamel. i recommend pronamel repair to my patients.

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back in 2010 happened during president obama's signing of the affordable care act. president biden harkening back just before signing his new spending bill. >> president biden: tell you why the climate provisions i'm about to sign into law are such a big deal. we'll create a whole lot of jobs. means financial savings. we'll make costs lowers, energy cheaper, address the climate crisis feignly. it's a win, win, win situation. >> harris: the white house is planning a massive media blitz and travel blitz as well to push legislative victory. republicans say it may not be enough to sway voters there where. one analysis is don't let them fool you. the democrats are fighting quick and despite recent wins adding no matter the plan, democrats will still have to explain to voters how they can say the american economy is

doing well with pressure at historic highs. special assistant to president trump and a former congressional democratic candidate of ohio, desirae, i will start with you and what it takes in the 83 days to the mid-term elections from both the president and democrats to pull away from a red wave. >> i think we know that history shows that in mid-term elections the party in control has a hard time and uphill battle. i do think president biden and the democrats are on a roll right now. the inflation reduction act with help so many families and working class people across the country and it is a win, win and a big win for the democrats after landing joe manchin support and kyrsten sinema. this is exciting news. the chips act, infrastructure. a lot of wins and this will help the democrats on the campaign trail hone in on the narrative. we've talked a lot about

democratic messaging and hopefully this is an opportunity and well oh he see them on the trail this august and september to see how it works out. >> harris: all right. is that how you see it, mark? >> no, not even a little bit. good luck campaigning in the industrial midwest or any part of the country when you have an inflation reduction act that don't reduce inflation. cbo says we have 369 economists that say that. people want to talk about gas prices, grocery prices, the out of control inflation this administration caused. pointing to all these d.c. political wins won't change anything for people struggling to pay their bills month after month and no amount of victory tour is going to change that. >> harris: it's interesting you always say a president isn't on a mid-term ballot. i wonder how much those two men will be calculated in people's minds and you look at some of the wins president trump has

had in primaries leading up. it is an open question and see how it turns out. let's get to the new minneapolis teachers union agreement that says white teachers will be laid off first if the school district needs to shrink staff regardless of seniority. the policy was reached to end a two-week teachers strike last spring keeping teachers with underrepresented -- one says the deal comes at the expense of white and children. one parent fired back this way. >> you cannot solve past discrimination with more discrimination. racism in and of itself is evil and wrong and it is illegal. if people really did discriminate against teachers like the minneapolis public schools admit they have done they need to fix it and punish the people discriminating and not innocent teachers. this causes resentment amongst people of color.

>> harris: a lawyer leading the charge on a possible legal challenge said this. >> the school district has done by agreeing to this agreement with the teachers union have put discrimination into law. no question this is unconstitutional. >> harris: mark. >> i agree with both of those takes. we should celebrate and encourage diversity but encourage more underrepresented populations go into the noble profession of teachers. how does this jive with dr. king's dream of judging someone from the content of their character or ability to teach our children rather than the color of their skin? as a parent i want a great teacher in my child's classroom and not to find out good teachers are being fired because they are from the wrong group. >> harris: when we see, desirae and we welcome her on the power panel, all i can say is a former democratic congressional

candidate of ohio. you competed. could you ever imagine a situation that would give you a bump up by knocking out your white opponents because of the color of their skin? >> harris, you and i have had a number of conversations about education and bonded over public education and the importance of that. we know that education first begins at home. and you are right. i'm from ohio and not in minnesota. i can't get into the weeds of what they have going on there. i think any time we see efforts to promote diversity and equality we should celebrate and applaud this. i agree with what the parents said and what mark said about diversity is our strength in america and it is about putting children first and making sure their education is first and growing and learning. that's why america is the greatest country on earth because people come here for opportunity. >> harris: you dodged my question. could you imagine a situation where your white opponent would be taken out so you could rise?

is that where we are? >> i don't think that would ever happen where we would remove people from running for office so that we could have people of color running. that's now how the constitution works. >> harris: so what happens in minneapolis's negotiated agreement is the same thing. that's the problem. >> i don't know the mechanics of what they have going on in minnesota. what i understand is that teachers are struggling right now and not being paid a fair wage and children are struggling at the end of every day. >> harris: if we could make it about that and not race that would be great. >> we have to put our children first. >> mark, desirae, thank you very much. student loan payments set to start back up again in two weeks unless president biden caves to the left's pressure to extend a 2 1/2 year pause. a new analysis warns that would have dire economic fallout. now we're stuck. this is the part that says that when you pause things, whether they are the taxes on gas

prices, whatever it is, it comes back later. remember, you know who said that? stacey abrams looking to distance from defund as she makes another run for governor. critics are not buying it. >> stacey abrams is someone who is a hypocrite. you have her playing wordsmithing when it comes to things like reimagining police or redirecting funds. it means defunding the police and it's a problem. >> harris: new information shows stacey abrams is linked to yet another group that gives thousands of dollars to activists calling to abolish the police. tammy bruce in "focus" next. there she is.

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>> i'm pushing both for public safety measures, accountability measures and criminal justice reform measures. what i believe most fundamentally and true if you look at my entire record is that living wages have to be paid especially to our public workers and law enforcement. we have to have public safety and justice and that's the intention that i have. let's invest in public safety workers. >> harris: she says that.

but stacey abrams firing back there at critics who insist she is against defunding the police as she runs again for the governor's office. but now we're learning she actually is linked to yet another group which backs the defund movement. she is a co-chair for an organization that awards thousands of dollars to activists who have called for decreasing funding or abolishing all together police departments. it's the second such group she has been linked to in recent months. crime skyrocketing in cities that pushed for defunding police since the 2020 unrest after the killing of george floyd. tammy bruce, fox news contributor host of get tammy bruce on fox nation in "focus." what is your reaction trying to distance herself for being tied to these groups as oh co-chair, no doubt? >> what's sad here is she

presents herself as this renegade. new leadership and new vision and she says one thing and doing another like all the rest of them. she is funding groups that have taken social media stances about defunding the police. sends the money over there. she uses euphemisms like community fairness and justice. giving her kind of a plausible denyability. in fact, her spokesperson said stacey abrams has never said she wants to defund the police. perhaps technically that's correct but she said the same thing in different words. that's what all politicians do. we're seeing it with the inflation reduction act. >> harris: that's a flat out lie. it's not even a word tweak. >> slight of hand. it is unfortunate. people need new, fresh, visionary leadership. stacey abrams is exactly like the rest of them.

>> harris: talk to me about that race. spend a moment talk to me about the race in georgia right now and why she might try to maybe not cover up her co-chair links to these groups but certainly distance herself. >> the condition in atlanta is awful. the f.b.i. announced they have a report and fox news reported in april that the impact, the rise of murders, crime in general. but the homicide rate has spiked 25, 30%. certainly across the board in all categories but against black americans in particular is significantly higher than against whites. in atlanta murders have spiked double digits as well. you are looking at people of color, particularly black people, being targeted each time when this rhetoric goes up about defunding the police, the riots occur, the individuals being killed and targeted also happen to be the people that democrats say they are stangd up for. that same rhetoric in atlanta and all blue cities but every

city in the country, interestingly that rhetoric when we demonize the police sparks this additional violence and is harming mostly people of color, certainly black people in the inner city. these are the people that the democrats say they stand up for. their rhetoric and actions, her money is going to individuals and organizations that seem to be contributing to this spike in violence. >> harris: we'll move to this. biden administration announcing it is wiping out an additional $4 billion in student debt. as we await word on whether a loan payment program will begin again in two weeks after 2 1/2 year pause, more than 100 democrats have called for a longer extension with some even pushing for an outright cancellation of some of the debt. the committee for a responsible federal budget says it would undermine any effort to reduce inflation. simply extending the current repayment pause through the end of the years would cost $20 billion. canceling $10,000 per person of

student debt for households making below $300,000 a year would cost roughly $230 billion combined. these policies would consume 10 years of deficit reduction from the inflation reduction act. those years are far out anyway. >> interesting what happens when you don't have an idea and you are flailing around throwing money everywhere. you find it increases the problem you say you are trying to stop. this is monopoly money. there is so much involved they just really don't care. >> harris: it's our money that they play with in the swamp. >> that's it. yet for the democrats, may i say the establishment as a whole. the republicans do still exist. you wouldn't know it when it comes to the nature of how much money is being spent. they do exist and aren't stopping any of this. >> harris: they aren't in the majority. >> 50/50. the american people sent a message. don't do anything crazy and stupid or don't do anything.

the range in the house was five people. i don't think anyone broke a sweat to sway five people to vote against this monstrosity of a bill. there is a thing called repealing. maybe this is something that will get repealed. in the meantime you are looking at a system spending our money like water. they aren't affected by any of this. we are. they are just looking two months ahead looking to the mid-terms. they aren't looking at the next 10 years for your children, for this country, and what will happen if there is another surprising event, another economic event or military event, nuclear exchanges. here we are. we will be sitting there with nothing in our hand. >> harris: we live on a planet with other people. always something coming. it is our resilience as a country that it always brought us back. you hurt that if you leave us in in position for too long.

>> harris: president biden walked away from reporters after signing the big spending deal. the post said here are some questions the basement president is dodging. afghanistan debacle, f.b.i.'s mar-a-lago raid, hunter biden's shady business dealings, the border crisis, the migrant busing battle. not weighing in on anything. >> they ran a campaign with him not answering any questions, templates, platitudes, promises, all of that. now the american people saw they were misled. all of it was a lie, like this still is a lie. they'll have a hard time doing the same thing but they will try because he is -- clearly, if he was capable of answerings he would have for the last year and a half. they'll try it. like the cat that sticks its head under the curtain and the tail is hanging out.

we see them. we see them. we do. that's going to fail and we are going to have to make a difference and answer those questions anyway. >> harris: great to have you in "focus." love the cat hiding behind the curtain with the tail hanging out. "outnumbered" is next. you could take out $60,000 or more. you could use that money to pay credit card debt and other expenses, plan for retirement, and get back on your feet financially. and don't let less-than-perfect credit hold you back. even if you've been turned down for a va loan by your bank, call newday usa. they've been given automatic authority by the va and they can often help veterans when other lenders won't. need money for your family? call newday usa right now and use the va home loan benefit you've earned and deserve.

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♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: this is "outnumbered," hello, kayleigh mcnamee, harris faulkner, emily compagno and also joining us dr. nicole saphier and joey jones. it appears the media is desperately trying to rebrand president biden. this time using his signature sunglasses trying to give him a full, fresh look. perhaps the shade is dismal hole numbers and they are