force part of the last flight out of kabul and just to relive it with them one year later. they were part of a truly unique american story of the moment and they did the job they were asked to do and we'll share that with you next week. >> dana: wonderful to share. harris is up next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the centers for disease control is having a moment to embrace the truth and undergo a complete reorganization and they don't know how to handle a pandemic. we all knew it. we still know it. in year three of the coronavirus in our lives, the cdc has become somewhat of an illness in itself. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". dr. rochelle walensky is now describing the agency she leads as one that gave out confusing

and overwhelming information to americans. is that good enough at this point? critics pointing out walensky coming clean about the cdc's mishandling the response to a once in a generation pandemic is just words. one of the cdc's harshest critics with this. >> like so many things in the cdc, the left has misdiagnosed the problem and they will misapply the solution. it wasn't that they acted too sparingly. the problem was they acted too quickly and not based on science. they were reacting every week with a new edict that contradicted the previous week. they became obsessed and thought they knew the truth. >> harris: chaotic mixed messages on everything, mask, vaccines, schools, booster. the impact of all that. confusion, panic, distrust, social and economic devastation. >> although we're seeing progress in terms of it. hospitalizations and deaths, variants are a wild card. we plan to be transparent in

terms of the administration numbers. people want to understand the decision and have it not move but my responsibility to the american people and to populations and to individual patients is to deliver the best information that i have at the time and sometimes that has changed. >> harris: dr. marc siegel in "focus." we'll begin with peter doocy live from wilmington, delaware. peter. >> there were a lot of unknowns in the early days of the pandemic but president biden told us the cdc were the ones that knew what to do. they had the answers. now the cdc director is saying not so much. she says in a statement for 75 years cdc and public health have been prepared for covid-19 and in our big moment our performance did not reliably meet expectations. a long time admirer of this agency and champion for public healthy want us all to do better. it starts with cdc leading the

way. president biden's covid coordinator explains further. >> our government agencies weren't designed to manage a once in a century crisis like this. while many performed admirably no question in my mind that these agencies could have done better. >> we are told dr. walensky plans to stay in her job as the cdc reorganized and an internal memo says we'll move forward with organizational changes. however, that alone is not enough. we will modernize cdc to better prepare us for future public health challenges to include the next pandemic. the very fact they feel a reorganization is necessary is stunning because president biden based so much public policy that impacted so many people on their guidance. >> president biden: look, we know what we need to do to beat this virus. tell the truth.

follow the sciences -- the science, work together. put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is protecting the american people. no function more important. >> president biden golfed for a few hours in wilmington yesterday. >> harris: two days ago we learned detail we haven't heard much sense. anything more from the white house after they said they aren't going to buy vaccines, treatments or tests this fall? >> yes, we're hearing from the president's covid team the covid vaccine and boosters will be treated more like a flu shot. you have to go to your doctor or to a hospital if you want to get it as opposed to the way it's been where they bought a bunch and just put them out everywhere they could hoping that folks would go and get the jab, harris. >> harris: thank you for the information. good to see you.

dr. marc siegel now, fox news contributor, professor of medicine at new york university's langone medical center in "focus" right now. doctor, what truly is broken at the cdc? >> well, harris, i will be sbirg director walensky tomorrow on the air and get into it with her. to start with, in the face of the pandemic, this wasn't enough humbleness and we don't know and not enough let's learn and teach and transmit information as we know it. there wasn't enough realtime information because a lot of it was delayed behind vetting. that's the key thing they are going the try to fix. in other words, it is a culture of vetting and vetting and vetting. internal committees that meet on all kinds of things from lab science to science to health parity. all of that gets involved before they make a statement. we had all of our information coming from other countries and it left us in the lurch.

then they were releasing guidelines that were often out of date by the time we had them and they were applied to masks and schools across the country mandates followed and they were not in realtime and that's not what cdc is used to, either. they will try to develop a workforce that is more attune to pandemic and quick turnaround response to accountability, to collaboration and consistency and basically to being honest with the american public about where they are at any given time. that's what they are committing to here. >> harris: all right. i think people still feel that's happening because we're right now seeing reflexively some schools and districts say that they are going to bring back mandatory masking. that's still at the very heart of what is being talked about right now. some of that original -- where did the six feet distancing come from? wouldn't it apply in terms to things like the flu? it came out of the air like much of what the cdc was

telling us. >> completely agree with you, harris. the other thing is the cdc is a bunch of scientists used to talking to scientists not the public. it comes with a flavor of arrogance and turns americans off. don't talk down to me. if you can't explain it, i won't listen to you at all. the masking is an example. there is no prospective double blind randomized trials on masking and masking mandates were in place all across the country. schools shutters. a lot of us feel the teachers union played a role. it is all not science. the idea that masking mandates are still put in place is deeply disturbing. >> harris: as you were saying that our team was putting some facts in place. i do want to take a look at what's going on right now. the mask mandate is like part of the disease. we can't shake it. there is no vaccine for it so

we just keep getting it. now the covid messaging on it is coming back. it's hard to believe. in fairfax county, virginia, students could potentially have to wear masks indoors for the upcoming academic year if the community rate stays high right now. they ebb and flow but they will fun i shall these kids. let's not get it twisted. it is a punishment. if you don't need it, why are you doing it? >> that is what we've known for two years and over the past years, it can lead to depression and problems with socialization. learning. learning is delayed because of this and also, harris, what kind of masks are we talking about? if we're not talking about high-grade masks, which we aren't. not worn properly they aren't doing anything. >> harris: i don't know if everybody caught it. you can see that maryland is indefinite and then pennsylvania we'll see if they put it back. a two-week requirement.

then beyond that point you can make the mandate i guess it would be based on -- i don't know what it would be based on. is it based on the numbers, the current outbreak? the cdc is changing its tune every 15 minutes on this. even the president couldn't follow it. he had covid on july 21st. a few days later breaks with the mask and three days later comes back positive. nobody can keep it straight. >> right. that's the other thing. the cdc has guidance based on hospitalizations in the area and cases. that confuses people. if you are in a high level zone. the bottom line is this. the bottom line with masks from my point of view. if you are at high risk and indoors and there is a lot of virus around you might wear one. that simple and that kind of consistency of simple messaging is what the cdc is trying to learn. they are not there yet. >> harris: you go to the e.r. with your kid with a broken arm you might want to wear a mask

because that's where sick people will be. that's common sense and have always known that. one more for you. breaking news today from the cdc on the monkeypox outbreak with updated numbers. 13,500 cases in 49 states. that's a tick up in the last couple of weeks by quite a bit. but what about how we keep the fear down, the protection and the information up? the cdc is in fix itself mode. >> one of the reasons cdc got it fix itself mode because they were behind on testing again and we heard it from the local doctors and hospitals here in new york where we didn't have the tests we need. we were behind the 8 ball and underestimated the number of cases like at the beginning of the covid pandemic. the way to get around the fear, your point, is to say who is at risk. is it men who have sex with men with multiple partners? that's the primary group. where are the tools we need? i talked to the governor of new york about this is other day.

we still don't have the vaccines in new york we need. we're the epicenter here. we're scarce on the vaccine. let public health officials come out and say we still don't have this vaccine. it is a problem. here is what you do. they change it to give a lesser dose but we need more information. the more information we have the less fear we have. >> harris: the white house talked about purchasing more vaccines. they won't purchase vaccines necessarily or put money toward some of the treatments and those things for covid but focus and buy more for monkeypox. we're calling it monkeypox. there is a woke push not to call it that anymore. people won't understand it. it is so circular. dr. siegel. thank you very much for stepping in. >> thank you. >> harris: biden's border crisis just put us across the two million mark. two million illegal immigrants arrested. remember, we thought we were at least a couple of months away

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>> harris: republicans seem to have no appetite for a liz cheney white house run in 2024. she said she would consider it. the wyoming congresswoman lost her primary race. sitting on the january 6th committee and newt gingrich doesn't think her political future looks bright. >> you can't get 29% of the vote and turn around she compared herself to abraham lincoln. i think liz has no future. >> harris: if cheney runs she will be the kasich 2.0. the idiocy of liz cheney for president. a new report this morning that president biden made a phone call to liz cheney after she lost.

fox news contributor and editor at the large for the spectator. great to have you in focus. i read that liz cheney seems to think had she said some of the things that pro-trump opponents were saying that it would feel like a game. she wasn't playing a game. she wouldn't do it. >> you know, harris, i think this is a very sad occurrence. it was something that could have been avoided had liz cheney perhaps adopted a different posture. but clearly she thinks what on her own personal agenda versus the other things that she has prioritized on the january 6th committee only she can know that. i don't think this idea of her running for president in 2024 is going to be anything other than a media sideshow. something that's totally a creation of the media that wants to see her in this position of being a thorn in

president trump's side and the side of his supporters and fellow republicans. there is nothing that makes you more popular in the republican party among the media than being one of those people who is always confusing everything they do. unfortunately this is the circumstance where if i was the rnc and looking at avoiding having her on a debate stage i would have a policy that says that you set the threshold at whatever liz cheney is polling at plus one. if you do that then you will be able to avoid that side show easily. >> harris: i was looking at the 10 who voted for impeachment. eight lost in the primaries. liz cheney, adam kinzinger is retiring. liz cheney is losing her job. the only two republicans on the january 6th committee not because republicans hadn't fought to get more. that's how it worked out for democrats and nancy pelosi.

what happens next? you are losing both of these people technically, are they really republicans then for the sense that democrats would want to use them? >> well, i think one of the things that we're really seeing right now, harris, these are the voters speaking out. it is one thing to say this is something that donald trump is doing to change the republican party. but it is voters agreeing with him saying we wish that liz had different priorities when she was serving us in the house of representatives versus the january 6th committee or that they might have liked her to be more even handed. frankly, i think that would have attracted more eyeballs and gotten more attention had they taken that route. they chose not to. one of the things we have to say is this is a decision that republican voters are making. they want to go in direction. they want a more pop you lift form of conservative and send people to washington this november that will be espousing

that mindset. how it changes policy is a big question. we don't really know the answer to it yet and won't for some time. >> harris: from what you said and what others are saying liz cheney won't be part of the nomenclature for politics in november. however, the liberal media like her. a "new york times" with a glowing op-ed calling her loss a moral victory claiming she is a hero and history will smile on her. last quick word. >> i just don't think that liz cheney will go down as being abraham lincoln or winston church ill. those are over the top comparisons. she made the choices she did for reasons that are personal to her. the simple fact is she won't have that kind of impact on the republican party not now and not going forward. >> harris: i feel we were warned about this next topic and knew that china would mine tiktok and work against us. tiktok getting in on the censorship game.

social media giant says it now will team up with a government organization here in the united states. the goal, to fight harmful misinformation ahead of the november mid-terms. in a blog post then the company's head of the u.s. safety says the app will be labeling content related to the mid-terms and plans limiting political posts that can't be substantiated and may ban some users. there will be fact checkers at the tiktok place. tiktok gathers and gives away more user data than any other platform. throw that in, too. ben. >> tiktok is gigantic and a big problem. something that is run out of communist china and prioritizes the things that they would like for american eyeballs to see, eyeballs around the world to see. what we've learned in the past year really is that tiktok cannot be trusted when it comes to the way that they warp and

alter the way that especially young people in american and young women in america are being affected by their product. this is something that requires more government attention. i do think that tiktok represents a real danger to us here in america. allowing this kind of propaganda is. we never saw anything like this during the cold war in the soviet union. they never had the ability to reach into your house and affect the way that your teenagers are thinking about the world to the degree that tiktok is. now the fact is they are openly saying they will be on the misinformation, disinformation hunt. i think we all know what happens when companies start to behave in this way. they the end to target only one side of the conversation and they are completely happy to let all sorts of other misinformation and disinformation and threats continue to be hosted on their platforms. >> harris: maybe i'm the only one who legitimately is worried.

not just teenagers. china is our enemy. why would our government get together with china to look at disinformation? >> it is deeply concerning and you are right to be concerned about that. >> harris: today could be pivotal in the f.b.i. trump raid controversy. a federal judge in florida may decide to unseal the affidavit tied to last week's mar-a-lago raid. the d.o.j. has complained. they have been fighting this saying it would hurt their investigation. the former president and his supporters are demanding that the affidavit be released. they say americans deserve to know why the f.b.i. took such an extreme measure. and i would ask particularly this close to a mid-term election. mark meredith is live in west palm beach. mark. >> good morning to you. there is no guarantee the former president or media will get their way in getting the

affidavit unsealed. the justice department is saying they don't want to see it happen because they believe it could complicate their case. we already received the search warrant that was what was led up to what was recovered at mar-a-lago in the documents he we learned the f.b.i. recovered 11 cases of documents labeled classified or top secret. the affidavit will likely tell us how investigators figured out they were being kept at the estate. the justice department says they are worried about potential violence against the law enforcement community and seen an uptick in the number of threats posted online in the last several days and there are continuing concerns about what may happen if more information comes out as this invest is ongoing. you talked about the former president he wants to know what the government knows. while we're here as well as the rest of the media national mri and local media the former president is not. he is up in new jersey. however, he is monitoring the case and has confidence in his

legal team despite reports out there he is having trouble finding proper representation. >> harris: we'll end with this. something we're watching for. we don't know if and when the president will release any video taken from his cameras inside his residence in mar-a-lago. it would have caught f.b.i. agents in the process of carrying out that warrant. but we'll follow that part of the story, too. mark meredith, thank you very much. a teachers union is trashing concerned parents in a new ad. watch this. >> our kids deserve a world class education. people who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else. >> harris: it's a key issue in the mid-term elections and republicans say it will sway voters to their side. we saw it in virginia with glenn youngkin. loudon county, it didn't work out there. it worked out for the republican, not the party that

was incumbent. president biden catching some new heat now for spending a lot of time away from the white house. that's actually not new but the heat is. critics say it's not a good look with americans facing so many crises right now. ♪♪♪

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class education. so when extremists start attacking our schools, that's not who we are. people who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else. >> harris: my home state. ronna mcdaniel argues in a new op-ed all over the country parents are protesting at school board meetings running for office themselves. if democrats think these parents aren't going to show up at the polls on election day this november, they are in for a surprise. democrats are woke, parents are awake. mercedes schlapp former trump white house strategic communications advisor, kevin walling former biden campaign surrogate. kevin, i want to put you in the seat defending this late in the game to call parents extremists. >> i'm not going to do it. this is my home state of new

jersey, too. we're coming up from this same kind of experience growing up there. listen, this is something as you pointed out in the last break something that delivered the victory for glenn youngkin in virginia. parents were fired up based on curriculum conversations before school boards and things like that. this is not a winning issue for democrats 81 days to the mid-terms. any kind of issue where we paint parents as extremists in any kind of conversation when they aren't. they're just concerned about the curriculum in their kids' classrooms is not a winning argument for democrats 81 days out from the mid-terms. >> harris: you need to call your friends and maybe they will listen to you. i guess really what this comes down to, mercedes, is the name calling. deplorable, extremist. they act like if we don't all agree on the same thing we aren't even american voters. >> yeah. i mean, harris, it is shameful

this teachers union would go after the parents. i mean, the parents are there to make sure their children do receive a world class education. you aren't going to get a world class education if you are constanting criticizing america and dividing us by race and trying to basically pressure children to change their gender. that won't make a world class education. so i really do hope that the teachers union, they should hire kevin, quite frankly. the democrats aren't the ones when it came to education. all of a signed it is republicans winning this argument and standing on the side of the parents and you have about 72% of americans believing that parents should have most or some influence in education especially k-12. we're the ones paying the teachers. we're the ones paying the administrators. they should listen to the parents and stop listening to these teachers unions that have

really adopted a leftist strategy. >> harris: what's the strategy from the left. there has to be -- it's the mid-term. every president at the mid-term point will lose some seats. this is about mitigating how much damage there is going to be and how far out of the position the poll position your party will be in. why issues like this? i just don't get it. why put money together to help republicans win in their primaries that you don't mind facing? none of it really makes sense. we have a lot going on, like high inflation. >> we do. harris and mercedes, we've talked about this quite a bit. it will be about the economy. i don't think it will be about these issues necessarily in the classroom. those issues matter on the margins and certainly parents are fired up on both sides of the spectrum. you have parents fired up in florida about what governor desantis is doing in terms of

banning books and things like that. the economy will be the number one issue in these elections. >> harris: interesting. mercedes, almost like you can wave a shiny object and they will look in that direction. anything to walk away from having to solve the economy and they just passed -- look at that huge spending bill. it doesn't solve inflation and now everybody knows it, everybody. president biden reportedly breaking a new record. according to the tally he has spent more time away from the white house than former presidents trump, obama and bush did at this point in their presidency. he made 49 trips home to delaware. two homes. totaling 150 days. at this point trump had taken 132 days off. obama 38 days. george w. bush 100. critics say the optics are terrible with so many crises going on. the reality is, too. mercedes. >> yeah, i mean, this is always an interesting conversation because the liberal media used

to go after donald trump whenever he would go down and work out of mar-a-lago. i will say i worked in two white houses. whenever the presidents take a break or go to what they say their alternative white house, they do continue to work. it is not like they are working. the problem with joe biden doesn't matter whether he is in delaware or south carolina in the $20 million estate or oval office. the question is, is he working. as we know over 60% of americans are concerned about the mental capacity of this pressure. it sounds like the staff is carrying the weight of the presidency and he is more of a figurehead. so i think, harris, that's the bigger question at hand. maybe not so much about the vacation days but more so because of the fact that joe biden seems to be on vacation even when he is in the oval office. >> harris: kevin. >> we are in agreement the presidency travels with the president wherever he goes, okay? the president is always working.

he can never get a break whether donald trump or joe biden. listen, don't compare days off wherever to legislative action. let's not confuse that. this president is the most legislatively accomplished president since lbj doing things donald trump dreamed of in terms of medicare, passing a bipartisan bill. all things that trump tried to do that joe biden has gotten done for the american people. >> harris: they should hire him. you have better messaging than the democrats supporting the president. i would ask it this way. if all of that is something that you want to communicate from the white house. why can't the president do it. when he is asked about his own tax and spend bill. it doesn't reduce inflation. even if you could draw down the debt, it wouldn't touch that inflation. and that's not just from penn and wharton. that's from the cbo. we'll let the facts go for

themselves. my question is why can't he tell everybody what's in it? he starts to talk about it and he says the things that are in it, you know, the other stuff. seriously. mercedes. i'll let you go. quick, kevin, then mercedes. >> the president will be out on the road in the next couple of weeks after the signing ceremony in september. yesterday he signed the bill. he will go on the road talking about these great things before the american people. >> harris: mercedes >> it is not the inflation reduction act, the inflation expansion act. more burden for the middle class. the democrats are focused on climate change. not the american people. you need to rewrite the talking about. president trump accomplished so much from a legislative standpoint and executive standpoint. much more than joe biden. >> harris: you literally, kevin, have the entire homework load on your shoulders and you don't work in the white house. mercedes will probably call you

later. thank you both. republicans revealing their mid-term playbook now. the democrats' massive i.r.s. expansion will be front and center. it looks like everybody agrees on that. plus los angeles prosecutors hitting back against progressive district attorney george gascon as crime rates continue to soar. >> a lot of people reaching out to me saying they're being harassed in the workplace. >> harris: raymond arroyo in "focus" next. more cash, more savings, more peace of mind. the newday 100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. up to $60,000 or more. veterans are saving an average of $615 every month. with more ways to help more veteran families, no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newday usa.

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>> harris: new video from southern texas, border patrol agents have seen an opening at a barbed wire fence section that had been locked by the texas national guard. letting in a large number of illegal immigrants. sources are telling us now that we have hit that 2 million record arrests so far this year, the fiscal year along the southern border. we thought that we had a couple more months to go. just last week we were giving you the 1.9 number. that's an update from the border patrol. it's over 2 million now. bill melugin is live for us in

eagle pass, texas. bill, out of all of the people that i know, this would least surprise you. you have been telling us about thousands a week for months. >> harris, good morning to you. we see it every day, including today. it has already been busy out here. we've seen over 500 illegal sun rise before noon. this is in normandy. left over of a group of 300 that came across all at once. they're predominantly single adults, as usual. waiting for processing. dhs source telling us in the last 24 hours alone here in the del rio sector there have been more than 2,000 illegal crossings. take a look at the second piece of video. it was another group that crossed illegally just after the sun came up. every day at sun rise we get the large groups. this was a group of 150. once again almost all of them predominantly single adults

again. then take a look at this video. a pregnant woman who went into labor here in eagle pass as she was in the river. she had to be pulled out of the water by border patrol and rescued. taken on one of their boats and placed onto a stretcher and taken away to a hospital. we see that a lot out here. pregnant women constantly crossing. this wild photo was a huge human smuggling bust in mexico, 150 migrants crammed into a tractor trailer heading for the u.s./mexico border. stopped by mexican authorities who got some intel working with border patrol. thankfully we didn't see a repeat of what happened in san antonio this summer and last -- >> harris: can i pause you for a second while that picture is up? i really want people to look at the screen right now. how long do you think these people had been in there? >> it could be several days. that's typically what it is. >> harris: how can the white house and biden administration

look at pictures like this and not say what they are doing is causing harm? how can they not see this? >> that's what border agents talk to us about is the pull factors now. migrants believe if they can get to the u.s. they'll be released into the u.s. and why they are willing to risk this sort of thing. we saw what happened in san antonio. more than 50 people died baking to death in one of these trailers. >> harris: it is so irresponsible. politics at the heart of it. bill melugin, thank you very much for the reporting. progressive los angeles district attorney george gascon is speaking out days after the effort to recall him appears to have failed. he gave this reason for why 98% of the prosecutors in his office wanted him to get out. >> a lot of people they call me and reach out to me and say they were being badgered. >> they were bullied into

voting? >> i have to tell you that some people said as much. >> harris: well, some of those prosecutors disagree with their boss. one calls his claims disingenuous. another said he is not being honest, a third says gascon continues to lie, gas light and deflect. raymond arroyo. your top line reaction. >> i've spent time covering the fallout of gascon throughout los angeles county. the petty thefts, union pacific, railroad line. 100 arrests made in those cases, harris, where they are pulling freight off these trains, stealing it. 100 arrests and zero prosecutions by gascon. look, when you look very closely at what happened here, he is saying his d.a.s don't support it. the d.a. union in los angeles sued him for the policies he implemented.

they actually sued the boss. and they called him unlawful in the way he enforces the law in l.a. county. i don't know what gascon is drinking today but this story does not add up and you can see the tragic public consequences of his lack of prosecution. >> harris: well, he is drinking victory juice because he was able to get to where he is on the other side of that recall because some of the signatures could not be verified. note to self, if you have an ability to recall and you want to do it. it has to be buttoned up. they don't have that no new york. new yorkers are stuck with alvin bragg and the same type of things, everything else on that list happening in this municipality. go ahead. >> when you look at the policies, he promised, gascon, a more humane, equitable and safe environment for all of us.

l.a. is not more humane. it is certainly not safe for the law abideers and equity? where is the equity for the taxpayers in l.a. county? this is a lawless hellhole. ask anybody who lives here. >> harris: equity is in the political careers and george soros is funding them and they are hanging onto their jobs. let's move to this. president biden's spending bill is super sizing the i.r.s. and republicans are capitalizing. rnc has a new ad in their message vote them out. the massive spending and climate package is bloating another federal agency. gives $40 billion to the environmental protection agency. more than quadruple spending. >> this is a green slush fund. hand out favors to biden world

political allies. >> harris: raymond. >> you don't know what to say. these two stories, gascon and this government enlargement act that biden just passed, these two things are united. what they show you is government has really two jobs. national security and public safety. they failed on both accounts. and what we're seeing here is the bloating of the federal government where it is less accountable to people, more of your wealth, more of your power is going to washington, d.c. and these bureaucrats are enriching themselves. as larry mentioned there you have greenback and billions of dollars being given away to the industries that many of these congress people just so happen to own stock and interest in. this is just a runaway. so the american people to allow this to, to quietly allow their money to be stolen from them and redistributed to things that will only drain them of power, prestige and wealth, i

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