thought we would do this before we go. out of tokyo, japanese government. they say fewer people are drinking and costing them tax revenue. the government is soliciting ideas to make drinking more attractive. they have a campaign called -- >> gillian: i vote for a kwik trip to japan. >> thank you for being here. out of time. see you next week. trace is in for harris today on "the faulkner focus". have a great weekend. >> fox news alert now. a judge moving to unseal at least part of the affidavit on the f.b.i. raid on former president trump's florida estate. big questions now over how much the public will get to see and if some of the information is really transparency. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm trace gallagher in for harris. the key word is some of the documents connected to the

search warrant set to be released but only after the department of justice submits its redactions. the judge giving the d.o.j. a thursday deadline to make that decision. team trump saying put it all out there quoting here, the whole affidavit should be released given the democrats' penchant for using redactions to avoid government corruptions just like they did with the russia hoax. the burden is on the d.o.j. >> the burden is on the government to prove that this is not just a continuation of what has been a seven-year crusade to get trump. the senior membership of this agency has been targeting trump for years. they've got the documents they went in for. i see no reason not to release this affidavit except for if they have confidential informants in it. >> mark meredith is live with more on this from palm beach. good morning. >> good morning. we're in a holding pattern here.

the judge giving federal prosecutors until thursday next week to figure out which items in the affidavit need to remain sealed and which can be released and what items have to be kept private. just yesterday multiple lawyers for multiple media organizations argued there is so much public interest in this case that this entire affidavit should be released as this case still getting a lot of attention not just here but around the world. the justice department argues releasing the entire document could hamper its ongoing investigation into former president trump. we know these documents already released the feds are investigating him for possible obstruction and violations of the espionage act because of some government documents recovered here in florida. trump claims this is all another in a series of political attacks against him. his lawyers telling fox they don't believe the justice department will reveal much more even if a redacted affidavit is released. >> i think there won't be very much transparency.

i would expect we'll get a lot of black ink all over that piece of paper. if i was the d.o.j., biden d.o.j. i would be redacting everything other than the word and and the. >> the justice department says it is protecting investigators and witnesses cooperating with the government right now. we are hearing today from republican senator chuck grassley of iowa saying given the current political climate we're in the government should be revealing a lot more about what it's up to. >> the more the better. and the better the public relations of the f.b.i. would be, because i think there is plenty of evidence of political bias. >> we've already heard from the attorney general last week who says he still has a lot of faith in the men and women of the f.b.i. and they are simply doing their job. also while we're here at mar-a-lago we're interested to see whether or not the former

president may release the footage when agents were there a week ago. he hasn't said he will do it but there is speculation out there. we're in a holding pattern at this point. >> bill: we'll get back to you as the news breaks. march meredith in palm beach. matthew whitaker, former acting attorney general. the major complaint, right, from the right, from the g.o.p., is that the d.o.j. and f.b.i. in recent years have lost some trust. it appears to be a fair assessment. their belief is if you put out this affidavit, this document and 75% of it is blacked out, not exactly the best way to gain back that trust. your thoughts. >> yeah, i agree with my home state senator chuck grassley. i think the f.b.i. has a burden now to demonstrate that this isn't a continuation of the last seven years of them trying to get trump.

ultimately the confident of the american people will be improved in the f.b.i. if they have more transparency. going to court to first of all block this affidavit and then if they present next week a completely blacked out document that looks more than a real affidavit it will be the -- increase the accusations that the f.b.i. is playing politics in this investigation. >> you talk about the redacted affidavit and jonathan turley made a good point and want to get your reaction on the other side of this. >> they have routinely been accused of redacting too much out of material. i have been in cases where i've challenged that. they use this strategically. part of the problem is that they go and redact too much, they can delay release. they can go on appeal and fight this a little longer without releasing information.

>> i think what he is trying to say is look, the d.o.j. can hold this up in the courts for a while and while it is being held up in the courts, matt, they control the narrative. remember, they are the ones that say they give information to the "washington post" about things like nuclear weapons documents. they control the narrative. the other side doesn't get a chance to defend itself and the d.o.j. has all of the power going forward. >> trace, you are absolutely right. the leaking surrounding this case has been shameful and the department of justice needs to stop doing that. as it relates to the appeal, remember, this is a magistrate judge. so if he rules against the government and their redactions the first appeal to the district court and appellate court and if the supreme court would take it. they could delay this. we're also in the 90 day

political window that the d.o.j. doesn't do overt acts and investigations of a political nature. that is going to delay this investigation to the benefit of d.o.j. who to your point is controlling the narrative. >> they will want to push it past the 90 day mark. you were talking about the top republican on the senate judiciary committee demanding answers on the hunter biden investigation. senator chuck grassley says similar claims that the f.b.i. wrongly labeled evidence on hunter as quoting disinformation indicated quote deeply rooted political infection in its d.c. field office. grassley says his letter this week to director christopher wray is his fourth request for that information and he writes quoting here, the bureau has failed to address concerned i raised. the consistent failure to respond to congress continues to erode trust in the f.b.i. it is all hands on deck in the

trump investigation. when it comes to the hunter biden investigation we can't find any hands on deck. >> that's true. three years they have had the hunter biden laptop. first d.o.j. and f.b.i. off the record suggested it was disinformation. we found out that is authentic and is his laptop. that investigation doesn't seem to have any force behind it. we don't see any overt acts or search warrants being executed. we don't hear of grand jury witnesses. the american people continue to believe there is an ever-increasing two-tier system of justice and can't be sustainable if we continue down this path. >> if you're the f.b.i., matt, and not really responding to chuck grassley, you are not responding to the senate, i guess you don't have to respond to anybody, do you? if you are not going to respond to the senate, the president won't ask you to respond. i guess you really don't have accountability to anybody at this point. >> that's what it appears.

if you aren't going to listen to the most ranking member of the republicans on the judiciary committee and respond to his concerns, legitimate concerns that are based in whistleblowers coming from the f.b.i. pointing to this political bias, there is a lack of accountability that ultimately, i think, congress will have to pull the reins back on this situation. >> we should note that chuck grassley has said again and again that the f.b.i. has not refuted these allegations against hunter biden, which is a significant statement. matt whitaker, always great to have you on, sir, thank you. >> thank you, trace. >> vulnerable democrats defending their votes for the so-called inflation reduction act. but at the same time they are rebranding it. have you heard about this? still no answers on when americans may feel any relief. and yet another democrat running away from president

biden. almost literally. the list is getting longer and longer, have you seen it? >> do you support the president in his reelection bid? >> i am focusing on my own election. >> i'm not talking about 2022 or 2024. >> dodging on reelection support becoming a popular strategy on the campaign trail. whether voters are buying it. marc thiessen breaks it all down for us, and he is next. i'm tatiana for newday usa with some great news for fellow veterans who own a home. with home values at record highs, now's the best time in history to turn your home equity into cash. up to $60,000 or more. the newday 100 loan lets you borrow 100% of your home's value: 25% more cash than you get at a bank. give them a call.

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>> trace: vulnerable house democrats on defense over their party's expansion of the

i.r.s., it doubles the size of the agency. california's katie porter and iowa's senator defending their vote to give uncle sam 40 billion dollars to beef up audits and dismissing concerns that i.r.s. agents will target middle class americans. >> we're investing in the i.r.s.. we don't have enough i.r.s. auditors to actually address the issues that we're facing. >> the number one agency that the american people would like to have have more agents and be more helpful, pick up the phone, be more responsive is the i.r.s.. >> trace: democrats feel the need to rebrand the tax and spend law as a key to energy independence while americans are still facing painful gas prices. that new framing is part of a democratic ad campaign. look. >> energy independence, over 9.5 million new jobs. democrats delivering for

america's families. >> trace: marc thiessen fox news contributor and whous -- former white house speech writer. rebrand it. you have inflation and energy. that's a big problem. now this suddenly limits inflation and brings it down and it increases energy independence. next week they'll call it a crime bill because it will get rid of crime as well. it does a lot of things. >> they're being called out on their false advertising. they called it the inflation reduction act but it found the effects on inflation statistically no different than zero. now we found out that it won't reduce climate change, either. "wall street journal" is reporting that the climate expert took the co2 numbers from the bill and plugged them into the u.n. climate model. you know what he found?

by the end of this century the bill will reduce global temperatures by 0.009 degrees fair an height to 0.028 degrees fahrenheit by the end of the century. not only will it not reduce inflation it won't reduce global temperature. we aren't going to live until the end of the century to see its failure but we will most of us live to see the failure to reduce inflation and we will live to see the deployment of 87,000 i.r.s. agents harassing american people. they will get called out on their false advertising because people will see with their own eyes what the bill really does. >> trace: i'm working out every day. speak for yourself. i will call you, right, at the turn of the century and say you were right. >> a victory celebration in 2100 we'll party together. >> trace: i want to get back to

the whole thing the 87,000 tax agents. the "washington post" fact checker wrote the following here quoting the gop is preying on people's fears of an audit, right? then the response came in and one of them was from the managing editor of red state, a conservative publication. he wrote quoting here, yeah, they are just hiring 87,000 i.r.s. agents, most of them taxed with enforcement to go after the 700 billionaires in the nation. a good response. really, 87,000 and people think they are not going to target people who make under $400,000? come on. >> no doubt. put it in perspective of 87,000 people. the largest football stadium is in new jersey holds 85,000 people. you couldn't fit all the new i.r.s. agents in the biggest stadium in the country. the army of tax collectors will

be larger than the armies of 25 of our 29 nato allies, okay? it will be eight times the size of the border patrol which has only 19,000 agents dealing with the worst border disaster in american history. so yet these people won't be sitting around twiddling their thumbs. they will go after people and not enough millionaires and corporations to occupy the time of 87,000 people. >> trace: it will be the lower income people for sure. republicans have some ground to make up in a couple of key senate races. new fox polling shows arizona democrat mark kelly with a lead over blake masters. kelly also among those democrats who will not commit to backing a biden 2024 bid. in another pivotal senate race ron johnson from wisconsin trails mandela barnes by four

points. but a statistic call dead heat. also an enthusiasm gap that could boost johnson's chances. 66% of his voters are excited to vote compared to 57% those backing barnes. what do you make it the about the enthusiastic factor. is it real and play a part in the mid-terms? >> six years ago when ron johnson was on special report last night and pointed out that in the last election ron johnson was behind in the polls by 3 points right an election day and won by 3 1/2. the polls have gotten a lot of stuff wrong. what we have to go on and it is troubling. if you look at the 538 average of some of these key averages. dr. oz is losing by 11 points in pennsylvania. in arizona masters losing by 10. in georgia herschel walker is

losing by three. in ohio vance is losing by 1.2. a tie. rob portman won that seat six years ago by 20 points. joe biden is the least popular president in the history of presidential polling. we have the worst inflation in 40 years. the highest gas prices on record. the worst crime wave since the 199 0*s. the worst border crisis in american history. it should be a red wave of unprecedented proportion. republicans should be sweeping the democrats out of the house and senate. the fact that it is tight is really a testament to the fact that even though people don't like joe biden, they are not so thrilled with the gop and they aren't embracing us. i hope the red wave comes but it is not guaranteed and republicans, if it doesn't republicans need to take a hard look in the mirror. >> trace: democrats are looking at the president and some of them are running away. the list gets longer and longer.

watch this. >> senator, are you okay with biden this fall? are you campaign with biden this fall? will you please answer for your constituents? >> trace: there is the list getting longer and longer. i don't have an exact count. looks like 16 to me. they are literally running away from the president when it comes -- as it gets closer to the election. your last thought. >> it's not surprising. joe biden is the least popular president in the history of polling so they don't want to run with him. they want to change the topic like they did in the 2020 election. they want to change the election about trump and the mar-a-lago raid. it energizes conservatives around the president but also energizes the president's opponents and reminds people what they didn't like about the trump years, which was what biden promised to get rid of. the chaos, controversy and all the rest of it.

that is hurting republicans as a drag going into the election. >> trace: i'm curious, marc. you seem to think that now all of a sudden the pendulum is swinging back. it seems like people are fairly confident the gop will take the house, not nearly as confident with them taking the senate. is that a fair assessment? >> that is a fair assessment. it should be a historic win. in 2010 we took 60 seats, democrats lost 60 seats and obama wasn't nearly as unpopular as joe biden. and the truth is that all republicans need is to take one house in order to stop the reconciliation bills and to stop another inflation reduction act fiasco but it would be good to have the senate as well and the presidency two years after that. >> trace: always great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. see you in 2100.

>> trace: i'll call you. >> i'm coming to your house for a party. >> trace: listen, i had to quit drinking long before then. thank you, marc. more bad optics. the president biden family is struggling with inflation but building a security fence around his fancy beach house. taxpayers on the hook for the tab. and outrage in new york city. a convicted felon caught on camera cold cocking a complete stranger. the suspect now back on the streets without posting a dime, not a nickel in bail. that's next. >> it is absolutely horrible and this case exemplifies exactly what is wrong. here is the sucker puncher. what is that? a bully and a coward.

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>> trace: american crime crisis in dem led cities. some of the video is disturbing. a flash mob in los angeles on the run after ransacking a 7-eleven. as of yesterday there have been no arrests. new york city three people have been charged in a horrific beating. a cab driver later died. also in new york outrage today as this sucker punch suspect is released without bail. he is a felony sex offender out on lifetime parole. his rap sheet is a mile long. david lee miller has more. good morning. >> good morning, trace. police say that alleged attacker confessed to his parole officer what he had done. now many new yorkers are

demanding to know why he is still allowed out on the street. a week ago today, he walked out of a bronx restaurant and put on a pair of work gloves and without provocation allegedly punched cortez in the head. he left the same restaurant and he collapsed unconscious. he poses the greatest risk to the community. court documents say he told his parole officer i'm in trouble. i hit someone and he is in the hospital. i don't know if he is dead. i was at the restaurant and i know the police are looking for me. following his release as seen on video from the daily mail he was combative with a photographer at the courthouse. after being charged with attempted murdered the charges were downgraded to assault and harassment both misdemeanors under recent changes to the state's bail system are not bail eligible. >> certain crimes such as the one that this individual was charged with do not allow a judge to set bail.

they are not considered bail-setting offenses and until the bail reform law itself is reformed or changed, then these people will be allowed to be set free without bail being set. >> this crime in new york continues to surge. calls from republicans and some democrats to change the state's controversial bail reform laws. as for the victim of the attack, he remains hospitalized after undergoing brain surgery. he suffered fractures to his skull as well as his cheek. his sister told a reporter and i quote, this kind of person, speaking about the attacker, shouldn't be out on the street and went on to say i felt helplessness, anger and sadness because the person who does this type of damage doesn't know the damage it did to the entire family. trace. >> trace: the sister is right. david lee miller from the streets of new york.

lisa boothe, fox news contributor and david car lucci former new york state senator. lisa, i want to rehash was david lee was saying there. we don't need to see the video. the problem is he confessed to the crime. we have video of the crime. he was on lifetime parole and he is now back on the street. that in itself is a crime. >> absolutely, trace. this isof the reasons people like me have left new york city. i moved to florida in part because of this and part because of covid and other reasons. the crime -- look, it is not just the soft on crime policies of the left. not just the defund the police stuff. it is deeper and worse than that. the left has embraced criminals and idolized them and put up statues of george floyd. you can say what happened to him shouldn't have happened but he robbed a woman, pointed a gun at her stomach. he had done this. our own vice president kamala

harris told jacob blake she was proud of him. he pulled a knife on police officers. go back to 2014 with ferguson with the hands up, don't shoot lie of michael brown. obama helped push that lie and perpetuated that lie and peddled that lie. his own d.o.j. would find michael brown was the aggressor and the one that charged officers darin wilson. it is not just soft on crime and defund the police it is an embrace from the left of criminals. >> trace: very true. the whole concept here, david. i don't want to play the punching video again but i want to play the 7-eleven video. 100 people go into a 7-eleven and start ransacking the place and organized and they steal everything in the place and the lapd says we're going after these guys. no they aren't. there is not a single arrest. next week at this time there won't be a single arrest, which is why starbucks are leaving

and cvss are leaving and democrats will soon be leaving. this is a problem for the left, david. >> this is a problem for the left and the right. the reality is that crime is up around the country. new york city is still one of the safest big cities on the face of the planet. the crime rate is relative to what we see reported in the media. there is crime that has been up but it is relative to what they saw when we escaped the recession of the late 2000s. the homicide rate in new york is nothing what it was in the 1980s and 1990s. it was five times higher. we could point to guns. that's what is killing people around this country and republicans still refuse to do nothing about it. >> trace: people pulling those triggers, david, i have to say it's the whole concept of having to jump in and say listen, these are like the burning building where the reporter is outside saying the

protests are mostly peaceful. you can make the arguments but people aren't believing it. they're feeling it and seeing it. i have seen people walk into cvs on three occasions in the past year and walk up with stuff and nobody followed them. republicans did not call for defund the police. >> he brought republicans into this and i want to respond to that. where is this happening? if you look it is the liberal cities run by liberal mayors and in george soros prosecutor who wants criminals out of jail and doing their darnedest to make sure it happens. no offense, dave. it is your reality that's creating this problem. you are defending the criminals saying somehow -- i'm not done, hold your horses. you are saying people like me who is about to to be a first time gun owner, i'm the problem but the criminals are the ones pulling the criminal out doing the problems. those are the people who shouldn't have guns.

your prosecutors and mayors are the ones letting them out of jail. i >> the crime rate in florida is the same or worse. >> that's not true. i live in miami. we don't have these problems there, my friend. >> what republicans are refusing to recognize is we have an unfair justice system in the country. if you have money and you don't have money you have two forms of justice. reform it and you can't throw the baby out with the backwater. democrats are saying look, we have to move forward and maybe bail reform in new york isn't perfect but a work in progress. we have more cameras in the street than ever before and prosecutorall -- >> trace: i have to move on. are you losing your signal in and out.

speaking of optics. biden was nixing the border wall but now building one at his beach house. it is $500,000 taxpayers footing the bill. it will get plenty of use. the president has spent 152 days between his two delaware homes. more time outside the white house than trump, obama or bush at the same point in their presidency. i will go back to you, david. i think we got the audio fixed. that's five months of 18 months in delaware. your thoughts. >> i think the president is doing the job that the people elected him to do. he has had momentum. he has had success. we have the inflation reduction act, no healthcare measures forfeit veterans. fighting against climate change. doesn't matter in the white house or delaware president biden is getting the job done and much to the opposition of

republicans. so it doesn't matter where the president is. what matters is getting the job done. >> trace: final word. >> i will pull my hair out. invasion at the southern border, baby formula. they are hiding him in the basement like they did in 2020 because this is a guy who shakes the hands of air. probably thinks his name is brandon from time to time and in cognitive decline. he should be in a retirement home, not a white house. and this is rules for me not for thee. he gets a $500,000 fence that we taxpayer pay for while people are out in the streets getting cold cuffed by a sex offender out by liberal prosecutors. rules for thee, not for me. they will be safe. everyone else suffers. >> trace: full circle. lisa and david. good conversation. cdc admits it blew its handling of the covid pandemic big time. critics say it's not enough and that the agency is planning an

even more severe response if we see another pandemic. plus more whacky wokeness from democrats and a veteran party strategist warns to cut it out already. >> gets defined by some overeducated totally dufus coast al he leets that are trying to redefine dictionaries. >> trace: the governor of new york signed another law mandating gender neutral language. steve hilton on how the issue will play with voters. he is next.

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may have been looking to an even harsher response to any future pandemic. dr. anthony fauci recently said there should have been quoting much more stringent restrictions in place early in the covid pandemic. a "wall street journal" op-ed is titled fauci and walensky doubled down on failed covid response. it warns quoting it was bad enough that fauci, cdc and who ignored the best scientific advice at the start of this pandemic. it is sociopath i can for them to promote a worse catastrophe for future outbreaks. steve hilton is the host of the next revolution. great to see you. my concern here is you can't just say we made big mistakes. you have to tell me those mistakes. what mistakes did you make exactly and how are you going to correct them? you can't just say we made mistakes and next time around we have to double down and get these lockdowns right. >> it is even worse than that. if you look at what they are

saying. it's pathetic. if you look at what she thinks they got wrong it is stuff like we need to restructure the communications team. they with looking at the website but the fundamental response was wrong, deadly and did much more harm to this country and citizens than the virus did. the fog of war, we knew right from the start that the virus is spread by aerosols, not drop lets. the mask thing is pointless until you have an n-95. social distancing meaningless. that's designed for droplets. they spread 30 feet an lasts for hours. all of it was wrong. the madness and cruelty of school closures when it barely affects kids. these are the things they got wrong. they are not admitting any of that. they should be held accountable. what drives people crazy about

government. this is the biggest public policy failure in history. killing people, closing businesses, destroying our economy. we will be paying for this for decades. where is the accountability? fauci, walensky, all of them. when will they be held accountable? republicans may have hearings? that's not enough. they should have been fired. i look for the american people to get together to hold them accountable. what about the legal remedies. suing these people for the damage they did. they have to pay a price. otherwise we will have the same disaster repeating itself. >> trace: my point is there, steve. my opening she started that sound bite at the top saying we need to own this. you can't own it unless you give us details of what you missed. you can't say there was communications things. we need to revamp this department or this and do this. no, we need to what strategic mistakes the cdc made. was it mask mandates? because the studies, numerous

studies we can put up show the mask mandates are not effective. it could be detrimental because people misuse them. >> all of it was wrong. nothing was right. all of it was wrong. and they had a choice. they had the alternatives. they denied the facts, they denied the science. you had the dissident scientists who bravely stood up. they laid out an alternative plan. you look at the data and you compare states like florida and country and countries like sweden versus the u.k. wherever you look it was clear for those of us who said from the beginning the lockdowns are cruel and counterproductive and the maskings and school closures should never have been considered. they said that from the beginning in march 2020 we said that. and we are banned from youtube. they said it was misinformation. we were right, they were wrong and they need to be held accountable. >> trace: you make a great

point, steve. she came out a few months ago and we said follow the science. we never said the signs would be exact. my response was oh, yes you did. and if you disagreed with the science in any capacity, you were banned from twitter, you were banned from facebook, you were banned from youtube. meantime, people in new york facing soaring crime and raging inflation. kathy hochul took the time to sign a new law that changes the word salesman to salesperson. a state democratic lawmaker, jobs have no gender, but unfortunately many of our states' laws use gender language. another said we want our workplaces to reflect the diversity of new york. veteran democratic strategist james carville was blunt as usual. watch. >> we the end to get defined by some overeducated totally dufus

coastal elites that are trying to redefine dictionary. that's not what the party is. they are a very small part of the democratic party but they are very noisy and they get much more attention than is justified. >> trace: your thoughts on that, steve. >> he is completely right, of course. they've gone way off to the far left, the democratic party. they are completely controlled now by these activists and ideological zelliots, the woke extremists who control the party. he is about the only one who sounds off against it. this particular case is not the most egregious but when you say you have so many immediate problems facing residents of new york city and state. crime, cost of living crisis. all the things they should be and could be addressing and they are wasting time on stuff like this. shows you they are detached from reality. they're on this ideological

trip that no normal person can understand. >> trace: it is interesting for james carville said we have some pretty far left people and they make a lot of noise and get a lot of attention but not really how the party feels. the perception is that really is how the party feels. that's what is happening here. >> yes. that's exactly right. they won't stand up to it. they pander to it. they actually go around rileing up to them by focusing on the issues that normal people think why are you dealing with that when we have so many immediate problems? it has affected the reputation of the whole party and rightly so. they brought this on themselves. >> trace: democrats' language over the top when it comes to taking in republicans. listen to a texas state senator after the governor of his state and ron desantis in florida banned critical race theory and other woke curricula in schools. >> this is how things -- how

bad things begin and how bad things have begun historically. it is how the nazi -- what happened in nazi germany. they began to burn books and tell people how to think. that's what's happening with people like rick desantis and greg abbott. people need to wake up. >> trace: by the way the last quote was republicans are a threat to democracy. i think i've heard that phrase before. your final thoughts. >> it is just unbelievable. by the way, these are the exact same people that endlessly lecture us about the threats to democracy who constantly deny and attack it. they are the ones that are trying to shut down debate. stop people from participating. the whole thing is just so hypocritical and as you say, raises the temperature all these comparisons to nazis. how does that help anybody? how does it help fight crime and help people struggling to feed their families and make a living and pay and get affordable housing? there are real practical

problems facing americans and our politicians should be focusing on that, not fighting these ridiculous overhyped wars. it is ridiculous. >> trace: got to go. we appreciate it. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". i will be back at 3:00 p.m. eastern on "the story". "outnumbered" coming up right after the break. need money for y and home. there's a powerful va benefit that veterans have earned, but many don't even know about. it's the va home loan benefit. as a veteran, you're eligible to apply for a refinance loan for up to 100% of your home's value. not just 80% like other loans. the newday 100 va loan lets you refinance your mortgage, consolidate your high-rate credit card debt, get cash and lower your payments an average of $600 a month. so if you need money to take care of your family, use the valuable va home loan benefit

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