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states. pet owners in these states brush their dog's teeth regularly. you guys know there has been henry, jasper, percy. i don't brush their teeth. do you? i know you recently lost your puppy. >> before that we did not brush his teeth. we recently had to put him down. >> dana: we found out pete has cats. "the faulkner focus" is next. gillian turner is in for harris. have a great weekend. >> thank you. to a fox news alert now. deadline fast approaching for the justice department to release the redacted version of the affidavit justifying the raid on mar-a-lago. they have an hour to unseal it and lift the veil on the search of president trump's florida estate. this is "the faulkner focus". the affidavit is pektsed any moment. the judge ordered its release after approving the justice
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department's proposed redactions. reinhart said the feds met the burden of showing why parts of the affidavit should not be disclosed to the public. house republican greg steubey says he is not expecting any real answers today or ever. listen. >> that's going to be the most redacted affidavit in american history. the more they redact the less the american people will understand why the f.b.i. felt they needed to raid the former president's home. we aren't going to get real answers to a lot of this until the republicans take the majority back and we have the ability of oversight and bring in the d.o.j. and ask them the tough questions. >> let's go to david spunt with late breaking details. >> we're waiting looking at the docket here and we know we are going to see the affidavit but may not be the affidavit everybody wants to see with all the juicy details. that affidavits typically have. this affidavit would have those details. we won't see that version.
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we'll seal the one with redactions. i want to show a graphic of what bruce reinhart ordered yesterday in court. i find the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason, good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit. disclosures would reveal witnesses, officials and uncharged parties. investigation source and methods and grand jury information protected by federal rules of criminal proper sired. gillian, two weeks ago attorney general garland in this building at d.o.j. announced he was okay with releasing the search warrant. the search warrant had limited information. it was the affidavit that everybody wanted to see after the search of mar-a-lago took place and show what crimes federal prosecutors are eyeing. another deadline today the trump team has a deadline to explain to another federal judge why a third party neutral arbiter called a special master is needed to look at how d.o.j. has been handling evidence over
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the past 2 1/2 weeks. this is the only legal action trump's team has taken in this dispute asking for a special master, although some believe it may be a little too late because the government has had a 2 1/2 week head start. another important point, gillian, former president trump has not seen this affidavit. nobody on his team has. when we all see it, he will see it. back to you. >> all right. david spunt. stand by and we'll come to you as soon as we get this affidavit. let's bring in andy mccarthy. fox news contributor and former assistant attorney. the bottom line here from supporters and allies of former president trump. they are concerned what we'll get just now when this thing is unsealed is all the salacious accusations will be unredacted and the underlying facts, the basis for the accusations made against the former president
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here are going to remain redacted so essentially the american people will get a very one-sided view here. is that a legitimate concern? >> it's a legitimate concern. i don't think that's what will happen because even the salacious details, if there are those, gillian, would have to be sourced to people that the justice department probably doesn't want to identify at this point. if you put that out, they would know where that came from. so or they would have a pretty good idea in any event. i don't think we'll get that kind of detail. i think the kind of thing we are going to see at most is stuff that's of no interest to people. for example, you and david were discussing this dispute over the special master. when the justice department applies for the warrant, they have to put in the warrant the details of how they will handle privileged information. it is just a procedure. i would imagine they wouldn't
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mind disclosing that because then they can say they disclosed something but it doesn't the tell you anything about their investigation. that's the kind of detail i think we are going to see. i don't think we'll see the things that people are interested in. >> isn't it also true from like a legal perspective here that an affidavit is fundamentally a one-sided document? it is prepared by one side laying out the reasons why an investigation should target a particular person, right? >> right. but you bring up a point that's an important distinction between this investigation and, say, russia gate, right? russia gate was a fisa warrant proceeding that is classified. when the government writes the affidavit they never expect anyone to see it any again. in a criminal proper -- proceeding you get to give your
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side of the store see but if you misrepresent things the affidavit will be unsealed. what happens in these cases is -- i shouldn't say always. maybe it won't happen here. usually there are charges and the affidavits get turned over in discovery. if the government lied to the court or gave a misleading version of facts, then the defense can move to suppress any evidence from the search. so the criminal proceeding has a way of keeping people honest i think that the classified proceeding doesn't. >> i understand we have shannon bream with us now. shannon, i want to bring you into this conversation. thanks for joining us. jonathan turley said yesterday that anybody who is familiar with affidavits knows that large parts of them can be unsealed, made publicly available without compromising an investigation.
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identities, witnesses, things of that nature, he said it is done all the time. >> it is true. the interesting thing here is as andy has pointed out, this is so unusual you would push and try to get the affidavit public at this point in any investigation. one of the pieces i read from a former prosecutor said it's tricky. sometimes what you allow out into the public with the black lines and redactions next to it can invite conspiracy theories trying to fill in the blanks. and really the argument by this lawyer was don't unseal any of it. i think a lot of folks out there, including the president himself and a number of big media organizations are arguing in the other direction. give us something. some measure of transparency. a lot of people in this country have lost kfd and have a lot of questions about the f.b.i. and d.o.j. when it comes to the former president. what we'll see today will spark a lot more questions and a lot
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more mumbling and grumbling about what we're not getting but leaks coming from within the d.o.j. to a number of high-profile media organizations trickling out and filtering out information that would sound beneficial to the case they're making while leaving the former president and his legal team wondering what they have. it is hard for them to argue against releasing information when it seems like it is coming out through leaks and drips anyway. >> what about the legal argument from the former president's supporters that in this case the d.o.j. -- judge reinhart and the government have a special obligation to be more transparent and to release more information publicly than they normally would in cases because this investigation is targeting the former commander-in-chief. does that legal argument hold up? >> well, it is interesting if you look at the arguments that come from the media organizations including "the new york times," judicial watch and other groups that early on
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started pressing for the release of this underlying information, they've talked about how this is a case of national potentially international import. it is unprecedented and the public has an interest in something this potentially historic in releasing more of that information. the judge has got it. he has said yes, i recognize there is an interest in releasing information but balancing he sees as the government's interest in protecting an ongoing investigation and source it. the last we heard from him i this i the government has narrowly tailored enough to protect the interests and move forward in getting more information out. i think as andy and others have counseled people will probably be disappointed in what we get today. we don't know what we don't know about this case. >> shannon, you mentioned the judge saying that the government had proven that its request for redactions were
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narrowly tailored enough but they also say the judge writes the government has met its burden of showing its redactions are narrowly tale ored. this includes is identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, uncharged parties. the investigation strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods and grand jury information. that doesn't sound narrow at all. >> it doesn't sound narrow but i think, gillian, the most interesting in that laundry list is uncharged person. and i find some of president -- former president trump's public position on this to be a little bit baffling because that suggests to me that the justice department really just wants its stuff back. it is not necessarily bent on charging former president trump, otherwise they wouldn't be that concerned. the justice department always say they aren't supposed to put out information about unchargeed persons but they may
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mean it here. they mean they want their stuff back and they don't want to charge him with the records retention crime even if it has a classified information aspect to it. and if they don't want -- if they ultimately don't charge him, i find it difficult to believe that president trump really wants full disclosure of a document that we know a federal magistrate judge found probable cause that he committed three felonies. i can't understand why he would want that out unless he thinks it will come out anyway in which case maybe the posturing makes sense. if they are not going to charge him, why would he want that information out? >> that's an interesting question. the former president has said multiple times he wants the full affidavit redacted and released. do you think it serves his own legal interests here? >> well, that is the big question. because there are those saying be careful what you ask for. we don't know what the government has in the affidavit.
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who they talked to, who came to them with information. it is something i asked lara trump again is there any worry in the trump family and legal team some of what could be released would be negative for you? she said absolutely not. we have nothing to hide. that has been the posture for the trump team on getting this affidavit out. you have to remember that there is this window that we don't know much about from when the trump team says they were cooperating with the government early june to when this raid was carried out in august. it is a mystery there. it sounds like there has to be some disagreement whether or not there was actual cooperation, whether the trump team as they said had turned things over and having good conversations, they felt like the conversations and relationship with the government attorneys was going well. somehow in that seven or eight weeks there was a breakdown. that's the information in the affidavit that would tell us the rest of the story, how we got from cooperation and
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thinking things were going well and then the government felt it was necessary to get some information with agents. how much of the affidavit to explain that seven or eight weeks is what we're waiting on now. >> we are certainly all waiting on. we have to leave it there. andy and shannon, if you could stick with us we'll bring you back when the affidavit is released. we have to go to a quick break. mark zuckerberg is saying there was an f.b.i. warning about suppressing the hunter biden story. the president can't seem to help himself when it comes to bashing republicans. listen to this. >> these kind of comments do absolutely nothing to bring america together. i thought joe biden was supposed to be the great uniter. obviously we have seen the opposite was really true. great news for fellow veterans who own a home. with home values at record highs,
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>> president biden: i respect conservative republicans. i don't respect the maga republicans. they don't just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they are a threat to our very democracy. >> gillian: president biden back on the campaign trail as you can hear there taking aim against maga republicans. this during a private fundraiser in maryland yesterday. the president likeened the maga movement to semi fascism. he also said we're seeing either the beginning or the death of an extreme maga philosophy. the rally raised a million for democratic campaigns. let's bring in the power panel to event. david avila and kevin walling. gentlemen, this is not president biden's first rodeo. he has called out what he, you
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know, accuses of being extreme maga republicans many times in recent months. take a quick look at the hit list. >> president biden: let me tell you about this ultra-maga agenda. it is extreme as most maga things are. i never expected the ultra-maga republicans who seem to control the republican party now, to have the name of a controlled republican party. i never anticipated that happening. it is not your father's republican party. >> gillian: kevin, let's start with you. it's not the first time that he has called out maga republicans. he has branded them before. last night was the first time arguably that he definitively absolutely no way around it used the term and equated maga followers with fascists. >> listen, politics ain't bean bags. joe biden has been in the public life for 50 years
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fighting different campaigns and winning campaigns. elections are about competing visions for this country. 73 days out from the mid-term elections and what you saw the president doing last night in maryland is painting a different picture of where this country is headed. democrats are fighting for bipartisan wins like the infrastructure bill and gun control and the inflation reduction act and you compare to to republicans who are still relitigating the 2020 election and stuck in reverse in terms of where this country is headed. you see four states right now run by republicans that have trigger laws to outright ban abortions just this week. if that's not radical and out of touch with the mainstream americans, i don't know what is. >> gillian: david. is it not as well true that democrats are so busy relitigating january 6th? >> as if we don't have another reason for americans who we
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used to call deplorable who clung to their guns and their religion, now we like to call them fascists and extremists, americans who have as much love for this country as those joe biden and those in his party have. i have to agree on the direction of the country we're going in, we don't have to agree. you can still love this country. with that said, the problem for kevin and the democrats is 72% of the country believe we're heading in the wrong direction. in every major area president biden, 2/3 of the country believe he is wrong on the direction he is trying to take the country. he only doubles down on bad ideas whether it's an inflation reduction act that won't reduce inflation. whether it be giving white middle class college educated kids a big tax advantage with relieving their tax -- college loans. it is policy after policy that
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this biden administration doubles down on bad ideas. >> gillian: well biden didn't limit his criticism to trump in domestic politics. he also hit him on what he said was diminishing america's stangd on the world stage. ironic coming on the one-year anniversary of the botched afghanistan withdrawal. we have to leave it there unfortunately. thank you to both of you. it is a somber today day marking one year since the abby gate terror bombing at kabul international airport. [shouting] >> we honor the 13 service members who made the ultimate sacrifice there. former green beret commander michael waltz says this of the administration handling of the tragedy.
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>> not one military officer has been relieved, resigned or been fired. then i think the thing that put these gold star families over the edge is to see the commander-in-chief, to see joe biden standing before the nation and the world and saying this was an outstanding success. >> gillian: national security correspondent jennifer griffin has a look back. >> the scenes at abby gate were apocalyptic. marines did their best to handle the crowds. u.s. commanders knew the taliban and isis would like to place a suicide bomber on board one of the evacuation flights and then came the explosion. >> in the air, on the ground, anywhere, they were coming back towards us bringing back the bodies. >> air force sergeant benjamin gibson was serving as an air traffic controller for the contingency response squadron
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and spent most of those days in a tent by the side of the kabul airport runway guiding aircraft as they landed and took off. >> when the attack happened, i was sitting there with the rest of my team and the other marines. you hear a large explosion. we were sitting next to the runway. you see and hear that explosion and a small earthquake. everybody just sat. >> gibson arranged 35 medical evacuations to germany. >> marines, screams out at the top of his lungsing get your kid on. in my head i'm like i have to defend myself. at the same time i have to continue my services in air traffic. it came to a point where we had to halt the landing areas. we don't know where it's coming from. >> a sergeant was one of the marines standing guard
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overlooking abby gate and described the chaos in an interview. markus andrews lost his leg from the blast. spent much of the past year recovering at walter reed. >> i just see a flash and boom. massively pressure hit me. my right here ringing and left ear i hear people screaming and i'm just like what -- i knew what happened right away and i was like holy -- i got blown up. i got hit by a bomb. >> we remember him and the 13 americans who were killed at abby gate exactly a year ago today. gillian. >> gillian: jennifer griffin at the pentagon for us thank you very much. vice president kamala harris is vacationing in hawaii. another staffer is taking a permanent vacation. that coming up next. the battle over biden's student loan debt is sparking a
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political battle in washington >> this is really a classic progressive move. joe biden has used the vast powers of the administrative state to reward his political supporters in higher education. >> gillian: republicans are already campaigning off the issue but will it pay off for democrats? we have congressman byron donalds in "focus" coming up next.
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working as waiter, bartender. they were the people who took out loans and paid it back and parents who saved for them and paid off their education. they won't benefit from this. they are hurt by it because they are now picking up the tab for $500 billion of other people's loans. >> gillian: fox business correspondent hillary vaughn is at the white house with breaking details and reaction. >> a lot of americans paying taxes would like to know the price tag of this sweeping student loan bail-out that they are paying for but the biden administration will not say how much it costs. >> how much does this cost? >> you know, the projections are still coming out depending how many people take advantage of it. let me remind folks -- >> what's the range of possibilities? >> like i said, those projections are still coming
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out. >> gillian: the penn wharton model will give you sticker shock. they say it will cost over half a trillion dollars and overall changes made to the loan payment program could cost up to $1 trillion. the nonpartisan center for responsible federal budget is calling out the white house for dodging questions saying this. if the administration truly has no idea how much this plan costs, they are acting with extreme reckless abandon. at worst the white house is not being honest with the american people about just how expensive and how inflationary this executive action will be. even a former obama economist calls this reckless tweeting that the administration is making inflation worse saying, quote, they are doing it while going well beyond one campaign promise, 10,000 of student loan relief and breaking another. all proposals paid for is even
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worse. >> if you don't know how much it is going to cost how can you guarantee it will be paid for? >> look, i think what i can tell you is this. that we have done the work to make sure that this is done in a fiscal responsible way. we'll know more once people take us up and get a sense if they will. >> gillian: it really is economics 101. if they won't say how much it costs and how exactly they are going to pay for that cost, it is very clear that if it's not paid for, it is going to make inflation even worse. so taxpayers could be paying twice for this. gillian. >> gillian: thank you this morning. let's bring in florida congressman byron donald serving on the house oversight committee. let's keep your oversight committee hat on for a second and we'll get to the politics of this. i want to ask you in your estimation, you have crunched
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the numbers in the committee. is this going to worsen the burden of inflation on motion americans? >> it is going to worsen inflation. let's be very clear. congress has not looked at this proposal. nancy pelosi hasn't opened up a hearing on this. that's the issue we have right now. nobody knows how much it will cost. it is a real problem for the american people. they don't know what they are doing at the white house. >> gillian: is it, as some have touted, a hail mary by the president ahead of the mid-terms? >> it absolutely is. the man is buying votes. that's what he is doing. he is taking an illegal action, action he doesn't have authority to do, in order to reward his base. if you look at the demographic breakdown this is basically going to democrats who went to college who have student loan debt who don't want to pay for it. i had student loan debt. i paid my off. a lot of people making payments now responsibly because they're the ones that took out their
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debt. it is only the radical left pushing it for 10 years and he is paying them back. >> gillian: who does have legal authority to launch a bail-out of this magnitude in this country? does anybody? does congress have the legal authority to do that? >> i prnlly think it's amorale and immoral for congress to do this. congress has that authority, the president does not have this authority at all. this is a complete violation of separation of powers, which is why i do think there will be legal challenges and i think this decision by joe biden is going to be found unconstitutional. but i also believe what he is doing is playing catch me if you can with the court system. the white house knows they can't do it. they use some innocuous law for veterans who were wounded and
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disabled. they are using that and covid-19, which we all know is over, to open up this issue. they simply don't have the legal authority to do it. i think there are going to be challenges. >> gillian: republicans are looking to capitalize on the bail-out as well. one group is blasting this new ad over the weekend. take a listen. >> want to be a struggling artist? college is on me. my kids don't need fancy things like school supplies or new shoes. >> i work for you theater major. >> gillian: whether it will boost the party's chances in november or not it is an obvious play to bring in younger voters. a hail mary pass. another says it is designed to buy votes. vulnerable democrats aren't thrilled with the move, either. a congressman says quote it is
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no way to make policy. another congresswoman from nevada says it doesn't address the root problems that make college unaffordable. it seems to me that's the big cahoona here. but the optics and politics and legality aside for a moment. does this policy encourage universities to continue to exploit students by continuing to hike tuition to the point where we now outcost every other country on earth. >> it absolutely does. the only thing it will do is tell the university system they can charge more because at some point down the line somebody is going to come along and try to pay this bill in the future. let me very clear to the american people. if this happens once, some future democrat politician
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trying to get votes will promise to do it again. we cannot allow this type of moral hazard to exist in the united states. the democrats running for the senate in ohio, senator masto up in nevada let me be clear. they might be talking tough now, but if in was a vote on the floor they would vote for it because they voted for every other radical policy that joe biden and nancy pelosi have brought to the american people. we have to be very clear on this. this is not about republicans pouncing. this is about republicans wanting to have a sound rule of law and have a sound economic system in the united states where everybody can share equally, play equally and actually live by the rules. that's what we are fighting for and what this conversation is about. this is way more than politics. this is about the way our economic system works and our economic system has to be -- people have to repay their debts. capital has to move freely so the american dream is possible for everybody who works hard,
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who cuts their teeth, who does the right thing. what the democrats are doing right now is the absolute wrong policy. it will make matters worse, not better. last point i will make. for the people getting debts forgiven need to look their children in the eye. their children are the ones who will have to pay for this. it is going on the national debt. nobody in washington has a plan to pay that off right now. >> gillian: congressman donalds we have to leave it there. thank you for your time this morning. >> any time. >> gillian: more fallout for speaker pelosi's hospital. the police charity group is taking action after he flashed his membership card during his dui arrest. mark zuckerberg's claim about the hunter laptop story. >> there is a political play here. we have a government, this is what should be chilling for everybody deciding what news can and cannot be shared on huge social media platforms like facebook. certainly not what the united states of america is all about.
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>> gillian: facebook ceo says an f.b.i. warning shaped his platform's handling of that story. raymond arroyo joins us next to weigh in.
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>> there was a lot of attention
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on twitter during the election because of the hunter biden laptop story. so you guys censored that as well? >> five or seven days when it was being determined whether it was false. the distribution on facebook was decreased but people were still allowed to share it. >> gillian: that's mark zuckerberg admitting that facebook reduced the exposure and reach of the story on hunter biden's laptop across the platform. he says a warning from the f.b.i. about russian propaganda before the story emerged led to this decision. he also admits that fewer people as a result were exposed to the story. critics sounded off on social media. one person here calling it collusion. house minority leader kevin mccarthy reacting in a tweet saying democrats in congress have been intentionally ignoring the facts. when republicans are back in charge we'll hold all of them
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accountable. those are fighting words. let's bring in raymond arroyo. something that is not getting a lot of attention here but that struck my interest, ray, is how zuckerberg is talking about this, right? normally when he talks about decisions made at facebook he chalks everything else to the all -- algorithm he is saying real human brains were on this and this is what we decided. >> this is how you wash your sins in the metaverse. you air them at an aprop youth time when the f.b.i. is being scrutinized for the raid on mar-a-lago and a steele dossier. zuckerberg is trying to wash
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his hands on what's happening. make no mistake what this is. this is really threatening, the lifeblood of the republic. it is information, free and fair information. here you have the f.b.i., if zuckerberg can be believed leaning in and trying to convince a social media platform to spike information to protect a political party for partisan purposes. the president just yesterday said the republicans are a threat to democracy. i would argue the political weaponization of federal agencies is a threat to the democracy and one we should take -- i don't care who is running the show, republicans or democrats, you can't use federal agents to do your political bidding. that's what's happening here. there is a u.s. code 595 states very clearly a federal official may not use their authority, which was what happened here, to in any way interfere or
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affect an election particularly a presidential election. and you do that and you're a year in prison. somebody needs to be held accountable for this. >> gillian: here is a disconnect. it doesn't sound like the f.b.i. told zuckerberg or anyone at facebook russia disinformation is coming and it is coming in the form of this hunter biden laptop story. that was a leap made by facebook according to zuckerberg's own comments there on the radio show, right? he is trying to say they warned me and i assumed that this was the russian propaganda. >> it's the way the game is played. like the predicate for the raid on mar-a-lago. it appears that trump is destroying documents. next thing the feds say it has been reported trump is destroying documents. who is leaking to these media outlets? one goes hand in hand. you are a federal agent going to zuckerberg saying we're
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aware of russian disinformation. the next day the media says look, we have some russian disinformation here. it is the laptop. don't cover this. zuckerberg got the message. it doesn't matter. one way or the other, the f.b.i. needs to be scrutinized and challenged. the question is can they be at this point given the pattern, the pedigree and what we've seen in recent days and can you have a fair election when you have federal agencies crashing into the middle of them? i'm not sure at this point. >> gillian: i don't know if you've heard about this but paul pelosi is getting the boot from the police group whose membership card he flashed when he was arrested for dui. the california highway patrol is revoking his lifetime membership calling his conduct that day a poor reflection on their group. in a statement they say this. the mere presentation of this identification credentials made it appear he was presenting them for preferentialal
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treatment whether it was the case or not. this answers my question that i have had since day one. is this something that people do? they drive around and make donations and get a card and then every time they get in trouble with the law they go around flashing it? i have no idea that happened. >> i called a few cops i know who are in local law enforcement and they all have these organizations that collect benefits for officers and they solicit benefits and give you a badge or card. and they tell me people do use those for minor infractions. running a red light or speeding. sometimes they show that and their i.d. and the cops thinking nicely say i will give you a warning this time. but did paul pelosi really think he would get in a major traffic accident, hurt someone else, rip a fence off the highway in napa and flash his little membership card and get off? i don't think so. look, he has been hit with a
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dui. eight hour work program and three years of probation, but i cut the guy a lot of slack. he is married to pelosi, probably hitting a couple of vinos and he will welcome eight hours out of the house, who knows? >> gillian: she said now that he has taken responsibility for that. >> for what? >> gillian: has he? for ramming into somebody else's car while drunk. she says he has taken responsibility. i don't know who he has taken responsibility for that with, do you? >> no, i don't. if you watch the video of his arrest, didn't look like he was taking responsibility there. he didn't want to submit to the breathalyzer. i was waiting for him to pull out the aarp card and aaa card to try to get off. none of it works. you are in a major traffic accident and drinking when you shouldn't be and way over the blood alcohol limit. he got what he deserved. probably would have gotten worse had he not been nancy
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pelosi's husband. >> gillian: perhaps. the white house senior communication advisor is joining the long list of aids leaving the vice president's office. he will join the west wing as a deputy communications director. we know at least 13 key staff have left the v.p.'s team. reports describe her office as a toxic work environment comes as she is on vacation in hawaii with her husband. they arrived there the day before president biden signed the new spending bill into law and days before he announced his student loan bail-out plan. what do you make of that? >> the graphic you showed looks like survivor at the beginning of the season. you see all the contestants and one-by-one the squares go black. >> gillian: that is what working in the administration is like. >> when you see all of this facing forward staff. most of these people deal with
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the public, not the policy side of government. there is a reason they're jumping ship. chief of staff, spokesman, deputy press secretary and comes director, director of press operations and speech writer leaving you it is a problem of the performance in the main job. >> gillian: i have to cut you off and leave you there. "outnumbered", your favorite show, is starting right now. raymond, thank you for joining us. thanks everyone at home. e highs and so has your equity. turn it into cash now. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. you could take out more than $60,000. use it to improve your home. pay off high rate debt. pay for big expenses. or put it in the bank for real peace of mind. turn your equity into cash with the newday100 va cash out loan call now.
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