the world gravy wrestling championships are taking place in england. a pool of cold gravy, that sounds disgusting. judges award points not just for wrestling but costume design. the event raises money for a local hospice. it looks like a good cause. >> trace: a great week, dana. thank you for having me. super fun. have a great holiday. >> dana: an honor to be with you. "the faulkner focus" is up next. julie banderas is in for harris, hi, julie. >> thank you. fox news alert. dividing biden ditching the whole unity thing. remember that he promised? the president last night yet again blasting what he calls the maga g.o.p. the white house is insisting this speech was not political. this is "the faulkner focus". i'm julie banderas in for

harris. the president wasting no time taking jabs at trump and his supporters early and often. keep in mind 74 million people voted for donald trump in 2020. so the current president taking the opportunity to bash just about half of american voters. >> president biden: maga forces are determined to take this country backward. they promote authoritarian leaders and fan the flames of political violence. they are a threat to our personal rights. the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. >> biden laser focused on attacking republicans. but failing to mention stuff that affects americans' live every day like inflation, border, rising crime to name a few. republicans, of course, taking note. >> what a missed opportunity. to talk to the american people straight up about the reasons when they lie down to sleep at night they can't.

the water is not going to clear up in washington until we get the pigs out of the creek. >> i think, raymond, he came across as a sad, angry bitter old man here. understanding the past four days he has called half the country fascists and extremists. the country wants the wheel problem out there. >> we are live at the white house with alexandra. >> the president used the term maga 13 times in his speech last night. an official taxpayer funded event that the white house said was not political. >> this is an opportunity again for the president to directly have a conversation with the american people. >> the back drop of this conversation was independence hall in philadelphia. the marine marching band played and illuminated by dramatic

lighting. critics calling it a blood red on social media. >> president biden: there is no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. >> you can see positioned behind the president two marines, a break from white house tradition that even members of the mainstream media called out. in responding to a tweet from cnn which noted that the military is supposed to be apolitical the white house responded democracy is not a partisan or political issue. the president framed last night's speech as a battle for the nation's soul. senator lindsey graham said with all due respect, mr. president, there is nothing wrong with america's soul. the american people are hurting because of your policies. interesting that the president framed maga republicans as a threat to america as we know it. we also know that democratic groups have pumped millions of dollars into primary campaigns

of candidates they would consider to be ultra-maga thinking it will help democratic candidates' chances come the general election. we expect to hear from the president within the hour as he talks about the american rescue plan. >> maybe he should have talked about that last night. the mid-terms a bit more than two months away now. a new op-ed in the "new york post" saying biden ditching that unity message is all about getting votes. the headline calling half the country fascists is a cynical political ploy. fox cause up with new yorkers to see what they thought about the current divide. >> he has been the most divisive president in the when is tree. >> more divided that ever and nothing to do -- >> i went through the 60s and with what's going on now it makes the 60s look like a cocktail party. >> you have a republican party that won't negotiate.

>> the republicans that i know are far from being any fraction of fascism. >> ari fleischer joins me now. to hear new yorkers talk negatively about a democratic president is quite insane. hearing that one guy comparing this to a cocktail party in the 60s. this is no joke. this is not good. >> the problem is that joe biden has a nasty history of saying these type of smears. remember, this is the man in 2012 when he ran against mitt romney. he said when romney addressed the black group he said republicans want to put you back in chains. he is the president when he didn't like legislation he compared it to jim crow 2.0 and said his opponents are on the side of bull connor. he called them now semi fascists. we have a president who enjoys

dividing us using some of the most extreme over the top vitriolic language as possible for half the country. this is terrible language for a president to use. >> i just can't understand what kind of world we live in where a president of the united states takes the stage and has the entire american public, all voters, by the way, watching you and you come out and use that valuable time to insult half of the country. mccarthy has called on biden for an apology. i would bet he should not hold his breath on that. let's watch house minority kevin mccarthy on that. >> president biden has chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow americans. why? simply because they disagree with his policies. the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize

for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists. >> what happened to the president who campaigned on unity? >> he has never been a unifier. that was a myth. what he said in his inaugural address was window dressing. imagine when you run against mitt romney, one of the most reasonable, milquetoast mellow people you'll meet in the republican party and he says mitt romney wants to return african-americans to slavery? joe biden has never missed an opportunity to paint a worst, most negative vile picture of his opponent in an effort to win votes. his demagoguery is almost always around racial lines and so bitterly divisive. people think it is nice uncle joe in the attic it is a mean spirited divisive man and why he likes to say these things.

on the side of bull connor? >> that's joe biden. >> take a look at the op-ed arguing hypocrite biden's speech was about one thing only, trying to bait trump. when i watched the president insult trump it reminds me what i was like in high school trying to piss off an ex-boyfriend. yeah, i've moved on and over you. biden needs to get over trump. like an ex-boyfriend you have to move on. to constantly rehash the past is not a way forward. that's just the main staple in life that not only as a human but politician you should know that by now. with the november mid materials around the corner all he is doing is hurting his own party, isn't it? >> i hope the rnc makes sure the taxpayers don't pay for his trip to philadelphia. this is a campaign speech. the united states marine corps

has explained to do. there are is lot ethically wrong with joe biden going to philadelphia and giving a campaign speech on public dime. >> quick before i move on the blood red background remind he me. halloween was right around the corner but it was eerie. i know now how to decorate the front of my house. last night's stop in philadelphia one in a blitz ahead of the mid-terms. one location not on the itinerary, you guessed it, the border. the president has not made one single visit there during his time in office, which is crazy. drugs and illegal immigrants coming into the country at record levels. the white house really stepping into this week. loads of backlash to this one. watch. >> somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane you say it is not okay. somebody walks into texas or arizona unfact vaited they are

allowed the stay, why? >> it's not like somebody walks over. that's not -- >> that's exactly what happened. >> andy biggs saying he would be happy to show the white house the real deal. in a letter to the press secretary. given that neither you nor president biden have ever visited the southern border. i would like to extend you an invitation to participate in a border tour along the arizona/mexico border with me. the president is not interested in the border because you know what? those are republican states. he only goes to democratic states alienating half our country. >> in his speech last night he talked about republicans oppose rule of law. who isn't enforcing the law? who is it who opposes rule of law on the border? the ignorance to say people aren't walking into the united states. how do you think they are getting across the rio grande and other places going through

customs and immigration the way you come here properly if that's what you want to do. you know, this administration has lost the moral ability to make a distinction between people who come to america for a wonderful opportunity coming legally and those coming illegally in violation of our laws. there is a moral distinction. once you fail to make it, you are letting america down and you are the one who opposes the rule of law. >> it is unbelievable the white house denies people don't walk across our border. they are watching other channels and those other channels ignore it under this administration. last administration they did not. have a wonderful labor day weekend. the outcome of the mid-terms is a huge deal for americans and politicians. here is newt. >> this is life and death. this is much more than politics. if you are a democrat and you know you can't win a campaign about inflation, you can win a

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>> julie: the economy adding 315,000 jobs in august. that's down from more than half a million in july and below the average gain of the previous three months. the unemployment rate ticking

up to 3.7% from 3.5% in july. labor secretary marti walshe weighing in. >> we saw the labor participation go up as well. that's why we saw an increase in the unemployment number. what we need to do, companies in america want to see more people go back into the workforce. something we've been talking about for the last several months and maybe longer than that. this is an overall good report for the most part when you look at the end of the day here. >> julie: this week labor department staff showing 11.2 million unfilled job positions. david asman is a fox business anchor and joins me here. this marks the weakest growth since april 2021. you say it's good. >> it's a fairly good number. the market kind of likes it. you can look the dow is up 300 points right now because it is not so strong that they are going to worry about more rate increases and everything. bust it is strong enough.

you look -- the devil is in the details. one of the devils is wage growth. it was less than expected. it is still up 5.2% a year, sounds great. the president can say wages are way up. inflation is up 8 1/2%. you are still paying the average american is paying $5,000 a year more for the basics. for food, for gas. and we have winter coming. natural gas has been popping up about 80% increase. it hasn't really kicked in yet because we aren't in the winter months. once we get there, people will be shocked and paying a lot more on top of that $5,000 extra they're paying a year. wage increases are nice. another problem. productivity. yesterday we got productivity numbers. that means how much an individual is able to produce, whether it's a good or service. that is down 4% in the first half of the year. what that means is that inflation is more of an impetus for inflation. the fewer goods you have, the more you have to pay for them.

and so a lot of that has to do with the pandemic. people have not gone back to the offices and that's why owners of businesses are so anxious to get employees to come back to the offices and they're reluctant to do so because of worries about the pandemic but also crime. a lot of these cities -- so the fact is you have low productivity, impetus for inflation. you have wage growth down a little bit more than was expected. and it's way underwater concerning inflation. inflation is still the number one problem. >> julie: slowing the economy, isn't that needed in order to bring down inflation or not? >> no, it's not. if you have more services and goods created because of economic growth, inflation will come down. inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. the fed is dealing with the too much money thing. too late but it is dealing with it. in terms of too few goods,

product activity is down and we have an administration about to increase taxes. they've already increased regulations and it will increase inflation, too. if you get the economy growing more by lowering taxes and lowering regulations, you will have less inflation. but the administration is going in exactly the opposite direction unfortunately. >> julie: predictably so. >> they haven't raised taxes yet but regulations are a kind of tax. it is tax on the lower and middle class in terms of inflation. but it is also a tax on businesses that have to pay more for the regulation. imagine what will happen with all the new i.r.s. agents. >> julie: i cannot imagine. critics are tearing into the inflation reduction act. the president made law last month. many analysis prediction it will have little to no actual effect on inflation. then there is one democrat who said the quiet part out loud

letting it slip what the measure is really about. not inflation. >> the inflation reduction act might be the name, but it is a huge environmental bill that includes a lot of things, tax credit necessary to make this kind of development. >> julie: i can't tell you how many times this happened to me. did i just say that out loud? >> the point is everybody knows it won't reduce inflation. particularly after the president goes ahead and unilaterally, unconstitutionally a lot of people say, spent at least a half trillion dollars on this student loan forgiveness, which is supposed to go something like that is supposed to go through congress. he didn't. he may not be able to get it done. it may be knocked down by the courts but that will wipe out any possibility of saving money on the deficit or decreasing inflation. it's ridiculous. plus you look at some of the contradictions with these green policies already going on in california. they tell you that you are not going to be able to buy a gas

car and then at the same time they are telling you, you can't charge your electric car during the holiday weekend. i just saw trace gallagher flying back to california today. i said i hope you aren't driving an electric car. you aren't going anywhere this weekend. you won't be able to charge it. >> julie: they are banning the charging between the hours of 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. the same ones who pushed for electric cars to lower air poll tugs and emissions but want to ban gas powered vehicles by 2035. >> it is not cheaper. the u.k. has gone further than us, it is more expensive to charge your e.v. than put gas in your petrol car. it is just not making sense economically or in terms of green. they are burning more coal. >> julie: that shady stock bought by speaker nancy pelosi's husband. it is looking shadeier.

paul pelosi dumped 25,000 shares of nvidia stock in july amid the backlash on the timing of his purchase. ironically that came just before president biden signed the chips act. but now it turns out pelosi dodged a 20% loss by selling those shares before u.s. restrictions on knife i had yeah went into nekt a month later. no coincidence. >> he makes money when it is going up and down with this information. just maybe coincidentally that he got information about what was about to happen in congress. you know, there aren't that many coincidences that happen when you are investing. investing comes from information from due diligence, getting information, not from secret information, background information you get from your wife before congress goes ahead and does something. it's why there was something called the stock act supposed to prevent congress people from trading on the basis of the

inside information they have. they signed that act with great fanfare a couple of years ago and it has done nothing at all. it is ridiculous that they even have that because obviously the pelosis aren't following it too carefully. >> julie: no. all right. david asman, great to see you. have a great labor day weekend. >> same to you, three days, i love it. >> julie: enjoy. the morning after that speech tearing into trump supporters given by the president last night. the president is now making remarks at the white house on the american rescue plan. he says basically that those investments are giving an economic boost to communities all across the country and they certainly need it given sky high inflation and painful interest rates. we'll take you there live if the president fields reporter questions and brings any news out of it. stay tuned. now we know what so many people were saying for so long. covid school closures were

crushing to kids' learning. we all knew that especially if you were a parent, right? when president trump was pushing to keep classrooms open democrats and teachers unions, if you recall, tore him apart. and anyone eating crow? we'll see. a new lawsuit with some chilling claims about the white house. >> we know that at least 45 officials, government officials have been identified as directly communicating with big tech and facebook and twitter to take things down. they have effectively outsourced their censor th*ip. >> what prosecutors say what government officials and big tech controlled what you got to see and what you didn't. steve hilton won't hold back and he will join us next.

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>> a lot of criticism and questioning of the why they went into mar-a-lago and why

did they use the technique to execute a search warrant. a special master will provide the oversight and accountability that would allay a lot of american's fears. >> julie: whether or not a special master will be reviewing documents seized in the raid on mar-a-lago. the florida federal judge delaying the decision after a hearing yesterday. the department of justice strongly oppose esteem trump's request for the appointment of a third party arbiter. just last hour the d.o.j. released a detail property inventory of the items seized by the f.b.i. mark meredith has more live from washington hi, mark. >> within the last hour federal prosecutors released a more detailed inventory of which items the government removed from former president trump's florida estate. the release is tied to a judge's order and some of the information we knew and some is new. they removed multiple documents and magazines, newspapers, press articles, articles of

clothing, gift items and empty folders which were labeled return to staff secretary or military aide. more detailed list of what was removed from mar-a-lago. in august a judge ordered the search warrant released that gave us a better idea what was found on the property. we're waiting to see when the judge will decide on whether or not a special master or third party to review the material the government seized during a hearing on thursday she appeared to be open to the idea asking federal prosecutors what harm could there be? trump's legal team pushing for the special master to be appointed chose not to talk to reporters following the hearing. legal experts tell fox it appears the trump team may get what it wants. >> she will likely want to just go ahead and name the special master. that could be a retired judge or someone who dealt with these cases in the past. so she may be just trying to get everything together. the expectation is that she will appoint a special master after indicating her intention

to do so. >> we don't know when the ruling may come down. also some thought if a special master is appointed the justice department's investigation into the former president may slow down. want to mention just within the last 20 minutes or so we've seen a letter issued by house minority leader kevin mccarthy sent to the attorney general merrick garland asking that garland and wray come up to the house judiciary committee to testify what has been going on. we look to see if there is any official reaction yet from the department of justice. >> julie: we'll wait and see. mark meredith. thank you. the white house is facing new accusations that it colluded with facebook to censor users. a new lawsuit claims emails reveal dozens of administration officials directly communicated with officials at the company. high ranking leaders from the cdc, from the f.b.i., even

homeland security are included. the news coming as google and youtube announce new efforts to elevate trustworthy information and prevent harmful election misinformation. a top prosecutor on the case tells fox the evidence is appalling. >> you had a senior official at facebook directly communicating with the surgeon general of the united states saying what can we do? a week later coming back and saying we did that. what else can we do? they have effectively outsourced their censorship. we are asking for communications with these third parties. that's the question now. how far does this go? how wide does it go? in this lawsuit we'll get answers. this ought to shock every american. >> julie: it should shock every american, right? i'm not sure it is. i'm shocked. steve hilton is shocked, host of the next revolution. do you find this shocking or no? >> it's one of those stories, i think. what you are driving at, which

is shocking but at the same time not surprising because we've seen now particularly during the pandemic but also on other issues the rise of this establishment group think where you have all the so-called experts, getting together to push a particular point of view and colluding with each other. two particular parts of this i think we need to focus on. one is the collusion between the tech companies and the government. and that totally undermines the argument that so many have made when people have pushed back against censorship and first amendment saying it doesn't apply to private companies, just the government. that's true. but that argument falls away if you have the collusion. if the tech companies are acting as the agents of the government. then you have a very interesting totally different legal situation. secondly, the fact that during the pandemic we actually had the people who were allegedly responsible for running the pandemic and our response to

it, they were the ones pushing the misinformation by censoring the people who were actually putting out the science and facts about things like the effectiveness of masks and shots and school closures. all of us were saying that as well as the origin of the pandemic. all of us have been proved right. we were right, they were wrong and they were absolutely wrong to censor us. >> julie: missouri attorney general telling fox news that you have the senior official at facebook directly communicating with the surgeon general of the united states saying what can we do? a week later this is where it gets worse coming back and actually saying we did that. well, what else can we do? they have effectively outsourced their censorship. that is mind-boggling. this is collusion at its worst. i swear if i had a dime for every time we heard the word russian collusion on the other networks i would be loaded and

a dime for any type this type of collusion like this on other networks i would be broke. we're talking about it, why not the rest of the world? >> they're embarrassed by it now because they see what they were pushing in collusion with the government all turned out to be wrong. they said masks were effective and we now know the cloth masks were basically totally ineffective. the n95 masks fair enough. everything else a waste of time. look at the school closures did much more harm than good as we said at the beginning. all these people colluding to censor that opinion. the origin of the virus, the ones who promote the natural origin theory haven't found that. the circumstantial evidence is the experiments that fauci commissioned in wuhan as the most likely source of the pandemic. they tried to censor that as

well. it is really, really concerning that they have the power to do that now when you have the government and the tech monopolies colluding together in this way. >> julie: this story, lawmakers are demanding to see exchanges between facebook and the f.b.i. ceo mark zuckerberg revealed this week the bureau reached out ahead of the "new york post"'s bombshell hunter biden laptop story saying the f.b.i. warned of a dump of russian propaganda on the way. facebook and other social media outlets censored this story. >> we're asking for all communications between the administration and facebook as well as the democrat national committee and facebook. if you work for the government and getting paid by the american taxpayers you shouldn't be spending your time demanding that social media platforms prohibit free speech on their platforms just because you don't agree with that free

speech. we believe it's a violation of the hatch act and trying to make legislation more clear to where that never happens again. >> julie: republican senators calling for action, chuck grassley and ron johnson sending their own letter to zuckerberg saying the american people deserve answers. this is election interference. this was information that the american public deserved to know and it was censored by not only government officials, but social media. >> yes, exactly right. to your earlier point it is a monumental scandal. i cannot understand why everyone isn't talking about this one. this is even worse than the one we just talked about. exactly as you say it is election meddling and interference. why? the f.b.i.'s defense is that oh, we have ksh-in the statement we regularly communicate with social media companies about threats. yeah, maybe they do. but on this particular one of the hunter biden laptop -- remember why the electorate

deserves, why voters deserve to know what was in the hunter biden laptop. not his sleazy sex and drug habits. who cares about that? but it had evidence that joe biden, when he was vice president, was head of a corrupt influence-peddling operation with a hostile foreign power. voters had the right to know that. the f.b.i. knew that the laptop was not russian disinformation because they had it. and yet at best they didn't tell facebook when they started to censor it by the way, this isn't disinformation, we know it is nt. you can publish it. they specifically said the laptop was russian disinformation. mark zuckerberg in the interview with joe rogan, when asked was the story described to you by the f.b.i. as misinformation zuckerberg said i don't remember. it fit the pattern. that's the reason they censored it. the f.b.i. knew that it wasn't

disinformation and yet they censored it anyway. a massive scandal. >> julie: i'm sure you'll talk more about it this weekend. >> we have to get to the bottom of it. we'll be on at 9:00 eastern on sunday, the next revolution. see you there. >> julie: we'll be watching. have a great labor day weekend. great to talk to you. thank you. democrats are getting a bump in recent polls as the president is on a rampage against maga republicans. but voters' mood and multiple crises have some warning that it is way too early to be celebrating. plus leaders on each side of the political aisle blaming each other for the devastating impact school closures had on our kids. parents and kids care more about it and how we fix it. the power panel is next. >> how we harmed our children during our responses. it wasn't driven by the science. i don't see how anybody could look at our response to covid

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>> what is the administration going to do about this learning loss and does the

administration have blame for not opening schools sooner. >> let's step back to when the president walked into the administration, how mismanaged the response to the pandemic was. our schools went from 46% nearly all of them being open to full-time. it was the work of this president and the work of democrats in spite of republicans not voting for the american rescue plan. >> julie: the white house actually blaming former president trump and the g.o.p. for the students' dismal drop in test scores due to covid school closures. but let me remind you, it was actually the teachers unions and democrats demanding kids stay home. don't we remember this? a new report showing average test scores as a result for 9-year-old students had the largest average score decline in reading since 1990 and the first ever point drop in math. a "washington examiner" op-ed argues the government is to

blame. fox news contributor dr. nicole saphier agrees? >> we know -- we've known that since the end of summer 2020. we knew at the very beginning they weren't okay with the lockdowns and virtual learning. what happened? the teachers union which doubled down, continued to keep them out of school. you had a biden administration and cdc supporting their right to keep them closed down and now here we go. we see the aftermath. we've done a massive disservice to this entire population and it will take years the recover. >> julie: editorials blame the teachers unions and single out aft president randi weingarten. matt gorman former national republican communications director and kevin walling join me now. okay. we all saw it. you did not have to be a parent to predict it, that this would be a disaster.

and it was democrats who wanted to close the schools. it was republicans, matt, that wanted to keep them open. and actually wanted to take the masks off on top of it. forget the mask. i'm talking about in-person learning. you remember the night? it was not republicans saying shut down the schools and let them get on zoom. >> i remember it well. i don't use this word lightly but the idea that biden pushed to open schools and trump didn't is quite frankly a lie. the media, so obsessed during the trump years about fact checking and calling out so-called gas lighting is silent. you can go on youtube right now, dnc ran and ad on july 27th, 2020 criticizing trump for wanting to open schools. republicans for years have been talking about the psychological and academic impact of what closing schools would do and here we are. this lies at the feet of democrats. >> to matt's point we're seeing all the test scores across the

board down. it should startle and shock all of us. the president as he came into office prioritized reopening those schools. that's what he campaigned on and jean-pierre shared the statistics when the president came into office and 99% of schools were open after the first six months of the biden administration. i'm not about playing a blame game with this. we need to figure out what to do to respond to these test scores dropping. i want to see the president surge resources in terms of hiring more teachers and addressing these test scores. i want to see more summer schools and more curriculum being developed meeting these kids where they aren't so we aren't losing pace not just in terms of this country but how we compete with students around the world. >> julie: "the washington examiner" pointing out, for example, that this. time to name names. somebody needs to take some responsibility. joe biden campaigned in 2020

against opening schools. matt, that was the whole point. it wasn't just the campaign running presidential nominee joe biden who then took office but it was actually every single mayor, democratic mayor in this country and governor that wanted to shut down schools. deblasio, cuomo, the list goes on as far as why new york city kids were so at a disadvantage on zoom calls. and why these poor children are now going to catch up essentially for the next 10 years, which is the remainder of their educational careers. a lot of kids will have to be held back possibly as a result. this is really detrimental. >> let's remember six months into the biden administration was a year and a half into covid. look, jean-pierre's point about the american rescue plant. leave it to democrats that schools can only be open if you

spend trillions of new dollars. smaller private and catholic schools were open. teachers in florida. only where teachers unions and democrats held the key that really schools were kept closed. we wonder why to your point we are where we are with the statistics. >> julie: who will take responsibility? will anybody take responsibility? i had kids in school in new york city and the week that the city shut down all the schools, i moved out about two hours east from here to another catholic school. my kids were if catholic here because the city forced them to close here. two hours out of here they were in session all through 2021. they never shut down because they had a choice. and thank god they did. my kids were better off once i moved out of the city. there are so many kids in new york city and in chicago and in l.a. and every other democratic led city suffering and i don't see what the administration is doing now to help play catch-up.

>> julie, they need to do certainly more. it is great to hear that your students made out okay during it. to your point so many students have fallen behind because of that. not just in our cities but suburbs and rural areas because of decisions made during the trump administration and during the biden administration in terms of resources. we need to play catch-up with these students and do all that we can to get them up to speed certainly. >> julie: yeah. it is really sad. thank you both for talking to us. we really appreciate it. matt gorman and kevin walling. i am just putting out good luck for all those parents now that have to help their children catch up. we'll pay for tutors for years and summer school for the kids to make up what they lost. thank you so much. i don't know if you guys heard, i'm a children's book author now. the first time i've ever written a book for children and it is so exciting. i collaborated with brave books if you haven't heard from them. a christian conservative book

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♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: hello, every went this is friday and it is "outnumbered." i am kayleigh mcenany, and i'm joined by cheryl casone, tomi lahren, dr. nicole saphier, and sean duffy. we began with what you watch last night, president biden's not so unified speech despite promises to unify america when he took the oath of office. the president in front of what critics describe as a dark and