somoa. >> bill: listen, grandma joy, pack your bags. one more trip, okay? good luck. >> all right. >> bill: thanks to both of you for sharing your story. >> dana: that was so sweet. oh, i love that story, grandma joy. america's grandma. thank you for being with us today. harris faulkner is here. she is next. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. in just under two hours king charles iii first address to the united kingdom and british commonwealth in his new role. the u.k. and the world, of course, in mourning today after his mother, queen elizabeth ii, passed away yesterday at the age of 96. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the official 10-day period of mourning begins today. operation london bridge, the carefully orchestrated and detailed plan for handling her death now playing out. gun salutes rang out across the

u.k. earlier in the late queen's honor. 96 rounds fired. one for each year of her life. [gunshots] >> harris: queen elizabeth was the longest reigning british monarch, seven decades starting in 1952 when harry s. truman was president and she met with 13 additional presidents in her lifetime including with president biden just last june. the president and other lawmakers praising her. >> president biden: she was an incredibly gracious and decent woman. >> she made sure her reign was really not about herself, or her fame, or her feelings, or her personal wants or needs. >> she was a rock. a living embodiment at the core

of the nation she so proudly led. we will never see a leader quite like her for as long as we live. >> harris: jonathan hunt is live in london. jonathan, maybe you can give us a peak into what the people on the ground want to hear from their new king and what he might say to them. >> yeah, it is the most consequential speech that the now king charles has ever made. and he will have spent many years thinking about exactly what he might say when he inherited the throne from his mother. it has taken longer than many of us thought and probably even king charles iii thought it would. tonight he faces the pressure of convincing a sometimes concerned nation that there will be continuity and stability. now, king charles and his queen consort camilla left scotland this morning.

they flew out of aberdeen airport and arrived at buckingham palace a couple hours later, harris. we saw something that surprised a lot of us who have watched then prince charles over so many decades. he did something that was not really of his character. it was a very populist move. as the convoy pulled up to the palace he got out and began shaking hands with some of the thousands upon thousands of people who have gathered outside buckingham palace both to mourn the passing, of course, of queen elizabeth ii and the celebrate the succession of king charles iii. it was very unusual to see king charles displaying that common touch. kissed on the cheek by a woman who grabbed him. that used to happen a lot about 50 years ago when he was a young, very eligible bachelor. we always used to see it in the papers here in the u.k. some

woman running up to prince charles as he was and kissing them. that hasn't happened for a very long time. he seemed to be very much enjoying that moment amid what obviously is a desperately sad time for king charles and for the nation as a whole. so what the people want to hear tonight, harris, is that there will be continuity and stability. i think you will hear that from king charles and will obviously hear a very wholesome tribute to his mother. >> harris: thank you very much. president biden is headed to the battleground state of ohio today. he is in on his big election blitz now. speech after speech touting his administration's accomplishments. no time for any mainstream american journalists, reporters, anchors, no time for them. the president has not done a one-on-one sit-down interview in 2010 days. not to mention he has only

given 23 formal interviews during the entire time in office. the white house was on defense about this yesterday. >> he takes your questions all the time. as you know he does it multiple times during the week. i don't have a sit-down interview to announce or provide or schedule at this time. >> harris: she does the bird voice, no, no, no, you protest too much. marc thiessen, fox news contributor, former white house speech writer and columnist for the "washington post". i am curious that the basement strategy will work when it did when he was running for president? >> he certainly thinks it will. he is running the same strategy. change the subject from him to donald trump and hide in the basement and don't answer any tough questions. it is obvious why he is doing this. he wants all of us to be talking about maga republicans

and donald trump and you can do that if you are giving speeches. you can do that in a couple of shouted questions here or there from reporters but you can't do that if you do a sit-down interview. then you have to confront the disastrous record that you have unleashed and explain why do we have the worst inflation in four decades? why do we have a worst collapse in real wages in 40 years? why do we have a worst crime wave since the 1990s. the worst border crisis and the highest increase in food prices since 1979 and why in the midst of an energy crisis the lowest number of oil and gas leases since world war ii? he doesn't want to answer them. just shout maga, maga from the stage where he can't get asked about it. >> harris: he is not going to want to sit down with you after that. those are all the big questions. but have you noticed even in the white house press briefing

room that other reporters outside of fox are going after the list that you just named? maybe not everybody in the room but enough other voices now that there is no dodging this. >> karine jean-pierre can't dodge it though she struggles to answer the question. >> harris: it's not in the binder. >> she has a binder for everything. for example. he is going out and talking about his student loan forgiveness. if you sat down for an interview you would have to explain, for example, answer the question why should working class americans pay the graduate school bills of doctors, lawyers and wall street big wiggs. where did you get the authority to spend up to a trillion dollars in taxpayer money without authorization from congress? why are you hiding using a law that, the heros act. we have the anniversary of

september 11th. people called up to active duty didn't default on their loans and using that as a pretext to forgive the loans of people who never served? these are questions that joe biden doesn't want to answer or can't answer and so the best way to do it is not take the question. >> harris: you put it perfectly. why? because that would force him to, if he doesn't know the answer, it's poor performance and preparation. what could the answer be? would it be politics? that will look ugly coming outs of his mouth, too, but at least transparent. we'll move on. it looks like the message might be getting through. sanctuary city leaders in washington, d.c. now taking action. texas governor abbott and arizona governor doocy giving the nation's capital a tiny taste of what they face. the break down of illegal immigrants bused to blue cities so far. chicago five buses carrying 300 illegal immigrants.

new york city 40 buses carrying 2200. washington, d.c. 190 buses nearly 8,000 illegal immigrants from texas and other 1700 from arizona. d.c. mayor bowser has declared a public emergency after the pentagon twice refused her request for national guard assistance. let's watch. >> regardless of the federal response, which i think has been lacking in some respects, that the district of columbia would continue to work with our partners to advance what we need and to make sure that our systems in d.c. are not broken by a crisis that is certainly not of our making. >> harris: wait, a crisis not of their making. democrat d.c. council member pointing the finger. watch.

>> the governors of texas and arizona have created this crisis. the governors of texas and arizona have turned us into a border town. we don't know how long it will take to resolve or how long they will continue busing. the federal government has not stepped up to the district of columbia. we along with our partners will rise to the occasion. >> harris: they are not real leaders, not a one of them, not a one of them. not mayor adams here in new york city, not a one of them are has acknowledged the fact now we know what they've been dealing with and tried to shine any kind of spotlight on what is happening on the border. >> she said the d.c. is a border town. not even close. you add up all the numbers you showed on the screen there of the number of migrants bused to new york and chicago and washington, that's about the same as eagle pass texas gets in a week, in a week. that's over four or five months.

they aren't a border town. and the governors have created this crisis? no, joe biden created this crisis. he created this crisis by getting rid of the remain in mexico properly see and getting rid of the safe third country agreements that required migrants to apply for asylum in the first safe country they reach. created this crisis by eliminating deportations and making the crisis worse trying to get rid of title 42. all the governors of texas and arizona are doing is saying we're not going the bear the burden alone and one of the big problems we have in this country is that the elites in cities like new york and washington don't ever feel the impact of the disaster of the policies they impose on the rest of the country. all governor abbott is doing is saying texas ain't bearing this problem alone. you will feel it in washington, d.c., too. good for him for doing that. >> harris: marc thiessen on a friday. thanks for kicking us off in "focus." thank you very much.

britain's king charles iii begins his first full day of royal duties after his mother's death. questions now about what this will mean for the royal family? some have long questioned the relevancy of the monarchy and here at home that key senate race in pennsylvania is red hot. >> john fetterman's idea is campaigning is send off snarky tweets in his basement and hide from the fact that he is radically left. >> harris: that's the republican vacating the seat. the fight is on between the men who want it. democrat john fetterman and republican dr. mehmet oz fixing it up battling to replace toomey. a race that could determine the balance of the senate. dr. oz in "focus" next.

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>> harris: the debate drama raging on in the pennsylvania senate race. john fetterman finally after pressure agreed this week to debate his republican opponent mehmet oz but not until mid to late october. and you know what that means? early votes would be cast before people even get to hear from them. dr. oz calling him out demanding the two men face off before absentee voting begins on september 19th. fetter man responded this way. let's be clear. this hasn't been about debates for dr. oz. it has been about his team mocking me for having a stroke because they have nothing else. dr. mehmet oz in "focus" now. good to have you. let's start with his response. what is your reaction? >> it's preposterous. i could start talking about the far left radical positions and

the reason why we're winning the campaign. there is no john fetterman debate offer. debates have to be held at a specific time and place and host and tv station. we don't have any of the details. he threw out this head fake idea of course i'll do a debate. we'll get around to it. i have agreed to six debates. three in september. one was supposed to be today. three in october. i'll do whatever i can to serve the people of pennsylvania. john fetterman agreed to zero debates. he is dodging because he doesn't want to debate me. when i call him out for saying 1/3 of all prisoners should be released from prison and the largest number of homicides ever in philadelphia it's a problem and he says he wants to legalize all drugs and we have the largest open air drug market in philadelphia ever is a problem. he should have agreed weeks ago to these debates. the absentee ballots are going out. for 36 years in a row every time there has been a senate

race there have been debates. why should it change now? >> harris: i want to get into something. i usually preface it by saying we're not all doctors. that's not true this time. i know you are a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and you know what someone's health could be a journey after a having a pretty major stroke on may 13th, fetterman did and underwent three hours of surgery a few days later and a lengthy stay out of the public eye for a bit since getting out of the hospital after nine days. talk to me about the challenges that a person would face and whether or not that plays a role at all potentially in the race. >> i have tremendous empathy for john fetterman's struggle with a stroke. the heart failure that has been around for five years. he hasn't told me or anybody else the details that we would need to know to answer your question and that's part of the challenge. this is not about health.

he is trying to make it about health so people feel sorry for him. it is about honesty and integrity. he can't have it both ways anymore. either he is healthy enough that they've said, healthy enough to debate and wants to hide his radical examples or he is lying about his health. that sends a very different message to the voters of pennsylvania. pat toomey and nikki haley and senator kennedy is coming here tomorrow. all the republicans are coming to health. we should have a senator capable of doing the job and fighting for them. fetterman should have to explain the far left radical positions before the absentee ballots are mailed. here is the problem. people on the coasts, liberals democrats are funding his campaign aggressively because they don't understand how far left radical and buying into his narrative. if you are worried about that, you should be. go to dr. oz.com and support me. i am fighting for change. these are issues he should not be able to trick people with.

democracy is based on transparency and it is not just about the debate. he hasn't answered a question on the campaign trail. think about that. >> harris: he has to do a sit down. look, maybe he is taking a page out of president biden's book. we've seen this from the man in the white house as well. look, it can work if people look down the road and say staying in the basement worked for this guy. up to a point. when the former candidate joe biden was running he didn't have record inflation and he isn't sitting down. you make that comparison. it gets tough when i look at the fact. when you say other republicans are coming to help. let's take a look at where you are. you would be replacing a republican, pat toomey, senator, but you are still 6 1/2 points down. let's pop this up on the screen and asking my team to do this. real clear politics average shows fetterman up still by 6 1/2%. i drilled down and look at all what they are taking an average

off here, doctor. the margin is error is well below that. my question for you is, with fetterman willing to wear the invisibility coat why aren't you leading? we can't see or hear from him. what is going on? >> we're gaining rapidly. over the summer he took advantage of the fact that he had a lot of money saved up from his primary and he was attacking me daily. spending tens of millions of dollars portraying himself as a moderate candidate who has been a working person his whole life. he has never had a job. he grew up affluent and not done much with it. at the same time he was attacking me on baseless personal charges. the reality, as the race tightens, which it is doing and as people begin to understand how radical he really is, the independent vote is shifting in my direction. that's where this election will be won. i'm optimistic and confident we'll prevail in november. we have the right ideas at the right time and he is unable to

articulate a defense for what he likes to do. tweet out ideas that sound good to him at the time but make no mistake hurt the commonwealth of pennsylvania. i can go on quite a bit about the specific policies but pick up on one you were talking about. aggressively supports open borders and sanctuary cities. pennsylvania is top three in the country in fentanyl overdoses. philadelphia is ground zero for it. the people of pennsylvania all over the commonwealth are done with that idea. john fetterman is doubling down on it. >> harris: that's a lot that people need to know. if we got to see a debate before september 19th maybe voters in pennsylvania, those voting absentee, would get to see some of what you said and hear his rebuttal. i don't want to make everything about the debate. there are a couple things to hit quickly. you have had and continue to have support from former president trump. talk to me about that if you would. >> it's very helpful. he gets the base energized. he did a big event here on

saturday, had 12,000 people, which is the capacity of the facility we were in. people outdoors waiting to get in. i think a lot of people in pennsylvania are hurt by what joe biden spoke of when he criticized 70 plus million americans as being maga. folks are worried about our country. have strong family values and expect those opinions to be respected in washington so this all carries me in the right direction. i'm getting support from across the board. people don't normally get along together are supporting me because they realize the threat of john fetterman. for everyone watching not in pennsylvania this is an important point. he has already pledged he wants to bust the filibuster. pack the supreme court and add more states. these are positions that sound cool when you tweet them but the dramatically change the nature of the senate. he doesn't respect the office and think he doesn't have to debate and still serve in the senate which is the greatest deliberative body in the world is shameful and insulting the voters of pennsylvania with

head fakes about whether he will really debate or not is problematic. the pennsylvania voters are on to him now. the major papers are even covering it. they the end to be liberal. i'm very, very of the opinion that most voters here will hold him accountable if he doesn't show up in a debate. >> harris: the one date that popped up coming from what i could see a television station, october 19th for the debate. even the local media realize that everybody in the state has the right and should have the privilege of seeing the two men who want to take that important senate seat you just told us why it is so important, 59 days from now. or 10 days from now if they should want to vote early. 10 days, it's coming up. dr. oz, thank you for being if "focus." we'll talk to you again as we get closer. >> thank you. >> harris: president biden as the great uniter? is that a thing of the past? what he said at a rally last night attacking republicans yet

again. plus the late queen's son, charles iii has taken over the throne. the impact on monarchy could be profound. steve hilton, you know, the man who loves the good revolution on sunday nights is in "focus" next.

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queen gave her that so she would go popular to the public. they walked into buckingham palace for the first time in their new roles. the king will address the people in the united kingdom 90 minutes from now. the world remembers the late queen as a stabilizing force. she modernized the monarchy through enormous change and family scandals. she earned deep public support. king charles not as popular as his mom. many are wondering if he can fend off continued questions about the relevancy of the monarchy in this day and age and keep the royal family afloat given all of its issues. >> you still look at england and its stability, queen, monarch, king charles is a very different situation but i can understand the appeal to americans. it is not glamour. that's the wrong word to use. it is enormous social power and

prestige. elizabeth had continuity. king charles has a difficult task in front of him. >> harris: steve hilton host of the next revolution on sunday night. steve, talk to us about the continuation of leadership in the monarchy and whether it is losing its relevancy. >> i think you framed it very well, harris. these questions will be asked. the truth is that because of the enormous respect and affection and love for the queen, the outpouring of the emotion still going on around the world and in the u.k. there is questioning of the role of monarchy as an institution in the u.k. no one has really wanted to talk about that while she was there. out of respect for her. but now those questions will be asked and king charles has a huge challenge ahead of him,

particularly because over the years, not just the more salacious side of things, the family problems that we are all too familiar with, but actually chaired to the queen in all the 70 years never expressed an opinion or never weighed in on any matter of any controversy at all and why she was able to be such a unifying figure. charles has been the complete opposite. we know his opinions on just about everything from organic farming and architecture. some of those positions have been pretty controversial. top of the list is climate change. he has really been out there. if you took the things he has been saying of climate change and put them in the mouths of a u.s. citizen he would be out there with bernie sanders and ocasio-cortez. how will he unite the country and carry on in his mother's footsteps. the initial reaction is warm

and positive because of affection to her. number one, the fact that actually the queen herself, of course, would have wanted this and so out of respect for her i think the public will be wanting to honor her memory by supporting him. the second actually interestingly is camilla, who has already established a bond of popularity with the public. she embodies some of those no nonsense british qualities that people admired in the queen. he has some advantages but i think a lot of challenges ahead. >> harris: when you look at the politics it is fascinating. that never stops. it may pause for a couple of days, but the people on the streets want to know what their lives will be like and whether the politics will be part of what he deals with the way she didn't, which is really fascinating. i do want to get to this. a u.k. media correspondent had a lot to say about the fractured royal family. it was politely suggested the

duchess of sussex not attend the family gathering in ball moral. it tells you how the family feels about the turmoil the family has been through over two years. >> on the human level events like this can heal wounds within a family just on a human level. any kind of family. one would hope that would happen in this case just for them as people. in terms of the public aspect, i think that one thing that we may take from this, one of the things a lot of people are looking at, the queen's life and legacy and saying look, can we be inspired to behave differently because of the qualities and virtues she had? selflessness. if you are in the public eye it's not about you, it's we the people. perhaps some people who haven't quite taken that on board may

take some lessons from the queen's life and start to change their behavior a little bit and help heal the past wounds. >> harris: let's get into what some in the liberal mead ra are doing. nothing too soon for them to pull down a kind of vile tone. here is one, a tweet. i heard that the chief monarch or a theefrk genocidaler pyre is dying. may her pain be excruciating. she teaches crt theory. another saying headlines should read, quote, colonizes lost one of their most beloved foot soldiers, we can't even put what would go where the asterisk are and racism has died. and a commentator on msnbc. >> i have to say to the earlier question why are american news

networks dedicating all of this time to queen elizabeth's funeral. that's a good question. i think it's something there is a weakness in the american character that still yearns for that era of hereditary privilege. the very thing that we escaped from. >> harris: progressives hang out with hollywood superstars. >> that last comment there absolutely extraordinarily stupid and ridiculous and insulting to americans. that guy was actually i believe in the obama administration in some post in the state department with public diplomacy. not diplomatic if you are insulting the american people. the other comments, really of the they are ridiculous and ignorant. the queen was not head of the government. not responsible for any policy or action anywhere in the world. she was a symbolic head of state but what is wrong with those people on an emotional level that they can react to the death of a person with that

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>> harris: a rain-swollen river is forcing rescues by border patrol agents of illegal immigrants. they rescued five in distress trying to cross the rio grande into the united states. biden's border crisis with the illegal immigrant death toll

already smashing records this fiscal year still has three weeks to go in that fiscal year. nearly 750 people have died trying to make their way across this body of water. and across the border in general. the number is likely an undercount because we don't know about all the people who make it and we don't get to count them. still up by nearly 200 over last year. garrett tenney reporting from eagle pass, texas. garrett. >> if you go back to 2019 and 2020, this year we have already doubled the total number of migrant deaths from those years and it is having no effect on the numbers of people that are flooding across the border. i want you to take a look at this. this is happening right now. this is the largest group of migrants we have seen in months, more than 500 right here alone. again, most of these folks want to be found. they are from countries like venezuela, columbia, cuba. most will be able to ask for

asylum and stay if not forever. >> harris: i have to interrupt. this picture is unbelievable. we've seen the rescues on the water. it is also hot down there. this is a ground rescue, too. >> absolutely. we have seen big water tanks there. migrants have been running up to them to drink as much as they can from them after the long journeys. just under 90 degrees today and humid. they have been many of them waiting on the other side of the river for the past week waiting for the water levels to get down so they can try to make it across after seeing those migrants like you saw in the video who nearly drowned if it weren't for border patrol. 13 migrants did drown last week. we've been keeping a close eye on this and working towards. again, everyone we've spoken to says they are expecting more groups just like this over the next few days after a lot of folks have just been waiting on the other side of the river for

their chance to come across. >> harris: wow. we're watching them now line up. these are live pictures from eagle pass, texas. if you haven't been there, you have no idea what the citizens are going through down there, too. it changes the landscape for them as well. garrett tenney, thank you very much. appreciate you bringing the latest reporting from there. still don't see how the biden administration doesn't see that. president biden toning down his rhetoric after heaps of criticism but still taking pointed shots at republicans. last week he targeted maga republicans who have embraced semi fascism by supporting former president trump. last night he changed his approach a bit. instead he mocked gop lawmakers accusing them of taking too much credit for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. >> president biden: got little help from republicans. not a lot. enough to get it passed. the truth is, there are a lot more republicans taking credit for that bill than who actually voted for it. i see them out there and now

we'll build this new bridge here. we're all for it. by the way, this new road. we'll have an internet that will be -- i love it, man. ain't got no shame. they don't have any shame. >> harris: for longest time that bipartisan infrastructure bill was the only thing he could tout. now he is undercutting the people across the aisle who worked with him to get it? that's rich. raymond arroyo fox news contributor. >> you know, harris, you listen to that. if anybody knows having no shame at all, joe biden would certainly fit the bill. this is rather astounding. i don't know why he is bragging about this infrastructure bill. even "newsweek" said only 38% of the monies actually go to real infrastructure. the rest of it is made up stuff around the edges and throwing money to democratic-base groups. the curious thing about all of this, harris, you saw that man in the very low castle routine

that he pulled, the picture is from, he has backed away a little from that but he has to demonize the other side and watching this speech last night, he has become the harold hill of mid-terms, okay? i mean, he keeps talking about trouble and trouble and you've got democracy in peril and tiki torches and veins busting. 75% of democrats in the last poll want another candidate in 2024. he is at 42% approval rating. i would be talking like harold hill, too, if i was him. >> harris: the distancing people in his own party are doing as if he had an odor that nobody else could smell but democrats. why is it that his numbers haven't quickly bounced back with all he has touted? he bragged about gas prices, still far above what they were

when he became president. it is a slow climb for him back. >> yep. people are living in the reality of joe biden's policies. they feel the inflation every day in food prices, travel prices. they are watching the crime explode in their communities. and those are the things that most directly touch and affect americans no matter your political stripe. that is where he is experiencing the most political bleed. it is the result of these policies. joe biden's answer is throw them more bureaucracies and more money at the problem and it will get better. it is not getting better. >> harris: let's talk seriously about what's going on with the democrat party, though. when you see in basically a two-party system, one of them really becoming maybe different with the man at the top. republicans are used to seeing something different on their side of the aisle with trump who is not even in office anymore still having the ability to go out and help people. biden is not getting that.

he is not getting a chance to. cheri beasley, the democrat running for senate in north carolina. five calls to campaign for the president or vice president. she said i'm not aware of what their schedules are. we're 62 days away from election day and we're going to continue to run our race here in north carolina. tim ryan for ohio, back tracked on avoiding biden. will appear with him finally today. it took some time. raymond, what's happening? >> isn't it curious, harris, joe biden and the democrats have drafted donald trump, a man not on the ticket, into the middle of these mid-terms while the democrats are trying to pull joe biden and kamala harris out of the running here when indeed it is they and their policies that are being voted on this time around. i mean, mid-terms are always a referendum on whoever is in power and joe biden and these policies are front and center.

there is no avoiding them. i get why they don't want to campaign with them or have them show up. you saw fetterman in pennsylvania. joe biden got to join him in a labor day parade marching behind fetterman. they don't want joe talking or want to be aligned with these ruinous policies. >> harris: biden has drafted trump, too. he can't stop saying his name. it is going to be a big issue at the polls in november, education. the far left pushing critical race theory and woke gender lessons. parents demanding a say in what their children are learning. a report by the conservative heritage foundation ranks the republican-led states of florida, arizona, idaho as leaders in education freedom. the heritage foundation report card ranks democrat led new york, new jersey and washington, d.c. at the bottom. they rank the states on school choice, regulatory freedom, academic transparency and

return on investment because it is never free. raymond. >> harris, this may be the most important issue we talk about today because it is about our children and their future. and forget the heritage foundation, it is obvious the most free states are those who defied the teachers unions and cdc and opened up in-person learning quickest. florida, texas, arizona. you see them at the top of the ranking. look at the national report card. that national report card shows our children are at the lowest level since the 80s in reading. since the 70s in math. that is unacceptable, harris. for all the talk of equity and inequality from this administration, the children who are ranking the lowest in this national report card are brown and black children. we should be concerned about this. if you are worried about crime, if you are worried about the future of your society, get kids reading and get them back in the classroom so they can

have that interaction with people who care for them. and that requires parents to be involved and these teachers unions have tried to take them out. >> harris: we want to build up our young people to do the one thing that adults aren't doing well right now, debate and not cancel each other. so real ideas can come from those next generations. "outnumbered" is next.

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