>> bill: 30 minutes actually. >> dana: she is a terrific interviewer. her skills in radio are incredible. her tone, approach, way of life, she is a joy to sit with. . i hope people have a chance to look at that at foxnews.com/podcast. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the nation's final primaries are today and delaware, rhode island and new hampshire and we're watching match-ups that could tip the balance of power into the hands of republicans. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the stakes are particularly high in the swing state of new hampshire. maybe that's why it is the latest election meddling target for the democratic party. majority leader chuck schumer's political action committee spent more than $3 million boosting far right republican

senate candidate don bolduc. that's more than bolduc spent on his own campaign. dems are trying to give incumbent democrat maggie hassan what they think will be an easier opponent in november. the state's republican governor says this. >> in some of these races they'll get what they asked for, they really are. they will get what you could call extreme candidates winning in november because people are fed up with inflation, fed up with gas prices. it is a horrible strategy. i just think this strategy will massively backfire on the democrats. >> harris: fox business correspondent hillary vaughn is in new hampshire with the latest. big day. >> big day. our fox digital team caught up with senator maggie hassan today as she was on her way to vote. she talked to reporters there. she was again asked what she thinks about democrats that are meddling in these mid-term republican primaries and whether or not she thinks it is

hypocritical for them to spend donor dollars boosting a republican candidate that they then call a threat to democracy. she had the same answer she had over the weekend. she says she cannot control what outside groups do. the guy that democrats are boosting in new hampshire because they think he would be easier to beat retired army general don bolduc just voted here and we asked him about it. >> i think it's a bad strategy for any outside organizations on the republican side or democrat side to try and influence a primary. don't be fooled by the politics as usual, the talkdown games that they played to try to take advantage of voters. granite staters are awake this time. >> a super pac aligned with chuck schumer has spent over $3 million on ads trying to attack who they see as the more moderate republican in the race.

new hampshire senate president chuck morse is now spinning that spending in his favor. democrats spending cash to attack him in a republican primary proves that see the bigger threat to maggie hassan. >> chuck schumer is spending $6 million against me and maggie hassan is spending $6 million against me to make sure i don't run against her. it is clear that i can beat her. >> hassan says no matter who wins today's primary she doesn't see a difference. she is already branding whoever her opponent is as extreme. >> who would you rather face? >> both of them are very extreme and way out of step with new hampshire. >> today hassan also said that both bolduc and morse she sees as extremist and doesn't have a

preference who she faces. >> harris: she has to say that because she lives there. can you imagine being at the grocery store and having somebody come up as a democrat why are you spending month en to help the other guy? what is she going to say? she pays for her groceries. sticky position. thank you. pete hegseth co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. pete, that has put democrats on the ground in a stuck place to have washington, d.c. heads spending money through their pacs and such to help people across the aisle. >> it's sheer political cynicism and they don't believe their rhetoric of threats to democracy. we're not a democracy. that's the phrase they always use. i won't buy into far right or extremist candidate. if you look at don bolduc he is a mainstream america first republican candidate. and to say that he is extreme would mean that maggie hassan

on the other side would be extreme because she believes in abortion all the way until effectively the moment of birth. this is the national democrats trying to pick the republicans they would prefer in order to keep that seat. i understand that. that's politics. we get that. but at the end of the day it's we the people, the voters who should get a chance to decide. it is not just democrats. mitch mcconnell is doing the same thing trying to say we have candidates unelectable as opposed to supporting good candidates. if we told marco rubio or ted cruz if the establishment had chimed in then they wouldn't be senators. they would have been too extreme. or they're principled and can art it lake and voters dawn to them then you stand beside them. this is rank politics, hypocrisy. they don't believe their own rhetoric about threats to democracy and voters will decide today. a guy like don bolduc, don't tell him he is a threat to

democracy. he understands what the democracy is all about. >> harris: you are talking about the establishment and gave examples on both sides of the political aisle. you talk about establishments that don't want to give up the power they have in washington >> correct. >> harris: if you let too many people come in different than you are it's harder to push them around. anybody who that shirt fits can wear it. okay, a couple of pieces now on the democrats' meddling strategy. "new york post" editorial board with the headline. dems $53 million spending on maga republicans belies just how cynical their threat to democracy cries really are. if they believed it why are they spending cash? the liberal "washington post" with the practice has divided democrats with some in the party complaining that such tactics are risky and could result in the election of candidates who pose serious threats to democracy.

all told democrats directly intervened in at least 13 primaries, six gubernatorial races and two senate contests and five house campaigns. your reaction. >> it is all poll tested coming from the white house with joe biden giving the call that our political opponents are to be dehumanized and called far right extremist for believing we have a voter, supporting the overturning of roe v. wade, believing the debacle in afghanistan was just that, a debacle. ultimately stepping back. it's really about two things for democrats. roe v. wade and abortion and the 2016 -- the 2020 election. if we took every democrat who called into question the 2016 election and said you are extreme and you can't run again they would lose half their caucus. they take a guy like bolduc who say election denier, extremist,

maga republican. don't allow them to do this. these candidates are mainstream republican candidates who deserve the support of mitch mcconnell and he needs to stop running around and criticizing the strength of candidates as opposed to pouring money in to support the winner. $53 million is a drop in the bucket for democrats. they are trying to prep the field for candidates they like. i don't think it will work. i hope not. >> harris: it helps the establishment in washington, d.c. retain some oxygen in the room for themselves and it really divides the party. i'm curious to know how they go forward. we'll be watching. 56 days from today. chief justice john roberts doubling down on the legitimacy of the u.s. supreme court. vice president kamala harris is continuing to get backlash after she said this about the court's controversial decision to overturn roe v. wade. >> i think this is an activist

court. >> what does that mean? >> it means that we had an established right for almost half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body, and this court took that constitutional right away. and we are suffering as a nation because of it. >> harris: justice roberts says nope. >> it's always decided controversial cases and the decisions are always subject to intense criticism. lately the criticism is termed because of these opinions it calls into question the legitimacy of the court. i don't understand the connection between opinions that people disagree with and the legitimacy of the court. if the court doesn't retain its legitimate function of

interpreting the constitution, i'm not sure who would take up that mantel. >> harris: it is called a tantrum. >> i've taken issue with a lot of decisions chief justice roberts has made but he is spot on in this case. finally one republican when a decision came down that they didn't like that questioned the legitimacy of the supreme court, where as right now mainstream democrats, left wingers across the spectrum have called into question whether the supreme court is legitimate calling it activist because they didn't like the decision. they didn't do anything with the warren court being activist and providing decisions that roe v. wade that led to a supreme court today looking at the constitution and saying that right to privacy is not one that is to be found in the

con constitution and we'll rule the way we believe based on president elected who nominated jeef justices. the left doesn't want to disagree. they want to shut down and control. this coming from a vice president -- you want to talk about dangerous? dangerous rhetoric and candidate? this is as dangerous as it gets to call into question the institution and again it all comes back to abortion we should never forget how central it is to the power of the modern democratic party and why we're seeing a tantrum. they didn't like the decision. >> harris: look, and, you know, you can't connect dots yet but we do know what violence looks like when people feel like a u.s. supreme court should be the target. we've already seen it. assassination attempt on conservative justice brett kavanaugh. you have empirical evidence there that anything can happen that is not good when you handle it this way.

>> yes, not to mention vandalism and attacks on pro-life centers ever since as if they're the source of the problem for this. it is a dangerous moment and they are fanning the flames by funding candidates they are extreme to our first topic and calling into question this court. who would have decided 2000 elections if not for the legitimacy of the supreme court. dangerous and the democrats are really extreme in this process but they are gas lighting. >> harris: look, voters no matter how they vote deserve better than this from the left. we'll move, pete, thank you. president could have another hunter-like headache on his hands. the newly released emails showing the cozy ties between one of joe biden's top new advisors and a chinese communist official. and distressing news for the president as the new inflation numbers fell below expectations and it is hitting the remarks like a hammer.

>> it's been a difficult two years for the american people because of joe biden. the number one issue i hear from my constituents is the cost of goods, the inflation, whether it's the grocery store, utility costs, people are suffering. >> harris: what the congresswoman is talking about is that real lived experience, not the bubble in washington the white house's response? they are celebrating the passage of the inflation reduction act today. yeah. everybody agrees it doesn't reduce inflation and now there is proof. charles payne in "focus" next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer.

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has caught a bad virus. this one is stubborn, too. inflation did not fall as expected. the august consumer price index out this morning shows up to 8.3% from a year ago. five times higher than when president biden took office. edward lawrence has more from the white house where the president will later host -- wait for it -- a celebration of the inflation reduction act, which is, boy, a basket of manipulation when you consider how many people, experts including the cbo have said it does not reduce inflation. >> i've asked and they have not been able to tell me when it will start affecting inflation. the white house trying to spin these numbers already. the president in a statement saying that the data shows that they made progress in bringing down global inflation in the u.s. economy. now, 20 months into office and

the president adds this in his statement. he says it will take more time and resolve to bring inflation down, which is why we passed the inflation reduction act to lower cost of healthcare, prescription drugs and energy. it will not affect the things we buy like this, eggs up almost 40% year-over-year. poultry up 16% in the latest inflation report. milk up 17%. we've talked a lot about energy. the biden administration wants us all to be on electricity. that's up almost 16% year-over-year. all types of gas, 27% higher. it will take -- start getting colder in a number of areas, fuel oil is up almost 70%. piped in natural gas up 33% in the last 12 months. overall inflation as you said running 8.3%, a huge number. the critical number in this report is core inflation. that's when you take out food and energy prices. that inflation is going up 6.3% year-over-year. the first increase in that core number is five months.

what that shows is that inflation is embedded in the things we buy. that number is going to spook the federal reserve. here is what the fed chairman said last week. >> history cautions strongly against pre-maturely loosening policy. we're strongly committed to this project and keep at it until the job is done. i can also assure you we never take into consideration external political considerations. >> their job is rate hikes. a strong jobs report and very hot cpi inflation report. the fed will probably raise rates maybe even a full percentage point because of that core number that's really spiked. that means interest rates on credit card payments are going up. adjustable rate mortgages will go up. this is not a good sign at the moment that we have inflation under control. >> harris: no spinning allowed from the white house today. they will have to come real

with the facts. there is a lot of pressure from a lot of sectors. thank you very much. let's look at one of the biggest one. charles payne host of making money on fox business joining me now. dow jones, the markets today have been in the red. you might have guessed this. add we known how bad and stubborn inflation. i had senator joe manchin. he had an opportunity along with kyrsten sinema to not vote yes for that lie of a name inflation reduction act. it is not going to reduce inflation. by the way, would it ever? well, it might hit a flat situation by 2031 according to penn wharton, one of the very models manchin looks at and whomever on capitol hill. look at the numbers. charles, what does this mean today for people? >> those numbers are the

sobering reality. this is not a short term problem. it's interesting because on wall street we've been guessing that all right, inflation would peak. you heard it in january, february and march. here is the problem. it is not the federal reserve. they have to do what they've got to do. this is about free money backfiring. that's all this is about. you have had a political theme that has been in existence since the late 1800s, capitalism, how to control that. who controls that? capitalists or someone on the other side. there is a notion if you give out free money, that will solve all problems. it is backfiring. sparked the original inflation problem when you go back to the 1.9 trillion last year and it's making it worse. we have another trillion plus coming down the pipeline. so this does not go away, harris. it does not go away. >> harris: and you lay -- i'm sure you read just a couple of days ago with the cbo said about the president's plan for

the student loan buybacks. that has taken out any sort of predictability of when inflation might come down. the cbo is saying this because it puts more on the backs of the american taxpayer and it causes things to go up because you are making money free at a faster rate. >> that's what i'm telling you. free money has destroyed the value of money. >> harris: it's an oxymoron. no such thing as free money. >> you can go now in the store with $400. you can only buy $200 worth of things you bought a year ago. i'm telling you, i wish i had sent your producers this chart. there is a chart that shows a 70-year chart that shows a spike in food at home the companies. so interesting to me. when i look at this and i think about the notion that somehow this is a threat to democracy because people didn't vote for this president, this is the ultimate threat to democracy. empty bellies. this is what sparked the arab

spring and what has sparked almost every single major conflict throughout history. empty bellies. people have a tough time. gasoline prices why everyone thought would be low, it will be unmitigated disaster. the lowest level since 1984 on emergency slice. our emergency reserves, we are so lucky we didn't have a named hurricane this year. >> harris: we did, joe biden hit the reserves. i'm not being facetious. >> if we had a regular hurricane season gasoline would be $8 a gallon. we dodged a bullet but we can't keep dodging it. the president is trying to buy votes and man ill ip late the system but setting up a powder keg that will be with us for years and years and years. it is time to stop wagging fingers at people who don't vote for you and start looking out for the american public.

this affects every american, every american. that's what the stock market is telling us. >> harris: you heard in the beginning and i will take heat for it. this is the pandemic of the economy now. that chart and we'll get it on the screen. >> even here you have the biggest spike before this was the pandemic. the only two times it spiked. over two times that spike. this is an -- the pandemic was out of our control. this is self-inflicted. this is based on a political ideology and it is not working. this is self-inflicted pain on the american public. the only stocks up today lithium stockss because they making it buy easy. fertilizer stocks. those are the only stocks up today. it's where government is going and taxpayer money is going. to electric vehicles and to kill the fertilizer industry. >> harris: since we're so

passionate at this moment let's teal people the truth about electricity. i was out west for 2 1/2 weeks. you couldn't plug in electric vehicles but their grid is mainly running on fossil fuel. coal makes up 20% of our electrical grid power. charles, not only is it political, but it is political without a sense of direction. that's the sad part. >> even if you really truly believed there is a green utopia waiting for us, it is logical to understand it takes a period of time. it will take us a minimum of 20 years, 30 years to get -- if it's possible to get to this green utopia. i'm not sure it is. >> harris: in california you can't buy anything that will run on anything than electricity. i want to get to this. you sat down and said the correct words, harris, we have to get together at a time when inflation is low and things -- >> one day we'll celebrate good news. the point is this is self--- a

self-inflicted wound that everybetter. >> harris: you can slow down the process in november. if you get enough headwind against the current party they won't get anything done. and i don't know, maybe that's better than what's happening right now in undoing things if you aren't doing anything. let's get to this. does the president have another hunter biden problem? new emails are revolutions that the senior advisor john podesta. he had close ties with a chinese communist official for more than a decade. according to emails he met and spoke with an official from china many times since 2009. he even refers to the chinese official as a friend. >> you know, where do we start

with this? it feels like graft. the circles -- really. >> harris: hand out for whatever you can get. >> hundreds of billions of dollars, no one knows where the money goes, no accountability. certain folks get rich. i have think the system is so rotten right now and the core is so rotten. american public feels this way. you can see this clamoring for something different. the tent tackles of washington, d.c. don't lead to major corporations or the chinese or some other major influence. somehow the it should go to the hartland of america where they used to go but not anymore. >> harris: china figured a few things out. they send fentanyl across our border and minus for intellectual property. they are all over tiktok.

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in some states people are already voting. election day has become election month. an op-ed in the "wall street journal" reads sending mail ballots shortly after labor day to anyone who asks diminishes the campaign season when candidates and the media are most engaged. stretching out that timeline also hurts challengers usually lesser known with less money and can't afford to spread out advertising over many weeks. power panel now, charlie hurt fox news contributor, washington times opinion editor. jose, former dnc deputy press secretary. great to see you both. the voters don't get to learn as much about the candidates before they make their decisions. >> precisely. that's one of the biggest and most important reasons why. the reason we have campaigns is so that all -- everybody, including voters, gets engaged and they learn about the

candidates and they can make an informed, wise decision on election day. and that's why it's always been so important. the other reason, of course, is because when you open up all of these other avenues for voting, and the reason people have been opposed to it historically, is that you also open up voting to lots of problems that nobody -- or at least we all profess we don't want as part of the voting process. but now you have the strange situation where you have democrats all in for mass mail-in ballots or whatever. i think they would be in favor of internet voting or i shunned say that i don't want to give them any ideas but it opens it up to voter fraud. and really at the end of the day what this is it's an incumbent protection program. >> harris: you use the word --

the "washington post" editorial board with this. voters would benefit from seeing the two candidates -- this is specific to pennsylvania -- another place where early voting starts absentee on september 19th. just a few days from now. they would really benefit by exchanging ideas and testing each other. mr. fetterman, the democrat, has been reluctant to commit to firm debate dates after a stroke in may. he is asking voters for a six-year contract without giving them enough information to make sound judgments. we believe he should release his medical records for review. dr. mehmet oz on friday. >> i have tremendous empathy forfeiterman's drug will with the stroke and heart failure for five years. he hasn't told me or anybody else the details that we would need to know. this is about honesty and integrity. he can't have it both ways anymore. either he is healthy enough, what his campaign and he says,

healthy enough to debate and he wants to hide his radical record or he is lying about his health. that sends a very different message to the voters of pennsylvania. >> harris: that's such an important race for the balance of power in the senate, jose. when you look at early voting for voters, they won't have seen these two men talk at all with each other. >> look, i think it's important when we talk about voting access that the american people, harris, are mature enough if they want to vote early they want to request to vote by mail they've made a choice. they are at their liberty to do so. nobody is obligating the american people to vote early or by mail. it's okay. i think it works to expand -- when we talk about debates, i think they're important. historically we know debates don't really change your mind by much but i think we should have a debate in the state

races for sure. >> harris: charlie, early voting. absentee voting particularly has always existed in some way, shape or firm but not balloon the way it did during the pandemic. there was an assumption once we gear down with vaccines we could come back away from that. why isn't that happening >> democrats realize it was effective for them and there are certain circumstances and the american people had an open mind during the pandemic and you note the most important thing, military voting for citizens who live abroad and are serving our country. but -- you know, obviously the biggest problem with this is, if you do vote early, voters do not have the choice to go back and change their vote later. and so if more comes to light as we get closer to the election, as we saw with the

biden/trump race in 2020, you can't -- you can't change your mind. and so i don't see how that helps democracy. i see that as actually hurting democracy and hurting voters. >> harris: you know, it is interesting, too, what you said jose. everybody -- they're adults and 18 and above and have the right to do what they want when they want to do it. but it is more about the party line than it is about the individual candidates and maybe it is a sneaky way to at least put it out there. you don't need to wait or know anything else. vote now whether it's necessary in an individual's life or not. the florida governor race is getting biblical. take a look at this newly released video from march. >> we have a divider on the other side and uniter over side. some people call him desatan. have you heard that? desatan versus who?

think about it. the choice is crystal clear. there is no question about it it is crystal clear. bad or good. >> harris: he is trying to say he is christ-like? his name would need an h and a lot of things would have to change. that was released by the desantis after crist went after voters. how is this helpful for getting votes? >> i don't think it s. it's a new thing in politics today attacking voters who don't support you and very dangerous and very bad. most of all it's really stupid. a good way to lose a race, i think. >> harris: jose. we a seeing a lot of things from democrats now. we see them put $53 million toward candidates on the other side of the aisle they think they can beat and now you have the other guy is satan and i'm

christ because my name is only missing one letter. >> i think charlie crist was joking and people were laughing about it. i do think the rhetoric, divisiveness needs to come down and tone needs to come down on both sides of the aisle. we saw a former president saying that biden is the enemy of the state. i think it is going too far. we have to be careful. charlie questioned that specific example. i have think he was clearly joking. >> harris: charlie, any last word from you? >> i would like to think he was joking and maybe he was. in this environment it doesn't seem like -- it's not as funny as if he hadn't said all the other things. >> harris: when you have a president who is calling half the country anti-fascist and a lot of other choice words, name calling like third grade all over again. some is more toxic than others. good to see you both jose and charlie. the biden administration making history at the border.

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>> what the administration is wore eefd about is adding tens of thousands more oo*irz employees. >> they want to audit more american citizens without a word of accountability. >> harris: republicans ripping into president biden's so-called inflation reduction act. you know what i said about it. it's a fantasy and doesn't reduce inflation. it does, however, carve out tens of billions for the internal revenue service to hire 87,000 extra new staffers doubling the workforce there. they say this sets up the collection agency to go after middle class taxpayers. now iowa senator joni ernst

says the i.r.s. needs to clean up its own workers. they demands the audit audit federal agencies hiring and rehiring tax cheats. here is senator joni ernst in "focus" live now. tell me what you are going after here and what has been the reception? >> well, harris, we heard from that i.g. report that even i.r.s. agents and even a criminal investigator within the agency has failed to pay their taxes. they have been delinquent. so i'm asking that the i.r.s. i.g. audit their own employees with this latest inflation reduction act, as you just said, even though it doesn't du inflation, they are able to hire 87,000 new agents. but police their own house before they go after hard-working americans. and we have had a very

favorable report come back from the i.r.s. stating that yes, they would do an audit of their employees. >> harris: how do we watch it to make sure it happens? >> we'll keep the pressure on them and it will go through the i.g. they will conduct the audit and determine what actions, if any, have been taken to correct that action. they'll note those deficiencies and report back to me and congress. so we'll keep an eye on them and keep the pressure up. >> harris: apparently the 80,000 existing employees will be walking around the mirrors first, the first investigation because of what you put into motion. let's talk about, you know, the impact this has as a time when inflation is so high. you are asking americans -- if you get audited you will have to spend money to meet their

expectations. pull one out of the air and make this happen with your paperwork. what does it do to the bottom line of many americans? >> it increases taxes. the agents won't be going after the big, wealthy individuals or corporations, they will go for the low-hanging fruit. it's individuals that are in middle america. they are those hard working americans that are just trying to do the right thing. that's where they are going to focus. you know, i don't believe that when joe biden says no one that earns under $400,000 will be audited. of course if you are bringing on 87,000 additional agents they will go after the little guy, no doubt about it. so, of course, the push then to do more audits and as you say, those individuals or businesses being audited will have to spend more money and more of their time to come up with the information that the i.r.s.

will be asking for. it will cost more. i wish we could hire 87,000 agents and put them on our southern border rather than bolstering the i.r.s.. >> harris: speaking of which you got us into the next topic. wouldn't that be an amazing thing to see some help down there. they need it. the border patrol chief confirming the biden administration has offered the release of illegal immigrants into the united states. they get a free to roam pass. it comes ahead of an expected surge in the crossings with the end of title 42. remember that's what former president trump put in place due to covid. it keeps people south of the border and we're not able to even test everybody now. but we'll go on from there. chief ortiz testified under oath in july and called the move unprecedented. we'll watch this together. senator, i'll come right back to you after this. >> would you agree with me that

exhibit 3 deals with the possible rescission of title 42? >> objection. >> yes. >> does exhibit 3 authorize the release of aliens that would otherwise be inadmissible to the united states? >> objection. >> yes. >> harris: first of all, your reaction to that. >> i'm dumbfounded that we have an administration that is ignoring the humanitarian crisis and the risk that poses to all communities across the united states as they allow those illegal immigrants to cross over the southern border and release them into the interior. we know that there are folks on the terrorist watch list that have been apprehended. how many of them got away? these are concerns that we have with the fentanyl crisis, with human trafficking, with, of course, weapons trafficking. all of this is extremely concerning to everyday americans as they see crime rise across the united states.

>> harris: forgive me for cutting in quickly. the vice president says the border is secure. 10 seconds what is your rebuttal. >> laughable. i wish the vice president would actually go to the border and speak with the cbp agents, the national guard and texas law enforcement to find out what's really going on. >> harris: the american people will depend on those of you on capitol hill keeping the pressure on to get the white house's attention on that. you have a big job. thank you, appreciate it. "outnumbered" is next. we all need cash in the bank to stay ahead. well here's great news for veterans who own a home. home values have climbed to near all-time highs, too. that means the cash you need is right there in your home. newday can unlock it with the newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just part of it like some other loans. pay down high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage and car loans, and have the security of cash in the bank. the va has granted newday automatic authority.

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