atmosphere. >> dana: maybe tom cruise will find out personally fours. >> bill: i love the moon. >> dana: when we first started working together that we can we started january 18, 2021. it was a rose moon, pink moon? >> bill: strawberry moon. >> dana: martha maccallum is in for harris. >> i did not the moon. it was beautiful fall weekend. great to see you this morning. we start with the fox news alert. there are 29 days to go now until voters officially go to the polls on election day. we have big issues that the nation is struggling with, including crime, which could be a major factor in deciding the balance of power in congress. the issue hitting very close to home for new york's republican candidate for governor. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm martha maccallum in today for harris.

what a story over the weekend. two teenagers were shot outside of new york congressman lee zeldin's long island home. one of the bullets hitting the congressman's fence. his twin daughters were inside doing homework at the time. they ran upstairs. closed themselves into a bathroom and called 911. the detectives now investigating this incident as gang related. zeldin, who has made rising crime one of his top campaign issues, boy did it come home for him over the course of this weekend. here he is earlier today. >> we get a phone call from our daughter, mckala, we hear our other daughter in the background crying. they were at the kitchen table doing homework. all of a sudden they hear multiple gunshots. they hear screaming. they run upstairs, lock themselves in the bathroom. this is day after day after day. the reality right now in this state is that new yorkers don't

feel safe. >> that feeling of safety may be less common with numbers like this, violent crime in new york city up more than 30% over last year. an enormous jump. that includes burglary, robbery and felony assaults which we've seen on the subways and seen stabbings and people kicked in the head. it has been absolutely out of control in recent weeks especially. david lee miller joins us with the reporting on this story. good morning, david lee. >> good morning, martha. despite the weekend shooting outside the long island home of congressman lee zeldin, he is taking part in the columbus day parade in new york city that should be getting underway within this hour. as you point out, for many new yorkers, crime is arguably the number one issue in the gubernatorial campaign. the shooting this weekend only underscored the problem and in the words of congressman zeldin

crime made its way to our front door. a little after 2:00 in the afternoon on sunday when his twin daughters were home alone doing homework is when shots rang out. they ran to the bathroom and called 911. police say it was a drive by shooting. authorities say the motive for the shooting had nothing to do with congressman zeldin or his family. the consequences could have been deadly. >> the bullet was found about 30 feet from where they were sitting. there is actually a graze on the wooden fence next to my house of where the bullet hit and then it dropped. >> this is the second violent incident involving zeldin during the campaign. a man tried to stab him when he was delivering a speech.

it renewed the debate about defendants being freed without bail. following the shooting this weekend near zeldin's home police say they've increased security in the area. martha. >> seems like that's the appropriate move. thank you very much. sean duffy fox news contributor and former republican congressman for wisconsin joins me now. good morning to you. no shortage of information for the cover of the "new york post" these days. these stories just keep coming at such a shocking clip. what is your reaction to what happened at the zeldin home and the larger implication of this, do you think? >> the feeling is no one is safe. you can be a u.s. congressman living at home with your kids and violence come to your doorstep. we know this as parents. there is nothing more important to a parent than to protect your children. when your kids can't go out and can't be at home doing homework

without threats of violence is the number one issue in the hearts and minds of american voters and new york voters. again, if you have a democrat campaign focused on abortion or climate change but a parent can't keep their kid safe or feed their kids or can't fill the car with gas, those are top tier issues. democrats can't focus on this because they're the cause of the problem. it is their policies that have brought in violent crime to our door steps. they have to take responsibility for it. in this campaign season you see republicans actually holding them to account. again, i look at new york. i'm a wisconsinite but i look at new york politics and if you can move the city of new york by a point and a half or two points. crime is my issue and i'll vote for a republican, all of a sudden you put the state and lee zeldin can be the next governor. >> kathy hochul, the current

governor running in the race. she was glad the family was safe but i heard pete king talking about this over the weekend. kathy hochul needs to make this her number one issue. she needs to be this loud governor who is saying to the legislature using her bully pulpit to say this them look, you guys need to amend these reforms. it is clearly not working. people look at this. lee zeldin's neighborhood is like every neighborhood across the country. we saw the father who lost his life in the lobby of a courtyard marriott over the weekend. this is not an urban city issue. it is happening in neighborhoods where people live in leafy tree-lined streets, sean. >> you are 100% right. you look at the policies. the fact that you are letting violent criminals out of jail. no cash bail policy that new york and other states have implemented.

it's not 90% of americans are fine. kathy hochul should do a rally with police officers and say i'll push every democrat politician to fully fund your police force. i have your back and will support you. you do your job and get criminals off the street. keep us safe and by the way, when you arrest them and do the investigations so prosecutors can prosecute them, we'll keep them behind bars. that message would save democrats. but they are so invested in these policies they aren't going to do it. they will try to massage the policies. >> she has that choice and could be doing it. she is not. so i think that tells you what you need to know where she stands on it. let's go to the midwest and look at your home state of wisconsin. because this crisis has become a big issue across the country and we know from polls that people

care very deeply about their safety and security. a bit of the candidates in the wisconsin senate race. watch this. >> we have a huge problem with skyrocketing crime. one of the issues is we aren't keeping criminals in jail. if you want to reduce crime you have to fully fund the police and my opponent is opposed to fully funding police budgets. but we need to keep criminals in jail. >> it has been -- i supported bail reform. under my plan dangerous people don't get to buy their way out of prison. this is about keeping people safe making sure those likely to offend and cause harm can't buy their way out of jail. >> interesting to listen to that. ron johnson admitted that barnes never used defund language directly but he did criticize quote bloated police budgets, which is a suggestion that the police budget is too big and

needs to be streamlined. barnes has raised a stunning $20 million in the third quarter. an extraordinarily tight race. in the polling johnson has closed the gap. a period where he was behind i think by double digits at one point in the race if i'm right about that. what is happening right now is they're in a statistical tie. a look at the last few months in that wisconsin race. your thoughts on what is going on in this race in your home state, sean? >> real clear politics has ron johnson up by a point and a half. i think it looks good for ron johnson. you have to push back on mandela barnes when he calls you an extremist on abortion. ron johnson didn't do that. all he has done is said hit me on abortion, i will run on crime. all ron johnson's ads are on crime. it has worked. the wisconsin voters want to be safe. the christmas parade killer was in wisconsin. the riots in southeast wisconsin

are the forefront of our voters' minds. ron johnson a law and order guy is a message that brought to your point. he was down by almost double digits and come back to over a point because people care about the issue. barnes has only had to run in democrat primaries, appeal to left wing voters. this is the first time he has had to try to appeal to moderate voters in a statewide race. his record is crushing him. he can't stand on the record as a left winger in the assembly but also as a lieutenant governor, which has allowed a great, wide, gaping hole for ron johnson to drive a massive truck through. i think wisconsin voters will vote to ron johnson. >> a lot of tight races out there. the discussion to the white house. they are still trying to sort of clean up and amend the president's comments on russia's threat.

the president saying last week that america is facing the prospect or the world is of a nuclear armageddon. the administration and other democrats jumped in over the weekend on the sunday shows to downplay what the president himself said at a fundraiser on friday night. >> you have modern nuclear power and the leader of that modern nuclear power using irresponsible rhetoric the way putin has in the last week or two. the president i think was accurately reflecting the fact that the stakes are very high right now. >> i think the president is right to raise the risk of nuclear conflict because vladimir putin is increasingly getting pushed into a corner. >> republicans and even one of the president's close european allies not happy with the rhetoric. watch this. >> oh my goodness. first of all those comments were reckless. i think even more importantly they demonstrate maybe one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the last decades which was the failure to deter

vladimir putin. >> i thought what he said was irresponsible on every level it is irresponsible. by saying armageddon you strengthen putin and gave him confidence to think biden is scared. >> i have generally always refrained from doing fictional politics and especially appropriate when talking about nuclear. >> we've seen what is happening this morning, congressman, in russia. and we've seen the attacks on a number of cities in ukraine after the bridge explosion over the weekend. the bridge from russia to crimea. it is getting very heated. is the president right or wrong to be warning we could be headed in a dangerous deck dreck shun here? >> probably appropriate to get a warning we're headed in a direction to be armageddon but where he said it.

it does project weakness. the problem we have, you have republicans and democrats pushing biden to be more aggressive, push vladimir putin back into a corner, give more armaments and tools to the ukrainians. that might be fine but we have to realize that putin has nuclear weapons and enough weapons to destroy the world. we could have armageddon. instead of playing checkers we have to play a chess game. where are the negotiators coming into play? instead of sending armament and money to ukraine we could take vladimir putin's money away if we start pumping american energy and oil here. it takes away the tools and money vladimir putin has to fight this war. simple solutions that don't escalate but de-escalate. we have the power with american energy. joe biden doesn't seem to want to do that. i think too many republicans and democrats trying to get putin in a corner. when you get a guy like putin who wants to save face in a corner i think really bad things

happen. let him save face. get smart people in the room and make sure we avoid armageddon. >> bill: a multi-level chess match going on and it's very complicated and we need to take a very close look at all these dynamics. president biden also talked about a potential off-ramp and some people are critical of that language but we'll talk about it a lot more in the coming days. thank you very much, congressman. good to have you here. so criticism has poured in for a group of climate activists that app apparently thought dumping milk all over stores would drive home their message. we'll talk about that. democrats take it on the chin as the country sinks into recession. >> which republican cannot stand up and say to the democrat are you better off now than you were two years ago? that's what all republicans are going to say. the president is going to pay a

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>> gas prices creeping up again with the mid-terms around the corner now. the national average, we got some relief for a little while. not the case anymore. back up to $3.91, the national average. well above where it was when president biden took office. about $1.50 in that region.

some people in western states are paying more than $5. california is at $6.33. state leaders there pointing the finger at, you guessed it, big oil always gets the blame here. valero ceo hit back at the policymakers who have knowingly adopted policies with the express intent of eliminating the refinery sector. the state requires refiners to pay very high fees and have burdened gasoline with the cost of fuel standards, which are very unique and on orous in the state of california. larry kudlow says he believes there is one person to blame for rising prices. watch this. >> the biden green new deal policies basically say it's okay to drill and produce oil and gas anywhere around the world except the united states. he went to saudi arabia but it didn't work out so well at opec+

cut back production. trying to get a nuclear deal with iran and back to begging with venezuela, another stellar democracy-loving american ally, not. >> it really is shocking, that policy. going to other places in the world and saying you are pumping a lot of oil. please lower the prices or give us some of that and yet we won't do it here at home to save our own situation. the "wall street journal" this headline. mid-term report card on biden's economy is clouded bio peck and fed moves. the administration seeks a soft landing as voters favor the gop on economic issues. an editorial from the "wall street journal" this morning. phil flynn joins me this morning. good to see you again. so tell me a little bit about your thoughts on this as we look at this. we have this policy now where we're trying to get other players, we're trying to pull the puppet strings on other

players to get more gas, more oil, more refined fuel into the economy. and yet we keep telling our own producers that they've got to cut back and do less. >> it is crazy, martha. that's exactly what's happening in the biden administration energy plan is working full force, right? this is a president that came into office basically saying he was going to shut down u.s. oil and gas production. cut down regulations and make it a very hostile environment for investors to invest in fossil fuels. and he is succeeding. the only problem with that instead of owning that, you know, he has to face the voters and make up excuses for why prices are going up. it is very simple. anybody in the industry will tell you that the regulations have killed investment in fossil fuels and driven up prices and why you are seeing the prices go up at the pump. >> the other side of this is the opec issue and you have the fed whose job it is basically to try

to keep us out of an inflationary environment with the tools at their disposal. largely changing the fed interest rates. now you have a top economist saying we're on the brink of recession. a lot of people think we're in one. he said this could have easily been avoided. he points the fingers clearly at the fed. watch this very interesting sound from the weekend. >> it's made two big mistakes that i think will go down in the history books. one is mischaracterizing inflation as transitory and then mistake two when they finally recognized that inflation was persistent and high, they didn't act. that's the cost of a federal reserve being late. not only does it have to overcome inflation, but it has to restore its credibility. yes, i fear that we risk a very high probability of a damaging recession that was totally avoidable. >> what is your reaction to that? >> i agree with him.

opec calls themselves the central bank of oil and our federal reserve is supposed to be the federal reserve for the world. opec is doing a much better job from their point of view. they've regained control of the global oil market and they are calling the shots. here in the united states the federal reserve has been back on its heels. really there has been a lot of mischaracterizations by the fed about inflation calling it tran transitory, it will go away in a few months. now they're behind the curve and have to regain credibility, they have to punish everybody else with bad policy and raising interest rates. when you get back to what's really going on here with the federal reserve, it's bad leadership. to be honest with you, a lot of the fed officials were always confused. why was inflation so low for so long? why didn't it take off? i can tell you. it was because of the u.s.

energy producer. they were keeping prices low at historic low level. when you pull back from that, that's one of the things created this inflation. add to it covid and everything else, now you have a real problem and the fed doesn't know how to fix it unless it involves a lot of economic pain. >> that's such a great point. the inflation engines were revving and revving. inflation wasn't going up because the fuel prices that were manageable. when they start taking off. janet yellen is upset with opec. that's a bit of a dodge from what happened that their own backyard at the fed. phil, thank you very much. great to see you. so border czar kamala harris went to texas this weekend but she didn't go anywhere near the southern border you see on the right-hand side of the crean. critics letting her have it as

immigrants go through the u.s. board he shall every day. it is ignored and not even discussed from the white house. mid-terms approaching even as some in the media admit that the president is being a weight on some of these democrat candidates. power panel coming up next. >> my biggest fear is that people are starting to recognize, even democrats, that joe biden and his administration and the policies and his lack of competence is dangerous to our country and to the world.

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>> biden's border crisis goes on during the course of his presidency, 2 million people have crossed the border. numbers probably higher than that in reality. vp kamala harris was in texas

and never left the state capital. one texas congressman not happy. >> the vice president is off raising money today and look, she doesn't have to visit me. i'm a republican. i get that. henry quay war is a democrats, gofrnsz goons is a democrat and she could visit anywhere along the border. they put their head in the sand. they've abandoned us along the border. >> after florida governor ron desantis sent migrant to the sanctuary of martha's vineyard last month officials in nantucket are on alert. a plane load of migrants could arrive there tomorrow. five buses arrived in new york city this morning from texas. griff jenkins joins us with more in eagle pass, texas. >> good morning. what's important about this crisis is the numbers are only

increasing just ten days into a new fiscal year. let me take you straight up to the fox sky drone and race you down this river. the del rio sector's 242 miles of a river border. what vice president harris would see is the constant groups that are coming all day long every single day like clockwork. they are delivering with the efficiency of your amazon package arriving on your doorstep and migrants aren't just central americans. a family of four from iran this weekend. other sectors from somalia, syria, bangladesh and uzbekistan. this is a crisis that is growing, martha. let me show you a little drone footage we shot an hour and a half ago. this is a typical group that shows up here near a pecan or chained every day. 100 to 150. this group was largely venezuela, cuban, columbia and we got the large group on sunday afternoon. let me show you this video shot

from our drone of group of 178. there were 21 children in this group. i spoke to one woman from cuba who said -- how much did you pay the coyotes to cross? she said $1500 a head was the going rate. several members of congress, mostly republicans have made trips down here. one recently in the area august pfluger from texas spoke with some border patrol officials and what he says they told him. listen. >> it's a horrible situation and the top line message that i received from border patrol agents every where along the border is that there are no consequences. there are no consequences at all or illegal immigrants coming into this country. >> i'll tell you the other thing, martha, that isn't talked about enough. the smuggling. last fiscal year we know that unprecedented number of nearly 600,000 gotaways in the ten days since i've been if del rio in this sector more than ten

smuggling attempts thwarted. we don't know how many got through because so many of the border patrol officials are having to do the processing with the large group. it takes eyes and resources away from pursuing the smugglers who are at an all-time high right now. >> incredible. thank you very much, griff jenkins at the border. the daily caller's roy murdoch with a scathing op-ed titled biden naps as his border disaster reaches epic levels. our power panel. charlie hurt and desirae tim and president and ceo of innovation ohio. i want to put this quote up from a republican strategist in "politico" this morning. disray get your reaction to this first if i may. outside of the politics of self-interest for these select elected officials not a terribly good electoral stripling go for the mid-terms. in places like southern

california, arizona and nevada it is mostly college educated white woman who will decide this thing. not busing migrants across the country but pocketbook issues. are you concerned, disrae, that democrats are in the wrong place on the border and migrants. >> absolutely not. i know what democrats i've talked to and spoken to are very concerned like governor desantis using covid dollars to bus people across the country to another state. that is certainly not smart especially in the last 30 days heading to election day. another thing that's not smart is for republicans to block women access to abortion. i think democrats are in a strong position this mid-term unlike prior mid-terms throughout history. >> let me ask you one question. you have a few topics in there. why is it incumbent on the border states to deal with this federal policy on the border?

why shouldn't all states have to bear the burden? why shouldn't people be bused every where. planes were coming into upstate new york democrats didn't say a word about it. now they go to martha's vineyard and nantucket it's up in arms. >> i don't think them congratcon -- republicans offered political stunts and not playing well with democrat or republican voters right now. people see what the republicans are doing right now is a poll it cat stunt that is not solving the problems. democrats and republicans need to come together to solve the crisis. that's what it is. there is an opportunity for negotiation and people to work together. that's what the american people want. they want the government to work. >> why it's okay for them to go to red districts in upstate new york but not blue districts and

a huge emergency in new york city. "politico" thinks it will backfire on democrats. voters, college educated women are concerned about issues of crime and concerned about issues of immigration. >> of course illegal immigration, weaves together the two most important issues in the election, one being the economy and the second being security and crime. and it perfectly brings it all together. the only real political stunt we're looking at is the stunt played by democrats for the past 30 years, more specifically joe biden two years ago in his decision to undo all the things the previous president had done to secure the border so that we have this wave of millions of illegals coming across the border. democrats have always viewed this issue as a political opportunity for them. now it is backfiring for them in

a very big way. i think the democrats will find out that actually this is an issue that cuts very deeply for voters. voters feel very -- it is about fairness, lawfulness and about having borders that we enforce. the idea that we have democrats who support spending trillions of dollars to secure borders all around the world and refuse to do anything to secure our own border, they will pay a price for it. >> that's an interesting point. >> i don't think president's trump wall was a strong border policy. >> a lot of democrats say the border wall should be finished and help the problems for democrats and their own politics as well as for republicans. let me ask you about another topic before i let you go. less than a month to election day. democratic candidates perhaps should be worried when it comes to voters' concerns over inflation. we see this ranking very high and the economy linked to it.

if you add president biden's approval numbers, which have been low, there is a bit of a drag on democrat candidates here. so let's take a look at this. the number of democrat candidates who have said no thank you to a biden visit on the campaign trail also continues to grow. is the president helping or hurting democrat candidates, desirae? >> inflation is an important issue. we're all feeling it at the grocery store and pump. we know the biden administration is working hard to address it. we came out of a pandemic. president biden here in central ohio people are excited and getting semi conductor plants and chips and mom and pop factories and economies are moving in ohio. i think across the midwest see improvement and why joe biden's poll numbers areing up and up and up as many of the polls have

seen. so people are excited about the chips act, the inflation reduction act. there has been a lot of good wins that the biden administration has delivered especially in the last 60 days. >> charlie? >> i don't think most voters would share your enthusiasm. i'm glad things are going well in your neighborhood. but most americans don't feel that way. if you want to know how campaigns are going look at the campaigns, the number of democrats out there who want nothing to do with joe biden, who are -- of course are not even trying to run on the economy because voters don't need to be told we're in a recession, they know we're in a recession. they feel it every time they go to the grocery store and gas station. >> thank you very much to both of you. a great thing about this is voters get to decide in 29 days and we'll see which of you are right about what matters to them the most. thank you very much, great to be with both of you. thanks for coming in today. republicans are dead serious about investigating hunter

biden. if they do win house majority. one lawmakers says they could force the f.b.i. director to testify in this case. so we'll talk about that and also snl with a savage satire of the president. >> when joe biden was born, we didn't have highways. >> that's a fun fact. >> when joe biden was 53 years old when he got his first home computer. >> so may be funny. mid-terms less than a month away some candidates may not be laughing. joe concha weighs in with his thoughts next. ng hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future.

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>> i think the real question is what is the f.b.i. really going to do? the american people have common sense and see the facts and there was a laptop, there was the eyewitness, emails. all these suspicious activity reports. do the depositions that need to be done to get the facts. >> jim jordan saying his party would hold the f.b.i. accountable. some are accused of suppressing

information from hunter's laptop ahead of the 2020 election. there was the participation of social media in that effort as well. so federal prosecutors reportedly have enough evidence to slap the president's son with tax charges or gun charges potentially. former white house press secretary jen psaki says she doesn't think any of this is news. >> investigators believe they do have enough evidence to charge hunter biden. how large is this looming over the president, over democrats? >> a bunch of local front pages this morning. if you look at the front page in nevada they talk about trump's rally there. the front pages in pennsylvania they talk about -- it doesn't always translate and often doesn't translate to what voters are talking about in states. i think that's what we're seeing currently. >> joe concha, media columnist for the hill joins me now. jen psaki says it doesn't rate

as a story. clearly that's what happened before the election. there was a lot of effort to make sure it didn't rate as a story and it sounds like some of that is continuing. >> i love her reasoning here. the hunter biden story is only a minor inside baseball thing because she doesn't see the story of front pages of newspapers across the country. the media is running the same playbook in 2020. dismiss what is a major story. if joe biden received 10% of profits as the big guys which tony bobulinski is alleging. and if and when the g.o.p. takes back the house. it looks like it will be the case, it will be one of the first orders of business to launch hearings and investigations into this and make things very uncomfortable for hunter biden but also james biden, the president's brother, president biden obviously and f.b.i. director chris wray who needs to answer serious questions why his agency doesn't

seem to be interested in pursuing all the leads courtesy of that laptop from hell and its contents. tony bobulinski says he hasn't heard from the f.b.i. since bringing it to his attention since october of 2020. why is that? >> you would think they would want him to come in for a chat after all of that. >> sure. >> we have seen it many times. the president sort of blowing off questions from white house reporters. "saturday night live" jumped on this band wagon raising some questions about the president's mental acuity as well during their weekend update. here is what they did saturday night. >> president biden pardoned thousandss of convicted marijuana users and feels like maybe he celebrated with them a little. yesterday biden gave a speech at a car factory and opened with this. >> let me start off with two words. made in america. >> biden was then heard criticizing reporters at the

white house for shouting questions at him. questions like what year is it? who is the current president? also they warned reporters they were doctors. >> what do you think? >> that was one of the best saturday night lives i have seen probably since the will farrell era. it only took 21 months into the presidentsy but it appears "saturday night live" got the memo of who is actually in power. not donald trump but joe biden. when it comes to providing copyous amounts of comedy material the current guy occupying the oval office and probably snl looked at the horrific ratings for the soon to depart trevor noah on the daily show. kimmel, colbert losing audiences and nothing in comedy is worse than knowing what is coming before it is ever said. so yes, snl will continue to hit

trump but finally biden gets the treatment that he deserves given all the gaffes and things he says that make you shake your head. >> snl was at its best as an equal opportunity offender. people want to see fun poked at the president whether it's a republican or democrat in different situations. and when it became so painfully clear what side of the fence they were on it became less funny to a lot of folks. we'll see. maybe it is a trend. another big thing going on is climate activists. we saw them run across the football field last weekend and now they have new tactics. demonstrators going into stores and dumping milk all over the floors. shoppers confused about what was going on. the protestors are members of animal rebellion, highlighting the need to go green and avoid exploiting animals. what do you say about this current trend? >> i hope the folks were

arrested and go to jail. the people that work in that store have to clean all that up. there needs to be consequences. i'm not saying put them away for life but there needs to be repercussions when you do this, go into a store, take milk that is very expensive at last check and those poor people that work will have to clean that up. i hope this is something where you send a message no tolerance for anything like this. not really sure this is going to help the cause whatever that may be in these situations. probably have a boomerang effect. this looks silly. >> they damaged product and carpets and i'm told they were arrested for this. so it will be interesting to see what the ramifications are. that's in london. no nfl players in the store to tackle them as we saw happen here. so it is interesting to see. joe, thanks very much. great to talk to you. thanks for watching "the faulkner focus" this morning. it's confusing what time it is.

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