like how could it happen? how do i avoid it? could i spot this? it seems bizarre. it's more about morbid curiosity that anything else. >> bill: i appreciate you sharing what you learned then. thank you, nancy, nice to meet you. >> nice to be here. >> dana: president biden's border crisis taking root in states coast to coast as migrants are shipped to all parts of the country and cartels flood the nation with deadly fentanyl. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: good morning. >> dana: how are you? >> bill: red, white and blue today. a little bit. >> dana: always in my heart. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. the border crisis playing out an several fronts causing all kinds of problems. immigration becoming a big issue for the mid-terms. voters trying to make up their

minds about our future. kamala harris made her first late night appearance. debut, slamming texas governor greg abbott for sending bus loads of illegals to northern cities like new york and some of them dropped off at her home in washington, d.c. here is how she responded. >> i just think it's a dereliction of duty. if you see problem and if we agree we need to address it, then if you are a leader, participate in a solution. we are offering solutions. but instead this gamesmanship with real human beings who trust us. >> dana: manmade answer to some. gillian turner on the growing national security threat posed by cartels along the border. josh kraushaar with cree action politically. griff jenson is live in eagle pass, texas. you already saw it is not

groundhogs day, it is reality for the people there. >> such a great point. the vice president talks about seeing solutions to the problem. officials here don't see a solution that's ready. opening behind the national guard behind me we just had six people from ecuador come through here. up the river our drone is covering small groups under the bridge and take a look at this video from earlier this morning. we shot this group 300 strong migrants have venezuela, peru and encountered a family from sri lanka. we talked to the father and here is what he had to say. >> where are you from? >> sri lanka. >> how long have you been traveling? >> 45 days. >> 45 days. did you come by boat, how did you come, go through the jungle? >> yeah, everything. boat, jungle, we went through

everything. >> vice president harris said the border is closed. but do you think the border is open? >> we don't think -- >> if vice president harris were to come down she would see every day those groups that we have been showing since i've been on the ground since october 1st. there has been easily more than 15,000 migrants in just this area alone. we talked to a landowner here who owns the pecan farm. she thinks the vice president should see it. >> she would see what i see and i don't believe the border is secure. i would love for her to define what a secure border looks like. maybe we have it wrong. >> you talk about the solutions and what vice president harris would see. texas dps backfilling for border patrol. one last thing i want to show you. this doesn't get on the news

very often. the pecan orchard there are tons of trash. they have a truck here all clothes and trash that has been left by migrants because they come across the river. clothes are dirty, muddy, wet, they strew them along the property. but try and pick it up. there is even a sign that we'll show you. put your trash here, although as you can see from the ground and also littered along here it is still getting trash gathered here as yet another woman, migrant, has just crossed the river and taken into custody with the national guard and texas dps and happening all day long. and yet you don't see the vice president or the president coming here to see this crisis. dana. >> dana: griff jenkins, thank you for your reporting. >> bill: as he said yesterday just another day, right? today is just like that. counter terrorism experts with a dire warnings about cartels smuggling fentanyl across the border saying it is a threat to our national security on par with isis and al qaeda.

gillian turner is on that story with more from washington. >> the cartels' operations are so dangerous and sophisticated that terrorism analysts say the biden administration could go after them the same way they target isis and al qaeda prosecuting them as terrorists rather than criminals. >> we should use every authority in the u.s. tool box to go after the mexican cartels for trafficking fentanyl just as we went after al qaeda after 9/11 when they attacked new york city and the pentagon. >> texas attorney general has already taken a step in that direction designating drug cartels terrorist groups. new hampshire's attorney general is calling for fentanyl to be designated a weapons of mass destruction. >> we have enlisted department of defense and the office to counter weapons of mass destruction. that must happen now as it relates to fentanyl. as we have seen, it can cause mass effects and casualties.

>> former national security officials say terrorists have deployed drugs to kill targets in the recent past and fentanyl is much deadlyer than the anthrax scare. >> fentanyl could be used just like the taliban used poppy, which is ultimately they put it out on the market and they were able to gain money and funds to fund some of their terrorist activities. >> mexican cartels smuggle the drug across the u.s. southern border but most u.s.-bound fentanyl is manufactured in china. experts say the chinese government is also to blame in this equation. >> the fentanyl gangs are laundering their proceeds through the chinese banking system. the communist party is behind fentanyl. it is a co- conspirator and guilty of murdering americans. that's what it wants to do. >> in a new letter to president biden a group of attorneys general say the amount of fentanyl confiscated by the drug

enforcement agency just last year was enough to kill every man, woman and child in america. >> bill: shaking your head again. thank you so much, gillian turner in washington. >> dana: for more on biden's border crisis josh kraushaar fox news contributor. great to have you here. on election night, what do you think you will be seeing along those border states? >> well, dana, all politics is local. border security, immigration is the number one issue in those border states. arizona, texas, the rio grande valley congressional districts that are coming in play for the republican party. i was struck at the arizona senate debate that took place a few days ago mark kelly has attacked his own party on being soft on border security and not doing a good enough job at the border. that shows you how politically potent an issue border security

is for republicans especially in these border states, border districts where voters are very concerned about the drug flow and the lack of any kind of order or security out on the border. >> bill: on election night there are four districts there along the border. seeing how they went two years ago. they sent alarm bells off for a lot of folks on the democratic side. if hispanics are moving toward republicans on the issue of immigration, they have just turned this issue on its head and in effect may turn american politics on its head as well. >> it blows up a lot of conventional wisdom that democrats have held about the hispanic vote. you are right. the border districts in texas, these are districts that voted for hillary clinton by 20 plus points. voted for joe biden for the most part in the last election. and the cook political report just moved two of those democratic seats to toss-ups.

congresswoman may rah flores is running in a double digit race and tied and competitive running against a democratic congressman and you also have two other neighboring districts that are majority hispanic districts and republicans think they can flip all of those seats. even if the majority hispanic areas on the border immigration is a top issue. >> dana: what about across the countries in the swing states. how do immigration play there? >> you know, outside the border you have immigration playing with the republicans -- you had a new hampshire attorney general speaking about the fentanyl crisis. that is an issue in some of these big battleground senate races. the stakes may not be what they are on the u.s./mexico border. the fentanyl crisis in states like new hampshire has made border security a major issue

for republicans and democrats alike. so the drug crisis, the fentanyl crisis is showing up in more than just the border districts. it is taking place across the country. >> bill: we talked to a mayor that was along the board ore yesterday. he pretty much shot it between the eyes. watch here. >> it is a crisis relative to immigration and border security. and unfortunately, we have a tendency to look beyond our borders for the elusive root causes when in reality and unfortunately the fact remains that politicians on both sides of the aisle are the root cause. >> bill: he said that and there is a woman by the name of monica de la cruz saying wall street bankers don't have to worry about a poor central american migrant undercutting their wages. but the people who live there do, josh. last comment. >> yeah. this is an economic issue, a security issue.

in the republican ads you are seeing the issue of border security being connected to the issue of rising crime in many of these states and districts. you look at the latest polling nbc came out with a national poll showing republicans had a 14-point advantage on the issue of illegal immigration. so monica de la cruz and these other congressional candidates on the border are speaking to what borders are talking about. it is a very pressing issue across the country but especially in the border areas. >> dana: great to have you as part of our team. thank you so much. >> thanks, guys. >> bill: thank you, josh. >> i can tell you we'll stay committed to giving them the kinds of tools that we know they need on the battlefield. clearly after this weekend air defense capabilities continue to be a significant need for ukraine. >> bill: the white house reacting to putin's increased attacks on civilians this week. we'll bring you to the front lines for a look. >> dana: republicans banking on crime as a key issue in november for good reason.

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>> we don't know what the next steps are for mr. putin. you can see just from the reaction of the ukrainian people over the course of the weekend, they're not backing down or slowing down. they will continue to conduct their counter offensives. >> dana: john kirby on russia dramatically escalating it's tax on ukrainian civilians. it prompted an emergency meeting that happened this morning.

it just wrapped a few minutes ago and we're waiting a statement from the white house. we expect that soon. we're getting new video showing the sheer terror that russia has unleashed. trey yengst is reporting from kiev. good morning, trey. >> good morning. president zelensky held emergency talks with g7 leaders today following the widespread russian strikes yesterday. we got an exclusive look at the northern front lines less than a mile from the russian border. ukrainian soldiers are resupplying positions near the russian border. despite a successful counter offensive, they can't let their guard down. at the moment there is no breakthrough of the defensive line this leader says.

as we were interviewing the commander, we could hear an artillery shell whiz overhead. we are headed to a safer location. this sits along the russian border outside the town beneath a field of sun floor, a network of trenches. >> we're less than a mile from the russian border. a few days ago ukrainian troops repelled another attack. they must now hold the land they liberated over the past month. we have military units and soldiers. our military is ready to resist occupiers that come to our territory. as these troops brace for the possibility of a renewed russia ground offensive, they also have a mission that is both important and personal. hiking through forests and abandoned towns he and his team search for a ukrainian soldier killed in action finding his remains eventually.

despite the death and danger that plagues the northern border some still return like this 43-year-old who is desperate to pick up the pieces of her shattered home. >> we don't know what to do or where to live. let all the world see what they did here. >> let all the world see what they did here. we hear those words as ukrainians fight for their freedom. >> dana: thank you for bring us the story. stay safe. >> bill: that town is in the early days of the war. that town was pounded day after day by russian bombs. it is an extraordinary sight to see. >> dana: she has been out of her home for a year and wonderful to have our reporters there bravely bringing us these stories so we can see for ourselves what's happening. >> bill: an amazing thing. you see a foxhole that's empty. the russians have fled, amazing stuff. all right. last night kamala harris did the late night tour.

watch. >> let me just start with saying this. i strongly believe -- the majority of americans agree, nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed, right? [cheers and applause] and so we start with that. >> bill: vice president kamala harris with seth meyers. 2,000 people were jailed for marijuana-related crimes while she was the california a.g. from 2011 to 2016. she said a lot more. jimmy failla was watching. host of fox across america. pick your poison and where do you want to start? >> it wasn't the hottest show in town last night. $1 hundred to get up. $25 to. starting with the weed thing. it was vintage kamala. heaping portions of hypocrisy sandwiched between word salad and nervous energy.

when she is talking about no one being in jail for smoking a joints. 1900 inmates in san francisco spent time in jail when she was attorney general. then she tried to make the border a trump thing. they repealed his signature remain in mexico policy the day they got in office and incentivized this whole thing. i guess it is what you expected, a mess, a lot of denial. if there is ever a show to have a fake laugh on it's seth meyers. it was a good -- the one time her fake laugh, thank you for this. it makes sense. >> dana: they didn't have to turn on the laugh track. >> bill: crowd got the night off. >> dana: a pennsylvania school district decided the best thing they can do is cancel halloween because they're afraid some people might be excluded, not sure what will happen about safety and inclusion. so they are going to cancel halloween.

next week they'll cancel life. >> they might as well. they are sucking the joy out of everything. the one people that didn't get polled on this decision were the kids. kids love halloween. specifically the halloween parade is amazing. out walking around. this is like the only time gets get exercise in 2022. it is three minutes they don't have a tablet in their hand. how do you come down on this? ridiculous. >> bill: pretty good. back on the pot issue. if you want to legalize this on the federal level, i would suggest lawmakers in washington, d.c. come to my neighborhood first and say is this what you want all of america to be? you will get a contact high going to the coffee shop. >> in new york right now. a cop said are you smoking weed? here he go. it's every where you go. the quality of life deterioration that comes with it nobody talks about. it's just weed. i understand. there is an overall decay in the

neighborhood similar to broken windows policing when you start with a lowered standard you see everything else. pot is filthy laziness and i'm not a fan. come on, man, isn't that what they say these days? weed and candy go hand in hand. >> dana: i want to get in on the segment. >> bill: that's pretty good. pretty good. >> a marijuana joint. if you walk to the lower east side you are about the size of most joints on the lower east side. >> dana: great to see you. >> bill: nice to see you. >> dana: a bombshell report on questionable stock trades by thousands of government officials raising all sorts of ethical questions. one of the "wall street journal" reporters behind the investigation will join us next. a world war ii ghost boat emerging and how it ended up in a famous lake and its amazing when is tree.

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>> bill: 10:30 in new york. rick scott and tom cotton heading for georgia today campaigning with herschel walker. the pre-life republican senate nominee is facing multiple controversies including accusations he paid the mother of one of his kids to have an abortion. jonathan serrie is live in carrollton, georgia today. hello. >> herschel walker is scheduled to hold a rally in the parking lot of an office park 50 miles to the west of atlanta part of a statewide bus tour the republican is making as the football legend tries to reassure conservative voters about his qualifications to bring their values to the u.s. senate. the out of state senator is campaigning with him today, rick

scott and tom cotton may not be the biggest names in georgia but their presence sends a clear message to the party. >> it's a hugely important signal to base republicans and fellow republican senators that the republican establishment in washington is behind this candidate. that they believe this is a key race to win to keep control or to take back control of the u.s. senate no matter what. >> democrat incumbent warnock is staying away from walker's alleged personal problems. the pastor is trying to reach out the to moderate voters in suburban and rural georgia. >> foreign countries tried to block us from selling our crops. we needed someone to buy it back. >> that's why i partnered with a republican senator from alabama to eliminate the regulations and stand up for farmers. >> herschel walker has agreed to participate in his first-ever

political debate scheduled to face off against senator warnock in savannah on friday. >> bill: thank you, jonathan. >> dana: you will want to know about this story. "wall street journal" looking into possible insider trading and conflicts of interest at all levels of government. the journal finding thousands of officials across the government's executive branch reported owning or trading stock in companies their agencies oversi. a senior reporter for the "wall street journal" and grateful to have you here to walk us through. what did you find? >> that was the big key finding. one in five, a remarkable number, were investing in companies that the agencies were overseeing. in addition to that, if you go deeper into the agencies you'll see one in three officials that we reviewed in the epa were also investing in companies that they were regulating. we found both examples of potential conflicts of interest

and appearance of conflicts of interest when we aassembly of god -- that have to fill out this financial disclosure form and compared the forms with what they oversaw and we even looked at their actions. we found five dozen federal officials were actually trading within a window period prior to a major action involving a company that they were invested in. five dozen. >> wow. >> bill: this would precede the potential for legislation that was being discussed in committee perhaps, right? you are working on this behind the scenes and getting reports ready for the member of congress and you are privy to all this information. we generally think these are members of congress trading on this data. but what you found is that everybody in washington is sharing the data. so if you are on the inside you

have a chance to make some money and your study went from 2016 to 2021. it was a raging bull market. washington, d.c. made a lot of money during that period. >> you will notice it was over more than one administration as well. so we're talking about officials from all administrations. some of them more recent examples in that period would cover one president. we started looking at members of congress 20 years ago that led to the stock act. last year we looked at federal judges and counted 130 judges investing in companies before them on the docket and executor editor wanted us to look at federal officials and we embarked upon this incredible. >> dana: a couple questions. career officials versus political appointees. >> this is what you call the senior executive service including presidential

appointees, political appointees and senior. you can be a career official and be in the covered area. everyone files a financial disclosure. if you are lower level it's a private financial disclosure that goes to an ethics officer. another level it is public and you can ask for it but not easy. we had to build a database, the government didn't have one. we had to fill out forms for ten months to get the reports from these agencies. some agencies, not to name names, the department of homeland security, have still not responded to our request to get financial disclosures. i think one of the things you'll see from our stories is the ethics officers are often the ones giving the waivers, giving the pass to allow them to. >> dana: people are asking permission to do it and getting permission? >> right. we have a case where they had a rule against short trader and allowed a woman to trade 1,500 times. we had one federal ethics

officer say it was the ethics office mistake that allowed this fda official to invest in 70 banned companies including 170 trades. the fda has a really rigorous process. they actually created a list for everyone who works there to look and see what is a significantly regulated organization. look it up and put it on your band list and this official traded 70 times and eventually they said wait a minute, you've been doing it for years. you have to have to stop and recuse. in the end he left the agency because it was easier than divesting. >> bill: exhausting reporting and more to come, right? several parts on this and we'll find out more. >> the beginning of a series we'll launch today and just keep reading. >> please come back. >> happy to. >> dana: great to have you. >> bill: a series of shootings across philly one leading to the death of a 13-year-old boy.

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>> dana: a story we brought you earlier about a daycare called happy smiles in allentown, pennsylvania where we believe it was 26 children that were taken to the hospital because of carbon monoxide poisoning. we're waiting to get information. john fetterman, the democratic senate democrat and lieutenant governor said the news out of allentown this morning is upsetting. we're following the situation and hoping for a quick recovery from -- for everyone. it's about 26 children and daycare workers hospitalized. "fox & friends" said they were all in stable condition. i don't have an update on that at the moment. we hope that to be the case.

fetterman weighs in and see if anybody else does and keep you updated. >> bill: another day. brutal headline shocking people in philadelphia. the 13-year-old boy losing his life after being shot in the face multiple times. that's not all. alexis mcadams live with more on the story here. good morning. >> good morning. another violent weekend in philadelphia and people are on edge there if you live in the area. one shooting scene over the weekend cops found more than 100 shell casing from one incident. the surge of crime in the city continuing. total crime is up 25%, just from last year alone. theft, robberies, gun point and burglary also up. right now philadelphia police looking for the gunman who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy. investigators tell us he was shot in his head and face. the boy was shot just before 7:00 last night. also this morning a man is recovering after he was shot in the head in this area.

he was sitting in the car with a toddler in the back seat. the 42-year-old told the man and police officer he was parked on the side of the road. two gunmen walked up. opened up the driver's door and shot him while the 3-year-old was sitting in the back seat. both are expected to be okay. no arrests made. two separate shootings over the weekend on this busy i-95 interstate you are looking at. 1 case was road rage. driver pulled out a gun and shot at another car after an argument and took off. no one injured. later that night a car exited the highway and gunmen opened fire using an automatic weapon. the man was hit in that car several times. he is also expected to be okay. people in philly are on edge. listen. >> you could just drive and accidentally make someone mad. >> this never happened years ago. a lot of times get out of the car holler at each other and

that's the end of it. today it's a new world. >> more than 3,000 shooting incidents so far this year and 416 homicides and counting. murders are down 6% but last year a record high. not much improvement there if you look closely at the numbers. no arrests in the cases we mentioned. the murder of the 13-year-old marks 186 juveniles shot so far this year in philly. >> bill: wow. and the beat goes on. thank you here in new york. >> dana: philadelphia is hardly the only city where rising crime is a problem. it is dominating republican ads in some of the most critical mid-term races. let's bring in geraldo rivera. in some of the polls we're seeing crime is in the top three of issues with inflation and prices and the economy being the other two. so that's a very serious situation. how do you see it when you have a chance to look across the

country and also a view from the midwest instead of just the coastal cities? >> you know, we had the debate last night, dana, between j.d. vance and tim ryan, the incumbent congressman running for senate to replace rob portman against j.d. vance. i was curious to watch whether vance could perform head-to-head with a career politician like ryan. who succeeded was in the eye of the beholder as i think these top issues are. if you're a republican there is no doubt the ghetto crime wave is front of mind. it is something that is absolutely troubling suburban voters throughout this country. there is a fear even though the statistics don't bear it out, there is a fear that the country is going to hell in a hand basket in terms of violence. in new york you have the lee

zeldin having people shot outside his house. in philadelphia the 416 murders that just were referenced in that report. that actually is flat year the date but there is a perception in philadelphia, as there is in new york and here in ohio, that things are getting out of control. a lot of it has to do with the surveillance video we see. a lot of it is objectively true. but when i say it's in the eye of the beholder, if you are a democrat timing is everything in life. if you are a democrat, your issue is and has been abortion, reproductive rights. a couple months ago in the wake of roe v. wade being overturned it became a hot issue among suburban voters, particularly women voters like my wife. they were going to come and steal your reproductive rights away. that issue has faded a bit. now there is a sense that the reproductive rights community is adjusting to it.

maybe it's not as urgent. if you're a republican it is flogging this crime issue. crime may not be as bad as it was in the 1970s when there were 2,000 murder's year in new york city, now only around 400. but there is a sense that we're losing control and the republicans are emphasizing the anarchy aspect of these election, you know, contests across the country while democrats are emphasizing the personal rights issues. so it is really i think timing is everything in life. and it is eye of the beholder in politics. and because timing is everything, it is who is going to be winning this battle of messaging come the first week of november. >> dana: it is indeed. 29 days out and if crime is one of the number one issues, then you know it is on a lot of people's minds regardless of where you sit.

hope to see you in person soon. >> bill: thanks. gas prices heading higher. the future for american energy is up in the air. former energy secretary rick perry putting the blame at the feet of president biden. did you hear and see, dana, a world war ii boat revealed at the bottom of the lake after a drought in california? the ties this may have to one of the biggest battles in american history. king hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere, in investing for the retirement they envision. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive.

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harris latest word scramble about saving our children. corey deangelis, will cain, general jack keane, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: see you then. former energy secretary rick perry says the u.s. has gone from energy independent to beholding to opec in less than two years time. he writes this. america's energy chaos is biden's fault as we pay at the pump. will democrats pay in mid-terms? that's a question for rick perry who joins us now. good morning. you are down in texas. reflect on that. how do you think it plays? >> well, this is clear to the american people now. it did not have to happen. this wasn't the fault of gasoline distributors that are out there gouging the people. it is not because of greedy oil companies and frankly not even because of russia's invasion. i will suggest to you had the biden administration not shut

down the xcel pipeline and closed down off shore drilling and impossible to get leases on federal land we would be producing 13 million barrels a day and a lot of things would be different today. i think russia would not have invaded ukraine had biden left the policies into place. clearly what we're seeing today, the cost of living, the recession that we are facing is because of poor energy policies that the biden administration put in place. they would rather play indicate those on the left who are hiding behind this threat that the climate is going to -- the world is going to end in 12 years and that is a myth, bill. it is a myth. >> bill: the question then becomes if you believe that, then the question is why do you try and placate that aspect, the progressive wing of the democratic party?

i think the answer is, mr. secretary, that's where the money is. that's where the donations are that drive the campaigns. >> you know, i guess if you are that cold hearted, that is what drives you but at some point in time you have to think about the american people. the folks who voted for biden when he said they would bring us together. he has given us apart and driven the economics into the ground. i think we're facing a major recession. i think november 8th the message will be sent by those who trusted biden, that we don't trust you anymore. as a matter of fact we'll kick you and your friends as far away from the curb as we can so to speak. >> bill: mr. secretary, thank you for your time and we'll see what we get in 28 days, right? >> we will. >> bill: a lot of the polling and surveys suggest economy and gas prices are issue number one.

nice to see you again. thank you. >> dana: amazing discovery in northern california. drought conditions revealing a world war ii era boat hidden at the bottom of shasta lake. a ghost boat. the u.s. forest service said it was used by president eisenhower and patton. it will eventually be displayed at a museum in nebraska. a little piece of history revealed. >> bill: how do they know it was in sicily? >> dana: like a serial number on it? >> bill: should i buy that? the museum will get a great piece there. i got something for you. in light of your husband. we dedicate this to peter. before we go. roll it. here we go before we go. so the british royal marines

showing off some new jet packs in new york city. why it was here i don't know but the devices go faster than 85 miles-per-hour and stay in the air for ten minutes. that is an amazon delivery guy soon to be on your doorstep. >> dana: that's all i need. that's all i need. what is it called, prime day or something like that? that is cool. would you do that? >> bill: would i do that? 1,000%. >> dana: would you do it tomorrow live at 10:00 a.m. >> bill: i would do that this afternoon. it's cool. >> dana: some of these advances in technology you are seeing with weaponry is interesting. >> bill: why did they come to the u.s. to do this? >> dana: a little show of intimidation towards us. do you feel that? are you feeling intimidated? or maybe here is the thing, the weather is so bad in the u.k. that they decided to come do it and have this beautiful back drop of new york city behind

them. it's pretty neat. god bless the royal marines there and our marines here. >> bill: the power rankings are out 20 days before the election. g-seven group put out a major statement about russia and ukraine. we'll let you know what happened. >> dana: great to be here with all of you. harris faulkner will take you to the next hour. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: fox news's latest power rankings are out. voters will decide the balance of power in congress and what they are saying now about who should be in power is seconds away. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." 28 days from now people will vote in person. many places are already voting and have been since september, absentee and early voting. exactly four weeks until the mid-term elections today. democrats say they are confident their slim majorities are good enougho