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 enough to hold.

republicans say democrats don't deserve to stay in power. right now the party of blue has the advantage in the house, 220 seats to the gops 212. that's right now. in november, fox predicts a flip. our forecast has the g.o.p. gaining nearly 20 seats giving them control. the very worst case scenario for republicans ends with a very slight majority for democrats. but that's only if the g.o.p. loses every competitive race. a lot of confidence republicans can pull it off. >> there will be a surprise in the election, a surprise in the governors race, house races, senate races. >> the price of gasoline every where in the country, october will be a tough month for the democrats. >> i think the republicans run the table in the house and senate and have a majority. >> harris: alexandria hoff is

live in washington, d.c. the power ranking is fascinating. alexandria. >> it truly is. you know what's more fascinating the notable shift we see in voter priority spelling real trouble for democrats. if you look at the latest poll out of mon mouth university. 82% rated inflation as their most important issue and crime 72%. elections and voting and 70 and jobs and immigration are g.o.p.-led issue and topped abortion. independent voters often decide the tightest of races. in the poll 61% said economic issues were most important to their vote. with that republicans have gained a point on the generic ballot question since the last forecast. you look at the house, 31 toss-up races. best case for democrats there is still a small pathway of control

with that remaining now. at this .28 days out. individual candidate strength caries a lot of wait. in ohio's ninth district it is a toss-up to lean d. no shortage of personalities on the senate side. anyone's game. our forecast has 47 races going democrat. 49 republican. it comes down to the four top races in arizona, georgia, nevada and pennsylvania. four weeks out. absentee voting has already started in florida, georgia, ohio, pennsylvania. it is fine-tune messaging particularly on the democratic side they're running out of time. >> harris: we're seeing some of the democrats wanting to put either their debates off the table completely or make them after people have already started voting. we saw it with vetterman versus

oz in pennsylvania. one of the four races key for right now. alexandria, thank you very much. i want to bring in the power panel now. a former special assistant to president trump and former press secretary to vice president pence and leslie marshall fox news contributor. great to see you both. mark, i will start with you and what you make of the power rankings. we're 28 days out. the language about it oh, we still have so much time really neither party has a lot of time. >> no, those last undecided voters will break toward the republican conservative side because of the economic issues as that monmouth survey indicated. i think those are conservative estimates by the power ranksings. i think the republicans will end up with majorities in house and senate. larger in the house. senate will probably end up 52-48 because democrats are on the wrong side of all the issues that matter. those top five issues you showed

republicans are in favor on all of those issues. economy, energy, gas prices, crime, education, immigration. democrats aren't on the winning side on any of those. >> harris: leslie, before i go to you, democrats are going all in on abortion ahead of the mid-terms hoping that issue will fire up their base. the vice president pushing the issue last night. let's watch. >> what it means for the next 29 days is if we keep our numbers in the senate and elect two more united states senators, then the president can sign into law the women's health protection act that would put into law the protections of roe v. wade. so critically important. 29 days to go. and the reality of it is that on the one hand 29 days everyone has a lot going on, very busy. it will take an effort to make sure that you vote. >> harris: democratic candidates and super pacs are spending big cash on abortion ads in key

states. we'll take a peek at that. >> steve is obsessed with banning abortion and voted for extreme bans over and over. >> now he is lying about his extreme position, no exceptions even for victims of rape and incest when a woman's wife is on the law. >> should all abortions be illegal in this country? hand up if you say yes. he voted against the right to reproductive free. >> harris: james carville says pinpointing abortion won't be a lot. a lot of people think is all we do is run aboring spots it will win for us. i don't think so. if they pummel you on crime and the cost of living you have to be more aggressive yelling abortion every other word. what do you say to that, leslie? >> i agree 100%.

i have said all my life that you can't, whether attacking a candidate like donald trump or whoever your opponent is or any one issue, that is not going to bring it home for any party. listen, this is not just a one-issue race on either side of the aisle. if you live in a border state immigration will matter more. abortion will matter more in some places. we see in colorado the second most important issue. we've seen women in states such as ohio that have just been out pacing the men 12% in ohio as an example after the dobbs decision. sit not just about abortion. the democrats have to talk about the things that they put forth that republicans voted against. we've seen that time and time again with funding for disasters, when you are talking about giving seniors a break on prescription drug prices. the list goes on. >> harris: why aren't they doing that now? >> i also agree with james carville in his opinion you can't just run on one issue. abortion is number two in many

places, not number one. >> harris: why aren't they doing some of those things now? gas prices are going back up. more than a mess on our hands. we have a situation with winter coming. this is going to get really uncomfortable for americans and soul breaking for many of them if they don't have a cash flow they used to have that bought as much stuff. quickly, leslie, you list things democrats can do. why not do them now? >> they didn't ask me for advice? i don't know. my party does this a lot. we did this with donald trump. i'm not trump. we sat in the debate last night. i think it's important to talk about dignity and somebody shaking their hand but what is more important in the state of ohio like you said the economy. i think that tim ryan is really great when it came to china saying vance is pocketing and profiting from sending jobs overseas. that's what matters to a blue collar state and working class state like ohio and what democrats need to do.

look at the districts within the states. >> harris: leslie, i have to go. i do want to talk about ohio. in person voting begins tomorrow in ohio and you hear leslie is excited to talk. i want to show you this before we get to that. polls there show a tight race for the senate seat. it is up for grabs in a key battleground state. what you hear leslie saying, you need to know how tight this race is. it makes everybody come out fierce. fox power rankings predict this race leaning in favor of republican j.d. vance. he and tim ryan went at it in the debate. one word sums it up that we can use on debate. heated. they hurled insults at each other. >> i won't take lectures on dignity and self-respect kissing

up to chuck schumer and begging for a promotion. >> donald trump said to vance all you do is kiss my bleep. >> we're getting close to halloween. tim ryan pretends to be a reasonable moderate. you sought to be ashamed of yourself. >> you went off to california drinking wine and eating cheese. >> harris: mark. >> i get it in the debates when there will be one or a small number of debates in the last days. when voters tune out most of these kind of back and forth snippets what they'll focus on are the policies. when you look at what's going on in the state of ohio today, gas prices, grocery prices, crime. tim ryan is on the wrong side of all those issues. vance and the commitment to america, all of those things are the right answer. if you are still one of the last few undecided you will break for the challenger as opposed to a

guy who has been in washington for 20 years. >> harris: ten terms, my goodness. tim ryan couldn't make a compelling argument ever that he wouldn't know that state. why is this so tight do you think, mark? last word. >> i think what you see is let's be honest. ohio is not a battleground state. it is a royal ruby red state. statewide tim ryan won in a specific congressional district but doesn't translate statewide. it is definitely read and trump country and gives vance the advantage. >> harris: very quick, leslie, your thoughts on how to make up the difference there if your party isn't willing to listen to you as you put it? >> i think voters are smarter than both parties quite frankly and when we -- i have the say to mark, i would agree it is a very red state. your candidate should be leading by double digits and he isn't. if i were a republican i would

be worried about that. a lot of races are very, very close. you mentioned the states, harris, correctly. and look, it is a nail biter. every day as to where the predictions are leaning whether it's left or right. since mark put it out there i will predict and i get in trouble for this. i'm sad to say i don't think we'll hold the house but i do think we'll take the senate. >> harris: okay. you have the senate so you mean you won't lose it. >> it's 50/50. i think we'll have more than a tiebreaker. we'll have the majority. >> harris: she is very blue, the vice president. mark and leslie, thank you. violent crime. you heard mark talking about it. you have to concentrate on this by both parties. republicans are definitely doing that. it is not new for them. they have been sounding the alarm for a year and a half. now it's possibly becoming a bigger issue for voters. they're watching things happen

to the very people that are running for office or at least around them getting caught up in the crime as victims. a congressman and candidate for new york governor popped off to a reporter that after his own home was hit with bullets. pain at the pump causing pain for president biden and the dems. >> gas prices are rising and rising. >> gas prices is an issue. >> harris: and the republican national committee saying the administration is gas lighting the american people on those rapidly rising gas prices. will cain in "focus" next. homeon everything have gone up and up. the good news? so has the value of your home. and maybe a lot more than you think. if you need cash to stay ahead, call newday. use your va home loan benefit

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>> i say nothing has gone well. my stocks are well. 401k is down. i have to pay more for everything. >> every day you turn around there is always something going on in this country. gas prices are rising, rising, rising. inflation and food prices are rising, rising, rising. we didn't have this problem four years ago. >> for these working class people gas prices is an issue and just representation of the country. >> harris: nothing is going well every time you turn around something bad is happening. i do think -- the rnc says americans know the biden administration is lying to them about gasoline prices. the administration uses a favorite of theirs, gas buddies mode statistics and they did it october 5th and six. mode is the most common, not necessarily the average, but the

most common price as gas stations across the country. there is a difference mathematically. for that statistics it was $3.29. the white house chose to highlight that number instead of the actual national average, which was $3.79. $0.50 more. so they cherry picked it. it gets worse. today's national average according to aaa is $3.92. zoom out on the economy for a moment now. jamie dimon says the federal bank did too little too late when inflation began to spike. >> inflation, rates going up more than people expected already and probably a little more from here. it's the war. put the u.s. in some kind of a recession 6 to 9 months from now. >> harris: will cain the co- host of "fox &

friends."enter let's start with gas prices and gas lighting the rnc says is happening. >> a point of clarification. they absolutely did win. the jets blew out the dolphins on saturday. maybe they drove home for expensively a year ago but they had a smile on their face. >> harris: you don't want to make the other guys feel bad. >> dolphins fans will recover. this is not simply gas lighting, i think. i don't think it is cherry picking. we have to say what it is, lying and here is why. you explained the difference between a mode and average. here is what they did in choosing to highlight mode. they just simply skewed the stats in a way to find the lowest number and here is why it's a lie. you don't think every administration could choose to use mode? you would have to go through history and look at the mode gas price over time to find out are

we higher or lower than we were a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago. the answer will be yes, we are. so they just skewed it in a way to lie to the american people, which really should be a red flag because if you are willing to simply lie with a stat on gas prices, where else and what else are you willing to employ misinformation to manipulate the american people for policy? >> harris: we know some of it with crime. we learned some of the crime reporting that the white house was using in terms of big cities in america had left big cities in america, particularly blue ones, off the list. the f.b.i. reporting didn't reflect those huge numbers of murders. so we know that there are other lanes where they are willing to move the shelves around if you will. >> and so that should raise any

scales off of our eyes where we can see where and how we're being played. you asked about the big picture of the cone me. the big take away. it is in a fragile situation trying to combat inflation and recognizing it will cause higher unemployment as we raise interest rates and put pain on every american household. it says the economy is such an intricate balance of human choices, thousands, millions of human choices over time. when you mess with it at any great global scale like shutting down the economy or by extension saying i can spend my way out of this with the big packages whatever it may be, you are tinkering with something beyond your capability. look, democrats do believe that economy is something that can be managed from the top down. we're seeing the pain of top down hubris and belief that you

can manipulate the economy. now look. i'm pretty nervous where we're headed over the next 6 to 9 months, 401ks, unemployment. mortgage rates. it will affect every single american. are we successful in combating rising fuel prices or inflation. >> harris: when you talk about whether this group of people can do math. we have a secretary in janet yellen who tried to tie getting rid of abortion and the effect it would have on black women in the country and making our journey all about abortion. she had an opportunity to use some math to fix inflation and work on a lot of things and she chose to use it that way. all right. we'll move here. congressman lee zeldin, this is frightening over the weekend. after what had happened to him outside of his house when his daughters were home, a shooting, he popped off at a reporter who suggested it was too soon for

him to get political over the issue of crime. he is the republican nominee for new york governor and speaking to the press after two men were shot on his law. police say it was a gang delaeted attack. his teenage daughters were inside the house in long island. a bullet struck just 30 feet away from one of them. >> as far as standing here talking about politics, i didn't -- i'm surprised -- at what point are we supposed to talk about the crime on our own streets? i'm standing in front of crime scene tape in front of my own house. you can't get me more outraged than right now. >> harris: will. >> this is not disconnected from the conversation we had a moment ago about convincing us reality does not exist. the "washington post" had an article put out by a man named

phillip bump who said rising crime rates are a fox news creation. pay no attention to what is happening in the front yard of zeldin. whether or not it's gas prices or crime or the future fragile economy we discussed. the attempt seems to me to lie their way into denying reality even when the gunshots are ringing out in your front yard. this is a political story. inherently political. i don't know how lee zeldin is supposed to approach this outrage and danger without addressing how you can solve this political creation with a political solution. this is all a product of not exclusively the rhetoric of defund the police but a general approach to antagonism toward law enforcement.

>> harris: making the rest of us less safe by elevating criminals who get kid glove treatment and released, no bail, changing things from harsher crimes to miss demeanors so they can get out sooner. you are right, democrats by the way could come forth with their ideas to change it but my democrat guest leslie marshall said moments ago they won't do this before the election. they don't listen to her. think about that. what about the governor had come from the state of new york and said i will take a look at this now 28 days from when people are running elections across the country and she wants her seat. what if she came up with some ideas? that would be news. >> yeah, that would be news. also the acknowledgement she helped and her policies and ideology helped create a legitimate problem.

>> harris: the daily mail obtaining a leaked voicemail from 2018 when hunter biden was in the throes of his battle with drug addiction. you can hear an emotional joe biden with a plea for his son. his son had just bought a gun. >> president biden: i'm scared. i love you. i love you more than the whole world. hell, you have the get some help. i don't know what to do. i know you don't, either. i'm here no matter what you need. >> harris: that call apparently revealing biden knew his son was having a drug-fueled meltdown at the time he bought that gun. hunter allegedly lied about being a drug abuser on the purchase form. that is a felony. the leak comes about a week after we learned federal prosecutors reportedly have enough evidence to slap hunter biden with tax and gun charges. will cain, your reaction to that audio and what we now know. >> well, my reaction quite

honestly, harris, it's incredibly sad. first, from a human level, it is incredibly sad to hear a father struggle with the failures and the troubles of his grown son. i'm a father, i had a father, i can hear the pain in joe biden's voice right there. it is incredibly sad. as to the actual contents of talking to hunter biden in the wake of a crime that he committed, in this case lying on a firearm form, i am not to least bit concerned about that actual substance. here is what i mean, harris. this is the least of the crimes that joe biden was forgiving or a party to when it comes to hunter biden. i just think the focus has to be no matter how tempting this may be to cover, and it should be covered. the d.o.j. and f.b.i. and the media can't allow this story to

be the end of the story. because the true story of hunter biden and what was suppressed by big tech was the story of whether or not hunter biden was helping conduct corrupt business deals for joe biden and the biden family, which by extension suggests the sitting president of the united states should be under investigation for influence to foreign powers, ukraine, china. that is the story. don't let this gun or tax evasion story be the end of the story. >> harris: there is skepticism over whether anything will go forward in terms of charges against hunter biden. when you look at this situation it speaks to the issue of why gun charges were mentioned when we first learned that maybe, you know, an indictment and further movement was coming toward hunter biden. i haven't talked with an attorney yet that disagrees with you. that's not what they'll go after necessarily. thank you very much. always great to have you in "focus."enter putin's missiles

are raining down again on ukraine. >> he is in a bad place. his army is decimated. he had to do something. he goes and terrorizes the entire country. >> harris: children, civilians targeted again. vladimir putin's back against the wall. what the u.s. needs to do right now. retired general jack keane in "focus" next. 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. and help communities thrive. (vo) red lobster's finer points of fun dining when mouth is full, and shrimp is endless, the "booth bow" is the proper way to say "shrimp me!"

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playgrounds. adding kids are in the line of fire as mad vlad targets civilians. we know president zelensky will not be deterred. >> harris: former secretary of state mike pompeo says the united states needs to stand by its ally. >> the response should be what we should have been doing frankly since september when we knew this invasion would take place. give the ukrainians the tools they need to convince vladimir putin that the cost of his continued aggression is too

high. instead, stewart. we've dribbled it out and waited six months to give them anything and said we'll give them artillery. we should be providing them the full fire power they need to show putin. >> harris: we knew they were amassing the troops in ukraine last september. 150,000 on the border. president biden tweeted he spoke with president zelensky this morning and the tweet says he pledged our continued support for ukraine and unwavering commitment to hold russia accountable. retired four star general jack keane, senior strategic analyst and chairman for the institute for the study of war. always great to have you on the program. you normally have a way for us to look at this that shows some sort of an endgame. where are we now with where putin is primarily?

>> putin knows he cannot at this time defeat the ukraine military. as a matter of fact as we have seen ukraine military is taking back territory and driving the russians further south. so what putin is resorting to right now is trying to defeat the ukrainian people. trying to crush their will. and that's what these attacks are all about. he is also focusing certainly on the civilian population itself and in addition to that, the energy sector. because winter is coming and he wants to shut the lights out and take out as much electric grid as he possibly can to make it all the more difficult for the ukrainian people. but listen, it's not going to work. the facts are that the ukrainian people are steadfast. they have enormous resolve. they are committed to this to the end. what putin is waiting for, he

has made a decision to mobilize some additional forces. he wants to double about the size of his ground force in ukraine, which is around 200,000. he wants to get the 400 to 500,000 but not to be decisive. he wants to stop the bleeding. it will take weeks before that force gets here and they aren't going to be properly trained. they aren't going to be properly led. they will be helpful but they won't be decisive. >> harris: they'll be people in uniform who can stand up next to the guy who has the training. the reason i ask that many of the russians are fleeing. they don't want this conscription. they don't want a draft situation and go fight in the war. they barely want the lives they have in russia. those have been disrupted, too, by all the sanctions. he had that many and the ukrainians killed thousands of russian soldiers. basically he is doing a putback

now. >> yeah. they've killed according to the pentagon close to 25,000 russian troops and 65,000 wounded. and that number is actually growing. yes, i mean, this is why putin, he named this a special military operation at the beginning. and he said the reason why we're going in there is to fix the ukrainian genocide problem that they were causing on russian minorities. all of that was a false narrative but he didn't want to call it a war. he didn't want to give anybody the impression that mobilization was going to take place and that new con scripts will have to be called up. that's what's happening now and there is resistance. there is no fire in anybody's belly in russia to go to ukraine to kill ukrainians and put your life on the line. many russians can identify with them. they've traveled them on

vacation and to odessa and crimea. there is not some perception in russia the ukrainians somehow are an enemy and need to be dealt with. nobody is marching on moscow. so there is no threat to russia whatsoever. >> harris: talk to me about the nuclear threat from vladimir putin. i'm curious. how does that read inside the kremlin? are they thirsty for nuclear war or is he just talking crazy? >> we don't know all the facts here. when you take a look at it, i think it is mostly fear mongering and brandishing. what he really wants to do is fight a conventional war inside ukraine, double the size of the force and hopefully get back on the offensive. that's what he sees over the next weeks or months. we don't see any preparations to use nuclear weapons according to the pentagon and intelligence

services that spoke about that. despite the fear mongering that has been going on for some time. i don't think we dismissed it. i think the administration, i'll take them at face value. they said they have spoken to the russian leadership and told them there would be catastrophic consequences and specific about what that would be. the g-seven has also said there would be severe consequences if russia used a nuclear weapon. they made that statement at the virtual meeting that they had. i'm assuming that russia has some sense that what would happen. they would lose the war if they use a nuclear weapon. the idea would be the win the war with it. they would actually lose it because they deal with the united states and nato. >> harris: sure, the fallout, the winds carry, the reach-out, the potential of hurting people in our nato allied countries is great at that point. so he takes on the world basically, most of it. of course, i ask that nuclear

question and how big a threat it is based on what the president of the united states saying it's armageddon what could potentially happen. you say there is no movement toward that yet and that is good news. thank you very much for being on the program. >> great talking to you, harris. >> harris: mid-term elections four weeks away today. education is front of mind for voters across america. particularly in arizona. >> the world is a better place when the number one advocate for a child chooses where they go to school. that's the parent. >> harris: from woke school policies and critical race theory to school choice, parents demanding more in their children's education. we have the latest on how arizona is giving power back to parents. stay close.

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>> harris: you remember that from loudon county virginia last june that got everybody talking about the country and a lot more parents showing up at school board meetings. parents protesting across the nation. education becomes a top issue in the mid-term elections. in arizona, state leaders have taken action. governor doug ducey signed the most expansive school choice law in america allowing parents to have state-funded dollars on any approved education expense including private school. an organization called save our schools arizona tried to block that measure but the effort failed last friday. calling it a devastating blow. governor ducey praised the measure back in july of this year. >> every parent in arizona is going to have access to their taxpayer dollars so they can

spend it in the way that they are best educating their child. >> harris: it says parents are the first and primary educators of their children. the world will be a better place when parents are freely directing their child's education with no obstacles in their way. corey deangelis is a senior fellow at the american federation for children always closely watching this issue. what is working in arizona and how bad a defeat was that for the people who wanted to hurt duesy's law? >> this is the biggest school choice victory in u.s. history. every single family, regardless of income, regardless of background or zip code will be able to take their kids' education dollars to the education provider they are choosing. public, charter, private or home-based education option. a monumental victory for parents on the ground in arizona. they stopped the union-backed group from blocking the program. the fox news op-ed was written

by christina korso to show the benefits of the school choice. the save our schools union-backed group said they turned in 142,000 signatures. they actually only turned in 86,000 according to the secretary of state and failed miserably because the parents and kids have their own union now. they're families and they are fighting back and flooding the department of education website in less than two months we've seen over 22,000 applications come in. they have started to crash the arizona department of education government website because so many families are flocking to this program in time of uncertainty as well. they had to see if the ballot referendum would fail or not. it did fail. families won. less than a week after it was clear that families won, over 10,000 applications have gone into the arizona department of

education. this is a huge victory and i hope other states follow as well. >> harris: as you were talking my team put it up on the big wall on the chalkboard how many applications for vouchers were coming in in the last week alone after that victory against the group that tried to block this law. a recent poll by abc also shows 77% of voters say education is among their top issues. so that is a big deal. that is a driver. if you look at those other things crime. our children are our most precious resource as a nation, we know that. but in home we were educating them for a year when we were on lockdown in different places. >> teachers unions have overplayed their hand and sparked the parent revolution we've all been waiting for. if you look at what happened in virginia glenn youngkin laid out a blueprint to lean into

parental rights as a political winner. he won on the issue of education. if republicans want a red wave in remember, make democrats have their terry mccaul i have moments when he said i don't think parents should tell teachers what to teach. it's very unpopular. >> harris: the vice president, kamala harris, had a rather confusing word salad over our children. watch. >> when you are in a class with elementary school students you must not want to leave. i imagine the rest of your day is pretty downhill. >> when you see our kids, children of our country, of our communities our future is really bright if we prioritize them and therefore prioritize the climate crisis and the need to address it. if we think about our children prioritizing the need to bring our country together. >> harris: corey, real quick. >> she said our children. it doesn't take a village.

the kids don't belong to the government. they belong to their parents and families and their families are in the best decisions the make decisions for their own kids and more people should realize that going forward. >> harris: politically i suppose they are willing to put them in the fray to get what they want on climate change. there was a lot there. corey deangelis, thank you for being in "focus."enter "outnumbered" after the break. no upfront costs at all to get the cash you need. veterans get more at newday. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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