now outgoing prime minister liz truss. the daily star put out a live feed showing truss's picture next to a head of lettuce. will truss outlast the lettuce? the answer is no. they've updated their livestream with a little bit of fun. you never know what you get at the end of the show. harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. president biden defending his decision now to tap into the nation's emergency oil supply just 19 days out from an election, which is a glaringly political move. voters know the truth of what we're living through. high gas prices, inflation out of control like a wildfire. aging americans 401k saving being washed away on wall street. the biden economy in a mess and

republican lawmakers say all of it -- all of it puts our national security in danger. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the decision by president biden to release another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve puts our nation's emergency supply at its lowest level in four decades. this has been his administration's reflexive move for months now. biden already has released, when you add it up, 165 million barrels. now add on to what he is about to bring us, 15 more and you hit 180 since he took office. in other words, his presidency has been rocking high gas prices for quite some time now. why now focus on it? the president seeming to get a bit defensive when someone asked that question. >> what is your request to republicans who say you are only doing the release to help

democrats in the mid-terms? >> president biden: where have they been the last four months is my response. >> is it politically motivated? >> president biden: no it's not. i've been doing this for how long now? it is not politically motivated at all. i will continue to push what i've been pushing on. making sure there is enough oil that's being pumped by the companies. >> harris: never going to be enough. when we have hurricanes and other disasters and need oil, we won't have enough then, either. we aren't independently making our own energy anymore. he put a stop to that. new hampshire's republican candidate for senate begs to differ. >> absolutely political. it's an election time band-aid, a gimmick that is designed to bring it down so they can say look, the prices are down. and then after the election cycle when they don't win, they will blame it on republicans

after we take office and everything is high. he is wrong. he is wrong for doing this. it hurts america. >> harris: white house correspondent peter doocy with more from the north lawn. peter. >> the arguments on both sides basically boil down to this. critics are now complaining the reserves are half empty. officials here say the reserves are still half full. >> first of all we had republicans saying he needs to do something about gas prices and we did something about gas prices and they're like don't do that. so it is hard for me to take the criticism very seriously. >> president biden is saying the 400 million barrels in the reserves now are more than enough for an emergency drawdown and he is blaming the shortages on both greedy oil companies and russian aggression. >> president biden blaming rising gasoline prices on the war in ukraine. look, most americans know

gasoline prices have gone up 50% before the first shot was fired. gasoline prices are high at the pump today not because of the war in ukraine, but because of joe biden's war on energy. >> energy prices drive inflation higher. the president says his first order of business in a new congress will be an abortion bill. so we asked him to clear things up. >> hoping to clarify top domestic issues. inflation or abortion? >> president biden: all important. unlike you, there is no one thing. it crosses the board. domestic, ask me about foreign policy, too. multiple issues and they are all important. we ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. you know that old expression. >> we know the old expression but i asked him that because all the new polling shows inflation and economy outrank abortion as top issues and in may he said inflation is his

top domestic issue. but now inflation on equal footing with abortion access. >> harris: thank you very much. so if you are a democrat running for senate in a race so tight it hurts, who do you call? well, john fetterman of pennsylvania is resorting to hosting an unpopular president biden now as the polls are tightening where he is. the president is set to hold a fundraiser for fetterman later today. he has lost a lot of momentum in epic proportions and now just two points ahead of republican candidate dr. mehmet oz in a new aarp poll. here is dr. oz on hannity's town hall going after fetterman and radical democrats. >> we believe in america. that's the fundamental difference between me and the far left radical elements of the democratic party. i think, sean, not the general

democratic party but the fringe elements. i didn't realize i would run against a poster child of that movement. when they don't actually believe in our ability to get things done they start the adopt policies that don't make any sense. >> harris: bryan llenas is live in philly now. bryan. >> harris, before the president and john fetterman hold the fundraiser here in philadelphia tonight they will both be in pittsburgh today touting the economic message, the bipartisan infrastructure law. the democrats are trying to sell a positive message on the economy as the senate race here in pennsylvania tightens, a race that could come down to how voters feel about inflation and rising prices. look at the average gas, the average price of gasoline in the commonwealth, $3.94. that's higher than the national average, 43 cents higher than last year. this as the energy information administration estimates folks will spend more this winter to

heat their homes in the northeast. the average household will spend 11% more on electricity and 24% more on natural gas. this has frackings on the minds of voter. fetterman called fracking a stain on pennsylvania. in 2018 he said he didn't support fracking. now his campaign says he does and always has supported it. >> fracking, i don't support fracking at all. i never have. and i've signed the no fossil fuels money pledge. i believe as pennsylvania i support our energy independence and we need to do it in a very strict environmental regulations. >> dr. oz says he would fast track oil and gas financing and development. >> if you truly love the environment, if you really love the environment you should root for natural gas.

that's how we dropped our carbon footprint the last 15 years. >> as for john fetterman's stroke recovery his doctor released a letter yesterday saying he is doing well and not suffering cognitive deficits and say he can work full duty in public office. >> harris: that same doctor donated to fetterman's campaign before he had the stroke. let's just get all the facts out there. bryan llenas, thank you very much. one man playing a huge role in the mid-term elections in governor's races republican virginia governor glenn youngkin. governor youngkin joins me live moments from now. and this fox news alert. the cdc is gearing up today for a full vote on adding the covid vaccine to the list of shots recommended for children. a smaller panel unanimously recommended that yesterday and we reported that here on the

network. this is bigger. this is the full cdc. and in the end, it would be up to the states to make the final decision on whether to give children the shot or not in order to come to school. the states would make it mandatory, not the cdc if they chose. this vote comes after the president last month declared the pandemic was over. dr. marc siegel now, fox news contributor, professor of medicine at nyu langone. how does this change things if the full vote comes and says yes, add this to the list of shots for my child? >> it will happen first of all. they'll vote to do it. how does it change things? the cdc has a list of scheduled vaccines that it presents to the states. the states vote state by state to use the vaccines to mandate them or not. several vaccines that are powerful to prevent spread

including hepatitis, mmr, polio, those vaccines nobody questions whether they work or not. also on that list is flu, harris. the flu vaccine as we said have some effectiveness but quite weak. the number of deaths from flu among children is not nearly of the same order as what it has been for covid. it is much more. so the flu vaccine is weak but also on the list of scheduled vaccines. >> harris: so early on we were told that children didn't get it as often and if they did it wasn't as serious. however, i was reading today that it has been 1,000 every year of children. so compare that, if you can, the risk/reward. we know more about some of the mrna vaccines. some menstruation cycles have been impacted in different ways and they haven't had children yet if they would choose to do that. i want to talk openly about

what we know. >> who is giving these messages? you said before we came on, the public doesn't know who to believe. they distrust politicians who stand up on podiums and tell them a vaccine is safe or that it will do this and it doesn't end up doing what they promised. people are distrustful. a new study came out in the "new england journal of medicine" showed that the mod eastern owe vaccine given to young children is safe on not effect. we're worried about long covid. what happens if your child get covid? problems concentrating or brain fog? it's on the table and what we do in the doctor's office. it is called a risk/benefit analysis. we want the doctor talking the parents and children. that's what has been missing. >> harris: what moderna they are saying it has much more effectiveness in the booster than they thought it ever could. just real quickly, though, with

children. most of what i'm reading are temporary effects. you are saying that the risk/reward of getting the vaccine rides with the doctor. if your state says your child has to have it to go to school, how does that impact your life? >> that's the rub and what everybody is worried about. let's stare it in the face. if cdc makes a recommendation several states will make it mandatory. it is true for flu and other vaccines i mentioned. nobody questions a hepatitis or mmr vaccine for school because it really prevents spread. the rub with this vaccine it doesn't prevent spread but more powerful than flu. >> harris: those are the facts needed. thank you very much, dr. siegel. always great to have you in "focus." division and turmoil in the united kingdom. conservative prime minister liz truss has quit after six weeks in office. what it could mean for us here at home especially when it comes to the economy. by the way, their inflation has

been rocking around 10% for a while now. in the final sprint before the mid-term elections republicans doing all they can to boost their candidate. >> let's legalize drugs, let's demean and defund law enforcement so crime can escalate. let's, in fact, shut our schools so our kids can suffer. >> harris: virginia governor glenn youngkin there who pulled off a victory last year is storming the states now for republican candidates running for governor. he is in "focus" with me next. dupixent helps you du more with less asthma. and can help you breathe better in as little as 2 weeks. dupixent is an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that's not for sudden breathing problems. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe.

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at newday usa we give veterans the va cash out loanin p. fetterman. he had seen a pretty healthy divide between him and the republican candidate, dr. mehmet oz, but now that doesn't exist. they are divided by less than the margin of error at 2%. so the president will go to pennsylvania to try to help out john fetterman, who you know had a stroke back in may and decided that he was not going to try to even have a debate before early voting started in that state, which was back in september. september 19th. so people have already been voting for a little more than a month in that state. the president of the united states speaking with reporters

moments ago. let's watch. >> president biden: she was a good partner on russia and ukraine and the british are going to solve their problems but she was a good partner. >> are you concerned about the spillover effect to the u.s. economy? >> president biden: i don't think they're that consequential. >> [inaudible question] >> president biden: i delivered that privately. >> john fetterman will appear with you today in pennsylvania. there haven't been that many candidates campaigning with you. >> president biden: not true, 15. count. >> will there be even more? >> president biden: yeah. >> any restrictions on abortion at all? >> president biden: yes, there

should be. in roe versus wade. read it. you'll get educated. >> harris: the president will hop on marine one there. just so you caught it he was asked about the situation in the u.k. and liz truss suddenly announcing her departure. of course, no one could have guessed what he would say. what he said was they aren't that consequential. i wonder how great britain feels about that. suddenly she announced her resignation as prime minister. six weeks in office. the shortest serving prime minister in british history. alex hogan will report on that. you have to hit the ground asking, alex, in london what is the response to the united states president saying they aren't that consequential, their economy with ours. interesting quote if him. >> an interesting quote. there is a massive correlation. when we talk about inflation it

has been weighing so heavily on residents in the u.s. just as it has here in the u.k. with this monumental announcement. people are happy given the low approval rating liz truss. she announced she will step down. she will be the shortest-serving prime minister ever here in england. she said she had hoped to create an economy that was based on low tax and high growth but one she simply could not deliver on. >> spoken to his majesty, the king, to notify him that i am resigning at leader of the conservative party. >> even up until last night truss promised to hold onto her political career claiming she would not step down. comments clearly reversed by today. in her only six weeks on the job she has faced devastating low approval ratings largely due to the tax cuts that she put in place and spending plans

that tanked the economy. policies that have been criticized as a blatant failure. one for which earlier this week she apologized for. u.k. food and emergency prices are soaring. inflation is currently the highest it has been since 1982. now with all of these government changes taking place today, one thing to note that since that resignation speech, the pound is actually trading higher. but all of this comes on the heels of a shaky night yesterday. the country's home secretary quit. another popular figure in the conservative right wing party and one of truss's allies. the latest of several to leave raising more speculation that truss herself would be out. now there is a lot of speculation and criticism of what this all means. of course, the labor party is now saying there should be a general election for the public to choose the next prime

minister, not the party. but we are even hearing from some of the ministers saying their constituents are telling them that they want former prime minister boris johnson to be the next one to step back into the job even though he was voted out only a couple months ago. harris. >> harris: we'll cover it all. alex, thank you. stacey abrams is coming under fire for trying to tie the shaky ground of election voting rights that she was on the side of, right, to the economy and tie that to abortion rights as well adding more fire to the georgia gubernatorial race. president biden endorsed stacey abrams. the white house is dodging questions over some of her recent comments. plus the wisconsin senate race is getting personal. >> the biggest achievement in business was ron johnson saying i do. he married into his business. >> he is an actor. i don't know if he is

delivering lines someone wrote for him or making up the stuff on his own. >> harris: well, the race as many of them are, is tightening. wisconsin's extremely important for the power that will rest in the hands of democrats or republicans in the senate. 19 days until election day. barnes is looking to get help from some powerful friends. senator ron johnson is in "focus" next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> the biggest achievement in business was saying i do. he married into business. >> he is a performer. i don't know if he is delivering lines someone wrote for him or making the stuff on

his own. falsehoods seem to roll off his tongue. >> i have lost more friends than i care to count to gun violence. so it is absurd when people say that i'm soft on crime. >> the problem with the whole defund movement which he has been a big supporter of disspirits law enforcement. having a hard time recruiting members. >> he hasn't done a single thing for us. >> since democrats took control, considering four-year high inflation, record gas prices, skyrocketing crime, open border flooding with deadly drugs. >> harris: in wisconsin a toss-up state for either party is at stake for control of the senate. democrat mandela barnes and incumbent republican senator ron johnson in their second debate there and you can see it was spirited. it would be a huge win for democrats to flip that seat blue in november. the real clear politics average still has senator johnson ahead of barnes by nearly three

points. barnes now bringing out some high profile people. well, the most popular person in the democratic party. former president barack obama. the former president will reportedly visit the state next week to rally for the democratic lieutenant governor. wisconsin senator ron johnson running for reelection in the badger state is in "focus" now. good to see you. so that's debated a lot of politics and policy and all of those things at play. what has you still three points ahead, do you think, with all that's going on in your state. what's working? >> the truth. imagine that. we finally have been able to describe to wisconsinites who mandela barnes in and what he truly believes in and he is way too extreme. a radical leftist. that's not where the vast majority of wisconsinites are. let's face it. all he has. he has lies, distortions, character assassination,

politics, he can't defend the record, a 40 year high inflation, record high gas prices, open border. these are the policies he supports and the policies of the democrat government's, democrat control. and that's what's giving -- causing wisconsin families so much pain and he supports all of that. >> harris: the crime in places like where mandela barnes is from, milwaukee, wisconsin, sort of reminiscent of what's happening in pennsylvania right now and that very consequential for the senate control race. you have a lieutenant governor not -- no matter how much he wants to distance himself from that or from biden's policies, he has been at the top of the food chain for a while as lieutenant governor. >> he has. he wants to deny it but he has been at the for front. he wants to reallocate over bloated police budgets.

he and governor evers goal was to reduce the prison population by 50%. it has been reduced by 15% and the parole commission paroled 884 criminals. 784 violent criminals including 44 child rapists and 270 criminals who primarily committed or at least attempted murder. they were horrific murders. again, those are the truths we are having to get out. we aren't getting help by the mainstream media. they won't tell the truth about mandela barnes or ask him tough questions. i need help ron johnson for senate.com. we need help to get the truth out about my opponent. >> harris: i know a lot of money has been spent on ads and mandela barnes was asked to try to fight back. the help that you've been getting has been hitting tv screens all over the state of wisconsin. so he was feeling that. we'll see if the former president barack obama can come

in and do whatever it is to address the issues that you just told us about. you can't touch inflation and any of the rest of the crime in 19 days but i guess they can try. the media are hitting from both sides are some old tweets by mandela barnes. in 2017 he compared black american musician tina campbell to a slave after she announced that she supported president trump. in 2016, he refused to accept that a black conservative sheriff was the same race as he is. he said that sheriff wasn't really black. in 2015, barnes praised iran's supreme leader for supporting black lives matter. we reached out to lieutenant governor barnes and haven't

heard back. >> he went on vladimir putin's propaganda channel six times as a member of wisconsin state assemblyly a few days after the murder of five dallas police officers rationalizing that killing saying police were overexercising their badges and rationalized the killing saying it was probably retaliatory. he was used as a the propaganda channel by putin and support for cuba, syria, iran. he is not fit to be a united states senator. we can't allow him to win. >> harris: he has been invited to come on the "focus." meanwhile, keep us apprised of who is coming out to support you. we'll get you on and want to know who will be there and what the last 19 days look like for you. a last quick word on that and

we'll go. >> ron johnson for senate.comp. we need the resources to tell the truth about my opponent. if we can tell the truth we ought to be able to win this race. >> harris: thank you very much for being in "focus." >> have a great day. >> harris: you, too. all right. so we talk about people going to different places to help out these candidates on the left and right. i mentioned virginia governor glenn youngkin who pretty much owns parents rights in terms of what it can do if you pay attention to that issue in a race. remember, he flipped a blue state of virginia red just a year ago. he is next with me live. all across the country, people are working 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,

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>> harris: 36 governor seats are on the ballot across america and republican candidates are looking to virginia governor glenn youngkin to put them over the top. youngkin won in a state that president biden had carried by 10 points. he flipped that blue seat red. his main campaign focus was education and parental rights. also understanding parents' outrage over school lock downs. youngkin is stumping mostly in states biden won, including

arizona and oregon. he has this message about the democratic party. >> they are agents of chaos. everything they do makes it worse. they are trying to stay in power, that's what they're doing. it is your moment to take back your state, to take back your schools, to take back your cities, to take back your law enforcement and to make a statement that just like in virginia will be heard around the world. >> harris: youngkin's words echoed in a new op-ed titled the biggest mid-term issue, chaos. dan henninger writes, i don't recall another recent mid-term when so many issues were filtering through voters minds, crime, abortion, recession, energy prices, the border, schools, ukraine, and not least joe biden. and with mid-terms just 19 days

away, the real clear politics average of polls finds only one quarter of americans believe this country is headed in the right direction. in "focus" now we welcome virginia governor glenn youngkin. great to see you. first of all talk to me about the message you are carrying on the stump and which part of it do you think hits democrats squarely. >> it's the same message that voters last year in virginia spoke so loudly about, which is they're tired of the chaos, tired of chaos in their economic and financial life where inflation is quietly stealing their hard-earned money. they are tired of their schools being in a state of chaos where they were shut unnecessarily for an extended period of time. their kids suffered and parents have been shut out of their kids' lives and they are tired of crime in their cities. where in fact the progressive liberal democrats have done nothing but make things worse. so this is what virginians

stood up last year and spoke about. i see it happening across the nation. i think this is going to be a big moment for republican gubernatorial candidates to win states that joe biden had won and those republicans that are running in states that have seen the benefit of having a republican governor will reelect those republican governors. >> harris: i'm curious to know what are the conversations you are having with those republican candidates for governor on the ground in terms of fixing some of the things that are going on in some of their states where cities are led by democrats. i want to know what that looks like. there will be a lot to fix. >> there is a ton to fix. let me tell you from personal experience. we came in on january 15th, went to work on day one. we issued over a dozen executive actions and executive orders filed over 50 bills, put in budget amendments and went to work. it's what each one of these new

republican governors in these states that have been led so poorly by democrat governors will have to do. it is everything from reestablishing standards of excellence in schools, not watered down expectations but high expectations. supporting students suffered from the worst learning loss than people could imagine. we've seen decades of progress lost. it is back in the blue like we're doing in virginia with our bold blue line initiatives to recruit more cops and pay them more and recruit prosecutors and recognizing the cost of living is so challenging to virginians and americans today. we've got to get the cost of living down. governors have a huge impact here and why i think we'll see republican governors elected across the nation. >> harris: we have got so much crime running rampant. you can have the leadership at the top and make a difference. i look at new york here. if they had somebody in the governor's seat, they have a

democratic mayor here eric adams are stabbings are up 41% in the subway system. that leadership at the top really does matter. governor, you were just talking about it. you made education, parents' rights a central theme of your campaign. new fox polls show now that issue among parents is second only to inflation. now there is no way you could have known this is where we would be. but this is where we are. when it comes to curriculum, parents are most concerned about book banning, very second close not having enough to say about their own children's education. something you were just talking about. despite what we've learned from your victory, a democratic bill in your state is proposed at making it illegal, against the law, for parents not to affirm their child's gender identity. how is that playing out and what's happening? >> first of all, let me tell you it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody that education is one of the top issues in

voters' minds. it is not a republican issue or a democrat issue. it is a parent issue. this cuts across all political divides and we've seen it around virginia and across the nation. when it comes to making decisions for their children's parents know they have a fundamental right to do this. the progressive liberals is a systematic approach to push parents out of their kids' lives and replace them with politicians. parents are saying no, we've had enough. one of the most amazing things is the consistent transparency that the progressive liberals show at their true agenda. every now and then it comes out. it came out last year when my opponent affirmed everyone's suspicion that parents shouldn't have a say what's being taught in school. now we see legislators in virginia be transparent again and say they don't think parents should have a right to say what happens to their children and should be prosecuted as a result of it. voters are standing up and

saying well, i suspected that but now it's confirmed. i think we'll see education continue to be a huge role until we get this turned around. we're turning it around in virginia. we empowered parents to make decisions with masks, curriculum. empowering parents to make decisions with the most important issues in their children's lives. we passed a literacy act and funded record amounts into education. we gave teachers raises. we can fix it. it gets back to a fundamental belief parents matter. they have a primary role in making these decisions. one that will not be supplanted by bureaucrats and politicians. we can lift the ceiling and the floor and that's what we're doing in virginia. high expectations for children. >> harris: the gender identity conversation going on in your state is happening everywhere. i would imagine that also becomes part of what you take on the stump. look, nothing succeeds like success. when you touchdown for these fellow republicans they aren't just looking for you to endorse

and stump and all that. being able to tout where things have worked is also helping. let me tell you how we know. it is not just arizona and oregon. you have been to new mexico, georgia, michigan, nevada, nebraska. you are crisscrossing the country. last few words. >> we're seeing great reception for the clear message for republican gubernatorial candidates. but we're also seeing it in virginia. i have 20 stops for our congressional candidates. to make sure that that plane ticket home for nancy pelosi is actually purchased by virginians by our new republican candidates. >> harris: 20 stops for congressional candidates. appreciate your time today. i know it is a very busy time for everybody 19 days away. we appreciate you taking time out from the stump for everybody in your party to talk

about these issues that you won on. thank you, governor youngkin. >> thank you, god bless you. >> harris: god bless you. >> republicans who say you are only doing this to help democrats in the mid-terms. >> president biden: where have they been the last four months? that's my response. >> is it politically motivated, sir? >> president biden: no, it's not. >> bill: conservative critics aren't buying it. check out the titles. the democrats' oil folly. biden's oil price -- someone hit the brakes on biden's energy nonsense. gas backwards. you have to be careful when you read that one. experts warn it will send prices skyrocketing. one new hampshire gas station

owner reacting to the president saying price gouging. >> it affects everything from running a business all the way to food prices and in between. people have to make decisions between eating and heating and that's really unacceptable. so if we do not catch up to the price increases, my inventory will shrink to a day where i have to close. and maybe that's what the president wants. >> harris: did you catch that small business owner? decisions like eating and heating. you have to choose between the two. if you talk to people they will tell you what's going on. white house chief of staff ron klain dedepended the administrations decision and took a shot at republicans. >> i say first of all we had republicans saying hey, he needs to do something about gas prices and we did something about gas prices and they're like don't do that. so it's hard for me to take the criticism very seriously. >> harris: don't do the part that decompletes us and exposes

our national security. don't do that. there are a lot of ideas. two people on the screen have ideas. power panel now, i'm excited. the director of america rising pac and the former chairman of the democratic party. cassie, your top line thoughts >> well, what we're seeing here is that joe biden is doing exactly what he campaigned on. during the campaign he said i'm going to cancel oil and gas leases on federal lands and stop any new exploration for gas. he has done that. the problem is the american taxpayers and voeders are paying for it big time with rising prices and the country has to make deals with the devil to get oil back into our country. so he has tapped our emergency reserves to try to get democrats cover 19 days out from the mid-term election and if they get reelected, make no mistake. they'll continue to rewind american energy independence. it is all part of their plan.

>> harris: what is your rebuttal for just that part of the conversation, scott, that this is a bigger plan and that the far left and people who believe in green energy happening right now that this is actually orchestrated. >> a lot of americans believe in clean energy. my colleague, the great prognosticator, the release -- the u.s. is the largest oil producer in the world and promised to release this back in november of 2021 well before the mid-terms. >> harris: he has done it before. >> he has done it before. you can do both. be about clean energy and america is moving there and most americans believe in that. that's where we need to go to save the earth and save the planet. at the same time, though, we can't just walk away from oil production. we need it. by the way, gas prices are down $1.50 since june. so the republicans can't have it both ways. they want you to do something, you do it. they say don't do that, we don't want to you do that.

the republicans again the party of no is saying no to biden but the mid-terms are coming up. lots of different issues for the voters, more complex issues more than ever before. >> harris: prices are up this week. >> down 1.50 since june. >> harris: that was june and you had people who were making some changes in their lives because everything else was expensive, right? so now that everything else is expensive and you and i can go back and forth on this. the real number was the number the president had on day one when the pandemic was starting to ebb. remember it's ebb and nroe, it was getting -- now he says it's over. it matters. at one point we were up above $6 a gallon. these things matter. now they're going back up and he is tapping something we aren't refilling. >> but he is doing something about that. trying to do something about it. >> harris: i get the timing.

we get it. democratic candidate for georgia governor stacey abrams taking serious heat for her latest comments on abortion. let's walk together. >> abortion is an economic issue. having children is why you are worried about your price for gas and why you are concerned about how much food costs. for women this is not a productive issue. you can't divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child. it is only politicians who see it as simply another cultural conversation. it is a real biological and economic imperative conversation that women need to have. >> harris: texas senator ted cruz called the comments despicable. andy biggs called them demonic. cassie. >> this is cold, heartless and extreme. i get she has to appeal to her far left wing base to turn out that vote. it is turning off the moderates and independents. even pro-choice republicans that i know who say that's why

i can't vote for a democrat. their position is too extreme and not focusing on helping the economy making us energy independent or tax cut. >> harris: i will bring you both back on another day. we have breaking news. i look forward to that. thank you both. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" after the commercial break. ly, it will remind you. when it does, aspen dental is here for you. we offer the custom dental treatments you need, all under one roof, right nearby. so we can bring more life to your smile... and more smile to your life... affordably. new patients without insurance can get a free complete exam and x-rays, and 20 percent off treatment plans. schedule your appointment today.

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>> hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i am emily compagno, here with co-host harris faulkner, jackie deanding list, lara trump, guy benson. we begin with the crisis at the southern border, the biden administration silence and new outrageous use of american taxpayers money in the face of migrant influx. new york city setting up tent shelters on