>> 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 randall's

island, complete with amenities, wait for it, that include x box game consoles, ping pong tables, fluff and fold laundry, plenty of controversy, with residents housed in homeless shelters, a stark contrast to rundown conditions they live in. meanwhile, the situation at the southern border is spiralling out of control. the el paso mayor is denying the white house asked him not to declare a state of emergency over the influx of illegal immigrants, but comments at a city council meeting last month suggest otherwise. >> did the white house ask you not to declare a state of emergency? >> absolutely not. one of the things i'm thankful for the white house, the federal government, they've done a really, really good job working with us, helping us to make sure we get funding to be able to do the job that border cities are required to do. i had a conversation this morning or yesterday with the chief of the u.s.

border patrol, chief ortiz, and he does not support declaring a state of emergency at this point. our congresswoman urged for us not to do that and the county judge does not support that at this point. we may have to do that. i mean, there is going to be a point we may have to do that, but at this point and the white house asked for us at this point not to do that. >> but our president is staying silent on the border issue, instead turning his attention to other causes in south america. fox news learning the biden administration is funding drag performances in ecuador, the state department awarding more than $20,000, a cultural center to host drag theater performances in the name of diversity, equity, inclusion. the state department didn't respond to fox news' request for comment. guy, there's so much to unpact. let's get top line thoughts. >> start with the el paso, texas controversy. it seems like this mayor down there is changing his

story and has repeatedly. at first it wasn't just him and the sound bite we heard. other members of the council said he told us. the biden administration phoned him, said please don't declare a state of emergency in your city, it would look bad politically. looks like there was a quid pro quo, my speculation, they got money they would need to pay to deal with some of the migrants in exchange for not creating a political embarrassment, democrat on democrat at the border. now he is saying, yesterday i saw quotes he was denying he did it for political reasons or bowed to pressure. he said yes, they asked, but i agreed they didn't need to. the new story seems to be they didn't ask. i don't believe him, i don't believe almost anything coming out of this administration on an issue that they refused to take seriously and it is telling that rather than dealing on substance with the actual problem itself, they seem to be running around as usual, preoccupied with optics that they're also bad at. >> that's right. and the optics, lara, are

questionable. whose optics or message are they continuing to amplify? it seems to be this very narrow sliver of the population, the progressive left, where they think they can curry favor with the votes. seems to me taking the step back that if the southern border, including influx of migrants, the administration is refusing to acknowledge an emergency that would help provide for a lot of children, a lot of unaccompanied minor children and american children having resources diluted because resources are denied as such. yet the administration is happy to fund drag performances for children in ecuador. it is fine if someone's money wants to go to that, but not my tax dollars without acknowledging it. >> that's the crazy part. the situation in ecuador. let me get this straight. we are sending american taxpayer dollars to another country to support drag performances. this is our money. why aren't we spending it

here. this sort of thing i think people find very, very upsetting in america when we see our money squandered and used for things nobody understands. but the situation at the southern border, they can't call it an emergency, of course, because they would acknowledge what we know it is, it is a complete disaster down there. you have such a bad situation now that the drug cartels are actually making more money human trafficking than they are on the drugs themselves, and you think about all of the people harmed by that. you know what it does to our country. these migrants and people they are bringing over, think of it, 59 people dead in the back of a tractor-trailer, the horrors the people have to endure to come here, you have the situation now where they're using snapchat and twitter and different social media outlet to lure people to traffic for them, the drug cartels. it is just outrageous, but they can't call it what it is because they would acknowledge the disaster that they caused and

they're continuing to cause to happen in america. >> that's right. and bringing it home here in this city, on the way to work yesterday and today, i noticed in a lot of the hd tv billboards that rotate on the corners, there are a lot of information resources where we can donate to help the migrants in the town. i have never seen it for the homeless. i have never seen an ad from the mayor that again, our tax dollars fund these particular ads, saying how can i help the homeless and the shelters here, and reading about how the migrants have x box and laundry done for them, that's great, but the homeless are absolutely discarded. >> the business owners, they lost their businesses to the tune of being people that would need the resources you're talking about. they haven't seen it for them either. you can talk about the tranche of money top down from the federal government that was spent on covid but when you've

had a mom and pop operation for 30 years and you can't stay open because you've been locked down for so long that reopening just doesn't even make sense any more, that money didn't go to you. that wasn't ppp. that was please help me, i'm folding. that would have been rescue money. i want to get to the issue of the el paso leadership. they started sending buses from there around the country. and when it looked bad for democrats, i know because i asked about it when i was in texas, i said, and we really wanted to go down and see the mayor but he was very busy, he's a democrat. what we did find from his office, no, no, we call the people before we send them. you don't think people in march that's vineyard didn't know planes are landing? it is a small airport. you don't think they sigh boats coming the size of buildings, those ferries? come on. they knew some of those people were coming, they

had to have. and if you want to find undocument peed people, go to some of the islands like martha's vineyard, they don't have housing for the people they have there, so it is an interesting conundrum. now we're 19 days out, they have to start to tackle these issues. border patrol president of the union in del rio sector told me men and women are on their knees, pulled 2 plus million out of the water. dead, they pull every day people they resuscitate. that's how bad the decision making and policy has been out of this administration. it is heartbreaking. we have the heart to say let's figure this out before we leave it all open. what you have going on south of the border, you saw it in guatemala, the caravan in guatemala now, our friends are being hit by bad decisions as we say

can you possibly certificate especially tishesly keep them there. in arizona, mayorkas went there, quiet about this in july, the president said don't let him see that situation. let's build a little bit of wall there. did you know they built a little wall in yuma? they could be building a little wall everywhere along the 1,933 miles of border that we have. >> a lot of bit of wall. >> it already exists, they have to stand it up. >> take it out of the dust. it is rusting. >> paying people to guard portions of the wall. they had the supplies to build, but we spent money instead of people guarding that section so the supplies weren't taken away, they could have stood it up, the wall would have been completed. it is insane. >> they quietly built that section, they were worried how it would look. the optics when it came into how the elections would play out, they were worried about that piece and that's what they fixed. i did see when they did that, but nobody was talking about it, nobody

was talking about it except us. what's interesting about this, as a new york city resident, seeing the migrants come in, seeing the accommodations made at the tents, it is upsetting because we have so many problems here, we are dealing with crime, businesses, trying to get our lives back up and running after the pandemic and crushing time we're not seeing enough change. you say wow, my taxpayer resources are going to this. at the same time, while that's frustrating, i say it is not fair to leave them all at the border states because this is a united states of america problem, not just three or four states dealing with it. >> can i ask a quick question. what about sheriff arapahoe when he was building tents? was that a different situation? those tents we have here are hard structured. they're costing millions of dollars here and i am curious to know the politics of tent building. >> i think those were less

cushy. >> he was sued for it as well. >> on the drag queen issue, people are talking about this headline, i don't think anyone on the couch, i will speak for myself, not clutching my pearls over drag shows. if people want to have fun, knock yourself out, adults expressing themselves, that's fantastic. zero problem. however, u.s. taxpayer foreign aid dollars, that's the question here, not are drag shows okay, particularly for adults, should u.s. tax dollars flow to foreign countries to fund them, separate question. >> that's right. but the thoeme of this administration, it goes to every which way but who needs it in terms of priority, which include every state that's a border state. right now, every state is and it is our american communities that are being absolutely destroyed and made worse by this administration's lack of policies and lack of spine. but this is biden's america. all right. coming up, democrat stacey abrams is linking your economic woes and

inflation concerns to the democrats' top issue this election cycle, abortion. her outrageous comments next.

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>> the economy of course a top issue for americans this election cycle. while democrats continue to focus mostly on abortion, that includes stacey abrams in georgia who just attempted to make the case that these two issues, the economy and abortion, are tied together. >> let's be clear. having children is why you're worried about your price for gas, it is why you're concerned how much food costs. for women this is not a reductive issue, you can't reduce being forced carrying an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child. >> when pressed by peter

doocy about the comments, the white house press secretary did the, you know, dodge. >> georgia, the president's endorsed candidate for governor stacey abrams is suggesting that one way to mitigate effects of inflation is to get an abortion. does president biden agree? >> i did not see her comments on this so i don't know the context on this. again, i want to be careful because this is a political debate and it is related to a midterm, an election, so i'm not going to comment on that. >> let me help her out. a member of the administration said the exact same thing, secretary yellen, and said it in a hearing on the hill. she said that black women in particular, remember that, if they can't get abortions, it hurts the economy. so even if karine jean-pierre hadn't heard this politician say it, a member of the administration said it,

and it made for a bumpy week for secretary yellen. >> this is one of the most jaw dropping ways for the democrats to talk about both the issue of abortion and inflation, bringing them together at the same time. it is absolutely outrageous. first of all, stacey abrams supports late term abortion, so she's saying why don't you wait on it until the ninth month and then make this kind of decision so you don't have to pay shelter and food costs for a baby. there are some women that will make a decision based on economic circumstances, but higher prices aren't helping the situation. talking about abortion isn't going to bring inflation down. the way they spin it, the way they go at it is so, i mean -- >> i think it is predictable. i think when they looked at the polling in june and things were going well for democrats, they did pick up some momentum and intensity among those people that were likely voters. we saw it in polling, abortion, overturn of roe v wade was working for them. the problem is that a lot of things have gone south

since then and that that actually isn't rocking as the top issue. what do they do? tie it to the issue that we know is a winner. it is sort of predictable, as much as it doesn't work. >> and it is ghoulish to say the way to deal with inflation is have fewer people alive. that is a gross thing to me. even pro-choice people would say i don't like the sound of that argument as all. what's interesting on polling, talk about the "new york times" poll that came out this week, looking at inflation and the economy, those two issues by far are the number one combined issue on the minds of american voters, 44%, nearly half. abortion down at 5%. some of whom are pro-lifers who prioritize that particular thing, it is not all pro-choice people in that cohort. important to point out. the other thing, over the summer there was anger, the democratic base got fired up.

what they argued against was national abortion ban, that's how they were framing it. now that we see it in individual races, republicans and journalists asking democrats what's your position. their position is radically out of step with american people, legal abortion, elective abortion, on demand paid for by taxpayers, that has undercut the messaging, neutralized the issue. democrats, their base may applaud, some people hear that thing and say that's not where i'm at. >> and find out what they think at the polls. in new york city, i love getting people on the record about this, let them tell us and show us who they are. the then newly elected new york city mayor eric adams was asked in a scrum of reporters following him to an event or car, they said do you believe that abortion should be legal beyond, up until birth and

beyond. and he, yes, and kept going. yeah. get on the record. show people who you are. >> well, i mean, the whole focus and obsession by the democrats on abortion, yes, it is their only issue. they have destroyed america in every other respect. they have nothing to talk about, not the border, not the economy, not crime because all of those things have gotten worse under their watch, but to of course hear this from stacey abrams is so gross. i find it even more upsetting that we have come to a place in america where it seems like there was a shift. it used to be not too long ago that even democrats and pro-choice people would admit an abortion was a horrible issue, something that was absolutely devastating for anyone to have to deal with and decide. now it is sort of championed. it is talked about in terms of inflation now and some economic situation. that, to me, is very upsetting. it used to be something

everybody could agree. horrible situation to ever find yourself in. now it is like a championed thing, at least on the left. it is kind of sick. >> that's a great point. it has become transactional to the democrat party. as all of you have been talking, it underscores that not only is the democrat party disconnected from the average american but also from their own party. in that way, we talked about how the abortion issue has become nuanced, it is nuanced for many voters, and there's much voters want to discuss and delineate. the fact that this party is propping up and amp amplifying extreme views of stacey abrams and instead of amplifying voices, like bernie sanders and obama that said we are warning you guys, stop rodding out the far left, stop rodding out the establishment talking points, listen more. instead, they keep doing that, to the chagrin of 18% of women voters, for example, that now stated they're now voting republican in 19 days. it makes perfect sense as

you said. it is totally predictable, although appalling. >> and ghoulish, you used the perfect word. i wonder if democrats are worried about the base. everybody has a new tax called inflation and it hurts. they're not worried they would skip and go over the line to become a republican voter but they might sit home. all right. coming up, the white house is now complaining about the president's relationship with the media saying they just don't get him. oh, great. now we don't understand him. we don't understand him, he says nonsensical things sometimes, don't blame us, but if he isn't giving them interviews, whose fault is it not getting to ask about what did you mean when you were eating your ice cream and said the economy was strong.

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>> the white house does not appear to be happy with the press coverage that president biden is getting. the white house is saying

the press corp just doesn't understand him and won't give him a fair shake, even though president biden has done fewer interviews than his immediate predecessors. in a recent interview, white house communications director kate bedingfield said this. there's a fundamental disbelief in the east coast press corp in biden's vision, strategy, tactics and his ability to do the things he said he would do. it probably doesn't help when the president loses his cool with reporters, like cutting out, peter doocy. i'm sorry, lost my mind. there have been several instances of this, including this from yesterday. >> midterm voters, top domestic issues, inflation or abortion. >> all important. unlike you, there's no one thing, it crosses the board. there's multiple, multiple, multiple issues and they're all important.

and we ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. i am not the only person in the world that does this. seriously. that's not what i said. you're playing a game with me. >> i mean, he's had so many times. can we go to the big board, press conferences. if he doesn't want to sit d down, he could do it this way. less than half his most recent predecessors, trump and obama tied. look at that. and remember, trump, that was in four years. obama was in office. but, but, but, we're only taking just a glimpse, just a year. biden is behind the times. but you know, it is hard to take the white house seriously on this because we have the back of him walking away from perfectly good opportunities and a very formal setting with

reporters, which is the definition of a press conference, for him to get together, but the sit downs, forget about it. >> hard to take any of this seriously. when do we see joe biden, when he is in front of a camera, he is highly scripted. he is literally reading off a teleprompt eer or his ice cream photo op he likes to do, but it is never in a serious setting where reporters get to ask questions and he answers them and they have a discussion about the real issues americans are facing. heck, i remember back to his predecessor, my father-in-law, president donald trump. imagine for one moment they treated joe biden 30 seconds like they treated donald trump. short of bottle feeding him, rocking him to sleep, they baby joe biden unlike anything i have ever seen before. it is actually amazing, and the sad part is we don't know who is running the show. that's what's frightening. who is in charge of our country, who is making

decisions, we can't get answers from joe biden. a lot of people have a lot of questions still unanswered. >> we did get some information this week, just to your point, i mean, it is not a huge thing, but dr. jill biden has been vetting white house officials. she is not elected. yeah. we know part of the job is being done by his wife. say it again. she is not elected. guy, when you look at the situation, you know access to a president is particularly important even when the country is pretty much going well. when over 70% of people say it is not, it is critical that you sit down with the president of the united states. >> yep. and he's finally done a couple sit downs, 60 minutes. >> how have those gone. >> i wouldn't say terribly well. there's a difference between answering a couple of questions, screaming over the engine of marine one versus a formal press conference, the opportunity for follow-up questions, to drill down on things beyond talking

points. there's a difference. i think people understand that. i just want to take a step back, though, to the quote from bedingfield and this vain of whining if you're at the white house. if you're a democrat in office and complaining how unfair the news media is to you, you are losing. the news media in main st stream news is overwhelmingly populated by progressive liberal democrats. they get a break almost every single time from almost every single reporter out there. so if you have that kind of home field advantage with the press and you still feel like it is so unfair to you, i think that's a much bigger revelation about your political fortunes than anything else. >> preach. okay. talk about an example just this week. john fetterman and the nbc reporter who had the audacity to tell the truth about what she had witnessed and experienced as she was trying to talk with that senatorial

candidate in the toss up state of pennsylvania. she told the truth that it was difficult for him, that he needed a monitor post stroke by many months. she told the truth and was vilified by legacy media. >> beware the cannibalism of legacy media, of the democrat party. if you dare to think for yourself, dare to step out, you will be cannibalized. let's talk about our president a second. it would be amusing if it wasn't so frightening and just exhausting to me that our president is the kind of person who when asked about inflation as he was munching an ice cream cone comprised of eggs, over 30% inflation, milk, over 15% inflation, in a building that now has to pay over six times the rent it used to, that one reporter asked him about inflation, he took a bite of ice cream so he wouldn't have to answer. he had no problem articulating when he told a little girl, don't have a serious boyfriend until you're 30.

and tuesday, said it again. he had no problem saying that sentence twice. we got to hear that with full candor, articulation, that's our president. he refuses to acknowledge or answer all the questions we have about security and inflation and the southern border, et cetera. in fact, he will call our reporters and peter doocy an sob, he will call a college student that dared to ask a question a dog faced pony soldier. it goes on. that's who is in charge. that's america under his watch. >> my day is complete at work. i heard you saw dog pony. >> i'll be quick and say that's what happens when they unleash him, then they have to do the cleanup on aisle 7 because you can't control what's coming out of his mouth. i would like to see for one moment a press room with a press corp and president biden taking just even a smidge of the vitriol they used to spew at donald trump and see if he could possibly handle it. that's why they don't put him out there. not even the left leaning

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the victim spoke to a local fox station about the brutal attack. >> the reason it made me speak out, this is untolerated, you know, you got kids going to school, but the parents should be responsible for actions like this. i didn't want to come forward, but watching video myself personally, it kind of like startled me, i am still startled about it. >> i am sure it retransmission advertises her over and over. she went on to say despite pleas for help, the bus driver wouldn't stop the bus so she could escape before it got to them throwing her off. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. it feels like humanity has gone out the window. what kind of a nation are we if we see these sort of things happening and clearly those kids were not worried about any repercussions, they're not worried about repercussions from their

parents, not worried about being held accountable by the police because we bred a society that doesn't respect police officers, is not afraid of anything happening to them. crime and chaos is reigning. i feel so sad to see what happened to this woman, but i think it just speaks to as a whole, where are we headed as a country if you have these sort of things happening? >> i disagree with one thing. when you say we, to me it is 100% the democrat party, and elected officials under their watch led and bred by this administration who refuses to acknowledge the horrifying instances that happen every day all day that we highlight, we seem to be alone in highlighting in trying to amplify voices of these victims and their family members that keep exponentially increasing by the day. >> doesn't that woman's voice matter? doesn't her voice count, what happened to her? let me tell you a quick story. i was taking the train from d.c., based in d.c. tuesday morning, i am not a morning person.

got to union station in washington, d.c. i am not a coffee drinker, i needed caffeine. i walked to starbucks to get something. starbucks, i had forgotten is closed. starbucks announced the washington, d.c. central train hub in the nation's capital, the starbucks location had to be closed down because it was too unsafe to operate. think about that. there was an article last week in "the washington post" that said we here at fox news are making up this story of the crime wave, it doesn't really exist, it is some right wing fox news story. there's a word i would say to describe that take, i can't use it on the air. i think everyone that's honest understands this is real, this is not made up, and we are seeing examples of it playing out literally all across the country every single day. >> i spent a lot of time in that train station commuting and you're right. i encountered that months ago. harris, in stark contrast to this reality we talk about, that victims and people live every day, we have a mayor here that

said it is just about perception. and we have elected officials that say it is isolated. these are isolated incidents when we know the statistics show they're double and triple digit times what they used to be. we aren't making this up. >> well, not for them maybe but for the rest of us. and it is all of us, we. i know that politically politicians will make different decisions about how they expect our lives to be, but we're in this together, and the randomness of these crimes is what yokes us. it can happen to you, me, you, you. it can happen to anybody. and yes, it can happen in the subway here, but it can happen anywhere. can happen in new jersey. >> that's what we talked about on commercial break, everyone is sharing stories, jackie, including yours. >> tends to happen in democrat led areas. >> and part of the problem, people get scared to get involved. >> like the bus driver.

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>> republican candidates gaining ground in democratic strongholds. what's going on with that, what does it portend for november 8th. we are here to break it down in the march to the midterms. congressman michael waltz on red threat rising from china. how would the u.s. fair if it came to war with taiwan. will the cdc add covid to mandatory vaccines. all of that, plus kennedy. i am john robert. join sandra and me top of the hour for "america reports." >> welcome back. it appears another liberal leader isn't letting a crisis go to waste. canadian prime minister justin trudeau suggesting that russia's invasion of

ukraine has been good for the country's green agenda, saying the war accelerated canada's move from oil and gas. >> russia and krukz delay energy transition? >> no, it is accelerating. it is absolutely accelerating. as people are saying, wow, we built an economic model and prosperity in some parts of the world that was reliant on energy inputs from russia, as they have to get off that, people are realizing getting off russian oil and gas means getting onto more oil and gas to replace that from elsewhere, but also showing we need to accelerate our move off of oil and gas or moves to decarbonize the gas at least. >> jackie, innocent people are still dying. that strikes me as extremely tone deaf. >> i think it was a tone

deaf statement but also doesn't try to bring a solution for the problem, right? the democrats essentially feel energy independence is going green, putting the pedal to the metal, doing it tomorrow, which we are not technologically capable of doing. what we learned is you don't want to see other countries rely on russian oil, we should be pumping more here and he should be pumping more in canada and have infrastructure to move oil around in the interim until we get to a place windows and solar panels work properly to store it for inclement weather. it is a definition problem of what energy independence is. it may be something 20 years from now, right now, it is what president trump defined it as, us pumping as much as we could. we could be doing 2 million more barrels a day than we are. >> we could be selling that. i joked that we could be

making money on the deal. 239 days today since russia invaded ukraine. and all those souls lost. can we help justin trudeau to spend a canadian winter outside? help him experience that, build him a tent, put him outside, live on the land with no heating when the prices of things because he doesn't want to make his own oil, he glorifies that we are no longer energy independent. just hang out, he can do that, and report back with the news of what that was like. >> that's right. instead, guy, he is extremely callous, reducing the human issue, humanitarian issue to a callous way of framing it, politicization in addition to being flat out wrong. >> that's my take away from the clip. some of the hardcore green folks, no matter what

events demonstrate and show in the world, the solution never changes. they always say it even more confidently, this thing which is proving the opposite just confirms that we have to go even harder, even faster down this path, no matter how much it's failing and having negative consequences elsewhere, it is like the double triple down every time, no matter what the details are, which is an ideological project, not so much leadership or response to reality. >> that's right. and forgive me on the tangential analogy, the other day i was traveling in an airport restroom. you know the plaque on the wall you press to submit fee feedback. >> the smiley face, yeah. >> there's an airport employee there standing next to it. going pboop, pressing the smiley face to get a positive review. that's what i thought of. this administration and the trudeau administration

clearly, doesn't matter what dumpster fire or people's depths are, they will continue congratulating themselves and spitting out the talking point, the solution they are wedded to, no matter what happens, they are in that storm and sticking to it, no matter what. >> and it is easy to spin anything you want like this whenever the media is not pressing you or holding you accountable for anything like we know is true here in america, probably true as well in canada. so i think all of us can agree around the world at some point that we are in for alternatives to gas and oil and all these things. jackie, we're not there yet, of course. the idea that we are pressing forward is crazy. >> all right. more "outnumbered" in just a moment.

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>> just got paid. that's going to make sense in a second. last but not least, to tip or not to tip. there is a new online debate about whether you should tip food delivery drivers and flight attendants. actress kaley cocoo, said that flight attendants deserve extra cash and a majority of people don't see a need to tip food delivery drivers because the fees are already high. i guess they think they are getting all of it. they don't, though, they get a percentage, right? >> i'm a yes on tipping the drivers because that's gruling work. and flight attendants, good for them, they get mistreated sometimes, i'm not sure if they should get cash tips. i've not heard of that before. >> i've not heard that either.

don't penalize your service worker for high taxes and fees imposed on a delivery service during the likely democratic-led city. requirements during covid and raise fees or add on a percentage, don't have it take away a tip for the worker. it's not their fault. >> i was a waitress, bartender, aoc was not the only one, and so i fully appreciate tipping. i'm a great tipper. i don't believe in the flight attendants, they get paid a full is a lower. often times when you are a food service worker all the money you make is from tips, everything else gets taken out for taxes. >> i would just say this. if you order something in, make sure you tip the person. everybody wants to be tipped. inflation is making it hard. if you can't do that, consider walking to pick up your own food. >> i also try to tip in cash. you can leave the five stars or

whatever digitally, but i do try if they are delivering food -- and also causes us to do this. make eye contact and i get to say thank you. >> most importantly. >> so anyway. speaking of which, thank you for watching. and when you don't have time or you forget or whatever, set your dvr. we are always here for you. now here is "america reports." >> john: harris, thank you. invasion of taiwan could happen sooner than expected, maybe even within weeks. >> sandra: the pentagon is racing to get taiwan the weapons it needs to fight back and u.s. military commanders are beginning to assess what a chinese invasion would mean for our nation's forces. florida congressman michael waltz on how we should be preparing. he'll join us live in moments.