>> we'll go to 2.0 bill and do a rematch if no one gets over 50% plus 1. >> dana: so for our viewers at home you might want to put december 6th in pencil. thank you for coming on. >> dana: president biden's growing list of crises and failures giving voters plenty to worry about. crime, border, inflation, economy. two weeks left before mid-term elections. i'm dana perino. >> bill: small g? . >> dana: i'm really good. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer good morning. economy hurting you every time you go to buy groceries and fill up the gas tank if you get where you are going without getting hurt. subway -- growing dangers in many cities across the country. the border crisis setting new

records. nearly 2.4 million migrants apprehended in the past 12 months including some on the terror watch list. texas congressman tony gonzalez putting the blame squarely on the president accusing joe biden about lying what's really happening there. >> joe biden has pinocchioed america. we know he is lying and they're full of it. the most encounters and most terrorists that have come over. the number of migrant deaths. the list goes on and on and no end in sight. >> dana: team fox coverage. kellyanne conway with reaction to this and the latest crime outrage in new york where the governor is saying it's all in your head. nate foye in eagle pass, texas this morning. hi, nate. >> congressman gonzalez tells me as more and more people cross the border the cartels are getting more bold and efficient which results in more people crossing the border, which is exactly what we're

seeing this morning. two large groups passing in eagle pass. take a look at this first video. infrared drone captured a group crossing early this morning. a lot of migrants are crossing but even more than we thought once we got on the ground. take a look at the next video a mile away from where we are now. this is a group of over 200 migrants, many of them are from cuba. a mixture of men, women, and children. the vast majority of these people single adult men. congressman gonzalez says with president biden's loose border policies, this is going to keep happening and get worse. listen to this. >> on the other side it's becoming much more streamlined and it is like a symbol. the joe biden administration is sending a symbol out to the world saying come to us and with welcoming arms. >> well, here is another example of that, dana. take a look.

in baitsville to the northeast of where we are now this is a video from texas dps a trooper follows a human smuggler who pulls over on the wrong side of the road and six migrants pour out of the bed of the pickup and run away into the brush but all six were caught. drugs another big issue. look at the next picture. in the past 48 hours border patrol seized 108 pounds of fentanyl just in the past two days. five pounds of fentanyl in the del rio sector as well as 14 pounds of meth in the del rio sector. back here live border patrol agents in the tucson sector announced they have arrested another registered sex offender, a mexican national previously been convicted of sexually abusing and molesting a child. send it back to you. >> dana: nate foye at the border. >> bill: the latest subway shoving in new york is raising a lot of eyebrows. learning more about the career

criminal suspected of pushing a man on the tracks. the "new york post" says it, ticking crime bomb. alexis mcadams with more. >> that man who was shoved is still recovering at home. investigators tell me the suspect mccray has been arrested at least 15 times in the past and yet the guy with the violent criminal history was back on the streets where he attacked an innocent commuter. a look at the perp walk there. mccray was arrested by officers yesterday near his brooklyn home. he is handcuffed telling people nearby that we're at war before he was taken away. this career criminal now charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and harassment in the latest subway attack. he has previous arrests that date back to the early 90s when he was only 16 years old. he was charged with attempted murder. he served 20 years behind bars and was out on parole.

now remanded without bail for the latest attack on the subway. look on the right. mccray in the yellow sweatshirt wearing it when he was arrested shoving the 32-year-old on the platform. zeroed in and went for martin. no altercation but random. the victim martin is in physical and emotional pain in bed with a broken collarbone and other serious injuries. >> i was in too much pain immediately. my face was on fire, my whole left side by my shoulder was on fire but at least i'm able to talk about it. because people who were pushed into the train station like i was weren't able to talk about it. >> the suspect's own family expressed concerns about his mental health to the "new york post." the defendant will now be mentally evaluated. he is due back in court on november 14th to discuss the results from the assessment. the victim shoved said one of the things he wants focused on is the mental health issues happening across the city with so many of those people on the

subway. >> bill: a lot of that on the sidewalk every day. you can see it yourself. >> dana: crime chaos at the border, inflation, economy and voters are taking notice. republicans are now set to win a 16-seat majority in the house. that's one more than last week with 33 races still a toss-up just two weeks out from the mid-term elections. kellyanne conway a former senior advisor to president trump. president biden tried to close on a message telling other democratic staffers at the dnc the polls will turn back in their favor, the economy is on their side. they have done enough on crime and do you think the voters are going to make another pivot before the next two weeks? >> dana, no, that is joe biden speaking to a very small choir in washington, d.c. the closest he gets outside the beltway seems to be wilmington, delaware. not a swing area. that's all you need to know.

it took 98 consecutive polls that showed inflation, economy and crime the top issues for joe biden to even articulate it. then he just lied and denied the facts. he said inflation is under control, the cost of goods are coming down. the opposite is true. people will always go with what they see and what they know versus what a politician says. now i think when you look at the border there is another issue for joe biden. people feel insecure in their communities, homes, with the economy, everyday life is increasingly unaffordable but increasingly they are turning to the southern border and say there is such chaos and crisis why have you, our commander-in-chief not showed up a single time as president and why did you send your vice president known for the border czar for domestic issues, why did you send her one time to mcallen, texas? we heard more from biden and harris and mayorkas and others about a false report of border

patrol agents whipping migrants than we heard them talking about babies drowning in the rio grande, the over 2 million who have crossed illegally on his watch just last calendar year. so if you want people to have confidence in your competence the first thing you do is go to the scene of the issue. and joe biden literally can't speak up and put up because he hasn't showed up. it is costing his party. quickly in the polls. 71% of americans say the country is heading the wrong direction. 63% say that joe biden is not doing enough on the issues that they care about. republicans now have double digit advantages according to abc polling on inflation, economy, on the border. even on education you see republicans closing in on that issue that for years showed a double digit advantage for democrats. >> bill: you were just recently said you have to eat and own the mistakes. in other words, republicans have to absorb this and make it public about what they think

about the record of the past two years. do you think they've effectively framed that yet? >> yes, they are, bill. the republicans did a smart thing with their commitment to america. a nation safe, economy strong, future free, government accountable. that's the affirmative, actionable doable agenda and they have to say listen, democrats, you may want to forget joe biden, you may not be inviting biden and harris on the campaign trail but you voted with them. you can't escape their agenda. you just voted for tin nraition reduction act and john kerry the climate czar said it was really a climate change bill. so i think republicans need to hold these democrats accountable nor the democratic party as it is configured now. they did very little to make sure kids were back in the classrooms and back on the campuses on time. and then they turned around trying to distort and pervert

our curricula. it makes no sense and that's why the parent power movement is really in full force and effect. parents have a fundamental right to say where my kids go to school and what's taught there. bill and dana that's why this is shaping up to be a really good republican night on november 8th. early voting shows that people are very enthusiastic. the polls show republicans have an 8 or 9 point enthusiasm advantage and we're now talking about tiffany smiley taking on patty murray. murray ahead by 6 at 48% of the poll. she won by 19 points six years ago. talking about house seats in california and oregon being more competitive and it is because the democratic philosophy is let's talk about abortion, trump, january 6 and climate change when the voters are telling you please start solving the economic, energy, border security, crime, cost of living and fentanyl problem in my communities. >> dana: voters want to be heard loud and clear and we'll have that in a couple of weeks. bill has a lot of studying to

do as the map expands. states and districts he never talked about before. >> bill: coming out everywhere. i'll see you on sunday for the election show. thank you for your time today. >> thank you so much. >> bill: latter tonight debate stages in several states will be busy. two weeks until mid-terms candidates square off in three pivotal races. pennsylvania, fetterman and oz meelt in their first and only debate. fetterman has a razor thin lead. michigan polls show dixon within three points of whitmer. they take the debate stage tonight for the second time. also in the state of new york, democratic governor kathy hochul holds a polling advantage over republican challenger zeldin but the lead is narrowing. lee zeldin on that just monday night. >> we've been going around the state hearing from new yorkers about the issues that matter most to them. their breaking point in the

state most often referencing rising crime and skyrocketing costs. kathy hochul has been ignoring these issues and this is what we've been talking about the most. it has created an opportunity for us to be able to connect with not just republicans but independents and democrats as well. >> bill: on this debate stage now if you are the underdog you have a chance to leave an impression. zeldin is one of those. >> dana: surging at the right time if you will win. two weeks, we'll see what happens until then. elite schools in new york city training students to go woke and now reportedly indoctrinateing their parents, too. >> bill: muslim parents joining christians protesting books in school libraries. >> these books are obviously inappropriate. sexually explicit, pornographic and disgusting. i'm disgusted looking at them let alone read them.

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>> dana: muslim parents in a michigan school districts are leading a charge to remove six books from school library shelves. 1,000 people attended a meeting over literature they say is pornographic. others say it's hostile to the

lgbtq community. mike tobin has more. >> objection to the pro-lgbtq books is making allies out of muslims and christian conservatives and creating conflict among progressives. a school board meeting about the books in early october ended up so packed it was ultimately shut down because there were so many people in the room they violated fire code. now dear born has the highest per capita muslim in the nation. local television stations felt compelled to blur the pictures muslims and conservatives argue its -- activists make the argument banning the material would make young gay people repeat the dynamic that has caused young gay people to kill themselves. >> lgbt books won't stop anyone from being gay. it will just make them

miserable and alienate them. the consequences might be fatal. >> there are other districts fallen prey to this filthy material breaking the barriers that protect the most vulnerable. the issue here is not a religious one nor is it an attack against the lgbtq community. it is an issue of age appropriateness. >> challenges to books are a growing trend nationwide. american library association tracks them. in 2017 there were 416 challenges to books. last year there were 1597. so far at least as of september this year 1651. dana. >> dana: a lot. thank you for that report. >> >> bill: several schools in new york are aiming to indoctrinate parents and students according to a report in the "new york post." john levine wrote it. he is with me now out of nashville. normally we see you in new york city.

welcome from tennessee. give us the story. what are these schools about and what is their intent? >> thank you for having me. these schools are the mostly let schools in the united states their students regularly go on to the most elite colleges and take places in government and industry all over the place. nothing new that schools are embracing this woke indoctrination. like the virginia governor's race turn on the issue. what is new at these prep schools in new york parents are being targeted. not just the students but reaching into the home life to get parents on board. they want to make sure the kids are on message 24/7. if your daughter is accepted parents are expected to sign a pledge vowing to support the new religion. what's the new religion and what's the pledge? >> the new religion. when these parents went to

school, when they learned about civil rights it was martin luther king. judge people but the content of the character not the color of your skin. things like equality, color blindness, merit, fairness. that's all out the window now and considered retrograde thinking. today their students are learning a much more militant race essentialism. every interaction you have has to be viewed through the lens of race and it is the determining factor of your life. so you didn't pass the science test, maybe the test was racist. didn't get picked for the team, maybe the team captain was racist. and it is a much crueler way of looking at human interactions. >> bill: a school on the upper east side and quoting from i guess the pamphlet or online application it said parents are expected to attendant i racism

workshops per school year. what happens to them or their kid if they choose not to? >> different schools have different rules about this. many of the schools i looked at were mandatory. others said they were optional. parents don't have to attend these things. if you talk to any private school parents they're anything from optional. if you don't go it gets noted. kids at these places need to be invited back every year. that has always held out over parents. if you're not on the program, you're not with the program. if you voice disagreement. we don't need to bring you back next year. >> bill: you have to go along to get along and doing it for your kids. i think america's jaw would drop when they learn it is $60,000 a year for these schools talking eight grades sometimes. interesting reporting, john levine, "new york post." see you back in new york soon. thank you, john.

>> thank you. >> i know that charlie is interested in talking about 2024 and joe biden. i want to make things very clear. the only worn out old donkey i look to put out to pasture is charlie crist. >> dana: attacks fast and furious. how does crist plan to cut into desantis's lead. we'll ask him about that and more straight ahead. are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash? you need to know about the va cash out loan from newday usa. it's called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their home's value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference in these times of skyrocketing prices. here's more good news:

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>> dana: florida governor ron desantis and democratic challenger charlie crist facing off in the debate last night. things got heated. >> they asked the audience to

remain quiet but they were cheering for both sides in a rauk us a 60 minute debate delayed due the hurricane ian. charlie crist went on the attack early saying his opponent republican governor ron desantis of florida, was more interested in becoming president than in running the state. >> i have a question for you. you are running for governor. look in the eyes of the people of the state of florida and say to them if you are reelected you'll serve a full four-year term as governor, yes or no. yes or no, ron. will you serve a full four year term if reelected governor of florida? not a tough question. >> the two sides spared over immigration as well as leadership style. had to make a single point they tried to hammer over and over again. crist abortion, desantis he called the biden/crist economy of high inflation. the last four governors races in florida have really come

down to the wire. there is some speculation this might, too, with the battleground of miami-dade and its 70% hispanic voters becoming a key demographic. dana, back to you. >> dana: thank you, bill, what do you have? >> zbl* a really good race. the governor races across the country up for grabs in 14 days. everything you see in yellow we consider too close to call. down here in florida, that's a red almost deep red which we believe is a likely republican hold on behalf of ron desantis based on a lot of the polling recently desantis up 11 points over charlie crist. the issues in florida, wow? same story across the country, right, dana? inflation clearly at 36%. four years ago, what a race this was. you had andrew gill am challenging ron desantis at the time was a congressman. a difference of 43,000 votes across the state of florida and razor tight. also the election when you

really started to see things change statewide in florida and how it went more and more republican in the ensuing elections that took place. let me pop down here quick and show you the presidential results from two years ago. trump beating joe biden by 3 1/2 points which once again gives you the indication about how florida has gone red. charlie crist is with us now and wants to be the next governor. thank you for your time. thank you for saying yes to our invitation. we have invited numerous democratic candidates to join us on our program and we're pleased that you said yes. so good morning to you there in florida. >> good to be with you, bill. >> bill: the hill writes this from last night. crist needed more than a good night on monday to turn things around for his campaign. he needed a game changer. not clear he got what he was after. you needed a knock-out and that didn't happen, did it? >> i think it did. let me explain.

what happened was i asked whether or not governor desantis, if reelected, would serve a full 4-year term. he was like a deer in the headlights and wouldn't answer the question and couldn't answer the question and he wasn't going to be honest with the people of florida. what i think is important is the issues we were able to discuss as well. affordability is in a crisis in florida. housing is unaffordable in the sunshine state. good luck even renting an apartment. the price of gas is expensive and utility rates are through the roof because they've taken their eye off the ball and he has, too, he is running for president. i think we all know that. he wouldn't admit it last night but that's what's happening. when you do that and traveling all over the country in the way that he is raising money and doing other things to try to promote that 24 race, you don't pay attention to our property taxes, our property insurance that are going up. that i brought down when i was

governor the first time. utility rates that are going up under him and i brought them down when i was governor the first time. these are the tabletop, kitchen table issues that people care about. the economy does matter. and under ron desantis, our economy is not going in their favor. they don't like it. >> dana: mr. crist it's dana. governor desantis is a very popular figure in the republican party and has been traveling a little bit and helping but all governors do that. i'm sure you did that for your fellow members of the party as well when you were governor. i did want to ask you something, over the last 34 years, you've run in 16 elections. you have put yourself out there. if you were to win this race and become governor of florida, would you rule out running for president or accepting a vice presidential nomination if you were to win this race? >> of course i will serve a four-year term. that's why i'm running for governor. he is running for governor as a stepping stone to run for president. he couldn't answer the

question, dana, last night. i just did. it is not that hard to do. >> dana: but do you blame somebody for not ruling out things? for example, you've decided to run for many races, maybe he will in the future or not but very popular in florida. call for number two. latinos support desantis 51 to 44%. what happened since you were governor to turn it around so the republicans win latino votes there? >> i think he needs to be honest with the people of florida and he wouldn't answer the question last night. we all have to ask ourselves why wouldn't a man do that? what kind of character does that? i'm running for governor to be governor. he is running for governor to try to be president and he ought to be honest with the people of florida about that. last night he asked at the end in his close i'm asking for your vote to run for governor but he won't even tell them if he wants to serve a full four-year term. >> dana: what about my question on the latino vote. i hear you on all that. the question that i just asked.

latino vote has changed dramatically in florida over the past two years and why is that that latinos support desantis over you in the most recent polls? >> i think it will change in the next two weeks and i will tell you why. he pulled a stunt recently where he chartered two jets, took them to texas, lied to people, hispanics, venezuelans and columbian in this case. it won't get him more support but less support. it was cruel, inhumane and unusual. lured them onto a plane. flew them to martha's vineyard. they were told they would go to boston and get housing and jobs. john of it was true. that's what desantis did to hispanics. that's not the way you treat people. that's not a person of character and decency and humanity. i believe i will be elected governor november 8 and i look forward to it.

>> bill: he has a record, you have a record. you voted with joe biden 100% of the time. how come? >> because i think he did what was right for the country. my god, we were in a pandemic. i voted for things to help and voted to secure the border and i'm on the appropriations committee in the congress. i had the opportunity to support law enforcement. i voted for $200 billion to make florida and america more safe. these are the things i believe in. i want to keep our taxes low. i want to keep my state safe. i want to fight to have a more affordable economy in the sunshine state. ron has ignored it. that's not right and good leadership. >> bill: you also voted for 87,000 new i.r.s. agents. why do we need that? >> well, do you want to collect taxes so we can support our military? i'm on the subcommittee and appropriations that supports our military and i have voted

for every increase for them, too. you ought to point that out, bill. >> bill: the suggestion is that the i.r.s. isn't doing its job. for tax paying americans they would suggest they are because they are paying their fair share. >> dana: i didn't think last night you had a chance to answer the question about the cdc has said the states get to decide whether children have to be required to get a vaccine, a covid vaccine. ron desantis said that is not something he would do. i don't think you had a chance to answer that last night. would you require children to get a covid vaccine? >> i appreciate the question, thank you very much. i tried to respond to it last night. what i was saying is that ron desantis would not order vaccines for children. we are the only state in america that a governor didn't order vaccines for them so the parents could decide if they wanted their children to get the vaccine at all. that is unbelievably

irresponsible. that's not a decision he should make. that's a decision the parents should make with the advice of their physician for the benefit of their children. ron desantis shouldn't be making that decision. he at least ought to make the product that is lifesaving available to the children of florida and their parents along with their physician can make that decision for themselves. he wouldn't even order the product. in this case a vaccine. >> bill: we have a million more questions. only a couple more quickly. you were talking about the flights to martha's vineyard. when you travel throughout florida how do you explain how you can have more than 2 million people cross the border in the last 12 months? how do you explain upwards of 100 people apprehended at the border on the terror watch list? how could you say or argue that this administration has done well on the border? >> because people like ron desantis and most of the republicans in congress won't

support comprehensive immigration reform that will secure the border, make sure people are treated humanely when they do come in legally like my grandfather did from cyprus and my grandmother from lebanon. a way to do this right. republicans in congress aren't supporting it. >> with respect to your parents there is a process and they followed a process. right now americans don't see a process on the southern border. >> it's because the republicans in congress won't support comprehensive immigration reform. that's what we need. everybody can agree that's right. secure the border, make it a legal process. have a pathway to citizenship. do it the way my grandfather and grandmother did it. that's what we need to do now. >> bill: do you believe the border secure as others have suggested? >> no, of course it's not. we all know that. it's not secure. it needs to be. if we have comprehensive

immigration reform along with strengthening our borders, it will be a better situation for everybody including people that are fleeing socialist regimes in central and south america. >> dana: my last question is this. on the list of issues that floridians care about the most that bill showed on the board before you came on, crime was the last one. that is not the case all across the country. do you give ron desantis some credit for keeping that issue -- crime down, keeping that issue off the people's minds because the rest of the country is seeing something very different. >> with all due respect crime is up under the desantis administration and i was governor, too, in the past. crime was down under my administration. so if you want to look at crime, the one who is better on keeping floridians safe is charlie crist. >> bill: thank you for your time. maybe the next couple of weeks we can have you back, okay? charlie crist. >> i look forward to it. thank you very much.

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>> dana: president biden says it's wrong for states to ban gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth. here is what he said over the weekend. >> president biden: i don't think any state or anybody should have the right to do that. as a moral question and legal question, i just think it's wrong. i feel very, very strongly that you should have every single solitaire right, including -- including use of your gender identity bathrooms. >> dana: let's bring in clay travis founder of outkick. matt whitlock said the white house is miles ahead of their skis on this one. meaning way far ahead of where everybody else in on this issue. parents have some different

feelings about this. but there is a group of people that support what the president says, clay. >> i think, dana, thanks for having me. i think the president, frankly, is absolutely insane on this issue. i don't even see it really, dana, as a democrat/republican issue. i see it as a sane and insane issue. let me take a step back from the transgender issue and point out how we treat minor children. that's part of what he was addressing in this country. you can't get a tattoo unless you are 18 or over in this country. you can't drink a beer until you are 21. many places you can't rent a car until you are 25 years old. that's because we believe that young people are often making poor choices as it pertains to their life when they are still young, minors or even 21 or even 25. yet we are going to allow

children who are 14 years old to decide to remove their genitals? that's child abuse. and again, i don't see this as political. i find it hard to believe joe biden even understands, frankly, what he is saying here when he said as part of this interview that it was immoral to stop this from happening. i disagree, dana. i have three young kids. a lot of people watching us right now do. we often don't let kids make decisions when they are young about what they are going to eat for every meal. we certainly don't let them get a driver's license in many parts of the country until they're 16, 17, 18 years old. yet we will allow them to decide to remove their genitals and argue it is immoral if you are a parent and disagree? i think it should be proper hib itded everywhere. it is not controversial, i don't understand how we have allowed minors to be having

these surgeries occur at all. i think, dana, big picture. we have 40 year high inflation. we have got unbelievable border lack of security. the worst border security we've ever had. highest crime rates in the 21st centuries. we're two weeks from an election and the white house is arguing we need 14-year-olds to be able to cut off their genitals? it is one of the most tone deaf things i've seen a president say or do. >> dana: the other thing -- the other problem in the country is education is at the bottom of where it's been and it is outrageous. we'll keep talking about the education needs, reading and math scores have to go up. they lost a lot during covid. there was a family that came to a game in kentucky and the coach wrote this. my family's america dream

started in a coal mine. after his shift, i have a ticket for him and his family and then mark harris tweeted this on outkick. it represents every son lucky enough to have a hard working father doing the very best they can, trey. >> this one, if you are a dad or mom and saw this and you struggled to balance the obligations of work and family. this is everything that's great about sports. my family, too, is from kentucky, my grandfather was a part of the coal mining community there, dropped out of school in eighth grade. there are still many people all over kentucky who make their living this way and many dads and moms all over the country trying to make sure they can take their kids to a sporting event like this to go watch a kentucky basketball game. this is what the southeastern conference does in many parts of the south for sure. it is the unifying band between

so many different parts of families and i just thought this was a perfect representation of that. good for that dad. congratulations to that son for having a dad who will make time for him and props the coach. >> dana: the wife responded to the coach and hopefully there will be future games in this family's future. >> the coach called the coal miner. when he came out of the mine they talked for an hour and they'll go to a game and sit down close to the court, the dad, son, family. it is a fantastic story. >> dana: maybe that will be the next dana reads sport. you love that segment as i do. >> it's a positive story. >> dana: at least i'll understand it. >> bill: department of justice announcing charges against chinese intel officers accusing them of trying to infiltrate a

d.o.j. investigation on huawei. we'll have more on that when we come back. for you with merrill, a bank of america company. if you wanna go fast, go faster. and if you got the devil on your shoulder... take him for a ride.

>> bill: more than a dozen chinese national facing charges as the f.b.i. director calls china the number one threat to the u.s. what happened, david? good morning. >> good morning, bill and dana. f.b.i. opens a case against china every 12 hours. let that sink in for a second. d.o.j. officials have to answer for why they got rid of a controversiesall program called the china initiative aimed at countering chinese espionage. officials including the f.b.i. director and attorney general announced charges in three separate cases stemming directly from the chinese communist government. to prc intelligence officers charged with trying to infiltrate an investigation of huawei. bribing someone in new york who was an f.b.i. double agents.

>> they attempted the try to steal the prosecutors's playbook. the agent worked for team america. >> the chinese president who claimed a third term on rocky territory with u.s. intelligence community for their aggressive stance to steal from the u.s. china initiative disbanded after pressure from groups. i asked attorney general garland if he regretted getting rid of it. >> was it a mistake to get rid of the china initiative? >> this case should be very clear that we have not in any way changed our focus on those kind of behaviors by china. >> garland and officials insist the china initiative while gone by name is still there by purpose. back to you. >> bill: okay. david. thank you. d.o.j. david spunt. thank you for that. >> dana: before we go, i have to check this out. do you ever cruise? >> i don't.

>> dana: royal caribbean is checking this out. the world's largest cruise ship out of miami in 2024. the 20 deck ship is 1200 feet long making the titanic look like a toy boat. it is a floating amusement park coming to new york harbor. might do that one. isolate maybe. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. who has the power? fox power rankings out today and it is obvious that both political parties are in play. however, democrats seem to be playing mostly a game of defense now. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". we're exactly two weeks out from mid-term elections today. we took up a whole floor to put that 14 down for you. one of the closest races in the nation right now, a republican catching up to a democratic governor of new