do? they wait to see and, you know, they call each other and say okay, record stands, we're good for another year. >> dana: they can keep dining out on that record. five turnovers, though. ever eat that many? >> bill: did you say ever eat that many? got it. >> dana: all right. >> bill: the answer is no. >> dana: here is harris. >> harris: fox news alert. republicans are one seat away from taking control in the u.s. house of representatives. and by taking the majority, they would gain the power to push forward their own agenda daring the senate to press back and daring president biden to veto if it gets that far. if it goes their way, would the highest ranking republican kevin mccarthy become the next speaker of the house? well, an arizona senator just announced he wants the job. i'm harris faulkner and you are

in "the faulkner focus." after seven days of uncertainty, the congressional balance of power is finally coming into focus. just two hours from now, house republicans will hold their leadership elections. minority leader kevin mccarthy who i just mentioned is all but certain to get enough votes to secure the nomination for speaker. but things could get complicated in january. former freedom caucus chairman andy biggs of arizona has officially announced his plans to vie for speaker. that is unless kevin mccarthy agrees to certain demands. >> we have a new paradigm here. the country wants a different direction from the house of represe representatives. it's a new world. kevin has raised a lot of money and done a lot of things. it is not just about kevin. it is about institutional direction and trajectory and we'll see if we have enough

people who agree we need to change the trajectory of this place and open it up. >> harris: mike waltz sees it this way. >> we have a serious debate. we have a leadership election today for kevin mccarthy with a very narrow majority and that is really going the play out on january 3rd. there are some people that aren't sure how it will play out. i support kevin mccarthy. we need to unify and we need to figure out what the hell happened in the mid-terms. >> harris: in focus former utah congressman and oversight committee chairman as well jason chaffetz. first senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> good morning. the g.o.p. is one away from winning the house majority. in california long-time republican ken calvert claimed re-election. the same with michelle steele. however, without the house results finalized republicans will hold leadership elections today. kevin mccarthy faces and i biggs

of the freedom caucus. marjorie taylor green is aligned with mccarthy. >> for someone who votes for the president's conviction. you can go over to the area and see piles and piles of borrowed fencing. some welded together into panels getting ready to be installed. some of us just in the individual piping. >> that was not march or see taylor green. she stands behind kevin mccarthy. the bar is lower for him to win in the closed door meeting today. he only needs to score the most votes. if january mccarthy needs 218. outright majority of the entire house. >> i think you will see a critical mass say we want to turn the page. we want new leadership and fresh faces and new ideas. i stand here now and kevin mccarthy does not have 218 votes

to become speaker. i don't think he has 200. >> she demand he implement rules changes to secure his support. they hold the leadership elections tomorrow. not everyone backs mitch mcconnell for minority leader. >> we need new leadership in the republican party in washington and i won't support mitch mcconnell for leader. >> mcconnell and senators ignored my questions about a leadership challenge. >> do you all support leader mcconnell to return as leader? >> there you go, thank you. >> some conservatives want to postpone wednesday's leadership elections until after the georgia runoff in december. so far rick scott has not announced a challenge to mcconnell. harris. >> harris: a lot going on and we'll cover every second of it. chad pergram, thank you very much. in "focus" now jason chaffetz

former utah congressman oversight committee chairman and fox news contributor. first of all, one seat away, your top line thoughts. >> look, it is a massive shift in washington, d.c. to be able to take that gavel away. nobody thought this margin would be this small but there is only one gavel so it will either go to nancy pelosi or going to somebody on the republican side. that's a monumental shift. >> harris: all right. this hour we'll cover it if we get to 218 votes there in the house for republicans. that would be that huge shift that you are talking about. we'll cover it live in it happens here. let's talk a little bit about what congressman elect from michigan john james told me yesterday was palace intrigue that americans really don't want to know about. they just want to take care of all the things that matter to them. you have to have somebody in charge. despite some republicans promising, you know, that kevin

mccarthy might have all the votes he needs, what is your thought on it? >> well look, in the house you just have to get the majority to be the so-called nominee. but the reality is you have to get to 218. our framers set it up such that what you have to do is on that day stand in the well of the house of representatives literally stand up and yell that name and i'm afraid there are a lot of people will stand up and have a hard time yelling out the name of the current existing leadership when a lot of people feel like it didn't achieve what it was supposed to achieve. now, i have no doubt that kevin mccarthy has the majority of the support. the reality is you have to have 218. and i don't think he is there yet. every single day there will be a drumbeat right up until january 3rd to figure out does he or does he not have that many votes >> harris: when you hear andy biggs, he is in arizona and we know him well.

when you hear him saying there are some things he wants to see. changes and if mccarthy is not willing to make them he would be go to make them. quickly do you agree with that? what are the changes that you would like to see? >> well, they are looking at the rules package. how many autonomy will individual members have. can they recall the speaker the way they did with john boehner or will they have that tool taken away? will committee chairman have subpoena authority? that has been taken care of. what sort of ability will they have to impeach somebody like secretary mayorkas? there is a list of a dozen things that they are really concerned about that they want commitments on. the other part of the conference doesn't want to give those. so again the battle, the number one question is how do they unify? right now nobody sees that path. >> harris: i'm glad you went that detailed. it's good governing, too.

if the promises on the border will be kept, secretary mayorkas is on the hill today. we've had the highest number ever. so we're going in the wrong direction. if republicans can't move within their own party to try to shore some of that up that's about governing as well. so thank you for that detail. let's get to this. president biden's massive student loan hand-out just suffered another setback. jason, i wonder if they knew this was coming and made a hollow promise to all of those young democrats to get their votes but knew they couldn't get it through? a federal appeals panel slapped a preliminary injunction on the $4 hundred billion plan affecting millions of young people who borrowed money for college. a judge in texas a few days ago said biden overstepped his authority in forgiving that. the white house appealed the first ruling and say they'll do

it again. democrat senator elizabeth warren loves the loan bail-out. >> to me this is one of the clearest differences between democrats and republicans. democrats led by joe biden are out there saying we hear you on what it's like to get crushed by student loan debt. we know what that means and so we're here to try to help. the republicans, they got nothing. they say the only people they are willing to fight for are billionaires and billionaire corporations and conspiracy theorists. >> harris: what is your reaction to that? >> i have a hard time listening to her in the way she tries to spin that. look, the president of the united states could have delayed this. he decided to forgive it in it's the tilths. that's an appropriation. every judge will look and say that requires an act of congress. that simple. elizabeth warren, put it up for

a vote and it will fail. it will just fail. >> harris: i had asked an open-ended question but probably has an answer. did they play trickery with their own young voters? >> a coincidence it suddenly comes out days after the election. a judgment ruling beforehand but i think there was a signal out there to millions of people that hey, look at all the goodies we're giving away. it's freebies. bumper sticker politics the democrats and republicans engage in it, too. they were putting out the bait all this free money. it affects elections. >> harris: a special gift they do on the left, though, their knack for doing that. >> they are rereally good at it. >> harris: the national education association, largest union in the nation, appears to be playing cleanup. the group tweet edmonton indicators love their students

and no better than anyone what they need to learn and thrive. the group turned off replies after 5,000 people poured on. one from former education secretary betsy devase herself with a jab. you misspelled parents. the nea clapped back but actually acknowledged the role of parents in their children's education tweeting i guess on the fix it. together families and educators are an essential team for advocating for the resources and opportunities all students need. out of touch billionaires, however, are not. that's their voice in my head. >> listen, i miss betsy devos as education secretary. people like senator tim scott and others are pushing the right buttons down the road. i think this is a pivotal issue going into 2024.

just the arrogance that seeps out of the left in these teachers unions ought to be enough to compel parents across the country that it's parents in charge and parents pay the bill and their kids and the arrogance that comes out on the left and these unions is just unparalleled. >> harris: ask the governor of virginia who flipped that blue state red glenn youngkin all about it. good to see you. thanks for being in "focus." we're still trying to figure out 2022 but the 2024 campaign cycle is starting to churn. the republicans who topped the early list of those who would like a new home on pennsylvania avenue, the one you are looking at on the right of your screen. the gop fighting hard for a win in georgia's senate runoff. >> the most important thing we can do is elect herschel walker to make sure we can keep the pressure on democrats in the senate not to veer far to the left as they have over the last two years.

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>> harris: democrats and republicans are flooding georgia with support into their respective candidates in the upcoming senate run off december 6th. the gop is all walker. it has raked in $11 million since the mid-term elections next week. the party plans to go door-to-door across the state canvassing. this ad hit the airwaves yesterday. >> herschel has a heart of a

servant leader because he wants to give back and to help the people of georgia and to benefit georgia. he is a good man. one of the best. he is cut from a rare cloth. >> harris: the georgia runoff election still matters. here is a quote. even for the next two years the difference of only a single seat would help the democrats, the majority party would not have to split committee assignments evenly with the minority meaning democrats would have less need to negotiate with the gop and there would be less chance of republicans defeating biden administration nominees in committee. so it's important if herschel walker has a victory, it brings it back to 50/50 having the vice president break the tie but you hear and see there all the bonuses politically on the hill, too. so herschel walker is in "focus" now. i wanted to get all that out so people really understand what's at stake in the bigger picture on the hill. what's at stake for you?

>> what's at stake for me is i want the georgia people to have a voice in washington. i think the last two years they haven't had a voice. senator warnock has done everything for joe biden and not for the georgia people. i think people see that in his voting. he has voted for the open border. he hasn't said anything about it. you see the way the economy is right now. you see men and women, crime on the streets and this is less than two years. that means the people of georgia haven't had a voice. right now i speak for the georgia people and i will always speak for the georgia people and the reason i decided to run. i tell everyone i'm not a politician, never looked or acted like one. right now what senator warnock has done to the georgia people is not correct. they're better than he has represented us in washington. >> harris: it was a blue seat when you went for it. what you trying to do is flip it red. why do you think it got so close down at the end?

a lot of people were saying herschel walker can't do it or do it by a mile. what drove it so close and so tight? >> it's so tight. this is the united states of america. everyone has a voice and that's what is so wonderful about it. everyone has a voice. right now i want everyone's voice to be heard and vote counted. one thing that we have to get back to is we can agree to disagree. we've gotten away from that. one of the things when i decided to run i want to be a guy to bring people together. i don't believe in separation. warnock believes in separation what he makes statements that america needs to apologize for whiteness and the problem america has in racism. he wants to separate and the muscling he is doing now. people want to know about the policies. the policies he has done, he has failed georgia and failed this country and he will continue to fail. this is less than two short years. right now we need new leadership in washington. we need people in washington

that foreign leaders will respect. right now i don't think the foreign lieders respect some of the leadership we have in washington because of what happened in afghanistan. warnock didn't hold joe biden accountable for that. we need leadership to be strong and there are good people here in the united states of america and good people in the state of georgia. >> harris: a piece on the hill argues it will hurt you without governor brian kemp on the ballot this time around. kemp outran walker by 210,000 votes putting the gop senate candidate behind the eight ball heading into the runoff. what's your reaction to that? >> my reaction is when i first got in the race they said i wouldn't be able to do it. you see where i'm at now. i speak for the georgia people and they spoke for me. i have more sheriffs that endorsed me than anyone else running because they knew i would have their backs. they knew i would always stand up for them. the georgia people know i will

stand up for them and i thank governor kemp for winning again. he has done some great things for the state. governor kemp is helping me run as well. there are a lot of people that believe in this country and believe in the people and that's what i believe in. i believe in the people. from what i've read in the constitution we the people. not we the government. senator warnock wants the government to control your life. that's one of the things i do not want. i think right now the government has shown they will spend your money, they will raise your taxes and give you more crime and open the border. they are doing things that are not american. they are doing things that is not georgia. as i told people, i'm georgia born and bred and when i die i will be georgia dead. i love this state and country and always fight for the people and this country. >> harris: i had election night live audience voters voices. some of what you are saying would cut across both aisles. that political aisle, even the independents that would resonate in terms of its we the people,

not we the government. that's quite a line. i appreciate you coming on in "focus." it is 21 days away and you've got a lot of people on team herschel. senator blackburn of tennessee tells me she is putting stuff up on her website. i appreciate your time. thank you, herschel. >> thank you so much. tell everyone to go to team herschel.com. i want america to get there and all georgians. i'm about the country and state because we are the people. >> harris: thank you. we invite all the candidates to come on. we'll see if warnock accepts our invitation so we can hear from him as well. i have lots of questions. today is the day, it's a big announcement. my new book "faith still moves mountains" is available for you to hold in your hands and read. incredible stories. read what happens when you usher

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anything was accomplished. we have to provide that deterrents. i don't believe this president is capable of doing that. >> harris: republican lawmakers are criticizing president biden's meeting with china's xi. they are lighting him up for not confronting xi over covid origins and other important issues. i said this before the president had really said much yesterday. how can you talk to china and not talk about covid? anyway, they are accusing the president of being lectured by communist talking points. in a new op-ed retired lieutenant writes biden's weakness was on full display in xi meeting. the president was no match for china's tyrant. as you might expect the administration put a rosie spin on the whole thing. >> you just can't put a price tag on the power of personal relationships. you can't surge or phone in trust and confidence. you have to earn that. and the president believes that

the way to earn that is to face-to-face diplomacy. it doesn't mean there aren't still going to be issues where we disagree with china and tensions in the relationship. that will probably continue. it's important the channels stay open. president biden is committed to that. >> harris: mike pompeo former secretary of state under president trump and fox news contributor. admiral kirby is saying of course we have disagreements with china and they should know it. it is a little embarrassing. >> thanks for having me on. disagreements. it sounds like they think china is sweden or norway. those are countries we have disagreements with. the chinese communist party is trying to destroy our way of life. xi has made that very clear. i heard congressman mccaul and the military guy they are right. president biden looked weak. not only did he not talk about

covid and its origins but how it killed millions of people around the world. i don't think they talked about fentanyl putting every community in america at risk today. everyone knows someone affected by fentanyl. when you think the meeting itself is the goal and objective and check the box it's a mistake. no action plan. nobody made a credible deterrent statements to xi jinping. even his comments in the press confronts on taiwan i couldn't tell you what our policy is with respect to taiwan today. if xi jinping doesn't know it will think it's green light like main or incursion in ukraine. we're confused on tie with a. that will be interpreted as a go signal. >> harris: i've heard you say on different topics when you show confusion you show the enemy. china is not our friend here.

you show the people who want to hurt you it is a green line but you don't agree at home and they love it when we're divided like that. absolutely love it. >> they do. you remember, harris, at the beginning of the administration when national security advisor and secretary of state went to alaska. riots in the street. george floyd, blm and that divisiveness. they accelerate and fan. when president biden doesn't make clear confrontation with the chinese communist party, they aren't a competitor they are an adversaries. if we won't confront them full throttle and confront them militarily, if we don't demonstrate our resolve through real actions jinping will sense weakness and affect every american right here at home. >> harris: they love to find out more about everything and divide

us more on tiktok and why president trump was against it and we're learning, but we've always known. maybe we woke up some of the woke folk. another fox news op-ed here to highlight. a quote. having sized up biden, putin invaded ukraine. taiwan must pray xi doesn't make a similar assessment. biden likely lectured his counterpart rambling on about issues that xi has no interest in like global warming and oppression by his government. a u.s. enemy will be sizing biden up and emboldened to start a war. a little bit of what you had said and it takes it deeper. secretary. >> yes, harris, that's exactly right and a really good summary. jinping was sizing up president biden when biden met with putin he was sized up and viewed as weak, not credible. unprepared to actually confront. xi will use it as a green light. when you send john kerry as your

primary emissary to xi he is thinking i will build more coal-fired power plants and going to take down your team because you are fundamentally unserious about the things that matter most to protecting america. i am deeply concerned we went backwards as a result of this summit not forwards. >> harris: i hope we don't go so far backward we start treating china and their coal like venezuela and oil. you don't think we would buy coal from china since biden wants to shut down the coal plants here. >> it seems unimaginable, harris, but i've been surprised. they want to buy stuff from iran. john kerry met with maduro. he shook hands with this guy. he is indicted. he is indicted for flooding our country with drugs. we have a bounty out for his arrest and bringing him back to the united states and our

climate envoy met with this guy. it wouldn't surprise me if we would be prepared to trade something really big in exchange for some green climate agenda that president biden has. >> harris: we have to watch it. we just have to cover it as it happens, every detail. i don't know if those in the other legacy medias are willing to do that. i'm sounding like jesse fen ventura. republican lawmakers say he forced the customs border protection commissioner chris magnus out of his job as a scapegoat for the disaster at our southern border. texas senator ted cruz says the biden administration found their fall guy. one of several republican lawmakers saying mayorkas should be the one to resign. others pressed him on the border crisis just last hour. let's watch. >> are you aware or have you

authorized cbp agents to release illegal aliens into america without identifying, screening or vetting them properly? >> congressman, our nation's sovereignty stands strong. zbloots owe been rumored. >> nobody built throughout the department of homeland security. >> you represent nobility? it's been rumored that you will resign prior to january 3rd. any truth to those rumors? >> it's a false rumor. >> harris: what is your reaction to all of that? >> i hope the rumor is not false and i hope he does resign. he has demonstrated enormous unwillingness to do the most basic thing. protect american sovereignty. whether this fellow he made walk the plank as a fall guy, we know the responsibility is ultimately with mayorkas and with president biden. senior american leaders have to take responsibility. when i hear them talk about vice president said the border was

secure and now mayorkas says goodness, that's gas lighting. it is untrue and it is dangerous for the united states. terrorists, fentanyl. all the things that cross our border present real risks to us. >> harris: i have been to both hubs. the human smuggling hub and the fentanyl south of my home when i'm home in arizona in nogales. i don't know what he is talking about when he says things are under control. let's get to this. the crime crisis continues here in new york city. two men are now suspected in at least seven necklace robberies. remember, crime is so rampant it feels like it is random. we aren't talking about they went to a jewelry store. we mean they ripped stuff off women's necks including this crime involving a 12-year-old child. two men drove up next to her and

grabbed the necklace and grabbed her off the street and grabbing the necklace away and fleeing on foot. a study finds nearly 24,500 americans were murdered last year. if that rate continues the study projects one out of every 179 americans will eventually be murdered. that number should be millions. that means that at least someone you know potentially will be harmed in that way. will be killed. we can't settle for this. >> harris, this is staggeringly bad. the american people feel it. the candidates who made this case and offered solutions, folks like lee zeldin in new york and some others convinced the american people to move in our direction. it is not a political issue. this is about basic security. basic taking care of families so your kids can play in the streets. when you have district attorneys and governors who aren't prepared to prosecute these

crimes against the most fundamental rights of every american it is indecent, immoral and it has to change. >> harris: secretary mike pompeo. great to have you in "focus." thank you for talking on so many different topics with me today. >> yes, ma'am, have a great day. >> harris: mid-term elections went his way sort of. so many questions over whether 2024 is a realistic goal for president biden. >> i think that he has been making a few more mistakes lately. look, i think politically it's difficult for him to run. physically it's difficult for him to run. >> harris: and plenty of other democrats are urging president biden not to seek a second term. power panel next. florence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present

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>> harris: we're learning more about the ftx crypto collapse. records show the founder and ceo flooded millions of dollars into democratic campaigns and causes. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles for us to talk about the ftx nexus sort of. >> good to see you, harris. ftx customers are calling on washington to step in. some of the lawmakers that would investigate got big donations

from the founder. >> i am really needing to this in a bipartisan way. it is thinking hard about who are the people who are really public servants? >> when you dig into the numbers, the bipartisan claim falls flat. he gave nearly $40 million. 92% went to democratic candidates or left wing group and 25 democrats this cycle. in a podcast earlier this year the former ceo made it clear he could spend up to a billion on the 2024 elections especially if former president trump were to run. the donations particular ng particularly eyes are those made to kirsten gillibrand who sponsored a bill sidelining the sec when it comes to regulating the crypto industry delivering a big win for the industry since the sec chair has taken an aggressive stance toward crypto.

critics are asking how much of the influence was funneled by the money & elon musk tweeted he was a major dem donor, no investigation. we've reached out to recipients of these donations and heard nothing but crickets back. many are questioning whether campaigns should keep the money especially when customers may never see theirs. >> harris: that's an interesting question. i'm always fascinated by how elon musk has time to lean back and tweet out information that people should know. he was a donor. >> he is into everything. >> harris: good to see you, thank you. former president trump says he will make a big announcement tonight from his estate in mar-a-lago. his former vice president mike pence said this when asked if trump should make another run for the white house. >> do you believe that donald trump should ever be president again? >> david, i think that's up to

the american people. but i think we'll have better choices in the future. >> will you run for president in 2024? >> we're giving it consideration at our house. prayerful consideration. >> harris: there are some potential contenders including florida governor ron desantis, mike pompeo who we had on. virginia governor glenn youngkin. the list goes on and the vice president puts himself in there, too, potentially on our wall. power panel now. fox news political analyst and a former ohio congressional candidate and president and ceo of innovation in ohio. gui gui guillen -- we were talking about 20242 days before because former president donald trump was already forecasting that an announcement was coming. he didn't say the texture of that but he said it is coming.

>> yeah, and i believe that he will announce today. i was watching our coverage earlier today and kellyanne conway was on saying that there should be unity within the republican party and not infighting. i absolutely agree with her. my question to kellyanne is have you told president trump this? have you told donald trump we shouldn't be attacking ron desantis days before the election when democrats took his words and played it all over florida television. if trump doesn't trust ron desantis why should you? did she tell him when we've had a number of other good republican governors across the country who haven't said they were going to run. this is the issue. since the tuesday election republican operatives calling all over saying what camp are you? , ron desantis and donald trump. now we'll have a messy probably primary if one of the republicans governors challenges trump. >> harris: i want to talk about vice president pence as well in

all of this. he is making the rounds, desirae. he has a town hall on cnn. what are thoughts of him jumping into the field even from the left? >> i don't think mike pence really stands a chance against donald trump. i think the way we think about presidential politics in general, donald trump at the end of the day is entertaining, right? he can move a crowd. i'm also hearing on the ground in ohio and across the midwest from my republican friends that they are all in for desantis. i'm hearing that. i have not once heard any republican who i work with or partner with or talk to regularly have said the word mike pence. i can definitely say that. >> harris: we'll move on. several names and faces up on our big wall right now. it is still very early and there is a runoff in 21 days in georgia. i know a lot of republicans are focused on team herschel right now. not all democrats are on board

with president biden running for re-election. much comes down to his age and fitness to serve. former white house press secretary jen psaki tweeted this. throwing out there for everyone arguing the reason potus shouldn't run again because of his age you know trump is 76, right? former first lady michelle obama holds back her endorsement of a biden second term. watch this. >> do you hope that president biden will run again in 2024? >> you know, i -- i will have to see. you know, the reason i don't speak on that is because i know what it feels like to be on the other side of it and i think that's a personal decision that he and his family have to make. >> harris: first she grappled for the words but it is an interesting perspective. she understands the pressure. >> yeah, and i think most

democrats would say they wouldn't want him to run. it will be very difficult for them to tell him not to run considering what you saw last tuesday. >> harris: did you see him on the world stage? >> because what we saw on tuesday. listen, joe biden has been in office for 665 days. the majority of the country disapproves of him. we saw 75% of americans believe the country is on the wrong track. democrats wouldn't want him to run but he can say look how well we did on tuesday. i might as well run and it will be difficult for them to say no you can't run. i'm sure as much as i dislike the result on tuesday. i wanted republicans to win everything. democrats even though they are cheering some will not like it. >> harris: we have about 30 seconds left and i want to give it to you, desirae. >> i think it's a personal choice and i agree 100% with former first lady michelle obama in that decision. it is a lot to run for office

let alone president of the united states. >> harris: i get that from here because it is personal because she has been in those shoes. >> i ran for office before. it is a lot of work. so i think that's going to be up to the bidens to make that decision. >> harris: do you want him to be in office again? >> the party of joe biden won on tuesday. his policies are very popular. >> harris: good to see you both. "outnumbered" is after the break.

>> the g.o.p. set the whole the g.o.p. election one hour from now. this is the party is not just one seat away from gaining control of the house of representatives. 13 races are still in play and republicans could get the one they need in the next couple of hours. house minority leader kevin mccarthy says that he will be of any for speaker, bu