ingrid is a wonderful artist and zach brown band. >> bill: mine chris staple ton. brothers osborn. harry styles, simpson and van morrison. i would put van at number one. >> dana: chris stapleton is because you went to the concert. "the faulkner focus" is up next. >> harris: fox news alert. the battle over free speech is real and the stakes are high. on one side elon musk and free speech. versus the white house and some high profile democrats. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the left has some big problems with twitter under elon musk's new ownership. they said it out loud. they don't like twitter's transformation into a free speech utopia for equitable

moderation for conservatives and democrats. this ground shaking news from elon musk coming out today. twitter's new owner has revealed that the platform previously interfered in elections and failed in trust and safety before he took over. he tweeted this. twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even handed. the white house this week calling out for the potential for misinformation and promising to keep an eye on twitter. somebody better tell that to the white house press secretary and put it in her binder. >> when are you guys going to delete the white house twitter account? >> why would we do that? >> well, you are saying you are keeping an eye on twitter because it might not be a suitable platform. why use it? >> the president has always said and he has been very clear in his belief that it is important social media platforms to continue to take steps to reduce hate speech and misinformation.

we have multiple platforms, as you know, that we utilize to communicate with the american people. >> harris: is that code for because we can't live without twitter? i don't know. earlier this month, days after president biden insisted elon musk's foreign connections warranted a closer look his treasury secretary said this. >> we have really no basis to examine his finances of his company. i'm not aware of concerns that would cause us to investigate. oops, did someone call her and tell her you can't tell the truth like that? now she is saying something completely different. >> let me clarify, i misspoke. if there are such risks, it would be appropriate to have a look. >> harris: she misspoke using completely different words. fox business's hillary vaughn is live on the story on capitol

hill. hillary. >> hi. elon musk is promising that twitter 2.0 will be better. he says it will be more even handed when patrolling content on the platform and republicans have been concerned that social media sites like twitter are unfairly biased against them. the top republican on the house oversight committee says they asked twitter to preserve any communication between twitter executives and the dnc or the biden administration and they are hoping to get some answers. >> i think elon musk knows that there are other stories that twitter was told to suppress that affected conservatives in a negative way and helped democrats. this is something that's wrong. this is the government directly interfering with free speech especially conservative free speech. i think elon musk wants to set the record straight. >> some democrats want the old twitter back and so does the

european union threatening to ban twitter if elon musk does not follow a checklist of rules and stop what they consider an arbitrary approach to reinstating banned users. senator elizabeth warren has a problem with how things are being run at twitter hq with musk in charge. >> elon musk is doing just fine. >> do you think users have a right to freedom of speech even if what they are saying is wrong or offensive? >> i think that one human being should not decide how millions of people communicate with each other. it doesn't make any difference who that human being is. one human being shouldn't be able to go into a dark room by himself and decide oh, that person gets heard from, that person doesn't. >> harris, apple ceo tim cook will be on capital hill to meet with lawmakers today. he met with elon musk yesterday and said apple never considered moving twitter from its app

store. >> harris: excellent reporting. thank you for getting us started. will cain, co-host of "fox & friends" weekend will welcome in "focus" today. did you hear elizabeth warren the senator. now elon musk is going into a dark room. this is how she describes it and that would mean he would be doing nefarious things. that's what that connotes. >> i was listening to that report from hillary vaughn. when that clip was played by warren, i yelled into my dead microphone what? what she just described is how twitter operated previously. there was, if not one, a group of individuals and what is increasingly clear under the influence of the government who went into a dark room and decided who to turn up and who to turn down and who to turn off. musk's approach is everyone is welcome under the banner of

freedom of speech and what warren is describing as nefarious. freedom, harris. she is describing freedom as nefarious. it blows my mind. we're at a point in american history, maybe it shouldn't blow my mind. every other country on the planet operates this way. we're now in a culture in america that believes no longer i disagree with you but i'll defend to the death my right to say it. it is a culture that now believes shut up. it is echoed from the highest levels of american power. now our idea when it comes to the battle of ideas is, you don't have to win, you just have to fit them for a muzzle. it is embarrassing that the united states senator and administration views in that way free speech. >> harris: it's hypocritical considering what is happening in ukraine. i remember a time like a few months ago when the war started when elon musk was offering them

a bastion of free speech by putting up star link and democrats weren't complaining when he was helping out and doing what the federal government couldn't even do so they could show the world what was going on in the ground in ukraine. do the democrats love free speech and first amendment or hate it when it's in the hands of elon musk? >> we have the answer to that question. what they love more than freedom is control. now the great -- they lost control. that's why there is so much anger. it reveals, harris, how much control they had previously over not just twitter but our minds. i'm always sensitive to this, harris, i believe -- i know i'm passionate about this . it is one of the most foundational elements the experiment of democracy freedom of speech. i'm sensitive to this. a small percentage of the population is on twitter. of that i believe only 2% contribute to the conversation. you and i both know this. you and i both know this.

twitter has outside influence. it dictates what news media talks about. it begins the conversation. they had control over that. which means they had control over our minds, what we saw, what we read, what we thought. and their anger is about the loss of control and what we really need to do next and i hope lon does is reveal the extent of the control. >> harris: i want to get to this. elon musk talks specifically now about trust and safety and how under his twitter 2.0 it will be transparent and work. the twitter head of trust and safety until he quit earlier this month has admitted censoring the hunter biden laptop post was a mistake. watch. >> we didn't know what to believe. we didn't know what was true. there was smoke and ultimately for me it didn't reach a place where i was comfortable removing

this content from twitter. but it set off every single one of my finely tuned apt28 hack and leak alarm bells. >> it was a mistake? >> in my opinion yes. >> harris: what was that fancy machine he was using? >> they were finely tuned. history suggests maybe it needs some tuning. i don't care for his apology. he accomplished -- let's be real. he accomplished what he set out to accomplish, which was to manipulate an american presidential election. it is easy now to go back in time and i think jack dorsey is trying to gravitate to the right side of history on free speech. jack dorsey is culpable as well. it is not good enough to simply apologize. you helped swing -- we have the data on this. you helped swing an american election. you accomplished your goal.

now it is okay, great, you are sorry you did that. we want to find out how, why and who made that call. >> harris: i'm curious why didn't he quit when he knew what he was doing was wrong? did he just have that epiphany? probably not fine-tuning the mystery machine to keep people off twitter. want to give you a moment to pull any young ones you have near the television away. we're about to show you the latest receipts of what democratic leadership on crime in some of our biggest cities is generating. on the day after thanksgiving when many people were enjoying their leftovers and black friday shopping a man shot a parking thought officer in the head. the shooter strolls up, point and fire the gun before the officer collapses to the ground. police say they believe the gunman targeted the officer. we'll say his name.

timothy mcken zeechlt he is hospitalized and recovering. so far police have made no arrests in this violent case. scenes like this are stoking fear in the city of philadelphia. one person tweeting philadelphia is now a war zone. crime there skyrocketing, robbery and gun crimes spiking compared to last year and total major crimes up by 23%. the pennsylvania legislature says enough is enough. yesterday the state senate agreed to accept articles of impeachment against that liberal district attorney larry krasner and his soft on crime policies. the house impeached him in part because of the climate of lawlessness in philadelphia. will, your take on all of it. >> wow, that video, harris, is so stunning and ugly and that that is modern day philadelphia.

this potential recall of the d.a. whose policies help exacerbate the rise in crime, we have to look at it unfortunately with some pessimism because we saw similar effort in los angeles with george gascon and he survived a recall effort. maybe it will different in pennsylvania, in philadelphia. the best advice and can't be followed by everyone is to begin voting with your feet. people have. leave california, leave philadelphia. unfortunately as we know, harris, what that means is the people that have to live with this on the poorest, more often than not minorities who have to live under these conditions because of these horrendous policies by apparently unaccountable politicians. >> harris: we'll see if they impeach and remove larry krasner and what comes up next. sometimes what we see is there is so much backfill and so many other people in administration at the local level it may take a while to weed out the soft on crime policies and the things that are making life more dangerous for citizens there.

will cain, great to have you in "focus." thank you. a crippling strike is hanging in the balance as president biden's bill to prevent that from happening, now moves to the senate. he put that seeming pile of pooh in their hands instead of solving it himself. is he beholding to the unions? it faces an uphill battle in the senate. some democrats are opposed to it. critics still hitting the white house on what they say is a dirty oil deal in the meantime. >> this administration is imposing new, more expensive regulations on energy, punishing american energy producers while they want to reward venezuela and dictators. this is upside down. >> harris: the president's energy advisor twisting and turning to try to explain all that's going on with our oil difficulties now buying it from, you know, dirty players like venezuela. fox business's charles payne is a few feet away here on the

mezzanine in "focus" next.

senate to avert a potential nationwide rail strike, a stoppage that would throw supply chains into chaos during the busy holiday shopping season. senate majority whip dick durbin says he doesn't know if the bill can score 60 votes needed. liberals like bernie sanders insist the measure include a provision to give rail workers seven days of paid medical

leave. the white house says president biden supports paid sick time for workers to a point. >> the president, of course, supports paid sick leave for all americans and for including rail workers. his number one priority is that making sure that we get this done. so he does not support any bill or amendment that will delay a bill getting to his desk by saturday. >> harris: they can't even agree among themselves. senator elizabeth warren tweets rail companies rake in billions of dollars every year so don't tell me they can't afford to provide paid sick leave to rail workers. a strike, by the way, would cost the u.s. economy some $2 billion per day. it would also directly affect more than 100,000 rail jobs and millions of additional ones in other industries. charles payne, host of making money on fox business. all right, the president said he would take care of this rail

strike. he is mr. train man, remember the train rides to scranton. all that stuff. was that disingenuous and that not true to win the election before november 8th or did he fail the minute the election went by and couldn't get a deal? >> he took a victory lap. this was already in the books. he said this is done. you know, he took a victory lap on this. i have to be frank with you. i even suspect to a agree the whole student loan thing might have been bait and switch knowing it was unconstitutional and making the promise. from a political point of view they both worked. union workers voted for president biden and young folks voted for him. they might have kept the senate in democratic hands. as a political ploy it may have worked. something you would expect more from your commander-in-chief it's despicable. >> i call it switch and lie. you call it bait and switch. what happens if we have a rail

strike in december of 2022? >> it won't just stay in december of 2022, right? remember how badly our economy was snarled from supply chain issues. when these things happen you just don't untie the knot. if it goes for a couple of weeks the ramifications last for a few months. >> harris: quickly you and i were both talking about lame duckness on capitol hill and what happens to great ideas when they go to the senate and fight over them. they usually die or get set on fire. the president has taken this out of his own hands after he said he had solved the problem and put it on capitol hill. what does that mean? >> he is in a precarious situation. dick durbin doesn't have 60 votes. ultimately if they can get around bernie sanders. >> harris: and elizabeth warren. >> she is trying to blame the companies. she is trying to do the old biden it's the companies ultimately they're too greedy. i think, though, senator sanders

puts him in a tougher bind. he is essentially saying hey, they wanted 14 days of sick leave, they are getting 0, compromise is seven days. negotiating 101 why would the president -- why would president biden let it get to this point? >> harris: who knows? >> he is the union president supposed to have the unions back and hasn't done much for them in this deal. >> harris: sanders becomes the new joe manchin. manchin didn't get what he wanted. >> twist and turn. >> harris: twist and lie. all the bait and all that kind of stuff. >> more to the point. >> harris: white house energy advisor is trying hard to justify the administration allowing chevron to drill in venezuela and rolling back sanctions against that nation's brutal dictator to do so. >> he doesn't invite the major oil companies domestically to

come to the white house to talk about increasing production. we go to venezuela. these are the things that critics would say don't make any sense. >> the license to venezuela is very small. production is tiny. the amount of oil that will come to the united states is not all that significant. outside of wry alt the profits aren't going to go into the hands of the maduro regime. >> harris: the real problem with this. when you capitulate to a bully you embolden them. maduro urged the united states to ease more sanctions on the country's oil industry. quote the licenses, all of them, the public and non-public ones granted for the u.s. government to chevron are on the right track but they are not enough for what venezuela demands. >> let's not forget venezuela kicked out the american companies. they voted to become a socialist country in 1999 and kicked out the americans and they used to

produce 3 million barrels a day. they're down to 700,000. the white house is again being disingenuous. we send these chevron engineers down there and they start to retool the oil rigs and bring fresh technology down there. we are helping them immensely, immensely. not about the amount of oil they get out but the know how they have lost in the last two decades because they didn't have our experts down there running the show. >> harris: they didn't have our intellectual property. technology. >> president biden is on the cusp of giving that away. his own spokesperson said for a minuscule amount of oil. what are we doing it and why aren't we doing this in north dakota and texas? >> harris: you have a theory. >> they hate the industry and they hate the beneficiaries of the industry. i think new york state -- they just don't -- they just hate this whole thing and the problem, though, is they put us in a major bind. >> harris: at the very bottom of

the list the beneficiaries are all of us who need the oil. do they hate us? we're the consumers. >> as long as we thirst for oil and don't make the move to solar panels they have disdain for us. >> harris: they have to figure out how the get their solar panels off of oil. don't destroy anything is what house republicans are telling one government agencies when it comes to evidence on the origins of covid-19. plus the liberal media inviting the king of the crypto collapse to tell his side of the story. oh, they like him. >> i made a lot of mistakes. the things i would give anything to be able to do over again. >> harris: they are giving him kisses. critics say he is getting the kid glove treatment and those interviews should be happening behind bars saying the disgraced ceo should be in prison, not in the bahamas. clay travis outkick founder is

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>> harris: be sure to keep every post-it note and any love notes you may have written to china. house republicans have sent a letter to the national institutes of health demanding it preserve all materials on the origins of covid-19. it is the 13th notice republican lawmakers have sent to that agency urging transparency. they say none of those requests have been answered. the letter comes from -- from the committee on energy and commerce this week read in part nih's persistent lack of transparency with members of its committee of jurisdiction is troubling. you should construe this preservation notice as instruction to all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or altercation whether

intentionally or negligently of all documents. they're promising investigating covid-19's origins in january. dr. fauci a key issue. already deposed behind closed doors. his memory is suffering, he said. clay travis, founder of out kick is here. i want to get your take of where we are. when you ask somebody 13 times to be transparent and they don't respond on this issue, what does it mean to you? >> harris i like to think about this as if we were having a trial. if you had 12 average americans on a jury and you laid out the evidence surrounding where covid came from, i don't think there is any doubt a jury would say it came out of a chinese lab. and i think probably if you also presented the evidence of american taxpayer involvement through gain-of-function research headed by dr. fauci

that we sent our own dollars there you would say why there is so much avoidance of trying to tell the truth, because the facts when you lay them out and put them all together, show a pattern here that the united states and particular dr. fauci likely was helping to gain-of-function research and that gain of function research -- the people that helped to insure this happened are saying we probably -- this probably came from an animal as opposed to the actual institute of varology in wuhan where we know they were conducting these sorts of gain-of-function research trials. i can't wait for the house republicans as a part of this investigation to just lay out all the facts, let the american public, let the wisdom of a jury carry the day here, harris.

i think all of the facts suggest this was a chinese-created virus that escaped from the lab and american tax dollars were involved in help to aid and abet that occurrence. >> harris: dr. fauci cannot get a pass if his memory -- tammy bruce said this as a guest on the show this week. he has written a book recently. he has to have notes. we need to know what was going on and what his relationships were with people at that lab and just in general around this issue inside china. you know, kevin mccarthy has been very clear in recent days about what he wants to do first. obviously the economy and energy and so on and so forth. kevin mccarthy also has sent a let to the january 6th committee chair saying the committee will desolve on january 3rd demanding they keep all records. it is imperative that all

information collected be preserved for transparency to the american people. the official congressional records do not belong to you or any member but to the american people. why do you think that that is necessary to make so clear? wouldn't that be the course of action anyway when you dissolve a high-profile committee like that? >> you would think so. harris, we know what's going on here. january 6th is about trying to get donald trump. it is effectively the third donald trump impeachment trial. i think unfortunately because they wouldn't allow actual republicans to sit on the committee. they basically tossed that idea aside, the real question here that i believe many american people still want to know the answer to is why was security so lax on that day at the united states capitol that this incident was ever allowed to occur? there have been virtually no questions asked surrounding that on january 6th at all. if you truly wanted to prevent

any incident like this happening again, instead of focusing on donald trump, why don't you look around and say why were the capitol police so woefully unprepared on that day for the idea that something such as this might happen and that to me is the most intriguing part. >> harris: what is the paper trail on that? who was making -- >> they won't answer who made the choices, why did they make the choices. that's one of the integral questions that should be asked. >> harris: quickly, too, the idea that justice would not be served without this particular committee. we're seeing cases be adjudicated and people going to prison who were committing crimes. your last thought. >> i think january 6th we have people still in solitaire confinement for two years now nearly since january 6th. if anything, i think the people of january 6th are being wildly overpunished when you compare how the justice department is treating other people who committed violent crimes of

protest during the summer of 2020. >> harris: we'll move on. critics say disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried now is getting celebrity treatment from the mainstream media. this week taking his first interviews since his alleged ponzi scheme blew up claiming his innocence from luxury accommodations in the bahamas. >> i made a lot of mistakes. i didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. i was ceo of ftx. whatever happened, i have a duty, i had a duty to all of our stakeholders and customers, our funders, employees and investors and to the regulators and the world to do right by them to make sure the right things happen to the company. clearly i didn't do a good job of that. >> harris: he can say i woke up this way.

ftx investors are furious and not buying it. one of the victims told fox this. >> why did you do this? what gives you the right to do this? do you have a plan to get us our money back? who is on your side? why aren't you in jail in the first place? this interview could be taken place behind bars. he has done a crime and he knows what he is doing. >> harris: a senate panel is trying to get to the bottom of the collapse. democrat senators took donations from bankman-fried. many some are scrambling to off load now. the 5 or 6 republicans who may have had some cash involved, too, oddly enough also voted for the impeachment of donald trump. all right. clay, go. >> he should be in prison. >> harris: why isn't he in prison? why is he allowed to do these interviews from the bahamas? >> i'm sure his lawyers are telling him he is an idiot to

use the interviews. it will be used in a criminal trial against him. the billions of dollars that escaped he intermingled funds with his hedge funds which weren't his to have used. there is no doubt a massive fraud was perpetrated. this is the bernie madoff of crypto. what's happening now is they're working on an airtight indictment. i would expect he will be arrested sooner rather than later and a good chance he spends the rest of his life in prison. and in the meantime he is still hanging out in the bahamas. i'm surprised he hasn't fled the bahamas and tried to go to a country where the united states doesn't have an extradition treaty. i expect he will be arrested soon. in the meantime the media is shameful for not going after him more aggressively than they have. >> harris: why do they love him so much? >> because they bought the lie and refuse to believe the entire apparatus of ftx is such a lie.

if you compare the way that let's say elon musk has been treated since he bought twitter compared to the way that this clown, this fraudulent should be in jail ponzi scheme has been treated i think it's shameful and i would expect he should be in handcuffs being brought back to the united states to stand trial for fraud sooner rather than later. >> harris: another low for iran's brutal regime. forces killed a young man for celebrating the country's world cup loss to the united states on tuesday. 27-year-old man was brutally shot in the head and killed. he is just the latest victim of the government's response to any resistance. obviously by resisting they wanted the united states to win. he was one of several protestors who cheered the results of the match. the country gripped by months of

protesting now by began after iranian police killed 22-year-old woman. the reason? she violated that country's strict islamic dress code. security forces have reportedly killed more than 400 people in the resulting protests. i say the names of the people who are the victims. what do you say about what is happening there? >> the iranian people, harris, are profoundly good and america is failing them by not standing up for their rights more aggressively in the biden administration. prayers to the family members of that individual. we talk about proverb re as it pertains to sports. people who took a knee during our national anthem guess what got rewarded with millions of dollars from woke corporations? in iran if you don't cheer for their team they'll kill you and torture the members of the iranian soccer team if they don't sick the national anthem. i think americans are doing a

disservice politically and nationally when we aren't speaking out more aggressively for the rights of the good iranian people. >> harris: maybe a little bit more for iran but certainly not for china right now where they are protesting the vicious, torturous covid lockdowns. all right. the round of 16 at the fifa world cup in qatar kicks off this weekend. you can catch the action on fox and the fox sports app beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. go usa and clay travis on a whole lot of topics with me today. thank you for being in "focus." pants on fire? maybe. the white house says president biden has visited the southern border as the crisis there gets worse. but when asked when did he go? when did he go? hum, she didn't know.

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>> harris: the white house press secretary has made a bizarre claim. it happened at yesterday's news conference. it came the day after house republican leaders invited the president to go to the southern border. >> we know the president has never been down to the border. the possible next speaker said he wants him to go with him. is he going to? >> so look, he has been there. he has been to the border. and since he took office. >> when did he go to the border >> since he took office he has been working to secure our border and fix you're immigration system. we're not seeing that republicans. we're not seeing a willingness to work with us. instead they're doing political stunts. >> harris: they're in the majority. she wouldn't say when president

biden visited. there is no record of it. instant backlash on those comments. rnc with all caps, this is a lie. texas republican congressman dan crenshaw joking, narrator. president biden has not been to the border. national review contributor with she gets caught in lies daily. it is amazing. president biden himself and her predecessor have made similar claims that met with skepticism. >> do you have plans to visit the southern border? >> president biden: i have been there before and i know it well. i guess i should go down but i plan on -- my wife jill has been down. >> why did president biden say he has been to the border? >> peter, as you may have seen there has been reporting that he did drive through the border when he was on the campaign trail in 2008. >> harris: wait, wait, wait. he did a drive-by like is the

mall open? a former special assistant to president trump and former press secretary to vice president pence, richard fowler fox news contributor. great to have you here. mark, i will start with you. lots of receipts on this and why it's important that the president go now. >> i think there are many reasons. number one it will show the support of the administration to the border officials that they have villainized, criminalized and tied their hands so they can't do their jobs. i'm not so much worried if he goes to the border. i want him to do something about the border. we are talking about record numbers of illegal immigration. child trafficking, drugs, gangs flying over that border. we need something to happen and this administration -- drive-by won't do it. they don't know what they're doing. we need action. >> harris: the drive-by was ten

years ago. even if it would have done something the situation is unfortunately much worse than what it was. richard, title 42 goes away december 21st and we see mexican police fight with venezuelan citizens trying to set up camps to stay down south of the border so they can flip the switch on december 21st and crawl into our country, whether noticed or unnoticed. there is a reason why the president needs to see this now. but let's say he refuses to visit. we need action. >> i agree. the president can visit the border. but on top of visiting the border you have to have a policy position that will help fortify. >> harris: what are they that could fix it? >> a couple of things here. number one we've seen this administration to try to put executive motions to deal with the border. >> harris: it is not fixing it. >> i agree. to fix the border you need legislative action. to get that you need -- >> harris: they're in the

majority. >> ten votes in the senate to overcome a filibuster. what we can do in the new congress is pass a measure that will fix the border by for the filing the border security and deal with why folks are crossing in the first place. if you are an employer and hire somebody undocumented you get penalized for that. it's a way to stem folks from hiring these individuals so they don't cross the border to get work to begin with. >> harris: quick reaction to that and we'll move. mark. >> there are many things that have to be done. we have to stop the flow coming in which means right now there is no deterrent. title 42 -- >> if they aren't getting work why would they come? e-verify was on the table under donald trump. he wouldn't pass it when it was on the floor of the senate and the house. >> harris: all these people want to come and have jobs. we have nearly a million gotaways who don't want us to

know they're in the country. >> they're coming to work, are they not? why are we coming? >> have you talked with them. >> why are they crossing the border? not crossing to get work and opportunity? sure, i'll go with you. let's go together. >> they're coming from 150 different countries. not all of them are coming for jobs. if they were they would come in the right way. just as millions of great americans have come from all over the world. we have to move on. i will ask my team quickly to run what we wanted to run on president biden if we can make that happen, please. the president may have given democrats a major headache with this. >> president biden: as my grandfather said it's the irish of it. thank you very much. >> harris: we don't know if he is running or not. what was that, mark? >> i think it's reality setting in. even though democrats did better in 2022 than they expected it wasn't because of their agenda.

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