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wearing last weekend? >> bill: same hat. >> dana: i think you keep the hat. i hope for the best for you. i want to have a good day on monday and i want you to be in a good mood. >> bill: let's go. >> dana: i know eric had to say the bills will win. >> bill: he had a clever answer. he said i work for the team. >> dana: we also work for the team. bengals. all right. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. 730 days of president biden in the white house exactly two years in office. it's a troubled anniversary for sure. a long list of concerns for the nation on his watch. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." president biden seeming not to have a care in the world, though. >> president biden: they found a handful of documents that were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned them over to the archives and justice department. we're fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this
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resolve quickly. i think you will find there is nothing there. i have no regrets. i'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. exact will i what we're doing. there is no there there. >> harris: critics reacting with this. this just in. china and ukraine have no regrets about their access to biden's documents, either. another pointing out the president's totally different reaction to trump's document scandal. the "washington post" reporting quote, a justice official asked specifically that biden's legal team secure the materials from the penn biden center and refrain from further reviewing them or other relevant documents that might be stored at different locations. did they do that? white house correspondent jacque heinrich live from the north lawn. that's an important question. >> harris, the president is being investigated for whether or not he took classification
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laws seriously. the expression of no regrets is giving a lot of fodder to his biggest critics. >> it is not a clerical error. a top secret document, for instance, has its own cover and backing. if you pick it up you wouldn't -- if you were putting it in a file, you would see the top secret covering. that's what the covering is for. so it's pretty screamingly obvious the no regrets reminds me of the tattoo commercial. >> the president's seems to remain undeterred. still expect an announcement on the 2024 plans sometimes after the state of the union. a source tells me it is not being impacted by the documents probe. it is better for biden to tout his achievements and let that moment breathe before making any other major news. so many questions still unanswered. ten days after the chairman of
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the house intelligence committee asked for a damage assessment with respect to national security there has been no answer from biden's director of national intelligence causing even democrats to sound off now. >> is there any risk that they were exposed to people that didn't or shouldn't have had access? intelligence community does those damage assessments and mitigation assessments. they should do so here. >> we asked about this multiple times. it is not a legal question we were directed to the justice department that directed us to the special counsel and said no comment. the "washington post" reports there was initially a shared understanding between d.o.j. and biden's team better for both parties to keep it quiet and not get it out to the media for different reasons. the president yesterday, though, was asked if he is happy with his team's happening of this and walked straight by and did not answer the question. >> harris: he has no regrets. maybe he thinks they do? they were at his direction.
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good to see you, thank you. power panel now. kellyanne conway former senior counselor to president trump. harold ford junior, both fox news contributors. kellyanne, i'll go to you for your first reaction today to what we're learning. >> it is remarkable that the department of justice was ignored by the president's private counsel bob bauer whose wife works in my old office at the white house in the west wing. why is that remarkable? d.o.j. gave them good advice. please stop searching for these documents. we'll handle it. they made clear the standard was the trump standard. we can never be as bad as he is. we think the department of justice will understand that it was a good faith mistake, harris and harold, that's what the "washington post" is reporting. joe biden is saying there is no there there and i have no regrets reminds me of him saying i make no apology after the deadly and disastrous pull-out
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of afghanistan. lawyers don't like when their clients use such absolute language. i didn't pull the trigger, there is no there there, i have no regrets. but we as the public should be very concerned about a president who promised transparency and accountability and is not delivering it. as every day goes on more of the mainstream media abandon joe biden on this issue and -- >> harris: what do you think about what kellyanne is saying? this is a legal matter quite different unfortunately than afghanistan's pull-out and the disaster that was. there were plenty of people who would have loved to have known exact will i what happened there not just from the generals. we'll leave that on the side. lawyers now are involved and they might want to tell their client if you aren't going to talk about it, stop saying you don't regret it. >> first off, happy friday. first time i've been on your show. delighted to be on. a couple of things. listened to the president and
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you played it. he says they are fully cooperating and no regrets. i listen to adam schiff say the damage assessment should take place. i will leave the politics to everybody on either side. i think a damage assessment should be made. if the president is not telling the truth, harris and kellyanne, then the special counsel will get to the bottom of it. i've said from the outset the period of time in this timeline that is most concerning to me or the one answers i want most about is from november 14th when the u.s. attorney in illinois was assigned to look into the matter after the penn biden papers had been discovered and maybe something else. we know november 14th that occurred. january 5th a special counsel was appointed. i guess there had to be a standard, had to be protocol. something triggered that to happen. now that we have the special cou counsel we'll see what he gets to the bottom of and the president will have to answer accordingly. >> harris: a quick one with
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kellyanne to respond to that. the fact that democrats have questions about the timeline is fraught with which timeline do you like best? want to go back to six days before the election when the document were unearthed by private attorneys of the president? >> yes. it doesn't seem the problem here is ignorance about the documents. it seems like it's arrogance how they can respond to what we no is reckless handling of classified document. i'm appalled and no value in the white house briefings anymore. they think they can pick and choose what they are able to answer. the information they reveal. point everybody's attention to the quinnipiac poll. 36% approval rating. 18% handling of the border. 22% immigration. 71% of americans told the pollsters they are concerned it's a serious matter the mishandling of document. you have democrats who want this
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investigated. >> harris: we'll pause and move on. the president's team has said what is happening now with the classified documents scandal has nothing to do with this. president biden is delaying his 2024 decision announcement. maybe because of all the other problems the nation is watching as he leads us. the raging border crisis, painful inflation. all of it on top of the document scandal coming as presidential primary season is nearly upon us. can you even believe it's this close? biden will tell america if he is running again after he gives the state of the union address scheduled for february 7th. sources telling fox there is no connection again between the timing and the ongoing special counsel investigation. new poll taken after the document story you just heard it from kellyanne, 36%, that's dismal for approval. harold, can you even defend him? >> well, there is a lot there, harris. a couple of things. in the mid-terms before the mid-term elections president
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biden's numbers were down and below in the mid 40s or low 40s. republicans only gained a four-seat majority in the house and picked up a seat tht senate. i take everything you are saying at face value but push back on one thing. white houses will try to hide information or not share as much as they have to. in the public and press want more of it. two, i don't think there is anything unusual for the president to want the give the state of the union and tout his achievements. president trump, president clinton, president bush, president obama all did it. the question becomes do the american people feel better off with what the president is doing? that's what generally reelects and elects a president. >> harris: do you think they do? people will talk about it. vote that way. we'll know what people really felt and feel. kellyanne is shaking her head no. >> i think if you look at that
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-- >> harris: let harold -- that's my fault. i'm sorry. >> i'll be brief. the only poll that matters is an electoral poll where voters vote. the last time voters voted democrats and republicans finished about 50/50. the senate went democrat. the house went republican. not by as much as many suggested. i look at the poll as a gauge but i don't see it's the whole thing. >> harris: remember when the classified documents were handed over less than six days before. the attorneys went to collect them six days before. they didn't get turned over until the 3 or 4 to the doj. all political. i wonder how the 50/50 numbers might have changed if the public knew the truth about something. >> how the second consecutive election where the public did not have full visibility to all the facts and figures. they might have turned their vote. no question it happened with
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hunter's laptop. 17% say they would have voted differently. the bottom line. 36% approval rating is no good and no way to spin it. if i hear one more time joe biden had the best mid-term in six years. why the party did better than expected they sidelined the president and vice president. they sent harris to california. sent them to maryland. they sent joe biden to union station which as we know is not a swing state or congressional district but a train deep depot. they will have to campaign. they sidelined him and why the democrats did well. i can't wait to see kevin mccarthy behind joe biden. >> harris: ten seconds. go. >> we can say what we want to say but mid-terms are referendums on the president and it was a referendum on him whether we like it or not.
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>> harris: we should say the truth. what the facts lay out that kellyanne just talked about. it is all true and the truth is they are about 50/50. it is squeaky tight but wider reasons to that than just joe biden is wildly popular at 36%. i have to let you go. have a great weekend. good to have you. fury after a u.s. supreme court investigation failed to find the person who leaked the draft opinion to overturn roe v. wade. insult to injury for those conservative justices who say protests, even a murder attempt. also the white house and most democrats saying quote our way or the highway when it comes to fixing the debt ceiling doomsday scenario. >> they are not serious about the deficit. they are serious about basically creating this fiscal crisis in order to exact cuts to social security and medicare.
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we won't negotiate over this. >> harris: republicans serious about spending and that has the white house spinning to go on offense painting republicans economic plans as bad for the middle class. louisiana senator john kennedy in "focus" next. homeowners that newday is a leader in va loans? it means serving veterans is what we do. it means if you need cash, you get more at newday by borrowing up to 100% of your home's value, not just 80%. it means newday has been granted automatic authority by the va to make our own approvals. we can say yes to a veteran when other lenders say no. it means we come to work every day knowing we have the privilege of helping veterans make the most of their va home loan benefit. it means no bank, no lender-- no one knows veterans like newday usa.
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>> harris: the debt ceiling. the maximum which america can borrow right now. the united states just popped up above the $34.1 trillion borrowing limit. the treasury department says it will use extraordinary measures the buy congress more time before america defaults on its debt for the first time ever. the political battle is on over this. republicans hitting the white
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house for refusing to negotiate on spending cuts to biden's quote reckless spending nearly $6 trillion since the president took office. the left brushing off gop fiscal worries as theater. >> they like the chaos. the chaos for them is attention and fundraising and so there is not an incentive to them, crazy enough, to not make this a chaotic hurtling toward uncertainly around the debt limit. >> harris: edward lawrence at the white house. >> right now republicans and the president are talking at each other not with each other. the white house refusing to negotiate at all over any spending. a senior republican aide says leadership is coming up with asks to present to the president. they say the pace we're on the spending on interest payments the largest government program
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in the next six years. fiscal year 2022 taxpayers spent $4 hundred billion on interest payments like paying the minimum on your credit card. if the spending pace continues the cbo says those payments will be $1.2 trillion in 2032. >> we are by next year going to spend more on interest, servicing our debt than everything we spend on the federal level including child nutrition, education, tax credits, you make it. it is backwards. we need to invest more in the future not paying for things we did in the past. >> even the federal reserve chairman when asked says we can't continue to spend and run up debt. >> the u.s. is on an unsustainable fiscal path. the debt is growing faster than the economy. not in an unsustainable position. the markets understand we can service our debt and conduct our policy without thinking about
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questions of fiscal sustainability. >> house republicans are questioning the timing of the letter from the treasury secretary. six days before reaching the limit when she knew about this in december as they were negotiating the omnibus spending bill but waited until after the president signed it and waited until the republican house was seated. >> harris: the white house doesn't like timing is when you are he lease information? how about waiting two months before telling the public you were moving around classified documents. all right. ed, thank you. the white house issued a memo on how to fight back on the debt limit. they want to fight those republicans because you is a you the facts from edward lawrence. they are pretty bad. the memo instructs democrats to say this talking point. the house gop economic moves make inflation worse for tax rich tax cheats. increases the deficits, raises taxes on middle class families and cuts social security and medicare. republican senator john kennedy of louisiana, member of the
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judiciary, budget and appropriations committees. great to have you in "focus." first time i've seen you. happy new year. let's get started with what is myth and factual in what we're seeing coming out of the white house on this. >> two points. the united states congress will not vote to default on america's debt. in the past 25 years, our congress has had 12 opportunities to vote to default. congress has never done that. it never will nor should it. so everyone should take their meds and chill. .2. there are three things that most fair minded americans agree on. number one, there is something very wrong in our country. 70% of the american people think our country is headed in the wrong direction.
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and the 30% who disagree must still be living in their parents' basement. number two, the federal government spends too much particularly the last two years and has too much debt. if we don't stop it, we are going to end up in a deep recession and google may have to lay off up to 25 members of congress. that's how bad it will be. number three, the american people do not believe the federal government should default on its debt. now, the three things i just described are the things that house republicans agree with. some people including the white house are trying to demonize the house republicans. they aren't saying to the president mr. president we can't wait to default. they are saying to the president mr. president, we don't want to default.
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we aren't going to default on america's debt but we want you to work with us to control spending and debt so we don't find ourselves in this position again. now, what's -- >> harris: quickly, because i want to move on to the next thing but i want to ask you this quickly, what about this group of republican leadership has us to the point where they just might bring the swamp to a halt and get this done? is this a special group? this has been an ongoing conversation. democrats always vilify the right on this issue. >> sure. it's not going to happen. and if you don't want it to happen, if you are president biden and you don't want that to happen, you are going to negotiate. but what's been the white house's position, harris? apparently president biden's position is i don't care because i don't think i have to. and they won't even meet with
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the house republicans. how very mature. apparently the people at the white house are not like most teenagers, they are all over 40. now we have time. >> harris: very little. >> secretary yellen is saying it's immediate. we won't have a drop dead date until august, maybe september. and the white house has time. >> harris: we were being told june. that's a lot more time. >> that's not true. we have at least until august and maybe september. which is enough time for the white house to grow out of puberty and sit down and talk to the house republicans. >> harris: that is really useful information. june is obviously more imminent. this conversation needs no manipulation, senator. so we appreciate you telling us when it's really going to happen. outrage after the u.s. supreme
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court investigation could not identify the culprit who leaked the draft decision overturning roe v. wade. the leak and the decision have sparked months of massive protests and it didn't stop there. conservative justices and families under assault. angry mobs targeting their homes and vandals trashing churches and pro-life centers. the f.b.i. making 0 arrests. they did arrest a man who traveled to washington, d.c. to justice kavanaugh's home, prosecutors say he plotted to shoot kavanaugh and other justices. he is charged with attempted murder. no leaker named but the high court's investigation found dozens of people who had -- 82 people knew about the draft. senator, what is the american public supposed to believe when stuff can leak out of the u.s.
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supreme court? >> well, here is my message to the leaker. congratulations, butthead. you almost got a member of the united states supreme court killed and his family. what a narcissist. you obviously think your personal politics are more important than the sanctity of the united states supreme court. i don't mean any disrespect to the chief justice. i was disappointed in his report. i think this is the chief justice's way of saying we won't find out who the leaker is. if we do know we aren't going to tell you. we want to move on. i think that's a mistake. >> harris: you think it will happen again? >> i believe what you allow is what will continue. we can find the leaker, i think. maybe the supreme court needs to bring in help but we need to find that leaker, make an
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example of him or her and knock -- hit him so hard they'll cough up bones, not literally. i don't think the chief justice is going to do that and i think he is missing an opportunity here. >> harris: wow, senator, thank you always for being in "focus." you put a lot on our minds today. appreciate it. thank you. critics are going after the climate concern hypocrisy. yeah, a whole category now. global elites own it riding in private jets but calling for change. why president biden is being called out for doing that exact same thing. plus the press is out of patience for the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre. why she is being criticized heavily as the least effective white house press secretary in decades. ari fleischer, a man who once held office every day at that lectern, held court, is in
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>> harris: the white house press corps are fed up with press secretary karine jean-pierre. she is stonewalling reporters on the biden classified documents scandal. we've seen it. giving them false information we fact checked. we've seen the press secretary dodge, deflect, pass the buck over and over. here is a take. >> do you think it was proper for president biden to comment on an ongoing d.o.j. investigation? >> i will refer you to the department of justice. >> asking you to comment on the person you work for. >> i just commented. i just commented. we're moving on, go ahead. i already answered your question. i did. >> did you not know on friday those documents had been found when you were at the podium or are you being directed by someone to not be forthcoming on this issue?
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>> i have been forthcoming. >> you knew what was in it. did you not know? >> i just answered the question. >> is it the policy of the white house they should share it not just about the national archives but the american people. >> we have been transparent in the last couple of days. i won't go into the particulars. i want to be prudent here. i want to make sure we do this in an appropriate way. i understand. my job is to answer your questions so here we go. let's go. >> harris: it is her job to answer questions. she is not doing it. members of the press say she the left effective white house press secretary of the television era and you get the feeling whatever is in front of her in that binder is all she is going to say. it is just a painful waste of time. the white house responding a lot of this sounds more like theater criticism than concern about ability to report facts for the
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american people's benefit. ari fleischer, fox news contributor former white house press secretary. first of all, great to see you in 2023. happiest of times for you and your family. what is your take on karine jean-pierre? >> i want to be a little ginger here. press secretaries -- it is a hard job and i don't want to criticize anybody who has that job. i will say this. i think the knock is not that she is reading from a binder. it seems to be whatever is written in that binder, may be the extent of what she knows as opposed to being in the meetings. being able to reflect deeper and more richly about what happened. it is appropriate for press secretaries to buck questions to the department of justice but then you can also explain why. what i would have done is said if you think i'll make myself a witness for the general -- special counsel. i'm not going to do that.
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i am ham strung. i can't ask questions to the counsel and the president what happened, where were the document found. i do that i'm a witness in a potential criminal proceeding. i won't do that as press secretary. she has to explain it. she is not explaining it. she is just regurgitating the same talking points. >> harris: you are ginger but firm and you gave her what to say. >> i will try to be respectful. >> harris: it was firm but she had tried to do what she said. she didn't do it the way he said it and didn't have your eloquence of words. what happened the d.o.j. put out its statements we didn't tell you you couldn't answer questions. you are free to do what you want. they are not handling their business or handle the scandal in the white house. they aren't doing it. so it takes on more oxygen. by the way, the reporters are doing something that actually we
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are supposed to do. we get circular in a room when we know we're being lied to. we're all on one team at that point. it's not about some wanting to get twitter clips. we are the ones mentioned in the constitution and we do have a job to get done. if we think that the truth isn't being told we should be circular in our questioning. i'm sure other press secretaries have seen it. >> the problem here is when she said the search is complete and it wasn't complete. they found more document in more places not once, but twice after she said search was complete that's what ticked off the white house press corps. i would say to the press corps and do it off camera, i apologize. i was given bad information and that's why i said it. i will be more careful when i get information from that person before i just pass it on to you. that's what took place. this is what you have to do when you are a press secretary and given information that turns out to be wrong. i don't get the sense she or anybody else at the white house
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is doing that. they aren't explaining the fumbles. everyone fumbles but you owe the press corps and public an explanation when it happens. >> harris: showing us what experience looks like. the fema director, that would have put some of it to bed. the fema director is defending the president's flying cross-country amid the left's climate change push. yesterday he visited california for several hours. the six-hour flight on air force one burned through 53,000 gallons of fuel. watch. >> is it a good look to travel all the way across the u.s. jet using a huge amount of fuel. what message does it send to the american people when climb another change is such a factor? >> there has been so much trauma to this community and it's important we keep that in mind. it is very important they know the president is here to support
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them and that the full force of the federal family will be behind them. >> harris: climate change a focus in davos as well and the key word there is hypocrisy. global elites traveling to the world economic forum on private jets including the climate czar under president biden, john kerry and climate activist former vice president al gore both facing mockery for their comments. >> it's almost extraterrestrial to think about folks saving the planet. most people think you are a crazy tree hugging lefty liberal. >> all the promises of the last few years to cut emissions, they're still going up. accumulated amount is trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 atomic bombs. that's what's melting the ice and causing the waves of climate refugees predicted to reach 1
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billion in this century. we would lose our capacity for self-governance. we have to act! >> harris: everybody gets the president is going to california because of all the flooding. that wasn't the issue. it is there have been other places in the country we've seen other disasters. can he go any other way? >> well look, presidents should meet with those people and fly across the country where people have been hurt and natural disasters. predecessors have done it. what's difference this time is the timing. no worse timing for the biden people who love going to davos and berating everybody else. the lesson is travel to natural disasters but stop berating everybody else and stop making it as if you fly in an airplane or use oil or gas you are a terrible person. that's the hypocrisy.
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they got hoisted on it and i'm glad to sight. >> harris: maybe the other option is -- the president will be on air force one but maybe don't go en masse on the taxpayer dime. >> well no. the distinction is you don't go to davos and trash everybody else. their whole solution to global warming is to say humans need to stop doing what they're doing. we need to do more of what we're doing being innovative an successful. someone will discover and make the energy breakthrough but change is how fossil fuels interact with the climate. that comes from capitalism and success, innovation, experimentation. the things capitalists are doing and what we should be doing as a country. >> harris: great to have you in "focus." thank you. newly obtained emails showing president biden's border chief is furious with how the
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administration handled a false claim against his border agents saying they were whipping people. it was not true. that has been proven. we'll break down what he had to say about how the white house is spinning the controversy. plus an nhl may be in a penalty box, a player with some fans for going full woke. >> if you are wearing something with a rainbow on it because you are being told that you must, it is completely empty to me. it doesn't make me feel more welcome or empowered as a fan or anything like that. >> harris: the washington capitals using its twitter account to push its pride event even explaining pronouns to followers. steve hilton will weigh in on the nhl's wokeness. ♪
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>> harris: breaking news now. for the first time since involuntary manslaughter charges were announced by the district attorney in new mexico against
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alec baldwin, we're seeing him. we saw his wife coming out of their new york city home yesterday. just a glimpse of her in the morning before the charges, the criminal charges were announced. now we see in mid town near an office building alec baldwin spotted for the first time. he says he did not pull the trigger. his attorneys have to defend him against involuntary manslaughter after the gun he was holding on the movie set "rust" killed a member of his team and he and the armorer gutierrez reed a young woman charged with the same counts of involuntary manslaughter have to fight this or plea. fox news exclusively learning the border patrol chief was furious with the biden administration's handling of that false whipping controversy.
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you remember. it was aimed at border patrol agents in 2021. liberal media, democrats including president biden said the images showed border agents swinging their horses' reins some claimed hitting illegal immigrants. they were not. the rush to judgment, including again by our president. >> president biden: to see people treated like they did, horses running over and people being strapped is outrageous. it is an embarrassment. beyond an embarrassment. it's dangerous and wrong. >> harris: that border patrol chief ortiz also going after the lack of recognition for his border agents. hard and dangerous workday in and day out they are doing. we even know some are committing suicide because they are overwhelmed. in an email he wrote, the horse business is awfully negative but there are great efforts occurring and we aren't highlighting any of them.
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every day we are providing lifesaving efforts to migrants under the bridge. our agents are being assaulted and we aren't saying a word. homeland secretary mayokas initially defended the agents but then walking back his support. he knew the whipping narrative was false but still repeated the claims. steve hilton, host of the next revolution in "focus" now. your top line thoughts, steve. >> it is so disgusting. harris. biden used the term embarrassment. this is an embarrassment that they could behave like this. democrat politicians. it is disgusting. it reveals deeply worrying about today's democratic party which is that they, the people who constantly lecture us about humanity and compassion, they have no humanity, they have no compassion. people, individual people like
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these border agents just totally thrown under the bus in service to the democrat narrative. that's all they care about, their narrative. are they sending out the right message? in this case they wanted to send a message about racism and that's what they tried to do no matter how dishonest it was. they go on about how government workers, public sector workers, constantly praising teachers and nurses. only the right kind of government worker. if you are one that tries to keep us safe whether it's border agents in this case or police officers, they can't stand you. they despise you and look down on you. it is reprehensible. >> harris: and they lie. >> exactly. >> harris: florida republican congressman byron donalds said someone sent a copy of the book uncle tom's cabin to his washington, d.c. office. he had this to say about the disgusting incident.
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>> i have black staffers and white staffers. they come together and work hard for me and my congressional district every day. i feel bad for them and the other young black people out there who are starting to become more conservative. what stuff like this is about is about stopping them from expressing their political thoughts and world views. >> harris: talk to me about canceling black conservatives. is that what is happening to the representative in florida, or at all? >> this is the exact same as the previous story, their narrative. it is all about their mindset. by the way, the person who enabled this disgusting approach, which is if you are -- you can't be a black conservative. if you are black you have to support the democrats. who started that and enabled all this and normalized it? it was joe biden. he was the one that said if you aren't voting for me you ain't
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black and now they're saying it all out in the open. disgusting, racist and we can see the democratic party is institutionally racist. that's what it is with these attitudes. >> harris: is there a doubt in any one's mind that by moving up the state of south carolina to the first primary which is something that many democrats don't want to see happen. that the black vote there via james clyburn, the representative there who basically handed biden something he couldn't get on his own and that was the presidency. is there any doubt that race didn't play a role with that push to get south carolina in first place? hasn't happened. >> of course. that's what it is all about. identity politics is the defining feature of the extremist democratic party. again, the humanity doesn't come into it. they don't care about people. they care about pushing this far left ideology.
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identity politics is at the heart of it. >> harris: this sort of thing can be dangerous. i really, really am glad that representative donalds is okay. when you target people anything can happen. look at the u.s. justices at the u.s. supreme court. good to see you. thank you so very much for being in "focus" and i'll watch you this weekend when you have the next revolution on sunday night. >> with byron donalds.
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