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able to play another season. >> bill: he looked good. the team wasn't great but he looked good. >> dana: seemed like he was having a fun time. >> bill: i mentioned this yesterday. you remember you said happy day's episode with fonzy trying to say the word wrong, do you remember it? go find it on youtube. it is hilarious. >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert on full display biden's border crisis will be a battle that republicans are willing and able to fight. democrats and the white house don't want to talk about the facts happening putting america's sovereignty in jeopardy. it was obvious yesterday. this could put every problem under biden now. not just the border but all of it that would need to be dealt with and risk because we're so divided. you're in the faulkner focus. holding the biden administration
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accountable for the deaths, terrorist, cartel killers crossing into the united states and those unimaginable numbers of humanity flowing in illegally. while policies under biden defy reality. democrats taking the opportunity to attack the majority party again and again and again. >> at every turn this extreme republican majority fails to offer genuine solutions and resorts to political theater. the republican majority seems interested only in showboating. >> unfortunately this hearing is nothing more than a distraction. >> republicans resort to political stunts at the border and theatrical hearings lairing this one. >> republicans in congress seem intent on demonizing migrant families. >> an ongoing and blatant attempt to use fear tactics to scare us into turning immigrants away. >> we have a broken immigration system because republicans want us to. so they can hold these hearings to mask the fact that they have
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no affirmative agenda that actually helps people. >> harris: that was plain ridiculous. like we want the carnage happening at the border as a nation so these people can accuse the other side and not see the facts? the white house pushing a similar narrative. >> we're not interested in engaging in political stunts and we want to move past the constant political warfare as we continue to see from republicans, sadly. >> harris: look in the mirror on this issue. here are the numbers. more than 300,000 known gotaways. the people the cameras were able to keep up with. we know they're here. that's just 120 days into new case call year. nearly 50,000 in the month of january alone crossed illegally. they are just roaming the country. republicans want dhs secretary mayokas off the job. impeachment. you heard it here from the
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former acting director of ice tom homan said it yesterday. he needs to be impeached. congressman andy biggs is now the second house republican to introduce an article of impeachment. >> public official who has abused and violated the public trust and constitutes a danger that we can't wait until the next election to remove them. >> he has attacked the geographical integrity of the united states. our borders have been erased by secretary mayokas. >> harris: notice he said borders . not just the southern border but also the northern borders. 65% of americans are extremely or very concerned about security at our southern border. a similar number concerned over immigration overall. majority say they disapprove of president biden's handling of both. in "focus" right now republican congressman and chairman of the
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oversight committee jim jordan. chairman of the judiciary committee in charge of that first hearing on the border yesterday. welcome, welcome. first of all, the back and forth among democrats themselves going back and forth about just how bad the g.o.p. is. one upping each other. >> web what they said for two years. they said the border is secure. they said there was forproblem. now they are oaf saying it is your fault. you need to work with us to fix the problem. if there was no problem why work with you to fix the problem? or if you were lying to us when you said the border was secure and there really was a problem? why didn't you fix it. you have been in control of every aspect of federal government for two years? the inconsistency is striking. what we tried to show yesterday is why this matters. the impact this has on families, on communities, we had a dad who had lost his 15-year-old son because of fentanyl. we had a sheriff who has been in
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law enforcement for 38 years who said that two years ago the border was as secure as he has ever seen it in his 31 years and today it's the worst he has ever seen. the impact of crime, the impact on schools and hospitals, the impact on families and communities is so real. we tried to show that element yesterday in the hearing. i think that came across as well as the inconsistency and double standard of the democrats. >> harris: also, i had mentioned chairman of oversight. my mistake there. we do also notice there was a tense moment in that committee's hearing yesterday on covid spending. so it isn't just the border, chairman jordan, it is other issues now that the political divide is really being exposed as democrats don't want to talk about the issues but point figures at you. alexandria ocasio-cortez questioned the motive of the investigation about fraud and
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covid. its focus on california, new york, pennsylvania, all blue states. let's watch together. >> i cannot for the life of me understand why the majority would send these three letters just to these three states that leave us with no other conclusion there is rank partisanship in this investigation. >> harris: look, the chairman of oversight james comer told me a week ago this is exact will i where republicans would start with these two hearings. what came about, do you think, after the questions that were asked in either of them yesterday? >> i'm sure the democrats want to yell partisanship and want to change the story because for the past two years everything they've done has been a mess. not only the covid issue, it is the border issue that we had in the hearing yesterday, the record inflation, the record crime, the record deficit, the record inflation, the record debt. you can go on and on. so i'm sure they want to point to partisanship and try to
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change the subject. the fact is that those states that mr. comer was highlighting is where the biggest problems are and why you highlight it. facts are facts and stubborn things. it is important we get to all the misinformation. this information that we got from our government regarding covid. i always point out just about everything they told us turned out to be false. they told us it didn't come from a lab. it looks like it did. they told us it wasn't gain-of-function research and wasn't our tax dollars going to the wuhan institute of virology. it was. the vaccinated couldn't transmit it and that was wrong. no such thing as natural immunity. first time in history that there is no such thing as national immunity. everything they told us turned out to be false and yet they were the ones, the government that was trying to set up the disinformation governance board. something i think you will see republicans look into as well to make sure the country gets all the facts on everything they told us that was false.
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>> harris: talk to me about accountability. as the chairman of judiciary you do have the ability now, i would think, to hold some people accountable. what does it look like? you are hearing calls for impeachment of mayokas. my goodness, the people he leads at the border have told me they don't trust this man. >> look, he warrants it. that's a decision we'll have to make as a republican conference. you can't look at the numbers, you cannot look at the impact as i said, the impact it's had on families and communities not just on the border but across the country. you can't look at it and say this guy is not doing thinks job. a decision the entire judiciary committee and republican conference will have to make if we go down that road. >> harris: you have said it before we don't have a lot of time. the numbers are staggering. people are dying on both sides of that border now. we have a suicide rate that is heartbreaking among the border patrol and growing. people coming here are dying in
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those waters. it is cold and they are still coming in record numbers. it is unbelievable. >> not the mention that shoot-out that took place in central mexico between the cartels. this is how violent these cartels are and the money they are making in moving drugs and people, that is what is so frightening. there are 90 some people. the last two years up to 126 people on the terrorist watch list that they've encountered on the border and that's just the ones they catch. think about the others coming through. this is the scary thing and the implications of anything like happened in central mexico happens in our country let's hope and pray it doesn't. that's what we're concerned about as well. >> harris: we'll continue to cover every hearing that you do so we know what it looks like when the two sides are talking. it's important. another chapter in the hunter biden saga. his attorneys admitting the infamous laptop is actually his. my goodness, they must read the news.
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we have receipts. they are now claiming it is being weaponized against him. it is evidence. we don't know what we don't know. the "new york post" cover this morning, it's mine. hunter biden finally admits it is his. op-ed calling out his team's new tactic playing the victim. what do you make of it, chairman >> look, how can it be hunter biden's laptop? 51 former intel officials told us it wasn't. that to me is you've got to be kidding me. so they can say what they want. i think the american people understood the focus that we'll have on the judiciary committee is how big government works with big tech to keep that information from the american people starting with those 51 former intel officials who wrote that now famous line that the hunter biden laptop story has all the earmarks of a russian disinformation operation. we knew it wasn't at the time. now we have confirmation even
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from hunter biden himself. that's the key takeaway here. >> harris: the biggest receipt of all is his talking. the maintenance repair office where he left the laptop. a long, long list of bread crumbs. good to see you. thank you so much for being in "focus." >> you bet. thank you. >> harris: fox news alert. a new jersey republican councilwoman found shot and killed in front of her home last night. police say 30-year-old was shot multiple times sitting in her s.u.v. which then crashed into her townhouse complex in new jersey. it's located along the shore 30 minutes south of newark. police say they believe she was the intended target. so far they're working to figure out the motive of the killers and no arrests have been made. we'll stay on the story. the second gentleman to the rescue. douglas emhoff's raised profile as the vice president comes
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under more withering criticism from within her own democratic party. so he is going to take over? the white house on defense after the f.b.i. searched another of the president's properties for classified documents. >> i think there is this big idea that the political elites can get away with something that you or i the average citizen would never be able to get away with. >> harris: it is called a double standard how the feds are treating president biden when comparing it to how they raided his predecessor's home. ari fleischer in "focus" next.
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>> harris: fox news on the scene as four vehicles rolled up to president biden's delaware beach home to conduct a search for additional classified documents. republicans quick to point out what they call a double standard on how the feds handled the biden searches compared to that of president trump. and they're right. just look at the pictures. a white house counsel spokesperson pressed on a claim that the national archives was not allowed to speak publicly about the biden document discovery. here it is. >> there is reporting that came from the house oversight committee chairman james comer the archives was told it could not have a press release about the discovery of classified document. >> i don't know anything about that. i gave an answer to that question. >> harris: a new fox poll 51% think president dump did
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something illegal with classified document. 37% believe biden did. 22% say the same of former vice president pence. >> we know the rehoboth search lasted 3 1/2 hours and told no more classified document or document with classified markings were found but quote, consistent with the process in wilmington the d.o.j. took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appeared to relate to his time as vice president. biden's legal team only commented on the search after news of it happening leaked. biden's personal attorney said the justice department requested the search not be made public in advance to protect the integrity and operational security of the investigation. we still don't know why another f.b.i. search at the penn biden center in november confirmed by multiple sources has still not been acknowledged by the white house, d.o.j. or biden's legal team. white house counsel's office referring reporters to the
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justice department on that could indicate that there might have been some d.o.j. directive not to release it. >> can you assure us that the white house has been and continues to be as transparent as possible where they haven't been disclosures something has prevented that? >> what i can say is what the president said many times and you've seen it in our statements is that we are cooperating fully. the president and his team is cooperating fully and we'll continue to do that and i will just leave it there. >> there are bipartisan calls to reform the transition process so there is some level of oversight when documents are leaving the white house to insure they aren't mishandled after the discoveries at the biden, trump and pence home. >> harris: airy fleischer, former press secretary, great to see you. i want to throw the graphic back up because when you talk about the disparities of how these men have been treated particularly
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the two former presidents, trump and biden. when you say scenes like a raid on donald trump and several locations now where things have been found classified items for joe biden but nothing like that raid on camera, and when you see the difference in the coverage of these two men across the board legacy media versus fox and maybe another one, maybe another two, what does that tell you when you see these numbers? does any of that play a role in the public's mind? >> look, even though president trump reportedly did not honor a subpoena and as a result was raided by the f.b.i. i do not understand is why they went in with guns blazing and surrounded mar-a-lago, the scenes of f.b.i. agents with guns outside. they treated trump like a common criminal when they are treating joe biden like the president of the united states was given white glove privilege and i
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can't help but wonder. they found no documents in rehoboth yesterday or today? he was there the previous weekend. did joe biden in the midst of all this search for documents, find anything and not tell anybody? >> harris: ooh. it is the question of the day. >> it's logical and common sense, right? >> harris: that's the house he went to as refuge when they searched the other house. we didn't find out about it until later. the drip, drip. he is at his other house. >> we aren't getting any information out of the white house. logic says if you are finding classified documents everywhere, you go to your beach house and you look for them and you see if you find them. they won't tell us if they did or didn't. we don't know. it is bad. for joe biden, who claimed the aria of responsibility, this is reckless by the president of the united states, by the former vice president, and certainly by senator biden walking out of a scif with classified document.
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the only issue that remains is what will they do to him and who else saw these classified documents? what happened to national security. >> harris: that's critical. you don't think that he pays $1 thousand an hour attorney to move his stuff on a regular basis. who has been moving them over the years? if he had some of these classified documents in the 15 years since he was in senate, who was moving all that stuff? who is paying for all that? i hope our money didn't pay for that, the taxpayers. >> exactly right. >> harris: i have so many questions. let's move. get used to seeing more of the second gentleman doug emhoff. he had a weighty trip through europe. the vice president's house will be part of a mission at the united nations next week. his rise comes as insiders and people in the white house are concerned that vice president kamala harris is not pulling her weight and they are taking note of how often she is mocked for her skills as a communicator.
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just this week she had another cringe-worthy moment at a ceremony to two former astronauts. >> they returned to the kennedy space center. they suited up, they waved to their families, and they rode an elevator up nearly 20 stories and then they launched. yeah, they did. [laughter] >> harris: oh wow. meanwhile the latest fox news polling finds the vice president's job approval is at a dismal 39%. what say you, ari? >> just listening to those remarks. she gives speeches and talks as if she is reading a pop-up book to a group of 4-year-olds. the inoh nation. the way she speaks. she is not a serious vice president. she wasn't a serious candidate.
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she flops in the public eye because we see who she truly is. ask anybody in california who knew her as attorney general they said she wasn't up to the job then. a senator she ride in rhetorical saal yachts. a lot do them. and now as vice president it shows. we have a vice president who is utterly incapable of ever becoming president and that's worrisome. i will say that i salute her husband. what he is doing elevating the issue of anti-semitism is worthy and right and i won't do to him what the presidents did to vice president's cheney's wife criticizing her because she was conservative. i don't care what the vice president's husband's politics are. when he does things like this he is doing this and we should be proud he is standing up against anti-semitism. >> harris: i will say this. it is an important issue and critical to point it out. he is not the person who was elected, though. a year ago he told reporters i'm just getting into public service
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and i love it. i wish i had done it earlier. he is representing our nation in international delegations. notwithstanding that important topic. but -- >> it does draw the contrast why is he capable and his wife is not? that's my bigger point that we have a vice president who can't become the president of the united states. she is not qualified. she wasn't chosen because she could step in and do the job in something happened. she was chosen for other democratic reasons, inside the democratic party reasons. again the role of spouses, i try to be polite to them. i don't think they should be thrown into the political fire unless they throw themselves into it and i have seen no evidence that her husband is doing that. i separate the two issues. her lack of qualifications versus his qualifications. >> harris: boy, that's rough and real. always from ari fleischer, thank
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you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> harris: new warnings that the biden administration is coming for your gas stove. i thought the white house said they didn't support this. i thought this wasn't going to happen. the sweeping new rules which could turn off pilot lights across america. and how some on the right are fighting back on this issue. plus house speaker kevin mccarthy says the day of reckoning has come for squad member ilhan omar of minnesota. >> omar at the very beginning when she said it is all about the benjamins didn't know referring to financial money dollars was a trope for those who happen to be jewish. >> harris: the house set up a vote today on the floor removing omar from the foreign affairs committee. it is upcoming. fox news contributor jason chaffetz in "focus" next.
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>> i have oaf made the argument to my colleagues not just the anti-semitic comments that we're aware of. i've been in the foreign affairs meetings where she compares israel and the united states to hamas and the taliban. she shouldn't be representing our nation to foreign governments and why she needs to be removed from this committee. >> harris: interesting to get that inside committee perspective from malliotakis. she has witnessed her say those of these things. today is the day house republicans will hold a floor vote to remove far left congresswoman ilhan omar from the powerful foreign affairs committee. omar has been criticized for years of offensive comments including multiple anti-semitic statements comparing american troops to the taliban and down playing the 9/11 terror attacks. omar insists she has done nothing wrong and she is the victim of a conspiracy. >> they've been on a vengeance
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tour. this is extracting revenge for trump and i've been a target for them from the beginning, as you remember mccarthy himself made the comments before i even got sworn in back in 2019. this is about saying this particular member of congress is not allowed to have a voice on the foreign affairs committee. >> harris: jason chaffetz in "focus." that's exactly what they are saying. former congressman and fox news contributor. yes, because of all the things that she has said. your take on it. >> i cannot defend her or her comments but i probably differ from the overwhelming majority of house republicans. i argued it was wrong when nancy pelosi denied paul gosar and marjorie taylor green spots on the committee. the minority gets to make those choices, not the speaker. on the january 6th committee i argued it was wrong that nancy
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pelosi populated the committee with her handpicked people rather than allowing the minority to pick them. if i was voting on this r resolution today i would vote no. minority gets to make those choices. you can police people like eric swalwell and adam schiff and say you can't be on the intel committee. they can't be trusted with classified information. that is different. in this case, the decision gets to be made by hakeem jeffries and steny hoyer and the people on the democratic side of the aisle. you can't police stupidity and ignorance. if the democrats want to put her on that committee ask the democrats about that. don't donate to the democrats who do that. the overwhelming majority of jewish americans why do they donate to the democrats so much? so i don't think it's on kevin mccarthy and the house republicans. it is on the democrats. i don't think she should be
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denied a seat on the committee. that's up to the democrats. they get to make that choice, not the speaker of the house. >> harris: so what would you say, though, in terms of the comments that she has made? you said i won't defend them. she has to become a victim in order to try to defend them. what would you say when she is inside a committee hearing like that and you saw representative malliotakis saying some of the things omar is putting out as part of her job in that committee? >> well, it gives a great opportunity to draw the contrast, show the racism, show the bias, argue that out. i think if republicans pass this and take her off the committee they are doing the democrats a favor because she won't have the mouthpiece that she would have had otherwise. today's democratic party, there are a lot of them anti-jewish. don't believe that israel has the right to exist. overwhelming majority of democrats do, but there are some like her that really don't
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believe that. i think we should have that argument and should debate that out. we're supposed to be the most deliberative body on the face of the planet. we take criticism from all sides. again, i think she is flat out totally 110% wrong and racist. i got a lot of different words to describe her but i have to tell you, who gets to make the decision about who populates those committees? it's made by the individual parties and that's the way i think it should go. >> harris: you drew a different line for the members of the intelligence committee. i understand that because of what is in their hands as members of those committees. spoken by the way like a real chairman, as you were of oversight. i get that. that argument about don't help the democrats raise money on this is what she was doing last night when i watched that interview. turning herself into a conspiracy victim. it is -- it is fun to watch you
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use your words. that's all i'm saying. jason, let's get to this one. the economy still tops the growing list of president biden's crises. brand-new fox polling shows 80% rate that current conditions are only fair or poor. wow. looming over all the debt limit nearly 70% say they're extremely or very concerned about our nation's growing debt tab. president biden yesterday met with speaker kevin mccarthy to try to sort it all out. diplomatic answers from both of them on how it went. >> president biden: we had a good meeting yesterday. i think we have to do it across the board. doesn't mean we'll agree and fight like hell, but let's treat each other with respect. >> having an hour conversation with this president that i tell you in perspective was a good conversation. no agreement, no promises except we'll continue this
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conversation. >> harris: other republicans did not hold back. >> biden has spent the democratic party has spent like dr drunken sailors. they have been completely out of control. if we don't do something quickly we'll soon see our country be insolvent, go bankrupt and our future robbed from our children and our grandchildren. >> harris: jason. >> the spending is out of control. i think both parties are partly to blame. look, democrats had the house and senate and presidency but passed the 1.7 trillion omnibus with the help of 18 republican senators. so there is blame to go around. i think it is healthy that both sides are talking. i don't think you should unilaterally lift the debt ceiling. you have to have a plan. i don't think the president has a plan. for the third time in a row, the president will not present a budget that is there on time.
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it will be more than a month late. i don't think joe biden going into the state of the union next week does not have a game plan. none of the democrats do. they didn't even introduce a budget last year, the democrats, in the senate for instance. >> harris: they know they don't have to. there is no pressure. >> there is no pressure, yeah. that's why i think america is saying we're on the wrong track. we are concerned about the debt ceiling and concerned about the trajectory because there is no game plan to put us on the path to fiscal sanity. >> harris: why didn't more americans vote to put more republicans in the house? that's the thing. what is it and the senate, what is it about the democrat party that they can sell it and people buy it. they say they don't but then they vote. >> i do think there is a fundamental difference between the two parties but when 99% of incumbents won re-election in the last election you have to think hey, if you want different
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results you will have to elect different people, okay? that's the bottom line here. you can't keep doing this. they need to put up things like a balanced budget amendment. if you raise the debt ceiling you have to fix the problem. >> harris: jason, thank you for being in "focus" always. >> thank you. >> harris: veteran journalist bob woodward is going after the "washington post." he works for the "washington post." and he doesn't stop there. why he says the mainstream media are doing a poor job of vetting and have done a vetting the steele dossier, remember that? florida governor ron desantis calling out more woke school curriculum. >> this course on black history, what is one of the lessons about? queer theory. now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? that is somebody pushing an
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>> harris: it is day six in the testimony of the alex murdaugh double murder trial. prosecutors have revealed some pretty bad new evidence for him. jurors saw the cell phone video placing alex murdaugh at the crime scene just moments before his wife and son were killed. jonathan serrie on the story in the southeast bureau. >> they played iphone video shot by paul of the family kennel. prosecutors say it was taken just minutes before the son and his mother were murdered. take a look at the video. you see a dog in the foreground but in the background you can hear three separate voices. prosecutors asked a family friend to identify them. >> do you recognize paul's voice? >> yes, sir. >> do you recognize maggie's voice? >> yes, sir. >> do you recognize alex's
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voice? >> yes, sir. >> 100%? >> use. >> can you point him out in the courtroom, please? >> sitting there in the gray jacket. >> let the record reflect he has identified the defendant. >> this morning a technical expert from snapchat testified meta data on a separate video indicates that it was taken the same evening of the murders. prosecutors point out that prior to the murders in this video, alex is wearing long pants and a button down shirt. but then after the murders, he is seen in police video wearing a clean t-shirt and shorts suggesting a change of clothes. this morning the court is assessing what evidence the prosecution can introduce regarding alex murdaugh's alleged financial crimes. he is accused of stealing millions of dollars from his former clients and law firm. outside of the jury's presence
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is cfo of the law firm testified that she confronted alex murdaugh just hours before the murders, asked him to account for some missing funds. she says at first he gave her a dirty look but then assured her that he could come up with the funding. then their conversation was interrupted by a call indicating that alex's father in the hospital was terminally ill. back to you, harris. >> harris: important details you are giving us today. thank you for your reporting. well, gas stoves and the battle over that not going away. president biden's department of energy released efficiency standards after it linked indoor glass stoves to problems. desantis is calling for an end to state taxes on gas stoves. >> we just added, i think it needs to be done, no tax permanently on gas stoves. they want your gas stove and
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we're not going to let that happen. it is the principle of this is ridiculous. >> harris: joe concha in "focus" for the hill and fox news contributor. i think it is interesting the white house first said well, they aren't really wading into this. but this is biden's department of energy. >> exactly. this is ron desantis's state of florida. should be called the practigmat state. we see this governor making decision the majority of people agree with. this morning senator joe manchin and ted cruz republican texas introduced legislation to stop the biden administration from going ahead with this with manchin declaring during his speech saying you are not coming for my gas stove. you aren't getting my gas stove. there are some democrats in the non-woke portion of the party who are saying you can't do this because it is not practical.
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>> harris: why the gas stoves? this is something that really hurts small businesses in particular. you are putting pressure on places that have just gotten back to work in the last year and a half since everything was shut down mandatoryly out of their hands during the pandemic and replacing your appliances won't be cheap. there is pressure there. >> big time. when you look at the difference between the energy bill with a gas stove as opposed to electric stove, san diego news organization reporting that one small business saw a quadruple. you said restaurants were hit harder than most businesses during the pandemic. they can't afford that sort of uptick. that means hiring less employees or lowering wages or raising prices for customers just to pay for it. someone is paying for it. not the people who should be paying for it. >> harris: not to mention the fact with more and more stuff on the grid that can't sustain we are putting on them now where is
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the fair left or moderates in the democratic party, where do we think we're going? will they build grids in the sky? i'm waiting for it. it's not working. >> exactly. >> harris: they couldn't plug in electric cars over the summer. >> in 2035. how am i charging a car when there are 1,000 other cars in an apartment complex and run out of charge on a highway and massive traffic? there is nothing based again in reality and pragmatism. let's move on. >> harris: great questions from you. veteran journalist bob woodward is going after his colleagues at the "washington post" for ignoring his warnings of russiagate. coverage of the discredited steele dossier was not handled well and thinks the public have been cheated. he is urging news rooms to walk down the painful road of introspection. let's take a look back, shall we? >> is there anything in the
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dossier that has been disproven? >> no, no, i guess the answer to the question. >> has anything been soundly disproven about the steele dossier? i would agree with jim clapper. i haven't seen anything. >> it hasn't been could ob rated but not disproven, either. >> the dossier is far from bogus. >> still waiting for the innocent narrative to come out. >> not one word has been disproven. in fact, a lots of it turned out to be right on the money. >> harris: joe. >> the steele dossier was treated as gospel as we just saw in those clips. it was gossip and it has been disproven and was a garbage document as donald trump had described it back in 2017. yet we see what woodward said as well is reporters now lack that key gene you need in the dna curiosity. it has been replaced by con
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formty. woodward talked about a reckoning among all the news organization that pushed this document. that led to the investigation into russia and trump and collusion that the mueller report eventually basically exonerated him for. that reckoning has not happened because in the post steele dossier world we got to the hunter biden laptop story that was dismissed and sensored and to this day we see different coverage let's put donald trump junior's name as the owner of a laptop like that and donald trump as the president instead of joe biden. you would see 20, 30, 40 times the coverage than we are now. there won't be a reckoning. going into the 2024 election you will see the same playbook played over and over again. it is not about journalism but activism for one political
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