donated in georgetown. so we've seen a huge need. we're taking this thing wherever it needs to go, everybody will help us get to. we need that. >> scott, thank you for what you're doing, coming on the show today. great way to kick off our week. thank you so much. >> thank you. have a good week. >> good man, doing good work. harris faulkner is up next. great to start the week with you. here she is. >> a fox news alert, republican lawmakers conservative voters, you remember, were mocked and ridiculed for wanting to ask exactly how did the covid pandemic start. did the killer coronavirus leak from that infamous wuhan laboratory in china? from the biden administration to nearly every mainstream media outlet, twitter, blocking, suspending accounts, all over what they were calling, all of them, calling a debunked fringe

conspiracy. now president biden's own energy department finding evidence covid likely leaked from that lab in china. i'm harris faulkner. you are in "the faulkner focus." presoutlets reporting that the energy department is joining with the fbi in supporting that lab leak origin, based on classified intelligence. the intelligence agency reportedly shared with both the white house and key members of congress. republican lawmakers want answers. >> we need hearings on this. the chinese used their coercive economic activities to shut people up. we need to extensive hearings. i hope our democrat colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. >> they didn't just shut them up. they shut them down.

they discredited. even journalists asking questions. i was stickered all over the place for asking the question, along with dr. segal on our team here at fox news. the subselect committee on the pandemic in the hands of house republicans. their investigation is already underway. it's looking more at the lab leak theory, and the chinese communist government's attempt to cover it up, 900 pages of records already given to the committee. the "new york post" today with their signature word play. "it had to be wu" for the wuhan lab. we begin listen at the white house. jackie? >> harris, this news comes from a classified report that was provided to the white house, and also key members of congress, from the energy department, which had previously made no assessment about covid origins. they cautioned that they came to this judgment with low

confidence, but they now join the fbi in making this assessment, while four other agencies still believe that covid was the result of natural transmission. the white house, though, is not weighing in one way or another on this. listen. >> president biden specifically requested that the national labs, which are part of the department of energy, be brought into this assessment, because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here, but right now there's not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question. >> you remember well, some lawmakers have been criticized for promoting what was first decried as a fringe theory, but senator cotton who came under fire said lab leak being proven right doesn't matter. what matters is holding the chinese communist party accountable so this doesn't happen again. house democrats reacting this way. >> mishandled covid every step

of the way, by trying to sweep it under the rug, trying a strategy of zero covid that utterly failed. i mean, look, we need to see whether this is true. if it is, i don't find it surprising at all. >> china, that has repeatedly blocked the world health organization from fully investigating covid origins relaying today through their foreign ministers, certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative, stop smearing china, and politicizing origins tracing. tomorrow there's a house oversight committee hearing on this. expect a lot of questions, including about whether the u.s. government made appropriate policy decisions in light of this news. harris? >> stop smearing china? they just flew a spy craft across the united states, and this biden administration allowed them to do that. >> pretty incredible, the narrative they keep pumping out. >> it is incredible. jackie, thank you.

reaction blowing up social media. republican senator marsha blackburn tweeted this. for years, fauci and biden officials called this a conspiracy. blowing off the lab leak theory time and time again. >> it is very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially manipulated. i invite you to look and ask any one of those virologists who were there, when they finally looked at it carefully, they said, you know, upon relooking at this carefully now we think it's more likely that it was a natural evolution. >> wow. and he was in charge. of course, right before he retired, you know, legacy is important, selling things maybe with your name on them. anyway, he changed his tune. here it is. >> we keep a completely open mind as to what the origin is. i, all of my colleagues, keep an

absolutely open mind. we've got to investigate every possibility, because this is too important not to do that. could there have been a lab leak? we keep open all possibilities. >> the "wall street journal" editorial board argues the new report is evidence that those who deride the possibility of a man-made chinese origin were wrong. republican congressman andy biggs, member of the house oversight and house judiciary committee, great you to have "in focus." what's the immediate response on the hill? it wasn't just conservative or republican voters? those of you whose very jobs it is to get to the bottom of things, you were shut down. >> yeah. i think the immediate reaction is, is there's arrange and anged frustration. we want to get to the bottom of this. people like you and me were shut

down, called conspiracy theorists, had their reputations savaged, doctors, virologists, who questioned the orthodoxy also. there's an intense desire on the part of republicans here on capitol hill, and i hope democrats will join us, to get to the bottom of this, because, harris, this is bigger than even the censorship. this is bigger than what caused this. remember, they were talking, you know, some wet market in china had caused this initially. but it's beyond that, because you have to know what happened. there's also the potential connection that we as u.s. citizens through our government, we're helping to fund this type of research in china. so there's a whole lot of things we've got to get to the bottom of. people here in congress, on capitol hill, we want to get to the bottom of this story. >> well, just touching on that censorship for a moment, since journalists, everybody got caught up in, well, if you're asking those questions, you must

be pushing conspiracies. in this country, that's what we do. we're allowed to ask. it's freedom of the press. it's freedom of speech. i was always curious as to why more in the mainstream media weren't curious enough to be asking the questions, too. were they afraid of the labels? i guess we'll never know. let's get to what jonathan turley says the whole wuhan lab leak story is a scandal of media and government censorship. let's watch together. >> this was a concerted effort by many in politics, and the media, to silence andtion anyone who was suggesting a lab theory behind the release of covid-19. the result was largely successful. president biden contributed to this. he said that social media companies had to censor more because they were, quote, killing people, close quote, by not attacking disinformation on covid. well, censorship doesn't protect

people. it doesn't save lives. it could cost lives. >> he lays it on the feet of the president of the united states. congressman? >> yeah. i'm with him on that. don't forget that president biden was out there putting together with the fbi a disinformation team on this. he was calling for people to be censored. you know, harris, when you marry big government with big tech censorship, that's kind. authoritarianism we've never seen in this country, and frightened me, still frightens me, that we actually had an elected president of the united states stand up there and say we're going to censor anybody who has that opinion, just for expressing that opinion. i mean, you said it best just a second ago. america's free speech, free press, allows us to question what's happening. they tried to prevent that, so they could maintain authority and control over the american

people. and they prevented us from knowing the truth. >> look at where we are with china now. i mean, just look at where we are, capitulated, waiting for them to make the next move on a whole host of things, including whether or not they help russia fight ukraine. you are currently the co-chair of the border security caucus. i know you go down to the border in your state, have visited all over. let's get into it. another thing that republicans now, i know for many of you on the hill, you're not going to let up on this. president biden's border crisis, oversight chair james comer reportedly wants interviews with all of the border sector chiefs after the judiciary committee heard from just two of them earlier this month. the committee also held a hearing last week at the border in yuma, arizona. not a single democrat showed up. they called it a stunt and claimed they were not properly informed. well, we have the receipts. take a look. >> before we adjourn, we want to

inform all members about our committee going to the border on september 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. make you aware of that. >> sources tell fox news border encounters have already passed 1 million this fiscal year alone. now, remember fiscal year starts october 1st. so in five months we have that far ahead of last year. republicans want accountability. i know you're looking at the homeland security secretary. let's go straight to the congressman for his take. >> has secretary mayorkas ever lied to you? >> yes. >> what was the substance of that lie. >> he committed to, after reviewing the border, both from the ground and air, to specifically address, quote, unquote, 9 of the 11 yuma gaps. >> congressman, i know you want

to see him impeached. >> yes, that's exactly right. harris, this isn't just maladministration or incompetence, he's willfully and intentionally opened this border and made the country less safe, whether it's fentanyl, human trafficking, sex trafficking, the increase in crime. in yuma, we heard about the hospital that's eaten more than $26 million in uncompensated care. that doesn't include all of the people caught crossing the border they treat. that's just the ones they can't get money back from the federal government at all. when you start looking at a community the size of yuma, 100,000 people, and just in yuma alone, more than 300,000 people illegally entered last year. you begin to understand the magnitude of the erussia sure of our border caused by secretary. >> that hospital in yuma, you wonder what their citizens are

feeling like. i know this is your state, you're hearing from them. 26 million is a lot. they're going to feel that. your last word. >> second secretary mayorkas is controlling these policies. it's time for accountability, harris. it really is. >> time for accountability. good to see you, congressman. thank you. will he or won't he? what senator tim scott of south carolina is telling fox news about potentially running for the when white house in 2024, y democrats are behind the division happening in this country. and president biden facing new criticism over his administration's response to the environmental disaster we're watching still unfold in east palestine, ohio. >> had this event happened in

los angeles or chicago or knocking or new orleans, some big blue-controlled city, democrat-controlled city, the president and the entire cabinet would have turned out. >> instead we wait for the president to go, and he just double downed saying he has not made a decision to visit eastern ohio. people there are reporting breathing problems, rashes, headaches, from the jump. while they're being told the air they breathe, the water they drink, is safe, "in focus" next.

>> he wants to do things with a different attitude. senator tim scott of south carolina looks to be testing the

waters for 2024. the south carolina republican gave hins about his candidacy, what it would look like. he pushes a positive message for america, and believes democrats for the political division in america. >> my focus is still on the mission of making sure that every single american believes is that the american dream is achievable for them. the progressive left is trying to make america into a grievance culture when in fact we've always stood on the foundation of greatness. the left is trying to sell a drug of victimhood and a the narcotic of despair. the left today seems to be working on a blueprint on how to ruin america. >> a fox news contributor, former utah congressman joins us. we don't know how the race will shape up so far. we know that former president trump and nikki haley are in it. how does senator tim scott fit in with his message?

>> well, america needs more tim scott, his message. i know him exceptionally well. served with him in the house, while he was in the house and the senate, and this is a man of principle. he loves america. he loves america. he's lived the american dream. he's got a positive message with legislation to back it up. he understands policy. he fits every single thing that i think republicans are looking for. he's a great messenger on that. he works hard. he works smart. i can't say enough good things about tim scott, especially his positive approach. it's very reaganesque. >> the latest fox poll shows how republican primary voters are taking a liking or not to potential 2024 nominees. former president trump tops the list, 43%, florida governor ron desantis at 28%, and on you go from there.

your take on just watching it unfold. name recognition has a lot to do with all of this, but trump is still far ahead of the pack. >> oh, look, the trump policies worked. i think people yearn for the days when donald trump was the president. i got to tell you, people like ron desantis have a positive message. they've seen him do it in florida. i guess what's good for republicans is that they have a deep bench. you have people like a tim scott and a ron desantis and others who are actually very capable and have all the right resume items to become the president of the united states. contrast it with the democrats, who really you scratch your head, and think who in the world could possibly be their next candidate. even the current president is question marked to be on the ballot. so i think the republicans, it bodes well. vigorous debate, lots of discussion, up and down, back and forth. when the country gets to know tim scott, they'll love him. >> let's move on.

by the way, i asked nikki haley this question last week, when i had her on, and i would say it to other candidates as well, maybe not president trump, because he talks about the economy a lot generally speaking, but that is to be a place where republicans need to talk, if they want to lead this country. that's huge. i'm not hearing it. i pressed nikki haley on it, because i heard her talk about a whole host of other things. that makes you different from the other side. they want to believe that americans aren't really suffering. they want to believe that it's not really bad to have eggs up 70%, or whatever it is, this week. it is an interesting gap. president biden heading to virginia this week to talk about healthcare. here's the president on going some place that actually could use his pulpit, east palestine, ohio, as that community is still suffering after that massive toxic train derailment. >> i did a whole video -- i

mean, the idea that we're not engaged, simply not there. >> jason? >> he's trying to have it both ways. he's trying to say he did a zoom call, and that should be enough, but then he also says, hey, we were there two hours after the derailment. the problem is you you've got the ohio department of natural resources saying there's 3500 dead fish and frogs in the rivers, but go ahead and drink the water. hey, we're here for the government. trust us. we know what we're doing. all you have to do is look over at flint, michigan, they did the exact same thing. they poisoned those kids. they told them to drink the water. they did, and those kids got cancer, for goodness sakes. it is just absolutely fundamentally wrong. then they have the toxins, hey, if we put a match to it, it will

make the environment much better. you have a huge plume go up in the air. don't worry about it. go home, breathe the air, drink the water. we're the government. we know. >> by the way, they evacuated according to -- we know this because of talking with witnesses we talked with, officials we talked to on the program -- according to the blast sight, where the shrapnel would have gone, they didn't look at the actual plume, which it's making people sick, who we've interviewed on the show, and next door now in pennsylvania. i mean, this didn't get contained. the circle they built to protect people and evacuate, they let them back into that circle far too fast. we'll get into something else. critics are not buying anything that the president is selling on ohio. let's watch. >> joe biden's been to ukraine. now he's coming to virginia. he has yet to go to ohio. and he wants to talk about healthcare? why doesn't he go someplace

where people have real health concerns. >> you sent a horrible mixed message to this community. drink the water. don't drink the water. safe. not safe. you can explain all day long to me that nothing is wrong, but i see what's going on here. not going to gaslight me. >> all right. the team has that a little bit from one of those witnesses who was evacuated, worried about his four young children. transportation secretary pete buttigieg now faces an investigation by house republicans over the administration's response or lack thereof. lawmakers in his own political party question his actions. people living around that derailment site say despite assurances that the air, water, are both safe, they're getting sick. here is that person who joined "the focus" with quite a few details. >> with the epa on site, the cleanup of this massiv massive , the chemicals spilled

everywhere, spilling out of the ground as they're demolishing cars to haul them offsite, they exploded the cars, lit the flares, burned the vinyl chloride off, and now the chemicals are in the ground. >> jason, first your response. then i want to tell you what they tried to haul out of the state they had to take back. >> well, again, their message was, trust us, we're the government. but, you know what, the cabinet is a reflection of the president. this administration has the approach of hear no evil, see no evil, don't show up, and we'll pretend that it never happened. they do that on the border, with our energy sector. they do that with inflation. now they're doing it there in eastern ohio and western pennsylvania. and people are really suffering. this is life and death for these people. you can't show up and listen to them. you can't show up and actually be there to provide solutions, make sure that they protect

their homes before they go back in them. it's been nearly a month since this has happened. >> yeah. if the president thinks this isn't going to touch him, it's slapping him in the face. did you see the disapproval numbers? 33% of people say -- let's pop that back up quickly. i want people to see that. 33% say they approve. i want to know how they got that many. 57% are against how the president has handled the ohio train derailment. by the way, they've hauled away and tried other states to take. this is far from over. far from over. they have hauled away tons of this, that one gentleman, dad, was describing trenches to get rid of, and it's now in the ground. i mean, it's -- now they're having to take it back from the states that don't want it. jason, last word. >> yeah. they weren't candid about what was there. if it was so toxic, why did they decide to burn it?

throwing it up in the air was going to make the situation worse. that's what they did. they created a toxic plume, that has who knows what kind of repercussions. >> 7,000 tons as we just pond up on the screen. it's unfathomable. it's not over. jason, thank you. voters are giving president biden some pretty low-grades on handling everything. we just showed you how they think he's dealing with the train derailment, not showing up, his administration, how they're handling that. we're looking at everything from the border to the economy. also they're saying their pockets are feeling lighter as inflation weighs heavier now, because it's been on and on and on for so long now. plus, blue city blues when it comes to crime. >> we can't allow people like kim gardner to be prosecutors in this state, let us down. i mean, the safety of every one of us here is in jeopardy because of an inept prosecutor.

>> the father of a st. louis crime victim says on the far left prosecutor kim gardner needs to go. more and more americans fed up with lackadaisical prosecutors bankrolled by billionaire george soros up to no good.

>> well, billionaire activist george soros is doing it again, trying to reshape america's justice system in the way that he sees it. it's creating a nightmare for the rest of us. he's spending tens of millions of dollars pumping up far left campaigns, soft on crime prosecutors and the like. st. louis circuit attorney, which is like a prosecutor, a da, kim gardner is one of them. missouri's attorney general making it official he wants her fired. forbes ranked st. louis as america's most dangerous city in 2022, and so far in 2023. we're only in february. the ranking is based on crime cost per capita. st. charles has an executive in the county there who says gardner is not an isolated example. >> this is your typical situation where a progressive democrat in a liberal city has

taken over and pretty much declared war on the police. that has had profound effect on a lot of families. police are afraid to do their job. they're afraid that the prosecutor would go ahead and prosecute them instead of the bad guys. >> the attorney general is blaming gardner's lax prosecution for a horrific incident last week. a repeat violent offender was out on bond. he plowed his car into this beautiful young girl, 17-year-old high school volleyball star from tennessee. she was visiting the city with her family to play in a tournament. she lost both her legs. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse has more on that part of our coverage. william? >> harris, studies tell us two things. one, criminals commit less crime the longer that they're in jail. secondly, deterrence isn't so much about the severity of punishment but the likelihood of getting caught. those consequences, soros wants

to elect soft on crime prosecutors. >> if incarceration alone worked in keeping our communities safe, we'd be one of the safest nations in the country. >> we cannot ignore he's issues and have people cycle through our court system again and again. as i said, by addressing these human needs we address the broader needs of public safety. >> so soros has spent about $40 million to put 75 liberal prosecutors in office, including those you see here, most who support zero bail to keep the jails empty, dropping misdemeanor gang and gun charges, reducing parole, pleading down felonies to misdemeanors, less jail, more probation, and no juvenile, even violent offenders, be tried as adults. >> we need to get back to common sense. we need to have prosecutors who understand what the law is and

follow the law, but they also use reasonable discretion, and they treat each case on its own merits versus having this cookie cutter philosophy of treating everybody the same. >> now, not everyone agrees, yet there's no conclusive evidence that so-called reform policies correlate to safer streets and less crime. >> what discourages people from committing crime, in any given society, is the perception that they are likely to get caught. so deterrence there is not about increasing the severity of punishment, it's about increasing the likelihood of getting caught. >> so in some communities voters don't just blame the das, blaming soros himself, harris, since it's solely his money almost bankrolling these prosecutors. dark money is bad, except when it's his. back to you. >> thank you so much.

we're curious about george soros now. perhaps he needs to live in the communities that he's trying to redesign with all his money. just personal experience might help him focus. speaking of focus, "in focus," the a seattle radio host, i'm not kidding about that. the i mean, this is now -- as you heard william just reportins dollars pushing through the 75 liberal prosecutors. he's changing things. >> he is. this is a very easy way, when you have as much money as he does, to impact change on the ground. you want to fundamentally change the system that he believes is broken, systemically racist, whatever it is. you go to the person who has a lot of power and little oversight. when we're talking about das and prosecutors across the country, it's usually that one person who's got so much discretion on what to change. if you don't want to enforce some laws, okay, you're not going to charge. that is a really, really easy way to change the system.

obviously we're seeing the canadiens. >> it's been time to fight back. how do you fight back against george soros and all of this money? more money? do you change the law so the prosecutors don't have all that power with such little supervision, if you will, or accountability? >> depends on where you live. if you have a state legislature that can enact some sort of change, you do it that way. i would prefer that. the truth is, talking about cities like manhattan, talking about seattle, portland, l.a., san francisco, it's going to take some money, because the state legislatures are in fact motivated by the same ideology that's pushing george soros. >> interesting. let's talk about mayors. organizers push to recall the new orleans mayor, latoya cantrell, have collected enough signatures to kick her out. the city has seen a surge in crime. i mean, monumentally. cantrell is accused of misusing

taxpayer money. she was caught flipping the bird at some parade-goers during mardi gras. they were mad at her. the mayor's office says the gesture was intend tad be playful. i mean, yeah, that's classy. remember, a couple weeks ago, she was begging for money, anybody, any kind of help, because mardi gras was going to be off the hook, because she had defunded the police. she didn't exactly say defunded the police, but she needed more police. >> very clearly. the new orleans police department, like so many others, have been ravaged by the blm movement, where cops don't want to work for people who don't appreciate them, who handcuff them, pardon the pun, who prevent them from doing their jobs, making their jobs less safe. >> or defund them as cantrell did. >> or defund them. we've clearly seen this. this is a mayor, last september, i believe, we had a kid, armed

carjacking of five individual women. she shows up to the case to support him and the family, walks out when one of the victims was reading her impact statement. you can't do that is a leader in a city like new orleans. >> apparently you can, because it took them, they lowered the threshold on how many signatures. now it's got to go through the governor. it's got to get on the ballot, so on and so forth. the voters will have the last say if it goes that way. >> absolutely. >> all right. you know, just one last thought, if you would, you and i were talking on camera before, this situation is so slow to get better. what can people do at this point with soft on crime policies, so on and so forth? >> we talk about this all the time, but voters don't. they're not coming out and speaking up. they're not getting organized. they're not meeting within their cities and their neighborhoods to actually push back, show up to meetings. most people have jobs.

you can't show up to a city council meeting on a tuesday at 2:00 p.m. it's very difficult. >> part of why they hold them. >> exactly. we have to play within that system. then we have to make sure we're doing a better job of picking the right candidate who can actually win. oftentimes we've seen folks from an ideological standpoint so far to the right, in a city that is never going to vote for that person, regardless of how bad the situation is on the ground. we have to be more thoughtful in the people we get behind. >> things are going to change, too. i was on the air last week, and, you know, so many votes here in new york. he came within sniffing distance of the democrat governor, compared with how republicans have done in the past. >> yeah. we have a republican city attorney in seattle. now, it took her running against somebody who wanted to literally abolish that position in order too her to win. she's stepping up, enforcing the law, and she's showing some more of the moderate democrats that,

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>> let me ask you the question. are you ready? become my intention has been from the very beginning to run. but they were too many other things to finish before i start a campaign. >> is your age part of your calculation whether to run against? >> no. but it is legitimate issue to be raised about my age. it is totally legitimate to do that if you are the only thing i can say is watch me. >> harris: he always says that and we do and we have those montages and gaffes of things he does. still no announcement about running. the president told us after state of union address we are coming up on a month. the latest fox news poll link the primary voters want somebody other than biden as the nominee. politico says he may not run and top democrats quietly preparing. maybe not so quiet.

the white house and biden allies are that speculation. power panel doug collins, david carlucci, former new york democratic state senator, david, what is his problem? >> welcome i think biden is doing the right thing. he has rolling up his sleeves and doing the work. i tell incumbent candidates the best way to campaign is to roll up your sleeves and get your job done. people in the general election to contest the general, they want results. >> harris: that is interesting. >> biden is ringing up success after success and although he's not being the most sensational, well-spoken canada, he is getting results on that will matter. come election day. >> harris: you are on the show quite often and we love having you on. every time you talk you talk about his acumen and all the things he's done. but this time you say yes to roll up his sleeves improved to do it. those are oppositional.

that is interesting. why has he not announced yet, doug? why do you think? speak with a problem biden has is biden. if someone from the left, you elect some of the things he's pushed through like inflation and many of the other problems with energy independence. i think the biggest problem is himself and the perception. he's not up for the job. he said can age be a legitimate problem? you text that on that he forforcats peoples names and jut going along and not connecting with the people. democrats have a big problem. they don't have anybody pass them so they are concerned if he doesn't run, who is next? >> harris: the economy and inflation cooking hot and disapproval for this president north of 60% for both, david, what does he do? >> i think he continues to do what he's done which is tout his success.

>> harris: he had 66 disapproval if used on what already what is done. they can walk in with lollipops and ants, republicans. he needs new material. >> what doug has said, democrats have problems, that is true but republicans have more problems. >> harris: but they are not running for -- they are not running for the job he has right now. they want the one he has in 2024. you say he's got to do this job right now. so i'm asking you, what does he need to do differently? >> i don't think he needs to do things differently but continue to do what he's done. the polls will show we want someone else an unknown mystery candidates appear that will always be the equation when it's not a real person. you put him against real people and biden will win. >> harris: gavin newsom, all right, i will cut in because we only have a few seconds. let's work out the gavin newsom potential periods speak with the problem is they don't have

another one. they are looking and it's unprecedented for the president to go to a second term to be these kind of numbers and this much legitimate conversation on should he be the candidate in the next election? >> harris: and the gaffes and everything else. we are out of time. i knew it would be type a gentleman was so glad to bring you back. david, doug, thank you.re "outnumbered" after the break. "outnumbered" after the break. >> thank you for having us. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive.

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