okay? what is -- i was waiting. i didn't want to rip you off and make sure you saw that. "fox news sunday" what's shaking on sunday for you? >> shannon: we have ronna mcdaniel. folks saying they may or may not show up for the debates. and we have democratic senator chris van hollen to talk about the president's re-election and debt ceiling showdown. >> bill: enjoy the weekend, shannon. good to be with you. thanks for being here today. gillian turner now is in for harris. >> gillian: thank you. fox news alert straight off the bat today. president biden's job approval rating is hitting an all-time low the same week he kicks off his re-election campaign. i'm in for harris today. the voters put his rating in the low 40s. the new poll shows his latest approval at 37%. prior to this week the low was

38% in july last year. 49% say they disapprove coinciding with his official campaign announcement that came this week without frills or fanfare. no launch event in wilmington. "the new york times" says this. president biden formally moved from a campaign in waiting to a campaign of waiting. critics say voters, though, do want a change. listen. >> this is a guy who has tried to coerce the country on everything from transgender issues to climate issues to the border. and this is a guy who frankly has run a pretty incompetent administration which is why most americans think america is in decline and most americans think that we need a different approach. >> gillian: rich edson is at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this morning. hi, rich. >> good morning. republicans jumping into the race.

a number of polls show voters are generally uninterested in a 2020 rematch. defendants are defending the president's decision to run again saying he is their best chance to hang onto the white house. >> president biden is for making sure manufacturing comes back to america. president biden is for protecting unions and increasing working wages. the republican plans are for cutting spending, for tax cuts for the wealthy and i think that's what the election will come down to. >> congressman said he thinks biden should agree to debate his democratic shall eners williamson and robert kennedy junior that the staff overprotects him and that he should have more press conferences. another biden run is an opportunity for them to return to the white house say republicans. >> the issues that we're talking about, the border wide open. china an adversary, this administration treats them like allies. the issue of the economy.

>> senator tim scott has an exploratory committee. the vice president if she were to decide or president were to decide to step away. polls are lower for harris in the latest fox news survey. the vice president is at 43% approval. 54% disapproval. that's up from 39% approval in january. now as with most sitting presidents, it is expected that president biden will be renominated by the democratic party. democrats have made it easier this time around demoteing states on the calendar and pushing states on the calendar like iowa and new hampshire in favor of more biden-friendly states like michigan and south carolina. gillian. >> gillian: thank you. take a look at the axios reporting on the president now. they say he faces what they are calling an age trap on the 2024

campaign trail. his schedule so far reveals how his staff tried to insure he is at his best. four public events before 10:00 a.m. a dozen after 6:00. mostly dinners and receptions. 12 full weekends so far without any public events. the white house in response put out a one word reply calling this reporting false. let's bring in marc thiessen. fox news contributor and former speech writer and columnist for the "washington post." marc, a lot to unpack there. a good place to start is we both worked at the white house, seen the job up close and personal. it is a tough, tough job. people in their 20s would struggle to keep up with the commander-in-chief's schedule in any administration. >> yeah. i had a tough time keeping up with president bush. i would be at my desk at 5:45 in

the morning having been there until 7:00 p.m. the night before and he was working the whole time, too. it's a hard job. pictures of president bush. we look at the pictures of the president on the day he took office and compare it to the end of the administration and you see oh my gosh how much gray hair he has and many more wrinkles. look at joe biden two years ago compared to today. you've seen similar aging in a short span. imagine what he is 86 years old. 68% of americans think that he is too old for a second term and 70% don't want him to run. but he is going to run and get the nomination. >> gillian: i worked at the white house for four years. i looked 25 years older on my last day. leave it at that. >> you gained it back. don't worry. >> gillian: no primary debate so far. charlamagne tha god called out the dnc this week.

>> it's whacked the dnc won't do no primaries next year. do some primary debates. put joe biden on stage with bobby kennedy and marianne williamson and whoever steps up to the plate and let's have a discussion. >> gillian: expletives aside do you think it is a good idea? >> if i was joe biden i wouldn't debate. there is not a serious candidate out there. robert f. kennedy never held elected office. it is interesting he has 19% based on his name recognition. if a serious contender ever got in there and wanted to knock biden out they would come in even higher. he will follow the basement strategy. instead of the basement in delaware it will be the basement of the white house. he will let -- he ran against donald trump by letting donald trump in 2020 be the focus of the campaign and turn it into a referendum on donald trump. that's his strategy going into 2024 is looks like trump is headed towards the nomination.

and the "wall street journal" poll last week, trump's old pollster and a super pac right now looked at the voters who said that they disapproved of both men, trump and biden, and biden wins those by 39 points. 54 to 15. so the swing voters who disapprove of both biden and trump disapprove of trump even more. that's a big problem for the republicans going into the fall because they need to win the 59% in the gallup poll who disapprove of biden's performance in office. but if it's somebody on the other ballot who they disapprove of more biden will get reelected. >> gillian: there is also the economy. president biden said he has never been more optimistic of the future. wall street has some concerns. one top exec said the u.s.

economy is unwell. only 35% approve of biden's handling of the economy. very challenging for the president's re-election campaign. voters this week were calling it their top issue. growth numbers out this week is like not going to help, either. take a listen. >> 1.1% growth of the economy in the first quarter. it was estimated that it would be 2%. it was still down from the fourth quarter of last year. the economy is slowing down. that's not the way you want to go into an election. >> gillian: the economy has been the one consistent factor over the first half of the first term. whenever former president trump is in the future, whatever candidates may emerge on the other side, this is something that biden will be held accountable for. >> or not. so 75% of voters in that gallup poll say they expect the economy to get worse. only 19% think it is getting

better. it could get worse as we go along. it was about the same number before the mid-terms in 2022 and joe biden turned in the best performance of any president in the first mid-term election except for george w. bush right after the 9/11 attack. it wasn't because they approved of him but disapproved of the alternatives the republicans were putting forth. if we put forward the wrong types of candidates, it is a get out of jail free card for joe biden on his economic performance. we have the worst inflation in 40 years, worst collapse in real wages and worst border crisis and worst crime wave since the 1990s. highest gas prices on records. his campaign should be dead on arrival. the only way it gets revived if we choose candidates who are going to -- voters will look and say biden is terrible but this would be worse. >> gillian: well, on that upbeat note, marc, we will have to say

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>> judiciary committee, homeland security committee, the foreign affairs committee all have taken action now over the last few weeks to put together what i would call the strongest border security package that congress has ever taken up. we'll return in may the same week that title 42 expires, we're going to bring a border security package. >> gillian: steve scalise will move ahead to bills to make the border more secure. title 42 is set to expire in less than two weeks. >> based on the 14-hour mark-up we had in the judiciary committee of their immigration bill, it is really cruel. it is extreme and it is not workable. i see the border as a symptom of this much larger problem, which is that there aren't legal pathways to come in.

>> gillian: the biden administration is to expand legal migration, open more migrant processing centers, restore some deportation penalties. republicans say it is not nearly enough to stymie the cascade of people crossing the border illegally. border patrol projects as many as 15,000 people could cross the border on a daily basis once title 42 comes to an end. that adds up to more than 5 million crossings every year. nate foye joins us from brownsville, texas this morning. >> gillian, the biden administration's post title 42 plan comes too late for the thousands of migrants just waiting a couple weeks to cross the river illegally here into the united states and in advance of title 42 ending we're seeing massive numbers in the reef owe grand valley sector. every day this week agents have processed over 2,000 migrants and that's continuing this morning. take a live look at the fox news drone. we have about 300 maybe 400 migrants beginning their processing today and a lot more

resources today as we have previously. it looks like they're clearing out some land here either cleaning up for the migrants that have already been here or possibly preparing for more migrants expected. yesterday 2600 migrants were processed in the rio grande valley sector. there has never been anything like this. el paso, migrants are already sleeping on the streets outside of shelters there. the situation is about to get even worse. right now 35,000 migrants are waiting just across the border in juarez. one of them was able to squeeze through a border fence. look at the next video. the group helps the migrant slip through a hole in the fence in el paso before border patrol gets there. squeezes through to the other side, crosses the highway and runs away. a human smuggling chase from texas dps. you see the driver pulls up to the rio grande, jumps out.

swims back to mexico. the illegal migrant in the car did not run away and was apprehended. back out here live border patrol released new numbers from the past week. agents apprehended 15,000 migrants in the past week and also confiscated 54 pounds of fentanyl. send it back to you, gillian. >> gillian: nate foye in brownsville. thank you. let's bring in congressman jason smith. republican of missouri and chairman of the ways and means committee. you heard my colleague nate report there the biden administration has been late to the game in terms of enacting border policies. putting that aside for a moment, your colleagues, sir, have been in power in the house for almost four months. if this was such a priority why are we scrambling now two weeks ahead of title 42 expiration. >> the reason why we have a

border crisis is because of the actions that president biden did in his first 100 days in office. he did 94 different executive orders that weakened our border that has now led to more than 5 million people that has crossed it. he also when i took a trip of house republicans down to the border, we exposed how he was illegally withholding more than a billion dollars of bipartisan funding to secure the southern border. that is why we have the border crisis we have. he rescinded the remain in mexico policy and now going after title 42. >> gillian: respectfully i know that the gop blames the biden administration. my question is why are you guys only proposing legislation now four months into this two weeks before title 42 expires if it's such a priority? >> we have had this legislation proposed. we aren't just proposing it. it is coming to the floor in

just two weeks. we have only been in power for just over 100 days. we had to set up chairmen, we have to set up committees because in case you didn't realize we fired nancy pelosi and took over and we raised the debt limit just this week which was the first thing that had to happen. president biden said house republicans couldn't do it. we did it. unfortunately not even one democrat helped us. we're doing the business that we are supposed to. it is not about a time frame, it is about addressing the needs of all americans all the time. that's what house republicans are doing. that's not what democrats have been doing. they are the ones creating the crisis at the border. they did that by their executive orders. they did that by encouraging terrorists across the southern border. we have had more than 200 known terrorists apprehended at the southern border since joe biden has been president. that's unacceptable. >> gillian: i want to turn your attention while we have you to the president's proposal on the

debt limit. the white house is sticking with that proposal now refusing to negotiate. the country is risking default as early as june. folks on both sides of the aisle are growing ansi. they pushed for the biden administration to come to the table saying the clock is ticking and the american people will pay the price p joe biden refuses to sit down to prevent an historic default. khanna says it is all backwards. >> let's discuss what to cut. after we pay the bill, after we pay our debt we can discuss how we reduce the deficit. they are holding it hostage like a family saying we'll only pay our credit card bill if you agree, family member x, to cut the spending. let's pay the bill. we have incurred the expenses. this is patriotic to pay our bills. >> gillian: what do you say to that? >> it is absurd.

if you look at the history any time you increased the debt limit, 11 times we've increased the debt limit since 1985 it has been tied to fiscal reforms. we provided a bill that cut 4.8 trillion by also increasing the debt limit by 1 1/2 trillion. president biden said house republicans couldn't do it. we did it. what president biden is asking for, even his democrat-controlled senate can't even pass it. if they could, they would have already passed it. senator joe manchin says that joe biden needs to come to the table and negotiate with house republicans. house republicans have delivered on an increase of the debt limit. it is reckless for joe biden and chuck schumer not to talk to speaker mccarthy and myself and negotiate for the american people to bring fiscal sanity back to washington, d.c. >> gillian: republican house republican fundraisers are set to put out this ad blasting democrats.

i want to get your reaction. >> what do house democrats do as the united states barrels towards its first ever default on the debt in nothing. they refuse to call for compromise or ask biden to second common ground. politics over people. it is disguns, extreme and the american people who will suffer. >> gillian: talk to us about a bit of the real financial costs in dollars for american taxpayers. >> we can absolutely not default. it is absurd and reckless that house democrats, not one, would join with us increasing the debt limit this week. it is great that we have senator manchin on the other side of the building saying that we need to come to the table to negotiate an agreement. the american people, 60% of the american people are opposed to a blank check debt limit increase that president biden and chuck schumer and house democrats are proposing. so we have to come to the table,

deliver for the american people, and raise the debt limit and not default >> gillian: we wish both sides of the aisle good luck. it is important work. thank you for joining us today. vice president kamala harris now is staring down some declining poll numbers of her own. the white house is going on defense saying the numbers are less about her actual job performance and more about racism and sexism. the white house is playing defense on this. take a listen. >> to people who saw that pocket card can you explain how that ended up there and why the president needed something like that? >> look, we do not have specific questions in advance. it's not something that we do. >> gillian: the president's cheat sheet fanning anger amongst his critics at the rose garden this week. we'll talk more about that next.

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>> gillian: the white house is defending president biden using a pocket card during his press conference this week. the image shows a reporter's fleshed out question had the president calling on her. the press secretary said this in response. >> the "l. a. times" said their reporter did not submit questions in advance of the press conference. people who saw the pocket card, can you explain how that ended up there and why the president needed something like that? >> it is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters who will be asking questions at a press conference. and issues we expect they might ask about. we do not have specific questions in advance. >> gillian: dr. marc siegel said he talked to past presidents who said they didn't need that. >> i look for the ability for thinking, clear thinking, for what we call executive function. can you do complex decisions? can you think outside the box?

can you be flexible if something comes in? there is a threat coming from another country and you're hearing about it for the first time. do you need a cheat sheet? we need cognitive testing here. >> gillian: let's bring in the power panel. thank you for joining me today. leslie, let's start with you. let's talk about these so-called cheat sheets. it is, in fact, very normal for presidents to have these kinds of pocket cards that give them directions for events, where they are supposed to go and who they will talk to and the choreography of the event. it is not normal to use karine jean-pierre's own words to have the very detailed questions that reporters are going to ask him. that's still not been accounted for in this exchange. >> the reporter in this case in

the "new york times" -- the "l. a. times," the "l. a. times" in los angeles where i am have said they provided no questions in advance. reporters across the spectrum, whether they work for right or left-leaning periodicals i have never in any presidency seen or heard -- you know yourself reporters don't want to. it is like you don't want to show the ace up your sleeve. you want to have it be in the moment. i will say even on my radio show, i am not president of the united states, when i have high-profile people on, there are things that we talk about we will discuss. not the exact questions that will be posed. and whether it's a name pronunciation on that sheet and a topic. but what they think he will probably ask something like this. i really don't have a problem with that 1 and 2 except for a doctor. we heard from a doctor, one of our own here. none of us are in any position to question somebody's level of

executive function. people with adhd have executive function issues or to say it is a cognitive issue. that cognitive test is a joke lastly. i've taken it to see. a picture of an elephant. i think almost everyone knows what an element is. they don't have an accurate cognitive testing. anybody will tell you that. >> gillian: you heard dr. siegel questioning president biden's mental acuity based on the fact that he requires that kind of input from staff. what do you say to that? >> notes are very common. certainly president obama used them on his speeches. preside president trump had notesment to talk to the parkland familiesment tell me what you need to reduce your pain. this is quite different and it seems outrageous to people

looking at it on its face because there is a difference between notes and what appears to be for some reason the exact question. it didn't come out the same from the "l. a. times" reporter, but the framing was the same and the topic was the same. whether there is any truth to it or not. whether it's a coincidence. it may be. the "l. a. times" suggested it would be. it looks fishy to people. that's really the problem here. i actually think it is less embarrassing for the white house than for the "l. a. times."enter most presidents would say give me the questions, i would love to see them. that's what press operations do. but journalisticly it's a bad look and i'm sure people will be paying close attention to these types of things going forward. >> gillian: reporters say president biden seemed to forget his recent trip to ireland when he was asked about his travels

yesterday. watch. >> what is the last country you traveled to? >> president biden: when was the last one i was? i've been to 89 -- met with 89 heads of state so far. so i'm trying to think what was the last place i was? it is hard to keep track. >> ireland. >> harris: yeah, you're right, ireland. that's where it was. >> president biden: how did you know that? >> gillian: watching that for the first time yesterday my first thought is how could you not remember you were just in ireland for a week, until i realized that for a million dollars i couldn't have told you where i was the day before. >> i'm in l.a. i'm in between the two of you. today i'm in los angeles. tuesday i'm in washington, d.c. thursday i'm going to be in miami. sunday in l.a. again and then in

new york. there is a movie called if it's tuesday it must be belgium. if you travel a lot, you can be confused. wait a minute, where was it that i was? i think that's jet lag. i think there are people out there that just want to focus on his age. i get it. that will be a consideration for voters even in my party, democrats. but really, that is not the number one issue on voters' minds, even those concerned about that in my party. if it comes down to a race between him and donald trump, even women who pulled away in went polls they will look at some issues like banning books, abortion, reproductive rights and vote for joe biden all over again. >> gillian: the number one issue was the economy. the former white house chief of staff ron klain came to the vice president's defense this week brushing off concerns about her popularity quote from klain. i think sexism and racism are part of the problem. she has done a lot of very hard

work and been very successful at vice president. axios says there is a push underway at the white house to bolster and rehabilitate the vice president's image. fox news polls now show 54% of voters disapprove of harris's job performance. 57% have an unfavorable opinion of her. is that just a punt by ron klain or some legitimacy? >> her popularity is low and it is problematic for the white house whether you think it's fair or not. i tend to think criticism of her is fair. it's problematic when we say a woman in color in such a serious position can't be questioned at all. she is a serious politician, she is the first woman of color in the vice presidentsy. she served for many years in california in various capacity. to say, for instance, we can't

question her performance in an interview about immigration when she was a senator from a border state and should be able to easily handle those questions i think is very insulting to president kamala harris. i also think -- and i have a lot of data on this from a project i'm working on with a student -- part of the problem is she was actually very popular when she came into the administration, above 50%, approaching 60%. she was a very effective messenger as survey experiments that i conducted show. then that dropped off once people started seeing her fulfill her role and her duties. finally many of these problems are ones that were there on the 2020 campaign trail. that's why she dropped out in 2019 even before the very first contest. and the leaks in her office, the turnover is unprecedented compared to other politicians.

she has had these issues for a while and so i do think it's fair to critique someone in a position of power especially when the president is so old. >> gillian: every politician elected to office deserves scrutiny, that includes especially the president and vice president. and especially in an administration where the vice president will, if there is a second term, be serving with a president who will be in his 80s. it is uncharted territory for americans. great talking to you this morning. you don't want to miss this. our own benjamin hall whose new book "saved." will have a sit-down interview with secretary of state antony blinken. it will air monday on fox news channel 6:00 p.m. eastern on monday evening with bret baier. the biden administration is suing tennessee over the state's ban on transgender treatments

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>> gillian: a national treasure off limits to americans for a while starting tonight parts of yosemite will be closed for a few days because of massive flooding expected as snow melts. the second time they have had to close just this year. fox weather's robert ray is live at the park. >> good morning to you. it is absolutely magical and beautiful here in yosemite national park. look at the expanse but look at some of the aerials and ground video of snow pack in sierra

nevada mountains. causing a melt off they haven't seen in years in yosemite. in the distance you see potentially the water coming down this canyon side, the granite beautiful majestic mountains. with all that water coming down. tonight at 10:00 p.m. tourists are going to have to leave yosemite for several days. they are hoping to reopen at some point early mid next week. they just don't know what these rivers are going to do over the weekend. they could potentially flood some roads out and you see in this meadow now we're beginning to see some of the water that is coming down and seeping through. that water is rushing on creeks that normally are very slow moving and the waterfalls are coming down intensely. if you get close to some of those waterfalls you feel the air and energy come at you like a tropical storm if you are on the ground. they haven't seen flooding like

this since the late 90s. they hope it won't get as bad as it potentially could. as that snow continues to melt in the sierras in the spring and summer you can expect the potential for rolling closures in the next few months. back to you. >> gillian: robert ray live from yosemite. thank you. a lawsuit with the ban on transgender surgeries and they say drugs and procedures are medically necessary for some kids. new opinion piece is fighting back on this claim. quote this is not civil rights or acceptance or inclusivity. it is reckless, dangerous, and most of all unnecessary. for about a dozen or so states have taken similar action similar to the tennessee laws.

some democratic states are doing a opposite. some proposals even prevent parents from knowing what their kids are doing. here is kat timpf. >> on the basic level i believe that children are their parents' children and don't belong to the states. how would a parent not know that a child was going through something like this? this is something that parents have to know about just logistically regardless of the fact that i think it's crazy to have children be making permanent decisions when they are minors. >> gillian: let's bring in sean duffy, co-host of "the bottom line" on fox business. what do you say? >> if you care about kids, you don't want to let them make a decision when they aren't old enough to sign a contract. you can't sign a contract if you're under 18. now to say you will have the department of justice under joe biden push back on states that want to protect children from castrating themselves, mutilating their genitals is

insanity coming from the department of justice. i think when you peel back the layers you say what has happened in culture and society where you have had an explosion of young people who say they are gay or trans or non-binary. is this a natural percentage that comes in society or is something happening socially or psychologically to the community that's making them say i want to go through this transition? if it's not in their hearts and it's actually a social pressure, they will transition and live to regret it. they may not be able to have kids in the future and mutilating their bodies. what is wrong saying wait until you are older and more mature to make a decision that will alter your life for the rest of your life? democrats, gillian, we saw they don't care about kids whether we shut down schools, masking our children and now fighting to make sure that children can mutilate themselves. this policy doesn't make any sense if you care about the children of america.

>> gillian: look at this, sean. two california middle school teachers are suing a school district claiming the school's policy required them to lie to parents about their kids' gender identity claiming any pronouns or gender-specific name requested by the student during school and using biological names when speaking to parents to hide their gender identity from them. this issue and the two sides fighting back and forth about it hinge on if you put aside gender identity, sexual identity for a moment here, this narrowly is about parents' right to know and the fact that some teachers now feel infringed upon because they are in effect banned from sharing information about the child with the parent. that doesn't exist anywhere else. there is no other specialized category of information about kids in classrooms that teachers are not allowed to share with

parents. >> right. it goes back to kat's point that you aired earlier joe biden earlier this week said our nation's children belong to all of us. no, it doesn't. your children belong to the parents. if the school is making decisions or teachers are helping a child make decisions and it is a wrong decision, those teachers aren't there to counsel and care for the child for the rest of their life. the principal isn't there, the school board isn't there. it's the parents who are there for the child. the parents are the ones who know the child the most and care the most about the child. let them be part of the decision making for the child. and so again, i think this is a small radical group of leftists trying to push this ideology. we've seen it online. what would the leftists say if you had a teacher secretly baptizing children in school and promoting faith in school without the knowledge of the parent? they would lose their minds over that, right? you can't pour water on someone's head and baptize them

but mutilate their genitals without the parents knowing? this is how crazy the left has become. it is out of sync with the mainstream culture in america. >> gillian: it goes a step beyond that meaning when some teachers feel it is in the interests of the child to share information about them with the parent, they are blocked from doing that. it seems a perversety. >> i think the parent knows what kind of social pressures and psychological issues the child might have and are better able to help the child navigate what is happening in their personal lives far more than a school system or teacher or principal or school counselor. again, in the end the consequence of this is kids get hurt. kids don't make good decisions when you take it out of the realm of the family and parents. >> gillian: hunter biden appears in a courtroom on monday over a

child support dispute involving his 4-year-old daughter. he insists the child is not his daughter. information in his financial files could relate to the probe of his overseas business dealings. "the washington examiner" has a new report on former intelligence officials who signed that 2020 letter. it suggested the hunter biden laptop story was likely russian disinformation. three of those people who signed ended up getting top political appointments. what do you say? >> first off, the mother of the child of the 4-year-old baby, navy, the mom is asking for financial assistance. child support from hunter biden and hunter is like here are my taxes. the mom is smart, a graduate and says i won't take your tax records. i've read the reports, i've seen the whistleblower. this is fought your actual income. you have made far more money with your shady foreign deals. i want to see all of the income you've made. to your point, that can play

into this long-running i.r.s. case that happened with hunter biden and so listen, i think it will play out in a very interesting way. the court can force this information to the public square where the i.r.s. will not. >> gillian: we have to leave it there. thank you for your time today. >> thanks. >> gillian: thanks for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" is coming up right after the break.

>> hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany here with my co-host emily compagno, also joining us, fox business correspondent and host of "real tough women" gerry willis, tough woman herself. fox nation host and former nfl player and co-founder of "mission cooling" chris foletta. we begin with this, yesterday marked one month since the tragic shooting at a christian school in nashville. and while the fed today, they released a post rt