stuff. >> dana: i lost a pair of -- >> bill: are you ready for this? >> dana: lightsaber. >> bill: you own one. >> dana: i need one. slushy machine. how do you lose that? the pet turtle. he must be so upset about that. i can't imagine why that was left behind. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with the fox news alert as democratic voters are sending out a warning to joe biden. they don't want something that he cannot change. they want him to be younger. i'm harris falker in "the faulkner focus." the president is trying to sell the new 80 calling himself seasoned and wise at the white house correspondents dinner over the weekend. our president is the nation's oldest president and oldest-ever white house candidate. if he wins re-election he pops

up to 82 on inauguration day and 86 at the end of the second term. democrat heavy weights are claiming joe biden is as sharp as a tack. >> i saw the president last night. he was in fighting form. i think people should judge presidents on their performance and record, not on their age. and the president has a great record. is he up for a second term? >> 100%. incredibly sharp and probing, incredible command of the details. probing on the details, asking tough questions. >> harris: ask the man who is not a doctor in leaving our borders wide open. get it there him 100%. the president could not remember where he went for several days last week. the answer, ireland. a new op-ed warns democrats could turn on the president like they have with the 89-year-old senator dianne feinstein of

california. some of her fellow lawmakers are trying to shove her out the door after an illness. democrats do feinstein dirty but not done the same to biden yet, they say. cassie and marie harf are here today. great to see you both. cassie, what is the headwind the president is really up against here? >> i think it's the policies. if those on the left are concerned about his age those on the right, middle and everywhere else are concerned about the impact of these policies. if he can't remember them, how can he possibly defend them? i think that's the headwind and the top line. that's the problem here, harris. these politicians -- i want to point out three economic headlines from this morning. another bank collapse, the fed are probably raise the interest rate this week. by the way, the biden

administration's mortgage rule goes into effect today that punishes people who saved up to buy and home and paid their bills. biden is saying let's finish the job. i think it could be the finishing of america. this is a problem to have him on the stump for everybody on the left and right but most importantly for americans as a whole. a bad agenda to defend if he can even remember. >> harris: politicians are lining up to back the president but voters are more hesitant. take a look. >> i feel so uninspired and disconnected from the work he has been advancing. it is not something i'm really excited about. >> in the end if donald trump is the nominee and joe biden is the nominee, you just stay home. >> probably. get me out of bed, joe biden. it's not working. >> harris: one barely finding the words when she was asked why she would support joe biden for

2024. here that is. >> what do you like about joe biden? >> um, that he is not trump. >> harris: marie, your reaction to that and what you as a professional messenger for former administration would advise at this point. >> that's the job of a campaign, harris. they put some messaging out with their launch video. i think you will see joe biden and kamala harris and a bunch of other democrats out there across the country making the case for what they've done whether it is bringing manufacturing jobs back, whether the historic investments in roads and bridges we haven't seen since the eisenhower administration and they'll say the economy is tough but here is how we have' delivered for you. prescription drug costs are down. a bunch of things they will be touting and saying look, the opposite of age is experience,

elections are choices. i have a feeling there is a lot of time between now and that general election next november. a lot of these voters on the sidelines, if it is a choice between and older donald trump and an older joe biden, a lot of people are going to go to the polls for joe biden. they did it once before. the only person whoever beat trump. i think he will do it again if that's the match-up. >> harris: cassie, anything you want to respond to? >> the difference between 2020 is you had biden going against trump the personality. now you have republican x, doesn't matter who the candidate is who can say let's compare what life looked like before joe biden to now. record high 401ks and record low gas prices. now look at every other issue across the board that's not working for you and your family. there is a very strong list of failures of the biden administration but achievements of what happened under republican leadership. this just can't be anti-biden.

this has to be pro what you could get if you go in a different direction. republicans have to crystallize that for the american people and they have a good record to run on in that respect. >> harris: more democrats are brushing off concerns over president biden's fitness. bernie sands says he has this in the bag. >> i think the choice is pretty clear. that choice is biden. what i do believe is the democrats and president have got to be stronger on working class issues. they've got to make it clear that we believe in a government that represents all, not just the few. take on the greed of the insurance companies and drug companies. wall street, all the big money and trust and start delivering for working class people. you do that, i think biden will win in a landslide. >> harris: surrogates were flying. marie, it's the campaign's job. let's hear the campaign chair down playing the dismal polling numbers. >> the 12 million jobs created

in the first two years. the lowest unemployment in 50 years. 850,000 new manufacturing jobs and i'll remind you, our president often says don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. >> harris: you know what's missing? the watch me part. joe biden every time his age, fitness, policies, anything that comes up when he is not yelling at us reporters or cusseding at us is saying watch me. marie, he needs to be out there on his own. >> harris, i think you will see him out there talking to voters, doing events. actually what he likes doing. he doesn't like being stuck in the white house. they'll make a pro-active case for what he wants to do with another four years and also going to make a contrast. this election will in part be about the economy and partly about women's health being able to have the freedom for women to choose their own healthcare decisions, the freedom for lgbtq community to have rights.

on the republican side what they are promoting are incredibly extreme. they poll terribly in swing states and you have heard a number of republican officials say we need to figure out how to talk about abortion. i would argue it is not a messaging problem. their policy is unpopular with the majority of the american people and president biden will make that contrast case, too. >> harris: we heard former president trump over the abortion issue. not too dissimilar to what gene psaki was cautioning democrats about with crime. messaging is the thing. your thoughts on what marie just said. >> i think the democrats decided if they can make abortion part of the conversation in every conversation they can squeak out a win. when it is on the issues that america is facing. not going to fight crime or fix the border or not going to help your family's bottom line and

help you afford the groceries to puts on the table or afford the house you are saving up for. the biden administration at every turn has made it harder for hard working americans to stay afloat let alone get ahead. >> harris: thank you so much. bring you back. j.p. morgan chief just won the bid to take over first republic bank. another failed bank. the fdic had to seize first republic's assets last week marking the third massive bank failure in recent weeks. silicon valley bank, signature bank and now first republic sparking big questions over the soundness and stability of the industry of banking and what the future holds. >> you have to get a control of the banking panic. three bank failures this, is the

third. the worry it will expand to the entire banking system and look like 2007 and 8, they got to stop the rot and they do that by rescuing these banks as they go along. if they stop the rot, if they stop the panic that's good news for everybody in this economy. >> harris: talk about wisdom and experience and then he spits out stop the rot. that's something we all get. fox business correspondent edward lawrence is at the white house. that has make some people in the house behind you very nervous. >> we may hear the president address it today. we don't know yet. he has a small business event coming up in an hour but the rescue for those depositers in the third major bank to fill since biden took office. first republic bank is the second largest bank veil you are in u.s. history passing silicon valley bank earlier this year. 20% were uninsured or above the

thresholds of $250,000 not including deposits made by the 11 largest banks in the nation failed. mie dimon says fdic came to them to cover the deposits. he sees this as the start of a major consolidation of banking with 3 or 4 huge banks. market expert says it is not a good thing. >> i don't want to see four big banks. i want to see a lot of regional banks. the regional banks are responsible for 70 to 80% of all commercial loans. if you don't support them f they are not given a platform to compete, we'll have some problems. >> the smaller bank. the next small business idea more than the larger ones. this isn't over yet.

federal reserve data shows 177 billion flowed out of smaller banks from february to march while all banks in the nation saw deposits fall about 22%. we see money leave banks before big events like the bank failure. this is a huge drop and concerning experts. higher interest rates, government spending as well as inflation stressed the poorly-run banks. fdic in a couple of hours will release options they have now to reform or change the deposit insurance to add more confidence in the system. there is a lot of concern in the government about this. >> harris: when you say 21.8% a drop in deposits, what does that mean across the board? is that rot? >> that's all banks in the system. what we've seen in over the past 18 months the deposits in all banks are going down like 5%, 1%, 2%.

>> harris: where is the money going? >> under people's couches, into bonds. >> harris: oh they're eating it. >> or having to spend it because losses on some side or another, inflation is part of that, too. >> harris: thank you for breaking it down. appreciate it. programming note here benjamin hall, whose new book made "the new york times" best seller list will have an exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. i have 99 questions for him. that airs tonight during special report to bret baier at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. hunter biden facing a judge today over a hearing on child support and it could have big implications for the criminal investigation into his finances. republican presidential candidate refuses to deny basic

biology. >> are you confident you know that gender is as binary as you are describing it. are you confident it isn't a spectrum? >> i am. >> there is a lot of scientific research that gender is a spectrum. >> i disagree. >> harris: such a great conversation with vivek ramaswamy. we'll get into that. brian kilmeade is next.

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>> harris: brian kilmeade standing by in his radio studio to give us his take. hunter biden is in a courtroom in arkansas. the president's son is attending a hearing over child support he owes for his 4-year-old daughter. the child's mother says the president's son is not holding up his end of the bargain. he is not paying. and the court says he is playing games. she wants the judge to hold hunter biden in contempt and put him in jail until he complies. legal scholar jonathan turley points out how this hearing could have much wider implications. >> the irony is this effort could backfire across the board. he is under investigation in delaware, in washington, and he may have just tripped the wire on this one by once again trying to reduce his support for his

own child. >> harris: a new op-ed boils it down this way. hunter biden may be held accountable for the first time in his life. the first son is also facing seven more scrutiny -- even more scrutiny over his ties to secretary of state antony blinken. emails between the two in 2015 were revealed last week. blinken played a role in sparking the intelligence letter that hunter biden's laptop was russian disinformation. >> he finally sat down in december of 2020 because he wanted to be secretary of state. now because of the more information that's come out we know he lied bold faced to congress about never emailing hunter biden. you cannot trust joe biden or hunter biden or the biden

family. >> harris: brian kilmeade co-host of "fox & friends" and host of the brian kilmeade show simulcasting with us on his show. give us a quick heads-up this time. brian you talked with experts jonathan turley being one of them. you would think that hunter biden would be all buttoned up right now. they are taking a close look. he is not paying child support? >> 20 minutes ago i spoke to james comer. i'm all over this story. what people should understand it is not just about hunter biden. the arrogance of somebody not willing to pay child support that he knows is his. he wants to fight to make sure the kid doesn't get his name and doing this and telling the judge i'm paying too much money. i don't have much money though i have a nice car and living in a nice mansion. it is not mine. i get to live in the white house and do certain things and sell my paintings i won't tell you how much they're worth. i would like to pay less for a

kid i don't want to knowledge and my extended family won't acknowledge. this is how it could backfire. they will say show me everything. show me what you are worth. for example the bhr sale, that company is worth a lot of money. you own 10% of that company and it's estimated you got when you sold it between $420,040 million. can i see the records? not only is comer getting the records. this judge wants the records, why? he does not want to pay for his own kid or is paying too much for his own child. it doesn't seem to bother him that all this stuff will be exposed. think about this. he is traveling in ireland. totally front and center. he is saying to everybody you can't touch me, you can't touch my dad. no one will follow this story. i think he is overstepping. that's my sense. >> harris: i knew it was a

blockbuster catch me if you can, maybe he is trying to do the sequel. you hit the nail of the head that i hadn't read into. fighting for the opportunity for his child not to get the biden name. something that he himself has leveraged for decades and then bragged about it on 60 minutes, yeah, i use the family name. >> it is just the opposite of the bushes. when w. was in office you never saw jeb or neil. you saw his dad but they weren't sitting there saying my dad is the president, my brother is the president. you just don't see it like that. this is not only -- he not only has a checkered past that you would think he would want to bury. he wasn't advising the president handling bill clinton's things to do list on a daily basis on overseas trips. hunter believes he is vital to his dad and doesn't believe he can be touched. the most fascinating thing that

comer brought up to us. the hunter biden emails that you played from ron johnson, i did not know that he denied ever emailing with hunter biden to become secretary of state he lied. we have the emails. in my humble opinion he is tighter with hunter than joe. so they are dealing with the deputy secretary of state, who is doing international business deals? the bidens. who has international business contacts. antony blinken. the future secretary of state. >> harris: he got a good gig. >> he has a lot of contacts. i have to ask you a question says one of the emails. the wives in hunter biden and blinken's wives are emailing back and forth. we now know it exists. enough to get him kicked out of secretary of state. it makes me question all the

foreign policy decisions. that's the bigger story. >> harris: the headline you give us out of that chairman of oversight interview james comer you just had. so much for following the science. made for quite the conversation with vivek ramaswamy. his take oh transition surgeries for children and the recent approach to gender itself. >> below the age of 18 i think it is legitimate to say we won't allow mental mutilation. >> are you confident that you know that gender is binary as you are describing it. do you know it as a scientist? >> two x chrome sement seams. >> it as gender is a spectrum. >> i disagree. it has been characterized as a mental health disorder. >> if that's what they think could help their child pursue happiness why take away that option?

>> why do parents feel that way. we created a culture that teaches parents they are bad people if they don't actually take those steps. there is no doubt that the cultural movement in this country and even education is creating it. if it's a condition of suffering let's not create more. that's what we're doing. >> harris: what is interesting about what he is saying and spawned where several states are going now is this movement of just don't tell the parents then. if the parents will want to weigh in and try to stop any of this, you as a child under 18 have the right to be taken wherever you need to be taken for that transition and you don't need permission. you don't need to tell your parents. that's where we are going in some states. >> i give vivek credit. you know who had the battle plan of vivek? donald trump. he will take on the most difficult subjects and deserves credit. that was a hostile and fair environment.

this is what other people are saying. i date back to that shooting in nashville. we know about this woman who wanted to be a man. on some type of chemical trip. violent. we don't know the manifesto but parents weren't accepting of it and she had seven guns in her room not telling them. there is all type of tension and stress that could result in people's deaths. i would say this as vivek brought up brilliantly. you can't get a tattoo before you are 18 but supposed to change genders before you feel that way. talk to the people who did it and have regrets and wish people stood up to them let's wait until you are a little older because we can't undo what you might want to do. >> harris: one note to the president. our children belong to us the parents, not the government.

thanks for simulcasting with me. >> appreciate it. >> harris: house republicans turning up the heat on president biden. he is still refusing to negotiate at all on the debt ceiling. the issue is dividing democrats more and more each day. they will get blamed for any catastrophe that happens now. plus republicans running out of words when it comes to joe biden's botched border policy. >> this is where the administration has failed. instead of giving people a legal route to come over maybe through work visas or something else they've doubled down encouraging people to come over illegally. >> harris: 200 cops are looking for one illegal immigrant who shot several people and killed them as well. massive manhunt. reward money in the mix, too.. texas, we go there. stay close. >> tech: when you have auto glass damage, trust safelite. we'll replace your windshield,

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>> harris: the f.b.i. is searching for an illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing five neighbors north of houston friday night. the sheriff says he was drunk and firing an ar-15 when neighbors asked him to stop so their baby could sleep. that's when he allegedly entered their home and began shooting. lieutenant chris ole -- from the texas department of safety. >> we look at the policies and look at the whole immigration issue. for this individual to be deported five times. there wasn't any type of consequences to keep this individual was entering the country. regardless of the fact he committed this tragic crime to these individuals and victims. now we have to search for this suspect. >> harris: again, illegal immigrant, killed the people that you see on the screen.

a woman and her 8-year-old son. authorities say they have 0 leads on the man's location. five people inside that home. fox news senior correspondent casey stiegel is live for us in dallas, texas. >> texas father says he is trying to be strong for his surviving daughter after his little boy, daniel and 25-year-old wife sonia were both killed in friday night's attack along with three other family friends who were at that home north of houston for a church retreat. when eyewitnesses say the next door neighbor appeared in their bank yard with an ar-15 and opened fire. >> i'm scared because he can come back and look for us. we're hoping police do their job and arrest him. >> police have identified the suspect as 38-year-old francisco oropesa, he remains at large. the gunman had a prior history

of firing shotguns in his front yard. things quickly escalated friday night when the man was asked to keep the noise down. meantime, his friends and family and members of the community are all in shock. they attended a candlelight vigil over the weekend. can't get their minds around what happened. federal agents tell fox their suspect was not only in the country illegally, but ice said he had been deport evidence at least five times. he is still on the run. harris. >> harris: has anybody talked about keeping up with him, what that would have looked like? that's always the big question. you deport somebody five times and you have to be on somebody's ledger. >> that's right. we have a lot of people coming across the border and agents will tell you it is hard to keep track of that many people when you are dealing with such surges of migrants. >> harris: they are overrun, outnumbered at the border.

casey, we pray for that family and the neighbors that were in that home. republican congressman from texas chip roy member of the judiciary, budget and rules committees. you know, there are no words. it seems so preventable. we know five times he was deported. that means somebody had eyes on him five times? >> yeah, this is the reality of what we're dealing with in texas. we keep trying to make this point to all of america to understand. in texas in the last decade we have had 261,000 illegal immigrants carrying out 430,000 crimes, including 800 murders and kidnappings and 5,000 assaults. think about the numbers. somebody who was deported five times. border patrol and ice overwhelmed. cartels empowered. fentanyl killing 72,000 americans including 5 or 6 kids

in the school district in the county i live. also the migrants. let's remember this 8 and 9-year-old boy. these are illegal immigrants who were killed in this house. i think one might have been a citizen. it doesn't matter. this is an 8-year-old boy. what are we doing in the most powerful country in the history of the world we' lao this to occur? it is all largely preventable if we would reclaim operational control of the border. i am proud republicans on the house judiciary committee put across legislation two weeks ago that would take a giant step toward doing that. i hope we move it off the house floor next week when we get back to coincide with title 42 expiring all relevant to what we're dealing with right now when border patrol will continue to be overwhelmed and massively more overwhelmed with the expiration of title 42. >> harris: i quote you all the time. it is time for republicans to put up or shut up. you have to have a plan now. and with regard to how many,

261,000 committing more than 400,000 crimes should we be shocked? the initial crime is coming around those checkpoints and entering our country illegally. when will we admit it's a crime and at least -- at least see it as one on perhaps a roll of 1, 2, 3? unbelievable he was deported five times and still here. let's talk money. house republicans have had it with the cold shoulder from the president although i think he is showing something quite different refusing to negotiate with you. the house gop passed a bill laying out your plan to cut rampant spending and raise the debt limit as default is looming. republican leaders say it is all on the democrats and president biden now. let's watch together. >> can you guarantee as a leader in the united states congress that the united states of america will not default on its debt? >> i can assuming that our

president and the schumer senate recognize the gravity of the problem. the white house needs to ultimately get into this negotiation. the president is in hiding for two months. that's not acceptable. they expect the president to sit in the room with speaker mccarthy and start negotiating. >> harris: nearly a dozen house democrats and some are splitting with biden say it is time for him to sit down with house speaker mccarthy. are those numbers big enough to make it happen? >> let's hope so. what happened is republicans called the president's bluff. the president was trying to bury his head in the sand and fiddling while america is burning with rampant inflation and spending money we don't have causing all manner of problems for the american people. we delivered and passed a common sense strong piece of legislation that will lift the debt ceiling but it will do so responsibly by limiting the spending causing inflation. what is the president doing now? just burying his head in the

sand. he sent his administration to lie to the american people and say we're cutting veterans benefits and other programs. let's look at what is really happening. omb are the ones that sent a memo to v.a. saying they'll cut spending. we're setting a cap across the total spending level. v.a. says we're cutting spending. are they talking about the 80% of veterans who say they can't make ends meet? how about the 75% who said we don't like the student loan bail-out. we sacrificed for those benefits to go to school and now you want to give it to somebody with gender studies and banning the pistol brace. it is all politicized operations by this administration. we delivering and going after cronyism and the spending causing inflation. this is responsible. the president has a duty to come to the table and he is about to

be forced to politically. the american people see what's really going on. >> harris: as republicans you have put it back in his lap. whatever happens next is on democrats, on him and he wants to point the finger but he is the one who won't sit down. great to see you in "focus" today. thank you. >> great seeing you. god bless you. >> harris: young voters not too happy with president biden. young voters, his approval rating among them under the age of 30 is falling to its lowest point. what it all means for 2024 since that group trends mostly blue. plus the president and the press. it's complicated. >> i think he is mocking the press. the guy doesn't take questions and he is up there joking about it. >> harris: critics calling out the president for joking about ducking reporters. it is so funny the way he doesn't take questions, he says. what happened to those promises of transparency? ari fleischer in "focus" next.

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>> harris: it's getting sticky, even some reporters in the liberal media have had it with president biden dodging questions from them. the president was joking about correspondents' dinner over the

weekend. not everybody was laughing. >> the line that will stick with me is in a lot of ways this dinner sums up my first two years in office. talk for ten minutes, take 0 questions and cheerfully walk away. he wasn't laughing with you, he was laughing at you. the reality is, i think see mocking the press. the guy does not take questions. he is up there joking about it. i think the president of the united states needs to talk to the reporters and not mock them. >> harris: the white house may have a new reason to avoid questions or excuse you might call it. headline today reads the hatch act is drawing renewed attention. the biden white house may be the first to face accusations of using it too much. we decided to put together a little montage for you of how many times the press secretary likes to invoke the hatch act. >> we follow the hatch act here in this administration. it is 2024, the hatch act just not going to touch that with a 12 foot pole.

i always say this at the top. have to be really careful we follow the hatch act. >> we do listen to the rule of law and the hatch act. >> harris: that means she can't talk politics from the lectern but they do. former white house press secretary and fox news contributor ari fleischer. hatch act. it sounds delicious. >> the thing about it is karine jean-pierre sounds like she is happy about it and not to talk. it always made me unhappy. i wanted to sink my teeth into every issue that was important to the press or country. i wanted to participate, dive in and shape the conversation. she acts like it is a moment of relief that she has another excuse not to talk. it's not what you want in a press secretary. she is doing it right. you can't talk because of the hatch act but i was never happy not to talk. >> harris: well, all of this comes amid a lot of concern

about vice president kamala harris on the 2024 ticket. more big name democrats are coming to her defense. here is senator chris coons. >> the vice president, like many vice presidents, has struggled to get positive press coverage and get the credit she deserves for the hard work she has been doing. our president has great confidence in her and so do i. >> harris: she has a lot of jobs. let's slow scroll it while ari tells us how she is doing. >> if they have confidence in her that's about two of the only people in the country who do. i'll make a prediction. this worm will turn because it must. the press is going to start writing stories how she is being under valued, how she is doing a fine job. they will start to rally because it's a democratic ticket. that's how the press will cover them and become the beneficiary of that even though everybody in

the country who watches from an objective point of view recognizes she is in way over her head. >> harris: forgive me for interjecting, based on what would they make those claims or what you are saying and what i hear you saying they don't need to base it on fact. they'll say it anyway. >> we're heading into an election year and rally time. what's so unfortunate about the way the press covers joe biden and the question from the reporter ahead of time and how he takes the press for granted and scott jennings point about laughing at you not with you is very valid. the paraphrase some of what donald trump said. if joe biden walked out of the white house onto pennsylvania avenue and shot someone, i think the white house press corps probably wouldn't cover it. if they did they would say aaron bur shot joe biden when he was vice president. they make excused for joe biden and laugh with him when they should be the ones raising the pressure saying how can you hide from us?

why don't you take questions on a regular basis? who else's card was behind the "l. a. times" reporters card when the white house had the list of questions? we haven't heard that answer. don't think it was just one reporter. they had other reporter's cards under there, i'm certain of it. >> harris: what would it mean to you? >> the white house is getting reporters to cooperate in giving them what questions or directions they'll ask the question and it is unethical. no reporter would have gone along and done that when i was press secretary, none. my job was to guess what questions the press corps at large would ask. i would never say to the president this reporter will ask you that, that reporter will ask you this. i didn't know their specifics. i think you will get the following five questions during your news conference but i couldn't guess from whom. no reporter would possibly cooperate if i tried to ask that. >> harris: it's the com team's job getting the president ready.

i'm surprised reporters give any questions. it's a game much gotcha with them. >> reporters shouldn't play ball with the white house. these reporters seem to like playing ball with the white house. >> harris: no one in authority. that's the whole purpose of being there to ask the questions. a recent poll shows president biden's approval with young voters ages 18-29 has slid off a cliff to 36%, down six points from last year and then it was even more than that if you look at 2021. 59% to 36 now. those young voters aren't feeling too good on the inside, either. we know that since the pandemic. nearly half are saying they're nervous, anxious or on edge in life. more disturbing, 24% say they think they would be better off dead. most young voters identify as democrats and politically moderate. when i read the study it breaks my heart. >> this softness in support is

not ideological. they're mostly democrats and would be for joe biden. it's personal because they know what it means to be 80. they know what their grand parents are like and recognize he is too old and out of touch. that's his personal problem. >> harris: i pray for all of those, too. i know you do as well struggling right now mightily. they need someone who they can believe in. somebody they have confidence in for the country. thank you. "outnumbered" is next. use the three p's: plan ahead by getting a va cash out home loan from newday. pay off your high rate credit cards. pay yourself cash.

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>> harris: you are watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner here with my co-hosts emily compagno and kayleigh mcenany. joining us our fox news contributor and former nba player ennis kanter, emphasis on freedom. good to have you. we begin this hour with the fox news alert. a massive man hunt is under way in the state of texas for the mexican nati