that's really up to you. as helpful as she can be siri is not available to this one. i graduated 29 years ago. i thought i wanted to go to the frat parties an boulder but saw myself here and i'm so glad i made this decision. >> dana: also got an honorary doctorate for there. that's dr. timothy and jen and they're doing a great job. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with the fox news alert. it is no way the treat those who put their lives on the line for the rest of us. sanctuary city mayor eric adams is busing illegals to upstate new york. what happens when they get there? homeless veterans were kicked out of hotels to make room for the illegal immigrants. i'm harris faulkner. the disgraceful treatment of our military veterans played out in orange county, new york, 60

miles north of the big city. at least 20 homeless veterans, some suffering from ptsd, had to give up their hotel rooms for illegals. the head of a nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping them and told this to the "new york post." whether you agree with asylum seekers being here or not we can't just ignore these veterans that are in our charge that we are supposed to protect. we need to put them first. a republican assemblyman who represents orange county is furious. >> it's a total embarrassment. a slap in the face to veterans and citizens of new york and this country who are being cast aside to allow for asylum seekers to come here. when it comes to this situation you had combat veterans who were homeless told to get out of their hotel. what we've tried to do is let the veterans know we appreciate them and embarrassed by what is happened to them but we have their backs. >> harris: some pointing to a profit as a motivator for all

that's going on. a travesty. that nonprofit group pays $88 per day to house the veterans in hotels. new york city is shelling out up to $190 a night to house illegal immigrants. do the math on that. looks like the hotel is getting a bit of change each time they do this. taxpayer's money, i course. joey jones, fox news contributor, retired u.s. marine bomb technician and hosted "fox & friends" first this morning and the person interviewing assemblymen. >> he is housing veterans and a lawmaker up there. as i was talking to him orange county is suing new york, the city of new york for sending migrants there saying that they didn't have a say in it. they weren't prepared for it and that new york is overstepping its own jurisdiction by doing

it. you hear eric adams talking about how everyone has responsibility. not everyone called themselves a sanctuary city. and not everyone signed up to take care of people who have already broken the law by being here to begin with. the fact that this community has chosen to support this nonprofit and 20 homeless veterans and now being told we won't let you do that. we'll make this hotel take these migrants instead at a big chunk of change hits at the heart of what the community stands for. >> harris: a lot of discussion around this. mike lawlor represents one of those counties. what he is saying is mayor eric adams who choose to endanger the welfare of our u.s. veterans and it speaks volumes to what a debacle this has become. >> a president that would leave americans stranded in afghanistan probably doesn't see the onus to take care of 20 veterans in a hotel. that's just the absolute truth of it.

>> harris: that takes my breath away. you would think he would have gained some sort of sensitivity, knowledge and perspective from all the criticism he has gotten since afghanistan. >> he has been doing it for 50 years before he stranded americans in afghanistan and before he let 13 die at a gate. >> harris: you had this interview this morning about what the plan is now. there is a foundation, ceo who runs that foundation. >> they have to scramble to find a place to put these veterans. this crossroads hotel, if the short-term financial gain is what they are going for, there is a chance they'll lose in the long term. once people in the area understand there are two couples that planned their wedding there finding out that their wedding was canceled and room block canceled. these are effective contracts you make with people for long-term stay and breaking them to get a big bump for this month. >> harris: you brought up something.

some say ice should be able to go out and arrest individuals for the sole reason that they entered our nation illegally. i'm not going to say every single person who is coming up to upstate new york, that particular group labeled as illegal immigrants at this point. and what that means is that we're willing to ignore their initial crime. >> this organization that's housing these veterans, the lady that started it, i don't have her name at the tip of my tongue. she is a injured and disabled veteran herself. she started this over the help that she received as a brand-new mother with a premature baby. it isn't like she doesn't have empathy for human beings. that shows you that her heart is in the right place. the organization is doing the right thing and they know the veterans they are helping are on the precipice of turning their life around. american citizens who have paid taxes and will one day. we don't know the people they put in their place will ever become citizens or contributing

members of our society. if you have to choose one desperate person over another choose the ones who are served this country. it is not to say the migrants don't deserve any help. as humans beings, even though they have broken the law they deserve room and board. >> harris: the tony foundation is helping out the disabled program. >> it is 1% of 1%. if that's small a number to new york, why can't new york city take care of it? >> dana: confronting china or not in the case of the biden white house. it has been nearly four months since the chinese spy craft flew over our united states for days, remember we weren't even told. took a u.s. citizen to see it in the skies above montana. it gathered intel from some of our most sensitive nuclear and military sites as it hovered across our nation.

president biden still has not spoken with chinese president xi who reportedly will not take the president's call right now. national security advisor jake sullivan quietly met with china's top diplomat last week. sullivan told that official the administration would like to move past the spy incident. did they ask us? john kirby here. >> it's important to keep the lines of communication open. that's what the meeting was about and helped serve the purpose. i can't go beyond the read-out in what the future portends. we're certainly grateful for the opportunity. >> harris: meanwhile top administration advisor on china policy wendy shirrman is resigning. routers report shirrman was directing china policy and

dissent about how she was handing china following the spy craft incident. critics have accused biden's weakness when it comes to china. >> you still think she is more dangerous than putin? >> vladimir putin as he believes in greater russia and going after all of europe he has no illusions about his capacity to dominate the world. xi believes this is not -- he believes he will dominate the world. two fundamentally different risks. >> harris: your top line thoughts on this and i want to hit the military aspect. >> this is what happened when you lose all your positions of strength and what is bothersome. i won't take shots at the administration for trying to use a dloip mat i can effort to fix whatever has gone wrong but they have to take accountability. why are we in a place begging them please come back to the table and play nice. we know you spied on us and stealing our intellectual

property and may attack taiwan. it is hurting us for optics to look like we lost control. we'll forgive you for all those things so we can go on stage and we had a phone call and met and things are better. that doesn't do anything to help our country or to protect the companies here that are getting their intellectual property stolen or anything to help taiwan. may kick can down the road but we've been there for too long already. >> harris: it tells our other enemies around the planet. some are cozy with china right now. >> getting more so. >> harris: let's them know, do what you want. the united states will come begging next. experts warning that america's most powerful tool for countering china would be the u.s. navy except for it's in dire straits. one security expert told the daily caller the u.s. counts on the navy to advance u.s. influence, respond to crises and deter aggression. if the navy doesn't address its

deficiencies one of the most important instruments of national power will become less relevant. >> the navy has been in trouble for decades. a problem -- there have been problems from how they train leaders to the overall amount of massive equipment that needs to be maintained. they have been at the crossroads of technology and ships that are 50 years old and deciding how to do this and haven't done a good job. the pentagon is partly responsible going back to clinton trying to reduce the budget for the navy and hasn't been good since. >> harris: great to have you in "focus." you have a new book coming out. congratulations. it looks amazing, june 27th. let's get started early. in unbroker bonds of battle he tells the story of people and warriors who affected his life honoring patriotic americans and what it means to be your brother's keeper. pre-order it today on foxnews.com/books. all right. congratulations. >> bill: yes, i'm excited.

i think the book will be something everyone will enjoy reading. it is about ten people that have been a huge part of my life and endured many of the same things i have. >> harris: democrats spending the weekend down playing the problem at the border. >> this is what not that bad looks like. we can't allow not that bad to be the normal. >> harris: people on the ground say the problem is impossible. a texas rancher in "focus" next. first, may is asian american, native hawaiian and pacific islander month. we are looking at asian-americans. fox business correspondent susan lee brings us the life and legacy of anna may wong. >> she was the first asian

american movie star appearing in classics like the thief of baghdad and shanghai express. born in los angeles in 1905 she grew up working at her family's laud row mat and began acting in 1914 and had her first lead role in a silent film. facing discrimination in hollywood she founded her own production company and became the first asian-american to lead a u.s. tv show. wong, whose family was from china raised money for chinese refugees in world war ii. she died in 1961. she broke barriers in film. in 2022 she became the first asian american on u.s. currency. this month she is being honored by mattel with her very own anna mae wong barber. america together celebrating anna mae wong. e newday 100 cash.

our veterans are getting an average of $70,000. they're paying off their first high rate credit card, their second high rate credit card, their third, fourth and even fifth high rate credit card and saving hundreds every month. they're paying off their car loans, too, and putting extra cash in the bank for the security every veteran deserves. ancestry made it really easy to learn about my family's history. finding military information, newspaper articles, how many people were living in the house and where it was, makes me curious and keeps pulling me in and the photos reminding me of what life must have been like for them. finding out new bits of information about the family has been a wonderful experience, it's an important part of understanding who we are.

>> harris: real people the white house obviously does not see. border communities preparing for the worst after title 42 ended last thursday. the biden administration shrugging off their concerns. border czar vice president kamala harris down played the situation saying -- this is a quote, it is going rather smoothly. it then became an echo chamber. >> i think things at the border >> president biden: much better than you expected. >> we have experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before. we've been planning for this transition for months and months and we've been executing on our plan and we'll continue to do so.

>> harris: my team worked on this. no way to fact check him on the 50% number. things have changed on the ground and now it looks like more will come. we'll stay on top of it. the people on the ground painting a much different picture than the administration. what we like to call the truth from the people on the ground. border patrol chief ortiz posted record breaking numbers from last week. nearly 70,000 apprehensions, more than 15,000 gotaways. republican texas congressman gonzalez showed the brutal conditions caused by the overcrowding. >> you are seeing these videos. this is what not that bad looks like. in the el paso sector over 6,000 people in custody. in this particular facility it is meant to house 1,000 people. it is housing over 3,000. in one of these rooms is meant the max capacity is 90 people. there were over 400 in here. we can't allow not that bad to be the normal. >> harris: wow. more than four times the amount

of people. think about the food, the toilets, all of that. wow. matt finn is in el paso, texas, with more. matt. >> the latest numbers we have from the city of el paso right now it reports that last week it released more than 4,200 migrants into the streets. that's the highest number of any week so far this calendar year. you could see behind me some of the migrants are sheltering and sleeping in the streets here. the sun came up a few hours ago. now the migrants are folding up sleeping bags and boxes they were sleeping on and tell me they are not staying here. they are trying to get to states like colorado, florida, and new york. and now as we enter a fresh week after title 42 expired, border patrol sources are telling fox news the number of migrant encounters has drastically plunged. while migrant encounters might

have dropped there are still tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of migrants who just crossed and are in limbo overwhelming resources. migrants have been telling me they're starving, they don't have a dollar, they don't have working papers to earn money to get to their next location in the united states. fox news just spoke to one migrant he wants to get to new york city where his cousin is. the cousin already got government housing. >> i want to get to new york. i don't have the funds to get there. i am begging. the government gave him a house and they feed him. that works for me. >> and so looking ahead many of these migrants are being given court dates. i spoke to a migrant yesterday. she was given a court date in june of 2026. ordered to appear three years from now and she was ordered to

appear in newark, new jersey. she is taking shelter on the streets in el paso. i asked her how she plans to get to new jersey? she plans on a humanitarian flight and will stay in the country for three years before she appears before a judge. >> harris: i saw from your reporting earlier in the day 2026 is the best case scenario for some people. it goes on from there. that's years. do we really honestly think they'll show up for court dates? we don't know. matt finn, thank you. last september i went to the u.s. border with mexico to meet with people who are being directly affected by the crisis. >> when i got here almost six years ago in november, i didn't see any illegals. every now and then i might see 1 or 2 together. that was it. now it's -- it started from 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50. >> harris: you ever see them up

here? >> yeah, there is a lot of damage they do to the property. there are times that i can't even go do what i am supposed to do because i have to go repair fences. it costs money. and time is money. >> harris: that's noah, a rancher in eagle pass, texas with me. he is now in "focus." great to see you and i know that you are up against it. the weather created a little lull. what do you expect next? >> can he hear me? i know the weather created a little bit of a lull in the flow of people coming across the line, as they call it down there. because it's not even a substantial border anymore. what are you expecting now that the weather is clearing up? what's next? >> well, it's kind of hard to say.

honestly, it has not really stopped anything. people are still coming. there are still people coming through by the thousands. and on the place here we still have, you know, the damages on the fences and the tracks and things like that. water leaks and they break the waterlines and to get water and people are getting hungry and thirsty and stuff. yesterday -- day before -- no yesterday i make my rounds, you know. we've been having a lot of rain. it is muddy and we can't get around the property like we like to. but i wound up with a boy that was stranded out here crying. he is hungry and hadn't eaten in four days. he wanted to be picked up.

but it hasn't really stopped. it is spending a lot of money that the government does. i wish they could get it fixed. >> harris: wow, a young boy hadn't eaten in four days. we've been saying it for two years now. the cartels don't care about your safety and the fact that you don't have water or food. i want to get to this. "new york post" reporter shot video that we're about to look at from across the border from the mexico perspective. you can see all the razor wire installed there from friday showing the effects of texas thou salt not pass riverbank operations. they were able to get in there and stop some of the flow. governor abbott taking matters into his own hands as he has had to do to appoint troops and national guard to the border at that area as title 42 expired. noah, if it were not for those

people in arizona and texas and all the border states kind of looking at this as it's us against a wave with no help from the government. this could be far worse. can you even imagine? >> well, the cost is going to be tremendous. we got to support all these people that are coming through. somebody has got to help them out. it is costing a lot of money. you know, you feel sorry for these people. but what can you do? >> harris: before i let you go, you have had some crime. quite a bit on your property with people breaking into housing trying to get to guns or whatever they thought they could find. has that situation do you think for some -- i know you talk to other ranchers -- gotten worse? >> it has. matter of fact, you know, i live

here on the property and they are being caught, a bunch of illegals that are criminals and close to my house. and, i mean, it won't stop. it's scary in a way. >> harris: we appreciate you joining me in "focus" today. i'll be back down at some point because it's important to keep telling the story and showing people what apparently the administration isn't interested in looking at. stay safe. thank you. the california governor putting himself in a political pickle. some calling the failed california reparations effort a lose/lose for gavin newsom. president biden with some controversial comments during a commencement address at howard university. watch this. >> harsh reality, racism has long torn us apart. it's a battle that's never really over. the most dangerous terrorist

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about much more than cash payments. but in 2020, this was the story. >> i think it someone said we don't imitate. we're a model to the world. that is bragging a little. this is not just about california, this is about making an impact in a debt across the rest of the country. >> harris: okay. now newsom is in a tough position. one of the state's republican assemblyman explains it would take absurd gymnastics. that's the position newsom put himself in. no matter what he does he is going to anger part of his base. ben domenech, the editor at large of the spectator and fox news contributor. always good to see you. your top line thoughts on this. >> well i'll match that with a man who as douglas murray says

you should be careful about quoting. he talks about people who tear at long-healed wounds and complain as they bleed to death. i think that's what you are seeing here with this movement toward reparations. there is simply no moral case to be made for them. they are taking wrongs from a century or more ago in so many different respects and applying it to people who had nothing to do with those wrongs. their descendants who should not be required to pay in these ways. if we will go down that road, understand that people like barack obama, kamala harris and yes even beyonce are themselves descended from people who owned slaves. are we going to require them to pay into the kitty? are we going to require people who never were here or families were never here back in the 1860s to pay into it? fewer than 400,000 households according to the 1860 survey

actually owned slaves, which is not a huge portion of the american populous. the ancestors of a huge portion of the american populous today. how will you go to a state with as many new residents from other countries, a good thing, by the way, in california and say to them you now must pay for sins that you had nothing to do with that happened long before you were born because a group of whacko leftists has decided that you owe? it is something that's deeply unamerican, completely at odds with our mindset about individual liberty and it is on a moral sense deeply wrong to charge people for wrongs that they did not commit, sins that they did not commit, crimes that they did not commit. >> harris: so i think of two things that would cause one to have mental gymnastics. first of all, you are talking about the genealogical tracing of people. that in itself is discriminatory. i don't know how you do that without discrimination against

people you aren't quite slave enough. the whole optics of it are offensive. the other is what do you think asian communities? what do you tell a japanese family who was in a camp in california probably a lot easier to trace at this historical point? last quick one and we'll move. >> i think this is one of those things that is an example how the left advertise itself into knots. gavin newsom was perfectly happy to consider this until the costs actually came due. now he is stuck between a rock and a hard place between the progressives who want him to do this thing and the reality that the math does not work on any level. that shows you the depth of the ridiculousness of ideas like this. >> harris: what will he do then, drop the price? oh, black people you aren't worth it? i don't know what you do there. put it on discount? okay. critics taking note of some of these comments from president biden at howard university's commencement.

>> president biden: stand up against the poison of white supremacy as i did in my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. [applause] i'm not saying it because i'm at a black university but i say it whenever i go. >> harris: one critic called the president the divider in chief. another accused him of being propped up by the media to help fuel dangerous racial division. another calling his comments pure evil. we note that 200 marchers showed up at white nationalist event in washington, d.c. over the weekend. they paraded through the national mall, their faces masked. the march lasted an hour and ended with no arrests. so where are we in all this, ben? >> just to the last point i think the patriot front is something that is the point of much -- just foolishness on the

right. a lot of people claim it is one of these groups that doesn't exist and it is propped up and engaged in more trolling than anything serious and dangerous. we'll see. one thing true about joe biden's remarks. they are once again an example how he is not a healer, not someone who is empathetic or trying to bring us together. instead he is waging an age-old battle based on racial divides in order to cover up for his failures as president. it is disgusting. it is something that's very obvious. for someone who throughout his career in politics was such a figure of lock them up approaches to criminality, of sending so many different people to jail during the course of his emphasizing the war on drugs. he was criticizing ronald reagan from the right on the war on drugs, for instance, back in the day that he was being too lenient. the idea he would now try to erase that history by going to a

black audience at an h b-cu and saying i say this to everybody. i'm battling against the threat of white supremacy. that's absurd. it is not the biggest threat america is facing. if you think so you aren't paying attention to the priorities of the american people who elected you thinking you would bring normalcy as opposed to more division. >> harris: that flex he does as a candidate, i hope we don't see more of it. the part where he said the republicans would put you all in chains or if you don't vote for him you aren't really black? if we see some of that come back that's incendiary. >> that's what he does. >> harris: florida governor ron desantis talking with conservatives in the early nominating state of iowa over the weekend. his likely 2024 rival donald trump was not there. president biden spent the

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>> harris: president biden spent mother's day weekend away from the white house pretty much like all weekends. meanwhile the debt ceiling debate is ongoing and the border. he is asking voters to give him another four years. >> he can't do what he did in 2011, to sit and actually work together to a solution to the problems. what we're left with is a bunch of young staffers in the white house, radical children, who are perfectly willing to risk a default on the debt because they have no appreciation of the

chaos and misery and damage a default would do. >> harris: david spunt is outside the white house now. david. >> good morning to you. president biden and the first lady are in philadelphia now for their granddaughter's graduation from the university of pennsylvania. however, he will be back here on the south lawn later this afternoon. he has much to do as you say the border and also, of course, the debt ceiling. the clock is ticking louder. meanwhile the president spent this weekend at his beach home in rehoboth beach, delaware. rode bike and asked about the ending of title 42. the administration has seen lower numbers crossing the border since title 42 was lifted on friday. listen. >> president biden: they have gone down. my hope is they will continue to go down. we need more help from the congress as well and we have more work to do, in terms of funding and legislative changes. >> another slough of illegal

immigrants from texas came to the vice president's residence. greg abbott plans to do this to make people aware of the problem. the white house says people are being used as political pawns. debt ceiling. they may meet as soon as tomorrow. they met last tuesday in the oval office. the four principles there and were supposed to meet last friday but it was postponed. the white house put out a memo arguing republicans would trigger a recession with their plan. republicans fired back saying it is democrats putting the health of the country at risk. the president has limited time to do this. on wednesday he will be heading to japan for the g7. >> harris: david spunt. thank you. power panel. david avella, and saraj patel.

they say the weather has been terrible on the border. a rancher said this hour, though, who has several miles of property who said the numbers have been flowing even with the weather. so it is a lot of people and can the president really put a good news sticker on this? >> i think the president was just stating the facts. the border crossings this weekend were significantly less. >> harris: do you have facts we don't have? >> it has been reported by almost every outlet including your own. >> harris: we don't have the numbers. i always say it. we can't fact check that. we can in a few hours but not yet. >> the president is making a point it needs a legislative solution, a come present hence eve immigration plan and asked for congress to work together on it and it should be priority one for this congress to do after the debt ceiling crisis is over. which is a manufactured crisis.

>> harris: you think it is okay not to negotiate with a deal on the table? not to even think about that? >> look, remember the future spending budget debate will happen in september. that is when we have a valid time to talk about what we will do about future spending. the reason democrats are a little bit stand-offish about this deal is the last time they made a deal under this sort of hostage negotiation tactic, the trump tax cut came in and blew the deficit. >> harris: now we pitch it. which makes my eyes glaze over. he can debate himself. you don't need other people to debate as trump right now. i asked you a simple question. what about the optics of being at the beach while it is going on? >> the president has created his own challenges. it becomes another one. is he on top of all that's going on, the border or the debt ceiling? this is why you continue to see key democratic groups leave the president.

the coalition that put him together. we talked about it last week where he continues to struggle with them. and why you continue to see prominent democrats call for someone else. today you had someone saying michelle obama could be the nominee if the president steps aside. this continues to happen. that democrats talk about somebody else being their nominee. >> harris: just to remind everybody doug schoen was a key advisor in the clinton white house and told me on the air i'm not voting for hillary clinton. robert f. kennedy junior calls it like he sees it says he can beat joe biden in the 2024 primary. he told fox on a phone interview yes, i can. i think i'm in better shape to win a general election than any other person on the democratic ticket. recent fox polling shows he has already gotten about 20% of democrat voters' support. when you add it to marianne williamson they are like 28%, almost a third.

>> look, robert f. kennedy junior is a conspiracy theorist running for president and there is nothing more to say about it. he has 0 chance of winning the primary. he is doing this for publicity. >> harris: i haven't heard anything different from anybody on your side of the aisle. i would say this, though, if you miss out on a third of the vote, who can you beat? you are going to need a third of the vote. you will need some of that base. what this does is break apart the coalition, david, that we talked about that maybe joe biden think is he has? >> i don't think he is missing out on a third of the vote. this is one single poll. a national single poll. these elections will be state by state and the president will consolidate his party. as soon as we have a republican nominee, the president's party will come home and we'll have a competitive election. >> harris: have you seen the other number where north of 54%

of democrats say they would like abb, anybody but biden? >> sure. you have to think about how much of that third of democratic primary voters will stay with the president in the general election and an incumbent president will need 90% of his base in order to win re-election. how much of that 30% can he not count on when it comes next november? >> harris: we'll watch it. florida governor ron desantis spent the weekend attending republican events in iowa. former president trump had to cancel his rally in des moines after tornado warnings were issued. desantis is expected to announce his own bid for the white house soon. here is his pitch. >> there is no substitute for victory. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures and if we provide a positive alternative for the future of this country,

republicans will win across the board. >> harris: is that a veiled attempt but clear shot at president trump over his loss in 2020 election? this polling shows that donald trump leads this primary group by a lot. the primary field with desantis in a distant second. >> it shows ron desantis understands that americans like winners and wants to promote that i'm a winner. and if you give your vote to me we are going to win because americans like winners. >> harris: is this why president biden doesn't want to participate in pre-competition debates? he is not going to do any primary. might be good to take on a robert f. kennedy junior. you have to come out of the basement and not fall off the bike. >> donald trump also refuses to debate because it would be mal practice to elevate his challengers. there is no reason for a sitting

president to debate a crack pot conspiracy theorist. ron desantis line of attack is reminiscent of donald trump who promised winning. >> harris: can i ask you this question? it's a yes or no. what happens if somebody that you describe as a crack pot conspiracy theorist ends upstanding in the way? does your party unite behind him? >> i do not think the party will unite behind an anti-vaccine activist. >> harris: thank you both for being here. "outnumbered" after the break..

>> this is "outnumbered" i'm emily compagno. kay kay kayleigh mcenany and fox news contributor lisa booth and guy benson. we begin with the southern border crisis and america's heros are no