out. >> dana: yesterday it felt like 109 degrees so i will be more prepared next time with -- i won't wear a wool dress. >> bill: we may never feel that heat again. we were here for one day. >> dana: hottest day on record. >> bill: congratulations everybody who worked on this debate here. >> dana: thanks the crew and everybody. amazing. "the faulkner focus" is up next. here is harris. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the first republican presidential debate causing all sorts of disturbing in american politics. the question today will last night's performances move the needle for any of those gop candidates? i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." it was fiery on that milwaukee, wisconsin stage. the republican candidates got into it on almost everything from foreign policy to abortion. when i say got into it, it was dramatic at times.

they also were going after each other every chance they got. i mean every screen grab that -- they almost all looked like that. hands in the air like they didn't care. political newbie vivek ramaswamy took the brunt of the attacks. but he showed he could dish it out, too. >> let us be honest as republicans. i'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid for. >> i have news for you. i've been in the hallway and west wing. we don't need to bring in a rookie and people without experience. >> we don't need a president who is too old and we don't need a president who is too young. >> i have had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like -- the last person in one of these debates and who said what is a skinny guy with an odd last name was barack obama. we're dealing with the same amateur standing on stage last

night. same time of amateur. >> hold on. >> the problem that vivek doesn't understand, he wants to hand ukraine to russia and let china eat taiwan. he wants to go an stop funding israel. you don't do that to friends. you have no foreign policy experience and it shows. >> i wish you well on the future career on the boards of -- >> harris: the "wall street journal" takeaway now. a very good presidential debate. without trump the candidates could fight about their policies. and they did. former hillary clinton advisor mark penn and fox news contributor steve hilton are with me. let's first go to alexis mcadams who is still in milwaukee today. alexis. >> good morning from wisconsin. as you said it was heathed on the debate stage but not as steamy as it was in milwaukee. they have did have break-out moments and tried to throw elbows on the debate stage and

focus on the main issues like the economy. everyone we talked to on the ground is saying things cost more from food to fuel. watch. >> we cannot sit by any longer and allow the kind of spending that is going on in washington. every dollar they spend is a dollar that these people are not allowed to spend on their children and their grandchildren. ist is robbing our country and it is wrong. >> when you see 16% inflation, gas up 40%, your food is up 20%, your electricity up 20%. we can stop that by turning the spigot off in washington. >> here in milwaukee people feel that every day. another top issue border security which we talk about all the time. voters are seeing that impact of the open border policy in their own cities and own states. >> you want to talk about a country in decline? you have the cartels controlling a lot of part of your southern border? we have to reestablish the rule of law and we have to defend our

people. >> although vivek ramaswamy prides himself on not being a politician pence and haley did the opposite. how their previous experience has prepared them for this moment. >> unquestionably i'm the best prepared, the most tested, the most qualified and proven conservative in this race. >> i trust the american people. let them vote and let them decide. what they will tell you is, it's time for a new generational conservative leader. >> if people are seeing the highlights they are the ones who decide did a good job. did they connect with voters? that's what is so important. what's next? they leave, milwaukee, wisconsin before i do here and hit the campaign trail and go to iowa and new hampshire where they are

spending lots of time. 439 days until the election but who is counting, harris? >> harris: we have another debate coming up on fox business in the latter part of september in california at a presidential library. a lot more to come in all this. great job, alexis, thank you. in "focus" now mark penn, chief strategist and polling expert for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. steve hilton fox news contributor is here at well. great to see you both. let's start with you, mark penn, on your take. what you think the president might have seen or his team that gives him some pause right now? >> well look, my take on the debate was this was really an audition to be the candidate to oppose donald trump in the republican primary. there was no clear winner out of that. there were probably four candidates who deserve to keep

going, desantis, scott, ramaswamy and nikki haley, who i think did very well on foreign policy. i think you saw scott really give his positive view of america and the american dream. desantis did well enough. ramaswamy fended off enough attacks. the only one who showed momentum so far. the rest, frankly, should drop out if they want to advance the process at all on this audition. if they all will stay in, it is a divided republican party that doesn't give the democrats pause at all. >> harris: interesting. i want to stay with something you did. you listed off who you thought were the winners and losers. we have that ready for the screen. steve, who did you call out in the w and the l column? >> i do agree with mark's top four absolutely. he is completely correct about that. i disagree with him. i thought there was a clear winner. the person who dominated the

debate. everyone was attacking him. vivek ramaswamy who clearly stood out. he was the one with the energy and frankly the kind of inspiration that i think people are looking for. the key battle, which is the race to be the number two as it were exactly as mark laid out, i think in that battle with ron desantis, all the energy and momentum was with vivek. ron desantis is a great governor and all those things are true. what he is showing himself to be is quite an ordinary presidential candidate. he didn't have the kind of night that i think will turn around that trajectory which shows him going down and vivek going up. the loser of the night i thought mike pence. put pence in the category of people who drop out. i completely agree with that. pence didn't say anything of substance on policy that you didn't hear from nikki haley.

his manner and tone his preach enes -- i don't think i could take another two hours in the next debate. >> harris: mark penn that got a smile from you. i want to talk about smile. you had a dichotomy of personalities up there. people willing to spar, you had what "the new york times" and coming up to join me in a few short moments and that is senator tim scott. "the new york times" calling him the happy warrior. would it stick tonight was a question the times had going in. you had mike pence. not just he was verbose. he cut off the moderators. not something that i remember ever seeing. it wasn't like that in the debate he had against kamala harris vying to be vice president. was that strategy last night or what was it? >> i think it was his strategy. look, i think he did show that

he was alive and kicking more so than people thought. and that he was a little bit more independent. i don't think it gets him anywhere. the republican party doesn't want him. he was vice president. polling at 0, 1 or 2. it is a hopeless campaign and i think christie seemed like old guard as well. and look, i think it will be interesting to see what happens with ramaswamy. i thought nikki haley really nailed him on foreign policy, defunding israel, going too far on the ukraine. and sure, he showed a lot of spunk but he could be out there this really too far. i thought he is in the pete buttigieg seat. he is the really well spoken rookie. >> harris: wow, okay. nikki haley you mentioned. she was the only female candidate on the debate stage obviously and she leaned into being the only woman there.

let's watch together. >> i will always say i am going to fight for girls all day long because strong girls become strong women. strong women become strong leaders. i think this is exactly why margaret thatcher said if you want something said ask a man. if you want something done, ask a woman. >> harris: steve, how did she do last night? >> i thought she did better than expected and came out strong and the best answer on an important issue for the general election, which is abortion. towards the end of the debate she lost her cool somewhat. especially in that foreign policy and started yelling at vivek ramaswamy and i think what that tells you is that there is a real degree of resentment from some of these more establishment politicians who have been around a bit like nikki haley and mike pence who lost their cools. i think they feel threatened by the idea that there is yet an

outsider and upstart to come in and take control of the conversation away from the people who think that they should be the ones who are really driving the argument. i thought that really showed. >> harris: everybody has learned that lesson. hillary clinton learned the lesson there is no inevitability. you have to go out and earn those votes. that would be a note for anybody on that stage who might resent somebody as an outsider because a couple times ago an outsider went right into the white house. you mentioned a big issue from last night and get back into it is abortion. all eight of the gop candidates are pro-life and still sparks were flying. nikki haley, mike pence got into it over a federal ban. watch this. >> i am unapologetically pro-life. having said that, we need to stop demonizing this issue. when it comes to a federal ban let's be honest with the american people and say it will take 60 senate votes, a majority of the house. so in order to do that, let's

find consensus. can't we all agree that we should ban late-term abortions? >> i have been a champion for life in congress and governor and as vice president. and to be honest with you, nicki, you are my friend but consensus is the opposite of leadership. 70% of the american people support legislation to ban abortion after a baby is capable of feeling pain. >> harris: i will come back to you, steve. we were just talking about her and what did you think of that exchange? >> i thought it was very, very impressive on nikki haley's part. it's not an easy argument to make to a republican party audience. i thought she made it gracefully and with real strength and intellectual honesty as opposed to mike pence who revealed what a fool he is. she was exactly right. there is no chance of the kind of thing he is talking about actually getting through the congress. why does he even say it?

it is total pandering. she showed real leadership in making an argument that actually would be a winning argument in a general election. >> harris: isn't that the goal eventually, mark penn? who made the best case on that issue. on your side of the aisle it will get women to vote. that's what kamala harris is talking to them about. who made the best case that maybe independents and liberal women would listen to? >> well look, nikki haley was the only one to make any sort of case. really you have ron desantis settled with a six-week ban which has very little support across the country and with swing voters and suburban women. you maybe get some support at 15 weeks. but mostly this is a democratic issue. democrats have been reeling up so many votes on this issue. i was rather surprised they

spent so much time on this issue last night when, in fact, they spent so little time on the economy in comparison. >> harris: interesting. quickly just to double back with you, mark. desantis, ramaswamy, haley, scott you mentioned earlier as winners. desantis first. his team reached out to mine saying he was focused on getting the country going forward and getting his message on the than eco economy. why do you put him in first position for how they did last night? >> he had to stabilize his campaign. he did well enough. he is still the frontrunner in the polls. i don't think we'll see him lose that. >> harris: behind trump. >> behind trump. i was surprised he doesn't have a more serious economic plan, right? in fact, none of them had. i'm used to bill clinton. he had a four-point plan for everything.

none of them had the detailed policy plan on the economy they need to run a presidential race. >> harris: it was great to have you gentlemen kick us off in "focus." thank you. senator tim scott with an emotional moment last night. >> as a kid i grew up in a single parent household mired in poverty i wondered what the american dream real for kids devastated by poverty and the challenges of life? i came to the conclusion that america can do for anyone what she has done for me. >> harris: fresh off the stage senator and presidential candidate tim scott in "focus" next. ♪

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>> joe biden's bidenomics has led to the loss of $10,000 of spending power for the average family. we can stop that by turning the spigot off in washington. sending the money back to the states and allowing the decisions to be made at their own houses. when i'm president, the first thing i'm do is fire merrick garland. second thing i'll do, fire christopher wray because we need lady justice to wear a blindfold. let's fire the 87,000 i.r.s. agents and hire -- double the number of border patrol agents. i can stand before you today and say the dream is alive, it is well, and it is healthy.

i have the good fortune of a mom who worked 16 hours day making sure we had food on our table. she taught me if you are able bodied in america you work. if you take out a loan, you pay it back. commit a violent crime, you go to jail. and if god made you a man you play sports against men. >> harris: got a lot of applause for that last line as well. senator tim scott laying out his plan on things like the economy, justice department reform and border crisis, also highlighting his personal story as you saw there with a message of hope. senator scott joins me now, gop presidential candidate. good to see you. looks like you are still in wisconsin. haven't left yet. tell me this. how did it go in your estimation last night and what was it like to stand up there and watch basically the food fight with no food? >> you know, it was an exciting time last night and excited to be here in milwaukee heading to new hampshire next. no doubt the people who benefit

the most from the food fight are the media and joe biden. we need to have a serious conversation about the priorities of the american people. we need to reassure this nation that we are not in decline but under president biden we are in retreat. we need to break the backs of the teachers unions so that every child and every zip code has a quality education. that means a parent has a choice and a kid has the best chance for the rest of their lives. >> harris: senator, at one point it really was on full display about all of the divides in the republican party. that is where i think it was juicy for people to watch. you are not just all the same with the same policies. at one point it was over foreign policy. nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy went to battle. after we see this i want to get your take. pretty much nobody else on the stage got to say much. let's watch. >> we must have a president of the united states who will

advocate and fight for the minimum a 15-week limit. i'm 100% pro-life conservative. i have a 100% pro-life record. we must fight for life. we can't leave it to minnesota or illinois. we need a 15-week minimum at a minimum. >> harris: you made your case there. you want to further your words about abortion. nikki haley had a lot to say about it. >> no doubt when you think about the fact that if you are for -- if you say you are pro-life and still going to allow states like california and illinois to have abortion on demand, that is not being pro-life. we have to create a culture of life in this country and that starts with a 15-week limit. seven out of ten americans agree with that position.

more important it's embedded in the declaration of independence. our creator gave us the right to life. so protecting life as the president of the united states is necessary. unfortunately we heard candidate after candidate say they are not going to do that as president of the united states. three candidates said they would not do that. that is the problem for our nation and certainly a problem for the world. we have to be the leader of the world. >> harris: i want to follow up with this. the goal is to beat the democrats. who do you think on that stage, including yourself, has the best plan? you said seven out of ten women, to take into an independent populous. to take into a liberal populous. the democrats will come hard on the issue of abortion. >> yes, no doubt about that. the good news is with seven out of ten americans agree with us on the issue of a 15-week limit you would support me. every parent in every zip code deserves quality education and

that means school choice they will support me. when you think about the fact that you have teachers unions standing in the doorway of the house of the school house, they would support my candidacy. democrats and republicans support school choice today like they've never done before because of covid and the precipitous drop in test scores. >> harris: i will ask my team to get it right this time. i want to get your take on foreign policy. let's watch the fray that went on and then i will get your take. >> ukraine is not a priority for the united states of america. i do not want to get to the point where we send our military resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home to protect our own borders and protect the nation. >> he wants to hand ukraine to russia and let china eat taiwan and go and stop funding israel. putin has said once russia takes ukraine, poland and the baltics are next.

this guy is a murderer. >> i wish you well on your future career on the boards. you've been pushing this lie. you've been pushing this lie all week, nick re nicki. >> you want to defund israel and you want to go and give ukraine to russia. >> harris: not going the make everybody live through all those moments. i could hear your voice off in the distance as i watched it a second time. where are you on ukraine? >> no doubt what america needs to know what is america's national vital interest in ukraine? it is degrading the russian military. the strongest that we have to the homeland was presented to us by russia. they have the strongest military besides our own on the planet. china is our long-term threat. by degrading the russian military we have achieved america's vital national interests. i go a step further and say that

salm 122:six the peace of jerusalem. standing shoulder to shoulder with our allies like israel is essential. we must be loyal to our allies and lethal to our adversaries. you heard folks who are good showmen on the stage but refuse to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies whether it's israel or other countries. that's a problem. you want to be the commander of chief of this united states. >> harris: one analysis put mike pence with the most time talked on the stage. he had a lot of interruptions of other people. he kept doing that. 12 points 26 second. second place vivek. you, senator, were in the bottom three with seven minutes 57. "the new york times" calls you the happy warrior. will you change your debate tactics going forward? >> i will continue to make sure i provide the american people with an adult in the room having a conversation about their

priorities. certainly the more you interrupt, the more time you get but frankly the more it helps joe biden. what i will do is focus on those issues that set captives free. a kid born in poverty who realized the american dream. america is the solution, not the problem. you heard people on the stage last night refer to america as a part of the problem because we are a nation in decline. we are a nation in retreat because joe biden has us as a nation in retreat. as the next president of the united states i will be standing proud and strong on the fact the windshield of america's future is a whole lot better than the rearview mirror of our past. >> harris: senator tim scott headed now to new hampshire. great you stopped by the "focus" on your way there. thank you. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: the hits keep coming. hunter biden is telling a business associate he could catch a ride to a foreign country with his then vice president father. and he did it more than a dozen times catching that ride. look at that.

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small kitchen fire at his house several years ago to maui's fire disaster. now the administration's response could face a congressional investigation. house speaker kevin mccarthy. >> we still have hundreds of individuals that are missing. i think there will have to be a congressional investigation into what happened there. [inaudible] the federal response. the president's response, no comment? >> harris: survivors of the deadliest wildfire in american history are sharing their stories. some had no choice but to disobey the mandatory evacuation own orders. drivers abandoned their cars to jump into the pacific ocean. everything was on fire. survivors are blaming both the

local and federal government for the response. and clay travis is the founder of out kick. you've talked with a lot of people. what are you hearing about how things were handled by biden's people? >> first of all let's give credit to fox news's will cain who i think did an incredible job raising $2 million for survivors in the maui area you are talking about. this is indefensible. if you contemplate and think about the way george w. bush was treated in the after math of katrina. the way donald trump was treated by the media in the after math of the hurricanes and he went to puerto rico. >> harris: both were disasters. >> our federal government responded better to those events than maui. i heard you reading earlier. over 800 people are still missing. it is possible that nearly 1,000 people lost their lives in this event. one of the reasons we can't find

any trace is because this wildfire was so destructive. for joe biden to show up and say this reminded him of a kitchen fire 19 years ago. for him to say his 1967 corvette and his cat and his wife in a 20-minute kitchen fire were somehow in any way analogous to what happened in maui is a disgrace. >> harris: you were getting there and we'll land the plane on this. part of the worst of all is the other media are not taking responsibility for telling the truth about the story and the president's response to what is happening on the ground. he could have stayed longer than the five hours it took him to fly there from lake tahoe. look at the time. he was on the plane longer than he was with the people of hawaii. it is not just embarrassing, it is heartless. i have called him quite possibly the world's only living heart donor. it gets worse when the media acts the same way like they don't care. >> they called him the

empathizeer and chief. they praised him. he was on a beach vacation and no comment a reaction to hawaii. continuing vacation. he was in a pilates class when prigozhin got shot down and couldn't comment on that, either. what is he doing on a day-to-day basis? >> harris: it's like watching an unplanned retirement. he is done. it is very sad for the country. new information from hunter biden's infamous laptop now. this time it shows he traveled with his then vice president father to more than 12 foreign countries, official trips for his dad. in 2010 hunter emailed a business associate about a proposed meeting in serbia saying that he could catch a ride there on taxpayer-funded air force two. hunter's name came up at the wisconsin presidential debate last night.

>> the laws apply to everybody. when hunter biden fills out a fake application, a false application for a gun permit and then is facing a 10-year mandatory minimum, which was mandated by legislation sponsored by his father, and then you have a justice department that walks away from those charges, we are telling people that the law doesn't apply to everybody. in a christie administration he would go to jail for ten years. >> harris: house speaker kevin mccarthy warning this week he would consider an impeachment inquiry if the special counsel in the hunter biden case tries to block house investigations. >> there should 100% be an impeachment proceedings brought against joe biden. we talked about this. one of the most dishonest things the media is doing now is constantly saying there is no evidence that joe biden was involved in hunter biden's business dealings. hunter talks about his dad in his business dealings all the time. he called according to archer's

testimony 20 times. allegations that burisma paid millions of dollars to both hunter and joe biden. that's an under oath allegation. we know certainly there were a ton of connections between hunter and joe biden. i just ask this question. for anybody out there who has ever run a business, how many times has your dad called into your business meetings if you were not in business with him? i bet there is not hardly anybody listening now who has had their dad call 20 times into business meetings if they weren't directly in a business relationship with their father. >> harris: my dad would have said baby, i have my career. good luck with that. >> most people. that goes straight to the essence of why we need to be unpeeling. i have been saying this and i think it's true. if you look at the allegations against richard nixon and the allegations against bill clinton and the allegations against donald trump, joe biden has been

credibly accused by under oath witnesses of more severe crimes in office than nixon, clinton, and trump combined in my opinion. >> harris: clay travis with the last word. good to see you. >> good to see you as well. almost football season. your chiefs going for it. >> harris: yeah, you showed them. thank you. reading and math test scores are at historic lows in our nation's schools. the white house contenders taking aim at democrats and teachers unions last night over the state of education in america. new hampshire governor chris sununu in "focus" next.

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>> harris: the gop candidates on the debate stage ripped into the state of education in america and also on the table the controversy over allowing biological males to compete in girls' sports. they pointed to progressive priorities as the culprit. >> let's shut down the head of the snake, the department of education. take that $80 billion, put it in the hands of parents across this country. >> the only way we chalk education in this nation is to break the backs of the teachers unions. they are standing in the door house of our kids locking them

into failing schools and locking them out of the greatest future they could have. >> parents should never have to wonder what's being said or taught to their children in the classroom. >> i would get rid of the department of education and give block grants to schools on merit based on who is doing the most innovative. >> the decline the education is one of the major reasons why our country is in decline. we need education. >> if god made you a man. you play sports with men. >> harris: governor chris sununu of an early voting state new hampshire home to the nation's first primary. great to see you today. you and i were back channeling right there. what is your take on all that about killing the board of education? where are you? >> i'm a big states rights guy. the best education is local. there is very few things that come out of washington where one size fits all especially in education. we talk about parents matter, having control on the school

boards and a say in what's happening in the classroom. it happens at the state and local level. you want to start balancing the budget and draining the swamp take the vast majority of the funding in the department of education, send it to the states. let them decide where their needs are and the most pressing gaps in the system and let them have a choice. school choice is everything. you do that even in government. you let the locals and the states drive the agenda. >> harris: who most got it right on stage you watched last night? >> doug burgum on that issue just in terms of send it back to the states. we talk about draining the swamp. something the former president never understood. you balance the budgeed and decentralizeing washington and sending it back to local control. some of the governors get that. the ceos of the states who manage on the front lines. they all believe in that parents matter and believe that the best education is designed by the child and parent working with

the schools. >> harris: i live in blue new jersey. i don't think it is a political thing parents matter. we do because we're parents. >> it crosses political boundaries. senator scott brought up the teachers union. they work exposed for not caring about the outcomes of children. i don't know if a president can break the backs of the union. the control needs to be at a local level. >> harris: let's get to this. not a single candidate last night uttered the word woke at the debate. "politico" is saying that gop's anti-woke campaigns have voters quote, unquote, hitting snooze and polling experts saying many voters on the right don't want government meddling in business, even those that chose to subscribe to a leftist agenda. no woke spoken last night. what do you make of it? >> the message is out there. an important message to push back on wokeism. >> harris: for somebody like a governor desantis. >> vivek, a lot of them.

i'm a very principled free market conservative. i am one -- i never believe government should get involved in business when you massively disagree with them. disney is a great example. it wasn't necessarily because of governor desantis. he did a great job. disney plummeted and bud light. >> harris: we don't know if they'll ever rebound. >> america said we aren't going for that. let the market work. >> harris: do you trust that with the topic of biological males in sports with young girls and women? >> absolutely. local control will shake it out. >> harris: government, just not federal. >> local. parents. the sports teams, the leagues that they are dealing with. the schools they are dealing with. let them have the say. in the state of new hampshire everything happens locally. if i don't like what my school is doing i vote them out of office. i have complete control as a

parent. i control my curriculum. >> harris: i can talk to you about this all day. you have real thoughts how the federal government does and doesn't intervene. when the d.o.j. declares to the f.b.i. parents might be domestic terrorists you might want to get involved. >> awful. it is absolutely awful. i'm not one that says you have to shut down the f.b.i. and all that. you have to cut the political head off the thing. no doubt about it. anyone who thinks there isn't politization within that organization, of course there is. >> harris: all eight candidates tore into president biden as well and the president who was on vacation in lake tahoe still spending part of his evening watching may have caught this. >> biden's inflation is choking us. our economy is being crushed by biden's energy poll seals which are raising the cost of every product you buy, not just the gasoline at the pump. >> he threw open the southern border of the united states and the wave of humanity and fentanyl that has been eloquently described here is a wave of human tragedy across

this country. >> it's time for an accountable in the white house. >> we cannot succeed as a country if you are working hard and you can't afford groceries, a car, or a new home while hunter biden can make hundreds of thousands of dollars on lousy paintings. that is wrong. >> harris: the president himself posted only three times. one of those said this is a bunch of republicans on stage one united maga ideology. they weren't united on ukraine or abortion. what is your take on the current president's response? >> i'm shocked anyone believes he was up after 9:00 p.m. he had some staffer tweeting something. that's going to be the message. a bunch of maga republicans. deplorables. elitism that the democrats have taken ownership of. we're talking about real inflation that parents and families are getting crushed

with. >> harris: does the situation on maui hurt him? what does it look like to the rest of the country what we're witnessing? >> it was brought up he spent more time on the airplane. >> harris: i brought it up. i mapped out the distance from lake tahoe to the island of maui. >> tragedy you spend days there and don't talk to a couple of elected leaders, you talk to families, individuals, first responders. get a sense of what happened and why so that as a president or in the case of a governor, whatever it is, as the executive where did the system fail and where was the wreathing la tore problems. what are the actual financial needs to come to bear. shows up for a couple of minutes giving a speech talking about families devastated it is heartbreaking. >> harris: and embarrassing for the rest of the world to see our commander-in-chief like that. >> last night i think the four

winners were pence, haley, vivek and governor desantis. the other ones did a good job but didn't get enough time in there. next time you will see tim scott, asa and burgum pushing for more time. senator scott was too poll it. he had to push his way in a little more. he had great points. >> harris: thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" after the break. veteran homeowners, need to save money every month? call newday. pay off your high rate

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