tv The Faulkner Focus FOX News August 29, 2023 8:00am-9:00am PDT
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before we go, one, thank you for being up early. we'll watch on "the five" and special report. later tonight late show i will fill in for greg gutfeld tonight. >> bret: the three-show day is impressive. >> dana: you did the all day show last wednesday. see you tomorrow as well. "the faulkner focus" is next. john roberts in for harris. >> john: good morning to you. here is where we begin today. yet another poll showing americans think president biden's age is a problem when it comes to a second term. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm john roberts in for harris. 77% say they don't think he can carry out four more years in the white house. democrats nearly 70%. progressive lawmakers, biden re-election campaign and administration deflecting on the issue. >> age is an issue, chuck.
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there are a lot of broader issues than just that. >> talk about age? we'll talk about things that americans are talking about. kitchen table issues. >> we will happily, happily discuss as we -- as it relates to age what the president has been able to do and how he has been able to deliver. >> john: gave people a list of words to use to describe the 80-year-old president. 26% of respondents picked things like old, retire, elderly, senile, dementia. only 1% for trump went age related more chose words like corrupt and crooked. charlie hurt is with us now along with leslie marshall, also a fox news contributor. leslie, let me ask you the blunt question, is biden too old to effectively serve another four-year term? >> absolutely not. one of the things that working
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in my husband's medical practice years ago showed me is that you can have two very different 90s. i've seen people who play tennis and travel around the world and people in wheelchairs in assisted living communities. we age differently. we're in a society now where people are trying to push people to work longer and increase the retirement age yet you are too old to be president. at the end of the day, even though age is bothersome to a lot of voters and trump isn't a spring chicken. democrats will vote for the democratic candidate and republicans will vote for the republican candidate and come down to five swing states and independent voters to make that determination. >> john: to leslie's point. people age at different rates. how would you describe biden's
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80? >> the most obvious example of people aging is to look at a guy like donald trump compared to a guy like joe biden and joe biden is definitely a very old 80 when you consider half the time when he is talking the white house has to keep him from doing things because when he goes out and talks you have no idea on a good day what he is talking about. on a bad day he is making up stories, claiming to be places he wasn't, claiming things happened to him that didn't happen to him and you go from being an old 80 into full blown senility. i have to give the guy some props for the fact that you can't get americans -- 77% of americans to agree on anything. the idea that 77% of americans agree that joe biden is too old to run for re-election in a normal political time, john, we have covered politics for a long time. you would look at 77% of
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americans believing that a politician should retire and go home, that would be lights out. but for some reason in this era we're just going to keep limping along and i guess see joe biden try to run for re-election, which seems impossible. >> john: what's interesting is in that same a.p. poll, a majority of americans thought there should be an age limit on running for president. let's get back to the word association, leslie. take a look at this. 26% of people use words like old, outdated, retire, elderly, aging, senile, dementia. slow, confused ignorant, gaffe and bumbling. those 44 percent of people believe that maybe he just is -- i don't want to say past his
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prime. somebody got in trouble for saying that once but he may not be up to the job. >> people are going to say that, right? leading up -- anybody on the right -- i've already said to a republican if a democrat walks on water they will say the tide is low. the reality also is that voters top ten, whether you are democrat or republican issues are not the age of the candidate. they are kitchen table issues. the economy, other issues. that's what they will look at. like i said, our country is very divided. look at the exit polling for cycles of the general election for the past few general elections. the reality is in this nation we've split among democrats voting for democrats. republicans voting for republicans even if they hold their nose to do it. majority of people don't think trump should run again and he is. so at the end of the day that's what those people will do. a democrat will look at republicans and say i don't agree with them and these
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policies republicans do the same with democrats and you have the sliver of people who don't identify as d or r in the five swing states. age is not on the ballot. it isn't a kitchen table issue. >> john: the same a.p. poll found the majority said there should be a maximum age limit to run for congress and also a retirement age for supreme court justices. thank goodness they weren't asked about news anchors. it has been six days since the first gop presidential debate. former united states ambassador nikki haley with the biggest post debate bump. former vice president mike pence and ron desantis saw a slight increase. former president trump taking a hit in his numbers after skipping that contest. so charlie, as the former president looks toward the next debate on fox business on september 27th at the reagan library. he doesn't like the curator
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there a lot and says he won't come. might he look at the numbers and say i can't afford to not show up? >> i think speaking purely politically strategically from donald trump's standpoint, he probably looks at those numbers and sees that -- feels comfortable with it. the only one in that poll -- i'm always suspicious of polling especially polling about some event like this. it just sort of is a hard science to put your finger on. the only person who moved within that poll beyond the margin of error was nikki haley. and so i think that if you are donald trump and you are looking at this you are probably seeing the fact that ron desantis did not move in any way outside of the margin of error. and since everybody has sort of anointed ron desantis as the person who is supposed to take down donald trump in the
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primary, he probably looks at this and sees it as being -- as going to plan because anything that sort of keeps the field broad and flat helps donald trump. >> john: i know the biden campaign is hoping the opponent is donald trump and they are looking toward a rematch for 2020. these elections are all about momentum and when one candidate begins to catch fire, maybe it is nikki haley, maybe vivek ramaswamy or tim scott, things can change quite quickly. we have a long time between now and the first caucuses in january. will donald trump look at this and say there were people beginning to come up on the inside rail and maybe i need to be out there a little more prominently than i have been. >> he should be out there more prominently regardless of the bump in the polls which debate does for a lot of candidates. ramaswamy had a drop after the debate. it wasn't his best night.
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nikki haley had the largest bump. 7% is a long way from where donald trump is even though donald trump had the biggest drop not being there. you have to show up, right? isn't that 90% of the job is showing up? you have to show up. because donald trump is one of those people who sucks all the oxygen out of the room. being in a debate with all these people actually benefits him. it gives his base what they want, that bravado, the attacks he gives. that was an opportunity for him that was missed but it was an opportunity for others to shine not only with policy. i think nikki haley ironically who wants retirement age to be increased, nikki haley, i think, as a democrat shined when she talked about abortion and how they need to be pro-life and pro women. there was a likeability factor. that's something that governor desantis has struggled with before the debate stage and did even more so. at the end of the day nikki haley's 7% is a long way from
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becoming the nominee. donald trump still is leading by a large margin. >> john: let's not forget in the 2016 campaign donald trump at one point was at 1%. that changed as we all know. leslie marshall and charlie hurt. thanks for catching up with us. governor desantis will be busy over the next few days. fox weather ahead. idalia is a hurricane. people on the northwest coast bracing for powerful winds and life threatening storm surge. big concerns for florida's gulf course. it could intensify rapidly before hitting shore possibly getting to a category 3 before it makes landfall. ron desantis with an update this morning. listen here. >> the storm is forecast to make landfall on florida's big bend tomorrow morning as a major
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hurricane. so we have, you know, short amount of time here. i would urge everybody to take the appropriate precautions. i still have time to do what you need to do. we will be faced with a major hurricane hitting the state of florida within the next 24 to 36 hours. >> john: 20 million people are at risk. 46 florida counties are under emergency declarations. people in several counties along the gulf coast have been ordered to evacuate their homes. officials pleading with residents now get to higher ground. not that there is a lot of that in florida. meantime they're doing what they can to prepare for what is to come. fox news senior meteorologist janice dean tracking the storm for us. >> 11:00 a.m. advisory came out. the bumped the winds to 85 miles-per-hour. 96 makes it a category 2. pressure is dropping. winds going up, pressure going down. that means a strengthening storm.
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85 miles-per-hour winds. we do in fact anticipate rapid intensification in the next 24 hours as it makes its landfall in the big bend of florida and 12 feet of storm surge on one of the most vulnerable coastlines in the lower 48. a big deal. this area of florida has never experienced 12 feet of surge, storm surge. we could also see the potential for 12 inches plus of rainfall. it is starting to form an eye. rapid strengthening over the next 24 hours. category 3 or higher it's possible. it has nothing in its way except very warm bath water temperatures up the west coast and gulf coast. temperatures way above average. historical in some cases in terms of how deep the sea surface temperature goes. winds 50 to 60 miles-an-hour.
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fish creek here 70 miles-an-hour for perry, also concerned about tampa bay. another very vulnerable area for storm surge because that water has no place to go except on shore and then we have the continental shelf, very shallow. the big storm category 3 or higher and the winds pushing all of that storm surge on shore with none of it nowhere to go, right? we are expecting a landfall sometime tomorrow morning but impacts of this hurricane felt well across the peninsula up to georgia and the carolinas. we'll talk about a category 1 hurricane going through georgia. not only storm surge, hurricane-force winds. flooding rainfall. tropical tornadoes and the potential again for a very destructive storm in an area that has never experienced storm surge warnings of 12 feet. so people are urged to listen to local officials, get out while you can because the time is not
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on your side right now. over to you. >> bret: deep well of warm water in the gulf of mexico. things could get hairy. we expect to hear from governor desantis later this hour in hillsborough county, florida. we'll bring it to you live. meantime fresh allegations of a double standard in biden's justice department. a judge scheduling trump's federal trial smack dab in the heart of the primary season. >> bring in the fact that now they are weaponizing the justice system against donald trump while giving joe biden a pass. this guy has gotten all the passes in the world. people say that is gross unfairness. >> john: new questions for the special counsel in hunter biden's case. new documents show he may not have had the independence he claims he always had. gianno caldwell joins me on that coming up next.
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doctors diagnosed him with multiple myeloma. he said i am incredibly grateful we were able to detect this early and that this cancer is treatable. i will tackle this with the same strength and energy as i have tackled past challenges. our prayers are with the house majority leader and his loved ones. he is a fighter, no question about that. former president trump now facing a march 4th trial date in his federal election case. that just happens to be one day before super tuesday. critics tearing into the timing of the d.c. trial. the judge announced that date after rejecting both an expedited timeline from special counsel jack smith and request from trump's lawyers to delay the trial until 2026. sean hannity with this. >> they waited 2 1/2 years to bring the actions to trial and give the trump team six months
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to prepare for four trials? biden staffers meeting with smith aides before the indictment? i thought the d.o.j. was supposed to be independent. can you explain that meeting for us? >> john: rich edson has the latest. >> federal and state judges have set trial dates throughout next year likely keeping former president trump in courtrooms for a significant stretch of the republican primary process. voters could determine more than 2/3 of the gop delegates during the trials scheduled to begin march 4th in washington. only 10% would come before the trial. criminal trials in new york and in florida are also scheduled to begin before the republican convention in july. some republicans also argue this keeps the current gop frontrunner from campaigning against president biden. >> no one disputes the conduct and the conduct that underlies it is not only beneath the
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office he held at the time he committed many of these acts but way below the conduct that he would want for someone who will ask for that job back. >> much of the republican field is back on the campaign trail this week trying to maintain the momentum from a debate republican frontrunner donald trump skipped. north dakota governor doug burgum is scheduled to travel to new hampshire. nikki haley is in the state of south carolina. former vice president mike pence and senator tim scott are heading to iowa this week. scott has repeatedly said he plans to stand above the food fight. >> calling each other names, it's just below the dignity of the office of being president. so you ought to be the kind of candidate you want to be the president. >> ron desantis canceled events to return to florida as hurricane idalia is tracking towards his state. john. >> john: rich edson in washington. thank you. gianno caldwell, political analyst is with us now.
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the trump trial scheduled to begin march 4th. very next day march 5th super tuesday, 15 primaries and one caucus for a huge number of delegates that we'll tell you about in a second. the timing for the president. there are the delegates. prior to the trial -- timeline. it shows how come pressed this all together. the timing for the former president couldn't be worse. a lot of his supporters believe that's by design. what do you think? >> i would agree with donald trump's supporters. this is by design. when you look at the numbers, the pure numbers. i think about the segment you ran where you talk about 69% of americans don't believe that joe biden can go another four years. when you look at another poll about 68% of americans are concerned about his mental and physical stamina. i mean, joe biden in this set of
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circumstances can't really get to a rally or an interview, let alone to be running for president at this particular point. donald trump, as we've seen many times in the past will have a rally with 20,000, 50,000 people. he has the stamina and fight but wrap him up in multiple court proceedings all day you have something for msnbc and cnn to go wall to call coverage to say how bad a guy he is. this is a full onbenefit for joe biden on the media but tough to see the american political process going this direction. especially for some of the charges that have been mentioned. we've seen democrats do. stacey abrams believes she is the governor of georgia now. hillary clinton say that donald trump is the illegitimate president and many others. you've never seen them pr
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prosecuted. a disturbing turn in our country. >> john: a double standard. if you are going for the nomination of your party it is all about racking up delegates. "the new york times" points out that prior to the trial date about 10% of all delegates will be awarded. during the actual trial period, it will be about 65 to 71%. after the trial 19 to 26%. so if the former president is out of the picture during that big red box time there, he could potentially lose out on a lot of delegates that he would need once he gets to the convention and they could go to another candidate. >> yeah, there is the potential of that. we know that in iowa and new hampshire is where the momentum really starts. he is polling so far ahead it will be difficult for absent him actually going to jail or something happening with him healthwise will be very difficult, i think, for another one of these republican
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candidates to become the nominee. at this point you watch the fox news debate and it felt very junior in a sense. very substantive policy oriented but seemed like it could have been a vice presidential debate of sorts. no question about it that donald trump again absent him going to jail or something happening to him health wise it is difficult for anyone to predict him not becoming the republican nominee even with those delegates being awarded during the trial time. it will be very difficult for republican candidates to get air time outside of them talking about the trial during that point. it will be a donald trump show for the foreseeable future and not in a good, positive way but conservatives are absolutely upset about what's going on and i don't think they will decide to give their vote to another republican candidate especially if they feel there is a dubious application of justice here. >> john: i want to get your thoughts on this. the "new york post" viewing
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emails obtained by the heritage foundation reportedly show that david weiss, the u.s. attorney prosecuting hunter, consulted with justice department official eaves about congressional requests for information regarding his five year long investigation of the president's son. this contradicts his signed statements that he had ultimate authority in the case. garry shapley with this. >> you have the look at what he allowed to occur during this investigation. there are key witnesses we weren't allowed to interview. we weren't allowed to ask all the questions of certain people we interviewed. >> john: the president made pseudonyms in more than 5,000 emails and documents when he was vice president. the southeastern legal foundation filed a freedom of information with emails connected to aliases used by biden. the group suspects he may have been looping hunter biden into his official business as vice president. let's get your take on those two
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topics. do you want to go for the emails first or the weiss? >> the weiss i think is really curious why the media isn't curious about it at all and not covering it. it shouldn't be fox news and the "new york post" and some other outlets, very few of them, are interested. it used to be when i was growing up no matter if it was a republican or democrat administration they were considered smoking guns and the fact that they are not covering it tells me the media is dear lick in their duties and complicit in the cover-up. >> john: great to get your thoughts this tuesday morning. appreciate it. see you again soon. jumping to wildwood, florida. governor desantis is holding a news conference of the pending arrival of hurricane idalia on the gulf coast of florida. >> as far away as places like
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nebraska who will be ready to roll as soon as the storm passes. there are over 25,000 linemen already in florida as of this morning and by the end of the day we anticipate that to be between 30,040,000 linemen that will be here prior to the arrival of the storm and then we'll move in to restore power as soon as the storm passes. linemen are staging as far south as tropicana field in st. petersburg and north as the florida/georgia line and as far west as chiply in the panhandle. power companies are also staging folks ready to clear debris, set polls and lines and augment the efforts done by florida's department of transportation. power restoration will be a joint effort in all local municipalities should be ready to accept aid from other utility companies and their linemen to get power back on as soon as possible. that's the ultimate goal. rapid restoration of power.
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this is a major hurricane. there will be a lot of debris particularly in the big bend area. you will see a lot of power lines that will be down and there will be a lot -- a need for all hands to be on deck. please accept that mutual aid. we were able to in hurricane ian do a rapid restoration of power in terms of the affected customers. the times it took a little longer were major structural damage close to the storm or some of the co-ops that didn't accept mutual aid. accept that so we can get a job done. we want to restore power to the rural areas in particular. we do want to make sure that if you have a rural cooperative, that those folks get the help they need and are willing to accept the help that they need. so we know that this storm is going to hit the state of florida tomorrow. it is going to be a major
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hurricane. most likely a category 3 hurricane. there is -- it has been tracking into the big bend area pretty consistently with a little variation. you have to watch how this thing goes and where it can impact. it could veer west and hit tallahassee and further east and impact more directly other parts of the florida peninsula. just make sure you are heeding the warnings from your local emergency management officials. make sure you are doing what you need to do to keep yourself and your family safe. we have been working with the counties very closely over the past few days at the state level. we've received more than 450 active mission requests that the state is coordinating and those requests have either been fulfilled or will be fulfilled sometime during today. we have staged a lot of gasoline, 420,000 gallons worth of gasoline. sometimes you get fuel in
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interruptions. we have all our search terms activated. 600 search and rescue personnel. we hope to not need those folks. we hope nobody ends up in distress once the storm hits. if there is folks will go out there. kevin guthrie mentioned earlier today that a storm that's hitting late morning, early afternoon you will probably end up getting calls as we get into the evening hours. we'll be doing rescues at night as well. that's typically not the way you want to do it. there will be downed power lines and certain hazards. it will make it more difficult for our personnel but we will be there and we are going to get the job done. we're already delivering things like water, mres and tarps to local communities, shelters are being opened and are continuing
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to be opened across florida's gulf coast and beyond. we are deploying the star link internet to 250 of those devices have been deployed and we have over 500 staged and ready to go as those are needed going forward in the future. so we want to just thank everybody who is a part of the power restoration efforts and like our municipal outfits and co-ops, thank you for taking this seriously. thanks for the preparation and when you prepare and you are ready to go, you can make that -- you can accomplish that mission. this is likely going to be a storm leaving an awful lot of debris and a need to do a lot of road operations. in hurricane ian there weren't as many of the cut and toss operations. there were some but when you look at where this storm is
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going to hit, there is a lot of heavily wooded area. you will see a lot of trees knocked down and power lines knocked down. it will just require a concerted effort. so what duke is doing, what the other companies are doing is recognizing that this is a significant task and it really will impact how we respond to this, how quickly we're able to get stuff up and running. i want to thank everyone who has been involved. i can tell you the people of florida really appreciate these linemen being out there. i can tell you after hurricane ian it was like they would see the folks racing in to fort myers and other areas and they were very, very appreciative of all the hard work that was being done. this is not easy work especially in late august in florida. it will be nasty and hot. there will be a lot of moving parts. so this is really important work. the state of florida very much
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appreciates everybody particularly those who came from out of state to help the people of florida and floridians appreciate it as well. thank you and god bless you. we'll hear from kevin guthrie. >> thank you, governor. thank you for your leadership. >> john: there is florida governor ron desantis with the latest update on hurricane idalia and preparations being made in advance of its landfall expected sometime in the next 24 to 36 hours up in the big bend section of florida. not a lot of population on the coast. not like you would see down in miami or fort myers or even tampa. smaller towns like perry, st. mark's, crawford, tallahassee and gainesville. the governor saying they have 30,000 to 40,000 electrical
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linemen there or on the way. 400,000 gallons of gasoline. 600 search and rescue teams. hopefully they won't need those folks. when you get a huge storm moving in as this one is expected to be by the time it makes landfall, maybe a category 3 hurricane as janice dean was telling us, the need will be great. we'll keep watching it for you with our weather team. meanwhile, this. >> this crisis originated with the federal government and must be resolved through the federal government. the borders and decisions about who can work are solely determined by the federal government. >> john: blame game over the new york biden mess. biden administration is calling
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out fellow democratic leaders in new york state. getting its hands on letters from mayokas to hochul and new york city mayor adams. knocking their handling of the influx. dhs confirms to us that it gave the state and city dozens of recommendations. they include improving information collection and communication with migrants. building out and focusing on case management and pushing information through dhs on asylum applications. new york city mayor eric adams fired back today. >> last year i think we were up to 15,000. we stated that washington, this is a problem. we did not get a response. we have almost 108,000 cities across our entire country. everyone should absorb this. they dropped this all on new york city. >> john: joey jones is a retired u.s. marine bomb tech. adams said they dropped this all
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on new york city. for years prior they've been dropping it all on texas, arizona, florida and in the middle of the night flying people into the white plains airport to be dispersed who knows where and other states across the nation. new york it would seem, joey, is finally getting a taste of what so many other states have been getting for decades. >> they are finally getting what they asked for. provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants that are perhaps running from the law when our law is doing its job. you have know the question i would ask, hochul says the federal government should identify federal land to put temporary housing for these migrants. i would ask democrats is that the better life they are trying to give migrants to life in a tent city on federal land and what we are supposed to offer for those who seek refuge in our country? my answer is no, it's not a
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better life and not a better offer when you provide refuge. the irony is they aren't arguing over whether the migrants should be in our country illegally but arguing over should they be in new york and who should pay for them? that is the contrast that voters should sit back and look. republicans that advocate for a stronger border should sit back and let the argument happen in public as loud as possible so voters get fully informed. it is lot harder for the biden administration or democrats in new york to say there isn't a crisis at the border when they are arguing over the result of that crisis. >> john: the dhs secretary did in his letters to hochul and adams say we've got a hangar at jfk airport we can give you. "new york post" pointed out it would hold a day's worth of arrivals. mayokas in his letter said the dhs enforcement team has formulated two dozen recommendations to strengthen the city's migrant operation
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that caught the attention of the "new york post" editorial team. just the help everyone wants from a supposed partner telling how you are doing it wrong. it is interesting to see these two democratic administrations battling with each other over this. >> i think dhs is probably correct in most of these grievances. why didn't they work with these municipalities before they opened the border and cree ited policies that allowed people to pour across the border? like you introduced the topic. maybe they would stay in texas or southeast with the agricultural jobs. that isn't two case and shouldn't be the expectation. if you advertise yourself as a place of refuge you should be able to provide it. >> john: they are trying to make a point saying they can't absorb anybody. the protests on staten island yesterday, 400 people out there protesting the migrants being housed in a catholic school, the
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residents are up in arms over what's happening. which is forcing the political leaders there to respond. i want to get your thoughts on this, joey. two years after president biden's botched withdrawal from afghanistan, the outrage continues over the deaths of 13 u.s. service members. one of many groups of people calling out the operation. congressman mike garcia, a military veteran. >> the strategic mistakes made leading up to the withdrawal and during the withdrawal were self-evident. we didn't put the resources on the ground necessary to truly protect our troops. we all know the way with withdrew was a wrong way and why we lost so many lives and left so many folks behind. >> john: families say they're still looking for answers from the biden administration about the terrorist bombing that killed their loved ones at abby gate. an hour from now they'll meet
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with members of the house foreign affairs committee. joey, we saw very, very emotional testimony from congressman darrell issa got them together and there was such anger that was directed toward the biden administration. and yet so far still no one has been held accountable for what happened at abby gate and what happened in the overall of that disastrous withdrawal. >> nobody will be held accountable. ultimately the military's answer is it was a tough situation and we did the best we could do. when i go to afghanistan i take a bomb apart. civilians get killed because i do something wrong. i don't take measures on paper i don't get to say it's a tough situation, sorry it happened. tribunal happens and i get put on trial did i cause innocent civilians to die needlessly. the 13 heroes we talked about going to war. we don't talk about the 200
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civilians because we told them they could come and seek refuge or the dozen injured in our service still alive dealing with the injuries every day. the 13 are the beginning of that cost. the beginning of the conversation. obviously the ones that hurt us the most because they aren't here anymore. you are talking about more than 200 lives taken or changed forever because now we're learning perhaps we didn't have the right protocol in place to prevent it from happening to begin with. i believe it was general mckenzie sit down in front of a camera and tell the nation and world that our taliban partners are providing security and the result of that are dead americans, well, you know, i have more questions than answers and i'm glad we are getting some answers but we'll never get all of them. >> john: i don't expect we will. it will be emotional to listen again to those gold star families as they give their thoughts about what happened to
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their loved ones. thank you so much. covid cases ticking up. the biden administration is back to pushing vaccines. some doctors and experts are warning that the new push could be a very slippery slope. joe concha weighs in on that coming up next. coming up next. sports central gives you access to every game. but terry doesn't have directv. come on. work for dad- here... now, you can find the game easy. my barbecue is saved! get in the redzone with sports pack. call 1-800-directv my barbecue is ruined.
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>> john: missouri and texas are becoming the lateest states to transgender treatment for children. more than 20 states have similar bans in place or working through legal challenges. school districts are fighting over policies like gender pronouns. california's attorney general is suing the chino valley school board that parents must be notified if their child wants to be identified by a different gender. >> he is trying to assume parents are dangerous. that's a dangerous direction that they are heading in. you see it all over california. they are trying to push out parents. is he going to be the one caring for the child? are they going to be there for the child when the child feels alone at home when the parent
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has no clue? i mean, it's just absolutely insanity. >> john: joe concha fox news contributor. what's going on in chino valley is similar to what we saw in three counties in new jersey where the school boards there say we believe parental notification and involvement in their children's lives is very important and the state saying no, no, no, we know better and parents shouldn't be involved. what do you say? >> i'm a new jersey parent myself, john. two young children. the numbers tell the story here. in new jersey like you mentioned that's a solid blue state that a republican presidential candidate hasn't won since the 80s. we have an attorney general and governor fighting tooth and nail in the courts demanding that children should be able to get sex changes without parents being notified. as a new jersey parent anyone you speak to, other parents thinks this is madness. it doesn't matter how you vote or what your ideology is.
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the polling on this asked new jersey voters the state that joe biden won by 16 points. monmouth asked do you think parents should be notified if their child wants to be identify as a different gender? 81% of new jersey parents said absolutely we should be notified first. if democrats want to take the side of a small minority in the country and support this stuffist could cost them power in washington. the education issue, we saw it in florida and virginia with youngkin in terms of opposing teaching kids in elementary school that gender identification and sexual orientation. it could be an issue at the ballot box could end up deciding the election. >> john: the issue of biological males competing in female sports continues to burn. a state senator from nebraska delivering a message on x to swimmer riley gaines. it can be hard when we're young
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to not win a trophy sometimes but we grow up and realize it's not the end of the world and we don't need to turn the loss into our entire personality. she is chewing riley gaines out for complaining having to go up against lia thomas. the picture of the two of them together. lia thomas is a head taller than riley gaines. they tied at an ncaa event. senator hunt, nowhere did i see reference to her being a ncaa athlete. i don't know what the foundation is for her chewing out riley gaines. >> the picture tells the story there. you see lia thomas is a foot taller and legs that resemble blakley. if you see someone with so much of a physical advantage it has to be so depressing for so many female athletes out there. my wife was a division i track star at georgetown. she knows how hard all the work
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you have to do in earning scholarships and why steroids are banned from professional sports. it gives a biological advantage. the senator is wrong here, john. john i want to move on to this topic. the biden administration starting to push covid vaccines as case numbers rise. the president says he will ask congress for more funding for a new covid vaccine and also said it will likely be recommended for everyone to get. some doctors firing back at the plan. one tells fox we are no longer in a state of emergency or even a heightened threat. why is this being done? this is a slippery slope. they declared the pandemic over a long time ago but saying we'll recommend people get the vaccine again. what do you say? >> does the tone deaf move by the president. overwhelming number of americans are resisting covid boosters. not my opinion. that's the latest numbers from the cdc. one in five u.s. adults received
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the latest booster dose based on their study. 20%. people simply don't trust the president. he said you won't die and not many people trusting cdc or biden at this point. >> john: joe, thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm back in an hour with america reports with sandra smith. "outnumbered" coming up right after the break. by cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. veteran homeowners. car payments are getting out of control. not long ago, you could pay off a car
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