this saying her country should leave the u.n. saying i am ashamed of the u.n. the czech republic has no place in an organization that cheers on terrorists and does not respect the fundamental right to self-defense. let's get out. ambassador erdogan pointed out members of his family were sent to auschwitz and some perished in the gas chambers. he said what this building is doing to diplomats here is no different than what the nazis did years ago. back to you. >> dana: it's an important story today, eric shawn. thank you for bringing it to was. john roberts, that was a fast two hours. thank you for being part of the show today. >> john: i'll see you this afternoon at 1:00 with sandra smith for america reports. >> dana: i'll see you at 5:00 on "the five." harris is up next. >> harris: breaking news.

two critical senate hearings are happening now on capitol hill. first up mayokas and f.b.i. director christopher wray are testifying on the threats to america that are now growing. open border will do that. they are pointing to an explosion of anti-semitism we're seeing as well since hamas terrorists tortured, raped, killed, israeli citizens on october 7th. the second hearing defense secretary austin and secretary of state antony blinken also facing questions today for their part on america's response so far to the 25 attacks on u.s. military men and women serving in the middle east. and testimony was just getting underway at that hearing when police had to remove disruptive protestors from the gallery. first it was a woman, just one, and then it was a crowd. >> stop funding this brutal

massacre. >> israel's genocide is a terrible thing. >> pray for the children of gaza. >> cease-fire now. >> harris: they held up their hands covered in what we assume is fake blood, paint, something as they called for a cease-fire. it is day 25 of the fighting between the israeli military and hamas killers. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." israel's military is moving farther into the northern gaza strip and ground and air assaults are pounding the evil cowards taking cover behind families that they are using as human shields. the idf says one of those air strikes killed a hamas commander who is responsible for directing part of that october 7th massacre. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu standing firm.

>> i want to make clear israel's position regarding a cease-fire. just as the united states would not agree to a cease-fire after the bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. >> harris: idf commander with a message to his military. [speaking native language] >> harris: just one example of the sheer savagery of hamas killers, one of those more than 200 hostages taken by hamas was found dead. she was beheaded after terrorists paraded her body around on the back of a truck. israeli officials identified her remains, 23-year-old german/israeli citizen at the music festival on the morning of

october 7th. imagine what her family has gone through was that her? god help them. in "focus" retired army lieutenant colonel. we begin with senior correspondent mike tobin in israel. mike. >> from our vantage point the fighting has been a little more quiet than it has been on previous nights. israeli forces are spending their fifth night inside of the fence in gaza where idf says the fighting has intense. what i get from palestinian sources fighting has been quite bloody particularly in the neighborhood of jabalia. the israelis claim they killed a commander of a neighborhood, a neighborhood to the northern end of the gaza strip saying he was one of the planners of the october 7th massacres. israel says they have taken out some anti-tank weapons. hamas personnel and video releases show soldiers engaged in urban combat going house to house and clearing the houses. you see like bulldozers clearing

out streets making way for more israeli armor and personnel to enter gaza strip. it is going slow. urban combat is risky and the hostages. a former israeli intelligence chief. since the withdrawal of israelis from the settlements in 2005 is -- gaza is a complicated place. intelligence people when you don't have a good solution for this mess of gaza. >> israel did generate enough intelligence to find private mag dish and send in commandos to rescue her. she said she is unharmed. idf says she has a resilient memory and providing valuable intelligence to the israeli

government now about other soldiers. to the far south of the country, surface to surface missile came up the red sea and taken out by the arrow missile intercept system. the first time that system has been used in this war. >> harris: mike tobin, thank you very much. as we always do. the sun is setting about now where you are. we'll check back with you during the hour as news warrants. thank you. israeli prime minister netanyahu with a brand-new op-ed titled the battle of civilization. he is arguing if hamas and iran win, you will be their next target. the barbarians are willing to fight us and their goal is clear, shatter that promising future, destroy all that we cherish, and usher in a world of fear and darkness. this is a turning point for leaders and nations. it is a time for all of us to decide if we're willing to fight for a future of hope and promise or surrender to tyranny and

terror. in "focus" now a former blackhawk helicopter pilot and battalion commander and executive director of restore liberty. great to have you in focus. what leadership you have now, restore liberty. that's what netanyahu says we are going to have to do. >> good morning, harris. that's true and i think netanyahu recognizes the fact this is one of those times in israel's history when it is destroy hamas or be destroyed as a nation because it is more than just hamas. if they show weakness against this smaller organization of hamas in the gaza strip hezbollah will take notice and nations around israel will also take notice and the future will get darker for israel potentially. he knows they have to win now. >> harris: can you please compare fighting hezbollah to

fighting hamas? >> yeah. hamas is actually the smaller of the two organizations. they are not as well funded and as well organized. hezbollah is a much bigger threat. where the hamas was able to launch 5,000 to 7,000 rockets against israel, hezbollah has upwards of 100,000 or more rockets. they have more people. they have a larger base to operate from with lebanon in general. so as israel is looking to their operations in gaza strip and rightly so, they definitely have at least one eye watching the border to the north very closely because they are concerned about that threat and it is significant. >> harris: just to reiterate. hezbollah is a smaller fighting force. did you mean hamas? >> yes, hamas is a smaller fighting force. >> harris: they've already seen some of those rockets and some

of that firing and had to evacuate areas near the northern border on the israeli side to get citizens away from there. if it becomes a second front and now being talked about with almost not an if by when if iran gets into this even more. we're already at war with iran when it comes to protecting our troops. they've taken 25 shots at our bases. >> absolutely. in fact, i was talking to some of my sources in iraq this morning saying they haven't been attacked in iraq or syria for over 900 days and now becoming more of a daily routine at least being alerted something could be incoming. we have a lot of questions we need to answer about our purpose in the middle east and why we really need to be there and expose our forces to this level of risk given this changing situation. >> harris: that's interesting. colonel davis told me something similar yesterday saying we

should have pulled them out when former president trump was ready to do that a couple years ago and certainly we would want to do that now. what happens if we pull our forces back now to protect them? >> most certainly there be will a public relations campaigning talking about from hamas or hezbollah or other organizations in the middle east and maybe nations saying they drove us away. but i would argue the fact that we really never needed to be there in the first place. syria, we're there, we're not congressionally authorized to be there. we are not there at the invitation of the syrian government. iraq we're at the invitation at the iraqi government but yet to see a true strategy or purpose to our constant presence through both of those two countries. right now when our soldiers are at risk at the small air fields and outposts time we reassess why we're really there and accomplishing what we say we're accomplishing. >> harris: we say you fight the war over there so you don't have

to fight it here. we may need them here. i want to talk about the hits and targeting they are doing of u.s. military women in iraq. a pair of drones targeted a base where americans are stationed. no injuries or damages reporting so far. 25 attacks on u.s. forces in iraq and syria since october 17th. since october 17th they've hit us that many times. 24 service members injured and one american contractor has been killed. defense secretary lloyd austin with this just last hour. let's watch. >> we've taken a number of steps to make sure we increase our force protection posture. we've deployed a number of assets into the region as well. we've been clear, president has been clear and i have been clear, vice chair, that if that -- if this doesn't stop, then

we'll respond and so we remain -- we maintain the right to respond. we have the capability to do that and we'll respond at a time and place of our choosing. >> harris: do you have confidence in that? >> i don't because like you said, 25 attacks since the 17th. and we sent a couple fighters to drop a couple bombs in two locations in syria and went home. that's it so far. i fear that our lack of true response sends a big message and will continue to emotion bolden all those who want to attack our 19 outposts throughout the middle east right now. i don't see the value in us being there and risking our soldiers given this change in the situation. >> harris: it's interesting. i know i grew up military so i see the world through that lens somewhat. but the job of the

commander-in-chief is also military related. i wonder how much this white house is listening to its generals and its colonels tell him some of the same things i've had two colonels in a row tell me. leadership in the military would understand the dangers of that. i just can't make sense of why, when you mention the word value, that maybe it's not attached in the same way to our military fighting men and women to the president. at least he is not acting congruently to that. f.b.i. director christopher wray with this warning just a few minutes ago. >> on top of the home grown violent extremists we cannot do not discount the possibility that hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil. >> harris: colonel. your reaction. >> my first reaction is that we

are in a four front war. the biggest front we have that's the greatest risk now is our southern border. we can talk about israel, ukraine, china, taiwan, but if we don't secure our homeland first, nothing else will matter. we've left our borders open for years now and millions of people have flooded across. numerous chinese national, single male fighting age have come across that border and moved throughout the united states. if we don't consider ourselves under attack in some way from what i call an immigration invasion, we could wake up to some very bad things happening within our own borders. we need to focus there first and again bring some of these people back from the middle east and make sure our homeland is secure. >> harris: america first has some have said and run for office and won. one last question. we have a movement afoot in this country that seems to be supporting the terrorists of hamas. how concerned are you about it?

>> i'm concerned about it because i think it goes, one, it goes back to the lack of education in many areas about what the palestinians are, what hamas is and the relationship to israel and general knowledge about what the middle east means. i think a lot of these folks are being used as storm troopers and protestors you could say. my concern turns, i guess, focused more on the fact that as these people continue this kind of protests, i suspect they could quickly turn violent and that's going to -- they could potentially target specifically the jewish population of the united states and that's the real extremism we need to identify. >> harris: you are hearing it and seeing it on the signs. they don't pull punches on that. lieutenant colonel, thank you very much for being in "focus" always. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: want to keep the hostages in focus. more than 230 men and women, children, grandmothers, you

know, are still being held by the hamas hostage taking serial killers as i call them. here are a few of their faces. their posters are hanging in many cities across america and the world. when you see them, stop for a moment, take just a short while to make sure that they are secured wherever they are hanging that you see them. and say a prayer. people have been taking them down. the activists, artists behind this effort are asking for your help. i had the two artists on this program in the last week. download and print from their website and post images in your own community, kidnapped from israel. a moment to tell you their names. god bless them all.

>> there will convenient multiple anti-israel rallies saying death to jews. >> they trapped jewish students in the library. this is 2023, not 1942. this is new york, not nazi europe. >> in order to be safe on campus you see berkeley, i need to hide my jewish identity. >> when i see my fellow students turning a blind eye to the blatant anti-semitism on campus i do not feel safe. >> harris: this is new york city, not nazi europe. it's happening in america. we said we wouldn't let this happen again. jewish students are some of america's premier university students and they are living in fear. anti-semitic hate sweeping across college campuses in our nation. the list of schools holding anti-israel protests grows every

day. more than 100 columbia university professors have now signed a letter defending students who voice their support for the hamas terrorists. at yale the campus newspaper is accused of censoring a pro-israel editorial. apparently removing it for what it called, quote, unsubstantiated claims that hamas terrorists had raped women and beheaded men. you have to see the videos. the killers were wearing gopros, so they captured those images themselves. at cornell university the f.b.i. investigating multiple threats made against the school's jewish community, campus police locking down the center for jewish living and the biden white house stopped short of calling any of this extremism. >> does president biden think the anti-israel protestors in this country are extremists?

>> we've been clear when it comes to anti-semitism. there is no place. >> does president biden look at these protests on college campuses and think it's nice to see that the country's youth are so involved or does he think the next generation is doomed? >> here is the thing. there is no place for hate in america. no, no, no, i'm telling you. there is no place for hate in america. >> harris: whenever she says here's the thing, brace yourself. griff jenkins. she couldn't just answer that question with yes we're against it. it had to have a paragraph of whatever that was. >> she has to acknowledge, as she did that anti-semitism is exploding at college campuses across the country especially at ivy league schools like yale, harvard, columbia and cornell. can you imagine paying $60,000 a year to go to cornell where jewish students are being

threatened with social media postings like this? jewish people need to be killed. if you see a jewish person on campus, follow them home and slit their throats. governor hochul had to go to the cornell campus yesterday to deliver this message to those making the threats. >> if you are going to engage in these harmful actions, hate crimes, breaking our laws, you will be caught and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> it comes after the cornell professor called the october 7th hamas massacre exhilarating. one student said she appreciates governor hochul's efforts but still feels threatened. >> even with police it is still frightening. we're trying to go about our daily lives and continue to be proud and stay strong as our jewish selves but it is still scary. >> remarkable at yale the campus newspaper censoring a pro-israel students by removing factually

accurate sections about the hamas actions. the white house is directly engaging but they are including anti-semitism with islamaphobia. we'll see also one last thing governor hochul is speaking to new yorkers to say and see if she has more to say about protecting jewish students. >> harris: we are going to work to bring some of what governor hochul just said moments ago. you are right to point that out. it has just started now. griff jenkins, thank you very much. i want to show everybody a little bit more of peter doocy continuing to press the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre on the reluctance to call anti-semitism extremism. when the biden white house does not hesitate to use that label for what it calls maga republicans.

just watch. >> we hear you guys don't talk about extremists all the time usually about maga extremists, what about the protestors making jewish students feel unsafe on college campuses. are they extreme? >> i've been very clear we are calling out any form of hate. any form of hate. it is not acceptable. >> harris: well, check this out. >> extreme maga members of the republican caucus. thieves are members who have promoted violent members. maga house republicans. extreme house republicans they are marching us toward a reckless and damaging government shutdown. what we have seen from extreme republicans actions does not help. >> harris: wow. joining me now republican congressman mike gallagher of the great state of wisconsin, member of the house intelligence and armed services committees and iraq war veteran. thank you for being with me.

what is your reaction to the white house press secretary there? >> well, the standard seems to be that if you vote republican you are an extremist. but if you are a pro-hamas protestor, you are just a social justice warrior in service of a noble cause. this is very dangerous. i do think increasingly we will see members of the far left or the democratic base try to pressure the biden administration into reducing its support for israel. it's important for us to understand that while israel may be our closest ally in the middle east, hamas has allies here in america and they seem to be concentrated on college campuses. the same campuses who deny conservative speakers are organizing pro-terrorist movements. the faculty members who profess to be our moral superiors are

encouraging it. the tragedy of it. we paid colleges to prop gainedize our children against our values and allowed the social justice virus to incubate and it's spilling over to the rest of society. at a minimum university presidents should speak out in defense of their jewish students. they cannot allow this form of anti-semitism to take hold. at a federal level we should be taking common sense steps to expose the hypocrisy. so, for example, the same university faculty and students who are talking about israel as a colonizer have no qualms about the universities investing in china, for example. the dichotomy of the oppressor and expressed does not expend to the victims of far left regimes like china. you don't see any campus radicals marching for uighurs subject to a genocide in china.

>> harris: that's really important to point out. the muslims in china, the uighurs, who we know are tortured. women raped, so that they are forced to have the babies outside of their own belief system and race. to make them succumb to be different and the men are forced, from what i've read to watch that happen. i want to give you a last word on that and we have breaking news and i want your reaction to as well. >> it's horrific and listen, my daughters are only 3 and 1. i don't have to think about college for a long time now. a lot of parents are asking themselves why they are paying, 20, 30, 50, 60 grand a year for something like this. it dilutes from higher education. we need our colleges to be the best in the world to compete against the chinese communist party. this is not evidence that that's true. >> harris: yes. we will compile a list of those

condemning it but you talk about the faculty members, administrators. some are signing on like at yale, 100 professor signed on to support students who support hamas killers, the terrorists, who went after citizens in israel on october 7th. we need some brave -- are there any brave faculty among them at these elite colleges? new york governor kathy hochul addressed anti-semitism in the state of new york and on the streets and campuses. this is just coming in for the first time. >> we will take on the anti-semitism we have seen on college campuses. the problem didn't begin with the weeks following october 7th attacks. it has been growing on a number of campuses and seen most acutely in the city university of new york. >> harris: we're going to have to break away. we'll get back to our guest

congressman mike gallagher. for now you see secretary mayokas being asked about the rise in anti-semitism since october 7th. let's watch. >> actions to address this moment. >> director wray. >> absolutely look forward to having our folks participate in the briefing that you requested. i will say that this is a threat that is reaching in some ways historic levels. in part because, as you know all too well, the jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum. home grown violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations sunni and shia. domestic violent extremists and, in fact, our statistics would indicate for a group that represents only about 2.4% of the american public, they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes.

we're trying to do our part both by tackling it through a joint terrorism task forces, hate crime investigations, outreach both nationally and locally at every field office level, intelligence sharing, training. i know i've spent a lot of time engaging with scn, for example, adl, others, and we also created a fusion cell that brings together the expertise of both our hate crimes folks and domestic terrorism folks to make sure that we're seeing the full landscape and doing our best to be pro-active in this space. >> thank you, both. >> senator scott, you are recognized for your questions. >> harris: i want to point out the questioning that was happening there is by congresswoman jackie rosen who felt under threat. a jewish member of congress, democrat from nevada. so she was leading the questioning for that section and you heard homeland secretary

mayokas and christopher wray. it has been a busy morning on capitol hill. let's bring back congressman mike gallagher. tell me about what's happening on capitol hill? with this particular hearing, what is the goal here? >> well, i think the goal is to insure that our homeland in particular is safe from a domestic terrorist incident or some of the protests we've seen around the country don't stumble out of control and become violent. i should note in the spirit of bipartisanship i want to prays some of my democratic colleagues like ritchie torres from new york outspoken against the anti-semitism committee. he is a defender of the uighur cause we just mentioned. i'm not saying that everyone is equally to blame here. it is important we preserve that bipartisan core in support of israel, in defense of jewish

students in america. i can already see the landscape shifting. i can see these attempts to isolate on the world stage and potentially blame israel for what is happening and that's something we need to be on guard against. what will happen this week in congress is consider an aid package for israel that i very much hope will pass. >> harris: let's pause there for a second. what the president wants to do is roll that in with money for ukraine and with some of the pushback that will no doubt get. specificity of what the money will be in ukraine the republicans want. to separate it out is important so israel can get aid right away. tell me about that process. >> here is what makes sense to me. you basically have your most urgent national security crisis, the situation in israel. your most important national security threat which is china. which is why i think we can pursue one track, immediate aid for israel and defense

appropriations bill. what are we supplementing right now if we haven't passed the defense bill? that's the most important thing. enhanced support to taiwan to prevent the crisis there and a separate track linking ukraine to border security. both parties should be forced to consider that. >> harris: i'll bring you back another day to get into what's going on with taiwan and china. because i really want to go down that road. where the president was on september 11th was vietnam. he is looking at the landscape there and with weakness on foreign policy maybe he should be. a quick thought on that and we'll move forward. >> vietnam he said something troubling. because china has economic problems he doesn't think they will invade taiwan. evidence is mixed at best. the more domestic turmoil xi confronts the more aggressive he can get to distract from it.

we aren't moving fast enough to enhance deterrents across the taiwan strait. >> harris: that's a lot of shipping lane traffic, too. it disrupts the entire world. house republicans have introduced a bill that would give more than $14 billion in aid to israel. we were just speaking about this. some of that money coming from funding dedicated to really ramping up the 87,000 extra i.r.s. agents as part of president biden's inflation reduction act and set up a showdown with democrats who control the senate. here is speaker mike johnson. >> my intention and my desire in the first draft of this bill is to take some of the money that has been set aside for the building and bulking up the i.r.s. now. 67 billion in the fund. we'll try to take the 14.5 necessary for this urgent need. >> harris: democrats want

funding for israel to be paired with funding for ukraine. schumer says leaving ukraine out makes the bill harder to pass. >> the house gop bill is inadequate and makes aid for israel who faced the worst terrorist attack in sty contingent on poison pills that reward rich tax cheats. the new speaker knows well if you want to help israel, you can't propose legislation that is full of poison pills. this house gop proposal is clearly designed to divide congress on a partisan basis. >> harris: and what is your reaction to that? they're saying you are building poison pills into the plan. >> it's not a poison pill. it has to be paid for. for the democrats, who just wasted trillions of dollars on progressive pet projects domestically to say we can't find 10 to 14 billion from the

inflation reduction act is absurd. it is not responsible. in everything we do we have to balance the things at the geopolitical moment. responding to crises they emerge with long term duty to be fiscally responsible and not pass on a mountain of debt to the next generation. the speaker is trying to balance those things in good faith. we can argue what the specific pay for should be. the political move is what the white house did. lump all this together in a package over $1 hundred billion and hope that on christmas eve this year we'll pass a 5,000 page bill that nobody reads that includes a supplemental and omnibus bills. that's not how you do oversight. that's now how you legislate responsibly and not how to help israel. this needs to be targeted, company hereent and paid for. >> harris: that's the play on the left. nancy pelosi taught everybody

that. you pass it and read it and find out what's in the bill. remember that with healthcare? it was a lot of pages, too. congressman gallagher, thank you for being with me. we have been showing our audience the hearing of dhs mayokas and f.b.i. director christopher wray and they are giving their testimony on threats to our homeland. one of those threats, that open border situation. all those states along the southern border with mexico. >> director wray, you said in your testimony of the threats they aren't getting any easier to deal with. would having a secure border, would that make your job easier? >> i will let secretary mayokas speak for border security but i will tell you the threats that we have to contend with that are attributeed to the border, cartel violence, distribution, etc. are a major challenge. >> so the answer is yes.

>> harris: that was such an epic dodge by christopher wray. the answer was yes. a win for texas, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the biden administration from taking down that razor wire along the border and simply letting illegals flow in like water. going around the checkpoints so that we can't account for them. the administration will likely appeal that ruling over the razor wire. it works until they cut through it. fiscal year 2023 border patrol encountered 2 1/2 million illegal immigrants. that is an all-time record. now we're learning more 900,000 of them have been released in the united states all over the place. i know they don't have enough cell phones and ankle brace lets and that. in new jersey i have had people tell me that. they want to come to new york

and go to the sanctuary cities and we can't keep up with them. even the ones we've seen. we don't have the devices to do it. hard to believe because every 16-year-old at my kids' high school have phones. senior correspondent casey stiegel joins us now. >> texas, by the way, sued dhs and cbp accusing the federal government, in part, of undermining this state's border security efforts. so that is what prompted yesterday's decision by that federal judge, who granted a motion for a temporary restraining order against the feds prohibiting agents from disassembling, degrading or tampering with the razor wire barriers at the southern border. there is one exception. they may cut it in the event of a medical emergency should they need to render aid to migrants who have illegally crossed. a press conference should begin any minute on capitol hill where

republican texas senators john cornyn and ted cruz speak about their trip to the southern border late last week. they lead small delegation of other gop senators, mike lee of utah, john barrasso of wyoming and pete rickets from nebraska who got a look at the front lines. they met with local leaders and border patrol agents who told them their patience is wearing thin after years of this crisis marching on with little to no solutions on the table to fix it. >> the men and women of the border patrol are frustrated because they risk their lives apprehending people only to turn around and see them let go over and over and over again. >> cbp data shows nearly 909,000 migrants were released into the u.s. for fiscal year 2023. a combination of people put on parole or issued what is known

as ntaor, notice to appear on their own recognizance. 156,000 of those released were logged just last month for september. >> harris: i tell you, it was almost orchestrated. let's go to senator john cornyn. >> not to release mass numbers of people into the interior. then of course, as doctor barrasso said, the point is they don't really know who these people are. they certainly don't know what w.h.o. the gotaways are. more than a million half approaching 2 million people detected on cameras and other sensors but who evaded border patrol. you have to wonder if they have a good reason for running away from law enforcement. are they carrying fentanyl that

took the lives of leading cause of death among youth people 18 to 45? we know where it comes from. it comes across the u.s. border into the united states from mexico. so as i said these criminal organizations are very smart. they flood the zone with people, taking many of the border patrol agents off the front lines because they have to do administrative duties and process these migrants so they can then be released. but they are not there to stop the drugs and stop the potential criminals and terrorists who are coming across the border. what's happened on october 7th in israel is a reminder that terrorist organizations can strike at any time. while we know on september 11th, 2001, 19 terrorists killed 3,000 americans, we know there have been hundreds or more of people on the terrorist watch list that

have been detected at the border but we don't know how many more in the biden administration can't tell you made their way safely into the interior of the united states. the rio grande valley we were told recently migrants from china, russia, iran, saudi arabia, and nigeria and other countries across the globe came to the border and were released by the biden administration into the united states. this is dangerous. not only to americans here living in the heartland of the united states but also to the migrants themselves who are abused by the cartels who care nothing about them as human beings, who view them as a commodity. so appreciate our colleagues coming back to the border with senator cruz and myself and being able to come talk about what they saw and what they learned in a way that hopefully will help us enact policies that will protect the united states

of america. senator cruz. >> for the past decade john cornyn and i have taken colleagues down to the southern border. you have to see it firsthand with your own eyes. we got back to the border thursday and friday of last week. we flew out thursday afternoon, arrived in the rio grande valley thursday night and the first thing five senators did is went to the midnight muster of the border patrol agents to tell those agents thank you. those men and women, they risk their lives every night dealing with very dangerous human traffickers, drug traffickers, and they are frustrated beyond belief. they are frustrated because they risk their lives catching dangerous people and turned around and political superiors just let them go. and the next day they go back and catch the same people all over again.

we wanted to say thank you to them and wanted to listen to them. we spent time asking what do we need to know? one of the things they told us about is the biden administration just issued new guidance in the past year on pursuit of illegal aliens fleeing and as they said really what it should be called is guidance on non-pursuit. the biden administration prohibited border patrol agents from chasing any traffickers who are fleeing. if there is anything about the flight that could endanger human safety. what does that mean? that means, for example, if there are more people in a vehicle than there are seat belts, the border patrol is not allowed to pursue. they said regularly they will be coming up on a car filled with illegal immigrants and the traffickers will tell everyone sit up so it's obvious there are 4 or 5 people in the back seat and no seat belts. they have to discontinue the

pursuit and say keep carrying your fentanyl and trafficking people because we aren't going to pursue you. they said now routinely as soon as they see a border patrol agent trying to pull them over they run a stop sign and red light and violate a traffic law. it endangers people safety. the instant they run a stop sign the border patrol is order to say never mind, we can't pursue you. this administration doesn't want to secure the border. they want the crisis. the 8 million people. the only thing joe biden and kamala harris and senate democrats want is 8 million to become 10 and 12 to become 20 million. after midnight muster we went out on midnight patrol with the border patrol agent. something i've done many times. >> harris: we wanted to show you both senators from texas, john cornyn and ted cruz reacting to what is continuing to happen under the biden administration at the southern border. with yet another layering of

danger now with what's going on in the middle east. i want to bring in my friend pete hegseth, co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. this is unbelievable that the fight is so hard on capitol hill about this issue. especially right now. i mean, it's so obvious, it's porous and we're in danger. >> that's powerful first-hand testimony from senator ted cruz who is just being honest about what is happening, which is a complete betrayal of the united states. it is a betrayal of our sovereignty and security and it is completely intentional. they will appeal cutting through the razor wire that texas puts in place. they make it harder to detain. they ask for more money just to process and senator cruz is right so that they can get more. they want more. it must be for some future electoral outcome or maybe they

are so ashamed of america, frankly, they don't believe in borders anymore and gone full globalist. whatever it is they've abdicated their responsibility. i want to see this from republicans. these visits are important and press conferences are important. i recently saw a tape if you remember donald trump was in the oval office with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and it was right before a shutdown. it was right before a shutdown and he looked at chuck and said you know what, chuck, i will take the blame for shutting the government down over securing the border. it is my fault. i'll take it. i'm shutting the government down because the border is not secure. chuck got this like clever also smile like i got him and donald trump just looked at him, the president and said i care about the border more than i care about your games. that's i think what republicans have to get to. that's what cornyn and cruz and the new speaker need to get to. we'll lay out to the american people october 7th is the most

recent example of it. but known foreign terrorists are attempting to infiltrate our border and we aren't doing anything. republicans need to go even more of a backbone. when the next showdown come make it about the border front and center. not ukraine's border, our border. >> harris: chip roy has said it's time to defund the agencies if they don't do their jobs. calling out republicans to be stronger to press and fight on the issue. taking a look at these pictures on the screen right now from recent days, it is hard to believe that we have let this go on for so long. now we have, you know, a million half people who have not been vetted. a total of 6.3 million, some estimates higher than that, closer to 7 million who have come across the border during this presidency.

none of this makes sense if it's not on purpose. >> exactly right. none of it makes sense unless it is on purpose. it is on purpose. decidedly the poll southeast biden administration. you remember how much 9/11 shaped our lives and vowed as a nation to never forget. what you are looking at right there is forgetting. forgetting intentionally. you showed the numbers, harris, they are powerful. that's just the beginning. that's what we know of. you see known foreign terrorists encountered. what about the thousands that have made it through because they paid the cartels the grease the skids and they're from iran, afghanistan, iraq. we have no doubt cells inside our country. what happens next, i don't know. we know who the responsibility will be on. the policies of this

administration. donald trump secured the border. he will do it again. until he is back republicans in congress better do everything they can because this is the front and center national security crisis of america's time on our shore. >> harris: i mean, on fox from morning tonight you can see what's happening. we show it, we fly the drones and do whatever we have to do to make sure the american people are aware of what's going on. i still run into people when i travel all over the country, particularly to blue cities and states sanctuaries that say we're being overrun and we don't know why. it is sad. we can't be the only truth tellers. everybody will have to jump in the pool now. pete hegseth, great to see you. i will see you in person. i want to brag about you a little bit. pete will be hosting, as he always does, such a superstar, for a beautiful patriotism event. we'll celebrate america the fifth annual patriot awards this

year in nashville, tennessee, thursday, november 16th. mark your calendars. and for that i will have a huge live audience for "the faulkner focus" at the historic grand ol' opri house. come and be with me. sit in the audience. in addition to joining "the faulkner focus" audience, you have the opportunity to celebrate american heroes, meet your favorite fox personalities. chockful. we take our multi-story building in manhattan and move it to nashville. it is super fun. you'll see the website on your screen. please go to it. get your tickets today. i can't wait to see you. you know we'll do some prayer circles. faith still moves mountains. we'll do a lot. dance and celebrate who we are as americans and remind everybody how exceptional this country is. can't wait. we're fewer than three months

away from the first in the nation caucuses in iowa. new polling in that particular state is showing former president trump in the lead and now there is some good news for two of his challengers, anyway. united nations ambassador nikki haley gained significant ground over the last two months jumping 10 percentage points. ron desantis slipped a little bit but tied with haley. when you look at voters' first and second choices as well as the candidates, the caucus goers may be desantis' voter footprint and trump are both at 67%. desantis told me he was going to all the counties. that was his goal. haley has 54%. outkick founder clay travis says this. >> the question that will be out there as we approach iowa in ten weeks is who is going to be the clear contender to go after

trump? it will either be nikki haley or ron desantis. the faster we get to a lesser number of people out there competing, the better we find out whether trump's lead is so durable that nobody can challenge him or if it's a one versus 1 or 1 versus two. >> harris: tammy bruce and patrick murphy are here. we welcome you both. what is your reaction to where the numbers are for trump and at least two other republicans who are really alone at the top after trump? >> it has been a big field. there has been a lot of drama and a lot of personalities out there. it shows you that the american people are watching, they are thoughtful about what's going on. noticed who is saying what and i like the fact that nikki haley has moved up. it is earned. i think what she has really done resonating with people with

today's world is that she has had the international experience. at the u.n. as our ambassador. they is aggressive. she knows what she is talking about. i think americans want individuals who understand the system, who are capable of working with other people, but who can also get the job done. and for republicans and democrats, americans i think my friend patrick would agree that most of this now is becoming nonpartisan. it is transcends partisanship. can we have two people in the white house, the president and vice president, who can work together and understand the meltdown that's happened and what we need to do to get the country back on her feet and make the country safe. right now that team looks to be donald trump and nikki haley. so this is about convincing americans that the republican bench is the talent is there and it's a matter of these individuals agreeing that everyone needs to work together. >> harris: that's interesting.

it is still very early. we haven't had the first contest yet. that's how you see it. patrick, you were nodding with tammy. >> i agree with the first part in that i am a big fan of the momentum that governor/ambassador nikki haley has. she has the momentum in the republican primary. reality is this. when she is still down 27 points. former president donald trump. i think president trump has been distracted. he has been in the court case here in new york city. >> harris: he has been out a lot speaking, though. >> i would say he doesn't have to be in court but he is still there. i would say it's a bridge too far. i do think president trump will win iowa and elsewhere and he will be the nominee and he is a fighter. we all know that. >> harris: i want to point out so what voters in iowa are doing right now based on what we've seen in the numbers. it is not january 15th yet. desantis, former military, navy

seal team one. he has been sending a plane over to bring americans home from israel and he wants to take his own money from his own budget in his state to give weaponry funding to israel as well. it is interesting. then you have former u.n. ambassador nikki haley. a last word quickly, patrick. can you match on the left, though? we need a commander-in-chief who can command. >> when you look at the u.s. right now is leading the whole world in our economic growth right now when you look at the latest gdp and military. he was very strong, president biden was in israel and ukraine. he is a work horse, not a show horse. we'll see. >> harris: okay. i don't know that tammy would agree. thank you. good to see you both. "outnumbered" is next.

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