anti-semitism on campuses? >> imagine these kids having to hide in libraries, in college campuses. it is awful that this is being allowed to happen. we aren't hearing anything from the white house denouncing it or taking action to stop it. >> bill: we'll see how it goes today in washington, d.c. tulsi gabbard with us there. talk about a hostage exchange. nothing is firm. nothing is concrete. it is super tricky to figure this out. we'll wait to see. >> dana: might have been one of the reasons the president was reluctant to take questions at the microphone if i'm being charitable. he said i don't want to get ahead of the information. we'll watch the rally today. happy birthday to bill hemmer. harris faulkner will take you through the next hour. "the faulkner focus" is next.

[gunfire] >> harris: the israeli military trading gunfire with hamas terrorists in northern gaza. the defense minister said hamas has lost control of the gaza strip. israeli forces now say they have the proof that hamas is using hospitals, even the children's hospital, to hide a vast network of underground tunnels housing a terror command center. they are trying to protect their leadership. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." prime minister benjamin netanyahu says this war will decide the fate of how more than -- how far more than just for israel. >> we have to win to protect israel, we have to win to safeguard the middle east and for the sake of the civilized world. that's the battle we're fighting. it is being waged right now. there is no substitute for that victory. if we don't win now, then europe is next and you are next.

and we have to win. >> harris: israel has released new video from an underground look at a pediatric hospital specializing in cancer treatment. the terrorists have gone underground beneath this very large hospital to protect themselves. it apparently shows how the terrorists used it as a base to store grenades, assault rifles, rockets. there were also some signs that maybe some of the hostages had been held there. >> i want you to see this room. it is in the basement of the hospital. we can see this area is a closed area from the rest of the hospital. we can see the ventilation air that was done improvisely to this area and we can see infrastructures that was built in here, toilets, shower, small kitchen to provide the

activities their needs. also to conduct a hideout, a hideout where activities take hostages and hideout. >> harris: despite evidence hamas used patient and staff as shields. president joe biden is calling on israel to show restraint. >> president biden: it's my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action of the hospital. there is an effort to take this pause to deal with the release of prisoners and that's being negotiated as well with qatar engaged in it. i remain somewhat hopeful. the hospital must be protected. >> harris: the "new york post" editorial board with this blistering headline. stop pretending hospital peril is all on israel, joe. and call out hamas's central role in endangering civilians.

in "focus" now let's begin with pete hegseth. co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. great to see you today. just first of all your reaction to the call by the president for israel to better protect the people that hamas terrorists are using as human shields. >> well that's the same guy, joe biden, who about seven minutes ago on our channel live was giving a speech saying that climate change is the single greatest threat that we face. the threat to humanity. this is the viewpoint of the guy charged with backing up our biggest ally who is at war with an enemy who savagely massacred civilians six weeks ago. so i hope netanyahu takes the call, hears him out and does what he needs to do because ultimately hamas is at fault for every single aspect of this to include all the civilians stuck in the hospital underneath the command center. they don't want to kill

civilians. if they can get them out to get at the hamas leadership they'll do that. israel doesn't knowed to apologize for having superior nighters and weapons in taking back gaza. they need to eradicate all of those hamas fighters. it is very complicated but we don't need our president complicating it even more by trying to dictate basically hamas talking points to netanyahu and israelis while they are part of one of the most difficult ground sieges you can conceive of. >> harris: what you pointed out is hamas would love for somebody else to sort of tap israel on the shoulder and tell them to sit down. that's not just a talking point, that's a goal. >> that's their strategy. >> that's why they want cease fires and pauses. condemnation from the international community will be their savior. if joe biden leads it, better

off for them. >> harris: let's talk a little bit about the hostages if we can. and part of the video that was just shown to us and some of it was narrated by israeli soldier on the ground. part of that was where we think some hostages had been held. how big are those tunnels? we've heard 300 miles long. now you have to talk they can hold supplies for even the hostages, we pray. >> yeah, these are not -- we showed the footage of the tunnels that i've been in meant to transport fighters into israel and around gaza. this is an underground city if what's reported is correct and we have no reason to believe it isn't. israel has great human intelligence and understanding of a lot of these tunnels. it is hundreds of miles of command and control facilities under the city many of which they've already found. this is just the tip of the iceberg. finding every aspect of those

webs is nearly impossible unless you control the ground eventually above, which israel is trying to do right now. i pray for these hostages. i pray that the americans, everyone there, that this pressure campaign by israel puts hamas in such a tenuous situation that they have to make a massive trade in order to save their hides or buy some time and that those hostages come out. israel can't gravel on hamas's terms. they need to bring hamas to their knees and force them to a moment when the hostages are given up. i pray that strategy works. one of the variables in all this that are difficult to call can you indicate. >> harris: 100%. i will ask you to stand by and be on the other side of a report coming up. i would love to talk with you about this. let's go to alex hogan who is on the ground in northern israel. alex. >> we have heard sirens across the country today and at least

one person wounded in the last several hours in tel aviv, central israel. in the north we have continued to see air strikes coming from lebanon and hezbollah. this was the scene earlier today. we could see some of the smoke rising on the hillside. the border of israel and lebanon. hezbollah launched anti-tank missiles in northern israel. israeli fighter jets quickly responded. last night the idf released this footage from a hospital basement where it appears some hostages were being held and also released footage of what it says is a cache of weapons they found there. the idf continuing to press forward saying in the last day it took over the parliamentary building in gaza city raising the israeli flag there. with major protests taking place demanding a cease-fire, those pressures are really being felt here on the ground.

israeli foreign minister cohen made a statement that the military here probably only has about 2 to 3 weeks before it gives in to international pressure. those comments did not go over well in israel. he took his statement back. we heard from netanyahu saying once hamas is defeated israel will control the security for an indefinite period of time. we talked with an aid to the former prime minister who argues that there is a lot of demand internationally but no suggestions about what should happen. >> nobody wants to rule gaza as long as hamas is still standing on its feet. i don't think we have limitless time in terms of international support. i do think that the eventually there will be a pressure for a cease-fire. >> meanwhile for now as the idf continues to press forward in northern gaza it has taken control of a hamas control center as well as the police

headquarters there. >> harris: great information there. great reporting as always. stay safe. i want to bring back pete hegseth. we just watched together. i saw it in reuters and alex is talking about it as well. apparently conversation around, wouldn't want to call it a negotiation at this point. hamas could release 70 hostages for a five-day cease-fire. that's not all of the hostages that we know of and we don't know how many would be americans. what do you think about it? >> we know that's been the parameters of what hamas has been bargaining from the beginning. how many people for how much time? how many people for how much time? at the beginning it was we want to release two for a day pause. 70 to 5 days. the ratio is getting better for the israelis. >> harris: what does that tell you? >> it tells me is they aren't in control of gaza and they know the israeli army is surrounding them and they know first of all

they have human shields in the hospital and now hostage shields. three trying to up the antti of the amount of time but leverage is going down. israel has to press hard enough to where they get all the hostages or close to all of them for whatever period of time but doesn't give enough time that hamas leadership and others are able to flee with a pause. the destruction of hamas is the goal. they'll use the pause for their own military means. that's the impossible calculation here. >> harris: the possibility of being able to run away fast enough from the hostage taking killers to see freedom. they might let them go. would they shoot them in the back as they run away? there is so much to calculate in all this. they are basically losing leverage in negotiating against themselves. it can go two ways. they can continue to do that and israel makes ground against them

or for the hostages or they implode. >> you cannot underestimate the amount of leverage that iran has in this equation. what is iran telling hamas to do. do they want them to execute the prisoners unwills they can't get a certain amount of leverage. hamas wants a wider war. that's why when -- >> harris: that might be iran talking. >> that might be. you can make too much of what netanyahu said. if we don't beat them. where that is true is that if iran gets a nuclear bomb, this is not just israel's problem. it's our problem. israel needs to do what it can to bring iran to its knees. >> harris: we have rocket fire now on the israel/gaza border. can you see this? there are a number of flashes, a flair sent up and trey yengst and mike tobin have said when the flares go up they try to decide or determine who is firing on them so they light up

the area where some of the firing is coming from. let's just stop talking for a second and can we listen? [explosions] >> harris: this is the hour. of course, we're daylight savings time. it is darker now during this hour. but this is the hour each day where darkness does begin to fall. it has already fallen now. they don't observe daylight savings time like the rest of the world. but what this means is that we'll continue at this hour as the war goes on to see more and more of this. pete, they are hitting them hard. >> absolutely they are. and, you know, at this point much of gaza is dark because of the responsibility of hamas. they have created this war, deprived basic necessities of their people. brought war onto the gaza strip

and israel is waging that war with planes and munitions to see through the darkness and hit the targets and identify fighters in the darkness. that darkness gives the advantage of the israelis. you've noticed there hasn't been as much rocket fire coming out of gaza thank god into the israeli population in the last couple of weeks and days because their capabilities have been diminished. they are in panic mode. as a result, israel can control the night in ways that are advantageous militarily for them protecting the infantry troops as best they can going through civilian populations and trying to hit military targets as well. >> harris: control the night. those are very specific words that you've chosen. there will never be necessarily an element of surprise in the scenario because everyone knows they are surrounded at this point, hamas terrorists. the nightfall is really where they hit those targets with more

efficiency is what i have heard you and others say. >> no doubt. anything moving at night is an enemy combatant. targets you've identified throughout the day as you watched movements of troops and equipment become targets at night. and ultimately you can pre-position ground troops with night vision devices and others that hamas will have some of that supplied by iran, no doubt. israel will have the overwhelming advantage of the ability to see at night and a lot happens while our cameras can't see it for the good guys trying to take out hamas in the gaza strip. >> harris: our reporter alex hogan got us to start talking about hamas and some talks. you mentioned qatar might be from the beginning you said has kind of been trying to figure out where hamas would be releasing hostages for what, now they say maybe release 70 hostages for maybe a five-day

cease-fire. but when you look at controlling the night by the idf, it is pretty hard to even imagine that five days or any amount of time will be enough for hamas to do what it thinks it needs to do to win a war. does that make them more desperate? >> that's a fair point, harris, a very fair point. qatar is housing the leadership of hamas. they are not fair arbiters here. you are dealing with double players. but that's the thought and that will be a discussion inside israel. they've been so degraded in hamas do we take that moment to get the hostages out, take that pause and continue our offensive? that's the kind of decision that leadership has to make. >> harris: pete hegseth, thank you so much as always in "focus" bringing us your experience as a former warrior yourself. we appreciate it. thank you. a lot going on. as it relates to what is

happening in the middle east, so much that our own nation is going through right now. anti-israel and hate, anti-semitism, hate of jews. it is exploding across america and around the globe. you know what you are looking at right now? our nation's capital. the national mall. look, capitol hill on the left side of your screen. tens of thousands of people are on israel's side, too. and they say enough. they are gathering in washington to show support for the israelis, for jewish americans and jews all over the world and there are very real security concerns. we'll take you there. plus we love to hear them on "the faulkner focus." voters' voices and today our second -- we'll continue to do this, our second gop presidential candidate stops by. we're all on set together.

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seen roll across the country against jewish americans, israelis and jews around the world. security today is front and center. the mayor has called up the national guard and department of homeland security is a top level security event. it is both a show of support for israel and their fight against the hamas terrorists and a push against anti-semitism as it flows particularly among our college campuses here in the u.s. the ceo of the israeli/american council with this. >> all of us need to be marching against anti-semitism because jew hatred is a barometer for societal decay and evil of all kinds. what we're seeing in the world today is shocking. >> harris: former state department official under president obama and top hillary clinton advisor wrote this for fox quote, it's hard to explain how unnerved american jews are right now.

our sense of security has given way to not understanding how we didn't realize so much anti-semitism was right below the surface and where it is lurking. our sense of security was grounded in knowing friend from foe. that has been upended. i find myself coming back to two words never before part of my emotional range. i'm scared. mark meredith live from washington. mark. >> harris, good morning to you. you are right. tens of thousands have people have made their way to the national mall. a sea of blue and white israeli flags with the star of david. you see people ready to show their support for israel. jewish americans joined by others sympathetic to what they have gone through over the last month and heard so much for the organizers it was all about getting lawmakers attention. the reason they chose to do the rally today, congress would be in session and they wanted the people's representative to know how jewish americans were feeling in this country today.

among those we'll hear from on the stage later today will be the speaker of the house as well as the democratic congressional leadership. high profile senators, those who have been speaking out quite a bit since the attack by hamas early last month. as you mentioned, harris, security is certainly tight given the crowd that we're seeing. an event like this takes weeks or months or years to prepare. organizers only had a matter of days. they've controlled this area along the national mall. a lot of barricades and people going through security. they are adamant this will be just the beginning of a much larger movement here in this country. >> we are activating the tens of thousands of people here to communicate to their members of congress and the white house, to communicate to the news media and communicate to their fellow americans that they stand with israel, that they stand against anti-semitism and they demand the immediate release of the hostages. >> even some of the families

that are representing those americans who are still missing still being held hostage will be up on the stage behind me later on today to tell their personal story that we've heard so much of. they want to make sure the pressure remains on the administration and other countries to help bring these people home. out here so far seeing signs that say boston strong for israel. miami residents for israel. quite telling you have people coming from all over the country coming out here to show their support. harris. >> harris: mark, we had on a rabbi yesterday who was telling me all about the words that he would speak both to congress today, because he is there, and also on the national mall what has his hopes were. the leadership among the clergy in the jewish faith are out there in very high numbers today. >> they absolutely are. i also asked them because they are out here in washington will we hear from the white house? president biden was invited to

this but leaving for san francisco in the next few minutes. because it was a last-minute event we were told they were not able to get the president here. the white house very mindful this is happening and want to see the united front coming from all their representatives regardless of party. harris. >> harris: mark meredith, thank you very much. time to hear the voters' voices. with us today we'll start on the far left here and we'll start on the bottom today going with orna. she is from new jersey and says she is a republican. i know your top issues are the economy, taxes, and free market. among other things today. we'll talk about that march as well. kimberly is with us as well, philadelphia. progressive. democrat, she says. and the economy is important to you, too. these are things that bring everybody together. democracy and gun violence. and then tim is here from new york. he is a republican and actually one of the youngest among us today, i would say, 20 years

old. this will be your first presidential time to vote. you would have been 16 last time. >> yes, my first time voting in the presidential election. this is the big one. >> harris: economy still first on your list, border something that's important to you as well. david in the back row, hello. feel free to wave, by the way. to the audience or to the ambassador. also from new jersey republican economy number one, border, education, and stephanie in the middle there in the back row four children under the age of eight so the economy is important to you, i would imagine, but israel, terrorism and preventing world war iii are number one on your list. alexandria, we welcome you as well from new york. independent but right leaning. economy first on your list as well. david, i will start with you. what question would you like to ask the ambassador with regard to what we're facing right now

in the world? israel/hamas war, anti-semitism. your pick. >> the question i would have for you is how do we keep up our support for israel and balance the calls for humanitarian crisis in gaza? >> it is interesting. everybody sees -- i have seen this play out before. everybody supports israel when she is hit but then they all change their tune when she hits back. if this had happened to america. if we had lost 1200 people, if we had seen the brutality we would be just as upset as israel is. this should be as personal for america as it is for israel. 33 americans were murdered. they have american hostages right now. so we should be up in arms. the issue has been what do we do with gaza? how do we save people who aren't hamas and who don't mean harm and how do we make sure we eliminate hamas in the same

aspect? you have to separate civilians from terrorists. that's what civilized countries do. it's what america and israel does, that's what we should do. we aren't hamas and not russia. what makes this really difficult is i've been in those tunnels. they are very sophisticated and can hold mountains of equipment, ammunition and i promise you that's probably where the hostages are. it is like a city underneath a city. they are all intertwined and most of those where they had their major hubs are under hospitals and schools, under playgrounds and that's the problem. this is surgical. what i know is israel values life. hamas does not. so the best thing we can do for the palestinians there in gaza is to get rid of hamas because they don't need to live under this terrorist rule, either. >> harris: stephanie, i will come to you. your thoughts on the anti-semitism first of all i'm

eager to hear from you and your question for the ambassador. >> yeah, i think there is so much to say about the anti-semitism that we're seeing around the world right now. every other war that happens not on american soil you don't see an uprising of hateful, violent voices against the perpetrators of the war or the victims of the war. in this instance, it is just an excuse and a catalyst for so many people to show their true hate and there are no consequences for that. we're seeing it in our streets, in our college campuses, schools as young as pre-k teachers indoctrinateing students and parents on this hate. we see it in offices. it is trending. it is trending on social media. it is in our streets. private school kids in new york city are drawing swastikas on buildings. it is everywhere. i think that leads to one of my

questions, which is, is there a limit in your opinion to free speech in we all know you can't go into an airport and shout bomb and yet right now you can chant on college campuses to kill all the jews or we have a poster that says keep our streets clean which is exactly nazi propaganda. what are the limits what init cites violence against people? >> we are blessed because of free speech. the difference is when you are pushing genocide. that's what this is. when you support hamas, you are basically saying that you support that israel shouldn't exist, that you support that the jewish people shouldn't exist. so what i have said if you look on the college campuses and you see what's happening, if that were the kkk doing that, every college president would be up in arms. what we need to remind americans is anti-semitism is no different

than racism. they are both evil. we don't want to have that happen. let's go to the core of this. it was anti-semitism was always bubbling underneath the surface but now we're seeing this massive exaggeration of it. but no one is talking about why. the truth is, if you look at social media, the misinformation and the dramatic sides of social media are instigating this. it is being pushed by russia, china, iran and north korea. and why when i get into office the first thing we have to do social media companies have to show america their algorithms. let us see why they're pushing what they're pushing. every person on social media should be verified by their name. when you do that people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the russian bots and

china and iranian bots. when people know their name is next to what they say. they know their pastor and family member will see it, it will help our kids and our country. >> harris: i want for us to take a look at the anti-semitism hearing going on. let's watch this. >> students are being assaulted. students are being threatened. there is vandalism. harassment of all sorts. not just on a few hot spot campuses but all over the country. >> universities have allowed jewish hatred to run rampant. i ask myself how many people want me dead? >> we never imagined not five year ago or one year ago sitting here in a committee room because of the kind of vile and terrible anti-semitism which is being directed at us on campuses. >> harris: that was just this morning. it is ongoing today and wanted to show everybody this topic is

happening on capitol hill. ambassador has said what she would do. i want to come to you, kimberly on this issue. you have a question that has to do with military spending for the ambassador. >> i think i continue to be concerned with how we are being really -- in my view taken problematic positions which humanitarian crisis we attend to and hold the balance of that. how many people in the country are struggling under poverty and so even when i think about the state of the economy i think about how many people are really just being destroyed, city of philadelphia, 25% of the people live under $13,000 a year. how are we deciding which are going to be our fights and which people to stand with? how and why are we choosing who we align with? which lives matters in your view and how do we hold all of human

life in its total in the balance? >> that's a great question. first of all you hear a lot of people talk about needs pro-hamas rallies the occupation. what about the occupation and the fact that this is happening? there is not a single israeli in gaza. there is not a single jewish person in gaza. is there occupation? absolutely. hamas is the one doing the occupation, the ones putting women and children out there to have killed before they get killed. it is a brutal situation. and if we care about them and i have said this for a long time, we want them to have a better life. we have to eliminate hamas because they are putting them in danger. then the second thing you brought up is how do we take care of americans here? rah good point. how do we go towards spending and make sure we take care of americans? i will tell you when i was at the united nations and they did the vote that condemned america for moving the embassy from tel

aviv for jerusalem i went to my staff and said i want you to get a book and list all 193 countries. i want the second column to be the percentage of times they voted with the u.s. and against the u.s. i want the third column to be how much foreign aid we give them? my point was not that i wanted to go and give foreign aid based on a percentage vote but last year congress gave $50 billion in foreign aid. you know who they gave it to? iraq that harbors terrorists and tried to kill our soldiers. zimbabwe, the most anti-american african country there is. belarus holding hands with russia as they invade ukraine. we gave money to cuba putting a spy center with china off our shores. and the one that makes me sick to my stomach we gave money to china. when i'm president we won't give money to countries that hate america. we focus on making sure we're strategic in what we do and always thoughtful in helping the

countries that want to partner with us and share our values. >> bill: i want to get to tim now. i know your question specifically is about small businesses. i want to shift topic here a little bit and see if you have something you would like to ask about the border? >> yes. ambassador haley, my question is what can we do to secure the southern border? we see new york city there are so many migrants coming in and the -- we don't know where to house them. the mayor and governor both democrats said we're in a crisis. what can we do to insure immigrants can come her legally, start families and fulfill the american dream but not burden taxpayers and keep people safe? >> great question. we have had 1,000 people that we know of come from iran, lebanon and yemen. it doesn't count afghanistan. it only takes one. it only takes one for us to have a 9/11 moment. we have to secure the border. it is the number one national security threat that affects us today. the way we do that is first of

all you defund sanctuary cities. when you defund sanctuary cities they won't go and we won't have all of this happening around the country. secondly let's put 25,000 border patrol and ice agents on the ground and let them do their job. let's go back to the remain in mexico policy so that everybody processes in mexico and never get here in the first place. instead of catch and release let's go to catch and deport. we have to stop where that is coming from. america right now is acting like it's september 10th. we better get our act together and remember what it felt like on september 12th because it only takes one for us to have a terrorist moment. >> harris: another shift in topic here. alex alexandria, what do you think is so critically important right now about education, the system? you want to know about pathways to that. ask your question. >> as a college student and former trustee on the board of

the largest public institution in the country, education is at the heart and soul of politics for me. i am really interested in how you think we can help revitalize our education system and make sure to strengthen workforce development pathways. a lot of students are concerned once they graduate what they will do afterwards. the rising cost of living and everything that has to do with the economy. i would love to hear your opinion on that. >> that's at the heart of our future is education. right now i'll tell you 29% of eighth graders in our country are not proficient in reading. 26% of eighth graders are not proficient in math. we don't do something about this, we'll be in a world of hurt ten years from now. any child that can't read by the third grade is four times less likely to graduate high school. in south carolina what we did is started holding kids back. brought in parents, did reading remediation programs and set them up for success. we have to do that all over this country.

no parent should ever wonder what is being said or taught to their child in the classroom. we need complete transparency in the classroom. as parents we have one job, one job to get our kids right. every parent deserves to be able to pick the school for their child. i know every child deserves a good education regardless of where they are born and raised. no child should be mandated based on a zip code. then let's start focusing on building things in america but let's go and make sure we have vocational classes back in high schools. teach our kids how to build the things we want to make so we look at the future. i had apprenticeships all over south carolina. we taught our kids to build the things we're making. we need to focus on that. to me we have to modernize our education system for the jobs of the future. it is not the jobs we've had in the past. we need to get our kids ready on manufacturing, on artificial intelligence, on cyber, on space, but you can only do that if you start with them reading

in elementary school, start training them in high school on skills and make sure our technical colleges are ready to put them in jobs immediately. >> harris: that last part is really critical. as we go into artificial intelligence and quantum computing and all that the greatest concern is so many jobs go away and what will young people step into and what will the choices be? preparing for that will be critical. i don't think we turn into a land of robots but of course i don't think that. i have teenage daughters. i want them to rule the robots. what are the jobs going to look like? >> when i came in as governor off south carolina we had 11% unemployment. when the textiles went overseas so did our jobs. now we build planes, cars and tires. we made sure our people got reskilled for the jobs that we brought in so that they were ready. we need to make sure we look what are the needs of the jobs and let's train them for it.

>> harris: i want to come to you and ask your question to the ambassador. >> going back to higher education you just touched some of it. it seems like in the past maybe decade or so, our higher education institutions, once very prestigious became a place of political activism and intolerance. how do you think a president could bring back the american academia to be a place of research, of science, education and critical thinking? >> who are we producing out of our schools. are they getting jobs? you have to make that connection. a student doesn't need to run up all this debt and be unemployed. colleges owe it to our students to make sure they are connecting them. they don't get to just educate. they have to connect it. there is too much political activism in our college

campuses. you listen to the kids. i have seen them have to write papers they don't believe it just to get an a. colleges are supposed to teach kids how to think, not what to think. we need to clean it out and prepare based on skills, not ideology. that's the problem. professors started teaching ideology. it is not what you are supposed to be teaching. they are supposed to be teaching skill paths so they can get a job in the future. >> harris: real quickly. kimberly, your question, should the federal wage be higher than $7.25, your focus was on poverty. >> if we focus on poverty instead of focusing on wages, let's focus on training. in south carolina we had thousands of people out of work. what i did was i took those people and went to our businesses and said if you will take this person and train them, i will pay for them for x number of weeks and you decide if you

want to hire them or not. we moved 35,000 people from welfare to work because a lot of people don't know where to get the training. a lot of businesses don't know how to find people. the second thing is we went into our prison systems and i wanted to know what happens to them when they went in and what happened when they were there and what happened when they got out? we put in computer classes and resume training. taught them financial planning. we taught them family skills. gave them faith-based training if they wanted it. we put equipment behind the fence. now in south carolina, when someone leaves the fence, they have a job to go to the next day. we have the lowest repet rate in the country. rather than focus on wages, what i want to focus is let's train them so they can really -- we need to lift up everybody. not just a select few. let's get them the training and connect them to the good jobs they can get. when you get a person a job you take care of family. we have a lot of families to take care of but we have to do

our part to make sure we get them to that place. >> harris: you are representing the voters across america with your wide questions and your different political views and all of that. we had some independents, some leaning this way and that way. i want to say thank you so very much for the questions that you've asked today and for being with me in studio today. ambassador haley, what a pleasure to watch this process. you are meeting the voters. >> we have a country to save. with them we'll get it done. >> harris: we are just now getting photographs of the scandal that happened at the white house. remember when they found cocaine in the storage locker area over the summer? 500 suspects we were told. how many people does the president know potentially who would walk into 1600 pennsylvania avenue carrying coke? 500 suspects? those images and whether we'll ever get any answers. and watching these images live on the national mall, the march

for israel is underway. tens of thousands of people turning out to show their support for our closest ally in the middle east and to protest terrorism and anti-semitism. stay close.

>> harris: will we ever know who did it? well, now at least we have our first look at that bag of cocaine discovered at the white house over the summer. they took out the ruler to see what size bag it was. the daily mail got these special pictures after filing a freedom of information request. yeah, you got to really beg if you want to get the facts from the white house, apparently. the secret service wrapped up its investigation in less than two weeks without finding a culprit. just we're done. they did manage to narrow down a list of suspects to a mere 500 people. rich edson is live for us in washington, d.c. so we have a picture of the coke, rich. >> we do, harris, thanks to the freedom of information act a law promoting government transparency giving the american public access to government's records. daily mail secured these photos.

a bag of coke in a locker at the white house. authorities found it near the white house west executive entrance sunday, july 2nd. evacuated the building and tested the substance. three days after finding the baggy secret service told fox news the substance was cocaine. they discovered it in an area guests and staff used. secret service launched an investigation and closed it. president biden and hunter were at camp david when secret service found the cocaine. white house criticized questions over any connection. >> the biden family was not here. they were not here. they were at camp david. they were not here friday, saturday, sunday, they were not even here monday. they came back on tuesday. so to ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible and -- and i will just leave it there. >> secret service said the f.b.i. lab could not determine fingerprints or dna on the bag.

>> harris: rich edson, thank you very much. the house is set to vote on speaker mike johnson's stopgap spending bill this afternoon. the government will shut down this weekend if congress doesn't pass the plan. this is the first major test for johnson since he won the gavel a month ago. many republicans say they are against that bill because it does not include spending cuts. johnson almost certainly will need democratic votes to get through. chad pergram live on capitol hill for us. chad, i don't know, school me. is it too far from what kevin mccarthy was trying to do? he would need democratic votes as well. >> absolutely. it's essentially the same approach. nothing is settled until the house passes the bill. it is about the math. a blend of democrats and republicans is necessary to pass this interim bill. it needs 2/3. johnson wanted to prep something to get bipartisan buy-in with a three-seat majority. >> we are fighting but you have

to be wise choosing the fights. you have to fight a fight you can win. i can't change and turn an aircraft carrier overnight. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer endorsed the bill yesterday. most democrats are pleased that the bill temporarily renews democratic spending priorities. >> we've made clear that this will be no spending cuts. we've made clear there should be no poisonous political partisan policy provisions. those are two important factors in our evaluation process. >> the bill also needs 60 votes to overcome a senate filibuster. the race is on before funding expires early saturday morning. >> harris: oh my goodness. it would include tsa workers, people who work at airports before the busiest travel time of the season so far, wow. >> that's part of the pressure.

>> harris: chad, thank you. the fifth annual patriot awards in nashville two days away. pete hegseth is hosting this thursday november 16th. i will have a live audience for "the faulkner focus" at the historic grand ole opry house. please come with me. please be there, come be with me, all the thing because you will do activations, book signings, go to the big show for one ticket. see it up on your website, log onto fox nation.com/patriot awards on your device and get your tickets now. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." wow, what a fun hour. what an important hour as we saw so much with pete hegseth and the war on ground in gaza this hour as well. thank you for being there for all of it. "outnumbered" after the break.

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