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i picked two minutes. do you want to roll it? and you picked a minute and a half, and i clocked it at a minute 28. you are a winner again. perino. >> dana: you are going with me and not a.p.? >> bill: no, you won. you came the closest. >> dana: i thought reba mcentire was amazing. she is good in person and on tv. >> she was really good. post malone was great. soulful sound coming from him to start the game. they were both terrific. great choices. a great show. >> dana: have a salve trip. harris, congratulations to you. >> harris: i got on my chiefs red. thank you, dana. fox news alert now. how do you convince an entire nation you are not too old to
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lead as commander-in-chief if poll after poll shows the majority of americans do not believe you? president biden slipping deeper into the public image and political hole left by a special counsel report that supercharged concerns about his age and ability to run the country. now we're watching team biden function in full defense mode. that report called biden an elderly man with a poor memory. in fact, it appears that's why the special counsel did not indict him. since also, in fact, the report revealed joe biden willingly retained classified and some top secret documents. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." can he lead through all of this? that's the question. on the short list of things to lead through. impeachment inquiry, re-election campaign amid dismal polling,
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two foreign wars, fending off our military in the middle east as iran's proxies pick us off like ducks in a pond. all as the president can't seem to get things straight. lawmakers say his memory struggles open the door to even greater threats. >> at the end of the day, it is incumbent upon joe biden to present himself before the american people and demonstrate his faculties. this is not a political point. this is serious business. if the commander me chief doesn't even when he left the vice presidency how will he be able to make the tactical decisions at a moment's notice that they need for their lives to be protected? >> harris: he makes excellent points considering also that the president's schedule is more packed than ever. meetings with three foreign leaders in the next four days. the king of jordan at the white house today. yesterday the president spoke by phone with israeli prime
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minister netanyahu and their first chat since biden last week called netanyahu's campaign against hamas terrorists over the top. that was the speech where he struggled to remember exactly who the president of egypt was unfortunately. the prime minister with this response before the call. >> i don't know what he meant by that but i can tell you where we are. we were attacked in the worst attack on jewish people since the holocaust. that october 7th massacre was equivalent to 20 9/11s in one day. what would america's response be? at least as strong as israel and many americans tell me we would have flattened them and turned them to dust. >> harris: what is our relationship with israel with joe biden in office now with what he is saying? mike mccaul, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. let's first go to fox business's edward lawrence who is outside
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the white house. >> president joe biden tried to divert attention from his age blaming companies for inflation again and having those conversations with the world leaders. he is trying to overcome poll numbers with well-scripted moments that make the president look sharp. abc news poll shows 86% of americans think the president is too old for a second term. more concerning for him 73% of democrats in that poll say the president is too old. 91% of republicans. these are large numbers. democrats brushing off the special counsel report which used terms elderly, man with poor memory, diminished faculty and advancing age. >> nothing to do with his job. the president was very angry about it. a lot of people are angry in washington but it is part of the full blown offensive against joe biden who right now is the leader of the democratic forces
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not just in america but around the world. >> i have been around him for eight years in the white house in and around the oval office. so i've seen a dramatic change. if you go back and look at the time when he was vice president and compare it to now it is amazing at how much he has deteriorated. >> there is a lot of pushback inside the white house talking about the stamina the president has, the energy he has as they say they try to keep up with his schedule. we'll see if the president takes questions when he holds his meeting with the king of jordan today. >> harris: thank you very much. republican congressman michael mccaul of the great state of texas chair of the foreign affairs committee and homeland security committee. let's talk about -- i will ask my team -- can we put the numbers back up? 86% of all voters, democrats,
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independents included. biden is too old for another term. your reaction to these numbers. >> not surprising. the fact that the special counsel confirms everyone's suspicious out there and the poll numbers confirm this. the question is when i read the special counsel report, the idea that he is mentally unfit to stand trial begs the question, is he mentally unfit to be president of the united states? the commander-in-chief? from my perch on the foreign affairs committee i look at our foreign adversaries and look at iran and russia and china and, you know, when you look at the israel situation, iran respects our military might but they question the political will of this president as he projects weakness, not strength. projects mentally unfit states of mind. i think this really calls into question our national security. >> harris: i want to get to
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this. president biden tries to bounce back from the hur report, fears of weakness on the world stage. this is some commentary here. defense secretary lloyd austin is back in the hospital. that's a full report. the pentagon released this statement yesterday secretary austin was transported by his security detail to walter reed medical center to be seen for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue. everyone has been notified. i should say this time. we know what has led up to this point. days of secrecy with this secretary of defense. this comes after major criticism surrounding his secretive hospitalization. your take on it. maybe there are things you can tell us about his fill-in, his deputy, to make the world feel better. we're under attack like never before in the middle east and two wars going on that we have to be at least monitoring. >> nobody likes to see a
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president who is in almost a dementia state of mind or secretary of defense incapacitated in the hospital because he has a major bladder infection from prostate surgery. the fact is the secretary of defense is incapacitated and according to the special counsel, we have a commander-in-chief that is essentially incapacitated. what kind of message does that send to our foreign adversaries in a very dangerous time? i cannot stress to you the importance that the world is on fire right now. if we're not projecting strength but rather weakness, it only invites aggression and conflict and war and precisely what we're seeing right now. >> harris: i will reask. you covered a lot there. double back on kathleen hicks. i know people are given jobs for their hopefully their merits and resumes. what can you tell us? this is a whole lot and we
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haven't heard from her. she wasn't the first person they notified when he was hospitalized the first time. >> the question is, did the secretary of defense tell his staff not to talk about this or did kathleen hicks not do her job? and so there are many in the administration trying to throw the chief of staff under the bus. and others saying secretary of defense told the staff not to talk about it. it was very personal around christmas holidays. we don't have all the facts. but we will. it is just too important. >> harris: you think we will. >> well, i know the armed services committee is having hearings on this to get to the bottom of this. but we need to know. it's inexcusable for the secretary of defense to have an operation to not notify the president of the united states. especially right now. >> harris: that was december. this time we're notified he has gone into critical care unit.
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in fact, at walter reed. we'll follow it. with our hearts we don't want anybody to be in harm's way but if the rest of the country is depending on these people, we need to know what's happening and who is really in charge. there is also the border crisis. biden's border crisis one week after a failed vote homeland security secretary mayorkas faces another house impeachment attempt tomorrow. he is accused of willfully refusing to follow our nation's immigration laws. steve scalise will be back on capitol hill for the first time this year after blood cancer treatment. that could tip the scales this time. the secretary defending himself and the administration over the crisis this weekend. >> more migrants have crossed the border illegally last year than ever became. asylum cases backlog has trimmed by 2019. why do you deserve to keep your job? >> the data you cite is a powerful example of why we need legislation to fix what everyone
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agrees is a broken immigration system. it is a crisis and we don't bear responsibility for a broken system and doing a tremendous amount within that broken system, but fundamentally congress is the only one who can fix it. >> harris: i have people coming up asking me in the past few days why can't you fire this man? why didn't the republicans get it done? why didn't you? >> we are going to on tuesday. steve scalise is coming back, floor manager in the trial. but this is classic mayorkas. he didn't answer that question. what he said -- he didn't say here is how to fix the border. he talks about immigration reform. two different subject matter areas. >> harris: absolutely. >> so he is not addressing what the president could do today to go back to the policies that worked under the trump administration by executive order. problem is the president wants congress to tell him how to do
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it for political cover rather than do it himself. he could do it today. we passed hr2 that went to the senate. the fact is this man is the architect of destruction and he has caused the chaos knowingly, not -- really by design, not by accident. >> harris: how long did hr2 go to the senate so we keep track? >> months ago. months ago. >> harris: summer, right? >> they have yet to act on it. they couldn't pass a border bill. remain in mexico is a 30-year old statute on the books. 30 years old. it is not like congress has to pass a bunch of new laws. the president could change this today if he wanted to. >> harris: if you could flip the switch on donald trump's policies when he was president, then you can flip them back for the better of the country. all right. we'll be monitoring to see what happens. you say it will happen in the house that you will impeach mayorkas and we'll follow every
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moment. glad to have you in "focus." thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: attacks on police in new york city have been grabbing national attention. i wonder what the world looks at when it looks at this place? what are they thinking? turns out all these crimes are happening in record numbers now and that's interesting. it is -- is it a coincidence that it comes as liberal bail policies let criminals walk the streets flooded with more and more illegal immigrants? just a coincidence? plus. >> perhaps unrwa has been complicit. hard to imagine that they were not somehow working with hamas. someone has explaining to do. >> harris: israel is saying the united nations aid agency sits on top of a hamas command tunnel. we were there as the idf took
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>> harris: fox news journalists are embedded with the israeli defense force with a look at the hamas tunnel network. look what they just discovered up under the headquarters of unrwa. the agency helping the people there during wartime through the u.n. right underneath their headquarters is what he see here. those are tunnels by hamas. easy access to unrwa. but that refugee agency is defending its employees saying they didn't know anything about the tunnels beneath their
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headquarters but would support an investigation. there are a lot of questions about how no one knew that the tunnels were underneath the united nations palestinian refugee agency's headquarters. just last week a report revealed, quote, in 2014 part of the parking lot at the unrwa headquarters began sinking. likely from a hamas tunnel dug beneath. no one talked about what was causing the collapse. a former unrwa official said but, everyone knew. republican congressman chris smith of new jersey with this. >> right below the headquarters of unrwa in gaza strip was a command and control facility, huge for hamas. hamas and unrwa, there is no distinction between the two. and it's about time policymakers in the u.s. and around the world
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recognize that. >> harris: "wall street journal" editorial board, hamas was right under unrwa's nose. they looked the other way keeping gaza safe for hamas. this only adds to the scroti northeast agency after israel provided evidence that 12 unrwa employees actually took part in the october 7th massacre and 1200 of them have links to hamas or islamic jihad. fox news contributor steve hilton. this is unbelievable that no one spoke about this until now. >> exactly. more and more is coming out that reveals this absolutely structural anti-semitism that is built into the united nations more broadly. specifically unrwa. we knew of the participation of their employees in the atrocities and the links to hamas. also the celebrations. these are people who work for
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unrwa. we have their messages celebrating the slaughter of israelis. actually there is a broader point here. not just unrwa. that is the most extreme manifestation of this structural anti-semitism within the united nations. you look at their votes over the years. here in america the u.n. headquarters. they are structurely anti-israel and honestly it is high time. we didn't just stop funding unrwa but the united states itself. there may be some useful humanitarian work it does. we can fund that separately and continue. we should defund the united nations which is now totally captured ideologically by the far left. >> harris: if we will fund them they have to move their headquarters. there are changes that have to be made to vet them before we fund them. a whole lot of steps need to happen now. everybody wants to help people who are in trouble but not to destruction of everything around
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it. headquarters over hamas. relocate. so here is a question for you. if what you are saying is predicated on people knew, how did we get to the point people are pushing back of course they'll push back on israel going after hamas. there are some secrets down there. if it weren't for hamas opening up the tunnels and looking for hostages and doing what it needs to do, then they can't get to hamas and then those people the world doesn't have to be responsible. the world meaning those other arab nations. they can continue to look the other way. >> that's why it's so important that we do continue and do continue to support what's going on here. it is revealing how rotten the whole thing has been. israel, remember, has been living with this for year after year after year. they have been saying this and now the world is seeing it. that's why it is incredibly important. in a way the harder that it gets
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for israel, the more important it is that we stand solidly with them. >> harris: that's why it was unbelievable the president riffed what israel is doing is over the top without the context and this had to have been in the national advisory that the president gets. this was known last week far before the public would have known it, i would imagine. we'll move to this. back at home attacks on new york city police officers have skyrocketed in recent years, we know this. and the nypd is still crunching the numbers but it projects that for 2023, there will be more than 5,400 police officers injured in attacks. that number is rising steadily and has been for the past few years. the police union president told the "new york post" city leaders like far left district attorney alvin bragg have built a dangerous environment for years. it is not going to get better until those who attack police
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officers are consistently prosecuted and kept in jail. the chaos drawing national attention after a 15-year-old teenager illegally here was charged as an adult for opening fire on officers trying to arrest him. and a group of people not american citizens also potentially here illegally, we have to wait for the case to go through, viciously beat those two officers in times square. so now what we're hoping is there is justice here and we're careful with this and that. why can't they just deport these people? >> exactly. you do this to one of our police officers and you are out of the country. every reasonable person would support that. there are two parts to this, harris. there is the holding people accountable for the crime that is so fundamentally -- you do not assault the people who keep us safe.
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there is that part of it. we also need to look at the culture that has led up to this. it isn't just illegal immigrants who are participating in these attacks. it is a wide range of people and it all comes from the far left ideology defund the police, which has demoralized police, causes disrespect for the police. the democratic party has led that disrespect for the police. that's part of the story, too. >> harris: if you want to know before the case even happens what the d.a. said about the seven that they were still looking for. they think they have rounded most everybody up from that attack and they will be facing indictments. he called them the most violent of the group. clearly they know a lot about these people. >> terrifying. >> harris: they needed to tell the public so we could look out. for trouble for fulton county d.a. fani willis. they are swimming in hot water.
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she is accused of -- we'll call it fudging the facts. old school it's a lie about the lover she hired to lead the election meddling case against former president donald trump. plus president biden's allies are going after the special counsel report that says biden's memory is failing badly. >> not what prosecutors do. shoddy work product and sad and below the belt and unnecessary. >> harris: so why aren't voters buying that? we know why. we see him. especially when the president says his own memory is fine and mixes up the leaders of mexico and egypt. former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree in "focus" next. [♪] did you know, there's a way to cut your dishwashing time by 50%? try dawn powerwash dish spray. it removes 99% of grease and grime in half the time. dawn powerwash has 3 cleaning boosters
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>> harris: fulton county georgia district torn fani willis is
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accused of misrepresenting the facts about her lover affair with prosecutor nathan wade. court documents claim a witness is willing to testify they began their affair two years before she actually hired him to lead georgia's trump election interference case. that's not what she said at first. now we know they were rolling for quite some time together. senior correspondent steve harrigan is in fulton county. why is this detail about when they started dating and her hiring him, why is that critical to what we're looking at? >> it is the key question about fani willis, she admitted she had a personal relationship with the prosecutor she hired, nathan wade. never prosecuted a felony. earned more than $7 hundred thousand on this case. the key question now is when did that personal relationship begin? fani willis said it began only after nathan wade was hired. the defense attorney basically
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says fani willis is lying. she says she has witnesses who will go on the stand on thursday and testify this relationship between the two began years before nathan wade was ever hired. >> so long as the relationship began after his appointment as a special prosecutor, there is very little claim to be made there was a financial benefit that yielded to her from the investigation and subsequent prosecution of these co-defendants. >> what's going to happen today is a hearing where fani willis will try to stay out of court. she wants the judge to corn the subpoenas. she doesn't want to get on the stand underneath on testify thursday when exactly this personal relationship began. harris. >> harris: steve harrigan. thank you very much. tom dupree, former deputy assistant attorney general. good to see you. both of these people involved have had floating relationship with the truth, if you will.
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how would you boil this case down and does it affect what donald trump is up against? >> well, good morning, harris. the short answer to your last question it definitely affects what donald trump is up against. this is a story that has been changing by the day and honestly getting worse and worse for fani willis by the day. the latest allegations her main defense to her decision to hire mr. wade may have been based on a falsehood that was submitted to the court. mr. wade put in an affidavit to the court where he talked about when their relationship began and said so under oath. it turns out that whole story was false. there will be very severe consequences for this if that's true. at a minimum it would involve disqualifying her and mr. wade from the case. other consequences if they lied to a judge. >> harris: what does it mean for the trump case? if you take the d.a. and person who had not a matching resume for what he was. he was a municipal court judge who handled family and traffic
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law, traffic tickets in his courtroom. by our research at fox had never been part of a felony ajudd indication. so this was not a guy you would match up for an election interference case. she chooses him. how quickly can you replace them? what does it do to trump's case? >> that's the thing. a bare minimum it would delay trump's case substantially. if you knock out two of the probably most knowledgeable involved people in this prosecution and say okay, we have to do a clean sweep and bring in new people. you might have to look at whether other members of the prosecution team have been tainted by what went on here. at a minimum you are talking delaying this trial until you can make a clean sweep and bring in an entirely new team that doesn't have the taint. >> harris: you mentioned there could be other things that come up. a lot of times where the boss is
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roaming around with one of the subordinates because it creates lawsuits around them. it could end some careers. we'll be there for every drop of tea. house republicans are pressing special counsel report hur to release transcripts of his interview with president joe biden. that 300 plus page report that he put out on biden was scathing. it talked about biden's poor memory and biden's personal counsel is now dodging questions. watch this. >> there were discussions underway. it is a classified document about what could or whether will be or when released. i can't add anything to that today. >> do you favor releasing them? >> that's a decision that takes place within the document. i'm the president's personal counsel. >> harris: biden allies on a media blitz to debunk the special counsel hur's findings and convince voters the president is really on top of
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things. i want you to see this. >> this is not what prosecutors do. shoddy work product. >> it is an attack that questioned the president's capacity. >> he is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused. >> he is completely mentally sharp. >> he is delivering results. >> small gaffes are a part of what all of us in public life do. >> harris: just discount secretary mayorkas. he lost track of 85,000 migrant children. we'll skip him. for the rest, your reaction. >> my reaction is if the president's lawyers thought that this transcript would exonerate biden and show he wasn't suffering from all these memory problems why aren't they willing to say release the transcripts? they know that if these transcripts are released they would confirm every word that special counsel hur wrote in his report. that's why they aren't willing to go on the record and call for the release of these transcripts. >> harris: in a couple of hours houston police are set to give an update on a shooting inside
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joel osteen's mega church yesterday. i want to thank my guest very much, tom dupree. look at this. two people were hurt, including a 5-year-old child. and we want to warn some of you this video could be disturbing. let's take a beat. okay. [gunshots] >> harris: it all started happening just before a spanish language service. the shooter was taken down quickly. what is the latest on this? >> the latest is they are serving a search warrant now and a briefing later on. context for what you are about to see. the cell phone video from the lobby outside where the shooting began. you will hear six shots, a brief pause and then another volley
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from off-duty officers who kill her. here we go. [shooting] >> maybe that was more like 12 shots. celebrity pastor joel osteen runs lakewood church and sees 40,000 on a typical sunday. a woman in her 30s accompanied by a 5-year-old walked in around 2:00 p.m. with a trench coat and got off several shots with a rifle before the officers took her out. >> they were getting in the elevators. they were shooting and they came in and came in. i stayed hidden down, right, all the way until the security came
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up. >> so the 5-year-old remains in critical condition. a 57-year-old man was also shot. he will recover. the shooter said she had a bomb. police didn't find it in her backpack or car. police offered no motive nor how the woman and child are related. >> we will stand strong. again, i want to commend those officers. she had a long gun and it could have been a lot worse. >> we know god is in control and we will pray for that little 5-year-old boy. there are forces of evil but the forces are for us, the forces of god are stronger than theirs. >> so nothing knew as of a few minutes from houston p.d. police briefing at 2:30 today. >> harris: thank you very much. those concerns about president biden seeming to be going beyond just mental fitness now. people are pointing to his
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>> harris: let's take a closer look at something i showed you earlier in the hour. the staggering poll on the president's age and mental fitness. 86% of people surveyed said he was too old for another term. look at the number of democrats who say that. 76%. independents 91% say that. the recent classified documents report has superchargeed people's concerns and the special counsel described the president as an elderly man with a poor memory. that line will stick. a former advisor to president clinton says this. >> look, i'm a biden supporter and i slept like a baby last night. i woke up every two hours crying and wet the bed. >> emperors new clothes stuff. he should have run on a firm promise he would be a one-term president. the only reason he is president is that he is not donald trump.
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if biden is such that he doesn't understand the best interests of his party and more importantly his country, then he has to be shown the door. period. >> harris: some headlines now. democrats fear no way to replace biden before election after brutal report on the president's memory. but harris, not me, the vice president, replacing him is realistic. and biden age problem rattles campaign. another describing it this way. hair on fire. democratic worries grow over claims about biden's memory lapses. even the "new york times" with an opinion piece titled the question is not if biden should step aside but how. the impression the president gives in public is not senility. every flicker is evidence a change is necessary. if you force biden into a normal
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campaign season role frequent flickering if not a burning out is what you'll get. co-chair of biden's re-election campaign says he is not about to step aside. >> how do you respond to democrats who say they want to see a change at the top of the ticket? >> i'm in the process of doing it right now and demonstrating the president's accomplishments are second to none. joe biden will get up every why. he will never, ever going to quit because it's not what he has done his entire life. >> harris: david avila and leslie marshall. david, your top line thoughts. >> if i were joe biden, i wouldn't want to be on the ballot against none of the above. in fact, i'm not sure in vegas who has the higher odds of dropping out first, nikki haley or joe biden. you see the white housg the profile once again of the
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vice president. she was asked this weekend is she ready to lead to which she forcefully and rightfully said yes, she is ready to lead. the challenge is joe biden did her no favors, either. you may recall it was in 2021, harris, he put her in charge of the border. and how it's the number one issue for many borders because of the chaos there. >> harris: what's interesting about that, leslie, is the president doesn't want to fix it, either. if he gave it to her was it just a stall method? i think maybe it's time for that question. let's not get stuck on that. let's talk about the polling. that 91% of independents who are now saying in that abc polling that the president is too old. you and i agree it is not about age by mental agility, that whole thing. some people just shrink it to age and old because that's how the question is being asked. >> exactly. that's how the question is being
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asked. let's jump down to who would you vote for? when it comes down to two people. that's what it will come down to, joe biden who will be the democratic nominee, my opinion is that donald trump will be the republican nominee, there will be independents that say i don't want to go back to that and republicans i voted for trump once or twice not going to go back to that and certainly democrats that are going to vote for joe biden not just because he is the leader of the democratic party as an incumbent president running for a second term but he represents what he they elected him to do and we're seeing those results. age is not the top five of any voters' issues. >> harris: ability to get the job done and watching the president when he says watch him get things right rather than this constant drumbeat of the white house staff having to explain the words coming out of his mouth. a lot of words matter and they have to fix them. an advisor to former president
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clinton warned yesterday that president biden must broaden his appeal to the 2024 voters instead of focusing on attacks of former president trump if he wants to be reelected. they argued biden cannot count an trump's unpopularity anymore. james carville said this not too long ago. >> we're going after him with a meat cleaver. rhetorical if you will. you cannot let him up. you can't normalize him or let him off the canvas. not for one second. we have to keep the foot on this guy. right on his neck. take all heel and twist it and never let it out. don't let him escape or be normalized. that's how we can lose this. >> harris: i have to say this. that violent talk from him is the second or third time we've seen in recent days. is that network going to be responsible for anything he causes? that violent rhetoric is really bad coming out of him. i had not heard all of that.
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david, it sounds and smells like desperation. >> it does and think about this. in light of robert kennedy's ad last night during the super bowl, it is also no labels and every third party candidate that you will now see democrats actively working to keep them off the ballot, particularly in the five or six states that will control who gets the -- becomes our next president. they cannot allow more options than joe biden to be on the ballot and cost him the election. they have been planning it for months. they have to go into full-on assault now to keep others off the ballot. >> harris: i want to get a quick response from you on what david is saying. that would be two pushes to keep people off the ballot. first the push to keep donald trump off the ballot and we're waiting for the u.s. supreme court to tell us what will happen in the state of colorado and how it will affect all the
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other 11 or 12 states hoping to do the same thing. >> when it comes to robert kennedy, if you look at the numbers, he polls more from donald trump than joe biden. look, no matter who a third party candidate is, it does take away from a democrat, from a republican. when we talk about desperation sadly, especially in the general election, we see desperation on both sides. the fact that republicans are talking about joe biden's age so much and they want kamala harris to run and not joe biden. to me shows desperation. >> harris: other people are talking about it and that's why people are covering it. poll after poll shows this. not just republicans. 73% of democrats. 91% of independents. to be fair, that is the truth. >> but if i have a party and i have an opponent that i don't think is running the country well that's what i will talk
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about just like democrats shouldn't say vote for me because i'm not trump. they have to go to the issues. >> harris: maybe they should but they won't. good to see you both. thank you. did you see it? overtime at the super bowl. first san francisco and star quarterback brock purdy were great and led most of the game. a huge victory for the kansas city chiefs 22-25. the first half was ugly for the chiefs and then this. it's the final touchdown to clinch it. they won it in overtime. the team posted a photo patrick mahomes on the ground after he said prayers. congratulations to chiefs kingdom. let's get to "outnumbered." one: call newday and apply. two: take out an average of $70,000. three: pay off your credit cards
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