and you have a cancellation. do it online or get in a line for the people there at the airport? >> it's like you are teeing this up for me. if you wait in line you've already lost. you have to do everything on the app because it just minimizes hassles. you don't deal with angie workers and people in line. so much easier to do it on the airline app. whatever your airline is, hotel, whatever, always use the app. >> sandra: thanks, lee. it was a mess last weekend and i was early. great to be with you too. i'll see you at 1:00 and see you at 6:00. that's the delay why we're talking over each other. thanks, brett. >> bret: julie banderas is in for harris. >> julie: listen to this.

40 days now at the top of the democratic ticket. yesterday vice president kamala harris finally giving that long-promised formal sit-down interview. taped, not live. we did see 27 minutes from harris and her running mate. critics say it left them with more questions than answers. this is "the faulkner focus." hello, everyone. i'm julie banderas in for harris today. the first time the vice president was pressed on all of those liberal policy backtracks we've seen since she announced her candidacy. policies like border security, medicare for all, gun buybacks, also at issue where she stands now on fracking versus her previous position. >> do you still want to ban fracking? >> no and i made that clear on the debate stage in 2020. that i would not ban fracking. as vice president i did not ban fracking. as president i will not ban

fracking. i made very clear where i stand. we're in 2024 and i have not changed that position. i will keep my word. >> julie: here is what she said in 2019 and during the 2020 debate she referred to. listen closely to how she words her answer. watch. >> no question i'm in favor of banning fracking. joe biden will not end fracking. he has been very clear about that. first of all, i will repeat and the american people know, that joe biden will not ban fracking. that is a fact. that is a fact. >> julie: joe biden would not ban fracking despite defending her policy flip-flops. she made this claim. >> let's be clear, my values have not changed. i think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. my values have not changed.

so that is the reality of it. >> julie: former president trump not impressed and posted that harris, quote, rambled incoherently and america will become a wasteland if she is elected. his running mate earlier this morning. >> she is trying to pretend she is not far left because she wants to win the votes. it is absurd for her to sit there and say well, i don't actually believe in any of the things that i told you i believed three years ago. she has governed as a person who believes those things and unfortunately the american people are far off because of it. >> julie: joe concha says the interview can be summed up in two words, dishonest and train wreck. he calls it appropriate. long time obama advisor david

axelrod's take. >> on the whole this was a good night. i don't think she moved the ball that much forward but certainly didn't fall back. >> julie: senior white house correspondent jackui heinrich picks up the story from here. >> one thing clear from that interview is vice president harris has been a good number two to joe biden. embraced his policies as her own and put no daylight between them even as she resisted detailed explanations for how she got there, especially on policy issues like fracking. the "wall street journal" editorial board writes the vice president said she is now convinced that u.s. can meet all its climate goals without a fracking ban which would play poorly in pennsylvania. she notably didn't disavow any of the biden administration's green mandates and regulations and said the country needs to stick by timetables to reach targets for other green demands. ms. bash didn't follow up. miss harris escaped again on costs for feasibility. her campaign today is light on

the details. >> she made it clear that some of her positions have evolved which is very standard when you are in public service. you learn more about the issues. as things evolve sometimes your positions evolve. she leaned into her position on fracking. the same position she had in 2020. >> the reaction from the other side. >> even though i'm running against her i felt a little bad for her. it was clear she wasn't totally sure footed and she didn't totally know why she was saying the things that she was saying. she has been coached to pretend to be a moderate. >> the task ahead for trump will be to 0 in on harris's policies and make her explain where her values haven't changed and what it means now. it will take a disciplined campaign. in the meantime harris is not getting comfortable or distracted by a recent bump in battleground polls. >> this is going to be a tight race until the very end, okay?

so let's not pay too much attention to the polls because we are running as the underdog. okay? and we have some hard work ahead of us. >> notably on labor day the vice president and president biden will make a joint appearance in swing state pennsylvania where fracking is so important. it will be only their second joint appearance since he dropped out. julie. >> julie: jackui heinrich, thank you very much. tammy bruce joins me in studio. it is a slippery slope when you are a politician and go on record on one issue and completely flip-flop years later when you are running for the president of the united states especially. you use the term slippery when you were listening to her comment earlier. >> yeah, she wants it all ways. she doesn't want to be pinned down. she wants to be everything to everyone. the problem is we're now in a world where we believed them in 2020 that he was going to be a uniter, everything would return

to normal and believed we knew what that meant and this is what we've got. a world at war, economy that's a disaster and erased southern border, unmitigated crime. housing costs in an outrageous situation, billions suggested for housing for foreigners for illegal aliens in the country. we don't know how to look up. when you have someone from that administration coming in, has never been a shy woman, kamala harris has made clear what her positions have been. she can be very passionate about those positions, about telling people that the 2020 rights were not going to end and shouldn't end. supporting the bail fund for people who were burning down the cities. she knew what she believed in. she didn't have to have coached but now what is the coaching? she is mary poppins now. and it is a coaching as vance has noted to not really say anything. it is like a freshman always skated by, a 50,000 word essay

and you want to fill it up with as many meaningless words as you can. our lives are at stake, not theirs. the average americans' life is at stake economically and when it comes to safety. we need more here than cynical theater. >> julie: a few of the headlines on the interview. she admits values haven't changed. kamala harris took 39 days to say nothing at all. the "wall street journal" editorial board argues this. kamala harris's campaign handlers were not high fiving each other watching their candidate's interview. she got away with repeating campaign platitudes and never seriously challenged on anything. that's a shame because voters still haven't received a straight answer about whether and how she has changed her views from the far left positions she espoused. we take it as a wink to her left flank that she is on their side

but can't say so clearly until she is elected. >> we learned a lot about kamala harris. she has complete contempt for the american people and use winks and that the american voters who don't agree with her at drooling idiots who won't know what the difference is. keep in mind she says they won't ban fracking. what she will do is make it impossible. she will make it impossible with rules and regulations. so be careful when you listen to someone like this. use specific words. i contend we learned everything about her. we learned she has positions and she had to work very hard to not say them to people last night and dana bash didn't address all the issues. not the unrealized tax gains. harris mentioned price controls through the price gouging. bash said nothing about that. it was a remarkable thing to watch and as a feminist very disappointed in two women who had an opportunity to make a difference and they sang lullabys to each other.

>> julie: i liked the fact bash questioned why vote in harris when the economy was stronger under trump. harris comes out and says inflation is down, we inherited an economy where hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost. when you hit rock bottom only one way up. she didn't press her on those answers. exactly what have you done? she mentioned why haven't you done anything about it in the last 3 1/2 years? why would the american public -- it was softball questions. no follow-ups that was unfortunate to the american people. we didn't learn much about her policies. her values have not changed. wait a second. what do you mean? what you are saying is four years ago you did not believe in open borders, now you'll change your mind? >> that's the wink to the left flank. whatever it is that made her think that yes, these riots

should never stop and made her think that multiple times she would say she would ban fracking. the value system. in other words, i'll do this but in a different way, wink, wink. also bash did ask her what would you do on day one? a word salad. nothing clear. bash said to her again. what about day one? let her get away with it again. we don't know. remember, this was edited. we don't know what was left on the floor. this is the best parts of what that exchange was. look, the american people have to decide to not be gas lit. they have to decide this is not acceptable. >> julie: another follow-up. what made you reverse your idea on fracking? >> exactly why? >> did you see facts and numbers that would support it would be better for our economy and she just went with the whole green new deal and that was going to --

>> she deflected >> julie: dana didn't press on that. >> values is the wink. >> julie: values, sure. during the interview the v.p. nominee governor tim walz down played his misstatement about his military service. watch this. >> you said that you carried weapons in war but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. a campaign official said that you misspoke. did you? >> first of all, i'm incredibly proud to have done 24 years of wearing the uniform of this country. proud of my service in a public school classroom whether congress or the governor. my record speaks for itself. i think people are getting to know me. i speak like they do. i speak candidly and wear my emotions on my sleeves. >> the idea that you said that you were in war. did you misspeak as the campaign has said? >> we were talking about in this case after a school shooting. the idea of carrying weapons of war and my wife the english

teacher saying my grammar is not always correct. >> julie: do you buy he misspoke? >> he has had months to -- he says he speaks like other americans? i guess we ally about stolen valor. he knew and blames it on things -- talk about slippery. this was his feeling again the contempt that you can say this. it is grammar, no it's not. americans this is insulting. this is where he decided to land. he has done it multiple times over years, not one event. this is why if you have people willing to lie at this point or to just push it away as though we are toddlers what do you think they'll do to this country? >> julie: those american families who lost loved ones in actual war and paid the ultimate sacrifice, that's where it becomes insulting. he owes them all an apology. i believe. tammy bruce, great to see you. have a great weekend.

the biden-harris migrant crisis causing more fear miles from the u.s. mexico border. colorado's democratic governor says it is just imagination. outrage ensues. plus to -- >> there is a whole nomenclature about border czar. >> looking at the drivers of immigration. >> even cnn called her a border czar. we're really -- we can argue about that. i find that -- >> no, we didn't. >> julie: critics say legacy media have changed their tune since the v.p. became the democratic presidential nominee. republican congresswoman kat cammack up next. stay there.

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>> julie: people in el paso, texas are on high alert over a violent venezuelan gang. officials are seen members moving through a mexican border state to cross into the u.s. one texas congressman called the gang known as tren de aragua, ms-13 on steroids. officials and residents are aurora, colorado blame that gang for an armed takeover of apartment buildings in the denver suburb. you are seeing video of one of those incidents. despite the video the colorado governor dismisses talk of the takeover as just one of the councilwoman's imagination. she clapped back earlier today saying the governor is part of the problem. >> the actual problem here are his weak policies that have turned this state into a breeding ground for this gang

activity. >> there are several buildings actually under the same ownership. out of state ownership that have fallen to these venezuelan gangs. an organized criminal effort whether it's tren de aragua that remains to be seen. >> julie: william la jeunesse joins us with the latest on this mess. >> there is a lot of finger pointing here. the mayor blaming the feds for releasing and sending these illegal migrant gangs to his city. governor polis saying the videos you see are part of a misinformation campaign? and that aurora officials are imagining the problem of these venezuelan gangs taking control of several apartment complexes in aurora. the mayor calls it a nightmare situation admitting they have lost control because of the gangs. >> somebody put them there and somebody funded it. whether it's federal government or not we're trying to find out

who. these gangs apparently are attracted to where there is a concentration of venezuelan migrants and so they in fact have pushed out the property management through intimidation and collected the rents. arrests have been made. these operations are still ongoing. >> the mayor blames the federal government saying we're the victim of a failed policy at the southern border for bringing under many migrants under the chnv program. >> people are using colorado has a way point. they know they can get certain benefits in the state of colorado. they are showing up here and getting a driver's license and getting food and clothing and housing. >> local residents have moved out of their apartments out of fear. the local d.a. says the city is investigating the venezuelan gang tren de aragua or tda. >> this isn't misinformation. right now there is an active

investigation to a massive shoot-out that occurred outside of one of these apartment complexes. one man ended up dead. that's not misinformation. these are real problems. >> so julie, one of the things that's happening here is this week the biden and harris administration restarted a program, the chnv program that allows 30,000 immigrants from those four countries into the country. the problem is we don't have access to the criminal records back in their home countries, cuba, venezuela, nicaragua and we don't know who is coming in. and these gangs have infiltrated it and right now turning the screws on these people because they sponsored some of them and now need to collect the money because they made a deal to bring them into the country and now they want to get paid. back to you. >> julie: the deal with the devil. thank you very much. republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida. member of the house judiciary select subcommittee on the

weaponization of the federal government. i have to get to what william talked about. it is hard to believe this happened. the biden-harris administration announcing yesterday that it is restarting this controversial chnv program as william mentioned. i need to reiterate this. this is staggering bringing 400,000 migrants from troubled countries like venezuela, which is where we just talked about these violent gang members coming from to the u.s. to live and work here. those countries also include cuba, haiti, nicaragua. the restart comes weeks after halting the program over fraud concerns. fraud concerns? that's the least of the concerns. we're bringing violent criminals into this country and giving them jobs. >> oh my gosh, julie. this breaks my heart. i'm a colorado native and growing up my high school douglas county we played high schools in aurora. i'm familiar with the area.

to see how it has transformed into just an absolute chaotic mess, violence everywhere in the neighborhoods does break my heart. you have heard me say it before and i'll say it again. you play stupid games and win stupid prizes. in the case of sanctuary cities around the country who have been complicit in closing the trafficking circle along with president biden and vice president harris, they are doing the dirty work of the cartels. they have absolutely been responsible for opening up the doors to these violent criminals where we know in countries like venezuela they are emptying their prisons and they are unloading these violent criminals onto our shores. so it makes absolutely no sense that we have an open border policy but then to add insult to injury here we go with a pre-approved authorization for venezuela, cuba, nicaragua and

let's not forget, julie, that iran is sending people to venezuela where venezuela is giving them documentation so that they can come into our country. it's absurd. >> julie: i have to bring up the interview last night. she was asked about her record when it comes to illegal immigration and she loved to talk about how when she was attorney general and the work she did there in order to guarantee that illegal immigrants that came and committed crimes here in this country would have to pay the price and be punished. that's not true. and i appreciate that dana bash brought it up but didn't follow through. what about all the illegal immigrants she put them behind bars and they were right out because she signed a policy that would not only allow them to get out back into the workforce and give them jobs, they would get job training and on good behavior they would expunge the record like william was saying. forcriminal background. you can't track the people once they are arrested and left into

society. that's her record. let's talk about record. that's not what i heard on that interview yesterday. >> exactly right. kamala harris has a record of failing up. that is her legacy failing up. when there is a problem she deflects and pushes the blame somewhere else. she has never wanted to take responsibility for her actions or her failures. and so when you ask people what has she accomplished they can't name a single thing that is positive. only point to a broken border system, 200,000 children unaccompanied children who have been shoved across our border, who the administration was responsible for and subsequently lost. 10 1/2 million illegals paroled into the united states, on top of the 2 million gotaways that are gang members, sex offenders and drug dealers. this is absurd and it has turned every border town and state and town in america into a border town. it is absurd. >> julie: i want you to listen to this cnn anchor and former

trump communication director sparred over kamala harris's border czar title. >> i know there is this whole nomenclature about border czar. that was the language that was used at the time. >> her purview was looking at the drivers of immigration. >> i don't want to argue about this. >> i hear what you are saying, mike. we should be clear. >> i will be clear. at the time it was reported even cnn called her a border czar. we're really -- we can argue about that. i find that -- >> no, we didn't. >> i think we can double-check it. >> we'll go back and double-check it. >> not only did cnn call her a border czar, the white house called her that. it was the job she was given. her title. it was officially released by the white house and why we've been talking about it so much. she did nothing as the border czar. plenty of evidence that tells a different story, watch this.

>> this will be her first visit to the u.s./mexico border region since appointed as the border czar. >> the questions dogged her dealing with the root causes of migration as being some kind of border czar. >> i think the white house hasn't necessarily set her up well for the border. if they weren't planning to address it in major way don't make her the border czar. >> there has been criticism against her, border czar. >> julie: cnn called her the border czar. the white house did not. they appointed her in charge of the border and her job, border czar or no border czar she was appointed the job to find out what the root cause was of illegal immigration. that was her job and she did not fulfill it. they aren't the only network that called harris the border czar. here it is. >> i think joe biden has gone there once. kamala harris who was appointed as the border czar hasn't gone

there at all. >> becoming the unofficial border czar. >> i think most americans think it's disgraceful you have been to the border more than kamala harris and she is supposed to be the border czar. >> julie: what do you want to call her? if there is a title, what would it be? >> quite frankly, julie, i don't think americans give a damn what her title was. if they want to argue and spar over she was or not the border czar, the fact remains everyone cannot deny the fact, they have admitted it. she was in charge of the root causes of the border. >> julie: sounds like a border czar to me? isn't that the definition? >> that's what they were calling her but people want to push back on it, fine. now look at what they are doing. they're importing the root causes of the border. she was supposed to be addressing ways to actually keep people in their home countries so that we wouldn't be seeing these mass floods of people at our southwest border. so i think it's ridiculous.

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for the president we haven't seen him publicly in the last really couple of days. the last time we did we didn't see him at all. mostly just the back of his beach umbrella. they say the president is here working mostly talking with a number of world leaders in europe and middle east while he has been in rehoboth and california. we asked the white house whether the president watched the interview last night with his vice president. the white house did not respond. if biden did watch, he caught a few compliments. >> i have served with president biden for almost four years now and i will tell you it is one of the greatest honors of my career truly. he cares so deeply about the american people. he is so smart and loyal to the american people. >> in that interview she offered

no significant departure from president biden embracing the abroach to the economy and other things. he will join her on the trail monday. the president will speak thursday in wisconsin to highlight his investing in america agenda. republicans say they're happy to tie harris to the current president. >> she tried to deflect back to when she was a prosecutor became a decade ago. she is in the vice president seat right now and lives at the naval observatory today. what has she done? pressing the contrast between the trump administration and the kamala harris-joe biden administration is how you win this election. >> on the president's schedule today received his briefing an hour and a half ago and that's it. see if it changes. back to you. >> julie: rich edson, thank you so much. president trump will be rallying in the key battleground state of pennsylvania this afternoon. he is also looking to win over moms. this evening he will be in our

nation's capital to speak to the national parental rights group moms for liberty. >> moms in america are very concerned about the future of our country. there are so many problems they are facing. the education system, struggles they have at home, the affordability of groceries, there are so many issues. we'll be able to have a discussion with him about the things we're concerned about. >> julie: bryan llenas has more on this from johnstown, pennsylvania. >> people are lining up for hours. with five hours to go there are thousands of people ready to go in for the 4:30 p.m. event in johnstown. cambria county, a county that trump won by 37 points in 2020. you can see these folks, this line wraps all the way down the block. now you mentioned the poll and harris has an 11 point lead with women. a big part of that, julie, is

with the issue of abortion. fox news poll of the important sun belt states that came out this week shows that ultimately harris has a plus 19 advantage when it comes to the issue of abortion. and that is really her strongest issue according to our polling. so it was still a surprise when the former president trump came out yesterday and came out with a plan on ivf saying that if he was elected, ivf would be free for women. that's an operation that costs some $40,000. listen. >> we are -- the government is going to pay for it or we'll mandate your insurance company to pay for it, which is going to be great. we are going to do that. you know what? we want to produce babies in in country, right? we want to produce babies. >> as we keep walking down this line we spoke to some female trump sporters, julie. this is what they said about the

idea of ivf. some for it. some against it. >> absolutely. i just think that shows how much trump really cares about women's rights because i haven't seen anyone else try to endorse that. >> i don't really like to give my opinion too deep on that but i believe in women's rights. >> i would have to disagree with just personal opinion that i think that's something that you need that you should find a way if it's that important. >> meanwhile former president trump and running mate vance are 0ing in on one key line from vice president's interview last night when she said her values have not changed while defending her policy shifts over the last few years. the campaign, trump campaign says this is just proof that harris's true values are far left. here is former president trump's reaction to a clip of last night's interview. take a listen. >> it was a taped.

we're doing it live. why are we doing it live and she is doing it taped? but -- but she was sitting behind that desk, this massive desk and she didn't look like a leader to me, i'll be honest. i don't see her negotiating with president xi of china. i don't see her with kim jong unlike we did. >> julie, one interesting note here at this rally, like we've seen at a lot of trump rallies they're registering voters. that's a big deal. republicans since 2016 have gained 275,000 registered voters in pennsylvania. democrats have lost that same amount of voters in the last eight years. they are hoping that will make all the difference come november 5th julie. >> julie: thank you very much. great to see you. new polls show a dead heat between former president trump and vice president harris in a crucial swing state. multiple crucial swing states.

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>> julie: new battleground state polls find former president trump and kamala harris locked in an extremely tight race. trump has slight leads in arizona, north carolina, and in wisconsin. harris is up in georgia, michigan, and nevada. all are within the margin of error, though and in always crucial pennsylvania they are tied. nate silver with this. donald trump is the slight favorite for the first time since august 3rd. one big reason for that. pennsylvania. which is the tipping point state. more than 1/three of the time. if she is only tied in pennsylvania now during what should be one of her stronger polling periods, that implies being a slight underdog in

november. harris herself with this. >> this is going to be a tight race until the very end, okay? so let's not pay too much attention to the polls because we are running as the underdog. okay? and we have some hard work ahead of us. but we like hard work. >> julie: jessica patterson, gop california chairwoman and -- jessica, i want to start with you first. the poll numbers in pennsylvania being in a dead heat does not look good for a democratic candidate running for president when the election is a couple months away. that could change drastically in trump's favor after the september 10th debate. considering the feedback she got after last night's interview. how serious is this debate and how much will it sway voters do

you think? >> i think the debate will be crucial. when we have watched the last month of about 89% favorable coverage for vice president harris and only pull to a tie. it is a big problem for democrats. largely unchallenged. very scripted. she hasn't taken many questions from the media, had her first press interview last night. i think the over the next few weeks when we see her come out to the debate stage and really kept her behind the scenes. i don't think it is a great strategy. i think the numbers will continue to change over the next several weeks. >> julie: what mistake do you think it was or do you agree with her decision to wait 39 days after they announced she is going to be running for the next president of the united states for her to get out there in the public and actually talk policy? up until last night nobody really knew what policy she

stood firm on. i think there are still more questions than answers after the taped interview. not even a live one. >> look, i think she did well in the interview. i think what you are seeing republicans do with this interview trying to set it up as a house of cards and tumbling down. she did well in the interview. now doing the same thing with the debate. donald trump calls her dumb, low iq. not able to hold her own even though she prosecuted every cabinet member donald trump put in front of her. has a republican strategy it is not smart. the polling is close within the margin of error everywhere. pennsylvania is a tipping point state 1/three of the time. the reason number has gone down is directionally she has run a perfect campaign for six weeks rallying the base, improvement in young and black voters and latino voters, independent and swing voters. republicans are a little over their skis with the situation

right now praying she makes a mistake because things are going well. i will say look, she has said she is an underdog. this campaign is fresh. but directionally they are heading the right way. >> julie: why would you wait and not come out and speak live and hold live news conferences and interviews in order to prove yourself? especially considering the fact that she was thrown into this race at the very last minute. most presidential candidates campaign for years. so this is like the finish line. the end of a marathon where you get the final wind in your sails and you press on and instead she kind of sat back and not the way to win a race. neither on foot or presidential. >> i think the question is how do you best communicate to the american people? she had a lot of rallies, did the dnc and press gaggles at those rallies and continue to do more interviews. there is more to be done.

the next thing in front of us is the debate, rights? the next moment where a bunch of americans will tune in and breakthrough moments and what they are preparing for now. >> julie: is it too little too late? abc has rejected a request from the kamala harris campaign, which i wanted to ask you about, to have microphones unmuted during the entirety of the september 10th debate. why would they go with a decision like that? wouldn't you want to hear raw reaction from both candidates? they do tend to interrupt each other. that can be distracting but also is real. don't we want to hear a real debate? why does it have to be edited by muting the microphones? >> it is rich that vice president harris was making these requests so late in the game when she tried to accuse president trump of doing that very thing. i get that she has not been out there in an unscripted manner. she has not been out there having someone challenge her. this is a difficult position to be in.

she is going to -- actually auditioning for the number one job in the entire world. and she should be ready to do this and i think everybody will be looking forward to these debates. >> julie: tim, your final thoughts. >> look, i think donald trump sounds like he wants the mics unmuted. i air grew they should be unmuted a more honest back and forth. the chaos donald trump brings to the stage that is a turn-off will be on full display and his campaign is saying we don't want that. >> julie: thank you both. have a great labor day weekend. jessica and tim, thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris, "outnumbered" is after the break. i'll be back on monday hosting 9:00 to noon. join me then on labor day. see you then. door shuts] [paparazzi cameras] introducing, ned's plaque psoriasis. ned, ned, who are you wearing? he thinks his flaky red patches are all people see.

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