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experts now and analysts proclaiming vice president kamala harris victorious after this week's presidential debate. however, some voters are telling a very different story. but most for the very same reason. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." you hear me say it all the time. the polling, all of that can tell one story, the one that matters comes from the voters. many voters, including our very own voters' voices panel yesterday, say the vice president was not convincing on their very top election issue, the economy. while inflation may be easing but the prices of things are under deep pressure from years of high inflation under biden-harris. and it is not helping americans who are crushed beneath the weight of all of that. "the new york times" put it this way. what they wanted to hear and didn't was the fine print. this is what they heard on the

economy from kamala harris. >> when it comes to the economy, do you believe americans are better off than they were four years ago? >> so i was raised as a middle class kid and i many actually the only person on this stage that has a plan about lifting up the middle class and working people of america. i believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the american people. and that is why i imagine and have actually a plan to build what i call an opportunity economy. >> harris: reuters spoke with ten voters who say they were undecided before the debate. six of them now say they are backing or leaning toward former president trump. three say they will vote for kamala harris, one is still not sure. half of them, however, said they found kamala harris vague on what she might do to boost the economy. she said she would do it but didn't say exactly how. how would she curb the high cost

of living? expert pollster lee carter who joined me yesterday with this. >> what was she really going to do for the economy and what was going to be different about the economy under her or biden? they want to hear that things will get better for them. they also want change from what is happening right now. one of the most important things they were looking for last night from kamala harris is how are you going to make it different? >> harris: she was spot on when it came to our guests on the panel. >> i'm looking into the job market and looking into the economy and housing prices, cost of food, and for me at this point it is not really about which candidate is the most poised or which candidate i like the most. it is about what the next four years will look like. i do think the economy under trump was a lot stronger. >> kamala was presenting herself as the candidate of change but a reflection of the biden-harris administration. most of the country disapproves how they handled the economy. >> harris: jackui heinrich with

more. >> national economic council advisor put out a statement yesterday saying the country is turning the page on inflation after the cpi report showed inflation rose 0.2% in august. but vice president harris did not take that question head on in the debate about whether or not americans in her view are, in fact, better off than they were four years ago. her surrogates are being asked why. >> she recognizes that the costs our average american faces are a concern and taken steps to address it and has concrete plans to do more. if you look at the record, kamala harris has a much stronger record and vision for our economy and yes, that's a challenge for us to connect with the average voter. >> the heritage foundation, prominent conservative think-tank that gained notoriety from democrats targeting them for project 2025, has created an inflation calculator that is showing americans how much their

personal expenses have increased. couple the higher prices on everything you are buying with the fact that real wages accounting for inflation are down 1.7% from the month that president biden came into office and you have compounded problems. republicans say there is no way that harris isn't feeling this angst from the voters. >> i'm running myself and you can feel all the ebbs and flows of it. when it comes down to what is most important to most americans, it's the economy and inflation. there is no way she can spin it. >> abc's hosts in the debate did not ask harris about her inflation control plan, which includes federal price controls and been scrutinized finally. >> harris: thank you. fox news contributor joe concha says harris's canned answers wowed the media but did not

convince voters. and the opinion editor for the left leaning "new york times" with this piece. the question kamala harris could not answer on a night when harris set traps every which way for trump and he took the bait every time, the one moment those tables were turned was when the former president asked her what she would do differently from the past 3 1/2 years. some voters may still be looking for that answer. david avella, mark penn, mark, i will start with you on just how thin the response was on exactly what could be done on the economy. why do you think that is? if you checked out the website, that doesn't have the answer, either. >> well look, i think it's very clear if you are an abortion voter, you know who you are voting for. it's harris. if you're an immigration first voter you know who you are voting for there. it's trump. if you are an economy voter, that's where the undecideds are sitting waiting to see well,

does harris have any plan or experience with the economy and they are sitting there saying i know -- i may not like trump but the economy was better under him. that's why they are sitting there as an undecided voter. that's why this is so important. that's why the debate was so unsatisfying because it was like a couple of minutes out of 90 minutes with no real specifics about the economy. when they know that harris has no direct experience in the economy in her entire life. >> harris: the public also knows how they feel right now and she and her boss have been in office for 3 1/2 years. so trump asked the right question what are you going to do differently? i'm curious yes or no quick. have you ever seen an election where people who were interested in other things like abortion outweighed the number of people interested in the economy, mark? >> no. about 2/three of the people are unhappy with the economy and 48% say that their personal life is

worse. >> harris: despite inflation showing down new numbers show how people suffer on high prices on essential things. food, shelter, and then along with that if you are driving to get to anywhere for work or wherever you are going you need auto insurance. if it's hot or cold where you live you will need energy. all are up by double digits since biden took office. the biden-harris administration handing us these things right before an election. david. >> in 3 1/2 years, harris, the vice president has not been able to convince americans that bidenomics is a good thing. that it will ultimately help us move forward. what she is offering and she talks about her value set, what she is offering is more of the same. more higher taxes, more regulations, more things that make us less a free market

capitalistic society and nor redisty bugs of wealth. let's put it in real terms. i won't win as many races in my career as mark penn. that said, under her system, we should get paid the same. there should be fairness and if it's not -- if i can't make as much as mark despite the fact he wins more races we should redistribute what he makes and give it to me. that would be advantageous for us. i could be persuaded she has a good idea. for most americans that won't sell. they want their hard-earned efforts to be rewarded. they don't believe there is a pie that has to be distributed. they know the u.s. economy can grow. it has our entire history. not once -- not once in the history of the world has the marxist socialist approach has ever worked. >> harris: mark, i guess you give away free income according

to that. good luck with that, mark. this is another question for the hour. will we see another debate? the day after the first one, both sides were showing major politeness hours after that heated contest. former president trump and vice president kamala harris shook hands at a 9/11 remembrance ceremony in new york. president biden even wore a trump hat. the white house called it a display of unity. both sides weighed in on whether he -- whether we will see another head-to-head. >> do you still want to do on nbc on? >> i would do nbc and fox, too. i would do fox, too. right now we have to determine whether or not we even want to do it. >> i think the american people would like to hear more from both of them about what will you do td stronger at home and abroad. i think she should accept an invitation from fox to come on

and debate president trump. >> harris: we appreciate that and agree. a big focus, the first debate was the fact checking both lies and after the fact we had our eye on. the moderators pushed back on former president trump five times and on vice president kamala harris 0 times. we fact checked her but they didn't. "time" magazine will also -- was also first to take back a so-called fact check of its own. that media outlet claimed trump's point that kamala harris supported transgender -- the vice president did in fact check yes in support on a survey she filled out during her 2019 presidential run. saying that she would do that. now remember these are people deemed for many reasons, some of them dangerous, can't walk about the country, you are here illegally. should we give them gender surgeries?

gender electtive surgery on our dime was the question. she said yes. both candidates are back on the campaign trail in battleground states. kamala harris in north carolina. donald trump in arizona. david. i'll reverse order now and just get any kind of reaction to any of that that you want. there is a lot of meat on the bone there. >> we should have another debate. as you have pointed out on more than one occasion, it was after the 2016 all three debates quite frankly that hillary clinton was deemed the winner. it didn't tell us who would win the 2016 election. here is why it's important particularly i would offer donald trump. because every time -- every question he gets he should give his position on the issue that's asked and then remind voters that vice president kamala harris has been by joe biden's side every day during 3 1/2 years and what she is offering is what he has offered. if you want more of joe biden's

policies, vote harris. >> harris: she hasn't been defending them as of late and distancing herself from them, kamala harris versus joe biden. there is that point. your reaction to any of that, mark. >> my reaction is i'm really concerned about what abc did when the reps put their finger on the scale, you have to throw out the score of the game. what would have happened in that debated they challenged harris and said that's not right what you said there about charlottesville. we don't know how she would have reacted. trump wouldn't have had to spend his time on that. they did a real disservice to the voters of america when they did that and put in jeopardy the institutions of debate. >> harris: for the candidate on your side of the political aisle it might have helped her. if you want to get sharp, you have to rub up against something that will sharpen you. it might have helped her quiet those in the party with questions about her policies. great to see you both.

republicans are doubling down on their push for election integrity with early voting already underway in some states. you know that that happened last week. some of it was planned to be rolling out and now we are in the thick of it in many places. the push to keep voting in the hands of american citizens now at the center of a government funding fight. plus people in one ohio city are overwhelmed by a surge of migrants. >> it's like living in a dystopian nightmare. how did springfield get the target put on its back for this many haitians? >> harris: how this is very different from what we're seeing in some sanctuary cities and citizens are feeling the pain in a very similar way, though. congresswoman kat cammack in "focus" next. duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine, like google, but it's r

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>> you like at springfield, ohio, aurora in colorado. these are the people that she and biden let into our country and they are destroying our country. they are dangerous, they are at the highest level of criminality, and we have to get them out. we have to get them out fast. >> harris: all right. so you see at this week's debate former president donald trump sounding the alarm on american citizens struggling under the weight of people flowing into our nation from other countries. one city in particular, springfield, ohio is in the national spotlight over the 15,000 haitian migrants that arrived under biden-harris temporary status program. that makes them, through the

program, legally here. and again i want to mention the number, small town, 15,000 have come into the city of just 60,000 in the past few years. ohio governor devine actually has announced in the last 24 hours that he is going to send 2 1/2 million dollars along with a boost in law enforcement on the ground to help that community manage an untenable situation right now. he also explained how the migrant influx is hurting springfield. >> these dramatic surges impact every citizen in the community, every citizen. the moms who have to wait hours in a waiting room with a sick child. everyone who drives on the streets, and it affects children who go to school in more crowded classrooms. this is a very unprecedented situation in springfield. we wish we had some help from

the federal government. >> harris: republican governor explaining why they need federal government help. it is a federal program that put them in this position. now the people who live there were at a city commission meeting this week, including one woman who lost her mother-in-law because of the situation. let's watch this together. >> on december 1st i received a phone call that changed my life forever. she was collecting a trash can from her driveway when a car struck and killed her instantly. a haitian immigrant was allegedly driving recklessly when he struck and killed her. i'm paralyzed with anxiety when i get my children out of the car in any parking lot, walking on any sidewalk. >> this is a republican or democrat issue. this is an american issue, an ohio issue and springfield, ohio issue. >> schools are overcrowded. our education system has went in the trash causing us another issue.

the overcrowding in housing, my son had to give me his house and move to another house because i can't find housing. >> is there a cut-off point for the population here? i feel like there should be a no vacancy sign up right now. people are still coming in. >> harris: i want to make a point really clear here. this isn't exactly the same thing that other cities far from the border are seeing where democrats have accused republicans for busing people in. this is through a biden-harris administration. he put her in charge of the border, a biden-harris administration special program for haitians at this time. so they are looked upon now as being legally in our communities, particularly springfield, ohio. that's important to note because if one side starts pointing fingers at the other, democrats

and republicans, don't you dare let them get away from it that they were bused there. many want to stay in that community and have jobs. the collision of population in springfield and people who are not in many cases licensed to drive. that was an issue in that woman's mother's case. those are the things that are coming up, lack of resources, that sort of thing. republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida, member of the energy and agriculture committees is also on the select subcommittees on the weaponization of the federal government. congresswoman, i want to first of all. we've talked about this issue of immigration for so long. set the table, if you will, why this now is so important to so many americans in different positions across the country. >> well harris, you have heard me say it so many times before. every town and city, every state in the country is a border town because of the open border policies. but as you rightfully pointed out this is a program that the

harris biden regime have stood up, implemented and setting up across the country. to give you some perspective about why this is so critical that we are pointing out that this is an authorized legal program under this administration, it is that they are not just putting them in schools and putting more pressure on all the healthcare systems and community services, there are cities and this is what is so scary, they are not only giving them these services, they are now giving them jobs as law enforcement officers. that's why i had to drop a bill last week, the citizen only policeing act because they are now allowing people under these programs to serve as gun carrying sworn officers of the law. keep in mind these people are in the country illegally. it's what is so crazy to me. another fine point to put on this that everyone should be upset about is that collectively we spend $42 billion of taxpayer money every single year on people in this country who have been brought in through the

harris biden regime or crossed the border illegally. as a comparison, homeless veterans only get $3 billion. >> harris: making them law enforcement. they aren't u.s. citizens from what i'm understanding. some may be looked at legal in the country but it doesn't make them citizens. house speaker mike johnson is now going forward pushing hard to include a measure requiring proof of citizenship to vote in a bill to prevent a government shutdown. republicans laid out why that measure is so important. >> i want any member of congress in either party to explain to the american people why we should not insure that only u.s. citizens are voting in u.s. elections. if americans are going to remain in control of their own government, for even sakes, we should let only americans vote in our elections. thank you. >> if we do not show the

american people that the elections are going to be fair and they are going to be satisfied with the outcome, you are going to have hell to pay in this country. >> harris: the former president, the nation's 45th president also shared his thoughts in making them clear posting if republicans in the house and senate don't get absolute assurances on election security they should in no way, shape or form go forward with a continuing resolution on the budget. your take, congresswoman. >> 82% of americans agree non-citizens should not be voting in u.s. elections. a common sense measure. i cannot stress enough that it is really at the peril of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they don't adopt this. if i hear one more time it's illegal that none citizens vote in elections and illegal to cross the border. they have no problem with that and allowed 10 1/2 million people to come into the country illegally. if they have no objection, then why not pass the bill?

what are they scared of? that's the message that needs to go out. if we're serious about election integrity we have to pass the save act. >> harris: why wouldn't they? you are talking with people on the hill and left. what are they telling you are their reasons for not wanting to sign something that they say should already be happening but if it's not you have to sign a bill? >> well, it's the same thing that we've heard when we ask for photo i.d. in elections to verify someone is who they say they are. they say it's voter suppression. we know that's nonsense. the majority of americans can see through all the smoke and mirrors of all that messaging that comes from the left. so i again cannot stress that if people want to feel secure in the elections going into november, that we have to insure that it is only american citizens voting. that is not a republican or democrat issue. that's an american issue. i've heard from so many of them it's already illegal. well, again i stress there are other things that are still

happening under their watch. exactly. it is happening. >> harris: there is a law against that but still people do it. i've never been able to board a plane without showing an identification that had my picture on it. now they are doing digital verification of your eyes and face to whatever document you give them. congresswoman, it is great to see you. thank you very much. 54 days until election day. voters say it is time for kamala harris to speak up. >> more interviews about what specifically her record is. >> i feel she doesn't have a political stance on a lot of things. >> i'm waiting to hear what else she has to comment on. i haven't heard much else. >> harris: kamala harris says she will face the media. she did one interview before the end of last month. which media outlets and how often will she be talking? ari fleischer, former white house press secretary in "focus" next.

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>> harris: fox news alert now. 4.7 earthquake has rattled southern california during rush hour this morning. it was downgraded, a smaller after shock hit a few minutes later. we have brand-new video of the moment the ground began moving. you can see the camera shaking as it shows a livestream of the

santa monica pier. you see that. don't know how high up the camera is. a good view there. no reports of injuries thankfully. no major damage as of now and we'll be monitoring for any new information on this. vice president kamala harris says she will ramp up local media interviews this week as she stumps in battleground states. she is facing big pressure to take more press questions. the harris-walz ticket has faced the press a combined eight times from august 6th until yesterday. the trump-vance campaign has done 45 interviews in that same time frame. axios reports the white house news photographers association sent a letter to the harris campaign to address its unprecedented reduction in access to the news media, they put it. team kamala is down playing any allegations. >> i think the vice president will be interviews. that's part and we want to make

sure that we are speaking to the press. but look, we have 50 something days here. our priority has to be the american voters. >> critics keep calling out the democrats for protecting harris and spinning her lack of media interviews. >> she made it through the debate. i think they are all going like this, that she made it through and lives to fight another day. they don't want to take the risk of having some sort of catastrophic event through another interview so she may do one, maybe two. between now and election day. they don't want to run the risk of sending her into an environment that is uncontrolled once again. >> harris: ari fleischer, former press second for president bush. >> there won't be a reporter they give access to kamala harris who will ask her any hard

questions. the questions she is going to get will be about the horse race. how do you think you did in the debate last night? what do you need to do to win? how close are you in pennsylvania? they will ask dumb questions. the questions that the next potential president of the united states ought to be asked are the ones that reflect on who she is and what she said. do you still think that the border patrol is the equivalent of the kkk? why did you advocate for abolishing people's private insurance? these are the things. how exactly are you going to get rid of inflation? these are the things she needs to get asked. i have low confidence there is a single reporter who would ask that. look at abc. those were her bodyguards not interrogatories. bodyguards in the media. >> harris: you know, bodyguards job is to protect. we'll let that sit where it is if you watched it. congressman jim clyburn of south carolina had this advice for harris and engaging with the press. >> what i do think is that she

needs to do -- if i were advising her. i think just to say have one-on-one discussions with people in the media will not necessarily connect with the voters because, you know, if you go on these one-on-ones sometimes it drills down into questions until there is a word that's uttered that can be used, you know, in a negative way. >> harris: well, he spoke more words we've heard from her on the specifics how she will lower prices at this point. that was interesting. ari. >> yeah, here is what i wish the white house press corps and political press corps that follows her would understand. a pattern they set in the campaign will be the patterns in the white house. the white house press corps is creating the precedent for her to ignore them if she wins.

their failure to hold her to account and demand interviews, their failure to go on the news each night and say day 11 where kamala harris won't answer questions and cover her in that tone is how you force a candidate to answer questions and be responsible to the people. but when they acquiesce like this they acquiesce their future away. when the press becomes the arm of the democratic party, that's what happens. >> harris: knowing the role that james clyburn has played in elections before galvanizing the black vote. south carolina is an important early state. hearing him spend more words on defending her than she spend on her policy is interesting, if not troubling. your last quick thought and we'll move to the next. >> well, she is not asked to defend her policy. who is doing that? hardly any reporters do. once the abc debate asked they pivoted away. she said she would answer all the questions asked about her

flip-flops. she never answered that. she talked about how she grew up in a middle income home and no follow-up from abc. it is so easy to be a democrat running for office with the press corps and so hard to be a republican. that's just the way it works. >> harris: the criticism is still pouring in over the vice president's exaggerated facial expressions during the debate. you caution us. your top line thought on that. >> i wasn't that worried about it. she would nod her head no when donald trump was talking. not bad to communicate visually when the other person is talking. i'm focused on what she says, not how she looks. >> harris: we have breaking news. merrick garland is talking with a d.o.j. employees, let's watch. >> because you want to serve the american people, and thank you not only for the work you do,

but for the way you do your work with skill and integrity. that is what i want to talk about today. this workforce's iron clad commitment to the principles of fairness and impartiality that have long guided it. and why that commitment is as important today as it has ever been. 84 years ago, then attorney general robert jackson delivered a now famous address to the u.s. attorneys right here in this great hall. in that speech, he sought to remind u.s. attorneys of the enormous power they hold as federal prosecutors and the responsibilities that come with that power. he defined what he deemed, quote, a good prosecutor, as a person who, quote, tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who

serves the law and not factional purposes and has humility. that speech that he titled the federal prosecutor outlined values that have echoed in the halls of this department and outside of it for generations. he gave voice to the principles that have guided not only prosecutors but all of our employees who understand deeply what is at stake when it comes to the fair and impartial application of our laws. his words have inspired generations of public servants, including me. i first came to the justice department more than 40 years ago at a time when both the leadership and the career employees of this department were working to restore public confidence in the fair and impartial application of our

laws in the wake of watergate. to do so, department leaders like attorneys general leavey, bell and others developed and formalized a set of norms to guide the justice department's adherence to the rule of law. relying on values foundational to our democracy, in particular the promise of equal justice under law, they put forward a set of policies to guide the justice department's work. those included policies designed to protect the independence of the justice department from partisan influence, guidelines for f.b.i. investigations, regulations to protect the freedom of the press, and policies to insure respect for the department's career lawyers, agents and staff. and they included a project to set out for the first time in a single authoritative source a

set of principles to guide the exercise of prosecutorall discretion. in my first job at the justice department, working for attorney general, i assisted on that project. the result was a slim paper bound volume entitled "principles of federal prosecution" published in 1980. as you well know, the current version of the principles is now a 23,000 word electronic document enshrined in the justice manual. the purpose of those principles as we wrote in the preface was to promote the reasoned exercise of prosecutorial authority and contribute to the fair, even handed administration of the federal criminal laws, close quote. much of that document is devoted to giving guidance to

prosecutors about which factors they should consider in a multitude of situations from initiating prosecution, to selecting charges, disclosing exculpatory information, entering into plea agreements and making sentencing recommendations. but the core of the principles is its directive about which factors an attorney for the government may not consider. in the words of that document, quote, the attorney for the government may not be influenced by a person's race, religion, gender, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or political association activities or beliefs. by the attorneys' own personal feelings concerning the person, the person's associates or the victim, or by the possible effect of the decision on the

attorney's own professional or personal circumstances. this provision of the principles ends with an admonition, quote, federal prosecutors and agents may never make a decision regarding an investigation or prosecution for the purpose of affecting any election or the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party. in short, we must treat like cases alike. there is not one rule for friends and another for foes. one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless. one rule for the rich and another for the poor. one rule for democrats and another for republicans. or different rules depending on one's race or ethnicity. to the contrary, we have only

one rule. we follow the facts and apply the law in a way that respects the constitution and protects civil liberties. over the past 3 1/2 years, i have spoken to you often about the importance of these norms. i know that to many outside of this department they may seem abstract or even inconsequential. they are anything but. and they must not be taken for granted. for us, adhering to these policies, principles and norms in everything we do is how we fulfill the promise that is foundational to our democracy. that all people will be protected equally under the law and that all people will be held accountable equally under the law. our norms are a promise that we

will fiercely protect the independence of this department from political interference in our criminal investigations, are forms are a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon. and our norms are a promise that we will not allow this nation to become a country where law enforcement is treated as an apparatus of politics. [applause] over the course of four decades

during which i served in different jobs, both career and non-career in this department and in a completely different job in the judicial branch, i watched as those norms became woven into the fabric of the justice department and were sustained by its dedicated career employees. when i came back to d.o.j. in 2021, after a particularly difficult period for the department, i said that my mission as attorney general would be to reaffirm and strengthen those norms as the principles upon which the department of justice operates. so we took steps to better protect the department's criminal and civil law enforcement decisions and its legal judgments from partisan or other inappropriate influences. to name only a few of those steps, we reinstituted policies regulating contacts between department personnel and both

the white house and congress. we strengthened and clarified the guidelines for sensitive f.b.i. investigations. we implemented remedial measures to insure robust compliance with section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. we updated protections for the press and law enforcement investigations in order to safeguard the essential role that a free press plays in our democracy. we published new policies to guide prosecutorial discretion with respect to charging, please and sentencing. we supplemented our state secrets privilege policy to insure that the united states in invoke -- department leadership we stated and demonstrated through our actions again and again our respect for the work

and integrity of the career employees who constitute the institutional backbone and historical memory of this department. over the past 3 1/2 years, i have seen how the public servants of this department have continued to uphold and strengthen those norms. i have seen how you have risen to meet a range of extraordinary challenges and i have seen the inkaluable toll this work has taken on so many of those, those who risk their lives every day. i am thinking of heroes like tommy weeks, the deputy u.s. marshal who was killed while apprehending a fugitive earlier this spring. and i am thinking of heroes like tommy's family, who have made the kind of sacrifice that no one should ever have to make.

in addition to seeing how you have operated in the face of dangers like violent crime and terrorism, i have also seen how you have bravely carried on in the face of an unprecedented spike in threats targeting a range of public officials across the country. over the past 3 1/2 years, there has been an escalation of attacks on the justice department's career lawyers, agents, and other personnel that go far beyond scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. these attacks have come in the form of conspiracy theories, dangerous falsehoods, efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out and threats of actual violence. through your work, you have made clear that the justice

department will not be intimidated by these attacks. but it is dangerous and outrageous that you have to endure them. it is dangerous to target and intimidate individual employees of this department solely for doing their jobs and it is outrageous that you have to face these unfounded attacks because you are doing what is right and upholding the rule of law. you deserve better. you deserve gratitude for the noble and difficult work you do. you deserve recognition for the integrity and skill with which you do that work. you deserve to be honored. the work you do every day makes a difference and the way you do that work makes clear that the public servants of the

department of justice do not bend to politics and that they will not break under pressure. [applause] the choices you make in every investigation in, every filing, in every trial, in everything you do to insure the fair and impartial application of the law make this department and our democracy worthy of the public we serve and we serve. and for that you deserve respect. as you know you have mine

wholehearted. you also have my promise that nothing will stop me from defending this department. [applause] and defending the extraordinary people who work here. i came back to doj as attorney general believing that our norms are some of the most powerful tools we have to ensure our adherence to the rule of law. having now served as attorney general for the past three and half years, i continue to believe deeply that our norms matter now more than ever to our department and to our democracy. i also believe now more than ever that the most important resources the justice department has are the dedication and integrity of the people who work here.

as we wrote in the preface to the first addition of the principles of federal prosecution "important though these principles are to the preparation of our federal prosecutorial system, the success of that system must rely ultimately on the character, integrity, sensitivity and competence of those men and women who are selected to represent to the public interest in the federal/criminal justice process. it is with their efforts that the purposes of these principles will be achieved." >> the attorney general merrick garland talking about what he called direct threats of violence to some of the public servants career public servants by repeatedly and publicly signaling them out in politics. that's what he is alluding to. the only name the name of one

person who had been a victim of this and said -- going out the names of the people who he thought were doing all of this to his employees. so we will probably drill down hopefully and get more detail on what exactly he calls an escalation of attacks on the justice department's career attorneys agents and other personnel. i want to talk with us about this without fit count limit founder clay travis, so using your legal acumen, look at this and tell me what exactly is he saying is going on. >> well, i think he is trying to make the department of justice look like the victim here when the reality is most of the criticism of the department of justice i took notes while he is talking is despite what merrick garland says, he is not ensuring that all people are protected equally under the law, and i will give you one huge example here, harris, the president of the united states

willfully according to robert hur's own investigation retained classified documents. he is on tape bragging about adding them to his biographer, his ghostwriter, and robert hur decided that despite the fact that we knew that our sitting president willfully retained classified documents that he was not going to charge him with a crime because he was basically senile and no reasonable jury in his opinion would be able to convict joe biden of the requisite mens rea that is the intent to commit a crime that he did commit. so when you simultaneously have them trying to put donald trump in prison for the rest of his life for classified documents, i know that thankfully that's case has been dismissed for the moment, but it is on appeal by the department of justice. it's hard to argue that you are treating like situations in a

like manner and politics does not determine why joe biden gets off for a crime that he definitely committed according to the department of justice's own investigation. >> harris: i will tell you where i thought you were going with that and that is simply that you were -- merrick garland said there's no one of us justice department who makes their own decisions about a case and that's where i thought you were going, because robert hur took all of the notes from that case and all of the interviews and definitely made a decision about that case. so he does have independently acting people underneath him. that's where i thought you were going, those are two points. >> i think there is no chance, harris there was going to be any charges brought against by then, but there were charges brought against trump, and that's where people say we don't have a fair and impartial justice system despite what merrick garland says. >> harris: despite the politics it is never, never good for people to go to work and feel under threat. it could not happen with the u.s. supreme court with brett kavanaugh and it can't happen here.