your license is automatically suspended when you do that in new york. he is expected to talk at some point today to give a statement. i don't know if he will take questions and head back out on the world tour. if you are interested he will be in newark, new jersey and september 28th. >> bill: didn't know that. see what happens. stand by, all right? you are officially on stand by for this. before we go here we go. empire state building paying tribute to james earl jones. the way the empire state building constructs its lights they can do just about everything. they have the image of the "star wars" villain darth vader. if you look carefully. rest in peace, lord vader. >> martha: that's amazing. i love the way they did that. thought it was too many different colors but they did it so beautifully and a great tribute to him. >> bill: see you at 3:00.

we have to roll. here is harris, have a great weekend. >> harris: a warning to voters from the trump campaign. you should not expect anything new if vice president kamala harris is elected, especially when it comes to the high-priced economy which millions of americans are suffering under. we know it's always the economy. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." it's an economic warning coming from the governor of north dakota, doug burgum. he is campaigning for former president donald trump. >> the way we beat inflation and get the economy going is elect president trump. kamala's economic policies, i mean, it is more of the same. a little bit if people think she will fix the economy, it's like asking an arsonist to put out the fire because she lit the inflation fire. >> harris: republicans recently

put out a state by state analysis of prices we're all paying and they compared right now to the time when president biden and vice president harris took office in january of 2021. so from then to now. you can see it for yourself. voters in battleground states in particular are paying nearly $1 thousand more per month on exactly the same products and services 3 1/2 years ago. it's another biden-harris crisis. >> they're trying to maintain that prices that happened -- we're getting to the point now where my husband says this can't continue. things are just way too high. >> we're all tired of not having any money in our pocket. she is disconnected from regular folks like myself and the rest of us. i have no faith in what she has to offer. >> we cannot afford another four years of a democrat in office. it is just very simple. no, we can't afford kamala to be

in office. this democratic diet that we were all just put on the last three years is not sustainable. >> harris: that's a catch phrase. democratic diet when it comes to your wallet. it actually was the first question that kicked off tuesday's debate. moderators asked vice president kamala harris when it comes to the economy, do you believe americans are better off now than they were 3 1/2 years ago? she didn't answer the question. and byron york's new column argues it was the most important question of the campaign. he says she flubbed it. she tried to answer it and failed adding, it was also the most predictable question and topic of the entire debate. for a split second she seemed surprised. senior national correspondent rich edson is live at the white house. rich. >> good morning, harris, the white house debates back here inflation, discussion at the white house going on in

briefings, other forms here. the white house argues that the united states is, in fact, turning the corner. >> we can't forget what this administration inherited. an economy in a tailspin. that's what we inherited. it was paralyzed because the former president did nothing. >> republicans argue this administration should have just done nothing. the nearly $2 trillion american rescue plan in 2021 boosted inflation. prices are 20% higher than in 2021. gop members on the joint economic committee say inflation and consumer prices in key swing states are largely more than the national average except pennsylvania. other republicans are also highlighting how much more americans are paying than they were just a few years ago. >> this administration we have faced record inflation. as one of my friends said the most expensive vehicle the

americans drive today is their grocery cart. >> democrats blame inflation on pandemic disruptions and global conflicts. the $2 trillion spending plan avoided a -- they point to rising incomes. paychecks have outpaced inflation for the past year and a half. democrats on the joint economic committee say wages and salaries from january 21st to july of this year outpaced inflation by nearly $4500. the latest read on inflation comes from august. prices in august were 2 1/2% higher than they were from august a year ago. that, of course, is on top of all the inflation that we saw throughout the last few years. >> harris: you know what? that is such the important part that you point out, rich. it doesn't mean that prices go down when the inflation rate comes down a bit. or -- prices are rising and at

one time 9%. now it's plus 2 1/2%. the left leaning "washington post" editorial board weighed in on the question posed to v.p. kamala harris. are americans better off than they were four years ago when donald trump was in office? they say she dodged it and no wonder. on tuesday the census bureau released an update on income, poverty and health insurance in the u.s. as of last year. this is all in the "washington post" now. the data suggested that income-wise as of 2023, many americans were still not quite better off than they were in the last pre-pandemic year of 2019 nor necessarily even than they were in 2020. the left has made a talking point of turning the corner on inflation but bare essentials -- i mean bare. who lives without food, shelter, auto insurance, energy costs, all up by more than 20% since

biden and harris took office. sean duffy, former wisconsin congressman and co-host of the bottom line on fox business. let's talk business. let's talk the economy. it was just a misfire by kamala harris over and over and over when she wouldn't even address the issue of the economy. what is she going to hand us? >> the problem with that question, harris, was she didn't answer it. also every single american knew the answer to that question. they all knew of course we aren't better off now than we were 3 1/2 years ago. we're worse off. for the administration to say listen, we're turning the corner. these are the same people that told us that bidenomics is working for us. these are the same people that said the border is secure. you make a great point inflation. important to understand this. adds on top of previous inflation. so again we're up 20% over the last 3 1/2 years and wages have not increased by 20%, which is why americans feel poorer. in politics, harris, you have to talk about the issues that

people care about. you might not have great answers but you have to have some answer to address their concerns that they are poorer today. you have get -- i live this life. i have five kids, if a 200 unexpected bill came in i was stressed out. fought with my wife. you had inflation on top of it. left leaning democrats say i want to vote democrat but my finances are so bad today and this administration has been so horrible. i can't vote for them. i might not donald trump or the tweets or the language, but i loved the economy. i can't live under this economy. i want the trump economy back. >> harris: vice president kamala harris made another false claim about former president trump at both of her rallies last night in north carolina. here is a clip. >> donald trump will give billionaires and big corporations massive tax cuts and cut corporate taxes by over

a trillion dollars even as they pull in record profits. he will add more than $5 trillion to the national debt. he intends to cut social security and medicare. >> harris: okay. we'll just read directly from the republican party's official 2024 platform after what she said. a promise to quote fight for and protect social security and medicare with no cuts. is anybody on her campaign reading? everybody is looked at her platform even when it didn't have any policy on it like 96 hours ago. now it has very, very lean talking points on there. so people really don't know what she would do. here is another one. president trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from medicare or social security from the platform. you can see one is in chapter six, protect seniors, our

commitment. this is from the republican platform for the entire united states. watch. >> we'll take care of social security. we won't do anything to hurt our seniors. there is so much cutting. to help seniors on fixed incomes suffering the ravages of inflation, there will be no tax on social security. we're going to stop it. no tax on social security. i will fight for you and fight for the ability we are going to protect social security, we are going to protect medicare, and we aren't going to have any cuts or age increases. >> harris: i mean, it's perfectly clear on that issue. and i don't know if the left threw kamala is trying to have its own version of truth but there is one truth. they can have their feelings about it but what she is saying is not what donald trump has

said. >> you have video and documents and kamala harris continues to repeat the lie. where is the media? we're going the fact check her on that. >> harris: we're here but not left leaning. we're covering the news. >> we're fair, right? the problem. 35 trillion in debt. social security medicare are going broke. the trust funds will run dry. you have to tap into the general fund to help pay and meet those promises. 35 trillion in debt and 2 trillion budget deficits you won't have the money to take care of seniors. the real threat to every single american who will rely on social security and medicare are coming from the big spending democrats blowing the budget up. one quick comment you played this on taxes. again it's a great line to say if you cut taxes you will have less money for democrats to spend. you american people, your lives will be worse off because we aren't taxing billionaires. the truth is for the tax cuts we passed when i was in congress in 2018, we brought more money into

the federal coffers. we made more money because there was more economic activity. lower taxes, less regulation, give you more growth and then more revenue and more people can fend for themselves and not rely on government. that's the problem with the liberal philosophy. it is flawed. by the way, with all the money they've spent, no one's life is bert. we should have gold plated roads for all the money we spent on infrastructure. we don't have roads and bridges. they lie to us. >> harris: i asked the question about the infrastructure bill. where are the receipts on that? the george washington bridge and another one, the lincoln tunnel and we have water main break after water main break. i won't get into it. the people who suffer when that happens. sean duffy, thank you. fox news alert. pop star justin timberlake is set to appear any moment and

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made public. we're told he will speak to the reporters that you saw to the wider public coming out of the courtroom. we'll take you there live if and when it happens. you saw him walking into the courtroom. we're covering it on both ends. both presidential candidates are back on the campaign trail. president trump has a busy day in california first. about to hold another news conference. and he is holding a rally later just a few hours later in nevada. vice president harris is in a battleground state today, pennsylvania. meanwhile, fallout continues over what score of people are calling -- what scores of people are calling a biased debate tuesday night. the "los angeles times" is reporting on how abc's moderators who you see pictured there prepared to go after trump during the debate. abc's davis told the paper she and co-moderator david prepped hard to fact check trump after

the first debate where she says people were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not be disputed by the candidate biden. well, did they prepare for kamala harris or just by complicity did they assume she would only say what was true and only answer their questions? fact checking needs to be done on both sides. a tour deforce of criticism over it. it is called the worst debate in presidential debate. mark penn argues in a new op-ed and did on this program earlier this week. abc bias deprived voters of a fair debate. they called trump out on every falsehood but let harris get away with one lie after another. a democrat close to the clintons, penn with this on the "focus" yesterday. >> when the refs 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 team. they did a real disservice to the voters of america and put in jeopardy the institutions of debate. >> harris: that's plainly put. the nation's 45th president donald trump has vowed he will not debate again. understandably in this case, despite kamala harris's team calling for another match-up almost immediately after tuesday night. trump said he doesn't think there is any reason for it. no need for it. cassie and brad is here. brad, i want to come to you first. this would be the third debate and not trump or anybody else's fault on the right for the fact that you guys changed your ticket.

three debates would be a lot. he has done two. what do you say? >> look, i think any time that the candidates are put together on the same stage at answering questions about their positions on the issues is generally a good thing. i thought we had it right when we did the presidential debate commission. the reality is when you shift to a broadcast network like abc. >> harris: that's a good point. >> you switch to a broadcast network they have a self-imposed journalistic integrity standard trying to uphold. because they're on the broadcast airwaves they need to fact check more than i think something like the debate commission has typically done. >> harris: why didn't they do it to her? >> her evolution on the issues guns and fracking. >> harris: 40 minutes into the debate was talk about flip-flopping. after the former president had already brought it up. >> reality is trump is known for telling the easy to dismiss and

easy to prove false statements. >> harris: ivf. it was so easily knowable you could have fact checked it in your memory. i will go to cassie. >> what we saw here is another example of democrats and their allies in the media who don't think kamala harris can do it on her own. they had to prep, they had to come to her defense and had to be her defensive lineman. they were afraid she would step in it herself if they didn't protect her and defend her. that's what we saw. they didn't fact check her. then the bloom would fall off the rose she doesn't have clear positions or flip-flopped on the positions. they allowed her to sidestep right out of the gate on the first question where it was asked what the economy. she side stepped and never said you didn't answer that question and the way they did towards president trump. that right there right out of

the gate was a disservice to the american people. that is why so many people were tuning in to get the answers to the questions that she has side stepped and answers to the questions she refuses to sit down and have a solo one-on-one interview and discuss or even a press conference. it was a disservice to the american people. abc was the leader in that disservice by trying to protect and defend her because they don't think she can do it on her own. >> harris: we heard moments ago from mark penn. we'll go again. he goes further when it comes to how abc news handled the debate. >> i actually think they should do a full internal investigation and hire an outside law firm. i don't know how much of this was planned in advance. i don't know what they told the harris campaign. i think a review of all thafr internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on in effect fact checking just one candidate and in effect rigging the outcome of this debate.

>> harris: he is a regular guest ton this show. one of the many democrats we have daily here. i think i know him well enough to know what he is doing. it is even and fair to kamala harris to want that type of transparency because otherwise it makes it look like she does need the help. why couldn't she get it done on her own? i do get the point of why he would be doing this. brad, i'm curious at this point how in the world can america look at this and think that this is a fair procedure and still also not know much about her policy because she chose to go after trump rather than going after everything else that would help everyone else in the audience? >> i will say a couple of things. cassie said earlier ridiculous assertion that somehow democrats are in cahoots with the media. >> harris: it was ridiculous that they can do be dates. we stand together in news

conferences. >> when joe biden was the nominee and had a bad debate performance the media criticized him. number two this is donald trump's own fault. kamala harris baited him. he took the bait and sent him into an incoherent side show. >> harris: how are the fact checks his fault and not fact checking her. how is it his fault. >> she baited him into making outlandish claims. a third point which is >> harris: you didn't answer my question. how could it be his fault they didn't do the job of fact checking her? >> she poked him to giving an emotional response making outlandish claims and they have a right as journalists to fact check the claims. he attacks moderators when he loses the debate. he lost the debate and immediately started attacking

abc news. this is what donald trump does when he fails. he blames everyone but himself. >> harris: you are ignoring the questions and you know you know you know there were problems with some of what she said. and it needed a good fact check. do one, do both. i'm doing both today with both of you and say thank you and cassie and brad, i will see you next time. >> thank you. >> harris: vice president kamala harris back to the full decriminalization of illegal narcotics in 2019. let that hang in the air for a moment. portland, oregon tried doing what she favors. it was a disaster. where is kamala harris on the issue now? great question. plus vladimir putin of russia threatens war against the u.s. and nato over ukraine useing western weapons. >> putin has his hands full here. he has ukrainian military inside

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drills in nearly 30 years. we saw this earlier this week and russia's defense ministry is now saying the drills involved 90,000 troops, 400 warships, submarines and other vessels. 120 fighter planes and helicopters. while that was happening, the united states has been meeting with the european union in brussels to talk about china's support for russia and security in the indo-pacific. and today president biden will host at the white house u.k. prime minister. the two of them are set to talk about the war in ukraine and russia's president vladimir putin warning a possible wider war with the u.s. and nato. they better hit that topic. fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane with this. >> putin has his hands full here. he has the ukrainian military inside his territory and he is making some progress with his

major counter offensive but it is not making the coined of exploitation progress he wanted to take a significant amount of territory back. so there are real issues for him on his side as well. >> harris: jackui heinrich at the white house. >> there have been signs the biden administration might move forward with this policy change. secretary of state antony blinken making a wartime terre whip to ukraine 57bd said he would bring back to washington what he saw there. he added that u.s. has always adapted when the battlefield has changed. that's the line we've seen in the past when they have made policy reversals on things like patriots and fighter jets. >> i'm not going to get into hypothe hypotheticals. you have heard from this president. the war could end today if mr. putin will end the war he

started. >> british p.m. is expected to ask the president's approval to allow ukraine to use british storm shadow missiles for expanded strikes in russia. biden needs to sign off. some components are made in the u.s. the administration is not ready to preview anything yet even asked to respond to putin's accusation that if u.s. allowed this it would be drawing america into conflict with russia. >> russia firing ballistic missiles from iran which will further empower their aggression in ukraine. if anyone is taking escalating action it would appear to be mr. putin and russia. >> ukraine is pursuing this policy change with renewed importance after the biden administration said this week that iran sent to russia short range ballistic missiles to use against ukraine which would open them up to a whole new wave of destruction far beyond the front lines, harris.

>> harris: that last detail about iran and russia, that's a lot. jackui, thank you. brent sadler, former pentagon official joins me now. let's start there, iran and russia and ballistic missiles. >> absolutely. i think we saw this actually play out when iran attacked israel directly in april and then you had the assassination of the leader of hamas in tehran and you had a former defense minister fly days later to deliver a message to iran of don't jeopardize our arms supply to our fight in ukraine. this is drones as well as ballistic missiles. i think we've seen it in realtime. it is a real dynamic in the war playing out in ukraine. russia relies on its allies like north korea and iran. >> harris: we always call it saber rattling. i don't know if anybody is fighting with sabres anymore. it's a saying. how seriously do we take the saber rattleling from russia

when they say they want to go to war with us and nato. >> my view this administration has misread and misjudged putin's calculations from day one and gave too much credibility that russia was ready and willing to attack a nato country. i think calling that bluff should have been done years ago. ukraine should have been allowed to use the weapons they gave them to most effect on the battlefield as they saw. the result of the hand wringing. holding back and hyper management from russia and d.c. how the war is fought brought us into a war of attrition which is what the russians excel at. finally now is very late into the game but i don't think necessarily it has to be an escalating move. russia has a lot on their hands. the last thing is to add to it. it would add pressure to get to the peace table perhaps. >> harris: putin is not ever

been described as even handed character. if you want to burn your ground on the way out the door he might be a likely character to do it. >> perhaps. his tenure in moscow is not indefinite also. he has a lot of things he has to consider. >> harris: i want to talk a little bit about our role particularly under the biden-harris administration. you were talking about some of the areas where we gave ukraine -- american weapons but wouldn't let them use them everywhere they wanted to. and through the years if you look at it, biden first took him a while to go visit. took him a while to send anything. took him a while to commit, you know, u.s. resources and assets from the very beginning. we saw 150,000 troops amassing on the border around that country and in staging in belarus and the biden-harris administration didn't do anything. before the invasion even happened. they could have but they didn't. >> absolutely.

the indications were there as early as april of 2021. there were exercises all the way into the tail end of the summer of 2021 and the fall. statements made by the white house that encouraged the green light would be read as a green light in moscow and this war was completely avoidable. misread putin, misread his calculations and maybe playing out in the pacific now. >> harris: the connection with china now. always great to get your expertise. thank you very much. fulton county georgia district attorney fani willis back in the news defying a state senate subpoena happening just this morning. members wanted her at a hearing on her handling of donald trump's election case. now she suffered another legal blow in that case. actually, two of them. plus attorney general merrick garland honing in on one word

again and again during his address to the justice department yesterday. >> our norms are a promise, add hearing to the policies, principles and norms, the importance of these norms. norms matter now more than ever. >> harris: he says norms such i don't know if it has a meaning he is intending. people are trying to figure out what is he saying? critics say he is the one who violated the norms. karrie urbahn, fox legal editor, in "focus" next. and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow youa and other companies. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today.

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>> our norms are a promise that we will fiercely protect these policies, principles, and norms, the importance of these norms. those norms become woven into the fabric of the justice

department. strengthen those norms. your commitment to this department, to the norms that sustain it, our forms are some of the most powerful tools. our norms matter now more than ever >> harris: attorney general praising his justice department with fairness in pursuing historic political cases and saying -- >> the past 3 1/2 years there has been an escalation of attacks. 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. >> harris: okay. critics have a lot of issues with what he is saying there. merrick garland failed to mention his own role as the first a.g. to prosecute a former

president. clay travis in "focus" with me yesterday pointed out differences in how his department handled trump versus joe biden's classified documents cases. >> i think he is trying to make the department of justice look like the victim here. i think there is no chance, harris, that there was going to be any charges brought against biden. but there were charges brought against trump. that's where people look at this and say we don't have a fair and impartial justice system despite what garland says. >> harris: the "wall street journal" editorial board with the headline. merrick garland and the norms of justice. did he think his trump prosecutions wouldn't get a furious response? they wrote this quote, mr. garland can lecture about norms all he wants. he is the man who under political pressure broke a norm that has lasted for more than 200 years. mr. garland's legacy will be that he unleashed the whirlwind by prosecuting a former president. he could at least spare the

country his righteous indignation. end quote. in "focus" karrie urbahn fox legal editor. i thought about you yesterday wanting to get your reaction and now i can. >> there is nothing normal about the department of justice attempting to imprison the former leader of the free world who also happens to be the attorney general's political opponent, his boss's political opponent. you know, harris, under this department of justice in washington, d.c., the u.s. attorney here declined to prosecute 67% of all people arrested in the cases brought to him except for two distinct groups. anyone who was at the capitol on january 6th where this department of justice brought all kinds of at least against a third of them untested legal theories the supreme court slapped down and can't bring laws that have to do with evidence tampering and document shredding against people at the capitol that day. the other group that this

department of justice has vigorously pursued and prosecuted are pro-life activists. they went after people who wrote in chalk in front of an abortion clinic in washington, d.c. that all black lives matter, pre-born black lives matter and a three panel judge here in d.c. said the department of justice was selectively enforcing the law against pro-life folks. that's a pretty big allegation to say that and so they didn't mind all of the rampant crime that was happening around us right here in the nation's capital but when it came to the people who were peacefully standing in front of an abortion clinic they threw the book at them. there are so many examples we could be here all day going through them. >> harris: two key ones, though. a lot of video to go with it. another policy reversal or flip-flop, whatever you want to call it, kamala harris is making them. she used to put people in prison for a long time for possessing marijuana. now that it's legal, she wants to wipe away laws against all

illegal drugs completely nationwide. decriminalize them. what would it look like out there in the world if that were the case? back in 2019, when then senator kamala harris filled out an aclu questionnaire she wrote the opioid crisis has reaffirmed the failure of criminalization, full decriminalization with appropriate treatment, responses could address the stark racial injustice and reduce incarceration, end quote there. that's what she wrote in 2020 oregon became the first state to remove traditional penalties for drug procession. a business owner describes the impact it had on the community. >> i had a customer who had to walk over a lot of people who were on the stairwell in the parking garage doing drugs. at least five people. it impacts our business. it impacts the soul of portland's economy as well.

>> harris: the whole city was affected. this year oregon passed a bill to recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs. so they went back to making it a crime. polling by the newspaper found 73% of people who live there supported recriminalizing hard drugs. they learned some hard lessons, apparently. crime rose dramatically in portland between 2021 and 2023. homicides up 11%, burglary nearly 10%. car thefts 33%. robbery up 23%. this is on top of increases in overdoses and homelessness. karrie. >> i don't think this surprises anyone who has common sense. of course if you legalize drugs like this it is going to hurt communities, it will cause crime to go up and cause neighborhoods to fall apart, businesses to be impacted. you know what it really hurts?

this is what gets lost in this conversation, the person who loses the most is the addict. they should be getting help, not ways to further harm themselves. i've never understood this argument. so in addition to what it does to the community it really hurts the user themselves and it is obviously a terrible idea. we saw what happened in oregon and we can see a glimpse with the pushing of the safe injection sites which they are an attempt to do where people can shoot themselves up under supervision of doctors in neighborhoods. can you imagine what it does to a neighborhood? would you feel safe with your children riding bikes? >> harris: it happens in new york city and the areas here. i don't have to imagine it, sadly. >> think about the legalizing an normalizing. let people do drugs together under the supervision of doctors. it's crazy. you go ahead. >> harris: such a great question

you are asking about particularly the injection sites. it is my understanding that the whole point is to keep them safe from things like disease that would spread with dirty needles. what about the stuff that's inside the syringe that's killing them moment by moment? especially god forbid it is fixed all in with fentanyl. >> right. again, you don't have to be an expert in anything to look at a situation like this and say it's a terrible idea for everyone. everyone loses. i just think it is interesting the aclu questionnaire has come to light and everyone is seeing how kamala feels about things since she won't say how she does and mirrors what trump says so people would think it's happening. thankfully we have this helpful questionnaire to tell us where she actually stands and has some extreme positions. >> harris: it is our job to fact check. that's what we do as

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