>> she wasn't stupid. she would have never played with her life like that. teens make crazy choices. we all did. it shouldn't -- she shouldn't have died. >> her mom says her daughter's dealer never gave up the supplier leaving her in the dark. she has no idea where the pills even came from. >> dana: a lot of families dealing with this. brook taylor, important story. >> bill: how helpless they feel when it goes down. a lot moving right now. don't go anywhere. >> dana: a huge day today. i'll see you "the five." we'll see what happens between now and then. president trump doing a rally in new york today. harris faulkner will take you through the next hour. here she is with "the faulkner focus." >> harris: the chicago city council is holding a meeting as leaders in chicago are fighting

over how to protect people in a city plagued by violent crime. democratic mayor brandon johnson wants to end chicago's shot spotter program and that is something that electronically detects gunfire. police say it's necessary. they have had it in most of their precincts now. but the mayor claims the technology is a walkie-talkie and hasn't reduced crime. it is the price tag that would be the sticking point for the mayor. i don't know where else he would want to spend millions of dollars. police say it ought to be on this program because it's working. this has gotten to be a spicy conversation over time and now that they are meeting not just once today over a whole bunch of topics at this meeting but we know this one will come up. they have a designated meeting later in the day on this same topic. it is hot. we've seen emotions run high over how to protect chicago's

citizens from the continued violent crime in that city. we'll get to that when it happens. let's start here. >> i think it is very important to not operate from the assumption that black men are in anybody's pocket. black men are like any other voting group. you have to earn their vote. so i'm working to earn the vote. not assuming i'm going to have it because i am black. >> harris: well, there you have it. vice president kamala harris speaking with the national association of black journalists yesterday and heard her trying to court some of those black men voters as more of them are embracing president trump. you hear me say it all the time. the operative color here is green. it is high prices on everything. it is the economy. she is not talking about that in

the specificity that apparently not just black men but people from all over the country, every race and ethnicity having a hard time pinpointing what exactly her plan is to dig them out. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." recent polls show vice president kamala harris had made gains with the voting block since president biden dropped out of the race. so you can see where she has picked up with black voter support. well, biden was headed so far south i don't know how much lower the bar could have gotten there. anyway, she still falls short of the percentage of black voters who chose biden in 2020. and kamala harris side stepped many questions on how exactly her policies would affect the black community. and that includes her stance on slavery reparations. here she is on setting up a

federal commission to look at it. >> we need to speak truth about history, we need to speak truth about the generational impact of our history in terms of the generational impact to slavery, generational impact of red lining, of jim crowe, i could go on and on and on. >> do you have a position whether that should happen? >> i think congress ultimately will have the ability to do this work. >> harris: one columnist is arguing reparations stoke racial resentment and kamala has backed it to the hilt. here is an excerpt from that. now harris's campaign declines to say where she stands. americans agree that slavery and jim crowe who abhorrent parts of our nation's past but the race based reparations is bad news. would a president kamala harris

sign a reparations bill into law? we need to know. end of quote there. gianno caldwell joins me now. it was the same crowd, different treatment, for kamala harris yesterday. she didn't get the same pressure on her and disrespect that donald trump saw when he went before that very group. so my concern now, my big question has to do with do we really know enough about her policies? >> i think most americans would agree we don't know enough about her policies. we've seen in 2019 what she has advocated for, green new deal and many other things that americans don't like. they don't want to support. but i have to tell you, harris, this is what it is looking like to me. the helium in the joy balloon has escaped. no more joy when people recognize the fact what kamala harris wants to do is this price control thing she is trying to do with grocery store prices,

the fact that inflation is still an issue for people regardless what the data might say now, and people haven't been able to keep up with what has happened in our country. and i think her sales pitch to the american people is flawed. vote for me and i'll fix everything wrong with the country now on day one. you are in office now and that has to be the winning consideration for republicans and donald trump because you have an opportunity to do something today but you have yet to do it. so i feel as though she is really lying to people in their face. if you are going to do it, do it. they're not. >> harris: the helium in the joy balloon has escaped. that has been the campaign. it is all about the feels and the joy, so on and so forth. we saw that on full display at the dnc. critics called out harris for using yet another accent at a congressional black caucus event last week. let's watch together. >> hello to all my brothers and

sisters. and my -- [laughter] it's all my h b-cu, brothers and sisters. >> harris: your thoughts. >> we know that kamala harris isn't authentic. one of the things that i think people especially in black communities have recognized about her is seemingly she only comes and speaks on these particular issues when she needs their votes. democrats have been doing this for african-americans for many years. i grew up in politics at 14 on the south side of chicago and regularly saw democrats come in and say what they were going to do by their next election cycle and they did nothing and come back and ask for the vote. this is another one of those tactics used by democrats across the board, including hillary clinton if you recall. >> harris: it is particularly sad, though. i mean, because she had the

opportunity there to high tide lifts all boats. we're all in together. doesn't matter what you look like and so forth. you've heard me say it before. it is money, it's green, it is the high prices of things. she had a shot at just nailing it there. i'll make it better for everybody and she hasn't. she didn't do it yesterday. she didn't do it in front of the black caucus. let's get to this. a city council meeting is about to begin in chicago and it comes as city leaders are challenging their far left mayor, brandon johnson's decision to do away with the gunfire detection system known as shot spotter. that technology has been helping police get information on gunfire and locating the source and you know they have a lot of shootings every week and weekend in that city. so police need help. there is another special city council meeting on this very topic expected to come up later today. we've seen the discussions

around this get -- the mayor is critical of the shot spotter. it's expensive. maybe that's part of why and down played its effectiveness. let's watch. >> we have spent $1 hundred million on what essentially is walkie-talkies on a stick. $1 hundred million. the reason why they said they needed it was to reduce gun violence. it didn't do that. >> harris: just off the top i was reading this morning some experts are saying it's more like 53 million. police say it's working but it is a lot. >> what is also expensive? losing lives like my little brother lost his in the city of chicago and why mayor brandon johnson has a 25% approval rating. he has failed the people of chicago. people like me have to come in with the caldwell institute for

public safety just to insure that lives can be protected. they should keep shot spotter. i remember it when i was come up and what the technology did. saves lives. that's what we need. more technology to save lives. there are 2,000 detectives behind on the current caseload that they need to actually protect the people of chicago. the mayor is not doing his job, totally failed and we need to replace him. >> harris: why do you think he wants to do away with this? i'm tying it to money. are there political reasons i don't know about in chicago? >> i think it's all to do with money. you keep in mind they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the migrant crisis there. they are trying to get pennies wherever they can. unfortunately, this one could cost lives and it is unfortunate that they've allowed this. the sanctuary city siders have allowed this and why we're having these issues today. >> harris: thank you for being in "focus." appreciate you, my friend. fear and outrage are growing

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>> harris: breaking news, we have watched it for the last 24 hours or so . reports of additional hezbollah communication devices blowing up inside lebanon. possibly hand held radios or walkie-talkies this time. remember, it has been pagers and personal devices on people's -- in their pockets and so on and so forth. these would be walkie-talkies and radios this time. it comes after explosions yesterday killed at least 12 people, injured nearly 3,000, including hezbollah fighters, injured when their pagers exploded across lebanon. it appears small amounts of explosives were hidden inside pagers and remotely detonated. israel is not commenting on this attack. the defense minister did notify defense secretary lloyd austin yesterday before the explosions. the idf is now on high alert as

hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against israel. just for a second let's pause and remember who hezbollah is. they are fully funded, they are a terrorist army, terrorist-like army although they're considered the military for lebanon. money flows from iran. and they have put pressure on the system of israel fighting against hamas. they want that war to end. that's why they say they have, in fact, been engaging and hitting israel with rockets across its northern border. this is a back and forth. this is something brand-new in how they will fight each other, maybe. israel has not spoken on it. we'll cover it as it happens. the united states secret service will be brief on the bipartisan trump assassination attempt task force today about the latest attempt on the former president's life. we've been learning that an

internal secret service report on the july 13th assassination attempt that was expected to be released this week, may now be delayed because of the second attempt to kill him. democratic senator richard blumenthal went after the biden-harris administration for lack of information on the first attempt to kill him. >> i am reaching a point of total outrage because the response from the homeland security has been totally lacking. in fact, i think it's tantamount to stonewalling. the department of homeland security has to be more forthcoming to me and the american people and do it quickly or it will fuel the conspiracy theories so dangerous to our democracy as well as undermining its own credibility. >> harris: federal law enforcement agencies are

continuing to dig and learn more about the second alleged would be assassin, ryan routh's background. he has previously had multiple run-ins with the law. a nurse says she encountered him when she was volunteering in ukraine two years ago. >> i determined after knowing ryan for a while that he was a threat to others. so i felt that it was necessary that he be reported to the proper authorities. >> did he ever talk about assassinations? >> all the time. he developed plans. he talked about biden and trump but i can't remember it's been over two years since i heard those conversations. i can't remember exactly what he said but he did speak frequently about harming world leaders. >> harris: and she spoke up. she notified homeland security but they did not respond to her until monday. dana marie mcnicholl is in west

palm beach, florida now. dana marie. >> good morning. as we are piecing together routh's troubling past. fox spoke to a greenville police officer with over 100 run-ins in with routh. it escalated to hit and runs, theft of cars and equipment. >> all my interactions with him, he liked to run his mouth and play the victim, you know? he felt the city was always against him and he would file complaints against myself and other officers feeling that we were picking on him. >> in 2002 routh became a felon after barricading himself in a business with a fully automatic rifle. the f.b.i. continues their investigation rating routh's home in hawaii yesterday.

they are interviewing the suspect's friends, family, neighbors and co-workers. the state of florida will conduct an investigation. governor desantis doesn't trust the feds and wants the shooter to face the possibility of life in prison. a punishment he doesn't think federal officials have the jurisdiction to pursue. florida state a.g. says the investigation runs parallel to the federal investigation and former president tumble did meet with officials yesterday. officials say that security at mar-a-lago is at its highest level parallel to when the former president was in office. >> harris: i guess i wonder why it wasn't like that after the first attempt on his life? how many does it take to get to where they need to be maybe? maybe they need more. thank you, great report. appreciate it. "focus" now paul mauro, fox news contributor, attorney and retired nypd inspector. let's start here. how many ryan rouths and thomas

crooks are out there? these are suspects in these crimes and as you dig into their history, they have a lot that we can learn maybe about them. but do we know enough of what we're looking for? people speak up and it still doesn't help. >> we know how to do this, okay? i will track this to the counter terrorism effort post 9/11. we expanded the jttfs, people online, all this stuff heavey laired within the first amendment. at the end of the day you are somewhat looking for a needle in a hay stack. you are looking for those people who rise above trigger certain metrics, certain trip wires where you then have to activate against them. that will be the question that will be part of the congressional investigation here. some of the stuff coming out about routh does rise to the level, in my estimation, you have to look at especially the foreign travel. that's a real red flag. somebody who did counter

terrorism for 15 years. >> harris: to a war zone. >> that kind of a thing layered over all the other derogatory on him. encounters with the police, online statements, etc. , and let's come back on top of all that he returns it looks like last year from overseas. got this almost like a book he writes about iran, and again you put all these pieces together and you have to hope somebody is looking at that. the nurse said she told dhs. where were they? >> harris: i don't know, where is secretary mayorkas? can he talk on the topic of the attempted assassinations of trump? the us secret service falls under him. we'll move to this. axios is reporting some liberal groups are hoping vice president kamala harris will go back to her liberal border positions after we've heard things like this on the campaign trail. >> we know our immigration system is broken and we know

what it takes to fix it. comprehensive reform -- that includes strong border security. >> harris: right now the house homeland security committee is holding a hearing on the biden-harris administration's open border policies. you wouldn't need congress to fix what you've broken. patty morin's daughter was allegedly raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant and spoke to the panel last hour. let's watch. >> and i just hope and pray that you will listen to what we have to say. i'm trying to make my statement as short as i can so i don't cry. rachel was, when was a little girl she was a spitfire, tiny little redhead. as an adult she was a vivacious,

outgoing person. she is the american mom. they are bringing criminals into our country and allowing them into our smallest towns and our people are dying. >> harris: she is one of many victims of alleged violent crimes by illegal immigrants under the biden-harris administration. paul, you warned us that this could get worse. did you mean this or is there more? >> stuff like this. as you let these numbers in, of course there will be more. let me tease out a nuance. the administration is making great hay that border encounters are down. they quietly reinstituted this chnv program. before it was deactivated due to massive fraud. their own words. you had 30,000 being flown in every month. first of all, from where? are we picking people up in venezuela? none of this is explained.

they say they are vetted, 30,000 a month, which is probably an understatement. let's look at the nations, cuba don't cooperate with america. venezuela doesn't cooperate but president is under indictment by d.o.j. he won't cooperate with it. venezuela, cuba, haiti, run by criminal gangs. we can't get information from any of these people. >> harris: a border in the sky. >> they are coming in and supposed to know who they are. we don't. they are establishing here. not just tren de aragua. they get established and like the italian mafia years ago. we denied they exist. hoover wouldn't admit they existed. it took decades to get rid of them. we better wake up. >> harris: another warning from paul mauro and they come true unfortunately. both president yacht candidates have sat for an interview with the national institution of black journalist. how the two were trothed was very different. very different.

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>> harris: kamala harris sat down for her first solo interview. she didn't have a running mate by her side this time. it was with members of the national media and it has been the first time since jumping

into the white house race. she still has not given a national one-on-one interview or a news conference. the panelists at the national association of black journalists took a very different tone when speaking with kamala harris yesterday compared with some of the treatment that they gave former president donald trump in july. i was on that panel and didn't see it coming. watch. >> you have told four congresswomen of color who are cam an citizens to go back to where they came from. you have used words like animal and rabid to describe black district attorneys. you have attacked black journalists calling them a loser saying the questions they ask are stupid and racist. >> republicans have at times weaponizeed you laughing in campaign ads, for example. why is joy important to you to insert into this election?

>> harris: first of all, notice the physicality of all that. we were on stage. trump and i couldn't hear each other. 41 minute delay thing with audio that abc news and others were running backstage. that was cozy. everybody could see everybody and make eye contact and do follow-up questions. we didn't see that pushback on her but potential for it. it was that arc, a good way to have a conversation. kellyanne conway with her take. >> i found the vice president to be a little condescending if not rude to the moderators when they pushed her to answer the question they asked. i think kamala harris takes the media for granted the way she takes for granted hard core democrats who have never voted any other way who are excited. she feels like she can bat the media around a little bit and bend them to her will. >> harris: the campaign says she

will talk to the press at her own pace. she better hurry up. harris's senior advisor told "the new york times" quote, if you want to know the kind of things we plan to do, look at the things she was doing all year before the ticket switch end quote. that's why we're asking. outside of the failure on the border, we don't know. she taught us a.i. stands for artificial intelligence. tammy bruce, fox news contributor. you saw him there on that panel with martha maccallum, patrick murphy is him former democratic congressman and former undersecretary of the army. let's talk about this. it has been longer since she was announced than there are days to the election. and we know nothing more about her policies. the ones that really count on economics. she will list a few things, the website is very lean. that sort of thing. it doesn't make news for its specificity. >> well harris, i think actions speak louder than words.

economy is moving in the right direction. the stock market is over 40,000 points. 30,000 when they took office. unemployment all-time record low. it was at 15% in the middle of covid. >> harris: during the middle of covid was before -- okay. >> 6.8% when biden took office and it is now lower. no one -- i would say to you we have the fed rate cut today which is positive after they raised it to make sure we had a soft landing. >> harris: historically high. they have to make history bringing it down. what did you say inflation was when biden took over? >> it was up at 9%, now down to 3.2%. >> harris: when he took over from trump it was 1.4%. >> there was also trillions in debt, though. >> harris: false talking point. >> part of the inflation was because of the debt and donald

trump raised our debt 8 trillion. a record, $8 trillion. it's true. >> let me add about the stock market. try putting that into your gas tank. put the stock market on the table for dinner. >> gas was up over $5. >> harris: we can get back to that. headlines from kamala harris's interview. she avoids getting to details as she battles with trump. harris refuses to veer off script in her second high profile interview. she is stuck with the same script she used in the local interview last week and during the presidential debate. here are the receipts. >> i grew up a middle class kid. i grew up a middle class kid. i was raised as a middle class kid. having a background as a prosecutor. i was a career prosecutor for most of my career. i started by career as a prosecutor. i offer a new generation of leadership.

and, you know, i offer a new generation of leadership. and what i do offer is a new generation of leadership. part of my plan that is under an opportunity economy, creating an student opportunity economy. i intend to create an opportunity economy. to apply their incredible work ethic. >> investing in the ambitions, aspirations and work ethic of the american people. i believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the american people. the american dream was attainable. the american dream is illusive. actually not attainable. what has been fleeting in terms of the american dream. the vast majority of us as americans know we have so much more in common than what separates us. the vast majority of us as americans have in common. we have so much more in common than what separates us. >> harris: i want to thank my team for putting that together. there was so much of it and it is only an hour show.

>> i think at the black journalist association there was a moment where she was being asked about food prices and she said -- she started out and it was a moment she says what i offer. here is the moment where she can give a specific. she went back into that talking point. a new generation of leadership. that also will not put food on your table. now, after the debate americans and the focus groups when asked was that they recognized her as being evasive. that this might be, in fact, a effort to not rock the boat but that she clearly is not answering the question. the tone was set with that first question about are people better off than they were four years ago and she started talking about lawns and the middle class. so i think that the american people have seen this for what it is. but if you have a chance. imagine one of us have a chance to be the president, you are talking to the world in a debate and you have ideas. this is the chance to say this is what i will do.

americans don't trust someone who will not be clear. >> i will say she did answer that. she said food prices are too high and we have to do better. >> harris: wait. we have to do better is not -- >> part of is a transparency. she came out with an economic plan also saying mcdonalds had -- >> harris: you were laughing through that. what was funny when you saw how many times she repeated. tip your script writer on the way out the door. >> it is funny. you have have patrick murphy and do is same. she is introducing -- >> harris: that is not the same thing as her spouting talking points that are 0. no substance. >> there is a massive contrast between this race. she comes from a middle class background and is a new generation leader and going against a guy born and third base and he hit a triple. >> harris: had a great economy.

>> economy. >> and wracked up the dead $8 million with lowered the tax rate and drove up -- harris is saying detail. >> harris: having people out of work. because they were >> not going to raise taxes. >> they say a wrap. our situation speaks for itself. >> come on. can i say one nice thing >> one last thing i will say it. the american people are being lied to by omission is unacceptable. we are at a turning point in this country. it is life and death. not about all -- i did not interrupt, patrick. all roads do not lead to rome. one road goes off the cliff. >> harris: potential port strike could walk the u.s. economy and ruin the holiday season. critics are going after president biden for refusing to use federal law to block the

strike. the white house is still calling trump a threat to democracy. and that has some voters in battleground states very unhappy about democrats' rhetoric. >> democrats continue to say a threat to democracy. >> democrats, i think that they don't want to admit it but they have a big part in it. >> i heard that from a lot of liberals oh, once he gets in power he will never leave. >> harris: republicans are calling for democrats to cool down the rhetoric for the sake of former president trump's safety. gop congressman byron donalds in "focus" next. when you live with diabetes, progress is... having your coffee like you like it without an audience. ♪ [silence] the freestyle libre 3 plus sensor tracks your glucose in real time so everyone else doesn't have to, and over time it can help lower your a1c

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>> harris: breaking news, crowds are already gathering for former president donald trump's rally on long island in new york. that's about an hour east of manhattan. tonight the campaign says the rally will focus on the effects of the economic and immigration policies of vice president kamala harris and new york city's mayor adams security for tonight's event has been increased. and this is trump's first large-scale rally. they had a town hall in michigan last night.

this is a rally now. the town hall looked like a rally because there were so many people. this is the first official large rally since the second assassination attempt on his life. look at those people. the time is 7:00 p.m. eastern. they are getting there early. a potential strike at dozens of america's ports could rock the u.s. economy again and again and again we get hit. what will this do to prices? president biden will not use federal law to stop it from happening. the administration says it doesn't want to interfere with collective bargaining. that's a union thing and we have a presidential election coming up and dems don't want to touch that. we get it. 45,000 workers from maine to texas could stop work starting october 1st. this could cause big supply chain disruptions for the holiday shopping season. those ports handle nearly half

of all american imports. analysis from j.p. morgan says a strike like this could cost the u.s. economy $5 billion per day. lydia hu is live at the port in new jersey with more on this. lydia, this is unreal like the pandemic shutdown but worse. because we were still working and we will still lose all this money. >> you've got it, harris. this feels like it is happening all over again. it feels like we have the chance to avoid it but hope is that a strike will be avoided at this point is now quickly fading. the contract for the workers expires on september 30th so we could get a strike in just two weeks' time. consider how inflation has absolutely run away during the biden administration driving costs higher and a strike now that would impact the ports along the east coast and the gulf coast could force those

costs higher for businesses and consumers. consider this. east coast and gulf coast ports handle roughly 43% of all u.s. imports. the top commodities impacted are autos and car parts. for consumers it could mine higher prices. shipping costs currently 162% higher than they were just one year ago. a strike could force them even higher. business groups, as you can imagine, are very concerned. the national retail federation sent a letter to president biden yesterday signed by 177 business groups. they write this, quote. it is imperative that the administration engage with the parties. a strike at this point in time would have a devastating impact on the economy, especially as inflation is on the downward trend. as you mentioned, the white house says president biden will

not invoke the taft hartley act. another could be involving the administration in negotiations, talks seem to be at a stand still. no new negotiations scheduled. wages is a sticking point. employers say they are offering industry-leading wage increases for reference we can look to the west coast. there is longshoremen got a 32% wage increase last year in their new contract. but according to the "wall street journal," the longshoremen on the east coast and gulf coast are demanding a 77% increase over the next six years. that's a lot. they aren't even close. the employers say they want to continue talks but the longshoremen say they're ready to strike to get a landmark deal. >> harris: all right. lydia, thank you so much. i now want to bring in representative byron donalds from the great state of florida.

43% supply chain will drive up prices. i mean, this almost feels like a pre-october surprise in the worst way. >> you are absolutely right, harris. i was listening to that report and quite frankly a wage increase like that will send shock waves into the pocket books of every family. the bigger question is why isn't the biden-harris administration trying to do anything about this? they should be getting involved now. that's what presidential leadership looks like. the fact that they will sit on the sidelines and watch is frankly reminiscent of the rest of their economic policy. they sit on the sidelines, they put in bad policy and they do not respond when the harm hits the pocket books of every american. >> harris: the harm hits the pocket books. that is so true. you sit on the house financial services and oversight committees. you know it seems like the biden-harris administration likes to hand you guys a big pile of pooh when they don't want to touch something. it gets them in trouble with the unions if they stop the strike.

does this land in the hands of people on the hill? >> not likely. this is something where quite frankly it will be up to joe biden if you can find him and or kamala harris, if she will answer questions about what will be their game plan around this. there needs to be a deal done pretty eye quickly. you can't have a situation where there are major strikes like that. if the report is correct you talk about a $5 billion per day impact to the american economy. that won't be helpful to families who are already falling behind because of the massive inflation brought to us by kamala harris and joe biden. so we need to get a deal done. this is where the executive branch has purview. congress has delegated that authority and given the ability for the president to step in. where is he? quite frankly, where is she? >> harris: this is a national security issue, too. because those ports that will remain open are going to have to do all the work now to try to make up that 43%.

i don't know if they can. what does that do -- what do our enemies see? china with its goods, trade deals. big picture. >> major implications internationally to the core of your other question. the other ports in the country can't pick up that slack. you have work rules out in the california ports. then you have the crazy environmental rules of the state of california on what type of vehicles go to pick up goods at those sports and why you can't have bad environmental policy that impacts trade and impact the flow of goods into the country. the white house saying they won't do anything and make sure a deal gets done is not appropriate at this point in time. especially considering the facts that the federal reserve is looking at rate policy coming out in a couple of hours. not the time for sitting around or hanging out at the beach. they have to do something.

>> harris: i'm so glad you were with me for the breaking news and reporting. great to see you. we'll bring you back. "outnumbered" is next.