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a lot of funny business out there. >> bill: before we go, he said before we go. election officials are going to the ends of the earth. even to the astronauts. >> i sent down my request for a ballot today, as a matter of fact. they should get it to us in a couple of weeks. >> an important duty that we have as citizen and looking forward to being able to vote from space which is pretty cool. >> bill: that's cool. >> dana: they'll make history. >> bill: they work with nasa to send electronic ballots to the astronaut to make sure it stays secret. the county clerk in houston is assigned to process it when it comes back to earth. why don't we just bring them home? why don't we do that? >> dana: passwords should not be passwords. harris faulkner is next. >> harris: well, she wants to be
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in the white house. however, vice president kamala harris just caused democrats to suffer a major loss. the teamsters labor union and its 1.3 million members are not endorsing her. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." that labor organization announced it will not endorse a candidate period this time around. here is what makes this particularly damaging for democrats. it marks the first time since 1996, nearly 30 years, that group, that important union with all of its members, has not backed a democrat white house nominee. so kamala harris has helped them gain that check mark in history. teamsters president sean o'brien spoke about the decision. >> we interviewed both candidates and we were seeking commitments from both candidates
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and we couldn't get solid commitments on our core issues. no endorsement sends a message to both parties that if they truly want to support working people, they have to re-evaluate it and understand that nothing is given. it is earned. >> harris: the non-endorsement could hurt kamala harris's push to position herself as a working class candidate. former president donald trump spoke to fox about it. >> the teamsters, for many, many decades always automatically support the democrats. this year they refused to do it. they are not going to support the democrats this year. i guess they'll remain neutral. but that was sort of a big event. nobody ever expectsed that to happen. many years since they supported a republican or did this. >> harris: internal polling of teamsters rank and file members shows they back trump nearly 2-one over kamala harris. look at this. 59.6% say they are backing trump
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instead of kamala harris. but that's their internal polling. a massive surge for donald trump since july when biden was up by nine points. what did she do to drag that down? we'll get into it. a new column head lined why teamsters members think trump, not harris, is the real friend of the working man. it argues if this huge title wave of teamsters votes to trump is reflected in other unions across the country, the electoral implications could be profound. they may think he is imperfect or rough around the edges, but increasingly they also see he is the one, as the race's only friend of the working man. senior white house correspondent peter doocy. >> and harris, for the last couple of week teamsters members have been sending their preferences back to headquarters in washington, d.c. with a qr
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code they were scanning to pick harris or trump. they were breaking for trump 60% to 34% that harris had according to their internal numbers they released. the teamsters said despite that 60% and that is still very annoying to progressives. >> i'm very disappointed in sean o'brien's leadership. i have found it increasingly alarming all year when the teamsters are in trouble, who do they call when we need to make sure teamsters pensions are billed out and need to make sure that they have a fair shake at the negotiating table, with rail, it was sean o'brien calling democrats for help. >> some local teamsters union groups will endorse harris. smaller-scale endorsements in battlegrounds like nevada, wisconsin, western pennsylvania. the white house doesn't have much to say about being shunned
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by a huge union, despite claiming the mantel of most pro-union administration for years. >> and so can't speak to any sort of endorsements. that's for the campaign to speak to directly. but in is a president who has really has put -- when it comes to union and bringing jobs back to -- back to america. >> the harris campaign is hoping to move on. we don't think this teamsters non-endorsement is going to come up in the vice president's livestream tonight with oprah. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. as peter just mentioned the teamsters did not endorse trump despite overwhelmingly supporting him. one report with this. people are asking quote, the union suggested that harris only needed to have majority support. well, trump got that to receive their endorsement.
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but trump would have needed universal support to receive the endorsement. what does that even mean? is that 100%? steve forbes, editor in chief, always great to have you in "focus." for kamala harris she needed a lower bar to get the endorsement. it was majority. i would imagine that is 51%. but for trump, he would have needed universal support in order to get the endorsement. what's the difference? >> the difference is for them to endorse a republican, even though the rank and file want trump, would have put them in the crosshairs of democrats in congress now and in the future. so they are covering themselves since they aren't going to endorse harris, they know the rank and file want trump so if trump had gotten 89% maybe they could have had cover. 59 normally a landslide but in that world not good enough for a republican. >> harris: why do they need
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cover? if your rank and file want one thing isn't it the union's job to represent the people in the union? >> we see especially with the teachers union represents themselves, not the people they are supposed to serve. not the rank and file. and so but i think he spoke -- the president spoke at the republican convention and gave a very democratic speech, was received politely. he got the word from the rank and file. >> harris: you are talking about sean o'brien speaking at the rnc. i was there for that speech. it did sound very left so on and so forth. maybe they gave him the message you aren't representing that. >> he wants to knock on the democrats doors after the election. their version of a word salad. >> dana: the federal reserve cut the interest rate by more than expected. 50 basis points. the first rate cut in more than four years and comes after
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months of hikes to try to contain the raging inflation. some are saying they see this as a huge sign that the economy is a lot worse off than we think. >> it shows the economy is really bad they cut it by that much. assuming they aren't just playing politics. >> the move today represents the fact the harris biden administration has so damaged this economy they had to take extraordinary actions only seen in states of emergency to try to get it fixed. >> harris: "wall street journal" editorial board says we should read between the lines. chairman powell said all is well in the economy but such aggressive towering suggests it is more worried than he thought. he addressed the issue of unemployment yesterday and the way he did it is something that trump has been saying for so long and people accuse him of all sorts of things but trump was right. watch this.
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>> if you are having millions of people come into the labor force and creating 100,000 jobs you will see unemployment go up. it really depends on what's the trend underlying the volatility of people coming into the country? we understand there has been quite an influx across the borders and that has actually been one of the things that has allowed the unemployment rate to rise. >> harris: it is no longer the quiet part. the fed chair did in part what he did because of the immigration issues that we have going on at the border. someone call the vice president kamala harris and tell her to fix it right now. >> they've been trying but it won't get through. she doesn't want to have to defend her non-job. she drew a salary as vice president but clearly she wasn't showing up to work to do the border part. the fact that powell is speaking out of both sides of the mouth, the fed often does. economy is great but we're still worried i think shows that they
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see some real head winds out there and see it in the revisions each month in the jobs report. a nice headline number but always revising downward. the jobs report of the two previous months. they obliterated 800,000 jobs they thought they had. >> harris: or hadn't told us they didn't have. whatever the case was, the original number was off by almost a million as you point out. quickly trump has been saying this for a pretty long time. well into the presidency and the vice presidency of biden-harris. what did he see that maybe we're not being told? >> he saw the world as it is. it's the math. some people have been crossing the border. that's 10 million and have an impact. he hires people. he knows what the impact is. >> harris: the 10 million we know about. remember the gotaways, 2 million of those. >> there will be another 5 million out there. and that's the shock we don't know. >> harris: they're flying them in. >> that's crazy and they focus
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on springfield, ohio. they don't eat cats and dogs. you pour in 20,000 people in a 60,000 people citizens you'll have problems and they get away with it. it is outrageous. >> harris: he stopped by to say hello. we appreciate it. breaking news now. alaska man charged with threatening to hurt and kill six supreme court justices. this has been an issue since threats to conservative justices were spiking after the roe v. wade leak two years ago. a house hearing right now is focusing on the state of our national security as an unprecedented border crisis, again we bring this up, is bringing potential terrorists now right to our doorstep. plus former president trump is talking about his unfair treatment at last week's debate. >> i think my only regret is that i wanted to be elegant and
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i didn't want to go after the anchors. i wish i did in a way. >> harris: new criticism over abc news moderators failing to fact check vice president kamala harris. ben domenech and breaking news, details on what i told you about with the u.s. supreme court as the "focus" rolls along. alan, we get it. you love your bike. we do, too. that's why we're america's number-one motorcycle insurer. but do you have to wedge it into everything? what? i don't do that. this reminds me of my bike. the wolf was about the size of my new motorcycle. have you seen it, by the way? happy birthday, grandma! really? look how the brushstrokes follow the line of the gas tank. -hey! -hey! brought my plus-one. jamie? introducing the second chance offer from betmgm. what'd he say? if you bet on a player to score the first touchdown and instead he scores the second? boom! you get your money back - in cash.
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>> this administration's policies have created a threat environment that every american is now living under. >> how many more suspected terrorists or actual terrorists are part of the nearly 2 million known gotaways no one knows? i pray we don't find out the hard way. >> harris: there it is. those are the same numbers i was just giving you with steve forbes as the federal chairman says this is putting pressure on
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the jobs in this country right now. that's why in part he had to raise the interest rate. so he took all that rosie good news away, wiped it away with the truth. let's dig into what that really looks like right now and mix in the fact this administration, the biden-harris administration has been flying people in we couldn't count saying they are legal under a couple of programs. it got lighter at the border and you heard me say it on this program yesterday if you were watching, i now call what they are doing the border in the sky. doing it by plane. that hearing is going on right now on capitol hill and the house homeland security committee is looking at terror threats caused by the biden-harris border crisis. an alarming number of people with terrorist ties being apprehended at the southern border. according to the u.s. border patrol, 400 terror suspects have been encountered at the border under biden and harris. that is a more than 3,000% jump
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over the previous presidency of trump. his entire term. the same house committee released a scathing report on the border chaos. it reads in part quote, quite simply biden-harris and mayorkas have launched an assault on the rule of law, end quote. a retired border patrol chief testified yesterday that a cover-up was part of the border crisis. >> through pressure from the administration my headquarters became more interested in fiction being portrayed in the media and not at all concerned with reality. each time we asked for help dealing with a new issue it fell on deaf ears. at times in san diego we had 2,000 or more aliens sitting between the fences asking to turn themselves in. i was told to move them out of sight of the media. >> harris: that explains a lot how they forensicly wipe away the truth. tell the 2,000 illegals to move out of sight of the camera.
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vice president kamala harris is mocking former president donald trump's plan to deal with the millions of illegal immigrants who have flooded into the country. >> they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation, a mass deportation, in american history. imagine what that would look like and what that would be. how is that going to happen? massive raids? massive detention camps? what are they talking about? >> harris: illegal immigration remains a top issue among voters. a new poll fox news poll shows most voters believe trump will do a better job on the issue than harris and they know what trump will do with deportation. he has been talking about it this entire presidency of biden and harris. ben domenech is editor at large of the spectator and a fox news contributor. i tell you, the truth now is not just drip, drip, drip, it is a
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floodgate. >> well, harris, i think we should view this as part of a whole strategy on the part of the democratic party over the last several years. really decades of trying to do things that they know to be illegal and unconstitutional and then establishing that in such a way that by the time that it actually comes to the point where you can do something about it, either politically or address the issues involved, that they basically can argue well, this already happened so what are you going to do? are you actually going to engage enforcing the law now that we've been operating in a lawless environment for this many years and with this many millions of people would poured in and render it an impossibility. same thing with their approach to obamacare and student loans. they essentially put these policies in place knowing that they are illegal or knowing that they are flouting the responsibilities that they have under the rule of law. certainly secretary mayorkas has done that. and then by the time that there is actually a point where
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someone comes along and says we have to reverse this they argue it's impossible. that's something that i think the american people are sick and tired of because they understand that they see it for what it is, which is attempting to do something that is unconstitutional, at odds with the rule of law and basically saying it's too late, it is already done and over. you can't do anything about it. the american people want this to change. they understand the threat that this represents to our communities, our way of life, and burdening particularly smaller communities. as steve forbes was saying, whatever you think about what is going on in springfield you can't assume dumping this many people in small cities and towns across the country won't burden all the different resources supposed to serve law abiding citizens. new york has experienced this themselves with the migrants that have come there and seen the way the democrats have reacted with hair on fire to actually being called on their bluff and that's true across the country as well. for communities that have
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nowhere near the resources like a place like new york city does. >> harris: 54% of americans support deportation in brand-new polling. she can fail and word salad all she wants, 54%. you know who you can ask how it would really work? ask former president barack obama. his nickname was deporter in chief. he knows how to get it done. he should tell her. >> well, yes, that would be helpful. this is a different democratic party than the won that barack obama came up in. he had to be strong on the border in order to allay fears about radical open border policies. she does it but she is really on that high wire through election day. harris, you talk about the polls. i would love to see a poll of those same teamster union members saying how they feel about this election when it comes to the immigration and
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deportation issue. >> harris: all right. outrage is growing over an abc news failing to fact check vice president kamala harris during that recent debate. this time it was about her claim on u.s. service members. here is what she said at the debate. >> there is not one member of the united states military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world. the first time this century. >> harris: republican senator tom cotton scolding the network. posted this. this goes beyond bias, it is a media company joining the harris campaign. this after an indiana republican congressman jim banks posted a video appearing to show american soldiers under fire in the middle east. abc news's martha raddatz acknowledging fact checkers for the network found harris's claims to be false. where were they the night of the debate?
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>> our fact checkers found it to be false. there are currently 900 military personnel in syria, 2500 u.s. troop in iraq, all under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. why would she make that claim? >> harris: why didn't they fact check her in realtime? they were too focused on donald trump and it was an uneven playing field at that point. they should have gotten her to do it. republican senator roger marshall is demanding any pre-debate communications between abc news and the kamala harris campaign. all right. ben. >> look, i think this was completely unconscionable on their part. as soon as she said that i reacted because i was like what has she been doing? does she not read any of her briefings and not do the work? bart simpson put more work into his book reports than this. it is absurd to see the second
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most important job in terms of our executive branch who apparently is unaware or is deluded to the point she thinks that we don't have troops who are in these combat zones in harms way under constant threats of attacks. it is incumbent upon her to know. the fact she is operating in this fantasy land is really an indictment of her as a potential commander-in-chief. abc should have followed up immediately and the fact this they didn't for something so blatant just tells you how much they were focused on a debate between themselves and donald trump as opposed to having an actual responsible attitude towards the facts. >> harris: right after that harris's campaign was looking to debate at another friendly network. let's see if they sit down with with fox. it will happen here. >> i know you would hold them to account. harris is facing more criticism
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for her press avoidance. even a major media outlet is calling her out for a very real strategy of running away from the press. plus voters are laying into democrats now for the attempts on former president trump's life. >> president biden has been clear-eyed about the threat that the former president represents to our democracy. >> i mean this from the bottom of our heart. trump is a threat to this nation. >> trump is a threat to our democracy. >> harris: democrats at the very highest levels of government there. critics are saying they have to answer for their dangerous rhetoric. steve hilton next. when it comes to amgen's life-changing medical breakthroughs, every second counts. but without investment, those breakthroughs are often paused. citi's seamlessly connected banking, markets and services businesses, deliver global financial solutions. so our client can keep investing in innovations
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operates as a military of the country of lebanon, has communications devices exploding over the last couple days simultaneously. 30 people killed, thousands of people in that country were injured. he is promising a crushing response to israel. >> israel issued thousands of summonss and detonated them simultaneously. the israeli enemy haviolated all laws, regulations and red lines. >> harris: condemning the attacks is alexandria ocasio-cortez posted the attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. she calls for a quote answer from the state department as whether any u.s. assistance went into the development or deployment of this technology. far left leaning actually calls herself a democratic socialist.
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senator bernie sanders took things a step further with a pair of joint resolutions that would block u.s. arms sales to israel and says we must end our complicity in israel's illegal military campaign. republicans are fighting back. governor doug burgum with this. >> i think it's one that shows the strength and capability of being able to do counter terrorism with incredible precision. they found a very way to disrupt communications, disrupt the trust and really set hezbollah back. >> harris: well, and the headlines say it all. israel's pager blast sent just the right message to hezbollah. also from the "new york post," israel turns the page, turns the pager on terror with ruthless psychological master stroke against hezbollah. steve hilton. fox news contributor.
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your top line thoughts when you heard wave two was happening against other devices. this is going on. >> this is a nation, israel, a democracy that is under attack from enemies all around them. of course they have a right to defend themselves with every means at their disposal. we would do that. they should do that. we should support them and frankly those statements from aoc and bernie sanders are not only more onic, they are obscene. for aoc to call this an attack by israel. no, it is not an attack, it is defense. bernie to call it a military campaign, no, it is defense of their nation, which is facing a threat from terrorists and all organized by iran all around them. >> harris: how seriously can anyone take hezbollah as acting alone? this would be iran. if they retaliate against israel. iran hit israel once this year and sent in far more ballistic
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missiles that anyone anticipated. we know they can do some damage. >> israel has had to evacuate people because of the war being wageed by hezbollah funded, financed and organized by iran going back to october 7th a year ago. we know the whole effort was organized and had meetings in lebanon with hezbollah, iran's leaders going there to plan the whole thing. this is one set of enemies organized and funded by iran. we have to be clear about that. >> harris: i brought this up yesterday in discussions around this. i'm curious to know, is there any backbone or interest in this country to go and get the hostages away from hamas while israel would be fighting this second front of a war against hezbollah? i don't -- i haven't talked with anybody in the military who has squarely said they can do both at this point successfully.
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>> that's the whole point, harris, i'm glad you brought that up. when we don't do things like that, our enemies think that we are weak and feckless. of course we should be able to achieve multiple goals on multiple fronts. we in partnership with our allies. we have americans being held hostage. the top priority. you talk about backbone. biden-harris people are concerned it is on the back burner and doing nothing about it. >> harris: right before an election. it gets more complicated for them if they help israel too much. you have seen the uncommitted vote. voters attending a trump town hall in michigan this week blame democrats' rhetoric for the two assassination attempts against him. >> i think it is the rhetoric. some of the things that are being said shouldn't be said. >> democrats continue to say a threat to democracy for no reason whatsoever. >> none of that talk is necessary. >> democrats, i think they don't want to admit it but they have a
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big part it in. >> i think the democrats are to blame. >> they say he will destroy the country and ruin democracy. i think it is just language that is put out there. >> harris: "wall street journal" with a new column titled killing trump, the democrats should answer for their role in the toxic politics of america. excerpt from that piece, another day, another assassination attempt. life goes on. is this what politics has come to? shrugging off the formerly unthinkable. we'll discover in less than 50 days whether the targeting of mr. trump helps or hurts his candidacy, whether undecided voters agree with him he deserves re-election because his treatment by the democrats has put him in danger. >> the american people exhibit the common sense we don't get from our leaders. the couple in that -- this kind of talk is not necessarily is
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exactly right. make your election arguments on the basis of the issues that affect people on tax, economy, border, crime. of course, the democrats have nothing constructive to say about it and an appalling record. all they have left terre the scare stories about a threat to democracy. kamala harris uses the term -- it is preposterous and dangerous and double standard. when republicans use the language taken in the wrong context. he is talking about the car industry with bloodbath. they say he is calling for a bloodbath and people to be attacked. it is ridiculous. when democrats use that language it is a normal part of political discourse, ridiculous.
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>> harris: authorities arrested a man for threats against six supreme court justices. the suspect sent 500 messages including death threats to the justices whose decisions he disagreed with. plus critics want some answers from the vice president on her flip-flops. here is a sample. >> will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking your first day in office adding the united states to the list of countries who banned the practice? >> no question i'm in favor of banning fracking. >> harris: she doesn't say that now. her team isn't saying it for her. something different. was she meaning it then or does she mean what she is saying kind of thing now? lawrence jones talked with workers in pennsylvania who say they don't trust anything she says on the issue and former secretary of state hillary clinton claims vice president harris does not need to clarify her policy decisions. wait until you hear why hillary
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>> harris: authorities have picked up an alaska man, the department of justice says the man threatened to injure and kill six u.s. supreme court justices and some of their
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family members. he didn't like the decisions they were making. so this is what he wanted to do allegedly. a d.o.j. source is telling fox it's likely those threats were directed toward the six conservative members of the court. here is what we know. the suspect is 76 years old and sent more than 465 messages through a public website maintained by the court. in "focus" now karrie urbahn on the breaking news. we're getting some more details about this. i want to hear from you on that on this case. >> we don't know yet if it is a six conservative justices. as you pointed out we have a source telling us we can read between the lines and there is probably safe to assume it is. so this got me thinking. these threats, the increase of political violence in this country is, i think, quite disturbing to all americans no matter which political side you fall on. but what i'm seeing is that this political violence, the threats
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of it, seem to be only directed towards one side. that's republicans. those are conservatives. and we can go through some of these examples. specific to the supreme court for example. we remember when the dobbs opinion leaked and what happened next, tons of protestors showed up at the conservative justice's homes harassing and bullying and intimidating them. the law was not enforced against those protestors at the time. bret kavanaugh was almost murdered. there was an attempted murder on his life. that doesn't go to trial until next year. you have to ask yourself why is this happening? this, of course, against the back drop of our former president and possible future president, assassination attempt on his life now twice. again, so i'm sitting here thinking why is this happening? and you have to take a look at what else is going on? you have "the new york times" that is continuously running hit pieces against the conservative
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justices unfairly mischaracterizing their actions and mischaracterizing the ethics rules. you have that. you have president biden who has repeatedly criticized the supreme court. the conservative wing wants to transform the court entirely because he doesn't like the decisions. you have dick durbin and his democrat colleagues on capitol hill who are constantly calling for hearings and also slandering these conservative justices. it is no wonder that this is happening. but i'm hoping that people are taking a look at this and thinking this needs to stop and what can i do to help prevent that from happening as well? >> harris: when you talk about the rhetoric, there is kind of a commonality here. it is something that former president trump says is happening with him. the type of words coming from the very top of democratic leadership against him and the rhetoric calling him an threat. what do you do with the threats? one congressman said, daniel goldman of new york and sense
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apologized for the words saying he used the wrong word. you eliminate someone like that. yeah. you will talk about a president, a former president and say call for elimination. again, representative daniel goldman said he used the wrong word in that incident. you compare that to the situation and you are telling us things that have been said about those justices. it is a lot. words do matter. >> they do. i do think both sides could do a much better job at toning down inflammatory rhetoric. that aside and that is something that i think everyone needs to consider. the fact that this political violence and threats of political violence only keep happening directed towards one side. and what's ironic is that the democrats and their partners in the media keep waving around january 6th like hoping no one is noticing what else is going on. with respect to the conservative justices and donald trump.
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come on. i think it's time for people to stop hiding behind that and have a reckoning with what is happening currently. threats and violence toward people on the right. >> harris: as the news is breaking about the suspect they have picked up who is threatening or has threatened u.s. supreme court justices, six of them. thank you for being with me on this. >> thank you. >> how is she going to sit in a room with vladimir putin and xi jing ping and sit in a room with the adversaries of america if she won't sit down for a friendly media interview? we can't expect her to represent the people on the world stage. >> harris: jd vance appearing to press vice president kamala harris to do more media interviews. well, i don't even think she
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cares. everybody is pressing for it. it has been 44 days since she announced minnesota governor tim walz was her running mate. since then the harris-walz ticket has only done a combined 14 interviews. trump and senator vance who you just saw have done 55 interviews in that same time. axios with this headline. the harris-walz media strategy hide from the press. excerpt from that, harris team believes limiting interactions with the press is the right strategy. even if it frustrates reporters. bottom line, some of harris's worst moments as vice president have come during interviews when she made a flip-flop or unclear comments about key policies. critics want to hear more from her now on the growing number of policy reversals that she is committing. and those include fracking, illegal immigration, ending private insurance, mandatory gun
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buybacks and the list goes on and on and check this out from hillary clinton. >> she has put out policies on her campaign website. anybody who is truly interested can read about them. she referenced policies. she doesn't just have policies and concepts. she has plans about what to do. it's a double standard. a double standard that is partly because they are still getting to know her but also because they are still grappling with the idea, am i really going to vote for a woman to be president and commander-in-chief? >> it's gender, race, everything other than the merits for the job that you weren't born with. david avila, co-back chairman. doug schoen former clinton advisor. go to you first, doug. you have been critical of how kamala harris is leaving lines flank on the exam of what will you do for the country?
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>> i remain critical. and i can only say secretary clinton doesn't help the cause of my party by ascribeing it to race or gender. this is a case where she is ducking interviews because it's not in her interest. i think that there should be more debates. hopefully a debate on fox. bottom line, the trump campaign has to push her to do more interviews, more debates, more combative adversarial encounters where we get to the truth. because right now, harris, as you've said, we don't know what she really believes. >> harris: that's after 3 1/2 years of having some of the most important positions the president has given her, joe biden, including the border, which is driving even the fed chairman to mention the illegal immigration problem we have with people and jobs in this country and how he -- you have to raise
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the interest rates -- not raise the rates but cut them by 50 basis points. one of the flip-flops is on fracking. lawrence jones went to pennsylvania to talk with workers. >> kamala harris is the vice president. was against fracking. >> i'm in favor of banning fracking. >> she says she is for it. >> i will not ban fracking. >> do you believe her? >> no. she is saying whatever she can to have people swing her way to get the presidency. >> the sentiment is nobody believes that. >> i don't believe anybody in that administration. >> harris: david. >> pennsylvania is a critical state and her position on fracking may well cost her that state. why you now see democrats spending hundreds of millions of dollars in pennsylvania. that's why she is not doing interviews. she is counting on paid advertising to tell voters what she wants and she hopes that an
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energized democratic base will carry her to victory. >> harris: i know you are also just one more for you looking at independents, david. i don't know if you've been watching this show. they're tracking right now when you look at not just polling but focus groups in particular, they track together. we haven't seen that since 2016. >> we haven't. let me also add to that that you can tell secretary clinton did not go to kamala harris's website to see what her positions were. she have would say these are joe biden's policies and americans don't like joe biden. they are the same policy positions whether they're kamala harris's or joe biden's positions, they are the same. >> harris: gentlemen, i will bring you back on another day when we have more time. i appreciate you both. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> harris: thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" starts off the break.
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