karl rove told us last hour you don't know what arab americans do in the state of michigan. you have 100,000 votes perhaps, could be 50/50 and could have a big impact. that's that there. that's your rundown. >> dana: 33 days. here we go. we haven't been able to do this because of all the news. before we go. this is so great. devoted father not letting hurricane helene stop him from attending his daughter's wedding. he faced multiple detours on his drive from south carolina to east tennessee. when the road became impassable he walked and did it for 5 1/2 hours and made it in time to walk his daughter down the aisle. what a story to tell. >> bill: that picture is so worth it. >> dana: beautiful. gives us hope. thank you for being with us today. see you tomorrow. harris faulkner is next. >> harris: breaking news now. we have a stunning new report from the department of homeland

security inspector general and the red flags are really flying everywhere on this. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." this report lays out dismal failures by the biden-harris handling of illegal immigrants. a small portion of this is a quote. under current processes, cbp and ice can't insure they are keeping high-risk non-citizens without identification from entering the country. additionally, tsa cannot insure it is vetting and screening procedures to prevent high-risk non-citizens who may pose a threat to the flying public from boarding domestic flights. if this continues, they may inadvertently increase national security risks. that's the quote. those agencies are pushing back saying they are not to blame. they say they simply don't have the resources or legal standing

to detain every non-citizens that does not have valid documents, even to reduce possible dangers. former national border patrol council president brandon judd. >> it's extremely frustrating to every border patrol agent and anybody that wants border security. i have issued mtas and i know they're lying about their name. because we can't properly vet these individuals, we have to go with what they are giving us. this is a very dangerous situation and the i.g. got it absolutely correct. >> harris: so this report follows the release of that alarming customs data on the number of criminal people living who crossed our border and now they are free to be and move across the country. the number, 425,000 including 13,000 convicted murderers in

the countries from wherever they came from. all of those non-citizens did not all come in under president biden. the spike is undeniably sharp. the terror watch list apprehensions at the southern border since 2021 are now causing us to beg the question, actually how many are here? how many did get in? if we went from 15 to 100 in 3 1/2 years, what are we really living with? national correspondent griff jenkins reports. griff. >> good morning, harris. no one knows that number. you raise a good point. i want to show you something, though. this is a discarded venezuelan i.d. for a 34-year-old man. one of hundreds that i have witnessed being ditched by migrants as illegally cross the border. maybe now they don't want they want them. the heavily redacted i.g. report say they did not fully arrest is

risks associated releasing non-citizens without i.d. and allowing them to travel dome espos esposizioni -- domestically. when the i.g. says because of cbp and ice's process, tsa's method to screen for individuals who pose a threat would not necessarily prevent these individuals from boarding flights. the next line in the report by the way, harris, is blacked out. dhs says they cannot detain all individuals subject to detention due to a lack of resources, ice says they don't have enough beds, cbp says their detention facilities are for short term detention only. in a statement to fox news house homeland security committee mark green says this. it is embarrassing the biden-harris administration needs an official government watchdog to tell them what anyone with common sense

understands. this administration should not be letting unvetted non-citizens roam our communities and get on planes when their identities can't be verified. the ice data showing hundreds of thousands of criminals not detained. the national debt grown numerous administration only increased under this one. instead of debt we are accruing convicted criminals. >> harris: the debt doesn't carry guns, knives and drugs. it is awful but generally it won't kill us. griff jenkins, thank you. jason chaffetz, fox news contributor. former republican congressman and house oversight chairman. great to have you always. this is more than alarming. the fact that these agencies that are named specifically to be the ones putting us potentially in danger, including the tsa as we board flights, that they are deflecting and saying don't blame them is

particularly troubling. >> yeah. they have a lot of nerve when you go to the airport. i fly on an awful lot of airplanes. real i.d. you have to have it. if you are an american citizen, good luck going to the airport without -- you are here illegally you can get on a flight. why is anybody that is here illegally on any airplane? i don't understand it. they waive them in. you go to phoenix airport you can see them walking through the halls and then they wave them on the plane. it is offensive. >> harris: that's where we live part of the year. i'm troubled why we're putting up with this as the american public. people protest a lot of stuff but to be held accountable for letting non-citizens onto flights and checking us as you say they do and treating us like

we're the bad guys and non-citizens is untenable. i don't think it is sustainable. >> no, look. the number one thing the biden-harris administration could do right now here today but they won't is to get rid of sanctuary cities. you have the criminal element of the illegal alien population, the criminals, they go to these cities. these big cities and states that have the sanctuary laws like denver and you go to big cities like new york and california and philadelphia, and guess what? they have somebody in their possession but they won't cooperate with ice. ice is not fully utilizing their beds. they have 41,500 beds that they could use but right now we have 3500 beds empty. and i just don't understand that. >> harris: why can't we have those states or cities, those jurisdictions that are sanctuary, every time a crime happens, god forbid it be another loss of life in the

drip, drip we're seeing now with some illegal aliens committing murder and other violent crimes, why can't we have those sanctuary areas pay for all the adjudication of the cases, pay for life for the victims left behind. send their kids to college. make it a penalty for them. or start holding them legally accountable and locking some of them up if they knew it was a possibility depending who they let in their sanctuary city. >> why should anybody in the united states. why should you and i and anybody listening to this program have to pay and give federal funding to these places that won't cooperate with ice? they should be cut off. i know donald trump would do this. i know he would. he would actually put that -- 75% of the crimes they tell us in mid town manhattan are committed by people here illegally and they just put up with it. somehow, some way they have got to lock this down.

it is not right. it is harming our citizens. there are murderers and rapists. this is the criminal element. don't tell me they want to get tough of the border when you have them in your possession you continue deport them or cooperate with ice. >> harris: day three of the strike which is crippling three dozen ports from florida to maine, east coast, gulf coast, shipping at a halt. thousands of dock workers continuing to picket. they have the right to do that. we understand they want what they want. but the timing. the timing could not be worse. analysts warn that americans will start to feel the pain next week because by then it will have been a week. shortages of products ranging from meat to seafood to alcohol, electronics, medical supplies, the short supply will cause spikes already high prices on items that we can't live without. the national retail federation

says for every day the strike goes on, it will take three to five days to recover. so we're already weeks behind based on the first week we're going through. a look at all the ships on the way to ports unable to unload their cargo. the cluster. the map makes it look like a step off shore. some are miles off. 50 container ships were stalled as of yesterday comparing that to just three on sunday before the strike happened. biden and harris are hands off simply urging both sides, the manufacturers and union to work it out. >> they need to sit down and talk. remember, we negotiated a similar strike on the west coast before. and they worked it out. this time they won't talk.

let's get it done. >> we have been in touch with the different parties urging them to bridge their differences. in particular urging the ocean carriers have become extremely profitable in recent years to put forward an offer enough to bring the union back to the table and get this hammered out. >> harris: he couldn't negotiate the supply chain woes we had during the pandemic. i don't know if he is the guy you want in this. jason. >> you have the commerce secretary saying she wasn't even paying attention to it. joe biden and kamala harris don't know how to negotiate anything. they didn't even know this was a problem. to say let's get them together. you are the president of the united states. you are the ones that should be calling them into the white house. don't tell me they are making these huge profits. this is one of the biggest shippers in the world war. they laid off 25,000 people back in 2022. this is a low margin business. i don't know how the president comes up with these numbers saying oh, they are gouging people and making all this

money. pete buttigieg needs to back up those numbers because the shipping industry, it is tough. low margin business and look at the volatility in the middle east. you don't think that adds to the increase of the expense of shipping things around the world? these guys don't have a clue. there is no hope because they have no clue how to solve this problem. they should have been working on it in july. >> harris: absolutely. they have the taft hartley act from 1947. they could have put that in place and said 80 days cooling off. that would have gotten us just beyond the election. that takes us into the new year. you have to want to bring it to or halt or what not to. what the is strategy behind not doing what you need to do. he is responsible, biden and harris and this administration, for the inflation that has the dock workers hurting.

they have bills to pay food. expensive food. no wonder they want a raise. >> yeah, that's exactly right. they are offering a 50% raise, i don't think most americans would appreciate that isn't good enough. you know what? we need to automate our ports. i've been in south korea and shanghai and all over the world looking at port security. you are supposed to inspect 100% of the cargo. they do less than 2%. that's what our federal government is doing and wonder how we get fentanyl into this country and other things. we have one of the most arcane port systems in the world. we have to automate just to keep up. we have done nothing with automation and these unions don't want automation. and that is going to kill the united states long term. >> harris: i want to ask a bit for your vision on this. we haven't getting one from the white house. how could you do both? how could you automate? we've seen it on the west coast now. and they will try to help out with their ports there and take

some of these ships. it could take a month to reroute if you have a shipment now trying to reroute it to the west coast. take a month to do that. we'll hurt regardless as a nation. but how could you devote -- take care of the dock workers' concerns that they'll lose their jobs if they automate but bring us up to speed the way you've seen in areas around the world? >> well look, you've got to be able to do that. keep in mind there are a lot of inland ports that they are also doing. you go to the longshoremen are running a port in las vegas. so you look at it and say wait, how is this working? if you don't address the energy supply in this country, then you really get off track because it is so expensive. the fuel in this country, that's in part what is driving all this inflation. >> harris: all right. energy, we get back to that. around and around we go and nothing from the white house yet at least. thank you. tensions and fighting in the middle east. let's go there now.

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>> harris: president biden is expected the land in florida at any moment now and that's where he will see hurricane helene damage in that state firsthand. he will also go to georgia. and now we can tell you that the

number has just jumped. the confirmed dead, at least 200 people. we are just beginning to see some new and more heartbreaking images of the storm's intensity. nearly 1 million people remain without utilities. no electricity, no running water in certain areas across four states. satellite imagery is showing clusters of light from towns and cities in the southeast. this is before helene made landfall. look at that bright like everywhere there america. when helene hit it goes dark. see that swath on the right side? center right of your screen where there are no lights? all the way from florida up through and into north carolina, power outages are far from the only problem, though. that land of darkness is dealing with at night. survivors are struggling to get access to necessities like clean drinking water. water to flush their toilets.

people with swimming pools. we've been hearing stories are the neighborhood heroes bringing it in so you can at least have some sewage movement with that water for your toilet. in north carolina, tens of thousands of people are without any running water at all. president biden has deployed 1,000 u.s. service members, we know that. he said that yesterday. they are there to deliver the essentials that are being taken in. thousands of national guard and federal aide workers are already on the ground and starting to get so some of the hardest-hit areas. it was a week ago on thursday when helene hit. >> we haven't seen fema, red cross or hearts with hands. we've seen no agencies come here. most people drive through with their cameras out filming us like we're animals in a zoo and

don't stop. >> harris: that's heartbreaking to hear. steve harrigan, you are in north carolina. steve. >> the roads have just been opening up east of asheville so we're seeing for the first time some of the worst destruction we've seen so far. homes smashed, cars smashed. i think the worst of it when you walk down roads you see chunk of the roads are simply gone and also a layer of mud just covering everything. this area got ten feet of floodwater so it's just to dig out will be a real challenge. people are asking the most basic questions, who is dead and who is alive? if they have checked your house they paint an orange x on it. one week into the storm it is not clear where people are. are they missing? we've heard about the soldiers coming to help. when you ask people here if they have gotten help they say the only help so far is from our neighbors. the cherry pickers are going up starting to put in poles.

in many towns like this starting from scratch to try to rebuild roads and electric power lines. harris, back to you. >> harris: steve, thank you very much. for the latest from there. now this. that's a wall of earth coming down. the storm was just hitting. we showed you this amazing video yesterday. two people fleeing the effects of hurricane helene as it moved in narrowly escaping a mudslide in the blue ridge mountains of north carolina. the dash cam video showed the moment the hillside gave way smothering the interstate behind their car. god bless you, you were moving fast and driving fast. kelly, tell me what you saw as you looked back. >> i looked back in the car and saw the mud on the door and kept

looking back and saw the glass was shattered. i didn't see anything beyond that. >> harris: had you ever seen anything like this happen in that area before? did you know what you were escaping at that point, allen? >> no, we were just on our way home from vacation. we had no idea. i had never seen anything like that. >> harris: you were going home. you knew the storm was coming in. storms come and go. had you been sensitive to the fact that this one might be different? were people talking about it as you returned from vacation? >> no, not really. we just figured it would be a little bit of rain and wind and that it would be fine. not until we got on i-40 we saw trees blowing down, highways getting closed, six minutes after this happened a tree fell on us. an interesting day. >> harris: oh my, you were spared, thank goodness. i see in the distance an 18 wheeler trying to get out of the way. people could see this coming and

the earth just moved. >> dana: they were actually just parked there. >> harris: where that car and -- they were blessed to be out of the way. describe to me when it came down, how much was it? from the video it looks like a whole mountainside. >> that's what it looked like when i looked out the window, the mountain was coming down with the trees and rocks. we didn't get the brunt of it the way that little black car there did. >> that was a pull-off area and why the tractor trailers were there. they were just parked and the truck and that car behind -- that black car got hit a whole lot worse than we did. and we have been in touch with a few of the people behind us and they were all safe. so we were real glad to hear there were no major injuries other than vehicle.

>> harris: and just talk to me, if you will, about trying to get out of the way. how fast were you going to begin with and what was going through your mind? it is a mountain coming down. >> we were only going 35 miles an hour because of the rain. as soon as i saw it i stepped on the gas and my first thought was i wonder if this is going to hurt. three seconds later it was over. >> harris: kelly, your thought? >> it was pretty scary. i didn't see what was happening. i just heard everything hitting the car and i thought they were big rocks. that's what it sounded like. i was expecting the roof to cave in. we are very blessed to have gotten through it and everybody else that survived. we're very thankful for that. >> harris: i love that you have been in touch with the people who were behind you who drove through perhaps hoping that you were already on the other side of it and could look back and pray for them. allen and kelly, thank you. i can't even imagine what life

is like right now. i know that you had a home to go to. a lot of people don't. can i get a last word of maybe where your heart is today, kelly? >> we're thankful to the lord for his blessing there. >> and praying for everybody that was in the wake of the worst of it. we just can't imagine what they are going through. we came out of it safely but many people did not. and we're just continuing to lift that area and all the rescue teams coming up, all the supplies that will being delivered to those areas, we're just lifting them in prayer for their safety. >> harris: kelly and allen, thank you for telling us your story and sharing your incredible video. >> you are welcome. >> thank you. >> harris: well, the media blackout strategy that the biden walz campaign is going with looks -- the harris-walz campaign looks like it is out the window at this point.

governor walz's sub par debate performance spurred more interviews and answers to reporters' questions. whether it will matter 33 days out, we'll see. a judge releasing details of its election interference case against donald trump with about a month, again, 33 days before the election. >> he is trying to have a trial of trump without a trial in the face of the fact he couldn't get a trial before the election. it sure looks like blatant election interference. >> harris: well, will the october surprise tip the scales come november? we're on it. (vo) at verizon, every phone can be the new iphone 16 pro with apple intelligence. wow, phones are going to be flying to verizon. at verizon, new and existing customers can get iphone 16 pro, on us. trade in any phone, in any condition. only on verizon.

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election interference case against former president trump. we had already seen the case but jack smith went back for another bite at the apple and handed over a new one. after the filing was unsealed yesterday, trump hit social media with democrats are weaponizing the justice department against me because they know i'm winning. this is egregious prosecutorial misconduct and shouldn't have been released right before the election. he have is not alone in that. >> there is no possibility of having this trial before november and there was no reason to have it brought out in public now. the point of releasing this now can only be to effect the election. it doesn't have -- there is no legal need for it. >> 30 plus days until an election. we will be hit with an an slat of fake news and litigation. >> this is a new indictment. for many this is a -- you don't

have to release this before the election. >> harris: david avella and david carlucci. david, you can't miss the fact the trial cannot happen before november 5th. this feels like politics. it makes the other side look dirty. why do it this way? >> well, i understand that. this 60-day idea is really just guidance, not a law. it's a rule. what we see here is that not all of it has been open to the public. there is still much of this that has been sealed for public view. what this is, jack smith going back following the supreme court's guidance to talk about this presidential immunity and showing that these acts were not acts of public -- of public office. this was between a candidate and a vice presidential candidate that he acted in just pure neglect for the safety of mike

pence, for the safety of those police officers at the capitol and so many others that real leadership would have been different. he didn't need to tweet out that mike pence didn't have the courage to basically overturn this election. this report is showing evidence that donald trump knew he lost the election but it didn't matter. >> harris: what you are doing is laying out part of the case for smith. this is a new indictment based on putting the immunity issue in here from the u.s. supreme court. when donald trump says releasing this 33 days before the most important election in the history of our country is another attempt by the harris biden regime to undermine and weaponize american democracy and interfere in the 2024 presidential election. what do you think about that, david? >> well, i think it falls flat.

>> the other david, sorry, my fault. david avella. >> jack smith confirms for many americans who believe lawyers have no shame. it is that or he is so enjoyed the supreme court humiliating him that he said you know what? i want a little more of that. but the biggest thing that comes out about this, this is a reminder of why a republican senate majority is so important. who gets confirmed to judgeships? who is on the supreme court? who is going to hold prosecutors accountable that come out of d.o.j. is vital to our judicial system. the only way we get that is by having a republican senate working to make sure the right men and women are put on the judicial bench. >> harris: it's interesting. power rankings at fox news came out and they show -- this is a snapshot now -- but look how close we are that the senate

could tip to republicans at this point according to what fox news power rankings are finding. interesting you point that out. former ambassador to the european union under former president trump with a change of heart. he previously said he could never vote for trump due to the events of january 6th. he was basically a never trumper. here is what he is saying now and why. >> why was it important for you to say no more trump because of his january 6th conduct? do you stand by that? >> i don't stand by that and i tell you why. i have now lived four years under the biden-harris policies and i have to say that those policies are not only becoming an existential threat to our country's way of life but our allies as well. >> i will let you finish. you said it was a no for me after that january 6th and here

we are right now and saying it is a yes for you. >> it is an absolute yes for me. that is how badly the biden-harris team have prosecuted their job. >> harris: david avella. >> hard to make a better case than was just made there. life is more expensive under joe biden and kamala harris and for voters who haven't made their decision and persuadeable there is one way to go and that is to put donald trump and republicans in charge of washington. >> harris: you look no further, david carlucci, than the port strike and amazing power of the white house with the taft hartley act. could have been put in place two months ago. the president and vice president could have demonstrated their negotiating skills during that cooling off time. but that is not what we get. we have pressure from hurricane helene. they need stuff at the ports.

they are on the east coast. there is so much going wrong now. ambassador sondeland has good points there. how do you counter them? >> first what would donald trump do with the striking workers? he would fire them. he has made that clear. what biden is doing is saying look, let collective bargaining. >> harris: wait a minute. the president of the united states cannot fire those workers. he can cause a cooling off period. let's keep apples and apples here. >> he have is trying to say implement taft hartley so the striking workers lose collective bargaining ability and the ability to strike. going back to the ambassador it is absurd to blame biden for these costs. we were in an economic crisis when donald trump was in office. we were expecting a downturn, recession. >> harris: no one will remember it that way. >> biden flu us out of there. >> harris: gas at the tank was cheaper. food was 21 to 25% cheaper

because of the higher inflation. >> i was four years younger. >> harris: but it hasn't worked for what people actually feel. i want to say this. the taft hartley doesn't take your ability to negotiate a way. it causes a cooling off period which we'll probably need anyway. last word. >> which we know drastically labors ability to negotiate a fair contract. >> harris: he is not acting at all. he could have done that in july. david avella. >> this administration couldn't make the case for their economic policies. they couldn't make their case for why they did what they did in afghanistan. it continues this trend of this administration not being able to explain to americans how they are making life better and the reality is americans are feeling life is harder under biden and harris. it is only going to continue under harris and walz. >> harris: good discussion with two davids.

i appreciate both your time. we are still expecting israel's response, retaliation after it said it would following iran's massive ballistic missile attack on tuesday. the nation is facing terror from all directions. critics not happy with president biden, kamala harris as vice president trying to tell israel how or how not to respond. >> biden just sits back and does nothing. kamala does nothing. let them defend themselves. israel has a right to self-defense including nuclear sites. >> harris: they are continuing to fight terrorists in lebanon after it fired rockets from lebanon. around the campaign the subject continues. retired army lieutenant colonel darren goff next. and debris down this river, it seemed hopeless.

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>> harris: new daytime explosions over israel as the israeli defense force. overnight israeli air strike in beirut, the capital of lebanon, killed seven hezbollah affiliated civilian first

responders. so it is being reported. the idf has been targeting areas where the militant group, terrorists, not militants, terrorists, have a strong presence. iran launched its largest ever ballistic missile attack in history on tuesday of any other country onto another. nearly 200 missiles aimed at israel. president biden is now facing extreme criticism for telling an ally how it can and cannot defend itself. >> [inaudible question] >> president biden: the answer is no, and i think there are things that -- we'll be discussing with the israelis what they are going to do but all seven of us agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond in proportion. >> harris: nate foye is in tel aviv for us. >> amid the escalating tensions

between israel and iran as well as iran's proxy groups we're learning of a secret rescue operation that has a 21-year-old woman back with her family after spending a decade as a hamas hostage. take a look at these pictures here. the idf, along with international partners including the united states, rescued this woman who was kidnapped as an 11-year-old girl in iraq. isis terrorists trafficked her to gaza where her captor was killed during the war with israel. today in beirut israel struck hezbollah intelligence headquarters and also a medical facility connected to hezbollah. idf forces are facing real resistance of the limited ground offensive so far. eight soldiers were killed there yesterday. now as we await a possible counter strike from iran after israel responds to tuesday's attack, look at this, harris. this ballistic missile was found in southern israel. one of roughly 200 that iran

fired targeting air bases and mossad headquarters in tel aviv. israel says its response will be severe and have a big impact on what comes next in this war. >> harris: a retired army lieutenant colonel and former blackhawk helicopter pilot. great to have you on the program. just your top line thoughts on what is about to happen potentially with israel and iran. >> thank you for having me on. my biggest thoughts now is to watch the israeli response and to me proportionality is simple. you attacked us, we have the right to destroy you. it is really that. israel has the desire to win. what would they target to do that against iran itself? put their nuclear capability at the top of the list. number two would be any kind of oil refining or shipping capacity because that's the money they use to fund the nuclear program. and then i would continuously be

booking at leadership as well. iran has indicated their desire to continuously attack israel but they are quickly losing their two primary fighting forces, hezbollah and hamas. >> harris: what do you think of president biden based on what you just said taking hitting a nuclear site off the target list for israel? >> he is doing a good job hamstringing israel. netanyahu knows that will continue moving forward in the direction he knows he has to for the israeli people. unfortunately nobody in the middle east now is truly listening to anybody in this administration and i can't blame them for not listening to them. we're largely sending mixed messages and a message of weakness across the middle east that they are taking advantage of. >> harris: what do you think about the ramp up of our men and women in that region who have been taking incoming from all these proxies by iran.

houthis in yemen and hamas doing what it is doing to israel while israel is trying to fight along its border with lebanon. they have a full plate that they can shoot at. >> forces are increasingly at risked when the war gross bigger. syria and iraq and other places including our embassies. every time we go and show that weakness, those people over there, whoever they may be, are going to take advantage of our locations and we don't have a strategy to have them there and why they are there and unfortunately they are not all that well defended. that falls on this administration. >> harris: are you concerned at all that iran is so close to having a nuclear weapon that it could use it in any sort of protracted conflict with israel? >> i think we should be concerned about that. they are lying about everything else they're doing. how close are they to getting a

nuclear bomb? i don't know. we have to treat them as if they're close or already do. their military is designed for internal policing and security and regime security. this is what they'll do is launch things in the air. if they have nuclear capacity i have no doubt they would be willing to use it. >> harris: if you were giving advice to israel right now, what would it be? >> i would say we stay 100% behind you. you are taking the war to the terrorists who deserve to be eliminated and if your desire is to reduce iran's capacity to attack you while you also take on hezbollah, we're behind you 100% and support you with whatever you need. >> harris: it is rosh hashanah right now, the new year for our jewish faith communities here in america and around the world. thank you for your time. "outnumbered" after the break.

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