>> yeah! >> bill: very good. >> dana: why? why? >> bill: that's what they do, why. >> dana: it's one of the number one fears of all humans. number one fear is public speaking and then you go heights, drowning, fire. >> bill: that's so good. >> dana: would you do that? >> bill: no, that's way too up there for me. they broke the old record by 2,000 feet. a beautiful sight there. wanted to share that with you. we have history tomorrow that we will watch together. the former president is going back to the white house. we haven't seen this. actually none of us have seen this because it has been like 1893 since it happened. it will happen tomorrow and something else to watch. >> dana: all these transition appointments being made on top of that four at fox news. watch oves all day. see you on "the five." here is harris faulkner. >> harris: we begin with the breaking news and a question or

two. what is the real goal here to stop a president the people just elected? to force him to fight a case at age 83 after his presidency? judge juan merchan has just paused all deadlines associated with president-elect donald trump's new york criminal conviction. this move takes trump's scheduled november 26th sentencing off the table. and the timing is whether to consider the effect of trump's election as president on the conviction against him. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the judge pushed back his own self--imposed deadline whether to toss out the verdict after the supreme court's decision giving president's broad immunity from criminal prosecution. that ruling is expected november 19th. we have another delay and we'll wait to see what this judge does

with that. even though the u.s. supreme court has weighed in. trump's team calls a freeze and throw out the entire case so he can focus on his second term as president. again, what is the goal here? is it to try to stop that from happening? the people have decided. a jury convicted trump earlier this year of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments to an adult film worker stormy daniels and jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney, fox news contributor, andy mccarthy, former assistance u.s. attorney and fox news contributor, kerri urbahn and leo terrell fox news contributor and attorney are all here with me now to break this down. jonathan, i will start with you and my two questions. what truly could be the goal here? what does this accomplish and really, can you subvert the people's will or do you think

they will push it off until he is 83 and out of office? >> well, you know, a couple years ago i said this election would be the largest jury decision in history. it was. they rendered a verdict and they rejected lawfare and the manhattan case is really one of the most prominent examples of lawfare. it was a ridiculous case that should not have been brought. now the trump team did succeed in getting this delay. what they don't want is an indefinite status. they don't want this just to be lingering. they want to be able to get to a position where they can appeal. keep in mind they have never been able to get a full review of what happened at the trial. this trial is riddled with reversible error in my view. i was shocked in that courtroom watching some of these rulings which made no sense to me. so they will be arguing in the next week that it is time for the judge to recognize reality and to dismiss this case. that would go against his

pattern of ruling in the past. >> harris: so, you know, leo, i want to ask you about the certain cases that trump faced in recent months and why this one in particular -- jonathan laid out the importance of it -- certainly politically. but why this one in particular they couldn't do something with along the way. i know the u.s. supreme court weighed in. we saw cases falling apart. what makes this one so stubborn. >> the state case where they had already in process a trial going on and the conviction or the sentencing that is going to take place. the conviction of 34 charges against trump. what is happening right now, harris, you have a judge acting like a politician instead of a judge. let's look at what is actually happening here. official acts by the president are inadmissible per se.

that is justification for dismissal. no one on this panel can sit here and tell anyone the impact of that inadmissible evidence on the jury. the judge should dismiss this case but he won't. he is acting as a politician today instead of a judge. and what the trump team has to do is insist that this case is resolved taking no type of substitution like a pardon or dismissal. president trump's team needs to get a complete vindication because he is innocent of the charges. i don't know what the underlying charge is. >> harris: kerri, i have heard you say about this case with a porn sex film worker in the middle of it all, stormy daniels, that some of this was put on to dirty up president trump going into another election period. can you talk about that a little bit and how this judge might look at kind of all of the salaciousness that we saw along the way?

>> for sure. in large part this case was driven by the man who left doj to go assist alvin bragg in this case. they drove this case because they wanted the talking point of a convicted felon. of course, the problem with all of that is in order for them to have made these so-called misdemeanor, felonies, they had to say he was trying to cover up something else. the problem is we never learned what those something elses were. he didn't know, we don't know. the judge made a decision that the jury didn't have to tell us, which was crazy. so i have to say this, though, about what happened just now in the last hour. i'm actually not surprised. donald trump's legal team just asked bragg's office a couple of days ago to pause the proceedings in light of the fact he became president of the united states. this is separate from the immunity question. all that happened today was judge merchan said okay, to bragg's office, give me your

perspective on whether donald trump becoming president changes anything about this case. because the constitutional questions are raised. the department of justice has a policy that says you can't indict, prosecute a sitting president. that's not been tested in the states but in the spirit of that policy, in the spirit of the way we do justice in america it is quite possible that bragg's office submits a perspective along those lines to judge merchan next week. >> harris: andy, if somebody were to hire you defend him and it's donald trump what advice would you give him as a attorney going forward now. >> i would do pretty much what they are doing. i'm not a judge merchan but any means. all he did today is what the trump team asked him to do with the district attorney's office. give a one-week delay. i think there are a couple of things going on here. i have know it's a hyper technical legal point and the

rhetorical thing is more fun but trump actually is not a convicted felon. i think what he wants, because that doesn't happen until judgment gets entered when he gets sentenced. trump doesn't want to be sentenced and be a convicted felon. i agree with jonathan he would like to get a clean sweep and the best way it seems to get that would be on appeal. but he is not going to get to appeal unless he gets sentenced first which he doesn't want. i think what the trump team is asking for i want you, judge merchan, to dismiss this case based on the supreme court's immunity ruling and the fact that bragg put in evidence that is in violation of that ruling. if you are not willing to do that, i want the proceedings stayed. so i think even think he would like to get a clean sweep he would rather not get sentenced in the first place and found a

convicted felon. he is hoping to get a dismissal from judge merchan. >> harris: why is it that then during a presidential election democrats wanted to use the word anyway convicted felon and it went away suddenly. you just answered the question. it hadn't happened yet in this particular case. >> politically you can call him whatever you want. the jury found him guilty. but as a technical legal matter he is not a convicted felon until the judgment of conviction gets entered at sentencing and the whole point of this proceeding today was to try to get the judge to vacate the jury verdicts on the basis of immunity decision and other yours of the trial. >> harris: making this more critical we got a statement from a spokesperson on behalf of the president-elect donald trump and here it is. at the request of the manhattan d.a., judge merchan has now stayed all previously scheduled

deadlines including sentencing in this case. the american people have reelected president trump with an overwhelming mandate. it is now abundantly clear that americans want an immediate end to the weaponization of our justice system including this case which should never have been filed. so we can -- this is all a quote now -- as president trump said in his historic victory speech unify our country and work together for the betterment of our nation. jonathan, i will get your response to that. >> well, i certainly agree this case should never have been brought. the case was based on in my view an unprecedented application of these laws. the judge made a mess of this case making reversible errors left and right. so i certainly agree with that. the question is whether it will weigh that heavily on the judge. the judge that i saw in that courtroom was not someone who would take a balanced approach

to these questions. i found him very balanced at the trial. the issue for the trump administration to build on andy's really insightful remarks is what is better for you? people will continue to refer to the conviction on these counts and the use of being a convicted felon will likely continue. andy made an interesting suggestion it could be suspended for the upcoming term. i would think that would be the worst of all options for the president. >> harris: and for the country, by the way. and for the country, then the question becomes does he have to be careful in certain ways not to tick off some judge? this is a man who was under really unusual gag order rules the entire time. it really was hard to miss that across many cases. so now you asked if you are going to hold it until he is 83 and out of office, how does that

impact what goes on between now and then? the people have voted. leo, a quick response to that and then we'll move. >> i agree with you 100%. to use this case to hang it over his head for four years is politics. look, i have only been practicing law for 35 years and i would ask anyone to just answer this question. the inadmissible evidence of these official acts being introduced in trial. why can't the judge dismiss this case period? just answer that question first. i don't understand it. it is inadmissible evidence, impacted the jury and why dismiss it? he could have dismissed this case weeks ago. i don't understand it. >> harris: i thank you all, jonathan, andy, kerry and leo, thank you for being with us. november 19th i have a feeling we'll be seeing each other soon. >> thank you. >> harris: well, a collective eye roll from critics. federal employees reportedly say

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>> harris: president-elect trump is wasting no time putting his leaders in place for his second term cabinet. he made history last week naming his 2024 campaign manager susie wiles as the first woman ever white house chief of staff. now he has chosen congressman mike waltz of florida as national security advisor. former congressman lee zeldin of new york will head up the epa and stephen miller will serve as deputy policy chief. former acting ice director tom homan is tapped as the border czar and congresswoman elise stefanik for united nations ambassador for the united states. senator marco rubio is expected to be nominated as secretary of state and south dakota governor kristi noem as homeland security secretary. vivek ramaswamy was at the transition meetings yesterday. here he have is. >> very well-run process.

very well organized. meticulous. big focus on merit. we will pick the best and brightest to lead our government. because of that decisive victory and donald trump's vision for the country i think that's exactly what we'll get in the cabinet positions and beyond. >> harris: focus on merit. speaking of which sort of mark meredith who is in west palm beach, florida, mark. >> good morning to you. over the next several weeks we expect to hear more about how some of florida's political elite are making their way in a second trump term. florida senator marco rubio expected to head up the state department. rubio has been in the senate since 2011 serving on both foreign affairs committee and intelligence committee. once a trump critic he has embraced trump over the last few years when it comes to continued u.s. support for israel. we don't know when a nomination might be submitted. one democratic senator already appears on board. john fetterman posted today i'm

surprised the other team's pick will have political differences at my own. my colleague rubio is a strong choice and look forward to voting for his confirmation and trump planning to pick kristi noem to head the department of homeland security. once considered a potential v.p. pick for trump but fell out of contention by admitting in a book she thought and killed her dog who was unruly. lawmakers in washington to move quickly on nominees confirming them on recess appointment. we hear from rick scott running for majority leader who says he is on board with the idea. >> we have a great tuesday. a great tuesday. we can all be way more excited. if we don't have the right leader in the senate what will happen is all the things that donald trump wants to do is going to get bogged down, not going to happen, nominees won't get done. i am asking the committee to do whatever it takes. his nominees confirmed.

>> while the focus here is today on florida, harris tomorrow the president elect will be in washington. we've learned he is expected to top by capitol hill to meet with lawmakers as they get ready for a number of big decisions ahead. >> harris: great to sigh. ben domenech is here. your response to some of the choices by the president-elect. >> well, i think it's a very strong list of names there, harris. i think what we're seeing here is that this is a very small approach to running the cabinet saying you will pull from a lot of different republican coalition. the president has expanded so dramatically. known names, reliable names and names with government experience. one of the things we saw in the first trump term was there were a lot of people who ended up in jobs because while they had impressive resumes they may not have come from the world of government. they may not be familiar with

it. people like tillerson who ended up running into difficult when they had to adapt to the restrictions in place when you go into government and have to deal with surrounding bureaucracies and all of the different ways that they tried to prevent you from achieving the president's agenda as we are familiar with right now. what we're getting here is a good mix of ideology and experience. people who are going to be able to navigate that world with the foreknowledge of what those hurdles are going to be. how to overcome them and i think overall what you see there is a sign of strength when it comes to backing israel, pushing back against iran and pushing back against china and establishing american strength in the world again. when it comes to the names tom hoe man, kristi noem, this will be an administration that prioritizes the border and tough on mexico and on the cartels that have made it such swiss cheese over the past four years. >> harris: that's a good way of putting it. swiss cheese.

a mix of ideology and experience and knowledge of who the toughest political players are with their games as well. people are going to come in and be fresh and ready for well as kamala harris said, the fight ahead. border officials tell fox news that morale is surging among border officials after trump's victory. yeah, they see some daylight now. here is a quote. a total 180. troops are finally feeling like the sun is coming out after a very long storm. another morale is even higher than the first time he won and they know they can get the bad guys now. but we've also heard some democrat state governors promising to put up a wall, yes, a wall, of resistance against trump's border policies. >> if the trump add min is trigs requests it, would the massachusetts state police assist in mass deportations? >> no, absolutely not. >> you come for my people, you come through me.

>> we're pragmatic. and we will stand firm. >> harris: anyone want to tell pritzker the people voted for trump and some of his own people? who is he talking about protecting or fighting there, ben? >> he is talking about protect being people who aren't americans which i think is ridiculous. this is a situation that the biden administration and harris brought on us through their terrible border policies intentional, i believe rick as many others do in the first several years and only changed when it became politically untenable for democrats to defend how ridiculously out of control became. from mayorkas to noem is the buyingest change. you will see the trump administration be serious in their approach to this. it is building on the experience of the last time around.

they know how much democrats resisted the types of approaches they had and while it is good to come from outside and have the attitude of an outsider it is good to speak from experience and knowledge of what they will try to do to prevent you from achieving things for the american people and the american people showed on election day that they care deeply about the security of the border. it's why you saw such a sweeping victory for the former president and it is one of the key reasons he is headed back to the white house. >> harris: you talk about a distance between the past and what is coming in terms of who is chosen. you couldn't be more different than the vice president kamala harris who just lost the way that you pointed it out there much in part over this issue, and now tom homan comes in as the border czar. that is opposite in fact. as you heard, garnering a lot of support from the border patrol. federal employees who worked during president-elect trump's

first administration are scared and anxious about his return to the white house. >> we are in a new dystopian hellscape. that is from a federal employee via text message last night and that is the mindset of many of the 2 million federal workers anticipating donald trump's return to office. trump has obsessed on the idea of federal workers being agents of the deep state. some of the employees who lived through the first trump administration say they're experiencing ptsd. >> harris: you heard that right. they say they have ptsd because they are upset about the new president. well, if that is not enough the state department reportedly is holding coping sessions for employees. change is a constant in our lives but it can often bring about stress and uncertainty. join us for an insightful webinar where we look into

effective stress management techniques to help you navigate these challenging times. critics are going off. this alone tells you why the dems are in their current form. must lose again and again until they become functioning adults once more. another, these people need to grow up. they are not cut out for a job at state. so that voice that i went into explaining my mother said i should have been the announcer at those webinars. i don't know. what i do know is the kind of help they need is to keep their jobs. why not just do the work? >> well, i think that, you know, doing the work is always a challenge for america's bureaucrats especially in washington, d.c. perhaps they can get to work making a room for themselves with rubber and soft play. maybe they distribute a packet to deal with this that includes a blanket, some warm milk and nice binky.

it is absurd and something that is one of the reasons why they understand this time around as unsexy as it sounds self-service reform will be something this administration does seriously. they've been planning for it for a while. they tried to do it at the end of the last term. changing the way bureaucrats are treated who deserve to be hired and fired at the pleasure of the president is something that needs to happen. and frankly i think it is going to happen early in this administration and make a huge difference in the kind of resistance we see the bureaucrats put up. >> harris: all true. ben domenech. great to have you always. >> good to be with you. >> harris: president-elect trump will face a host of global challenges now. the open southern and northern border. we don't talk much about the border to the north. what trump's cabinet picks tell

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realizing that woke is broke. >> we're not listening to the people we claim to represent. we cannot win if we don't build a bigger tent. >> harris: they lectured the nation for months about woke and told everybody else they must be wrong when they put men in women's sports. democratic strategist said democrats count shake wokeness and defunding the police. pat ryan says it's not enough to throw these policies at people. lara trump laid it out this way. >> unless the democrats are able to really take a long, hard look at really how far off the scale of anything rational they've gone, i don't know that they ever come back to really win any elections. >> harris: new op-ed is titled trump won by uniting those who

think liberal rulers have gone too far and a liberal blogger posted nine principles for common sense democrats to rebuild a winning coalition. do you think beyonce and others are part of it? including recognizing the importance of robust economic growth and treating climate change to manage not a hard limit to obey and acknowledging biological sex is not a social construct. all are sensible and unlikely to stick. even democrats in institutions that don't subscribe to this faith may often be taken hostage by it. power panel now, matt gorman, executive vice president of targeted victory and former tim scott campaign advisor. antoine, blueprint strategy founder and ceo. when someone accuses your party and a marie antoinette moment is

tough to take. kamala harris left still in debt from all the money she raised paying off celebrities to be on public stages with her. it was a big miss with a big expensive bat. >> well, i will let all of those who have their reflections and observations do their thing. two things happened in the elections. you win or learn. what i think we should have learned from this election is we have a constituency problem with certain type of voters in this country. pro dominantly rule, white, working class voters where we have did not have a very specific targeted micro economic messaging that reached them where they are. certainly the latino community showed up in unique form to vote for president trump. i think we have work to do there. by and large i think we did not focus on main street and my street. a large focus on what folks had to say on k street.

we need to meet folks where they are and message for what their needs are. >> harris: or any of the streets in bel air. matt. >> one of the ads that broke through was an ad that said kamala is for they them, president trump is for us. beyond the issue as for something broader spoke to culture, to priorities. when people were saying we can't afford our groceries and a house they are saying have we talked to you about fascism and have you met liz cheney yet? and when people are saying migrants are streaming into our communities and three saying we spent $20 million for celebrities and concerts. people saying they were struggling they looked at charts and said they were wrong. the economy is better than you think. the lecturing that people got sick of. >> harris: former obama advisor said this when it came to democrats working class voters.

>> we have a broader branding problem as a party. we have allowed the republicans to brand us as the party of cultural elites. we have this cultural disconnect from working class voters of all races that is preventing them from liking us. until we have lost a branding war here and we have to i think for the party to really think about how we fix that. >> harris: wow, antoine he didn't here what you had to say. you win or you learn. they want to change the branding. what you are talking about is doing what you need to do, meet the people where they are. that's not a messaging problem it's a facts problem for you. it didn't get done. >> i will say to dan and others, i want to be very intentional about words. we don't have a working class problem. i would observe we have a white working class problem. 92% of black women showed up. 78% of black men. >> harris: why do you think you have that? >> we are working class

americans, too. i don't think we were intentional and specific about micro messaging. micro economic messages to meet folks where they are. two observations about this election. it was a c the order of the day and we put a big emphasis on reproductive freedom. rightly so but the economy and winning the day as well as the fact it was a change election. people viewed the former president as the change agent. >> harris: he thinks dems had a white working class problem among white women. >> no, white individuals, not just white women. >> harris: individuals. maybe we don't do that anymore. we don't split people by race or the color being green. hearing you say that just sounds offensive. i'm wondering if democrats learned anything about that identity politics move.

>> queens new york is working class folks. diverse. you get 40% up from 12 in 2012 for the republican vote for trump should tell you something, right? also you had more -- trump won -- they have a problem with di verse and white voters. >> harris: a hearing this morning for the illegal immigrant accused of murdering georgia nursing student laken riley. we'll get an update from the courthouse as the trial is expected to begin on monday. control of the house is still up in the air but republicans are optimistic with the way the numbers look right now and they say they will be pushing for change no matter what. >> the time for failed policies that have wreaked havoc on hard working americans for the last four years is over. the time for proven leadership

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>> harris: it's just wrapped up. a pretrial hearing for the illegal immigrant accused of killing georgia nursing student laken riley. the defendant requested a trial without a jury. it comes one day before the

scheduled jury selection is set to begin in the heartbreaking case. jonathan serrie is live for us in atlanta now. all eyes on this as it gets ready to start on monday. >> now it moved even earlier because of this motion to waive his right to a trial by jury. we are oh he looking at opening argument beginning on friday because of what happened at this pre-trial hearing today. again, jose abarra waving his right to a trial by jury. instead the 26-year-old murder defendant's fate will be decided by the judge after listening to arguments from attorneys and witness testimony. a move that some legal observers find a bit puzzling. >> he already lost the request for change of venue. obviously the judge has heard as much about this case as anybody else in the area from the media.

>> in a case that shocked in georgia college town and the nation the venezuelan national is accused of killing 22-year-old laken riley, a nursing student at the athens campus of augusta university. investigators say she was attacked on a running trail on the university of georgia campus, dying from blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation. at a hearing back in may, aybar yeah entered a not guilty plea. he entered the u.s. illegally which added fuel to the border security debate nationally in the presidential election and locally in the district attorney's race. last week a progressive democrat d.a. lost to an independent challenger. jury selection was set to begin tomorrow but as a result of this motion to waive a jury trial, that is not going to happen and again, the trial that was supposed to begin with opening arguments on monday, we're now looking at starting friday

morning, harris. >> harris: look at that. it was a big change. we appreciate the fresh reporting on this. thank you, jonathan. >> the talent that we have and the ability we have to get this country turned around quickly. the american people are hungry for it. the time for failed policies that have wreaked havoc on hard working americans for the last four years is over. the time for proven leadership is now. >> harris: republican lawmakers speaking out on last week's red wave. they won the white house and took over the u.s. senate. they are now just a few seats away from keeping control of the house so they need 218, they're at 214 with a dozen or so races left to be called. democrats are scrambling to make sense of their crushing loss. cnn political analyst with this brutal assessment. >> everywhere you look the democrats are in the deep dark state because they have no heir

apparent. they held no levers of power in washington most likely come january. the bottom line for democrats, there is no real light at the end of the tunnel. always darkest before it's pitch black. >> harris: president biden and president-elect trump are meeting at the white house tomorrow and house speaker mike johnson says house republicans are eager to meet with him as well. >> i didn't intend to break this as news this morning. since i said it. i invited -- president trump will meet with president biden at the white house. it was suggested. i think he said it first before i did, but that he wanted to come and visit with house republicans. we are ore working out the details of him gathering with us tomorrow morning before he goes to the white house. >> harris: sean duffy, former wisconsin congressman. i want to set the table here. a lot of people say we're looking at this media outlet and reading it here.

it has already been called. we follow the numbers of the associated press. different outlets follow numbers of the choice. what are your initial thoughts? you are watching these races closely. what are republicans thinking yeah, we can win there? >> i think a five-seat majority. more likely could be a three-seat majority. that's interesting. you take stefanik and waltz out. you can have no one bail from the ship and no one get sick or stay home with their kids. this will be incredibly ditty. a few of these races have moved against us. again, i don't know but it won't be a bigger majority than we had in the last congress. >> harris: do you have any concerns as president trump pulls together his cabinet. you have elise stefanik.

if you can't immediately put a republican in there and open it up to a race, what happens then? >> remember scott brown when ted kennedy died? open race in massachusetts. scott brown won deep blue massachusetts when democrats controlled all levers of government. then you had jeff sessions seat in ruby red alabama. democrats won that seat. when you have all levers of power in a special election usually the party out of power wins those seats. again you pull a house member with a thin majority, they went very red in this election but that doesn't mean they will go read in a special election. again, this is about the america first agenda. you could actually endanger the agenda because you don't have a house that can pass the agenda. a lot of these numbers and seats not called, these are close races and so when members win by the skin of their teeth, they are afraid of their shadows.

donald trump wants a house to be bold and you might have members that don't want to be that bold because they think about the next election. that's the problem with such a thin majority. the administration has to think about and mike johnson and all the members to get this agenda done have to think through can they get the agenda done with the senate and president with a one or two seat majority. >> harris: you have made hugely important points there. if you do win the majority but it is with people that are looking over their shoulder because they have to make peace in their own districts, which you want everybody to be able to do. it may mean they don't vote necessarily the way donald trump wants them to even if they have an r by their name. any race in particular you're looking at? elise stefanik won by 62, 63%. maybe a republican could win in a challenge race. any others you are watching? >> just mike waltz.

both friends of mine and i want them to have the opportunity. elise stefanik's seat is not as liberal as the senate seat in massachusetts or as conservative as alabama. that's my concern. mike waltz's seat is far more conservative than elise's. what is happening again we're a week into the race. we still don't have totals in a lot of congressional races. it could be thanksgiving before we know who controls the house. it takes so long to count. we don't -- >> harris: come on, we can't get this stuff until thanksgiving? >> are we a third world country? this is obscene that have states that we are looking at a week to count ballots. unbelievable. >> harris: thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" is after the break.

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