spirit whether it turns into another target for an acquisition. john, back to you. >> john: not a good situation. lydia hu, thank you. >> dana: well, if you watched football yesterday you may have noticed familiar dance moves on the feel this weekend. a growing numbers of athletes paying tribute trump. ufc heavy weight champion jon jones paid homage to the president elect and signature swaying. he has the moves and intends to use them. thank you for joining me today. >> john: good to join you. we'll go out of here. >> dana: you'll be back at 1:00. harris faulkner is next. >> harris: fox news alert president biden has authorized ukraine's military use. u.s.-provided long range missiles. we'll send them and they can use them inside russian territory. that's interesting.

i thought they were running their own war. apparently they have him, biden. senior u.s. official confirmed it to fox now and a major policy shift. oh, what kind of legacy is he trying to carve out in the last few days? don't you wonder? his administration previously argued these missiles would not support ukraine's objective. 1,000 days into putin's assault on a foreign nation there are now big questions over why now? what changed? i give you more than a hint. harris faulkner, you are in "the faulkner focus." the army tactical missile system also known as attack ems can hit targets up to 190 miles away. that's well into russia from ukraine. russia accused the u.s. of quote, unquote, throwing oil on the fire. deputy national security advisor john finer. >> russia waging a war of

aggression across a sovereign border into ukraine and continuing to do so. so i would put the question back to russia who is actually putting fuel on the fire here? ukraine will need additional support going forward to stay in the fight. they are oaf in an extremely difficult situation with russia continuing to escalate the conflict. part and parcel what we have seen throughout this conflict which is russia's willingness to continue to up the antti and we'll continue to up the antti when necessary for ukraine to succeed and ultimately prevail. >> harris: there is always mission creep and why this is dicey before he is no longer president of the united states, biden. the weapons are expected and supposed to focus on a single region in russia, the kursk region of western russia where more than 10,000 north korean troops just landed and are now fighting alongside russian

soldiers. ukraine captured the kursk region in august. president-elect trump will reenter the white house amid now multiple ongoing international crises. mike huckabee, former arkansas governor and trump administration ambassador to israel nominee is in "focus." great to have him. first let's go to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer. >> president biden's decision i'm told bay senior u.s. official was spurned by the russian decision to invite 10,000 north korean soldiers into the fight against ukraine in kursk along the ukraine border. second u.s. official adds it is not clear at this point whether the president plans to authorize the use of the attack ems or strike weapons beyond the kursk region. president zelenskyy applauded the long-awaited decision in his nightly address. ukraine's leaders are pushing for this permission for over a year and a half.

president zelenskyy is said about us -- such things are not announced. the missiles will speak for themselves, glory to ukraine. it stands for army tactical missile sis emotion. supersonic ballistic missile that could strike targets of 190 miles away and a war head. it flies higher into the atmosphere and uses gravity to come back to ground at a very high speed. it can reach further into russia than any other ukrainian missile. it was developed in the 1980s to destroy high-value soviet targets and fired from mobile launchers. the u.s. has sent them to ukraine and m270 launchers sent from britain and germany. it is made by lockheed martin. trump eva's family said he would

reverse the authorization. other republicans have argued it is the best way to strengthen ukraine's hand at the negotiating table as russia gears up to retake kursk and push further into ukraine with the help of thousands of north korean troops. >> harris: before i let you go i have the incoming u.s. ambassador to the united states now for the u.n., mike huckabee. i want to get into this a little bit. do we take serious russia's -- it sounds like a threat when they tell us that, you know, don't do this. do we take that seriously? what would they do about it, do we know? >> russia has been threatening to escalate since the beginning of the conflict and threatening to use tactical nukes. they haven't done so in this case. that has always been the concern of the biden administration, not wanting to allow ukraine to use u.s. weapons on russia territory for here of putin making good on

his threats using tactical nukes. >> harris: zelenskyy is opti mix about the future with president trump returning to the white house. here he is. >> [speaking foreign language] >> harris: the "wall street journal" editorial board writes left unsaid by the white house is that mr. biden is trying to strengthen ukraine's position before he leaves office. mr. biden would like to fortify ukraine by delivering the missions congress approved in its most recent aid package. the tragedy is biden has ham strung ukraine for so long. in "focus" now mike huckabee former arkansas governor and trump administration ambassador to israel nominee. great to see you. let's start now with this idea

that biden is about to do this as he leaves office and what does that mean for incoming policy? that affects the whole world. >> it really does, harris. a little unusual a president in his lame duck days of ending his reign as president would make imagine or policy shifts. it doesn't ring why he would do this. make it difficult for the trump administration? i don't know. but it is not a good look and not a good act on his part. i'm hoping he will back off. he should find out what the trump administration will be doing and try to make sure he helps accommodate that. that's what we would have in a what i would call a peaceful and also a smooth transition. >> harris: interesting. so you have know biden had the president-elect over to the white house last week. they spent almost two hours together. the length of that meeting alone would lead you to think that

maybe this came up. this action was decisive by biden. make no mistake about it and what needed to have from general and other military experts that we both talk to. this is what needed to happen in the early days against russia, not 1,000 days later. legacy point. is it that? what does this do for biden? i have to think it's at play here. >> it very well could be and probably is. but i again go to the point we don't need to have a major policy shift right now about a month and a half before president trump is sworn in and then turn around and have a different policy shift as soon as the inauguration is over. there needs to be some consistency and continuity. i hope if they did talk about it, it is in line with that. i wasn't privy to the conversation. i thought it was a good conversation and the fact they spent that much time together in a civil manner was to me a great testament for going forward.

but i do have great concerns that something might be done either here or at the u.n. for president trump to get going on his agenda. >> harris: sounds like the democrat governors in the united states. we'll get into that later in the show. a lot of pushback anti-trump still moving. israeli missile strike in beirut against hezbollah terrorists perpetrating as military for lebanon happened on sunday and killed the terror group's spokesman. on friday another israeli air strike destroyed a high rise building in beirut coming as israel continues to step up its fight against hezbollah. an opinion piece says as he heads for the exit president is easing sanctions on hamas and hezbollah and -- seems to have

lost his moral compass. a separate opinion piece here president biden doesn't grasp this while he provided support he also tried to limit israel's independence. every step of the way he has micro manageed israel and tried to leverage a patron client relationship. president biden said this earlier just in the last little bit. >> president biden: after the worst massacre of the jews since holocaust. but how to defend themselves. [inaudible] the united states has led the world in humanitarian aid to gaza. and we are going to keep pushing to accelerate a cease-fire deal that assures israel's security but ends the suffering of the palestinian people and children. >> harris: the first part of that, israel has the right to

defend itself but and then the rest of what he said. so you are the nominee for the u.n. ambassador for the united states at the u.n. for israel. do you and president-elect trump see it the way biden sees it or how different will it be? you are right. this triggers another policy shift or maybe not. it looks like one right before trump takes over. >> well, i haven't been confirmed by the senate so i want to be careful i'm not speaking with some level of official dome. we've had a bad policy toward israel. we put more pressure on israel than hezbollah and hamas and iranians. why haven't we put pressure on them? i keep hearing about cease-fire. we can have a cease-fire right now. we could have had it october 8th. hamas lays down its arms. gives up bombs, bullets, rockets

and stops killing jews. that's the cease-fire. seven american hostages. why haven't they been released and why hasn't this administration put more pressure to get those hostages, american hostages, all of them actually, but especially the americans, than we are putting on israel? it doesn't make any sense at all. this policy, which is on again and off again is very disruptive and it's really giving more rope to hamas and the last thing they need is some breathing room. they need to be suffocated and ended. there is no peace in that region until these terror groups funded by iran are completely eliminated. >> harris: why is biden easing the sanctions on hamas and hezbollah, the blood thirsty killers? >> i have no idea. it makes no sense. one of the dumbest policy decisions ever. why would you ease up on people who are killing civilians intentionally? why would you ease up on people who are responsible for the

massacre? i mean the bloody massacre of innocent civilian jews on october 7th and somehow think that you can negotiate with these people? you can't. even our own state department labels them as a terrorist group, not a government. why would we in any way pretend that they are going to be capable of sitting down at the table, having kool-aid with us and somehow we'll all get along, toast marshmallows and sing kumbaya. it ain't going to happen. >> harris: you are the nominee for the ambassador to israel. thank you very much. we'll follow back with you when you have the title. >> thank you. >> harris: the crowd went absolutely wild. president-elect trump's return to madison square garden in new york city was a spectacle. major milestone, actually, when it comes to the popular vote. wow. plus a bitter pill to swallow

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>> harris: a triumphant return to new york city's madison square garden for president-elect trump. here is the reception from the crowd at saturday night's ufc bout. >> ladies and gentlemen, look who is now making his way to the world famous octagon frankedly ufc ceo dana white.

45, soon to be 47, president-elect donald trump. [cheers and applause] >> wish this people at home could hear the sound in this room. it is so loud in here. it is so loud. it's always loud when he comes here but now that he is won and the president again, oh my god. [cheers and applause] >> harris: and, of course, the dance takeover. by trump. he has brought it. viral moves blowing up social

media with supporters and athletes getting in on the action. for a second there i thought melania was going to do it. that would have been great. the president's war room account posted this, the trump dance is everywhere. axios with a headline secret trump voters have a post election coming out party. donning maga hats in cafes, celebrating on social media and flying trump flags. supporters in deep blue cities and states are no longer keeping it a secret. trump improved on the 2016, 2020 margins in nearly every state including the most big blue cities like new york, los angeles and chicago. many trump voters in those cities saw his victory as validation and are acting accordingly. all of that a quote. trump is now the first republican president to ever surpass 76 million popular votes. democratic senator john fetterman laid out the way things alied for a trump victory in his state and what it means

now. >> i have already claimed it will be incredibly close and also claimed that trump is the strongest that he has been in the three cycles. the assassination attempt was in butler and musk, musk is not just a typical kind of surrogate. he made himself really active and he was described as moving to pennsylvania and i do believe that helped move the needle in that, too. so trump came in in the strongest position and he carried pennsylvania and carried all of the swing states. >> harris: wow, john fetterman, that senator proves to be the democrat whisperer. i wonder if they hear him. power panel now. cassie smutly and fred hicks. cassie, i come to you first. the moments at madison square garden and dancing.

democrats, some of them voted for him. >> i love what that clip said. a coming out parade for the silent majority. every american who felt they were the only one who was afraid in their own community or anxious about paying their bills. every american astro sized many times by friends and neighbors for expressing a different point of view over the last four years, this is our moment to shine. and what i love about so many of these especially the football field celebrations are not concerned about cancel culture anymore. they understand the assignment given by the american people not just to donald trump but to our culture, to our country. and one further comment i would make on this is that for businesses, watch out. you go woke, the american people will take note. this is about even just more than our vote. we're now looking not just to align our values wherever possible be it with our dollars and with businesses we support, but also to be respected and to

say that free speech is back, it's in vogue and you cannot -- we will not be burdened by what has been as so many have been saying. >> harris: i noted go woke take note our vote also rhymes. i don't know if you meant to do that but i wrote it down. fred, a moment for the whole country. we saw certain groups of people, some democrats, voting for trump and it was really a combination and i've heard and others say the economy, the border crisis. as you look at this now, this is a moment for all of us to show each other grace. so the soul searching that's going on within your party. describe it to me. i'm having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly is going on. >> well, first and foremost donald trump won the election and democrats are very clear on that. some people who wonder if there was some monkeying around with it. we have except the results of the election in 2024. we saw that last week when president biden welcoming president-elect donald trump to the white house.

with that being said. at the same time we're trying to figure out what happened. the economy was strong. is strong. we saw that -- >> harris: you say that but people were not strong. you look at america but you don't see the americans who said they were not strong in the pocketbook. that food prices were too high. you are still saying it. >> this is our disconnect. the date -- >> harris: it is not a disconnect. it is a disconnect from the facts but not us as individuals, fred. >> facts and feelings. people didn't feel it and something that democrats we'll talk about this with others. democrats have a real problem now with our messaging and problem with connecting and a real problem with having people understand where we are. we have moved a little bit and republicans framed us in such a way we focused on social issues rather than economic issues. >> harris: million of dollars through campaign money with kamala harris. they decided what you were. when you say monkeying around

about the election. that's not helpful. why are you expressing that unless you thought it? it's confounding. it's simple. it's the economy, border. believe the votes. >> i agree. >> harris: democrats say this about their party. watch this. >> i don't mean that we don't have work to do. we have to get either in better tune with non-college educated america or we certainly have to talk to them more. >> i think democrats a lot of times surround ourselves with people to affirm what we believe or people from our same backgrounds and you have a lot of ivy league candidates that hire ivy league latinos that don't come from working class background. most latinos are working class. sometimes we don't want to hear what they are saying. >> democrats are in the wilderness. no clear leader of the party. joe biden will be out of office

shortly. kamala harris lost the election. >> harris: cassie, democrats are in the wilderness, what does that mean? >> certainly they need to admit to themselves that they are there. they have been ousted by the voters because they weren't listening to votes. too much talking and my good friend just said facts versus their feelings. no, the feeling was you might say oh, you are taking home a bigger paycheck but costing you more to live is a problem and a big reason why so many americans were feeling the pain of the biden-harris economy. when every news outlet and pop culture told you otherwise it was only emboldening americans to say i can go vote for myself and make up my own mind based on my reality. so often on the left they love to say my truth. that is where if democrats want to have a good election night again they need to learn the lesson. i'm happy to have election

nights like we saw a couple tuesdays ago until kingdom come but not good for our country. everybody needs to take heed of this and even republicans to make sure it wasn't just a one off to make sure we're continuing to do the work every day to not just promote policies that the american people say they are in favor of but going out and listening to all americans. as you pointed out earlier it was a wide swath of americans who helped the big win for donald trump. >> harris: what i love about what you are saying and fled your thoughts, too. republicans and democrats have to listen to the voters. we saw more people of color vote for this republican presidential now president-elect, then candidate than ever before within his party. but also you lost them by double digits in certain categories of voter blocks and maybe we don't identify that way anymore. maybe the color is green and opportunity is clear. with all clarity everybody needs the opportunity to feed their families and we need an even playing ground without pulling

latino, black, everybody separating. fred, your words. >> let me be clear about something with this. 2020 i believe marked a real significant change in the electorate and voters will be with you in one election cycle. if you don't deliver or don't deliver in a way that works for them it will change. it can go to celebration to crying quickly. we democrats have experienced that from 2020 to 2022 to 2024. i would say to the president-elect and his incoming staff and team to not get caught up and hung up on the word mandate but focus on delivering for the american people. 2026 is coming. if they fail or fall short they will see the pendulum swing again. i hope it does. >> democrats need to learn their lesson first, harris. >> harris: everybody got their words in. appreciate you both. outrage over the u.s. senate ballot recount in pennsylvania. have you seen what's going on? democrats who were outraged over claims of election fraud or fred

called it monkeying around by trump and republicans openly admit to allowing fraud this time. plus co-leader of the incoming department of government says they're ready to clean house. >> we don't need 4 million civil servants who can't be he -- aren't elected or removed from their positions. it is anti-democratic. >> harris: what does it mean for the future of federal bureaucracy. i never heard anybody celebrate that. we're breaking it down with fox news contributor tammy bruce, she is on the mezz. ♪ (vo) with verizon, trade in any phone, any condition,

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they have a lot of details on there that are just like facts that you should know about with the economy. co-leader vivek ramaswamy was teasing the department's plans this way. >> we expect mass reductions. expect certain agencies to be deleted outright and mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. we expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others overbill the federal complete. we expect all of the above. people will be surprised by how quickly we're able to move with some of the changes given the legal back drop the supreme court has given us. >> harris: the amount of annual payroll for federal civilians workers since march, pay attention to this, was $213 billion footed by who? the taxpayers, of course. many of those jobs could become targets of doge especially if there is like triple duplication, which sometimes the government will do. a new opinion piece reads this way.

if all ramaswamy and musk can do is save a few billion dollars it will be worth it. the "wall street journal" editorial board calls doge essential to liberating americans from the tyranny of the expanding administrative state. tammy bruce is here, fox news contributor. your thoughts. >> it is very exciting and two businessmen who aren't reliant on that system or the people in that system or what their next job will be, right? it's the perfect assignment for these individuals. this administrative state. the bureaucratic state grows without people seeing it. one of the scary things about it. normally if you are in town you notice if they are building a new building. the federal government it does it quietly behind the scenes and you have more people working for the government than the private sector ultimately. maybe that's the point for the american left is that you want people who are working to work for the government. and this is another reason why

it is good that trump has been elected because all those people who are going to be shown a different way are going to need to find private sector jobs. it helps the private sector. it will make the government more efficient. of course we want the government but we want it to be fair, we want it to be transparent and we want it to be efficient and effective. right now it is none of those things. >> harris: especially after what we're going through still under the biden-harris administration, the border crisis. dhs is so big now, it's huge. by the way, on doge, on their x page in 1955 fewer than 1.5 million words in the u.s. tax code. today there are more than 16 million words in the tax code. you talk about the invisible expansion. those are the types of facts. i haven't looked at all of those. >> if you have a lot of money you can hire lawyers to make that use for you. if you are a regular person you are stuck.

you can't undergo dealing with that and figuring it out. it is meant to benefit the super rich ironically and meant to benefit the elite and meant to be a burden on the average person to cause fear and allows them to do whatever it is they want to do because they have 16 million words. >> harris: the only transparency we saw was the law put into place 87,000 extra i.r.s. jobs. all right. many democrats in full freak-out now over president-elect donald trump's cabinet choices. south carolina democratic congressman clyburn had pretty harsh rhetoric about it. >> he is not president yet. are you visiting another hitler, is that what you are saying? >> that's exactly what i'm saying. going to mussolini in italy. >> you don't think it's a little hyperbolic? >> that's just from saturday. you would think it was from a year ago, saturday. >> harris: senator john fetterman with a warning now for

people like clyburn and other members of his own party. >> the freak-out and all of those things. he hasn't even been -- it's still not even thanksgiving yet. if we are having meltdowns every tweet or appointment or all those things it will be four years. >> harris: again, the man i call the democratic whisperer. victor david hanson said the left is going hysterical at a time they can't afford to do that. they need to listen to voters. >> the left is going hysterical almost all of them because they are so non-traditional. i would like to remind everybody of the obama and biden appointees. they had little letters after their names. john brennan the c.i.a. director lied twice under oath. anthony blinken, the secretary of state was the architect of the 51 intelligence authorities,

remember them, that lied and said that the laptop was a product of russian disinformation? and that affected the election. let's just get a grip before we get hysterical. we are coming out of an era where we had some of the worst appointees and they had all of the right little numbers and letters and resumes. >> a lot of these appointees also have extraordinary education like pete hegseth. people who have gone to college and know what they are doing and served the country. it gives you the impression these are people plucked out of a phone book. if we did that we would have a better government if we grabbed names out of a hat. so don't believe that people -- >> harris: do you really believe that? >> i absolutely do considering the corruption that's baked into the current system and those who believe they are next in line and that they deserve those jobs. everybody has had their next 25

or 30 years mapped out in a government job. the irony of the complaints that trump will be another muse lena and hitler. fascism relies on giant government and the government being this size of a bureaucracy to dehumanizing people. that the individual is eliminated and no one is held to account. >> harris: did you say fascism? that's the word the left used against donald trump this entire election. >> that's what mussolini and hitler was. yet they are the ones who created this monster of government that allows single individuals to take complete control because you can't -- nobody can be held accountable. there are too many people. we saw it with fema and seeing it with the pentagon. when you talk about who is going to be a fascist, for donald trump and vivek and elon and everyone to be talking about cutting government is the

antithesis of fascism. you can't do it with small government. >> harris: it is making on the hill nervous except for john fetterman. 12 of the last 16 years you've seen democratic control of the white house and both chambers of congress or at least one. what you are talking about, it's about performance and they aren't navel gazing enough to see it. the answers are inside themselves. >> that's what happen when you take things for granted. that's a mistake. >> harris: great to have you. day two in the murder trial of georgia nursing student laken riley. we showed you so much of this on friday. the toughest moments with the officer who found her. we learned more harrowing details about those final moments for laken allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant and just part of a growing problem under the biden-harris administration. >> there has been a four times amount increase in illegal violent crime since joe biden took office. how many more angel families have to be created before people

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>> harris: there is a vote recount still going on for the u.s. senate race with a $1 million price tag looming over pennsylvania. state democrats there actually

admitting now to counting disqualified ballots in defiance of state law. they really want to win. this comes as the state has yet to finish tallying the votes from election night. two weeks ago, wow. alexis mcadams with more. >> most people thought that this was all wrapped up in pennsylvania. but that is not the case and not everyone thinks the senate race is over in that state. democrats on some election boards have admitted they are breaking the rules and the law to overturn those results. take a look here. this comes days after the race was called for republican senator-elect dave mccormick. you can see him there. he beat out incumbent senator bob casey. casey will still not concede. it has been days. so now this week the race is heading for a recount and expensive. blue counties say they are counting ballots that don't have the required signatures or right date, which is against the law

according to the pennsylvania supreme court. they said that weeks ago. now the rnc are suing at least four pennsylvania counties. >> we have full confidence that the court system will intervene here and stop these counties that have clearly gone rogue. 62, 63 counties doing it the right way. a handful of counties controlled by democrats doing it the wrong way and hold them accountable. >> senate majority leader elect john thune of south dakota is calling on casey to concede. fetterman is standing by his counterpart, watch. >> when it's finished and if bob casey comes up short, i can almost guarantee that he is going to do the right thing and concede. >> i think a lot of people watching at home are thinking i thought this thing wrapped up days ago. mccormick's team says business as usual. through the motions, he has been in washington, d.c. and went through orientation and looking

forward to being in d.c. and hopes it all wraps up. >> harris: they will swear everybody in january 3rd. it is coming whether they want it or not. a quick question. i was noticing what you were saying in terms of what they are going through. would this be enough votes to overturn us calling it already? that's our check box on fox. we already called this race. >> it has been called and talking to mccormick's team and said the margin is not even that close for a recount. several thousand votes. they aren't worried about it being recounted and switched. they are confident with the results. count the balance that don't have the right dates i think people are going like what's going on in pennsylvania? >> harris: and spending a million of taxpayer money is mind-boggling. thank you, great reporting. i want to get now to the testimony that we started watching last friday that the case has continued in court today. the laken riley murder trial.

some of it is so hard to listen to. 22-year-old nursing student was killed while out for a jog in february. the suspect an illegal immigrant from venezuela. before the alleged murder official eaves are he leased jose ibarra into the country despite a rap sheet including aggravated assault and battery china. her final moments are revealed. many are blaming the biden-harris administration's open border policies. >> this young girl fought for her life. she didn't want to die. she fought to survive. she fought for her last breath. put herself in her parents' shoes and tell me you want to put up a roadblock trying to keep donald trump from removing these people from this country. >> harris: paul mauro is with us, attorney and retired nypd inspector and fox news contributor. tell us what is happening and put it in perspective?

>> so the prosecution is continuing with their case. they laid out the narrative in their opening statement and best way to characterize it in the way that they said it was that jose ibarra began that day by looking to hunt a female. he had the incident with the peeping tom allegedly looking in a window of an employee of the university of georgia and then ultimately encountered laken riley. since then fairly chronologically the prosecution has gone through a litany of evidence that seems very compelling from fingernail scrapings to dna to clothing that goes to jose that was found in a dumpster that has his and laken's dna. thumbprint of his on laken's phone. right now they have testimony going on of what was found at his apartment. but the prosecution is getting down to the nitty-gritty. i don't think we'll see a lot

more from them over the next day or two before they wrap up. >> harris: putting on your attorney hat now because you can tell us so much from every angle on this, does it have wider implications, this particular court case? >> you know, it really does. that's a very perceptive questions. they're talking about the extractions from the phones, from both jose's phone and diego's phone who was intentional a suspect. vital intelligence. how people got here, who are the coyotes? who points them in particular directions. he got arrested in new york and arrested down here, so did his brothers. how they expected to live. we have to put this stuff together at a federal level, national level with a common database of intel to start making the big cases we need to

make in order to roll these guys up. >> harris: tren de aragua, you talk a lot about them. are you concerned with these types of cases, not saying it was an off shoot of that, connective tissue with that vicious gang out of venezuela and where these guys came from, the suspect and his family. >> his brother is reportedly a gang member and, you know, as a result you start to see these cases. we keep hearing it. you know, harris, one of the things nobody wants to allude to, targets are women. that is something that we -- >> harris: young women. >> it's a result of getting on the radar screen for the america public from this case. it is somewhat iconic. >> harris: thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" next. to pay off those high rate car loans. so, you know, han is 22 years old,

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