a really good offense, dana. you should ask bill if they could stop you and ten of the fox news employees from scoring touchdowns right now. >> bill: good question. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: enjoy your week. talk soon. >> appreciate you all. >> dana: have a safe trip. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas at the white house. before we go we want to show you this. this afternoon first lady jill biden will officially unveil this year's decorations. looks pretty. a preview. the theme is a season of peace and light. display features nearly 10,000 feet of ribbon and more than 28,000 ornaments. it's the last christmas for the bidens at the white house. >> bill: i've always thought 350 million americans should have the opportunity to walk through the white house as christmastime. it is one cherished place. >> dana: very special indeed. we have a lot of news for you on monday after thanksgiving. harris faulkner takes you through the next hour. here she is. >> harris: breaking news. where do you go if you just

pardoned your convict kid and your last name is biden? president biden is about to land on the african continent in angola. still won't be far enough away to escape from the lies he has been telling the american people. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." biden's presidential pardon not only wipes away his son hunter's conv conv convictions on tax and gun charges. it covers any offenses from the last decade. wait, things that haven't been adjudicated yet? yeah. so is there something to hide on the heels of incoming president trump's assembling leadership at the f.b.i.? it's a question. this part. hunter biden gets a pardon just weeks before being given potentially lengthy prison sentences for his crimes. in a statement biden explained and here it is, quote, i said i would not interfere with the justice department's decision

making and i kept my word even as i have watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. no reasonable person who looks at the facts of hunter's cases can reach any conclusion that hunter was singled out because he is my son and that's wrong. end of quote. there is video to refute all of that lie. here is what biden really said. >> president biden: i'm extremely proud of my son, hunter. he has overcome an addiction and he is one of the brightest, most decent men i know and i'm satisfied that i won't do anything. i said i would abide by the jury decision and i will do that and i will not pardon him. >> your son hunter is on trial. i know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. but let me ask you will you accept the jury's outcome? their verdict no matter what it is? >> president biden: yes. >> have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

>> president biden: yes. >> harris: clearly that wasn't true. neither was this part. no one is above the law. you know what? people in the white house, staff members, everybody was saying no one is above the law over and over. >> president biden: this nation was founded on the principle there are no kings in america. each of us is equal before the law. [applause] no one is above the law. each of us is equal before the law. american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. my administration, no one is above the law. >> the president believes no one is above the law. the president met the moment how no one is above the law here. >> harris: oh, he met that moment. he just didn't do it with truth. "new york post" columnist miranda devine titled her recent

column we always knew joe biden would pardon hunter breaking another promise to the american people. more from her. >> that covers all the influence peddling that went on in ukraine that imply indicates joe biden specifically because of the firing of that prosecutor who was investigating the ukrainian energy company paying hunter at that stage a million dollars a year. so that really is a pardon for joe biden. >> harris: the "new york post" cover puts it bluntly. hunter gets away with it. senior national correspondent rich edson at the white house. rich. >> good morning, harris, well, president biden granted his son a comprehensive pardon despite insisting he never would. just as he was about to leave the country and the continent for a couple of days on a trip to africa. this summer hunter was convicted on a few felony gun charges. also pleaded guilty to nine

federal tax charges. hunter was waiting for his sentencing. the father's pardon wipes that all away. the president says his son was unfacial and selectively prosecuted. >> from a presidential perspective is there any possibility the president would end up pardoning his son? >> no. >> president biden says that he is not going to pardon his son, hunter. is he going to ask donald trump to do that? >> i don't have anything else to share about that. i won't go down a rabbit hole on this. very clear. the president has been very clear when we've been asked this question. >> does the president have any intention of pardoning him? >> we've been asked that multiple times. our answer stands which is no. >> does the pardon given by joe to hunter include the j-six hostages who now have been imprisoned for years? such an abuse and miscarriage of justice. in a statement hunter said he will never take the clemency he

has been given to granted and devote his life still sick and suffering. democrats say trump's pick in top justice roles show he is plan on targeting hunter. other democrats have criticized the pardon. governor polis said i understand joe biden's natural desire to pardon his son. i am disappointed he put his family ahead of the country. this is a bad precedent that could be abused by later president and tarnish his reputation. no white house briefings here for the next few days for the president in africa. press secretary karine jean-pierre is addressing reporters on air force one on the trip over there. >> harris: why does he go to angola? it is an oil-rich country and one of the most food insecure places on the planet. what is the plan there, do we know? >> meet with local officials rebuilding get a presence in western africa especially as you have china moving into the continent. >> harris: that's not exactly news but convenient for biden.

thank you. a new political peels with this headline. we haven't seen a pardon as sweeping as hunter biden's in generations adding the full and unconditional pardon is aimed at protecting the president's son from future prosecution by the trump justice department. one expert tells it this way. i have never seen language like this in a pardon document. that purports to pardon offenses that haven't apparently even been charged with the exception of the nixon pardon, even the broadest trump pardons were specific as to what was being pardoned. kerri urbahn, great to see you today. it's far reaching and sweeping and it goes against all the lies that we were told as a public before that biden wouldn't do this. >> that's right. president biden insisted that no one was above the law and insisted that his son was innocent, not true. he also insisted his son never had business dealings with china.

not true and we knew that because hunter biden refuted that himself in court. the question, harris, to your point about is why such a sweeping pardon? if someone is innocent and never done anything wrong and by the way, joe biden has also insisted that he doesn't know anything about hunter biden's business dealings. >> harris: he did say that, yes. >> i look at this pardon and i think to myself you know something because you wouldn't have issued something this sweeping otherwise. i also think it is not just about protecting hunter. it is about protecting himself. i think it is very possible that there would have been investigations into hunter and joe biden would have been implied in some way or another in some of these business dealings and something criminal perhaps. this was a way of protecting himself and his son but i do think politically it is a gift to donald trump. >> harris: i mentioned that early year right out of the gate. my question immediately to the almost former president joe biden would be well, the timing

of it as an incoming president trump is assembling his f.b.i., you mentioned more investigations. those two things would go hand in hand, i would think, because that's who the f.b.i. is. they investigate particularly already found guilty criminals. okay. at least they are supposed to. david freifriedman, former u.s. ambassador to israel. he was ambassador when former president trump incoming moved the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. so he is someone who keeps a close eye on things and here is what he posted. i'm not sure joe biden has fully considered the ramifications the pardon of hunter. it covers activities when joe was vice president. that would mean that hunter can't plead the fifth if asked about business dealings with ukraine and china including his dad's involvement. with this pardon he has no risk of criminal jeopardy. he has no excuse but to tell the truth and answer the questions.

>> it is an interesting question and you wonder, though, if a creative defense attorney could say now he can't be forced to testify himself. there could be some kind of state investigation or prosecution im me indicated in information that he reveals and a presidential pardon does not extend to the states. i wonder how absolute that would be. but i did see a really interesting point, harris, raised by professor goldsmith from harvard on x today saying joe biden is the first beneficiary of the scotus immunity decision. in that decision the supreme court said that a pardon, presidential pardon is a conclusive power and broadly immune from investigation, from prosecution, and the like and the reason that matters is because some people are arguing that joe biden issued this pardon, it could be looked at as obstruction of justice for the incoming administration. but because of that security

decision the decision to issue it would appear to be immune. how ironic that joe biden is the first -- >> harris: you think they want to go after trump as president and the immunity clause will have been exercised by biden. that's rich. closing arguments are now underway in the criminal case against marine veteran daniel penny. prosecutors have charged penny with manslaughter in the new york subway death of a homeless man, jordan neely. penny said he was trying to defend people after neely began acting erraticly and threatening them. pay attention to witnesses inside that subway car trapped with the guy described the terrifying incident.

witness accounts matter in a case like this? >> i think it matters tremendously. the fact that every single one of those witnesses testified they had never been as scared in their life as they were that day on the subway and then this good samaritan jumped in and saved them. that's what their perception was and given what was going on. harris, i don't know at this point why we're pretending this bragg is running a legitimate law enforcement. he goes after daniel penny and donald trump as gangs are terrorizeing people in the city. shoplifting. all kinds of things. it is ridiculous. what's happening here in the daniel penny case is a disgrace and alvin bragg should be ashamed of himself really. >> harris: this is a fact in the

case. do you know why they didn't arrest him right away? why it took a good amount of time, longer than days? >> ten days. >> harris: to go after daniel penny? if it wasn't a crime in the first week, with all those witnesses, what changed? >> my understanding is political pressure changed. protestors appeared at city hall and what do you know, suddenly alvin bragg was all in on it when just ten days prior people were looking at this as someone doing the right thing and defending his fellow passengers, which by the way, new york city is spending a terrible message to people who would want to protect and step in and help their fellow citizens. how disincentivizing is this? the upside down priorities of new york city and how much they're in need of new leadership there. >> harris: all right, kerri. we'll follow it. if anything breaks we'll bring you back this hour. well, it's supposed to be a

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>> harris: moving on is hard for democrats. the face in the mirror for them is frowning over losing a presidential election. here is former democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio. >> these fundraisers -- i'm really pissed now. the damage that the 2024 campaign has done, the damage this decade has done. >> interview a democrat. people want to trust us. >> harris: i can't hear anything. oh boy, okay. so we had james carville's voice under tim ryan's face. i'm learning from the team now what went wrong there and let's move on. nearly a month after election

day the harris campaign is still sending emails asking donors for cash. kamala harris's campaign spent $1.5 billion in 15 weeks. there are countries on the planet that can't do that. the emails notably don't mention the campaign's reported current debt. former clinton advisor james carville voice and face together watch. >> these fundraisers, they are really pissed now. the damage that the 2024 campaign has done, the damage this decade has done to the democratic brand is almost unfathomable. >> harris: maybe some people needed to hear that twice. one headline democrats try to figure out where they go from here. here is a quote. every aspect of the democrat's political project, who will lead

the party? how they will counter trump and what adjustments they need to make to insure defeat like november does not get repeated it? it is all in flux. cassie, former rnc deputy communications director and fred hicks. great to see you both. look, we're beyond the point where we want to look back and try to figure out what happened and all that. moving forward is important. all hands on deck. are people who vote with democrats ready to help move this country forward? >> well, i believe so. in order to move forward you have to understand what happened. this is not an uncommon thing, harris. as a matter of fact in 2008 when republicans lost then lieutenant governor who became rnc chairperson penned an op-ed laying out a plan for republicans to turn to power and two years later there was a

shellacking as obama called it. >> harris: where would you start? one thing you learned. what would you start with? >> i would start with two things. one organizing at every level and number two really understanding the mastery of new media. we're lagging in those areas as democrats. the campaign spent a lot of money on digital ads. one point they made a $3 hundred million buy and neglected traditional media. neglected to do a lot of things on the ground. >> harris: joe rogan podcast. the presidential candidates -- vice presidential pick jd vance did it too. mastery of new media, she failed. >> it's what you are saying with that media buy. that's where the real failure was. where are you going to make changes, let's just take a piece of humble pie and say you know what? we fed these messages to the american people every possible place we could think of and they

rejected them because our message was wrong, our policies are wrong. our policies aren't working. that's where we need to take a minute of introspection as democrats. the other side of it james carville is saying he will assembly of team of people to look into that data and where people are getting messages. republicans did that early and figure out that not only are they on youtube in addition to traditional media but what are the issues they care about? democrats couldn't figure out the economy stupid really is the prevailing message that people needed to hear some answers for from the democrats and i think they have to get that first if they are ever going to see any semblance of a shellacking in the future. >> harris: during his campaign trump appealed to the bro demographic like the joe rogue an podcast and endorsement from elon musk. john fetterman says it was wrong for democrats and "the new york

times" to mock what trump was doing in those efforts. he told the times i was noticing different kinds of energy with trump. it was clear at that time that people were voting for trump and the democrats' response was aren't they smart enough to realize they are voting against their own interests? that's insulting fetterman goes on to say. it is not helpful. it is condescending. it reinforces the stereotype after calling them deplorables. it backfired and we have to go forward and i'm not hearing the support of the 76 million people who voted for trump like what did they get right? let's talk to those people. >> let's talk with john fetterman and his race in 2022. it was something republicans got wrong. they didn't understand why he appealed to people in pennsylvania and took the time to figure it out. it was a big part of why they

won pennsylvania. not his policies but that he speaks as the every man. he goes and gets his information where we all are getting our information and they took some realtime to understand that and you saw the results of that effort on november 5th with the wins in pennsylvania and flipping the senate seat in pennsylvania. then you broaden that nationally going on joe rogan. all the above strategy of not just meeting people where they are but talking about the issues in ways that matter and not saying you don't know what you are talking about, the economy is great as people figure out how to afford groceries and they never just conceded that point, democrats didn't. i think that's a big thing that democrats can take away terre this and maybe pay a little more attention to senator fetterman. >> harris: for all the money for celebrities they didn't win the election. an interesting development, fred. maybe name recognition and only 30 days or less. a recent poll shows vice president kamala harris is

ranked as the top democrat contender for the 2028 white house nomination. one strategist says don't do that. don't run again. >> there is a reason kamala harris was so roundly rejected in the 2020 democratic primary. democrats did not choose her. the party elders chose her. the politicians chose her. four years from now i don't see her being the cream that rises to the top. >> harris: what is your take, fred? >> i think it's an early poll. she will due to name i.d. many democrats don't view this loss as being solely her fault. she was really running the part of a ticket unpopular and president biden decided not to run for re-election. numbers will shift. other people not on the list who will emerge. politics is a pendulum. two years ago that donald trump was a pariah, democrats held the senate after we were expected to

lose it. >> harris: it was like three weeks ago, four weeks ago before the election that democrats were saying he was hitler, nazi, come on. >> what i'm saying trump rebounded from two years ago to 76 million votes. there is a pathway, not what i'm thinking that the vice president should do four years from now. what i'm saying is over the next 18 months we'll see a lot of things happen. as we continue to talk about this. it will swing. republicans have a majority that's narrow in the house and we'll see a lot as the trump agenda rolls out. >> harris: when a president has majority senate and house sometimes it swings one way or the other again and given during a four and eight year term. where i started with you what the american people have been telling me they are in the last ten days. what will you do differently? can you get together on capitol hill when that choice happens that they just voted for? great to see you both.

thank you very much. mexican drug cartels. this is where i thought fred hicks would say we would start with the border if we could move forward again. he didn't say that, though. mexican drug cartels are poisoning our nation and killing our citizens. president-elect trump's incoming border czar says the new administration may take a powerful and unprecedented step to end what you see happening. the reaction keeps coming after president biden broke his promise, lied and then pardoned his son, hunter. >> we talk about putting the finger on the scales of justice but what is really happened under this administration they tossed out the scales of justice and gotten rid of the constitutional republic rule of law. >> harris: even some democrats are joining republicans at outrage joe biden doing what he said he would not do and he didn't say it once or twice. he said the reason he wouldn't pardon hunter is because no one is above the law. none of that was true for those

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>> harris: president-elect donald trump and congressional republicans are promising an unprecedented crackdown on illegal immigration. that would include resuming border wall construction. reviving remain in mexico policy and deporting illegals. another tool they are looking to use, incoming border czar tom homan says it would give them even more power in the fight to secure the homeland. >> president trump has said he will declare these criminal cartels terrorist organizations. which he should. the criminal cartels in mexico have killed more americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined and why president trump will designate them as a terrorist organization and wipe them off the face of the earth. >> harris: this is part of that

common sense that you often hear trump and his team talk about. why hasn't that already happened? you are having a war-like enemy on your border and you don't call them a terrorist organization? republican senator ted cruz of texas says trump simply taking office is going to help. >> i expect we'll once again enter into remain in mexico and we are going to see -- i make a prediction right now. we'll see the numbers plummet of illegal immigration coming into this country not in a year, not in six months, but in january and february because we will have a president who will vigorously enforce the law. >> harris: we could use some of that. these numbers continue to shock. immigration and customs reporting that as of july, it has released 7.5 million non-detained, non-citizens. people who do not belong here roaming around the united states over the last four decades. more than a half million of them

have criminal histories. now remember, about 13,000 of them committed the crime of murder in their previous homes. more than 200,000 face pending criminal charges. our tax dollars are being soaked while these people who should not be here are waiting for their cases to be seen. send them back. a new opinion piece argues these criminal illegals entered the u.s. under multiple administrations but the size of the problem was likely larger under the biden administration. so under the biden administration, they have simply been released into the country. now they are walking freely in the u.s. and no one knows where they are. all this is a quote. as bad as these numbers are, the reality may be even worse. in "focus" now, republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida. how much worse could they be? i know on capitol hill you have access to things that we don't

see. >> well, harris, it is worse than people know. just look at the fentanyl numbers alone. 300 people on average are being poisoned and killed every day by the fentanyl that is pouring over our borders into our communities. the murder, sexual assaults. everything that you can think of is happening at the hands of these dangerous deadly cartels. they are happening in every single community in america today. in my own region, in my own district, we have had murders at the hands of mexican cartels. bricks of fentanyl stamped with the cartel logo on them found. we have had sexual assaults. we have had children trafficked. you can't even imagine the depravity that takes place in every single community as a result of biden's open border crisis. it is worse than people realize. what's even more damaging, i think, is the fact if 300 people a day had died in an airline crash, every day a plane was

going down there would have been every flight grounded by the end of the week and task force set up to figure how to fix it. under the biden administrations they didn't care. they let americans die and their blood is on their hands. >> harris: the numbers you gave us are alarming. thank you for the facts and context. president biden's pardon of his son, hunter biden, is being felt throughout capitol hill. republicans sounding off on the decision but they are joined by some democrats, too. watch. >> joe biden for 50 years in public office has always pridefully boasted about his word as a biden. i guess we now know his word as a biden is trash. >> we talk about putting the finger on the scales of justice. what has really happened under this administration they've tossed out the scales of justice and gotten rid of the constitutionall republic's rule of law. bailed out his son and allowed the scale of justice to rule. >> harris: at least three members of the house who led the

impeachment inquiry into president biden are speaking up. congressman james comer says joe biden has lied from start to finish about his family's corrupt influence peddling activities. congressman jim jordan says democrats said there was nothing to our impeachment inquiry. if that's the case, why did joe biden just issue hunter biden a pardon for the very things we were inquiring about? congressman jason smith wrote this isn't about politics. it is about insuring no one is above the law. we also have brand-new white house reaction from the press secretary now. she just spoke on air force one. let's watch. >> okay, i got two on the pardon. >> can you stick to foreign policy? if not we'll go to somebody else. the president always believes to be truthful to the american people. something that he always truly believes. he said he wrestled with this and because he believes in the justice system but he also

believes that the war of politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice. that is his words. >> harris: stick to what you want to talk about or i'll move on to the next question. all right. congresswoman, i want to remind everybody you sit on the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. it seems to come into play here. tell us how. >> my blood is boiling just listening to that. as a journalist i know that makes your blood boil, too. having someone spat in your face saying if you don't ask me the question i want answered we'll move on. frustrating. think about this. this man has supposedly been under the banner of commander-in-chief. he has been week and made our country more dangerous and graduated to liar in chief. we know his words mean nothing. they are hollow. he is a trafficking in chief and now we can call him the enabler in chief. if you love someone you have to

let them help themselves. what he has done as a father, as a commander-in-chief in both abusing his power is shown his son that he doesn't actually love him and wants him to stand on his own two feet. he enabled him and his problems. this administration told the world that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. that he denied any corruption and foreign influence. that he said he was not in any way compromised. we know that all to be a lie and where in the hell is the mainstream media calling him out except for you on fox? this is infuriating. the double standard, my god. if his administration does not go down as one of the most corrupt shrouded in mystery and secrecy, untruthful administrations, it will be absolutely a crime. i cannot wait for january 20th when we fine le get some sunshine which will be the best disinfectant for the mess they've made at the white house. >> harris: 49 days until that

day. what is happening now with the pardon of hunter biden and look i just asked the question, does it matter that trump now is assembling the leadership at the f.b.i., the federal bureau of investigation? your last thought. >> under weaponization we've discovered depths of depravity that people will be shocked when it comes to the service. corruption at all levels. this is saying something even by d.c. standards. kash patel will do a remarkable job uprooting and outrooting all of the corruption, double standards, pay for play, the absolute targeting of innocent civilians in this country, depriving them of their constitutional rights and privileges. this is something that has been happening every single day and under this administration trump is going to make sure the weaponization of government actually stops. he is going to get rid of the bureaucrats, nameless faces,

unelected individuals and it will be a new day in washington and in this country. a renaissance for the golden age. >> harris: you mentioned kash patel who the incoming president has chosen to lead the f.b.i. i'll look at musk and ramaswamy attacking the bureaucracy and to get the law and money. it is interesting the way you lay it out. congresswoman, great to have you in "focus." thank you. >> appreciate you, harris, have a good one. >> harris: gavin new some said his state would lead the opposition to president elect trump. and he doesn't like american voters, either? less than a month after that big election the calls may be falling on deaf ears. >> people voted for what is about to happen. plus diversity, equity and inclusion policies could be out the door as the trump administration comes in. many are celebrating that. >> diversity, equity, inclusion has cost a lot of people their jobs. people just want to go in and

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>> harris: president-elect donald trump has proposed he will dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion or d.e.i. as some of my guests called it. didn't earn it. he could issue day one executive orders and agency overhauls to undo many of joe biden's actions and trump has signaled plans to revamp higher education in an effort to protect free speech. trump could also affect private sector policies through legal actions. radio host jason rantz. >> i think the election of donald trump means the slow death to identity politics and that includes dei programs. it can't come soon enough. we have to go back to a place where we stop judging people solely on the basis of some identity. >> harris: that opinion piece argues it this way. america's workplaces must remain places of opportunity and collaboration not battlegrounds for ideological warfare.

dei has created an environment, dis, resentment and legal uncertain at the. the trump administration can do the damage wrought by years of identity politics and restore a culture of excellence and mutual respect. gianno caldwell. steve hilton said didn't earn it. people don't have a problem with lots of opportunities just promised outcomes based on boxes you check. >> i couldn't agree with the statement that you read with the op-ed any more. dei should be dead and it should be about merit. we've seen many companies succumb to the dei stances like bud light which lost billions of dollars and other corporations who lost big as well. we need to be a country that rewards people based on work and a country that promotes people based on the work they've done.

we cannot be having our workplaces turned into dei headquarters which become experiments for millions of americans across the country. >> harris: what's interesting in the backfiring that happens and you and i can talk about this as black professionals. i have experienced it. it really is diminishing returns when you give people jobs based on the boxes that they check and they aren't ready for they don't get the support that they need in those positions to really rise because then it becomes well, we gave you a shot and we aren't going to hire anybody else. it backfires. >> it really does. i think we've seen this to this point. even in our schools. we see that people have said oh, if you are going to give these black children tests it's racist. they can't handle it. you will promote somebody who is not ready based on some idea of racism? absolutely not. you have to prepare everyone. our students have to be prepared and that's been a problem we've seen in places like illinois

where we had dozens of failing schools where kids cannot read at their grade level or do math at their grade level. it is unacceptable. that's why i'm appreciative things like the department of education that they come to an end and give the resources back to the states. we need to get back to a place where this country can teach, learn, read, math and move on with life in the way in which the founders intended it. we can't be giving things out based on race. that's reverse discrimination. >> harris: you know a lot about illinois and all of the systems there but particularly education. it is where you and your family grew up. the movie version of the broadway hit wicked is stirring up controversy over woke warnings. bri british >> a green skinned woman is mocked, talking animals are persecuted in a society.

critics said did they do the same for shrek? another this isn't progress, it's a parody of it. we need resilient minds. oh, preach. gianno. >> 100%. i couldn't agree with that last statement any more. we have gotten to a place in this country where people can't accept reality or facts. we're living in some cases with people's feelings on their fingertips and a problem. we should be able to live as adults. watch movies and come to our own conclusions. we don't need people to tell us what to think. we determine that ourselves and things like this just turns people off. like a lot of disney movies we've seen how woke they've become. people just turn off the television and they don't go see the movie. we will continue to see more and more of that as these particular

ideas and policies move forward. i have to tell you here in america, this election in 2024 of donald trump was a rejection of these ideas and ideologies. >> harris: they still want to pick on color. a black woman who is a green woman. it always comes down to what divides us. your last quick thought. >> that's why we need to be more of a united country whether you be white, black, asian, hispanic, you are my brother, my sister, you are an american. >> harris: amen, that's right. i often say because of the economy the money is green. don't they get it? gianno, thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i hope you had a blessed thanksgiving. we're in the middle of the holidays now. let's roll. "outnumbered" next. doc saves ”" - well, i-

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