daily the quarterback for army has had a terrific season. they're 11-one. 19th in the country. navy had a great year, 8-three. the commander-in-chief is on the line and worthy young men representing their teams and institutions, military and country and we can all take great joy in this. this is truly amateur football and it is great to watch. >> bill: well stated. nice to see you in person soon, i hope. jim gray on the road. thank you, jim. >> thanks. appreciate it. >> dana: before we go a new jersey business dealing with a break-in. the culprit was a wild deer. check that out. it came barreling through the front door. knocked over the christmas tree and decided to just take a little nap. the owners eventually got it out. harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert.

how dire is the biden-harris border crisis for the democratic leaders of sanctuary and states. this might be an indication. new york city mayor eric adams sitting down with the president-elect trump's border czar. tom homan has not even been mildly quiet about how the trump administration will crack down on illegal immigrants on -- in our nation on day one. so this meeting is critical. everybody is watching it. no doubt those blue city mayors and governors. i'm harris faulkner. are you in "the faulkner focus." mayor adams staking out some common ground with trump. >> we're not going to be a safe haven for those who remeet violent crimes against longstanding nofshgers, migrants and immigrants. that was my conversation today with the border czar to figure out how do we go after those individuals who are repeatedly

committing crimes in our city. >> harris: we are and have been seeing a surge of violent crimes across america allegedly committed by illegal immigrants. in one of those heartbreaking cases, two illegal immigrants allegedly kidnapped, asalted salted and killed 12-year-old nungaray. they'll seek the death penalty in that case. also in houston, an illegal immigrant facing charges of killing 7-year-old ivory smith. authorities say he was drunk when he slammed his car into the car ivory's mom was driving. here is young ivory's aunt speaking to fox this morning. >> she was such a bubbly star to us. she loved the spotlight. she loved to dance. she loved gymnastics. she had a youtube channel and

we're just going to miss her. she was always -- the smile you see, she was always smiling and we didn't protect her. texas laws didn't protect her. >> harris: illegal aliens in this country. look over your shoulder. the border czar and trump administration are coming for you. cb cotton is in new york city. >> incoming border czar tom homan said he met with eric adams for more than an hour discussing immigration reform, border security, and deportation. the meeting comes amid repeat criticism from adams accused the biden administration of not providing enough financial support during an influx of more than 225,000 migrants to new york city since the spring of 2022. adams says he and homan have the same quote desire to go after migrants committing violent acts but get this. the city is limited by its sanctuary laws which prevent close collaboration between police and ice.

now adams says he is exploring how he can use his executive orders to repeal those laws and help remove illegal migrants accused of violence. like these two alleged tren de aragua gang members who were arrested two weeks ago here in the city during a major drug and gun bust. homan tells fox he wishes other democratic mayors would follow suit. >> i wish the mayor of chicago and san diego city council and governor pritzker would take a page out of adams' playbook. the ex-cop came out of him today. he cares about public safety and putting politics aside. >> for some adams' meeting was a political group. one group saying it's despicable mayor adams continues to shirk responseability uphold the sanctuary city by collaborating

with tom homan. >> harris: thank you very much. mayor adams looks to fight illegal immigrant crime, other democratic mayors are vowing to fight tooth and nail against trump. >> we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear. >> we aren't going to cooperate or ask our police force to serve as ice agents. >> we won't support deploying the 101st airborne into cities to pull kids out of classrooms. they'll find us resisting. >> harris: they want to go after the criminals first. tom homan said that. adams is willing to work with him. blue cities and states are voting to strengthen their sanctuary policies. in philadelphia, some residents are urging their mayor to reaffirm the city's sanctuary status. power panel now, matt gorman targeted victory executive vice

president and former tim scott campaign advisor. meghan hayes former director of message planning for the biden white house. great to see you both. meghan, i start with you. what's the point to as gavin newsom has said, democratic governor of california, trump-proofing his state when more than 76 million people just said an electoral and popular win for trump that they want him to deal with the border crisis? >> i think there is a way to deal with the border crisis and a way not to deal with it. what these democratic governors and mayors are saying is there is a way to deal with it that makes sense. go after people criminals and not working -- i think that's what they are saying and what you heard the mayor in the clip say from colorado. so i think there is a way to deal with it in the right way. i don't think the governors of blue states or mayors of blue cities want to deploy their police force like they are saying to break up families for mass deportation.

that's known not what the american people want. >> harris: you just stated what is a good policy. they won't get that far. that's why it's so rare that adams is doing it. they won't go after the worst among us. that's the truth and i am wondering how that is even good democratic political policy when you just lost the house, senate and white house? >> eric adams is doing the right thing. you saw in sanctuary cities trump increases vote share new york, chicago, martha's vineyard did better than he did in 2020. a lot because of this issue. look, mike johnson, the mayor, the random mayor in denver, the perfect way the democrats frame it. seem like it will be seal team six kicking in st. patricky cathedral's doors. it is a lie. you had the ice field director in new york city telling the post before christmas it would take a lifetime just to round up the criminal migrants in new

york city alone. democrats want to make it the most extreme example get that in your head to scare people when in reality it's about deporting criminals first. as homan has said. >> harris: new fox polling highlights why voters may have given president-elect trump a second term and a mandate? brutal numbers for president biden and his final month in office. 41% giving him a positive approval rating. that's among the lowest of recent presidents, second only to former president george w. bush who left office during the iraq war. biden's ratings on the economy are awful. 47% say his policies hurt them. 17% say they helped. 70% said they are not happy with the direction of the country. trey gowdy. >> when you are an incumbent and you do not run for re-election as president. that is not a good sign. that's not an act of

selflessness. that's a sign you will get hammered. you will lose really, really badly and it wound up his replacement lost pretty badly, too. >> harris: fox polling shows voters are optimistic going into the trump's new term. many saying they are' leefshd about the election results and half are excited. some arguing the president is already taking a back seat, meaning biden, in his final months. some are calling him the lame duck. a new opinion piece. biden gets lost in trump's shadow. meghan, what is the strategy now? it is almost like legacy over the american people with the commutations, with not even jumping in to do what he could help with the border crisis after the death of another child and the suspect was here illegally. >> look, i think the polling shows what the american people were feeling. people felt economically they were not where they wanted to be and wanted change and got change

and that's what they're doing now. i don't think the polling is surprising or approval rating is surprising given how people feel. he has time left to do more with the border crisis if that's what he chooses to do. we were calling for that yesterday. i'm not surprised by the polling numbers and not surprised by his approval rating. a lot of the policies he passed and put are long term economic policies and people will feel the impact of those bills well past his term in office and the next ten years. i'm not surprised by the polling but i think his policies will be long felt. >> i think democrats went from i feel your pain to the bill clinton years to your pain isn't real of the joe biden years. so much what you see in the polling numbers they denied reality. economy is doing fine. don't believe your pocketbook. how they said the border was actually secure up until when they finally realized it wasn't and a political liability for them. the king of them all was the

fact they were denying the reality around joe biden's physical and mental state until that fateful atlanta debate. that's how we got into this scenario and they lost credibility. not able to tell the truth to the american people and people bought it. >> harris: nobody believed the woman put in charge, is the person who is in charge and look it up. watch the individual yoechlt video. putting kamala harris in charge of the border. you look at that and tries to run on a record she was different. it was fraught with difficulty from the very beginning. great to see you both. president biden has already broken a single day clemency record. this is just what i was pointing out to meghan. a lot of democrats aren't happy about this. multiple reports say some preemptive pardons for those in biden's inner circle could be coming. so exactly how are democrats feeling? they are warning the president against doing that in particular.

plus the justice department finally inspector general releasing his reports on the handling of the january 6th, 2021, capitol riot. >> it is ludicrous what we're finding out after years, quite literally years of them dodging questions from elected members of congress, from hiding the truth that there were in fact informants there on january 6th. >> harris: the f.b.i. is suddenly under fire as its director is about to hit the bricks. he is out. ben domenech is in "focus." ves need cash but worried you can't get a home loan because of your credit? here's great news. at newday we've been granted automatic authority by the va to make our own loan approval decisions. in fact, if you've had credit challenges and missed a payment along the way, you're more than five times more likely to get approved for the newday 100 va cash out loan. no one knows veterans like newday usa.

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>> harris: trouble for the f.b.i. over a new report released by the department of justice's inspector general. now it is public that 26

confidential human sources or informants were in the crowd during the january 6th, 2021, capitol riots. of those, only three were told to be there by the f.b.i. the other 23 showed up without authorization. here is kerri urbahn, fox news legal editor. >> what exactly were they doing? some entered the restricted area, went into the capitol. were they inciting anything? matthew graves is the u.s. attorney in washington, d.c. did not prosecute any of those confidential human sources, spies that entered the capitol that day. his office put out a statement and said they did not generally prosecute anyone who went into the capitol and didn't commit other crimes. my question is what does generally mean? how did they make those decisions and why weren't those

particular paid spies part of that group? >> harris: this week wray announced will he design before president-elect trump takes office. major controversies during his tenure. here is a short list. the unprecedented mar-a-lago raid. anti-catholic's memo targeting parents at school board meetings. questions over the biden family corruption investigation. and christopher wray's initial claim that trump was hit by shrapnel instead of the bullet that hit trump in the ear during the first assassination attempt. both the first and second on his watch, christopher wray. in "focus" new ben domenech. fox news contributor, spectator editor at large. top line thoughts as you learn this. >> well, harris, i think that we still need to know more. i think this inspector general report is certainly something that can give us some perspective on this that i think we've been waiting for for a

very long time about the presence of these figures on january 6th. but as our colleague kerri urbahn was saying there, the simple fact is we don't know what these people were doing there, particularly those that were there without being told to be there by a f.b.i. look, i think it was always likely there was going to be some level of presence. i'm not sure we expected it to be this significant. i think that we also need to know really every detail that we can about what these people did and why ultimately they were not prosecuted, what any consequences are that they have for this activity that was not authorized by the f.b.i.? >> harris: who sent them? to whom are they confidential? who are they in the confidence of if not the f.b.i., who were 23 people spread around the january 6th riot? were they the beginning of the incitement? we have a lot of questions. we don't know by whom they were sent. >> yes. i think that the other part of

this that we've seen all along is that we can't trust any of these entities when it comes to being transparent with us about what really happened. we can't really trust them because they've already shown themselves to be not trustworthy in the so many other aspects. issues that have degraded the feeling of the american people when it comes to the faith they have in these associations. as i've said before, the simple fact is we can't just burn the f.b.i. to the ground. you need an f.b.i. that actually functions in order to protect the american people. >> harris: 100%. >> they don't seem to be functioning that way and not functioning that way for a long time. that's something that has to be fixed in this new administration. >> harris: the shame of that is it involves the thousands of men and women working are doing their jobs. the leadership has some of it figured out the job is to work against us as american citizens. we have to redefine their jobs or kick them out and replace them. the guy at the top gets the

message. he is on his way out. the politics of the pardon wagon that we're seeing at play with joe biden. it seems like he is pulling a list of names in a kids' wagon and pulling them out when he wants to. americans, particularly some democrats, don't like it. fox news poll finds 63% of voters disapprove of biden's decision to pardon his son. democrats are warning biden against issuing preemptive pardons before he leaves office. some possibilities, anthony fauci, liz cheney, adam schiff, hillary clinton, mark milley. left leaning "washington post" editorial board says biden's potential get out of jail free card are unnecessary and imply guilt. charlamagne tha god. >> it makes people look guilty if you ask me. biden should be pardoning all

the none violent -- why would i pardon you if you don't have any crime connected with you? don't that make you look guilty? >> harris: he said it all. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre would not commit to an answer about whether joe biden would issue these preemptive pardons. >> i'm not going to get ahead of the president. as i said we'll have more. the president will have more to announce over the upcoming weeks as we close out our time here. it would be a bad move on my behalf if i preempted the president or previewed anything that the president was thinking about, considering, and so this is something that he is going to talk with his team about and i just don't have anything beyond that for you. >> harris: that's because often she will say stuff like he would never pardon hunter biden. biden makes her and a lot of people a liar. he does what he wants. >> so i completely agree that

with charlamagne in terms of the idea that preemptive pardon makes you look guilty. a lot of people involved here, though, are concerned that they may have done something that they could be found guilty of and that's, i think, the whole reason they are having this conversation. preemptive pardon in this instance would be really an incredible thing. something that we just do not have the type of precedent for. it is something that would be, i think, a complete abuse of power. the only concern that i have about it at this point, the reason that the "washington post" is giving biden this signal, is that the pardon of hunter biden came after so many people who are on his side were using his resistance to it as a sign of his moral nobility and he was someone acting out of principle. he wasn't going to do something just in the interests of high family. when that went out the window they are concerned this guy doesn't owe anything to anybody.

he is at the end of his career. he doesn't care about any of this stuff and he may do things that frankly are out of control in terms of the use of the pardon power. >> harris: he is a man who has been in politics for five decades? don't you think we know who he is? he is giving us more of who he is. yesterday joe biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people. the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day in modern history. here is a statement from him. i have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who demonstrated remorse and rehabilitation, restoring opportunity for americans to participate in daily life and contribute to their communities, end of quote. a lot of backlash over one person in particular getting mercy. a former county judge michael con hann was one of two judges convicted in a kids for cash scheme in pennsylvania. the two accepted millions of

dollars in kickbacks in exchange for populating for profit juvenile prisons. investigators say more than 2500 children were given far harsher sentences than they deserved. one of those children took his own life. by the way, he was supposed to get 17 1/2 years behind bars. that was 2011. biden let him go. >> i don't think this is a situation where you can make any case that he deserved to have this type of treatment and as we all know, this is one of those powers where the people that you are connected with, the ability to go behind the scenes and interact with this white house as it has been abused in the past in other instances really connects these politically powerful people with these different cases. you have advocates that work for them and oftentimes they are undeserving of this type of treatment. this is another example of it. again, this is biden being out of control and not having to be

beholding to anybody in his final days. i hope it doesn't get worse. there is still time to go with joe biden technically as the president of the united states. >> harris: 38 1/2 days. i was a full paragraph you spoke in four or five words. thank you very much. the u.k. decided the dangers are too great. it is indefinitely banning puberty blockers for children. the debate on the issue is raging on with many in america saying it is high time the u.s. does the same thing to protect our own children. plus the drone debacle, dangerous national security concerns growing by the day. >> i don't believe that the united states of america with its military capabilities does not know what these objects are. and what i'm asking and what we're all asking is for you to be straight with us. >> harris: you may know this from talking to friends and

family. the mystery objects spotted in the u.s. airspace are coast to coast. lawmakers want answers immediately. people living in those areas say they are ready to take matters into their own hands like shooting them down. mayor michael melen in "focus" next. ey'd love to buy gold. but because it's gold, they think it must be complicated. it isn't. not with rosland capital. with rosland... the entire process from start to finish is built on one concept. one... keep...it...simple. rosland capital a trusted leader in helping people acquire precious metals. gold bullion, lady liberty gold and silver proofs, and our premium coins, can help you preserve your wealth. call rosland capital at 800-630-8900 to receive your free rosland guide to gold, gold & precious metals ira, and silver brochures.

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go to singlecare.com and start saving today. >> new jersey can't become the wild west of drone activity. no state can become a wild west of drone activity. the f.b.i. should be standing at the podium at the department of homeland security and briefing the public and explaining to them what these drones are. there is no reason they're delaying on providing those briefings and insuring that everybody has the resources to respond. >> harris: that just happened. we saw a ton of these objects last night in northern new jersey and particularly in

bergen county where he is there. a news conference on a different topic and it came up. the drone mystery is growing. the outrage is growing. those drones, some of the size of s.u.v.s are flying around u.s. airspace. and they cannot be detected by local officials. a whole story line about their clandestine nature. they have been sighted across america including over one of president-elect's homes and above military sites. why? still no answers from the department of homeland security or the pentagon. they said, you know, basically anything that anybody has told you is not true in terms of why this could be. this map shows just how many of these drones have been spotted over new jersey and last night was no exception. we'll get to that in a moment. fox team on the story without, again, they also spotted several aircraft. white house national security

communications advisor john kirby with this. >> we have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat. or have a foreign nexus. upon review of available imagery it appears many of the sightings are manned aircraft being operated lawfully. >> harris: that didn't help anybody. my next guest coming up in a moment mayor from new jersey says it was an insult from the admiral kirby. one state lawmaker and former military helicopter pilot, really, really is not having it. >> that guy is an idiot. that i can tell you right now because colonel of the state police told the members of the state legislature that one of his helicopters was hovering above a six-foot wide drone and he landed that helicopter because he felt unsafe for his

pilots. >> harris: they let it continue flying. nate foye is in elizabeth, new jersey, where again so many reported sightings across that part, that northern part of our state. >> harris, yeah, military and critical infrastructure sites are the key concerns here. we had a busy night not only in new jersey, also new york and connecticut and as far as way as california last night. this morning staten island officials are requesting the nypd get involved and investigate these drone sightings. look at this new videos from overnight and you just heard the white house, also the f.b.i. say there is no evidence to suggest the drones are dangerous or belong to a foreign country. but moments ago congresswoman nichole malliotakis said we're not being told the whole story. >> i don't believe that the united states of america with its military capabilities does

not know what these objects are. >> so the white house also claims that at least some of the drone sightings are actually manned aircraft. a drone expert tells fox this morning he agrees with that. >> i have looked at hundred of videos at this point. every one of them is an airplane. don't be scared. sleep well at night. be worried your neighbor is a bad pilot with a small drone and crashes into your window or something like that in. terms of large drones flying over, unfortunately they are just not there. >> many are skeptical. new york senator gillibrand said we need to investigate all possibilities including the idea a foreign adversary is launching drones from the ocean. >> it wouldn't be hard for an adversary to have a ship in the area. especially if they just pay a shipping company to carry their cargo. so it is very complex.

>> senator gillibrand and others are advocating for taking these drones down in a safe manner. send it back to you, harris. >> harris: i'm still di gist re guessing one of the people you had on screen the drone expert said they were planes. not the first time i heard that. unmanned aircraft and can maneuver for differently than other drones we've seen. fascinating. thank you for your report. we have the mayor of new jersey. you said you were just briefed. what can you tell us? >> on the way here on the phone with my team and we have guidance coming from the state. that guidance does say two different things. first there is a downed drone in our vicinity. we're immediately to call the bomb squad of our county and our fire department has been instructed to wear hazmat suits. >> harris: if something falls out of the sky that people have seen and some of these things

are as big as an s.u.v. , if that happens, you are to treat this more than a plane crash. it is treated like an attack on the homeland? >> that's correct. they aren't sure if there is a payload or not and told during our briefing on wednesday. >> harris: wow. you said you were insulted by how the pentagon and white house, their messaging coming out. tell me what you are hearing from them and why doesn't it match what you were just told moments ago? >> we're being told people in new jersey must be crazy and only seeing small aircraft. that's just not the case. if you are on the ground in new jersey my residents are concerned and alarmed because they have no idea was hovering over their houses. >> harris: have you seen these? >> i have. they are definitely small -- you have to understand a drone is considered an aircraft. it's flying in unrestricted space or restricted space. considered an aircraft. they look like a small aircraft. no doubt about it. they don't like the personal drones we're used to seeing but

very large, very large. >> harris: let me get to this. after several lawmakers called for authorities to shoot down the drones now residents say they'll have to take matters into their own hands if the government is refusing to act. a couple of social media posts representing that sentiment now. a good shotgun will fix that problem. another semi automatic three inch magnum. let me ask you this. because also what you told me as you were sitting down. we had quite a conversation. there are several theories and then some people based on high-level conversations like our own new jersey representative jeff van drew, tony gonzalez, congressman out of texas are saying they're having high level conversations with law enforcement and experts are saying there is an iranian mothership with drones. you told me something more disturbing. >> we've been told.

we had a briefing wednesday, 200 state mayors gathered together and learned exactly what the state of new jersey learned, very little. but the thing that we did take away from that we were told very point blank that these drones are hovering over our critical infrastructure. that's interesting because they aren't doing any harm. just hovering over there and told there is no credible threat. when you start putting things together they're telling us, they're unwilling to shoot them down and do a temporary ban and something is not adding up here. it sounds like it might very be our highest level government assets being deployed as a counter measure. >> dana: as a counter measure. >> harris: two things can be true. the timeline matches when the mothership, whatever it is left iran and appeared somewhere off our eastern seaboard. if it were chock full of drones

and released them the timeline fits according to van drew an others. if that's the case we would put things in the sky because you know the government would know. look, it forces all of us to try to do some sort of calculation of why the government wouldn't just say something? >> they have to speak. they have to be transparent. no doubt about that because what else is happening is now conspiracy theories are starting to flood social media. >> harris: what is somebody shoots it down? >> we need to tell our residents it is not lawful. drones are considered aircraft and f.a.a. you cannot shoot an aircraft in new jersey. we're being advised to tell residents not to shoot them down. we're concerned because one new jersey -- we don't have the ability to take them out of the air. >> harris: mayor, thank you for being here. appreciate it and all the breaking news you brought us, too. the incoming trump administration is signaling the death of d.e.i. the president-elect has tapped

his cabinet choices d.e.i. critics and putting biden-era policies in the crosshairs. plus the debate over the transgender treatment for children is getting hotter around the country and the world. the u.k. just voted to ban puberty blockers for children. many are asking if the united states should do the same. detransitioners say it has to happen. >> you have to have some common sense here. we have to realize that pushing puberty blockers and encouraging children to change who they are is not right. children need to grow up and learn to see who they are themselves without having this gender ideology being pushed on them. >> harris: jason rantz with me next.

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>> harris: president-elect donald trump and his incoming administration are taking aim at diversity, equity and inclusion. dei programs. trump this week nominated republican attorney dhillon to lead the justice department civil rights division. he is expected to reverse president biden's d.e.i. policies in government agencies and challenge the practice in schools. a new report from a conservative parent advocacy group claims

biden's education department spent $1 billion on d.e.i. grants. our kids are behind in reading and market after lockdowns of covid. oh my goodness. the organization's founder has a stark warning. >> i think what's terrifying is that not only are these programs -- a waste of money. they are actively harmful and need to be completely eradicated. i think over the next four years we'll have a major cleanup effort. these administrators are not scared. >> harris: lucas tomlinson. >> with the nation in debt the incoming trump administration and lawmakers are looking at cuts. d.e.i. is one on the chopping back to stop taxpayer funds from funding it at colleges and universities. >> we found there were more than 1 billion worth of d.e.i. based

grants given out to about nearly 300 school districts. there were about 229 grants upward of multi-million dollars that all had some sort of d.e.i. component to them going out to schools. >> new fox news poll showing the percentage of people who are looking at issues they want trump to solve lowering prices, cutting taxes, strengthening national defense, deporting illegal immigrants. reducing size of government and ending d.e.i. programs. the top five states with the most d.e.i. grants during the biden tenure north carolina, california, florida, south carolina and michigan. critics say it's not just universities but major corporations, too, cutting back on d.e.i. as we saw recently with wal-mart and harley davidson. >> harris: you teed us up for a great discussion. jason rantz now.

that information that we just saw we can pop it back up. new fox poll shows 29% of americans believe ending d.e.i. should be extremely important for trump. what does that communicate to you? >> communicates to me that everyone now understands this grift that was very lucrative for a lot of equity consultants pretending that they were tackling unfair and unjust policies but the reality is d.e.i. has been a trojan horse for institutionalizing the custom of victimhood, racism and sexism. replacing meritocracy with racial quotas. one's i dent fee over qualifications and it hurts businesses and schools and hurts the very people that it aimed to support. it doesn't do that. >> harris: all right. i want to move to another hot topic. transgender treatments for children at the center of a global debate now.

the u.k. just put an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for minor children with some exceptions. will the united states follow suit? the u.s. supreme court heard a challenge this month to a tennessee law banning puberty blockers for teenagers. that decision could effect 23 other states with similar laws on the books. tennessee attorney general now. >> the constitution allows the states to protect kids from unproven, life-altering procedures based on uncertain science. just as ruth bader ginsberg, the greatest feminist in the history of the court recognized there are enduring physical differences between the sexes. there just are. the constitution does not require legal absurdity to biological reality. >> harris: a researcher told "the new york times" she declined to publish a

groundbreaking study putting politics over the times reported this. the leader of the study said that drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that she felt the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care. politics over people. jason. >> politics gets in the way of studies being published but also gets in the way of the truth of studies when they are published. we've seen the framing around some of the studies disingenuous and disconnected from the data they found. the truth has been for a very long time that puberty blockers and so-called gender-affirming care at the best can only have a very, very minimal impact. at the worst it could make things worse for individuals because they are being promised that all of these suicidal tendencies they might be having or this depression that they might be suffering through will go away so long as they go on

puberty blockers and have gender affirmed. it turns out that's not true. in any other reality with any other drug connected to anything else, any other subject, when the u.k. comes out and bans something at a bare minimum you would expect the united states, at least warnings to go out to doctors saying we haven't seen all the data yet. we'll do our own research. be aware this is happening before you decide to move forward with this avenue with your patients. >> harris: you said it. puberty blockers have harmed. doctors have told me and reported it it is physically because they leave crippling and permanent hormonal changes in little ones that can cause brittle bones. just what they do to the body. but also to the psyche. that person who really wanted to push this as an agenda doesn't want anybody to know the mental health of these kids is certainly not helped by puberty blockers.

>> precisely. you have someone who is let's say a 15 or 16-year-old feeling suicidal and told do not worry, all of those feelings of dread and helplessness will go away. all you have to do is do this. the second they realize well i'm doing what it is you told me to do and nothing is happening. it is not going away. you are making that person even more likely to go down an even worse path mentally. i wish that doctors would step back and realize the damage they're doing to these kids. >> harris: as for teenagers, for ones younger who haven't gone through puberty yet. they don't even know what struggles lay ahead for them. jason rantz, thank you very much. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." it's been a very busy breaking news week. it continues. "outnumbered" after the break.

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