12th century. glad i got there. glad i went. >> dana: you took that photo? beautiful. >> bill: a really good one. >> dana: in case you don't know out there, america. bill hemmer is an excellent photographer. >> bill: it was great to go and i'm happy to be home. >> dana: we headed south at well. we were in argentina with friends. it was very touristy tango show. i learned a lot about the country. they are excited about their president. a fascinating and beautiful country. you can drink a lot of red wine there. it doesn't make you sick and, you know, it was a great and beautiful time. we are both glad tock back and i'll see you on "the five" tonight as well. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. vice president kamala harris is

preparing to oversee a joint question of congress. president-elect donald trump's 2024 election victory officially goes into the history books on this january 6th. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." well, this happening as newly-re-elected house speaker mike johnson is working to get the president-elect's agenda in place as soon as possible. trump and johnson are pushing for congress to pass a single, quote, big, beautiful bill to quickly move trump's ambitious agenda forward. the one that more than 76 million americans said they want. republicans also plan to use reconciliation to get around the u.s. senate filibuster if the bill passes the house. that bill will cover many of trump's top priorities. to expand his tax cuts -- address the border crisis, energy, defense legislation, and either raise or eliminate the

debt ceiling. speaker johnson laid out the plan for the bill. >> we want to make sure that we're jump starting the agenda now over the next two weeks so he is prepared and ready on day one. i think at the end of the day president trump will prefer one buying, beautiful bill. there is a lot of merit to that. we can put it all together one big up or down vote, which can save the country quite literally. there are so many elements to it. we'll work long hours with white boards making sure every republican is on board. i will be dealing with the smallest margin in u.s. history for the first 1 hundred days but we'll get it done. >> harris: incoming president backed up the speaker of the house with this. members of congress are getting to work on one powerful bill that will bring our country back and make it greater than ever before. republicans must unite and quickly deliver these historic victories for the american people. get smart, tough and send the bill to my desk to sign as soon as possible.

republican congresswoman kat cammack of the great state of florida. we knew this would be happening quickly because it is a dire time right now in america. congresswoman. >> absolutely, harris, greetings from very snowy and cold washington, d.c. here on capitol hill. it may be freezing outside but it is going to heat up this afternoon as we get ready to certify the election for president-elect donald trump. yes, we're all on board with one big beautiful package. we met over the weekend to work out some of the finer points of it and exactly what the top lines would look like. as speaker johnson alluded to, he will have a slim majority. we can't let personality conflicts get in the way of the america first agenda. we have to be one team and one mission. i feel confident we'll be able to get this reconciliation package done more so than we would have if we had broken it up into two. we're talking the tax package

that will lock in the tax cuts and jobs act legislation giving long term certainty for individuals, families and businesses. we're talking getting our energy independence back. securing our border and for me i know that me along with others are working on regulatory reform addressing that $2 trillion a year regulatory regime administrative state and drain the swamp. a lot of work to do but we'll get it done. >> harris: i will ask you to stand by for a second. we knew that this was coming. the prime minister of canada we're expecting to hearsay the words he quits and resigning. >> paralyzed for months after what has been the longest session of a minority parliament in canadian history. that's why this morning i advised the governor general that we need a new session of parliament. she has granted this request and the house will now be -- until

march 24th. over the holidays, i've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family about our future. throughout the course of my career any successive personally achieved has been because of their support and with their encouragement. so last night over dinner, i told my kids about the decision that i am sharing with you today. i intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide, competitive process. last night i asked the president of the liberal party to begin that process. this country deserves a real choice in the next election and it has become clear to me that if i'm having to fight internal

battles, i cannot be the best option in that election. [speaking french] >> harris: all right. i don't know that was necessarily shocking news. it had to have been coming for the reasons he was giving before he began giving those reasons in french. the internal working of the government, what was going on inside his country, inside canada, was not allowing him and the idea to remain in his position to be ten able. remember not long ago he visited trump at mar-a-lago and trump joked and called him the governor of the 51st state of america if they would like it. they needed to work on border issues, trump said. what happens next for canada and why does that matter?

we have hundreds of line of a border that needs to be secured along the north. that's plain and simple. the liberal party leader will likely exit as he said the moment that a new leader is chosen for his party. it could take some time. there are people on the short list i want to mention. this speaks to some of the problems that were going on. a former banker not a member of parliament, mark carney, former deputy prime minister christa freeland who recently quit. some of the wranglings inside of the office and leblanc is on the short least for people who could take over in the interim. a major country to our north along an important border to our nation has just resigned from his liberal party and expects to resign as prime minister the moment that they replace him in that party. we'll stay on this in case it makes more news. for now she was gracious enough

to stay. i want to go back to kat cammack. i would be remiss if we didn't get your immediate response to that. >> well, down in the south we would say is bless his heart. he has struggled. i don't know if you can hear me i said bless his heart, you know. as you said this is no surprise to see prime minister trudeau's resignation. this has been a long time coming. he has been championing canada much like here in america last, he has been canada last in terms of policies and canadians are tired of it. you mentioned the border situations that we have. in ottawa we know of terrorist cells that have been discovered in ottawa that have posed a national security threat to americans. we have trade disputes whether it is lumber disputes, potatoes. we have a number of commodities that we have struggled to actually work to negotiate a favorable trade deal. so i think you are seeing a realignment happening in canada like other places of the world where the people of that nation

are sick and tired of tyrannical rule. look no further than what happened to the truckers when they spoke out against canadian policies and their bank accounts were seized. this is truly a global realignment putting the sovereign nation first. i think we have president donald trump to thank for that because as you mentioned and what prime minister trudeau failed to recognize was he had gone to mar-a-lago and i think he sat down across the table from president-elect donald trump and said you know, i don't think i'm qualified to handle this and i think that's why we're seeing him exit stage left. >> harris: interesting. all right. all of that in play and it is part of our national security. it is critically important that the countries that border us have people we can talk to. let's see what happens next in canada. we'll watch it. meanwhile let's talk about national security. i may be the only person saying this today. when i woke up this morning and realized how close we are now that the 119th congress seated.

the u.s. senate can start to consider those nominees that president-elect trump wants, it is a matter of national security to get his people in quickly. what is it like about the talk about putting those people together? you have friends in the senate. >> it may be cold outside but hot inside. on capitol hill there is a buzz and energy. everyone feels confident that donald trump's cabinet members will be seated quickly. we recognize the urgent situation that we have now been left with because of four years of america last and of weakness. so i have great confidence that we will get pete hegseth as our d.o.d. secretary. i think you will see tulsi gabbard and rfk and kristi noem, i think you will see these folks get seated immediately and confirmed because we recognize collectively as americans the

dangerous precarious situation we've been left in. the world is on fire. we need strong leadership and can't delay. if you look back to the current administration, trump is on the ball. his entire team are aggressive and getting in front of it now. no time to waste and senators are ready to get to work in the republican senate. >> harris: i appreciate your time. the moment is urgent right now. thank you for being with me on the breaking news about our neighbor to the north. congresswoman, thank you. >> appreciate you. >> harris: millions of americans now are facing dangerous winter storm conditions. look, we know it's january. but this is a lot. an inch of ice in some parts of the country. you can't drive on that. frigid temperatures causing power outages. school closures, car accidents, travel nightmares. >> it is so rare that we get this amount of snow. we know it is coming.

we empty the shelves at the grocery store and prepare for this and we just hunker down and wait until it passes by. >> harris: i love the fact that his companion there is smiling. they are blessed. they have the resources they need. some people don't, we know that and we pray for them. plus president biden pointing to white supremacy as the biggest threat to our nation. that's less than one week after an isis-inspired terrorist took the lives of at least 14 people in new orleans. in "focus" now former deputy national security advisor k.t. mcfar -- mqfarlan. mily call newdayusa. with automatic authority from the va we can say yes when banks say no.

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>> harris: a major storm has more than 60 million americans under winter weather alerts.

fox weather reporting it is now blamed for at least five deaths. the warning stretch from midwest to the east coast. dangerous ice, snow, freezing temperatures and below causing car wrecks and power outages. >> this is the worst that i've seen in probably about -- it feels like almost 15 years. the roads are in tough shape but it's a lot. you hope people are staying safe for sure. >> harris: with fox weather nick is in washington, d.c. nick. >> there are a lot of dangerous elements to the storm, right? you have the snow, you have the ice. this is the first major winter storm that we've seen so far this year and it is the first one we've seen in many locations for years. but within all that some folks are taking some time out to enjoy this historic snowfall. i'm in washington, d.c. at the miranda hill park where the 15th

annual snowball fight is taking place right behind me. this is unbelievable. 5 to 7 inches has fallen across the d.c. metro area. people have been here since 11:00 a.m. having a little bit of fun. obviously schools are out today. there are young kids enjoying the snowfall. i asked my camera guy. i said here do schools do the zoom snow day or is it a complete snow day? everything is shut down. he said it is all shut down. many youngsters are out here making a lot of memories. a little good and bad. i made a friend, she made me a snowball using a cup. mind if i throw this? i will add a snowball to the mix here. i broke it, oh. back to you. we have to make another snowball. >> harris: thank you very much. for all the millions of people suffering with delays and all sorts of things with power outages we feel for them. it is much more dire for them.

president biden and the first lady going to new orleans today to mourn with the families of the victims in last week's deadly terror attack. the f.b.i. has released new video showing the terrorist's view through meta smart glasses as he was scouting locations. so we get to see what the killer saw as he was choosing his targets. the f.b.i. says he visited new orleans twice to map out the area prior to killing people on new year's day. in the wake of the isis-inspired killing rampage, president biden doubled down on his repeated claims that the greatest danger that we as americans face today is white supremacy. >> harris: terrorism from white supremacy is the the most lethal threat to the homeland today. not isis, not al qaeda, white

supremeists. stand up the poison as white supremacists to single out the most dangerous threat to our homeland is white supremacy. >> harris: homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas with this. >> we've been saying this for quite a number of months. we have not only the persistent threat of foreign terrorism that, of course, created the department of homeland security, but we have adverse nation states and for the past 10 years we've seen a significant increase in what we term home grown violent extremism. it is a very difficult threat landscape. >> harris: alejandro mayorkas, let's go. in focus k.t. mcfarland former national security advisor under

trump and c pac board member. when you hear the president talking about white supremacy after one of our great cities was just hit by an isis-inspired suspected terrorist, what is your first reaction? >> what a hypocrite. he is going to new orleans to supposedly grieve with those families yet it is his policies that have made the intelligence community take their eye off the ball of domestic terrorists. domestic inspired by isis terrorists. when the president of the united states says time and time again the danger is white supremacists, it is not al qaeda, not islamic extremist attention, what does it tell the intelligence community? devote your resources someplace else. look at americans. go to catholic priests and talk about pro-life catholics or go after parents going to school board meetings or use the justice department and f.b.i. to prosecute and persecute president trump and his allies.

but what they are not doing is looking at the real threat. they aren't looking at the people coming across the border and not looking at the islamic threat that's in the united states. they have the technology and resources to do it but they haven't done it. >> harris: so, you know, as the new president comes in the focuses will be on national security as a whole. you have looked at this in a top-down fashion for your entire career. what is the first point of order right now? it seems like things are going sideways and getting worse in different ways in this country. >> the first priority would be to get president trump's team in place. what happens, i was one of the co-chairmen of the trump transition in 2016-2017. the first things happens january 20th all the former senior officials are gone. those agencies are all leaderless. what needs to happen is the the new trump people come in immediately. they know what to do. they know how to redirect resources and know how to take the resources they have at hand and put them where they belong

and so i think the priority should be confirmed pete hegseth and kash patel and confirm tulsi gabbard, confirm them all and get them into place so they can do what the american people want them to do, protect the american people. >> harris: what you said is very interesting. he has had a prior term. if you could dig a little deeper, so once you get those people at the top, it's already in motion from january 20th on. does it always work like this or is that because you have a returning president? >> large part of this is because donald trump knows exactly what he wants to do as a returning president. when he came in first, there was a confusion really of what is washington going to do. they continue to think trump is an invading army. there was a lot of sabotage in the bureaucracies and anything he wanted to do. this time around the opposition has cratered, right?

there is no legacy media to go after donald trump. the democrat party is in complete disarray. the only group that could potentially work against trump is the bureaucracy and why the trump administration incoming have to get the top places in place and the next tier and next tier otherwise dragged by the bureaucracy into policies the american people don't want. >> harris: it is already happening as biden is leaving. leaving a long trail of notice me as a break the country further. your last quick thought. >> yeah, he is trying to sabotage things and make things worse for president trump. the american people won't have any of it. at a certain point people will look at joe biden and say he is not only the most corrupt president in american history but the most incompetent. >> harris: i want to recognize the people suffering in new orleans. k.t. a wonderful time to have you and your respective. thank you. i continue to pray for the 14

victims of the new year's day terrorist attack as many of you are, the families and loved ones suffering now. fox corporation stands united with love one louisiana which supports all of them and the entire community. please go to go.fox/nola to help out. it will provide aid and assistance for funeral expenses for people they lost. medical bills for those injured. we don't talk about the long list of injuries and how life long some of them will be. counseling services, which i can imagine will be for a lot of people, those impacted by the attack. plus outrage over president biden's choices for the medal of freedom. >> did the biden administration at all think about this? to give an award for that shows just a lack of consideration for what it is like to live in one of these cities with a soros prosecutor and to see crime skyrocket.

it is pretty shocking. >> harris: critics are all over this calling some of biden's choices for the highest civilian award a national disgrace. ben domenech next.

>> president biden: i have the honor of be stowing the medal of freedom on a group of extraordinary people. who gave their sacred effort. their sacred effort to shape the culture and cause of america. >> harris: the list of people president biden just chose to give the highest civilian american award is as bizarre as many of his final days in office. among the people on the list former secretary of state twice failed presidential candidate hillary clinton. led the state department when a 2012 terrorist attack in benghazi libya killed four

american. far left america mega donor george soros behind raising the money to help elect dozens of soft on crime district attorneys and judges. the picture seems appropriate. alexander soros accepted the award on his father's behalf. his dad is 94. nikki haley posted giving george soros the medal of freedom is another slap in the face of america after reducing the sentences of murderers and pardoning his son. 16 days is a long time until the inauguration. what is he capable of sliding in next? january 20th can't come soon enough. she wrote that over the weekend. we're 13 days away now. byron donalds. >> this is just crazy in my view. first of all, george soros is on the absolute left of our politics. everybody knows this. this is his staff and frankly in part his family that are managing all this stuff from behind the scenes. the democrats want to use their last moments to reward their

leftists makes no sense at all. we'll make america great and be focused on the american people. >> harris: look, it continues. a new editorial piece with this headline. biden's disgraceful exit. a piece of it. it would be hard to pick a figure that better personified the democratic party's contempt for average americans that failed presidential candidate hillary clinton and hard to think of anyone who has done more damage to them then george soros. president joe biden chose as one of his parting shots to the nation and people he serves to honor both of them with presidential medals of freedom. in "focus" now ben domenech, fox news contributor and spectator editor at large. ben. >> look, harris, we are in the yolo period of the joe biden political career. he is just not going to be listening to anyone who is giving him advice who wants him

to sound a note of unity on the way out. instead you have these divisive choices that didn't need to be made. you don't need to do this. he is making them of perhaps his own volition or the volition as congressman donalds said of those around him, family and staff. they serve as a divisive ending note to his presidency. he is going out as an unpopular guy and in part because he has failed to live up to the standard that he set for himself. when he came into the presidency and gave his inaugural address he promised america he was going to be a return to normalcy, a return to calm. instead he proved to be an incredibly divisive president. someone who engaged in some of the most extreme policy we've seen. policies that were unpopular and didn't work in terms of our economy in particular. awarding somebody like george soros in particular, i think has to stick in the craw of every

american who knows someone who suffered in these crime-ridden cities where his own supported prosecutors failed to do their job and live up to their responsibility to the american people. that's a big part of the reason that donald trump won in november and also something that the democratic party really has to reckon with and deal with as joe biden exits the presidency in order to actually return to being a party that can contend nationally. >> harris: do you really think they'll do that, though in they are are so focused on the far left lean and it started with the years hillary clinton was running. i did a special at the time on a sunday night hillary's hard left turn. she didn't want to make that turn but the party was making it. joe biden was all in. he said i'm the most progressive president the united states has ever seen. we ought to run that on a video. >> that was never his brand beforehand. that's part of the reason why he won is because he was viewed as someone who would be more in the

center when it came to these politically divisive issues. instead he turned out to be this progressive on all of these subjects to lean toward the left and listen to all these people, figures within his party who come out of the democratic socialist experience and want to essentially, you know, not just defund the police, get rid of law and order, but also engage in all sorts of fanciful thinking about the way we can have crime-free cities and strike back against criminals who would do harm to our fellow american citizens. >> harris: look, you said you only live once. i would say this, was he lying and now we know who he really was? or did we just not believe him showing us who he really is all along? or democrats didn't believe it. it was right before our eyes. >> i think you are right. i think what we've learned about joe biden over these last four years is he was far from being the kind of centrist he said he was. he was much further left and

much more willing to kowtow to progressives within his party to our detriment as a country. >> harris: this has to do with energy, which is a bit adjacent to what we're saying. his last moves as a president of the united states 13 days out from the inauguration of donald trump are more than just an embarrassment, they're dangerous. we need to be energy dependent at this point. look at what he just put into place for drilling in this country. >> it is absolutely an extreme position to take and again, you know, on the way out he is engaged in all these sweeping actions. we can be upset at him when it comes to the pardoning of the hunter biden. that's a narrow action. there is not a lot of things that come down scale from that. these are sweeping actions. these are sweeping actions that will be difficult to in some cases to peel back. i think that donald trump is going to have his work cut out for him in dealing with the kind of legacy that joe biden left

behind. the politics of it are simply kowtowing to his left base. the left part of the party has led them into the circumstance they control none of the areas of power in washington and have to spend time in the wilderness and figure out how to come back. >> harris: we have one of our anchors from the fox business network coming up a little bit to break down the money side of all that. it is a serious problem. oh my gosh, 13 days. ben domenech, 13 stays. more on president biden doing all he can to hamstring president-elect trump's agenda before he takes office. the slew of 11th hour government regulations biden is ramming throughout without congress. democrats continue to take stock after their resounding election days of losses. >> we have to look in the mirror. >> so maligned from the standpoint of it is toxic. >> we are really stuck in our

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>> harris: how much will this cost america? president biden is using his final two weeks in office to fire some parting shots at president-elect trump's energy agenda. president biden just announced a ban on all new off shore drilling spanning 6 hundred 25 million acres of ocean. incoming white house press secretary karoline leavitt.

>> this decision, the intent behind it is to attack political revenge on the american people and on president trump to try to slow down his administration and make it harder to implement the agenda that he campaigned on. >> harris: biden must not be considering that some of the people who voted for trump were democrats and independents. we talked about the politics already. let's talk about the money. edward lawrence of fox business is at the white house. it is snowing there. edward, how much does this hurt us energy-wise and cost-wise? >> you know, we can't put an exact figure on it today. the biden administration is trying to make it very difficult for trump administration to do his energy first agenda he wants to get done. this permanent ban on oil and natural gas drilling on the lower shelf of the southern coastal waters will create problems in trying to license and expand the drilling operation that we have.

president joe biden used the outer continental shelf lands act passed 1953. it doesn't say a future president can undo the action. only congress with undo it. we could be heading for another court battle if the president elect undoes the action by executive order or new congress could take it on as another priority. >> called the hail mary pass. nothing left and you just throw it up in the air and hope somebody catches it. that's what this is by biden, a hail mary pass. i guarantee it will be reversed. we have so much energy off shore, we should be using it. >> in a statement he says we don't need to -- and keeping energy prices low. he says those are false choices according to biden. the president adding a rule that changed emission standards for natural gas water heaters by

2029. the gas association called it deeply concerning and irresponsible. industry groups say it will raise prices on 40% of the consumers directly impacted. >> people who can least affordist have to pay the mufti for new water heaters that they'll have to install and retrofit into their places where they live. >> so 15 days president biden unveiling the new rules that could hamstring the energy policy of president-elect trump as least in the first few months. >> harris: wait a minute. the man whose name is synonymous can you get the inflation numbers to come down in a permanent fashion has just found a way to inflate the price of heating our homes. >> that's going to be the effect when you talk about the water heater regulations that came down. when you talk about the oil and natural gas dreiling that he is limited and restricted. that's the effect of it and puts upward pressure on inflation and

increases prices. >> harris: doesn't feel like he loves us as the american people. >> we should regard this election. it is a loss and a challenge. we have to look in the mirror and see what we did wrong. i think we have a lot of great leaders in our party. we have a great bench of people coming up and i am really optimistic about the future of the democratic party in the future. >> harris: well, senate minority leader schumer is trying to sound optimistic after the democratic party lost the white house and senate in november. and he went on to say that voters just didn't understand how much democrats actually did for them. they understood. they just didn't like it. a new op-ed argues if the democrats want to avoid a repeat, nominate a candidate without woke baggage. if the candidate takes a stand

against the shadow party using progressive activists as a foil, he or she might be able to allay concerns about democrats' cultural radicalism and keep the focus on their program. other democrats agree. >> i am not a democrat in the form of what the democratic party has turned itself into. a national brand, absolutely not. the brand got so bad, the d-brad has been so maligned from the standpoint of it's toxic. >> within the democratic caucus we are really stuck in our old ways of doing things. i think that america is looking at us and saying wait a minute, we lost the election and we know that the senate lost seats. the house we picked up seats rick right? but i think they're saying we're looking towards y'all to show us that you are willing to shake it up if it means we can move this country forward. >> harris: power panel now, fred hicks, founder and president of

hicks evaluation group. cassie smedley. fred, i'll start with you. what is the democratic national brand that manchin and others are saying is damaged? >> happy new year's. joe manchin is not a democrat. he caucuses with the democrats. >> harris: he voted for the so-called inflation reduction bill and yelled at me on the show calling me a lie area because i said it wouldn't do the things he said. now he has left your party. did you watch the other people in the clip? what about that brand is broken? what is the brand that's broken? >> i watched the election results on november 5. the democratic brand now is not resonating with americans. >> harris: what is not resonating. >> that's a great question.

jason carter, the grandson of jimmy carter said it best in a tweet. he said that americans are telling democrats what they want and democrats are telling them they're wrong. i think jason was spot on with that and something we have to stop telling people what we want to tell them and we have to hear what people are saying and concerned about and address those issues. the one thing we do know wall street will always win. it is about who will be a champion for main street. that's the opportunity we have. >> harris: cassie for a second i want to ask you to put on your investigative hat. what actually broke down in the democratic party such that they became the party of the elite, rich, only focused on themselves and celebrities? to fred's point they don't see the middle class having a voice for the lower class that they have to listen to. >> well, it didn't happen overnight. this is 20 years of democrats taking their base for granted. comments like joe biden saying if you don't vote for me or for democrats you ain't black and

people saying wait a minute. if your policies don't work for all americans i won't vote for you. actually stood up and took action against that this time around. it will take a lot more than a couple of interviews and an overnight retreat to correct, course correct the democrats. furthermore exactly what you have been talking about on the program this hour. don't take our word for it. take democrats' actions as an example of what they stand for. giving george soros the medal of freedom. on his way out the door increasing inflation and energy prices for the american people. those are priorities of the democrat party are the people they align themselves with and the actions that they take. that's why joe biden is on his way out the door and why chuck schumer is now minority leader. to my good friend fred, every time you say well, that guy doesn't -- he is not a democrat anymore is one more time you aren't learning your less on. republicans have had to learn our lessons over the years and

donald trump has been the largest mega phone for saying this is what the american people want and this is what i'm going to give them and democrats either need to take note of that or continue to enjoy living in the minority. >> harris: you just mentioned schumer again. he is important. he is the leader of the democrats in the senate at least for the past 118th congress. schumer is playing defense when asked about misleading americans when it comes to president biden's mental acuity. watch this. >> what do you say to americans who feel as though you and other top democrats misled them about president biden's mental acuity? >> look, we didn't. let's look at president biden. he has had an amazing record. he is a patriot. he is a great guy and when he stepped down he did it on his own because he thought it was better not only for the democratic party for america. we should all salute him. >> harris: later the same day he said that the president decided

to scold reporters at the white house. we have a bleep machine. it will be okay. >> president biden: the only thing my being the oldest president i know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole [bleep] life. >> harris: i thought we were going to bleep that. he seems angry, fred. >> i don't know if i would say angry. i saw the clip there as you played it. you know, as we mentioned before, everyone who loses an election goes through a grieving period. we saw four years of grievances aired out from 2021. >> harris: do we have a cussing grieving payment and stop drilling for the longest time along with a 1953 act. we have a lot of questions. i apologize to the audience for not bleeping that. "outnumbered" is next.

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