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>> this is a fox news alert. a prehistoric one at that. president trump has revealed the context of the letter that former president biden left to him. this is a fox news exclusive. let me put this into perspective. there have only been seven presidents that left a letter to their predecessors, six who left a letter to the opposite political party. biden was just the third to have to pen a letter to someone who was a political opponent -- in this case, a former political opponent. this is history, and we on fox news have the content of this letter. hello. this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany with my cohost harrison to -- harris faulkner. also joining us -- we begin with peter doocy, live

on the white house lawn. peter, this is only the third time in history that we have a letter exactly like this one. what is it say? >> kayleigh, we saw on monday a few minutes after president trump returns to the oval office. i asked him if the president left him a letter. he hadn't checked yet. he opened up a drawer. we were only able city outside of the envelope that said 47. we can report now for the first time anywhere in the world this history making text of what it said. the letterhead was joseph r. biden jr. it said president of the united states. his cursive handwriting that i reviewed was difficult to read at times, but this is what i got from the letter. let's read it together. "dear president trump, as i take leave of this sacred office, i wish you and your family all the best in the next four years. the american people and people around the world look to this house for steadiness in the

inevitable storms of history. my prayer is that in the coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace, and grace for our nation. may god bless you and guide you as he has blessed and guided our beloved country since our founding. joe biden, 1/20/2025." i got a call that president trump was ready to share the contents of the letter. we heard him describe it last night as inspirational. we can confirm the president's assessment. it is an inspirational, forward-looking, well wish, and quite possibly the only time that they will exchange letters ever again. kayleigh. >> peter, was that the entirety of the letter? i'm looking at my phone at images of past letters. they tend to be longer, three,

sometimes four paragraphs. that's a very gracious letter. was not the entirety of a? >> that was. yes. hand written by president biden on his personal stationary. just one side of one page. >> another question for you. i think this is important context for our viewers. he penned this letter. i'm wondering if you know the timeline. as i understand, it was the day of the inauguration. he pardons members of his family in a way in which president trump would have found out about in the aftermath of his speech. it's a gracious letter but comes on the heels of may be an acrimonious decision intended to be shielded from the current president. >> i don't know the exact timeline, but to your point, it is possible he used the same pen to sign the pardons and write this note to president trump. >> thank you very much. that's history you just made. >> it is.

>> it's bring in bret baier, chief political anchor, special report anchor, executive editor. its history in the making. there will be inevitable critics who say this was a private letter, biden said he would not share the contactings of trump's letter. but i'm looking at five letters here on my phone from past presidents that did get out into the public because its history. people are interested. these tend to be gracious letters. >> good afternoon. it is history. we are seeing it in real time, as we have since inauguration day. drinking from the firehose of history history. he finds the letter real time the oval office desk. gives the letter to peter to bring forward. i think on both fronts, it's very magnanimous. on president biden and the substance of the letter, this is what we talked about on inauguration day. the transfer of power, the passing of the torch, be

tradition that everybody looks to in between administrations. president biden put out president trump's letter -- in the wake of january 6th, there was a different sense. this is magnanimous also on president trump's part, because it does make present biden look good in the handover of this moment. i think it says a lot about our republic. it says a lot about the mind-set of president trump right now feeling comfortable in his skin. we will see what happens as far as other elements of retribution or looking backwards. i think he is looking forward to, at least at the moment. >> i noticed a commonality. he said he looked to the white house -- to this white house for steadiness in terms of history. you get this acknowledgment between our small group of 47 presidents that they understand

the storms together, despite being from different political parties. i am looking at the letter george w. bush left to barack obama. "there will be trying moments. your friends will disappoint you, but you will have an almighty god." looking at george h.w. bush to bill clinton. "there will be tough times made even more difficult by criticisms you may not think are fair." there is this unique understanding among these 47 men as to what they face. >> listen, the job of the president is the toughest in the world. it comes with a heavy burden. every day, you get -- as you well know -- you get a daily brief the size of a small phonebook of real threats facing the u.s. specific, sometimes. heavy decisions have to be made every day. those letters, those handovers means something, between a small group of men who have held this job, and sharing this letter --

i think it's great for the nation to see this transfer and how they go from one to the other. as you say, other letters have come out in the past, and this one a little bit quicker perhaps than the others. >> i want to share my favorite wine i think ever penned in a presidential letter. it was from george h.w. bush. "when i walked into this office --" it's to bill clinton -- "i felt the same sense of wonder and respect i felt four years ago. i know you will feel that too." and i thought to myself as i read that, for four years, the wonderment never wears off. every time you walk to the sunbeam pattern rug that touched left to her husband that now sits on the floor of president trump's oval office, i never lost that sense of wonder. the presence it's appears do not lose it either. >> i covered the white house for four years. every time i walked in the oval office, it was this bewilderment. it didn't get old. there is a great video that. >> johnson has on x that he

posted as he is walking behind the vice president who was going into the oval office for the first time. that bewilderment of the power of that office hits him as president trump is showing him around. this is history. this is important. these things will get remembered in the history books. i think we have to absorb things day-to-day. this is coming out as fast. there's a lot to absorb. hopefully, we will be able to bring that to you real. congratulations to peter for getting that letter and bringing it forward. >> no doubt. i saw that video, j.d. vance from poverty and the lowliest of circumstances to the oval office as vice president. it was quite something to watch. thank you so much. >> thank you. see you at 1:00. >> harris, it's really quite something. i penned a letter to my successors. i didn't justly want to jen psaki: i left went to karine jean-pierre. i left it in the little drawer. are not only signed the white house press secretary desk, but i had blake do it too.

what a special moment now that we know the contents of that letter. >> i was just looking at it. it's only two code paragraphs. and the second paragraph is really short. it's one sentence. [laughter] "may god bless you and guide you as he has guided our beloved country since the founding." not a lot of words. the president was on camera when he was trying to find the letter biden left behind. just the way things laid out with biden in his last 30 days. we will probably forget the acrimony he must've been feeling, but some things will be lasting. he said there's only been seven presidents -- this was in peter's report -- you have ever gotten a letter like this left by a predecessor. only six of them were left for the opposite party. that's 45 presidents, because

the couple did not serve double terms. grover and donald trump the first time around. they were not consecutive. 45 men, as you have pointed out, have something in common, and even so far fewer than that who have this in common, getting that letter. it's monumental. i would think you would want to say as much as you could, but again, we get that clue that things were not all write with joe biden when he left. they were chippy politically, even within his own party. he did what was necessary, but nothing more. >> and what was necessary, he did come up to your point, and nothing more -- that is well set. cnn reported that biden was in a dark place when he left. i understand that from a human perspective. it was dark when we left the trump administration. it is not easy to transition power, but we do it for the love of our country. in the short letter, it's gracious to do. it's a hallmark of our democracy, a hallmark of what

makes this country great. transitioning power, leaving beautiful letters. >> i felt my emotion when listening to peter reading the letter was sadness for joe joe biden. you can hear in the and length of the letter that this was a difficult to buy for him. not just from the letter that peter just wrote, that was just read to us, but also the exit interviews from joe biden. look at the exit interview of kamala harris. they knew that they had made a lot of mistakes, that the country is in a worse place. i think there is guilt. i feel that they have got guilt because of what has happened. whether it was afghanistan, the economy. i liked the words peace and prosperity, because the incoming administration has got a lot on their plate. i think it was very gracious of joe biden to wish him well, knowing what donald trump is -- and there's a lot happening right now globally, very

disconcerting. >> you think about the timing of this. did he go from this f the oval office, writing it down, to his next signature being the pardons for his family members? >> it's all most impossible to imagine, right? i am going to ask a question that maybe i shouldn't be asking: did he write this? not that he penned it, but where these his words? i don't know. i assume they were. many presidents do this. to your point about being in the oval office and how that feels. have only done it once with george w. bush. they took a picture. my eyes are as big as saucers. [laughter] this is where history is made. this is where excitement happens. it's a big moment. >> when i walked in, i couldn't believe it. my first time in the oval office, i am briefing the president. he walked past a grandfather mahogany clock. a gift from queen victoria in the 1800s. you sit on this cold couch and you look at where the decisions, to your point, history is made at that desk. >> it is an incredible

experience. i walked in there with bush 43. he looked at me and said "it's pretty cool, isn't it?" bad for a boy from mississippi. he was from memphis tennis -- he knew i was from memphis, tennessee. he called me mississippi the entire time. i go back to the other part. i think this is a legacy letter for joe biden. it was a checkbox moment, but it's not reality. the reality is he had to save the criminal actions of his family right after he wrote this letter. that is the reality of his administration. when joe biden was walking out to go transfer power and put a very nice exclamation point with a letter to donald trump, he had to do something that is unconscionable. he had to give out parties to people he believed were breaking the law.

joe biden's legacy is not what the words in that letter are. his legacy is that his family needed to bail out because of their criminal actions that he now is admitting. "we exploited the u.s. government. we exploded all the way back to 2014, and made as much money as we could selling access to the u.s. government through my family members then going to pardon right now." i look at it as you may have tried to make this your legacy with a kind, well worded letter that you maybe didn't even write what you copy down like you are in second grade, but the final moments of his presidency were covering for his families actions. that's his legacy, and that's why i think he was so sad when he was leaving the oval office. >> all he had to do was sign his name. [laughter] he didn't even have to copy it. the only person who is not on that list a family, and i don't know that she was ever part of the investigations, is jill biden. what she may have seen throughout the years. she had a front row seat to whatever history was going on.

we are just hours away from the end of all dei programs and all those dedicated department to the federal government. the office of personal management is set at 5:00 p.m. eastern to meet the deadline for all government agencies to close those offices, and the employees at least for the time being will be on paid administrative leave. that follows president trump's executive orders to bring it in to dei and make america merit-based. he's going to do that at the federal level, and restore the importance of our individual efforts within the workforce. during his inaugural address, president trump made clear his intentions to create a color-blind society. >> i will end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.

[cheers and applause] we will forge a society that is color-blind, and merit-based. [cheers and applause] >> yesterday, the president signed an executive order ending biden's "forced illegal and immoral discrimination," in the federal workforce, and directing the government to serve every person with equal dignity and respect. however, liberal leaders are up in arms about the idea of merit-based society. here is the reverend al sharpton. >> why do we have dei? we had dei because you denied us diversity. you denied us equity. you denied us inclusion. dei was a remedy to the racial, institutional bigotry practiced

in academia and in these corporations. now, you want to put us back in the back of the bus? we are going to do the doctor king rosa parks on you. >> "the view" cohost, sunny hostin, launched her own attack. >> thinking about that, and donald trump saying things -- that this country would be in -- and a meritocracy. you were talking but a man who didn't become the president of the united states because of merit. really, he had no political experience whatsoever. he had no business experience. he was given everything he has. he is a legacy higher. he is, if anything, a dei hire. >> my head is spinning. where's your sunny hostin and -- >> you look at al sharpton. "i'm going to get my network

going. i'm going to raise some money. this is a great moment for me." he quotes martin luther king like he's on his side. he is the exact opposite. martin luther king said "i have a dream that for my four children, we will one day live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by their character." that's exactly what the president is saying. we don't need a melting pot that you organize in some liberal, woke agenda where you say "how many transgender's do we need, how many gays, straights, african americans, asian americans" gimmick he is saying "we want to look at americans not based on filling a quota for this country or for a business, but instead, we choose you because you are the best person for the job regardless of the color of your skin. al sharpton needs to go back and watch that speech. >> the way that i look at this too, everything that ben just said, and i would add this. it also requires that you do your job, and part of your

character be work ethic. all of those things. when you don't, they get rid of you. dei promises that what, you get to keep the job forever? >> read the eo. it's right here. reward individual initiative, skills, performance, hard work. >> merit-based. >> why is that controversial? did al sharpton not read the executive order? pretty sure he didn't. it's not about fund-raising. we saw this in corporate america. we have talked about this already. we saw amazon, walmart, meta, john deere, harley -- they offered to get rid of dei initiatives a year ago, because it didn't make sense. if you look at a report from 2022, the biden administration put down these policies. let me give you direct quote. this was about making sure there was gender markers, pronouns, gender nonconforming, but nonbinary. another report in 2024, looked at it as successful and it

wasn't. there were minor changes in federal employment stats. it was a waste of money and time. >> you know what really stands out to me, as the former child of a military family, i don't know of this yet if it touches the federal government and u.s. military part. dei is something, and a woke agenda is something you heard pete hegseth and a lot of people talking about during his confirmation hearings, and how that has held back, in some cases, our ability to be ready militarily. >> it is such an important point. what we saw is the dod, the department of defense spent $60 million on it. that number ones up t to $114 million by the end of biden's presidency. the department of education spends $1 billion with a b over -- in that executive order that you have. it begins by talking about executive order 13985.

that was one of the first acts of biden as president. it was a dei executive order. we were sitting on the couch were to go you're talking about critical race theory. governor desantis' office was mentioning something called dei that we weren't even talking about. day 1 of biden's presidency, he had every department submit equity plans. you think they're focusing on china, russia. nope, they are focusing on equity. this was this man's priority. no wonder we are all messed up as a country right now. >> so what trump is doing is replacing the word equity with a quality. >> what a great idea. >> you get the opportunity. you have to earn keeping it. >> what is one of the big problems in our country right now? institutions, including the federal government, don't have the respect of people. this will help reinstall the respective people, and respect for people who hold those positions, those government jobs, who are racial minorities. as soon as you know the rules have changed and people are

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unconstitutional act by president trump, but he is simply adding them to the troops already there. under the biden administration. this comes with the consecutive order -- reorienting them to secure the southern border. >> i live in texas. border patrol agents that i know well said for the last four years, they have been directed by the biden administration to not do their job. they said "imagine going to work every day and told you cannot do the job you swore an oath to do." they are thrilled. they said "not only do we get to do the job we are supposed to do instead of babysitting and allow for illegal activity to flourish, but we are going to get the resources we need to get it back in order because it is so out of control, and there is no order." someone said today "you can't imagine how bad it is at the southern border." because what they've done deliberately in the last administration was make it chaos on purpose. so there is no way to even have order. they said "we need more people down there. we will need troops,

national guard, and a lot of help to get back to where it was when trump left office." i think that's a step in the right direction. i think you will see governors jump all in to help with resources as well. >> one of the interesting things i find them, you were reading through one. i know steven miller is behind a lot of these. people may not know, but for the last four years, he has run a legal advocacy organization. he understands the law. when you look at the they specifically cite in the eo that was signed a national emergency at the border. the powers designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations unleashing all sorts of powers. citing the title 10 authorities used by biden as they make this move. it's well thought out. >> and those legal protections are in place. they also put in legal protections as far as the sanctuary city goes. that's where we are seeing the fight back: from the sanctuary cities. whether it's new york, denver, or even like boston we are going to see some things.

i think at the end of the day, what i found interesting about the way this is phrased as it enables, to your point, the military to come in. it has to go to the pentagon. that's why you need that confirm sooner rather than later. that all gets processed the defense department. acting defense secretary right now. we need clarity what that. back to what's happening in new york, how soon did you see crying immigrants with the cb q -- shut down? have fasted that video get out there? more of that is coming from places. it's coming from the other side. >> a campaign. >> they are building their legal challenges and campaigns to make sure that this becomes the emotional "here's what trump is doing." >> 22 states are suing over the birthright citizenship order. >> to finish up, some of it is political, but some of it is they were sold a bill of goods on the other side of the border, which is that there is a magnet

up here that says "if you come across the border, even if you --" forgive it, but it's true -- "put yourself in danger to be raped by the drug cartels, you go and --" but then this part of the administration, the bidens administration of the time, won't do anything to help you. might give you a credit card, you might be able to vote if you came here as a noncitizen illegally. the world is your oyster. now they realize it isn't, so it doesn't take much to get them to the point where they are emotional. that dream is closing. they are going to have to do with the right way. >> tom homan cited they might go after local jurisdictions who refused to comply with immigration law, but he is not just saying things. they are doing them immediately as they take office. this is acting deputy ag. he said -- "federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, failing to comply with lawful immigration commands. the u.s. attorney's office -- litigating components of doj

shall investigate incidents involving misconduct. this is a fox news exclusive. out this morning. more --" more action being taken. >> and good night century cities. this is over. and the thing that was set on our air recently and i believe is that we are going after public safety threats. and how many people can say it's the wrong thing to do? how could this be controversial? at the end of the day, this is exactly what needs to be done. may be because i'm speaking as somebody who walks through the streets of new york every day and we see what's going on in the streets and how people are being challenged on the streets by people who are not from this country legally. >> the american public has changed, so crying pictures, i'm not sure they will have the same effect four years later after the media tried it once. the bishop at yesterday's national prayer service used her sermon to lecture trump. this isn't the first time she has done that.

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>> president trump is showing he means business by holding his second white house press conference in his two days of administration. >> they have served years jail. they should not have served -- excuse me. they have served years in jail, and murderers don't even go to jail in this country. their lives have been ruined. listen to me for a second. stop interrupting. they served years in jail. if you look at the american public, the american public is tired of it. take a look at the election. >> peter alexander learning a really important lesson. it is rare that we've got news conferences with the last administration. i guess he had forgotten what that's like. you let the person finish.

>> i will make a prediction: in the first 30 days of terms presidency -- and i feel confident about this -- he is going to spend more time with the media and answer more questions than the entire four years of joe biden's words combined in minutes. he's all about transparency. i also think he understands the power of going to the american people. it worked on the campaign trail. he's not afraid of them. he wants to tell you what he's doing. i also think now it's different because he is paying off on what he said he was going to do each and every day, so when you walk out there now, if you use it with a purpose which is "i said i was going to do it and i just paid off," and then "by the way, i am paying off on that one too." this is how you gain popularity and momentum on capitol hill with a slim majority in the house. it's also giving them coverage to do the right thing. >> when you watched it live, alexander said "i'm sorry." >> because he talks back, don't screw with him. >> president trump also called out his predecessor.

>> did biden ever do news conferences like this? how many news conferences has he done like this? >> like this? zero. >> and it would be for the next infinity, for infinity it would be zero. >> his handlers never let him answer any questions, joe biden. >> am i allowed to take any questions? [laughter] anybody here? i'm sorry, this is the last question i will take and then i'm really going to be in trouble. i shouldn't do that. i'm not allowed to do that. go ahead. >> we are going to have the rest of the conversation. thank you. [questions being asked] >> am i allowed to ask a question? [laughter] speak i don't know. they don't let me do anything at all. i mean, come on.

this is going to be totally different. we have the "politico" editor in chief saying trump is the greatest american figure of his era. unbelievable. here we are. so many individuals, and the media now finally turning around and saying something 180 degrees different from what they were saying. >> can we see david axelrod? can we watch that really quick? >> whatever you think about donald trump, you have to acknowledge this is probably the most astonishing comeback in american political history. when you think about how he left washington four years ago. >> who would've thought? >> there is no way you could have imagined the set of circumstances. he left in disgrace. case comeback is kind of a conqueror. that is the feel of this. >> now, he is an action hero. >> david axelrod of the campaign who would go on other news channels and talk about where the democrats were making mistakes. they didn't listen to him.

that's obvious. when he calls a ball and a strike, which is donald trump is bringing back press conferences and transparency to the white house, listen to them if you are on the democratic side. stop the gaslighting. >> or don't. [laughter] >> the other thing i think with joe biden is -- if you remember watching him get let off from that summit. we were watching on this couch. >> ended up in the jungle and he was out of the picture. >> the italian prime minister is trying to bring him back. happening during the show. i will never forget. we are seeing this with our own eyes. we were gas led by the biden administration. axelrod was one of the people to come out to say "houston, we've got a problem in the white house." >> he is the guy who said "you know the big hurricane they had in western north carolina? take out those asheville voters." asheville voters vote left. and that was his concern. >> what a difference between the

biden and trump administration's. four years, we watched jen psaki and karine jean-pierre and wondered if they even have access to the president? how often do they talk to him? one time jen psaki was asked, and she office get to the president trick when you're trump's press secretary, you get three calls before the sun rises. you know what he is thinking. it's not just the press secretary. he talks to the american people. an hour in the oval office, 45 minutes last night. he is transparent, accessible. he will tell you everything you want to know, answer every question, except his battle plans. those he keeps with him. >> and somebody else, the chief of staff. >> they work well together. they are a dynamic team. >> powerful team. more "outnumbered" in a moment. we are also pretty specialty end. [laughter]

>> president trump acting on his bold agenda, starting with dei offices closing nationwide and ice raids sweeping the nation. how are cities coast to coast responding? plus, tackling smartphones in the classroom had on. the new york governor suggests a ban. is that the best solution? and, big corporations and their war rooms: how they are preparing for the new changes from the new administration. joins us live top of the hour, "america reports." >> since the birth of our

country, newly sworn in presidents of the united states have traditionally attended a prayer service. since the first inauguration of fdr in 1933, most of them held at the national cathedral. episcopal bishop of washington marianne -- lead this national prayer service but decided to use her platform to lecture president trump on political issues that he is trying to fix. trump, with his family and vice president -- by his side, had a hard time hiding his reaction. >> i ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. there are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in democratic and republican families who fear for their lives.

there may not -- people who are not citizens or have the right documentation but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. they pay taxes, and our good neighbors. >> terms reaction and j.d. j.d. vance's apparent eye roll went viral. the bishop is facing backlash -- as she stood -- for bringing politics to the pulpit. here's president trump's response. >> what did you think of the service? >> what did you think? did you like it? did you find it exciting? not too exciting. i didn't think it was a good service. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i think -- can do much better. >> the bishop left the pulpit and went to a place where she felt at home. it's a place called "the view." >> if you read what i said and -- i mean how could it not be politicized? we are in a hyper political climate. one of the things i cautioned

about is the culture of contempt in which we live which immediately rusheds to the worst possible interpretations of what people are saying and to put them in categories than the ones you just described. that's part of the air we breathe now. i was trying to speak a truth that i felt needed to be said, but to do it is respectful and kind away as i could. and also to bring other voices into the conversation, voices that had not been heard in the public space for some time. >> and speaking of truth, don't forget those words. i have a fact-check for her. i caught her perpetuating a hoax. >> you have to wait for the hoax? [laughter] >> let's start with the church. at the pulpit, where you are preaching politics from the pulpit, bishop. >> she took a bear. the question is how is the episcopalian church feeling about this?

it wasn't until 1976 that women were in leadership -- i wonder how other women are feeling in the face right now. does she represent that entire bit of theology? it was awkward not to have a faith-filled forward-looking positive message at a time where we know the numbers of people going to church are falling again. a look at the evangelical vote that was down this time around. look how many people of faith -- and i know you and i have both written about the subject of faith. look how many people feel "not sure if that god is looking out for me." there was a man who just missed two assassination attempts. you don't have anything positive to say? you can't come up with "maybe, god has a hand in this very moment?" but doesn't have to be political, but it does -- evangelical. if you want to be that, just be prayer filled, faith filled, be positive, and bring more people into the fold. clearly tasked to do that. that is the mission of anybody

in theology at that level. try to get more people in the faith. who do you think she turned on by that? >> not many people. let's get to the hoax. she wrote this in "the new york times." i want to set up some context. this was amid the riots in the summer of 2020. this was widely reported. in fairness to the bishop, she was -- a broader media hoax. let's bring it up nonetheless. "new york times." "i was horrified to learn that while trump was threatening to use military force across america, peaceful protesters were being forcefully removed so that he might pose before the church, st. john's church, for a photograph. i wasn't alone." that was the widely reported hoax at the time. let's bring in the inspector general, who put this out during biden's 10-year. "we found that they park police made the decision to clear the parka protesters to install an anti-scale fencing to protect the park. u.s. park police officers during the protests did not find evidence that the park police officials did not -- two permit

the president of the united states to visit the park." my question, we will put this up -- in the photo shoot she was talking about. my question is has she retracted this? she believes in the truth. retracted. >> don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. did you hear her on "the view"? when she was the word "i?" i thought that was embarrassing. i disagree with that woman. she had a moment to make the church, to bring in new members. >> that is her life's mission. that is her assignment. >> absolutely. big mistake. but -- no look, politics do not belong in that moment. i think that was a huge mistake. i will leave it there because i take this very personally and i can't believe she did that. >> the political bishop has been political for some time. she didn't just wake up one day

and decide to lecture trump. let's walk down memory lane. >> if the president had come to pray, if the president had come to greet us in the name of the country, and to offer an encouraging word, that would be one thing, but that's not what he did. that's not what he did. he is always open to pray. he is always welcome to be part of the worshiping body, but not to use the mantle of the church to his political -- to communicate a political message. >> i've given up speaking to president trump. we need to replace president trump. we need leadership that will lead us in the way this country -- thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> never seen a mask quite like that one. [laughter] is this the role of -- >> nobody should be surprised by this. this is where mainline protestantism is in this country right now.

it has gone woke. i know this because some of my family is in this kind of leadership role. so what you see is that there seems to be such an emphasis on the issues of lokism -- wokism. whether it's someone of a different race or at sexual persuasion. instead of focusing on the work. you see less and less of this. i think this is why there are fewer and fewer people in protestantism today. >> this was not a mistake: this was preplanned by the church. >> you think the church -- >> 100%. they knew who she was, what she said. they have the same clips and have been advocating for her doing this for years. this is a political activist masquerading as a bishop, but something she said made me mad. she said "i was there and wanted to do it in a respectful manner." no you were not. if you wanted to do it in a respectful manner, you would have written a note and handed it to the president saying "here

are some of my concerns." the second thing is about the church -- you have an international audience watching. you could bring people into the church. you just alienated 50% of the american electorate immediately when you started on this political activist tirade. this is not a bishop: this is an activist masquerading as a bishop. the church should be held accountable. sanctioned it. >> it's higher than 50% of the electorate. no matter how you vote, if you believe in the lord, that was offensive. >> and i missed the political bishop's advocacy for the pro-lifers locked up by the biden doj. didn't read that scripture. well done. more "outnumbered" in a moment. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete

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