ari fleischer, what is going on here? >> well two things about this.that picture actually was the tiny little desk he is sitting at. the president of the united states is the commander-in-chief and should look commanding. he looks like a school child sitting waiting for the teacher to call on him. i didn't object to the graphics, the scen re. -- scenery. white houses use technology to be creative. i don't mind that. tell prompters were brand-new and people objected when reagan would use a teleprompter. the other issue here seems like the biden white house is doing this so they can hide the teleprompter so they can have the teleprompter on the lens of the camera he is looking into as opposed to letting photographs pick it up. that may have been the motivation for the white house creating that type of set. the white house can do that. i just think this one didn't work because of the tiny little desk. >> harris: why would you want to do that? when i've been on the road to iowa for town halls and do we want to try to hide certain -- people know that we are

here with reaction, fox news can bidders ari fleischer, leo terrell. have to bring in obama, kamala harris, joe biden, not very popular, jill biden, maybe a little more popular, and stacey abrams. is that going to work? you know this state as well is any, ari fleischer. >> no, it's not going to work. i think glenn youngkin on the strength of his individual record, is common sense as a businessman, and he's just a smart, sharp, reasonable guy. i think the odds are very strong removing in his favor, sean. it's going to be a massive upset but let me talk about what barack obama just said because it is so upsetting. this is the typical stuff the democrats throw at the end of every election. this is the heir to voter i.d. is racist. they say now that republicans are trying to suppress the vote. let me remind barack obama that 2020, 159 million americans voted. when barack obama ran in 2012, only 129 million americans voted. so turnout surged under donald trump because of the interest on both sides in that election, so don't give me this republicans are supp

ari fleischer, fox news contributor and former white house press secretary under bush 43. see you. ari, it seems cataclysmic for joe biden. these races go on without him. >> yeah. the good news for joe biden is they will hold this flight for him. he won't miss it. >> harris: that's the only good news? >> that's the good news for him today. the bad news, harris, i suspect he doesn't have an agreement on capitol hill if i'm reading the tea leaves properly. >> harris: what is that framework, then? it wouldn't be the truth or -- >> it's not a question of the truth. it is a question of if the democrats reacted to the framework in a favorable manner we'd already know it. leaks would be coming from the white house, looks like biden was successful on capitol hill and able to bring people together and closed the deal. this is how white houses are built to get the information out fast when it favors the president. we haven't heard that yet. the absence of quick leaks. i haven't seen them. i just think he has a maximum strength when he is in that room and every second he is out of th

here's ari fleischer. kellyanne conway also. if you look at the big picture. there is not a single thing you can point to as a remote success. >> it's a big hot mess. and policies have consequences. this is the president who on day 1 killed the energy pipeline in the country. then had russian energy collusion with putin to improved theres. -- theirs. people are feeling biden economics at the gas pump and grocery cart. and home heating prices will rice as much as 54%. -- rise. now in addition to the poor policies leading to higher costs for consumers particularly middle-class and lower income, we have a trillion dollars biden and bernie package to prop up the green neuraled. -- green new deal. when you think about energy independence it comes with things made in america. we have enough energy off our shores to be energy independent. joe biden unravelled the trump policy out of spite. there is no rationale it was a philosophical difference. with the vaccine. president trump under operation warp speed we handed over 3 approved vaccines to biden/harris. they were

they don't see him as competent. >> sean: ari fleischer, you are really great at communications. if you start with abandoning americans in afghanistan and then the disaster at the border including you have people entering the country illegally and no covid testing or vaccine mandates and the covid explosion under biden. now the economy. all self-inflicted. but i don't see a way they can fix this.lf maybe you do. i don't see them reversing course. >> i think that's the core issue going forward for the elections. what the poll shows. right track/wrong track is america on the right direction or wrong track? only 32% of american people feel the country is on the wrong track. 62% the wrong direction. that's low and hard to reverse. there are two fundamental things the american people have to realize about joe biden. the first is he was never qualified to be a president. he was a senator 4 years. he knew how to talk but not how to get things done. it's showing up in every metric in the white house. the second is he is really turned everything over to the progressive agenda. he is not a

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joining us is fox news contributor, ari fleischer. your takeaway from the line of questioning and responses from the attorney general? his memorandum did not use domestic terrorism nor did it base on the patriot act. the problem the attorney general had is when he received a letter with the white house inputs that used domestic terrorism and prosecution based on the patriot act, he needed to say this goes too far, the language is too long, i will not give the group that sought the memo what they want, they don't have control of the facts. he should have said no initially from the 125r9 -- white house and the national school board. he's got the headache he has because he commingleded the issues. there is one question that lingers after watching today's hearing. who at the white house was involved in this? we need to know, this is where politicization did come into play and that could never happen. who was involved, what are their names? >> you saw senator cruz lay in on it is attorney general in series of questions. played specific mom

joining me now, ari fleischer, charlie hurt, and jason chaffetz. ari, start with you. a all the biden disasters from the border to afghanistan, it could be inflation that brings him down and the democrats down. back in the spring, they were saying this is transitory. doesn't look like it now. >> yeah, just like the border crossings were seasonal. the problem with inflation, most people don't remember what it was like because the last time we had it, jimmy carter and ronald reagan were president. it eats at consumers by the tens of millions every day. that's the problem with inflation. every time somebody fills their tank with gas, buys coffee, orange juice, pays rent, this winter with the home heating bills and natural gas. this is a daily piece of pain and that's why inflagrants is so rough on tens of millions of people. its one of the worst political problems anybody can have. that's why jimmy carter went to oblivion and this will dog joe biden. >> laura: the only way to help the economy is to raise interest rates. that i do want to do that because it was tank the ma

joining is molly hemingway and ari fleischer, former press secretary, both fox news contributors. this attempt to gloss over the durham news, first enable an ounce is they have jim comey or andy mccabe will be marched out in handcuffs, that is not how investigations work. >> the thing about this conspiracy is it was complicated and difficult to unravel. there are 3 sets of bad actors, the clinton campaign and their law firms who made up the oaks, invented out of whole cloth, the corrupt intelligence officials who weapon eyes to it and the completely reprehensible media who and critically regurgitated it. there is some accountability that can be had for the corrupt fbi officials and the clinton campaign but the media the bad actors reported this day in and day out for years undermining the administration affecting the 2016 election, the 2018 election and the 2020 election and because of the laws of our land is not so much you can do even though they probably knowingly lied about all this. one thing that can be done is conservatives and victims and republicans who were victims of th

joining me now, ari fleischer, former white house press secretary, charlie hurt, opinion editor and jason chaffetz, former utah congressman, all are fox news contributors. let's start with you. all the biden's estimate seen from the border to afghanistan and beyond that, it could be inflation that ends up bringing him down and democrats down, back in the spring menacing this is just transitory, doesn't look like it now. >> just like the border crossings with seasonal. the problem with inflation, most people don't remember what was like last time we had it, jimmy carter and ronald reagan were president. it eats at consumers by the tens of millions every day. every time somebody fills their tank with gas, buys coffee, orange shoes, pays rent, this would with home heating bills and natural gas, this is a daily piece of pain and that is why inflation is so rough on tens of millions of people, it's one of the worst political problems anybody can have, why jimmy carter went into a bolivian and this is going to dog president biden. >> the only way to get inflation under control is to raise inter

former white house press secretary ari fleischer with us now. fox news contributor. have blinken, garland, mayorkas in mexico city. kamala harris isn't there. they will want money. what will we give them and how do we solve it? >> there is no solving it unless you get back to basics, the tone the president sets. when the president sets a tone saying the only way to come to america is to do so legally it tends to intimidate and scare people so they follow the rules. when the language is permissive and when the language is these people we welcome them here. they should come legally. they'll flood us. that's what's happened. >> dana: when you say we'll focus on root causes. that's way to kick the can down the road. i wouldn't let these three go without me if i was kamala harris and given that assignment. no way i would allow it to happen. >> her lack of leadership is palpable. when it comes to root causes, the root cause is how great america is. people come here because we're a nation of laws. people come here for economic reasons, for freedom. if that's the case and we

. >> bill: ari fleischer joins our conversation. former white house press secretary and ari, good morning. what did he contribute to america? >> oh my goodness, he contributed his graciousness. he had a warmth and uplift to him. the first black secretary of state he conveyed a sense of this is who america is. he was just a good, good guy. and that's what i will always remember about him. i got to know him very well. >> bill: ari, in your time with him, what did he speak about in terms of his commitment or obligation to the country? because here is a man throughout his entire professional life all he did was serve america. >> yeah. it was just that. it was service and it was duty. but he did it with such an uplifting, affable style. a lot of generals you look at them and they're gruff and tough. colin powell could be gruff and tough but colin powell was a sweetheart. he had such an uplifting way about everything he did and he treated people with such kindness and respect everywhere he went. and he was just that kind of leader. that ty

correspondent for reuters, leslie marshall, democratic strategist and former white house secretary ari fleischerbut it is starting to kind of drag on. the president said it could be six hours or six weeks. definitely leaning towards six weeks at this point. >> certainly isn't one thing he didn't say six months. they do have a deadline, they do need to get this done this year. he wants some of that money to be injected into the economy by next year and he's going to have a whole new political reality next year with people in congress beginning to run for reelection. so it is absolutely dragging on and though the white house says it is not frustrated, it's hard not to see some frustration there with the fact that one of the main reasons it's dragging on this disagreement within the democratic party. >> bret: one democrat would love to have it done november 2nd, that is terry mcauliffe, the democratic gubernatorial nominee in virginia. there is this moderate progressive push, we've talked about it for weeks now, and here's how 5:30 eight put it about kyrsten sinema, the moderate senator from arizon

. >> harris: well ari fleischer, for more white house staff under previous president told me last hour that that's exactly what it's all about but it's a little bit even deeper than that. keeping him from going off script but also presenting the situation where it looks like he's more nimble and more on the ball because you can't see the teleprompter. and i thought about that because you and i, you are a guest on one of my political town halls and i before that season heated up in 2016 and what's interesting about that as you can have a conversation about transparency and let people see the window of the world that we are living in. this is a talk show so we are not reading anything right now. we are all talking to each other. but people see that it comes with us. ari said to the thing that bothered him most was the time a tinylittle desk that he was be behind. and the president's consistency, can we pump it up to where all the topics of his were underwater, and by that i mean all the topics that he's all underwater on. that's one problem but the president only has two jobs so what you

liasson national political correspondent national public radio, former white house press secretary ari fleischerhe public and lawmakers on that committee to the attorney general, what about that back and forth in what he was saying. >> today is a day i'm so grateful for mitch mcconnell for keeping merrick garland off the supreme court to. he comes across with such soothing words, never in a million years would we ever do this and he meanwhile is very political behind the scenes, otherwise why would the department of justice ever have issued that letter in the first place? they have to be aware that when you are told somebody needs to be treated as a domestic terrorist and then you say the fbi's going to look into this and we are going to convene meetings with u.s. attorneys within 30 days of receipt of this letter, they mean action. he can't have it both ways. it was not a good day for impartial, nonpartisan justice and he never heard about the insurrection that took place last week at the department of the interior, where climate activists, 55 of whom got arrested into the police to occupy the

former white house press secretary ari fleischer, bill mcgurn columnist for the "wall street journal"ari, start us off on this topic. your thoughts. >> if you want to talk about public intimidation and threats to public officials, why is the cultural left and much of the media okay with chasing a united states senator into a bathroom and filming her? why are they okay with denying sarah sanders a previous white house secretary a seat at the restaurant? why are they okay with a mob chasing ted cruz and his wife out of a restaurant but you cannot go too school board and vociferously make your case? that's where they are calling in the fbi? we are sending every wrong signal when the fbi comes out and the justice department comes out and says it's going to assign the fbi to school board meetings. this is all wrong. if you want to deal with public intimidation protecten kyrsten sinema. >> here is what the national school board association is saying about the matter, quote: the individuals who are intent on causing chaos and disrupting our schools, many of whom are not even connected to loc

along with ari fleischer and jason rantz at the top of the hour. >> bill: we're trying to tie this storyutes ago. it has been punted to 2:00 this afternoon. the president will be out at 11:30 from the white house before he goes to europe. former obama economic advisor fox news contributor robert wolf. welcome to the conversation. i want to read off the reuters wire now. tlaib says she is on in on infrastructure until there is a deal for both packages to go together. they want to vote today. roberts, what will it be? >> well listen, i think this is the perfect bill because not everyone is happy. that's legislation, right? a lot of cookie cutting going on. you know, i think they should pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. my gut tells me they have the votes for both. they have to get some of the text down in writing to get the framework to have more meat on the bone. my gut tells me you will have a vote today. more importantly, bill, is this bill really is pretty moderate, right? you have infrastructure 1.2 trillion. on the cares act it is mainly childcare, elder care and clean energy.

ari fleischer in "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> i got a lot to offer. goal. >> bill: city mayor bill deblasio considering plans to run for governor in new york. dana loves the idea. but the negatives keep piling up. city investigators released a report finding he inappropriate used security detail for personal use including transportation for his kids, staff members and personal errands and guests. >> dana: oh oh. >> bill: carley shimkus. >> we love that. we don't love this. the department's investigation found that deblasio used his security detail for personal use things like moving his daughter's furniture from her apartment to grayci mansion. driving his son back and forth to and from yale. the other thing that they found was that the mayor has not yet reimbursed the city over $300,000 for security he used when he was running for president. remember when he was running for president? and then there was a bit of a cover-up involved, the nypd inspector in charge of the family's security tried to thwart this investigation. my takeaway on this is that f