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is leading the mayor, eric adams, to slash the city's budget. over the weekend, mark tepper, mayor adams came out and basically said he was going to call for a reduction in overtime for the nypd, for the fdny. we are talking about city services in the city of new york. we are talking about the cuts happening, mark, on the day that we remember september 11th when we lost more than 300 firefighters and now they're being told their overtime is going to be cut and then obviously the nypd is also struggling. >> yes. i mean, you look at new york city and a obviously there's a lot of challenges, whether it's the migrant crisis, crime, high taxes and you start to look at what's happening, and you have to ask yourself how long are taxpayers going to allow this to happen before they just say, you know, i'm getting out of dodge. cheryl: they are getting out of dodge. they are leaving. >> right. it's already been happening. i mean, you're going to see it,

that mass exodus continue as people try to get out of here and the way any system works, i don't care if it's a household, a local government, a business, when you have less money coming in and more money going out, the system breaks. it doesn't work. cheryl: $12 billion is what adams has said it's going to cost over three fiscal years to support the migrants in this city as he tries to cut the budgets. i want to bring in fox business' madison alworth, she's live outside the stratford arms hotel on the upper west side where actually mayor adams was just last week when, madison, he made those comments that this city is, quote, being destroyed. madison. >> reporter: yeah, cheryl. we real heard an escalation from mayor eric adams in terms of the severity. he held no punches when it came to calling out washington for the migrant crisis. here he is responding to criticism he received in regards

to his handling of the migrant crisis. >> i know what it takes to govern this city and i need them to do their job in washington, d.c. and ensure that over a year and-a-half in new york city has carried the burden alone like other cities. it is time for my national leaders to step up. i'm hoping the congresswoman will come in and walk through and see the conditions and how we cannot properly take the care of those who are here if we don't get the resources we need and it will potentially destroy the city if we don't get it right. >> reporter: so the mayor announcing the big news this weekend, budget cuts, as much as 15% to all city agencies by next spring including nypd and health department. the first cuts need to be made by november and that needs to be 5%. all of this a result of the escalating migrant crisis. crisis is costing businesses their livelyhoods. businesses near the hotel

explain of late night partying and fights, the police confiscating illegal motor bikes and having to arrest a migrant woman after she assaulted one of the officers. the city is moving single asylum seekers from the hotel on the upper west side to another controversial shelter on randall's island to make room for families. critics say moving people does nothing to solve the influx. this comes as the biden administration is reportedly considering to force migrant families to stay in texas. meanwhile, on the legal front, lawmakers on the federal and local levels have called to speed up work permits in order to lessen the financial burden on our cities but others say doing so would further incentivize more migrants to come and worsen the situation. at this point, we have over 110110,000 migrants that have passed through new york since last spring. right now 60,000 roughly are cared for here in new york and that 60,000 are getting housing, food, education, healthcare.

if a migrant has been placed with a family, a relative they know, they're not getting housing but they're getting other things, healthcare, education, food. that 60,000 number is likely higher. cheryl. cheryl: madison alworth reporting live from the upper west side. madison, thank you. cheryl: well, a new report finding pick pockets from central and south america are using kids to target tourists in times square. the new york post reporting, quote, the area from sixth to eighth avenues between west 42 and west 49th street have seen number of pick pocket complaints skyrocket 222%, liz peek. >> we thought oliver twist as a fig manment of charles dickens imagination. from the top down, alvin bragg, eric adams, none of these people

are standing up for average new yorkers and citizens of this city. not only in terms of combating crime and making our streets safer but also as we just heard in terms of prioritizing the welfare of new yorkers versus the people who are flowing across the border and what really gets my goat, cheryl, is that all these democrats are furious about not getting more help from the federal government. none of them will talk about the essential problem here which is an open border. and democrats own this. joe biden owns this. frankly, eric adams owns this. this is his party. he made new york a sanctuary city. he's proud of that. we have no help in store. cheryl: he didn't make new york a sanctuary sigh. we've been a sanctuary city. but a year ago he was. bracing it, to your point and saying we welcome these people. we're going to help these people. guess what? those people are going to crush the budget and crush the lives of the people that are actually paying the taxes here in the city and i don't think that the

government's willing to give him any money. i don't know if it's because they don't trust him with the money, i don't know if think it's his problem. we're a shelter city. that's hurting us. the word is out to come to new york city because you'll get a phone, a hotel and live in times square and you get to party so congratulations all of you. all right. anyway, i digress. a lot more coming up this morning. sorry. how markets are moving ahead of a big week of inflation data. our word on wall street panel is here with their expectations coming up next. don't miss a moment of it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ get help reaching your goals with j.p. morgan wealth plan, a digital money coach in the chase mobile® app.

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cheryl: time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me now, michael lee strategy founder, michael lee. and mark tepper here with us on set. so mike, let's kick things off with you this morning. we do have a different story today as far as futures go. we've got the dow up 69, nays a dabbing up 90 -- nasdaq up 90, s&p up 17. it was a rough week last week, a lot of red arrows. we're getting cpi this week. the cpi is out wednesday, ppi retail sales come out thursday, mike. what are you expecting from these numbers, in particular really i'm calling it cpi week here on fox business because i think that's going to be a pretty blockbuster report on wednesday. >> you know, it's unfortunate that the two numbers aren't flip-flopped because the ppi typically leads the cpi. and we've seen a dramatic fall in the annualized rate of inflation over the last six to nine months. a lot of that had to do with the price of oil coming down from

$89 a barrel, down to somewhere in the 60s, we're now back in that 90 number. we've been back here. so at a certain point that's going to affect everything and i know we look at core cpi and core ppi but the price of oil affects everything and is a key driver for inflation. the biden administration's policies on fossil fuels have been a key driver to the inflationary super cycle we've been in. so at some point that's going to tick back up. that's starting to hit expectations. if it's not this month it will be next month where we see an upside surprise and it will be interesting to see what happens to fed fund futures from there because a lot of -- right now we're looking at 50/50 odds of another 25 basis point rate hike. i think that's a mistake. we've gotten close to 400 basis points of hikes within the last 12 months. those can take 18 to 24 months to hit the economy so as we're seeing a slowing across the board, credit card and auto loan

delinquencies on the rise, corporate defaults on the rise, interest rate coverage ratios declining for investment grade and high yield companies so as we're seeing that slowing, we're going to get additional rate hikes which i think increases the likelihood of a recession at some point early next year. cheryl: okay. early next year, the word recession is back. so much for a soft landing. that's the debate that keeps on going. let's talk jobs. you've got g goldman sachs planning the fourth round of job cuts. they're targeting underperformers. this is kind of what they do, seems a little a harsh but that's the truth. the stock is down year-to-date as we can see on the screens there, up 1% in the premarket and change. what do you make of goldman? is it the job cuts is why the stock is jumping do you think here, mark? >> look, when it comes to goldman, kudos to goldman for

eliminating some of the underperformers. that's what every company in the world should do. you should hire based on merit, not based on whether someone checks dei boxes, hire based on merit and for those people that aren't cutting the muster, you have to part ways with them at some point in time if you want to continue to grow. one of the biggest things i see from goldman -- goldman has been, not lately, but in the early 2000s it was like the gold standard, the most elite bank out there and they really kind of lost touch with themselves. they tried to be a jack-of-all-trades which oftentimes leads to someone being a master of none. and they started acquiring wealth management practices so they can target the main street consumer as opposed to just ultra high net worth consumers and i think the fact that they're now beginning to reorganize and restructure, they just sold off that division, i think it was last month to creative planning. it shows they're trying to put their blinders on, focus what

they're best at and i think maybe over time if they do things right it can be considered one of those elite banks once again. cheryl: mike, goldman in particular and mark makes this point, i'm going to reiterate here, they tried to go into consumer banking. it did not go well. if you don't have a lot of m&a activity, a lot of ipos aren't going as planned, instacart doesn't look like it will be quite the ipo the street hoped. i'm not sure goldman's in that. i think it's an example that things are not as rosey as we would like to see with the banks. ubs, reportedly they're going to cut wealth management jobs in asia at least. there's ubs in the premarket. mike, jump in here. >> look, when the yield curve is inverted it's not good for banks. the idea is you borrow overnight and invest long. right. so when short-term rates are higher than long-term rates, it becomes very, very difficult for traditional banks, for investment banks to make money

and so in this difficult trading environment, you not only have a hard time trading but when that presses equity valuations, companies aren't trying to go public and be a cheap i've vestment. they're -- investment. they try to get the max numb valuation they can. when those are depressed it depresses underwriting fees from that as well as mergers and acquisitions. who wants to sell their company on a downturn? it's everything kind of these businesses are highly correlated to the overall economy and to see goldman take a step back from their consumer finance business is a bit surprising, given how they basically have been successful in every other venture they've ever taken on so it just goes to show you that being an ultra high net worth bank, being a number one m&a bank is not the same thing as dual requirement planning for

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♪ cheryl: well, today we remember september 11th, 22 years after our nation was attacked. new york congressman andrew garbarino introducing a resolution, pushing all 50 states to require that schools teach 9/11, curr current only 14 states require students be taught the events that happened on that day. joining me now, the man himself, new york congressman andrew gagarbarino, he's a member of financial services and homeland security committees. congressman, good morning to

you. >> good morning, cheryl. cheryl: i have to tell you, i was surprised that only -- that it was only 14. you would think that something so horrible and so recent as september 11th would be taught in our schools across the board and it's not. >> absolutely. you know, i'm shocked. we did this resolution last year hoping to move the needle especially in new jersey and connecticut which are states that a lot of people died from those states because they came to work in new york city and they still don't require it. i'm happy new york does but we're pushing here in congress to make sure even though it's 22 years later that the promise we made that day, never forget, is kept. we need to make sure that this stays on the top of people's minds. it's not over. people are continuing to get sick, people are continuing to die from diseases that came from that day.

firemen, police officers, union workers who worked on the pile, people are still getting sick. so we need to have kids remember what 9/11 means. it's 22 years and a lot of kids have now gone through college that were born after 9/11 and they may never have heard of what actually happened that day. cheryl: i guess that's my question to. we always say never forget but are we forgetting? >> i won't let people forget and a lot of my colleagues won't. it's a bipartisan resolution. and it's something that we're going to keep passing until states start putting this in their curriculum. hopefully the remembrances that are being held in new york, pennsylvania and washington today and the rest of the states will continue to have people not just children, but adults remember. i have some colleagues who act like it happened so long ago that we have a shortfall in the 9/11 healthcare fund and they're

fighting adding money to that. it's crazy. we have people -- we said never forget. we have to make sure the firemen, the cops get the healthcare they need and deserve for what they did and i have colleagues in congress that are opposing funding this shortfall in this program. it's like people are forgetting but as long as i'm in congress, as as long as some of my colleagues are there from new york we're not going to let people forget. cheryl: and to your point, they are still getting sick. whwe spoke about that the last hour. it took comedian jon stewart to go to capitol hill with a very sick hero who has since passed away and that got the attention of congress but it took jon stewart, a celebrity, to get attention to this which i found that kind of amazing but in the city, there's another problem that we're dealing with and the mayor, he's now warning all new york city agencies they may have

to splash up to 15 -- slash up to 15% from their budgets by the spring in response to the migrant crisis, like covid wasn't enough for new york city and the homeless hotels wasn't enough for new york city. now this, congressman. >> yeah. it's crazy that new york city residents, new york state residents now have their property and income taxes going -- they're supposed to be going to cops, firemen, schools. now those are being cut. they're being told you have to cut 15%. i was reading an article this morning, nypd, the corrections and sanitation were told they can cut their overtime. you know, these are emergencies. you can't plan emergencies. how do you know if you're going to have to cut your overtime? so i think it was like the cuts to the firemen, like i said, property taxes, income taxes are supposed to go to make residents' life better and safer are now being cut to deal with

these undocumented, over 120,000 now, who are in new york city because of not just progressive policies of the biden administration at the border, but also the policies of new york state and new york city. you know, new york state and new york city, the past couple of years, have passed driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, voting for undocumented immigrants, a $2 billion fund, a taxpayer funded $2 billion fund to go to unemployment for undocumented immigrants. and it's these progressive pro sanctuary policies that are causing everyone to cut to new york city and now you have politicians complaining about it. of course something was going to happen. so what the residents have to do, they have to blame their elected officials in new york city. they're running new york city, running new york state that are putting policies in place that are now causing what we're seeing in new york city. cheryl: congressman, we had

andrew ansboro, the president of the uniformed firefighters association in new york, he joined us last hour and we asked him about the cuts, the overtime cuts and how this is going to affect their members. and again, i have to reiterate, this was announced right as we go into the 9/11 remembrances of today, sir. thereon what he told us. >> -- listen to what he told us. >> the last few years, we started with covid up, virus coming through, the vaccine mandate which we fought against, put a lot of members on the unemployment line and they were out of work for a long time, still several aren't back yet but most of our pay and overtime comes operationally from riding the fire trucks out around the city so for them to cut overtime they would have to cut services. there is very little overtime out there that isn't spent directly on providing emergency services in new york estimate it will be tough to do for the

fdny. i don't know about other agencies. the services we do, i find it hard to see cuts that would not affect public safety. cheryl: is this something you can put more attention on. i realize this is a city budget issue. this is the migrant crisis. this is affecting fdny, affecting nypd. this is affecting the country. can this be something we could see more action on? >> well, we're going to have to do something. we're going to have to put pressure to -- on the biden administration to change the policies there at the border because we're not going to send a blank check. we need to make sure new york city is protected. an drew does a great job for his members. there is a staffing issue because of covid and other things that have happened, pro criminal policies in new york city cause police to leave so there's a staffing problem. cutting overtime is going to cut services. i know plenty of cops in the city. my brother-in-law is a fireman. they can't -- they're working

all the time because of the staffing problem so cutting overtime is going to put new york city residents and new york state residents in danger so we can't let that happen but it's not just going to be a blank check from congress to continue supporting these bad policies of the biden administration at the border and bad policies that new york city and new york state have done themselves. there's going to have to be negotiation but we can't let the residents be harmed. cheryl: the budget fight is coming here, coming due. it's starting this month. congressman andrew garbarino, thank you for being here in particular on 9/11. we certainly appreciate it, sir. thank you. >> thank you for having me, cheryl. cheryl: all right. well, we've got a lot more coming up this morning. president biden says outreach to vietnam is about providing global stability, it's not about china. retired general arnold punero is here to tell us more. he's coming up next. ♪

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aid to the north african country. well, california voters are saying no to reparations, a uc berkley poll reveals 59% of california voters do not approve of cash reparations while 29% support the idea. california's reparations task force estimated that individual payouts could reach up to a million dollars per person. that was back in june. to tennis now, novak djokovic wins his 24th grand slam singles title, beating danil medvedev in the u.s. open final. you can see medvedev fell to the ground in the third set of the finals. there he is, falling. he tripped over his own foot while trying to return a hit, just out of his reach. then in an act of sportsmanshopp

djokovic offers a his hand. it was waived off. djokovic is the first man to win three grand slam titles in a season for the fourth time. and look at the crowd go wild there. in the women's finals, coco gauff is crowned champion, winning her first grand slam at 19 years old. she is officially the youngest player to reach the u.s. opens final since serena williams. congratulations to both of them. just days before the 22nd memorial of the 9/11 attacks, two previously unknown victims have now been identified. the new york mayor's office says the victims were ided through advanced dna testing, right now their names are being withheld at the request of their families. this is the first time since 2021 that officials have been able to put a name to someone lost in the attack. 22 years. cheryl: 22 years, lauren.

you grew up in his area as well and i think on a national perspective we say never forget and people seem to be starting to forget but for so many here in new york city today is a very somber day, a very difficult day for the firefighters, for the police. i mean, it's -- the pain is still very fresh, i found here. >> when you talk to someone in their early 20s -- >> they don't know. they don't understand. >> they say i didn't really learn about it and i was just one or two when the towers were struck. yeah, i know. but yes, i was here. i'm originally from staten island and that community was really -- >> they were hurt. cheryl: very hard hit. >> when we're talking about don't forget, we've been talking about healthcare and so forth but we're also not to forget the whole terror aspect of this and be ready and the weariness about terrorism which i feel like america has completely now ignored and all the terrorists on the watch list coming across our border, that doesn't seem to

resonate. cheryl: we're going to talk about that right now. lauren, thank you very much for that. well, let's bring in retired two star marine corps general, the punaro group ceo and author of the ever shrinking fighting force, general arnold punaro. thank you for joining us. thank you for your service. talk to us about your emotions and your thoughts on a day like today. >> well, cheryl, it's such an honor to join you and your colleagues. you're head quartered in new york city, ground zero for the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil in our history. you never forget where you were on the morning of 9/11. i was at the pentagon that morning. i was the two star head of the marine corps reserve, i was on my office on the fort deck on the mall side, the opposite side of where the plane hit. left the early morning meeting to go up to a reserve forces policy board meeting. we were tracking what was happening to the towers and then

about 10:00 somebody came in and said the pentagon's been hit, the pentagon's been hit. we dashed outside. we were on a high hill. we could see the flames. we could see the smoke. my first thoughts were of my colleagues that were in the building, worried about them. i immediately got on my cell phone because my instinct kicked in and i called our reserve f18 fighter squadron at andrews and ordered them into the air to put up a protective cover. they said what are the rules of engagement. i said protect the white house, the capitol and the pentagon. don't let planes in the perimeter. they got airborne quickly, the air national guard. i didn't ask anybody's permission. i guess it was okay. they had me brief what we did e next morning. six days later, president bush came to the pentagon and met with the heads of the reserve and said look, we're going to mobilize the reserves for this. it was the day that the same meeting he said osama bin laden

wanted dead or alive. as your colleagues have said, we never forget. and i want to show a t-shirt in honor of sergeant major mike curtain, new york police department, gunnery sergeant matt garvey, fire department of new york, both were combat vets, overseas tours, marine reserveists, headquartered in brooklyn, new york. both went to the sounds of the guns that morning. they perished saving other people's lives. we had this t-shirt made up 22 years ago, every 9/11 i pull it out to make sure i never forget. i can tell you, marines never forget, others never forget. i would like to say very emotionalal, seem per fidelis, the people if new york police department, fire department, those on the planes and those still suffering from all these dreaded diseases so i can tell you, cheryl, and your colleagues, we in the united

states marines corps and other people in the country and particularly in new york city, we'll never forget. cheryl: i worry sometimes that the younger generation, general, is forgetting and i worry about military preparedness and that's something that's happening today in this country. we're giving all this money away to -- a billion dollars to ukraine. yet this concern that -- we can't get kids to join the air force and the army and the marine corp s. recruitment is down 25%. does it surprise you where we are 22 years later on a day like today that we don't -- we seem to be losing that worry, that concern and maybe losing a little bit of our patriotism as a country. >> well, cheryl, that morning was a tremendous patriotic outpouring, our country came together, was united in a common cause against terrorism and protecting our democratic freedoms and, yes, in fact general jim jones, a former

supreme allied commander in europe and myself we have a long white paper coming out today really wor worrying about the fe of the all volunteer force because of what you point out. teaching history is very important, learning the lessons of previous conflicts that we've been in, and so, yes, it's a very -- it's a worry bead right now and we all need to pull together and we've got to basically be strong. in your previous segments you talked about china, you talked about the economy, you talked about vietnam and what china understands is force and we've got to beef up our deterrence, offensively and defensive, vis-a-vis taiwan. vietnam is a critically important opening open market. the ports in the southern tip of vietnam give us great access to the south china sea where china is asserting incorrectly the

stratly islands. we need navigation there. there are a lot of worry beads out there. today is a day to remember how our nation pulled together, how local, state and federal officials worked together for a common cause and we need to bring that back. you're absolutely correct. cheryl: well, let's talk about the president overseas this weekend. so you mentioned vietnam and i'm glad that you did but president biden did meet with the chinese premier at g20 and he highlighted that china's economic crisis makes taiwan invasion less likely but the president says that china's changing the rules of the game when it comes to trade. watch this. >> china is beginning to change some of the rules of the game in terms of trade and other issues. it's not about isolating china. it's about making sure the rules of the road, everything from air space and space in the ocean, the international rules of the

road are abided by. i want to see china succeed economically. i want them to succeed by the rules. i think china has a difficult economic problem for a range of reasons that relate to international growth and lack thereof and the policies that china has followed. cheryl: the wall street journal writes that president xi's tight control is hurting their growth in that country. there is that headline, general. your reaction? >> well, cheryl, i think the wall street journal has got it right. i was a member of a u.s. senate delegation to china in 1979. we met with the premier. he was a collective leader, collective decision making where xi jinping is a one man band, makes all the decisions in a country as complex as china, everything has to flow to the top, it presence problems. so i think -- presents problems. i think the wall street journal

is right in what they say. i think what we've got to do in terms of this is, i don't think you focus on intentions. we in the military, we focus ton capabilities. i pay a lot of attention to what our war fighting leaders in the indo-pacific, general jack keane, a mainstay on this program, gordon chang was on earlier, we've got to pay attention to capabilities and basically deter china and they need to understand that our navy can sink their navy. we need to beef that up. we don't want to if he cuss on intentions. -- focus on intentions. we want to focus on capabilities. it doesn't bother me that china's economy is struggling. that keeps xi jinping focused internally and less externally. cheryl: that is a very good point and i'm glad we discussed about military preparedness in this country. that's what concerns me about the u.s. military, about the concerns about munitions production in this country. things are not getting any better. they're getting worse on the global stage.

general arnold punaro, thank you again for your service and it's great to see you this morning. thank you for being here. >> such a privilege to be with you. cheryl: all right. well, we've got a lot more coming up this morning. kamala harris heading into 2024 with a ton of confidence. confidence, that's making a buzz this morning. oh, she's laughing about it. you're watching "mornings with maria," live on fox business. ♪ there's challenges, and i love overcoming challenges. ♪ when better money habits® content first started coming out, it expanded what i could do for special olympics athletes with developmental needs. thousands of bank of america employees like scott spend countless hours volunteering to teach people how to reach their financial goals.

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we're going to win. if you listen to the wall street journal op-ed this morning and editorial board they say democrats are starting to panic about biden, his low standing in the polls is finally alarming them about the political risk for 2024. >> well, duh. they're a little late to the party in my view. this has been going on for some time. i want to give a shoutout to nikki haley. she introduced the most interesting and powerful message out there right now which is a vote for joe biden is a vote for kamala harris. that's why kamala harris all of a sudden is front and center everywhere, raising her hand and saying yes, i would be ready. that's why she's at the 9/11 memorial today. the white house is recognizing this is a substantial liability. when people look at kamala harris, who is even less popular, astoundingly, than joe biden, they are freaked out that indeed a vote for joe biden is a vote for cam cam.

kamala harris. good for nikki haley. that is the conversation now. that vaulted nikki haley ahead in the polls, a lot of chatter about you how she is the obvious vice presidential candidate for donald trump if he's the candidate. it's done well for her. it's thrown the democrats i think into total disarray. cheryl: the democrats according to the hill, mark, are expressing frustration, mostly private, off-the-record frustration with the basement poll numbers for joe biden who is probably going to run from the basement once again because that's the strategy that got them in 2024 to the white house. but they're concerned bout his age. that's why the spotlight is on harris and her awkward laugh, that guy gran gigantic smile. she is asked a sears just question and she -- serious question and she has an ear to ear grin. >> i can't tell if she's super nervous when she's responding or if she doesn't understand the

question. i can't figure her out. at one point she started touting her own accomplishments. cheryl: which was what? sorry. >> 100% right. her time as da, all she did was create more lawlessness. that's not an accomplishment. she said in the clip we showed that this administration is delivering for the american people. they have delivered incredibly high inflation. that's eroding the family budget. they delivered more crime. they delivered the most divisive country we've had probably since the civil rights movement. cheryl: open border. >> open borders. adversaries think we're weak. they haven't delivered on anything. especially september 11th, we're sitting here obviously remembering that awful tragedy. but you can also look back on the one positive thing that came out of september 11th is it created a unified country. we all came together to get through that tragedy and then you look at where we're at today.

cheryl: it's because they're letting the bord bore wide opend -- border wide open. liz, we f know that known terrorists are coming across, it's chinese, venezuelan, russians. they caught multinationals on that border, many of them, and you've got the gang members, the border is wide open. >> they're trafficking kids. cheryl: we're so worried about terrorists flying over on planes, they're coming in from the border. >> yeah. and we have to remember there's about a million and-a-half so-called got aways, people who were not apprehended that they know came across the border. who do you think is taking more care not to be caught? a terrorist or someone who is not a terrorist? their proportion of people who could be really dangerous to the country in that got away number could be substantial but i want to go back to kamala harris because she has all kinds of excuses why they don't like her. the truth is, she has not done her job. and i could give you ten reasons why, but that is the issue.

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