thank you for your time. >> thank you, have a nice weekend. >> dana: fascinating interview. well done by you and her. she has to find reasonable doubt and what she was trying to sew there. fascinating case. have a great weekend. have a lot of politics today and a lot more to come on monday through next week. enjoy seeing you then. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: florida governor ron desantis in a key early voting state, new hampshire but key for a couple other reasons. donald trump does well there and the governor, chris sununu also does well there. and he is thinking about getting in. so he has said. desantis has been talking with republican lawmakers in that state gearing up to announce a 2024 bid for the white house. sources telling fox news he will file the official paperwork for that next week. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus."

according to a rent poll of new hampshire voters donald trump leads ron desantis in the granite stays, 39% to 18%. the governor that i mentioned to you, governor chris sununu has 17% of that projected vote if the election were to happen today. and he, of course, has to still get in if that's the plan. "the new york times" is reporting desantis told donors yesterday there are only three credible candidates for the 2024 race, president biden, former president trump, and him. but he and biden are the only ones who can feasibly win the general election. that's desantis talking. the republican field, as i said, is getting wider by the day. we expect to hear 2024 intentions from a number of big hitters. former vice president mike pence, south carolina senator tim scott is set to announce on monday. virginia governor glenn youngkin

put out an interesting campaign ad that seems to reach to a broad national audience. and here is more. >> we can usher in a new era of american values. president ronald reagan changed lives. now it's our turn. >> harris: the president of grb strategies and senior coms advisor to chuck grassley. jonathan kott, former advisor to senator joe manchin and partner at capital counsel llc. i will toss to you first, garrett, with your view of desantis on the ground in new hampshire. >> i disagree with him there are three viable candidates for this race. there are only two viable candidates if you look at the polling. he is losing to president trump over the last 2 to 3 months by over 30 points. more people are jumping in the

race, sununu thinking about getting in the race, chris christie, mike pence, tim scott is about to declare as well. he did an exploratory committee. not because they think ron desantis is doing well. he is polling closer to ramaswamy than to donald trump. that's a massive problem for him. in a recent poll, too, head-to-head versus joe biden in an abc poll donald trump is winning 49-42 and doubled the lead in the real clear politics average. talking points out of the desantis camp that somehow he would be more of a viable general election candidate is false if you look at the data. president trump is leading strong in the gop primary and against joe biden head-to-head he watches up the most strongly. >> harris: that's interesting. jonathan, as you look ahead, is there a camp that democrats would rather take on at this point? >> we would love to take on donald trump because joe biden beat him like a rendered mule the last time and love to do it

again. the republican party is the trump party, the maga party. they will go as far right as they can to win in the primary and all that will do is make it harder for them to win a general and reach out to independent voters. i look forward to a bloody primary that has more and more people in it. i would love to see more people get in. it will make the race harder for all of them come the general election. i think at the end donald trump will be the nominee. he controls the party. he is way up in the polls and nothing that happens to him seems to matter. >> harris: your candidate is way down in the polls and you can't ignore that. it is for tangible things like the economy how people look toward the future. north of 70% say they don't think the future looks better than the present right now in terms of the country is going in the wrong direction. but this is interesting because you get another voice in the mix here and i wonder, garrett, if it makes it harder for biden if

you have both trump and desantis. do you see a positive in all of this? you mentioned vivek ramaswamy about 6% on average today. so he has ticked up a bit. and i just want to get your view on that. two strong voices against joe biden who may be relegated to his basement. >> absolutely. let's not forget rfk junior is getting 20 points against biden. biden is the weakest incumbent we've ever had. 70% of people think we are heading in the wrong direction. polls see him losing to trump. i don't know if it matters in terms of long term against joe biden. voters continue to sour on joe biden whether it's trump, whether it's desantis or a number of other candidates. i think right now donald trump is dominating the gop. there is no doubt about that. he continues to suck up all the oxygen. and voters continue to flock to him. i would also point out lastly here if you look at other polls

with joe biden with democrat voters, it is not a strong position to be in when you have 40 or 50% of democrats saying they don't want him to run again. >> harris: it's 54. >> it's not a strong position going into a general election as an incumbent and when you are polling less than someone else. >> harris: when you throw in donald trump's name, it tends to bring more democrats to the table but who knows if that will make up that difference of 54% who say what i call anybody but biden. i do want to get to this. president biden's 2024 campaign focusing on two key demographics where support for him is slipping. latino voters and young voters are the two areas specifically. axios reporting biden's camp will key in on some key spring states with big latino populations, arizona, nevada, pennsylvania, also producing bilingual ads and holding

campaign boot camps for byling well camps. when it comes to young voters president biden wants his big green push front and center. one democrat party pac already out with this ad. >> if you care about clean air, you should know president biden's infrastructure laws are reducing pollution and creating clean energy jobs, more solar, more wind, made in america. tell joe biden to keep working for more jobs and less pollution. >> harris: his approval dropped among young americans. look at it here falling from 41% last spring to 36% right now. first of all, jonathan, tell me why in three categories actually. we're concentrating on latino and young voters and you put in black voters, too the number falling they would support joe biden. when you look at those numbers

that's catastrophic among compa compartmentalized votes. >> mr. biden brought us out of a horrendous place and explaining to all voters i don't like when we segment out voters as a party or when anybody does. all voters want a better future for their kids and cleaner air. >> harris: you are right about that. you should tell the president. >> what he will do is the next year and a half will be saying here are all the things i accomplished that i got done for you that you care about and you wanted me to do. and you campaigned on. these are the activists he will talk to. >> harris: i want to jump in. you are very spot on when you say that when you separate those groups, everybody wants the same thing. all of those. they want to sit down at their dincer table and be able to have seconds because they can afford the food they are eating.

you say the country is in a tough spot. this president has been president for 843 days. more than that. >> he brought us out of an even worse condition. >> harris: he wasn't losing black support and latino sport and young support at the beginning. i will flip to garrett and come right back to you. >> this idea that joe biden, you know, brought us out of something. he brought us to the highest inflation we've seen in 40 years. record border crossings, we've got, you know, afghanistan has fallen to the taliban. you have china that has been more aggressive against taiwan. you have war in ukraine, russia is invading them. these things voters learned about joe biden and don't like them. that's the point. not that they aren't aware of them. they are aware of them and 70% think it is heading in the wrong direction. in terms of the voter blocks i agree with jonathan putting them in the voter blocks is not helpful. everybody wants better jobs,

better schools, more money in the pocket. the reason he is trending down with the blocks, black, hispanic or young they have witnessed the disastrous policies and he continues to slip with all those categories. >> harris: one thing we haven't talked about is crime and particularly democrat-led cities. not all but particularly. the video is horrendous. look at chicago. a lot of it as black and people of color as victims. you don't see the push from the white house. you don't see the push from the left to try to get chicago cleaned up. they just hired a mayor farther left. so these are things that stick to the president. i remember when jen psaki, former press secretary said on her new network you have to concentrate on crime going into the mid-terms. what would you tell the president? take him 18 months to turn it around. that's like on election day. >> i didn't say that.

i said he will spend the next 18 months telling voters what he has done for them. >> harris: you don't think that can turn it around? >> i think it will turn around the poll number. not the country, turning around the poll numbers. i would focus on crime is a problem. it was a problem under donald trump and red states and blue states. the president is the one who is putting out a budget that wants to increase cop funding and the one who is wanting to take away guns from criminals. the other party, republican party, is the one who has a budget that defunds police, f.b.i. and border and wants to do nothing about guns. literally nothing. they watch mass shooting and say let's -- >> harris: no one will believe the party of law and order wants to cut off their nose to spite their face. look at what the republican texas governor is having to do because the federal government is not stepping in with anything but some cash at this point at the border. you need people there. >> he has increased the border patrol there. that's what biden did.

>> harris: he also sent national guard. he also put up a wall of wire. he is trying everything that the government won't try. real quick garrett, last word. >> i would just say joe biden going into 2024 has got a massive problems. head-to-head with donald trump he loses in every poll. the american people aren't sold on his agenda. doesn't matter for the next 18 months. voters aren't buying it. they want a different direction and why joe biden will get defeated in 2024. >> harris: ron desantis put the early voting state of new hampshire in "focus" for everybody today. joe biden is waiting for south carolina and i wonder if he will make it on the ballot in new hampshire. that's another thing we didn't talk about. he jumped over that state and now they have to fight to get his name back on the ballot. he wants the primary to go the way he wants it to. great to see you. thank you for being in "focus" on the panel this morning. he says the government's

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>> harris: senator dianne feinstein of california has been around for decades in office. now has a new aide by her side. somebody to help her get around. it is raising some questions about her fitness to carry out the remainder of her term. former speaker nancy pelosi's oldest daughter has been a constant presence by the side of the 89-year-old senator since she returned to washington after ten weeks sick leave for complications from shingles. "the new york times" yesterday reported the illness was much more frightening than initially revealed. "politico" suggesting the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, may be propping up the senator for the benefit of adam schiff who she endorsed to take feinstein's seat. a friend says their friendship

is personal, not political. prominent california democrats continue to vouch for feinstein's ability to serve her constituents. >> don't get in the way of conversations between patient and their doctors. senator feinstein came back last week and she voted. it was very good. >> i don't have a medical degree so i won't comment on how she is feeling or what she looks like. i appreciate the fact that she is back working. >> i think she can serve. i think second run circles around half the people over there. >> harris: steve hilton. they have to say that. after letting john fetterman come back and leave and come back and leave in pennsylvania, it would look pretty sexist for them -- we know which party it is. they have to be fair to the women, don't they? >> exactly. the same with biden. you can see with biden he is not capable of properly doing his job. he is a senile, feeble

figurehead as well. before we talk about the politics let's remember the humanity. dianne feinstein is an absolutely legendary figure, a giant of california politics. played a huge role in turning around san francisco when she was mayor in the 1970s. it is sad and tragic and horrible to see the way her reputation is being destroyed and degraded by these self-indulgent, selfish and totally partisan democrats. this theory that nancy pelosi is trying to keep her there in order to stop gavin new some appointing one of adam schiff's rivals, barbara lee. newsom promised to replace if it came to that the senator with a black woman. barbara lee is the only black woman in the race. i believe that theory. why? this is the kind of arrogance you get from people who have been in power without challenge

or competition for so long that they believe that these public offices are theirs by right. it is personal and they think it is something you can hand down to the favored next generation as if it was a piece of furniture. that's what you get from these san francisco democrats and the california democrats generally. they feel that there is no political pressure. it is all theirs. >> harris: real quickly because you brought up personal and professional all of that. pelosi's spokesperson saying they are friendship is not political. her daughter saying i'm not her doctor but with her all those hours every day helping her tool around and that's not political? >> of course it's political. with pelosi everything is political. that's the big selling point of nancy pelosi. she is political to her fingertips. no one should believe these

protestations there is no politics involved here. the theory makes total sense to me and a complete -- let's go back to the point. it is scandalous that by doing this they are slowly and visibly destroying the reputation of whatever you think about her politics, one of the great figures of modern political life in america. dianne feinstein. awful to see them do it. >> harris: this is interesting. u.s. supreme court justice neil gorsuch calling government responses to the pandemic, a quote, the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country, end quote. his comments coming in response to the supreme court's decision to dismiss a case pushed by red states to keep title 42 in place. justice gorsuch went after an array of emergency power abuses as he called them from lockdowns to church closures. justice samuel alito made similar remarks in the fall of 2020. >> the pandemic has resulted in

previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty. i think it is an indisputable statement of fact. we have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020. >> harris: steve, what happened to neil gorsuch? >> well look, yes, of course he is right. alito is right. it is all true. what it reminds me of is the fact that even now, years afterwards, we still don't have -- we have not seen any kind of real accountability for the people who pushed the lockdowns. any kind of legal accountability. no political accountability. they have gotten away with it. let's remember this wasn't some kind of innocent mistake, the lockdown people pushed. we didn't know what what's happening and we were being overcautious. that's not true.

they knew, we knew from the beginning that special characteristics of this virus, first of all it was transmitted through aerosols that traveled through the air. therefore the justification for social distancing, which was the basis for the lockdown, which said you can't really operate a shop or business because you have to keep six feet social distancing. it was all b.s. because the social distancing thing was based on droplets that fall six feet from you. we know most people who got the virus would have mild or 0 systems that skewed toward the elderly and those overweight. we knew this at the beginning. these people pushed the lockdowns anyway. you saw the destruction of businesses, children's futures with the school closures and then don't forget this. all this conversation we're having now about the debt ceiling and all the rest of it is in large part due to the lockdowns, the huge amounts of

money that we were shoveling out the door to compensate people for lockdowns that should never have happened. when are these people going to be held accountable? all the governors. what about mike pence? he was heading the coronavirus task force letting it all drift on. completely outrageous. when are we going to sue them and see legal action against these people? damages recovered. never mind gorsuch saying it was a civil liberties infringement, it was. when will we see individual accountability that is continuing to hurt our country for decades to come through the debt built up totally unnecessarily. >> harris: i hear all that. the reason i say what about gorsuch now, who appointed by donald trump, i ask that question because if it were not for his voice reminding apparently the court and

reminding the country that we have been down this road for three plus years we know what broke us, we know what broke us and we're willing to go along again with the charade of title 42 didn't help us. yes it did. it didn't come from the president that biden and other democrats really like. it came from donald trump. >> honestly, we should be controlling the border and having a properly run immigration system in its own right. not relying on some pandemic thing to control the border. a property government that understands one of its prime responsibilities is to protect our border not relying on some pandemic-era title that was a temporary public health emergency. that's ridiculous. >> harris: look what it took to get biden to the table to even begin to negotiate for the debt ceiling just days away as early as june 1st. look what kind of pressure it

took from inside his own party to get him to do that. it is no shocker the democrats won't come to the table if republicans put something down, although you don't know, kevin mccarthy could next level put something down to solve what's going on at the border. they've already started to do that and tackling some of it. do democrats come? i don't know. steve hilton, great to have you in "focus", thank you very much. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: with the clock ticking down on debt ceiling talks as i just mentioned more democrats want to make an inrun around house speaker kevin mccarthy. he is in charge. the house speaker. they want to go around him. republicans have a few things to say about that. plus kansas republican roger marshall on the border just before title 42 lifted. >> it is very emotionally draining what we're seeing here. but the nation needs to see this. this is why president biden needs to come and look at one of

these camps in the eyes and see for himself the tragedy that's ongoing. >> harris: truth to power. the kansas senator saw the chaos firsthand and he is in focus, senator marshall next.

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white house is not being reasonable in its requests. that's a huge pivot from where things were yesterday when mccarthy was saying he could see a path. that we weren't there yet but things were going well and both sides were complimenting the other in terms of where things stood. we know president biden left the g7 dinner early so 13 hours ahead in japan where biden is right now. he was at dinner this morning for us. he left that dinner early to get an update from his team on where things stand. he likely gave some feedback on where his red lines were and then the negotiators from the white house go back to the hill to continue these talks and we can read the tea leaves and see it was not tenable for mccarthy and his team of house republicans. now it is unclear where this will go from here. remember, this is middle of the day on a friday. the markets will be sensitive to this. i would be surprised if we don't hear a bit more from both sides

on what is going to happen next. there are a couple of mechanisms on the fringes right now to try to force a debt ceiling hike. you have house democrats who have all signed onto the discharge petition that will go nowhere that could force a vote. they won't get 218 votes on that. you also have senate democrats telling biden to invoke the 14th amendment and raise the debt ceiling. biden has said that is legally tenuous. you have the fringes now freaking out as we wait for more information on exactly where things stand, harris. >> harris: jacque heinrich bringing us the breaking news now. we're inching closer and closer to what so many in treasury have said june 1st is the beginning of when we start to worry. jacque, thank you. senator roger marshall, member of the homeland and fortunate for us in this moment of breaking news budget committees from the great state of kansas. first of all you watched that breaking news and with us here

for the first time on the mez. why are we now? >> i'm not really surprised at this moment. during negligent aches somebody walks out. i want americans to realize the ball is in president biden's court. we gave him a plan several months ago. campaigning from a basement may work but on this particular budget issue we need leadership from the white house. the far left is pulling him left, left, left. afraid of the work requirements. i think most of us think that's reasonable. >> harris: what democrats have said in the last 24 hours is no to work requirements accusing the gop of being unrealistic. wanting the president to invoke the 14th amendment, which is quite explosive in this situation where democrats could just simply go around the speaker of the house. >> listen, the only two voices in this room that matter are the speaker of the house and president biden.

>> harris: good thing he is in japan then. >> i understand your point but again he is trying to negotiate from the basement in this case from japan. >> harris: senator, i know everybody has delegates, things happen, we have war around the world, a lot of things a president has to do. but when the delegates sit down, it is supposed to be exactly what the president would want. we already know he doesn't want to negotiate. why should we believe anything the delegates say? we know in the end he would rather just get his way. >> harris at some point in time the leader of the free world needs to sit down face-to-face and have a real conversation with speaker mccarthy, only the two of them will solve this impasse. he has to stop listening to the radical left pushing him further and further left. the work requirements are simple. 20 hours a week working. more education. if you have children you are ime ahn from them as well. i think they're reasonable.

having a job -- >> harris: immune, that sort of thing. >> you don't have to fulfill the 20 hours a week of work requirement if you have children. >> harris: oh. well so they are painting this picture like it is going to be something that is unbearable for people. talk to me about that. that gets them the benefits that they need. >> right. so first of all, remember my sixth grade teacher talked about respect and self-respect. having a job brings self-respect and dignity. we want to give people a hand up out of poverty not keep them in poverty. i would do anything a world to the person on medicaid getting food stamps i would do anything in the world to help get them an education and get a job to lift themselves and children out of the poverty. >> harris: you know who we've say that recently who will announce for the gop is senator tim scott in south carolina and his personal story. so glad you're here. let's hit another topic.

i know texas governor greg abbott announced and was on this program yesterday talking about sending his first bus load of illegal immigrants to denver. some of them wanting to apply for asylum and not getting court dates until 2027. it is the latest democrat-run city to receive migrants bused from texas as the state is grappling with its overrun border. abbott in "focus." >> national guard and texas department of public safety are now repelling illegal immigrants who are trying to cross the border. joe biden was asked about it yesterday or the day before and he scoffed about it. the fact of the matter is there is only one governmental entity in the united states of america that is repelling people trying to enter illegally and that's the state of texas. >> harris: senator marshall just visited the border right before title 42 ended. he has an op-ed titled, i visited biden's broken border and you won't believe what i

learned. you brought us pictures and video to go with it. what did you learn that we wouldn't believe? >> i think just sheer number of people. how our border patrol is eover wemd. the higher ups in the border patrol are communicating with the mexican government coordinating when to bring people across the border. 170,000 people lined up waiting for title 42 to end. when we pulled up there was bus load after bus load of people being removed from a temporary encampment. >> harris: do you have confidence that those bus load after bus load that we can vet all those people? are they becoming some of the gotaways we talk about that will come into this nation and potentially do crime and do other things? we have no idea who they are. >> in addition to the bus loads of people they had 3,000 gotaways that day. the 3,000 gotaways were not vetted in any way, shape or form. and they were emptying their

temporary housing as well with people that had not been vetted. they aren't being vetted. you can't vet somebody in 24 hours let alone in five minutes. >> harris: you said that 10% of the border patrol are able to protect the border. why not let -- this is what texas governor abbott has done is put his own national guard down there and back filled to actually -- you are looking at some of this wiring. i'm curious, what did you see down there that says our men and women could do more if they had more help from the federal government. not just money. >> i ask the border patrol every time i go down there. this is the fourth time. they want for joe biden to change his policy. they didn't ask for more border patrol officers, more resources. he said joe biden created this problem. if he would go back to a return to mexico, remain in mexico poll syracuse stop the catch and release it will solve problem. otherwise we had this beacon of everybody come to america right

now. >> harris: senator marshall. what keeps you up at night on this issue. >> safety and security every day across america 300 young adults are dying from fentanyl poisoning. my own father, a police officer, is more concerned about their safety and security than they are about inflation. inflation is absolutely numbing it is so high. groceries up 25%. my parents and any hometown. a former police officer doesn't feel safe anymore. >> harris: senator marshall, come back any time. glad to have you on the mezz. the biden administration is coming after your children's -- wait for it -- chocolate milk. they want to ban it. what do they have against chocolate? should i take that personally? the claim it's all in the name of your good health. the backlash is fierce. kat timpf in "focus" next. ♪

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>> harris: fox news alert now. i had just said this to senator marshall of kansas. i said senator tim scott announces on monday but you know what he has just done? senator tim scott of the great state of south carolina has just

filed paperwork today to run for president in 2024. scott is expected to make his official announcement that his presidential campaign is in full gear on monday. monday morning, in fact, we're told, in north charleston. senator scott has filed to run for the white house. the gop nomination in 2024. and we'll continue to cover the news. republicans in the house and senate are demanding answers from the national institutes of health after two young people committed suicide during a taxpayer funded study which was focusing on transgender youth. alexandria hoff is live in washington, d.c. >> good to be with you. this study involved 315 trans identifying subjects. most under 18 and all recruited from four gender care clinics across the u.s. the study is titled psycho

social functioning in transgender use after two years on hormones published by the "new england journal of medicine" and researcher concluded it gave trans youth a mental health boost. two study subjects took their own lives. 11 reported continued suicide alliediation and two dropped out of the study. they demand answers on this. they wrote rather than shutting the study down after such serious adverse events the researchers published their paper concluding the study was a success. here is north carolina senator. >> hundreds of individuals at taxpayer expense and 240 of them were minors as young as 12 years old. we think that's tragic. >> remember the food and drug administration has not approved hormone therapy or puberty blockers for children receiving

gender care. the off label use skyrocketed. i did hear back from the fda. the best way to provide children with treatment is by including them in clinical research. we did not hear back from the nih. >> harris: so we don't know how safe or unsafe that program was for those transgender youth right now. just like we don't know the answers to alexandria, what types of treatments and surgeries will have on them in later life. >> you are right. the interesting thing about this study there was no control group. any benefit these researchers say the hormones had we don't know if time could have healed the same ailments that these children were dealing with. a couple flaws in the study and gop want some answers. >> harris: we have seen a lot of things happen with science. we got out of a pandemic that likely started at the lab in wuhan. a lot of questions everywhere. great reporting.

thank you. democrats in new hampshire just struck down a bill requiring schools to tell parents about their children's gender identity so we're going to stay with this topic right now because the states and this news is driving it. the state's gop chairman hit back. once again 100% of new hampshire democrats voted against parents knowing what is happening with their own children in our public schools. according to a conservative parents group at least 168 school districts nationwide governing 6,000 schools have guidance on the books to block parents from knowing about their child's gender identity. that covers more than 3 million children. i want to bring in kat timpf. you feel so strongly about this topic and every time we get together there is a new darker chapter. >> yeah. i don't understand how it is a controversial opinion to say that they are your kids, the parents' kids. kids do not belong to the

states. you should know what is going on in your child's life. to make it -- you should be able to share is that with the kids' parents. parent/teacher conferences, aren't you supposed to say my child is going through this at this school. i want to know about it. what do those look like anymore? it is wild. >> harris: many of them are on zoom. so i can just tell you from personal experience with young teenagers 16 and 14 and the conversations are decidedly short and they don't typically touch on the issues unless parents bring them up and we make people uncomfortable, parents, including the f.b.i. and d.o.j. >> what parents went through in the pandemic having their kids at home and teachers teaching them on zoom and being told actually you don't get a say. that's absolutely ridiculous. parents want teachers to teach their kids but want to have a say in what their kids are being taught and who those teachers

are. >> harris: a lot of backlash to a biden administration proposal that would potentially ban schools from serving chocolate milk. it's another example of overreach that could hurt dairy farmers. glen thompson said first it was the gas stove, now your child's school meal. in particular chocolate milk is delicious, it has protein. >> it is healthier than some of the things i got for school lunch like the pizza that is a big piece of french bread with a little cheese on it. and also i just -- i get that obesity is an issue but that is a larger task to take on if you are an individual who struggles with that. you aren't just one chocolate milk away between being fit and obese. chocolate milk can play a role in a healthy diet. >> harris: they hate happy. >> they do. i think they really do. you are at school and enjoy a little chocolate milk. there are bigger problems going

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>> hello everyone this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany with emily compagno. joining us is mar thati lahren,n prior. we begin with stunning and new developments on an experiment f transgender youth. -- not approved by the fda to 31