voice of jimmie dunn, a pga tour board member there. the irony of all this is jimmie dunn, during 9/11, was with a firm in the south tower playing golf that day and lost 66 employees on 9/11. a lot of families will be in the room today. these questions continue about how it all came together. >> dana: interesting hearing. he is a good man indeed. harris faulkner will take you to the next hour. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: let's start with a high wire act for president biden. he is at a high stakes nato summit as a new scandal is cooking in america. the white house is force evidence to walk back a cringey admission by the president. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." first, the news of the summit because ukraine is pushing to join nato but the war with russia blocking that so far. however, turkey just agreed to support sweden's bid to join

nato as the 32 country. regarding ukraine. president biden okayed a giant new package for tax dollars, $8 hundred million to fight off russia. approved sending controversy cluster bombs to help them. he chose the cluster bombs because the united states stock of other ammunition is so low. how does that make us look? >> you shouldn't be telling your adversary you have a problem, you have a supply chain set of issues and an excuse to do something. that's the quiet part. the task is to fix it and make sure you do have the things you need. >> harris: the "wall street journal" editorial board is asking biden admits the problem but then why not do something about it? in "focus" house foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccaul. let's go to jacque heinrich

traveling with the president at that nato summit. jacque. >> hey there, harris, the white house made clear after the president's interview that u.s. read enes to defend itself was never a question. the military has specific requirements for what kind of systems and types of ammunition we keep in our reserves in case of an event that needs them. and everything is being sent to ukraine is in excess of that number. nevertheless, that supply being sent to ukraine is running low. an issue that congress will have to solve. some house republicans are blocking workarounds to spending caps frustrating senate republicans saying that more needs to be done. the war and nato alliance shutting the door on ukraine's membership for now over fears it could trigger article five upsetting president zelensky who said he will bring it up at the summit. it seems there is no read enes neither to invite ukraine to nato or make it a member of the alliance.

a window of opportunity is being left to bargain. ukraine's membership in nato and negotiations with russia and for russia motivation to continue its terror. biden enters the summit from the position of strength. he takes credit for erdogan's opposition for sweden joining nato. they say f-16s aren't a contingency but the timeline for turkey's vote is not fixed and a push to get congress to approve of that sale. >> the president has said all along that he is interested in getting these f-16s to turkey. he has backed that up by sending the package to the congress. and so we will work with congress on the appropriate timing for getting them to turkey. i can't speculate on the day it will happen only that we support it getting done. >> senator bob menendez blocking the sale is reportedly in talks with the administration and

suggested he could drop his opposition as soon as next week. but, of course, nobody admits f-16s to turkey are tied to sweden's membership in nato, harris. >> harris: thank you very much. critics also are teeing off on this particular moment saying the president once again made america look weak on the world stage. here it is yesterday in britain. he tried to talk to the king's royal guard. you can see king charms guiding him away like herding cats. on twitter the ratio was hot. one user said it made biden look like mr. magoo. since president biden took office, our once rock solid alliance with britain has suffered many challenges. it points to things such as president biden fighting with the european union on brexit. skipping charles' coronation and the disastrous afghanistan

withdrawal. michael mccaul joins us now. congressman, your read on the president's performance abroad this trip. >> i think the biden blunders you referred to, the gaffes really embarrassing on the world stage. he is representing the leader of the free world and he gets confused about the guards in london to making a gaffe on policy, big policy mistakes on e.u. and brexit and you go on and on and on. i will say, though, however, harris on a positive note, having sweden now go into what they call ascension into nato is a big deal. this will make nato an even stronger force, united, not divided, as mr. putin wanted. and now we have one of the strongest countries from a military standpoint, along with

finland who was recently admitted as well, that can help provide the weapons into ukraine they need for the counter offensive to get to a point where we can call for a cease-fire and hopefully have a negotiated settlement. >> harris: what i hear you saying, this gets a bigger pool of cash and buy-in from countries. it is not always just us. whether it's ukraine or anybody else something former president trump used to talk about all the time. >> right. trump was spot on. remember two years ago or three he went to nato and the typical washington policy people thought it was offensive but he was telling the truth. that was they are not paying 2% of their gdp. right now, harris, only 11 of the 31 nato nations are paying 2% of their gross domestic product going towards their military. i would hope the president, if

he can remember things up there, would remember to bring this important point up as president. they need to pay their fair share. >> harris: there you go, if he can remember it. it is understandable if he were a little distracted trying to talk to the royal guard wandering off into the ether. there are things cooking at home that are distracting for him. email for hunter biden. obama-era communications show mention after mention of his business associates and white house staff. requests for meetings and invitations to white house events. they link the first son to nearly a dozen senior level biden administration aides. we'll scroll it here for saving time. it includes two current cabinet members, one past cabinet member, five top biden white house officials and a top biden campaign aide as hunter biden's tax and gun plea deal is set to

be sealed in just over two weeks. the lead prosecutor in that case, david weiss, is sticking with his story that the d.o.j. never ham strung his ingags. to senator lindsey graham david weiss wrote this. i haven't requested special counsel designation or denied the authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction. it's the third time he publicly contradicted i.r.s. whistleblower gary shapley on this matter. your take. >> my take is i was a federal prosecutor in the public integrity section at main justice many years ago. it was not political at that time. i am afraid that there seems to be this double standard at play. look, it's very clear under the law acquit pro kuo is illegal. if hunter biden wants a meeting or policy meeting, you know, or have administration officials talk to business partners of his, that he may be getting money from, perhaps illegally.

we don't know all the facts. but the bigger investigation beyond his tax investigation are these llc corporations. when i investigated my chinese investigation attention it was a classic way to cover up money funneled into the united states is fake shell corporations and funnel that money in. if this is happening with hunter biden -- i hope this investigation, by the way, harris, is still alive and well and that has not been shut. has that case been shut? it should not be. that's illegal. >> harris: chairman. we have to pull away for breaking news. i always appreciate you being if focus. let's focus on this live hearing led by oversight chairman, the one on the screen right now, james comer and he is trying to get to the origins of the pandemic and more urgently today cover-ups. let's watch.

>> we heard at our last hearing the biden administration was working with social media companies to censor the lab leak theory. i think you have preferred political narratives backwards, sir. when was your first conversation with dr. fauci about the origins of covid-19? >> i believe that was on the 31st of january, 2020. >> and yes or no, he suggested you write a paper during that conversation, correct? >> dr. fauci suggested that i consider writing a paper specifically predicated on my initial hypothesis that of a lab-associated virus, correct. >> you had the february 1st conference call that had dr. fauci and dr. collins and dr. ferrar on it, correct? >> there were several scientists including those, yes. >> was dr. tobac also on that call? >> i believe he was on the call. i'm unsure about that.

>> did dr. fauci reiterate a suggestion to draft a paper on that call? >> i don't believe that he directly suggested it but there was support for us looking further into the origin of the pandemic, yes. >> did the february 1st conference call shh lead to the event. >> the conclusions from that conference call further conversations among the authors ultimately led up in the march 17, 2020, paper, the proximal origin. the purpose of that conference call was not to write a paper. >> i want to shift to the conclusions of that paper. first, our analysis clearly show that sars covid is not a laboratory construct or purposely manipulated virus. dr. anderson, do you stand by that statement? >> i do. >> dr. gary, do you stand by

that statement? >> i do. >> doctor gary, are they research techniques that can purposefully manipulate a virus without leaving a trace? >> there are. >> what about having a virus be a laboratory construct without leaving a trace? >> if i understand your question correctly, yes, i believe there are. >> so you can't make that conclusion with certainty then. >> we didn't base it on those facts, though, sir. it was other facts and other evidence that we gathered during the course of our investigation. >> next you conclude that you do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. dr. anderson, do you stand by that statement? >> i do. it's important to understand what we're talking about a purposefully manipulated virus what we're referring to in the

paper here and as you will see from the record we have handed to the committee is that we are talking about the idea of building this virus with the intent of creating this virus. for example, a bioweapon would be an example of this. the normal engineering of a virus, while i certainly believe that is fully inconsistent with the evidence we have available to us, is not specifically what we are talking about here. the laboratory construct we're talking about many of the different reverse genetic systems available. >> bill: my last question, dr. gary a recent interview you had saying that statement went too far. did that statement go too far and is a laboratory-based scenario for the origin of cofield 19 plausible? >> i said maybe we went too far and i think in that particular statement that is really out of context with almost a six-hour interview i gave to a bbc reporter we were talking about

the scientific method. i was referring to the fact we were early at the time in the analysis. and that yes, we would change our minds if other evidence, other data came forward to support another theory. so scientists, it is 100% certain of their conclusions is not a very good scientist. you need to evaluate new data and go back and all i was referring to in that sentence. >> my time has expired, mr. chairman. >> i now recognize ms. ross from north carolina for five minutes of questioning. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. just this morning -- >> harris: i want to bring in dr. marc siegel. professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center. from the very beginning, i mean like day one, you and i were on the air talking about the possibilities, probabilities of where covid started and what it would take to keep that quiet. what do you make of this hearing

so far? >> i think that was very revealing, harris. first of all i have interviewed christian anderson on the radio and maintained to me the same thing. when he looked over the structure of the virus he changed his mind and he also says if you say that this was bio engineered deliberately you are accusing xi of being a felon. what he revealed to me that was new. he kept using the term bioweapon it is not necessarily the case we're talking about a bioweapon. he hedgeed on this point. it could have come from a lab. maybe looking at a bio defense strategy in china to figure out if someone else had a bioweapon what could they do to defend themselves creating something that would be used in vaccine technology. it would explain why covid-19 isn't more deadly than it is. i want to show you the wording issues. i don't think they know. i don't think they can rule out a lab.

i wasn't convinced that dr. gary or dr. anderson is in a position to rule out a lab leak. even dr. anderson said it could have leaked from a lab. we can't take that off the table. i wish that they would speak with less certainty. that was another issue here. >> harris: is fauci in a position to do that? >> no. actually of all the people that we've heard on this entire topic, the only one that had the top-level clearance to actually know what the intelligence community thinks is dr. robert redfield who had the highest level intelligence clearing while this was all going on. he understands the players, too. fauci knows the players but i talked to brad wenstrup about it and met with him in d.c. the issue here isn't necessarily somebody deliberately

suppressing for money. echo health alliance put in a bid to work on a sars covid two virus to install a site which is what we are worried about caused the spread. he was turned down by the united states government. does it mean that research didn't occur? we're concerned about that and the doctor in north carolina and his alliance with chinese scientists. >> harris: that's an excellent point. what viewers will see is information that's indicating that dr. fauci is implicated, i should say that twice in covid cover-ups. i want to get to that. here is some flavor from a bit earlier in the hearing today. chairman wenstrup who you said you met and talked with says his subcommittee's findings directly tie fauci in when it comes to efforts to discredit the laboratory leak theory.

let's watch. >> perhaps most troubling, it appears that the author's views on a potential lab leak changed abruptly after the february 1st conference call with doctors fauci and collins. they continued to disprove the lab leak theory and fully support the nature theory applying faulty assumptions and willfully ignoring circumstantial evidence that tended to support the lab leak hypothesis. >> harris: all the books fauci wrote, democrats are dismissing it as pure politics. a quick watch. >> we should let our expert communities continue to do their jobs while we as lawmakers focus on policies to help prevent the next pandemic and save future lives. but instead of doing that, we are here interrogating researchers who wrote a paper three years ago so my colleagues

can push a partisan narrative and disparage public health officials and institutions in the process. >> harris: i thought democrats they could chew gum and walk at the same time. they do their jobs and investigate too, doctor. >> really important points you just brought up, harris. listen, what happened there by my estimation and by brad wenstrup's estimation is that at the beginning of the pandemic, dr. fauci and maybe dr. collins weren't comfortable with the lab leak hypothesis and they believed the other was true so they suppressed the lab leak because they wanted the public to have a different view on this. that's not fair and that went on throughout the pandemic, by the way, in other areas, too, with masks, vaccines, shutdowns. it is consistent with the policy of i believe this. i think dr. fauci believes this. i believe this so let's not have competing narratives out there that might confuse people. that's not what we want and that's not the public responsibility we need. we needed both entertained and

we still do. we need it now. democrats should not be saying it's too late. we need to know what happened there to help us going forward. >> harris: that's so true. look, just quickly fox news digital has done great work on this and one of the things that they looked at through this open books, open the books, a nonprofit transparency organization is how much money fauci was making. i don't know if you knew that for years he was the highest-paid federal employee. even in retirement now is making history with what they are paying him. when he was an employee he made far above what the president of the united states made. and now he is making $480,000, a lot more than what the president will make. that's just in his pension and retirement. so it always is important to know the sort of financial, political type of facts just as we learn more. i put that out there. fox news digital kudos to you. dramatic and heart breaking new

study shows students aren't making up what we lost for them from the pandemic-era learning losses. even worse, they are going backwards. among the key findings gains in student achievement fell short of pre-lockdown levels in most elementary grades. standardized testing shows students would need more than four months of instruction in each subject just to catch up. many continue to blame the teachers unions for all of it. critics say the unions went too far and had too much focus and politics and pushed the liberal agenda on our children rather than, you know, teaching, reading, writings, math, not to mention the billions of dollars in taxpayer money that was supposed to address the learning loss. doctor. >> i think that was something that you and i knew at the beginning of the pandemic, having children, worrying about them, knowing this was true, knowing that learning occurs in person. harris, you personally helped me

with that with my own children. the best learning occurs in person. how can you say a 9 or 10-year-old would be able to learn math remotely? it was never going to happen. there are six months behind, maybe more. they may never recover. reading and math are done in person. you read, i read. you listen to the teacher's read and watch their lips and the teachers union played a very destructive role here. while it was all going on, there was emerging evidence that you weren't more likely to spread covid in schools anyway. that you would spread it more by keeping kids at home and home with parents who are home and spreading it within their own household. it was a grave injustice to our children and continuing to have an impact and it will. >> harris: doctor, quickly before i let you go, there is that side of it. also the medical side of the lockdowns. what i know you are seeing the total patient, the total young person walking in to doctor's offices now with isolation, loneliness, even the u.s. government, hhs has said.

the u.s. surgeon general said it. all of that coupled with this learning loss leads to extreme low self-esteem and other issues. >> you just put all the dots together. i will add another one. social media and the fact when people were aisles lateed all they did is went to iphones and thought they were joining a group on social media and ended up getting mocked and ridiculed and drug abuse, a huge increase in the use of psych dell ickx and cannabis now invading the workplace and schools like never before. a huge problem all from the pandemic shutdowns. >> harris: dr. siegel. always great to have you on the program. thank you. we have more breaking news now. we'll go to a subcommittee hearing that is looking at putting together the pga golf tour with liv and their merger. it is such big news they are concentrating on it on capitol hill. let's watch together. >> we have no present plans to do that. >> has the pga given your past

business relationships with chinese entities, have you taken a stance on the uighur concentration camps and condemned the genocide there? >> senator, we firmly support human rights and we're very concerned about what has happened there. but we leave those type matters to our u.s. government. we certainly do not condone that type of activity. >> when you say you leave the matter to the united states government i'm just asking do you -- will you speak out against the persecution and internment of uighurs in -- china. you have accepted money from chinese entities in some form of a partnership. do you condemn the concentration camps that currently, as we sit here and speak, are imprisoning uighurs, religious minorities, in that nation?

>> senator, we certainly don't condone or support that type of activity. yes, sir. >> let's talk a little bit about your lobbying activity as it relates to the saudi deal. public reports say that you paid lobbyists last year in one quarter of the year six figures or more to lobby congress on the saudi golf league proposals. >> we went to members of congress, as we faced a very threat to our existence, to make them aware of what the public investment fund was attempting to do through its operations of the liv golf series. >> and so make congress aware and ask for what? what did you want this body to do? >> senator, anything that congress could do within its power to help preserve an american institution. >> this is before you agreed to take a billion dollars from the

same people were lobbying against a year ago? >> senator, we faced a choice. one was to allow professional golf to be taken over and operated by the public investment fund of the kingdom of saudi arabia. the second was to allow the pga tour to continue to lead it. with our mission and values for the benefit of our players and charities. >> let me come back to the issue with the pga tour china series. why didn't you disclose your activity and your partnership with the shanghai group? you are tax exempt organization. you testified to that. >> we are. >> you have to file a form 990, is that correct? that contains a schedule f, is that correct? >> yes. >> the schedule f requires you to disclose any activities conducted overseas, including unrelated trade or business programs, services, fundraising

activities, investments or maintaining offices, employees or agents for if you were of conducting any such activities. your form 990s didn't disclose anything relating to your dealings in china? why not? >> our intentions to comply with all the disclosures requirements on form 990, if there is one we should have made we didn't, we'll get that corrected. >> were you attempting to paper over what you had done in china and your partnership with these chinese entities? >> absolutely not. >> thank you, senator hawley. we'll beginning a second round. >> harris: did you catch that? it's big news about what was disclosed and what wasn't with the pga tour doing a series, business, with china. china that has horrible human rights violations and you heard senator josh hawley of the great state of missouri talking all about it and then you heard the pga didn't disclose all that it

had to do with china. that's a big deal. we'll continue to watch this as they want to merge with liv. of course, that's run by saudi arabia and all the sports watching that they have been accused of. was anything going on with the pga and its dealings with china? that's worth knowing about. glad we dipped in. we have a date. the first gop nominating contest is set for january 15th in iowa. former president trump's rivals ramping up their attacks on him with a lot of ground to make up in the polls between now and then. the president's uncle joe image taking a big hit. uncle joe biden? close advisor reportedly open up about his vicious temper that often happens behind closed doors. >> the story about him yelling, i don't mind bosses who swear. i don't swear, i don't like

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>> harris: if president biden acts as badly as reports say, it sounds like a human resources issue. and the timing is perilous for him. axios reporting behind closed doors, biden has such a terrible temper some aides try to avoid meeting with him alone. back to his day one comment for firing anyone if they treat others with disrespects. some of the outburst tea include how the bleep don't you know

this. don't bleeping b.s. me. and get the bleep out of here. you can fill in the bleeps. one op-ed is asking yes, character matters. where is biden's? another reads biden's rage-fueled bullying of staff is more reason for worry. former white house press secretary ari fleischer says this is the joe biden he has known for years. >> he is just not a good guy. i don't know why the press treats him or thinks he might be a good guy. he snaps at people in a very derisive way. so much of the press, the outcome they refer. republicans to be defeated. >> harris: david avella, scott bolden, great to see you both. david, i'll start with you. what to do about cranky biden? >> president biden isn't the only one cusseding and saying foul things coming out of his

administration. when you consider the fact that two out of every three americans think we're heading in the wrong direction and six out of ten americans believe it is his policies making the economics of this country worse and not better and why ultimately democrats had to change the primary calendar to get rid of iowa and new hampshire. states he lost when he ran in 2020. and put in states more favorable to him. also why you see a lot of democratic candidates who might want to run against biden not taking him on. the deck is now stacked against them. >> harris: wow. we just looked at this just yesterday about people 77

-- >> harris: the president played a promise if you disrespect your co-workers he will get rid of you. >> i am a former managing partner for a large law firm and headed up the democrat party and d.c. chamber of commerce. leaders aren't perfect at all. there is a lot of dialogue before you get to the point where you see those bleeping words. president has a tough job. i don't think the press takes it light to him because from a leadership standpoint, his decision making matters. not so much how he gets there or how tough he is on his staff. he doesn't suffer fools lightly. i must tell you if that bothers them, those who are complaining haven't lived in reality. >> harris: unfortunately it spread to the press because on more than one occasion he has cussed reporters including peter doocy. >> what did he do to receive that wrath? >> harris: he asked some tough questions. there have been others who asked

difficult questions for the president. he gets very angry, very cranky. however, he did apologize to peter doocy and that counts for something, too. let's get into this. "washington examiner" argues the liberal media are spinning biden's temper as a good thing. don't worry, this is all just a sign of how attentive and with it biden is. sean hannity is questioning the timing of it. >> this is interesting, isn't it? any other reliable democrats and left wing journalists turning on biden and those that support him are getting excoriated by their own party. right now as the presidential election is heating up you find the timing on? the answer is written on the wall. they want both joe and kamala out of office. mark my words. they're working to replace them at the top of the ticket behind the scenes before it's too late.

>> harris: david, your take. >> just another example here of how many americans are seeing that joe biden isn't the joe biden they believed him to be or who he was portrayed to be. americans can see with their own eyes the results of this administration as we were just talking about. they aren't happy with it. it does provide republicans a wonderful opportunity that if we talk about what america would look like four years give us the white house again, it gives us a great opportunity going into 2024 because americans are pretty dissatisfied with this president. >> harris: as we pointed out, 85% of them. iowa's first in the nation gop caucus date officially set for january 15th kicking off a frantic countdown to the first republican test of the primary season. some of the former president's rivals believe it could be the best chance to stop trump from securing the nomination. trump holds a wide lead, as you know, continues to over his

challengers, florida governor ron desantis 30 points back and distant second according to recent polling. new hampshire's republican governor sununu taunting trump for threatening to skip the first debate. >> former president trump, the trump guy who says he will fight for america but not willing to stand up and wimp out and not get on that debate stage? >> harris: scott, your reaction. >> well, in regard to biden, if i may just a quick camp, they aren't going anywhere. they will be the nominees and win the election in 2024. trump is 30 points ahead. it is not wimping out. the problem and challenge for the gop. 30 to 40% of trump supporters will support him whether he shows up for the debate or not. he is the most unique politician we've had in the history of the country. it won't affect him one way or the other. his challengers have to figure out a way to go through him

instead of tiptoe around him. he is not beatable now and a big problem for the gop in the general election. >> harris: could be a big problem for democrats. >> i don't think so. >> 43 days until the fox debate. if you aren't donald trump or ron desantis it is your first opportunity to get some attention. otherwise the calendar moves so quickly. even if you got a win in iowa you wouldn't be able to capitalize on it. you have to start building momentum before that and why the fox debate is so important for everybody that's not trump or desantis. >> harris: that's interesting. gentlemen, thank you. love having you on. democrats in washington, d.c. seem to be going backwards on claims like this. they will do the backtrack. >> do you still stand, under oath, and state that there is not a crime crisis in washington, d.c.? >> yes, because if you look at carjackings, for example. >> remarkable. >> harris: he and other d.c.

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>> harris: the nation's capitol's democrat led city council is preparing forvote on an emergency crime bill today. this comes after months of pushback from city leaders insisting they were not facing a crime crisis. they are blind. i don't know. well now the council's chair is singing quite a different tune. >> most robberies are not solved. half of homicides are not solved very quickly. you can get away with murder in this city. increasing the case closure rate has the quickest deterrent effect. >> harris: the numbers paint a brutal picture. maybe that's what did it, the facts. overall, crime has spiked 30% from this point last year and that includes a 33% jump in violent crime and 17% increase

in homicides in particular. gillian turner reporting on it. gillian. >> right now d.c. city council is considering this 11th hour slate of emergency crime bills. the chairman of the public safety committee says the violent crime sweeping across the nation's capital is a crisis. we had a chance to press her about that and ask her what's behind the 180. listen to what she tells us. >> have members of our community being shot and killed at rates that we haven't seen for 20 years. that's an emergency, period. that was an emergency several months ago. it is an emergency today. >> these emergency bills have the backing of the mayor but not all democrats in the district are on board. >> the quicker that a bad guy is arrested, the greater the deterrent effect and the quicker that person is off the street

and will not be committing another crime. that is the most effective and the most immediate thing we can do to reduce crime. i don't hear any discussion about that from the mayor and that's really what's needed. >> it's a dramatic about face from the city council's chairman who insisted there wasn't a crime crisis four months ago when pressed by lauren boebert. >> do you still stand, under oath, and state that there is not a crime crisis in washington, d.c.? >> yes, because if you look at carjackings. >> that's remarkable. >> take a look at the stats compared to the same time last summer. we'll pull it up. sexual abuse up by 38%. robbery 52%. violent crime up 33% and violent crime up. from living in this city, it does seem like everybody who

lives here this summer has a story to tell how their once safe neighborhood is no longer secure. maybe the council will get some bills passed before they do. >> harris: maybe they out to skip their break and keep working. >> you said that, not me. >> harris: we're all aware of how many cameras there are. cell phones, body cameras, home security system capturing everybody going by. a new fox nation show is taking an in depth look at how the surveillance is affecting how we catch criminals. after what is unfolding in d.c. maybe they need more cameras. each episode focuses on caught on camera crimes and host sean sticks larkin takes us through every frame of it. one video shows an attempted kidnapping of a little girl. this kind of stuff is inhumane.

the good samaritans who stepped in to stop that relentless suspect. thank god for them. another shows the intense pursuit of cartel criminals by the coast guard. you see here the feds climbing on top of a submarine on open water. home of the brave, baby, that's us. check out this home invasion. >> what are you doing here? >> in is my house. what are you doing here? i'm calling the police right now. i'm calling the police right now. >> harris: oh my goodness. you see the suspect start to walk up the stairs there and the homeowner climbed out the window to get away before police could get there. sticks joins us now. he is also a retired tulsa police lieutenant. some of this is helping. tell us about that part. that's the silver lining.

>> absolutely. there are 85 million surveillance cameras across the country. that doesn't count cell phones. they report there is 2 billion hours a day recorded on surveillance cameras. the number of crimes getting caught on tape that are helping law enforcement get these guys, these men and women committing these crimes in custody is something that's a vital tool right now for the men and women in law enforcement. >> there is no privacy. i often realize this when you go to other countries they have more than we do per capita. >> absolutely. you look at the u.k. and things like that. we're behind the times in this. we should feel safe especially at home. the video you show of the gentleman that breaks into somebody's home or as you pointed out the convenience tore where the young girl was about to be kidnapped. a high school wrestler that took this guy down and held him until

law enforcement got there. with the crime rates that we are seeing rising if places like washington, d.c. and some of these other places, we need these things to be caught on camera so we can get the prosecution. we need good citizens out there also to step up, be that person that will stop these guys from doing it. >> harris: what really moves me about what you are saying. we have had cases here with the subway choke death and that former military member marine who stood up and said look, these people were under threat and did what he said he needed to do in that moment, witnesses have corroborated that and criminals are winning right now and people want to punish the heroes. >> absolutely. you know, during my time in law enforcement i saw a lot of technology change. one was body cameras. everybody thought hey, the dash cams, the body cam will show the police wrongdoing. in fact, what it ended up

showing was the heroic actions of police officers and showed the public that was attacking the police officers or why somebody had to shoot somebody. the cameras are huge. >> harris: i'm so glad you came by "the faulkner focus." you dropped three episodes. more to come on fox nation. if you don't have that app, go out and get it. thank you. fox news alert. a busy hour of breaking news. this on capitol hill. today's hearing is on the nomination of general charles brown for chairman for the joint chiefs of staff. republican senator tommy tuberville said this earlier. >> our recruiting is in a tailspin in most areas unfortunately. and with an all-volunteer military, we will have to do better. we have to do better with salaries, incentives, all those things to get the young men and women involved and interested in our military. i have think it's so important. we can have all the upper echelon we can get but unless -- >> harris: his actions are getting a lot of attention now

just his words. he is expected to block that nomination which would leave the nation without a confirmed top officer in the military when the current chairman, army general mark millie retires later this year. tuberville has blocked hundreds of military nominees in opposition to a pentagon position on abortion services. right now the marines are without a confirmed leader for the first time if more than 160 years. we'll stay on that story with tuberville and much more. "outnumbered" after the break. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein.

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