>> dana: okay. the cows listened. the biker was out of his comfort zone. the farmer was grateful for the help. they are saying what kind of an outfit is that? strange looking farmer. never seen a farmer look like that. all right. are you tired of me? harris faulkner is up next. here she the. >> bill: bye-bye. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. it takes a lot of money and massive planning to truly be a sanctuary city to illegal immigrants. democrats just found out the hard way and now they are angry over all those people flowing across the southern border putting the squeeze on those democrat-led cities. so were they lying about the part of being a sanctuary? do they really believe those democratic leaders that the president will help them? i'm harris faulkner. you are in "the faulkner focus." a border patrol official shared some shocking numbers with

congress at a hearing yesterday. he said agents are recording an average of 6,500 apprehensions per day of people illegally coming into the united states. here is republican senator ron johnson. >> we cannot get secretary mayokas to say that's a crisis. won't even say it's a problem. he calls it a challenge. i noted in the number of your testimonies you kept talking about efficiency. sitting here in this sedate hearing setting you almost seem like we've got this under control. this is completely out of control, isn't it? >> harris: just when the border state of texas was finding ways to stem the crushing tide of humanity and illegal drugs, a federal judge has ordered governor greg abbott to remove the floating barriers in the rio grande. a headline, judge orders texas to weaken border security per the biden administration's

request. another headline. blue state migrant crisis sparks political disaster for biden. democrat strongholds like massachusetts, chicago, washington, d.c., new york, overwhelmed and out of resources. new york city's mayor, eric adams, says 110,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in his city in the past year. here is the mayor. >> i don't see an ending to this. this issue will destroy new york city. destroy new york city. we're getting 10,000 migrants a month. every community in this city is going to be impacted. the city we knew we're about to lose. >> harris: well, that's not a surprise. i don't know why he acts surprised. in "focus" republican senator ted cruz from the border state of texas. first bryan llenas in new york city. >> good afternoon.

at a town hall yesterday new york city mayor eric adams said the city's migrant crisis is a national crisis and once again criticized the biden administration for not providing any support. at multiple events yesterday, mayor adams ultimately said he blames republican texas governor greg abbott and former president trump for the crisis. >> we turned this city around in 20 months. then what happened? start evidence with a mad man down in texas deciding he wanted to bus people up to new york city. trump republicans created this mess and we need to fix this mess with real immigration reform. >> more than 110,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in new york city since april of last year. but according to governor abbott, about 13,000 or just 12% of that total were bused by his administration up to new york

city. republicans like former new york congressman lee zeldin responded to adam's attacks posting no one is more guilty for the looming destruction of new york city than biden noting how the administration's policy decision, stopping the construction of the border wall, are to blame. it is not just new york city. chicago is running out of space to house thousands of migrants, too. nearly 200 are being moved into a hostile in the greek town neighborhood there leaving residents asking questions with no clearances at a meeting last night. >> i mean, the number of people who want to come here is infinite. how do you manage this influx? >> what happens when we start seeing them fill up the streets and all the businesses in that neighborhood are suffering? >> back here in new york city, it is the first day of school, thousands of migrants will be put in those schools. it is a burden on this school system, harris, which is already dealing with the fact that 51%

of students are not able to read at grade level. >> harris: there is more to it than that. i want to get into that if you can stay with me for just a moment. something i want the audience to see and we'll roll that now. >> parents are concerned. they want children to follow the same rules as others. migrant children are being given a 30 day grace period to get crucial vaccinations, measles, mumps and small box. they want to know on day one everyone is safe. >> harris: the department of education handed out a brief memo instructing administrators on how to deal with the influx telling teachers it is now their responsibility to find teachers to communicate with those language issues that you mentioned, bryan. they are on their own when it comes to getting supplies. the "new york post" cover with this headline. kicked in the ed. obviously, you know, making fun

of the mayor's response to all of this. and the "new york post" also was giving reports to some of those immunization troubles. you already talked about the kids in school. this is a deeper situation. many of them have only gotten half of what they need, if any at all. >> yeah, it is a good point on the immunizations. i will have to get back to you on the details of that. what i can tell you, harris, chancellor banks, in charge of this school system. he spoke yesterday and said ultimately look, we've got this under control when it comes to the school system and the migrant situation. 21,000 migrant kids is not chaotic. we've already had 18,000 in the system. we can handle this. he also said they have hundreds of teachers who are willing to provide bilingual education. what you get here is ultimately at what cost? really the reality is the city says it will cost $12 billion over the next three years and you had residents at that town

hall last night who were concerned about the quality of life. not only about the shelters opening up in their neighborhoods, but what about their kids? when i asked the mayor a couple of weeks ago about the compassionate thing to do, he said ultimately they will never say no to these migrants. harris. >> harris: wow. look, they put out the shingle as a sanctuary city off the top of the hour. this is not a shock. these people were going to places where they thought they would get what they would need based on what those cities advertised about giving them what they would need. this is what you get. if the mayor hasn't prepared, he could look in the mirror as well. that would help him out. he is pointing his finger to republicans. one of those republicans will be on the program this hour. senator ted cruz from the border state of texas. bryan llenas, great reporting. thank you for the extra time. president biden has taken another shot in his war on energy. he is canceling the remaining seven trump era oil and gas

leases in alaska's federal wildlife refuge. ramaswamy was on the "focus" yesterday with this advice to biden, struggling with the economy. >> drill, frack, burn coal, and embrace nuclear, unlock american energy production. rescind a majority of unconstitutional federal regulations that act like a wet blanket on the u.s. economy. that's how we fight inflation. it is also how we deliver economic growth. we're proud of a country when we're making more country in a country. i know how to deliver that. it's one of the keys to our national revival. >> harris: the drilling lease cancellations come as gas prices are ticking back up. the national average at $3.80 far off the all-time high of more than $5 average in june of last year. you know if you live in some of those cities where it was north of $6 and $7 a gallon how

painful this has been under this president. still more than 1.40 above what it was when he first took office. so it is slow to come back down and stay there. a new op-ed notes the president's approval ratings are closely tied to gas prices, quote, last june when average spiked to more than $5 a gallon bidens approval rating fell. when it alleviated. approval ratings began trending up. not back to where he would want them to be but not moving negatively. edward lawrence is at the white house. he has tapped and tapped and tapped our oil reserves. he doesn't have much room left. and november of 2024 will be here before you know it. >> to your point, the people -- all people feel the gas prices. many can't afford an electric car quite frankly. the movement in alaska is another signal by this

administration not to invest in the oil and natural gas industry. that message is being heard in terms of higher prices. this move to cancel those last seven leases you are talking about in the national -- ban drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge will limit the future supply of oil. we see that reaction. gas prices a full $1.40 more than when president biden came into office. now we are paying more than we did one year ago. >> you add up the cumulative effect of all the biden administration's actions, i think you do have a negative effect on oil prices. we see prices going higher. so it is not only a local jobs and economic development issue, but it is also a national energy security issue. >> his group lost the leases. no oil is being drilled in that part of alaska yet. estimates show 7 to 8 billion barrels ready to be tapped with current usage could supply the

entire globe for the next 77 days. the alaska industrial development and export authority plans to sue the administration. in the process get discovery what it calls a coordinated effort against the fossil fuel industry and depose the interior secretary. administration argues the forced transition will be energy independence eventually. >> want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, president biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way. and thank you to all of the members of congress for the work that you have done and continue to do to help us achieve this type of progress. >> president biden off to the g-20 later today. his climate agenda is at the top of the priority there. >> harris: thank you so much. i want to go back to the border crisis. we've been able to pull in senator ted cruz, republican

from texas, i know i don't have you for long. senator, first of all, when you hear eric adams here in new york, the mayor, and other democrat-led city leaders saying they're feeling the pain and we're a sanctuary city but, but, but, what do you say? >> it really is astonishing hypocrisy. you have eric adams, the governor of new york, the governor of massachusetts, you have the mayor of washington, d.c., the mayor of chicago, the mayor of san francisco all of them are discovering the burdens of joe biden's open borders and illegal immigration. they are seeing thousands or tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and they are discovering it drives up crime rates, it drives up -- it drives up the burdens on the city and overcrowds the schools, overcrowds the hospitals. and i have to say coming from texas, it is amusing. we have had 7 million illegal

immigrants under joe biden. so seeing eric adams complain about 100,000 is cute but he still doesn't bother to put the blame where it belongs. this is a political decision by joe biden, by kamala harris and by the way by chuck schumer. if eric adams wants to talk to someone chuck schumer lives in new york city. he says illegal immigration is destroying new york city. he could pick up the phone and tell chuck schumer to stop fighting for open borders and stop protecting the biden administration as they lawlessly opened the borders. >> harris: talk to me on the focus of the dissolution, the deg regags in new york, that focus was never on texas. you didn't hear governor greg abbott. i have interviewed you, him, others from that beautiful state where i have family many times have heard how they are crushed under the weight of illegals coming across the border but no one ever says it will change us to the point where we cease to

exist. is that desperation or true coming out of the city's mayor? how bad do you think it will get for them? they aren't handling it well. >> i think it's both and it is utter hypocrisy at the same time. the order of magnitude is really different. listen, this was stark last year. you look at a community like martha's vineyard. it has a population between 20 and 30,000 people. and when governor ron desantis sent 50 illegal immigrants to martha's vineyard they freaked out. called in the national guard and deported them within 24 hours. to put that in comparison i want you to compare it another town the same size as marta's vineyard. del rio, texas. it has a population of 30,000 people on the rio grande river. i was there in del rio when on one single day there were between 10 and 15,000 illegal

immigrants in a single day, 50% of the population of del rio all gathered under a bridge right there invading the city. martha's vineyard says 50 is an emergency. eric adams says in new york city 100,000 is an emergency. we've got texas towns where half the population is coming in illegally and yet the democrats still refuse to do anything about it today. joe biden is releasing more illegal immigrants, is enriching more human traffickers, allowing more and more illegal drugs and fentanyl to flood across the border that is killing americans across our country. >> harris: wow, senator i'm glad you are with us. i will get to this now because we just found out about the court documents. the sweetheart deal is gone. it shows david weiss is planning to indict president biden'sson on gun charges. everyone will recall the

original agreement to keep hunter out of jail was rejected by a judge in july. they had to go back to the drawing board with the plea deal. james comer expanded his national archives request and wants the unredacted versions of already obtained emails along with all executive calendars created for then vice president biden. let's watch. >> what joe biden has always said and the mainstream media went along with. why are you investigating hunter biden? he wasn't a part of the government. joe biden had a firewall between the government and his son. that's not true. there are emails that went back and forth where hunter's legal team was telling joe biden about how to spin the narrative. copies where he was copied about ukraine foreign policy and we believe there are many more emails that the national archives is sitting on. >> harris: the white house spokesman had something to say. his response. if it's a day that ends in y

james comer is lying about president biden all wasting time and taxpayer resources on an evidence-free wild goose chase. let's go back to senator cruz. is that what this is or are the democrats in a position they weren't ready to be in? >> it really is stunning to see the white house d-- this latest indictment is not a surprise. it is completely expected. unfortunately it is part of a pattern. as you know, i do every week a podcast. it is called verdict with ted cruz. every monday, wednesday, friday, we break through the specific evidence and walk through the specific evidence of corruption by joe biden and hunter biden. we walk through what much of the corporate media will not cover. what i said a year ago on the verdict podcast.

if the biden d.o.j. goes after hunter biden and bring a gun charge or a drug charge or a tax charge that is limited just to hunter biden's own conduct it is important to understand what that is. the biden administration wants to give hunter biden a slap on the wrist and have him be the scapegoat. the objective of the biden department of justice is to protect joe biden. harris, look, the reason we're talking about this, the reason this matters, it is not hunter, not that he is a troubled soul with substance abuse problems. that would not be a matter of public concern. what makes this a matter of public concern is the central allegations against hunter biden is that he sold for millions of dollars favors from his father, from joe biden, to foreign oligarchs, ukrainian, russian and senior chinese communist officials and that joe biden solicited and received millions of dollars of bribes in exchange

for official government favors and decisions. that is serious corruption and what d.o.j. is trying to do here is cover up and protect joe biden by making hunter a scapegoat and giving him a slap on the wrist. >> harris: that's what makes it a national security issue. so glad you could be with me in "focus." thank you for your time. growing concerns about vice president kamala harris possibly following in the footsteps of her boss. >> our nation's commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world, has to be very clear and very precise. that has been a problem with this administration and even more pronounced with the vice president. >> harris: well, what the v.p. said to illicit all of that when she was pressed about her readiness to be president. power panel with me in studio next. i suffer with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. i was on a journey for a really long time to find some relief.

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best messaging effort here. watch. >> we are a small business owner and company and got hit since he has taken and it has hurt us bad. >> give him a d plus on the economy. i'm so surprised by the lack of commentary from people about the fact that whoever was leading this country after covid it would be difficult. >> i have to say d. >> i don't think he has the everyday people's best interests in mind. >> harris: the numbers bear out everything they are talking about. a new poll shows 58% of biden's policies have made the economy worse. his over al job approval in that poll 39%, 61% disapprove of the job he is doing as president. anywhere else that would get you fired. tammy bruce, fox news

contributor, patrick murphy, former pennsylvania congressman and former undersecretary of the army always thank you for your service. tammy, i will start with you and reaction to the reality that is playing across america and the fantasy that is playing on all screens inside the white house. >> this is what's strange. they clearly are doing it for a reason, right? they are just not stumbling their way through this. the polls they see. there has to be panic. some report there is panic. their answer to that is to -- go after the fossil fuels and drilling and all that. they want people to drive loose. gas prices higher are doing that. we have the drive to work, truckers have to deliver produce and you have to deliver products. also there is flying.

the ability to travel to say nothing of the fact it is very hot. we are still in summer. winter is coming up. so when you cut those leases, it signals to everyone that you are not really serious about making sure we are energy independent. so we are going to see. you think the polls are bad now. gasoline will continue and it is going up again. so will home heating oil prices. who does it benefit? russia, saudi arabia, china's deals with russia for oil, iran, who also those rely on the cut of oil. saudi arabia cutting oil to make prices go up. that's our fault and joe biden's fault. >> i got gas last night. $3.82 for a gallon of cost, $44 to fill up my tank. a year ago gas was over $5. people are forgetting the fact that gas prices went up over 44% when russia invade evidence

ukraine. >> harris: they aren't forgetting. that might not have happened had it not be a certain phrase, minor incursion. that's a show for another day. biden stepping on us again. >> oil prices went up all over the world. russia is a big oil producer. to say the president doesn't care about gas prices is not fair. he does care. >> harris: my question is how if he cares so much can he now reflectively fix this because he is not willing to do the list of things that would put us back into energy independence and on that list, by the way, would be to be honest about how much gas was when he got into office and where we are now. yes, we've come down a little bit. it will go back up. >> you have know what it was with trump, in the $2 range. >> it was 1.41 higher under president biden. that went up after the russia

invasion and >> americans don't care and food inflation. >> the seven drilling leases were approved the day before president trump left office. that's what he rescinded. let's not forget five months ago the project president biden and left criticized is over half a billion dollars of oil over the next 30 years in alaska. >> harris: we are so low on our reserves that he couldn't do what he has done twice before two more times. we wouldn't be able to do that. so again my question is what is the rebound for this? how do you dig us out of this energy hole? forget about making us energy independent. if you think electric vehicles are the answer, did you know the average battery weighs about the same as a toyota corolla? the cars are heavier and putting pressure on our infrastructure.

we can't take more evs. l.a. told people not to plug in their cars before the heat wave. >> all the above approach. >> harris: would you frack? >> we frack in pennsylvania. >> harris: are you sure you are a democrat biden would like? >> as long as we do it the right and healthy way. >> harris: he picks us as americans. i might not be what i would be a real woman of color if i don't do things the way he says. a show for another day. >> there is no reason to do this with the alaska permits there. what is to gain in the process when you know -- >> harris: politics. >> when that woman said, he doesn't care about people like me. this is an example of that. that's what is so strange about this decision making. >> harris: last word. >> would you have agree the project was over half a bill dollars a barrel five months ago? >> we aren't feeling it at home.

>> it takes a long time. we need to do all the above approach and take care of american families, period. >> harris: we are back in the latest in my special series democracy 24, families in "focus." my in-depth conversations with those closest to the current crop of presidential candidates. coming up the mother of south carolina senator tim scott. ♪ ♪

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republican presidential candidate, let's watch. >> when i think about the greatness of america i have to start with my favorite american, my amazing mother. [cheers and applause] >> that was a big deal. that was very important. i was very emotional about that day because when you look out and you see all the people that were there to support him, to become the next president of the united states, that was very impressive. and i thank god for it. >> francis scott grew up in a strong christian home. the post slavery economy of south carolina dictated her family's journey for generations. and the grip of poverty lingered. her father, born in 1944, was forced into the back breaking

work of picking cotton as a child. >> i know i talk a lot about god. but that's my faith. so it's amazing to see all that he has done over the period of years and now we are to this point. it's like unbelievable. >> harris: signs of a generational shift began with francis scott when she found her divine purpose in caring for others. >> my celebration was 50 years. i'm done. >> she is the ultimate teammate and the one that no matter what the task was at hand she was always willing to help. >> harris: she just retired after 50 years working as a nursing aide while raising two children as a single mother. >> such an important quality that i was raised with. my mother working 16 hour days

as a nurse's aide clean bedpans and the dignity of work, that sacrifice pays off. she didn't sacrifice her life. she invested her life in her two kids and invested her life for her two kids in such a way that we received this harvest of opportunity, this harvest of work ethic. this harvest of being gracious and gratitude that came out of her example. >> harris: ben served 32 years in the united states army. younger brother tim is now a two-term u.s. senator and republican presidential candidate. >> they were good kids. i can say that now. >> harris: let's talk about young tim scott. when did he start playing football? >> from a little child. from a little kid. >> harris: were you surprised he would suit up and get scholarship help for college on the whole deal?

>> yeah, i didn't realize he was that good. he was good. >> harris: if your son makes it to the white house, is there something that you want him particularly to focus on? >> people who don't have. i think it's just as important as we have a president who is able to help people. help other people succeed in their life. sometimes life can be hard. if we have someone who can understand and who has also been there to understand that life is hard, and to help them push them on. only in america that this can be done. my daddy to be a part of the journey that brought tim to be the u.s. senator, that's very important. >> harris: what about that journey makes that matter so much? >> because at one time it was impossible. for him to witness that, to see

it, and be a part of it, that meant a lot. >> harris: so many lives you've touched. that's an entire lifetime right there. and so how do you fill that energy, that void? >> how do i fill it now? with my foundation caused raising up the low country foundation geared towards working single moms, and i love it. >> harris: if there is a single mom out there who is struggling right now, what would you say to her? >> i would tell her to keep the faith. if you are not a believer, become a believer, because god will take you through this journey. it doesn't last forever. it's only temporary. keep focus, stay focused i would like to say. and keep on keeping on. don't stop. >> mom, i love you. thank you for your sacrifice.

thank you for standing strong in the middle of the fire. >> harris: on that big announcement day, francis scott was standing in answered prayers. not just for her sons, but for the country. she was standing in the spotlight, too, the woman in the yellow dress. >> it is funny, everybody loves this dress. it is my favorite color is pink. >> harris: why on the day he announces his candidacy for president did you not wear pink? >> because i went shopping but i could not find anything that i really love and then i remembered that someone had gave me this as a gift. it was in my closet for months, almost a year. i went in and looked at it and i said okay, baby, we are going to put you on today and see how this works. ♪ >> harris: there is so much more of my families in focus to come. right here 11:00 a.m. eastern on

"the faulkner focus." well, the fear of covid, the mandates of covid is creeping back. the president doesn't seem too worried about any of it, though. he was joking about breaking his own rules when it comes to masking. plus a california judge ruling that schools can keep secrets from parents about big decisions in their own children's lives. >> with these kids being at home with their parents having no clue what they are experiencing, that can lead the child into major danger. obviously their life is at risk. >> harris: parents across america have been saying and continue to say they aren't going to take it anymore. now a plan to fight back. steve hilton in "focus" next. you didn't live this strong, this long to get put on the shelf like a porcelain doll. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and are at high risk for fracture,

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>> one thing we know masks did an the lockdown di is hurt children and took away from children the opportunity to learn in school. we shouldn't let it happen again. we should also get away from any kind of mandates. >> i call it is impulse to authoritarianism. it works in most liberals. the difference between conservatives and liberals we respect people to make their own

decisions. >> harris: that's senator rand paul sounding the alarm over the return of covid mandates. fellow republican senator j.d. vance has legislation to ban federal mask mandates all together and expected to take the floor soon at any moment about his bill called the freedom to breathe act. critics have hit president biden today for ditching the white house masking rules. earlier this week he took off his mask at an indoor ceremony for a veteran. that was after the white house had said biden would wear a mask indoors because he had had close contact exposure to covid. the president seeming to find it amusing. >> president biden: explain to the press i've been tested again today. i'm clear across the board. but they keep telling me because this has to be ten days or something, i have to keep wearing it. don't tell them i didn't have it on when i walked in. all right? >> harris: he is so hilarious. a new op-ed argues a mask

mandate has no scientific justification and nothing more than an unwarranted intrusion on individual liberty. as more school districts consider forcing children to wear masks for seven hours a day, statesmen should act quickly to protect them before these mandates become endemic. the president could have just said that. steve hilton, fox news contributor. steve, your take on this. >> i mean, of course it is laughable the biden aspect. everything with biden is laughable. it is really serious and infuriating, harris. we never had what i and many others called for, a completely objective, independent assessment of the covid policies that were implemented to see what worked and didn't. we never had that. as a result we are now back to these absurd kind of witchcraft

and voodoo masquerading as public health from the fascists with authoritarian ace many. we have to resist it at every level as j.d. vance is doing at the federal level and at the state level and local level. the individual level. we cannot let them go back to this madness. >> harris: we were told that covid has become endemic. it will be with us just like the flu and other viral diseases and that we have to find ways to protect ourselves moving forward based on the science. why are we the only ones who are willing to follow those rules? we, the people. >> exactly. that's what is so ridiculous about it. none of it makes sense. actually, this is what i always find when you have the politicians who break the rules. they are inadvertently revealing how stupid the rules oh in the first place. we see it with biden. so many examples. i remember the london breed, mayor of san francisco when she

was at a video at a club and taking it off. she stood up in front of the cameras and said i was at a club and feeling the spirit. i was drinking. i'm not going to be taking a sip and putting the mask on and taking a sip. that is what we were told to do. she realized it is stupid. biden realizes it is stupid and we can't go back to this. it makes no sense. >> harris: i worry about what our kids think when we can't figure out one thing. we'll move to this. a california judge freezing one school district's gender transparency policy saying the chino valley unified school district can no longer require schools to notify parents if their children identify as transgender. schools can now keep secrets from parents about their own children. here is a quote from the judge. whatever the class of protected students are, students are

students. it strikes me that you are singling out a group that is exposed to a clear and present danger. that's the end of the quote. in new jersey, my cobalt blue state. parents protesting a similar ruling now because it is the first day of public school today. middletown is one of those districts fighting to tell parents about their children's gender identity decisions. their school board president with this today. >> what we're trying to accomplish here is protect and make a safe place for the children and get them the help and services they actually do need and that's just, you know, their whole narrative is we are outing children. that's just not the case. what they want us to do is out children. these children cannot get the intervention and help they need unless the parents are involved in the conversation and where the problem lies. >> harris: i wish they would intervene when kids are going hungry. maybe visit some houses and do

some good that way. this government wants our kids. we already knew that. >> yeah, this is a massive issue. a huge issue. new jersey many, many school districts in california becoming an issue. across the world a big issue. in the u.k. you know what's terrible about it. the way you have politicians wading into this and bureaucrats wading into something that should be incredibly and obviously a personal, individual matter handled at the family level with the parent and child. these politicians and these bureaucrats are exploiting the issue. trying to rile everyone up for political issues. it is serious and get worse and worse until the politicians show some restraint and understand there are some things that are really sensitive and belong in the family at the human, individual level. not as part of a political battle. >> harris: and as i was just suggesting with the food issue, the hunger issue for millions of

american children, we learned about this really in covid when things were locked down and those feed programs were shut down. in new york city you see a few lines outside places where they could feed some children in desperate need of that. i mean, they have politically flexed but are they willing to take care of all these children in the long run? >> and you can add to that list. the food issue, exactly as you identified there. incredibly fundamental, of course, to life and health. then you look at the education issues that are not being dealt with. we aren't talking about that because we have these political battles are ridiculous. the fact that you are 30, 40, 50% in some school districts of kids who can't read or write at the basic level we expect. as far as i'm concerned any school that doesn't have 100% of the kids reading at the right level is a failing school. that's what we should be talking about instead of all this. >> harris: that is so well put.

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>> harris: this is "outnumbered," i'm harris faulkner here with emily compagno. joins us rachel campos duffy, fox news contributor dr. nicole saphier and "fox and friends first" co-host todd piro is here. start with hunter biden latest legal troubles. just weeks after his sweetheart