Hey, have a good rest of the day. Outnumbered starts right now. Lets begin with a fox news alert, the stakes are high today as voters are headed to the polls for primaries in several states. Ohios Special Election is getting some special attention. The house race for a seat the gop has held for decades is viewed as a big test for President Trumps kingmaking abilities. Or queenmaking. And may give us a preview of how the Midterm Elections will shape up. Youre watching outnumbered on a tuesday. Im harris faulkner, melissa francis, Senior Fellow for the independent womens voice, Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host and Fox News Contributor and opinionist, leslie markel. Joining us, fox Friends Weekend cohost pete hegseth
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in russia by vladimir putin, what he said to me is look, i ve been making this argument that in a democracy the better person can get to the top, and now at the top there is someone corrupt, he s talking about trump obviously. that is the stain on america and our reputation. and to cleanse that staying, we need to show that we understand just how severe this is. what do you say to an administration that wants to move forward with its new agenda and doesn t want to look backward at these things? or if it doesn t want to look backwards? the law obviously make these determinations. but i would say is that these things are all related. joe biden very appropriately, is out there on the world stage, clearly welcomed by foreign leaders saying that we re back here to defend democratic values. we re back here to be the backbone of the free world, again. because right now it s under siege from china and russia and others. to do that we need to show that we are getting our
prosecutor in, that tells you something is wrong. it doesn t take a genius to put two and two together to get four. donald trump said we wanted the doj to investigate, and they investigated. when that came up with nothing, bill barr doubled down, brought a new prosecutor and to go after it again. it looks like abuse of power and it s hard to see it as anything but that. nancy pelosi issued a statement tonight, a response to this breaking, news she said recently it has become public the trump administration sought account metadata of house intelligence committee members and staff and their families. the news about the politicization of the trump administration justice department is harrowing. these actions appear to be yet another egregious assault on our democracy waged by the former president. i support intelligence committee chairman adam schiff s call for an investigation into the situation and other acts of the weaponization of law enforcement by the former president. transparen
democracy waged by the former president. i support intelligence committee chairman adam schiff s call for an investigation into this situation and other acts of the weaponization of law enforcement by the former president. they will probably conduct their own investigation if they haven t already, but i wouldn t be surprised if we have hearings about this particular issue, whether it s in a classified setting or otherwise, but this is something that, you know, is unprecedented and it deserves an incredible amount of attention because, you know, in this particular case, donald trump, you know, made out of the justice department what foreign countries routinely do with their supposed justice department in an effort to intimidate and to basically get
you mentioned my book, lawrence, i wish that a book about the decline of democracy around the world didn t always have proof points in the news, this is pure foolery. they are abusing the powers of the government that are supposed to be separated from political agendas, political revenge and trying to weaponize them against their enemies. that is the definition of the kind of undemocratic behavior that america is supposed to stand against, not become. ben, i was thinking about you in your book title tonight when this news broke. the title after the fall, and of course, you finish writing it sometime ago to have a publish now, you would seem to be discovering, as we all are, that we actually fell even further than we thought with these types of new stories that we have tonight. yeah. lawrence, a few things occurred