moments ago, democrats on capitol hill just pulled a political stunt. was it to save, a, joe biden, hunter biden, hunter biden crashed the house oversight committee hearing. and they were considering contempt of congress charges against hunter biden. so he didn t want to show up for a subpoena but he wanted this circus. he wanted the cameras. make no mistake about it. democrats knew it was coming. secret service was in place over an hour ahead of all of the stunt that went on in that hearing room. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. it was a crazy move. hunter biden walking in unannounced to an oversight committee hearing about him. the committee had just begun considering legislation to hold hunter in contempt of congress for defying a congressional subpoena. a taste of how wild it got. my first question is who bribed hunter biden to be here today? that s my first question. second question, you are the epitome of white privilege coming into the oversig
alicia menendez. we bake in by marking three years since violent insurrectionists stormed the u.s. capitol with threats to u.s. democracy that still poses a clear and dangerous presence today. president biden lay that out in a fiery speech laying out what is at stake. now, these maga voices who know the truth about trump on january six, and the man of truth is a man of democracy. they made their choice. now, the rest of us, democrats, independents, mainstream republicans, we have to make our choice. america. but as we begin our selection here, we must be clear, democracy is on the ballot. earlier today, vice president kamala harris echoing biden sentiments, calling out president trump, for referring to the insurrectionists as, quote, patriots. on that day, we saw violence, chaos and lawlessness. but some so-called leaders still try to mislead and gaslight by claiming it was a peaceful protests. can you imagine, like we were not watching? these extremist leaders say that
area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
outlined numerous ways secretary mayorkas is derelict in his duty as secretary and failed to uphold this oath. we are oh he here today because we take our oath seriously and won t stand by idly while secretary mayorkas threatens our national security and our democracy. for the sake of america s safety and security, we need to impeach secretary mayorkas now. harris: this is in response to the massive surge of illegal immigrants that we ve seen pretty much ever since biden took office. at the southern border cbp sources are telling fox news there have been nearly 800,000 people coming in illegally just this fiscal year. brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council. good to have you with me today. what does it say to you, how are you feeling today leading so many men and women at the border to see mayorkas under fire?
it is not the population who is coming to seek asylum. and so, a lot of what the republicans are proposing right now, like getting rid of the asylum process, or making it harder to actually be able to qualify for asylum, i heard from border patrol and customs and border cbp that that wouldn t help them address the situation at the border at all. and in fact, border patrol, cbp, we all agree that what we need is comprehensive immigration reform. to create more legal pathways. right, we often talk about how it s mentioned how it s also ineffective. as you mentioned, right-wing lawmakers, there s a big speaker johnson s trip to the border threatened to shut down the government if president biden doesn t agree to, quote, tougher border laws. which is, again, an oversimplification of what is happening at the border. when it comes to this question about funding the government, how do you see this playing out? can a shutdown be averted? i mean, it s absolutely absurd that in the name