Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Washington post columnist David Ignatius got the ball rolling. President bide app should not run in 2024. A New York Times piece calling the 2024 piece a field of nightmares. An oped in the new York Magazine titled the case for biden to drop Kamala Harris, even from this former House Speaker nancy pelosi. Is Vice President Kamala Harris the best running mate for this president . He thinks so. Thats what matters. Do you think she is the best running mate, though . She is the Vice President of the United States. People say to me why isnt she doing ththat. Because he is the Vice President. Thats the job description. You dont do that much. Harris wow. That didnt sound like full throated support. What was that . Took them several times to get her to answer the question. Former White House Deputy chief of staff karl rove with this plain truth. Time is not his friend. He is going to turn 81 later this year. Nearly 82 by the time of the 202
before we go, i want to get your reaction to a post by the clinton campaign, shifting gears just a little bit. saying the campaign will participate in recount efforts in wisconsin now that jill stein got the ball rolling. it signals to me that they are happy to let jill stein by the face of this. the clinton campaign is aware that they have questions about how she could have lost these states where she was leading in the polls. hillary clinton didn t even go to wisconsin, they were that confident, pennsylvania, we were talking on the set about the philadelphia suburbs being a lock for hillary clinton to win the state of pennsylvania. they were as shocks as anyone else they didn t win. the trump team was shocked as well so i think there are questions that the clinton team has but clearly, you ve heard these reports that president obama encouraged her to concede, there s this sense of, making the country s transition not as not more onerous but making it less onerous, making it smoot
held high level talks here in october with delegations from the two countries. as you mentioned, we have here greg burke who is the vatican s senior communications adviser agreeing to help shed some light on vatican diplomacy and what went on behind the scenes. what was pope francis role in this? pope francis got the ball rolling. the vatican has a long standing diplomatic core used to delicate conversations. pope francis got it going. he is all about building bridges. it s what he calls the culture of encounter. i m sure not everyone in the u.s. is happy with what s happened here. there s no doubt about that. we ve already seen that. and yet he says it s always better to be talking than not talking and that s really what this was about. part of what s interesting about pope francis is that he surrounds himself with men who are very capable and hopefully
absolutely. $90 trillion in unfunded liability. money we have committed to. absolutely. george bush sat throw tlu oh, stop. i don t want to hear it. of increases. he could have sat across from paul ryan who s been the adult in the room. yop if he s on the top five uh but he kept it on the deficit debt spend ing. the president and his colleagues screamed about the debt ceiling and the debt explosion. he s had year it is toing sit down with reasonable people. we have to take a break. we ll come back. up next we ll reveal the number one lawmaker who stood on principle throughout the shutdown and we ll ask the wonderful shy studio audience about our countdown. first at number two on the list. utah senator mike lee got the ball rolling. this is yours. it doesn t belong to the government. it belongs to the people. ted cruz and i have been
absolutely. $90 trillion in unfunded liability. money we have committed to. absolutely. george bush sat throw tlu oh, stop. i don t want to hear it. of increases. he could have sat across from paul ryan who s been the adult in the room. yop if he s on the top five uh but he kept it on the deficit debt spend ing. the president and his colleagues screamed about the debt ceiling and the debt explosion. he s had year it is toing sit down with reasonable people. we have to take a break. we ll come back. up next we ll reveal the number one lawmaker who stood on principle throughout the shutdown and we ll ask the wonderful shy studio audience about our countdown. first at number two on the list. utah senator mike lee got the ball rolling. this is yours. it doesn t belong to the government. it belongs to the people. ted cruz and i have been