meeting since july. hello on friday, i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino. they have not held a be cabinet meeting since july. we'll see how they do, >> everything costs more because they have the dumbest economic plan in history. their plan is basically lock down the economy, spend like crazy, pay people not to work. what do they do in the next bill for people that have been working? raise their taxes and spend more money. >> officials are starting to argue the best way to bring pricess down is to pass their social spending bill. some democrats are unsure. the democratic white house does not have the votes in democratic house or senate to pass the build back better plan. >> bill: jen psaki is back in the office today, is that right, peter? >> peter: that is right. 15 days sibs she dropped off the trip. family members were covid positive. she will be back in the briefing room before the cabinet meeting. >> bill: glad to know she is healthy and so is her family. the plan, dana, what is the plan? >> dana: you mentioned the problems the cabinet members have, they have a collective one, inflation. i don't know if they have specifics to deal with it. the thing most on their mind is probably gas prices, that is what everyone feels increases cost of everything. last year this time gas was $2.13, this year $3.42, that adds up, bill. >> bill: quite the mark up, bill. that will be on the agenda. so will countless other things. what larry summer his to say, we'll share his comments. democrats saying you are behind the eight ball. >> dana: can't say you didn't warn them. and there is this, both cases resting their casess in the kyle rittenhouse case. he maintains it was self-defense, closing arguments are set for monday. dave hancock is a spokesfortune kyle rittenhouse, we'll hear from him in a moment. we are reporting live from kenosha. hi, alexus. >> we are waiting to hear what will unfold later this morning in court here today. we sat down with kyle rittenhouse's mom in wisconsin last night to talk how she feels things are going inside the courtroom. she has been in there every single day and watched her son take the stand and testify. she feels optimistic about the outcome of this trial. wendy rittenhouse talking to fox news telling us her son was in kenosha last summer to help protect in the shootings. she didn't know her son was going to take the stand, finding out while she was sitting in the courtroom. she says the judge has been closely watching, even with everything that happened, his mom tells us rittenhouse would go back again to do what he thought was helping the community. >> he would go back to help people because that is in his nature. when he was a little boy, that is all he wanted to do, help people. i taught my kids, treat people how you want to be treated, show respect and help people. and kyle helps people. >> one day after kyle rittenhouse took the stand, the defense resting its case. rittenhouse facing five felonies and up to life in prison in this case. authorities say he shot and killed two men, wounding a third. rittenhouse opened fire with an ar-15, following the police shooting of jacob blake. prosecutors are arguing that rittenhouse was an instigator and should have never been out there with a gun in the first place. after closing arguments, names will be drawn to decide which 12 will be in there for deliberation, we are waiting to see what unfolds in the courtroom throughout the day in kenosha. back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: dave hancock, spokesfortune kyle rittenhouse. did rittenhouse say he wanted to go on the stand or did he have to be talked into it by his attorneys? how did that go? >> thank you for having me this morning. first, i would like to thank the supporters who have supported kyle and his family. i think kyle wanted to get his story out, he wanted to go on the stand and his lawyers wanted to put him on the stand. the truth and facts, they sit with kyle. >> dana: a lot of people have been commenting, people here on television and on twitter. lebron james tweeted this, what tears, i didn't see one, knock it off, that boy ate lemon heads before walking into court. joy baher said this. >> that acting job, i can't even look at it, that is one of the worst acting jobs i've seen. crocodile tears are going to get him off, i bet. >> dana: you know him, i did not take the crying to be insincere at all, let's get your take on it. >> absolutely it was not. he is an empathetic and caring young man. to lebron, i would say, he should be paying more attention to the lakers, but if he would like to have a sitdown at some point in time, i'm sure he and kyle can talk about how to change the system that allows prosecutors to do what they are doing to kyle right now. it is abhorrent. >> bill: a lot of celebrities have weighed in. weeks of anxiety to push the tears out and you come up empty, on and on and goes from there. dave, back to the trial, been reported prosecution will ask for lesser charges, what do you know about that possibly today? >> well, we know that the jury instructions will happen today. i don't want to speak to that particularly, we feel confident the truth has come out over the past two weeks and we feel confident that there is an acquittal coming. >> dana: how do you think, get your take on the media coverage of this case. all the coverage at the beginning, when the incident first happened and over the course of this week. from your perspective, i love to get a pr perspective, this is part of your job. >> from the very beginning, all media reporting, most of it, was completely untrue. over the past year, that just continued to happen. this week i've seen several media reports that get the same false information. this case is not about race, this case is about self defense and that is all that needs to be handled in that -- at the end of the day. i thought the media reporting since last year has been absolutely abhorrent. >> bill: sir, thank you for your time, we're waiting for court to resume an hour from now and we get closing arguments on monday. thank you, dave hancock. if you're a juror, you want this to go, i don't know why you take the weekend and come back on monday. you're a juror, get through it and the get it done. >> dana: been a long week for everybody, i guess the weekend will take place and the jury will come back and see if people who demand that we have more trust in our judicial system respect the jury's outcome in this case, as well. >> bill: we're watching that, stay tuned. 11 past the hour on friday morning. we push forward with this now. watch. >> they think they are going to go back to the old ways of policing, we'll take to the streets again. there will be riotss. there will be fire. there will be bloodshed. >> bill: this is getting a lot of attention, that is a warning for blood in the streets from a black lives matters activist and former cop, who will be new york city's next mayor come first of january. why did he say that and what did the mayor say in response? 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>> i would not want to second guess commissioner ray kelly. i will tell you this, i have heard mayor adams layout a plan for public safety to be affect the whole city of new york. i don't think anyone is looking for any instances or cases police officers violating anyone's rights, utilizing police brutality. i think the vision is to go forward in way that provides public safety for everyone involved and i think that will be good for all of us. i believe people are looking forward, not back, no one wants to see violence or bloodshed, there has to be a plan to protect people, especially in the surge of violent crime we're seeing. >> bill: the country is going to be watching this. this is their piece today, anti-police activist test the mayor elect's resolve, this is "wall street journal." if someone threatened riots and bloodshed, what would you think or do? >> well, i think mayor elect has responded to that and we recognize there have been violations of the past and no one wants to repeat violations that have occurred, but we do have to have a plan. every city needs a plan to move forward and provide public safety for everyone that is fair and just as we're dealing with violent crime, shots fired and other serious felonious incidents delineated here. there has to be a plan moving forward. >> bill: when you think about police in your community, think about this story now, they're going to give, they will provide escort for security going into the courthouse in seattle. here is a quote, king county is laufrping walking bus pilot program, where county employees can join their colleagues in a facility management division, escort each evening walking to the station from the downtown. why is that necessary? is that another argument why you need police in your town? >> carmen: i am advocate of having more cops and more safety measures and other ways of protecting the public. i think it is not a secret, there has been a rise in violent crime in many cities across the country. it is really important people who work, particularly public servants in courthouses and whatnot can feel comfortable going to and from work. this is another option, it is not a new or unique idea, several college campuses provide the same services for kids going to school. >> bill: you see no big deal, is that right? >> carmen: go ahead. what do you mean no big deal? >> bill: no big deal on the escorts? >> carmen: no, i think it is a good idea to provide extra layer of safety for people to feel safe going to and from work. >> bill: wanted a clarification. carmen best, good luck with the book. thank you. >> dana: big loss for seattle. >> bill: with her? no doubt about it. we were watching veterans day yesterday keenly all over the country, remarkable day. we had our eyes on lincoln national cemetery and the commander-in-chief makes a speech there. beautiful theater made of marble, a cool sight. the president got to this point in his remarks and we'll play it for you and let you decide on how you react here from yesterday. >> president biden: i've adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the negro league, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, major league baseball after jackie robinon, his name was satchel page. >> bill: make your own judgment, gipping of the phrase went out of favor about 40 years ago and a bit later today we'll get more reaction to that coming up here. >> dana: was a good pitcher. >> bill: great pitcher. no doubt about that, satchel page. 25 past. >> dana: the white house circling the wagon standing by controversial treasury nominee as both sides speak out on her far left comments like, wanting oil and coal industry to go bankrupt and ending banking as we know it, you won't believe it. today could mark a turning point for britney spears and her conservatorship. ♪ bogeys on your six, limu. they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. woooooooooooooo... we are not getting you a helicopter. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ [upbeat pop music throughout] [upbeat pop music throughout] hey i'm joe montana. when you get to be our age, you have little patience for nonsense and inefficiency. after years of practice you become a pro at pretty much everything. so when i qualified for medicare, i got wellcare. they're pros at making things streamlined, efficient and convenient. wellcare offers great benefits like free grocery, meal, and prescription delivery. and if you need to see a doctor, you can get in-home visits and 24/7 virtual visits. wellcare is no nonsense. just great benefits and none of the hassles. 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>> dana: her hear suggest next thursday, the white house says they support her, they said that about two others, director of office of budget. they did withdraw those, there wasn't enough support. they have thin margin in the senate. another one is fcc nominee gigi sone. lindsey graham says this is not a nominee he can support, it is ideologue, would be a nightmare for the country when it comes to mandating public airwaves. she tweeted about brett kavanaugh, angry white man issue not a good look, brett kavanaugh. >> bill: who is she? >> that tweet is nasty, she is normally not that nasty. i have found her personable, but in terms of views, this is a concern for people who have enjoyed the freedom of the internet and what it has given and it is really a basically the big issue here, couple big issues, one big one is regulating telecom companies like the old phone system, are we going to have that or have what we've had, growth and vitality and creativity? big users like youtube, netflix, do not want to pay market rates, they do not want to pay for the traffic they are pushing over the network. they got the obama administration to try and change the rules and regulate and tell telecom companies what to charge, investment went down. she is saying she's not going back to that, but i think you got to be concerned. >> bill: james in a sentence, what do these nominations suggest about this administration? >> this is, i would say, pushing forward ignores recent lessons of the election. if people in different places of the country were sending a message they don't want a move to the hard left, don't want bernie sanders agenda, these are not the nominees. >> bill: nominees came out before the vote a week and a half ago. great to see you in person. it's been two years, james freeman. >> dana: i did see him over the summer. >> bill: come back. national school board association coordinated with the white house and doj before it sent a letter from the president likening the action of angry parents to domestic terrorism? questions about the ag merrick garland testimony about a month ago. griff jenkins in d.c. good morning. >> it is eye opening, we've been led to believe there is no coordination between the white house and attorney general garland acted independently, both may be false in newly released conversations, timeline is showing members in the white house meeting for weeks in september before sending that letter to the president comparing parents to domestic terrorists and it was before the doj took action in early october. nsba president confirms in mid-october memo saying nsba has been actively engaged with the white house, department of justice, department of homeland security, department of education, surgeon general on pandemic related issues. when garland was pressed under oath in late october about coordination with the nsba, he denied being influenced. watch. >> the letter that we -- that was subsequently sent does not change the association's concern about violence or threats of violence. it alters some language in the letter, language in the letter that we did not rely on and is not contained in my own memorandum. >> those words are now contradicted as nsba president painted a different account, writing in response to letter sent by nsba on october 4, 2020, the attorney general announced in memorandum shared throughout the department of justice he was ordering all attorney offices and fbi offices to reach out to local and state law enforcement to coordinate efforts on this problem within 30 days of the memorandum and questions are being raised over whether the white house has been fully forthcoming when asked about it in october. jen psaki said she doesn't speak on behalf of the nsba, adding school board is not part of the u.s. government, but in jen psaki's press conference today, returning from covid, see if she takes questions on it. >> bill: thank you, griff jenkins in washington. >> dana: new reality for women in afghanistan, decades of gains wiped out since the taliban took over. the women of the senate are calling for president biden to take action, will he? 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>> i think one thing that has to happen is pressure the other countries like pakistan. pakistan harbored the taliban for years, even while we gave pakistan aid and assistance and the pakistanis do have influence over the taliban and need to start speaking up and they need to start taking pressure. pakistan at times i've been told has not allowed refugees back into pakistan despite the fact they allowed them before the taliban was there. when the taliban was in pakistan. so we need to have actually enable countries and some women to leave the country, if they want to. we have to put pressure on the taliban to live up to their promises and potentially you might want to put sanctions, potentially may need to put a carrot rather than the stick and say give you assistance if you go back and honor your commitment. the problem is that the deal that was struck in previous administration has left little maneuver by decoupling negotiations with the taliban with negotiations with the afghan government and saying we negotiate withdrawal and then negotiate how we abide by the constitution or by the rights of women and minorities. we didn't have leverage anymore is the problem. >> dana: and now because of president biden's decisions, we have no people there to help figure it out. eileen o'connor, thank you. >> bill: a sticky wicket, look at summertime and poling numbers for the president, june, july, blame on covid or the economy, when he got in mid-august, it was afghanistan and marker shows on the polling, the moment kabul fell, the bombing, last troops to leave august 30, etcetera, it runs down. that will come up during the cabinet meeting that we marked everybody has something on the list. >> dana: a lot, so much on the list. i think president biden had choices to make, he had the ability to change decisions, if he didn't like the previous administration's. coupling is the problem, president biden didn't have to do that, he made decisions and now this is fully in his court. >> bill: fair. this cabinet is in crisis mode. will growing uncertainty sink the agenda? 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>> no question. there are certain types of income the irs does not have enough information about, they have w-2 forms, they don't have certain information on business income. >> chuck marr, from the center on budget and policy priorities, calls the plan imperative to ensure everyone pays what they owe. he says irs enforcement has been gutted in previous years, pointing out audits on millionaires are down 70% since 2010 and auditors have been cut to levels not seen since 1954. >> you contend this new accounting won't affect small businesses or regular people at all? >> no, it's good for regular taxpayers, honest taxpayers and business owners who compete with businesses that cheat. >> he is not buying it, early 2000, he was a state rep and shared the tax committee in the minnesota house of representatives. he says giving government access to this amount of information means making human beings less than human. >> to you, this is another step toward total surveillance society. >> big brother interference watching every transaction, every action that an individual or corporation makes. >> still it is the watching treasury officials contend will make unfair tax system more fair. that is it from here. >> bill: stay on it, nice to see you douglas, here in new york. thanks. >> dana: president biden meeting with his cabinet for first time since july, as soaring gas prices and worst inflation in years spell danger ahead of the mid-term election. welcome to "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: and i'm bill hemmer. the president will be meeting with his cabinet, first meeting since what, july? four months. he is pushing his team to get moving on infrastructure bill passed last week, which he plans to sign into law on monday. >> dana: vulnerable democrats are having second thoughts about the social spending and climate bill and how big it should be, painful inflation hits americans, republicans are warning prices will jump higher if the president's build back better plan moves forward. >> biden is threatening the biggest i guess supply side tax hike in history, something that would devastate supply and make inflation go through the roof. build back better plan fails, that is a step in the right direction in terms of fighting inflation. >> bill: hillary, what are you hearing on the hill? good morning. >> good morning, bill, republicans are trying to make rising inflation and rising cost a winning issue in the midterm so they are using that issue to target vulnerable democrats up for real election in 2022. an op ed in the "washington post" is warning democrats about taking inflation lightly and not talking about the rising cost for everything from gas to groceries saying it will be a bad strategy. when democrats tell voters to stop whining about inflation, such worries are imagined, they do themselves no favor. they must head into the midterm with clear-eyed view of the economy as it is, not as they wish it to be. vice president kamala harris says inflation is serious and the answer is more government spending. >> so it is something we take very seriously. very seriously. but there is also a point that is important to make on the build back better framework. one, it is designed to make it less expensive for working people to live. >> conservative group launched a six-figure digital ad targeting house democrats in their home district, they think are on the fence about backing the build back better social spending package in the house trying to flip them against biden's big social and climate agenda. another conservative group is targeting four democratic senators up for re-election in 2022, the four senators with digital ads on inflation that read, "skyrocketing inflation, empty shelves, surging gas prices," now is not the time to raise taxes. voters are complaining about inflation on social media, the democratic senators are not talking about it on social media. we scrubbed through their personal twitter accounts, their public twitter account to see if the word inflation ever popped up, it did not. a lot of americans are tweeting about rising cost and inflation, those senators are not. bill. >> bill: interesting, thanks, hillary, nice to see you from the hill. >> the policymakers in washington unfortunately have almost every month been behind the curve. they said it was transitory, doesn't look transitory. >> bill: former economic advisor slamming the administration and hammering the economy. another advisor saying the biden team poured kerosene on the fire. chris wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. good morning, back in the share, congratulations on the big award last weekend, we are proud of you, sir, welcome back here. summer is not holding back, you're behind the curveball here and so long as you are, it will take longer to catch up, what is your view of his comments and more? >> chris: he's been saying this a long time, ever since the president and democrats passed that $1.9 billion covid relief in the spring, he said it would overheat the economy and create inflation and we started hearing this word last spring, transitory. that had some impact or relevance back then, see increases 6.2% october over october transitory seems -- life is transitory, that is not much explanation for this. it is a serious problem. there are a lot of issues we deal with on fox, on the news, that are important, but don't affect people's daily lives, when you go to fill up your car and it costs you $20 or $30 more than it used to or you go to get groceries, groceries and gas really affect people's lives and it is called inflation, the cruellest tax, because of the fact it is regressive and hits people at the bottom of the income scale more severely than at the top of the income scale. it is a big political problem for biden and democrats. >> dana: president will call together his cabinet for the first time since july. they have so many issues on their plate from immigration and labor shortage, you mention gas prices, how about the supply chain, in fact, education and looking at them a year before the midterm, we have approval ratings of clinton, obama and biden at this point in their presidency, biden is way down at 42% and wants to pass this really big bill, build back better. how do you think he's positioned on that? >> chris: i think he is in trouble, now larry summers was again the covid relief bill and is in favor of the build back better plan and thinks it will not be hugely inflationary, that is tough argument to make now. in the end, it comes down to individuals. joe manchin, 50th senator, he's great concern about whether they should pause in spending all this federal money. there is talk it is paid for, dana, it really isn't, let's be real. washington budget gimmicks, we will do this program for a year or two with full expectation it will become so popular it will end up like increased tax child credit, it will be instituted for 10 years. it is not nearly paid for, in addition, spending happens more than the tax revenue comes in. there is reason to think some democrats, doesn't take many in the senate, it only takes one to say, let's take our foot off the gas pedal for a moment. >> dana: do you happening it is strange they are having this meeting when vice president harris is out of town? >> chris: i don't know. i hadn't thought of it, i didn't know until this morning they were having a cabinet meeting. look, you were in the bush white house, i covered the reagan white house, i do not know that cabinet meetings mean that much. so often, this is pretty important cabinet and you see people like buttigieg taking a forward position, jennifer grandam, i don't know if cabinet meetings are that important, not much gets covered by the cabinet, it is president and staff dealing with individual cabinet members or people in particular domestic or international sector. >> bill: based on the list on the wall, chris, this cabinet meeting could go for days. one more thing i want to add, late last night, the tax policy center, they put out a number on whether or not you would get a tax cut on the build back better plan. "taking into account all major tax provisions roughly 20 to 30% of middle income households would pay more in taxes come year 2022," that is part of this discussion. see you on sunday. >> chris: are you going to tell who is on the show? >> bill: dr. vivek murthy and texas ag ken paxton. >> chris: see you then, guy. >> dana: biden administration is looking to give terry mcauliffe a new job. it is not clear what position he might hold, according to punch bowl news mcauliffe is not seeking a position within the administration, terry mcauliffe has lots of options, he's a a businessman. he would be a good asset for them, i think. >> bill: one thing before we let it go here, on the discussion on the administration and inflation. i thought the president gave a bit this week, he mentioned inflation and mentioned yesterday the stimulus checks may have contributed in part to this. talking to mark about the thing compared to bill clinton and maybe there is truth to that. to the border we go now. figures for october, stand by on that, texas department of public safety arrested cartel smuggler and convicted felon in the town of roma, near rio grande. bill is in la joya, what did you find? >> bill: good morning. we have had a massive group cross in la joya this morning. they are getting processed by border patrol. live drone video we shot in the last hour, take a look. this is a huge group of 200 that acrossed into la joya early this morning, mostly family units, moms and dads, kids, toddlers and activity i mentioned yesterday, starting to pick up again. these are numbers we were seeing during peak months over the summer. it is starting up again. most family units under biden, will be released into the country with a future court date. it is not just families coming across, there are runners. take a look at this video, we went out with texas dps, people like to cross in the middle of the night. we found one guy hiding inside of a tree. found another guy running who was caught, as well. this is constant game of cat and mouse played with local law enforcement and illegal immigrants who do not want to be captured. this third element is a big deal, this is the very first time during the border crisis, you are looking at texas national guard and dps ran a operation and were able to arrest one of those human smugglers using rafts in roma, texas. we've been showing videos of them laughing and bringing people to the shore banks. tuesday night dps and national guard ran a operation and caught seven illegal immigrants and the smuggler with them. here is one of the illegal immigrants in the raft, a 45-year-old from el salvador. he is a previously deported felon for sexual assault, he resisted arrest, he has charges coming down on him. this is 17-year-old human smuggler who was in the raft, we are blurring his face because of his age. he was arrested twice before for human smuggling. he fought troopers, and will be charged with resisting arrest, assault on public servant and human smuggling. it is a big deal, first time they have been able to take down one of these raft smugglers, trying to send a message it will not be tolerated. back to you. >> bill: good to have you back on the job at the border there, thank you, bill 6789 >> dana: i read this article today written by governor of arizona, i thought was interesting. biden wins arizona and turns on it from the border to the schools, administration is hostile to the state elite. this column is worth a read. it is remarkable. you go through the effort to win arizona and flip a red state blue and you ignore them and the forest issue is unbelievable. seems like biden administration didn't have any idea they screwed up and now they will try to fix it in terms of clearing brush to help them. the border issue is obvious and schools. very interesting, how do you try to keep state like that in your column if you are ignoring them? >> bill: great point. i did a podcast yesterday with chairperson of the rnc, they have 47 house seats in their target as of today for the midterms a year from now. maybe that list gets longer, maybe it gets shorter. as of now, that is their target, 47. not to pick up 47, they will compete in 47. >> dana: that is hemmertime. with synthetic opioid deaths on the rise, wanting to stiffen punishment. we will discuss that next. >> bill: new york city mayor elect will be the talk of america on the issue of crime. after a black lives matter activist warns there could be blood in the streets over a new policing policy, we'll get arkinal sis, lawrence jones coming up shortly. stay tuned for that. >> this city is not a city of riotss or burning, this is a city where we're going to be safe. ♪♪ helping them discover their dreams is one of the best parts of being a parent. one of the most important is giving them ways to fulfill them. for over 150 years, generations have trusted the strength and stability of pacific life. because life insurance can help protect and provide for the financial futures of the ones we love. talk to a financial professional about pacific life. what's strong with me? 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>> what i'm trying to do is send a strong message, i'm holding up this penny, dana, it takes two grains of sand. look at abe lincoln, two of fentanyl on abe's nose is enough to kill. rn increase in deaths in california. a thousand percent in my county. i announced this week, i will be charging drug dealers with murder. i will not let drug dealers, manufacturers, peddlers, get away with murder. we're going to, we have somebody we convict for possession of sale of any drug, we are see thanksgiving come in through all kinds of drugs, cocaine and methamphetamine, russian roulette, no one knows when they pull the trigger and take that pill or snort that cocaine if it has fentanyl. i'm doing advisement in court, when we catch them again and we will, we will charge them with murder. when someone drinks and drive, you can kill somebody, that is what we get when we have somebody for driving under the influence. if they do it again and we have that admonishment that we read on another conviction, we can admit that in front of the jury. i will have a written form or have it on camera from the police, we will tell drug dealers when we book them and when we convict them, they know that dealing fentanyl can kill. we will throw it up to the jury, we know drinking and driving can kill. we know that intuitively, i have to prove that in court and prove it with the scores of the earth, horrible drug dealers. we will do that to the best of our ability. >> dana: this is a very important issue. we'll follow it because as derek said, todd, this is bold and ambitious and we want to see how this goes. thank you, both. >> bill: not right when it double necessary two year's time. indictment of clinton lawyer raising doubt about one of the president's top advisors. >> we have no idea that sullivan is being investigated for a crime. what we are seeing is multi-layer connection between the clinton campaign and this scandal. >> bill: history of controversy, is it catching up with the national security advisor jake sullivan and year long fight to free britney may come to an end, why emancipation may be only hours away. ♪ veteran homeowners, mortgage rates are still near all time lows. and home values are at all time highs. that makes right now the best time in history to use your va refi benefit and get cash. you could take out $50,000 or more because the newday 100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. use that cash to pay high rate credit card debt or plan for retirement. the newday 100 va loan. i've spent centuries evolving with the world. that's the nature of being the economy. observing investors choose assets to balance risk and reward. with one element securing portfolios, time after time. gold. agile and liquid. a proven protector. an ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions. an asset more relevant than ever before. gold. your strategic advantage. bye mom. my helpers abound, i'll need you today. our sleigh is now ready, let's get on our way. a mountain of toys to fulfill many wishes. must be carried across all roads and all bridges. and when everyone is smiling and having their fun i can turn my sleigh north because my job here is done. it's not magic that makes more holiday deliveries to homes in the us than anyone else, it's the hardworking people of the (man) i've made progress with my mental health. united states postal service. so when i started having unintentional body movements called tardive dyskinesia... ... i ignored them. but when the movements in my hands and feet started throwing me off at work... i finally had to say, 'it's not ok.' it was time to talk to my doctor about austedo. she said that austedo helps reduce td movements in adults... ...while i continue with most of my mental health medications. 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>> all right, first of all, the attorney general's council, special assistant overseeing the investigation durham is making is jake sullivan's wife. the wife is overseeing the investigation of her husband. jake sullivan has known, open secret that sullivan was the one in the campaign and after the 2016 election who was feeding the media, all sorts of information about donald trump collusion, steele dossier, donald trump never won the election without help from the russians. he was feeding what we now know was a big lie. he would have known it was a big lie. >> bill: if this was an open secret, did mueller interview him? do we know the answer? >> this is a key question, bill, was he interviewed? was he interviewed during the hillary e-mail scandal and during russia-gate with mueller? two times he would be on record. anybody can lie to the press, that is not a crime d. he lie to the f.b.i.? if they have texts and e-mails that go between the man who has just been indicted for lying to the f.b.i. about russia-gate and the steele dossier, if there is e-mail proof jake sullivan knew the steele dossier was a lie, maybe he was an architect of the steele dossier on which the mueller investigation and russia-gate and things that destroyed people's lives and tried to sabotage the trump presidency, was he in on it? >> bill: let me come back to that, i watched you with martha the other day. you are a passionate person, the passion was coming off the screen in a way, we seldom see. this russia hoax cost you your job, cost you your livelihood and it cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. now it looks like there is a few indictments, few charges here and there, everything else, i don't know, kt, looks like a lot of people will skate on this, how do you feel about that? >> well, you know, it is really hard, bill. it is hard personally baz as you say, my career was destroyed. hundreds of thousands in legal fees. my rep -- reputation was in tatters, i wanted to be national security advisor and that was ripped up because of a big lie. it hurts on a personal level that these guys get away with it. it hurts on a national level. who are they to take a president and organize a coup against them and work with washington establishment and insiders in washington, people whose names you don't know, bureaucrats and media and get away with it. how dare they take democracy and toss it around like a toy and something that perpetuates their own importance, that is what hurts. >> bill: well stated, that is washington, d.c. for you. kt, thank you for your time. thanks, nice to see you. >> dana: kim has her op ed every friday, today she writes about russia-gate situation and says we can't know what the kremlin's goal was in 2016 or how much it accomplished, the shifrng /* shenko indictment, mrs. clinton's campaign carries own russian baggage and that gets closer to their door step and i don't think they can ark void talking about it. >> bill: who was in cahoots with moscow in the end? 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there is blood on the streets of new york, crime is all over, pushing people into trains, shootings, rape, happening every single week. what is this threat? who is it going to serve? seems like to me, the underserved are going to be hurt the most like they are being hurt right now. >> bill: riots, fire and bloodshed, how do you get away with saying that? lawrence, what i think, the country will be watching in new york city, we have issues and we'll have a new mayor come in and he's a former cop and he's african american, he's got a big job to do, we will see how well this goes. >> lawrence: i think he's up for the task, he has balance right now. we have to see how he's going to govern, the cops need someone to have their back. hawk said they will go and eradicate crime. do we want crime all over the streets? that seems to be the new progressive world view, no one should be behind bars and so i like what the mayor is doing right now. will he talk with the da's, they put criminals back on the streets. >> bill: that is another problem. if you have someone of influence saying there will be riots and fire and bloodshed, you can label that insightment, go ahead, dana. >> dana: where does this go from here in terms of black lives matters in the city and across the country? we are waiting for the closing arguments in the rittenhouse trial on monday and we know what happened leading up to that. >> lawrence: i think people should be prepared for kenosha, i think it will not go in the way the media amped it up, politicians that wanted this to serve a purpose. they didn't look at evidence and didn't look at the trial to take place. the judge is upset, they tried to go against constitutional rights. talk to public officials and media, they have amped the crowd up and i think they will try to set the city on fire. >> bill: hope not. >> lawrence: this is biden's america now, will he lean on this issue? will democrats lean on the cities that stock up the flame? we'll see. >> bill: back to new york, "wall street journal" headline, black lives matters versus eric adams, activist will test mayor's resolve. watch that story. i was on the subway going home last night, pretty crowded, post-pandemic, pretty good. the amount of weed in one subway, i couldn't believe it. it was everywhere, twos ago. you had to go back inside the building and four people were smoking -- >> lawrence: they are raping people, beating the hell out of people in the subways. crime is allowed. >> bill: my point is this, i don't know what is going on in portland, i know what is going on in new york city. >> dana: see you 7 p.m. tonight. >> lawrence: yes, ma'am. a lot to cover and covering this case. >> dana: you know who will be watch something me and percy. >> lawrence: percy is my new bud buddy. >> bill: we will battle over that. >> lawrence: have you held him yet? 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a ferris wheel size. in the white house i called in with all of these terrible stories were going on. i was told there was an asteroid headed to earth. great! >> bill: i am not qualified. before we get out of here, dana and i talk about music a lot during the commercial break. back in august, we were talking about summer songs. >> dana: what is your favorite summer song? >> bill: august 6th. >> dana: today he said what is your summer song? i gave him my answer and i said what is yours. carlie, guess what it is. >> bill: that wasn't how it was framed. you were looking for all time classic summer song. >> dana: no. >> bill: i said frank sinatra summer wind. you gave me a hard time. we came across this clip the other day. roll this. here we go. >> to listen to for the rest of your life what is it? >> summer wind frank sinatra. >> [laughing]. >> dana: i would say that's not like your go-to summer song. it doesn't get you hyped but you love that song. >> bill: it's a classic. >> dana: and you sing it well. >> bill: a couple of things before we get out of here. check out hemmer time and a prediction on the mid-terms. i have a birthday this weekend. i won't be here on monday. >> dana: happy birthday. >> bill: hold the fort down and have a great weekend. >> dana: here's the "faulkner focus." >> harris: pressure from americans on president biden to pull the country out of an economic crisis that exploded under his watch. you are watching the "faulkner focus." i am julie in for harris. it could cost democrats the majority in congress: