BILL MELUGIN, THANK YOU FOR
UPDATING US ON ALL OF IT.
REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY
OF LOUISIANA HAS BEEN SOUNDING
THE ALARM ON THIS FOR QUITE
SOME TIME.
THIS SUDDENLY ESPECIALLY WHEN
YOU SEE THE FACES OF CHILDREN
FEELS SO PERSONAL.
WHY IS THE WHITE HOUSE ALLOWING
THIS TO HAPPEN?
>> SOMETIMES, HARRIS, WHEN
PEOPLE ACT LIKE THEY DON’T
CARE, IT’S NOT AN ACT.
I DON’T THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN
OR AT LEAST THE PEOPLE RUNNING
THINGS IN HIS ADMINISTRATION,
CARE ABOUT SECURING THE BORDER.
I DON’T THINK THEY -- HIS
ADMINISTRATION REALLY CARES
ABOUT TELLING FOLKS IN CENTRAL
AMERICA DON’T COME, DON’T COME.
I MEAN, THEY MAY SAY THE WORD
BUT EVERYTHING THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION DOES HAS CREATED
INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO COME.
I THINK THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION HONESTLY
BELIEVES IN OPEN BORDERS.
I THINK THEY BELIEVE THAT
VETTING PEOPLE AT THE BORDER IS
RACIST.
THAT’S WRONG AND MOST AMERICANS
DISAGREE.
THEY THINK VETTING PEOPLE AT
THE BORDER IS PRUDENT NOT
BECAUSE WE HATE EVERYBODY ON
THE OUTSIDE, BECAUSE WE LOVE
PEOPLE ON THE INSIDE.
AND MOST FAIR-MINDED PEOPLE
WANT TO KNOW WHO IS COMING INTO
THEIR COUNTRY.
WE DON’T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST
IDEA WHO IS COMING INTO OUR
COUNTRY.
THEY COULD BE GOOD PEOPLE JUST
LOOKING TO WORK, BUT THERE ARE
ALSO PROBABLY TERRORISTS, THEY
ARE GANG BANGERS, THEY ARE DRUG
DEALERS, THEY ARE CONVICTED
FELONS AND THEY ARE COMING FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD AND
PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS PEOPLE
ARE WELCOMING THEM.
>> Harris: YOU KNOW, I
MENTIONED -- YOU AND I HAVE
SPOKEN ABOUT THIS BEFORE, IT IS
PERSONAL.
A MARK AGAINST ALL OF US IF WE
CAN’T GET THIS RIGHT.
>> IT’S HORRIBLE.
>> Harris: WE WERE BUILT ON
LEGAL IMMIGRATION.
AMERICA IS AN AMAZING PLACE AND
PART OF US BEING AMAZING IS
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT,
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY WHEN WE
GET THINGS WRONG AND STOPPING
THAT ACTION AND DOING IT
DIFFERENTLY.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT
WHERE THE NUMBERS ARE FOR THE
PRESIDENT ON THIS ISSUE,
SENATOR KENNEDY, YOU KNOW THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY
WITH HIM ABOUT THIS.
AND THE HITS KEEP ON COMING FOR
BIDEN.
INFLATION SOARING OVER THE LAST
YEAR AND LAST MONTH HITTING ITS
HIGHEST RATE IN MORE THAN A
GENERATION.
HAMMERING AMERICAN FAMILIES AND
WIPING OUT PAY RAISES.
CONSUMER PRICES JUST 7.5% LAST
MONTH, A WHOPPING 435% SPIKE
FROM A YEAR AGO AND BIGGEST
INCREASE SINCE FEBRUARY OF 1982.
A TOP WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC
ADVISOR ADMITS IT IS NOT GOOD.
LET’S WATCH.
>> HIS FIRST THOUGHTS HERE ARE
WHAT KIND OF STRESSORS IS THIS
CREATING FOR FAMILY BUDGETS,
FOR HOUSEHOLDS.
HE KNOWS THAT STRESSES ARE REAL
AND THAT THEY ARE HIGHLY
ELEVATED.
>> Harris: AND AS EVERYTHING IS
GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE,
GASOLINE PRICES ON THE RISE,
TOO.
TODAY THE AVERAGE PRICE FOR A
GALLON OF REGULAR UNLEADED IS
$3.48.
UP A DOLLAR FROM LAST YEAR.
WE HAVE GROUND OURSELVES INTO A
NIGHTMARE IN TERMS OF INFLATION.
>> WE HAVE.
LET ME SAY QUICKLY ON
IMMIGRATION.
MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT LEGAL
IMMIGRATION.
I DO.
IT’S WHY WE ADMIT OVER A
MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR.
MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.
NOW IN TERMS OF INFLATION.
AS I’VE SAID TO YOU BEFORE,
HARRIS, I LIKE PRESIDENT BIDEN.
I’M JUST NOT SURE WE CAN AFFORD
HIM.
SO FAR THE BEST EVIDENCE OF THE
EXISTENCE OF THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN THE
DAMAGE THEY LEAVE IN THEIR WAKE.
EXHIBIT A IS INFLATION.
IT IS THE MOST PERNICIOUS TAX
IMAGINABLE.
IT WATER BOARDS MIDDLE
AMERICANS AND THOSE AMONG US
WHO ARE AT THE LOWER END OF THE
WAGE SCALE.
IT IS NOT COMPLICATED.
WE TOLD PRESIDENT BIDEN WHEN HE
PASSED WITH ALL DEMOCRATIC
SUPPORT, NO REPUBLICANS, HIS
1.9 TRILLION DOLLAR EMERGENCY
COVID BILL THAT HAD NOTHING TO
DO WITH COVID.
HAS MORE TO DO WITH CRACK PIPES.
WE SAID IF YOU DO THAT WE DON’T
NEED IT.
IT WILL CAUSE INFLATION.
IT DID.
AND NOW AS I’VE SAID BEFORE
PRESIDENT BIDEN WANTS TO STUFF
MORE DIAPERS DOWN THE TOILET.
HE WANTS TO PASS THE BUILD BACK
BETTER BILL WHICH IS $5
TRILLION.
WE’VE GOT TOO MUCH MONEY
CHASING TOO FEW GOODS AND IF HE
PASSES BUILD BACK BETTER WE
WILL HAVE 20% INFLATION.
AND THEN THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS
GOING TO HAVE TO RAISE INTEREST
RATES SO HIGH THAT IT IS GOING
TO THROW US INTO A RECESSION.
THIS IS NOT COMPLICATED.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMISTS HAVE TOLD
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THIS.
UNLESS YOU SLEEP THROUGH ECON
101 THEY TEACH YOU THAT IN THE
FIRST WEEK.
>> Harris: YOU MENTIONED THE
WHITE HOUSE AND ALL OF THIS AND
PUSHING BACK ON THE ACTUAL
NUMBERS OF THINGS.
RIGHT NOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS
PUSHING BACK AFTER THAT REPORT
THAT HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
WOULD BE USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS
TO GIVE CRACK PIPES TO DRUG
ADDICTS.
LET’S WATCH THIS.
>> HHS PUT OUT A STATEMENT
CLARIFYING AROUND SOME OF THE
REPORTS THAT CRACK PIPES ARE
NOT GOING TO BE PART OF THE
SAFE SMOKING KITS FUNDED BY THE
ADMINISTRATION.
WERE THEY NEVER A PART OF THE
KIT OR WERE THEY REMOVED IN
RESPONSE TO THIS PUSHBACK?
>> THEY WERE NEVER PART OF THE
KIT.
WE WANTED THE PROVIDED
CLARIFICATION FOR THE HHS HARM
REDUCTION PROGRAM.
>> Harris: THIS MIGHT BE ONE
SENATORS ARE READING.
SENATOR TOM COTTON.
TO BE CLEAR HHS IS GIVING
TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DISTRIBUTE
CRACK PIPES ON THEIR BEHALF.
JUST BECAUSE HHS BUREAUCRATS
AREN’T PERSONALLY HANDING OUT
THE CRACK PIPES DOESN’T MAKE IT
A GOOD IDEA.
SENATE MARSHA BLACKBURN VOWING
TO HOLD UP THE FUNDING UNTIL
IT’S CLEAR THAT TAXPAYERS
AREN’T SHELLING OUT A DIME FOR
THOSE CRACK PIPES.
>> LET ME SAY THIS ABOUT MISS
PSAKI.
SHE OUGHT TO BE JANA KING
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.
SHE HAS TO CLEAN UP THREE
MESSES EVERY SINGLE DAY.
HERE IS WHAT I DO KNOW.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS
TAKEN $30 MILLION FROM THEIR
EMERGENCY COVID BILL AND THEY
ARE USING IT TO FACILITATE THE
SMOKING OF CRACK COCAINE AND
CRYSTAL METH.
THEY SAY THEY CAN MAKE IT SAFER.
AND I SAY THERE IS NO WAY TO
MAKE SMOKING CRACK COCAINE OR
METH SAFER.
IT IS LIKE TRYING TO PUT A
FILTER ON A CIGARETTE.
THEY OUGHT TO TAKE THIS $30
MILLION WHICH THEY SAID THEY
WOULD USE FOR COVID.
THEY OUGHT TO USE IT TO SECURE
THE BORDER, TO STOP THE DRUGS
COMING IN AND USE IT TO GET
THOSE FOLKS INTO ADDICTION
PROGRAMS AND THEY OUGHT TO TALK
STRAIGHT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
AND EXPLAIN LOOK, YOU ARE RIGHT.
WE GOT CAUGHT TRYING TO HELP
PEOPLE MAKE IT EASIER FOR
PEOPLE TO SMOKE CRACK AND IT
WAS DUMB THING TO DO AND WE
REVERSED COURSE.
>> Harris: YOU KNOW THEY AREN’T
GOING TO DO THAT.
THEY WILL NEVER ADMIT THAT BUT
YOU ARE RIGHT.
IF WE PUT THE MONEY RIGHT WHERE
THE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA
HARRIS ROOT CAUSES ARE TO THE
PROBLEM, THEN WE COULD MAKE A
DIFFERENCE.
BUT YOU ARE CALLING FOR
COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY.
THAT IS A BIG ASK.
REAL QUICKLY BEFORE I LET YOU
GO.
WE WERE IN A POSITION NOW WHERE
DEMOCRATS ARE CAPITULATEING ON
A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS.
I WANT TO GET YOUR QUICK
THOUGHTS ON WHERE YOU THINK
WE’RE GOING.
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO COME
UP AGAINST TEACHERS UNIONS LIKE
IN NEW JERSEY WHEN THEY TRY TO
WIPE AWAY THE MANDATES INSIDE
CLASSROOMS.
I THINK IT WILL BE A HARDER
FIGHT FOR THEM THAN THE CDC.
>> I THINK IT WILL, TOO.
BUT IT’S TIME FOR THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION.
THEY STAND FOR SCIENCE.
I THINK WE HAVE A CLEANER IDEA
OF THE DANGERS AND IT IS TIME
FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO
TALK STRAIGHT TO THE TEACHERS
UNIONS AND TELL THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE THE TRUTH.
I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST
DR. FAUCI BUT FOR A VARIETY OF
REASONS, SOME OF WHICH HAPPEN
TO BE DR. FAUCI’S OWN THOUGHTS,
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TRUST DR.
PEPPER MORE THAN DR. FAUCI
RIGHT NOW.
>> Harris: SENATOR KENNEDY OF
THE GREAT STATE OF LOUISIANA,
THANK YOU FOR BEING IN "FOCUS"