IT IS 7:00 A.M. ON THE EAST
COAST.
THE FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS ARE
IN, FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS ARE
PROJECTING REPUBLICANS TO WIN
THE HOUSE 2-RBGS 7 DAYS AWAY
FROM THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, THE
SENATE REMAINING A TOSSUP.
FOUR KEY RAISES TO WATCH.
JOINING THE CONVERSATION ALL
MORNING LONG, DAGEN McDOWELL,
MICHAEL LEE, JAMES FREEMAN.
DAGEN, WE’RE ZEROING IN ON THE
RACES.
YOU’VE GOT NEWCOMERS IN THE
RACES, BLAKE MASTERS AND AND
MEHMET OZ AND HERSCHEL WALKER.
>>
DAGEN: SPEAKING OF OZ, JOHN
FETTERMAN DID AN INTERVIEW WITH
NBC NEWS AND THE REPORTER WHO
INTERVIEWED HIM SAID
SPECIFICALLY IN SMALL TALK
BEFORE MY INTERVIEW WITH
FETTERMAN IT WASN’T CLEAR THAT
HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT I WAS SAYING.
AND HE WAS PRESSED ON THE ISSUE
OF -- NBC WE’VE ASKED FOR YOUR
MEDICAL RECORDS AND YOU’VE
DECLINED.
WHY.
FETTERMAN SAYS OUR DOCTOR’S
ALREADY GIVEN YOU A RECORD
SAYING I’M READY TO SERVE.
AND NBC PRESSES HIM AND SAYS
THAT LETTER WAS SIX MONTHS AGO.
DON’T VOTERS DESERVE TO KNOW
YOUR STATUS NOW?
AND HIS RESPONSE WAS, I DO
SPEECHES AND GIVE INTERVIEWS,
INTERVIEWS DURING WHICH HE HAS
TO USE A -- NOT A TELEPROMPTER
BUT CLOSED CAPTIONING TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE REPORTER IS
ASKING HIM WHICH IS WHAT WILL
HAPPEN WITH THE DEBATE TOWARD
THE END OF THE MONTH.
SO I THINK THAT THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT’S NOT GOING TO GO
AWAY FOR FETTERMAN AND WILL GET
WORSE.
MARIA: I THINK YOU ARE BRINGING
UP SUCH AN IMPORTANT POINT.
DO WE HAVE AN INTERVIEW OF
WATCHING FETTERMAN WHEN HE’S IN
THE INTERVIEW AND HE’S GOT THE
COMPUTER RIGHT THERE, SHOWING
EVERYTHING ON THE COMPUTER.
JAMES, YOU DON’T SEE THIS AND
NOW WE’VE GOT A SITTING
CANDIDATE WANTING THIS SENATE
SEAT AND HE’S READING WHAT
EVERYTHING IS SAYING ON THE
COMPUTER NEXT TO HIM HAD IN AN
INTERVIEW.
>> A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR
INDUSTRY GIVING HIM A PASS.
IT’S A LEGITIMATE QUESTION.
BUT I KIND OF THINK WITH
FETTERMAN IT BENEFITS HIM TO
HAVE THE DEBATE ABOUT HIS HEALTH
THROUGH ELECTION DAY.
BECAUSE I THINK TO THE EXTENT
THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT TALKING
ABOUT HIS TRULY RADICAL VIEWS ON
CRIME AND POLICING --
MARIA: GOOD POINT.
>> THESE ARE NOT SORT OF
STRANGE COMMENTS HE MADE AS A
COLLEGE STUDENT.
THESE ARE NOT OLD COMMENTS.
THESE ARE FROM 2020, 2021, EVEN
2022 IN TERMS OF SEEKING TO
PAROLE VIOLENT CRIMINALS.
DAGEN: PEOPLE CONVICTED OF
SECOND --
>> COMPARING THE POLICE TO AN
OCCUPYING FORCE WHEN THEY SHOW
UP TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
BLAMING THEIR RIOT GEAR,
ACCORDING TO HIM, FOR STARTING
RIOTS.
PEOPLE THINK RIOTS IN THIS
COUNTRY HAPPEN BECAUSE POLICE
WEAR RIOT GEAR?
IT IS A REALLY BIZARRE, RECKLESS
SET OF VIEWS HE’S EXPRESSED IN
HIS VERY RECENT HISTORY AND SO I
THINK TO THE EXTENT THAT HE CAN
TALK ABOUT HIS HEALTH AND
PROBABLY DRAW SOME SYMPATHY FROM
PEOPLE, I THINK THAT’S HIS BEST
HOPE FOR HOLDING ON HERE IN THE
LAST FEW WEEKS.
DAGEN: YOU’RE NOT SUGGESTING
THAT CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS
ABOUT HIS STROKE SHOULD BE
DISMISSED?
>> NOT AT ALL.
NOT AT ALL.
I’M JUST SAYING, I THINK IF
YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT THE
FETTERMAN CAMPAIGN AND YOU’VE
GOTTEN THIS GUY WHO IS -- WHO
HAS ESSENTIALLY DONE NOTHING, HE
LIVED OFF HIS FAMILY FOR
DECADES.
HE’S HAD NOT MUCH GAINFUL
EMPLOYMENT, REALLY NOTHING JUST
ABOUT UNLESS YOU COUNT A BRIEF
PERIOD AT LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
HE’S EXPRESSED THESE RADICAL
VIEWS.
I THINK THEIR BEST HOPE IS TO
JUST KEEP ALL OF THAT IN THE
BACKGROUND AND SEE IF HE CAN
COAST TO THE END HERE. MARIA: MEANWHILE, FORMER HAWAII
MARIA: MEANWHILE, FORMER HAWAII
REPRESENTATIVE TELL SIGH TULE SI
ANNOUNCED SHE’S LEAVING THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY.
SHE SAYS THIS IS A PARTY THAT IS
RUN BY RADICAL ELITES.
>> IT’S REALLY -- YOU GO BACK
TO THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY THROUGHOUT THE NORTHEAST.
IT WAS THE ELITES RUNNING THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
ALL THOSE PEOPLE HAVE CONVERTED
TO THE LEFT AND THAT’S WHY THE
NORTHEAST IS SO DOMINATED BY THE
LIBERALS, LIKE PART OF THE
LIBERAL MINDSET IS REINVENTING
THE WHEEL BECAUSE I’M SMARTER THAN YOU, I’M BETTER THAN YOU
THAN YOU, I’M BETTER THAN YOU
AND NOTHING BETTER PER PERSONIFI
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY THAN
LECTURING PEOPLE.
MARIA: AS THEY TAKE PRIVATE
JETS EVERYWHERE.
>> SO IT’S NOT SURPRISING,
TULSI HE GABBARD IS AN INDEPENDE
THINKER, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR
INDEPENDENT THOUGHT ON THE LEFT
TODAY.
DAGEN: I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE,
THEIR REACTION WAS PROBABLY
SHE’S WAS STILL A DEMOCRAT?
REALLY?
THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN LIKE A WHILE
AGO?
HER DEFECTING FROM THE PARTY.
MARIA: SHE DIDN’T SAY SHE’S
GOING TO BECOME A REPUBLICAN.
SHE JUST SAYS SHE’S LEAVING THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY.
>> YEAH.
AND LOOK, SHE GOT A FEW
PERCENTAGE POINTS IN PRIMARIES
LAST TIME AROUND.
MAYBE IN A CLOSE ELECTION, IF
THOSE -- CALL THEM GABBARD
VOTERS BECOME UNAFFILIATED THAT
CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN TIGHT
RACES.
>> SHE ENDED THE KAMALA HARRIS
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN ABOUT
60 TO 90 SECONDS WHEN SHE WENT
THROUGH HER RECORD AND HER
HYPOCRISY AND JUST REMEMBER THE
VICE BE PRESIDENT LEFT THE
PRIMARY BEFORE A SINGLE VOTE WAS
CAST BECAUSE SHE HAD NO SUPPORT.
DAGEN: I THINK WE KNOW KAMALA
HARRIS ENDED HER OWN CAMPAIGN
SUCCESS.
MARIA: IF YOU EVER SEEN ANYBODY
AS UNPREPARED?
>> NO.