>> Harris: CRITICS ARE CALLING
OUT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR GREATLY
OVERSTATING PRESIDENT BIDEN’S
SUPPORT AMONG DEMOCRATS IN NEW
POLLING FROM "THE NEW YORK
TIMES." IT SHOWS 64% OF
DEMOCRATS WANT A DIFFERENT
NOMINEE IN 2024.
AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT IT, THE
PRESS SECRETARY KARINE
JEAN-PIERRE HAD THIS TO SAY.
>> I WOULD SAY FROM THE SAME
POLL 92% OF DEMOCRATS WHO
SUPPORT THIS PRESIDENT AS WELL.
THERE WILL BE MANY POLLS AND
THEY’LL GO UP AND DOWN.
THIS IS NOT THE THING THAT WE
ARE SOLELY FOCUSED ON.
>> Harris: SHE IS NOT FOCUSED
ON IT AND WHY WAS SHE READY
WITH IT?
IT WASN’T TRUE.
70% OF DEMOCRATS APPROVE THE
JOB THAT BIDEN IS DOING WHICH
IS A LITTLE LOW FOR HIS OWN
POLITICAL PARTY.
SHE MAY HAVE BEEN REFERRING TO
THIS, THOUGH, WHERE THE 92%
CAME FROM.
IT IS DEMS WHO SAY THEY WOULD
VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT IN A
HYPOTHETICAL REMATCH BETWEEN
HIM AND DONALD TRUMP IN 2024.
THIS COMES AS A PROGRESSIVE
GROUP IS PRESSING BIDEN NOT TO
RUN AGAIN.
ROOTS ACTION IS LAUNCHING A
DON’T RUN JOE CAMPAIGN SET TO
LAUNCH THE DAY AFTER THE
MID-TERM ELECTION.
119 DAYS FROM NOW, YOU KNOW I’M
COUNTING.
PETE HEGSETH CO-HOST OF "FOX &
FRIENDS" WEEKEND.
PETE, I GET IF HE SAYS IF HE
RUNS AGAINST TRUMP 92% OF
DEMOCRATS LOVE HIM.
SHE DIDN’T SAY THAT.
THEY ARE PAINTING THE WALL WITH
A Q TIP.
>> THEY ARE.
THEY KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE
STARTING TO SAY OUT LOUD WHAT
THEY’VE BEEN THINKING FOR QUITE
SOME TIME EVEN WHEN JOE BIDEN
WAS THE NOMINEE.
HE WAS NEVER ANYONE’S REAL
FIRST CHOICE.
HE WAS A FOIL TO ANOTHER
CANDIDATE THEY DIDN’T LIKE.
AS A RESULT NOW HE HAS THE
GUARD, "THE NEW YORK TIMES."
THEY TURNED ON HIM OVER A DOZEN
TIMES.
THE GUARD OF THE "NEW YORK
TIMES" IS EFFECTIVELY DECLARING
FROM THE FRONT PAGE OF THEIR
NEWSPAPER JOE BIDEN IS UNFIT TO
BE OUR NOMINEE IN 2024.
THE MOST RECENT ARTICLE BY
PETER BAKER LAYING OUT THE
FEARS INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE
AND AMONG PARTY ELITES.
THAT JOE ISN’T UP TO THE JOB
PHYSICALLY AND COGNITIVELY BUT
THE RESULTS ARE DISASTROUS.
WHEN YOU HAVE 64% OF YOUR OWN
PARTY SAYING PLEASE DON’T RUN
IN 2024 AND YOU HAVE LOST THE
BASE THAT YOU’VE CATERED TO THE
ENTIRE TIME, YOU ARE
EFFECTIVELY PERSONA NON GRATA.
EVERYONE INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE
KNOWS IT.
THEY LOVE POWER.
YOU WANT TO BE IN THE INNER
CIRCLE OF POWER.
THEY’LL FIND RATIONALIZATIONS
LIKE A MATCH-UP WITH DONALD
TRUMP TO JUSTIFY THE CONTINUED
EXISTENCE.
BUT NEITHER THE CAPABILITIES OR
HIS RECORD GIVE ANY COMFORT TO
DEMOCRATS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR
AN ALTERNATIVE.
IT IS VERY UNCLEAR WHO IN THE
WORLD THAT ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE.
THEY AREN’T LOOKING AT THE VICE
PRESIDENT AND NOT LOOKING
INSIDE THE CABINET.
THEY HAVE SERIOUS BENCH
PROBLEMS.
>> Harris: THAT’S THE BIG
PROBLEM.
YOU CAN PULL TRUMP FORWARD.
YOU ONLY HELP HIM BY DOING THAT
BY THE WAY.
HE IS NOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE,
BIDEN IS.
SO NOW YOU ARE GOING TO PICK ON
THE OTHER GUY WHILE MANY THINGS
ARE GOING WRONG WITHIN THE
ADMINISTRATION AND OUTSIDE OF
IT.
THAT ONLY BOLSTERS THE PERSON
YOU WOULD HAVE TO FACE.
IT IS PRETTY MIND-BOGGLING WHY
THEY THINK THIS STRATEGY WOULD
WORK.
THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRESIDENT
BIDEN ARE DEFENDING HIS NOW
CONTROVERSIAL TRIP TO SAUDI
ARABIA.
BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO MEET WITH
SAUDI LEADERS INCLUDING THE
CROWN PRINCE.
NOW REMEMBER, OUR PRESIDENT
SAID ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL THAT
HE WOULD MAKE SAUDI ARABIA A
PARIAH STATE.
NOW HE IS GETTING COZY WITH A
MAN ACCUSED OF MULTIPLE
KILLINGS INCLUDING THAT OF AN
AMERICAN JOURNALIST KHASHOGGI.
THE PRESIDENT DEFENDING HIMSELF
IN A "WASHINGTON POST" OP-ED.
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAKE
SULLIVAN WITH THIS.
>> IF WE ACT NOW TO CREATE A
MORE PEACEFUL AND STABLE REGION
IT WILL PAY DIVIDENDS FOR THE
AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS AND
FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR
YEARS TO COME.
DESPITE ONGOING CHALLENGES THE
MIDDLE EAST PRESIDENT BIDEN
WILL BE VISITING IS MORE STABLE
THAN THE ONE WE INHERITED 18
MONTHS AGO.
>> Harris: CRITICS INCLUDING
MEMBERS OF HIS OWN POLITICAL
PARTY HAVE THEIR DOUBTS.
>> I DON’T THINK THIS IS A GOOD
IDEA.
I THAT I WE ARE ESSENTIALLY --
THE PRESIDENT GOING FOR THIS
VISIT.
>> Harris: ISN’T IT A MEMBER OF
THE SQUAD GOING UP THE
PRESIDENT?
MY BRAIN JUST BROKE.
>> THIS IS A MASTER STUDY THAT
WILL SOMEDAY BE A CASE STUDY
HOW NOT TO START A FOREIGN TRIP.
FIRST SAY YOU AREN’T GOING TO
DO IT AND WRITE AN OP-ED IN THE
"WASHINGTON POST" TO EXPLAIN
WHY YOU ARE DOING IT WHICH IS
COMPLETELY ANTITHETICAL TO THE
REAL REASON.
THE REASON WHY YOU ARE DOING IT
IS BECAUSE YOU REVERSED THE
POLICY OF YOUR PREDECESSOR
WHICH YOU MAY NOT HAVE LIKED
WHICH WERE COHERENT AND LED TO
A POSITION OF STRENGTH.
BECAUSE WE WERE ENERGY
INDEPENDENT PREVIOUSLY WE
DIDN’T HAVE TO CATER TO THE
SAUDIS, WHO WE SHOULDN’T BE
CATERING TO FOR ANY GOOD REASON
ESPECIALLY FOR THE REASON OF
OIL CONSIDERING THEIR TRACK
RECORD OF A REGIME.
20 YEARS, 9/11.
BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT PORTION
OF IT, THERE IS NO REASON --
TRUMP HAD A COHERENT STRATEGY
WHEN IT CAME TO ISRAEL.
AN ABRAHAM ACCORD THAT MADE
SAUDI ARABIA MORE FRIENDLY TO
THE INTERESTS OF OUR KEY ALLY
IN THE REGION ISRAEL.
HE HAS FLIPPED THAT ON THE LID
BY STICKING RUSSIA IN THE
MIDDLE OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA’S MORTAL
ENEMY.
HE IS GOING AND SAUDI IS
SKEPTICAL AND THEY’RE STRONGER
WITH OIL PRODUCTION BECAUSE OF
THE POLICIES HE HAS PURSUED AND
THE DEBACK ALSO IN AFGHANISTAN
AND THE STALEMATE IN UKRAINE
THAT MADE US LOOK WEAK ON THE
GLOBAL STAGE.
>> Harris: KELLYANNE CONWAY
REMINDED EVERYBODY HOW CLOSE WE
ARE TO ONE YEAR THE DATE THAT
MARKS ONE YEAR SINCE THE
DISASTROUS PULL-OUT FROM
AFGHANISTAN.
THE PRESSURE IS ON THIS
PRESIDENT TO DO SOME POLITICAL
GYMNASTICS.
BY THE WAY, WE DIDN’T GET INTO
THE MILITARY PART OF THIS.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE START
SELLING THEM WEAPONS.
WILL WE SELL IRAN WEAPONS AT
THIS POINT?
>> DO WE REALLY -- WHAT IS OUR
TRACK RECORD OF SENDING WEAPONS
TO ALLIES WHO EVENTUALLY BECOME
ENEMIES?
IF WE MAKE THE DECISION TO SEND
MORE WEAPONS TO IRAN OR SAUDI
ARABIA WE DON’T HAVE ANY
CONTROL HOW THOSE GET USED IN
THE FUTURE.
CERTAINLY THEY WOULD LOVE TO
SEND RELIEF TO IRAN IN PURSUIT
OF AN IRAN DEAL WHICH IS
ANTITHETICAL TO AMERICA’S OR
ISRAEL’S INTERESTS.
THERE IS WEAKNESS THAT OUR
ENEMIES EXPLOIT.
>> Harris: THAT WE WOULD
POTENTIALLY SELL WEAPONS TO
SAUDI ARABIA.
THEY WILL TURN AROUND AND SELL
THE WEAPONS TO RUSSIA.
ANYTHING WE PUT INTO THE
UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW SEEMS TO
TURN ON US.
LET’S GET TO THIS.
HOW TO PROTECT OUR AMERICAN
SHOP OWNERS.
A COALITION OF BODEGA OWNERS IS
SPEAKING OUT AFTER THAT MEETING
WITH MANHATTAN D.A. ALVIN
BRAGG, A LIBERAL D.A. IN NEW
YORK CITY.
A LIVE LOOK.
WE HAVE BEEN MONITORING THIS.
IT IS THE BODEGA WORKER NOW
CHARGED WITH MURDER FOR
DEFENDING HIMSELF JOSE ALBA WAS
ATTACKED AND THERE HAS BEEN
WIDESPREAD OUTRAGE OVER THOSE
CHARGES AGAINST HIM.
A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE UNITED
BODEGAS OF AMERICA IS A HOPEFUL
ABOUT THE CASE GETTING
DISMISSED AND HAD SOME NICE
THINGS TO SAY ABOUT BRAGG.
WATCH.
>> WE ASKED HIM WHAT IS HIS
POSITION REGARDING BODEGA
OWNERS CARRYING LEGAL GUNS TO
DEFEND THEMSELVES.
AND HE WAS VERY ASSURING IN
THAT HE SUPPORTS IT.
AND HE DOESN’T OPPOSE SMALL,
LEGAL, LAW ABIDING BUSINESS
OWNERS LIKE BODEGA OWNERS
CARRYING A GUN.
>> Harris: HE SKIRTED THE ISSUE
CLEARLY.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?
>> DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT?
THAT ALVIN BRAGG AND GOVERNOR
HOCHUL AND MAYOR ADAMS AND
OTHER DEMOCRATS ARE FOR ARMING
LEGAL CITIZENS?
TO WHAT CONSEQUENCE WILL HE
FACE LATER ON FOR
MISREPRESENTING HIS POSITION OR
OB FILES INDICATING?
WHAT EVIDENCE DO WE HAVE THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY TODAY IS FOR
LEGAL GUN OWNERSHIP IN URBAN
CENTERS THAT ARE GUN FREE ZONE.
THE CRIMINAL KNOWS THE ONE
THING HE CAN COUNT ON IS THERE
IS NOT A GUN BEHIND THE COUNTER.
THE BODEGA OWNER USING IT PUTS
HIMSELF UNDER LEGAL JEOPARDY BY
USING IT.
SO IF THE CRIMINALS ARE THE
ONES WHO HAVE THE GUNS ON
OFFENSE AND WHEN YOU DEFEND
YOURSELF NOW ONLY BECAUSE OF
PUBLIC PRESSURE HAVE YOU BEEN
LET OUT.
THE INSTINCT OF BRAGG AND OTHER
D.A.s IS TO SIDE WITH THE
CRIMINAL.
PUBLIC OUTCRY IS WHAT CHANGED
THIS CASE.
NOT THEIR IDEOLOGICAL
DISPOSITION.
HOPEFULLY VOTERS, LIBERALS,
TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE
THESE FOLKS OUT AS THEY HAVE IN
SAN FRANCISCO AND JUST MIGHT IN
L.A.
>> Harris: MAYBE THAT COALITION
IS ACTING LIKE THEY ARE OKAY
WITH WHAT THE D.A. IS NOT BEING
HONEST ABOUT.
>> THEY ARE AT HIS DISPOSAL.
>> Harris: AND MERCY.
>> YES.