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 PresidentKamala 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 2024 election. People are not going to wake up and say you know what . He is showing a lot more pep, being more focused and disciplined. A lot sharper. I feel much better about it than i did six months ago. Harris Mark Meredith live at the white house. Good morning to you. Its easy to see there is growing angst among some democrats about a biden harris ticket in 2024. Now you have a lot of people asking whether or not somebody could or should challenge President Biden for the nomination. Quinnipiac did a poll asking some of the democratic biden supporters how they feel. 51 say they could change their candidates choice if somebody else jumps in. One person who says they have their mind already made up, they are on the biden harris train is former dnc nominee hillary clinton. She says its okay for people to question the president s age but she has her mind made up. The question is legitimate. The conclusion that people draw is, i think, off base. I am supporting President Biden and Vice President harris because of what theyve got. When people say to me he is old, yeah, thats right but look at what he has gotten done. As of right now, the president s most notable challenger is robert f. Kennedy, jr. Env environmental lawyer says it is not a fair fight. They moved South Carolina to the forefront and have not scheduled any debates. No indications that the dnc plans to make things easier for anyone else to jump into the race. Vice president Kamala Harris has been asked a lot recently about the president s age whether or not he is able to handle another four years and what she said last week to cbs. Are you prepared to be commanderinchief . Yes, i am, if necessary. But joe biden is going to be fine. Let me tell you something, i work with joe biden every day. Were hearing that support from the Vice President but weve also seen in the polls that President Biden is essentially tied in a hypothetical matchup with his predecessor President Trump amid all the ongoing trials and situations that the former president continues to face. Harris, there is another xfactor there. Rumblings there could be a third party that could jump in like the no labels group that may decide to nominate somebody next year. While the race may look settled down, anything can happen. Harris absolutely. We havent gone forth to the primary season. But those numbers are stubborn. For biden theyve been low like this since the day after the debauched and deadly for americans, afghanistan after 20 years of war. The day after that bidens numbers tumbled and never come back after that exit from afghanistan. Cassie and david car lucci, former Democratic State senator for new york. Cassie, i will start with you. I mentioned afghanistan. Tapping of the oil reserves and our Energy Prices climbing precipitously. Good morning, harris. Whether its his age, his competency level or policies, you have nearly three in four americans who say joe biden should not serve another four years in the white house. This is a topic that youve brought up a lot. Weve talked about a lot. American people are talking about a lot. What are democrats doing anything other than talking about it . Nothing. Mark my words he will be on the ballot in 2024 and that is despite the will of the American People and despite what the people who are around him in the democrat establishment know to be true about him. Theyll push him through. They are beholding to their Opponent Power and special interests than the American People. American voters need to punish the Democrat Party for doing that. Harris all right. I do want to go to you david and preface this by saying it for weeks now. Less about age, probably almost 0 about. We all know some people who can rock it. This is about his ability now. It has been on full display in the last 96 hours and it is less and less impressive every time. You are right. It should be about his ability. Thats why he is going to be the democratic nominee and why he will be reelected because of what he has done. You are right, look, if trump actually wins, he will be the oldest president ever when he leaves office if thats the case. So the age is a ridiculous argument. Of course you can poll a generic candidate. But you cant vote for a generic candidate. Every time we look at these polls and people say well there should be someone else, yeah, we always want to do better. Harris thats only true for your side of the aisle. When you poll biden and or kamala against the gop group that are on the next debate stage, biden loses to every single one of them. To nikki haley outside the margin of error. So i mean its not the republicans fault you dont have anybody else to put up. Republicans leading candidates is donald trump who over 50 of americans said they would never vote for no matter who is running against him. It will come right back to hit the republican candidate. I think its a very dangerous slope to go down. Harris cassie, you said more people dont want biden. Isnt that what you just said . Yeah. More people dont want biden. I think donald trump is happy to run on his policies and what he did for his four years in office against joe biden any day of the week. Harris the low inflation. Lets move forward. The white house wasting no time in telling the media just how to cover the biden Impeachment Inquiry. The counsels office wrote a letter to news executives. Here is a quote from it. Its time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening and Impeachment Inquiry based on lies, end quote. The Press Secretary facing a fullcourt press, of course. Baseless inquiry that the House Republicans cant even really defend themselves. Incredibly inappropriate and ridiculous attacks. I leave it to my white House Counsel for the colleague who sent out the memo laid out really kind of specifically as to how we see this process has moved forward and how there is no evidence. You cant have a response to that . Harris critics were ready. Miranda devine writes. The scandal comes to light and still push innocence. Jonathan turley calls the white house letter marching orders. He writes what is most disturbing is that the white house shows no concern in making such an open pitch. The fact it comes from the white House Counsels office is particularly chilling. This is not the press office but the counsel for the president calling on media to form a unified front against the republicans and the Impeachment Inquiry. Thats exactly the point. Thats exactly what jumps out at you. You mean you have attorneys trying to shut down the media . Cassie. No one is shutting down the media. They are giving context to this crazy situation. You have mccarthy, who first said he would go forward if he got the entire house to go along with it. He realizes thats not possible so he is saying. Harris as soon as you done we will go back to cassie. What i was getting at, the white house is not demanding but giving clarification to this crazy situation. This circus that the republicans are trying to do. Harris you get a letter from the attorney from the white House Counsel and you dont think its serious . The only one on the planet that wont show it to every attorney and friend you have. Thats the stuff you hear about in countries run by dictatorship, not where we have a free press. Ive worked in washington, d. C. The easiest job in washington is a democrat press staffer. They expect the coverage will be positive. I have reporters admit that to me as well. They dont need to put out these letters in writing. You just expect they are all friends behind the scenes. The fact that they are and as Jonathan Turley pointed out from the counsels office, not even the press office, that is incredibly concerning. Every reporter should be stubbornly asking questions of this administration and the administration will have to answer them. It is baseless and they want to point it out. This is just a show. Theyve done investigations. They have thousands of pages of documents. If they were serious about this they would have the same questions for trump and his family. There is no questioning there. They go further and further. Harris its so different and so much more professional and expected of them is something nancy pelosi never did. She never went through all of the levels to get through Impeachment Inquiry. She went straight to a vote on impeachment against trump. Because she had all the evidence. Harris wow. Look at that. Have you seen the trove against biden . Look, we dont have time for this right now. Most importantly, the white house doesnt have confidence in the liberal media so the white House Counsel begs them in a letter to take the orders to back the president. There is clarity here. They want to be clear. Republicans say this, democrats say that is one thing. They want to be clear. Look, there has been investigations. There has been documented files. Harris were leaving. New data dinging bidenomics, an alarming spike of americans in Poverty Levels and crushed Credit Card Debt coming under President Bidens watch. More fallout what republicans are calling a Hostage Ransom Deal with iran. You should be outraged because what they are doing is they are placing a bounty on every americans head. Sadly this Biden White House puts partisan politics above our National Security interest. Harris the contortions that the white house is going through to defend giving 6 billion to a State Sponsor of terror. Senator josh hawley of the great state of missouri in focus next. 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Harris thats how Foreign Affairs chairman michael mccaul. He is questioning and criticizing the Biden White House over that controversial deal to clear 6 billion in seized iranian money to free american prisoners. The announcement came on monday, september 11th. Imagine that, the timing. Critics call it a ransom payment. The white house says there is nothing wrong here. This is not a payment of any kind. It is not ransom. Not u. S. Taxpayer dollars. We havent lifted a single one of our sanctions on iran. They will be getting no sanctions relief. It is iranian money, point number one. Point number two, it is not a blank check. They dont get to spend it any way they want. It is not 6 billion all at once. They have to make a request for withdrawals for humanitarian purposes only. Harris the Washington Examiner editorial calling it bidens 9 11 bonanza for iran adding it is astonishing but also characteristic the administration thought the anniversary of the worst Terror Attacks against america was the right time to shake hands on agreement with the worlds leading, longest lasting and worst sponsor of terror. Josh hawley is in focus now. Great to see you, senator. First of all, why do you think it happened this way . Well, i think because the Biden Administration is desperate to appease iran. The only thing we can conclude. We should get clear on this. A lot of the same people running the biden Foreign Policy also ran obamas Foreign Policy. They want a deal with iran. They are willing to do just about anything and here we have them giving away prisoners, giving them 6 billion. Come on. Harris but why are they so desperate to do a deal with iran . I have to think that when you are that desperate and you give away everything. Look, we all want our americans home no matter where they are on the globe. When you do this deal with literally the devil there has to be Something Else in it that maybe we dont know. What is it . I just think its a desperation to appease this nation to get back into a Nuclear Agreement with them just like the Obama Administration did. It is religion to them. The obama team thought their terrible deal with iran was the best thing ever. Joe biden desperately wants to resurrect it and get back into it and they are willing to do everything they can to try to entice iran. If that means giving them 6 billion or giving them prisoners, they are here for it. Meanwhile it is making us less safe and making the region less table. It is a bad deal. Harris quickly a followup. What mccaul was just saying previously is that they will be i guess gates along the way. Not mccaul, kirby, admiral kirby. There will be gates along way so if they dont do this. Can we call that money back . 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