'SLAP IN THE FACE': Omar under FIRE for latest political move

[0:05] We are now just seven days away from what the president calls, quote, the most important election of our lives. [0:11] The battle for control of Congress is down to its final stretch, and we are tracking the key races, the candidates on the move, [0:17] and the campaign moments that could shape Election Day. [0:21] Today, Vice President J.D. Vance is rallying in Howell, Michigan, next hour, [0:25] hoping to help Mike Rogers in his final push for the Senate against DSA-backed candidate Abdul El-Sayed. [0:30] Meanwhile, President Trump is heading to Texas today for rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock, [0:35] aiming to stress that to finish the job he started, he will need all the support in Congress he can get. [0:41] Texas and Michigan are two of the five toss-up Senate seats in our Fox News Power rankings, [0:46] along with Iowa, Maine, and Nebraska. [0:48] You're looking at that there, the forecast favors Democrats in 48 Senate seats, [0:53] with Ohio shifting left compared to 47 for Republicans. [0:57] That leaves both parties three seats short of a majority. [1:01] So these five toss-up races are key to determining Senate control. [1:06] And people have been lining up since this morning to see the president in Texas. [1:10] Now they've moved inside. [1:11] Voters are fired up and have plenty to say. [1:15] If we lose Texas, we lose the United States. [1:17] I just don't want Texas to be like California or Chicago, New York, or Washington. [1:24] I want Texas to be Texas weighted right now. [1:26] Supposed to be freedom, low taxes. [1:30] You don't educate my child about what sexual preference they want to be. [1:34] You don't tell me how to raise my child. [1:37] You don't tell me what school to go to. [1:39] You get rid of the illegals and you fight for the American dream. [1:43] Noting that it's Alaska in our top category, toss-up category, with Nebraska currently leaning right. [1:51] And with this just one week until election day, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is facing fresh scrutiny [1:55] after her latest comments alongside far-left streamer Hassan Piker. [2:00] The remarks are putting a spotlight on the company she keeps, [2:02] the message she's sending to voters, and the growing influence of the far-left within the Democratic Party. [2:08] Omar is already facing a barrage of scrutiny over questions surrounding her family and her immigration status. [2:13] Now, could these latest remarks create another headache for Democrats in the final stretch of the campaign? [2:19] That's the question. [2:21] Well, hello, everyone. [2:21] This is Outnumbered. [2:22] I'm Kaylee McEnany. [2:23] Here with my co-host Harris Faulkner. [2:25] Also joining us, Riley Gaines, host of The Riley Gaines Show. [2:29] Rosanna Scotto, Fox 5, New York anchor, and host of The Underground Economy on Fox Nation. [2:34] And Josh Ritter, Fox News contributor, criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor, [2:38] and co-host of The Weekly Rap Sheet on Fox Nation. [2:41] Let's start with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, [2:44] facing backlash for sharing the stage with far-left streamer Hassan Piker, [2:48] whose past comments about 9-11, Hamas, and Israel have drawn widespread criticism, [2:53] including from fellow Democrats. [2:55] The event was billed as an effort to mobilize young progressive voters ahead of the midterms. [3:01] Omar had an interesting response when Piker asked why the media always seems to be focusing on her. [3:06] I feel like the media has a tendency to highlight everything that you do, [3:13] some of the things that I do. [3:15] Like, we're just normal Americans trying to go about our day-to-day [3:20] and trying to organize against the Trump administration in the same way that, [3:24] you know, white people are doing in general, right? [3:26] It's like, why is this... [3:27] I think you just look really good on their screen. [3:29] Of course, the attention on Omar couldn't be due to the active federal investigation [3:34] and to her immigration history, [3:36] and certainly not the separate federal inquiry [3:38] into her multimillion-dollar financial disclosure discrepancy. [3:42] Now, Omar has also bragged about how the Somali community in Minnesota [3:46] banded together once Trump took office again [3:48] and prepared to fight back if Trump targeted them. [3:52] It was a strategic meeting because we wanted to, you know, [3:56] understand and be connected in case something was going to pop off, [4:00] like it did eventually pop off. [4:01] And I remember their attorney said, you know, [4:07] I've been doing this for decades, [4:10] and this is the one state I hate to be assigned to [4:14] because it is the only state that has a network that is hard to penetrate. [4:26] Piker provided another interesting reason why all eyes seem to be on Omar. [4:31] White supremacist forces in this country have decided to target Minneapolis [4:35] because of the successful Somali-American community [4:39] that has been able to thrive here. [4:41] The event with Piker drew immediate backlash [4:43] with Omar's GOP opponent John Nagel [4:46] saying how attending this event is not outreach, [4:48] it is normalizing anti-Semitism. [4:50] Minnesota representative Lisa DeMuth wonders [4:53] why leaders on the left, like Amy Klobuchar, [4:56] aren't calling for Piker to be uninvited to election rallies [4:59] or offering any condemnation of Piker at all. [5:02] But is the tide starting to turn [5:04] when it comes to support of Piker on the left? [5:07] Minnesota representative Angie Craig [5:09] calls Piker's rhetoric polarizing and dangerous [5:11] and says embracing him as a party is a mistake. [5:14] And even Senator Amy Klobuchar's office finally spoke out saying, [5:18] quote, the senator believes that a number of statements [5:20] Piker has made are reckless and unacceptable. [5:24] Harris, you do have these two Democrats speaking out, [5:27] but it's certainly not the whole of the party. [5:29] It's often by El Sayed just dismissed [5:30] as a streamer from California. [5:32] Well, whatever he is, he seems to be a net to catch Democrats as they fall. [5:38] So I want to know, why is he doing a wellness check [5:40] on a far left member of Congress who's under two federal investigations? [5:43] Why does he, because that's how the interview starts, [5:45] with him kind of doing a check-in, [5:47] how are you doing, kind of warm and fuzzy. [5:49] Why does she need to sit next to him? [5:51] What does he give her at this point? [5:54] And I don't know if he's trying to buy himself away into a case, [5:57] but when you defend her with, [5:58] it was a paperwork situation, [6:00] you don't know what that woman has done or didn't do. [6:03] And it's not just a million dollars here or there. [6:07] She had 30 million on the paperwork [6:09] and then came back and corrected it to less than 150,000. [6:13] That's not a rounding error. [6:14] That's not a paperwork error. [6:15] Those numbers don't even match if you move the zeros around. [6:18] What is he doing defending her? [6:20] I want to know more about the money anyway. [6:22] I want to say follow the money. [6:25] Absolutely. [6:25] Rosanna, when you look at some of what he said, [6:28] you have Piker saying that the Somali community [6:30] has been able to thrive here. [6:33] And it just feels like at a time [6:34] when we are looking at potentially $9 billion of fraud in Minnesota, [6:39] that's not all the Somali community, [6:41] but it is the epicenter of a lot of this fraud. [6:44] It seems like just a slap in the face to voters. [6:46] First of all, you know, I know Piker has a tremendous online following, [6:51] but whatever he says needs to be fact-checked. [6:54] This guy is not a journalist. [6:56] He just says whatever he wants to say [6:59] without any repercussions, any pushback. [7:02] We're the only ones giving him pushback [7:04] because we're doing the fact-checking. [7:06] Why she needs to have his support, I don't know. [7:11] Because that says a lot that you go to a guy [7:13] who questioned America's role in a 9-11 attack. [7:18] He then walked it back. [7:19] But this guy has said crazy things about Americans [7:22] and our patriotism. [7:24] I don't know why she needs him. [7:26] And especially, I would think, you know, [7:28] she's under a cloud of suspicion right now. [7:32] Like I would tell my kids, stay low. [7:36] Don't get attention. [7:39] Stay low right now while this is going on. [7:41] She's going for the gusto with this guy. [7:43] It doesn't even make sense. [7:45] You know, Josh, and Ilhan Omar with regard [7:47] to the fraud epidemic in Minnesota has said, [7:49] look, it's flat-out false. [7:51] I did not know about this. [7:51] I had nothing to do with it. [7:52] So she said that. [7:53] But when you look at the center of this scandal, [7:55] it was feeding our futures. [7:56] That was supposed to be pandemic-era money [7:58] going to children. [7:59] Instead, more than $100 million of it [8:02] siphoned off into fraud. [8:03] Her district was at the epicenter [8:05] of much of this in Minneapolis. [8:07] And there have been 81 indictments. [8:09] There have been, I believe, 57 convictions. [8:12] Now, that is not to say she had any role in that. [8:14] Nevertheless, this is a big deal. [8:16] And she should be out there talking about this as an issue. [8:19] It happened in her district. [8:20] Oh, it's absolutely a big deal. [8:22] And I think the reason she's not talking about it [8:24] because she knows she's in hot water for the whole thing. [8:27] I think that's why she's cozying up to Hassan Piker [8:30] because who else can she get as an ally at this point? [8:33] I think she's becoming very toxic [8:35] because people are realizing that she's in real trouble here. [8:38] Hassan called it a paperwork violation. [8:41] And I've got to give him a PR award for that whole thing. [8:44] He's got a future as a criminal defense attorney [8:46] because you know what else is a paperwork violation? [8:49] Fraud, financial fraud, immigration fraud, [8:53] our paperwork violations, [8:54] if you're her attorney standing next to her. [8:58] I will say this as well. [9:00] We know that there were warrants that were executed [9:02] on her residence. [9:03] They seized electronics. [9:05] You don't get those things easily from a federal judge. [9:08] And I'll tell you what we're not hearing about, [9:10] but I suspect is taking place [9:12] is that they have already had subpoenas executed [9:15] and warrants on her financials. [9:17] That's where this is all beginning. [9:19] We're not hearing about it [9:20] because the banks are going to turn those things over quietly. [9:22] That's not like cameras in front of her home, [9:25] but I bet you they are digging through all of that [9:27] and that is really where the trouble for her is going to be. [9:30] Riley, which makes it such an interesting time to talk. [9:32] I mean, it's focused on getting reelected. [9:35] We have no indication she wouldn't be reelected. [9:36] She's in a big Dem district, [9:37] but why go on with Hassan Piker? [9:39] You know, I think it's because for her, [9:42] you made the point, Rosanna, [9:43] about what does she have to gain from this? [9:46] Everyone is covering for her. [9:48] So I don't think there's a level of fear [9:49] or intimidation in sitting next to Hassan Piker [9:51] because the media is covering for her virtually everyone. [9:54] So I don't feel like they think [9:55] they need to answer for anyone for their tactics. [9:59] You have people like AOC who is maybe trying to soften things up [10:02] and saying, you know, woke one was crazy. [10:04] We never left woke one as far as I'm concerned [10:07] and this is proof of it. [10:08] This is proof that I think really following the 2024 election [10:11] where we did see this red wave, [10:13] I thought we would start to see Democrats [10:15] like slowly start to recant [10:16] from their previous voting positions [10:18] and things that they've said, [10:19] their platform that they support, [10:20] the policies that they champion, [10:22] but they've only really leaned into their radicalism. [10:25] They've really only leaned into their extremism. [10:27] And so my message to voters, [10:28] especially what now just about a week away [10:30] from election day, [10:31] is believe them when they tell you who they are. [10:34] When you see Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, [10:36] if that's even her real name, [10:38] when you see her sitting next to Hassan Piker, [10:41] believe her when she tells you what she is. [10:42] All right. [10:43] Well, onto this, [10:44] a New Jersey teen accused of running down [10:46] and killing two other teens [10:47] pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. [10:49] This is just one more [10:51] and a spate of insanity defenses [10:53] we've seen in recent months. [10:54] Is this a new norm? [10:55] And are we making excuses for bad behavior? [10:57] Next. [10:58] Hey everyone, I'm Emily Campagno. [11:05] Catch me and my co-hosts, [11:06] Harris Faulkner and Kaylee McEnany [11:08] on Outnumbered every weekday at 12 p.m. Eastern [11:11] or set your DVR. [11:13] Also, don't forget to subscribe [11:15] to the Fox News YouTube page [11:17] for daily highlights.