show. all that with palace insiders in just a moment. first, back here at home in america, the numbers at the border are staggering. 100,000 apprehensions in february alone. one border patrol agent telling fox news that we can't catch them and release them fast enough. "the new york times" now referring to migrant children in custody along the border in jail-like facilities and held longer than legally allowed. border officials fear that march could be more of the same and republicans are now urging the president to call this a national emergency or else the flow will not stop. we have not heard from the president himself on this situation in quite some time. this is his last comment on it six days ago. >> is there a crisis at the border? >> martha: now from the press podium, it's clear the pressure is building for an about face on the policy that is driving all of these people here. >> the messaging, does it need be tweaked all? it's not also about humanity but you might not be able to it get this. >> humanity will always be a value from the president on down. you're right. we're continuing to work to convey to people in the region that this is not the time to come. >> martha: this is not the time to come she says. mike mccall of texas says at this point it's easier to come into the united states illegally than it is to get a tour of the u.s. capitol. he joins us with more many just a moment. karl rove is standing by with the numbers in texas that are unbelievable. let's go to griff jenkins live at the border in mexico today. hey, griff. >> good afternoon. i've been told you can't catch and release them fast up in in ten years and he's not given up to hyperbole. we're on the other side of the sector where the agent works. let's go to the sky with the fox drone team and give you a birds eye view of what governor abbott saw when he took the helicopter ride over the rio grande valley sector. that is ground zero for biden's border surge. after he got down scene, the challenges and the numbers, the governor saying that he's worried about the trends and the numbers he's seeing. take a listen. >> this is a low number month of the year. the people coming across the border will increase dramatically. we're on scale to have maybe up to a million people cross our border, the texas border this year. this will turn into a disaster if they don't implement stronger measures. >> so why are they come something? you talk with all the officials and democrat congressmen. it's because of the green light that they see coming from the biden administration's new policies. this next to the port of entry is the largest camp along the rio grande now closed. we spoke a day or so ago to one of the migrants, mario, that lived here for eight months and has not yet crossed and he will do at some point legally or illegally. here's what he said about the new administration's welcome sign. listen. >> the president, united states, biden, held the people because it's necessary, you know. we don't have no stay, nothing here. >> finally that specific number we learned today, martha, the number of unaccompanied children tripling in the last two weeks, 3,250 of which 1,000 were held longer than 72 hours as permitted by law. martha? >> martha: thanks, griff. now joining me, mike mccall. congressman, good to see you here today. clearly sent a different message than we're hearing from jen psaki at the podium, which is that now is not the time to come. they said this before the inauguration. obviously they had concerns about this. so what do they do now? >> in fact, the secretary of homeland security said don't come now, but you can't come. this is the wrong statement, wrong message to be sending. you know, i was a federal prosecutor down there in texas. i know the border. i chaired homeland. i've been down there more than any other member. it's all about deterrence. when the green light is on and the messaging is if you come you can stay, they're going to come. the traffickers know this. they're very smart and very advanced. the sad thing about this, martha, president biden says he wants us to be humane. he's created a humanitarian crisis. these poor children get trafficked up that dangerous route. now we don't have enough space to pit them in and then you have the covid crisis down there as well. they created this border crisis. they need to fix it. >> martha: it's pretty remarkable when you think about it, we've created this situation where you're not allowed to fly in with covid. you have to be tested everywhere. in every entry point of the country, you have to be tested or have documentation except there at the southern border where if you want to walk across with covid you can. how does that make sense? >> makes no sense at all. it's not only a threat to these children that are being exploited and they know the laws in our country but it's a threat to americans, the population cutting in. biden cut off the agreementing with mexico, central america where they would have to stay in mexico to apply for asylum. i've seen this before. i predict this. by summer you'll see as my governor just said probably somewhere around a million people trying to get in to this country illegally. as i said before, it's ironic that you can get in to this country illegally easier than you can get a tour of this capitol right behind me. >> martha: have you heard that kevin mccarthy is planning to lead a gop delegation to the border next week? >> yeah, i think there's several. there's many delegations going down. i've led many myself. so a lot of -- it's important for members to see the border that are not from border states to understand the dynamics, to see the rio grande river and these kids that will break your heart going undo there. >> martha: i've been down there. i saw the building of the border wall which has been halted. it sends a message that it's open and you should come. and you think about all the processes that we're trying to create to try to make people go through entry points so you can do it legally. you have to apply for asylum in your home country. a process that was starting to form that worked and now it's out the window. we'll see where it goes. >> martha, with the stroke of a pen, he erased all of trump's effectiveness at the border. >> martha: has to be based on what is healthy and working for all people involved. it sort of reversed policy. it's not working right now. good to see you today. >> thank you, martha. >> martha: the president must say now about this. we'll add it up with the debut of the white board wisdom next. managing type 2 diabetes? 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that white house press room. >> think about it. it's been since calvin coolidge was president that we have not had a president hold a news conference thus far in their term. it's not even close for a lot of them. most of them had their first press conference either in late january or early february. we're now in early march. again, you have to go back 15 presidents to find somebody that was willing to subject themselves to the normal routine of give and take. >> martha: why do you think it is? >> i don't know. i mean, it was very much to their advantage to keep him in the basement in the campaign because it kept the focus on president trump. president trump didn't damage to himself. they were content to have him do that. i don't know. it may be -- the few times that we've seen him in public events in the afternoons, early evenings, he hasn't been at his finest. maybe that they want to delay the moment as long as possible and have extraordinary precautions to make sure he's at the top of his game. hold it in the early day or the afternoon. >> martha: that's quite something. he appeared to have a difficult time remembering the name of his defense secretary yesterday. he was struggling for his name clearly. i want to ask you a question about the border. jen psaki says the people at the border are mostly being turned away. it's the children. the majority of families and adults are turned away at the border. this morning i was watching brian kilmeade talk to a rancher in texas. he said the big rise in single males. i remember you told us that the other day. >> yeah, here's the white board wisdom. we pay attention to things that touch our heart. unaccompanied minors through january of last year, 12,000 to come to the border. this fiscal year, last october until january 31 of this year, 20,000. so we have a 64% increase in those kind of apprehensions at the border. they're cost lit because we have to put them in specialized facilities and they touch our heart strings. they're the most vulnerable among us. on the other hand, single a ducts last fiscal year, october through january of last fiscal year, 86,000 of them. this fiscal year, that is to say from october 1 of last year through january of 30th, 244,000. that is 182% increase. not only that, but it's ramping up. it's not starting last october. it started down here and up to here by the end of january. when the new numbers comes out tomorrow, we'll be a briefing 350,000 people coming across the border through the end of february. that compared to 458,000 last year. what are they doing with them? if you claim refugee status, you're not being returned to mexico or returned to your home country to wait as we did before. you're being released into the united states. brownsville, they take them to the greyhound bus stations and dump them off. the city of brownsville has a covid-19 testing site there that they're paying for, not the federal government because the greyhound ceo said i cannot allow 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felt it was important to break with that convention. the issue here specifically, the explosive issue, meghan's claim with oprah that 1 member of the royal family had had several conversations with harry about archie's skin color before he was born and the broader allegations of racism in the royal family. i think, you know, we had a pull-out today a showed 36% of the british people said they sympathized more with the queen and the royal family and 22%, so less, side with meghan and harry. here's the issue. nearly half of 18 to 42-year-olds said that they sympathized with meghan and harry. that's the big issue here. the queen, the royal family focused on the presser is vaccination of the monarchy. the image of the royal family. if they see that slipping amongst young people, the queen decided that that is something that they need to address. >> martha: thanks very much. my next guest have six decades of combined experience recovering the royal family. neil is here. he worked with members of the royal family including princesses william and harry and arthur edwards who has been 1 the sun and covered william and harry since they were little boys and become close to the family over the years. it's wonderful to have you with us. thanks for being here. arthur, what was your reaction to the queen's statement today? >> i thought it was measured, short. 61 words. it's the line about some recollections may vary. so they tackled the issue of race. that's primary to the concern. whoever made that remark to harry was obviously fessed up and they're discussing it. it was in different circumstances and different meaning to what harry made clear in the interview. >> martha: interestingly enough, thomas markle, who is meghan's father, who has been a hugely controversial figure didn't walk her down the aisle, he spoke out about his interpretation of what that comment might have been. watch this. >> this thing about what color will the baby be or how dark will it be, i'm guessing and hoping it's just a dumb question from somebody. you know, it could just be that simple. could be somebody asked a stupid question rather than being a total racist. >> martha: that possibility didn't get much air or much talk time in that oprah interview, neil. what do you think? >> you know what is interesting, martha, when you look at the bigger picture, they've managed to turn this into a bit of a trash tv fest. all of these things surely could have been resolved and a couple of the issues that i have a problem with, when she says she went to help but there was nobody to turn to, prince harry is so well-connected to all of these mental health charities, surely he would have been aable to speak to somebody in that camp that he would know to help advise his wife. a lot of holes in he's stories for me that didn't ring true. people will attack you and say, you know, it's terrible. but first of all, you have to remember that i think oprah is a fantastic interviewer but she did give them a soft ride. she didn't ask deep enough the questions that we really needed to know. the major problem for me, wu all need to look out for prince harry. he looks to be the one that is most hurting, most vulnerable. he looks on the edge. we've seen him up close. he is -- something not right there. i feel very sorry for him actually. >> martha: what do you think about that? >> you know, harry has thrown his brother, his father and his sister-in-law under the bus with this interview. that surprised me. the one thing that william and harry were were very close. he done that. it seems to be vindictive. seems like he was trying to get even. he's upset the royal family tremendously. they gathered it together and sort it out privately. but there was -- i agree with neil. she didn't ask about why meghan hasn't taken the baby to see her father. she could have had any doctor she wanted to see about her mental problems. and to me, some of the stories were just -- mind blowingly untrue. you can't get married three days before the royal wedding where there's no witnesses. you can't do that. those things are laughable. in the end, made me the way she went on about archie's skin color and he won't get a title and no security. it's not down to the queen. it's to scotland yard. prince andrew got private security for beatrice and eugenia. >> martha: the final records that he was incandescent with rage. had to be very painful to watch this for kate and william. >> yeah, they were very close. when one gets married, there's always a moving point. but for william and katherine, they were very welcoming to meghan. they must be really hurting deep down. i hope it can all be resolved, martha. we all want the fairy tale happy ending. >> martha: quick thought, arthur. >> they were a great team and i think they can still be in the future. >> martha: prince charles seems to be absent in this thing. he could have helped out along the way through this. arthur, great to see you. 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>> martha: thanks, chad. let's bring in rick scott of florida. he said it's wasteful and will drive up the debt. the only way you can use reconciliation is when it's a budget-related bill. the other thing won't get through with a simple majority. you're trying to persuade florida members of congress not to -- to vote know here. doesn't sound like that is getting anywhere from what i'm hearing on the other side of the aisle. >> it's too bad. we ought to do targeted relief. republicans are on board. help people that lost their jobs and buses struggling, get more mean for vaccines. this is the bernie sanders progressive, joe biden progressive bill. payback liberal interest groups. they're paying back governors, they're paying back unions. it's a payback for the november election. so it's going to run up our debt. we already have $28 trillion of debt. interest rates are up. gas prices are up. looks like inflation will pick up. who gets hurt? poor families. they're not going to get help. >> martha: it's going to be interesting to see the impact of prices going up. you might get a check in the mail but if it's eaten up by what you're spending on gas and other things, it's not a great deal. this is a question from the san francisco chronicle editorial board monday. it's clear that biden's determination to use his engaging personal state and senatorial experience to usher in bipartisan cooperation is elusive. the honeymoon is not over. it never began. how much of a factor has the president been in negotiating over this and reaching across the aisle and trying to get a deal that makes both sides relatively okay with it? 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"the new york times" is reporting that crown publishing has paused promoting and producing cuomo's book pending an ongoing investigation into whether his administration covered up that nursing home death data. meantime, new this hour, a sixth accuser alleging that governor andrew cuomo committed inappropriate behavior has told the albany time union. they said that she was a member of cuomo's chamber staff and he was made aware of the allegation over the weekend. the accuser told a supervisor in the executive chamber recently that the governor inappropriately touched her late last year during an encounter at the governor's mansion where she had been summoned to do work. in a statement given to the albany times union, the governor's office said that they're now referring all allegations to the attorney general's office, which is conducting an independent investigation. martha, the pressure continues to mount. 76 new york lawmakers calling for his resignation or impeachment as more and more scandals and allegations come out. >> martha: thanks, bryan llenas in brooklyn. joining me now, carley shimkus. working on this story for us as well. carley, the new developments, a sixth person will now be part of the investigation. yeah, the thing that strikes me, we're on information overload when it comes to governor cuomo. that is a good thing. for so long, it wasn't just silence. it was over-the-top praise. he was the guy that was the straight shooter, telling the truth who was there to comfort new yorkers in this time of crisis. while that praise was directed at governor cuomo, it was used to attack president trump. the only reason we're at this place right now where bryan llenas details everything that is going on, it's not because the media, the mainstream media, not fox news, not the "new york post" or daily caller, it's not that they woke up to this attorney general investigation that showed that they had undercounted nursing home deaths and they started to take it seriously, it's because cuomo's staffer, melissa derosa came forward, two democrats and said we did hide this information because we were afraid it was going to make us look bad. that's a smoking gun. and then after that, his character started to get called into question with ron kim saying he has threatened him. lindsey boylan made the sexual harassment allegation in december and people barely blinked. after this came out, they took her more seriously and now a sixth woman that just came out as well. i would venture a guess that it may be more. >> martha: could be. we've seen the snow ball effect of these kinds of allegations before. the other thing that stuck out to me is that the -- with the nursing home situation, there's now this indication that we just heard bryan talk about that there was also a home for disabled individuals that they also on april 10, the other one was march 25, april 1 to to lead the coronavirus positive patients in these disabled homes as well. >> it's the same directive. the only difference is the directive for disabled individuals is still in act today. it's still on the books today. you have to wonder why that is. the nursing home allegation was so big that they forgot about -- >> martha: didn't get any reporting until it was broke here on fox news last night. carley, thanks very much. good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> martha: coming up, brett giroir with a look back at the messaging on covid-19 when it began to affect the united states a year ago. we're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the lockdown, folks. if you can believe it. we'll look back and forward with brett giroir. >> there's no reason to be walking around with a mask. ♪ ♪ we know it's going to take many forms of energy to meet the world's needs while creating a cleaner future for all. at chevron, we're lowering the carbon emissions intensity of our operations, investing in lower-carbon technologies, and exploring renewable fuels of the future. we work hard to care for the homes we love. but it's only human... to protect the one we share. so you're a small business, we work hard to care for or a big one.ove. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ hey limu! 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"your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> neil: getting ready to make history for the president of the united states. $1.9 trillion stimulus relief plan borne of covid fears that republicans say has a lot not to do with covid they're dotting the is and crossing the ts right now and will take up the issue tomorrow but the narrowest of margins. we're hearing that democrats cannot afford to lose more than four members. keep in mind, no republican is expected to approve this. so the pressure is on to get this done. we'll be raising that withes