this is the worst and what really makes it bad is that there is no end in sight. >> harris: no end in sight, he says, despite warnings from the governor and a number of lawmakers and officials on the border, president biden is still not taking any questions from the media on this escalating crisis. in fact, biden's aides ushered reporters away as they were pressing the unresponsive commander-in-chief yesterday with questions. watch. >> come on, let's go. >> harris: you are watching "outnumbered." here today, my cohost emily compagno, fox news contributor and fox nation cohost tomi lahren, former obama director and podcast host, johanna maska and music star" fox nation" host john rich. great to see everybody, john, i'm going to start with you. official news that this is coming because the trump administration told the incoming biden administration, you change too much and they will come. >> john: they basically shot a flare in the sky and say hey, you've got 100 days, guys, let's stop deportations for 100 days and then try to figure out a way where everybody can pretty much stay in the country. if i lived in central america i would take that as a big sign and go, let's load up, guys, this is our shot, let's go. you've seen biden not answering that question and is people aggressively getting them out of there. there's only one assumption to be made about that in my opinion and that's that they don't want to see him speaking on this subject, they don't want him talking about it, being caught speaking on tv, god forbid the president is caught speaking on tv and it makes you wonder, does he understand what's going on, does he have a grasp on the situation, who is calling the shots? this whole thing gets stranger by the day. >> harris: johanna, looking at this through the lens of you worked for an administration previous to the trump administration where the president was called "importer in chief." that was a little known secret because mainstream media didn't cover it all that much but he was deporting people and at the same time they were coming across our border, no one has gotten this right but it is particularly bad now. >> johanna: you're right, harris. when i moved out to los angeles i remember people telling me, you know, we call president obama "importer in chief" and that's why it's really important to be pretty careful with our words right now. we've got a lot of republicans saying this president is the president of open borders and he is not. he is calling for comprehensive immigration reform so we can figure out how to bring people out of the shadows in this country and into law-abiding system. >> harris: let me just ask it to you this way, do you think this is working? do you think that president biden coming in and flipping the switch on president trump foster vs former policy is the way to go? some of them were clearly working, johanna, why did he do that? we can't ask him so i ask you. >> johanna: [laughs] so i think actually i appreciate that president biden is showing message discipline because we have reality tv star as president who would answer every question but not give the facts. and what you're seeing is president biden came in and asked to review all of these policies so that they can make a comprehensive immigration policy suggestion and so no, right now, today isn't working? it hasn't been working for a long time. if we could bring together both sides of the aisle, people along the border states in a crisis, i think it's really important. >> harris: we know that's not going to happen because both sides at some point in the last couple of decades have had majority, bicameral majority, and you know, i realize there's time, obama had that bicameral majority, too, democrats didn't want to do it, republicans didn't want to do it and now somebody has to do something because it's dangerous. tomi? >> tomi: exactly, i'm going to wholeheartedly disagree that there been policies at the border that have not worked because they worked in the trump administration, i've seen it firsthand that the trump policies at the border work, you saw apprehensions go down in a border more secure work secure than ever, border agents able to deal with the flow of migrants coming over and you saw people that were not making that journey, were not coming over because they knew they'd have to wait in mexico into their b.s. asylum claims wouldn't be accepted and they couldn't just come into this country and fan out and mr. court date and stay. that message became very clear with zero tolerance in mexico started working with the united states to secure a border on both ends so yes, those policies were working and the reason the biden administration and democrats do not consider this a crisis, when you believe in open borders and you believe in the opportunity open borders bring you don't see this as a crisis because it was planned. they don't mind that they've got people surging into this country but let us also be clear, those that are coming over, the message has been sent to them, if you come to this country you will receive health care, you will receive stimulus checks, they know because they've done this before, overwhelm the system, they know what their rights are and they know that they can't be held when there are no beds so what they are doing is overwhelming the system so they can be released, get a bus ticket, go into the united states, get a notice to appear and then disappear. they are completely understanding what's going on here, the smugglers, the coyotes, cartels are making a ton of money off of this and who loses? the american people. >> harris: to let me get this in there because you mentioned, even the greyhound bus company, emily, has said that if you are going to put us in this position, speaking on behalf of them, the statement they put out, we are going to need negative covid-19 test results from these people getting on the buses. you've got a lot of americans now along the pipeline coming from south of our border that are going to have to deal, those municipalities that sit near the border are going to have to do their own testing of those people if they come in if, in fact, during a pandemic they come in six coming your thoughts? >> emily: as you mentioned, the official numbers from february have not been released but sources tell our john roberts, to your point, harris, that the title 42 expulsions for february were up 72% and i want to focus on another statistic as well, that sentinel seizures were up 360%. here's why that matters, all of this situation, the border situation is against the backdrop obviously of the pandemic and the lockdowns we keep talking about, you spoke last hour with the attorney general of montana who informed the public that the violent crimes associated there in montana spiked over 300% this year, that is against the backdrop of during the lock down the supply chains being tightened to because border cont that math prices were driven up in addition to materials not being able to get in from china. right now? the borders are open, the meth is flooding the country and violent crimes associated with it are spiking. this is not a vacuum down there nor is it a silo. all these points my colleagues bring up are totally accurate but it's not just those migrants and those border states being affected, there are absolutely a ripple effect that translate to american deaths and the quality of life majorly decreasing especially in the realm of violent crime and drug abuse. these are undeniable facts here. >> harris: the attorney general from the state of montana has now joined the attorney general from the state of arizona and he told me today that he expects that lawsuit to grow, this is bringing meth from the drug cartels and crime with it. i want to go back to john rich for a second because we started with you on, we haven't seen the president on this issue. you saw him at that hardware store in d.c. yesterday, john, you can't have gotten a question near him if it had food on it, nobody was going to take that. right? and johanna called it message discipline, is that what it is and is it good enough? >> john: if message discipline means you never answer any questions, that's message discipline. why can we all discussed that ad nauseam him, the left can speak about it for the president of the united states can't even make a simple statement in a hardware store to one reporter? what does that mean? how are we supposed to compute that? not a good sign. >> harris: okay, we are going to move on. and then there were six. another accuser has come forward and governor cuomo sexual-harassment scandal. so how is the governor reacting this time? and live on capitol hill where the house is getting ready to pass president biden's covid-19 relief bill without any g.o.p. support but that's far from the only issue critics have with that, of course, especially after a stunning admission from the white house press secretary about what is now in the package, watch. >> i will note that the plan that the senate passed this weekend team i puts us one huge step closer to passing one of the most consequential and impressive piece of legislation in american history. ♪ ♪ refiplus from newday usa. it lets you refinance at today's record low rates plus get cash. with mortgage rates low and home values high refiplus can help you lower your rate plus turn your home equity into an average of $50,000. money for security today. money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus from newday usa. is now a good time for a flare-up? 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"democrats insist that the so-called stimulus is necessarily necessary to help the unemployed find work but what working parents most needed are schools to reopen. liberals say they relief checks will give people money to spend about the personal savings rate in 2020 was the highest in 50 years which shows that consumers already have money to spend but few places to spend it until the economy reopens, your thoughts on that? >> johanna: yeah, emily, i have a son who is right now in remote schooling so this is very personal. i definitely want our schools open and i think you see the biden administration pushing that. 32 republican mayors joined president biden to push for this package because they need support at the local level to get the testing and tracing come of the vaccine and this goes back open and i agree with you that that is so important. and our small businesses have been hurting too long, they definitely need to be open but i know a lot of them who are open still don't have customers coming in because they don't feel safe. so we've got to get back to a place where it's safe. on pension reform it is a huge burden in our system, our school system especially, these pensions, we need to look at them, that's only going to happen when we start talking about it in a copy in some way. >> emily: tomi, two johanna if asked if he has a point, she's absolutely right, shouldn't that conversation haven't been reserved for that comprehensive overhaul of the pension programs? that's totally separate from the sand as we discussed in an ongoing conversation here, we talk about the underfunded debt obligations, the fact that there's a tremendous liability in the billions and without any resources to fend for it for these pensions specifically and now the taxpayers, that's who is being saddled with it, your thoughts, tomi? >> tomi: exactly because you couldn't just go ahead and address those issues on their own because they make people like governor gavin newsom look horrible because california has unfunded liabilities and pension problems of course are not going to do that on their own because it makes these blue state governors look horrible. but johanna talks about, we had to have contact tracing and make people feel safe. this bill is not going to do that, we know that less than 10% of this bill is going to anything related to coronavirus so let's stop with that tire talking point because it's a giant live. second of all, the reason people are scared to go into small businesses is because they watched the fearmongering media talk about coronavirus on and nonstop and only talks about coronavirus on and nonstop for the last year or so of course people are afraid. if you look at people in states like tennessee or texas, we don't have that kind of fear because we understand that we can manage our own health, our own safety and our own risk so a lot of this goes to the media, the biden administration is doing nothing, get kids back to school, stopped funding blue states in their lockdowns and let's get back to normal, enough with this, it's been a year and a year to long. >> emily: john rich, johanna mentioned that the president wants schools to reopen safely where our eyes have been open to the fact that it's the unions really wielding that control and holding the power in the negotiations, ignoring the cdc guidelines and the negotiation points before going back in the classroom and my question to you specifically as it is this bill a reward for prior votes or is it to ensure future votes? >> john: bill is about redistribution of wealth, i will bring up an old name to you, emily, joe the plumber back when obama was running and obama slipped up and act actually said the truth, it's all about redistributing the wealth. well now they are just actually doing it, they are doing it out in the open and not apologizing for it. 91% of the bill is redistributing wealth, 9% goes directly towards covid-related things so i'm just going to take my cues from the president and his administration and spend 91% of my time not thinking about covid, opening up my business, raising my family, maybe i will get out next year and spend 9% of my time worrying about covid, how about that? as far as those teachers that won't come back to school, did you know that a vast majority of child abuse cases are reported by teachers? him since he's lockdowns and have cases reports are down 27%. do you think that's because child abuse is down 27%? no, it's because these kids suffer in silence while these bureaucrats and unions drag them down the road. >> emily: harris, to his point, the welfare state versus the free market, this bill removes that conversation from the american people, removes our decision and our choice to vote in that way. >> harris: look, i don't want to ignore your question but we have a lot to unpack here and i want to do it on a little bit of time. this bill, the way john rich just laid it out, if we lived our lives the way this bill dictates, he's right, only 9% of us would be wearing masks but we know from studies at 75% of us are still wearing masks no matter what the mandates essays so when you look at a place like texas people are not only going to still be compliant, businesses remain open, nobody wants to be the super spreader on the block so they are going to now with personal responsibility open up but it's so interesting, this bill, one of my favorite food is chocolate covered peanuts, this food is like washing down a package of peanut m&ms with pepto-bismol because there's just so much more that's going to cover you in pink then you are ever going to enjoy from that little yellow package of peanuts covered in chocolate. why do i put it like that? it's lunchtime, i'm hungry but you don't even get the good news on covid, it doesn't even reflect that we have now more people vaccinated, at least one round, some two fully vaccinated than we do people who have tested positive for covid-19. that's not reflected in this bill either because the bill would be pumping more resources to schools because that's where we ought to be, there's so much science pointing to the fact that this bill is mostly pepto-bismol. those items should have been handled outside this bill, outside of covid and just streamlined it to that one thing and we could be moving forward but we are not. somebody wants us stuck. i don't know who that is. >> emily: all right. he perfectly said. moving on, now, a sixth accuser reportedly comes forward claiming unwanted advancements from governor andrew cuomo. the new details as the governor tries to write out the storm. plus, the questions the biden administration is facing over their recent covid guidelines as even people who have been vaccinated have been told not to fly. is this any way to return to normal? 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or cannot only come from a judge? how does this work? >> emily: given the subpoena power the ag has, that includes documents, also testimony and he absolutely should and i think it would go a long way as well to show his collaboration with this, his cooperation with these investigations. he has zero culpability whatsoever, he was simply following directions and you think he'd be first to turn over all documents especially related to the production of this book and a reminder again that there are criminal charges, ancillary states for what he did so that being said he might be hesitant to show exactly where his decision-making came from. >> harris: so this is bigger than just new york. you've heard the president of the united states, joe biden say that this was the gold standard, a wider look at the attitude toward those in power on the left or not. >> what a statement if that's the gold standard, help me out. what's interesting about governor cuomo, if you look into thousand zero, a lady named susan gaffney, undersecretary cuomo, she filed some very serious allegations, charges against cuomo, talking 21 years ago so this pattern of behavior seems like it's been around for quite a while and he's managed to get away with it. i think about janice dean, losing her in-laws and all the people that lost family members due to his negligence. winning awards from hollywood and everything else is so nauseating, i think everybody in america, they wanted to see this play out and see justice come to this man one way or another. >> harris: democrats are going to have the intentional fortitude to bring the necessary justice in all of this, against the democratic governor. >> johanna: i am a born and bred midwesterner and tired of midwesterners who know it all. i think it's, the democrats are absolutely going to hold our party accountable, i hope the republicans do the same. >> harris: real quick, 20 seconds, tomi. >> johanna: i find it interesting that every time we are talking about democrats who have abused their power and their decisions have led people to literally die, every democrat has to go back to president trump. let's take a look at what's going on and have an investigation and maybe cuomo shouldn't be such a narcissist, like he's too big to fail and he's untouchable and i'd like to see that from the democrats, hopefully we will. >> harris: hopefully we will know what comes out of the fbi investigation that comes on with the way he handled nursing homes as well. push back now as the cdc urges nonvaccinated americans cannot travel, don't do it. critics point out that the covid-19 positive migrants are being allowed to go anywhere they want in the country unrestricted. plus, fresh controversy, the maker of dove soaps and other popular products expanding the word "normal" from its branding. why? 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"biden's double standard is mind-boggling. a firm know for granny but i guess for illegal immigrants. tomi, your thoughts on this? >> tomi: neanderthal thinking is letting unvented people into this country but again, this whole thing, the way especially the biden administration is dealing with coronavirus and the pandemic is all about control. get a vaccine, where the mass, now even if you have the vaccine maybe you shouldn't travel, this is about control, they have to keep the charade up because if they let it go now everything they've done for the last year and the lives they've ruined and businesses they've destroyed, people they've bankrupted will look all for nothing so they have to keep this up. that's why you see if ouchi, the cdc, everybody giving us mixed messages and flip-flopping. there are dancers here because they are winging it by the minute to make themselves look better and the american people should be frustrated. that's why states like texas, god bless you for going out and taking care of your people on your own. we need more states to step up and do the same. >> emily: johanna? >> johanna: i don't think we are seeing the cdc tell grandma and grandpa that they can't see their grandchildren. i think we are seeing the cdc give guidelines so more of them can be alive to see their grandchildren. we've got to get to the point where we've got enough americans vaccinated that you don't have the risk of that 5% or 10% that can catch covid when you go out and fly. they are giving guidance, people have to make their own decisions and there's not a lot down telling them that they can't fly. just today i am proud that president biden announced that he's going to be able to secure another hundred million doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine but also testing and tracing is going to be vital to us getting back to a place where grandma and grandpa can go see their grandchildren and our businesses can be open and our schools can be open. >> emily: john rich? >> john: how many members of the cdc were voted on and put into office by the american public? i think zero is the answer to that. you know, as we watch them for the past 12 months is the advice changes, masks don't matter, now you need a mask, you need to file masks, two mask sent a vaccine and now you've got this, i think to tomi's point, it is somewhere back in there somebody pulling levers going, how far can we push the american people? how much will they allow us to continue to control them before they actually revolt? it's not making the news but if you look at countries like greece and belgium and places overseas that it had enough of this, they are out in the streets revolting over this stuff, americans haven't done that yet but i don't think we are too far in the future from seeing that if they continue this, when it gets to that bill, 91% of the money didn't go to the covid situations but the cdc is sitting here telling us, we've got this whole new set of rules. which one is true? >> emily: harris, as we are at the one year mark. >> harris: yeah, one year. more than a half a million people dead. and you know, there are a lot of lessons that have been learned along the way. one of the most recent ones is at the biden administration doesn't always follow the science and the cdc, i can't imagine the push/pull going on right now, they came out recently saying it's time to get back to school, it's safe for kids to be in school and yet you have the administration talking at the lectern inside the white house, you know, not really sure what the plan is going forward. so the american people are left to not only as john says, figure out whether they trust but they are hearing but also, do they trust that the facts aren't changing for other reasons than just the science? and by the way, johanna is right, you can get together with your grandparents if you are fully vaccinated, meaning it's been two weeks since your second shot of pfizer or madera or your second shot of johnson & johnson. and if there are low-risk people people in your household you can even be unmasked around them, too. that came from the cdc. were not really hearing all that much from the white house. and like john says, we just have so many questions for the president of the united states. who has been fully vaccinated and double masking, who is he listening to exactly? and who is he around that he feels like he needs to do that? is he different from us? so many questions. >> emily: all right, now we are switching gears so stay with us, guys, because the free britney movement may be coming to capitol hill as two high profile republican lawmakers are now pushing for a hearing saying the case goes way beyond the pop star's financial site and that constitutional freedoms are at stake. ♪ ♪ not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 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