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every single major economist out there, left, right and center supported this plan. >> so lawmakers are shooting to have a list of priorities from their states by next friday, have the bill out by memorial day. the goal is to have it passed by september, neil. >> neil: all right. jacqui, thanks very much. just an update on the president. he said every mayor economist was supporting this plan to be fair, they were supporting stimulus, not all supporting almost $2 trillion of stimulus. if jacqui is right, no reason to doubt, we have more stimulus and more money to be spend coming down the road. that is what irks my nest guest, chip roy. congressman, this could be an appetizer, the nearly $2 trillion that could be dwarfed hahn this. where is this go something. >> you're right, this reckless spending is racking up a lot of debt for our kids and grandkids and undermining the stability. people around the world are looking at us and we're dumping money out in to the economy. wondering why we might have inflationary pressures. besides the fact that we're spending the money to fund the tyranny in washington that is stepping on your and my freedom, funding teacher union bureaucrats, funding, expansion of obama care subsidies. trying to create a universal living wage, the dream of the welfare state democrats to increase the expansion of the state in washington d.c. >> neil: to be fair to you, congressman, you've been very vigilant trying to control spending in washington no matter who the president is. the fact of the matter is, republicans lecturing democrats on spending is like me telling somebody to eat a salad. they wouldn't take the advice. what i'm watching is such an overamount of spending in an environment where the economy is already booming. people can argue over some of the data for some folks. the fact of the matter is, we could see a double digit advance in our economy year over year to say nothing about speaking up speed as we speak. the question is with interest rates backing up because of that, not dramatically but somewhat and the cost of all of that debt going with up because it is, we could find ourselves in a pretty serious situation here. >> neil, i appreciate you recognize that i was consistent and that i took on the trump administration loudly on spending. i have done that my entire career. republicans don't have clean hands with spending. but my democrat colleagues are stepping on the gas in unprecedented ways. let's consider over the last year now, we'll have spend $6 trillion on covid. talking about $2 trillion in infrastructure spending, another couple trillion on green new deal spending. that's when we're running trillion dollar annual deficits. that is $10, 11, 12 trillion more than we're taking in in terms of income. that's unsustainable. more importantly, neil, we're funding government interfering with our lives. we're funding government shutting down businesses and to have teachers teach our kids evil and not secure our boarder. we're funding government to do things we shouldn't be doing and will have a negative economic consequence while we watch interest rates go up. now we're going to run over the gap with reckless spending. >> neil: bottom line, they run the table right now, congressman. they control the house, the senate, control the white house. they seem to be responding as republicans briefly did to full control to just ramming what they can as much as they can. seems like whatever you want, it ain't going to happen. >> we're going to do everything we can to pump the brakes on that. takes a pretty good -- takes 60 to get some things done in the senate. we're going to hold the line. >> neil: for now. >> but at the end of the day, we have to stop this from moving through the senate so rapidly. the causing sauce needs to work. >> neil: we shall see. they -- thanks, congressman. the impact with lee carter and charles payne. charles, the bottom line have the economy is picking up considerable steam. part of the reason why interest rates are backing up. because the numbers have been so good. the expansions have been so many and noted that, you know, it's not a surprise that all of this is happening. but it does seem to be a surprise to many on capitol hill that want to keep spending more because they don't think it is happening. what do you tell them? >> i think they know that -- listen, we're talking about perhaps this year being the biggest gdp year going back to ronald reagan. it's trillions and trillions of dollars pouring in. trillion dollars hasn't been spent from last year so we're going to pour more into that. a lot of politicses on the democratic side want to seize on the moment. you keep getting the messages like yeah, we're doing great but these dark messages. don't cheer yet but. i thought it was interesting when nancy pelosi said the other day when asked, when does it all stop? when does the virus stop mutating? judging on the flu, never. that's the answer. we'll keep pumping. it's seizing on the moments. you're right. i wouldn't be surprised if maybe they were to go ahead with a gambet of getting rid of the filibuster. they're going for broke. it's going to feel great to everybody because that's a lot of money sloshing around. show me the trillion dollars and i'll show you a good time. how about if we showed you seven or seven trillion until it runs out? >> neil: charles, this is a family show. keep it down. lee, you know, to differ with some of these future spending efforts is at least this time we understand that they're going to come up with ways to pay for it. tax hikes and the rest. the president made it clear who he's targeting, this is the president earlier today. >> we don't have anything against wealthy people. a great idea, going to make millions of dollars. that's fine. i have no problem with that. guess what? you have to pay your fair share. >> neil: all right. the president deliberately stopped on my remarks. the point is the rich pay their fair share. what is the fair share? that will be the pitch. the folks we're targeting are the well-to-do, businesses and all of that. we're talking here, you know, trillions more dollars on top of -- charles said the $6 trillion already spent. trillions more for other projects. i think you could tax the rich at 100% and not cover the cost of this. what are you hearing? >> yeah, there's no doubt about it. we can't afford what we have already spent just by taxing the wealthy and what has planned with infrastructure coming next, there's even more to come. the thing is, this is all wildly popular. taxing the wealthy, 3/4 americans say yes, do it. when you look at the rest of the spending, 3/4% of americans agree with what just happened in the $1.9 trillion spending. so the democrats right now are winning in the court of public opinion. the question is how long is this love going to last. >> neil: $1.9 trillion that americans supported, i don't think they know what is in it. when i bring it to people's attention, they say i don't like that. wait a minute. i thought this was urgent. we're not going to spend half of it until future years. when you bring it to their attention, everybody supports stimulus relief. but as far as getting checks out to people, extending jobless benefits. but when they get into the weeds on this, then they're shocked. maybe it's too late to get that across. >> you know, i don't think it's too late to get it across at all. the republicans are smart, they'd be using the next two years to talk about wasteful spending. they agree that americans need money right now. the question is how much. dan crenshaw had an interesting argument. listen, do you want to give the government $5,760 in order to get back $1,400? that's what the democrats have just done. you have given them more money than you're getting back. who knows your money more than you? that's the argument that needs to be made by republicans what is happening to the other $4,000. is it worth it? is that where americans want to put their money? there's a lot of priorities out there that americans are looking for. yes, they want relief. do they want there excess spending? i don't be popular when you have to pull it apart. that's not going to happen until people have the most popular parts in the pocketbook show up. >> neil: charles, wall street doesn't seem to care whether it's wasteful spending or not. stimulus is stimulus money. they seem to embrace it. there has to be a point that what are we embracing here? >> i don't know what that point is, neil. wall street is so short-sighted. they just want the machine to keep going. by the way, i think wall street believes that they will be the ones somehow bailed out at the expense of everyone else. so wall street doesn't have any fiscal discipline at all with respect to any of this. keep the money printing, see what the market have doing. it's a great party as far as they're concerned. they don't ever want it to stop. >> neil: yeah, that is the case, charles. final word. lee, thank you as always. meantime, big news out of the empire state. what governor cuomo made very clear is not happening at least for now. . >> let the review proceed. i'm not going to resign. i was not elected by the politicians. i was elected by the people. car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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are you hearing he's hoping to wear this out, run out the clock? what? >> well, thanks for having me, neil. i think this situation around governor cuomo is changing day by day an hour by hour. there's more reports of allegations of inappropriate behavior by the governor. a piece in new york magazine that was published earlier today describing the office culture, which mean former aides considered to be toxic. these have an impact on state lawmakers that also have control over the governor and who have begun an impeachment investigation thursday. democrats control the new york state assembly and the new york state senate. the assembly is the house where impeachment investigations have to originate. as the week has gone by, we've seen the number of accusers rise and the number of lawmakers supporting governor cuomo dwindle. more than a dozen members of the house of representatives have calling for him to resign and the number of assembly members is now above 75, which is above the threshold. >> neil: the game changed thanks in large part to your aggressive reporting, jimmy. it's true that aides tried to discredit some of these accusers or focus on one. that is a whole different cat of worms, isn't it? >> certainly our reporting, my reporter along with them did receive reaction thursday evening. what we found in the course of our reporting is that cuomo aides reached out to at least half a dozen former administration officials after lindsey boylan, a former advisory to the governor, first said on twitter in december that the governor had sexually harassed her for years. mrs. boylan said the governor kissed her on the lips in his manhattan office without her consent in 2018 and during an october 2018 flight, the governor suggested let's play strip poker. governor cuomo and his spokeswoman have said that boylan's account is untrue and the governor said that he wants an independent investigation play out before he makes any major actions or before new yorkers draw conclusions. what we know, neil, is that before any of that happened in december when the tweets first went live from miss boylan, aides to the governor engaged in what we determined was a coordinated efforts to reach out to see if mrs. boylan had reached out to former staffers or see if people had dirt or things to say about mrs. boylan. now, administration officials responded to our report by saying that this effort was organic. which as a party a senior adviser to the governor said the administration's effort boiled after boylan's tweets and she reached out to the executive chamber. as a party said, as a result, the governor and his allies -- the governor's aided and allies reached out to some former colleagues to check in and make sure that they had a heads-up. we've spoken to a few people that got the called. at lease one of them a 35-year-old that lives in rod rosenstein. she was surprised be i the outreach and took it as intimidation. he said none of these calls were meant to intimidate anybody. >> neil: the governor was among those call something. >> our report does not indicate that. what we have learned is his top aide, melissa derosa is the person that sort of encouraged this outreach to be made. that the outreach itself came from -- >> neil: did the governor know this outreach was being made, jimmy? 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>> starting today, we were getting input. we were the reception center where they have kids there. they're being held there before they're processed. of course, we came down to laredo, my hometown so we could have a roundtable to hear from border patrol, hear from ngos, hear from border mayors, county judges. so we can get a better handle of it. i would tell neil, you and i have said this before. we saw this in 2014 and saw this in 2019. we certainly need to understand that this comes and goes at certain times. >> neil: you know, the administration is constantly pushed on this subject, whether it's a crisis, we're way past trying to see if they'll describe that as such but seems like one, congressman. i'm wondering, do you think it would be wise for the president to come to the border himself and see what you and senator cornyn have been seeing and discussing? >> absolutely. this is something that i invited president obama to come down here. any president should come down. really spend time with border communities. you know, the president sends a delegation of a bunch folks from the white house. they didn't talk to anybody. not even members of congress down here. again, a few hours of a visit doesn't substitute for a lifetime of experience. >> neil: i'm wondering, congressman, some think the strategy of the white house is to allow these people in, to stay in, to find a solution in the meantime, maybe they can be forced and that this will continue to rise, but far from disliking what's going on, they like what is happening, that these will become citizens and likely those more aligned to democrats anyway. what do you say? >> i don't think that's the case at all. we're still using title 42 for males, adults. laredo, 73% of the people coming in are mexican male adults and returning back to mexico. so they're being people -- people are being returned back. again, you know, what the law is in the united states. unless they become citizens, which we have 11 or 12 million that have been in the shadows for so many years, they'll never vote unless we change and have few immigration reform. . >> neil: a lot of these migrants will be at a facility in california, once here, you ever think they're going to leave or connect with families back home? >> we don't know. there's about four different categories. those kids will have family members, category 1. mom and dad, category 2. they have maybe a cousin or somebody close to category 3, a distant relative and number 4, where they have no relatives at all. that category of kids are returned. or they voluntary want to go back. just depends on the categories. again, the average number of people that cross per year under the obama administration was about 513,000 per year. we had a high of 2014. the average number of people under president trump was about 493,000. so only 20,000 difference so far. so the numbers were almost the same under a democratic or republican president. >> neil: congressman, thanks for taking the time. henry cuellar trying to find a bipartisan solution to a mess. always tilts one way or the other. never to each other. we're learning that j-rod is no longer a thing. the "new york post" is reporting that aller rodriguez and jennifer lopez broke up. they said he's now in miami getting ready for the baseball season and she's filming a movie in the dominican republic. more after this. things differentlyinvestmentso and other money managers don't understand why. 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>> it's been a couple busy days here. the president signed that $1.9 trillion covid relief package yesterday. he held the official ceremony, a victory lap here at the white house with the vice president and congressional democrats by his side. that of course pairs with the president's prim time address from last night in which he laid out his vision going forward. the president wants all adult americans to be eligible by may 1 with the goal of having the country to return close to normal by july 4. being able to have small gatherings with friends and family that weekend. the white house was asked how they came up with that july 4 time frame. >> we did not want to give a conclusion of when everybody will be fully vaccinated. it really depends on a couple of factors. some of which are out of our control. people have concerns about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. we need to redouble our efforts to address that. obviously some states will have faster timelines than other states. >> but neil, as you know, there's small gatherings taking place across the country. for example, governors and states like florida, texas and mississippi have been encouraging indoor dining to resume at 100% and pro sports leagues are welcoming fans back by the thousands. this was the reaction from admiral brett giroir that over saw covid testing efforts in the trump administration. >> it was kind of crazy what was said about july 4. if you're an adult and you're meeting outside or if your children are meeting outside, you can do that now. there's no reason you can't have outdoor small gatherings and have a barbecue outside. by july, we should be back to normal with herd immunity with everybody getting the vaccine. so i don't know what reality he's talking about. >> neil, a big benchmark was crossed this afternoon as we learned that the u.s. is officially administered 100 million covid doses. with that, 35 million americans at this point have been fully vaccinated. that's more than 10% of the american population or 13% of the adult population. neil? >> neil: keep it going. all right. blake burman, thanks very much. the fact of the matter is, these reopenings are happening quickly right now. we're told that baseball is planning to have folks in stadiums once baseball officially begins in the case of texas and the texas rangers at arlington stadium. they can hold 40,000 people. every seat can be filled. that will be okay in texas. dr. mike is here, certified family physician. much more to us here. a good read on all things going on with this. doctor, i'm wondering given this aggressive roll-out of getting people back to business and all, if there's such a thing as going too fast or are we going about right? >> neil, i don't think there's such a thing as going too fast. we want as many people vaccinated as quickly. the more we wait, the more that it can multiply and cause problems. right now i'd like to refer to them as variants. that's largely due to the success of current vaccinations. the fact that we have 100 million vaccines given, over 60% of senior citizens have had at least one dose, that's a good thing. we're moving in the right direction. the next few weeks, we're going to have so much more supply with johnson & johnson pumping out more doses of vaccine, more community health sites will be opening up. that's a really important factor when it comes to equity of who is getting the vaccines. so as we have more supplies, as we have more sites given the supplies, we can accomplish more and more and aim for a better target. >> neil: doctor, what i'm noticing, a lot of states because their vaccines are piling up faster than the people coming to take advantage of them, they're opening up to everybody. alaska 16 or older, a lot of states they moved it down to any adult. i'm just wondering whether this is addressing this bottle neck that happened more than enough vaccine doses out there now. but a clumsy roll-out. so do you approve what some of these states are doing to open it up to everybody just to make sure that as many of these get out to the public as possible? >> i think it's state by state dependent. they can look at statistics and see how many people want vaccines, who is available. where the appointments. there's certain areas that have more availability than others. that being said, the last research poll from pugh said 70% of americans intend to get the vaccine. we have to celebrate that. folks are more intent on getting the vaccination because of the front line healthcare workers coming out and making a strong push, leading by example. showing themselves getting their vaccinations. in fact, you know, i spent a lot of time on social media. this is our shot campaign. healthcare professionals showing that they're getting the vaccine, showing it does what it tends to do, which is decrease covid-19 cases, decrease hospitalizations and more importantly decrease deaths. i hope more people get excited about this vaccine and even more good news on the horizon, novavax said that their preliminary findings are looking great and they're aiming for a may fda approval meeting. so if we have a fourth vaccine come may, i think that will explode the amount of supply that we have and possibly tilt it to the possible that we have more supply than demand, which is a good thing. >> neil: which is a good thing as well. dr. mike, thank you very much. meantime, taking it to california after, this the recall effort is on. they're claiming that they have more than enough signatures to get gavin newsome out of there or at least recall him. the guy behind that after this. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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there could be duplicates or problems here? all you need is 1.5 million. what do you think will happen? >> correct. we're verifying an 85% rate. we need 1,497,000 to get this on the ballot. at our current rate of two million with a verification rate we have, we'll come in at least 1.8 million. >> neil: all right. there's some margin there in case some of these don't work out. you're confident this will be on there. how soon if it does lead to a recall election would that be? >> our file dates march 17. that means the state has until april 29 to finish verifying. the reality is this recall election will take place depending how many games are played in the state legislature but late summer or early fall, but it has to take place. there's nothing they can do about it. >> neil: all right. the last recall election brought us arnold schwarzenegger. is it possible that at the very least it turns around with a republican and would it be any list of candidates including former san diego mayor and others crowding the field? >> you'll see a lot of candidates come out right now. i want to stress the california patriot coalition recall gavin, we don't support any candidates right now. we expect a whole group of people to come out. it will open up the california conversation that everybody hasn't been participating in. i heard gavin newsome say this is a partisan effort. it's not true. our estimate is about 400,000 democrats and half a million npps assigned out of the two million that we have. so we're encouraging all californians to take place in an open election to remove gavin newsome and at the same time homing in a large slate of candidates to change the direction the state is taking. >> neil: thanks, mike. we'll watch closely. we did put out a call to governor newsome's office as we do. i have not heard back. you never know. all right, i do know this. stimulus checks are coming to most americans. some of you could get it this weekend. that's the good news. i do want to share some bad news on that though. after this. if these beautiful idaho potato recipes are just side dishes, then i'm not a real idaho potato farmer. genuine idaho potatoes not just a side dish anymore. always look for the grown in idaho seal. so you want to make the best burger ever? 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