covid-19. saying that battle is far from over, and setting goal of july 4th for small gathering and number of people vaccinated in the united states continues to climb, critics are claiming the president and his own cdc are being too cautious and approaching the return to normal and in their guidelines for when vaccinated americans are able to do let's bring in fox news medical contributor dr. marty a professor at the john hopkins school of medicine and bloomberg school of public health. so welcome, doctor great to see you again. >> thanks. paul: let's start with the may 1st target for vaccinating all adults that's declaring victory for something that is already on the way to being accomplished. >> well that's right most states are going to open up vaccination to anybody who wants it by april, and you look at states like connecticut that i already said that any age group regardless of the category will be able to get the vaccine by end of march. so that's a very conservative estimate we're probably going to be there well into april. paul: interesting now july 4th, target for small gatherings, you know, you've been cautious, you've been critical of the cdc and some of these guidelines that they've been issuing, as the vaccines have rolled on too cautious in terms of the behavior that we can start to the vaccinated can start to undertake. what do you make of the president's july 4th target? >> look, i think a lot of restrictions have been, you know, overly excessive i think the president is being cautious by saying that. it is also dismissive of natural immunity this tuesday showed that 38 pblght percent of californians have antibodies many their sicklation that study from a month ago now the immunity rates in california are upwards of 40 to 50% that doesn't evans include the t-cell immunity we add to that 20% of the population that's vaccinated, we're starting to get a lot closer to herd immunity than that estimate now dr. fauci advising the president has been basically dismissive of natural immunity from prior infection therefore the path to normalcy or herd immunity is only vaccinated immunity in his mind. paul: why do you think that is if you have had the infection you have some immunity is the problem from dr. fauci he thinks it is not enough immunity that you get a lot more and why would he be that dismiss i? >> old guard medical establishment all of the time, they insisting on sort of a randomize study in the new england journal to believe. and we need to vaccinate 70 to 85% of the population in order to reach herd immunity that's dismissive of natural immunity and if you look paul, at north dakota, they have achieved herd immunity they've had many days with zero deaths their cases are in the dozens per day on certain days. so natural immunity is real. paul: now, if you have been vaccinated, what kind of behavior can you should you be able to safely undertake what should you feel confident about doing that you're not going to get sick yourself or you're not going to give somebody else covid if you happen to get a mild case. >> we've got more information this week. we've got more data showing that the vaccines are 94 to 95% against asymptomatic disease using israeli study this was a big deal in understanding covid we've got to start being practical and recognize that we're not going to extinguish virus from the population we keangts just focus on virus replication and value human life profound loneliness is a real epidemic and kills people people need to be active the key is remember you have almost no immunity for first ten days after first dose give it four weeks, and then live a normal life. it is that simple and more simple the messaging i think little more credibility the public health community will have and the easier it will be to follow. paul: and just on kinds of actions you can take is air travel, for example, going to be safe? can we stop wearing masks or should we continue to wear masks? >> i think it is a good i do to wear masks at least for the next -- four to six weeks. once we get to a better place it is just very hard in indoor public set technician to enforce a sort of selective masking policy. so for those public indoor gatherings, i think it is reasonable to keep wearing a mask for now but in other settings once you've been vaccinated live a normal life. that's the simple message. paul: that means air travel going to see your folks in some other state no worries? >> yeah. the cdc has gotten criticized a lot about not lifting the travel advisory for people who are fully vaccinated and so they're revisiting that i think you're going see a correction what have they said it has been very sort of patchy what they've put. a lot of conditions a lot of stipulations to their guidance. i think ultimately things like that lose credibility because people perceive a low risk of the infection in the community and they're right. 60% of seniors are now vaccinated. 30% of adults are vaccinated certain states, and so we're doing pretty well on a good path. paul: now the united states has had a faster pace of vaccination than many other partle of the world european for example most except maybe another country or two. what happens when the u.s. achieves close to herd immunity or other parts of the world do not. what does that do for international travel and entry into the united states? >> i think international travel is going to be one of the later things to restore back to normal, paul. i think we're going sees an obligation not on to support strategic allies overseas with a vaccine, but they are incapable of producing but also it is seen as important from a public health stand point because of variants mutate overseas from this point forward they could jump back into the united states so a global effort here does help protect the health and wellness of americans. paul: all right dr. mccarey informative appreciate it when we come back a year of covid lockdown what the states have taught us about what works, and what doesn't -- next. >> when this pandemic ends and it will ends soon we're not going to go back to normal because i think we all agree, normal is never good enough. ♪ ♪ the strength and stability of pacific life with their tomorrows. because life isn't about what tomorrow brings. it's what you do with it. ask a financial professional about pacific life are you packed yet? 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>> well, one, lockdowns are completely politically economically and socially, you know -- once, you know, you start after a couple of months, people get stir crazy they start socializing again and really is very difficult to control the human natural instinct to be with other people. ditto, you can't continue to fund these with trillions and trillions of federal debt. i mean, this congress is already appropriated 5.5 trillion much of it was unnecessary. but businesses need to be able to operate. they've also been terribly destructive for, you know, public health actually. paul: lockdowns you're talking about. >> lock downs there's been countless studies that shown heart attacks increase, miss more cancer diagnosis at least in the spring when elected care was shut down. the stress unemployment reduce actually increases cardiovascular risk and dampen as well. i think the lockdown ended up doing more to harm human or human health than actually good. paul: all right so there's been a real contrast between some of the states that like california and new york in particular and florida. what's the evidence that is there any evidence that the lockdowns did better for those lockdown states and those who eased up? >> no, it is very hard to see any difference and back if you look at the winter over -- new york, and california had more cases than deaths per adjusted per capita. than florida. there are many reasons probably for that. but very difficult as i mentioned before that for government with human behavior into some extent, it is in california which has been very by the way, very similar climate to florida at least during the wirnt winter months that -- you know, close down outdoor dining in california, so people congregate in more indoors that is why these one thought or one reason why people out here speculate that california had such a huge surge during the winter that overwhelm the hospitals. where florida had basically study race through since from the fall. new york, you know maybe biggest contributor to new york death is its, you know, during the spring, its inability to protect the elderly and that elderly are the most vulnerable, you know, exponential risk increases as people get older. so for most parts, young people don't die they can socialize so as long as you protect elderly knowing in florida what they did was implement regular testing of the nursing homes, they, you know, searched ppp equipment to the facilities. and they isolated people who were sick or elderly or sick. paul: okay. kim, what's your biggest take away from the last year? >> my biggest take away is don't trust the experts. you know, paul, if you look out there, and how this country is performing over the last year, we've had this ingenious pharmaceutical industry that has come up with a vaccine in under a year. we had businesses that rushed to fill the void of new equipment, shifted we had this incredibly resilient people who worked around this and manage to make things happen and educate their kids and failure has been mostly been public health experts and government, and the prooch of that is as we went along look nobody understood much about this in the beginning and you might be able to look past government moved to lockdowns. but very we cannilies quickly we began to understand about who this affected the most, the elderly, and a lot more about how to treat it and yet that public health community has never shifted shifted it becamet nick lockdown and west virginia we've gotten confusing backtracking advice and i think come out with a lot more scepght schism about government and public health ability to protect people. >> on the other hand, dan one of the outcomes of this has been an enormous expansion in government. i mean government -- whatever you think about how it has performed more power than it had a year ago. >> yes, it is. because people simply defaulted early on to a pmed that was not understood a virus that was not understood, and the epidemiologist essentially resorted to defaulted to policy that they discovered during the 1918 flu pandemic in which they thought that social distancing in st. louis caused fewer deaths than philadelphia which had very little social distancing. so they imposed that policy on the entire country back when their pmed began. and when the biggest flaws going forward paul was that they never stood back to try to reassess whether that proved extreme protocols made sense in terms of what was happening in the economy, in the schools and so forth. and therefore, states were forced to do that on their own. florida, texas, georgia, decided to ease up some. and the northern states did not. so the pandemic got politicized very quickly, paul. as a result i think you saw the growth of government as you remember describing and many of the whether blue states. paul: thank you all still ahead this week also marking an entire year out of the classroom for millions of american children. despite growing evidence that it is safe to return -- what we've learned about the role of teachers unions in the battle to reopen schools, next. t big investment. worth is a partner to help share the load. wealth is saving a little extra. worth is knowing it's never too late to start - or too early. ♪ ♪ wealth helps you retire. worth is knowing why. ♪ ♪ principal. for all it's worth. are you managing your diabetes... ...using fingersticks? 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>> no it did not strike me as odd joe biden is a democrat and the democrats are never going to buck these teachers unions. this is one of the lessons coming out of the past year a lesson we have to come to grips with, paul. in new york city, the head of the teachers union is michael and united federation of teachers commenting few days ago on money that's being spent by the federal government to new york he said this will go towards helping the damage done to the children and if in the next breath says that means we should hire 10,000 new people for the department of education to rebuild this system. [laughter] in other words, hire bureaucrats are you kidding me? look, the public school status quo in the central cities does not work. it is not there to educate children. the democrats will never do anything about that, and i think it is incumbent on opposition party, the republicans to start agitating actively for school choice, and state legislatures, voucher programs, that allow tax dollars to transfer with the kids to private or schools and the expansion of charter schools because the public school system is clearly, obviously, broken after what has happened to it the past year. paul: kim what's so pin pureuating to me about this is that this is a major cause of lifetime inequality. i mean if you don't give kids if they lose a year of school some of them might lose more than a year of school. they're never going get that back because schools aren't great to begun with even when they do in classroom instruction, and yet the -- people say oh well, you know this is somebody else's fault no this is the people who run the fault of the people who run the schools. >> yes. infuriating the right word especially because there's a certain leveling of hypocrisy here too. when you look at a lot of these teachers unions, they claim that they can't go back there's racial inequality the the way the vaccine is being distributed when you look at the outset of this, it makes a point of noting that of those 130 study miss of them repeat again and again that the people that the kids that have been most impacted by this, are those who are most vulnerable in our society in particular low income and minority families. and they are not just losing a year of education. but potentially years of earnings in the future things that they could never get back not to mention mental health toll, poverty and more, and so you can't on the one hand use that pex kyes for not going back to school and not acknowledge that you are direct cause of inequality and problems of the communities that are hurting the most vulnerable in the country. paul: all right thank you. still ahead get ready for the progressive democratic steam roller. why that 1.9 trillion dollar spending blowout may only be a taste of what's coming. ♪ and a little bit of chicken fried ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. why walgreens? 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>> well, one thing it tells me paul is there are no moderates left in the democratic party. that party is shifted so far to the left, i mean, this is a bill 1.9 trillion dollars most of it not related to covid could never have passed muster even in the obama years which i thought were fairly progressive. but that is that peanuts now forking liberal majority and what it means is that we are going to see this steady stream of very radical legislation ranging from their new hr1 bill which is a federal takeover of state election law it is to the proapp which is eye on give away which would abolish right to work states out there to new attempt to minimum wage and enormous climate bill to infrastructure the list goes on. paul: dan, i guess i'm also struck by the fact that joe biden seems to be no obstacle to anything here. i mean, i get the impression that in my reporting -- reenforces that the nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are really driving this bus, and joe biden is there to sign whatever they send them. >> well, bernie sanders warned us, didn't he? he once said that joe biden could be the most progressive candidate since fdr, and that concludes barack obama as suggested in my mind most left wing president since fdr and joe biden is moving to left of that. he is not a moderating force at all paul he's more like quite frankly joe stands there like in a restaurant welcoming people showing him to the table and going back and kind of smiling to the customers. meanwhile, bernie sanders and chuck schumer, and nancy pelosi have taken over the party and you know at some point the republican party has got to get its act together. they've got to fight this and greater detail and more forcefully. you cannot simply go on television every night rein talk about radical socialism. you've got to do better than that. because they really didn't put up much of a fight against this $2 trillion spending bill. >> jason one of the things you wrote about this week hasn't gotten very much attention in the bill is this essentially guts the 1996 welfare reform that bill clinton signed. huge new subsidies for all kinds of welfare and tax credits so on. unlinked to any obligation to work, why don't you elaborate on that? >> sure. that's exactly what it does. it is a wealth redistribution on steroids, and it divorces the government benefits from any work requirements and we've been down this road before. it doesn't work, it is expensive, and again, you don't get the accomplishment that the proponents say will happen. but, you know, frankly paul, i think there is some danger here that democrats are overreaching. and they've been down this road before too not that long ago, under barack obama. he put forth this huge stimulus package and rammed it through and two years later guess what they lost house of representatives they have a horrible midterm election and i think democrats have some very short memories right now and they could come back to haunt them. >> why do you think to dan's point why do you think republicans put up such a feeble opposition effort here which i agree with. ting they did. >> i agree too. look i think the number one thing is that they -- whenever a party is out of power, not with the presidency, obviously, you lack a kind of natural leader to make a message. so that's just something that is structural but bigger problem is they're more focused there's more disarray at the moment inside the party. people blaming each other this is in part an aftermath of losing the presidency, and trump years. and when you're pointing fingers at each other and you're angry you're not fighting the outside force which is democrats in this progressive steam roller until they get united, this is going to continue to be the case. now one thing does happen is off one opposing party dos overreach it does tend to unite people but that seems to be taking a bit time only the republican side. >> yeah. that briefly -- kim the proact for example is most significant labor reform proeye on reform since i think in 1930s you wouldn't know house pass it this week you wouldn't have any idea it passed. >> why are gop numbers not singling out the democrats who come from the states right to work states? 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[laughter] so you and i have been been in this business a long time and never seen anything like this in a piece of legislation i don't think it is constitutional i'm not a constitutional scholar but how can the government tell the states how they spend their money what they can do with their tax koasdz and back to the point that the democrats don't want these red states to be cutting their taxes and using that as an incentive for people to leave states like new york and illinois and going to places like florida and texas. you know how washington works paul, though. this was probably put in that bill by some kind of -- like 27-year-old congressional staffer. who stuck this in the bill i don't think most of the democrats who voted for this bill knew that was in there. paul: well on legal point the supreme court has a doctrine anti-commandeering doctrine that essentially saying that federal government can't cohearse the states to do certain things. there's a debate over what and how that -- that works because the states are under the constitution are cosovereign and i would think that basically being able to set your fiscal policy, you know, pretty core to sovereignty. now, i don't know if -- have you talking to people republicans and some of these states, and what's going to be, what's their reaction and what are they going to do about it? >> governors are angry because i was just saying you know four or five governor who is really want to do substantial cuts this year and this is not just the constitutional issue but it is a economic issue the states would lower taxes with -- with probusiness and proworker fax codes do much better. than states that have high income taxes and this is -- something that will really negatively effect some of these states that want to use their tax codes as a way to attract businesses, and so from both the constitutional and economic stand point i think it is very troubling. i would be surprised if you don't see governors challenging this in court. >> and a couple of states that you've been hearing from who are thinking about either eliminating the income tax or cutting? >> so last week, the mississippi house passed a bill to become the 10th state in america without an income tax and now that's headed to senate, west virginia is doing the same thing. utah which is the fastest growing state in america is -- has a lot of revenues so they want to eliminate their income tax and all of these states that are doing well, with the few exceptions. are states that have probusiness progrowth, tax policies use write about every week in "the wall street journal" tax policy does have an incentive in terms of where businesses move and locate. and it is also tied to right to work. you know you've got right to work states, that create twice as many jobs per year as the states that are forced union. and so what democrats want to do is force all of the states that have the same policy. that is such a -- such a threat to our system of federalism and states laboratories of a hallmark of america. >> thanks so much for coming on interesting stuff. when we come back president biden immigration strategy is coming under fire amid a serge of migrant children at the southern border a closer look at the policy changes behind the growing crisis, next. ♪ ♪ your plan. and this rate is fixed, you'll pay exactly $70 total. this month and every month. plus, switch today and get a free smartphone for each line. the best value and award-winning customer service. only at t-mobile. in a recent clinical study, patients using salonpas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. now california phones offers free devices and accessories for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. the border is not open. going forward we will continue to look for ways to provide legal avenues in the region for people needing protection while we continue to enforce our laws. paul: biden administration coordinator for southern border warning this week that now is not the time for migrants hoping to cross into the united states toe make that dangerous trip. the white house is under increasing pressure to address a surge and migrant children at the border. with a number of unaccompany minors who have been detained tripling in the last two weeks. we're baa welcome dan and paige and jillian. jillian you follow this. how big a problem is the rush of people to the border right now? dges it is pretty significant to last border crisis was in 2019 if you look at numbers now it is nearly 397,000 encounters of the first fiscal year and that's an increase of about 25% over what the same period was in 2019 we saw this last crisis. now, a lot of them are unaccompany minors a lot of them are family units. but it is really coming at a terrible sign because these numbers would be overwhelming anyway. if coming at the start of the migration system almost certainly going to rise, and this is also coming in the middle of a pandemic. so capacity at government facilities, capacity at private or nonprofit shelters, all of those are substantially reduced so just at the time that we have less resources deal with this crisis growing. paul: to what do you tribute of the policy those announced by president biden about that incentive, or more people to come? >> there are, but i think just the general perception that he's more friendly towards migrants than trump administration was but we're also seeing -- an end of the remain in mexico policy this is something where asylum seekers wait on the southern side for cases to bed adjudicated now biden administration exempting minors from the policy. and pandemic at era emergency order saying that anybody who cross will be children in those events some family member unit are being readmitted and then conflictings statements like the secretary of homeland security saying, we're not saying don't come we're saying don't come right now. and peening a lot -- i think a lot of migrants are seeing this as their opportunity and afraid they'll miss their chance. expwhrawl the way asylum policy works is if you come over you get into the united states you're detained by an immigration official. and you apply for asylum. then you are allowed to be released now under the biden policy into the united states pending an application for work. and then you come back for a hearing on your asylum claim which can be several years -- do i have that right? >> swla. so that is the normal policy right now it is mitigated to some extent by cdc emergency pandemic guidelines. saying that if you're adult crossing that you will be expelled. but i think you got are the same percentage here if you get into asylum here admitted to united states at some point and very leakily you'll be able to live here and work. paul: jason, you know, you and i have been in these -- vineyards of immigration reform for a long time and -- what worries me here is that politically, this is going to really put a sour any possibility of getting an immigration compromise deal done. because it will look to the american public like the administration doesn't really have any kind of control or desire to control the border. >> i would agree with that. with that paul this should not be a surprise. to joe biden, we have a similar surge under the obama administration when memory serves guy named joe biden was vice president so he's been here before, and in addition to the remain in mexico policy us pengsded you have also this policy trump put in place if you're coming here and pass through another country before you get to the u.s. you have to apply for asylum there first and biden administration suspended that as well. and then the other message that these migrants are getting paul is that house democrats are poised to vote on some amnesties right now. one for the dreamers, people here as children by their parents illegally. and the second one on farm workers, being amnestied here so those messages are getting back that if you can get here, and you get inside, amnesty is on the way, and that is the message they have to deal with and that is creating a lot of pressure on the border. and so joe biden is created this crisis, and he needs to if he does want to have legal immigration reform, and i want it and everyone wants it he has to get control of the border and not get buy-in from conservative republicans he doesn't get control of the border. paul: dan, very briefly do you the political implications here do you agree that it is going to sour immigration reform prospects? >> yes. it is. i don't think there's much hope, i mean, you know, on the right there's always talk about a path to citizenship, and on the left they think they're going to turn most of these migrants into members of the democratic party. and so it is a very familiar standoff no progress is very likely at all. paul: okay well take one more break when we come back hits and misses of the week. what are you doing? art class. it's abstract expressionism. when you start with a better hot dog from oscar mayer, you can do no wrong. it's all for the love of hot dogs. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. when you have a two-inch lift. when you have goodyear duratrac tires. when you have rancho shocks and an integrated dual exhaust. when you have all that, the last thing you'll need... is a road. the chevy silverado trail boss. ready to off-road, right from the factory. 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[laughter] paul: thank you kim. alicia. >> this is a miss to the los angeles city council. which earlier this month, imposed a heros pay which is a $5 per hour premium that must be paid by employers to grocery store workers. kroger announce this week it is going to be closing three stores because of the pay requirement, and it breaks ronald reagan adage most terrifying words in english language is i'm from the government an i'm here to help. >> all right jillian. >> my is team vogue may have thought this was dating advice and fashion advice for teens, nope it is become superpolitically woke, and it has been compelling young people to be more politically outspoken while also using controversial statements to take down political opponents. well this week their editor got caught over sort of racist tweets she's made about asian when is she was 17 years old. and she finally discovering that it is really difficult to live up to these woke political standards that that could be a real hit on your career. >> jason. >> paul, elizabeth warren keeps reminding use her presidential run didn't get very far. she recently introduced legislation for a wealth tax on rich people now this has been tried in other countries that never brings in revenue proponents say it will all it really does is give people incentive to move assets abroad or abade taxes so a miss for the senator from massachusetts. paul: all right thanks jason that's it for this week's show thanks to my potential and thanks to all of you -- for watching. i'm paul gigot hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ >> well the crisis on the border is growing. a steady surge of my graduates are making their way to our country. the custom and border protection agency report a staggering number for the month of this past february. you know it is a dire situation they say putting more strain on our resources, and officials admit are already overwhelmed. hello everyone welcome to fox news live i'm eric shawn. hi arthel. >> custom and border patrol officials reporting nearly 30,000 unaccompany children cross the border last month which is five times higher than january. meanwhile the biden administration still won't call it a border crind