to take covid patients, it by demand we take covid patients the patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn't have otherwise died had we screen them out. murphy officials countered by saying that there were guidelines for separating covid positive patients. the long-term care administrator reportedly said the problem of course is there's no separating safely. it's almost certain that even though you have staff only on that unit, something will migrate. we have learned from recent reporting that michigan governor gretchen whitmer's office didn't force nursing homes to take covid positive patients but instead offered financial incentives. new york's governor andrew cuomo and his administration issued a directive telling nursing homes not to turn away covid positive patients and then allegedly covered up the number of deaths of nursing home or long-term care residents. pennsylvania governor tom wolf also reportedly guided covid positive patients back into nursing homes and at least 50% of deaths in pennsylvania were reportedly in connection of those facilities. his health secretary, biden appointee at the federal level, took her mother out of one of the homes just as the pennsylvania policy was gaining speed. california officials admitted it was possible they were undercounting the number of nursing home deaths due to covid. all these democratic governors deny wrongdoing. murphy's office is trying to lay the blame on nursing homes saying they should have done more to create separate wings, to monitor caregivers or notify the state that they could not properly handle patients. what we are learning tonight is that the long-term care operators knew there would be problems and warned officials immediately that patients would die. at least 70 died of covid and one new jersey facility. it's worth noting florida governor ron desantis rejected the cdc guidance for long-term facilities is unworkable. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. correspondent alex hogan joins us with the latest on the other scandal facing your governor andrew cuomo which some say is overshadowing this nursing home tragedy. >> good evening. one of the accusers spoke with the state attorney general for about four hours today on zoom. two others of the governors accusers share their stories publicly. growing criticism as allegations pile up against governor andrew cuomo. seven women including former aides accuse him of harassment or advances. two of them, speaking out under your public radio. >> there's a lot of vitriolic screaming, shouting, name-calling. a feeling of objectification as a young woman. >> governor cuomo use flirting as a way to bring a woman employee into the fold. >> a report finding that larry schwartz called local officials to gauge their loyalty to the governor. new york city mayor bill de blasio weighing in. >> that in many ways is the single worst thing we've heard on all of these scandals. >> the governor's office responding "larry's conversations did not bring up vaccine distribution which he would never lick political support to public health decisions." brennan secretary jen psaki called it concerning and inappropriate. stop short of demanding resignation. >> the new york attorney general is pursuing an independent investigation against governor cuomo that's appropriate. >> senate republican sent a letter no senate majority leader chuck schumer and senator kirsten gillibrand urging washington to take control of the states vaccine distribution program. a new sienna poll finding 40% of people believe cuomo can effectively do his job. 57% of people say they are satisfied with the way cuomo has addressed the allegations. 32% of people say they're not. only one in three new yorkers say they would reelect the governor, something andrew cuomo has still yet to rule out. meanwhile he's continually said he will not resign. >> shannon: thank you for the update. by now it's a familiar refrain. democrats blaming the problems on white supremacists. and tonight's case, california governor gavin newsom makes the argument they are the ones helping drive the recall effort against him. >> we've been monitoring white supremacist groups in the state of california for years and years and years and there's a surprising number of them, even proximate to the state capital, number of them quite literally not figuratively and i appreciate they set up the proud boys, three presenters, these are the right ring leisure groups are behind on this week all effort and calpurnia. >> shannon: wednesday is the deadline for signatures. backers say that they have more than 1.5 million needed to trigger a recall election. president biden claiming the largest federal tax hike since 1993 to help pay for his administration's future initiatives. that report from berg. questions over the potential for abuse of some of the funding tucked into the $1.9 trillion covid package passed last week. chad pergram with some surprising claims about how your tax dollars might be spent. >> shannon. any big bill has the potential for fraud and abuse but the problem could be especially acute with a bill of this magnitude. house speaker nancy pelosi contends the legislation was crucial to get students and teachers back into the classroom. >> i talked about children in school. the three most important issues facing congress are our children, our children, or children. >> internal memos reveal some california school districts have considered using covid aid as bonuses. the clovis unified school district in fresno county discussed paying bonuses is high $6,000 for faculty. mmo shared with fox as the union representing the dublin unified school district in the bay area said some of the money should be used for distance learning. there was a suggestion of a $2500 bonuses for teachers and maybe even a flight to hawaii. the district says it never made a bonus offer. the association says the suggestion was out of context and just a playful comment. the white house will monitor how the money is spent. >> we have to prove the american people the government can deliver for them and do it without waste or fraud. >> chicago alderman considering converting the aid to universal basic income. for 5,000 of the city's neediest residents. chicago scored $1.8 billion from the bill. this would consume 30 million. g.o.p. florida senator rick scott says with governors and mayors awash with covid cash they should return to center. >> if it's not based on covid response, we have to get the money back from all over the country. >> banks pay back their share of the 2008 bailout so there is precedent for returning unused funds. the white house has tapped jean sperling to oversee distribution and implementation. much of it came with few strings attached. >> shannon: chad pergram, thanks so much. the biden administration activating more federal resources to help with particles of challenge at the seven border. one that continues to be fueled by a stunning increase the number of unaccompanied children showing up alone. let's dig into the numbers with white house correspondent kevin corke. good evening, kevin. >> good evening. still no formal press conference by mr. biden now more than 50 days in office. for the record, no planned trip to the border to underscore the urgency there. these are decisions that have left critics wondering whether the situation at the border will be deemed a crisis. >> we recognize it's a big problem, significant problem and significant challenge. it's a big challenge. it certainly is a reflection of using every lover of the federal government to help address at. >> lots of words from the white house to describe what republicans call humanitarian disaster of illegal migration happening along the seven border. just not the obvious word, crisis. >> the last administration left us a dismantled and unworkable system. like any other problem, we are going to do everything we can dissolve it. >> that's just blame shifting say critics especially considering the number of illegal migrants crossing into the u.s. has spiked significantly on the biden administration's watch. >> it's worse than a crisis. i thought that i would see a crisis but this is a human heartbreak. >> house leader kevin mccarthy. blaming the white house for the surge that has resulted in thousands of migrant children held by u.s. authorities. >> the sad part, didn't have to happen. this crisis is created by the president of policies of this new administration. >> things are so bad that starting this week, up to 3,000 migrant minor boys will be held at the dallas downtown convention center, used to alleviate overcrowding and other u.s. facilities along the border. fema and the department of health and human services will manage the shelter and handle food, security, cleaning and medical care, it's one piece of a much larger interagency approach to managing the problem. still, one border facility in texas is reportedly at 729% capacity with the children tend to be taking turns sleeping on the floor and going for days without showering. border agents are said to be apprehending more than 400 children a day on average. that's more than the number of children that hhs is processing and releasing to sponsors. unfortunately all of this is happening with very little covid testing for the migrants and virtually no dna testing to properly reconnect the actual families. progressives are accusing mr. biden of simply not doing enough to reverse the former president's approach to illegal immigration. minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar and nearly two dozen democrats urging the biden administration in a letter to call funding writing "now is the time to rein in the system of detention built on a disproven myth that immigrants fail to appear in court." position that's debatable even if the problem of the border is not. >> shannon: i think most folks have to agree on that. kevin, thank you. in portland, local officials are now asking for help after leaders there voted to defund the police department to the tune of $16 million last year. violent protests have continued to rage in the months since that vote. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live from our west coast newsroom with details. good evening. >> portland is not the only west coast city that seen a rise in violent crime and continuing violent protests including over the weekend as protesters mark the one-year anniversary of the death of breonna taylor. here in l.a., dozens marched through hollywood and then clashed with police. some protesters at one point climbing onto the hood of a police cruiser which then accelerated, throwing those protesters to the ground. they were not injured by three police officers were. once offering ear damage from a smoke grenade that detonated close by. another injuring a knee during a chase and a third cutting a hand after being hit by a large object thrown by a protester. nine businesses were damaged. 11 protesters arrested. l.a.p.d. captain steve lurie wrote on twitter "we are blessed in the united states to have the protection of the first amendment. l.a.p.d. hollywood was there to ensure this group could express themselves under the umbrella of that protection." they had no such intentions and came to destroy angelenos businesses and attacked police officers. in seattle there were more than a dozen arrests after marchers took to the streets. a starbucks store was vandalized. in portland, oregon, the federal courthouse with the target. just days after officials had removed barriers used to protect it during violent protests last year. over the weekend the building was once again the scene of clashes with police as demonstrators spray-painted slogans on the walls. >> we collectively condemn hateful, intimidating, and destructive acts. we want you to know that we are aligning our resources. we are revising our tactics, and we are fighting back with everything that we've got. >> it's worth remembering that breonna taylor was a 26-year-old medical technician. she died on march 13 last year during a drug raid by police in louisville. she was not the target of the raid and no drugs were found. president biden marked the anniversary of taylor's death with a tweet calling it a tragedy and a blow to america and promising "meaningful police reform." shannon. >> shannon: jonathan hunt in l.a., thank you, jonathan. there are hundreds of miles along the u.s.-mexico border without any section of border wall. president biden has halted all wall construction started under the trump administration. what you sign portland, fencing is going back up at a federal courthouse so what messages the government sending about how walls do or do not work? let's discuss. thomas homan. julio rosas. he's been spending time along the border. welcome back to the show. julio, since you're there and you've been there, can you give us an update about what you've seen? who is coming and what are they saying what other conditions? >> being here these past few days, it's absolutely a crisis. do not call it that is a denial of reality. on friday it in a span of three hours i counted 263 illegal immigrants crossing the rio grande and turning themselvs over the border patrol. they were unaccompanied minors or family units with very young children. this is the product of the open border rhetoric and policies that have been put in place in the biden administration since literally day one on january 20th. it's gotten worse. were not even in the peak season of one people typically travel before it gets too hot in the summer. >> shannon: tom, there are folks saying this has nothing to do with the current policies, that it's to be blamed on the trump administration. speaker nancy pelosi pelosi saying this administration inherited a broken system. a democrat from texas says it's four years of dismantling every system it was in place to deal with it. what do you say in response? >> i say they are both lying to the american people. what they inherited was the most secure border i've seen in my career which spans and was 35 years. illegal immigration was down depending on what mantra looking at. the children, that was down 70%. the reporter was right. it's the biden administration's policy. he promised all these enticements during the campaign. free health care, shut down detentions, and make the remain in mexico program. when you tell people you can enter and you will be detained and you will be removed, you can get a job. you might even get amnesty in health care, they're going to come. it's not an accident. it's by design. joe biden sold out this country to end and election to the progressive left. no other excuse. he was the vice president during the last surge. he knows what causes it and he knows how to stop it and what we did to stop. he's doing the opposite. he's not detaining and not removing and he's offering more and more enticements. >> shannon: julio, i want to comment from what we are seeing in portland. you've been in the cities where there is been riots of burning and damage. they took the fencing down from the federal courthouse. there were attacks, fires set, windows smashed. the fencing is going back up. quick comment from you on how it's working in portland. >> what i can say is last year we saw that dhs and present troubles blamed saying that if they had stopped what they were during the riots would stop. that has proven to be false. it was in the president's fault. dhs is responding because as we saw her recently they were attacked first and as soon as the barrier came down it became easier to attack not only the building for the personnel inside. it's not surprising at all. they are kind of in hamster wheel of self-destruction. >> shannon: all right. that wall going back up in the request for money to come help their law enforcement after cutting it from the budget. julio and tom, 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>> they are pretty much dead even. we were talking before the show. i was in palm beach. it felt like i jumped over the berlin wall and came into freedom. the state was open. people shopping and going to restaurants and living their lives. you would think oh, my gosh, it's really dangerous. maybe the covid case rates are skyrocketing because of this and maybe the death rates are increasing but when you look at the numbers the reality is they both have almost identical outcomes when it comes to covid. both have about 89,000 covid cases per 100,000 residents according to the cdc. >> shannon: you mean 8900. >> 8900, yeah. for 100,000 residents. florida was 27th in terms of death rate. california was 20th. the differences that florida is completely open. the governor of california, kim jung newsom. you have kids who are basically having learning losses that are going to reduce their lifetime income, poor and minority kids. the cost of the outcomes are the same but the costs are enormous. if i was a californian, i wish i lived in florida. >> every life that's lost to someone he loved one who is devastated. these numbers are tough all across the country. there are several points by which to measure how states have done. people say governor desantis has been callous about the number of people who died there. as we highlighted at the beginning of the show a number of democratic governors and trouble over their nursing homes. today on "the view" they wanted to talk about governor desantis as well. >> were not talking at all about governor "death" santis in florida. governor abbott in texas. it's alleged in florida that desantis has hidden numbers of deaths. we are only hyper focused at this point on governor cuomo. >> shannon: christian, your response to that. >> ron desantis has done a fantastic job throughout this crisis. it's terrified the left because he has quickly skyrocketed to front runner status for 2024 once he gets through his reelection in 2022. the whole nation is looking at his leadership than we've seen with ron desantis or businesses are enclosed. you can open your doors. employees can walk in and earn a paycheck. kids have been in school since august. they have had access to in person learning in the classroom. tourism is boosted. you look at housing prices in the housing market. the inventory is so low because people are moving here so americans are showing across the board his results are being rewarded because people are moving here and they are showing it with their feet. in florida we had freedom. we are living a normal life and we encourage everyone, if you're watching this show and you're in one of these northeast blue states run by leftist liberal and you're wearing three masks and sitting on your couch watching the show and you want to go outside and enjoy life, we want you to move to florida. if you're going to vote democrat please stop at the state lines because we want you to remember why we are free. it's ron desantis' leadership. if you look at the numbers we are 20% lower with people 65 and up, deaths, 20% lower than california. 50% lower than new york and that's with their numbers not fully out there. ron desantis has done a fantastic job. we are in better shape in the countries taking note and the liberals on the leftist media are going to start attacking him like because of it. >> shannon: c-14, do you think they are afraid of governor desantis? >> very much so. the governor of new york is facing impeachment. governor of california facing a recall and governor desantis being talked about is the next president of the united states. i think that says it all. democrats have had none of the benefits of the public health achievements in terms of keeping people healthy or safer having better outcomes but they've done enormous damage. we talk about the covid deaths. my mother had covid, 92 years old and she was in a hospital in new york and put into a nursing home. i know about this. there are huge costs. 300% increase in self-harm among children. kids are suffering depression. poor and minority kids are losing, they are going to lose according to mckinsey up to $84,000 in lifetime income from irreparable learning losses. these are the process of the lockdown. you're right, i think we are going to look back and say who did it right and who didn't? >> shannon: governor desantis has plenty of critics but he seems to enjoy taking them head-on. like another famous g.o.p. guy that's been around the last few years. christian and marc, thank you. we are getting word of a tragedy and the surge of illegal immigrants in texas next. it's totally normal to have constipation with belly pain, straining, and bloating, again and again. no way. more exercise. more water. and more fiber is the only way to manage it. is it? 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"a review of bills show most address voting fraud and security concerns raised in the failed lawsuits. among other things those bills would eliminate no excuse absentee voting and posed new identification requirements from voting absentee, curtail the use of ballot drop boxes and provide fewer days of in person early voting in many large counties." it's apparently an attempt to suppress the vote especially those of minorities. >> absolutely. you have to separate two issues. one is the fate claimed that this is race-based. there is no evidence that having to use fewer boxes is going to affect more blacks than whites or more browns than whites or anyone else. and there is no proof or evidence that having to demonstrate, actual evidence that your real citizen entitled to vote affects, again, one race over another. the idea that we should address the big problems that most americans say that for the reason that they don't participate in the vote is they don't think that their vote is going to make a difference. if you provide voter integrity measures, you ensure that people can be confident that if they participate, it will matter. >> shannon: this is what "the federalist" says about that massive bill passed by the house. they say as long as ballots are postmarked by election day h.r. 1 would effectively mandate that all states except absentee ballots in a ten day window. the bill notes election officials will be restricted from verifying voter identification and eligibility. if we want credibility in our balloting and voting, we want people to have confidence in the system, why does h.r. 1 have so much of this stuff saying you've got to get rid of voter i.d. and you've got to get rid of witness requirements for absentee ballots. how is that the solution? >> it's a good question. i'm happy the house pass this legislation and hopefully we'll see a debate on this in the united states senate because there are a lot of good merits when it comes to the bill especially with regards to campaign finance reform, extending early voting, absentee voting by mail. there's a lot of good components. i'm sure there are some concerns among republicans. let's have that debate. 2020 was one of the most secure elections according to the trouble .2 director of election security at the department of homeland security. you have a lot of republicans saying that there is fraud. corruption, abuse. 2020 saw one of the most secure elections in the country. >> almost every -- >> shannon: talking about foreign interference and that's different than worrying about people getting their hands on mandatory mail-in ballots that people went out and people were in home and may be somebody who could have voted and you don't know. if we want people to feel confident about it, where do we go from here? the two sides want to do massive overhauls and changes to the voting systems. both sides argue theirs is the way to get it done right. >> that's what i mean. this isn't about race. it's about political parties trying to advantage themselves. the constitution allows political parties to try to manipulate the process. the constitution doesn't allow the use of race as a means of accomplishing it. the problem is stacey abrams and even nancy pelosi tries to pretend that there's a race issue when there isn't. why not come right out and say we are funding candidates that wouldn't otherwise get support because we democrats want to see that we get an advantage. let's have a debate and then it's a real debate. >> shannon: will watch to see if they do that. kevin and horace, come back. thank you. >> of course, good to see you. >> shannon: the duchess meghan markle for president of the united states? 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shannon: breaking tonight, texas department of public safety is investigating a fatal crash near the border. let's go back to kevin corke for more. he's digging into the details. >> we are following developments in a real heartbreaking and for that matter deeply frustrating story out of texas tonight. the texas department of public safety investigating a fatal crash that occurred about 30 miles north of del rio, texas, not that far from san antonio. preliminary investigation reviewing a red dodge pickup was evading public safety troopers when it caused a head-on collision with a white ford f-150. eight undocumented passengers from the dodge were pronounced dead at the scene. the driver and the child passenger in the ford pickup and one other undocumented passenger from the dodge pickup were transported to hospital in san antonio. they are said to be in stable condition tonight. the driver from the dodge pickup, the first one, fled after the collision, fled on foot. but was apprehended shortly thereafter i dps troopers. department of public safety in texas. they are further investigating of the real frustration is when you have this sort of surge like we have been talking about, shannon, this is one of the unintended consequences. you have others were simply going to go around the law and try to be the system, game the system in some cases. even if you live in one of these border communities and i've lived in a border state before, people often save you if there is a hit-and-run, generally speaking it's because someone didn't want to exchange insurance information. often it's because they're not supposed to be in the country the first place. a real tragedy here. eight lives lost at least and others in the hospital. >> shannon: we know how very dangerous to journey can be for a lot of folks who are headed this way. kevin, thank you very much. must less tragic news. meghan markle allegedly eyeing a bid for u.s. president. let's talk to penny nance. penny, welcome back. i don't know if i buy this. what do you think? >> yeah, i think there's a lot of consultants that are probably talking in her ear and would welcome it and on a lot of republicans it would welcome that race as well. >> shannon: franklin leonard, a "vanity fair" contributing editor thinks it's going to backfire on whoever's floating it. he said i'm generally interested to know what idiot royalist leaked the story thinking it would be at all believable and somehow damaging to meghan markle. absolutely hilarious brain rot. there's a lot of chatter surrounding her on a number of fronts these days. >> she is front and center in the national news. i live in washington, any crazy thing can happen. i know a lot of consultants who get in the era people and suggest to them that they can win races, that there's no way that they can win because the sibling want to the money. i don't see that as her vibe. i don't know. we'll see. >> shannon: she's a woman with a strong voice. we know women are strong leaders. you have been kind enough to check out my new book coming out and you and i have had a lot of conversations about one woman in particular who was a leader in the old testament, deborah. she is somebody who is a role model for women. she wasn't afraid and she took on some really death-defying odds because she thought god was asking her to. >> that's right. i love the book, shannon. we bought a whole bunch to give away as graduation gifts. the ever present gift card. it's lovely. i love the fact that you pick out some of the hard stories that are so instructive. the whole book of judges is about god being faithful to the faithless people. once again the israelis are in trouble and they are a picture of us as believers and followers of, we often stumble and we are broken people. god is faithful even when we are not. deborah was the leader god said, she told the canaanites which by the way it was kind of like isis, they were terrorists. they would murder and rape and steel. 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