mitch mcconnell wants unused covid money to cover more shots. mcconnell side stepped fox s question about vaccinating illegal immigrants. it ought to be entirely paid for out of money that s already in the pipeline. any red lines? i think it ought to be paid for. as lawmakers haggle over covid cash, republicans question cdc guidance. the g.o.p. accuses the cdc of cozying up to teacher s unions. relying on them to establish school reopening policies. the damaging edits by union boss effectively kept thousands of schools shuttered across the country which locked millions of children out of their classrooms. did you engage with any parents groups. we did. in fact, we did. i personally did. republicans hope anthony fauci would testify. wave could force schools and other venues to revert to old protocols. we should be prepared and flex to pivot towards going back at least temporarily to a more
be able to deal with enforcement? their plan is to move people into the country faster. what you need to do is change the asylum policy because right now we have a pull factor in our country. bret: all right, title 42 is the rule that allows the border patrol to relocate, kick out illegal immigrants coming across the border without going through the asylum process. they can do it based on covid-19. that s called title 42. it s going to come to an end. and it s likely going to be announced at the end of this week and go into effect in may. if you look at the numbers along the southern border, it s astronomical. the total encounters there now up to 838,000 and growing as march s numbers are expected to be surpassed 1 million. this is just for this year. over the past six months. so, with that, let s bring in our panel, fox news senior political analyst brit hume, katie pavlich news editor at town hall.com and juan williams is a fox news analyst.
bret: okay, jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. jacqui, thank you. the stocks were off today. the dow lost 65. the s&p 500 dropped 29. the nasdaq fell 77. up next, new reporting and other news organizations reporting that hunter biden made millions from a chinese energy company. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 26 in houston close to 300 defendants in the harris county jail are releaseds due a computer glitch. a judge freed the defendants because the glitch prevented them from will receiving a probable cause hearing within 48 hours. the district attorney s office says all of those released will be rearrested and have the proper hearings. fox 2 in detroit as prosecutors rest their case in the trial of four men charged with planning to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. prosecutors say the men were angry with whitmer s covid-19 restrictions and disgusted with the government. defense lawyers claim it was a lot of cra
border tonight. bill, thank you. more on this with the panel. the biden administration insists it s out of money for vaccines and test kits. yet, the administration is incoming illegal immigrants for free. the battle over covid funding coming to a head. congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight with the story. the first in command among the first to get the fourth shots. it didn t hurt a bit. but it could hurt the pocketbook of every day americans. people may have to pay for their own boosters if congress fails to approve more money. we are already seeing the cons sense withs of congressional inaction. senate majority leader chuck schumer is rushing to move a covid bill this week before the senate turns to the nomination of supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson. if a new covid variant nasty tentacle and we don t have the tools to respond whoa is us. our whole country will pay the price.