His shadow . Dana every groundhogs Worst Nightmare today running into Bill Deblasio. He dropped the groundhog in new york. Bill that was hedge hog sam. It wasnt the original punxsutawney. Dana no, he is protected. Bill i love the turtleneck. I forgot mine. Dana i think i might try to wear a turtleneck every day this week. Look, you got a lot of compliments. You didnt . I think so. If you wore a turtleneck you might break the internet. Well see. Lots more to get to this morning. Bill not indoors. Dana William La Jeunesse is live in san diego with whats going on at the border. Katie pavlich and Donna Brazile. Bill lets begin with david spunt. The president will sign those Executive Orders later this afternoon in the oval office in addition to the actions he took after coming into office of the presidency which halted construction of President Trumps border wall, also stopped that trump travel ban. One order biden will establish a task force that would reunite families separated at the border. Administration officials know its no easy task especially making proper identifications to get those families back together as soon as possible. The u. S. Senate is expected to confirm mayorkas as the Homeland Security secretary this afternoon and Kamala Harris will swear him in at the white house and heavily involved in the oounfication task force. President will look at the root causes of ilLegal Immigration and set up more humane conditions at the border. The images of those chain linked cages, example of what the white house is looking to change. The third order today is making sure the Immigration System operates fairly across the board. It will get rid of the trump era rule that makes it harder to obtain legal status while using food stamps and other government benefits. Increase refugee admissions. The president has said in the past he wants to boost the number from 15,000 a year to 125,000 per year. The biden team Becauseed Deportations for 100 days. A texas judge nixed the plan. Executive actions are one thing. It would be a dream of this Biden White House to get a bipartisan Immigration Package through that he could sign into law. Well see if that happens. Right now there are 11 million undocumented immigrants right now. They just want a chance, the white house wants to give them a chance but urging it will take time. Bill nice to see you in the snow. Dana beautiful scene. The Border Patrol reported an uptick in apprehensions of families and unaccompanied migrants in the past month. What will it do for them . William la jeunesse picks up our coverage in san diego. The challenge for the president is how to turn on the faucet without getting a flood. I spoke to agents and many report a steady increase in apprehensions in their sector eptionly among Central American families and unaccompanied children. Specifically Ryo Grand Valley and tucson. The words of candidate biden in 2020 are coming back and creating a problem for President Biden. Because smugglers are using his own promises to restart asylum, legalize the undocumented population in the u. S. And stop ice on Interior Enforcement to help fuel the surge, im told. It is creating a backup along the border in mexico. Because of title 42, the law that allows the Border Patrol to deport everyone because of the pandemic except children. That is creating the backup. Yesterday officials said they were going to try to create this task force to unite children separated from families under President Trump. The Trump Administration shut off the nations Asylum System so these parents were left with no other choice to protect their children other than handing them over to the u. S. Government. So right now you have these camps that are being set up along the border again in tijuana and elsewhere because number one, the individuals who were deported by President Trump under the mpp program are about 60,000 there. Then you have those now being deported because of the pandemic and they dont want to leave because the Administration Says just be patient, you will get your chance. Mexico is beginning to push back not wanting to accept people who are being deported just south of the wall where im at right now. So what im told is happening is many parents are sending their children over who cannot be deported under age 17. Theyre trying to get over the fence somewhere else without the kid in tow which is much easier and then hopefully eventually get reunited with that kid. They are also saying that because there are no prosecutions, no consequence so there is no deterrent. If you or i were to leave our child with a Human Trafficker and smuggler, we would lose our parental rights to that child. Here we will reunite them and give them legal status. Thats what we are concerned about. So we asked hhs if they were testing all those children for covid and they would not confirm they were saying quote we cannot comment on questions specific to the Biden Administration. Dana. Dana William La Jeunesse in san diego. Thank you. Bill Big Meeting Last Night at the white house. President Biden Meeting with 10 republican senators on covid relief. Meeting lasted two hours. White house saying the president will not settle for anything that does not meet the moment. A quote. Republicans offered 600 billion. President biden is at nearly 2 trillion. A West VirginiaRepublican Capito was there. There were 700 billion in the pipeline that hasnt gone out. Do you believe there was a meeting of the minds last night or more hardening of the positions on both sides . It was a productive meeting. Any time you are in the room together and negotiating and talking about your areas of common interest thats the speed at which we would get relief we impressed upon the president we have had five covid packages that weve been able to pass bipartisan up to this point. And we feel very strongly that we need to have voices at the table that talk about our common areas but also lets pull the extraneous things out of this bill and try to keep it within a guideline of targeted relief. Dana senator, doesnt seem like the white house is in the mood to have more conversations and let this play out a little bit. They think there is a sense of urgency. Listen to gerad bernstein last night. Coming out of that meeting a sense of urgency in moving forward but inaction, delay, that will be unacceptable and i thought i heard that coming out of the meeting from both sides. Dana did you get the sense theyre planning to go forward with reconciliation, get this done with 50 plus 1 and basically have a patina of bipartisanship with your meeting last night . Well, the president didnt say that he wouldnt support a reconciliation package. That was pretty clear but he was open to the suggestions of targeting individual checks to folks in the lower income and lower and mid income area. Like areas of vaccine and testing were all in the same boat here. We did try to impress upon the president we thought the quicker way to get this would be a bipartisan package with common areas. I think he was amenable to listening to that. He is listening to another side as well. The bottom line is i think it starts a conversation with us that i think will carry through into other things. And for that i feel really good. I do think that we need to work on this covid together bipartisan as we have in the past. Lets hope that meeting last night had an impression on him and them. Bill the governor back in the Mountain State jim justice, a republican. Watch. We need to understand that trying to be fiscally responsible at this point in time with what weve got going on in this country. If we throw away some money right now so what . We have really got to move and get people taken care of and get people back on balance. Bill i dont know a lot of people who will say so what when it comes to Spending Money especially in the Republican Party. Where does that comment come from, do you believe . Ive never been a governor but i bet all 50 governors would say the same thing. Our governor has another 600 million that he hasnt spent from the first cares package. So i think that being fiscally responsible is the way we should look at this making sure we take care of the folks that are really hurting. So i think the governor is reflecting his wishes of sure i would like as much money as youll possibly give me. If it ends up throwing it away guess who is the one who decides where it goes . Im not sure thats quite a way we see it at this point after five packages. Dana with your fellow senator manchin, do you think he aligns with the governor of West Virginia or your position . I know for sure. I wont speak for joe manchin. He is for targeted relief on the Stimulus Checks people getting 300,000 who lives havent been impacted wont get a Stimulus Check from the United States government on our taxpayers dime. I do know that. He will have to speak for himself which he does quite well i will say. Bill there has been such a focus on the senate we havent talked about the house at all. Dana they are passing something today to get the ball rolling. Bill if you can, nancy pelosi can lose by four or five democrats and the whole thing goes up in smoke. You remember obamacare 10, 11 years ago, they had all those Centrist Democrats and were vulnerable in their districts. Passed it anyone. Midterms came around and they lost 54 seats the democrats did. Thats the risk you are taking right now. Talk about the senate being on an ice edge. The house is the same way dealing with congress. Its pretty much 50 50. Dana we want to bring in Katie Pavlich and Donna Brazile to talk about all sorts of things and ask about the immigration Executive Orders. Katie, i notice two things that caught my eye in what they said this morning. First of all, theyre saying they want to try to have a process to understand underlying causes of migration through a strategy to confront the instability, violence and economic insecurity. Good, right . Try to help solve the problem at its source. The other thing is at the end it says here it will rescind President Trumps memorandum, requiring Family Sponsors to repay the government if relatives receive public benefits, instructs the agencies to change policy. That was buried there at the end. Yeah. Also people would say that is a magnet for additional ilLegal Immigration if you are giving people benefits to come here and paying them essentially to sponsor children who may be sent up from these northern triangle countries who dont have parents with them who maybe have parents or Family Members who are already in the United States illegally. You have to remember last week joe biden already has an l on the board when it comes to these Executive Orders on ilLegal Immigration. He tried to pause all deportations. Texas sued and was successful. Now he wants to sign additional Executive Orders on this issue when it comes to asylum and reuniting families. But you have to keep in mind this crisis with unaccompanied minors coming to the border being separated from families happened in 2014 under the obama administration. The cages that were built to handle this influx of children who did not have adults with them or who were being smuggled and dropped off at the border. That is something that happened a long time ago under the Previous Administration when joe biden was vice president. Now he wants to solve the problem. They were put in place by the Trump Administration to stop the crisis from continue being when smugglers were telling people use certain words to get asylum and the Legal Standard is low and why policies were changed. It is working. Mexico stopped people at their southern border and now were seeing a surge and people saying in interviews were coming because joe biden will help us and give us a chance to live in america. Bill relative to the conversation were having her how tight congress is, is this the ultimate strategy of this administration to do the executive actions, take Executive Orders . You know passing laws that have permanence is very, very difficult and a 50 50 washington absolutely. Dont forget that republicans lost control of the house in former President Trumps first term. Lets not be surprised by the narrowness of the configuration on capitol hill. Everyone agrees that our Immigration System is broken from Ronald Reagan to joe biden. We have to figure out what are the Strategic Decisions we need to make not only to protect and secure our borders, but to deal with the migrants who are still trying to illegally cross our border as well as those who are here and those who clearly would like a path to citizenship. This is a big problem and while former President Trump put layers and layers and layers of regulations and now President Biden is trying to undo, unravel in some case just hold, we need to look at the longterm in terms of what Congress Needs to do. Congress needs to stop acting as if gridlock is the only word they understand. Compromise should get back into the political talk in washington, d. C. Bill first major winter storm of 2021 hitting the northeast with a slam. Forecaster say it dropped more than 30 inches of snow in parts of pennsylvania and new jersey. New york city picked up more than a foot of snow. First time in five years for that. 17 inches in central park. Jasper is drowning. Meanwhile Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow earlier today predicting six more weeks of winter which is no big shocker. It doesnt matter anyway because its still covid and there is nothing to do. Dana you wanted to direct me because it wasnt Punxsutawney Phil that Bill Deblasio dropped . Staten island chuck. Bill he wasnt there that day. So it was who . Charlotte. Dana she was a stunt double. Not easy. Bill deblasio is 66 and you get dropped from that height. Bill charlotte has a day to remember. Dana Fox News Alert on the search for answers on the capitol riots. What investigators learned about who is responsible and how authorities are looking to stop other political violence. Bill new rules taking effect to fight covid comes as the u. S. 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