us down. >> it shows you why bill de blasio is not the worst major in new york city history but worst mayor of history. >> first career win and comes on the daytona road course. >> oh, my god. >> all right, we start with fox news arrest. a plane engine explodes over colorado. steve: debris over a rain suburb, the owner to have house will be with us later today. >> caught it on the ring doorbell as well. you can catch the video. todd pirro joins us live. todd. todd: good morning, 241 passengers and crew were on board when minutes after takeoff one of the engines blew up. >> departure united, may day, engine failure, need to return immediately. >> left or right turn? >> right turn. todd: pilots landing in denver. >> it was a loud explosion. shook the plane and we started like dropping down, like you could feel like going down in an elevator, like a quick drop. plane started shaking and we knew something major what happened. todd: faa ordering united to step up inspections with the same type of engine. the airline grounding the aircraft. debris began falling from the sky, raining down on this neighborhood outside of denver, remarkably nobody in the air, nobody on the ground was hurt. this is a freight plane flying over the netherlands also suffered engine failure. it was a different model but fitted with the same engine and like steve alluded to earlier coming later this morning, hear from a man who walked outside of his home to find debris from the plane. can't wait for that interview, guys, back to you. brian: that was shocking. the over big story unfolding now for the longest time big deal locally now nationally but the growing nursing home scandal people are looking into what governor cuomo's powers are and i believe they'll be taken away as far as emergency powers this week. what people are focusing on now not only did he cover the number of deaths which his big mistake was not coming down on the lies quicker, but now it turns that he went out of his weigh to lie about the numbers and what took place and the decision that is were made, he could be in federal trouble. here is the quote from the wall street journal today and this is from john dacus, this is how it goes. even if it cannot be proved that the cuomo administration knowingly provided false information, new york's willful failure to provide information may itself constitute offense. they tried to avoid the department of justice investigation inquiry which after all is exactly what ms. de rosa said the administration did on a zoom call that she never wanted out and, of course, dacus is a former u.s. acting attorney general for the doj civic rights division. peter: they are actually -- they are actually the ones who look intoed this back in august because, remember, when governor cuomo ordered people back into the nursing homes, suddenly we saw a spike in the number of people who were dying and yet the governor in public was bragging about how the numbers of nursing home deaths were extremely low in new york and the doj said, that doesn't make any sense. in august they asked the civil rights division, asked if data for new york's publicly run homes, and the new york state produced that underreported because they, you know, they were talking about semantics and the number of people who died in the hospitals versus nursing homes and the data was incomplete and they knew it. and then the feds came back in october and said, hey, we need more information and they stonewalled and that's against the law. hook, we just have to have the numbers to figure out what's going on. ainsley, a trump -- rather a cuomo adviser called a trumped up election scam. you're asking the numbers in october to make us look bad. but as we've heard from melissa de rosa the governor's secretary a couple of weeks ago, they knowingly covered it up. ainsley: john dacus who wrote the op-ed in the wall street journal, he said it's not just negligence but possibly criminal. he served as u.s. assistant attorney general. it's a crime to conceal information and crime to make false statements to the federal government. he will join us along with janice dean at 6:50 this morning. this is a huge story. all over the country but in new york people are wondering would my loved ones would still be here if not for cuomo's decisions. when he tried to hide it and cover it up, it made so many people frustrated and very angry. brien: absolutely. if you take somebody who tested positive and you take them back to the nursing homes it spreads like wild fire obviously and when he was asked about this last week, he said, oh, that's because the hospital workers brought it back into nursing homes. there's no stats that back that up. meanwhile when asked earlier joe biden clearly is a fan of governor cuomo. how do i know, listen. >> i think every state is going to have to be moving in that direction and it demonstrates that it does bend that curve a little bit and does increase the prospects that fewer people are going to catch the virus and the answer is i don't fully know. we are leaving it to the governors. the governor of new york has done one hell of a job. i think he needs to be served the gold standard. brian: gold standard, that's fantastic, that was april before he became president. evidently he didn't come up in the white house meeting. keep in mind he's not out of the woods yet. there are democrats coming after him. isn't that correct, senator lee roy, local senator, leroy gav inch n. ainsley: a lot of democrats. brian: he came out and more than 60 residents in homes were given drug cocktails of hydroxychloroquine without consent from the patients or crew. this is a state senator, a democrat wondering what's going on. jen psaki was asked over the weekend, yesterday, what about joe biden, is he still -- does he still believe that governor cuomo is the gold standard? >> does president biden still believe that andrew cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic? >> just a yes or no. >> well, john, the president -- well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, john. the president is focused on his goal, his objective as president of the united states. he will continue to work with governor cuomo as he will continue to work with governors across the country and i'm not here to give labels or names. i'm here to communicate with you about what our focuses are and objectives are as president. peter: okay, so she dodged the fall. she heads up the nga, national governor's association, they would work with him and she also said essentially we are going to leave the investigation to the investigators, so biden's statement about the gold standard stands until he says you know what, what happened there is a big problem, stay tune for that. meanwhile one of the stories during the pandemic has been that it's been hard to find things where you can socially distance and you can be outside and especially important during the winter because it's cold outside. so what can you do outside here in new york city? famously since the 1980's you've been able to use a couple of ice rinks, well, the mayor here announced a couple of days ago that they were pulling the plug on the new york rinks that were operated by donald trump's operation because, well, because. he just wanted to pull the plug. that caught so many people off guard. wait a minute, the season is not over and you are going to close them. we have at least another month on falling on the ice like that guy right there. watch this. here are some of the people who have relied on this ice for leisure time activity outside during the pandemic and they are steamed at the governor, rather, the mayor. >> it's really devastating. my kids have been in this program for 1 years -- six years and we are just one of the families who really enjoy the program and stuck with it. this is like christmas for our kids. this is the one thing that they look forward to every year and to have it snatched away from us without any explanation, it's really crazy. >> it's really upsetting because i was looking forward last of ice hockey, we get each other's phone numbers, we ice skate and say good-bye. to have that end early, that's really sad. peter: sudden, ainsley, he did a 180 yesterday. ainsley: thank the good lord. your daughters classes at the skating rink will be canceled. when we catch our breath -- when we catch our breath we h return your money because you paid in full for the whole season. this was an abrupt closure. they are mad at donald trump but they want today cancel us but it affects you at come because if you come to visit new york, chances are you've probably gone ice skating there. that's where my daughter learned to ice skate. it's such a fun activity for her with her little friends that take the lesson there. you know, it's just a part of our -- this is our backyard. peter: nothing else to do in the winter. ainsley: we go to the playground at central park that are wonderful and my daughter takes classes there and i was devastated when i learned of this, she loves it. she loves it. it's been such a pleasure to watch when she was terrified to go out this. eric trump tweeted out, thank you for keeping walnut rinks open, you made countless of new york families along with 250 employees happy. please know we appreciate and look forward to saying thanks in person. brian: they bailed out the city in 1980's when donald trump emerged on the scene. they came and did something that the city could not do and got it working, multimillion dollar contract and begged the trump family to revitalize a golf course in white stone bridge which they said. now mayor de blasio and few politics have decided that that's more important than the 205,000 kids that used it but the backlash was so loud and so pervasive he's reversed himself but the same mind set that had them paint black lives matter in front of trump tower in the middle of the pandemic, the same mindset that has you shut down every single school in new york city and keep peopling from living their lives and shut them down in apartments, the same mindset for governor and mayor really showed itself and finally hit a stonewall with this latest move because they have so determine today cut contracts with the successful businessman and that was president trump who use today live here. every other business has left here and now you want to oust for political purposes the trump organization. ainsley: during the pandemic. brian: who is paying the bills. ainsley: central park came in and cleaned it all up, donald trump did -- a lot of people play hockey, did the ice skating rink and changed our backyard here in new york city so that it's safe. peter: pinch yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, all across america. new york city actually did something that made common sense because they were going to close it, as of today but because there's one more month, they will leave it open. ainsley: city hall stepped in. brian: they only did something in common sense after they did one of the stupidest ever. peter: we played the soundbites from the people that were outraged. brian: this was a self-inflicted wound. ainsley: de blasio did it but then city hall reversed it. peter: right, ultimately they did the right thing after doing something silly. we are going to talk to eric trump, he will be with us just about 2 hours in 15 right now here in the channel that you trust for your morning news. 6:14 in new york city and jillian joins on this monday with the headlines. jillian: good morning, a lot of news to get to. today asylum seekers to begin to enter u.s. through texas, friday border officials near san diego started processing a small batch what is expected round 26,000 with pending cases in u.s. immigration courts. it's part of the biden administration's rollback of trump's policy known as remain in mexico programs. all migrants will be tested for covid-19. in texas many people are still under a boil water advisory with millions more facing water supply issues. meanwhile senator ted cruz handed out water to storm victims and served barbecue to first responders this as united airlines is investigating who leaked the senator's flight information revealing when he was suppose today originally return to texas after the controversial trip to cancún. coming up we will have a live report in dallas on the current situation in the lone star state. a seattle homeless shelter reportedly using tax dollars to teach addicts how to smoke heroin. this is according to radio station ktth. the human services department is passing out pipes claiming smoke asking a lower risk alternative to injection. the city is not commenting whether it endorses taxpayer money to purchase drug paraphernalia but if we have any updates, we will pass them along. the star chef trading traditional brick and mortar restaurants for delivery-only service amid the pandemic. no pickup or carry out available also known as ghost kitchen and food can be ordered or through most delivery service such as door door dash and grubhub. that's a look at your headlines, send it back to you. peter: great idea. ainsley: thanks so much, jillian. in hours joe biden's pick merrick garland will be grilled on capitol hill, major scandals the republicans won't let him ignore plus after newsom's lockdown measures, one restaurant owner said he made it his new mission to get the governor recalled, you will hear from him next. ♪ ♪ ♪ keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo to veteran spouses everywhere we salute you. we salute how you balanced work, family and home life. we salute your courage. and your service. by 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hearing and that is he needs to convince the american people that there's not atwo-tiered system of justice that only republicans seem to be prosecuted and allies while democrats we hear the allegations and we hear what ron johnson came up with, for example, in hunter biden's case and we need to make sure they are pursued and the facts and the defendants are -- the cases are pursued. brian: absolutely. the son of the president, hunter biden is hard to imagine he has to pick merrick garland and turn around and investigate his son and if tony bobulinski is correct and the big guy is now president biden and if they are doing a tax investigation, if this is legitimate, don't you think we are going to find out and legitimate, do we have to call tony bobulinski who has contacted because if he hasn't been, it's not a serious probe. >> tony bobulinski has information that can help with the investigation. one of the things with merrick garland, he will ask to ask questions as to when should a special counsel be implemented in this case. what are the -- what is the doj policy and how is he going to apply it. i'm a little concerned, brian, that a special counsel hasn't been appointed in this case because obviously like you say, joe biden, the president of the united states is implicated by some of the evidence. brian: durham probe, you know it's going to be asked but what do you think in particularity? >> in my experience, since i supervised the mueller investigation for a period of time, what i can tell you it does put real restrictions not only -- not only firing the special counsel but really on the management of the special counsel and what you saw with bob mueller and his team, it was a run away train that i've talked about many times with you that really was uncontrollable and that looked at many things far field from ultimately what its original purpose was. brian: lastly, governor cuomo, legal peril, where do you see most vulnerable if at all? matt: well, you can't lie during the department of justice during investigations. that's going to be the challenge. the question is, is there evidence where the governor of new york instructed individuals to not be truthful to the department of justice or, you know, ask people to do things on his behalf. he could have some exposure by lying to the department of justice pursuant to an investigation. brian: i think he kind of just ignored the department of justice. he ran out the clock. matt: it's shameful what happened to these families and i know janice dean on your team has been dramatically impacted by this but it's shameful and new yorkers deserve transparency in this regard and they have had anything but so far with andrew cuomo. brian: right, and he still has absolute powers and running the city into a ground and as a punishment he's about to get $50 billion from a rescue package for shutting the whole place down. unbelievable. matthew whitaker, thank you so much. >> good to see you. brian: 24 minutes after the hour now, millions without still fresh running water in texas. live in dallas with a look at how the lone star state is recovering from the deep freeze, plus the owner of a california restaurant hit hard by gavin newsom's lockdowns, makes it his in addition recall the governor. the small business owner sounds off next. i suffered with psoriasis for so long. it was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx. i'm still clear, five years now. cosentyx works fast to give you clear skin that can last. real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if you've had a vaccine or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur. i look and feel so much better. see me. ask your dermatologist if 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mode, food and water remains top issue as many as 10 million people throughout the state are without safe drinking water, big lines have formed as people wait to give bottled water. that weren't enough, people are now facing massive electricity bills as usage went up in texas market's base system, so often did the cost. some bills topping ten grand, governor greg abbott says he's stopping disconnections for folks who can't pay and working with state lawmakers on legislation to help. >> texans who have suffered through days of freezing cold without power should not be subjected to skyrocketing energy bills due to an -- due to a spike in the energy market. jeff: president biden has signed a major disaster declaration and could visit the state maybe some time this week saying that he will only do so if it's not a burden, steve. peter: jeff, thank you very much. live report from the metroplex. ainsley. ainsley: restaurant owner is fighting back after california's gavin newsom after the state threatened livelihood and how gavin newsom became his business. i want to say robles, you say it's pronounced robles, thanks for being with us. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: tell us how gavin newsom affected your life with shutting down all of these businesses? >> yeah, for one just over the past year i've had to close down my business about 5 times in some regards and that's been the most harmful thing. complete uncertainty for a year and it makes it impossible for businesses like mine to plan and also on the more, you know, harsh levels it cause med to lay off employees and balance my books. ainsley: now you're making it your mission, your new business to make sure the recall happens, right? >> absolutely. it's very easy to connect the dots. my customers that come in can connect the dots that, hey, there's literally one man in the way of letting businesses open and operate. ainsley: let's look at the numbers, 1.1 million signatures have been submitted. nearly 670,000 signatures have been validated. so not quite half of what you need to make sure this recall happens. i think you need 1.5 million. how are you going to get all those signatures because i think you have until the middle of march? >> the support for the recall has been growing exponentially. i have people coming into my business all of the time to sign it. when people come in and they say, hey, i'd like to order pizza and a cocktail, i say, i'm sorry, i can't -- i can't give that to you, the governor shut us down and usually they are pretty upset and instead i serve them a clip board with a petition and almost all of them sign it. ainsley: we've done so many stories on schools closing down and you will see one district is closed but the district next door is open. for you, so many businesses in california are closed but when you look at other states they are doing it successfully and the numbers are about the same. for instance, florida, how do you feel about that? >> it's very frustrating and one of the frustrations is that the state won't share that the data with us. they are saying they are making decisions based on data and they won't share it with us. and the only data that we have was given out by new york state that showed that restaurants were only responsible for 1.5% of covid cases. i assume the same is true in california but they won't share that data with us and allow us to make decisions. ainsley: gavin newsom's statement released statement, californians want to stay focus on vaccinations, reopening, recovery without distraction and expense of a 100 million-dollar hyperpartisan. >> $30 billion in unemployment benefits were given out to prisoners and out of state fraudsters and money that could have gone to help businesses and instead it's gone to nothing. so $100 million pails in comparison for taxpayer money. ainsley: god bless you. >> appreciate you getting my story out. ainsley: democrats packing a whole lot of pork into the relief plan. many 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you. peter: here to break it all down house minority whip steve scalise. >> good morning, good to be with y'all. peter: when you hear covid rescue, all the money is going to go to covid but when you look at what is included it looks like the 15-dollar per hour minimum wage is in there. 270 million for arts and humanities. 200 million for museums and libraries, 50 million for family planning and 112 million for bay area rapid transit funding in nancy pelosi's district. it doesn't look like all the money is going to covid. >> rights, it gets worst than that unfortunately when you look at the bill that pelosi is bringing this week. less than 10% of the money in this massive $1.9 trillion bill is for health related items. i thought this was supposed to be about recovering from covid, start with the biggest item. $350 billion to bail out failed states. california announced surplus of $10 billion and they're going to get probably tens more billion from this bill. new york state, we had an amendment to require new york to report the nursing home deaths data that governor cuomo has been covering up, major scandal in new york. do you know all democrats, including democrat from new york voted against that cuomo has to disclose nursing home death data to get tens of billions of dollars for new york. this is in the bill. minimum wage, you mentioned the 15-dollar minimum wage, what does that have to do with covid relief. for small businesses that are on the vine, those small businesses will have a harder time coming back when you go to a 15-dollar minimum wage. these things have nothing to do with covid. the school school bill, this should be about helping schools safely reopen so kids can be learning in the classroom. we have seen the studies. the damage that is being long-term to the children this this country, millions when only 40% are black in the classroom learning every day, every single student can be and should be learning. the president's secretary jen psaki admitted that the money doesn't have to be used to reopen school. over $100 billion to go to school, not to reopen, in fact, 95% of the money can't even be spent until 2022. do you really want to wait until 2022 to start having your kid go back in school in? this bill will delay school reopening. this is crazy. ainsley: how did the 15-dollar minium wage get in there? even bernie sanders said this is not the right time to do it. >> well, bernie sanders and the far left have been wanting to do this for a long time. it's been a big cause of aoc who helped write this bill. again, this is where the socialist left and the unions have literally driven this bill, this bill should be about helping kids get back in school, instead, it's about bowing to the teachers unions who don't want kids to be back in school when all the science and the cdc director said, get the kids back in the classroom. it's important for their mental health, suicides are up, depression are up. kids aren't learning as well. they are going to keep holding the millions of kids behind on this bill. it's a national crisis and national disgrace. brien: and president biden and anthony fauci still can't say kids going back to school. you're not going to even be able to spend this money until '22, 2022 and 2028. they haven't spent what they have right now. she thinks new york has the perfect template from what the rest of the country should do. >> i want to depunk this myth that teacher unions at least our union doesn't want to reopen schools. >> is this school year probably not going to have full school openings? >> what does full school opening do? if you do have 6 feet of social distancing, you're saying in the school, you will have about 50% or 60% of people in there at any one time. not 100%. we need to try to get as much in-person as possible right now, have the mitigation strategies, have a real great summer semester to get kids mojo vacin a voluntary way and get ready back for next year. brien: i don't know what mojo means in curriculum. is she saying put the kids back in the summer? >> where is accountability? why not have money in this bill for school choice. if your local school system wants to take your money and not educate your kid in the classroom -- brian: because the unions are involved. they have no interest in that. >> absolutely. brian: this is my -- my hope is, there aren't democratic or republican parents, there are just parents. there's only one parent kissing up to the unions and that's the democratic party. that somehow has to be made clear. >> absolutely. they are undermining the science. remember joe biden said follow science until science said safely reopen schools and you can do it today and not 2022 and then biden sidelines the cdc director. we don't need 1.9 trillion of debt that goes to our kids. our kids will pay the debt. this is a disaster. brian: we need our leaders say, kids need to get back to school. they have to do something that's right and not political and anthony fauci should lead the charge. he knows that's the right answer but he's covering for this administration in a way he would never do for donald trump. it is really disheartening to say the least. congressman, thanks so much. >> these kids are being left behind. let's reopening our schools, let's vote against the bill, thank you. peter: all right, coming up shortly -- steve scalise, thank you very much. jillian: so a un nuclear watchdog reaches a temporary agreement with iran for the next 3 months. inspectors with the international atomic energy agency will be allowed to keep an eye on the rogue regime's nuclear activity. it comes as the biden administration faces criticism for easing some restrictions. meantime a north carolina police officer shot in line of duty is in stable condition. the suspect, blocker charged with attempted murder and being held under 1 million-dollar secure bond. authorities have not said what led up to the sunday morning shooting near greensborough. the renaming of district on hold after intense backlash. the school board president in a statement says, quote, i'm exited to focusing the board's attention on getting students back into the classroom. the board want today rename schools. they say they have been associated with racism and slavery including abraham lincoln and george washington. and deon sanders having a very dramatic first game as football coach. nfl hall of famer led jackson state university to 53 to nothing win but was completely furious after the game saying he was robbed. >> while the game is going on, somebody came in and stole every darn thing i had in the locker room, credit cards, wallet, watches, thank god i had all of my necklaces, how. jillian: things had been removed for safekeeping and returned but he doubled down tweeting a staff member walked in on the theft and the school is reviewing security. brian: nice thank you for going back to coaching college to help them out. ainsley: new york andrew governor cuomo in hot water. hear from former doj official saying he should fear a federal probe. s every veteran family deserves to fulfill their dream of owning a home and to continue living that dream throughout their lives. at newday usa, we have va refinance loans to do just that. from refinancing to lower your monthly mortgage payments to refinancing and getting cash for your family. whatever you need, we're here. peter: former department of justice official making the case for why embattled new york governor andrew cuomo should be worried about the federal probe of the state's misreporting of covid deaths. joining us right now former acting assistant attorney general for the department of justice's civil rights division john dacus along with janice dean who lost both of her in-laws to covid after they were exposed in new york nursing homes. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, great to be with you. janice: good morning, steve. steve: great to have you, jd and john. john, yo wrote an op-ed that's in the wall street journal right now and essentially it talks about why cuomo should be worried about a federal probe and it all start with the fact that once he via executive order said that people who had been exposed to coronavirus and had been in the hospital to be treated should go back to the nursing homes and the number of people started dying left and right. that was a gigantic number, but in public he was bragging about how the number there was so low, the number of people who were dying and so your former division at the doj started asking questions. >> yes, steve, on march 25th the governor issued order that required nursing homes to accept people who could be infected, still infected with covid and something that's overlooked, the order prohibited the nursing homes from testing those people to determine if they had covid. so those people were put back in with a very vulnerable population. steve: right. >> new york by the summer had by far the highest death rate in the country over 32,000 deaths, twice the deaths of any other state. if new york were its own country, it would have been among the top 10. the governor was going around saying the nursing home deaths were very low and that didn't seem right to us at the department of justice. so we asked for information on state-run nursing homes which my group, the civil rights division has jurisdiction over and new york provided data to us that showed that they had understated the deaths in those nursing homes by one-third. steve: right, and now we know from the attorney general of new york state who said, yeah, they were -- they covered up the number. they underestimated or they underreported and then you have melissa de rosa who is the governor's secretary, john, came out, it was revealed that it was a 2-hour zoom meeting with a bunch of top democrats and she was apologizing not for the number of people that died but because the administration had put those democrats into political peril during the reelection in november and she was apologizing for that. that two-hour zoom meeting i would imagine is great evidence for the department of justice. >> yeah, steve, that's a great point. so what happened after we learned this information, we went to our sister division, the civil division of the department of justice that asked for the same information for the over 600 private nursing homes in the state of new york and new york stonewalled and didn't produce anything throughout the rest of the year, perhaps waiting for a change in administration and de rosa and, she's the governor's top aide, said that she admitted that at that point once the investigation was ongoing, quote, we froze because then we were in a position we weren't sure what we were going to give to the justice department was going to be used against us. steve: they presented that donald trump was going to come after them when in fact, the doj came after them it would be revealed that they had been lying. janice, it's bad enough that you lost both of your in-laws in covid after being in nursing homes but then to have the state of new york lie about it, just is -- adds insult to injury. janice: you know what, i am grateful to john daukas and william barr for opening up the investigation because if it wasn't the brave people like john to do this reporting and to feel like this was important for us families, over 15,000 of us here in new york, i wouldn't be here today and i don't believe there would be an investigation into cuomo and i actually think he would have been in the seat today instead of merrick garland as biden's ag. so i am so grateful, john daukas is a hero and the reporting today in the wall street journal is incredible. it's incredible for all of us, all of the families that want justice. steve: toward the end of john's article it talks about how the, you know, the legal exposure, mr. cuomo and others place and you talk about how it's a crime to lie to the feds, it's a crime to conceal information and obstruct government investigations as well. so john, now that joe biden is president and, you know, you have new leadership coming in at the department of justice, people are looking to what exactly will be done. you know, i saw this story in the new york post last week, melissa derosa who admitted to those democrats on the zoom call that the cuomo administration had lied about the number, her mother-in-law audrey strauss is the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. people are going, is the justice department going to really look into it if the attorney for the southern district is her mother-in-law? >> many fine people that i work with, many wonderful career people in the department of justice, four different u.s. attorneys offices in the state of new york. any one of them can investigate this and the news reports are that the eastern district which is in brooklyn has been investigating this. i really can't talk about what i know about an ongoing investigation. but i assume that the fine people at the department of justice will do what they are supposed to do and will take this wherever it leads them. steve: janice, what will justice look like to your family? janice: i want the truth and nothing but the truth. we have talked to reporters and lawmakers that say that cuomo is the terminator and nothing can destroy him but you know what, thanks to john daukas and the department of justice that continue to try to find answers for my family, i hope it continues into the biden's department of justice as well. steve: sure. and while there's different leadership, john, to your earlier point, there's so many honest people at the department of justice who are just trying to do the right thing. you feel confident ultimately we will know the truth and janice's family will get justice, right? >> i do, i do. this is something that's hurt so many different people that we really need to get to the bottom of this. it's not a political issue. it's an issue about justice. steve: indeed it is. if you have a subscription to the wall street journal, check it out. john daukas former acting attorney general for the department of justice civil rights division. john, thank you very much, janice, thank you very much for sharing your story. janice: thank you, john, thank you. >> thank you, janice. thanks to both of you. steve: by the way, we did reach out to governor cuomo's office for comment and we have not heard back. this is "fox & friends" at 7:00 o'clock in the east. >> president biden's nearly 2 trillion-dollar stimulus bill could go to the house floor this week. >> less than 10% of the money in massive $1.9 trillion is for health related items. >> the grounding of its triple 7 fleet after a plane engine explodes over colorado. >> engine failure causing the plane to descend rapidly. faa demanding investigation. todd: asylum seekers to enter to the u.s. >> this is madness. >> grim milestone this morning as it slowly approaches 500,000 dead. >> we do not believe that china has made available sufficiently data as to how the pandemic began to spread. >> disney plus has added offensive content warning to the muppet show. >> it's hilarious at this point. ♪ ♪ >> i heard on the radio this morning we might be getting a little snow in the middle of the day today. steve: of course, why wouldn't we? ainsley: it's cold here. good morning, thanks for waking up with us y'all? brian: we might have to tell bill and dana just to sleep in. okay. we will see what happens. there's a lot going on and to correct you on the weather, i believe it's going to rain 41 degrees which means we get rid of the snow which means you can actually go outside and do something on grass or fake grass. ainsley: i heard it's going to rain but maybe a mix of a little snow in there too, brian. steve: that's what i heard. it's going to be a wintery mix which in the weather business as janice could tell us, it's best to say wintery mix. it's pretty accurate. 7:01, thank you very much for joining us on this, february 22nd, 2021. meanwhile mark meredith live in washington with the biden administration's plans to reform the paycheck protection program. they want to make it more small business centric. mark: steve, that's the idea, the white house wants to adjust the program to help businesses survive the pandemic. starting on wednesday there's a two-week period when only businesses with fewer with 20 employees will be able to apply for ppp loans and also renewed focus on contractors and self-employed americans. this administration also hopes to cut down on some of the red taped in loan applications. this week the white house will once again urge lawmakers to pass the american rescue plan. that's the $1.9 trillion bill that includes billions for covid testing, more money for small business programs and another round of stimulus checks. democrats call this packet essential, republicans say it's too expensive with too much going to projects and priorities not directly related to the pan pandemic. >> the cornerstone of this bill is wasteful spending and it's pork and buying members of congress so they can use their wish list with pandemic as an excuse. mark: they are expected to pass stimulus bill by the end of the week. it's unclear how the senate will handle efforts to increase minimum wage. steve, ainsley, it's going to be snowing later on today. i'm thankful to be inside. you shiver for 8 hours. ainsley: thank you, mark. good to see you this morning. let's bring senator tom cotton. good morning to you, senator. senator: good morning, ainsley. ainsley: mark was just talking about the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. i know that you have a problem with this because of all the things that the democrats have rammed in there including 270 million for arts, 200 million for museums, 50 millions for family planning funding and bart funding, bay area rapid transit. steve: minimum wage. ainsley: that's right. senator: i think we know why democrats decided to make this a partisan bill. didn't want to cooperate with republicans even though we worked on a bipartisan basis. last year, the past 5 bills, almost $4 trillion to help the country get through the pandemic, because they want to use the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to fulfill a lot of long-standing liberal priorities. if you recall, nancy pelosi did this last march, put brakes on a bill because nancy pelosi wanted money for exact kind of things that you mentioned. what was mass transit in san francisco have to do with a global pandemic. it has nothing to do with it. it only has to do with nancy pelosi getting earmark for her district which this bill does across the country, bringing back earmark that republicans banned for a decade so we don't have bridges to nowhere. brian: this could have been bipartisan. the other rescue bills were bipartisan and there were a group of senators, you were among them, 680 billion, they went and met with the president, that seemed to have gone by the boards. don't forget we also put money aside for native american language preservation. that's everything to do with the pandemic and we are also going to put 1.5 million for the sea wall international bridge that connects new york to canada which by the way no one is allowed to go to back and forth and only allowed to go through southern border, that's a different conversation. you're looking for minimum wage increase, just not up to $15, right? senator: yeah, that's exactly right. mitt romney and i have been working on a bill, we hope to release in day as head. obviously the votes are not there for 15-dollars for minimum wage. we would like to see it go to american workers and we pair it with the the e-verify programs where every business across the country will have to verify that its employees are legally authorize today work in the united states. brian: what number? >> further steps to mitigate the numbers on small businesses. >> it's below 15 but sizable, brian. a real increase in real terms when inflation from the last time congress passed minimum wage increase in 2009 and we are still talking to senators about the details but we want to make sure that americans get a good wage increase and only americans get it and doesn't happen until the pandemic is over and that we take steps to mitigate the impact on the small businesses. steve: wal-mart announced they will start paying $15 per hour to their employees but they're a big company whereas the small businesses, the congressional budget office is estimated that if it went through at least 1 million people would lose their jobs and that seems to defeat the purpose. meanwhile, today some of the biden administration's executive orders are taking effect regarding immigration. the wall -- the washington post has an editorial headline that says, biden is moving to end trump's inhumane border policies. can he avoid triggering a new migrant surge? that really is a question, senator, because we've heard for the last couple of weeks, you know, there are these migrant caravans that are getting started in the triangle countries heading north toward mexico, toward the united states and the administration is going, hey, now is not the time to come. don't come now, but apparently some time in the future will be. senator: yeah, steve, this issue is actually directly connected to the legislation senator romney and i want to introduce. 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants in the country. joe biden want to give them all amnesty and work authorization at the same time they are inviting millions of more people to cross the borders and come here and work. it's crazy. those jobs should go back to the americans who lost those jobs during the pandemic. but to answer the question about sending the wrong signals to would-be migrants, of course, it sends the signal. 25,000 people waiting in mexico under the remain in mexico policy. biden administration is affirmatively going out and inviting them to come to the border and enter the country for claims that are likely to be denied because asylum claims are denied 80% of the time but they don't often get adjudicated for 2 years and they are all communicating with friends, family members and others back in home countries via social media. it is going to go viral and lead to another migrant surge at our southern border at a time when 10 million americans are out of work and we are still facing a global pandemic. you can't fly into the country without a negative coronavirus but fine to cross -- brian: zero sense. sorry, ainsley. senator: joe biden is keeping our schools closed but our borders open. ainsley: let's talk about xavierbacerra because he's the hhs pick for joe biden and he will have a hearing whether or not he gets the job. you say he's been a disaster for california. here is an ad that you put out against him. >> becerra supports bernie takeover of health care, eliminating coverage and becerra suspended disastrous lockdowns. ainsley: give us detail about why you are not in favor of this. >> the secretary of health and human services traditionally is a doctor or public health school leader or maybe a pharmaceutical executive. xavier becerra, he's been the enforcer for gavin newsom's lockdowns that have killed jobs in california. he's radical when it comes to health insurance. he will want to take americans health insurance on the job and move the country towards the country toward a single socialized medicine. it's going to be replayed across the country in the fall of 2022. >> we have to get our country to this point between the immigration and that, you wonder what's going to be happening. something else happened, you are one of the first people that came out over a year ago now and said i have a problem with the wuhan lab and i think this virus is a lot worse than sars and i think the military had something to do with it. now watch matt, former deputy security advisers. sounds like something that you would say and jake sullivan, national security adviser for president biden had this to say about china and he's bothered and we still don't know nearly enough about the virus. let's listen. >> i also believe that we need a credible open transparent international investigation led by the world health organization and they are about to come out with a report about the origins of the pandemic in wuhan, china that we have questions about because we do not believe that china has made available sufficient original data in into how this pandemic began to spread both in china and then eventually around the world and we believe that both who and china should step up on the matter. brian: i love the fact that they are taking it back to china. remember cuomo said it's the european virus. now they are singing from your hymn book by and i'm heartened by that. the problem the chinese communist part did not turn the cdc to deal with the crisis, they dealt with the military and our cdc did not have any relations to the chinese military. we were blind to this, your thoughts? senator: all that is right. it's disappointing that the biden administration immediately rejoined the w.h.o. the so-called investigation the w.h.o. recently conducted in wuhan was no investigation at all. it didn't conduct any real examination, led by some european food safety expert. they admitted that they didn't review any evidence. they sat down for a cup of coffee with their friends at the wuhan institute of virology, sounds good, no questions asked. that's the quality of the so-called investigation that was conducted. china needs to be forthright and open. until they do that, we shouldn't be rejoining the w.h.o. and we shouldn't be taking any, any tariffs or sanctions off of china for what they've done for the country. brian: we are still paying money to that lab to research the wuhan lab, american tax dollars. it's nuts. senator: it's totally nuts and, again, china has not been forthright from the very beginning. what could have been just a local health challenge in wuhan turned into the worst the global pandemic in a century because chinese complicity and incompetence. steve: disney plus has labeled i think 18 episodes of the muppets of having offensive content in it. one of them includes johnny cash in front of a confederate flag and they say this program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. these stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now rather than remove this content, we want to -- acknowledge its harmful impact but rather than get rid of the content which is very expensive, they are putting that label at the beginning of it. what do you think about that? senator: total mickey mouse move, guys. seriously, disney is putting these kinds of disclaimers on the muppets, not removing them from disney plus because they don't want to lose the revenue from subscribers but at the same time last year they thank an agency of the chinese communist party that's responsible for concentration camps for helping them film a movie. it's outrageous and appalling. it's kind of what they did a few years back in the united states, if you recall, they threatened to cut georgia off because the georgia legislature wanted to protect unborn children. yet their perfectly willing to work with chinese communists who are responsible for genocide against their own people. it's really appalling. brian: do you think we will have a muppets commission to look at this, would it be bipartisan? senator: we might have to go through the entire disney catalog but again, it's not just the muppets, they have disclaimers on all kinds of show in the catalog. they still want the 12.99 a month. ainsley: senator cotton, thank you for joining us. senator: thank you all. ainsley: you're welcome. jillian has more headlines for us, hey, jillian. jillian: let's start with fox news alert. engine explodes mid flight, 240 people on board making an emergency landing 15 minutes after taking off, just minutes after taking off i should say from denver. take a listen. >> departure united 320, may day aircraft just experienced an engine failure, need to turn immediately. >> left or right turn? >> left turn. >> can you imagine, the explosion causing pieces to have plane's engine to rain down on a denver suburb. this happened on sat. nobody was hurt sankfully. we will keep you up -- thankfully. joe biden to hold a moment of silence to mark a grim milestone. the u.s. with half million coronavirus deaths and expected to surpass the number today. biden to honor those who lost their lives from the coronavirus. many texans remain under boiling water advisory. senate majority leader chuck schumer is mocking the state over the energy crisis. take a listen to this. >> i hope they learned the lesson. when we build power, when we build anything now, we have to take into account that climate change is real. julie: coming up we will have a live report in dallas on the current situation in texas. and in california, governor gavin newsom is coming under new scrutiny over use of behested payments. fair political practice commission data shows the payments jumped in 2020 to $226 million from just 12 million in 2019. meanwhile the effort to recall newsom nears 1.8 million signatures, at least 1.5 million signatures must be validated by next month to move forward. that is a look at your headlines, i will send it back to you. brian: so far most of them being authenticated, so he's in trouble. jillian: yeah. steve: thank you, jillian. 7:17, expert dodging a lot of questions about covid. we will run through the list that dr. fauci failed to answer. and more motivation with on-demand workout classes. the new myww+. download the app and try us out with a 14 day free trial. it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. what if i sleep hot? ...or cold? no problem, with 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their second dose, they theyare fully vaccinated, can ty spend time with their grandchildren. what's your recommendations? >> i don't want to be making the recommendation now on public tv. ainsley: the president's chief adviser of covid-19 under scrutiny for dodging critical questions about the pandemic and that's the only one that dr. fauci didn't answer. fox news medical contributor dr. good morning, dr. saphier. >> good morning. ainsley: we will play another one coming up. what comes to mind? doctor: you know, ainsley, i feel bad for dr. fauci and i said many times. i think i should serve as his translator because i think he has good intentions and everything that he says is led by science. that is a valid question, what's the purpose of the vaccination campaigns if we are not allowing people to then go out and see friends and family. if they can't see friends and family, they will start wondering what is the purpose of living the life anyway, what is all of this for. we have to start giving firm recommendations and we have to point out that pfizer and moderna provide great efficacy. and even look israel. it's time to start getting people together and, yes, you can still have precautions in terms of mask-wear if you want to. it's not about absolutes, ainsley. we are not trying to get to zero risks. just like wearing a seat belt, seat belts only reduce the deaths by 45%, yet we still go out and drive cars. that's what we are doing with covid. we are trying to reduce the risk but not get to zero. ainsley: he also dodged the question about schools reopening. >> given the science are schools being too cautious and schools closed right now that should be open in person? doctor: you know, i mean, obviously it's a very difficult situation to get an absolute definitive answer. ainsley: why won't he answer that question? the cdc said it's safe as long as you follow the precautions. doctor: i'm not in his head but is there such a thing of being too cautious in a state of pandemic, we know that there are far many risks keeping children outside of school so i'm happy to answer that question. yes, there are schools that are not open that need to be open, at least some form of hybrid learning and we need to put our children first and making sure that our young generations get the education that they need. ainsley: i think most people watching this morning would agree with you. thank you very much dr. saphier. doctor: thank you, ainsley. ainsley: scatters debris into the neighborhoods below. a big chunk of it landing on the front yard of that house right there, that front yard, this is the colorado resident's house and that person will join us live coming up next. ...and then what happened daddy? well, you see here... there's a photo of you and there's a photo of your mommy and then there's a picture of me. but before our story it goes way, way, way back with your great, great, great grandparents. see this handsome man, his name is william. william fell 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if you ever been involved in a high-speed or automobile crash, that's the sound we heard. and all of a sudden the big silver object in the front window and we had absolutely no idea what it was from sitting there and then when i stood up and opened the door i told my wife, you're never going to guess what this is. it's the front of engine of airplane. steve: i see the picture window right there. if you're in your living room, you're 10 to 15 feet from that and if anybody would have been in the truck they would be dead. >> yeah, i'm 10 or 15 feet away from the truck. i'm next to the window. >> unbelievable. i was reading one of the accounts, one of your neighbors, the lady who lives right across from you, thought it was a ufo, debris from a ufo? >> yeah, it was pretty strange. i have -- i don't know if you can see this, but this is the -- the actually the structure of the engine and flew into pieces. here is a smaller piece right here. the pieces rained down in the sky for 2 or 3 minutes after. the pieces were found along with this piece in the back of my truck after we started looking at it yesterday, so -- >> steve: it was ntsb or united and somebody came and pick up all the big parts and apparently they just left the little stuff there and after that happened you had a parade of cars going through your neighborhood as people are looking for the stuff that fell out of the sky. >> yeah, saturday afternoon was actually a pretty pleasant and then it started really getting cold and the local police had come and blocked off the street and blocked off the neighborhood and everything else because they started to realize how big the debris field was. but the ntsb really didn't show up until around 6:00 o'clock saturday night and it was dark and snowing like crazy and cold. so they came and just sweeped up the pieces they could find but little pieces like this are everywhere. steve: i bet they are. you know, given the fact, kirby, that you were so close to that thing falling on you, have you try today wrap your head around how lucky you and your wife are? >> yeah, i mean, you heard that, my son had just left to go to work. he had exited the front door maybe 5 minutes before that happened and when i stepped outside and -- and realized what it was, my first look was up in the sky to see where the plane was coming down because i figured a piece of that big the plane was going to be lost. so we will be looking up and all you saw was the stuff raining down from the sky and i realized that nothing else was happening here, but -- and then there was a relief here but the people on the plane, they had a good 30 or 40 minutes of terror the whole time so i'm much more fortunate to be here on the ground to put up with the debris that we had than the people on the plane wonder if they would make it safe or not. steve: hero pilot landed after all the worry and i understand the entire plane burst into applause when he landed safely. >> i'm sure it did because, you know, on the ground here we -- the denver -- the police were here quickly but nobody had any word on the plane and all the local news channels were still all involved in their normal programming, so we didn't have any information at all on the plane or what had happened or anything until probably about 20 or 30 minutes later and conflicting, well, they are still up in the air burning up fuel but apparently they turned right around and landed quickly. steve: i think the people on the plane were the first to know and you were the second because they landed in your front yard. kirby klements, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. steve: saturday night live accused of anti-semitism. the joke that has the jewish community demanding an apology coming up. supported by a five-star sales, service and finance team. and backed by the one star you know. so, go the extra mile. it's never crowded because so few have what it takes to go there. mercedes-benz vans. every veteran family has earned 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enough, you have people facing really big power bills, governor greg abbott says he's stopping disconnection for folks who can't pay those bills and now working with state lawmakers to pass some legislation so all of this doesn't happen again. >> we should never run short of power again. texas is the energy state, we need to make sure that we translate that into power generation to make sure that the power stays on. jeff: president biden has declared a major disaster declaration and it's possible that he could visit the state somewhere throughout the lone star state, maybe this week but he's not going to do that unless it isn't a major disruption to the recovery efforts here in the lone star state. back to you. ainsley: okay, jeff, thank you so much. let's hand it over to janice, she has a look at the forecast, hey, janice. janice: let's start off with texas, the good news is they are getting warm temperatures, not like last week where we were below freezing for much of the workweek. let's take a look at houston where we will see potential for showers and thunderstorms throughout the workweek, but the good news is those temperatures are not going to get close to freezing. they'll be in the 60's and 70's. past 24 hours, we will see the showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast. we have a weaker system across the northeast and potential for some snow, mainly rain across the coast but interior sections, that's where we will get measurable snow. still feeling like winter across the northeast but better news for the folks across the south. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. brian: all right, janice, thanks so much. 18 minutes before the top of the hour, let's bring in pete hegseth, new fox nation untold patriots reveal. pete, we will talk about that? just a moment, let's flash back to snl, michael shay referring to the fact that israel has vaccinated their whole population, listen. >> israel is reporting that they vaccinated half of their population and i'm going to guess it's the jewish half. >> okay. laugh at home. not laughing the american jewish committee they say must apology immediately. the joke vaccinating only jewish citizens is false, urging snl to retrack and apologize. should they? pete: they probably should. it's the double standard that exist for the jewish people and always have and the part of it is not true. 43% of israeli arabs have been vaccinated. what the state of israel has done with their vaccination is nothing short of miraculous, how quickly they've been able to do it and, of course, please do find me the jewish populations living peacefully in saudi arabia, syria, libya, anywhere around the middle east, oh, wait, they don't exist. israel is a famous multiethnic society that even though it's been surrounded by neighborhoods who have want to kill it have created democracy in the middle east and they have done a darn good job of it but the anti-semitism not helpful but to be expected. steve: pete, let's talk about history and over the last couple of months there's been a move to out in san francisco to rename a number of the schools for like george washington, thomas jefferson, things like that. as it turns out in the last 48 hours, the san francisco school board president told the san francisco chronical they've made a mistake. gabriel lopez says, there have been many distracting public debates as we have been work to go reopen our schools, school renaming has been one of them. it was a process begun in 2019, timeline that didn't anticipate a pandemic. i acknowledge and take responsibility that mistakes were made in the renaming process. goes onto say later, but renaming -- rather reopening will be our only focus until our kids and young people are back in schools. we are canceling renaming committee meetings for the time being. well, that kind of makes sense because we got a global pandemic to work on. pete: they also say they are going to consult with actual historians because maybe it's not a good idea to erase hundreds of years of history with 3 weeks of wikipedia searches which is effectively what we learned the school board had already done and the fact that they're in the middle of covid-19, the schools are open, i saw the headline, they're holding meetings, talking about renaming schools named after abraham lincoln while their kids are not in school and the unions are holding out. sometimes common sense -- think about it, a year's worth of pandemic to realize maybe we should slow our roll on canceling george washington. ainsley: tell us about your new fox nation special. pete: i'm excited about it. untold patriots revealed and in this first series we tell the story of 5 great americans whose names you probably don't know. unless you're brian kilmeade who know about revolution and history, he probably knows the names. john parker, peter salem and john glover who saved the revolution three times and molly pitcher, i think we've got a clip from who there's mystery around her role at the monmouth battlefield. here is a portion of what we uncovered. >> this is a cannon that americans would have had in the arsenal. this thing itself weighs close to a ton. we are talking before how legends grow, single handedly operating a gun of this size. pete: mastering the cannon in epic battle, she gets her name for carrying pitchers of water in the feverish fight. over the years over the source of molly's water became part of the myths. in unlocking the legend of molly pitcher, we need to unlock what she did in the battlefield. a lot of fun to put together. we got to go to the battlefield sites. famously ferried george washington's army in surprise attack, washington crossing the delaware and they won the battle of trenton. that -- without him and the marvel headers, most of washington's army couldn't swim. 90% couldn't swim. they didn't have the flat boats they wouldn't have made it in the dead of winter. unbelievable story. on fox nation, untold patriots revealed and brian kilmeade, please watch them and let me know if you learned anything. brian: patriots revealed available on fox nation, fox nation as you know members only streaming service with exclusive access to original content, events, your favorite personallies. go to foxnation.com and sign up right now. all right, pete, thanks, you'll be great. pete: thanks, guys. brian: coming up straight ahead ivy league scrapping spring sports, student athletes make their case next. ♪ ♪ ♪ if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. ha! these drops probably won't touch me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. what is that? xiidra, noooo! it can provide lasting relief. xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. one 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react university baseball player, colin, start with you, is this okay with you? >> you know, it's a tough pill to swallow. it's tough. i don't think it's really okay with me in the sense that the way they went about it kind of hurt the student athletes. there was a lack of clarity, transparency. it almost seems as if the ivy league made this decision without thinking about any of the student athletes, like any of the student athletes experience. brian: ivy league has plenty of money. ask your parents how much they are writing checks for. jackson, tell me about the decision and knowing that other ncaa teams are playing? >> it's honestly just sad especially for guys like conil are seniors. >> you might be seeing your high school teams doing it, did you try to formalize and tell everybody how you'd approach it? did you talk to your coaches? >> yeah, so there were various conversations we had with different administrators and stuff. many petitions were grown around even by alumni. there was a lot of efforts to get us to play no matter what we did the ivy league felt that competition was not safe for us. it was tough, yeah. brian: so collin, i understand this guy, josei, billionaire, he said, i'm going to put everybody in a bubble just like they did with the nba. what was the reaction to that? >> yeah as soon as we spread that wall street journal article we saw that the cofounder of alibaba offered some financial assistance, once we heard the iv league immediately rebuffed it. it was pretty clear to us how they were going to decide it made us feel that we had no chance. all the guidelines we had in the fall did not lead us to any path forward to the season. it hurt us for sure. brian: are you guys practicing now? >> we were practices. we had limited practice groups but after the news we have not practiced. the coach wants us to settle with the information and get back into it. in the fall we were able to do conditioning groups where we had to be socially distanced, wear masks, we followed every single protocol that they gave us and then this spring we came back and had pitcher groups and hitter groups and every guideline we followed. we wiped balls down, socially distanced, wore masks, stayed in our athletic pods and that was still not enough for us apparently. brian: it's a shame, collin, real quick, what's your message to ivy league brass from here on in when it comes to sports? >> i guess i just hope that, you know, hopefully this never happens again, but if it were, maybe to give a little bit more, a little ear to student athletes, their opinions, how it affects them, you know, we had various like petitions, drafts, papers, like directly towards the ivy league, council presidents and it seems that it didn't resonate at all. brian: no kidding. i don't get the message they try to send. zach fogell, i'm sorry about that, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having us. brian: coming up straight ahead, the recall of gavin newsom, how close are they getting? very close and we will tell you how. ♪ ♪ ♪e. ♪ ♪ >> today asylum seekers the set to begin entering the u.s. through texas. >> you can't fly in this country without a negative coronavirus test, but it's fine to cross the border without one. >> why governor andrew cuomo should be worried about the federal probe. >> we really need to get to the bottom of this. it's an issue about justice. >> the order of a california restaurant hit hard by gavin newsom lockdowns makes it his mission to recall the governor. >> there's literally one man in the way of letting businesses open and operate. >> dozens of boeing planes grounded after a plane's engine explodes midair. >> if you've ever been involved in a high speed crash, that's the sound we heard. and also this big silver object just rolled in front of our window. >> christopher bell store scores his first career win, and it comes on the daytona report. ♪ oh, yeah, kick start my heart, give it a start. ♪ whoa, yeah, baby. steve: it's 8:00 on this monday, february 22nd, 2021, looking up at american square. red lights, people are stopping, listening to music. welcome aboard to "fox & friends." brian, welcome back. brian: thanks for having me. when people come back don't realize it, the cover of new york post says it's a ghost town, they've take over half the streets because with bike lanes. so you literally feel like you're parking your car in the middle of the street. ainsley: i know. brian: how are we going to deal with this when people come back here? steve: well, they wanted bike lanes, people got 'em. ainsley: if you leave fox news, you have to look both ways now before you get into your taxi -- brian: or get hit by a scooter. ainsley: exactly. because they've added that lane, and people are flying through on their scooters. steve: let's talk about stuff that's going on in the news. asylum siewkers -- seekers, people who want to get into the united states largely through our southern border, you know, they've been waiting in mexico during the trump administration. the biden administration has reversed the wait in mexico project and policy, and as of friday they started letting refugees in to san diego. today they're going to start in brownsville, texas, and by friday in el paso as well. one of the unanswered questions though is during the trump administration they said, okay, you want to come into the country, you want refugee status, you're going to have to wait in mexico. the question is how do -- what's going to happen to all the central americans who returned home, how are they going to get back to our southern border to get in. we don't know at this point, ainsley. ainsley: well, "the washington post," the editorial headline is biden is moving to end trump's inhumane border policies, can he avoid a new migrant surge. it talks about 1,000 unor -- unauthorized are going to be led into the country. word is now spreading to the migrants, the aasylum seekers, if they get here, this might be their chance, but there are those three ports of entry in texas and california that you named, steve. and it says they're going to first start with those who have waited the longest who are living in the border camps in mexico. brian: what about people around the world who are doing it the right way when they're coming from africa, norway or greenland? maybe they would sit there and go through the normal process. just when you thought the stupidest thing joe biden could do as president would be to get rid of 15,000 jobs on the pipeline for no reason even though it's got zero environmental impact, this might have surpassed it. you worked out a deal with mexico to have them remain in mexico because coming here illegally does not work. there's a process. you also got mexican police at the southern border, and now you are just causing a catastrophe in the middle of the pandemic when you're making us go 6 feet away and making the kids sit on laptops, even the caild januaries say i don't want to see americans on the northern border, and we said we don't want to see canadians. this is one of the craziest, most irresponsible things any administration could do. senator tom cotton weighed in last hour. >> the biden administration is now affirmatively going out and inviting them to come to the boarder and in our country for claims that are likely to be denied because asylum claims are denied 80% of the time, but they don't often get adjudicated for two years. and, of course, all these people are communicating with their friends and family members via social media. it is going to two viral, it is going to lead to another surge at our board, and we're still facing a global pandemic. you can't fly into this country without a negative coronavirus test, but it's fine to cross our border illegally without one. brian: think about this, border patrol live on the border. it's not easy on the family. and if then when you deal with a surge, it's really tough. now you're a border patrolman or woman, and you see these people coming across can. you have no idea if they're positive or negative. they're not wearing masks, they don't travel with rapid tests, but now you've got to put them in facilities. they call them soft facilities, we call them tents because it's the humane thing to do. tell me what's humane about having countries come here illegally. it makes no sense. steve: well, there are 25,000 active cases of the remain in mexico people who now, apparently, are eligible to come into the country. so once they stop by the port of entry and officially register and then the united states is going to let them into the interior united states as they await their court dates to figure out whether or not they should get asylum status. is so stay tuned on that. something happening on our southern board. meanwhile, in the pages of "the wall street journal" today if you pick up the paper, you will see on the op-ed pages something written by john dawkins who is a former department of justice official from the civil rights division. and he writes about why governor cuomo should be, essentially, terrified about a federal probe. because, among orr things, we -- other things, we know know, ainsley and brian, and it was within the last couple of weeks that the governor's assistant the, his secretary, melissa de rosa, admitted that they lied about the numbers because they thought that the feds were after them. but john dawkins actually lays things out in a chronological order and shows how that was not the case. the government was simply looking into why mr. cuomo, who had allowed all these people who were in hospitals and sent them immediately back to the nursing homes. the numbers of the people who were dying was breath taking the, and yet mr. cuomo, ainsley, was talking about how the numbers are remarkably low. we've got some of the lowest numbers in the country. and the department of justice people are going, scratching their heads going, that doesn't sound right. ainsley: john dawkins and janice dean who you know she lost both her mother-in-law and father-in-law due to nursing homes and covid, they were both on our show earlier. listen to this. >> new york provided data to us that showed they had understated the deaths in those nursing homes by one-third. for the civil division can of department of justice that asked for the same information for the over 600 private nursing homes in the state of new york, and new york stonewalled and didn't produce anything throughout the rest of the year, perhaps waiting for a change in administration. >> if it wasn't for these brave people like john to do this reporting and feel that this was important for us families, over 15,000 of us here in new york, i wouldn't be here today, and i don't believe there would be an investigation into cuomoment i want the whole and nothing but the truth. and i think we're going down that path. ainsley: he was talking about why he believes there could be criminal charges. he says it's a crime to make false statements to the federal government, and it's a crime to conceal information and otherwise obstruct government investigations. brian: and this statement the senator, leo comrie, has a huge problems with this. he represents queens. he says more than 60 residents in nursing homes were given experimental drug cocktails without consent from patients or families. since when do you do that? a lot of people are afraid to go into nursing homes in this community now. so when you lose a lot of liberal democrats, people on the left, and you know the right was very frustrated they have no power in this state, he's going to have a very hard time getting allies here. but what governor cuomo's great at is throwing somebody under the bus. when he had this buffalo billions scandal, revitalizing buffalo, and they lost billions of dollars in taxpayer money, he threw one of his best friends under the bus, and i think he went to jail. let's see who he does now. another governor in trouble is governor gavin newsom. if he's not giving millions out of unemployment funds to prisoners, he is keeping the whole state locked down and kids out of school. and because of that, there's a massive recall effort. and get this, you need 1.5 million verified signatures? 1.1 million signatures have been submitted, nearly 670,000 validated. now, you may think what's the big deal about that, it's a real big deal because on these recalls they say usually 60% are valid? so far around 83% have turned out to be verified signatures. so they've got a few weeks now to get to 1.5 million, and now there's going to be a big push by some of his allies to stop it, but i think the horse is out of the barn. steve well, if they get enough of these signatures and they are verified, it would be only the fourth taoisming in american history where there is a recall election. and essentially what would be on the ballot, and they would have 60 days to figure out an election, there would be two questions. the first would be should governor newsom be recalled. and the second, if the answer is yes, who should replace him. so that is what, that's what they would like to do. here's the thing, ainsley was talking to -- you had a great interview with somebody, and there are so many small businesses that absolutely have been devastated by his lockdowns. and over the last couple of weeks, we've been talking about how you looked at these two different states, california out west and florida in the southeast, they both had polar opposite reactions to the coronavirus. ron desantis pretty much kept the entire state open, kids went back to school at the end of the summer, and their numbers are pretty much exactly where california's are, but california, ainsley, had a complete welcomedown and really penalized the small businesses that were simply trying to stay alive. brian still locked down. ainsley: yeah. the guy that we interviewed said that was so frustrating, to see that the numbers are similar to florida yet california's still absolute down. all he wants to do is work. listen to that interview. >> the support for the recall has been growing exponentially. i have people coming into my business all the time to sign it. when people come in and they say, hey, i'd like to order a pizza and a cocktail, i say, i'm sorry, i can't give that to you. the governor shut us down. and then usually they're pretty upset, and they said i serve them a clipboard with a petition, and almost all of them sign it. very easy to connect the dots. my customers can connect the dots, hey, there's literally one man in the way of letting businesses open and operate. ainsley: that's why he is encouraging people to sign that petition. and when you look at those numbers that we put up on the screen earlier, 670,000 validated signatures, that number's going to continue to go up because they're still looking through all the 1.1 million signatures that they already have, and they're going through the slow process of validating them to make sure that every individual that signed it is legit and didn't sign more than once. brian: and here's what's so unfair about the rescue package that nancy pelosi's crew is jamming down america's throats. these states that are locked down are going to get as much money as their unemployment numbers. so, obviously, when you lock down a state, the unemployment's high like 9%. same with new york. so they're going to get our taxpayer dollars. and states that are trying to work through it like and florida, they're going to get less. what kind of lesson is that? if you destroy livelihoods and lives in some cases and shut down schools, you're going to get more money. so that's how one democrat feeds another democrat, and it's just the wrong message for america. not a party for america. steve: you know, brian, one of the things about that is, you know, the average american hears $1.9 trillion, and that's a number nobody can get their held around. all they think about is i'm going to get a $1400 check, and so many people are hurting, and they can hardly wait. so for the democrats, how many times have we heard you never let a good crisis go to waste. they're able to essentially put earmarks, pork, back into this, and people who just want their check and need their check, they don't care because they want their check. brian: outline to people too you'll get your check, but do we have to pay for that bridge in new york to go to canada? do we have to pay for native american language preservation? ainsley: or the rapid transit system? if. brian: meanwhile, jillian, you have other great crude. jillian: good morning. united airlines grounding its boeing 777 fleet. a plane with more than 240 people onboard making an emergency landing minutes after taking off from denver on saturday. chunks of the destroyed engine landing in neighborhoods, some debris fell in kirby clemons' yard. he joined us in the last hour. >> when i stepped outside and realized what it was the, my first look was up in the sky to see where the plane was coming down, because i figured a piece that big, the plane was going to be lost. jillian: remarkably, nobody was hurt. the faa and ntsb are investigating. texas in recovery mode after last week's wasn't storm that left 58 people dead. houston's boiled water notice was issueed sunday, but -- lifted sunday, but issues remain. governor greg abbott says 30,000 are still without power. those that do face skyrocketing energy bills. we will have a live report in dallas coming up. next hour merrick garland's confirmation hearing is scheduled to get under way, likely to face tough questioning on whether he would investigate new york governor andrew cuomo as well as how he will proceed with the hunter biden prone probe. and a nascar racer scores his first win on the daytona road course. look at this. >> christopher bell scores his first career win, and it comes on the daytona road course. >> oh, my god. thank you, guys. jillian: there you have it. christopher bell winning to reilly auto parts 253. just a week ago racer michael mcdowell got his first career win in the daytona 500. it's the first time since 1950 that the first two races of the season were won by first-time winners. congrats. ainsley: that's awesome. jillian: it is. of. ainsley: new york city reversing course after bill de blasio wanted to force an early shutdown of ice rinks owned by the trumps. eric trump will join us live to react coming up. plus, why small -- while small businesses wait for a lifeline, democrats on the hill are padding the relief bill with partisan projects. ben.com nfl breaks that down -- ben.com nfl breaks that down next. ♪ some say this is my greatest challenge ever. but i've seen centuries of this. with a companion that powers a digital world, traded with a touch. the gold standard, so to speak ;) >> vo: my car is my after-work decompression zone. ♪ music ♪ >> vo: so when my windshield 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put to me over and over again in the runup to this new congress taking office, people asking, you know, this is a very closely-divided congress, what are they even going to be able to do. and the answer is the most bipartisan thing in washington is to spend your money. [laughter] and that's to spend it on lots and lots of different things. one of the things that people should keep in mind if they see the pork is, look, we had a coronavirus relief bill as recently as december, one that went through the process and was passed, one that included a bunch of relief for states and money toward keeping -- reopening schools and try to keep everyone safe in the process of doing that. that money, much of it, has yet to be spent. it hasn't even gone out yet. and this is the thing that i think people need to put in perspective here. this is another example of washington using an excuse to spend your money on all sorts of different things that are designed to help various or members or to satisfy special interest groups, engage in different pork projects. it's the same old way of washington doing what they do best which is spend your money. steve: sure. but at the same time the, you know, the average american out there, we were just talking about this, they -- regarding that bill, all they want's their check. they don't care what else is in it because that's somebody else. i want my check. and democrats have got enough votes at this point to make this happen. we don't know about the $15 minimum wage, we don't know whether or not the senate parliamentarian is going to let that in, although it sounds like from bernie sanders he's had a conversation with him, and it sounds like it is in. >> i think that's definitely going to be a significant factor in terms of what you see happening to small businesses because of this. a $15 minimum wage for small businesses in different parts of the country where that's a heck of a lot of money, that's going to be very difficult for them to be able to make the kind of hires that we'd like to see. and as you were saying earlier, this is a situation where you're almost being rewarded for having bad policy on a state level, for locking down and keeping people unemployed. it's a completely backwards approach to this, and yet that's the approach the democrats are doing. basically, they're going to bail out these blue states that made all these bad decisions and not have any kind of actual ramifications for them. they want to insulate them from the consequences of those bad choices that they've made along the way. and the upshot of that is, of course, the people who are in states that were well run, states like florida, end up paying the freight for the mistakes of other people. steve: yeah. ultimately, elections have consequences. we heard that a while back. joe biden, after he was elected but before he took office a couple of months ago, made this promise to the american worker. listen. >> we'll make sure that our emergency small business relief is distributed swiftly and equitably unlike the first time around. we're going to focus on small businesses, on main street. steve: okay. so that is the new emphasis from the white house today the, but, you know, the swiftly and equitably part hasn't happened if you're in small business. >> absolutely not. and certainly, i mean, you saw in the georgia special election the promises from ossoff and warnock about having those $2,000 checks flowing immediately if you elected them. this is a situation where i really believe the biden administration in its early days has been no different from what a kamala harris administration would have looked like in terms of the policy priorities that they've had. they've been prioritizing the interests of progressives when it comes to climate, when it comes to shutting down the keystone pipeline killing those energy jobs, when it comes to all manner of different culture war issues, both abortions internationally and, of course, the dispute over trans rights here in america as it relates to, you know, girls' sports and the like. all of these different issues that are pet issues for progressives but have nothing to do with the priorities of american working families. joe biden ran as the guy who was going to prioritize these people, who was going to care about main street and who had a plan on coronavirus. i think we've learned actually none of that is true and instead this looks very much like a typical progressive approach when it comes to the priorities that they've had. it does not look like the kind of administration that he promised to the american people. steve: he is a fox news contributor and the publisher of "the federalist" and our monday morning guest. ben, thank you very much. >> great to be with you, as always. steve: great to have you. meanwhile, former president donald trump returns to the political stage with his upcoming cpac address. what's he going to say on saturday? 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ainsley: we're doing well. i'm one of the parents who has signed my child up for ice skating classes, and i got the e-mail over the weekend saying they're going to give us our money back. thankfully, city hall said we're reversing this, but they were really worried about all the people that were going to lose their jobs, i think 250 people, and thousands of families that enjoy the ice skating rink. >> yeah. i give the mayor a lot of credit. honestly, he did the right thing, the commissioner did the right thing. there's a point in life where politics doesn't have to enter everything. we've operated the rink for 25 years, we employ 250 unbelievable new yorkers. these awesome programs, hockey in harlem, we do all these programs for disabled kids, ainsley, there's no doubt you've seen it before. i grew up skating on that rink. don used to check me into those boards, and my father, quite frankly, saved it. in the early '80s they were way over budget, way behind schedule, literally they were having problems, they couldn't get ice to melt, and my father went in there one of the kind of pinnacle moves in the beginning of his career, and we've operated as a family, we've operated it with love. you know, everybody in the parks department in new york, they're just unbelievable people, and we to a lot for the city of new york. you know, this was a, this was a good monday morning feel-good story, the us really is -- it really is. ing the right thing was done. people actually have an escape from covid because, obviously, a lot of things in new york are shut because of of the pandemic and, you know, hockey and kind of ice skating is the one reprieve. you know, this is a good day for everybody. it's a good day for the mayor, you know, for city hall, it's a great day for children, employees, for us. this was the right thing, and it's nice to see that happen. brian: right. hey, eric, you're doing the right thing, i guess, by saying that, but this is a total self-inflicted wound. mayor de blasio's incompetent and a democrat. he wants to go after anything trump. so you guys rectify and revitalize a golf course at the end of the whitestone bridge as a favor to mayor bloomberg. they want to take that away. and then they try to stop this rink and hurt these kids. so here's what the secretary said, new york city's kids deserve all the time on the ice they can get. the wollman rink will stay the open under current management, but make no mistake, we will not be doing business with the trump administration going forward. inciting an insurrection will never be forgotten or forgiven. the business you guys have been doing, these are the same people that put black lives matter in front of trump tower like that's going to bother you. what's your reaction to that personal vendetta they have against you and your family? >> well, brian, we might have an r after our name, right, republican, that might be our political party, but if you look at our hotels, rinks, golf courses, we're not. we're not a political organization. we operate some of the best properties around the world. we did save ferry point. ferry point had gone through many administrations prior to this mayor, to tell you the truth, and no one could ever get it built. bloomberg said will you finish up the rink -- i'm sorry, the golf course, will you get it done. we got it done, and we got it done immediately, and we've done a phenomenal job. it's gotten every accolade. it's the most popular place, and same thing with the skating rinks. when no one else would invest a dollar, my father put literally tens and mens of millions of dollars into these rinks and properties because the city couldn't do it, other people weren't willing to do it, and he made, you know, these amenities for new york city that have been incredible and they've run so well. once in a while we've got to take politics occupant of the conversation. -- out of the conversation. we do a great job managing these assets, and people love it. by the way, guys, ainsley, you probably know this, not every person who goes to wolrman rink is republican. maybe the exact opposite in many cases. it doesn't get involved with skating. these are young kids can, you know, hockey in harlem, underprivileged kids being able to go out there and enjoy their day under the stars. they're not thinking about politics and, frankly, they shouldn't be. it's the last thing they should be thinking about. steve: it's nice they have done the right thing and they're going to keep it open for a month. and then it will close when it normally closes, and then they'll figure it all out. ainsley: hopefully open next year. steve: yeah. eric, i want do you about your father. he has announced that he's going to be at cpac next weekend and talk about the future, his future in the republican party. and talk about joe biden as well. i know going -- you know, we haven't heard from him officially, so this will be interesting. i've also been hearing that, apparently, he is speaking to people in the republican party who will launch primary bids against some of the people in the congress who voted for impeachment. a month or two ago. so my question is does that sound about right, and is that what's going on behind the scenes? >> listen, i say it every day, but there's, you know, 75, 80 million people who followed my father to the end of the earth. they loved him. they love that he fights for america. they love that he's not scripted and he's not, you know, the typical politician. he's not a career politician, and, you know, they're incredibly proud of him. they love that he's hugging the american flag like you're seeing right there on the b roll, right? they love that about him, and you're seeing less and less of that every single day. he'll play a role in politics, i really do believe he is the modern republican party. i do believe a lot of people who didn't stand up, who didn't have backbone, i do believe they're going to get primaried by people who were supporters of him but also by other people, to tell you the truth. i think people don't want to see the party run away because, quite frankly, the old republican party's incapable of winning. i think my father showed the republican party how to win again. i think c spac's going to be great -- cpac's going to be great. he's incredible, he's enjoying life, and i think it's going to be fun to see him get back on the road and have a lot of fun. i think every single day biden makes people miss donald trump more when they see policies that are destroying industries, that are causing texas to freeze freeze, that are cutting off power to our energy grids and all these other nonsensical policies. you were talking about some of them before, adding minimum wage to another covid relief package and all this nonsense that you wouldment expect from washington, d.c. politicians that my father would have ended immediately in its tracks. and i think it's going to be a lot of fun to watch him come out and speak on sunday. ainsley: eric, i know there's been talk that he might run again. when will he make that announcement, whether or not he's going to do it or not? >> well, ainsley, he has to tell you that. i certainly can't. but listen, i think he'd be a force to be reckoned with, to say the least. he knows what he's doing. he knows -- it's funny, i remember going back to 2016, i think my father, i'm not sure my fathered had ever actually spent the night in washington, d.c. before his first night in the white house or the blair house the day before inauguration. now he knows his way with around, and he knows the players, the good ones9 and the bad ones, and i think he'd certainly be a force to be reckoned with. right now the enthusiasm is better than it's ever been. the enthusiasm is better than it's ever been. i can't go out in public without having people literally come up and hug me and say thank you for what your family sacrificed for this country, what your father did for this country, he's incredible, we'll never forget him, he's still our president, blah, blah, blah. guys, the enthusiasm has never been stronger than it is right this minute. brian: and we'll see soon if your wife's going run for senate in north carolina? >> it's a decision she's thinking about, an announcement she's going to make, but she would do incredibly down there as well. steve: you've got a lot going con. eric trump, thank you very much for joining us live. iowans thanks, eric. >> take care. steve: we were talking about the ice skating rink, it's something to do when it's cold outside, and it's still cold outside, isn't i, janice? janice: yes, absolutely, and we've got some snow in the forecast. last year i think new york city got about 4.5 inches, i think now we're upwards of 50 inches of snow total. let's take a look at texas. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. the good news is we're getting up there. we're going to be more seasonal over the next couple of days, actually 75 degrees on tuesday in dallas. the average high is around 62. so we're getting there, at least we're not going to be at that freezing mark for very much longer. and the rain is moving across portions of florida and the southeast. we've got snow especially across interior sections of the northeast as well as the great lakes. also want to point out a very active pattern for the west with several storm systems diving into portions of washington and oregon state with heavy rain and mountain snow. so that's something we're going to be checking out over the next week or so. otherwise fairly calm for much of the country. ainsley, that's good news. brian: well, you had an easy job. janice: oh, sorry, brian. brian: she's your favorite. i want to talk about mars, and that's my next guest. you don't have to do weather in mars yet. thank you. released images from nasa's perseverance rover shows an up-close look at mars after a successful touchdown on the red planet thursday, you saw the cheering. this as the ingenuity helicopter calls home for the first time. we landed a helicopter. and who better to break it all down, now he's on the inside game at nasa, nasa launch commentator daryl nell. great to see you again. >> hey, good to see you, brian. brian: all right. you put a helicopter on this probe? >> it's incredible bl, isn't it? i mean, it's just unbelievable. this mars perseverance rover, which is already going to do incredible things, has a helicopter in its belly. it all started seven months ago when jpl engineers occupant in california sent the perseverance rover and the ingenuity helicopter here to the kennedy space center, you can see it behind us, and our talented folks launched this thing 300 million miles in the direction of mars. jpl team took over and landed that perseverance rover on the surface of mars. and now we have that helicopter that's on there, like you were talking about, and this is incredible engineering. we're going to put this thing on the surface of mars. it looks like a drone, but really it's a helicopter because it flies like one. and then we're going to drive away, and in the thin 1% atmosphere relative to earth, we are going to fly for the first time powered flight on another planet, and we've got cam as -- cameras on the rover and on the helicopter itself to capture the imagery. imagine that. like video from a drone, from a helicopter on mars. point brian so, yeah, we're seeing some of the stills that are already coming back. it weighs about 4 pounds, it's solar powered, meanwhile, i guess there's enough sun there. it researches on its own. wireless communication system, obviously, we didn't see any wire with the thing, and counter-rotating blades. it's got sensors on it. so what is its mission within the mission? is it just going to be mapping? what's it going to be looking at? >> well, its central mission is a technology demonstration, right? because the perseverance rover going to be doing some heavy duty science, looking for signs of ancient microbial life, drilling into the surface of mars and taking core samples, and for the first time we're going to launch it back. but the helicopter is to demonstrate that we can fly on mars. and mars' atmosphere is extremely difficult. i mentioned the 1% atmosphere, but it's also -80 degrees. we had that cold front where it was -20 in some places? -80, think about that. and then this helicopter has to fly on its own, autonomously. it's preprogrammedded with all of the flight specs to go and look at the ground, see where it's going and fly. it can fly for about 90 seconds. so we're going to drop it on a little flat spot, a helipad, drive the rover away, turn the camera back, look at it, and then we're going to fly that rover for 90 seconds. it goes about 25 miles an hour and you surveys the area. and as you said, it can take pictures from a new vantage point we've never seen. so you can imagine the application. we're looking out for hazards so we can maneuver the rover where we need to go. and then one day when we put astronauts on mars, you can also scout it for the astronauts and go to places they can't. or maybe we need to rebuild something we have there, we could have the flight, the helicopter go occupant and fly and check out and see what's going on. brian pine yeah, it's interesting, you told we when we went and did that feature that the goal is to be sustainable. they don't want to have to depend on earth, sail thing with the moon. and now that the chinese and uae are hovering around, i think that's good news for nasa. it gives us competition. if we drop the ball and we really want china to pick it up, that's what'll happen. daryl, thanks so much for joining us and putting in layman's turns. >> you got it, brian. brian: parents and students are calling for a zoom blackout. good job, parents and kids. a mom and son taking part join us next. for members like kate. a former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it - easy. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa. ♪ hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play ♪ usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid ♪ ♪ and all that glitters is gold ♪ applebee's $1 boneless wings with any handcrafted burger. oh, you think this is just a community center? 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>> well, what we've learned over the past few weeks is that -- many months is that parents have very little voice in this whole situation. we don't have a seat at the table when it comes to the negotiations between lausd and ucla, and so we've been trying to call and voicemails, e-mails, but it's not working. and so i'm participant of a group of just parents who are just really frustrated, and we're, like, what can we possibly do. so we said, you know, let's try a zoomout. and one of the things that's so great about it is it's going to give feedback to that they are not providing education for our children. it gives them the opportunity to say, hey, we're providing education, what's the big rush to get back to school. and what we're seeing is there is a really big urgency to get our kids back in school especially now. all the scientists say it's safe, so we are demanding for all of us who want the choice to go back to school, we're demanding. ainsley: nicholas, how do you feel about all of the online learning? i'm sure you're ready to go back to the classroom. what do you miss the most? >> well, what i really miss the most is my friends and, like, how i used to play with them at recess. but i really liked it. but now even if we go back to school, we might not even do recess, so, well, yeah, i'm just kind of sad. ainsley: it's a long time not to go back to the classroom, and the parents are frustrated. this is a statement from the teachers union, the president, local and state officials did not help create the right conditions to help reopen schools for in-person instruction, and educators are being targeted for trying to protect our students and our community. cynthia, i know that you think the parents are being misled by the union. why do you say that? >> yeah, i mean, this group of parents, we are really informed. we are watching the board meetings, we are, you know, reading everything that the utla and lausd puts occupant. not even a month if ago i was listening to someone, and he was saying we're ready, we're ready. oh, we're not the board of, you know, health, so we can't determine that. so board of health comes back late last week and says, hey, your schools, elementary schools can all open. i was so excited, i couldn't even sleep that night. okay, this is it. but then, no, next day, nope, schools aren't open. and all we're realizing is they're not even close to opening. i mean, there is not even a plan between lausd and utla to open schools. it's been 11 months. we don't even have a plan, and they keep stringing parents along. the latest is, oh, once all the teachers get vaccinated, the schools will open. i mean, the truth is, it's so misleading, and that's what i'm speaking out for, for all the parents, we're being misled because -- ainsley: cynthia, we're going to have to leave it there. it's the end of our program. we're almost out of time. thank you. 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. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? 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