>> john: at this is today's "new york post" cover after his apology over the weekend and he said he was sorry if any of his jokes were misinterpreted. >> sandra: a brian yoon a slide from brooklyn with the very latest on what we are learning. >> he authorized the letitia james to launch an independent investigation into his conduct. but that was only after cuomo tried to control who would investigate him. he first recommended that a federal judge with close ties to his closest advisors would do the investigation, and then he recommended a joint investigation by the attorney general and a chief judge who cuomo himself appointed. he relented only after the ag james publicly demanded she run the show. his former eta, 25-year-old charlotte bennett said cuomo made inappropriate remarks which made her feel horribly uncomfortable. cuomo issued a lengthy apology which said in part, i acknowledge some of the things i have set have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation to the extent any one felt that way i am truly sorry about that. here's what new york marit bill de blasio said earlier today. >> that's not an apology. he seemed to be saying, i was just kidding around. sexual harassment is not funny, it's serious and has to be taken seriously and he was clearly letting himself off the hook. >> cuomo has not held an on camera covid-19 briefing in a week. >> sandra: and brian yannis reporting on that for us. john, as we have been reporting all last week and throughout the weekend they are growing bipartisan calls for him to be investigated. >> john: there are and we will talk more about this later on this hour. mike lawler is a republican but the cuomo is getting it as much from the democrat side as he is from the republican side as well. the snowball is rolling downhill and gathering not only speed but a lot more mass to it as well so we will see all where all of this ends. the white house continuing to defend using migrant facilities to temporarily hold children crossing goat order. president biden is set to meet virtually to address the increase in migrants crossing the border of the past few weeks. white house correspondent kristin fisher asked the homeland security secretary about the situation a short time ago. >> do you believe right now there's a crisis of the border? >> the answer is no. i think there's a challenge of the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to managing it. >> john: we have team coverage for you and laura logan with an inside look at what's happening at the border. but first peter doocy outside of the white house for us. >> john, and with the statement from -- separated at the port of the choice to either reunite inside the united states or reunite outside of the united states. and he had a mess and. >> we are not saying, don't come. we are saying don't come now. >> the biden administration is opening up another dhs facility to process children who show up on a company to and another hhs facility to house them while they await placement in the states. as president biden signals undocumented citizens should not sweat getting the covid-19 vaccine. >> i want to make sure they are all able to get vaccinated so they are protected from covid without ice or anyone else interfering. they should not show up to not be arrested, they are showing up for being able to get a vaccination. >> president biden just got back from a weekend away in wilmington and there is a reuters report that president over door was going to ask president biden to share with mexico some of the u.s. covid-19 vaccine supply, but jens lockey was just asked about whether or not that is a possibility at the podium and she said no. >> john: and that's a big change from the trump administration, no question. they are not saying don't come, they are saying don't come now. president trump said it don't come come apply for asylum in york country. more from chad wolf at the top of the next hour. thanks so much. >> sandra: joining us now as vaccination host laura logan. welcome and great to have you here this afternoon. >> thank you, sandra. >> as far as we just heard and that briefing room at the white house where secretary maureen arcus was pressed on this by kristin fisher, she went on to press him with how or what we sing at the border not a crisis? >> your predecessors said a thousand illegal border crossings that they constitute a crisis and overwhelms the system. we are 23 and 24,000 now according to cdp officials so how is this not a crisis? >> i have explained that quite clearly. we are challenged at the border, and the men and women of our organization are meeting that need. >> the reason you are not sing a challenge is twofold. one is because the big caravan heading toward the united states that you see further away, once they get from guatemala into mexico they've been broken up into groups of around six or 8-10 by the smugglers and effectively by the cartels who have taken over most of the smuggling now. they are being moved around the checkpoints so they are coming around smaller groups. unless you are right there at the border where there have been some large group of 100 or 200, you really aren't capturing these images. second, the impacts so importantly, the biden administration has given strict instructions to the border agencies to move people through as quickly as possible. on the one hand that's a really facilities are not built to house women and children and so on. on the other hand you are letting in a whole lot of people who you have absolutely no idea who they really are. they are taking their biometrics and their fingerprints but they aren't holding them long enough to interview them or to find out if a child is really there is or if they are being traffic or smuggled or anything like that. when you come from countries with which the u.s. has no relationships like for example communist china, you have no idea who the people are that you are releasing and many of them if they come from central america or south america get a one-page form and they are released on their own recognizance which means, that's it. they are gone. so they are moving too fast for the system for you to be able to see the scale of the crisis and that is the reality. >> sandra: and that's what you are describing to that invisible crisis. but we have images on the screen come up with those continued images that we see of children down at the border and those containers that were often hearing the white house is pressed on. jen psaki was asked about this over the weekend on fox news sunday. really digging into how the biden administration is handling these administrations at the border. and here is how jen psaki described it. >> we think the most humane step we can take us have these children unaccompanied and kids over 18 not send them back. that's one that we felt was the right one, and it was the main one. >> soul laura, what is the difference? >> the biden administration policies are encouraging more and more people to come. so when you look at this in terms of what the facilities are and how the individual families are affected, you have to be human. if you are human then your heart breaks for people. the problem is there isn't really any difference whether you house them in the facility is that and obama built that trump then used, or you put them in these containers, it doesn't make any difference. if you have the same instances of children separated and children who have suffered trauma, the more children are going to be in that position. some people don't have a choice and some people it's the only thing that they can do. what we are not talking about when we focus on this conversation is the fact that there have been threats around the border patrol agents and the there are some wearing bulletproof vests and carrying assault rifles because they have had cartel ambushed teams that move into position with neighbors ready to attack them. they are not the only ones. if you look all over tiktok, they are posting videos and laughing in the face of the united states and u.s. security agencies. border patrol agents feel like they have been handcuffed because these are most of the people that they pick up. if they have a previous record just on immigration violations, those are ignored. they are still released into the country with a notice to appear and they say that they have absolutely no idea who they are letting into the country. so there is a security crisis at the border, not just the humanitarian one and we are not talking about it. >> sandra: still so much more to get to with you. laura logan, you have a special on fox nation and we can put that up on the screen for everyone. laura logan has no agenda, returned to the border. laura, i appreciate you coming on with us. john, very important story. so many angles of that story to be covered and you saw jen psaki pressed on over the weekend by chris wallace, secretary mayorkas taking questions from kristin fisher in the brief room and a lot of questions on how they are handling this crisis of the border. >> john: we will take this all up with homeland security secretary chao dwarf coming up at the next of our. the biden administration will open up another ten to shelter for migrants coming across the border in the del rio section of the border. where the number of unaccompanied children coming across the border has increased 122% in recent weeks. >> sandra: is almost out of control. >> john: developing now, some crime victims and former law enforcement officials launching a recall effort george gascon, less than three months into his term. they say his agenda favors the rights of criminals over victims. meanwhile the campaign to recall california governor gavin newsom gathering enough signatures to potentially trigger a recall election. organizers say he will be forced to run again this fall. both coasts, democratic governors taking it on the chin. >> sandra: yeah. and as far as the update with governor gavin newsom, reportedly striking a deal to reopen schools to younger students by the end of the month and meanwhile some san francisco bay area parents are expressing frustration after video showed the president of a teachers union dropping off his daughter for in person learning at a private preschool. he has been defending public school closure is saying it's not safe to reopen and obviously that's been highlighted as a major half hypocrisy point. william, what our parents saying about this? >> it's a double standard they say, clearly a case of i hypocrisy. this man sends his child to a private preschool because he can afford it but this is a contentious issue. particularly as the teachers unions are using it as a bargaining chip. watch what happens as parents hold a rally to reopen schools. >> we do love our teachers. >> no you don't. you don't love your teachers. i'm happy to talk to you about this. >> this is just a across the bay from san francisco where many reporters are -- matt meyer dropping his daughter off or in person learning at a private preschool while insisting it's not safe to put kids in public schools unless all teachers are vaccinated. >> vaccines offer the most protection possible. especially vaccines plus all of the mitigation factors. >> he actually feels this protection is not necessary for teachers are all students and the videos are an invasion of privacy and said you can't compare public to private schools. the earliest kids that will go back to school in berkeley's may or rather march 29th. statewide april 1st. >> sandra: william la jeunesse on this story. absolutely everyone is affected by the school closure is at some point and to see those double standards play out, as painful for those who quite frankly many don't even have their schools kk in school. when you are defending schools being closed and taking her own child to a private institution and you are saying private institutions are different in public schools. they have a lot of explaining to do. the united states starting a distribution of a third coded vaccine today is johnson & johnson's ships out at single-dose shots. what this could mean in the race to vaccinate and the push to get things back to normal. >> sandra: more on the scandal as a former aide makes accusations against the governor. we will talk to the governor about the push to roll back some of governor cuomo's emergency power. >> officials know that there is a double standard but you know what? 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it depends on who you ask. manufacturing came in this morning showing a big expansion and more than experts thought. that means they were building stuff, replacing stuff we are all buying. they said there's pent up consumer demand there but the administration wants to act quickly for a covert relief package for a different reason. listen. >> one reason i think joe biden thinks there's no time to waste is democrats can see cases have plummeted since early january. they can see we have three effective vaccines and vaccination rates are surging so they are worried they don't have the coronavirus as an excuse to pay off all of their clients and patrons in a $1.9 trillion blowout bill. >> if democrats are blowing off the more than $1 trillion not covert related and the cdc is giving covered today. listen. >> now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of covid-19 in our community. not when we are so close. we have the ability to stop a potential surge of cases in this country. please stay strong in your conviction. >> 2.4 million doses of the vaccine being given per day right now. that will be 3 trillion by april. >> sandra: edward lawrence on that story for us. it seems like every little bit john gives us more hope. admiral gerard was on fox news earlier today sort of backing up what we heard from dr. my carry and almost being rid of this virus by late spring. it seems like it could be a reality. >> john: it's a heady thought. there's also some discussion, but you should get the pfizer vaccine or the maturing of vaccine, we will talk with dr. marc siegel about that. a second former aide accuses new york governor cuomo of sexual harassment. new york city mayor bob de blasio causing for him to lose the emergency powers that were granted to them during the pandemic and that something state lawmakers from both parties have suggested as a result of this and the nursing home scandal as well. governor cuomo released a statement yesterday in which he offered an apology, saying i never intended to offend anyone or cause harm. their relationships, or about getting married or not getting married and i now understand my interactions may have been insensitive. to the extent and what felt like that i am truly sorry about that. what do you think assemblyman waller about that apology. >> good afternoon. and thanks for having me. i think it's a bunch of hogwash and this governor and these allegations with what it reveals is predatory behavior. the allegations by lindsay boylan and charlotte bennett show a governor who preyed upon women, female staffers in his office and had staff that was complicit in helping him do so. i think what's clear is not only should the governor resigned and should resign immediately but there needs to be a full investigation into these allegations and that's why i have introduced legislation today mandating and expanding the powers of the attorney general to ensure that any allegation of sexual harassment or assault is investigated by the attorney general office with the appointment of the special prosecutor so that we ensure fairness, equality, due process and that these allegations have the ability to be independently reviewed. the governor should never, ever have the ability to appoint his own investigator as he tried to do and was rightly pushed back on by nearly every member of the legislature and beyond. i think what it also shows john is, i've been calling on for weeks now, the need to reign in this governor's emergency executive powers and revoke them immediately. today we will be pushing once again to do so and i hope my colleagues in the majority will in fact do so today. >> john: in terms of the statement of apology that was issued by the governor today you are not alone in your description of it being hogwash. listen to what the mayor of new york city bill de blasio set about it earlier today. >> that's not an apology. he seemed to be saying, i was just kidding around. while sexual harassment isn't funny. it's serious and has to be taken seriously and he clearly was letting himself off the hook. >> john: of course here you are innocent until proven proven guilty, they would expire anyway at the end of april. if it is found that the governor did sexually harass one or more of these women then what should happen then? >> i never thought i would say this but i agree with mayor bill de blasio and the reality here is this. they reveal a predatory behavior and complicity of staff and you couple it with the nursing home debacle where 15,000 nursing home residents died in part because of his administration's decision to send covid positive patients into those nursing homes and then cover it up in a coordinated criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. i think it's clear that this governor is no longer able to govern and he should immediately resign from office and if he is unwilling to do so the legislature should move to impeach him. that obviously goes on and that is why together he must resign immediately and if he chooses not to, the legislature must impeach him. >> john: assembly mayan mike lawler, good to talk to you today. sandra, it's not just republicans in the state of new york who are saying this and saying it's something that needs to happen, it's also democrats, to the far left, progressives who it looks like at this point are using it to at the very least keep governor cuomo from running from an unprecedented fourth term. >> sandra: and "the new york post" cover this morning, hey. i'm a funny guy. is he kidding? 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>> the price of gasoline has already searched 30% since the election and will go to $5, $6, $7 or even higher so enjoy that when you go to the pump. >> sandra: that was former president trump last night addressing the nation's rising gas prices during a cpac speech. according to aaa, the average for a national gallon of gasoline is $2.72 which is up 34% -- sorry, $0.34 cents trumps last day in office. soaring gas prices aren't release sign of locations from say. let's bring in jason furman, and economic policy professor at harvard. steve moore is an economic advisor and economist. and i say that, because in front of me -- they will have to wait, jason, if you don't mind. i have a piece in front of me, you are signaling a warning bell on inflation. you signal to the federal reserve, go to the grocery store, go to the gasoline pumps. what is happening now with gasoline prices up $0.30 in the past month? >> that's a lot and that's a real measure of inflation for so many millions and millions of americans. when you go to the gas pump, how much are you paying? if it costs an extra ten or $12 that's a lot of money for middle-class workers in the same thing with the grocery store. i don't go a lot, my wife does a lot of the grocery shopping that i go every once in a while. i think it might be a good thing if our fed chairman jerome powell maybe went to the grocery store because he saying there is no inflation out there but i'm seeing it -- i'm not trying to say this is out of control, obviously we haven't had a major price increase for the last several years but it is something to be concerned about and i think there's too much debt and too much overspending on that's going to cause increased demand without an increase of spite. >> sandra: we can talk about stimulus all day long. we got real prices affecting real americans right now and when you look at the pain at the pump we have a heat map that shows just about every area of the country, and and that's a gas attacks in addition to ours. if you drive an electric vehicle you're are not paying that so anyone who can't afford the electric vehicle will have to pay that gas tax. and you say what? >> good evening. that was roughly speaking, the price of gas on memorial day of 2018 and 2019. we are going to be getting our economy back on track this year and as a result prices will be higher than they were last year during the pandemic. no one was traveling last year, it was an incredibly depressed year and one of the things about getting the economy back to normal as prices for better or worse will get back to normal. they will get back to where they were two years ago. families will also be getting $2,000, $600 they've already gotten. gas prices are always rising at this time of year and they always reach a peak as people start traveling a lot over memorial day. that's the usual thing. >> sandra: while they've got a lot of usual happening right now which is why there are warning flags going up. as a percent increase in oil prices since the november election. you can't help and stop but and take notice that almost a 70% rise. take what jason said, he's pinning it on growth in the economy and the expectation that things are getting better, people are getting vaccinated. memorial day is approaching and more people will take road trips. does any of this rising gas and oil prices have to do with joe biden's policies on what he has done for his first days in office? >> i agree with jason that he's right. the economy is coming back big time and trump set us up very well with this vaccine. as you start to see a bump up in prices, that's kind of a healthy thing. but here's the problem. when you look at the energy policies of joe biden, and he is restricting pipelines and restricting drilling and they are having new environmental regulations which make it very difficult for us to produce our oil and gas in this country. when you restrict the supply, the gas goes up so you will see much higher energy prices. jason come to some extent that it is a war on fossil fuels. >> sandra: it sound like a debate to have you both back on. it's an important conversation because so many more people are choosing to road trip now rather than get on planes. they want to pack up the car in the family vehicle >> john: every day you go past the gas station, and in d.c., it's $3 per gallon. and that's why everyone is lined up at costco and sam's club. you have to wait a while. i ran demanding president biden lift sanctions on the islamic republic first if the u.s. wants to restart its involvement in a 2015 nuclear deal. so who is calling the shots here? 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this was two years ago, this woman brought her support peacock to newark airport in new jersey. this is the horse video, and then the pig. the peacock though, she was trying to fly with that peacock from newark, new jersey, to los angeles. it was going to be a long flight. >> john: left quite a surprise. so sandra, next time you fly you have to leave your support in you at home. >> sandra: all right. we believe that there, meanwhile, a social media influencers are being paid to spread messages during the trial for george floyd's death. make us live with more. speak of the social media element has just been removed for the security preps for the city of minneapolis at a briefing about security. the plan to use social media influencers to combat misinformation and attribute their message had all the appearances of propaganda. as they got a lot of blowback so they backed off. >> this was never about trying to persuade or change public opinion about any particular message but it was more about getting important information out quickly and in an equitable way. >> some of the security plans involve plans to protect critical infrastructure like the courthouse and police precincts. the call up of national guard and task forces to protect fire crews in the event that they are activated. also today, a hearing is a prosecution attempts to reapply the third degree murder charge in the case of former officer eric chopin. the charge had been dismissed in october and the defense argued in a brief that there degree murder doesn't fly because all of the focus was on george floyd and the general public was never at risk. he is currently charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in this case and jury selection starts in a week. b3 mike tobin with an update from chicago. >> john: a second woman coming forward to "the new york times" to accuse new york governor andrew cuomo in sexual-harassment. the top democrat in the house nancy pelosi says she believes the allegations are credible. we will have our political panel way n. >> sandra: looking forward to that, meanwhile president biden's at dhs secretary denying there's a crisis at our southern border as border crossings are on the rise. what does former acting security secretary chao that will have to say about that? 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>> i think the answer is no. we have our resources dedicated to managing it. >> so the challenge at the border but no crisis. in over two hours president biden will be settling down with the president of mexico, cooperation on migration tops the agenda and the president to our overhead sing, he signaled that he was asked to share part of the united states coronavirus vaccine supply was mexico. i asked the white house press secretary jen psaki today if that was something that president biden would consider and she said definitively no. she said the president's priority is to vaccinate every single american and only then it with the administration consider sharing vaccines with mexico. >> sandra: lots of good stuff in there. john? >> john: adorning us now is a former acting homeland security secretary chad wolf. the biden administration is opening up another tent facility to handle the influx of people across the border, this in the del rio sector of the border. there has been a year to year a 122% increase in the number of unaccompanied children who are coming across the border. the numbers we saw in february are a record for the program, yet the homeland security secretary says there is a challenge of the border, not a crisis. what do you say? >> i find that statement and that phraseology concerning. we know there's a crisis going on at the border and if there is not a crisis then why is hhs building your tent facilities? why is the pentagon looking at building facilities, why are you redeploying cdp agents from the northern border to the southwest border? everyone knows there's a crisis going on and i think that the leader of the department needs to be honest with the american people. in the order community certainly down there along the border, these are the communities that are having to deal with an influx of migrants into their communities from the public safety and health care perspective, from a transportation perspective, and those border communities certainly know that the that is the crisis they are currently experiencing. >> john: let's take a look at the new policy position as it relates to people as it they seek across the border. listen here. >> we are not saying don't come, we are saying don't come now. >> the policy under the trump administration wasn't don't come at all, don't make the trip. if you want to apply for asylum, playing your home country. >> that's a very, very dangerous message and what do i mean by that? you are basically telling folks to make that dangerous journey, to put your children or your families in the hands of smugglers, traffickers and other cartels in mexico and elsewhere. i don't know why you would want to send that message. they talk a lot about humanitarian asked comic issues with the immigration system but there is nothing humanitarian about encouraging populations to put their loved ones in the hands of the smugglers and the traffickers and the violence that goes on throughout the journey. it's a very dangerous message, it's a nuanced message that is not going to resignation with these individuals to say, you can come but don't come now. the numbers along that border are showing that. >> john: and president biden will be meeting with their president, what was the deal that the united states on the trump administration had and how do you expect that is going to change? >> well, what we did, what president trump did was negotiated, he negotiated very well with the president making sure that they enforced -- they had an enforcement posture not only on their northern border but also on the southern border with guatemala. and i think that's critically important. we encourage them to use the equivalent of the national guard which they did and they have since pulled back. they don't make it a priority, if the biden administration doesn't make it a priority without enforcement posture, they continue to see these increasing numbers show up. it's not good for the mexican people, not good for their economy and not good to have this dangerous journey occurred throughout mexico all the way to our southwest borders. so hopefully president biden will take a tough stance, a tough but fair stance and making sure that mexico lives up to its obligations to make sure that the stopping the crime that we know that comes along with these types of journeys. >> john: we will be looking forward to a read out of that meeting later on this afternoon. former homeland security secretary chad wolf, good to talk to you. one of the things sandra that little pez over door is going to be talking about is a new bracero style from world war ii era. people from mexico or central america will be able to come into the united states and not just seek jobs from apical culture but elsewhere as well. you have to wonder if this is the right time to be bringing hundreds of thousands of migrant workers >> sandra: exactly. alejandro mayorkas has not considered this a crisis while the border is being flooded. the sexual harassment scandal continuing at the white house a short time ago saying it supports the new york attorney general overseeing an investigation. hope the white house comments are coming after white house speaker nancy pelosi those accusations against governor cuomo credible. and they denied any wrongdoing and have apologized for what he is calling jokes. leslie, i was not going over? "the new york post" this morning, hey, i'm a funny guy? these are serious allegations against him. >> they are serious allegations and i mentioned before as one myself who is the victim of harassment, it's very disturbing. it's disturbing especially because there are so many men in power inside and out of politics who are very carefree with their words and something that they may think it's funny is not just crass but offensive sexually disturbing, especially to a female underling or female employee. democrats, nancy pelosi, aoc, me and others saying look. you need to have a private investigation, a nonpartisan investigation so we can have the facts because these women need to be believed unless facts prove otherwise and that should be the case for every woman coming forward in my opinion. >> sandra: i know how hard it is for you to discuss that because you have a very unique perspective on this situation. then saki was asked about this and she was asked where is the redline on this issue for the biden administration customer listen. >> in general when it comes to sexual misconduct, where is the redline for the president and the administration? >> as i said yesterday that story was incredibly uncomfortable to read as a woman and we certainly believe that every woman coming forward, charlotte and lindsay, should be read treated with respect and dignity. there is a process of reviewing as you noted and an independent investigation. we will leave it to that process through the attorney general to make a determination on the path forward. >> sandra: governor cuomo has that he will fully cooperate with that investigation, although whether or not he should lose his emergency power is a different topic. i will get to that with mike waller in just a second. david to come up to you on nancy pelosi, maybe it took her a while but she is coming out and said that those allegations are credible. the woman who came forward with serious and credible charges of should be treated with dignity. the independent investigation must have due process and respect for everyone involved. >> we know the democrats playbook on this. no doubt, the pommel a ralph blackface north rome, the democratic governor of virginias blackface pictures, he just waited it out. he waited it out. he went to the democratic progressive synthetic, tell me what you want passed and i will sign it. we will let this media storm go by and i will still be governor. he will allow the investigation to go on and allow the media to have a couple of days even though they have been a little late to the story. , of his bullying in the ways that he operates in office. and it will pass and he will still state governor of new york which is outrageous. >> sandra: for anyone who hasn't stopped and read that statement, we were covering cpac yesterday evening when this was released. he says that work sometimes i think i'm being playful and make jokes that i think you're funny and i do on occasion tease people and what i think is a good-natured way. to be clear i never improperly touched anyone or intended anyone to be uncomfortable but these are allegations that new yorkers deserve attention to. mike waller was on this program last hour and he's making the case that, but the investigation play out but meanwhile he should not have emergency powers. listen. >> i think it's a bunch of hogwash frankly. this governor and these allegations and what it reveals is predatory behavior. it's clear, not only should the governor resign and he should resign immediately but there needs to be a full investigation into these allegations. >> sandra: i will give you a final thought. >> if people have to step down every time there's an allegation, it's not democrats and not just cuomo that should be stepping down, number one. number two i don't think he should have the emergency power pulled from him and the reason is, we have variants of this virus coming and we have vaccines which will slow things down for new yorkers, although if proven guilty with this investigation and certainly what they are handling in the past, i think the timing would be bad for the people of new york in the midst of this pandemic to do that right now. >> sandra: interesting. we will leave it there, thanks to both of you. for those who don't believe we should resign, at least as your interview indicated, if that doesn't happen he should not be able to have those emergency powers is what he stated did not interview with you. >> john: and lots not forget, too, that those emergency powers expire in two months. >> john: that's a long time for something. >> president biden: it can be a long time but they are coming up anyway for exploration. it's a big story and an onion that just reveals more and more players. up next, a $15 federal minimum wage increase looks to be off the table as president biden's massive covert relief bill makes it to the senate but much of the progressive wish list as much very much alive. >> sandra: and he named it names yesterday so where does the republican party go from here? 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where will it go if the country opens back up again or will, as they are won't to say, is that already baked in? >> sandra: it's a lot of broad based rally and that's a lot of optimism, that's a fact. the one i could never figure out the stock market. former president trump teasing another potential run for the white house during his cpac speech as he looks to keep his grip on the republican party, listen here. >> with your help we will take back the house and we will win the senate and then a republican president will make a triumphant return to the white house. and i wonder who that will be? >> john: i wonder who that will be. let's bring in bill mcgurn, a main street columnist and former speechwriter for president george w. bush. president trump got a 97% approval rating, 68% of people said they would like to see them run again but 55% said that they would vote for him. this his -- do his presidential fortunes for 2024 really ride on how much help he can be in 2022? >> i think they do. but i don't think he can get there by relitigating 2020. i think we have to move past that and he has to make a choice between focusing on himself, his own grievances about 2020, and the future. i think most americans are more interested in a future. look how tiresome hillary clinton became constantly re-relitigating 2016? it was kind of a rally speech and he had an enthusiastic crowd and so forth, it was more major than the rest of his rally speech is but one is calling out the name of the republicans across him, i'm not sure that the path to the white house. i think it's very hard to run against both people in your own party and the other party at the same time. i think he particularly heard himself in the georgia senate races in january. had he helped those people across the finish line i think he would be in a much stronger position today to say, i can do things for the party. i think people want a vision of the future but he has incredible achievements that represent the republican party and good things. i think it was highlighted in a magnificent way and i think that would be the better path. >> john: the idea of tropism is something the party seems to embrace. most of whom voted in favor of impeachment and yet at the same time we are hearing that there is no civil war in the republican party. adam kinzinger after he was called out by the president tweeted he was honored to be called out by the president. if there's not a civil war, there is a schism. >> there is and this is what the press likes to feed on. if president trump had come out and talked about policies, just policies the way he did during his convention and the way he highlighted how policies like school choice helped disadvantage minorities, that was a positive agenda. if he had done that the press wouldn't be interested. they wanted a civil war ended just don't think it's in the republican interest to pursue that. that is a policy of looking at the past and making trump-ism about president trump for the policy of the future would be about taking donald trump's achievements and tax cuts, deregulation and building up the military and making it more about the policy. >> john: bill mcgurn, it's always good to see you. thanks for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> sandra: johnson & johnson's highly anticipated vaccine will soon make its way into american's arms. up next, dr. marc siegel about what you need to know about that single-dose shot and why it may be a game changer. >> john: and green eggs and ham, they do not like them, sam i am. wait until you hear about the school district whose dropping dr. seuss just before his birthday no less. ♪ ♪ e ratesvalues highme refiplus can help you lower your rate plus turn your home equity into an average of $50,000. money for security today. money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus from newday usa. ♪♪ (car horn) ♪♪ (splash) ♪♪ turn today's dreams into tomorrow's trips... with millions of flexible booking options. all in one place. expedia. just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. sofi helped me pay off twenty-three thousand dollars of credit card debt. they helped me consolidate all of that into one low monthly payment. they make you feel like it's an honor for them to help you out. i went from sleepless nights to getting my money right. so thank you. ♪ >> sandra: time now for some top stories we are watching for you. buckingham palace says prince philip has transferred to another hospital in london, doctors are reportedly treating the 99-year-old duke for an infection as well as monitoring him for a pre-existing heart condition. >> john: and check out this video of a flash flood in kentucky over the weekend which is more than likely going to happen. and you can see the water has nowhere to go. >> john: >> sandra: and people complained about fires in nearly 2 million toyota rab sub's. the national highway traffic administration saying that those fires typically start on the left side of the vehicle's engine usually while someone is driving. for more on these end of the top stories, download fox news app, scan the qr code or go to the foxnews.com/app. and more vaccine good news, america's third approved covert vaccine headed out the door and had four americans arms. johnson & johnson single-dose vaccine has been approved for emergency use and more good news, that vaccine does not have to be kept at present temperatures. jonathan's areas live in atlanta. john thain, officials say people shouldn't ask the question, which one should i get or which one are you offering me? why is that? >> they say it's because they don't have an apples-to-apples comparison in the clinical trials were during different phases of the pandemic. many of those trials taking place in south africa where there is this widespread variant that is more resistant to the vaccine. even so, the jay ended jay vaccine was 85% perfected comic effective in preventing the most severe cases of covid-19 and there were no hospitalizations or deaths in any of the studies. >> even though the vaccine itself was not specifically directed against those variants, it did extremely well when it came to prevent things of critical disease. >> also the jay and jay vaccine provides full protection after just one dose. the health department says take the first vaccine that's available to you. this morning and kentucky and jay and jay were they there used a sharpie pen to sign the boxes with positive messages. now doses of the new vaccine will be available in limited supply starting out just 4 million doses this week and it will ramp up to about 20 million by the end of the month and then johnson & johnson expects a hundred million by june. >> sandra: dr. saphier was asked about this earlier on our network. what should you ask about the vaccines being offered to you? she said just take it, don't ask. the efficacy rate is super high on all three and that's great news for everyone. >> john: for more on this let's bring in dr. marc siegel, professor of medicine at the nyu langone center. it's great that you have another vaccine out there but this one appears that it may not stop you from contacting kobe to but it will stop you from getting severely ill or even dying. >> jonathan serrie had a great report just now and i want to push back with it point, a lot of the testing was done on variance. and those may not be a perfect match for the vaccine so i would start with a 100% decrease in hospitalizations and deaths. you won't die if you get hospitalized based on the trials and an 85% block against severe disease. that's only with one shot. what would happen if you got two shots of the johnson & johnson? remember you are comparing one shot at this vaccine to two shots of the pfizer and modernity vaccine. they are now doing studies on what would happen if you got the two shots. one big advantage of this vaccine are that you don't have to keep it in the deep freeze, you don't even have to keep it in the freezer. that's what i do in my office when i give out vaccines, most of them are in the refrigerator, he rolled him out and leave them out on the counter for six hours between patients. half of the vaccine in this country are given by primary care doctors like me and this is a vaccine i could see in my office. i also agree with dr. saphier's point witches take the vaccine that you are offered right now. we have to get the whole country blanketed with these vaccines, 50% of the population over the age of 65 is pretty much had one dose and at this point that's why you are seeing hospitalizations drop-down to dramatic levels in my opinion because 80% of the deaths are occurring in the age over 65. you get a vaccine to this population then you won't see the hospitalizations. >> john: obviously there are tremendous benefits to a vaccine that doesn't have to be kept 0-degree fahrenheit, but i will read a report just a little while ago that suggested that a vaccine like this is creating a potential to curate a system of medicine because you have a vaccine that can be distributed into these underserved communities but one in the united states that has an efficacy of 72% against contracting company bid whereas people in those communities say wait a minute, we want the pfizer or the moderna vaccine. >> the goal is to try to get people to take the vaccine. it's particularly difficult in the black community because of all the generations of mistrust and mistreatment by the medical establishment so it requires a lot of one-on-one counseling. not counseling but discussion with people about this vaccine an end involvement of church communities. i think therefore they have an advantage and with one dose you are getting more bang for your buck probably than you are getting with one dose of the pfizer or the moderna. the advantage to jay and jay is at lends itself more because they have it in their office and again involving the whole community and convincing people that we care about what happens to you. take the vaccine, protect yourself and protect everyone else. >> john: a bit of a disappointment that it's a limited supply at this point. at dr. siegel, always good to see you. thanks so much. >> and here's my vote for dr. seuss by the way. let's keep him in the classroom. >> if dr. seuss were alive and he had a covert vaccine in his hand, i would say, give it to me. >> sandra: everybody loves dr. seuss. tomorrow is the birthday that we usually celebrate. i always stop and read my kids a dr. seuss book, it's important. but the story, i couldn't believe it. >> john: it's crazy, my wife, her first interview was with dr. seuss. she got his number from a friend whose father tune his piano. enterprise reporting is what that's called. >> sandra: that is an amazing story. 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remember, today is tuesday. when can we go back to that? i mean come on. >> sandra: what joining us now is one of our radio show hosts, joe piscopo. what do you think of this joe? great to see you. >> youtube, sondra. great job from you and john yesterday, too. pete davidson, his impression was so great, i wanted to see how the impression looked. and he's got that andrew cuomo accent, you know. but i have to tell you what goes around comes around and they make fun of me personally, they make fun of me, they should make fun of all of us. it was long overdue. >> sandra: here is a bit more from the "snl" sketch. >> is there a young person who could help you? >> perhaps the mailman? >> notice he had three straight days to have you click reflash? refresh? >> i don't think he does, he looks busy. >> better luck next time. >> that of course was the addition of the portrayal of the gretchen whitmer of michigan. and they took her on as well. >> it's no mercy but again, i'm glad that the region went across i'll have some fun. i always tell you, i was the ronald reagan appreciated it. president reagan did. so it's okay to reach out like that and now i'm waiting for them to do. but you have so much material on the left. you can't make that up. that writes itself, you know? >> sandra: of course you are referencing the chinese spy story with eric swalwell. >> this is stuff you can't make up even if you try to. and you know i'm trying to protect andrew fauci and andrew cuomo in nancy pelosi and i'm not doing so well. so you know what, we should all laugh at each other. everyone has to chill out and get together and it's okay to laugh at one another. it really is. >> sandra: i love having you on this show, because you always make us laugh but nobody is laughing in new york. the cover of "the new york post," hey, i'm a funny guy. what did you make of his statement on the show basically saying this is how i joke around with people, when he's facing some serious allegations here in new york? >> and they are showing video of what he said before. it's so hard for me to comment, i've known andrew. mario cuomo was a hero, i'm a lifelong democrat. and mario matilda, his mom is like royalty. i hesitate to say anything but if you are going to accuse others you have to remember it's going to come back and get you. you look at some of the video that he did, with judge kavanaugh, it was like those of us in the middle, everybody on the extreme left in the extreme right, the rest of us are right of center and left of center, it's okay to laugh but if you are going to accuse somebody of something it's going to come back and get you and that's how old italian that is, let me tell you. >> sandra: joe, are you out of a car dealership? 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