Thats without their parents. Casey stiegel has more from the border city of eagle pass, texas. What can you tell us this morning . Good morning to you. Here in the del rio sector of texas those apprehensions you talk about with Unaccompanied Minors absolutely through the roof. So far for fiscal year 2021, a 122 jump here just north of us in the big bend sector, they are up 141 . And then along the entire Southwest Border you see there a 64 jump in the number of children detained compared to the same period last year. The Fox News Flight Team drone is back in the air with us today. A look at mexico this morning across the river from eagle pass, texas. As the white house has this to say about the situation on the ground. It is still a difficult time, a difficult journey. We arent encouraging people to come. We also believe differently from the past administration we wont turn away kids who are under 18. Word this morning out of brownsville, texas where City Officials confirm that at least 108 migrants tested positive for covid. 6. 3 of everyone screened since january 25th. That was before they were placed on buses to be sent to other parts of the country. Now City Officials and the city spokesperson telling fox that they do not have the authority to retain those migrants to prevent them from traveling if they come up with a positive covid test. Bill and dana. Bill thank you. Back to you throughout the morning. More on this now want to bring in former acting customs and board He Protection Commissioner mark morgan. I want viewers to see this on screen. The department of Homeland Security projects for 2021 that 117,000 crossings compared to last year at 33 you had the pandemic then. Going back to 2019, 80,000. Whats going on here, sir . This is important. Listen to your own words that i agree with. Record numbers. You are just talking about uac. I jotted down a few stats. 117,000 Unaccompanied Minors. Were also looking to project at this rate of 1. 4 million total trying to illegally enter this country. Were looking at 5,000 a dave that were encountering on the Southwest Border illegally entering. 400 of those are Unaccompanied Minors. Right now we dont talk about this right now. Were looking at almost 1,000 got aways because the borders arent secure. By the end of this year we look at 200,000 gotaways. It is a crisis but this week the secretary of dhs got in front of the American People and lied saying it is a challenge rather than the crisis it is. Dana we want to show you sound here. This is the case there are some democrats trying to stound the alarm. Many arent going to call it a crisis, it is a challenge. Watch. The crisis was in 2014. The crisis was in 2019. Do we have a crisis right now the snapshot right now . No. Are we getting there . Yes if we dont make any changes. At what point does it become a crisis . Well, i would say i dont think we need to meet your bar of what we need to call it. We are approaching this humanely. [inaudible question] dana maybe take the politics out of it for a second. When you were there as an official as customs and Border Patrol what is your threshold level for a crisis . Ill go back to thats a great question. This is not a right or left thing. Ill go back when i was chief of the Border Patrol under a democratic administration, under then secretary jay johnson who said quote, his words, not mine, 1,000 was a bad day. When i worked for him as the chief, believe me, 1,000 was a bad day. If you go back to 2019 the same democrats including representative said it was a crisis in 2019. The numbers were seeing are exceeding the numbers in 2019. This is not a right or left thing. How they phrase it depends on which side of the aisle you stand on right now. American people deserve better, dana. Bill a great question. The president will be told that a number of migrant kids on pace to exceed kids just now. You talk about Unaccompanied Minor to exceed the alltime record by 45 . How do you stop that . How do you slow it down . And if you dont, what is the short term resolution . Bill, it is almost too late. Look, this administration within 30 days has because this administration has absolutely dismantled and destroyed every effective policy that had reduced the flow. Like you said this time last year it is over 100 increase in minors alone. If you want to talk about cruelty, look, this country right now, bill, is actually encouraging and facilitating and incentivizing moms and dads in countries in Western Hemisphere to hand their kids over to cartels and Smuggling Organizations to make the dangerous trek during the middle of the Global Pandemic to illegally enter this country. This country shouldnt be doing that. We should be stopping this. We need a. G. S and governors of states to stand up and challenge these actions in court. Thats the only way well be able to have an impact right now. Dana great point. I think about that, too. In terms of the Human Condition and i know that many of the migrants are teens, okay . Theyre still children. And what a lot of them are going through. I know the wrenching decision to tell your kid go for it. But this is unacceptable. It is going to come back to hurt a lot of people. It will be a major not political issue but something that america is going to have to deal with. We cannot pretend its not a problem. Dana quick and to your point right now like you said it doesnt matter. Majority are 15 and 16 but still minors, right . Theyre taking this dangerous trek and going through covid hot spots in large groups a covid petri dish stuffed in overcrowded unsanitary stash houses, Tractor Trailers. You mentioned in your opening a good portion are Testing Positive for covid. This is unconscionable. Bill it is not okay. Well check in with you later in the week. Thank you for your time today. You bet. Too many texans have been sidelined from employment opportunities. Too many Small Business owners have struggled to pay their bills. This must end. It is now time to open texas 100 . [cheering and applause] dana Texas Governor greg abbott ditching his states mask mandate and allowing businesses and restaurants to open at full capacity a week from today. He emphasized texans have a personal responsibility to fight covid and the governor of mississippi is also lifting that states mask mandate starting today. It comes as the cdc warns americans not to back off from coronavirus safety measures. That was pretty big news yesterday when a state like texas does that, mississippi follows, you can imagine that others might as well. Bill could be the trend, right . Well see how it goes. Eight minutes past the hour. Having an effect on a lot of people. Dana our next guest owns a couple of restaurants in texas saying the and i was in a reall difficult part of town in fort worth. Found an awesome spot that we relocated february 25th of 2020. Had to shut down three weeks later. Horrible, you know. So much uncertainty with the pandemic, no one knew what was going to happen. The Governor Greg Abbott allowed us to open 2 1 2 weeks later for curb side delivery. To go orders are always difficult in a restaurant. When you are in the middle of the dining room and all the plating and everything like that and so it was we had to change our way of thinking to the whole curbside and takeout. And that took a while. A couple of months for us to get used to it but kept us alive. The governor also allowed alcohol to go, as long as the containers were sealed. So that really helped us. Dana how will things change for you after yesterday . After yesterdays announcement well proceed cautiously. In the Restaurant Business all of our employees at both locations will continue with the masks just because we are going to go slowly. We will continue to have Hand Sanitizers and continue with the sixfoot tables between tables. We are going to do that for a couple of months just to put everybody at ease. All of our customers to know were still going to go very slowly with reopening. Bill the governor is giving the option to be as responsible as you choose to be. He is. Bill you opened february 25th, 2020. Remarkable timing. You changed the entire way you operate to keep that business open. Do you know feel as if youve gotten through that dark tunnel, mary . We have gotten through the dark tunnel. Everything was great and then this beautiful snow, our biggest day of the year valentines day was totally shot. When do we ever get snow on valentines day . It was beautiful at first, the first two or three days and we got 10 degrees, 12 degrees, 0, were not used to that here. We cant walk on it or drive on it. Dana do you think youre at the end of the tunnel . The light at the end of the tunnel. The governor gave us 100 . Opening our patios. So for restaurants the patios here in texas are big so bill the food looks great. Good luck and thank you for sharing your story mary perez there. Thank you. Fox news alert news breaking from overnight. 10 rockets hitting an iraq air base that houses u. S. Troops just days before the Biden Administration ordered strikes on iranian backed militias. A big base in western iraq. Lucas tomlinson runs the story down this morning. What happened . We just learned an American Contractor died of a heart attack today at that same base where those rockets landed at 7 20 a. M. Local time. It is too early to tell if the heart attack was related to The Rock Erts Hitting the base. The incident is under investigation. Latest titfortat between u. S. And iranian backed forces. Two u. S. Jets dropped seven Laser Guided Bombs in Eastern Syria friday morning. Press secretary john kirby explained why the u. S. Needed to respond last week. To send a clear signal that the United States is going to protect its people and it will protect our interests and protect those of our partners in the region. The air base is the same base where iran launched 11 Ballistic Missiles last year days after the u. S. Killed soleimani. No troops were injured. In two days pope francis is scheduled to visit iraq. More updates from you at the pentagon. Thanks. President biden as a consequence of the steppedup process that ive ordered and just outlined this country will have enough Vaccine Supply ill say it again for every adult in america by the end of may. Bill thats a big statement from President Biden. Every adult will have access by the spring. Dr. Marty makary is here on that and the new cdc guidelines for americans looking forward to, quote, normal again. Dana count me in. 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The rationale being they took a big hit during the pandemic during the shut downs. Those projects proposed in house speakers Nancy Pelosi Home State Of California and schumers home state of new york the Senate Parliamentarian ruled it cant be included in the bill because its a pilot program. Schumer abandoned money for the new york bridge saying it was first requested by the Trump Administration five months ago. With those two items gone democrats are hoping for smoother sailing. Pelosis spokesperson saying now that the two projects have been removed it is republicans have a massive list of targets they circulated early this week including 180 million to change the definition of an atrisk School Childrens persons up to the age of 24 for Meal Reimbursement and executive branch emergency Leave Program, with no requirement it be due to covid. The white house Chief Of Staff has described this as the most progressive, Domestic Legislation in a generation. In a generation. Meaning that they have had their eye on doing this by themselves in a very partisan way from the very beginning. Yesterday Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell said he expects Senate Republicans will oppose this bill but schumer is confident that it will pass before the selfimposed deadline a couple weeks from now in march. Bill were watching that. Thank you for that. Get out the big calculator here. If you take out the dana mine doesnt have that many zeros. Bill you take out 150 million for the project in Northern California. 1. 5 million for the bridge to canada at 151 million. Whats the percentage of that of 1. 9 trillion. Dana democrats are like we have sacrificed and are coming to the table. Bill 2,000 billions go into 2 trillion dollars. Were talking about a load of cash. Dana well talk about it with josh holmes, Chief Of Staff to mcconnell and Juan Williams. Josh, here is pelosi and schumer like wow, gosh, youre right. Maybe we can trim a little bit around the sails here and take out of 1. 9 trillion well give up our two Infrastructure Projects not related to covid relief. Plus can i show you this, josh . In this bill it is enhanced time off. Not for everybody. It is a 570 million. Provision sets aside money for a Leave Program that would allow any federal worker, not working for the military, to take up to 15 weeks of paid leave and collect up to 21,000. 1400 a week for hardship during the pandemic. How is that how does that slip through and nobody talks about it . This bill at its core is just fraud. Plain and simple fraud. If a private company tried to sell you a product to take care of a pandemic and built you a bridge, they would go to jail, right . This is what were dealing with with the United Democratic government. All the bill is 2 trillion is payoff to constituents that supported democrats in last election. You talk about huge money for teachers unions. No worries about opening the actual schools but over 100 billion on top of the 67 they got last year for teachers unions, right . Same thing goes for pension bailouts. I dont know how it is that american taxpayers are on the hook because of this for Union Promises made to their employees, right . Each and every step this is very, very little to do with the pandemic. Very little to do with the economy or struggling families. Everything to do with key democratic constituents under the guise of covid relief. Bill families making under 50 grand could get 14,000 in covid relief. This sort of dovetails in a piece in the New York Times and wall street journals. Democrats try to have universal basic income. I guess, juan, the point here you can go on for hours and hours when you are talking about 2 trillion and find all kinds of stuff there that honestly have nothing to do with covid or the pandemic. Josh called it fraud. What do you call it . I think its a great bill. I look at it and i think to myself its hard for the critics to argue with the heart of a bill given the 500,000 deaths, high unemployment rate. People on the verge of losing Unemployment Benefits in the middle of this month. Bill juan, i dont think anyone let me finish a second, bill. You can see it in terms of the American People. Hang on, bill. Let me just finish. In terms of the American People right now 60 of republicans support this bill. Bill i dont disagree. I just want to make it clear no one here is objecting to direct payments. This has been going on for months and it hasnt been gotten done yet. Return to you, josh. I think the Dirty Little Secret here is the pandemic has exposed, this is the way the democrats would like to run the government in the first place. They tell you when to go to work. Whether your kids can go to school. They deem who is essential, who is not. Ultimately they send you a couple bucks for your troubles at the end of the day so you rely upon them in the end. This is horrible way to run the country. Thank god we have vaccines going out the door and able to open this country back up. I think another 6 or 8 months of absolute socialism the way the democrats are running this our country would be in a lot of trouble. Dana we need people get back to work for increased tax revenue. Bill just to be clear no one is objecting to direct payments. Dana and to the people who need it. Bill what were suggesting. Why you dont spend 90 of this money next year and the year after and year 2028. Last comment, juan, go ahead. It does, bill. We were talking earlier about School Spending and what money has already been allotted and money to come. Much of that money gets spent going into 2028 and beyond. Why . Because you have kids who have to make up for their learning and kids who have been off track in terms of some of their preparations for things that are to come. Bill seven years from now. That all im telling you. It has to be. But overwhelmingly this over half of this 1. 9 trillion package goes to stimulus, Unemployment Benefits and children. This is good stuff for america. It is what government should do. Dana the federal government you get even more when you work there. Bill we could talk about this forever. Thank you josh and juan. Dana they are giving us the hook. Bill Horrific Crash killed at least a dozen people prompting a Human Trafficking investigation. What we know so far about the people inside. Wow. Also new York State Legislature set to rebuke the governor. More democrats are saying its time for the governor to go. Well talk to one of them on that topic coming up next. You have to have trust from the people and if you cant maintain that trust you cant govern. 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Smugglers will find a weak spot where there is no fence or they can cut a hole, drive through, blend in with the local traffic and evade Border Patrol. This is one result. This s. U. V. With the seats removed packed with 25 Illegal Immigrants collides with a Tractor Trailer, 13 fatalities. Sources say this vehicle and another loaded with 19 Illegal Immigrants crossed the border yesterday sometime before sunrise. Smugglers cut a hole in the fence, drove through undetected, typically theyll replace the fence and patch it to use it again. Here they didnt. Take a look at this map. This sector covers 70 miles of border. The trump border covers 20 miles, red areas. The red arrow shows you where the old fence was cut. The little stretch a few miles east of el centro. This accident occurred a few miles west of the hole in the fence. There was a remote Video Camera System in the area. Smugglers monitor these and the lens was likely pointed in another direction when the loaded vehicles drove through. Ice and Border Agents are investigating the accident. The 28yearold driver from mexico dead. Mexican consulate says at least 10 of the 13 victims are from mexico. You can imagine they arent in a condition to be able to tell us or remember any of this stuff. Were working with the consular Generals Office to share with them information so their families are notified through the mexico consulate. One of the injured was 16 years old. I want to make a point of uncoed minors. The 16 and 17, and 18yearolds travel together and younger ones are being reunited with family over here. Under President Trump they would be eligible for deportation. Under President Biden they are not. Secondly, many are not under 18. They lie about it. By the time the Border Patrol or ice can find out about it, its too late and theyve already reunited and somewhere in the u. S. And they cant be found. Bill well follow that story together. Dana new York State Legislature reaching a deal to strip Governor Cuomo of Emergency Powers as he deals with scandals on two fronts. First over his handling of nursing home outbreaks of death and alleged treatment of women. Here to talk about it is a senator. What does it mean to strip the Emergency Powers from the governor . Whats the practical effect of that . Good morning, thanks for having me on the show. Yes, the were moving to pass a bill possibly this friday as early as friday to strip those powers. You know, this is really to me this is something we need to do but it is about this is about much more than just Emergency Powers at this point. It is about restoring the Balance Of Power to state legislature. This is a governor that has a pattern of abuse of power and it is clear it is going to continue. We just saw this week his flash with the new york a. G. s office over who was going to do the investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment. He wanted to have his hand in that. Sort of pick who choose himself who would investigate him. The a. G. Put a stop to that but not after repeated attempts by the governor to interfere. So we can see a pattern here. It is about much more than Emergency Powers. It is something we need to do but it is the tip of the iceberg. We see a pattern here that makes working conditions very difficult right now. The governor is clearly a distraction. He hasnt made a public appearance. He hasnt given a covid briefing in over a week. Were at a time when we need to be working on our budget. It is a very important budget. A lot of federal dollars, covid relief funds that our communities need. We need to be passing bills. We have a nursing home package. Dana so i want to ask you about the Party Dynamics there in albany. You are a democrat. He has been governor for three terms and like a fourth team. You think he should resign. Why . I think it is for the good of the state to allow us to move forward. Right now the governor is a distraction. He has brought the capital to a halt. We should be working on a budget. He has lost credibility. He has withheld the Nursing Home Data that we have been seeking for months and the only reason we have what we have is because of that Attorney General report where we heard we saw there was an admission from high level staffer in his office that he purposely withheld that information and the reasons that he gave really just dont make any sense. So the bottom line is he withheld information from this legislature. When we tried to exert our oversight powers he ignored us. Now there is an f. B. I. Investigation also underway. Hopefully well get answers and truth and accountability. We arent getting that from the governor right now. For the state to move forward, i think he should resign and let us get back to the important work that we have to do this legislative session. Dana thanks for being here today. Well stay in touch with you. Bill a lot of folks in california waiting for answers on that. President biden announced a partnership between two Rival Drug Giants to produce the Johnson Johnson vaccine. They say this administration took action to speed up the process. Is that accurate . Dr. Marty makary is up next with that and a vaccine progress. Dolly parton helped fund one Covid Vaccine and now she is getting a taste of her own medicine. Cool. Jolene, jolene, jolene, im begging her please, dont take my man jolene, jolene, thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats Plaque Psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable. Dont use if youre allergic to otezla. It may cause severe diarrhea,. Nausea or vomiting. Otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. 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Dana Christopher Wray testified yesterday on capitol hill riots. He cant get into details about the death of Capitol Police officer sicknick injured during the riot and died the following day. Investigations have uncovered no evidence that fake Trump Supporters or antifa members were involved that day. Slowly, bill, we get a little bit of answers, not the clarity. Bill i dont understand the lack of the sicknick answer. Dana i dont know if its they dont know or not able to say. Bill first week of march. Remember the memo came out january 5th . I addressed that yesterday. He said i dont know why the input didnt flow down to other people. He testified he did not personally see the reports. Why would that be . Lack of urgency, what was it . Dana the sharing of information amongst intel and Law Enforcement is very critical for safety. Bill fair point. There is this from yesterday. Watch. Were now on track to have enough Vaccine Supply for every adult in america by the end of may. Let me say that again. When we came into office, the Prior Administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in america. We rectified that. Bill that there President Biden talking about the Vaccine Supply announcing a major step to ramp up production. Want to bring in dr. Marty makary physician and Professor Johns Hopkins University and fox news medical contributor. Good morning to you. Thank you for coming back. Was that an accurate statement about the Previous Administration . I think it was disingenuous. Admiral giroir worked hard to build the Railroad Tracks for a vaccine production system. That is built and were seeing High Speed Trains come through. Operation warp speed prepurchased a lot of vaccine. At this point it is not Operation Warp speed driving the market, it is demand and sales. There are a lot of places around the world willing to pay high dollar and thats whats getting the Pharma Companies to do this and seeing the Biden Administration say theyve been behind it by issuing the statement they mediated a meeting between j j and merck for the recent production surge. Dana one of the things interesting. Talking to a friend of maryland. People are having a hard time getting appointments but seeing all these ads and go get the vaccine. What do you caution people in terms of be a little patient . How soon do you think these will get to the places they need to be . Right now, dana, demand is much higher than supply but that will flip in about 3 to 4 weeks. Certain states are doing a lot better. If you look at alaska, 1 in 4 adults in alaska has been vaccinated. Texas not doing so well. I think if people wait somewhere between 3 to 4 weeks they can get an appointment. Bill cdc guidance. Allow fully vaccinated people to have small home gatherings with other fully vaccinated people. Recommends vaccinated people to wear masks in public, includes scenarios to consider when making plans including travel. I think the impression is that you get the vaccine youre good to live. Apparently thats not the case. Do you agree with these potential guidelines here . I think the guidelines that will come out this week will be overly restrictive and the reality is people just wont follow them. And the guidance will lose credibility with being months late with testing guidelines, months late with masking guidance. Two weeks late in Vaccine Allocation guidance after the vaccine was delivered and the problematic and contradict tree school guidance. It is overly prescriptive and restrictive. You dont want to tell them what they cant do but tell them what they are going to do safely. The most important thing to remember you have almost no protection in the first 10 days. Dont get a vaccine and go to a concert two hours later. Wearing masks for a couple more months is not a big burden given where we are. Dana i do want to ask you this quickly. I talked to my sister yesterday in colorado. The Mental Health problems that are teens across america is facing. The number of teen suicides around denver is exceedingly upsetting. I dont feel like there is enough that the cdc or federal government is doing to try to rectify the situation. Gosh, dana, it is so tragic. There will be a lot of Public Health studies that come out on this. The first of which came out yesterday and it taught us that Mental Illness admissions went up 100 in the first few months of the pandemic at a time when people werent coming to the doctor. The most concerning is that at one point admissions for selfharm. People who came to us as doctors because they tried to hurt themselves. That went up 300 at one point last year. I think thats an american tragedy that we will look back on and say we have to do better. Dana for all the families, for the students, for their families and sisters. Thank you. Bill thank you. Marty makary, thank you. Dana dr. Makary, dolly parton posted a video of getting a coronavirus vaccine. The country legend donated 1 million to the University Last year Funding Research that led to the moderna vaccine. She joked she is getting a dose of her own medicine and urging fans to follow suit. Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, im begging of you please dont hesitate vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, once youre dead thats a bit too late im trying to be funny now but im dead serious about the vaccine. Dana she is a national treasure. Love her. Thank you for that donation for the research. Bill as Covid Restrictions continue in california some High School Students are resorting to legal action against the governor gavin new some. One joins us next hour to explain why. 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This is not a income tax, this is the government going in taking what you have and this is stuff that youve already paid taxes on. So if you dont like the i. R. S. Right now imagine a Confiscation Police going in and checking your home out for any little piece of jewelry you have, any gold coins you have buried in your backyard where they would take a piece of that. Again, this is your own property that they would confiscate. This turns the tax police into the secret police and a lot of the countries that have tried it said this is just too totalitarian for us. It doesnt work. Bill number four, bezos would pay 5 billion. Gates 4 billion. Zuckerberg 3. A lot of money for those guys. Rand paul with neil yesterday sizes it up this way. The wealth task will destroy our country. Not good for our country. We want to reward people who sell stuff to people voluntarily and make money because people buy their services and products. Thats the american way. And this Class Warfare punitive stuff that some of these democrats want is unamerican, Bad For Business and bad for everybody because capitalism uplifts all. Bill similar message you brought, david. Its unlikely to be enacted for now. But what is your sense about raising taxes generally . Is there movement on that now . Bill generally what happens when you raise taxes is more people particularly the wealthy people, figure out ways of hiding it from the tax man. That always happens. Everybody is worried about the wealth gap. A tremendous gap between the richest and poorest. That wealth gap shrunk when trump cut tax rates. During the up until the pandemic which changed everything, of course, the wealth gap shrunk because less money was going to the government and more the Blue Collar Workers were making more money at the end of the trump tax cut era than the richer people percentagewise. Percentagewise the blue collars made out better than the white collars. Cut taxes. If you want to soak the rich is best way to do it is cut the tax rate, believe it or not. Bill well see you soon. Thank you. Dana texas becoming a largest state to end Mask Mandates. Governor abbott announced it is time to open texas saying statewide mandates are no longer needed allowing all businesses to open at full Capacity Starting a week from today. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer. In mississippi governor also lifting statewide restrictions with a few exceptions. A sample of that now. All businesses of any type are allowed to open 100 . [applause] also i am ending the statewide mask mandate. This new order removes all of our county Mask Mandates and allows businesses to operate at full capacity without stateimposed rules or restrictions. Dana other states have no Mask Mandates. Jonathan serrie has more on the push to reopen. Texas and mississippi are lifting these mandates as three safe and effective vaccines are rolling out rapidly. 14 of mississippis population has received at least one dose of Covid Vaccine according to cdc data. Texas the figure is 13 . Federal Health Officials caution those numbers havent reached the threshold for Herd Immunity and these announcements out of texas and mississippi come just days after the cdc director warned states against scaling back covid precautions prematurely. Please hear me clearly. At this level of cases with various spreading we stand to completely lose the hardearned ground we have gained. Bill starting next wednesday texas will lift indoor capacity restrictions on all businesses including restaurants and bars. Mississippi is lifting restrictions today. Governor tate reeves says people should continue to follow the advice of Public Health experts because it is safe. Not because of some government enforcement. We are putting all of our focus towards the rapid distribution of the vaccine and the Governors Office is getting out of the business of telling people what they can and cant do. 14 other states have no Mask Mandates including georgia, which never imposed one. Although from the getgo Governor Brian Kemp has strongly encouraged mask usage. Dana and bill, back to you. Dana thank you so much. Bill interesting stuff. What do you make of it . Dana the guest we had before in the 9 00 hour, the Restaurant Owner mary perez in fort worth but she said her personal decision was that her Restaurant Workers were going to continue to have the tables at six feet apart and masks for at least a couple of months to see how things go. So people making some personal decisions. Bill she explained it very well, too. Governor newsom in california responding to the news in Associated Press when the news crossed the wire. He said it is reckless. Well, here is andy who works for the administration. His view on masks and what it can do for you and your family. Masks are saving a lot of lives. The president has been very clear about the fact in the first 100 days of his administration we could save 50,000 lives if we stick to this. I hope the businesses and community and people in texas, the mayors, the county, will rethink this. I hope the governor rethinks this. The shape sailed on this unless the cases continue to climb. Dana i think so. If you look at the Dallas Morning News cover we could show that. This is how theyre feeling it. Texas to open 100 . Doesnt mean you shouldnt make good personal decisions or that the County Judges there in texas might make other decisions or recommendations. But this happening and i imagine that it opens the flood gates. Were at a different place. We have the vaccines coming online and more and more people are getting vaccinated. You showed us the states yesterday. Even more by next week. Bill i have a list of 15 states in addition to texas who dont have a mask mandate. Texas is by far the most populated state in the country doing this right now. Arizona, florida, georgia, idaho, it continues on and on. These states will keep this in place so long as the case numbers continue to go down. Weve seen that trend now for two months. Dana everyone stay safe. Get the vaccine. Bill here is mark morgan last hour as well. Watch. Numbers were seeing are exceeding or meeting the numbers that we were experiencing back in 2019. A crisis then, its a crisis now. This is not a right or left thing. Bill that was mark morgan, former acting customs and Border Protection commissioner talking about the crisis at the border. Were now learning more than 100 migrants released by the Border Patrol into the u. S. Have tested positive for covid since the last week in january. This is the biden team reopens the border Joouf Nile Facility from the trump era that democrats once criticized. Team fox coverage. Lara logan standing by with analysis. We begin with peter doocy today at the white house. We have yet another challenge now for the administration on immigration, peter. Good morning. Good morning. If i tested positive for covid19 on my way into the white house they would not let me in here but at least 108 migrants have tested positive for covid19 after coming into the country and then gotten onto buses to parts unknown. Nbc is reporting some of them went to north carolina, new jersey and maryland. I spoke to a white house official about this. They say the testing is done by local and state governments in conjunction with ngos and there are limited and narrow instances where people who test positive are continuing to travel. But the federal guidance has not changed. They recommend that positive cases isolate. Yesterday President Biden got a briefing that axios reports included an eyepopping number, 20,000, the number of extra beds the feds need to hold all the unaccompanied migrant kids expected to cross in the next couple of weeks. Administration says they have to reopen some of those Hhs Facilities that critics called cages a couple years ago to comply with social distancing concerns. But it is not clear why this covid conscious administration is not doing more to stop these covid positive migrants from heading off into the interior of the United States. Bill pretty good riddle. There are questions from you and others today. Well see you then, peter. Dana for more on this lets bring in lara logan from fox nation. Let me put up a screen shot for everybody to see. The when numbers of Migrant Children coming over and are expected. This is dhs projection for 2021, 117,000 unaccompanied alien children, minor children coming across. That could be somebody who is just under 18 but still count in these numbers. In 2020 it was 33,000. Quickly before we get your reaction, here is marco rubio earlier today on this very issue. Now youve created an incentive for children to be sent on that journey. No idea how many of these children are killed on that journey, left behind, die from illness on that journey, sexually abused on that journey by these evil Trafficking Networks incentivized by policy. We wind up with complete, utter ridiculousness. Dana what does your reporting tell you about all this, lara . That is based on actual numbers. In the first four months of the last fiscal year there have been more than 20,000 Unaccompanied Minors that have been detained by cbp in between Ports Of Entry and by the office of Field Operations at the Ports Of Entry. If you just count on those numbers, thats how you get to over 117,000. But there is a couple of significant things that people are not factoring in. One is that the data shows that every single year when you come to april that is when the numbers escalate dramatically as the warm weather comes in. So what customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents know they are braced for much, much bigger numbers. Any look back through the data shows you that happens every year. The other thing is Border Patrol agents are now finding when they apprehend people they have the wrist bands on them issued to them by the cartels. Different meanings depending on whats on there. They belong to a different cartel but what it does this is the really scary part. It links back to your number on that wrist band links back to a computer in mexico where the cartel has all your information forever. Where you came from, have you paid your piece of your tax to go over, where your family lives. Every single thing about you. So now that people are in the United States, they are still able to be tracked forever by the cartels and all those gangs people say they are fleeing from in honduras, el salvador and guatemala those gangs now track them. People are not really understanding is the Smuggling Networks used to be subcontractors for the cartels. People are now worth so much money that the cartels have taken over the smuggling in the sense the smugglers work for them now. And that means you are basically enriching and empowering the most violence and powerful criminal organizations on earth who are giving orders to the mexican government. They act like a parallel Shadow Government in mexico today. Bill very interesting response to that. New york post went after the policy hammered the biden team said team bidens bull under the disastrous border policies, how much suffering will have to occur before team biden drops the clueless ideology and starts facing facts about the selfimposed challenge, end quotes. When does that happen . Well, bill, if i had a crystal ball, right . If i was only a prophet. You know, you dont see that it is happening based on actions because the other things, there are so many details in this that they arent sharing. For example, how do you know if someone is a minor . How can you tell whether they were born, if theyre 19 or 20 or a little bit older . A lot of them know the age to give. Theyve been told by the cartels. They read social media and know whats going on. Now the word is to the Border Patrol agencies get rid of these people as fast as you can. This administration does not want anyone to see overcrowded cells or get a real sense of the scale of the crisis. They also know that those facilities were never designed for children. They took advantage of a situation before under trump and exploited it to their advantage. They dont want to let that happen to them. The reason people are being released with covid into the u. S. Is that right now they are getting them on buses with Tinted Windows straight to health and Human Services and sending them off to all parts of the country. Mexico is a covid hot spot. Thats why you had title 42 restrictions which is a Public Health designation where people were being returned and coming back over and over and recycling through. What is happening now with that . What is happening with testing . What is happening with treatment . What is happening with vaccines . These are questions that the administration has yet to answer at a time when people are criticizing americans, right, and Making Americans keep their children in Solitary Confinement at home if they test positive. There are double standards here and people see it. Bill very interesting. Lara, thanks for that perspective. Lara logan on that today. Dana dont forget to check out her show on fox nation is streaming now. Return to the border. President biden Prior Administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in america. Im pleased to announce today as a consequence of the steppedup process that ive ordered and just outlined, this country will have enough Vaccine Supply ill say it again for every adult in america by the end of may. By the end of may. Thats progress. Bill there you have President Biden taking aim at the Trump Administrations handling of the pandemic and taking credit for averting catastrophe promising vaccines for every u. S. Adult by the first of june. Jerry baker, good morning to you. What do you make of that claim . You know, its the most its interesting. For a party that spends so much time attacking donald trump over misrepresentations, lying as they repeatedly said this is pretty outrageous in terms of some of the things theyre saying. Look, all administrations come in and say the last administration was doing a terrible job and weve done a lot better job. This is taking that trend to extraordinary new levels. The Trump Administration got some things wrong. A lot of people did around the world. One of the things they got right was development of the vaccine. They pulled money into Operation Warp speed and worked with companies to get the vaccine ready. The u. S. Was further along than any other country in the world with the vaccine process. When Joe Biden Took Office and said there was no Vaccine Program in place 23 Million People had already had vaccinations in the United States. This latest claim that they havent provided for nearly enough vaccines was a process that was going on. The Trump Administration had secured deals already with pfizer, with moderna, with Johnson Johnson. It is complete fiction. The reason is that biden is saying this thing. As we get by the summer we hope and looks likely all americans who want a vaccination can have one. As we get a strong economic recovery. Well get that whatever they can claim credit for it. A complete fabrication of what the Biden Administration and Trump Administration did. Dana 10 minutes ago i got a text from jesse waters, cohost on the five saying this. There was an a. P. Reporter who tweeted out yesterday that biden expects enough Covid Vaccine for all adult americans by the end of may, two months earlier than anticipated. And it is paired with a tweet from jim acosta of cnn from September 8th of 2020 that said trump claims at News Conferences there will be enough doses for every american by april 2021. Yes. By the way, that was dismissed as absurd, as crazy, as misleading the American People implying all the time remember, President Trump said we have a vaccine by the end of 2020 and everybody said no, thats not true. Thats nonsense. They repeatedly cnn, their allies in the Democratic Party and Biden Administration have repeatedly down played what was achieved last year and repeatedly saying theyre achieving things that wouldnt have been achieved. Thats completely false. Its like taking credit for the sunrise after the nighttime. These things were in place and going to happen. A lot of it not all of it. The primary responsibility should go to the Pharmaceutical Companies. By the way, another target of democratic opposition for a long time. The evil Pharmaceutical Companies that democrats want to rein in and regulate and break up. These are the companies that produced these vaccines that are bringing this salvation to america. They did that with the considerable support and help from the Trump Administration. The Biden Administration is just claiming all the credit for it. Bill could be risky. Come back soon and thanks jesse waters, too. 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Racist imagery in peter pan and disney looks over their catalog and puts a disclaimer on the muppets as well. I think Companies Put an outsized and a lot of attention on twitter and if you see 100 negative tweets, a Company Reacts and responds and promises to change when really that means that 100 people are upset about something but probably a Million People dont care. Bill i think thats an interesting point. And if you think, carley, that a lot of these companies have not been exposed to public criticism. When it starts coming in you assume that it is much greater than it actually is in reality. Thats right. They bend to the mob. Although the mob is small. There are not a lot of people on twitter. A lot of them that are on twitter are in politics or journalists or famous. So i think that has a lot to do with it. Bill i thought this story got more reaction than anything else i saw yesterday and continues today. Jen psaki was asked about it. Kristin fisher had the honors yesterday. Watch. Read across america day has only been around for a short period of time. Elevates and celebrates a love of reading among our nations youngest leaders. The day is also a chance to celebrate diverse authors. Does the omission have anything to do with the controversy about the lack of diverse characters in the authors books . Again, i think it is important that children of all backgrounds see themselves in the childrens books that they read. Bill how do you square that answer . I have a feeling if you asked President Biden directly do you have a problem with dr. Seuss he would say know. The Department Of Education did the proclamation and didnt include dr. Seuss. There are actual conversations taking place in our education system. Dana the tweet from Kamala Harris in 2017 when she was a senator. Happy birthday, dr. Seuss. It was read across america day. His birthday. No longer. We saw president ial proclamation with President Trump and president obama saying great things about dr. 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Key player in the Pandemic Response get nine months salary and benefits to keep quiet. Taxpayers in the state get to pay for that silence. On the same day that he signed the order that reopened restaurants to 25 , dr. Robert gordon resigned and received a Separation Agreement. That ultimately included the money and the confidentiality agreement. Michigan republicans want to know now what he knows and why he abruptly resigned. So the people of michigan will not know how these decisions were made and what led to his departure because there are a lot of rumors it was a disagreement with governor whitmer. We would like to know and we will never know because of this hush agreement. Weve never seen anything like this in michigan before for a highlevel executive. Governor whitmer pushes back at the term hush money. I really bristle at the characterization. It is the nature of a Separation Agreement when someone in a Leadership Agreement leaves is that there are terms to it and you cant share every term to it. Thats simply what it is. Two other michigan officials got payouts with their Separation Agreements. Bill thanks on that from our midwest bureau. Nice to see you, mike. Dana walmart Making A Big Announcement laying out a 10 year plan for selling more American Made products saying it plans to spend 350 billion on items made, grown or assembled in the u. S. They expect to support 750,000 jobs and prevent millions of tons of Co2 Emissions from going into the atmosphere. Lets bring in dan bartlett from walmart. Tell us about this announcement. The scope of it and then also the why of it. Its great to be with you. About 10 years ago, just short of 10 years ago we made a commitment at walmart source 250 billion American Made goods. Weve made over 90 progress on our way to thatextend that initiative. Today we are announcing in partnership with suppliers that well commit to 350 billion more in u. S. Made products. The reason for that really is two things. One, it is good for our country. It will result in we think about 750,000 new jobs here in america. And also it is what our customers want. Customers tell us that they want to buy products that are here locally grown, locally made. They want to support their local suppliers and entrepreneurs. It is a perfect opportunity we can work with our Supplier Base to fulfill the satisfaction or the desires of our customers. Dana have you seen anything in the last several years President Trump put a big emphasis on products made in china and trying to get American Companies to come back to america or other companies outside of china to come to america and make this a manufacturing base. Has something changed in the last several years that makes this more of a possibility . We do think there is momentum to bring there will be particular categories through processing, pharmaceuticals, plastics, small engine, electronic motors or things where well concentrate our efforts and we think not only from a Ground Up Proposal of working with our suppliers but also working with policymakers to create the type of environment in parts of the country where this type of manufacturing can have a rebirth. What were excited about this really has bipartisan support. Senators tim scott and chris coons have both put out positive comments about this. The manufacturing opportunity in their respective states is something that well be working with them on with regards to this initiative. So net net it is a good moments for us to try to accelerate the progress weve made and the economic environment that we continue to pursue the right policies will yield more americanmade products and more american jobs. Dana let me ask you about one of those policies. The 15 minimum wage push that has support democrats and President Biden, i cant look at any Inside The Beltway publication to read the news without seeing an ad from amazon saying theyre supportive and making sure all the people in washington know theyre supportive of a 15 minimum wage. What is walmarts position on that . Weve made very clear the current minimum wage is unacceptable and the fact this has become a zero sum game it either has to go straight to 15 or no progress at all is short sighted. We hope that lawmakers in washington, d. C. Can do something to raise the wage. Weve already done so ourselves and have increased wages at walmart by more than 50 . Most recently have given a pay raise to over 400,000 associates. Over half the average associate in our company now in the u. S. Is making over 15. So the market is moving. Companies are doing whats right for their own employees. It is time for congress to find bipartisan compromise on this issue and make progress themselves. 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Even worse here in new york city where critics including our next guest blame the far left policies of mayor bill deblasio. A republican Candidate Running for new york city mayor, talk show host and founder of the Guardian Angels. Nice to see you, curtis, good morning. The numbers aint good. 2020 the murder rate in new york city was up 46 of the year prior. 58 compared to 2018. Yearly shoongt incidents in 2020 up 97 compared to 2019, 100 compared to 2018. To be fair here is where we are 60 days in 2021. Murders are down 15 . The shooting incidents have shot up 25 . Why is this happening, curtis . I can tell you as leader of the Guardian Angels for 42 years we just celebrated our anniversary. I have seen it come full circle when i started the group back in 1979 when crime was out of control to what has just transpired in the city over the summer. I was in the midst of the looting and rioting, had my jaw broken. Only the Guardian Angels were in the streets because the mayor ordered the police to stand down. And unfortunately the police, nypd, most efficient and well respected Police Department in the world has had to become reactive and criminals are on the streets and subways and worse yet cuomo in albany with his no bail law has just turned these repetitive felons back into the street again and again. So they arent even getting arrested and incarcerated for having a gun and firing a gun. They are actually being given what we call a disappearance ticket. A little ticket like you would get for a Parking Violation and back in the streets to do it again. As mayor of the city of new york that is going to stop. That is not going to be bill i dont know how republican wins in new york. 71 registered democrats to republicans. The hill is not a hill, its a mountain to climb. Look, im used to dealing with the odds against him. Shot five times from organized crime. Fighting crime when people says it wont work. It has expanded into 130. Remember rudy giuliani. Moderate democrats are not supporting the democrat socialists of america who want to defund will hear my message. I have been there for them for 42 years. I believe i can convince them and the independents to vote for a republicans like they did for rudy giuliani. Republican mayors of new york city and we didnt have crime issues. Bill for giuliani how bad was it in order for him to win . He had lost to David Dickens the first time and out campaigning him both times. People got fed up with the crime and didnt look at party affiliation. They said who is the person who is going to be able to get a quality of life back, who is going to be able to allow people to actually walk the streets and take the subways . Thats when new york city blossomed into the cultural, Entertainment Empire that it is in the world. Without Public Safety the city cannot return. The workers will not return. The Entertainment Venues will not open up. The restaurants and bars could open up but there will be nobody there to basically fuel the taxes that have to be paid to subsidize our social network system. Bill looking at your platform you want to overhaul Property Taxes and a proposal for Vocational Training for students including charter schools. It could be good stuff. The hill is there to climb, curtis. Thanks for coming on today. You know curtis has climbed many hills. I took a licking, came back ticking. I will save new york city no matter what your party affiliation. Dana from California High School students taking legal action against Governor Newsom over his ban on Indoor Sports for kids. Well talk to one of those students and their attorney about what they are claiming in a new lawsuit. I miss competing in tournaments and making new friends. And i miss feeling the pride that i have when i compete in these tournaments. Heres huge news for Veteran Homeowners who need cash. 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Bill you feel for these parents and students. Stella is one of the students suing the governor and Stephen Grebing is their attorney. Stella, how has this been for you . What do you need now . Well, its been really hard. This is a really hard time for teenagers because were just all isolated and hard for athletes everything we work for and look forward to has been taken away from us. Dana what are the chances now and the grounds that you can bring this lawsuit and what are the chances of it succeeding . The grounds are that the state of california put in some guidelines and restrictions that law College Sports to come back and so were saying hey, lets give the high schools the same opportunity to see if they can meet the same restrictions and guidelines. It is an equal protection claim and we think the chances are good. Bill is it money or more than that that theyve ruled against the High School Kids . Hard to say. We look for a reason why restrictions put in place. It might be a little money. Pro and College Sports generate big money. It might have been a safety issue. I will give the state the benefit of the doubt on that. But we really couldnt find a bona fide or legitimate reason why they banned high school sports. Dana stella, as you get ready looking to your future. Young woman, Bright Future indeed regardless of the pandemic, are you concerned that the fact we havent been able to play sports might inhibit your ability to play at a collegiate level . I play volleyball not just to try to get a scholarship to college but it teaches me a lot of lessons that i know i will need to be successful later in my life like perseverance and coming back when im down. I think it teaches those lessons even if you arent trying to get a scholarship for your sport. Those lessons are extremely important and all kids need to be a part. Bill no doubt about that. I want to share numbers with folks at home about what were seeing about Mental Health is claims for kids 1318. Its stunning stuff. 90 admit to intentional selfharm. 94 up to substance abuse. It really brings home the struggle that so many have had for the past year. How are your friends doing, stella . Well, my team and those that im close to have managed to do okay but i know a lot of people i was friends with in Middle School are not doing okay. It is just so heartbreaking to hear the stories every day of teens committing suicide and getting depressed because they dont have their sport and their team and their family. Dana what do you hear from parents, stephen . The few i know that i talk to they are anguished. A lot of anguish, a lot of anxiety. We opened up in san diego last friday for practices. All sports and it was palpable and amazing. You could feel the energy. Lots of smiles, lots of energy. People are really excited getting back on the field in the courts and gyms and starting the play again. Bill when do you get an answer, stephen . Friday we have our next hearing coming up in court. Were working with the state right now trying to avoid a hearing and get a resolution that would be statewide. Were pretty close. Dana i would im not a lawyer but i do think that the governor will realize and get to a resolution and not go to court and not lose another one and get the kids back on the court. Bill stella, hang in there. Thank you. Bill we think the end is in sight. We think. Were hoping, thanks. Dana what a poised young woman. Bill millions going through that same experience. Dana we opened the show talking about the 1. 9 trillion dollar bill. The house passed it, goes to the senate. I said yesterday on the five i think this bill is on the rocks. They might try to get it through but they have to go through some things and strip things out. The democrats already said okay, okay, we wont do the Transportation Project in san francisco. Bill peanuts in the big price tag. President agreed to phase out checks faster rather than having them recurring. Unemployment benefits . Dana the direct payments. Additional ones until the pandemic is over. I think that will get stripped back. Pay attention. Today will be one of those days you see the senate try to actually exert some influence over the house. Bill interesting. You have to sinema from arizona and manchin from west virginia. If you win their vote it is 50 50 and goes through and Kamala Harris passes it. We talked about how the American People react to this. There is overwhelming support for continued aid, which i dont think we have dana i dont think a lot of people know if you are a federal worker you will get 21,000 dollars and 15 weeks more off work in case you had hardship with covid. If you are working out there in america and not working for the federal government that doesnt sound fair. Bill my argument would be americans havent stopped to think about a 2 trillion bill. We have to run, bye. Harris open for business. Texas and mississippi have lifted covid19 restrictions as the Fierce National debate over lockdowns is now raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Texas Governor Greg Abbott he is ending a statewide mask mandate and will allow businesses to fully open with no restrictions starting next week. Texas has become the largest state to lift a mask mandate. Governor abbott says texans should still be able to act responsibly rather than being forced to do so