white house with the president saying don't get too enamored with what is happening on the economic front. peter? >> the white house says it's jobs day. despite the positive economic news this morning from that jobs report of biden's first full month in office, they still want that $1.9 trillion worth of stimulus. >> last month, job growth is the result of the december package. without a rescue package, these gains are slow. >> the white house chief of staff writes this. if you think today's jobs report is good enough, know that 379,000 jobs it would take until april 2023 to get back to-with we were and february of 2020. republicans are arguing the opposite. more jobs are being created because more businesses are reopening as states eve covid-19 restrictions. so the republicans are arguing this report is proof, $1.9 trillion in stimulus is not for right now. >> the economy is ready to take off. disposable income is up, savings is up. there's pent-up demand. this will spark inflation. this isn't needed. >> the public relations push to pass the american rescue plan and get the public behind it is on today. the only two teams we've seen the president with janet yellen for a meeting and then with some folks at a roundtable affected be i the economic downturn, he's spoke about the plan twice. that's it. neil? >> neil: thanks, peter doocy. now to chad pergram keeping track of this on capitol hill right now. where are they now in this thing? seems to me a foregone conclusion that this gets passed. a lot to be done before then, right? >> that's right. a delay right now. tonight's votes are about two things, timing and the math. we expect the senate to wrap this bill late tonight. democrats are trying to get west virginia democratic joe manchin on board with a plan to extend additional unemployment assistance through september. there's a problem with lowering that aid from 400 to $300 a month. democrats need to stick together to pass this bill or get help from the gop. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says no. >> democrats inherited a tide that was already turning. we could have worked together to do something smart, to finish this fight as fast as possible. democrats decided to do something else. >> now, the senate basically lost a day when senator ron johnson, republican of wisconsin, made senate clerks read the new version of the bill until 2:00 a.m. >> i'm sure you didn't expect that part of your job this week would entail standing on your feet and reading dense legislative language for more than ten hours straight. i can't imagine that is anyone's idea of a good time. >> now, if all 50 democrats can stick together, they still need vice president harris to break the tie. she's broken three ties as vice president. the senate has rejected an effort by bernie sanders of vermont to override the parliamentarian and include a provision to increase the national wage standard to $15 an hour. neil? >> neil: chad, for clarification, the amendment that are part of this vote a rama when they get going on it, how likely do any of them get through? >> it depend. they need 51 votes. that's why if you're on the edge and you have at, you might pluca democrat or two. that's why the issue with senator manchin. on senator sanders motion, this was to waive the budget act. ignore the provisions of reconciliation and let's go over the head of the parliamentarian. these are motions to weigh the budget act. in that case, you need 60 votes, neil. >> all right. chad pergram, thanks very much. where is this going? john thune is here, the republican south senator. kind enough to join us. senator, very good to see you. i assume you're a no vote open this. democrats are working they hope on lisa murkowski, your colleague from alaska. you think she's a yes vote? >> i hope not. this is a wasteful bloated bill trying to run it through the senate in a partisan way in which they cut republicans out of any discussions or negotiations. there's not a republican in the end that will vote for it. it's loaded with special interest provisions. very little of it dealing with coronavirus relief, which is the stated purpose of the bill. but we're doing everything we can right now to try to stop really bad policy and a really high price tag, all of which is borrowed money, all added to the death. $1.9 trillion. i certainly hope that we can hold all republicans against it. >> neil: you know, you've been mentioning the debt and all that. we just came off of republicans running the show and having to white house where deficits and debts ran out of controls. democrats counter what you're saying and saying your a fine one to judge. >> you know, i think to some degree that is true. previous administration, this wasn't a debt and deficits weren't a high priority for them either. they've been a high priority for me. i'm very concerned about any money we spend. last year in march, we borrowed a lot of money to do coronavirus relief at a time that we felt like we had to be big and bold. we're a year later. this is a march, an entire year later. the situation has changed. anything we do needs to be targeted and fiscally responsible and conscious of the fact that every dollar we're using to do this is a borrowed dollar. the democrats have a wish list that goes forever. they have no problem with borrowing the money to do it. at some point all of this borrows will bite us. we're already starting to see inflation pick up, interest rates picking up. that has serious implications for the fiscal picture for the country and families around this country faced with higher prices and higher interest costs on mortgages and student loans. we're not doing this in a vacuum. this has serious repercussions throughout the economy. a lot of folks are telling us the congressional budget office, this is about three times what they think is necessary. we're glad to work with them open healthcare-related costs and some of the other things they want to do. this idea that we can just sort of throw caution to the wind, throw $1.9 trillion out there with not a lot of controls how it gets spent is a bad idea not only in the near term but the long-term for our country. >> neil: a lot of democrats are saying, well, donald trump set the stage for this the last package was being debated to make it over $2 trillion. go big. he wanted generous benefits, far more generous that are in the package being voted on now. they say this is what donald trump would have wanted. you never wanted something that large. you were something akin to the third of the size we're looking at now. but they're doing back to say this is no different than what president trump would have done and pushed for. you agree with that? >> i think that president trump at the time -- this is last fall -- wanted to go bigger than what many other republicans here in the senate or the hill wanted to do. but things have changed since then, neil. we have three vaccines available out there. people are getting vaccinated. the economy, the economic numbers continue to improve. i think the idea of borrowing trillions of dollars on top of the trillions we have already borrowed, if we're doing to do that, we better have a good reason for doing that. look at the economy. what we need is to get people back to work. that means opening up the economy, getting jobs created out there and an infusion of government resources into state and local governments and schools and everything else, much of which the money we put out there hasn't been spent is a bad idea in that situation. >> neil: i did mention president trump. even though you didn't vote for the impeachment in the senate and did not vote to convict the president, the very fact that you disputed his claims of election fraud when he said of you that your political career is over and thought it would be a good idea for you do be primaried and challenged. what did you think of that and what is your relationship with the former president now? >> it's a free country, neil. he's an individual that has a big following out there obviously politically. continues to be a major force in the politics of our country. you know, i will do what i have to do in south dakota. if getting primaried is the price for standing up, speaking the truth and standing up for the constitution, so be it. the main thing that as we look to go forward looking at 2022, the former president, republicans here in the congress are going to be united in trying to take back our majorities in the congress so we can turn this country around. in my view, at least, heading into a left ditch. the democratic party is controlled by the bernie sanderss of the party and we think people are center right and want solutions center right and we want to govern in that direction. to do that, we have to win the senate and the house become. the president and all republicans will be united in that cause. >> neil: because the blamed the losses on the senate on mitch mcconnell. do you blame mitch mcconnell for the loss of the senate? >> no, i don't. i think we should have won both of the georgia seats. notice a lot of recriminations after an election. but in the aftermath of the presidential election, all the allegations flying back in the state of georgia between the georgia and the secretary of state were not helpful. we should have won both of those, we should be in the majority today. you play the hand you're dealt. right now we have a 50/50 in the senate. we use every vote we have, every opportunity we have to stand up for conservative values, the conservative vision for the country. and hopefully we'll get that majority back. >> neil: sounds like you're saying you're in the conundrum you're in with the party with the election disputing the comprise on the georgia races? >> it's certainly one of many factors that contributed to the races in georgia. obviously that's in the past now. that's in the rear view mirror. we have, again, we're in the minority today by virtual of the fact that the vice president cast the deciding vote. we're going to exercise as much political influence as we can to try to stop the democrats from taking the country left ward when it comes to the economy, cultural values and issues and work very hard to get the majority back in 2022. that's something that the former president and all republicans and candidates around the country and voters will be very committed to. because right now that's the best chance that we have to keep the biden pelosi schumer agenda from harming this country. >> neil: thanks, senator. john thune. the senate minority whip. we'll have more on this, the drama playing out on capitol hill. the backdrop of a stunningly strong jobs report that has people saying do we really need to do something this big? 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"the new york times" is reporting four days after the release of that altered report, governor cuomo began commenting on writing miss book about the pandemic, preparing to cash in on his pandemic a achievements. pressure has been mounting hour by hour for cuomo to step down as new details are now emerging over sexual harassment claims. charlie bennett said the governor propositioned her for sex. neil, just in the last few hours here, state lawmakers are also now calling for a hearing in to the "wall street journal" reports as they strip him of his pandemic powers. neil? >> neil: all right. thank you so much. my next guest is going further than what you outlined. he just wants the governor to leave. tom is here with us right now. sir, thanks for taking the time. you say enough. leave, governor. is that the gist of it? >> i think so. thank you for inviting me. yes, i've urged the governor to step down. i think it's time for him to resign. he's got to spare new york of having a governor whose actions are very different than his words. his actions and evidence, disrupt for people in general and women in particular. he no longer commands the respect to lead new york. his really distracted at this point. he can't give the attention to dealing with the pandemic and negotiate a complicated difficult budget at this point with these distractions. we democrats are trying to change the attitudes throughout the country to one of respect for all people, no matter what gender or political view. that's why i'm coming on your show. we have different political views but we have to talk to each other. >> neil: you don't know what my political views are. i am curious, sir, when you are pushing this point, is it a recognition that there aren't enough votes to impeach the governor so rather than go down that road, it might be more advisable to ask him to step down? are you saying that because of the nursing home scandal, these allegations from these women, both, all, what? >> i think it's all. it's all. it's not a question of impeachment at this point. impeachment is a legal process. you have to get the evidence, you have to hold some hearings, set everything up. you have to have enough evidence and then a political process as to whether there's enough votes to do it. here we believe it's in everybody's best interests. he's done a fairly good job on a lot of things. but right now there's the pressure. it's hard for him to explain his actions. you know in politics once you have to explain complicated things, you lose the public. we need someone that can lead us in the right direction. pandemic isn't over. okay? we're going in the right direction. the pandemic is not over. we need to get -- >> neil: i know many of your colleagues are pushing to take away his oversight of the covid-19 response in new york. that would naturally then make cities and precincts respond on their own to this. is that a better way to handle this in your mind? >> we're going to dramatically repeal the act, which i voted against last year, because i didn't think we should give this type of power to a politician. i would have enhansed the powers of the health commissioner. i don't think we should be making some of these health-related decisions. that's the first thing. we're going to repeal that law today. we're going to leave in place some of his executive orders because you can't pull the rug out from everything and systematically look to see what it is he's ordered and which things he should continue and shouldn't continue. that is a slap in the face. so it's part of what i'm saying. i think he is losing the following that he had before. that is why he has to resign. we cannot have a governor who is ducking the press, who is not out there all of the time and who is not putting in the full time to dealing with the pandemic and what is a complicated budget. he gaves us a budget that takes back a lot of services the people in new york need and we have all of this federal money coming in. we have to have faith that he is true to us and tell us where the federal money is and what it for and what the restrictions are and how he can use it. he's lost everybody here. for example, he said that this deal that we're voting on as we speak was a deal with the speaker and the majority of the senate. both of them said they didn't discuss this with the governor. this was the product and i know it was the product of several long days of the legislature working together to try to resolve our differences to revoke his powers and to figure out what do we leave in place going forward so there's still structure out there and we don't know who is in charge of the vaccines, whether there's a mask mandate or anything. >> neil: the governor has alluded to the aid coming for washington. new york might get a big chunk of it. a lot has to be decided and a lot of disadministrations. thanks, assemblyman. keep us posted. if you hear back from the governor, let us know. thanks, sir. we're going to the border right now in just a second and get you an update there. we have a potential crisis brewing right now. a lot of people said this was easily avoidable after this. the world's first fully autonomous vehicle is almost at the finish line what a ride! i invested in invesco qqq a fund that invests in the innovators of the nasdaq-100 like you become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq never run dry of... killer attitude. or hydration. neutrogena® hydro boost. the #1 hyaluronic acid moisturizer delivers 2x the hydration for supple, bouncy skin. neutrogena®. challenging times are nothing new. neither are resilient people. there's strength in every family story. learn more about yours. at ancestry. >> neil: 100,000 immigrants at the border in february. we haven't seen it that high in well over a year. what is behind that and to worries building now with minors that get into this country unaccompanied. the old policy is you go back south of the border. this administration is letting them in. there's talk of a naval base to pit them in in the interim. it's a problem that some say is a crisis. phil wegman here of real clear politics. the 100,000 number was staggers and in one month. what is going on? >> if you speak with a republican and when you ask them what changed? they'll say we're still in a pandemic. the difference between just now and a couple months ago is that the administration in office is different. joe biden has clearly tried to change policies. he tried to take in the words of his own dhs secretary a more compassionate stance. as of now, it seems more migrants have gotten the message that it's a good time to cross over in the united states across the southern border. >> neil: so this separate policy the administration is reportedly considering to house, you know, some of these migrant minors at a military base, one in virginia being considered, does that continue this theme? republicans are claiming it's like a green light for immigrants to come here and illegals to take up residence to push the point. >> yeah, we've seen between january and february a 16% increase in the number of migrants coming across the border. clearly the administration is trying to come up with a new plan to house those migrants. and what is interesting here is that the administration continues to say, there's no crisis. the dhs secretary told us that in the white house briefing room on monday. but then tuesday when i shouted a question that president biden, is there a crisis at the border? he said no, we'll be able to handle it god willing. if he was there in 2014 when there was migrant children making that trip alone, he knows what this looks like. so he has to be preparing for something. when you hear these plans about can we house children in naval bases, can we house them in different facilities, you have to wonder was there a plan in place, did the administration expect things to change so rapidly and what are they doing to get the message to those that would consider making that trip to urge them to stay put. >> neil: yeah, that's the issue. glad you clarified it. i meant my grants when i said immigrants. my fault there. i want to know if it increased to the degree more than 100,000 last month, i'm sure it's still very high numbers now. and now you got to try to hold back what could be a surge in this type of activity. the administration is not outlined a plan for that. >> they haven't. monday when we talked to dhs secretary mayorkas, he said that his message to those people considering crossing is not don't come but don't come now. i think that if you are considering making a dangerous trip like that, you're probably looking at who is in control, you probably have been looking at sort of the presidential debate, you're probably not keyed in to what the dhs secretary is saying. there's no overarching message coming from the white house. it's stemming this they're and they're caught flat-footed. >> neil: thanks, phil. real clear politics following this. it's really escalating. that's fair call. when we come back, pat toomey will be joining us. interesting what he reads on this and his concern about the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan that looks like it's a go along party lines, but to the good senator, going to be a financial mess after this. ordinary tissues burn when theo blows. so dad bought puffs plus lotion, and rescued his nose. with up to 50% more lotion puffs bring soothing softness and relief. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ hey limu! 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some are trying -- >> i don't think so. bernie sanders offered an amendment that puts the nash name mandate to $15 and it failed. a number of democrats joined every republican and voted against it. so i think that is dead. even though that may not have closed out the vote. that's because they're wrapped around the axle over a different issue, which has to do with unemployment benefits. it's a mess over there on the democratic caucus. >> neil: i'm wondering though, a lot of the democrats with whom i've been speaking, senator toomey and i was just talking with john thune, the republican, that says that this is a very pricey package. i pointed out what the democrats have pointed out was donald trump embracing what was a much more expensive package that had gotten over $2 trillion. when that was dialled back, he was arguing to go big a lot of benefits were dial back as well a lot of goodies and the stuff that he was a fan of collapsed. they harken back to him saying well, donald trump wanted a big package and this is that. >> that's not my criteria. my citeria is what does this require? we're not in april of 2020 before. we don't have 14% unemployment. it's 6.2. you saw the jobs number. fantastic. this economy is recovering enormously. we don't have the entire economy locked down the way my state was for months on end last summer. thank god. they went way too far. did a lot of damage. the fact is we're growing the big debate among economists whether growth this year is 5, 6 or 7% or maybe even more. look, this bill, neil, have no doubt, this bill has nothing to do with covid. it's not about an economic recovery. it's about a liberal democrat wish list being packaged on to the last train leaving the station that they can pretend has anything to do with covid. think about the items in the last. $130 billion for schools. we think we need to reopen the schools, right? but they don't require that you reopen the schools. of the $130 billion, only $6 billion will be send this year. the other 124 billion is for the future. it says appropriate such sums as may be necessary to pay off the loans of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranches. heard about this one? you can't make this up. you know what the sole criteria is to qualify? to have the taxpayer pay off 120% of your debt? the only criteria is you have to be an ethnic minority. if your a white person, you don't qualify. it's unbelievable. >> neil: there's a lot that is not covid related. looks like in the end it will pass along party lines. your better judgment. i know you're leaving the senate. you got into a storm of controversy with your own state gop because you voted to convict the president in the impeachment trial in the senate. do you look back at that and have any regrets and the wrath you have received for that vote and the criticism of the president and others? >> neil, i did what i felt was right. i think what republicans -- over time what republicans will do is acknowledge and recognize as most already do that there were some tremendous accomplishments by the trump administration during the four years. but in my view, the behavior of the president after the election culminating january 6 was unacceptable and i think i did the right thing. so i tonight have any regrets about that. >> neil: do you believe he should run and deserves to run for president if he wants to? 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>> spring break 2021 is on like donkey kong, to use the vernacular of this crowd behind me. this is a stronger spring break than last year's which was effectively killed due to the nationwide shutdown and mid-march closure of all the beaches of the young people are back here, this begins the firss and the young people after a year of pandemic, they are ready to be back on the beach. >> while spring break season has arrived, concern is high among south florida leaders that a lot of pent up demand to party and socialize could fuel covid spread like it did last year before the beaches closed. but there are rules, miami beach, a midnight curfew, mask mandates, for under comps patrolling, no open containers, and like i said, masks are not only required but encouraged. >> if you're coming here to go nuts, let lose, if you think anything goes is what we want, you are very mistaken. we have lots of rules. >> the city even suggested, the city manager, if you want to, wild and crazy and be that classic spring breaker, re-book your ticket to vegas. in fort lauderdale, rules are a lot more lax than miami beach. here there absolutely is no curfew. the cdc did a study posed spring break last year tracking covid spread. definitely there was #inaugurationdayonbet covid spread, but the exact numbers are hard to pin down. >> neil: thank you very much. in the middle of that, that looks like a very cool assignment. new york city theaters reopening but there are some restrictions. lydia? >> hi, there, we are at amc theaters in times square, they are opening up all 13 of their locations across the city starting today but it's going to be a new moviegoing experience for patrons, mask requirement, social distancing is going to be enforced in the theaters and capacity restrictions, no more than 25% can be in the theater or maximum of 50 people but if those same restrictions are going to keep regal cinema, right across the street, going to keep them from opening, they said they will reopen when capacity is expanded to 50% so they can "operate profitably." because of lockdown, several movies have skipped the theaters and gone straight to streaming services. "wonder woman" for example is already been out for months on hbo max. one insider says he expects that to be the new normal. >> that is something that may not change a whole heck of a lot going forward. hollywood was already shifting this way, wanting to get movies onto their own streaming platforms faster and faster and the pandemic has allowed them to perhaps speed up the process. >> even with the changes, moviegoers are delighted. >> neil: thank you very much for that, lydia in new york city. right now, a fast-moving development, we are reopening fast, you are usually very cautious about this sort of thing, you don't want people to get ahead of themselves, so i was thinking of the masks and letting go of them in some states, easing up on the requirements. too much? what do you think? >> we need to keep the masks, for sure, but we need to start opening. it shouldn't be like this, it's a delicate and difficult environment and we need to remain vigilant as we open up. >> neil: do you expect we will stay having this under control? cases have dropped, a lot of people are saying we might have vaccines, not for everybody by the end of may, it all looks good, don't worry. what do you think? >> it looks good as long as we take the vaccine and we wear our masks, we should be in a good position. it depends on our behavior and how we behave, but yes, we can control this pandemic and yes, we can open up safely. >> neil: so on masks, where are you on this? still advise them? >> yes, please, keep wearing your masks. masks cut down on transmission. it is very important to reduce the transmission of virus, especially with the new mutations of the virus, we need to reduce the mutations by wearing the mask and taking the vaccine. >> neil: got it. thank you, sir. a good read of what we should be doing. by the way, when i talk about masks in new york, and lydia reminded me of this on fox business, they do require masks. you have to go to the theater in my immediate thought was on my god, the popcorn, what are you going to do? you can take the mask off when you sit down and then you are in the theater itself, then you can have the popcorn. to get the best of both worlds come everyone is healthy, you have the popcorn, you spend a god-awful amount on all that stuff but it's a step in getting back. we will pursue on where we stand at getting back tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. in the stimulus message. for now, "the five." >> jesse: hello, everybody, i'm jesse watters along with juan williams, gillian turner, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> jesse: the consequences of rolling back common sense border policies are blowing up in joe biden's face. his incompetence is creating catastrophe like we've never seen before and a scathing indictment