karen hundred ton told the "the washington post" that cuomo gave her a hug. cuomo brushing off the allegations. he poses for hundreds of pictures, that is what people in politics do. his office responding to hundred ton's claim. karen hundred ton a known antagonist with the governor is making points with allegations from 21 years ago. however it is also the responsibility of the press to consider motivation, this is reckless. other aides tell the "new york post" that cuomo created a hostile work environment for decades. lindsey boylan tweeting at the positive, resign you disgusting monster. two female staffers who defended the positive are now under scrutiny it was revealed their families raked in millions of dollars lobbying for cuomo. back to you guys. will: thank you very much, marianne. good morning pete and jedediah. you know the old saying where there is smoke there is fire. this is not a conclusion. i've always been one said you must have your allegations proven, no matter what party you come from. due process is important. when it comes to governor andrew cuomo what is becoming more clear if not a complete conclusion, everywhere around this governor there was an atmosphere of not only intimidation but probably fear. look at a tweet from a "washington post" reporter amy briton. i've been a reporter over a decade i don't hear people as fearful they are to speak about governor andrew cuomo. former staffers described his rage and vindictiveness and they feared he would destroy their careers, jedediah. jedediah: we're seeing a bunch things at once here. we're seeing charges of bullying. we're seeing male aides, i was berated. he used police it language. there is trend of highly inappropriate behavior. everyone deserves due process but you can't help but seeing there is a pattern of behavior established with all the accusations that are not good. he doesn't seem like a great person to work for here. seems there was known and understood doctrine if you spoke out against this governor at any point, your career was going to be ruined or attempted to be destroyed. that was understood. so, you know, remains to be seen where this all lands. not looking good for andrew cuomo right now. pete: guys, he has tried to test the theory over the the better to be feared and than loved. i'm scarred what happened to brett kavanaugh. what happened to so many people who have been impugned through accusations. governor cuomo's team used the word reckless. what happened to brett kavanaugh was reckless. there there was crucible of time they wanted to find anything on him, he was not innocent until proven guilty which we should also have, i do have in this case. what is different this is timely. people who knew the governor recently, fellow democrats. consistent, as you mention, jed, creepy behavior that seems to be part of a toxic, hostile work environment. coming on top of what happened with covid-19 and manipulated data, there is, there is a lot of reasons for s scrutiny. now he has got an attorney general, letitia james looking at sexual harrassment and prosecutors in brooklyn looking into the covid-19. governor kristi noem talking about cuomo and trying to cover up across the board. listen. >> he tried to cover up his actions throughout the covid pandemic. he tried to cover up damage done in nursing homes, the deaths that happened there. now it appears he tried to cover up what happened with the young woman in his life as well. we need to get to the bottom of it, we need to get to the facts but this kind of leadership is extremely detrimental to the promise of this country. one thing we see state to state across the country, that leadership has consequences. unfortunately these women in that state of new york are suffering under his leadership. pete: he has got a lot less leadership his emergency powers are stripped. any new information on the story we'll bring it to you. we have another big story we're following this morning. the senate narrowly passes the $1.9 trillion so-called covid relief bill after a marathon session. david spunt joins us with more. reporter: it passed 50-49 along party votes. senator sullivan in alaska had a private party matter. he rushed back to alaska. he did not vote. they pulled a all night voter rama when it comes to amendments. it has money for schools, small business, also don't forget the 1400 direct payments to those eligible. during former president trump's tenure people received 600-dollar direct payment. when you get $2000 when you add both together. schools and small businesses will receive billions. someone who spent 36 years in the senate hoped for a bipartisan bill. it didn't happen. he is optimistic it even passed along party lines. >> i want to thank all of the senators who worked so hard to reach compromise, do the right thing during the american people and the crisis and voted to pass the american rescue plan. it obviously wasn't easy. it wasn't always pretty but it was so desperately needed. reporter: one holdout for democrats, their colleague senator joe manchin of west virginia. after several hours of political arm-twisting he agreed to extend 300-dollar unemployment benefits through the beginning of september. expect it to be signed into law tuesday. the house has to sync up their bill with the senate bill. interesting to show you how tight things are in washington. democrats cannot afford to lose any votes. congresswoman marcia fudge on ohio, she will vote before she is officially appointed, officially confirmed as the secretary of housing and urban development. democrats insisting they cannot afford to lose any members of congress because it is so tight. they need some wiggle room. back to you. will: thanks so much, david, appreciate it. since i'm leaning on old saying today, let me go back to another one you brought up yesterday, pete, democrats leaned on for quite some time, never let a crisis go to waste. what occurred the last 48 hours, how immoral that proposition is. let me take advantage and find my own gain in time of pain. you done a great job how the relief bill has so little to do with covid relief. 9% going to covid relief. the vast majority is left-wing expansion bill. jedediah you talked about how little it will be spent in the next 12 months. it is not there to help anybody who needs help now. senator pat toomey laying out the exact same thing. look at this tweet. 45 billion-dollar expansion of obamacare, new subsidies for people with six figure incomes. 270 million to the national endowment of the arts and humanities. this is not about covid relief. this about a using a hello crisis to ram through a democrat wish-list. er here is another tweet. look on his point by point list. $75 million for 15 weeks of paid leave for federal employees. $4 billion to pay off debt for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, whatever that might be. two million dollars, institute of museum and library services. $50 million for environmental justice grants. this is taking advantage of somebody else's pain. this is not allowing a crisis to go to waste, jedediah. jedediah: when we talk about the education money, that is everyone says the schools need among any. that is why they're not opening. no. a lot of schools have not utilizes the money that came through the last bills. the money is sitting there. this is taxpayer money, people have a right to ask if this money is going to schools, what is it going for? will it get trapped up in education bureaucracy. that is more government bureaucracy where the money often doesn't go where the parents want it to go best utilized for the kids. does that mean schools willfully reopen in person or more money will sit somewhere or get told about another story about virtual learning or closing, teachers will go to school if they're vaccinated but change their mind they won't go to school if they're vaccinated. these are things people are entitled to ask. not education is one example. a lot of money. remember the government's money, your money, our money, don't have their own money. these questions are entitled to be asked and answered. pete: a lot of money given to schools beholden to teachers union who will see it as they see fit or political purposes or whatever leverage they have. joe biden ran declaring he would bring unity and normalcy back to washington, d.c. it appears he achieved both things quite quickly. a lot of unity, if you're a republican you're voting with republicans and if you're democrats voting with democrats. the parties are unified how they feel about the bill. normalcy is that partisanship. he showed up said previous covid relief bills were bipartisan, few votes here, few votes there, this bill rammed into the middle of a night, a former senator joe biden knows exactly how the process work. he doesn't care. this is the wish-list he knows he needs to deliver on. only hyperpartisannized in washington, d.c., you didn't have when donald trump was the president. most polarizing figure in a politics in long time were able to pass covid bills they were narrowed, actually to limited relief democrats could sign on. this is so far out in left field, republicans could not even remotely consider roting for this. this is the washington, d.c., of joe biden. will: opportunity was, pete, you had a unifying starting point. there was bipartisanship, willing necessary to start with helping americans in need during covid-19. with perhaps even direct payment checks but from that potential unifying point came $1.9 trillion after left-wing wish-list. we'll talk more about that this morning w he have a few additional headlines for you. starting with this, today marks the 56th anniversary of bloody sunday. thousands would normally visit selma to pay tribute to the civil rights leaders who were beaten demanding voting rights. events are held virtually, including online reenactment of the march on the edmund pettus bridge. john lewis will be one of the several icons honored today. massachusetts teachers are protesting opening of schools. they are rallying for support after they took remote and hybrid learning models off the table. this paves the way for children to return to the classroom as soon as next month. some teachers believe it is not safe to go back without being v. new york islanders forward scores a goal you would expect to see in a videogame. watch this. >> got through, between his legs! bret, take a bow! will: matt barzell making it easy, taking a shot against the buffalo sabres, the trick shot becoming goal of the year contender. those are the morning headlines. jedediah. jedediah: i never worry when you have the sports headlines. i never worry about the pronounciation, never, ever worry. when i have them the other hand, i take a little bit of a breath. will: that's right. jedediah: there you go. up next we've been reporting on the mounting harass man allegations governor cuomo but where is the 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>> they have the same policies on the book. probable also stands to reason there were lives lost as in new york. i find it interesting the media is interested in negative attention to cuomo really based predominantly on kind of me too accusations which i think you know deserve to be looked into. i have always councilled not a rush to judgment, due process, in similar previous me too incidents. what cuomo has done with the nursing home scandal is so much worse even if everything he is accused of on the me too front is true, sexual inappropriateness, harrassment is bad but not as bad as getting thousands of people killed, covering it up in order to write a book about your terrific handling of pandemic while the pandemic is still unfolding. cuomo deserved more attention of that, i think we established he should be forced to resign over it. we certainly should look at the other governors if the policies resulted in death in their states. hard to imagine they wouldn't have, right? jedediah: yeah. so let's take a look at that, robbie. new jersey governor phil murphy nursing home policy, we're single out one because it would frankly take the entire hour to go through all of them. for governor murphy here is says, no patient resident shall not be denied readmission or admission to the post care setting solely confirmed on diagnosis of covid-19. my question to you at some point, you saw the media come out, there was a coverup for cuomo initially. there was a lot of silence and a lot of panic, because they spent so much time praising him. will there be a moment where the media comes forward to hold the other governors to account or should we anticipate more silence and ignore them and focus on cuomo in the corner of the room? >> i would not be surprised to see more silence. i've been paying attention to mainstream media, news channels, talk how don't stantly the governor of desantis putting his citizens in jeopardy and governor of texas and theoretical harm loosening restrictions at a time we have good news, people are being vaccinated, likely the pandemic is hopefully running down and won't be a tremendous new loss of lives. why are they so focused on potential loss of lives after some of the mandates are lifted and not the actual loss of lives that occurred in these states we really need to look at. jedediah: yeah, robbie. i want to read a statement from governor wolf's office. they said these faceless ongoing attacks portray a significant lack of understanding of the role of department of health and guidance provided to nursing facilities and admittance. according to a associated press article in 2021 despite a high nursing home deaths in pennsylvania no investigation has pointed to the policy of death for outbreak. we reached out to the offices of governors whitmer, newsom, murphy, and have not heard back. robbie, it is a important point, a matter of life and death accountability matters, across the party lines, that matters. we appreciate to break this down. we'll follow this with you and others, thank you very much. >> thank you. jedediah: despite struggling to keep their doors open, a chicago restaurant decides to serve the community offering free meals. the owners tell us about their willingness to serve. that's next. ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. wanna build a gaming business that breaks the internet? 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when you're already behind, you side to give out free meals, did you ever anticipate you would get the kind of positive response you did? >> i'm pretty sure that the critics would say that is not a good business decision but from the bottom of our my heart, from me and my wife's heart something we had to do. question, we just went for it. that was our business model at the time. pete: you went for it, it built momentum, you got momentum from it, donations from it, once headlines were faded, buzz faded you were back to struggling how to keep your business open. >> yeah, we were. so the momentum was doing good. but at the end of the day, once the news cameras, articles went away we're still struggling. that was the just the reality we faced. every day me and my wife try to do what we can hold on to the last bit of business we have left. pete: marcus, i believe chicago is at 50% capacity. as we emerge out of this, vaccines are going into arms. things are opening. over a year of your business being open, what does the future look like for you? >> the future is, uncertain right now to be honest with you, to be completely uncertain but we have fighters mentality. me and my wife. are from the south side of chicago. we have mentality to never give up, never give in. with the community behind us. with hopefully someone reaching out to me and helping us during this time, i think we'll make it. if we don't, we actually have the knowledge in our heads to recreate the business again. we'll keep trying, trying, trying. pete: it was an instagram post couple days ago caught to peoples eye, led to an article, more coverage what you guys are doing. the question, do we fight for urban grill or let covid win. let us know what we should do. talk to me about your neighborhood, your community, the rallying they have had around your business? >> the community are you a some. they are doing everything they can to help us stay open. they're putting up posters. they're coming by. telling franks, frankly our community is not enough. i need help from the american public. i need help from the chicago. a lot of grants didn't qualify for because we were minority business. we're like small, small businesses. our community has been great. we love seeing smiling faces. we love seeing kids. we love seeing everyone stop by to talk to me and brittany. pete: marcus the biggest boost you can be open, allowing your business to operate? 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they're calling out fema. we've seen images of what the border looks like. large numbers about people coming. we sent a signal to the world if you bring a child to the border or send your child to the border we're going to let them in. this is completely predictable. accessing funds of the national emergency act like previous president trump did to build walls, access funding for the wall, they could access funding what they have to do now is make changes, access resources to handle this humanitarian flow. we don't have a choice here, right? these people are going to come because we told them we're going to go soft on immigration enforcement in the interior, going soft on the border. they have been coming thousands per day. the border patrol, folks at cpb unfortunately have to pick up the pieces here, because there wasn't sufficient space in hhs shelters. there isn't sufficient space in border patrol stations to handle this flow. they have to make accomodations. people have to be put in the system, even if they have to be released they have to be booked in, they have to be processed so they have the opportunity to see an immigration judge. under the law, if they're children they have to be released 72 hours over to hhs this is a terrible problem. and it is completely predictable. i really feel bad for the workforce. again this is the third time, for some of them that dealt with this. we ended catch-and-release in 2006. we ended it again in 2014. the courts reversed it. the trump administration put plans in place, namely the migrant protection protocols, asylum protocols with the northern triangle which effectively ended this uncontrolled flow. here we are again. we reversed those policies and here we are. it is completely predictable. we've seen this movie before. i know exactly how it ends. it ends in misery for people involved in it. will: ron, i'm concerned where this crisis is going. we noted in your introduction, illegal immigration is up 30% since january. i would imagine it takes migrant quite some time to make their way to the united states southern border. so i'm curious where this started and where this is going. we heard about campaign rhetoric serving as an incentive for illegal immigrants. where do you think many migrants at the border started their launch, their migration to the north? that tells me something about where this wave could be going in the future. what do you expect the numbers to do in the coming months? >> i think there is nothing that is going to stop this from getting worse. the existed these loopholes in the immigration framework that if you claim asylum at the border, or you bring a child, you send a child, there is very little the government can do. in my experience all of the times we ended catch-and-release previously, the fix was having people detained until they could see the judge. if you put that system in place, you will get fewer people trying to rush the border. so this is going to get a lot worse. it is bad now because people were waiting in mexico for these policies to be reversed. i saw reports in the summer where people were hoping for a biden presidency because they were going to be able to get in, biden was going to fix the border because the immigration framework allows for this to happen. congress needs to act. they need to change the laws to protect us all but on the policy side we had tools up until january 21st. those tools have been taken away. this is what the results are going to be. pete: ron, real quick, the state of texas is launching what they call operation lonestar, to crack down on human and drug smuggling at the border. what can states do to enforce immigration laws which feels like a federal issue. >> cpb are happy to have their help. there are laws in texas against alien smuggling and criminal damage with smuggling. they have help. boots on the ground is good additive to securing the border. obviously cpb is distracted by large number of people caring for children and families. jedediah: ron, thank you for your insight today. important topic, certainly not going anywhere, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. jedediah: we'll turn to some headlines for you now this hour. new video shows a gunman ambushing nypd officers as they help a victim of domestic violence. we want to warn you, the video may be hard to watch. >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] jedediah: the nypd just releasing body camera video from the november encounter in queens. officers were inside of a home when the victim's husband opened fire. both officers were struck but able to return fire killing the gunman. both officers survived the shooting. the organization awards the golden globes vows to undergo transformational change to overcome diversity issues within its ranks. the hollywood foreign press is consulting with outside advisors and hired a diversity expert. "the l.a. times" said the 87-member association didn't have a single black member. we told you about the fruit loops pizza dividing the internet. now celebrity chef jamie oliver is taking it to a whole new level. oliver posting a pizza with red grapes on it. the chef says the topping would change the game. some people are not having it. christina on facebook writing in part, i thought it was a bunch of bugs. ownly grapes should go with pizza are in red wine. carley on instagram tried it, loved it, would definitely make it again. those are the headlines. this i get because the grapes are sweet, people do fruit and cheese all the time. i bench that one is good. will: natural food group. pete: that's a salad. that is what that is. not real food. i'll try it. will: put that above fruit loops, pete. i will do the red grape pizza. rick, you, rick, you i have this image of you as a health nut, i'm right, right? that is what you that is a correct characterization? pete: no, uh-uh. rick: i'm not not a healthy person but i'm not, i don't care, not that i don't care either. it's hard. no, i'm not that health nut. it is not a salad. i don't put a bowl of fruit on my salad pete, either. it is not quite that. i -- pete. pete: maybe fruit salad. rick: there you go. fruit salad. across the great lakes, northeast, it is still really cold. it is also breezy. because of that feels colder. feels like 13 in buffalo. 10 in boston. so the cold air is in place. it will change. this about the end of it. look at warm temperatures right now. these morning temperatures across parts of the northern plains are warmer than typically day time highs. we don't have much weather going on. in fact we had moisture across parts of the southeast. still a little bit across eastern shores of florida. for the most part that will be out of here. look the at entire u.s. picture, the lower 48 picture. we don't have much moisture going on. a little bit because of parts of pacific northwest even some rain and snow. a storm will drop down across parts of the western coast of california. we'll see some rainshowers but nothing that is bad. looklook at the temps though. temps into the 60s across the central plains. tomorrow you're into the 60s in chicago. eventually the temps going towards the east coast. spring is coming. no precipitation today. beautiful day. will: what occurred foe me, i've never been in the studio with rick. to this day i have not been in the stupid quote with rick. pete who quickly had, chimed in no, not a health nut. rick: food segments. seen me eat three pounds of meat right in the middle of the show. pete: rick, you're the man. thank you very much. rick: you bet. pete: coming up as college campuses across america stay closed some students are wondering if their leaders, just playing politics. >> i mean like if you're getting support from a certain group of people you kind of want to meet their needs. pete: we'll talk to one of the students about calls to open up 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academically in person, in the classroom. so when they see that professors are donating heavily to the biden campaign fec data has shown and leadership institute campus reform, shown the data professors donate overwhelmingly to democratic candidates. in university of pennsylvania 97.6 of their employees donated to democratic candidates during that last political cycle. it is a political move. it is not based on science. biden is trying to please supporters. for that reason he is not giving a plan to reopen schools. will: we talk so much about elementary, middle, high school students, and the teachers unions keeping them out of the classroom. we don't focus on colleges, you've been at ucf focusing on classrooms, what is the cost to open other side. that is something you asked, hear what the students said. >> do you think the professors are letting their self-interest, political gain getting in the way of their students well being? >> a lot of professors are not like obsessed, really into biden campaign, what he stands for. i feel like that is more important to them than like students well being of help. >> quite possibly. >> i think so. will: let me ask you this question after listening to that, why do professors simply not want to get back in the classroom? >> professors first of all have every right to protest whether or not they want to be in person but you have to remember, that the classroom consists of professors and students. these professors also need to think what their students want. keep in mind these students are paying thousands of dollars in tuition and additional fees. this tuition and additional fees essentially paying for the salaries of the professors. these professors need to realize what their students need, what their students want should matter to them. what their students want to be inside of a classroom. when i talk to these students, they said they focus better in the classroom. i was interviewing one of the students. he was actually on zoom during his class, during one of the interviews. these students focus better in the classroom. professors need to start listening to their students and what they want. jedediah: we have spoken to a lot of parents this year but it is so important to hear from the students themselves. will is right we often focus on younger kid, all the college kids are missing out of the college experience. they are huge debttriment in not facing teachers in the classroom. thanks for being here and bringing this to us. >> thanks so much for having me on. >> of course. california clears the way for stadiums and theme parks like disneyland to reopen after disney workers who fought to get the park reopened were laid off. one of the workers who helped organize that rally joins us to react. that's next. ♪ and a little bit of chicken fried ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at 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fall urging the park to reopen. joining me disneyland employee desi diamonte. disneyland can technically reopen not without massive caveats about capacity and who is allowed to come into the park? >> if you live in california you are very lucky to be able to enter the park around april 1st but only at 15% capacity. so, get ready, because you will be waiting in a virtual queue for a very long time to maybe get a ticket if you're lucky. will: pointing out in the tiers governor gavin newsom instituted, including the most restrictive purple tier nobody from out-of-state can come into disneyland. only regional residents of that area come in. with that only 15%. when you heard this, first of all, the ability of disneyland to reopen at these limited numbers, what was your reaction? >> i'm actually very excited. i have a lot of friends still furloughed waiting to return to work. they're just waiting for a recall. i'm really happy some of them will get an opportunity to start making magic for the guests again. so, yeah, i'm excited. will: yeah i would imagine. i would imagine that there is several of your friends who are ready to get back to a paying job. here is what disneyland is saying by the way. they're saying we're encouraged with theme park path forward reopening this spring. we can't wait to welcome guests back. we look forward to sharing an open date soon. you worked there, you worked in the park, how long can it continue to go on with limited numbers like this? for example, some of the baseball stadiums there will be restrictions, no concessions, that sort of thing. we're talking about a very compromised product for disneyland, the angels, padres, dodgers, how long can they go like that? >> to be honest, i don't know if it is feasible. the thing about disney they are good at making magic. give them a paper straw they will make that paper straw the best paper straw it is going to be. they will work with what they're given. i think because of the safety they put in 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you asked ron vitiello earlier. this is fed issue. immigration has to be handled by the federal government. what can texas do? i know that will be a difficult question but one this state is will toe put to the test, jedediah. jedediah: ron vitiello weighed in on that. see what he said this morning. >> certainly an emergency. they're calling out fema. we've seen images what the border looks like. large numbers about of people coming. we sent a signal to the world if you bring a child to the border or send your child to the border we'll let them n this is completely predictable. accessing funds of the national emergency act like previous president trump did to build walls, to access funding for the wall. they can access funding for what they have to do now is put, changes, make changes. access resources to handle this humanitarian flow. jedediah: yeah. you know i asked him for those who will say declaring this a national emergency is going too far, what would his response be? that was him essentially saying it is a national emergency and here's why. it is really sad to me. texas has stepped up to the plate here but really sad to me because the federal government does so much stuff it is not supposed to do. it over reaches in so many capacities. yet here we have a function that is supposed to be the duty of the federal government, securing the border, keeping citizens safe. they're not doing it. now you're seeing states having to step up to do the work that the federal government should be doing. quite ironic, good for texas. i anticipate there will be other states that will have to do the same because the situation seems not to be getting any better. i don't see any effort on behalf of the biden administration to even acknowledge the fact these numbers are growing and building. it's a problem. not only because of covid-19 but in general, what happens next needs to be a question that deserves an answer. pete: if you don't have borders, you don't have a country. quite simple. "new york post" is a been good being a clarifying voice for quite some time. the oldest running newspaper in america. especially in modern times where there is a lot of noise and a lot of confusion. this op-ed from the "new york post" caught our eye. biden is, here is quote from it, they write whether he fears the power of left or has no idea how extreme his administration is proving the president is rejecting the center across the board. he is not only being foolish, he is doing the exact opposite of his inaugural of unifying the nation. if anything he is unifying the parties. we talked about it earlier. he is beginning to be what i call it the biden doctrine and biden reflex, whatever trump's policies were, do the opposite regardless of the consequences. will: yeah, he started with a unifying proposition at least when it comes to the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. started with the idea both republicans and democrats held that people need help. you might want to send in one instance send direct payments increase unemployment. in that moment, in that unifying starting point they expanded it to include everything democrats wanted on their policy wish-list. you know, jedediah, the other day i was talking to shannon bream hosts fox news at night, filling in for brian kilmeade on the radio show. the far left is actually disappointed in joe biden this shows the pull on him this shows the polarization. this shows the extreme nature of where the democratic party at least some elements of it are existing today, how far they want to pull joe biden. he is not centrist. he is being yanked far to the left by people who to this day are disappointed in him dough spite getting everything. getting not everything but much of their wish-list. jedediah: to be honest, i don't really know where he stands. i feel he owes a lot of people. teachers unions a lot of people came forward, went out to vote for him. i think he is playing the appeasement game. i generally don't know where he stands on these issues, mostly because we haven't heard directly from him on many of them. is a lot of appeasement. with respect to the far left, that is a great point. what do they expect him to be able to do? there are republicans in congress still. he can't do whatever he wants by executive order even though he pushed several through at this point. he has his limits as well. i don't know, he will wind up making a lot of people unhappy in his effort to make them all happy another story we're following closely the issue of school reopenings. what is it going to take at this point for schools to reopen? is it teachers getting vaccinated? what will be the thing that makes teachers, there are some teachers obviously do want to be in the classroom. we're talking about the majority here, makes the majority of teachers to say it is time for in person learning to resume. a situation in ohio. the lieutenant governor put out this tweet. look at it first. cleveland school personnel jumped to the front of the line to get vaccines in return for going back to school in person march 1. now the union is violating that agreement. if you weren't going back to work, then you shouldn't have taken the vaccine. this is a problem that is going on in cleveland right now. you will see this problem in other states this is just one example. he is essentially saying, listen if that was your ultimatum, the vaccine, now you've been vaccinates saying talk about the hvac units in talk about making building safer in other respects? that was not the deal. i suspect this will happen in other states as well, pete. pete: that means it was about something else, if it wasn't about the vaccine it, means it was about at some level extortion. the unions know they can rip more and more away because they have effectively shown, they don't have to go back to the classroom. they don't have to go to work. they can do it via zoom. a lot of schools hit hardest don't have the great capability to do just that, therefore, students are failing, falling through the cracks. and they won't do their jobs. imagine, will, if the nurses, grocery clerks, truck drivers, emts, police said, sorry i can't work until i get their vaccine. it is a sham, shame on these teachers, the teachers unions won't show any courage at all, weren't go back in the classroom. you have the vaccine, won't go in wear a mask. fire every one of them. fire everyone that won't go back into class. i don't get it. will: lay down the necessary and appropriate runway there are many teachers out there that care for their students and want to get back to educating their students in the best way possible. from that runway, let's take off what you just said, pete. this is beyond shameful. it is absolutely, revealing about what is going on behind the scenes when it comes to at the very least teachers unions. when it comes to educating our children. there is no interest. there is no interest in getting back. there is no interest in working. you have access to a vaccine. you have a safe environment according to the cdc. yet our children are being compromised. you can't muster enough condemnation for this action here. something you said many, many times, pete, get your kids out of government schools. here's the deal. this is revealing the level of commitment to educating your children when it comes to the teachers unions that exist inside of government schools. we have to look hard, who, how our children are being educated. here for what it is worth, is a statement from the cleveland teachers union president. she said the members of the cleveland teachers union are eager to come back to the classroom to serve their students in person but not until we can sure safe other early return, more beyond the vaccine we're supposing, including personal protective equipment, distancing and ventilation. but the district failed to address our concerns and to provide documentation as we have requested. shameful. shameful, jedediah. jedediah: you also having teachers just a little nugget for you guys, i spoke to some teachers we don't like, we're vaccinated we don't like all the masks. now they're rejecting from the other side. we don't like the cdc recommendations. we don't want to play babysitter to mask wearing, plexiglass. my response, you guys, this profession isn't going to work, right? this is what it is right now in this moment f this doesn't work for you under any measure that is accessible find something else to do. no other way to look at it, at this point. i think the larger conversation will be education settings changing as we know it for the long haul. college, middle school, lower school, all of it. we have to turn to headlines. i'm being told we have to. two more former aides coming forward with sexual harrassment claims against governor andrew cuomo. she said cuomo asked about her dating life and put his hand around other waist in a photo in 2014 session. karen hinton said cuomo asked her probing questions and gave her a long run in a hotel room. the governor denies the! other staffers said cuomo created a hostile, toxic work environment some say he seemed to enjoy humiliating them. where is all that money going? that is the question being asked to black lives matter by michael brown senior, the father of michael brown, the teen killed by police in ferguson, missouri in 2014 brown, sr. is demanding answers from blm, following a report it raised $90 million. brown is calling on the group to hand over $20 million of the funds to help activists in ferguson. call it beginning arrest luck, a 18-year-old wins $25,000. she purchased the five dollars instant game. she will enter college studying elementary education. she plans to put the money towards her tuition. i am notorious for losing those. amazing. your first ticket and you win? that is pretty good luck. will: can't stop thinking about where we started segment. my suspicion, no difference between flap jack and pancakes, a big move by pancakes, to get two days by pancakes. pete: sure you will hear soon. maybe it is big pancakes. maybe a business we're not aware of. black lives matter in l.a. is taking its effort to defund and potentially abolish the police even further by going after police unions directly. detroit police chief on the threat on that next. we've got and an all-star lineup breaking down the biggest stories of the day. don't go anywhere. ♪ eep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? ♪. will: black lives matter group in los angeles is taking on a new strategy to abolish the city's police by going directly after the unions. >> we want to be clear why we got to end police associations. there is nothing more dangerous than pretending as if you live at peace when someone has declared war upon you. these police are descendants of slave catchers. will: here to react is detroit police department chief james craig. chief craig, you heard that clip there. you heard about the strategy to go after unions. what is your reaction? >> you know, it is hurtful, disappointing who do they speak for? they talk about defund, dismantling the police, so what's the plan? who do you replace the police with? number one, and then who speaks for the working-class people in the communities who rely on the work we do? i spent a lot of time, 28 years in los angeles and i worked in some of the communities that really respected and wanted to work with us, the lapd. to hear this now it is so troubling, deeply troubling. this doesn't work. we see what happened in minneapolis. minneapolis is now trying to fund the police because crime is up. police officers have left. i think there are roughly 250 police officers short now. so what's the plan? it does not work. will: you know, chief, i am not deluded. i think there is nobody who is at this point the goal of many of those black lives matter organization is completely abolish police but setting aside that radical proposition that insane goal, is there anything here to focus on when it comes to policing? we know when it comes to teachers unions, one of their purposes, one of the things they do is retain bad teachers s there any issue like that when it comes to police unions, what it takes to get rid of bad cops? >> certainly when you look at that, should a police union represent a police officer involved in criminal misconduct? you know, i have a great working relationship with our unions here. we certainly don't always agree. they know i will hold bad police officers accountable and so maybe there is a middle ground but police officers also deserve the right to due process just like any american citizen. because there is an allegation of wrongdoing doesn't mean it is so. look, we know from the summer of love, the weeks and days of protest, the false narrative out about police officers and so should we just align with their lies? these officers deserve to be represented. that is the bottom line. will: that is absolutely, that is absolutely, chief, we've seen there has been calls to do away with due process, you're absolutely right and perhaps there is a middle ground when it comes to unions and policing, but what is clear the blm activists are not looking for a middle ground. they are looking for clear abolition of police. we're up against the time. always great to have you. >> take care. will: up next, one school district is taking matters into their own hands with their own vaccination center. the successful rollout is next. it all starts with an invitation... ...to experience lexus. the invitation to lexus sales event. get 0% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. hi sabrina! >>hi jen! so this aveeno® moisturizer goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? 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state's bounty on the mythical creature skyrocketing weeks after a state rep introduced it. it was originally set at $25,000. i am confused. jed, over to you. jedediah: pete, universally confused with those headlines. a north carolina school district taking matters into its own hands in an effort to safely reopen classrooms. they set up their own vaccination clinic for staffers, teachers and bus drivers. as of friday more than half of their employees are now vaccinated. the superintendent of that school district, dr. todd martin and teacher ashley miller joins me here now. thank you for being with us. doctor, talk about the idea for this vaccination clinic and how that came to be. >> sure. our teachers have been back face-to-face with students in mid-august. we put a lot of mitigation strategies in place already. but we have continued to want to try to protect everybody, keep everybody safe. and so when our governor made the announcement that educators could start being vaccinated en masse on february 24th, we worked with the yadkin human services agency to be able to provide vaccines beginning on that first day that they were available for educators. we wanted our people to be safe. i'll be honest, we're not the only district in north carolina that's doing this. there are a lot of folks out there doing a lot of good things but our, our goal, and has been since the beginning is to reopen schools, have face-to-face instruction for our students, to keep everyone safe in doing that. now, i will tell you that our teachers came back face-to-face before there was a vaccine and so i draw inspiration from teachers like ashley and all the other ones. they have just done a fantastic job under very difficult circumstances. we wanted to do everything we could to protect them. as soon as that vaccine became available for our folks. woe wanted to open the doors to a vaccine clinic, and give vaccines to any employee that wanted it. jedediah: so, ashley, you are one of those teachers that has been doing face-to-face in person learning this whole time. if you don't mind, share as much as you like about your personal story. why this is so important for you to be in person for those children. >> well, i was diagnosed with breast cancer last spring. i loved that our district gave us the opportunity. we had the option teaching if we wanted to. several students are participating in virtual academy, teach that's are doing that. i actually considered doing the virtual option for me personally i just, for my emotional and mental belle being i needed to be in the classroom with those kids. i'm thankful i have a district that allowed me to do that this year. things have been different for the kids. they want to come to school, they want to learn and i love my job and i love going every day. jedediah: ashley, your story is so inspiring. i'm sure your kids are so happy to have you there in person. i'm sure they love that. i want to ask, doctor, there are many people around the country that may be looking at the model you put in place and asking what the challenges were and any advice you have, if they seek to do the same. could you offer that to them right now. >> the challenge for reopening schools are numerous. it took a lot of planning and, we spent the entire summer putting plans in place to reopen. what i would say is, it can be done and it can be done safely. in terms of the clinic we're fortunate to have a great working relationship with our health department and human services agency here in in yadkin. it takes people coming around the table together with the goal to open schools, keep schools open and to do everything you can to keep students and teachers safe. you know, i will say this, by ashley getting vaccinated, that not only protects her, that protects her family. that also protects all the students in that classroom. by vaccinating educators and other school employees who come into contact with some people every day, it can make, it makes a huge difference. you know, i would just also say -- go ahead. jedediah: yeah. no, we just want to thank you. unfortunately we're running out of time. we want to thank you both for an important message a really important model other people will find inspiration from. ashley, we wish you the best of luck with your treatment. hoping nothing but success in that. really happen that your kids get to spend all the time with you in person. i think it is really important to them as well. thank you so much for both of you. >> thank you. jedediah: after narrowly, of course, after narrowly passing the senate, $1.9 trillion, i still can't believe the number, heads back to the house. florida congressman michael waltz joins us next. find your rhythm. your happy place. find your breaking point. then break it. every emergen-c gives you a potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge your best with emergen-c. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you 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payments, cutting off 400,000 new jerseyians, i'm frankly disgusted with some of my colleagues and question whether i can support this bill. pete: here to react, florida gop congressman, michael waltz. a friend of the show. also a colonel. thanks for being with us. the left is not happy with this bill for obviously reasons it is a left-wing wish-list, if the far left says it doesn't go far enough what are the prospects for the bill in the house next tuesday? >> we'll see what the left does with their votes when it comes back now that the 15-dollars an hour minimum wage is stripped. pete, let me tell you what is going on here. what senate democrats have done, why the republicans are fighting over this, they are backing that country into the $15 minimum wayne through the federal supplement, $600 a week, $15 an hour. what they have done, they forced us, they forced in the bill, 300-dollar supplement, that federal wage supplement we had in the past, so that you know, we have businesses after businesses contacting me saying, they can't hire anyone back. they can't fulfill their contracts because they still have employees sitting on unemployment rolls making more than they would if they were rehired. businesses like landscapers, security companies that might pay a good wage, 10, 11, $12 an hour but with the federal supplement on unemployment they're making $15 an hour. this is almost forcing these companies, you know, through a backdoor mechanism to try to raise their wages but if they do that, of course, then they will lose money on their contracts this in this death spiral. it is horrible for small businesses and it's horrible for the country and our economic recovery. will: congressman, help me reach the appropriate posture when it comes to coronavirus and where we are right now as a society. you know through every large gathering, every sporting event we've had over the past six months, we heard this will be a superspreader event and something horrible will happen. i heard that while i was down in florida during the super bowl. we've seen the numbers in florida over the past two months, start to decline, decline rapidly. now spring break is coming up, many businesses are pushing would-be spring breakers away. we want to keep covid potentiality spread from happening. what is the appropriate thing to do right now? >> this is why florida never had a mask mandate because you know, in northwest florida, it is farm country, ranches, citrus farms and you know, obviously that's different and should be treated differently down in the inner-city say downtown miami and this is why governor desantis taking the approach, let let the counties that have very different populaces deal with this i will remind everybody that businesses are still struggling in many ways. they don't have the international tourism. they don't have the cruise industry and i trust business owners. i don't know any that want to get their customers sick, to get their employees sick. let's keep power in the hands of families, individuals and businesses and i think we'll be just fine. you know our, our numbers per capita are better than new york's, are better than california. i think as history looks on this, they will see the lockdown orthodoxy just don't work. to answer your question, will, let's leave common sense decisions in the hands of individuals with appropriate guidelines. we will be able to walk that kind of common sense middle ground. will: right. jedediah: congressman, i have a friend that left new york to restore some sanity in florida this weekend. keeps sending me moat toes, people are living here. it is amazing. restoration of sanity. takes such a small gesture these days but i want to shift over to some foreign policy with you. you have iran saying essentially that the biden administration gave the green light to release funds frozen in iraq due to the sanctions that we imposed. i don't have confirmation this is 100% true, but let's say that it is this another good wil gesture to irran? what is your take on it? >> what the trump administration did that was so impactful on the iranian regime like working with other countries like south korea, iraq, some others, still doing business with iran and locked up their funds. now we're hearing from iranian officials themselves that washington has given a quiet green light, the biden administration has given them the overhead to release the funds as a goodwill gesture. kind of like the orthodoxy, if we're nice to them, they will be nice back to us. if the iranian regime is serious about negotiations, how about stop killing americans? they killed another contractor through their proxy militias in iraq. and how about release the americans they are holding hostage? there is still one hostage held in iran, held in the notorious prison left over from the last iran dial. sharif promised he would be released. he never showed up. that individual is still sitting there. if iran is serious how about you stop killing americans and release the ones you're holding hostage. will: congressman michael waltz. colonel michael waltz. thanks for getting up this sunday morning. >> thank you, sir. will: turning to headlines, three men accused of killing off-duty officer is free after 24 years in prison. a new york judge releasing the men revealed they are not to blame for the 1996 murders. prosecutors allegedly withheld key evidence during the trial, including a confession from another suspect. the new york city police benevolent association calls the decision devastating. take a look at this. video showing heroism of two police officers and good samaritans, rescuing a dog from a icy lake in illinois. police attempted to rescue the pup by boat. when that plan failed, two good samaritans jumped in. the officers, good samaritan and dogs are all okay. adidas is taking social distancing very seriously with these three-foot shoes. look at this, the pair comes with one white shoe, one black. featuring 40 rows of laces. what a nightmare. they were exclusively released in russia, march, first by ralph. i guess this is in march with a ralph, retail price of $114. they are believed to be the longest shoos in the world. those are the headlines shoes, you can't walk in three feet shoes? what are we doing? you can't take one step. jedediah: we've lost our minds. we've lost our minds. pete: estonian hairdo as well? very interesting to me. that is the worst thing i've ever seen. rick, is that the worst thing you have ever seen, those shoes? rick: i think it is kind of cool. i kind of like it. pete: come on, rick. rick: i'm not going to wear them. still pretty cool. free ad for adidas. that is pretty brilliant. the here you goes. u.s. today looking absolutely spectacular. we had rain across the southeast. for the most part that is gone. no precipitation at all at least in the short term. enjoy it. we have incredible temperatures. temperatures really for much of this week really warm. some 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"fox nation" casting a spotlight on the role of religion in shaping american history. the narrator whose book inspired the new special joins us live next. just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. promises of all shapes and sizes. each with a time and a place they've been promised to be. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. ♪. >> appalled by the idleness of some settlers, captain smith made an important ruling based on second thessalonians, an important precedent was set in the early history of america. the biblical principle of hard work. pete: new "fox nation" show highlighting the role of religion of christianity in shaping our country's history. this new series is based on the book, 100 bible verses that made america. the author of that book, the narrator of the show, teaching pastor robert morgan. thank you for being here. i love this book. love this series. you talk about second thessalonians, the verse is anyone not work neither shall he eat. from the beginning of the foundation of america we were look together bible. >> absolutely. the bible has had a tremendous influence on american history. in fact you know, everybody is trying, pete to push the bible out, to marginalize the bible. everybody else wants their contributions inchewedded in our heritage but nobody has made a bigger contribution to american history than those who are people of faith and who hold the bible in their hands and the stories of how the bible impacted american history, even at the very recent times. it is a very powerful story with all kinds of fascinating incidents, what happened at jamestown. that one verse from i these i don't knowians 5 allowed them to sure try. pete: incredible. an episode about george washington. watch. >> in march of 1776 an unusual set of weather patterns saved continental army. even at this early stage of the revolution, the american patriot s sense god was fighting for them. them. pete: robert, it was not just during the revolution. the george washington put his hand not on the constitution, when he was sworn in as president, it was the bible. >> he placed his hand on the bible. he gave his first oath of office, the first action of the first president, was to bend over and kiss the bible. they revered the scripture. it gave them the principles they needed for freedom and for liberty and for the moral foundation that made up our country. pete: robert morgan, series like this the reason why "fox nation" was created. there is a new episode every day in the month of march on "fox nation." thank you so much for writing the book, for doing the series for us. really appreciate it. >> well, it is a very important thing. the bible is much-needed today and god is much-needed and if we don't get back to the scripture and back to god, if we don't understand the heritage and 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attempting to take advantage of this moment to score cheap points. other staffers told the post cuomo created a, quote, toxic work environment. two staffers who came to his defense are under scrutiny after their families made millions lobbying cuomo. jed, will, welcome, and we start with this story of governor cuomo. we've started a lot with governor cuomo over the last couple of months mostly because of nursing homes and cover-ups, and there's more information about that as well, more investigations to be had there. that hasn't stopped. but the recent shinying object are, of course, these allegations, more of which came out last night adding to the number of them. and we've all expressed the belief, very much so, that innocent until proven guilty. you want to see evidence. this is not trial by media. that's not how it's supposed to operate. but you can't ignore the allegations that come out, and the fact that the dam has broken on the fear-based system that cuomo has set up, now people believing to come out and talk about it. i've got scars from kavanaugh and what was going to brett kavanaugh, so i did a little bit of checking in between hours on what cuomo said about kavanaugh if you went back and looked at tweets that andrew cuomo made in 2018, september of 2018 about kavanaugh. first of all, he demanded that kavanaugh take a polygraph test. maybe governor cuomo could clear things up by taking a polygraph test. he also said of dr. blass su ford, we believe you and we will fight for you. so in that case, from decades ago she's to be believed and fought for. he's dismissing more credible and timely accusations of his own staff. will: "the washington post" has an article saying due process is now back in fashion. of course, now that the focus is on andrew cuomo instead the of brett kavanaugh. it should always be in fashion, and as you said, each and every one on the set this morning said these accusations have been to be proven. until they are, they are simply accusations. the real scandal here is to, a, as you just pointed out, the double standard of media treatment depending upon the political party of the accused. of course, it's one way when it's governor andrew cuomo and another way when it's brett kavanaugh. but the second perhaps more important scandal continues to be the cover-up of the nursing home deaths. that combined with andrew cuomo's self-back patting on his leadership through covid-19. a real leader who achieved some success, leaders like ron desantis or florida or kristi noem of south dakota sees this double standard. listen. >> what is amazing to me is how differently the media has treated andrew cuomo compared to brett kavanaugh. i think that the media not covering it until several of them came forward was shameful. and it just is exactly what has happened throughout this pandemic. they treated him very differently than they treated governors such as myself that made different choices than governor cuomo did. i did not shut my if state down, i didn't issue shelter in place orders. governor cuomo did all of those and more, and they held him up as the hero. jedediah: yeah, we've seen some slight walkbacks, a lot of silence because people just don't know what to saw after praising him -- to say after praising him endlessly for months on television. always pay anticipation to the people who cover -- attention to the people who cover things consistently. you're probably someone who cares about the facts and due process in general, and pay attention to those who don't and have that selective concern for due process when it's someone that they like or don't like. always, always a red flag there. we're going to turn to another big story, the senate narrowly passes the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill after a marathon session. david spunt joins us live from washington as the bill now heads back to the house for a vote on tuesday. david? >> reporter: jed, as expected, this passed along party lines. democrats and republicans in the senate pulled literally an all-nighter friday into saturday, it was called voterama after dozens of amendments were debated on the senate floor. ultimately, it did pass, it's going to be signed into law by president biden. those $1400 direct stimulus payments to those americans, those will go out as direct payments. remember during former president trump's tenure people received around $600 payments. you add that in, obviously, with the 1400, that's where you get the 2,000 that trump and biden were both talking about. schools and small businesses are set to receive billions of dollars. president biden, someone who spent 36 years tout thing his relationships with both republicans and democrats on capitol hill, wanted to do this in a bipartisan fashion. ultimately, though, it didn't happen in a bipartisan fashion. still though he's optimistic e. listen. >> i want to thank the all of the senators who worked so hard to reach compromise, do the right thing for the american people during this crisis and voted to pass the american rescue plan. it obviously wasn't easy, it wasn't always pretty, but it was so desperately needed. >> reporter: so one hold-up for democrats, their colleague, senator joe manchin from west virginia. he had sev about agreeing to extend $300 unemployment benefits through the beginning of september. again, president biden expected to sign this into law as early as tuesday after the house syncs up its bill with the senate. longtime congresswoman marcia fudge from ohio is expected to vote on this before she takes over as housing and urban development secretary, excuse me, because they need her vote, jed, will and pete. it's so close right now in the house of representatives, democrats just cannot afford to lose congresswoman fudge. will: we'll be watching that throughout the day. thank you, david. >> reporter: thank you. will: we've talked about this emergency, this crisis and the liberation it has provised for -- provised for many of those who want to spend more money. when does the bill come due for all of the money that we spend? "the new york post" has an op-ed talking about our monetary policy, our willingness to print money no matter the political party. neither democrats nor republicans officially subscribe to modern monetary theory. and that's the beyond all doubt that the can -- the idea that the government can print as much money as it wants, but in practice, both parties govern as though mmt is the law of the land with tax policy entirely unrelated to spending policy. and that brings the question to the forefront, pete, when does the bill come due? can we just print money into to give to on? -- oblivion? the answer seems to be yes. if the u.s. is the world's reserve currency, we can keep printing, right? china wants to become the world's reserve currency, bitcoin is making a play for it as well. but for now both political parties seem to think we can print, there's no cost. pete: i know. it's a question i don't have an answer to, will, because just trillion upon trillion upon trillion upon trillion, it used to be we argued about billions, and obamacare was the biggest thing we'd ever seen, one-fifth of our economy. now we're signing bills on a monthly basis that are double the size of our entire federal budget, larger than the size of our federal budget. there's nothing sensible to it, there's no economic theory that can explain what happens at the end of this road. anyone who's telling you that they have an answer to that is lying to you. yes, here what happens is we get $270 million for the national endowment of the arts and humanities in a covid relief bill. you get, you know, $50 million for environmental justice in a covid relief bill. this is washington, d.c. at its worst, and, jed, the only normalcy that joe biden brought back was even more spending. it's not as though the trump administration was necessarily fiscally restrained as well, but now we're spending in ways that we have no idea where it's going. jedediah: yeah. you know, i remember back in 2010 when the tea party forms and one of their major issues was the national debt. and i think for a moment there many people on the right in particular were focused on that issue, holding republicans accountable mostly, actually, at that point. we know democrats are a big spending party, but we would expect republicans to at least have some sense of fiscal responsibility. and i think the truth is the numbers have gotten so big and so large that people have just given up. they just say, you know what? how do you even tackle that at this point? the assumption is money will figure it out, they'll find the money somewhere. it's just too big to even wrap your head around. but it's important because future generations do wind up paying for these things, so maybe at some point people will start looking at those numbers again and you'll have that revived sense of concern if fornothing else, but for those future generations. we talked to representative michael waltz who brought up the $15 an hour minimum wage that has been rejected for now. listen to what he had to say on the minimum wage and the reasoning behind it. >> the country ended that 15 minimum wage. you have $600 a week, $15 an hour, and they've agreed on -- or, actually, they force thed the us, they forced in the bill $300 supplement, that federal wage supplement that we had in the past so that, you know, we have businesses after businesses contacting me saying they can't hire anyone back, they can't fulfill their contracts because they still have employees sitting on unemployment rolls making more than they would if they were rehired. will: yeah. $15 minimum wage seems to be something the democrats do not want to let go of. but i will tell you this, back to our spending like a drunk sailor, i don't know how, when that bill comes due, but it's pretty much a true maxim, there's no such thing as a free lunch. the bill will come due. jedediah: it will. all right, we're going to turn to some headlines for you now. president biden is expected to sign an executive order promoting voter access to mark the 56th anniversary of bloody sunday. in addition to expanding access to voter registration and election information, federal web sites are expected to modernize under his 35th executive order. you herald that right. thousands would normally visit selma to pay tribute to the civil rights leaders who were beaten, but events will be held virtually including an online reenactment. it will also be the first anniversary without john lewis, one of several civil rights icons honored today. and some schools are set to reopen next month in san francisco. the city's unified school district announcing preschoolers and elementary students through second grade will be the first to return on april 12th. it comes weeks after the district was sued over its efforts to rename 44 schools deemed racially offensive. the district decided to pause that effort until schools were reto opened. 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my parents immigrated here legally from seoul, south korea. they waited ten years before they could come to this country. these illegal immigrants that come across the border, they get released and just this week in texas alone 10,000 illegal immigrants came through. wisconsin will yeah. so often this is poured through the filter, the prism of compassion. everyone wants to have compassion for anyone seeking a better life, but there's a legal and illegal way to do so. i'm going to read you this quote from the washington examiner on the reception center renaming. the new name would mark the biden's intention to use the reception centers for serving as a sending-off point for releasing migrants into the united states. is that how you see it, sery? legally versus illegality, is this a sending-off point for all illegally? >> well, if joe biden didn't like these welcome centers, detention camps, whatever he wants to call it, why did he create it? joe biden and barack obama created those camps that president trump got blamed for. they're the ones that created the situation where children were sexually abused by guards, not president trump. and so if they don't like the brand that they created, third just get rid of it. will: right. >> what they are telling us, what we have actually seen in the state of texas is that these people get stopped once, they don't get tested for covid, they don't get asked why they're coming into our country, and they get sent off into the districts of texas and all these other border states to do whatever they want. will: what i like about what you just said is it reveals that the compassion is for whom? it's not for legal residents, existing americans, not even for those who are crossing illegally. it's just a cosmetic papering of what is ultimately a discompassionate or noncompassionate policy in place. all right, sery, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thanks so much, will. will: you bet. small businesses have been decimated by covid-19 lockdowns, but progressives propsed a minimum -- promised a minimum hike could make it worse. in honor of women's history month, our female small business panel shares their pandemic stories next. ...to experience lexus. the invitation to lexus sales event. lease the 2021 rx 350 for $429 a month for 36 month's, and we'll make you're first month's payment. experience amazing. it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, and we'll make you're first month's payment. jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? 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>> well, honestly, i think the best thing for everybody to do is to reach out to people in your community who are, you know, a voice and be a louder voice to get these businesses open and to get us back working the way that we need to be working in our community. the women on this panel really are voices, and i love, you know, i'm honored to be with these other two women who i know have done things, great things for their community and for their business to be that voice. so, you know, we just immediate to be louder. we need -- we need to be louder. we immediate to get the politics out of it, rally around each other and be strong for our community and be a voice is my, is what i'd like to say today. jedediah: it's a get message. get the politics out of it, i think that resonates with so many business owners around the country. cynthia, there's another issue and that is a clamoring by democrats in particular for a minimum wage hike. we have some stats from the cbo that says 1.4 million jobs could be lost by 20 the 25 if the minimum wage were to increase to that $15 an hour, but i really like to talk to business owners about this and have people lay out in very simple terms what that means and why a $15 minimum wage may sound good, but what that actually means for a business owner and the practicality of sustaining a business. >> well, or you know, we have business owners here from california, florida and texas, and california we're almost there already. we're at $14 an hour or 13 depending on how many employees you have, but in the restaurant industry what really is happening is that in florida and texas they're still a tip credit, right? so in florida the minimum wage is around $8.25 an hour, texas, 7.25 an hour. but that minimum wage gets reduced for tipped pro employees are getting paid $14 an hour plus tips. so if a waiter or a bartender makes $100 tips in an average shift, it's increasing the disparity of wages between the front9 expect back of the house. -- front and the back of the house. i understand that people need to make a living wage. we've got to try to close that gap between the dishwasher and the cooks and the waiters and the bartenders. so if the tip credit actually applied, it would be much easier to be more palatable, actually, to say, yes, we're going to pay that minimum wage. we're also going to elevate the cooks and the heart of the house, people who are putting the food on the plate for you while still making sure that our tipped employees are making minimum wage, but we're going to close that gap. jedediah: these are all excellent points. i worked in the restaurant industry, and i know people at home are saying, yes, yes, please. laura, for you, when you're coming out of a situation with all of these lockdowns as a business owner and all the challenges you face and then you pile on top of that a demand for a $15 minimum wage, what message does that send to businesses, and businesses survive with that combined equation? >> i think very few. i think trying to mandate a wage is really ignoring not only the competitiveness that's required and the different business with environments. you know, we have 526 restaurants in 44 different states, and every municipality is different, and you need to have that situational management. you also need to look at the ability for restaurants to be exitoff relative to their market -- competitive relative to their market. plus, those type of wages would actually have net-net unintended consequence of reducing hours, reducing job, reducing benefits. it doesn't allow for performance-based incentives, for raises, and it also for folks like us that pay well above the minimum wage, doesn't allow us to provide that better opportunity the that draws the best talent. we pay for the very best talent out there the, that's why we pay above minimum wage. and i think it's so important to not try to politic the, as we've said, and micromanage business because business does really well to survive and if thrive when it's competitive, so let us be competitive. and paying a living wage is absolutely what every employer wants to do. we want to take care of our folks. so our interests are aligned. i think there are better ways to do it. jedediah: laura, kelly and cynthia, thank you all for being here and joining us. we really appreciate it, and i know business owners around the country are appreciative of you bringing that message. >> thank you for having us on. >> thank you for having us. >> yes, thank you. jedediah: of course. it's our pleasure. >> i was honored to be with these women, i tell you what. jedediah: it's a great group. i hope you guys will come back. the calls for cuomo's resignation are growing including one new york newspaper that previously endorsed him three times. janice dean has been taking the fight to cuomo since the very beginning, and she joins us live next. h, that's nice. can i use apple carplay to put some music on? 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[cheers and applause] >> just a little bit wide, this ball appears to be hammered. will: celebrated after launching the ball 370 yards. the golfer declined just a straight shot over the lake because of the wind but decided, i guess, that the wind was in his favor, so he went for it and nailed it clearing that water. those are your headlines. jed die cra? jedediah: are either of you good golfers? i'm decent at mini golf but do we have any golfers here? will: actually no. p -- pete: no. jedediah: what about rick? are you a good golfer? rick: wait, golfer or good golfer? [laughter] i golf occasionally, but that's, that's it. all right. golf season's coming up, man. we're going to be able to get out there. temperatures right now really cold across the great lakes. wind chills still this effect, i think we're almost going to be able to stop talking about wind chill here within next few weeks. 15 degrees is what it feels like in buffalo, 7 in albany. so the cold air in place for one more night and a little tomorrow, and then a massive warmup. these are your temps across the lower 48, 14 degrees in anchorage. i don't talk about that very often. precipitation wise, we've got a great day in store for us. you can see most of the rain is exiting florida, and you're going to have a really beautiful day there. and then the rest of the country, take a look. absolutely spectacular except across the pacific northwest, a little bit of coastal rain and mountain snow as well. take a look at temperatures today, form, the next new -- tomorrow, the next few days, absolutely beautiful, spring-like conditions in store. get outside and enjoy. will: we'll do it. pete: thank you, rick. for 53 cents you can get a million of the venezuelan currency. thank you, rick. will: think about that. amazing. pete: i know, right? 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>> pete, i have a comment and a direct message for black america. this has nothing to do with skin color. it has everything to do with the politics and the folks that we put in office in the communities which we live. pete, if you look across the board, the majority of african-americans live in blue districts, in blue cities and blue states. and the fact remains that if you lock down a city, which most of these cities are, you are going to hurt the most underserved, hurt the hard working. so many of these brick and mortar businesses right now are closed down. and the unfortunate thing is even for the african-americans that are out there working, most of them kids k are not allowed to go to school. so they're struggle when they can go to work, how they're able to keep their kids up with these online education tools. this is a plot mess, and it goes d complete mess, and it goes right back to the politicians we have voted for for so many years. for most of my life i voted for these democratic politicians, and at some point we have to wake up as black america and take responsibility for ourselves and start voting more conservative-minded, fiscal-responsible people into these leadership positions. pete: such a great point about the impacts of opening and of schools. it can be dismissed, but actually as you point out, it's front and center in a moment like this. the white house is trying to explain it this way. cecilia rouse, council of economic advisers chair, talked about it in a statement. accounting for labor force dropouts and miscalculation issues would result in an unemployment rate of around 9.5%. this is to say simply in a pandemic getting an old view of the economy requires looking at the data in multiple ways. black and latino workers have been particularly hit hard with the adjusted rate for both in double digits. so they're acknowledging that black america, hispanics and others have been hit harder, but it seems to be a lot of, i don't know, doubling speak there? >> no doubt. we were hit harder, but webbed bounce back even -- we bounce bk even harder if you open up these brick and mortar businesses in which we work. the excuses have to stop. i'm cawing on black leaders, black pastors, black business leaders, start speaking out against this. let's start tie thing these political decisions to the actual realities to so many americans. we have to start educating each other on the real reason why we see massive increases in unemployment. i live in a state right now black folks in florida are working. black folks in south dakota are working. black folks that live in these red states that are still open are working. this is the political issue for failed politicians that are pushing policies keeping folks from their jobs. pete: and let us not forget, jack, just over a year ago black unemployment was at historic lows. so we have a template for doing it. the trump administration did it. hopefully, we can get back to it. jack brewer, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. pete: all right. you may be spending your sunday catching up on some diy projects around the white house. chip wade -- around the house. whip wade is in the middle of his own renovation, and he has everything you need coming up. ♪ working for a living, working. ♪ working for a living, living and a working. ♪ i'm taking what they're giving 'cuz i'm working for a living ♪♪ four, five, turn, kick. we got chased by these wild coyotes! they were following her because she had beef jerky in her pocket. 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[laughter] will: thank you, chip. more "fox & friends" coming up for you top of the hour. ♪ jedediah: we begin this final hour of "fox & friends" with the latest on our southern border. texas governor greg abbott launching an operation to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling in the state as the biden administration fails to step up to the plate. will: abbott releasing this statement on operation lone star saying, quote: the crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of the biden administration's policies that refuse to secure the worder and in-- border and invite illegal immigration. pete: more than two dozen house republicans are demanding the president take action and reinstate the national emergency declaration on the border. welcome to the fourth and final hour of "fox & friends" on this sunday morning, and we kick off the final hour with nothing better than, you know, a preview of the week to come. and brian kilmeade, "fox & friends" cohost. come on in, brian, how you doing? brian: what do you mean nothing better? [laughter] up until this point i are not been sensational? pete: this is the pinnacle right here, and it's going to go down after brian kilmeade, and i see you did not wear a tie for us either, so turn about is fair play. brian: am i right, jed? >> jedediah: you are 100 percent right, i back you up on that one. pete: brian, you've been to the border, you've followed it. you know, you've got states and texas saying we have to take our own approach, and they're looking at washington, and they're calling on let's restore, let's go back to being honest about what this is, a national emergency. how do you see this getting resolved, if in any way? brian: admitting that they were wrong? never. president trump kept adjusting. he kept pressuring border control, he put national guard down there, he kept saying what is the deal? what has to be the message? and then they got mark morgan and others to go into the triangle countries and say we're going to stop with aid to you and you take control of your population and we do this in an orderly fashion. the remain in mexico policy, guess what happened? they had friendly relationships with all three of those country, el salvador, guatemala as well as. honduras, and they started working through it together, and things got calm. there were 70,000 would-be refugees sitting in mexico, and our relations with mexico have never been better as they put their marines on their southern border. this is an unforced error by joe biden. the question i have is will he admit there's a problem. i have news for you, no one's looking for spin. this is something that cannot be hidden. there's a flood or there's not ad flood. facilities are overburdened or they're not overburdenedded. i have news for you, there's going to be military bases full of children from other countries and families from other countries shortly, and that cannot be denied. basically, jen psaki said if you're a kid, you can come and you can stay. now everyone loves children, we get it, we're all parents, but we cannot take care of everybody's children. it's just not possible. will: children at military bases. one potential impact. brian, earlier i spoke to sery kim, a first generation korean-american, she's also running for office in texas in a special election, and she talked about other impacts that joe biden's border policies might have. let's listen and get your reaction. >> do you believe in the l do y? my parents immigrated here legally from seoul, south korea. they waited ten years before they could come to this country. it's illegal immigrants that come across the country that get released day of and just this week in texas alone 10,000 illegal immigrants came through. we have actually seen in the state of texas that these people get stopped once, they don't get tested for covid, they don't get asked why they're coming into our country, and they get sent off into the 6th district of texas and all these other border states to do whatever they want. will: yeah, brian, whether or not it's covid or the impact on immigrants who waited ten years to enter the country legally, this threatens other impacts as well. brian it does. and the thing is you shouldn't say this is democratic or republican. you're choosing, instead of waiting in line, instead of sudanese that are waiting in line, instead of norwegians or any europeans waiting in line to do it the right way, you're letting everybody else break the rules, going through our southern borders, you're saying they are more important than other refugees from around the world. and that's what it is. what about the resilients who have spent years here on a green card knowing if they make one mistakeif, they're out -- mistake, they're out for good? this is not america against central and south america, this is just america protecting it borders in a pandemic knowing we have a desirable nation to immigrate to, but there's got to be a system to it. this is an unforced error, and joe biden who voted 2006 for the fence act, for 600 miles of wall, knows this. schumer knows this. but for some reason they don't want to control this. jedediah: brian, we're going to shift topickings with you for a little bit because you have a pretty big interview coming up tomorrow on "fox & friends" with florida governor ron deban sis. people can -- ron desantis. we're going to tease a little bit of it now. as you know, brian, florida has been a hot topic for a very long time, but with all the recent data showing a sharp decline in covid-19 deaths in florida, you now have this topic of spring break and should more restrictions be put in place with respect to that. i'm sure that you had a lot to speak to him about. can you give us a little insight. brian: yeah. i spent the day with him. "fox & friends" in tallahassee, he would normally have been starting around 7:30-8, he waited for us to be over, which was nice. we got a start at the governor's mansion. i wanted to get a slice of his life. he has no idea what the press questions are, what the florida residents are in four different situations almost like a campaign, and then the other thing we had -- he's this probably the most impactful state in the country because he said there's going to be restrictions, but basically we're leaving it up to people to be responsible and businesses to make their own rules, and here's a little about, first, his personal ambition. and the fact is he's got 53% approval rating right now and growing. the fact is he's going to go for re-election to get another four years as governor and after that if president trump doesn't run, will he. here's what he said. the buzz is that if donald trump doesn't run, that governor desantis is going to try to be president desantis. >> well, look, i think we're in 2021. i think the reason why people have appreciated what i'm doing is because i'm here leading every day. i believe you get into office, you have an opportunity to make a difference in people's lives s. to that's kind of what i'm focused on. we're going to have a re-election in 2022. brian: mike pompeo said, yeah, i'm considering that. >> i saw that, it's -- say that. it's so premature to have the discussion. pete: having been with him all day, does that the potential reality, do you get a sense that he's, it's something he's grappling with? brian: all i can tell you, i don't care if you're democrat or republican, he's got to look at his track record. i mean, he graduated with honors, division i baseball player, graduates magna cum laude from yale while playing division i baseball and then says i want to go to graduate school, become a lawyer, so he picked this other place called harvard. he goes there and says when i'm done, i think i want to join the navy. he goes and takes the easy route, going to iraq. and then he's a jag officer as well as working during the surge and then comes back and gets into business and then kind of gets into this political thing. if you look at his trajectory, he's not even 45 yet. and if you remember, guys, this is my opinion, governor christie had a window where he was the hottest governor in the country, and he said i'm not ready to run yet when mitt romney had the nomination. if you have a window and president trump doesn't run because they are very tight, you've got to take the window when it's open. will: yeah, brian, talking about governor desantis' success, how many are focusing on him versus andrew cuomo. i just want to read this to you from "the new york times" because i find this fascinating. we might have the quote up on the screen. talking about cuomo and desantis. for both men their political forces and their tests imposed by their party semidisconnected to the central question of this moment, did they effectively govern their state through an extraordinarily challenging year. the data is fairly inconclusive. is it inconclusive about who handled this pandemic, brian? [laughter] brian: we are all, jed, will, pete, we see new york, wees also have traveled -- we also have traveled. you just were in tampa, in texas, i've traveled the last few years. new york has not beened good, it's been terrible. and, sadly, they're going the reward that with this huge bailout because our unemployment is so high, we're going to get more money where you've destroyed lives and livelihoods. 70% of real estate is doa because you protected us while giving us almost the highest death rate in the country with a swagger and a cockiness and an attitude with these inspectors cracking down on the gyms and the restaurants, taking liquor licenses where in florida they said we're going to shut down and open up within the same month, and we're going to take some criticism was they -- because they spoke to people, and i'm going to let them make their own decisions. he took some hits and florida went up, and now florida's coming down now. there's this thing called giving vaccines to seniors. jedediah: you know, brian, i want to get back to that interview with governor desantis. there's one part that i'm really curious about. people are always interested in when it comes to politicians, who is the man, who is the woman behind the politician, what are their relationships like, their marriage. well, you dug into it with casey and ron desantis. they opened up about their marriage to you. brian: yeah. one thing, the first thing i said when i came through the door is why not will or pete. and i took that a little perm. [laughter] i did -- personal. i did get a chance to walk through the mansion, the first time children have been in the mansion, three kids under 4, in the mansion growing up because they're such a young couple. and there's only so much you can script three young kids with. you'll see some of that the. but here's a little of casey and ron, the couple, how they met, and casey, obviously, was an anchor in jacksonville, extremely comfortable in front of the camera. here they are talking about their relationship and why it works. >> it's not every day that you can say you're married to your hero. brian: you knew you were mar erieing a above? >> no, this was never discussed about. he was a cute guy in the navy when i met him in the beginning. brian: what's it like to have someone who is such an asset -- >> well, also just getting to the job. when i first ran for congress, she and i are knocking on doors, and then we were running, people took the a chance on me because they wanted her as first lady. jedediah: good stuff, brian. brian: tomorrow, guys, just the personal side as well as the professional side, and you got unscripted moments. and, you know, we're going to try to get as much as we can. we were with them for eight hours. but we just want to give you an idea what are you like away from those four or five minute hits on television. pete: the most -- will: did you ask the kids to be quiet, brian? you were trying to do a professional interview? brian: i loved it. you had to see them, hitting the ball off the tee while we were talking, and they were running through the background, and they just -- the kids get along, they look out for each other, and they are very impressive. i just love when you see other families try to live the lives that they're living. they know they've got to be in front of the camera, but at the same time three kids who could not care less, they wanted to play with t parents, and i was in their wayment. pete: no, that's cool. the most unscripted man in television promises an unscripted interview over eight hours, you're going to get something special. brian's full interview airs tomorrow morning on "fox & friends". of brian, can't wait to see it, well done. brian:, jed, bye will, bye, pete. pete: don't you love brian kilmeade? san francisco's safe sleeping villages, those right there, are housing less than 300 homeless people but casting tack payers more than $16 million. a community advocate calls out this money misin the. that's coming -- mismanagement. that's coming upod next. available over the counter. voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. voltaren. the joy of movement. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ usaa ♪ ( ♪♪ ) ready to juvéderm it? correct age-related volume loss in cheeks with juvéderm voluma xc, add fullness to lips with juvéderm ultra xc and smooth moderate to severe lines around the nose and mouth with juvéderm xc. tell your doctor if you have a history of scarring or are taking medicines that decrease the body's immune response or that can prolong bleeding. common side effects include injection-site redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, firmness, lumps, bumps, bruising, discoloration or itching. as with all fillers, there is a rare risk of unintentional injection into a blood vessel, which can cause vision abnormalities, blindness, stroke, temporary scabs or scarring. 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how are you managing to deal with that issue? >> good morning. thank you for having me on the show. first of all, i just want to recognize all the single parents out there that are doing this, the single moms and dads, you know, that have been raiding their kids -- raising their kids especially during this challenging time. as a single parent myself, i have a professional career, so i do work full time. i've been very blessed to have a flexible work, a great employer and also my kids. my kids are great. it has been challenging trying to prioritize and provide for i my family, my professional career and distance learning for four boys at the same time. and i just think that schools need to be open. we can't hold off reopening schools for if vaccinations. the science and experts have shown that schools can do it. left keeps turning everything into a race narrative that we have our union board president and board members claiming for parents to advocate school reopening, it's a white supremacist issue, and it's not. it's getting back to our economy, getting parents back to work, and i think it's very important for the kids and for parents and especially mothers who are expected to be at home and teach their kids to be able to return their kids to school so they can resume employment and continue their careers. jedediah: yeah. i think it's pretty clear that the learning has impacted families at large, financial hi and otherwise, in the pretty big ways. jennifer, i want to run by some numbers with you. let's show to the audience as well. people aged 25-54 with kids who are employed, there's been a 5.7% drop for women during the. pandemic, a 3.1% drop for men during the pandemic. obviously, this is a mom panel, but we want to acknowledge many men are suffering through many of the same situation as well. but, jennifer, you left your job to be a stay at home mom during this time. tell us a little bit about why and what that transition has been like. >> so originally when the pandemic hit, unfortunately, our school district was not prepared. so we did the not transfer into a virtual mode. our children just stopped going to school altogether. so when that happened, we realized very quickly we didn't have any sort of a support system here. so one of us was going to have to make the sacrifice, one of us was going to have to stay home because we had young children. it's been tough, it's been surreal, it's been a little bit heartbreaking because i spent 15 years in a career that i loved. i worked regard toly hard to get where i was, and i know i'm not going to get back there. of it's not like when all of these people left that those positions are going to remain open. it's going to be, okay, now i'm not going to stay home, covid is no longer a stress, i'm going to go back to work. it's not that simple. jedediah: well, you know, anna, cindy and jennifer, i think your stories are incredibly compelling, and our hope is that public policy officials, teachers unions, politicians hear what you're saying and what your challenges have been and that it moves some changes in policy. that's what we need to see especially for the kids as well. >> absolutely. >> thank you for being here today. >> i appreciate it. jedediah: baltimore's school district is now under investigation and facing backlash after a student reportedly failed all but three of his classes and still ranked near the top of the class. yet another big failure will lead to a lost generation of kids. that's next. that sandwich the real deal, ya gotta focus on the bread layers. king's hawaiian sliced bread makes everything better! ♪ (angelic choir) ♪ umm, honey...why is guy fieri in our kitchen? 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pete: that mom, one of the outraged parents profiled in an investigation into baltimore schools after her son failed all but three classes over his four years of high school, yet somehow ranked near the top of his class? jedediah: in a new op-ed, our next guest argues it's just another failure of big city public schools creating a lost generation of kids. will: fox news contributor jonathan turley joins us now to explain. jonathan, thanks for being here. i don't really know what the most outlandish detail is, at one point during this student's senior year realizes he has to go back to the ninth grade, only passed three classes, but probably the detail that's the most outrageous is he still was in the top half of his class, doing all right compared to his peers. how does this happen, jon than? >> well, it's heartbreaking because this is part of a lost generation of kids. we have failed these kids not recently, over decades. we've spent billions of dollars, do you know the baltimore public school system received $1.2 billion to run that system, and yet the scores are really chulling. i mean -- chilling. i mean, in all these major city, the top per capita cities in terms of spending, they often are the least performing systems. new york, for example, spent the most, $24,000 per kid, and yet over half of the kids in the new york system are not proficient in math or english. only 28% of african-americans in that system are competent in math. the question is how long does this are to go on before -- this have to go on before we realize this is a crisis for all of these families who are locked into a cycle of poverty? they're not being given the training or the trained skills or the education needed to break out of that area. and it's astonishing, the disconnect between these terrible stories and these statistics that support them and the lack of a political will to make serious changes. pete: professor, how does this happen? you flunk all your courses, there's no parent-teacher conferences called, you don't -- you're late almost 300 days or absent for three years, and now you're told -- how? how? >> well, the question is where did all this money go when a kid like this can get lost? i mean, you have $1.2 billion a year being spent in this district, and yet this mother had no inkling that her child had flunked all but about three courses over almost four years. and the answer is that there's been very little accountability, and we've seen that in the debate over where these unions are opposing the reopening of schools despite the tremendous costs to these students. and in the meantime, many of the union officials are opposing standardized tests which are the things that are revealing the failures of the system. you know, there is this new mantra that meritocracy itself is racist and that -- but most of the tests that are allowing us to see these figures so that we know where the problem resides. jedediah: yeah. you know, jonathan, we're talking about one lost student and, sadly, there are a lot of lost students in the current system. the schools told fox news in a saturday statement the district has not received notification of an investigation, so we will continue to update you, and this story's only going to get more complicated post-pandemic when you're going to see all sorts of nonsense to make up for the fact that these kids have been out of in-person learning for a very, very long time the. >> yes. and, in fact, some of these standardized tests are being eliminated or delayed, so the measure that we have of success is being stopped. and that's why some of these unions are acting less like unions as they are cartels. we need to have greater transparency, not less transparency in looking at how these children are being educated or the lack of that education. and this mother's -- she's holding up three jobs supporting three children. she didn't fail, we failed her. i'm a huge believer in public education. i sent my kids to public education because i believe in the concept of public education. i've been an educator for 30 years, but i take my hat off to the teachers in elementary and high school education because they're the ones that shape citizens. and this is a terrible failure for our country. pete: yeah. the bureaucratic, union-controlled system fails a lot of people. jonathan turley, thanks for exposing it. we appreciate it. >> thank you. pete: all right. a few additional headlines including this, meghan markle's latest critic is a lawyer fighting for justice for murdered columnist jamal khashoggi. the lawyer blasting her for wearing these earrings initially gifted to queen elizabeth by the saudi crown prince who allegedly ordered the murder in 2018. markel's lawyers say she was unaware of that when she wore the jewelry. big old fake outrage. and meanwhile, prince phillip remains hospitalized after undergoing heart surgery last week. a spokesperson called the procedure successful but said the 99-year-old is expected to stay in the hospital for further treatment. he's been in the hospital since last month for an infection. see if we can move if off of the royals. the organization that awards the golden globes vows to undergo transformational change to overcome diversity issues within its ranks. the hollywood foreign press has hired a diversity expert. the move comes after an l.a. times report saying the 37-member association -- 87-member association doesn't have a single black member. hollywood. and to baseball, one pitcher definitely had his eye on the prize. l.a. dodgers' pitcher trevor bauer pitches three scoreless inning with one eye closed. he would also retire six of seven batters faced. after the game he said he was just having a bit of fun? dave roberts says he does it to readjust command of his pitches. unfortunately, the dodgers did lose to the padres. i didn't know that was a technique, will, did you? will: no, no, did not do that. pete: maybe rick can do the weather with one eye closed. will: that would be something to see. [laughter] rick: guaranteed, without any problem at all. [laughter] all right. i tell you what, normally doesn't happen i have president bush nothing to talk about. -- pretty much nothing to talk about. florida, you had some rain yesterday, that rain is gone. behind it comes the sunshine. take a look at this, i mean, the entire country has sunshine except for maybe the far pacific northwest, and even that moisture isn't as heavy as it's been over the last couple of months. all right, temperature wise as well take a look at this, these are your high temperatures today, absolutely beautiful. we're almost pushing 70 degrees in the central plains today. by tomorrow you're into the 70s, chicago, 64 for a couple of days. by the time we get to wednesday and thursday, those 60s slide in towards parts of the northeast. guys, it is absolutely spring conditions and just enjoy absolutely every minute of it. i rarely get to say that. will: just in time for spring break for many of those schools out there. rick, thanks so much. the $1.9 trillion covid relief deal heads back to the house, but republicans fear this rescue plan is really just pork-filled liberal wish list. maria bartiromo breaks it down next. .. ...to experience lexus. the invitation to lexus sales event. get 0% apr financing on the 2021 is 300. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ get 0% apr financing on the 2021 is 300. hey limu! 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are we just governing by party line? that's what has been the case so far. will wisconsin yeahment all of that debt, all of that money printing, maria, makes you wonder when and how that bill will come due. maybe, by the way, you might have some answers because you've got a big show. who's on it? maria: we're going to talk with senator lindsey graham. i was talking with him yesterday before the interview and he said to me, when you see what's in this bill, it will make you sick. so he is going to go through what the agenda is going to be going forward. not just this mass i spending bill, $1.9 trillion, but what comes next. i'll tell you what comes next, at the end of march you're going to get a massive revenue raise package, higher taxes or $4.3 trillion in tax increase is what joe biden and kamala harris talked about on the campaign trail. that will materialize coming up in about a month. so senator lindsey graham will talk about that, matt gaetz is continuing to investigate what took place on the capitol on january 6th, why we have this police sate in washington, what's behind it. he says that this is an opportunity for lawmakers to demand that they surveil lawmakers. we're hear what matt gaetz has to say, and then an exclusive with former dni john ratcliffe to talk about h.r. 1 passing. we're going to put nancy pelosi's election bill to the test and really zero in, is this election integrity or voter fraud? h.r. 1 is one of our main topics this morning. i'll see you in ten minutes, guys. pete: h.r. 1, really scary. maria bartiromo, thank you so much. appreciate it. maria: thank you. pete: up next, are you feeling lucky? the do you feel lucky, punk? if nascar heads to las vegas today on fox. nascar hall-of-famer bobby labonte joins us live next. ♪ ♪ rock you like a hurricane. ♪ here i am, rock you like a hurricane ♪♪ i want my kids to know... they come from people who... were brave. and took risks. big risks. bring your family history to life, like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. big promises. small promises. cuddly shaped promises. each with a time and a place they've been promised to be. and the people of old dominion never turn away a promise. or over promise. or make an empty promise. we keep them. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. if you smell gas, you're too close. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. if you see wires down, treat them all as if they're hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. ♪ ♪ will: series continues in sin city this weekend where drivers will press their luck are. you can catch all the action on fox, coverage starts at 3:00 eastern. fox nascar analyst and hall of famer bobby labonte joins me now to break it down. you were my guy back in the day. i picked the thurm 18 interstate -- number 18 interstate batteries car, you were one of the only guys from texas at that time. as we look at today's race though, veterans, young guys, oddsmakers kind of favor the veterans, but young guys seem to be owning everything. at least right now. >> yeah, they really do, and i appreciate that. i'm flattered that you said that. my brother and i, coming from texas, we had a lot of fun, a great career, so thanks for being a fan. yeah, this year has been exciting. obviously, we had michael mcdowell win at day daytona, his first win, christopher bell, a young guy, very, very, very fast driver, and another young guy that won last year but won at homestead and really, really ran fast. you know, normal guys that you would expect, like you said, vegas would put their money on, truex, hamlin, chase elliott, ken harvick, those guys should have won by now. and i'm sure they will, but right now we've got a great start in the season. excited to see this going into las vegas. will: speaking of vegas, or let's talk about the track itself. one of the few places i got to go to watch you, by the way, in person was texas motor speedway. i'm not an expert if, but isn't las vegas a little bit similar? it's a big track. tell me how this track runs and, therefore, who's the farther. >> yeah, you know, i mean, las vegas was built, you know, there was a time, as you well know, that mile and a half tracks were kind of the popular thing, and las vegas being built mimicked a lot of other tracks. when you were good at mile and a halfs, you loved going there. every track's a little bit different, and las vegas is no different. nas cac has a package that they -- nascar has a package that they put i a big spoiler on the back and took some horsepower away, to now you're nearly wide open if not wide open for some of the race, that creates this pack racing. what we've seen there and maybe not some other tracks, but what we've seen in las vegas that's really tricky is, obviously, i'm glad to watch it on fox, but i'm not glad i'm racing because the restarts are crazy with four and five wide. that's what vegas has, such a wide race track. it lends to great racing, guys can change lanes, but you'll see guys pushing down the straightaway. that's what's so much fun. they've different in some ways but exciting. will: so fast, four to five wide, driving in packs, that sounds like an exciting race. bobby labonte, good to talk to you, fun to meet you. thanks. and remember, download the fox bet super 6 app. you just got some tips, so you can win $10,000 from nascar great clint bowyer, winners are announced in stage three. download the free app now to play. more "fox & friends" just moments away. the ups and downs of frequent mood swings can take you to deep, depressive lows. or, give you unusually high energy, even when depressed. overwhelmed by bipolar i? 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