democratic senator joe manchin who has staked out a position as the most powerful member of congress. then -- >> it is now time to open texas 100%. chris: governors in both parties end pandemic lockdowns, and the president pushes back. >> the last thing we need is neanderthal thinking. chris: we'll ask arkansas governor asa hutchinson about starting to lift restrictions in his state and former cdc director tom frieden about whether some states are moving too soon. plus, growing calls to impeach new york's governor over his handling of covid nursing home deaths and accusations of sexual harassment. we'll ask our sunday panel whether cuomo will survive the twin scandals. and our power player of the week, the head of peloton, on how the pandemic gave his bikes a big push. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ chris: and hello again from fox news in washingtonment -- washington. president biden's push for his $1.9 trillion covid relief package is now in the home stretch after the senate approved the measure saturday in a straight party line 50-49 vote. the legislation includes funding for vaccine supplies and distribution along with a new round of stimulus for families, businesses and state and local governments. democrats hope to get the bill through the house and put it on the president's desk before some benefits expire a week from today. in a moment we'll speak with west virginia senator joe manchin who voted for the bill after reaching a deal late friday over unemployment aid. but first, let's bring in mike emmanuel on capitol hill with what happens next. >> good day today. >> reporter: president biden is a step away from a major legislative accomplishment but recognizes he must keep his fellow democrats together as it heads back to the house. >> bernie sanders this is the most progressive bill he's ever seen passed. >> reporter: the legislation is so large, it's $1.9 trillion in spending is nearly one-tenth of the u.s. economy. >> nobody said passing one of the largest, perhaps the most significant bill to help the poor and working people in decades was going to be easy. >> reporter: and it wasn't. it took more than 24 hours to pass the legislation in the senate, and last minute negotiations to get west virginia senator joe manchin onboard. now $300 in enhanced employment benefits will be paid through labor day. republicans unanimously rejected the massive package but could not stop it. >> senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more haphazard way or through a less rigorous process. >> reporter: the house is expected to take up this legislation on tuesday. democrats there can only lose four votes and still pass it, so leadership will seek to move swiftly to send it to the president's desk for his signature. chris? chris: mike emmanuel reporting from capitol hill. mike, thanks for that. and joining us now, west virginia senator joe manchin who's become the key swing vote in congress. senator, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> hey, chris. it's always good to be with you. thank you for having me. chris: on friday you held up this covid relief panel for the better part of ten hours -- package for the better part of ten hours over a dispute on unemployment benefits. were you really prepared to tank this bill, president biden's top legislative priority, if you didn't get what you wanted? >> absolutely not. that's not how negotiations should go, and that should never be the intent of anybody. there was nothing that i wanted more than to have a balanced bill. and this is something that came into it at the last minute. i thought it was something more than what we ever agreed on or intended. and when they talk about this being just strictly a democrat bill and no bipartisan, i worked with my colleagues and my friends on the republican side for the last month all the way through. a lot of the things i was able to get into that bill and target the bill the way we had talked about came because of negotiations and talks with my republican and democratic colleagues. so when that happened, chris, i just said, hold on. if we stay at $300 for unemployment, it's seamless. no one misses a paycheck, not at all. and basically we were doing so much more with child tax credits, helping every family, and there's got to be a balancing. you know, i'm in that moderate middle, i guess. it's not real crowded, chris, i can assure you. but we just tried to make that all come to fruition, and it did. and that's the way negotiations should go. chris: senator, if you had all this republican input into the bill, if you've been talking to them for a month, why didn't any of your republican colleagues vote for it? was it just your politics? >> well, no, it wasn't just my politics or democrat politics, it was maybe a little bit more than what they thought they could have done on the amount of money that was going and investing. what we were able to target, we strung the it out. we didn't just throw it all at one time so we were able to say, okay, first time in history now a little town or community or county, wherever it be in america, are can have some control of their destiny fixing water and sewer, internet service. it's going to go out to 2024 on that. the tranches of money helping people long term, fixing the school systems, making them safe. there might have been more than what they thought was need at this time, but truly, they had input with me, and they knew that. we worked together, democrats and republicans, until the final passage and then it was more than maybe what they could have voted and supported. but they did have input, i can assure you. chris: but let's talk about the bill and this question of the amount of aid that you gave. the nonpartisan congressional budget office came out with an estimate that the economy was down only 6-700 billion because of the pandemic, and yet this bill gives $1.9 trillion, triple almost, what the cbo says you really need. that raises the question, one, is this bill going to overheat the economy and create inflation and, two, as you point out, it isn't all just this year. it's out four, five, some of the money doesn't get spent til 2030. so was this really covid relief, or this a democratic wish list? >> no. covid relief is more than just the vaccine. the vaccines is the most urgent thing we can do. keeping people able to stay in their homes is absolutely as urgent as anything else we do. and we did all of that. covid relief means are you going to be able to move on, have the economy move on as strong as you want to, not have a lapse in that. that's why we were able to target it out and move it out some. i'm hoping the economists look at that too. president biden was concerned because he was there in 2009. i was not, i was still governor at that time, the when they did the recovery act and they thought they didn't do it quick enough. i basically reminded people that was a fan collapse, this is -- financial collapse, this is a health care pandemic. it's much different. we will come out of this. i want to make sure the work force is ready to go too, chris, and that's why we wanted to make sure we didn't basically throw everything at one time. we want to make sure that we're recovering in 2022 also so we don't have a lapse or relapse. chris: but what about this argument that the economy's only down -- only, but it's down $700 billion, and you're spending $1.9 trillion and that you may end up overheating the economy and causing inflation, sir? >> well, i hope we don't. i don't think we will because, again, i said, we spread if it out. we didn't throw it all at one time. they're saying we're going to spend $1.9 trillion in this one year, there might be some concerns about that or there should be, i'm sure. i'm concerned more about the debt that we're accumulating and we've been accumulating through all different types of administrations. it's time to get our financial house in order. i'm in that moderate middle, and common sense is not real common sometimes in washington, but we can come together, and we have to. we're watching this very carefully. but i can assure you we have helped every portion of society right now with this targeted legislation, and i'm going to be monitoring as well as my other friends will too. chris: you keep talking about the moderate middle. [laughter] do you like being the most powerful member of, the swing vote in a 50-50 senate? do you like that, sir? >> no, i dot do not -- do not, and i did not lobby for this or seek it out. the bottom line is i am who i am, and i've always been that person to try to find middle of common sense. my state of west virginia expects that, they know me as that. they're good people, and we just try to do things in a rational, common sense way. so i've said this about power, chris, i've seen people who have had power that have abused it, i've seen people that sought power that destroyed themselves trying to get it, and i've seen people that seize the moment. if i can seize this moment and start healing our country, helping our president bring our country together, listening to all sides and making a decision that doesn't intend to harm anybody and don't play the tribal politics, just not who i am. i am who i am. i'm not going to change. and i think that, hopefully, people understand that and they give me the flexibility and understand that. and then i appreciate that. i know it's difficult for some people to understand. this is who i am. i'm just joe from west virginia. chris: well, let's talk about just joe because you have staked out those positions, and you were doing it in no right after the election -- in november right after the election. i want to put up some of the positions you've taken breaking with your party. you said early on you would not be the 50th democrat to end the filibuster, you'd not be the 50th democrat to pack the supreme court, and so far whether it's the $15 minimum wage neera tanden's nomination, you've broken with your party. you just put up, you just said the quote, i was going to put it up on the screen because you've said it before about power and what it can to people. the question i guess i have, here's the quote: i have watched power destroy people, good people, because they abused it. look, i love talking to you, senator, but you are on four sunday shows today, and the question i have is are you enjoying your position of power maybe a little too much? >> i sure hope not. oh, my goodness. then i would be -- that would be horrible. that's not -- no. i want to make sure people understand, i am in that common sense middle. that's who i am. it happened to come down to 50-50. this doesn't happen that often in our political posturing or our governing. and it, i hope it doesn't come around again for a long time. we need to find a way to work together. that's all i'm trying to do. i'm not taking advantage of any moment at all, but if i can seize the moment and make you understand, hold on, we're not going to just blow things up, we're not going to destroy the senate the founding fathers decided would be the most deliberate body, usual from any other -- unusual from any other form of government in the world. seize the moment and fix what's gone wrong. why did we go so right and so left? we don't run our lives from the extreme. you always try to find that moderate middle to make decisions, to run your life, to enjoy your family, to make sure that you're able to prosper and move forward. you can't do that from the extremes. that's all. and now we've pushed it apart. maybe it's social media. i don't know what's going it, but when people can talk about people without looking them in the eye, shaking their hand and giving them their word that's who you are and stick with it, i don't know, maybe it's old-fashioned west virginia. it's the way i was raised, chris. chris: so, senator, let me ask you one last question. because going forward one of the things that you staked out very early on, and i've only got about two minutes here, is that you would not end the filibuster. the question i have is would you consider if the republicans just won't go along with anything, reforming the filibuster? for instance, the filibuster doesn't apply now to either budget rules, that's why you have the reconciliation budget issues or to nominations. would you consider extending exemptions to other issues, or would you consider going back to the old filibuster sort of like mr. smith goes to washington and jimmy stewart where you want to filibuster, it's not an automatic 60 votes, you've got to stay on the floor and keep talking. >> filibuster should be painful, and we've made it more comfortable over the years. not intentionally, we just -- it involved into that. member it that to be more painful -- maybe it has to be more painful. there's things we can talk about, but, chris, whenever you take away in the senate the ability for the minority whoever it may be, democrats or republicans, to have input, why do you have two senators in and two senators in a new york or california? why is there one body that treats everyone, hopefully the, the ability to intervene, the ability to be involved, the ability to represent no matter how large or small? that's so the right person doesn't take advantage of a smaller person or a person in not just stature, but this their position. that's what this is all about. chris: but just to be clear, with 30 seconds left, you would consider making it harder to invoke the filibuster so that you just don't automatically have 60 votes that you need for any legislation? >> i'd make it harder to get rid of the filibuster. i'm supporting if filibuster. i'm going to continue to support the filibuster. i think it defines who we are as a senator. i'll make it harder to get rid of it, but it should be painful if you want to use it. make sure the place works to, okay, i want to work with you, how can we do this, how do we move forward. my republican friends are my friends, they're not my ebonies, and my democrat colleagues, they're not my enemy. we've got to make this place work and it should be hard to invoke pain. tonight make it painful for the -- don't make it painful for the other side. chris: senator manchin, thanks for your time after a very busy few days, and we'll be watching the bill's progress on the hill this week. >> thank you, chris. it's going to help americans for a long time. chris: thank you again. up next, some states are bucking the recommendations of public health officials in lifting covid restrictions. we'll talk with one of those governors when we come right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ chris: it's been a year since states started shutting down businesses, limiting gatherings and mandating masks, and now several states have announced those days are coming to an end. joining us from little rock, arkansas, republican governor asa hutchinson and vice chair of the national governors association. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> great to be with you, chris. chris: last month you changed your public health state directives to guidelines, changed them, in effect, from mandatory to optional. so now restaurants, bars, gyms and other businesses in arkansas can be open even to 100% capacity. why did you do that, sir? >> well, you emphasized the key point, and that is that it's been a year. and during the course of the last year, we've educated the public as to what's required on public health, our businesses have taken the right measures in place, we've had a mask mandate in place, and there's just a limit as to how much the restrictions can be placed on business and for how long. they've struggled, they've suffered, and so we wanted to give more flexibility. it's not the immediate ending of everything. we still have our guidelines in place and, actually, there's an incentive to keep control of the facilities because that gives you business tort liability immunity if you follow some of those guidelines. and so we're not having a cliff here. we keep the emergency in place, our mask mandate is in place until the end of the month if, and i asked our public health folks to give me specific criteria as to when we can lift that, and we agreed the criteria the public knows we can lift that mask mandate. hospitalizations down, vaccines going out, testing's in place, positivity rate down. chris: so i want to pick up on that because while you have relaxed the opening of businesses, you are not ending the mask mandate until the end of this month and then only if the state stays under current covid spreads, covid numbers. why didn't you go along with the governors of your neighboring states of texas and mississippi which are ending the mask mandate right now? >> well, this is reflexive of governors doing it different ways. flexibility, i think, is the model of our states. but for me in arkansas, i wanted to set a goal and give people hope that we can end the mask mandate if we get to these, this place where we feel more comfortable tharp that -- that our hospitalizations are still down. we wanted an offramp. we didn't want a cliff, i wanted an offramp. so we set our goals and expectations. the public if knows exactly what we have to do to lift that mandate. of course, it would be converted to a guideline, and i think masks are going to be with us for some time. but at some point we have to rely upon common sense and good judgment versus mandates and particularly when it comes to our businesses. they want to be able to do the right thing with their patrons and customers, but they want to be able to have some flexibility and that's critically important, and that's what we're giving them, hope and flexibility. chris: governor, in this plan which does make it no longer mandatory in terms of the businesses to reopen 100%, you're going against the guidance of president biden and his top public health officials. i want you to take a look at what they said this week. >> the last thing we need is the neanderthal thinking that in the meantime everything's fine, take off your mask. forget it. it still matters. >> it really is quite risky to completely remove all of the public health measures and just act like there's no virus in the community when we know it is at an unacceptably high level. chris: governor, why do you think that you know better than the experts? >> well, of course, if you relied simply upon strict public health guidelines, they would love to have a shelter in place for a year which we cannot do as a society. so you have to balance what our public health dictates with the reality that we have to move, we have to get back to school. you know, and president biden's a perfect example of this. you know, he's leading by encouraging people to take the virus seriously, but at the same time he's saying vigorously let's open our schools. well, there's risk to opening the schools, but it's a risk that is very, very important because we need to have in-classroom instruction. and i'm proud of my state of arkansas that we went back to school last august and september with in-classroom instruction, and then the president says we need to vaccinate all the teachers. well, we did that. we moved them up in our priority list early on. of and so that's important for governors to be able to lead their state. it's -- and i don't think it's fair to say it's neanderthal type thinking. you know, the history of our country from the boston tea party is freedom, protesting against overtaxation, government control. and so it's pretty natural to have a sensitivity to freedom-loving americans that say we'll do the right thing, we know what what to do, just give us our freedom back and lift some of these mandates. that's the nature of america, and i understand that. that's not cavemanning thinking, that's common sense. chris: but let me just press one more time on this issue of public health. there's no question that arkansas is in much better shape than you were during that big, terrible spike around the country in january. but you're still not out of the woods, and i want to put up the latest numbers on the situation in arkansas. the average of new cases in your state is 373 new cases per day. hospitalizations, 420. and according to the cdc, arkansas ranks 45th out of the 50 states in the number of covid vaccinations per capita. given all of that, governor, is this the the right time to take your foot off the brake? >> it's a good question. and that's the reason we didn't end the emergency. that's the reason i have a ramp. if we see the cases spike up, if we see the hospitalizations go up, then we can reinstitute the mask mandate because it's a ramp, it goes til march 31st with specific guidelines. we can take the action that's needed. so we're not out of the woods, but at the same time, the key is hospitalizations. and because of improved therapeutics and because of the vaccines, because we have more people following guidelines and taking it seriously, we're in a pretty good position. if it goes the wrong direction, we can take the steps necessary. but people is have to have hope. this has been a year and we have to give them hope that we can work our way out of this emergency. we've got a good balance and a good plan in arkansas. chris: finally, i want to get to this philosophical issue. ooh i've only got about two minutes here, governor, but you talk about freedom, and i understand that. i understand people they chafint not being able to lead their own lives. but, you know, we keep speed limits and we keep seat belt laws even though people clearly understand the benefits of both. don't you worry that, you know, on the one hand, yes, freedom. but on the other hand, this may change people, when they get the word from the governor of the state, you know, you can go back 100% and within a few weeks you're to be able to take off your masks and it i may change people's behavior. >> we have to be careful about that, you're absolutely right. and we don't want to send the wrong signals. but whenever you look at the necessity of these mandates and the business restrictions, sure, we have seat belt laws. that can be a permanent thing. but i don't think you want to keep a business that put in an investment that they could be at 100% capacity and you hold them at 50% or 75%. you have to be able to give that flexibility in gyms, salons. and so lifting those restrictions, converting the guidelines is a good, balanced step that we can take. the mask mandate, people understand right now people can protect themselves. if you go out and people aren't wearing a mask, keep your distance from them, you wear a mask. now, if you have restaurants that are not following the guidelines, well, go to a restaurant that is following guidelines. people can make good decisions. chris: governor, thank you. thanks for coming in today. it's always good to talk with you, sir. >> thank you, chris. great to be with you today. chris: up next, we'll get reaction to what some states are doing from the former head of the cdc, dr. tom frieden joins us next. ♪ ♪ so you want to make the best burger ever? 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>> that's right. and this is the way to think about it. there are a lot of harms to closing businesses. not just economic harms, educational harms when it comes to schools, personal hardship, health harms there people not having work. so it's really important to get our economy open again as safely as possible. now, i wouldn't necessarily open everything. for example, an indoor stadium with people coming from all over, that's a really bad idea. on the other hand, masks -- you know, the only freedom a mask inhibits is the freedom of the virus to spread and kill people. masks work. mask mandates work, and lifting mask mandates work is very dangerous marley with the risk of -- particularly with the risk of more dangerous variants emerging and spreading. chris: but let's talk about this because this isn't just mississippi and texas. there's a push in this area across the country. i'm going to put up two maps for you the take a look at, doctor. the first one is this week 16 states, all run by republican governors across the south and the midwest and some of the rocky mountain states, 16 statements all run by -- states all run by republican governors will have lifted mask mandates or never had them, and all 50 states, all 50 run by republican and democratic governors will be either mostly or partly open for business, and some of them at 100% capacity. is that -- clearly on the masks you think it's too much too soon. on the opening businesses, are you concerned that's opening too fast, particularly 100% capacity in gyms, restaurants and bars? >> well, interestingly, chris, those two things are related. if you keep a mask mandate in place, you'll be able to open more and more likely to keep it open without risk to people not just to other customers, but the workers there as well. i do worry about restaurants and bars where people may be speaking loudly without masks on, and you really do have to focus, you know, the governor said, well, if you don't want the go into a restaurant where people aren't wearing masks, you can go to a different restaurant. not if you're the waiter. if you're the waiter, yeah, you can wear a mask, but you're much safer if the customers wear a maaing when they're not eating, of course, and you wear a mask. mask mandates are a way of preserving our health and our economy. chris: doctor, as we said in the last segment, president biden is coming down pretty hard on these governors who are relaxing restrictions. his famous phrase this week, me yappedder that would thinking -- neanderthal thinking. but the day after greg abbott, the governor of texas, noted that with a lot of people right now coming across the border illegally into this country that 108 people who had been released in brownsville, texas, had tested positive for the covid virus, and governor abbott continued on with this. take a look. >> the biden administration was exposing texans to covid. that is neanderthal type approach dealing with the covid situation. chris: doctor, is this right time to be relaxing immigration restrictions and allowing more people to come across the boarder and more people to be released -- border and more people to be released in the country when you're in the midst of a public health crisis? >> well, let's get the numbers straight here. the united states has more than 50,000 cases a day diagnosed and probably two or three times that many actually occurring every day. that vast majority, 99.999% of the infection that's spread in the u.s. arise in the u.s. let's focus on getting our house in order, and we can to that by masking up, doubling down on protection protocols, vaccinating the moment it's your turn. and as we do that, chris, over the next few months we will get to a much safer situation, we will get to a new normal. but i think masks are going to be a part of that normal for many months to come. that's the sensible thing to do to get our kids back in school, people back to work and our economy moving again. chris: but i -- you talk about the fact that we're headed in the right direction. i want to put up some video on the screen because as you well know, this is spring break time, and there are a lot of young people who are flocking to florida, congregating on beaches. this is one to have more sedate -- ah, this is a better picture of people in bars. it's spring break. does that worry you? is in your worst nightmare? >> it does corpsly me, chris. -- worry me, chris. every time there's been a holiday with people traveling and mixing, we've seen a big surge in cases after. right now the main question we have to know is, is there going to be a fourth surge in this country or not. we've had three deadly surges, will we have a fourth. and the answer to that, the answer to that is something we can control by masking up and avoiding sharing indoor air with people not in your household. chris: dr. frieden, thank you. thanks for joining ugh. please come back, sir. >> thank you. chris: up next, calls for impeachment grow over new york governor andrew cuomo's nursing home scandal and allegations of sexual harassment. can he survive? we'll ask our sunday group. that's next. ♪ ♪ >> it was unintentional, and i truy the and deeply apologize for it. >> i thought, he's trying to sleep with me. the governor's trying to sleep with me. and i'm deeply uncomfortable, and i have to get out of this room as soon as possible. chris: new york governor andrew cuomo responding to allegations of sexual harassment, and charlotte bennett, who's one of now four women who accuse cuomo of inappropriate behavior as a third former aide came forward late yesterday. and it's time now for our sunday group. mark short, former chief of staff to vice president mike pence, julie pace, washington bureau chief of the associated press, and fox news political analyst juan williams. well, governor cuomo -- let's put up on the screen all of the problems he faces because it is the not just these allegations of sexual harassment now from four women, he also faces federal and state investigations of whether his office covered up the number of nursing home residents who died of covid and the state legislature just voted to strip cuomo of emergency powers in the pandemic. julie, what are you hearing from top democrats both in washington and in new york about cuomo and all of his problems? >> well, cuomo doesn't have a lot of allies among democrats right now, not a lot of people rallying around him to support him in this moment, but you also aren't seeing a lot of democrats -- with a couple of exceptions -- calling for his resignation. the party line is basically let's let this independent investigation of these allegations move forward. we feel these are inappropriate actions on the part of the governor, but we want to see what comes out of the investigation. i do think this is democrats and society at large grappling with where the line is right now. what is an action that is so inappropriate, that is so egregious that a public official can no longer stay in office. but i do think to your opening here, i think it's important to note that cuomo is not just facing these sexual misconduct allegations. the allegations of cooking the books, essentially, on nursing home deaths is really serious. and i think that gets to the heart of his overall leadership of the state of new york through this pandemic, and i think you're going to increasingly see a lot of attention focused in that direction as well. chris: mark, you spent enough time in washington, and i hate to be sip call about it, you -- cynical about it, you get a pretty good sense of how these scandals are going to play out and whether the person at the center of them is going to survive or not. what's your sense of this scandal? actually, two scandals? >> yeah, chris, i think the sexual harassment allegations are serious and should be invested, but probably on the nursing home, a little more knowledge because of our relationship during management crisis, and i think that the lack of leadership is really shocking here, and i think the cover-up is very serious. the reality is that governor cuomo sent sick covid patients back into into nursing homes and infected err people, and lives were lost because of those decisions. it's hard to think of any state that received more federal assistance during covid than new york from the trump/pence administration. whether or not that was ventilators or replenishing the stock files, also the federal government creating a hospital in the javits center, sending the uss comfort to be in the harbor for additional beds, there were all sorts of options he had. he made a wrong decision, and now the allegations that he covered up and lied about the number of covid deaths because of his decisions. those are incredibly serious allegations, and i think he's on very tenuous standing. chris: juan, and i think mark short is a pretty good example of that, democrats are having a field day with the problems that cuomo is having. first of all, they say liberals were far too slow to recognize that cuomo made a serious mane mistake when he -- mistake when he issued this directive that seniors who were in hospitals should be sent back to nursing homes, and then there's the whole question of cooking the books. and they also note the fact that, you know, it wasn't so long ago that liberals were saying, you know, if a woman accuser comes forward -- they certainly said this about brett kavanaugh -- she must be believed. now they're a little slower to say it, maybe a lot slower when it comes to app true cuomo. >> well -- andrew cuomo. >> well, i think on the nursing home scandal i think that you would know that the new york assembly, state senate as well, they've limited governor cuomo's powers right now with regard to how the pandemic is handles. so they're reining him in, holding him to a higher level of accountability. and, by the way, i think that's just bad decision making. i don't know that there's anything illegal. clearly people died and there's a terribles price for all families -- terrible price for all families who lost a loved one to pay, but it was a decision. i'm still curious about what was done illegally. on the sexual harassment side, you have the new york attorney general, a democrat by the way, who is now going to have an independent investigation with spoon that power for -- subpoena power for documents and for witnesses, chris. i think the pressure for that independent probe, by the way, came from both senators, both democrats and also came from new york's mayor bill de blasio who is no friend to governor cuomo. and, again, members of the state assembly and state senate. is so you're seeing a lot of democrats who, i think, are resistant to the idea of a fourth term for governor cuomo and who see him as a bully who's run them over -- democrats, i'm talking about -- who are saying, you know, maybe not now. i would also add that if you look at the latest quinnipiac poll done this week after both scandals had emerged, most new yorkers are not calling on him to resign. they don't want him to run again, but they're not calling on him to resign right now. so i think we have to keep all this in mind, and also i would say, you know, i don't see any independent investigation if of donald trump, and he faced far more serious charges of sexual assault, you know, even more than that. and i don't see those kind of calls coming from republicans. chris: well, yes, but on the other hand, i don't know that we could say that donald trump went uninvestigated over the course of his four years in the presidency between the special counsel and two impeachments. anyway, let's move on to this quite serious question about this surge of unaccompanied minors across the border. the biden administration seems determined to kind of play it down. take a look at this exchange this week. >> do you believe that right now there's a crisis at the border? >> i think that the answer is, no. i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it. chris: julie, the department of homeland security put out a report this week -- it wasn't put out to the public, but it was leaked -- that they are now projecting 117,000 un accompanied minors are going to cross the border this year, way over what we thought was a very serious surge in 2019. is that sustainable for the biden white house to say, well, it's not a crisis, it's a challenge, we're managing it. and more importantly, that they really have a plan to get this under control? >> well, they don't have a plan at the moment to get this under control. we do know that the white house is dispatching some officials to the border to try to see this situation firsthand, but right now they're caught in this situation where they are saying that the policy steps that we've seen biden take on immigration, essentially rolling back a lot of the trump administration if's deterrence policies, should not be read by migrants as an open invitation. do not amaze at the board -- amass at the border. but for all of their talk about that, all of their messaging on it, that's not the message that is actually being received by a lot of migrants, so you do have this situation where people are increasingly coming to the border as families with young children, do feel like this is a moment where they can get into the united states, they can feel like there's going to be a more receptive policy from the biden administration. so this is the challenge that the white house has. if they don't think that their policy actually is an open invitation, then they have to signal that more clearly because that is not the way it is being interpreted at the moment. chris: mark, in its zeal to are reverse trump policies that they are happy to call inhumane -- and that's one of the more, the milder words being used at the white house podium these days -- has the biden white house gone too far? >> oh, chris, they're absolutely rolling out a red carpet for illegals to come into the united states. the reality is, it is a human tower crisis. as you mentioned -- humanitarian crisis. the last couple of months ago the numbers is three times what it was, and it's only going up. it's going to get worse by the end of spring. one of the things the trump administration did was the remain in mexico policy that required migrants to stay in mexico. now by rescinding that, immigrants are allowed to walk freely into our country, and the numbers are going to continue to increase. you're going to continue to see using human trafficking, of taking young kids to the borders is going to continue to increase. and just think about your last segment. the reality is right now if you're an american citizen and you have to fight back in the unite, you're required to get tests, but if you walk up to our border, you're allowed to come straight in without any covid tests. that's something that above abbott pointed out in your last segment. chris: i've got about 20 seconds, juan. you thought abouts about this. isn't the biden administration leaving itself open to a real problem at the border? >> i think we do have a real problem at the border, chris. i think the biggest change in policy is halting the immediate expulsion of unaccompanieded minors. and the biden administration is simply trying to have a more humane, rapid processing response. chris: but they've got some problems at this point. we'll see what happens. thank you, panel. see you next sunday. up next, our power player of the week, the man behind the fitness machine that's helping millions stay in shape during the pandemic lockdown. ♪ chris: during this last year of pandemic lockdowns, the popularity of one home finance product has exploded. here is our power player of the week. >> i hon ofestly pinch myself. i feel like i've got the best job and we're creating one of the great brands of our generation and we're having fun. >> three, two, let's ride. chris: john foley's brand is peloton. the exercise technology and media giant. >> what's your passion right now? chris: it's brought studio fitness into millions of homes. their stationary bikes are built with touch screens, so users can immerse themselves in live or on demand classes. during pandemic lockdowns, interest has gone through the roof. how much of an increase in sales has there been over the last year? >> last quarter we announced 130% year on year growth. chris: and in the course made you a billionaire, correct? >> on paper, i'm not hurting right now but we are -- we're not in it for the money. chris: foley and his wife are fitness class addicts. they came up with the idea a decade ago. >> in new york it was hard to get into those classes. we bring a community of support of millions of people into the experience. it's not lonely. think netflix but for fitness classes. chris: members can compete with themselves and each other. >> get a little savage with it. >> the instructor can see how you're doing and he or she might give you a shout-out and say c wallace, 1, 2, 3, this is your 100th class, let's follow him up hill. let's go. congratulations. chris: that sounds pretty cool. >> we realized we needed an entire technology enabled ecosystem. chris: in the early days selling the concept was like its classes, an uphill climb. >> for decades, fitness equipment at home was all about a piece of hardware. it was largely isolated and not fun. it became the cliche clothes hanger and dust collector. chris: felton eventually -- peloton eventually caught on. not without bumps in the road. the biggest, the now infamous ad about a husband who gives his already fit wife a bike for christmas. >> thank you. >> oh, boy. that was -- it was a frustrating moment for all of us. we're very passionate about what we do. it's not just about fitness. it's about a journey and about becoming a better you and we tried to tell parts of that story in the tv spot and i think it was a bridge too far for people that were unfamiliar with what we do. >> come on, peloton. chris: today, peloton has over 5 million members, foley hopes to make that 100 million. >> we're going to welcome more members. we're going to hire more team members. we're trying to create the best place to work in the world. chris: the bike over foley's shoulder isn't a prop. >> at 6:00 a.m. my wife are stumbling over each other to figure out who gets to do the 6:00 ride. chris: have you thought about getting two bikes for the foley household so you don't have to fight each other? >> i should, i should. chris: i think you could get a deal. >> you're right. [laughter] chris: speaking of peloton couples, there are some high profile fans here in d.c. president and mrs. biden. no word yet whether they brought their bike with them to the white house. and that's it for today. have a great week. and we'll see you next fox news sunday. ." steve: if you thought pelosi banana republic, hr1 bill could neverhappen, think again, they a neuter fiing plan. -- new plan, it is terrifying, i am steve hilltop. this is home of popular -- we start with a quiz. a headline about president biden from last week. try to fill in the banks, focus on those on screen, joe something, something, to reopen schools, what did joe do?

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