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today and great food and you are right restrictions just lifted in and around new orleans. we will talk to business owners about it and the border and great food, guys. there are food locations of dot's diner in new orleans. this one is old jefferson near ashner. brian: this is known like a party town, party state. if you party late you don't get up for pete. are you worried you are going to be alone all morning? pete: the doors did just open. and they opened early for us. so right now it's a little slim. brian: i got that idea. ainsley: partiers eat breakfast. brian: leisure more about pete. pete: i didn't party though, no, huh-uh, i behaved. brian: not old enough. steve: that's our pete. that's all, folks, for right now. we will check back in with him threat morning. he will try to talk to some folks in about 10 minutes there. brian: as soon as they show up. steve steph we are hoping in 10 minutes. meanwhile, we will turn to griff jenkins. is he in washington. griff, reporters from the a.p. and cbs got to look at that facility in donna, texas yesterday and just as we thought, it's awful. griff: it's a start. we are finally getting to see the biden administration allowing cameras inside as you mentioned and what they saw were migrants stacked wall-to-wall. many unaccompanied children waiting to be processed. the children being housed by the hundreds in these 8 pods what you are essentially looking at formed by plastic dividers, this facility in donna, texas is, simply overrun. listen. the pass city is 250. holding over 4 hundred subjects in this location. we are way over capacity. we are 700 percent over capacity. griff: now the 4100, 3400 of those are unaccompanied minors and 39 of them have been held for at least 15 days. right now 250 to 300 unaccompanied kid are being taken into custody daily and staying an average of five days. now, texas' governor greg abbott writing a letter demanding answers and pleading with vice president harris to head to the border and see it firsthand. he writes: i urge to you visit the border to see the crisis for yourself. and i implore the biden administration to take swift action to secure the border. dhs and hhs secretaries will be briefing house members today here in washington. but, vice president harris is not expected to attend. brian, ainsley, steaf? brian: it's just the oddest way she has chosen to handle the portfolio she was given by the president by really not doing much. taking the weekend off. saying i'm not going to the border. i'm going to focus on the origins of this whole thing but, when i get a chance. well, let me ask you, griff, is it an emergency down there or not? griff: well, of course it is. and those shocking images are surprising the nation and the politicians that visited it. it's not surprising the officials who predicted. this by the way, harris, who says she is going to deal with the root causes, i looked something up and that is how much money guatemala got during the trump administration four years, just over 800 million. now, touring the 8 years of the obama-biden administration they only got 1.1 billion. if the answer is more money, well, guess what? the previous administration did that as well. are they going to undo it? brian: i'm not sure. thanks a lot, griff. ainsley: when you see some of these stories, it's just heart-breaking. san diego, that convention center that allowed all those teachers to come in and volunteer during spring break for in person classrooms meanwhile the residents of san diego can't send their kids to school that are taxpayers. if you look at the covid numbers, this is pretty scary, there were 700 girls that were transferred to that facility. and 82 out of them tested positive. originally 59 tested positive. they were housed separately. and then in addition to that once all the girls went into the facility, 23 of them inside the facility tested positive. they were moved to a different floor and they are in quarantine. steve: do you know what, ainsley, when you look at those particular numbers, that is 437% higher than the threshold to reopen the schools in california. that is so crazy. because of all those kids testing positive. what's interesting about the fillings there in san diego at the convention center, where they did not allow reporters to be there when there were kids inside, is they are actually testing kids for covid there. you know, go back. ainsley: every three days. staff steve you go back to the facility in donna, texas, that we saw, where the kids were in those biden bubbles. right there in donna, texas, the positivity rate is 14%. a month ago, it was 4%. so it's gone up 10%, which suggesting the kid are contracting the coronavirus in what i now refer to as the biden bubble because it's like a bubble where there is not really -- look, they are in a plastic bubble. ounce ains exactly. steve: absolutely. when you think about it you need to have good air flow and stuff like that. if you are in a bubble, that's how you get it, and these latest numbers show it's gone up 10% in a month. that's not just the detention center. it's not just jail-like. but it is a super spreader. brian: right. so you think about what's happening in san diego. got transferred off the texas border. got charter flights to get you into the convention center in san diego to a place where teachers show up to volunteer. this is their spring break and teach them. making them more susceptible to getting the coronavirus if you look at the chances there, it's 9%. so your chances of you getting the coronavirus, some kid in san diego unified school district is 0.04%. why haven't you been teaching the last neighbor month. kristin fisher engaged jen psaki in this. see how it went. >> does the white house think it is sending the right message to the 130,000 kids in san diego and parent who have been at stuck the past year. >> i'm saying that context is important. these kids are going back to school for hybrid learning. we, of course, want that to be five days a week and we are confident we will get there early next month. i believe they're also on spring break right now which i think the context is pretty important. brian: those teachers who haven't had a chance to teach in person probably refreshing for them in a while. they're teaching things like getting the kids focused on the arts, visual arts as well as performing arts so they can actually do a play in san diego and work on extracurriculars maybe they can play tag and get into gym. they will also do different language and math courses. unbelievably frustrating if you are a parent in san diego waiting for your kids to go back to school, seeing them suffer, protests, after all the pta meetings and trying to force the hands of the union and this is in your face. katie pavlich weighed in. >> these are the priorities of the left, the left wants open borders. they want to use american taxpayer money not for their own children to be in school but to, you know, say that they're being humane. they have a more humane immigration process than president trump did. that's what they are trying to prove by having in person learning in places like san diego while taxpayers and parents there don't have their kid in school and continue to suffer. this is opposite of america first. that's exactly what the left stand for these days. this is the difference between the left and the right when it comes to border security. when it comes to the priorities of each political party. and so here we are with the left's priorities playing thought realtime. ainsley: she says the left believes that america is entitled that we owe it to them to give what we have. that we are so spoiled, basically, that we owe it to give it to them. she says that the left looks at them as international. we are all international children, and that this is the opposite of america first. one of the parents, leslie hofmeister, she is a parent in saying. she was on fox. and she has been pleading with the school districts since september. these kids have been out of school more than a year. they are not listening to us. these migrant kids show up and they get school in person yet they lock the doors to all of us. another parent valdez says this is a slap in our faces. steve: the big telling thing brian and ainsley will be next week the white house and the san diego school districts have said well, those teachers are volunteering and it's their spring break. what happens after spring break ends because those kids are going to be housed there through july and the government has already said we're going to go ahead and provide all of these social supervisors and educational services as well. so will the teachers start getting paid? is the administration doing a deal with the unions behind the backs of everybody? stay tuned. ainsley: if they are only allowed to stay there three days maybe they don't get school inside these convention centers when they get out they will live with sponsors and live with relatives. brian: because every foster kid has a home and every kid who needs to be adopted in america has gotten adopted. that's why we are basically full but we can just take in every country's children. steve: the other thing to remember about what griff said is that pretty much every kid who has been held at that donna, texas facility is being held in violation of federal statute. you are supposed to be out within 72 hours but they are keeping them weeks at a time. brian: let's get those kids lawyers. meanwhile at 7:25 two outraged parent will be joining us and darrell issa will be joining us, too. while you were sleeping an infrastructure plan is unveiled. steve: today. brian: embargo off 5:00 p.m. tunnels and bridges. how much is it going to cost 2 trillion? don't believe it 4 maybe 5 trillion. here is some of the things he is hoping to get passed. 620 billion of transportation. that's roads and bridges. highways and ports, makes sense. 400 billion on home care for elderly and disabled. 5 will 0 billion in r and d and manufacturing training. 650 billion for electronic grid improvement. that could work. broadband, internet and water systems access. not much controversy there. where it gets controversial is called human infrastructure. human infrastructure like getting water to everybody, like going ahead and putting portions of the green new deal together. i think that the human infrastructure also includes creating good quality jobs, paid prevail wages and safe and healthy workplaces. i don't know what the heck does that mean? workers have a free and fair chance to organize join a union? how much is that going to cost us? why is that listed in this plan? it's kind of an aspiration or is he just free lapsing and solidifying the infrastructure of our care economy by creating jobs and raising wages and benefits for essential home care workers. there is a lot of play in this policy. ainsley: how are they going to pay for it? raise the corporate tax to 28%. it's 21% now and raise the global minimum tax 21% for multinational corporations. if you own a business, you are in trouble. your taxes are going to go up big time. and they're probably going to end up pushing this through. i don't know if the republicans though are going to be -- they are saying they are all for an infrastructure plan but they just don't all this green new deal stuff shoved down their throats and they don't want every individual and corporation to be taxed. joe manchin says he wants republicans input. he always votes with the democrats. chuck schumer said if the parties can't work together, democrats will move forward. bernie sanders says they are even prepared to use reconciliation. brian: can they even do it again? could they do it again. ainsley: twigd it into two part. steve: dividing into two parts because it's so big. talking about a staggering amount of money that's why joe biden is splitting it in two. it would be the largest tax hike in generation. it would be the biggest spending bill in the history of the world. now, what republicans are saying is, look, if this goes through, it's going to impact all sorts of people in all sorts of different ways. they say the tax hikes mean lower wages and less growth. that's something that donald trump had said. they say that the tax hike mean your utility bills are going to jump and you have got to figure if there is a green new deal. ainsley: gas prices already gone up. brian: a full dollar nobody reports that. ainsley: full dollar a gallon. steve: tax hikes family farms and restaurant. ainsley: restaurants after they have been hit hard. steve: and other small businesses, absolutely. we have heard if you have over $400,000, you know, joint filing, et cetera, that would be impacted. a lot of people fail their taxes as a small business on their family account. and tax hikes will send jobs and businesses overseas. now, the allies for joe biden say, look, this is what he promised during the campaign and he is just following through on that. they apparently are -- willing to negotiate with the republicans but, remember, they didn't have any republicans on board for the 1.9 trillion. they are saying that they think they could have it through by memorial day. however, they are thinking as well that there could be more parts because it's going to become so contentious they are going to have to slice up the universal basic income part from the green new deal part from who knows what part. at this point we just don't know. brian: here is larry kudlow, he weighed in. >> buried in the plan is something called social infrastructure which would be a massive expansion of the welfare state no work incentives. way less. pushing continued automatic it of both direct stimulus checks and unemployment insurance. you know, more unemployment insurance get you more unemployment. we are looking at a universal basic income plan before this is all said and done. between the 3 or $4 trillion price tag and end the fossil fuels, the biggest tax hike since 1942, along with a gigantic expansion of the welfare state, this is really a pivotal transformational bill. brian: just a whole thing of penalize the rich. i think republicans really want infrastructure. i think democrats want infrastructure. i think if they try to do it on regular reconciliation, without republicans, without sitting there let's deal with this in committee and work our way through the house to get back to the president, we know where he stands, i think it's going to come down to the parliamentarian saying i just gave you a reconciliation. can you do another this fiscal year and it's all going to be on that person and might even challenge the parliamentarian if it doesn't go. steve: great big by joe biden you can be the new fdr if you pass this thing. is he cram packed not only with the infrastructure stuff with both sides but with all this stuff, you know, the green new deal and the aspirational things that the political left love, so, maybe it's let's make a deal. i will give you this if you give me that. ainsley: we have congressman darrell issa and we have ted cruz come on the show we will ask them about it. brian: add this before we toss to carley. the dinners in '42 we had a depression and a war. we are coming out of this. we were forced into hibernation. we are out of hibernation. we are almost there. the economy is about to hit turbo speed. we need to fix our roads and bridges but we don't noe need this other social engineering. i'm stunned that people might be accepting of this. it's going to restructure society without a calamity. all we are doing is going back to work and everything is going to pick up. the revenue will rise. ainsley: carley shimkus has headlines for us, hey, carley. carley: good morning. start headlines with this. police arrest three more men in connection with last week's virginia beach shooting. they were arrested on search warrants related to the shootings. police say they will face drug and weapons charges from the searches not the shooting left two people dead and 8 others hurt. are lynch was killed during a con front station with police. on to extreme weather. south dakota governor kristi noem declaring a state of emergency as wildfires burn near mount rushmore. the flames destroying several homes and forcing hundreds to evacuate. nome's order will run through june 1st due to the severe drought and dangerous fire conditions. a march madness stunner as aclu beats number one michigan 51 to 49, advancing the bruins to the final four. they will play gonzaga saturday after the bulldogs win in 85-66 blowout against usc. a referee collapsing in the first half of the game leaving the court on a stretcher for an unknown medical issue. thankfully, he is said to be in stable condition, but scary situation there. on the court. guys, send it back to you. >> march madness about to move in april. ounce ains 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what's the situation. >> frustrating, actually. in my business while we haven't been directedly affected because i'm not in retail or restaurant or tourism related business, it is the state has gone about very cautious and methodical approach to reopening. new orleans has lagged behind on that. and it's frustrating to see that because covid, irrespective of what did you was going to hurt your business. but when you have the chance to open the doors back up, why not do so? and that hasn't been the case to the point where businesses and because we are so tourism related, those are things that are going to take a while to back up why not accelerate those patterns. it doesn't seem like the case. pete: feels like the governor has done a good job the city of new orleans holds back on tourism and that hurts. have a lot of folks to talk to you about at the diner. back to you in new york. steve: all right, pete, thank you very much. be back later on. straight ahead on wednesday, police in the nation are paying tribute to officer eric talley pictured screen right remembered as a hero for rushing into a boulder supermarket to save others during that shooting last week. this morning, an update from tunnel 2 towers on how you can help mr. tally's wife and seven children. that is next. ♪ [sfx: psst psst] allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good still fresh... unstopables in-wash scent booster. downy unstopables. ♪ ♪ we know it's going to take many forms of energy to meet the world's needs while creating a cleaner future for all. at chevron, we're lowering the carbon emissions intensity of our operations, investing in lower-carbon technologies, and exploring renewable fuels of the future. we work hard to care for the homes we love. but it's only human... to protect the one we share. ♪ ♪ learning is hard work. hard work requires character. learning begins in faith. it must move upwards toward the highest thing, unseen at the beginning - god. and freedom is essential to learning. its principles must be studied and defended. learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of hillsdale college. use a single hr software? 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ainsley: all right. thank you so much, carley. carley: you bet. car. ainsley: the sea of blue escorts the hearse will eric talley. he ran toward the danger to save the lives of so many. >> eric was brave and in the end, willing to die to save others. >> to describe eric is to describe a man of great character. eric never knew a stranger. he gave 100 percent of himself to every friendship. >> eric was the kind of guy who was so vibrant and enthusiastic about life and the job. he wanted to share with the world. ainsley: the tributes have been pouring in all across the country for the slain hero who leaves behind a wife and seven children. and now the tunnel to towers foundation is doing their part to chip in as well. so let's bring in their ceo frank siller. you know him well, along with ambassador and gold star home recipient jenny taylor. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning. frank, i will start with you. because you are trying to raise money to pay off this mortgage and help this family mom left with seven kids. what's the goal and where are we with the goal. >> well, the goal is to pay shay's mortgage off, the tally family's mortgage off by easter and we are about 80% there. and it's all your viewers. i can't thank "fox & friends" enough for this campaign and it's a promise we made to at the tunnel to towers foundation and we are going to keep that let's get this done. we are 80% there. go to tunnel 2 towers.org. you can donate as little as $11 a month and not only pay off this mortgage but help us going forward with so many other great heroes in the families that are left behind. ainsley: that's amazing. he ran into the danger like your brother did and you have changed some lives as a result. generally, i know you are a recipient. tell us what happened to your husband. >> so, a little over two years ago my husband was serving on deployment with the army in afghanistan when he was shot and killed and within hours literally we got a phone call from frank siller at tunnel 2 towers letting our family know that they would be taking care of our mortgage and i can't describe the burden that that lifts as a mom. i also have seven kids. and, you know, your first concern is oh my gosh is how will i raise these children without my husband here? but immediately following that thought is how am i going to pay the bills? how am i going to feed these children? i know mrs. talley and myself have been stay at home moms with the large families to raise of the weight of that financial burden is caught in the thinking right after a loss as this. ainsley: you are serving some families going through and this being there for them and holding their hands through it. you went to be with the talley family. what did you learn? how is the family doing? >> it was a remarkable service. to see a sea of blue. canine dogs and dozens of bagpipes there. you didn't see the ton of children. just the seven in the front row. i had a front row seat off to the side where i could have equal view of the stable and equal view of that family. i will tell you my eyes looked to that family a lot more. they are beautiful. they are so strong and resilient but one of the most touching moments of the entire service was when the grandmother, so eric talley's mother was presented with the flag from, you know, folded in a triangle shape and her little grandson one of eric's son reached over to comfort her. she wept over that flag. in that moment i realized that's who eric talley was. you see the light of his goodness, of his service, of his hope shining brightly in those beautiful children and his lovellly wife. his weeping mother and his father there. and it was a memory that will be etched in may mind forever to see them to watch them and to know that they are sitting there right in front of that casket draped that beautiful flag that's carrying their hero father and knowing that now they are going to go home without him. ainsley: gosh, that breaks my heart. frank, i'm going to tell everyone -- i'm sorry, we are out of time. thank you both for being on here and what's the website, frank? 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processed. texas congressman brian babin and retired acting ice director tom homan toured the southern border together. jay joins us now to talk about what they saw because they saw a lot more than just these images. congressman, you are no stranger to this area, what was different about this visit? >> well, it's out of control. you know, i mean, in spite of what the biden administration is telling us, this is not a crisis even. it's just a challenge, et cetera. we know it's a humanitarian crisis not only for the makings that are come in. my heart went out to some of these children in a facility there in donna that should be holding 250 they have 5700 people stacked in there like sardines. and they just don't seem to realize what is going on there. the border patrol as tom will tell you or i think the morale is down. they are doing a tremendous job but they are batting with a short stick. and then opening up the borders of the united states of america and absolutely creating this problem and putting americans in danger as well as these migrants. and the stunning cost of what is happening there. brian: i know. >> it's just unbelievable, brain. brian: getting hotels, converting military bases taking over convention centers not even telling the governors. tom, it takes a lot to rationalization you from what you saw. where does this rank in outrageous scenes at the border in your career? >> it's the worst. because this was totally preventable. the biden administration, incoming administration said if you end these programs, we are going to see a surge like have you never seen before. they were briefed by leadership at ice, at cbp. i talked to people that briefed them. so they knew this happened. brian, july of last year saying this would happen at the end of these policies. they knew what they were doing. again, this isn't incompetence. this isn't bad management. this is open borders. they designed an open borders agenda and the men and women of the border patrol feel abandoned, they are no longer enforcing the law they are facilitating illegal entry at the instruction of the administration. brian: you were telling me before they feel abandoned. you used the word surge. you offended a congresswoman from queens alexandria ocasio-cortez. here's what i'm talking about. >> first of all, just gut check, stop. anyone who is using the term surge around you, consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. this is not a surge. these are children and they are not insurgents. and we are not being invaded. brian: congressman, how dare you insult her by using the word surge. >> where is she now, brian? why isn't she down here? i can tell you leading this delegation of texas congressman and former professionals in this very business, we actually asked after vice president kamala harris was given charge of the border situation by president biden we actually invited her. we invited her to come and visit with us at some of these spots on our itinerary. we heard nothing whatsoever. and absolutely while this administration is telling us to continue to wear mavericks and only visit with just very few people up until july, they are stacking people who are covid positive. brian: up. yup.releasing them public to fan across texas and this united states in the middle of a pandemic. they have -- it's just hard to comprehend how they can justify this except that i think this is their plan. they want open borders. they want as many of these people to come in and get on government assistance and become voting citizens or at least voting, you know, people that would come and continue the democrat majority. and i think people just need to wake up. and if it wasn't for people like you, brian, and fox news they would not be getting the truth. that's what we need is the truth here. brian: right. tom, you insulted her when you used the war like term surge. >> she needs to come down and talk to the men and women who put the uniform on every day. brian: she came down when trump was president. >> absolutely. but you haven't seen her since. look, the men and women of the border patrol say it's a surgeon. the men and women of the border patrol say it's a crisis. the men and women of the border patrol know as president biden said that these cartels are using these children and family units to throw them across the border and tie up asset. 40% no longer on the line. these cartels are moving drugs and bad people through unguarded areas. this is a national security crisis. and if she can't understand that or accept that then she shouldn't be in congress at all. brian: it's unbelievable is the vice president was given this portfolio clearly by the president, she takes the weekend off and says i'm not going to the border. i'm going to the origin of where the problem is. i don't know, who is more powerful in that administration? it's hard to know. i don't even know what she is doing, but it's hard to believe that that would be -- you would want the job and then not do the job. congressman tom homan, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thank you, brian. good to be with you. god bless. brian: thanks for doing what you did and going down there. meanwhile, janice dean is telling us what's happening with the weather and more. hey, janice. janice: good morning, brain. let's talk about the fact that we could have the potential for severe weather today. heavy rainfall and temperatures dropping 15 to 25 degrees below average courtesy of this cold front that could bring the potential for severe storms, large hail and damaging winds and heavy rain fall especially across areas that have seen incredible amounts of rain in the last couple of weeks above average. then we will see snow behind this cold front as it moves offshore. that's going to be a big story tomorrow. so there is the severe threat from the gulf coast up toward the mid-atlantic. and then the flooding threat over middle tennessee. parts of kentucky, in towards mississippi, alabama, and georgia. that's going to be a big deal with several inches of rainfall and then the snow upwards of a foot for the adirondacks, across new york, up towards new england as we get in tomorrow. so don't adjust your set. it snows sometimes in april. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. brian: not good news for opening day baseball. thanks so much, janice. janice: sorry. brian: i don't blame you. i learned not to blame the weather person for the weather. i finally am growing up. georgia is set to lift its remaining covid restrictions today. governor brian kemp joins us to tell us why. ♪ i've lost count of how many asthma attacks i've had. but my nunormal with nucala? fewer asthma attacks. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless 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biden sounds like he wants to jack up the corporate tax from 21% to 28%. and that is not helpful if you are in business. >> yeah. that's so true. let's call the trickle down theory of tax increases. so taxing businesses whether it be large companies or in this case also the president is very clear he would like to increase taxes on small companies by eliminating what's called the pass through deduction. increasing taxes on businesses whether you are pro-or, you know, pro-for it or against it. the reality is less business -- less cash for business is probably, steve, means less jobs, probably means less pay increases and things like that. so, there is this trickle down effect when you tax companies as well. >> steve: shower. and if they get rid of that pass through entity clause, that's a big problem for a lot of small businesses. a lot of people watching right now because they wind up putting their business deductions and their business taxes on their personal income tax. and, according to that graph we just had up, joe biden would like to jack it up from 37 to about 40%. >> that's exactly right. so think the person that owns a couple of dry cleaners or a car dealership or a lady though owns a few restaurants. that sort of thing. they are the folks that are going to wind up probably paying more under the president's proposal as it is written today. steve: and finally, and this is the jaw dropping number, when it comes to capital gains taxes, the amount of money you pay tax wise on stock increases and stuff like that, it currently is at 20%. joe biden would like to double it. real quickly on that. >> yeah. and it's not just stocks, steve. that's the misperception it's for the wealthy folks that own stock. it's someone that may have an investment property. perhaps that they bought years ago. maybe their parents bought it years ago and it's been in the family for a while. that could also be subject to a higher capital gains tax. steve: well, dan, if he jacks up 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are about 80% there and it's all the viewers. i can't thank "fox & friends" enough. ♪ it's all about the fam ♪ georgia, alabama, louisiana brain brian again, that is tampa, florida. i have been there. and that is why this song -- all right. i'm not sure why we are using this song. i think part of the reason we are using this song is because we asked pete to go to louisiana. and louisiana was mentioned in the lyrics, am i right with that? pete, was that why we used that song? do you actually pick the music, too? pete: i have no idea. you know i have no power here, brian. i don't know who is picking this music. >> steve: you have the power to show us breakfast. pete: i do. this is strawberry cream pancake, of course, one of the many specialties can you get at dot's diner specifically in jefferson. talking to a ton of people. great staff right here. bring them on camera in a moment as well as business owners. lots of business owners wanting to talk about reopening new orleans so tourists. how quick they can open and how quick can people get back down here? lots of opinions as you would imagine from new orleansens we will get to those in a moment and i will eat in the meantime for sure. brian: restrictions lifted. steve: that's right. ainsley: looks dishes. check back in with you a little bit later. turn now to griff jenkins. he is in washington as shocking new video shows thousands of the migrants and unaccompanied children crammed inside a texas facility. griff? griff: that's right, ainsley, brian, and steve. good morning. finally cameras are being allowed inside and the images are jaw-dropping. migrants stacked wall-to-wall the majority of them unaccompanied children waiting to be processed. they are housed in 8 pods you see there formed by plastic dividers and this donna, texas facility is simply being overrun. >> the capacity for this location for covid purposes is 250. previous to covid, the total capacity was 1,000. we are holding over 4100 subjects in this location. we are way over capacity. we are like 700 percent over capacity. griff: when you break it down the 4100 he mentioned 3400 are unaccompanied children. 39 have been held for at least 15 days. way beyond the 72 hours max right now officials also say they are taking 250 to 300 kids into custody every day and holding them an average of five days. now, one member of congress, michael burgess, who just saw it firsthand down at the border had this to say on "fox & friends first" this morning. >> the problem has accelerated so significantly under the biden administration. hung the open for business sign on the border or we are wide open sign on the border and people are responding. griff: meanwhile texas' governor greg abbott is pleading with vice president harris to see it for herself writing in a letter, quote: i urge you to visit the border to see the crisis for yourself and i implore the biden administration to take swift action to secure the border. this as dhs secretary mayorkas and hhs secretary xavier becerra will brief house members on the border. vice president harris not expected to attend. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: despite the fact we were told she was the border boss. brian: not into it. ainsley: was the border boss and changed her mind. did she not want the job or did they not want her to have it. steve: thankless job because it's a mess as griff just said. when the a.p. reporter and cbs reporter got eyes on look at the facility down there in donna, texas, and those are what i'm now calling the biden bubbles they are not kid in changes, it's not chain link but it's a bubble. and as it turns out, those are super spreaders. let me tell you what i mean by that the reporters saw how all the kids are being processed. and in one room they are inspected for lice and scabbies and to see whether or not they have a fever. but, none of the kid or their family members are checked for covid unless they have got symptoms. none of them. and right now in that room and that facility, which was built for 250 but it has 4,000 in it, the coronavirus positivity rate is 14%. a month ago it was 4%, which means that the kid are contracting that in that biden bubble right there. then in the second room, and there is one of the play pen rooms where some of the family units are placed. in the second room, the children and the family members are given notices to appear in court and then they are able to call somebody in the united states to say i am here and i would like to come to you if you talk to this nice person from the federal government they will arrange it. ainsley: also, there are hotels for migrants and your tax dollars are paying for that did. hs and ice are spending almost $90 million. steve: they also shampoo everybody's hair. ainsley: exactly. well, can i just -- thank you, they put 1200 families in these hotel rooms, which means $71,000 per person, if it's a family of four, tax dollars $284,000. and that's why senator marsha blackburn she is so outraged by. this she wrote a letter to dhs secretary mayorkas and she said this is enough to buy a small house. this is a waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. brian: absolutely. look at these numbers. if there was no covid a thousand people can get in there. with covid 2506789 do you know how many are in there 4100. are you kidding me? unbelievable. we are in a pandemic. if the president wants to be loose on the border and do the opposite of president trump. all he had to do was tell his far left wing, sorry, guys, i have got to keep title 42 in place. we are in the middle of a pandemic. i'm asking the americans to wear two masks and have a small cookout on the fourth of july and stay away and get rid of -- keep your mask man indicates in place. i just can't let a bunch of other countries in our border for free. it's not fair to our border patrol. but he chose not to do that. what makes it worse is he is ignoring it. he is making the men and women on the border patrol feel like they are being ignored and basically to stew in their own juice. so, with having said all of that, raúl ortiz the deputy border patrol allowed to speak after the pictures and video came out. listen. >> as we are looking at the threat and some of the traffic patterns that we see, and i fully expect, you know, based upon what we have already apprehended, and looking at what is remaining in the fiscal year that we will have approximately about a million apprehensions or encounters this year. steve: you know, it's interesting. they are calling them apprehensions, now what they're doing because the coyotes tell the migrants they say listen, just cross the line and just wait for the border patrol. you know, once upon a time they used to just try to get into the united states, run miles something like that. now it's just faster and more efficient if they simply surrender to the border patrol because then they can be processed faster, get no that room, get the hair washing and call somebody to say hey, i'm coming. brian: some aren't even processed. we will never have record of them. aoc says this is no big deal. remember she was in tears saying kids are drinking out of toilet bowls which wasn't true. creating all kinds of histrionics when president trump was in the white house? now listen to her. relax, everybody. >> first of all, just gut check, stop. anyone who is using the term surge around you, consciously is trying to is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. this is not a surge. these are children. they are not insurgents, and we are not being invaded. ainsley: so brian was interviewing tom homan and brian babin, congressman babin from texas. and they both said she needs to come down here. she went down during the trump administration. she need to come down and see exactly what the biden administration is doing on the border. listen to tom. >> she needs to come down and talk to the men and women who put the uniform on every day and stand in that lane. men and women of the border patrol say it's a surge. the men and women of the border patrol say it's a crisis. men and women of the border patrol will knows the cartels are using the children and family units are across the border and tie up assets. border patrol is no longer on the line. so these cartels are moving drugs and bad people through unguarded areas. this is a national security crisis. and if she can't understand that or accept that then she shouldn't be in congress at all. steve: here's the thing. the word surge has been used by democrats because they did not want to use the word crisis. there are a lot of people who are saying it's a crisis. and have you seen pictures. they are at 1,000% capacity that is a humanitarian crisis. ainsley: can you still have a surge of children. steve: absolutely. ainsley: just because they are kid it's a surge. steve: looking up the word surge, if you want to use it as a noun that is a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or national force. obviously it's a surge. if you use as it a verb of a crowd or natural force moved suddenly or powerfully forward or upward. it's a surge whether it is a noun or if it's a verb or if you are a republican or if you are a democrat or independent or anything else. ainsley: it is a surge by definition, steve. steve: absolutely. brian: if i told you 30,000 people were coming since january into our country, we just -- we are about to welcome in april, how else would you describe it? bottom line is call it what you want. try to solve the problem. as i mentioned to tom tom homann the break i said describe what it's like compared to other administrations. president obama tried to solve this. president trump tried to solve and did. joe biden is not trying to solve it. he is trying to ignore it. and the american people have had it. they just did a poll now. i think this is a marist poll. they said hey, how is joe biden doing on the border? only 34% gave him a thumbs up. considering he got a 70% thumbs up for this $1.9 trillion and overall his approval rating i think is in the high 50's, that's pretty significant. i think at one point people have got to play attention. while they play politics in washington our men and women on the border are being totally screwed. they are being used as pawns. and i think if they can afford to retire they are taking off the onform and saying you try it. that will be interesting. ted cruz has been with those border patrol people. is he going to be with us in an hour and 23 minutes. steve: meanwhile, 7:12 here in new york city. let's talk about something lara trump, who is now a fox news contributor, also the daughter-in-law of the president of the united states, did you see this tease she had on instagram? >> all right, everybody. guess what? i have quite a surprise for you this evening. guess who is going to be in that chair? that's right, you guessed it, my father-in-law the 45th president of the united states. president donald trump is joining me for a one-on-one on camera interview tonight on the right view. you do not want to miss this. we will see you at 8:00. steve: okay. and then after that, you could see she posted another tease on instagram and it says tonight and then so she tapes the interview and what do they do? they pulled the plug, facebook does. ainsley: canceled it. steve: because they own instagram and because donald trump is banned from both. ainsley: they sent her an email saying we are reaching out to let you know we removed content from lara trump's facebook page that showed president trump speaking in line with the block that we placed on donald trump's facebook and instagram accounts further content posted in the voice of donald trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the accounts. brian: that's interesting. if we do an interview with the president, former president and we posted it, they are taking that down, too? ainsley: i assume so. brian: that's unbelievable. do you realize he is the former president of the united states. do you an interview with him, and you don't -- it's not worthy. it's not allowed to be on your page that is incredible. this is what bernie -- bernie sanders even found that was a bridge too far. steve: well, because they said that donald trump is banned from facebook and instagram. so, if somebody else puts it in from a back door way that's what they say. said last night we are one step closer tokerwell's 1984. her husband eric trump the son of the president said this is facebook, friends, what an absolute slap in the face to 75 million americans. who obviously voted for him. brian: a lot of people who didn't vote for him find it outrageous that a former president can't speak. when they did all of this angela america was upset. macron of france was upset. the australian leadership was upset. they said this is ally with the a blitz toomuch power. ainsley: pack the courts make d.c. and puerto rico a state. if they can get all of that's illegal immigrants to come in, then they are hoping they will vote for them eventually, they can cancel donald trump on social media, so that he can't have a platform and he can't speak, if they can bash our network, then they are on their way to controlling our country. and it's a scary time. it's a very scary time. what is it going to look like for our kids. brian: he has to get his platform going the president of the united states. a lot of people want a place to go. steve: that's why it makes perfect sense. because he would then own the infrastructure because as we have seen, with parler and other things, you know, have you got amazon, have you got google, you have got instagram and all those things, and if they don't like you, they can pull the plug on you because they are private businesses and they have that opportunity whereas if you own the infrastructure, which it sounds like mr. trump will, you can control your message. we did reach out to facebook for a statement, but, you know what? they have not gotten back to us. brian: right. i wonder how they would do it? would they post their response? would they put it on instagram or facebook. steve: i think they are going to email us? brian: how do we get ahold of carley if we need her? ainsley: just call for her. carley: guess what? i have breaking news for you. steve: biggest news of the day. carley: pfizer says coronavirus vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing covid-19 in kids age 12 to 15. the drug maker planning to submit its new data to the fda as soon as possible. more than 2,000 children were part of the study. right now pfizer's vaccine is the only one approved for 16 and 17-year-olds. big news there. an off duty minneapolis firefighter will return to the stand this morning in the george floyd murder trial after a teenager who filmed floyd's arrest took the stand yesterday with an emotional testimony. >> i apologize to gorge floyd not not doing more. not saving his life. >> exofficer derek chauvin's attorney argues police were distracted by the crowd surrounding them during the encounter with floyd. chauvin faces 40 years in prison if convicted. turning now to extreme weather. a tornado touches down in mississippi causing widespread damage. classes are canceled today in one school district because the tornado damaged several school buildings. the national weather service is now warning people of strong winds and flooding and northeastern parts of the state. oh boy producers are pulling an upcoming episode of sponge bob square pants out of concerns about its plot. the nickelodeon network says it featured a virus outbreak and subsequent quarantine similar to the covid-19 pandemic. it's not clear when the episode titles quarantined crabs was set to air. has not yet aired. but sponge bob getting the cancel culture. steve: who thought that was a good idea. brian: i don't know why you would be offended by it it's just a cartoon. brian: right. all right, ainsley 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does this come from? our next guest argues his constituents now know what to do and stay safe as his state prepares to lift the remaining covid sanctions. restrictions. i should say. georgia governor brian kemp ready to do it. governor, you were one of the quickest to open up first after the immediate shutdown almost a year ago today. why is now the right time to be the 19th state to go out a mask mandate. >> good morning, brian. thanks for having me on. we are really excited about where we are right now in our fight against covid. as you just said, our economy has been reopened for the most part working to protect livelihoods, too, for almost a year now. the sectors that we have left that have been struggling are like many around the country when you think about the airline industry, business, and tourism, travel, convention center business. in georgia, you know, this time of year, all the way through the summer, our beaches, mountains, you know, there is a lot of hardworking georgians that depend on those jobs and businesses that depend on that revenue. and that's what we have got to reopen. our numbers, in my conversations with doctor toomey, are in the right place to start doing that. so we are working that way. brian: yeah, i mean business want you to wear a mask when you go shopping, go ahead, wear a of course that. you are not going to mandate it from the state level. and that's the point. people could also use their own judgment and do what they're comfortable with or you don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go to costco, especially with everything they can deliver today. governor, go ahead, final thought on that. >> i was just going to say, you know, we haven't had a statewide mask mandate ever the whole pandemic. we don't have one now. but people are doing the right thing. everywhere i go when people are shopping they are being respectful wearing the mask, social distancing and getting people vaccinated. that's how we come out of this and live with it for whoever long it's going to be over next several months or even if it's years. that's what we have to do. we cannot continue to shut down. people cannot survive that. brian: governor on election day from stacey abrams still not admitting that she lost the governor's race. you have been in the eye of the storm so to speak. and now first allied and now warring with the former president of the united states. went out and looked what georgia was doing pandemic hopefully in the rear view mirror and made some changes and signed this into law. here are some of the changes. require a photo for an absentee ballot. limit time to request absentee ballots, ballot drop boxes locations. you can have one per county unless the county is big. replace the secretary of state election board chair with appointee. allow election board to replace election officials in underperforming counties. reduce the runoff election time. and bars outside groups from handing out food and water in line. first off, on that last one, you can get refreshments, you just don't want political organizations to hand them out. it's up to the precincts to do it if they want to do it, correct? >> yeah. that's outrageous what people are saying. and you can -- the political groups and others nonprofits, whoever can still could that, brian, if they're outside the 150-foot buffer around the polling location or 25 feet from the end of the line. psycho so it's not like you still can't do those things. we are just trying to keep voter from being harassed and election neared while they are standing in line preparing to vote. we have had laws like that and most states have around the country for years. but, as you know, hypocrisy is running rampant right now. this bill makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. i heard you mention on the tease earlier that president biden got four pinocchios on the "the washington post" which is incredible because they're absolutely right what he is saying is not true. and even more hypocrisy was stacey abrams celebrating new jersey expanding the nine days of early voting when her own state of georgia has 17 and we just added more opportunities on the weekend. so they are being mistruthful about what the bill does. brian: they are out communicating you because you have the facts on your side it seems. even "the washington post" picked that out. first off, the accusation from among people the president of the united states, on the whole water thing as well as other things, listen. decide you are going to end voting at 5:00 when working people are just getting off work? brian: "the washington post" heard that like you heard that, this is what they figured out. biden falsely claims the new georgia law ends voting hours early. it is not true, right? your hours remain the same, correct? >> yeah, as a matter of fact we have 134 out of 159 counties and this bill will actually be expanding the number of hours that people can vote in the process. so what he is saying is not true. but, you know, it leads to the question of this is all just a distraction for them to make a case to do an unconstitutional power grab with hr 1 and also to distract from the, you know, water flow and crisis of people flowing across the southern border, you know, perhaps they should pay more attention to that than our genius voting times that we have in georgia especially compared to his own state of delaware. brian: what you are trying to do if you don't have i.d. you write a state number in or social security number than absentee ballot. when it comes to drop boxes, this is the first time you are using them. you just lot of them. you want to put them in controlled places. one per county unless this county is really big. real quick on drop boxes? >> yeah, the other side is saying we are taking that away. there is actually counties that didn't have drop boxes. this legislation requires every county to have one. so what they are saying, again, is not true. brian: so, governor, if they're calling you a racist and saying you are trying to stop people from voting, and they are saying minorities shouldn't vote, you have to have your communication team if you feel you have the facts and it seems you do on your side every day because it's relentless and, again, they are putting georgia in the boycott of the storm. major league boston is pressuring to get their all star game out. pga is getting pressure to move out the masters, major corporations, so it's up to you to save them by communicating what you are doing. >> i did 11 interviews yesterday. getting early start today. we are pushing it hard to get the truth out there and the truth wins in the end as you know. brian: absolutely. governor, thanks so much. meanwhile, straight ahead as we continue. that's the truth about the georgia law. classroom hypocrisy, san diego teachers blasted for offering in person throfns migrant children as their california students are stuck on zoom. congressman 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steve: i'm doing okay. edward, what do you make of the fact that your child, sky, is not in school, not receiving in person learning and, yet, the makings down at the convention centers are going to wind up with in person volunteer teachers from your school district as early as today? >> well, it just shows you how out of touch our school district is with the needs of the parents and the desires of the teachers. as you can see, local teachers are more than happy to teach in person and they are being held up by the district. and by the union, which has strong armed us the entire time. and has been' in different and even contemptuous of the parents and the damage that's been done to our children. steve: sure, gina, your 8-year-old son bowen is at home learning, not in a classroom learning, unlike the migrant children who get in person teaching. you don't like that standard, do you? you think it's hypocritical? >> well, you know, first, i just want to being a knowledge these teachers who are willing to meet with these migrant children i applaud their efforts and willingness. i have heard from several teachers throughout the pandemic that want to get back to the classroom. so these teachers, as far as i'm concerned, they are heroes for willing to step up and it's unfortunate that our teachers have not had the same opportunity and really our focus should be as mentioned to ensure that all children throughout san diego unified school district receive the same sense of urgency to return to in person instruction. and this demonstrates that it is safe to return to in person learning today. steve: right. gina, do you blame your school union? your teacher's union for not saying, okay, it's safe, let's go? we have known that for months. >> yes. we have known it for months and i absolutely hold our district leadership accountable, and for not stepping up. and having that same sense of urgency for getting our kids into the classroom. we still have a very weak hybrid program in place. and we still don't have a clear plan as to how the district is going to address learning loss for our students who have been home for almost 13 month. steve: ministry can, you don't like the situation one bit. >> no, not one bit. the hypocrisy of the suburbs having school as early as last october, some of them reopened. they have done it safely. and then to be willing to send teachers down to a known covid positive area while at the same time pretending that they can't come safely back unless they get bonuses and additional money and even then they still want to come back on a hybrid basis. teachers are the heroes. teachers unions are clearly the villains in san diego and l.a. unified and it's one of the failures of leadership here in california. i know a lot of people are concerned about many aspect of the border, i think for all of us on this communication we are not -- we are not against treating these people humanely once they are here. certainly i think there is a lot of questioning about whether joe biden is doing a disservice to have hundreds of thousands of people flooding the border who need this kind of care that quite frankly we're not able currently to give to all our citizens. steve: gina edward, sorry, got that backward, edward, gina blames the school leadership, you blame the teachers' unions. >> it's a coalition of both. right now the cdc says three feet is safe for the students, for our children in school. the union has demanded five feet. now, you do the math. that's 40% fewer students in the classroom, this is an arbitrary number. why did they choose this? steve: yeah. >> it seems like there is, you know, indifferent to the suffering that's been inflicted upon our children and our district is not standing up to the unions that it's kowtowing to them. and as you see in san francisco and chicago, they tried to take on the school districts to force them to follow the science and open. steve: gina, you are ready to. >> one of the important things to understand in california is our governor has statewide edigits, one after another, closing restaurants, closing places of business, in and canning that we all wear masks but then when it comes to saying from a public education standpoint here's a unified standard so you all go back to work based on it. then he says well, it's hands off. it's going to be every single school and school district and charter school for itself. and makes absolutely no sense. if you can say that there is a science, and you are following it, on a statewide basis, then, quite frankly, the governor, and other leader who have locked down had the state need to be willing to step up and unlock uniformly. and they are not doing it. steve: all right. congressman, thank you very much. we should point out that the school district says our teachers are volunteering. gina, real quick, if you could, you would send your child for in person learning tomorrow, right? >> i would. i would send him to school today. steve: okay. even better. because it is 3:40 in the morning and god bless you all for getting up so early. edward, you and gina, and congressman, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> meanwhile from san diego to louisiana, pete hegseth. pete: we are in louisiana talking to the folks. they just lifted some regulations here in new orleans and we want to hear what the people have to say about it. so don't go anywhere because these lovely ladies who are helping us all morning have something to say for you. >> more "fox & friends" on the other side. pete: there you go. we rehearsed that all morning. ♪ before nexium 24hr, anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep 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? new projects means new project managers. for all-day, alyou need to hire.n. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. ♪ ♪ brian: soon we might even have a concert series out on that very veranda. ainsley: veranda, the fox square? brian: bring may screw gun in and make a stage again. steve: i have a feeling we will have a summer concert series the question is whether or not people are invited to show up and see the show. brian: will people bring their instruments and play. steve: do it at home like they did last year. ainsley: we haven't any had any tourists here for so long. the. >> steve: the nfl is going to be wide open they want to fill up the stadiums. brian: like is so much better when we don't see new yorkers? ainsley: i do like not having a lot of traffic. i miss our viewers out on fox square. brian: you miss pete. ainsley: i do let's bring pete. in he is live at dot's diner. pete: tune who is missing the tourists is new orleans. i got a guided tour, really i was down on the french quarter last night a little bit behaving myself and they are starting to come back a little bit. but still on a town thriving on tourism that's a critical, critical point. talking to teddy and michael here. you actually do guided you are an independent contractor and you do guided tours around the city. >> city tours in new orleans, yeah. i haven't done a tour since last march. it's been over a year. pete: how have you made through this covid moment. >> by the hardest. a lot of good friends and family to hem support me and support myself. but it's been tough. pete: is new orleans opening back up? is it coming back it? >> is slowly but surely. i would say in the last few weeks i have noticed a difference in the french quarter. last weekend it was crowded. the hotels now are showing some full capacity. of course we have lost the connection business for aer i don't which is a big part. the cruise ships that we have out of new orleans. that's going to be a while. pete: it's opening back up and come out and ted can give you a tour for sure. >> we can go today. pete: he can do it today. michael you are in the tug boat and barge business actually. talk to me how has that been affected but more the oil and gas energy policies of the biden administration? what does that mean to you. >> well, first of all welcome to steve scalise country. pete: there you go, it's true. i have been reminded of that a couple of times. >> not far from steve's home. we are in the tow boat and barge business we push petroleum barges through the lots from houston to mobile and points west. the energy business is crucial to the economy here in louisiana as far as the country. and it's just now starting to come back those barrels are starting to move again. it's administration anti-oil and gas and antibusiness because now we hear he is going to raise our corporate tax rates. just as we are getting back on our feet we have an administration that is trying to kill our industry. pete: kill the industry. that's a strong word. >> it's words i stand by. pete: absolutely. sue he see canal they could have used you down. >> there they couldn't afford us. pete: adrian, marine corps veteran. >> yes, sir. pete: appreciate your service and time. >> semper fi. pete: absolutely. you talk about tax bill infrastructure bill. >> they are keeping everything on the business community. they are raising the corporate tax rate by 8%. they are taking away llcs and they want to tax them just like a corporation. they want to raise the death tax back up to what it was before and take people's half of their wealth. provide absolutely zero incentive for businesses to come online, none. pete: right at the moment we need businesses coming online, you are looking at a tax code change that would create an environment where businesses can thought. i see heads nodding across the board. we didn't even get to guy who runs a bank here. hopefully we will get to him in the future. they are tell me we are out of time in, no. great representation of folks here in new orleans. back to you in new york, guys. steve: all right. pete hegseth live down there in the new orleans area. thank you very much, pete. where louisiana is wide open. no more covid restrictions. ainsley: good people down there, right? steve: very nice. he was not getting crazy in the french quarter we heard that. brian: which is a story in itself. steve: no kidding. what's up with that. ainsley: so unexpected. steve: meanwhile a teacher berated one of their students because he said this is a photo of two people chillen rather than focusing on the race. one parent in the school district is outraged and has decided to take a stand. he joins us live next. ♪ ce, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause headache, injection-site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. ask your doctor about nucala. find your nunormal with nucala. not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 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in that district and he joins us now. good morning to you, paul. >> good morning, ainsley. it's a pleasure to be here with you. thank you. ainsley: pleasure to be hear. we have been talking about loudoun county. been in the news a lot lately. what are your thoughts. >> when i heard first this heard this video, ainsley i was angry. i didn't expect when i moved to loudoun county great community one where your kids could get a great education without having to go to private school. you thought about math, science, history. and then to hear this type of aggressive discussion going on with a student to be divisive about race, it was really shocking. up until a couple of months ago, i had not even heard of crt, critical race theory and i asked other parents i go what does that mean? and it's like parents are now being asked or teachers are being asked now to teach kids about school and then separating them along lines of color and race. and i couldn't believe it. so when you actually hear this video or see this video and hear it, it is really shocking and appalling and it need to stop. so, i commend the student for making that video so we could all really see it for what it's worth. ainsley: right. the student didn't play into it which i was proud of him for that he said. >> absolutely. ainsley: i look at them as two girls. i don't see color and that's what we are supposed to do and by me acknowledging the race that goes against everything that you are trying to teach us. thank you so much for being on with us, paul. sorry, top of the show in about 5 minutes and we have to take a break. i hate to cut you off but thank you we appreciate. >> it thank you for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. loudoun county public school did send a statement they say the video clip that's been circulated shows less than two minutes of a longer in-depth classroom discussion. students and staff are not indoctrinated into any school of thought or philosophy. president biden revealing 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reporter: go! it is over! ucla for the first four to the final four. ♪♪ brian: a gray day to start in houston, texas. wednesday, march 3, '01, the last day of march madness. ainsley: april 1st, april fools' day, brian does all these jokes were used to on air. remember the boxing brian's head, was under the box. hiding under the table. steve: they covid papered my office. ainsley: did you notice it? a really dirty office. brian: a wake-up call, alexa, play "fox and friends," the show is now on for people who have these things. pete hegseth, this is your wake-up call. the covid restrictions were lifted yesterday and the people there are enjoying their freedom. >> we are talking about it. i remember that april fools joke and remember when brian kilmeade popped out of the table and i plant in april fools joke, call the summit 5:50 saying i am not going to make it. they did not think it was funny. ainsley: you were about to be on the air, 20 minutes before going on the air in new jersey. brian: that was two weeks ago. ainsley: your car in front in the no parking area. >> not allowed to park, i ran inside and put a microphone on and a microphone, had nothing to say. this is behind the scenes at "fox and friends". also behind the scenes, i mentioned the tour i got in the french quarter, with laura ingraham, introduced me to turtle soup. it is a new orleans thing. it was great. we are going to talk to the great folks at the diner in jefferson, always fun. steve: save a turtle, have minestrone. enjoy this hour, the final hour. will: i will find out what is so good about turtle soup. turning to griff jenkins, shocking video shows thousands of migrants and unaccompanied children crammed in a texas facility, 700%. >> reporter: the first time journalist and cameras are allowed in the texas facility. the images are disturbing, wall to wall, the majority of unaccompanied children ready to be processed, forced by plastic dividers in the facility being overrun. >> the capacity for this location is 250. previously the total capacity holding 4100 subjects in this location, way over capacity, 700% overcapacity. >> reporter: the projection from border patrol deputy chief ortiz is shocking. >> as we are looking at the threat and some of the traffic patterns, i fully expected based on what we've already apprehended and what is remaining in the fiscal year and 1 million apprehensions. >> reporter: this is another emergency shelter for kids is open at fort bliss in el paso, texas, male age 13 to 17 arriving on buses. hundred mayorkas will brief house members on the border situation but vice president harris is not expected to be in attendance but we did learn she spoke yesterday with guatemala's president, no word what they discussed although there was a promise to increase humanitarian aid. steve: why did the administration open the facility yesterday and donna, texas, what could it have to do with the fact that yesterday they admitted we are 700% overcapacity. we heard week earlier they were 1500% overcapacity so as bad as it was yesterday it was worse the week before. ainsley: the san diego convention center, kids are being taught by volunteer teachers in person, the people who pay taxes in that county, the kids have been out of school, virtual school for the past year, more than a year and kristin fisher asked jen psaki about that, she works at the white house, listen to this. >> does it send the right message to 130,000 kids stuck at home last year. >> the concept is important in these kids are going back to school for hybrid learning. we are confident we will get there early next month and i believe they are on spring break right now, the concept is pretty important. brian: fox news had that story but in san diego they couldn't wait to talk about it. fighting so hard to get the schools open and sports in san diego where you obviously for the most part check the weather patterns, you can do a lot outdoors in california in southern california, san diego is where we found the parents of edward ewing and jd smith and congressman darrell i said joined us to talk about the frustration of putting illegal immigrants first. it shows how out of touch our school district is with the needs of the parents and desires of teachers, local teachers more than happy to teach in person being held up by the district and the union which strong-armed us the entire time. >> teachers are the heroes, teachers unions are the villains in san diego to be willing to send teachers down to a known covid positive area pretending they can't come safely back unless they get bonuses and additional money. >> all children receive the same sense of urgency to return to in person instruction and this demonstrates that it is safe to return to in person learning today. will: it is safe to return but when you look at the san diego convention center right now the infection rate is 10% in san diego the infection rate of 0.0018 so in other words the convention center infection rate is approximately 400 times what they will allow in san diego to reopen the school but the teachers are there in the convention center, giving the in person instruction to the children, but not for the children of people who live there. that is why darrell ice and those two parents are so outraged. if it is okay for them to teach the kids who have the higher infection rate, why can't you teach my kids who probably don't have covid? >> the kids are the ones that suffered to be out of school for a year. brian: another thing, voting. hr one will federalize elections and that's beyond controversial and what they're trying to do is focus on georgia's reforms and some of those reforms have drop boxes in every county, they talk about having a vote on weekends, they do this thing called voter id, democrats have said inaccurate things like you and are longer allowed to give water to people online, saying most long lines are in the cities in there trying to deny african-americans or hispanics or any minority group their day to vote. got to be so thirsty they've got to get off the line. that is inaccurate. you can have water, just not for a political group, don't want to be serving refreshments if you are with a political organization. that is electioneering. joe biden said this yesterday. >> i'm worried about how un-american the whole initiative is. to say we will end voting at 5:00 when working people are just getting off work. brian: what he said is inaccurate. as was pointed out by the washington post they are not changing when the polls close. that was totally inaccurate. they came out and said this. one could understand the flub at a news conference but the same in a presidential statements, we understood why biden made this claim that this was the section that expanded early voting for many georgians. steve: away the president made it sound as they were changing the voting hours. ainsley: going to close at 5:00. steve: counties can expand voting early from 7:00 to 7:00 so it is an expansion and when it comes to voter id that is for absentee ballots but nonetheless the democrats have been trying to make this an issue and look what a mess it was in november. ainsley: trying to spark fear, if we have this it will affect the election, telling lies and not even true. steve: president biden said these changes in georgia are jim crow in the 21st century and that is one of the reasons georgia got brian kemp who signed this legislation the day after it was passed by the legislature last thursday in georgia. that is why he is out and about trying to set the record straight about the truth. >> we have 134 out of 159 counties and this bill will be expanding the number of hours that people can vote in the process. what he is saying is not true but it leads to the question this is a distraction for them to make a case to do in unconstitutional power grab with hr one and there is a crisis of people flowing across the southern border perhaps they should pay more attention to that than those loading times we have in georgia. hard to get the truth out, the truth wins in the end. >> the fact checker for the washington post said in this article the law made some changes to early voting but experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for more georgians. >> doesn't go out of the way to praise republicans in georgia, the naacp to suing georgia, georgia leaders responded by doing what they've done in the past, placing burdensome unnecessary restrictions on voters of color. there is no proof of that in this bill, the governor said that is why i did 12 interviews yesterday. ainsley: if you want the truth to come out, don't want people to believe what democrats are saying, do as many interviews as you can. i did 11 or 12, you are my first stop this morning, getting an early start and i will continue. so good for him. he said the truth, what did he say? the fact always win, the truth always wins. steve: carley shimkus wants to do the news. carley: we begin your headlines with this. officers across the nation forced to carry fallen boulder police officer eric talley, the husband and father of 7 was killed while trying to save others, tunnels for towers ambassador janine taylor attended talley's surface -- service and joined us. >> one of the most touching moment was when the grandmother was presented with the flag holding it a triangle shape and one of eric's sons reached over to comfort her and she wept over the flag. >> rally served on the police force for 10 years, they are raising money for his family, tunnels for towers.org. extreme weather, south dakota governor christie knowem declaring a state of emergency as wildfires burn your mount rushmore, several homes, forcing hundreds to evacuate. it will run from june 1st to a severe drought and dangerous fire conditions. democratic party leaders are considering overhauling the 2024 presidential primary calendar. changes would include iowa and new hampshire as the first states to vote, pushing south carolina and nevada to the front of the primary election schedule, leaders are discussing the idea because iowa and new hampshire framed the presidential election despite being unrepresentative of most of the country. the world's first all civilian space mission has a full crew, lapse inspiration 4 will send four people to space. >> you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than becoming a nasa astronaut, this has to open up to more people. carley: jared isaacman will be joined by teacher, air force man and physician, they will launch into space later this year. how wild is that? four people, not astronauts, will be going to space. steve: they are not actually driving, are they? ainsley: they have 6 months to prepare, none of them are astronauts. they are going to be going above the international space station. not all the details have been revealed but was an incredible opportunity. ainsley: sounds like a great reality show. 8:17 on the east coast. convicted cop killer helping to shape police reform in new york state. we will talk to pba president, police benevolent association president who called this disrespectful to the men and women in blue. texas senator ted cruz will join us as the biden administration gets ready to unveil their $2 trillion infrastructure plan. ♪♪ the thing about freedom is... freedom has no limits. there's no such thing as too many adventures... or too many unforgettable moments. there will never be too many stories to write... or too many memories to make. but when it comes to a vehicle that will be there for it all. there's only one. jeep. here's huge news for veteran homeowners who need cash. there's only one. refiplus from newday usa. record low mortgage rates have fallen again, while home values just keep climbing. refiplus lets you refinance at record low rates plus get an average of $50,000 for retirement tomorrow and for peace of mind today. 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mcdermott disagrees, good morning to you. a convicted cop killer is on this, governor cuomo started panel for police reform. so many people watching were outraged. i am outraged and you are outraged. >> absolutely. steve: tell me why. >> in 1981, mister rivera came in with four other gun toting assailants. he intervenes identifying himself as a police officer, an opportunity to get out there, to anything but come up and pull the trigger, 39 years later, put them on a board, i will quote patty lynch, it is outrageous and disrespectful. steve: he is a cop killer. >> absolutely. he is not somebody that would have an unbiased opinion. that is the least of it. steve: governor cuomo came up with the idea for this reform panel on the killing of george floyd. a lot of people in law enforcement are calling on the governor and others to kick this guy off this board. >> if you wants to remember mister walsh and honor him he should step down and not have anything to do with it. that would satisfy the family. steve: the slain officer's son is interviewed in the new york post and said mister rivera thinks the family might be incensed. he had this quote for us, completely shocked the man who murdered my father is being trusted to create police reforms. my father dedicated his life to serving and protecting new yorkers, he should serve on a panel, that we will never get that chance. at disrespect. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> there has been plenty of that for police anyway the last couple years but this is just the latest. you got to talk about stuff like that. >> the cherry on top of the sunday. what will you come up with next to insult us and insult everyone. police officers look at this -- >> a head scratcher. thank you for joining us, thank you. coming up, vaccine passports could be part of the new normal but it is raising privacy concerns over what some say is a double standard by the left. douglas mary thinking about it. >> others are shrinking and pushing for censorship. we 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>> it is stunning, isn't it? if you look at the whole hullabaloo about the voter restriction, passed in georgia, look at that, democrats are claiming the idea that he voter may have to show a driving license if they want to show up and voted early democrats are claiming that is an amazing infringement on voter rights, stacy abrams saying this in fact in georgia is jim crow 2.oh. if you want to show a driver's license, that is jim crow right there. i can't help noticing the same people saying that, how dare you ask voters that provide any identification for doing the most important duty in american citizen can do is wildly wildly infringing on their rights. that everyone not belong to this idea about all having to carry out the most basic and mundane things in daily lives. >> popple aren't existing in america without ids which i can't enter a building in a major city without a id especially after 9/11, you can't rent a car, you can't get on a plane, there's nothing you can do without a id. >> which raises the question why would anyone want the voter registration to be so lax? why would anyone want voter registration to be the thing in the united states of america which you need least identification to do? we are talking across the world of not just mundane jobs but daily pleasantries, being subjected to a vaccine passport requirement. the prime minister in great britain, boris johnson speculated of the british person wants to buy a.of being they might have to show their vaccine passport coordinator strange world where british person has to show more identification to buy a pint of beer than an american voter does in georgia to vote? brian: tucker carlson said you are fascinating to talk to on this initial voyage on to fox nation with the new series tucker carlson today. let's watch a clip. >> what is important in our society has changed radically in an ugly direction. it makes everything political. it wants to politicize everything, politicize art, poetry, all of the things that were meaningful in our lives have been picked up and spun through this cycle of politics. >> you made it more optimistic about the future of american society so good job. >> he woke up slightly bleaker that morning. i think there is some good news if the american people say we are not going to put up with it. i could have added, a highly political thing, everything in our lives we used to enjoy has been spun through the left-wing political cycle. i hope we can get out of it and i think americans can but americans need to want to get out of it. >> in loudoun county, virginia they are standing up to cancel culture. now going to dead people, thanks, great to talk to you. straight ahead senator ted cruz joins us live closing out accountability for the biden administration over the migrant surge at the border. in louisiana breakfast with friends. >> "fox and friends first," the poker room, they have a poker room because this is new orleans, talking to their folks all morning long, how do they feel about it? 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>> last week i brought a group of 19 senators to the river in texas and began by meeting with border patrol agents and just saying thank you for their heroism, their courage, they are not getting support from the biden administration, we wanted to tell them we appreciate them, grateful for their standing we went out into the field and saw a stream of illegal immigrants coming into the country, caravans walking up the trails into outdoor holding towns where customs and border patrol was processing them, we saw three different nursing mothers sitting on the ground nursing infant children. next day we went to the donna facility, gigantic tent city that they built to handle this massive surge of illegal immigration. its capacity with covid constraints is 250, over 4000 people crammed into donna. they are not 6 feet apart or 3 feet apart or 6 inches apart. children side-by-side lying on the floor, no beds, cots, lying on the floor covered up in emergency blankets and 10% of the population testing positive for covid. it is a humanitarian disaster and crisis and it is man-made. joe biden caused this with this. >> by the thousands. it's not dissipating and the vice president says i'm supposed to do this but says we are not going to the border. president biden says i would create too much havoc. are either one of those things showing that they care? >> it really isn't, neither joe biden or kamala harris has been to see this crisis they created and it is stunning lack of disregard, they feel politically trapped, they made promises to their hard left-wing base, they won't enforce the border and allow people to come and don't understand why that produced this crisis was over 100,000 illegal immigrants entered the country, the highest rate in 25 years, 30,000 unaccompanied children came, joe biden is detaining 17,000 unaccompanied kids and this comes after last year in 2020 we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years, donald trump associated the remain in mexico agreement, central americans crossing into mexico would remain in mexico while the asylum case proceeded. it dropped the numbers dramatically. show biden ripped it to shreds and caused this crisis, replaced it with catch and release saying we are going to let people go. it is heartbreaking. it is not right, these children, more than half of these children being subject to physical abuse or sexual abuse when in the custody of human traffickers this is an humane, this isn't kind, this is inhuman and both joe biden and kamala harris want to wash their hands of it. >> a couple years ago during the trump administration the image came out, kids in cages. it is much more desperate now because not only is the capacity 1000% what it was attended for but there is a pandemic and those are superspreader events. later today the president of the united states will fly air force one to pittsburgh, to unveil his jobs and infrastructure bill. the money is so huge they will split it into two parts. it is the largest tax hike in generations and the biggest spending bill in world history and the democrats think they can get it but sounds like they will need some republicans. >> the details are still murky and we are getting the top lines but the first month of the biden administration this has been an administration of the government by the government for the government. the only thing it appears they are in favor of is more government spending, more taxes, more government power over your lives and across the country millions of small businesses are hurting, we had a horrific year with the pandemic, democrat officials mandating shutdowns, millions of small businesses shutting down and now joe biden wants to jack up taxes on small business owners destroying jobs. i got to say is going to pittsburgh is particularly ironic, of them in the eye of working men and women, going to pittsburgh because he started his administration by ending the keystone pipeline with the stroke of a pen, destroyed 11,000 jobs including 8000 union jobs and announced he is reentering the paris agreement which will destroy again hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, blue collar working-class jobs, joe likes to say he is from scranton, the people from scranton i getting the short end of the stick with the government hammering energy jobs, oil and gas jobs, steel jobs, any job where you're making something your job is getting more endangered because of joe biden's giving into the radical left. steve: he has tax increases to surprise everybody that will affect all of us, the biggest ones in my lifetime, thanks for joining us. >> janice: let's talk about it, we have potential for severe storms from the southeast all the way to the mid-atlantic. a couple tornado warned storms and parts of alabama, large hail, damaging wind, isolated tornadoes, this is the area we will watch into the afternoon and evening and the cold part of the storm will bring snow but i want to mention we have flash flooding concerns in parts of the midsouth in mississippi, alabama towards tennessee, kentucky towards the appalachians and that will be a big deal because they have received incredible amounts of rain and there is the snow in the interior northeast and mountainous regions in the cold air will sink southward so this is incredible for april fools' day, snow across the mountains, we will continue to monitor it and bring you the latest. >> people are going to think it is an april fools joke, they wake up and there is snow. still ahead on this wednesday telecast, we will head to new orleans where pete hegseth has breakfast with friends. but first let's check in with bill hammer. >> reporter: great show. we need to send some folks down. give them some love. >> you could have pete exit for two hours. >> are you good with that or no? >> i will take an egg white omelette. >> great show, good morning. major headline, the vaccine for young americans, doctor siegel on that. new jim crow election laws in georgia, a second look is four pinocchios, kevin mccarthy and iowa defending republican seat, no media no problem. the administration finally allowing reporters into the biggest shoulder on the border. chris christie, martha mccallum, larry kudlow, see you in a few minutes. it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, 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? ...delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. steve: pete hegseth is in louisiana where covid restrictions have been lifted. i could hear over the microphone you were talking about the veggie omelette. >> she wanted a veggie omelette. talking to people, they -- it does feel like a new day because the covid restrictions have been lifted by the governor. i am here with paula and sean. looking at where we are, what is on your mind? >> make america great again. my -- the economy went up and we had the huge bubble called covid but we are taking care of the american way. now everything is changing. i am a small business owner and there is such a thing as trickle-down economics and if we put a mileage tax which is what they are talking about, they don't realize what they are doing and they fill our cities with people who need jobs and we have people who need jobs it will be a mess. i can call it a crisis. >> reporter: here you're allowed to call it a crisis. we heard that from small business owners itching to get going editor is an industry is huge which can't get going until people come back. you are concerned about illegal immigration. >> i don't always get to sit down. >> i am concerned about the illegal immigrants coming across the border, the children and the strain it is putting on the education system was our kids need to be back in school especially children with disabilities, they need that personal interaction and to be with their peers and we are having children come in the don't speak english and not taxpaying american citizens. >> reporter: you don't think about if illegal immigrant minors move throughout the country someone has to teach them and take care of them and advance their education and that will be other cities. >> it will be a drain on the entire country. not just the border states but funneled in and in our education system, already behind because covid has the kids at home and virtually. we have to take care of our kids first, our taxpaying citizens, children, first, and immigrants. i am all for immigrants coming into the country but let them come in legally. >> reporter: do it the right way. well said. your concerns not just about immigration but future elections. >> it is intertwined so tightly that we don't take care of immigration first i believe in legal immigration and doing it the right way like come through open gates and we have no idea who is coming into the country, where they are coming from. it is coming from the middle east and all over. we don't help with ar. we are sending them into the country and no identification, they don't need a id, it is so interwoven, there are benefits and i don't think we can be the band-aid for the entire world, we have america first and we need to take care of our people, we would love to be in a hotel. the money that is going to be spent on hotels after that, where are they going to go from there? >> reporter: the best crisis and problem, kids out of school but in classroom learning. >> education in the past and when you have 20 languages what is a teacher supposed to do? english should be first, mandatory english. now you dial a number, english is the third number. >> reporter: creates a lot of challenges. anything about new orleans you can give your is to tell them to come on out here. >> trying to get ourselves opened up, great food. big city, small town. >> reporter: big city, small town. there are no strangers in new orleans, friends we haven't met yet. back to the friends in new york city who wish they were in new orleans. steve: travel back safely from the big easy. ainsley: tell them we said thanks for watching. from our friends download the fox best super 6 apps and play for a chance to win 10,$000, you just have to reject 6 outcomes in the fox best super 6 quiz show, topics range from entertainment, sports and free to play, download the fox best super 6 apps right now. steve: talk to a guy who won last week who didn't know some of the answers so he just guest. you can do the same. brian: also listen to the radio. ainsley: see you tomorrow.