demonstrations since the coup last month . u.s. president joe biden is kicking off a nationwide messaging blitz to promote his newly passed covid relief package. it starts today with a speech at the white house. and as our john harwood reports, the president wants people to know there s more to it than the checks already arriving in bank accounts. reporter: last week congress passed president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this week president biden and his team hit the road to promote the legislation. it s already broadly popular in the polls. it won t hurt that those $1,400 per person covid relief checks have already started hitting americans bank accounts over the weekend. but president biden wants to make sure people understand other benefits in the bill including expanded child tax credits, aid to state and local governments, expanded health care subsidies, and also aid to small businesses that didn t qualify for previous rounds. the sales job will include
aggressive radical agenda and american history and all across the board and they are moving at lightning speed because they don t want you to know about it. we are not having hearings in congress of any sort so you can find out what is taking place in the process has slowed down so your representatives are standing there like statues with nothing to do. president of the united states is signing executive orders one after the other that would make any dictator around the world very, very jealous. these are very serious events that are taking place. now, you can see on the screen some of the executive orders and some of the executive actions that biden has been taking. i will get back to them in a moment but first i want to talk about this. this book by edward bernays called propaganda. this book was the original book on the subject of propaganda and all kinds of people read this book, franklin roosevelt read this book, he advised woodrow wilson who put together one of the bigg
pandemic. steve: except the devastation wasn t inflicted by the pandemic but inflicted by the government starting with the cdc which catastrophically bungled testing so it was impossible to contain the virus here in the way the place like south korea and hong kong did. never forget how the media s precious cdc failed us about one month after germany developed their tests, the cdc finally built hours except it did not work and had to be recalled. precious weeks went by and university labs in the private sector were begging to make a test and the fda said no. finally, at the end of february only after president trump intervened with the red tape was swept away. that vital moment when it might still impossible to contain america s outbreak the cdc arrogance and incompetence were fateful. having allowed the virus to spread uncontrolled for months they then moved to the next disastrous blunder. instead of designing a strategy for the specific characteristics of this virus, clearly
say the administration s immigration policies are to blame. it s the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. the border patrol officers told me that the biden administration policies they are enriching and they empowering the drug cartels in mexico. arthel: we ll get into this with our fox team coverage. griff jenkins is near the border in texas. david spunt is following the president in wilmington, delaware. what are you hearing. reporter: president biden is touting the covid relief, the $1.9 trillion covid relief package. the border is something the president will have to focus on. this is a big deal that fema is getting involved. it shows that the administration cannot ignore the influx of unaccompanied children at the southern border, no question about this at all. homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, made the announcement yesterday that he s directing fema to shelter an
complicating the process and states complained there left to pay for much of the problem. we will have more on that in a few minutes with arizona attorney general mark renovate. let s go to david spunt covering from wilmington, delaware. the white house is not calling this a crisis but there said even the federal emergency agency, how is that going on with the public? the white house is calling this a challenge right now other than southern border. they want fema to be used for weather disasters like storms in the winter storm in colorado like hurricanes not specifically what s going on on the southern border. president biden left wilmington in route to the white house where he will be later this hour but i see the white house clearly sees there s a problem on the southern border because are deploying fema to take care of the unaccompanied minors homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas site attributed announcement that fema is going to be sheltering the unaccompanied