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former acting deputy security secretary ken cuccinelli. also the crisis in the middle east intensifies. we expect have president biden may be shying away from a stronger stance as we monitor the situation going on right now in israel. must it is dividing the democratic party. these tests for the country highlighting speculation that president biden might not be totally in charge. we'll ask who is coming up. biden caving to public pressure, continuing construction of parts of trump's border wall. digging deeper into why. toss the mask, most vases if you're vaccinated. contract dc making a bombshell announcement but something people already knew as common sense. i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now.

>> president biden saying neither putin or russian government was involved in the cyberattack but people are in russia. pain at the pump expecting to get worse before it gets better t takes days for the gas to travel through the pipeline. the white house acknowledge aghast shortage after energy sector granholm called it a supply crutch. we have missouri congressman jason smith, powerful ways and means committee ranking member. you have seen the effects of the hack on the colonial pipeline another group of hackers went after the d.c. police department because they wouldn't pay. this is not happening on the scale last year. this is what is happening this year. this is a test of the administration do you think? >> oh it absolutely is. the world has been watching, edward. the fact that the administration didn't step in and help protect

us whenever you have some russians trying to export five million dollars, that is absolutely unaccepted. in the first 110 plus days of this administration you have a crisis on the border, you have an energy crisis, and now of a economic crisis with the rising cost of inflation. sure gas prices might be a little bit more stable but guess what? they will continue to go up, just much like the food prices. much like people purchasing medicine because of this huge cost, huge increase of inflation. because of the uncontrollable spending just in the first 100 days of this administration. they have either enacted or proposed more than 7 1/2 trillion dollars of spending. that is $75 billion a day. that is why we're seeing the cost of goods and services skyrocketing. edward: a confluence of events here. want to get back to the hack. president biden not commenting whether ransom was paid to the

cyberattackers although it is reported that colonial paid five million dollars in cryptocurrency. does that send a message going forward? >> it does. it makes us look weak. you look at the administration. the world is watching their actions. they watched they didn't step in this situation and they watched the president's proposed skinny budget. all across, all across every agency he proposed average of 16% of anything that did not deal with national security. when it dealt with homeland security, he gave a 0% increase. that shows the priorities. that is why you're seeing people cross the southern border rampant. why hackers are coming after the homeland. it is unacceptable at the fault of administration. edward: president biden wants to work with russian president vladmir putin on a international standard for hacking, literally

almost nothing big happens in russia without putin knowing about it. so the attacks originated from inside of russia against u.s. companies, now our president wants to work with the authoritarian in charge of russia to stop it. am i missing something here? >> the president is a day late, a dollar short what we say back home. he should have been on the phone with putin much before this, got everything straightened out. this should not happen to u.s. companies. the president should have engaged quickly. edward: now energy secretary jennifer green home facing serious backlash admitting that the pipeline is the best way to transport fuel. this africans selling the keystone pipeline destroying thousands of jobs. climate envoy john kerry testifying to the same thing. are they listening to their own data? >> they're not listening to their own data. they're not listening to all americans. in the first few hours of the te biden administration, eliminating keystone firing tens

of thousands of american workers. just this week she stood up in front of a press conference, you know it wouldn't be such an issue if people drove electric cars. i'm telling you folks across the united states they don't want to hear those kind of statements. shows how out of touch this administration is with the working class. edward: in the last 30 seconds i want to ask you a little bit about that with the gas shortage. are we looking at green new deal in action? you mentioned those electric cars? >> they're trying to implement every aspect of the green new deal. for example, the $2.3 trillion proposal of a quote, infrastructure package, more than $600 billion of that proposal is trying to implement the green new deal. they're trying every aspect, whether through executive order or the policies and legislation that they're now proposing. edward: congressman, appreciate your time. congressman jason smith. thank you very much. for more on this let's move a little bit south bringing in texas congressman jodey arrington.

the colonial pipeline starts in your state. your district is a little northwest of that but your thoughts first on the colonial pipeline resuming operations now that that flow is on? >> well i think it is just demonstrated to the country how important real infrastructure is, not the phony infrastructure or all things that we want to label infrastructure where we should debate health care and other committees or housing or the long list of non-germane, irrelevant, non-infrastructure related items. we need to make investments to facilitate the recovery and growth of our economy and protect critical infrastructure. so i think it is revealing not only that we need to make the investment in critical energy-related infrastructure but how dependent our country is on fossil fuels to make the wheels of our economy turn. edward: so with these hacks, congressman, do you think we should send a message?

should the u.s. launch our own cyberattacks with the groups identified behind these attacks? in addition to urging companies to spend a little more to protect some of those networks? >> we absolutely need to make cybersecurity a priority. and again, when we talk about infrastructure, and you have infrastructure packages, democrat packages that are really a trojan horse for all things outside of infrastructure, about 90% of the current infrastructure, has things about climate science and other issues in there, like i said with health care and public housing, we need to make the investment in real infrastructure. i do believe beyond roads and bridges you have to have energy infrastructure and resilience. to me resilience is protecting our baseload of oil and gas and pipelines that take it not only from the upstream production in west texas to everybody's homes and businesses, but pushing it

out around the world to our allies to that they're not dependent on russia or china but they get it from a freedom-loving country like the united states. edward: net exporter like we were under president trump, the trump administration. we understand you sent a letter along with 55 of your colleagues including to steve scalise to speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer stop putting special interests above american families. tell us what your beef is at this point? >> we've seen the prices go up before the colonial pipeline hack because of the unilateral decisions hostile to this president, hostile to fossil fuels. you have a tax package, a tax hike that will be bad for the economy in general, it will run jobs back overseas and it is going to make it much harder to recover but it is being punitive.

there are targeted provisions in there that would take basically business expensing the ability to depreciate assets that every business has but would repeal that for the fossil fuels industry. so on top of banning drilling, on top of getting back in the paris climate accord, all these things are an assault on the very thing that again are the you know pinnings of our, of our economy and our quality of life in this country, it is punitive and it is punishing a particular industry that quite frankly is not based on sighens. it is idealogical, even religious for the left who are really in charge and driving the train in terms of the democrat agenda. edward: so in that vein with the last 30 seconds, these long lines we're seeing at the pump, is this a wakeup call for what the green new deal would look like, relying too heavily on renewable energies, discarding oil and natural gas?

>> absolutely a wake-up call. we have safe, abundant fossil fuels, we're energy independent first time in 67 years. we're the leaders in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. so, we're the greatest economy in the world and the reason we are the "land of opportunity." people literally are dying to get here is because of our free enterprise system and freedom to produce the natural resources god blessed us with in terms of fossil fuels, we're doing it better, doing it cheaper and we're improving everyone's quality of life. edward: congressman, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. congressman jodey arrington from texas, the great state of texas. still ahead, toss the mask in most cases if you're vaccinated. the cdc making the announcement almost everyone knew was coming. congressman buddy carter will

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people all this time. we should have this lifted weeks ago. i've been vaccinated myself since the end of november yet we had all these, these regulations in place, mask regulations in place when they should have been lifted. finally that message is getting through. finally the teachers union and joe biden get the message we got to lift this restriction. we've got to get back to a normal life. again hopefully this will spur people to get the vaccination t does work. 95% effective in a lot of cases. it should be used. >> very interesting the timing of all of this. we saw the report about the lobby group, teachers lobby group, word for word their email became law basically in the cdc and their rules. do you think public pressure played a role for them to actually now follow the science? >> i don't think there is any question about it. the science needs to be followed. it should have been followed long ago. i am really disappointed in

teachers union. we'll have a serious problem with your students in the future. this fall, you're going to see sixth grade teachers welcoming in fourth grade students. that will be a big problem that will take us a while to catch up. it may take years for us to catch up with that. and to think that the teachers union had influence and democrats and joe biden were allowing them, and cdc allowed them to have this kind of influence is very disappointed. edward: fully vaccinated are asked to wear masks in crowded setting, public transportation, prison, hospital, if you go there. do you agree with that part of it then? >> they're still recommending on airplanes when people are in tight quarters like that, perhaps, again, if you've been vaccinated there is no reason why you should have to wear a mask. i don't care, what kind of setting it is in. but you know, out of consideration of other people, okay, i get it but at the same

time, the key here is the vaccination. people who have been vaccinated it is proven they are safe, that they are effective. hopefully this will encourage more people to get vaccinated now that they know once they're vaccinated they don't have to wear the mask anymore. edward: the president used to wear a mask outside despite social distancing. the white house. will this get the white house to clean up their messaging? >> i certainly hope so because right now their message something far beyond mixed. it is just nonexistent. people don't know what to think from what the white house is saying. one day you turn on the tv you hear one thing. the next day you hear something else. the messaging from the white house has been horrible. the messaging from the cdc has been bad. as we found out they have been influenced by groups like the teachers union. edward: here in georgia, i want to ask you quickly about the gas pipelines. are you concerned about this? is this what we're looking at with the green new deal? >> it is what we're looking at

with the green new deal. finally we get realization of how important pipelines are. even the administration has admitted yes it is important. this is a problem, a big problem. oh, yeah? if it's a big problem why did you suspend and deny the keystone xl pipeline? makes no sense whatsoever. you understand now the importance of infrastructure and importance of gas lines. it is the safest way to transport gas. it makes sure that it is safe and it is reliable. now we're suffering the consequences of this administration not realizing that. edward: do you feel like there needs to be another alternative, another pipeline? i mean we're seeing reliance that we have. 45% of the fuels for the east coast is reliant on this one pipeline. do we need other sources now? >> obviously redundancy is very important. redundancy on the electrical grid, on our fuels, all of that is extremely important. it has been brought to light because of this situation we're

experiencing right now. edward: congressman buddy carter, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. interesting conversation. a lot going on in the state of georgia there. thank you very much. still ahead as the crisis in the middle east intensifies we investigate why president biden might be shying away from a stronger stance. plus how it is dividing the democratic party. a party you don't want to miss with congresswoman maria salazar next. >> number one, they wouldn't be doing this if trump were president. hamas would not. the iranians would be afraid trump would hold them accountable. they're testing biden. the response by the the biden administration, there is moral equivalency here. there is no moral eequivalency. , innit? showing up, saying “hello! fancy a nice chat?” then we talk like two old friends about sticky buns and all the savings you could get by bundling your home and car insurance. but here's the real secret.

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to see more action coming from the biden administration but what we do know is that israel is not at war with the palestinian people. israel is at war with hamas, that has been backed by iran and that iran would like the biden administration to go back to sit at the table under its terms to revive that iranian nuclear deal and that is something that we have to be watching and that we cannot make the mistakes of the past. we have to wait to see what biden is going to do. edward: hamas is backed by the iranians whose supreme leader recently praises the pure blood, pure blood of resistance martyrs in palestine. there is houthi escalation in saudi arabia. the iranians may think that the proxies attack u.s. allies, the u.s. might be more eager to make concessions. is this a product of the biden administration reaching out to iran to try to make a deal with the regime, do you think? >> i think that is a very good possibility.

because we heard it in the first 100 days that the biden administration went out of its way to say to iran, we want to negotiate with you once again. we have to understand we're dealing with very bad actors. iran is the number one promoter of terrorist attacks all over the world. iran is willing to help anybody that wants to come to harm us, the united states or israel, and that is what we have to be very alert. something else that i think you mentioned is that now the other arab countries, that supposedly ones more neutral, the ones that have established a relationship with israel, bahrain, qatar, those are, in a very difficult spot because they need to see what is happening in the middle east. we know that is a very convoluted neighborhood and but we have to stand next to israel. i've always said that israel is an island that is surrounded by 350 people that do not necessarily like them.

and once again we're seeing that since 2014, we had not seen such a, such a havoc. i think you're showing some of this footage, which is what is happening right now. we have 1500 rockets that have been launched in four-days. who can stand that? israel is standing right now. edward: a test for this administration also for the israeli. >> absolutely. edward: representative alexandria ocasio-cortez saying today that president biden is siding with occupation by offering a statement of support for israel. her voice seems to carry weight when talking about spending plans from this administration, when domestically, are you worried that her agenda, specifically with this foreign affairs will spread into the white house foreign policy? we may, at least not be as strong a friend of israel? >> well i think that is very accurate what you're saying. unfortunately aoc is a democratic socialist. that thing doesn't exist.

you're either a socialist or a capitalist. every time you mention the word socialism that comes with it anti-semitism f you're a socialist you're anti-semitic. we know that unfortunately socialism is not the ideology that we knee in this country but it has penetrated deeply the democratic party and that is where we need to be very concerned. socialism and anti-semitism -- edward: i'm sorry, congresswoman. this unrest is coming at a time when we're seeing a number of other crises here in the u.s., the border crisis among them. do you feel this is a test for iran or because hamas is funded and supplied by iran or is this a test from hamas? >> it is the same thing. when you're mentioning hamas, you're mentioning iran. they're allies, in bed together, against two countries, israel and the united states. this is good versus evil. this is unfortunately this war between very bad actors and some

good good actors. that is why we must side with israel. in four days 1500 rockets are falling on your head. who can stand that. i understand that the palestinians have the to their own state. we support the two-state solution. that is not what we're discussing right now. that israel is being bombed with rockets day and night for four days. i repeat. 1600 rockets. we got to stop this situation and then sit at the table and start negotiating once again. edward: i agree with you. running out of time. coming into a hard break. thankthank you, representative salazar. appreciate the conversation. >> thank you very much. edward: who is actually in charge of the country? speculation it might not be joe biden. we'll dig into this coming up with kt mcfarland. >> in a little over 100 days we went from a secure border to crisis. we went from energy independence to lines at pump. we went from peace in the middle east to hundreds of

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♪. edward: so breaking news. israel ground troops hitting back in the gaza strip right now. we have former national security advisor kt mcfarland with us now. you looked at this region here. what do you think about these actions that are happening right now. >> i think it is so predictable and so preventable. donald trump left the middle east at peace. israelis and arabs were at peace. the palestinians were getting squeezed. they were not getting support from iran because iran is sanctioned and broke. what does biden come in and do? they hate donald trump so much that things that donald trump did was successful they had to

reverse. they support iran. they tell the palestinians you have a just cause. they separate themselves from israel. now the predictable has happened. iran incident missiles to the palestinians. the palestinians are firing missiles into israel. and now israel will have to send ground troops into gaza to stop the missiles coming into israel. so we'll have, this will get worse. this is going to escalate into a real intifada. israel will ultimately win. but the whole region is back in flames. it is just a tragedy because it didn't have to happen this way. edward: so interesting, the biden administration now being tested on multiple fronts internationally and also domestically. many are asking who is running the show. listen to this from former national intelligence acting director ric grenell. he says it is susan rice. watch. >> president biden is too weak to stop the progressive left from taking over the domestic and foreign policy. kamala harris does not understand what is going on

because she is not expert on foreign policy. and susan rice is really happy that biden is too weak. kamala is totally distracted with the 50-50 senate, have to be up at the senate. she is running the show. we have a shadow president in susan rice and no one -- edward: i have also herd chief of staff ron klain has a lot of clout in the white house. kt what do you think about this? >> i worked in the white house through three administrations, over a decade, here is what happens in the white house. at this time is all about location. it is a really small place. it is even smaller than it looks like on tv shows. if you're working in the west wing, you see the president a couple of times a day, a couple of times an hour. susan rice, former national security advisor, had one of the big offices in the west wing of the white house. now she is domestic counsel advisor f she is going to meetings, lawrence, edward, she will not oh, i will not talk about topic because i'm domestic

affairs now. she is weighing in on everything. she has probably an undue amount of influence in an administration where joe biden, i don't think anybody thinks is is fully in charge of the administration he is running. edward: it is interesting, people are wondering about biden and the reason why speaking yesterday. so he took two questions yesterday. he got lured back to the podium. this is what he said. listen. >> you guys are bad. i'm not supposed to be answering all these questions. i can't resist your questions. edward: so i'm not supposed to be answering your questions. he is the leader of the free world. who is he taking orders from? >> can you imagine donald trump, never going to say i'm not supposed to answer your questions. he will answer everybody's question, even the ones that aren't asked. the tragedy is, is the foreign policy of the biden administration is the same foreign policy of the obama administration. it's a lot of the same people, susan rice being one. it is soft on china, don't stand

up to china, it's pro-iran, it is anti-israel, it is pro-palestinian but tough talk about russia but don't act on russia. you have a situation in a couple of months they have a crisis on just about every continent. they have a open border, a crisis with south and latin america. they have a crisis with china in the south china sea. a crisis in the black sea on ukraine, hacking with russia. it is not a accident these things are happening simultaneously. foreign policy is like "shark tank." if countries, your adversaries if they sense weakness on part of the united states, they will go in, say, this is my time. they look at an american white house. washington is dysfunctional. a president preoccupied. a vice president preoccupied. they're thinking this is my moment. i sense weakness and i'm going to get what i can. you know we'll see more and more crises and more and more tough talk by the biden administration

and probably very little tough action. edward: in the last 30 seconds, put your white house hat on, if you were back in the white house, what would you recommend from here? >> i would have gotten on the phone with vladmir putin, vlad, that hacking thing you have to stop that right now. don't tell me you don't know hot people are. they're in your territory. they're not hacking you, harking me. i would hang up the phone. that would send a great signal to the chinese, to the russians, to the iranians this is a guy who is in charge. sadly, what happened? they paid the ransom. bad, bad precedent. edward: kt mcfarland i appreciate it. we'll ransom you for maybe you will pay up. i doubt it though. thank you very much. >> thanks, edward. >> appreciate it. coming up nicole malliotakis from the house transportation infrastructure committee is here to tell us what she thinks about biden meeting with gop leaders today. was it all for show or will we see a bipartisan deal on real

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♪. edward: round two of meetings between president biden and gop lawmakers on biden's massive american jobs plan which has some infrastructure, but mostly other things in it, the president says he is hoping to find some middle ground. so is this talk of compromise just for show? let's bring in new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis from the transportation and infrastructure committee. i want to hear your take on this. this is what the president said about this, listen. >> look what we're doing is, at the, at the request of, mutual erequest of is getting together, getting leading republicans in the senate together, to see if we can work out something on a compromise on infrastructure. and, and, i know very sincere about it, so am i. what we'll try to do is figure out what we can agree

constitutes infrastructure from each of our perspectives. see whether or not we're in a position that, how, how much we want to fund it above the baseline. the baseline meaning what we spent last year. and then, talk about, how to proceed from there. edward: so up to now compromise has been do it my way or we'll ram it through. what do you think, karn it be done? >> time will tell but the real question here is whether he is willing up to stand up to the radical left of his party making so many demands unrelated to transportation infrastructure. this is a president said he wants to work with us on a covid relief package and rammed through a $1.9 trillion package despite the fact one trillion was sitting on the table, without input from republicans or democrats quite frankly. hard to tell at this point whether he is serious or not. we hear a lot of talking but will he take our suggestions

that this needs to be a very focused plan on true transportation and real infrastructure, energy infrastructure to prevent further cyberattacks like we saw over the weekend. real infrastructure investment into our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our airports, our seaports. that is really the question here. i don't have the answers to this right now. i don't think he knows that either whether he will be tough enough to stand up to the radical left he is trying to stand up to this radical agenda and make a deal aoc wants. edward: take it a step forward, do you see a way to pay for the plan without impacting middle class taxes then? >> look, this is a real concern. there are some fees that can be increased or some alternatives. i always suggested government spends money all sorts of things where they don't belong, they should look at metrics, see what is not working right now, shifting those funds. like i suggested with the one trillion dollars left over from

the covid relief package. instead of using those funds where it was needed at this moment, they decided to authorize another $1.9 trillion in debt. the question, what will we focus on in the package? let's make sure that we're not repeating the mistakes of the past. the covid relief package has led to more people staying home because they're working, they're earning more money actually staying home than going back to work. so there is a major labor shortage right now. we don't have the people to go to work, to increase the supply chain. that is a major problem for everything from lumber to agriculture. people are seeing increases in their gas prices as well. all of that is related to the policies that have come forward through president biden's so far. so, we have to be cautious about that. we just want a reasonable, conservative package here. edward: possibly increasing the amount of people's reliance on the government. senate minority leader

mitch mcconnell is optimistic about a deal but that the red line is reopening the 2017 tax bill signed by president trump. do you see democrats compromising on the taxing agenda then? >> i do see some democrats siding with us against increasing taxing capital gains and corporations. anything that encourages invest outside of the united states of america, what would be the point of doing a stimulus package then? we don't want discourage the investment, we want to be smart about it. as a new yorker i want to restore the s.a.l.t. deduction that was taken away and capped in that 2017 plan. that is the one thing as a new yorker, i know that affects residents that i represent in staten island and brooklyn and homeowners. i will push for that. certainly we don't want to increase taxes at a time of economic recovery. that would be a mistake. edward: appreciate it congresswoman malliotakis.

thank you very much from the great state of new york. we will continue this conversation. continue watching. coming up next wall or not to wall. the biden administration now saying it needs to complete at least one more section. we'll tell you why with former deputy, former department of homeland security acting director ken cuccinelli. >> the numbers this year alone, we're just in the month of april, have now sure us passed surpassed most categories previous year totals. you see where we're at and where we're going and this administration continues not to look at the issue on the border, trying to enforce the law on the border again. what they're trying to do is solve this capacity issue. it is the wrong approach. x is 's largest online commercial real estate exchange. if i could, i'd ten-x everything. like a coffee run...

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♪♪ >> the biden administration reversing course and continuing construction on part of the border wall along the mexican border but only because of public pressure. that part of the wall will be used as a levee to stop the rio grande from flooding homes. remember when the biden campaigned on tearing down the wall. joining me now is acting dhs

secretary ken cucinelli. we've watched these pictures on the fox news channel of hundreds of people turning themselves in, no resistance, no wall. this is the also a national security risk, right? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, at the same time we see this massive invasion going on that is enriching the drug cartels south of the border, we also see drug availability on the streets of american cities going up, and that's coming across the southwest border. so what you know is going on is that the cartels are sending people off in certain pre-planned routes by them. they have intelligence themselves, and they run these right at the agents. as you noted, people are just turning themselves in because the government is facilitating their illegal immigration. at the same time, that overwhelms the border patrol in terms of manpower, and at the

same time the cartels unrun the drugs across a different part of the border and are far less opposed in doing so, and it's easier for them to deliver those drugs to the whole rest of the country. that's why former border protection commissioner mark morgan likes to say every town is a border town. your own community is affected by how this administration is breaking down border security. ed: somewhere around 178,000 people last month were processed by the administration. that's not including, that doesn't include the gotaways, the people that did not get caught. >> right. edward: just to your point, those folks could be carrying drugs, diseases or we don't even know who they are. >> right. well, heck, the people they're welcoming in are carrying the pandemic. they're testing positive, and this administration has in previous months been putting them on public transportation

anyway. incredible. they tell you and me to go hide in our basements, and they stick covid-positive people on buses and planes with the rest of us. so the dichotomy is enormous, it's hypocritical. and we just saw mayorkas testify the earlier, and he mentioned various aspects of the border like getting at root causes. the one thing he didn't mention is enforcing the law which is the most fundamental responsibility within the department of homeland security. edward: and the id slow that's running there was the -- video that's running is the mexican authorities stopping the flow in that one particular area. was it phone calls or cooperation between the u.s. and mexico in that particular area, is that why they showed up? because it was on tv? >> so under the trump administration, we had daily communication -- when i say we, i mean career professionals right there on the border -- had regular communication with their mexican counterparts on the other side of the border. but make no mistake, the drug

cartels control the southern side of the border. it is a great big 2,000-mile toll booth for them, can and they are making a mint off the biden effect. this one great big money opportunity for them, and this is easy money the biden administration is feeding to the most vicious, evil people in the western hemisphere, the mexican drug cartels. edward: there are new warning signs that the surge is straining the foster system as the biden administration is sending unaccompanied kids through the customs facilities as quickly as possible to get them into hhs care. it's not just kids being left at the border, the cdc rescued an elderly woman after smugglers left her after she springed her ankle. the heartless -- sprains her ankle. >> look, the border patrol

agents and the ofo agents who work the legal crossings, they save thousands of lives every year. and as you just noted, edward, they get no credit for it. do you ever see the mainstream media cover that? of course not. almost never. a couple of times a year. and we've seen video in recent weeks of children, for instance, being dropped from 30 feet high by these drug cartels and human traffickers who don't give a flying rat's tail about these children. and your point about older folks is just as legitimate. if they're slowing them down, they just leave them in the desert, because they do not care about these people. that is part of the humanitarian aspect of this crisis. you mentioned it's a national security threat to the whole united states, it is also, of course, a humanitarian crisis. and it's flooding a foster system that already has so many problems with a whole one. of -- edward: i'm running up against a hard break.

in the last 15 seconds or so, the pipeline, it seems colonial may have paid, as reports are, would you have recommended that or not? last ten seconds. >> yeah. wish they hadn't done that. i live in one of the affected states. it's a big deal, but this just encourages more ran many ware or and cyber attacks. >> we've got to go, i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth -- ♪ ♪ larry: hello, everyone. welcome to "kudlow." i'm larry kudlow. we're going to go right to president biden, i guess, who's got a surprise press conference or something else. let's take a listen. >> -- roll out the vaccine and boost our economy. as i said in my joint address to the congress, this vaccination effort has been historic logistical achievement for the united states of america. over the past 114 days, our vaccination program has led