. kristin:. >> president biden ramming up the pressure, saying that a bill must pass with no if's, and's or butt's. i'm griff jenkins. gillian: it's great to be with you and everyone at home on this cold saturday. stay there if you can. i'm gillian turner. the $2 trillion question in market, could the democrats push through another covid stimulus package maybe without support of a single republican which is looking more and more likely. david spunt joins us from 1600

pennsylvania avenue with the latest. >> hi gillian, hi griff. almost two years ago, then candidate joe biden pushed this idea of bipartisanship. if elected he said he would work with democrats and republicans. now that he's a white house in the residence behind me the reality of the gridlock in 2021 in washington is certainly settling in. you have to remember that joe biden is a creature of the u.s. senate. he served there for 36 years walking the halls of the capitol. he says he plans to pass a covid relief package with or without the help of the republicans. remember though democrats have the upper hand, returning the senate, the house and the white house. but the president says he does want to do things in a bipartisan manner first. if not, so be it. >> let's get this straight. it's not only that people will be badly, badly hurt if we don't pass this package in terms of increased rate of death, in terms of poverty, a

while range of things, but we will also be hurt long-term economically. >> speaker of the house, nancy pelosi will bring that resolution to the floor to get the president's nearly $2 trillion, with a "t" package kicked off. and remember, the democratic majority in the senate as well. the senators to watch though, griff and gillian, moderate like retiring senator pat toomey, joe manchin and susan collins of maine. as per the constitution, the vice-president, kamala harris will be the tie-breaking vote and you can expect she'll pass the measure and eyes on kevin mccarthy, he has many republicans that says they want to pass the relief package, the payments. the majority of republicans do not. to both of you, a month ago, former president trump, a

republican, was pushing forward for the $2,000 payments and now we'll have to see if the same republicans will push for that amount of money under president biden, gillian and griff. kristin: maybe one of the longest months in my life and thanks, we'll check back with you next hour. griff. griff: and joining us is congresswoman yvette harold. she's a member of the committee. thank you for taking the time and happy saturday for you. >> thanks for having me. griff: if i could get your reaction, you just heard our reporter david spunt at the white house, it appears that your colleagues across the aisle are going forward one way or another. what is your reaction? >> yeah, that's really unfortunate because if you remember, myself and several other freshmen legislators wrote a letter to the new administration saying we would be willing to work with him if we could bring the voices of

our constituents to the table and work in bipartisan fashion, including covid relief. of course the executive order signaled he had no interest or appetite to work with us. you know, the only work if both parties come to the table and it doesn't sound like it's going that way. griff: and congresswoman, david was saying a few months ago, president trump was pushing for a lot of the same things. is it now political? >> i think it's always been political, but we have to look deep into the physical responsibility of our nation. the first ones were vest, but we have to look how we're going to pay for these as a nation. griff: congresswoman, let's talk about the new administration. one of the first thing that president biden did was issue a lot of executive orders one of which halted the drilling on federal lands for oil and gas, you have an op-ed that you co-authored with the house minority leader steve scalise

about this, you write this, quote, when washington radical ban drilling on federal lands americans lose their jobs. our friends and neighbors rely on this to pay rent, put food on the table and lights on and the biden administration is attacking their livelihood and jeopardizing america's energy security. so what do you say then to the new administration about what they should be doing? >> right, well, it's fortunately that they went ahead with these executive orders and in a state like new mexico with are over 50% of our oil production and over 60% of our natural gas production comes from federal land, this is absolutely catastrophic. especially if these are made permanent. right now we're scrambling around trying to recover from the covid and here we are now in a one year moratorium from being able to extend leases on federal land and not only affects the american worker in new mexico, it has a profound impact on our state budget. almost half our state budget comes from the oil and gas

industry, know the to mention the classrooms, teachers salaries, infrastructure. so this will have a profound effect on our communities, our state budget and our education system. griff: can you put it in terms of the number of jobs it will have on your state? >> yes, we'll lose up to 60,000 jobs by the end of 2022, and there have been over 117,000 jobs that are indirectly or directly related to the oil and gas industry in the state of new mexico, so we're looking over 100,000 jobs that are going to be compromised because of the executive order. griff: speaking of executive orders. let's talk about immigration, already the president, president biden has issued several. we'll have more this coming tuesday, but one of them that appears significant to me in your state is the halting of the border wall construction. how does that impact you? >> yeah, another executive order that really will have a profound effect on new mexico, a border state. we know the wall worked and we

have to protect the communities, the ranchers, the farmers and people that live in or border communities and this executive order again with the immigration issue puts everybody at risk. it's unbelievable that we would compromise the safety and health and really the national security of the your nation by virtue of these executive orders. griff: i have a few seconds left. the first bill you're introducing has to do with covid at the border. >> it is. the pause act, over three co-sponsors. what we're asking the legislature to do is to leave the title 42 program in place. that's the tool border patrol deported those coming in illegal from mexico or canada that may have the covid virus or any other infectious disease. between october 2020 and december 2020, because of this title 42, the border patrol was able to expel over 180,000

migrants that were making their way across the border and again, this is about public health. we've been in lockdown, mandates with the mask wearing, closed businesses and to open the border up to allow those coming in that may have the covid or other infectious disease, again, goes against what we've had to do the last nine months. griff: congresswoman yvette herrell. we'll stay in touch. >> thank you. griff: and much more on this agenda, chris wallace talked with jared bernstein council of economic advisors tomorrow on fox news sunday. check your listings for time and channel. and our friend howie sturtze talks about the covid distribution and i'll talk with him about coverage of the baseball hall of fame and curt schilling. that's your tease. tomorrow at 11 a.m. gillian: well, dozens much

states are running out of vraciu doses now faster than the government is restocking their supplies. the questions are now swirling about why the detainees at guantanamo bay are getting shots ahead of the rest of america. lauren blanchard is digging into this question this afternoon, hi, lauren. >> yahoo! gillian. this year will be the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and some of those that carried out the attacks still sit behind bars and they're about to be offered the coronavirus vaccine before many americans. the pentagon will offer 40 detainees at guantanamo bay detention center the covid-19 vaccine as they await trial, that includes mohammed sheikh mohammed. and he lost 343 firefighters that day, and he says these detainees should be the last on the list. >> what are we doing?

we've got hundreds, thousands, millions of people that don't have the opportunity to get the shot and we're worrying about criminals that we spend millions of dollars a year to take care of. these 40 low-lifes didn't get the vaccine wouldn't they are me at all. but some say because they're in a u.s. prison, the u.s. vowed to give them the same care as the foreign troops and that means a vaccine and keeping guards safe. i know it's a bitter pill for people to swallow, it's a health and safety matter for our guard force. attorneys for the detainees, and there may be shots available and they may not be willing to get them.

gillian: that was my next question, if you're khalid sheikh mohammed, what is the chance you'll go forward and take the shot. maybe they can compel him to do that. thank you, lauren. griff: new york governor andrew cuomo is punting blame for the undercounting deaths in nursing homes. they undercounted up to 50%. live outside the governor's office in new york city, hi, alex. >> hi, griff. the governor made the comments about that saying every single death is a tragedy, but said that everyone did the best that they could early the during months of the pandemic. this is a 76-page report that was released this week by new york's attorney general latisha janes. finding that cuomo required nursing homes to accept

covid-19 patients in the early months of the pandemic and may have put residents at increased risk and finding that 50% more deaths happened than initially reported. the state's department of health adding that 12, 743 people died from long-term care facilities, that's up from more than 8,000 deaths initially reported because they had not been including residents who died later at hospitals. the governor reacting,s take a listen. >> it's not about pointing fingers or blame, it's that this became a political football, right? look, whether a person died in the hospital or died in the nursing home, it's the people died. people died. >> well, those numbers do matter to the families who buried loved ones. cuomo's comments sparking a lot of criticism. one man who lost his father speaking to fox about the

governor's response. >> the governor's press conference yesterday was pretty awful. i want to tell governor cuomo to stop blaming trump for his own administration's lies. they lied then. they're still lying now. >> some of those families say that they want an apology and overall, they simply want more empathy from their political leaders, griff. griff: alex hogan in new york. thanks, gillian. gillian: let's discuss this with two new yorkers who paid the ultimate price during this pandemic and you just heard from one of them in alex hogan's piece. you heard from peter and daniel, and their father tragically passed away after contracting covid in a nursing home recently. our condolences. and thank you for taking time out to join us on this saturday. talk to us a little about your

experience. i understand you didn't just lose your dad, you also lost four other family members to covid-19? is that right? >> we had-- it was just an overwhelming week. we had five family members die. one of old age, four of covid and three in nursing, got it from a nursing home. just-- words can't describe the overwhelming grief and at the time, you remember, we weren't allowed to grieve. none of them like us could grieve. a funeral, couldn't see our family members. gillian: were you able to communicate with your dad at all in his-- during his final days? >> we were very-- use the word blessed because we were able to take him out to the last few days of his life and bring him home and be with

him pretty much 24 hours. so we were very-- it was very unusual, we knew about the mandate coming in and the administration came and told us because they saw how we were engaged with our father and they said we'd take our father home if we were you and we did. gillian: i'm glad for that small blessing. tell me about how you felt. what was your first reaction earlier this week when that report cast released outlining the extent, really, to which the new york administration had been obscuring the real death rates in nursing home spread across the state? >> well, it was shocking because we've been saying this from day one. we've been saying that the government -- the government has been lying about the numbers. gillian: so you had a suspicion already before the report? >> we had a mock funeral that we staged for governor cuomo's

leadership and integrity and we had this because we knew he was lying about the numbers. he actually lied in the book, so i would request the publisher to update his book that glorified hims an a self-appointed pandemic god. we asked for an apology. i personally asked for the governor to call me because we have things to discuss. i would invite the governor to my father's house to sit down. when he says on national television who cares? we care. we care. do i care that his father passed? absolutely do i care that his father passed, but i had nothing to do with his father's passing. he put an order in place, no one in his administration has told him the truth. the truth is, your administration has been lying. stop blaming it on trump. stop making this a political issue. covid knows no political party. gillian: right. >> that's been proven. gillian: so based on what you have seen now during this pandemic at your father's

nursing home, living through his experience with him, do you put most of the blame on this high death rate of nursing homes in new york state in particular, on that particular policy, the one that governor cuomo says his attorney general passed and he didn't know about specifically the one for a couple of months covid positive nursing homes residents were forced back into their residences? is that kind of the heart of the problem here to your mind? >> yes. the heart of the problem is in march if we knew anything about the virus and we did not know much, but we knew if you had underlying conditions and you were over 65 it was fatal. and that is the population of a nursing home. gillian: right. >> his order sent back whether it's the federal government guidelines, it's his order that sent positive patients back into nursing homes and he defended it for six weeks and

for those six weeks he defended it until he rescinded it. he didn't count the nursing home discharge deaths like our father. our father didn't count because he died at home. the day after rescinded the order, that he counted discharge deaths, that was-- we weren't happy as a family. it's amazing. i voted for the governor, i asked for an apology, i'm a democrat. i can't get an apology for anyone. to are any family member. again, covid knows no political party. he's the only one that made this a political issue. >> one of the things-- >> peter and daniel we've got to leave it there, unfortunately we're out of time and we'd love to have you back. our condolences are with you and we'll continue to try to find answers. until then, thank you so much for taking time and sharing this very difficult personal experience with us. we appreciate it, we learned a lot from it. >> thank you.

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>> investigators are trying to figure out why a group of soldiers in fort bliss, texas drank a substance that's not commonly found in anti-freeze. officials say that the soldiers thought it was alcohol. obviously it was not. the incident happening while the soldiers were ending a 10-day field training exercise on thursday. the 11 soldiers were hospitalized, two of those soldiers are still in serious condition. gillian: all right, now the sec is threatening to investigate. they're saying they're keeping a hawkeye on reddit after what proved to be a few wild days on wall street. and where the game stop scandal is headed next. mitch, good afternoon. it's just over 12 p.m. depending where our viewers are, good morning, good afternoon. our own neil cavuto described what we saw this week as quote,

a populist revolt in the markets the like of which we have never seen before. do you agree with na that? >> yeah, i totally agree with that. let's figure out how we got there. people are locked down, the savings rate is up, we have sites like reddit to share information and at the same token, sites like robinhood, e-trade and others and they can trade free so there's no charge, transaction charges for a trade and there's no minimum. so you could buy one share of game stop. i'm not saying it was boredom that drove this, but there was an opportunity and people were taking advantage. and they were going after the big hedge funds, shorting, meaning they were betting against stocks. it was well-organized and well-executed. gillian: so we know that a whole lot of americans have a whole lot more time op their hands the last few months than they have recently. so maybe it wasn't boredom maybe just that. that's a great point and i

haven't heard anyone make it. elon musk tweeted, he says you can't sell houses you don't own. you can't sell cars you don't own, but you can sell stock you don't own so he's clearly taking a jab there at the short sellers. what do you think? >> well, he has a personal vendetta, if you will, against short sellers because his stock is one that's been shorted a bunch and notwithstanding the fact that it's been shorted, it's made a wild ride. but it's an interesting concept, but short selling has been around, gillian, since the dawn of time. when you buy a stock, somebody on the other side of that is selling is and in some cases they don't own what they're selling and they have to borrow the stock to settle the trade, but it's part of a functioning, even though it seems dysfunctional, it's part of the function of the capital market. the issue is that more than 140% of the outstanding shares or the float of game stop was shorted. so, there's something that i think going to get a lot of regulatory attention because more people were selling it

than actually had it out there. so somebody who has been advocating for short stocks, short sellers in the sense he believes they make the market stronger and more equitable for everybody as opposed to just hedge funders is fox business channel's charlie gasperino. here is what he said this morning. take a listen. >> i'm going to have to read this for you. i'm sorry we don't have the sound now. he says short sellers are a good thing for the market and we need more. they help people decide what stocks to buy and sell. my view is we need more short selling, not less. so that kind of gets to the case that you're making, right, mitch? >> yeah, i think -- i don't know, list be, wouldn't be the first time i disagreed with charlie on live television. gillian: that's allowed. we allow it here. >> part of the fun of television, but i think that there -- i'm not a big fan of regulation although again when you're selling more than

there's out there, that seems like a bit of an unfair advantage and just if you think about it, short sellers are betting that the company potentially goes out of business because they want the stock to go down as much as possible. so i don't think that they're very popular and that's why this sort of populist movement went against the short sellers. they're important to the market, but maybe it's for the first time. it's going to get a lot of regulatory and congressional scrutiny. gillian: we've got to leave it there. your last point is a perfect place to pick up now the next time you join us. we've got the sec and congress. but the big point is are they going to do something? they love to threaten more regulation and never vote to pass legislation or actually rein in any companies in the united states. mitch, think about that until next time. we appreciate your time this saturday. >> we'll see you again, gillian. gillian: you get. griff: dozens of states are on high alert as a new winter

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>> americans are bracing for a snowstorm of epic proportion moving to the west and northeast, and some cities are preparing for over a foot of snow by monday or tuesday. and meteorologist adam klotz is tracking it and he has the complete forecast. >> you said it, we're looking at a really big storm system and probably firing up later this evening. here is our satellite and radar and everything lifting up currently across the portions of the plains. the air is too warm for this to turn into snow, but there's colder air off to the north and

east and that's a spot where we'll begin to see over the next couple of days, really, overnight hours where this is going to turn more and more into snow from the areas of the great lakes into the mid atlantic and eventually new york city, boston, all areas you're going to be dealing with the potential system as we continue on. so, storm watches and warnings now, again, from chicago, running you up towards d.c., up towards new york city, areas where you're going to be at least probably six inches of snow. and i'll show that here in just a moment. having a little issues with my clicker, continuing on the time frame, the storm lifts into the cold air and overnight tonight seeing that across chicago and continue into the sunday forecast and that's where we see this shift to the mid atlantic and stretching down to d.c. it continues into monday and into tuesday because this is a bit of a slow-moving system and it's not until tuesday that it

pushes out back out to sea and we see how much total snow we'll get. again, my clicker is having issues and this is the total that we're talking about, chicago maybe up to 10 inches of snow, other areas, d.c., philadelphia, up to a foot. six inches of snow in new york city, a really major system that we're going to be watching closely here the next couple of days. back out to you. gillian: sounds like a perfect few days not to go anywhere, to stay home and not drive. thanks, adam. griff: president biden is making a push for a covid relief bill and this is pushback from republicans. and the executive orders in the first 10 days in office. and let's bring in our panel. caldwell fowler, i couldn't have a better panel here to talk about this because we're at the beginning of a new administration and we heard on inauguration day a strong

message, historic by many accounts, of unity, but now in the first big fight in washington, over covid relief something the last administration tried to deliver. we're seeing the democrats say, well, we may just do it alone. richard, i'll start with you. what's going on? why are they going to go without trying to get some consensus? >> listen, i think it's too early to tell whether or not there's going to be consensus on this covid relief bill, but i think that the president wants to work with republicans on this and he should. let's be very clear. two weeks ago, many of the things that are in the covid relief bill republicans were for, they were for $2,000 collection to the american people and now they seem to be against it. they were for money to go to state and local governments and now they seem to be against it and what we're trying to figure out how do we bring the country together so we can flatten the curve and eradicate the global pandemic that joe biden is committed to.

griff: the republicans are not for $15 minimum wage, it looks like that's a big fight. what do you say? >> i think that there should be a big fight. we're in the middle of a pandemic. we're seeing state after state shut businesses do unand now in places like in california where they're now opening restaurant, some restaurants can't afford to open back up and some don't want to open back up because they don't know when gavin newsom or whoever else may say in two weeks, hey, we're shutting down again, so you're losing money. richard says there was support to are giving funding to state and local governments in the covid bill. that isn't true. the republicans said they didn't see a need to bail out local governments in the states where democrats made bad decisions and left themselves in a bankrupt situation. look at a place like illinois already was bankrupt pretty much before covid even happened. so there isn't unity, i think, even in the democratic party for the covid relief package of $1.9 trillion that joe biden is offering up at this point. griff: richard, president

biden said no and's, if's or but's that this has to go through and indeed if the democrats do this with budget reconciliation, how president obama got obamacare through and how president trump got the tax cuts through. will there be perhaps an ill will afterwards if democrats go that route? >> i don't think there will be, because elections have consequences and right now the democrats control the house, the senate and the white house, so they will use reconciliation to get it through, understanding that this is not the method that we want to take. lets he be clear. the $900 billion bill that donald trump and the republicans passed through in december had money for state and local governments, not just for blue states, but for all states, right, because there were republican governors na said he we need this money because much of the cash that we had went to supporting covid relief. it went to covid testing.

it went to pushing out the covid vaccine, hiring more nurses and more firefighters and paramedics to deal with this pandemic. so we really want to get our hand around eradicating covid-19 and eradicating this pandemic, the 0 only way we're going to open this economy pass this together and rid of the bipartisan bickering, and put this vaccine in the arms of americans and that's going to be funding. griff: and let's have a conversation about the record number of executive orders and actions, 40 so far, from president biden. he is governing by what many call executive fiat rather than involving republicans. what do you say about that? >> yeah, it's kind of hard to imagine that he has an approval rating over 50% and that he was the most popular person elected in office in history when he is doing everything by executive order. it doesn't make a lot of sense to me and i question those polls in terms of his approval rating.

another thing that comes to mind, this is a guy who says that the reason he decided to run for president was because of charlottesville. why haven't we seen not one executive order with regards to african-americans, specifically issues of impact to african-americans? perhaps the economy? perhaps the job situation? perhaps criminal justice reform which we saw from donald trump from executive order perspective and from legislatively. so why is it that democrats continue in my view, to treat black folks who support them time and time again as though they don't matter. black lives don't matter to democrats and black votes do. >> one of the themes was racial equity. and richard, a few seconds to respond. >> sure, listen, a couple of things, let's correct the record. number one, yes, president trump passed the first act step. and federal incarcerations went up and excuses. you're right, griff, there was

a day on racial equity-- excuse me, president biden got rid of private prisons used by the federal government and he pushed forward measures that would increase african-americans able to get money from the government. he got rid of eviction so folks don't lose housing that impacts african-americans. let's not mix apples and oranges. >> he continues to be committed to racial equity and i gave you-- >> where is the evidence of that. griff: richard and-- i started something here and i've got to leave it there, guys. >> i gave you more than-- >> clearly, we're going to have a lot more to talk about in the next four years. thank you for taking time, have a great saturday. >> thank you. griff: all right. gillian. gillian: always a good argument, a good conversation, i should say. a brand new clue in the 35-year-old search for teamster legend jimmy hoffa coming up

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>> the disappearance of jimia hoffman for years now. according to a reporter there could be a clue that solves this mystery once and for all. >> it remains the greatest mystery in american history. what happened to jimmy hoffa. hoffa, the legendary team stars leader disappeared july 30th, 1975. thought to be on his way to meeting with mafia bosses in detroit. finding had he remains could solve the case. and that's where paul ka pola comes in, and they suspect a dump in new jersey where they thought he was buried. and told his body was transported from detroit to the

dump where he buried him. >> you say that your father buried jimmy hoffa. >> yeah, my father said he can't fit in the drum body feet first, they had to turn him. >> and your father said he couldn't fit in the drum. >> feet first couldn't get the legs to bend right and had to take him out and pit him in head first. >> frank says his dad took an excavator and buried the barrel under a pile of other barrels and covered the dirt. he took an expert to the spot. a dusty plot of land a few feet off the property line of his father's former dump in jersey city, under the elevated pulaski skyway, it's used by a local waste management to store empty dumpsters and is owned by the new jersey department of transportation. >> we're here and this is the spot. >> yeah.

>> can you turn it up and fire up. what do you see? >> fox nation hired ground penetrating radar systems to use ground penetrating radar to see if we could found any evidence of the buried barrels. ground penetrating radar uses radio frequency to scan underground and see the unseen. that when we hit pay dirt. multiple round shapes that they say is metal. the half moon images piled on top of each other exactly where and just like what frank capola said we would found here. barrels and the drum holding jimmy hoffa. >> is that metal? >> yeah, it's definitely metal. >> we've sound several round shaped metal objects buried here, some were on top of each other, which fits frank's story exactly and this is another spot right near the first one, which is right, that's the round there what could be a barrel. >> so this could be-- this would be the spot.

and it's exactly where frank pointed out to dan. we're stamping right here saying this is where jimmy hoffa was buried. >> for now the land remains as it is, it's illegal for fox nation to dig up the barrels so the mystery to what happened to jimmy hoffa remains until law enforcement digs up what we found. watch our four episodes of riddle the search for james r. hoffa, fox nation. i'm eric shaw fox news. griff: restaurants in california, one owner is being penalized for his patio. you'll find out why coming up. (money manager) because our way works great for us! (judith) but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. (money manager) so, what do you provide? cookie cutter portfolios?

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>> well, after a nearly two-month long shutdown the state of california is finally reopening its outdoor dining. one owner is heavily fined for operating his business outdoors. joining us is the owner of coney sports grill in agoura hills. hi, david, i understand right now you're in the middle of another back and forth with the health department.

is that right? what is the issue? >> yeah, gillian, thank you for having us today. you know, we -- there's been a lockdown in southern california for two months now and l.a. county for two months where they would not allow outdoor dining. aim he not talking indoor dining, i'm talking about outdoor diningment gavin newsom lifted the order for outdoor dining. and i remained open because a, we had to survive the shutdown and it was unfair, b, we thought you couldn't eat outside at the grill or you could go to costco and touch a bottle of wine or the gas pump and i thought it was unfair. gillian: i've got it ask you, are you privy to or heard about the underlining data here that drove the california government

to close outdoor dining in the first place? fox news looked into this. we haven't seen anything that shows us an increase in cases from spread at outdoor dining. i'm just wondering if you've seen anything in california? >> i'm glad you asked, gillian. i had a friend who sent me some data from the health department website. when they closed the health department, and this is on the website here, there were-- the county website, there were 2049 people when they closed dining in the hospital. 2049. when they opened up yesterday on january 27th yesterday, there were 6,213 people hospitalized with covid. it makes absolutely no sense. there's no logic and it reinforces the reason that my partners, dave, chuck and i stayed open for those two months because there's no proof that outdoor dining contributes to, you know, the covid virus and believe me, gillian, i take

the covid very serious, my dad passed away from covid on easter sunday. gillian: oh, i'm sorry. >> thank you. my dad would have been proud of us taking the stand and staying open because we have to survive and gillian, we did it for our staff. you know, these people need jobs. >> yes. >> and especially during the holidays. it's very rough year and if they closed us for arbitrary rules so that's why we did it. >> so, take a listen to governor newsom, i want to get your reaction. >> people often ask or often overlook how we're doing vis-a-vis other states in this respect on positivity rates. we're faring better than more than half of the states in the nation. >> so he's essentially saying, don't come at me about my policies, look how great we're doing preventing covid spread in california. what's your response? >> well, you know, i think that we should do everything to try

to eliminate covid spread, but we should do it in a scientific way and if you want to -- you have to go to the areas where the people are getting the virus most and that would probably be in maybe big box stores certainly more than outdoor restaurants or maybe in the home. i think you're saver at outdoor dining-- >> david, we've got to go for a hard break. we appreciate you bleaking it down. we pressure you the best and hopefully going forward hopefully easier getting the outdoor customers. >> we're not really, but thank you, the health department is still coming down on us. gillian: we'll be right back. of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference.

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>> reporter: weekend number two for president biden here as commander in chief. he's keeping a low profile at least publicly, but aides insist he is working behind the scenes constantly to hammer out those details in that covid relief package, nearly $2 trillion. you have to remember that joe biden is a creature of the senate where he spent 36 years working with both sides to have aisle, and this covid relief is so important. speaking of covid, griff, tuesday is -- monday, i should say, is february 1st. it was last february when president trump held his first briefing on covid. that's how long this country's endured this. the president, as i said, spent the time working at capitol hill, wants to pass that covid relief package with or without the help of those across the aisle. remember, it's democrats that have the upper hand running the senate, the house and the white house, but the president says he wants to do things in a bipartisan manner. if not, so be it. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, will bring that

resolution to the floor to get the president's package kicked off after the house passes it, which is cleary expected. the democratic -- clearly expected. the democratic senate will take things up. technically, 50 democrats and 50 republicans in the senate, however, as per the constitution, the vice president, kamala harris, will be the tie-breaking vote, and you can expect she'll vote to pass the measure. new treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed 84-15. listen. >> economists agree that if there's not more help, many more people will lose their small businesses, the roofs over their heads and the ability to feed their families. and we need to help those people before the virus is brought under control. >> reporter: some of the important senators to watch on this relief plan, susan collins, rob portman. he announced he's retiring in a couple years. also pat toomey and don't forget

the democrat from west virginia, though sometimes many wonder if he could become a republican, joe manchin. we'll be watching all of them. griff: we will, indeed. and we have democrat ohio congressman tim ryan coming up, he'll be weighing in. david spunt at the white house, thanks, david. gillian: some states are now fully allowing limited indoor dining after months of major restrictions nationwide in the restaurant industry. charles watson is in atlanta talking to a restaurant owner there there this afternoon about the struggles they're now facing even with the new regulations. hi, charles. >> reporter: hi, gillian. as you mentioned, a number of states are easing those covid-19 restrictions on restaurants, but as the owner of the silver skillet diner here behind me tells us, that's barely enough to keep business afloat even in a state like georgia where covid-19 restrictions are more relaxed, it's hard. teresa breckenridge, the owner

of the iconic silver skillet diner in atlanta says it's a struggle to make a profit as business sits at half of what it was prior to the pandemic. what money the diner does make goes toward keeping the business and its 18 part-time employees above water. >> we are not making any money. we are not making a dime. but the rent's paid, the bills are paid, and the employees are making some money. >> reporter: you know, as states like california, new york and michigan begin to put plans in place to ease covid-19 restrictions, thousands of restaurants across the country are in a financial freefall with as many as half a million at risk of closing for good according to the national restaurant association. the biden administration is calling for 100 million americans to be vaccinated in its first 100 days and is hoping to have the pandemic tamed by

the fall. that can't come soon enough for this waitress. >> this thing would just go away, you know, everybody gets their vaccinations and maybe we get back to full speed. >> reporter: you heard that waitress, lara, she's really banking on people getting vaccinated. it really underscores how important this vaccine rollout is now and will be in the future as this country tries to get back to normal. back to you. gillian: charles watson in atlanta, thank you. griff? griff: california governor gavin newsom is facing pushback from the state's teachers union over his return to school plan. christina coleman reporting live from l.a. hi, christina. >> reporter: well, the california teachers association pushed back against reopening this week by sending a letter to the governor that says an aggressive plan focused on statewide safety measures and effective vaccine rollout for

essential workers including educators is needed. newsom, who would like schools to reopen for some students within the next couple of weeks, reportedly said, quote: if we wait for the perfect, we might as well just pack it up and just be honest with folks that we're not going to open in-person instruction this year. chicago's mayor, lori lightfoot, is taking a stand saying chicago's public schools will reopen elementary and middle schools monday even though the union and the school districts are still in negotiations. so some teachers there might strike. meantime, tensions also mounting in massachusetts. governor charlie baker announced seniors 65 and older will be moved up in the state's priority covid vaccine rollout. the union says the move will delay educators in getting the shots by a couple of weeks even though the governor wants the schools to reopen. >> a decision was made that really pits society against

itself. the governor paid lip service to getting students back in school, but his decision today is delaying a safe return by weeks if not months. >> reporter: this comes as dr. anthony fauci backs the cdc findings that the transmission risk of covid-19 appears to be low within schools with appropriate mitigation efforts. meantime, biden's chief of staff, ron klain, is reiterating the nation that for financial investments in public schools -- more financial investments in public schools is needed pushing for biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief package. believe give christina coleman in los angeles, thank you. for more on the debate over school reopenings and how the vaccine distribution is going across the country, we'll bring in county, california, supervisor doug chaffee and chief medical officer john cashon. thank you for taking time,

gentleman. i want to start with you, supervisor. you just heard our report there. how are things going in terms of school reopenings where you are? >> well, we're anxious to complete enough vaccinations of our population so that schools can safely reopen. we're very concerned about students not getting the quality education that they need or the social experience that they're lacking when they're out of school. so we have established operation independence. we set up a lot of infrastructure so we can get the vaccine to vaccinate a large number of our population in a very -- and with care. griff: and let me ask you, you're in ohio, and i know you represent a hospital group, but what is the situation on the ground this ohio with the school reopenings and the role that vaccination is playing there? >> you know, we -- our health system really works outside of ohio, and i really can't comment too much on the school system in ohio.

we really are, we're in 20 states and not in ohio, i happen to just be in ohio for this interview. the issue for us and all of our statements is the schools reopening -- states. we're working with the schools right now to try and help reopen them by vaccinating teachers, and we have a number of communities that our health system is in are working with the school districts to vaccinate the teachers and all of the front-line workers in the schools to help vaccinate more people. fre give let's talk about how it's going because president biden wants 100 million doses in 100 million arms in 100 days. out where you are, supervisor chafee, you have disneyland among other places, but that's a big one, being set up. how is it going in terms of accomplishing their goals? >> well, we are just waiting for more vaccine. we are signing up called super sites. disney was the first one which opened on january 13th. they set it up on a modular

basis. so each of our super sites has within it free clinics, disney has potentially six clip ins, and in -- clinic, and in each clinic we have six vaccination a stations. it is not yet able to work at its full capacity because we don't have enough vaccine. so at the moment, disney is inoculating about 5,000 people per day. we could easily do double that if we go to full capacity. we have set up another modular site at -- [inaudible] university. they are currently doing about 3,000 a day, and we have plans for more super sites to insure we have a vaccine supply. it's a modular basis, and we have an incident management team that runs it. i was there this morning, they meet every morning and afternoon seven days a week, and they do what they can to solve all the problems and make sure the

operation quos smoothly -- goes smoothly. griff: what do you see in terms of how things are going, and are lessons being learned now that will help us to speed it up? >> yeah. for us, you know, we've given about 280,000 doses of vaccine since the middle of december, and so a large majority of our health system now has been vaccinated. we're now reaching out to our populations and proactively working with church. s and school districts -- churches and school districts, as i mentioned earlier. but we are reaching out to our patients, our chronically ill patients, our most vulnerable patients, and we're calling them in to say it's time to get the vaccine. and we're really worried when we do work with churches and other venues where we are more passively offering the vaccine to people that they won't come. especially those people that a sometimes get left behind.

what we're doing is trying to reach out to those people that get left behind, pull them in rather than wait for them to come and get the vaccine. we think that's going to be an important part of getting at the people that are most vulnerable this pandemic. griff: sure. and already some 26 million americans have been vaccinated, but we need to get those numbers up. thank you for taking time this saturday, gentlemen. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> thank you very much. ♪ ♪ gillian: turning back now to our top story of the hour, president biden is pushing for congress to pass his covid relief bill despite republicans asking to split the bill in the two. let's bring in ohio democratic congressman, house appropriations committee member tim ryan. congressman, thanks so much for taking time for us this afternoon. >> thank you. gillian: we appreciate it, as always. so, essentially, with this $1.9 trillion bill that president biden is proposing, republicans are pushing back and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we haven't

even cut the checks yet, you know, for the last round of stimulus, $900 billion. why are we going through with this so quickly. what do you say? >> well, the american families are in emergency status right now. i mean, there are people that aren't able to pay their bills, there are people that aren't able to pay their rent, their car payment. people are in dire straits, and it's not just the people that are unemployed who need help, i mean, because they're going to destroy their credit, they're going to fall behind, and it'll take a working class family ten years to climb out of, you know, destroying their credit. and then on the other side where we want these $2,000 cash payments, i think they could be $2,000 a month, quite frankly. you're talking about waiters, waitresses, people who can't go on unemployment but are still working 40, 50 hours a week, but they're not turning as many tables. especially up here in ohio where it's really cold, you know, you can't do a lot of outdoor dining. those are the people who need

the $2,000 a month checks -- gillian: right. >> -- and we're talking about stabilizing working class people who did everything right, nothing wrong. we want to make sure they come out of this economically stable so so that we can begin to reopen businesses and get people back where they need to be. gillian: so, congressman, to that point, right, about americans who are really hurting, they've been really hit hard by the pandemic, something else your republican colleagues are saying about new biden stimulus bill is that it's not targeted enough meaning there's hundreds of thousands of americans in the last round and in the current round that are going to get checks from the federal government that haven't missed a day's salary, they haven't lost their homes. why are we sending them money. so i guess my question to you is how confident are you that the people you want to reach, the people you just described to us, are going to be the ones benefiting from this new round? >> this speaks to the need in this country to reinvent our government. i don't disagree with that at

all. i mean, i think we need to target this. but in the current system, we don't have that luxuriment in the current environment we don't have that luxury. that's why the government is old, it's antiquated, we see states like ohio that can't get unemployment checks out, irs is having trouble getting stimulus checks out. i hope democrats and republicans can come together to say whether you think government's the answer or not, its core function -- we need to do a much better job of getting them to look like an efficient, modern government. and the reality is we've got to get the money out the door. we can't sit here and use that as some excuse, you know? that money's still going to go into the9 economy, it's till going to be used because it's only targeted to people under $150,000 the a year for couples or 75,000 -- that money's going to have a benefit. but i agree with the fact that we need to reinvent government, make it work better so that we can start in the future targeting these things a little bit better on programs across the board.

gillian: so it sounds like you're saying let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good, let's get money out the door, people need it. another question here is about the biden energy, clean energy proposal. he's talking here in this clip i'm about to play for you about unity. take a listen. >> maybe he thinks that imposing top-down regulations on every american would bring us all together. t not the kind of unity -- it's not the kind of unity that the american people are looking for. we want to stand shoulder to shoulder but not in the unemployment line. gillian: what do you say to the thousands, potentially tens of thousands of people that stand to lose, you know, oil and gas and coal jobs? >> well, i will tell you that vice president biden has been a supporter of the natural gas industry here in eastern ohio we've had a real boom of natural

gas, and it's been important to our economy, a lot of union jobs out there. he's been supportive of that. you can do it, and the administration is supportive of that. and i think we need to move on that. he's also being extremely supportive of manufacturing electric vehicles in the united states. we've got morristown motors here that is filling up an old morristown plant outside of youngstown, ohio, which is going to be thousands of jobs. there's a general motors battery plant that's creating thousands of jobs here. he's supportive of all of that. so we're resuscitate thing manufacturing. those are going to be the union wage jobs with benefits and health care and pension. and so, you know, we've got to focus on what the future is. from the area i come from, we've got a lot of politicians talk about the past, we're going to get the coal mines going. coal jobs are down 30,000. look, we've got to move to the future, train our workers and

start building things again in the united states. that's what vice president -- or president biden is doing. gillian: congressman, we're going to cut you loose. we can tell that you're a busy guy even on saturdays -- [laughter] i'm sorry. gillian: blowing up the phone over there, but thank you for taking time out for us. we always appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. gillian: you bet. griff: oil workers are feeling the impact of president biden's move to cancel the keystone pipeline. a third generation pipeline worker who lost his job as a result shares his story next. ♪♪ whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. at t-mobile, we have a plan built just for customers 55 and up. saving 50% vs. other carriers with 2 unlimited lines for less than $30 each. call 1-800-t-mobile or go to t-mobile.com/55.

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♪ ♪ griff: president biden's decision to end the keystone xl pipeline could please to thousands of lost jobs. my next guest is among the first laid off after biden's order. joining us now is a member of pipeliners union local number 798, neil crabtree. neil, happy saturday to you, if it could be with happy, because you're unemployed. you've been doing some interviews, and it struck me as an important voice in the midst of all this to hear from you. i want to hear what you're doing right now in your situation where things stand. >> well, right now i'm, i guess i'm living the new more than

dream. i'm drawing unemployment, and, you know, thanks to these radical energy policies that are being put into place by the job-killing joe administration. griff: i want to ask you, or neil, you may have heard in the last segment we had a member of congress, congressman ryan, democrat from ohio, he says it's time to move into the future. so what do you say to those not in your industry that say it's time to pick up and just move on to a different trade. >> well, he talked about, you know, the future, but to me in my industry, the future's looking a lot like the past. you know, you haven't heard the words opec in the media in a lot of years, but you used to hear it every day, you know? we were talking about countries that hated america, they manipulated oil markets, and

american consumers were the ones that paid the price for it, you know? the men and women in my industry, we went to work, and we made this country independent. now we're being crucified for it, it seems like. but like i said, the future's going to be a lot like the past. griff: so when you hear from the biden administration that there will be alternative jobs waiting for you, what is your response and what is your reality right now on figuring out what you're going to do? >> well, i'm at the point in my life where i think it's too late for me to try to learn another skill, you know in i've got a lot invested in the industry that i've grown up in. my retirement, my health insurance, it's hard to tell somebody, you know, in the middle of life when you've got a family and you've got bills and mortgages to, hey, go find another job. you don't start off at the top, you're starting off at the bottom. and i've looked at some of these

jobs that they're talking about, and they're not the high paying jobs that they're trying to portray, you know? some of these jobs are paying $14, $17 an hour. that's around the minimum wage, you know, this administration's proposing, you know? i'm not a minimum wage worker. griff: what are some of the jobs, neal? some of the ones you were looking at, what are they doing? >> well, i mean, they mentioned, you know, solar panel technicians, windmill technicians, you know, they said these are the fastest growing jobs in the country. that's just not true. i've done some research on that. they're not the fastest jobs in the country. they're not there right now. the jobs that are there are jobs like the keystone pipeline, you know? this is not the time to be playing politics. you know, you're talking about the kicking a man in the country when he's down right off the bat, start putting people out of work, that's -- i can't believe

that somebody can do something like that. griff: and how long has your family been in this? i mean, this is not a trade you fell into in the last couple of years, it sounds like. >> my grandfather started welding for 798 after world war ii, you know? he learned how to weld working on ships in san francisco. my my dad done it, my brother done it, i've done it. it's all i know how to do. griff: has anyone reached out to you from washington, any member of congress, anyone that sees and hears your compelling story? have they reached out to you at all? >> not yet. i'm hoping they will. i mean, we've got to do something about this because, you know, if i was on the outside looking in at this project and the issues, you know, i would want to know the facts. and the facts is this oil's already coming into the country by rail cars.

tc energy wants to move it via pipeline which, by the way, is going to be totally powered by green energy. so i think that's a win for the environment, a fact that i think that's not getting out there enough is tc energy also wants to commit another $1.7 billion in green energy projects for american workers. so that's another win for the environment. i can't see the common sense thinking of denying this permit for environmental reasons. it's just not true. griff: neal, in just the second we have left, the climate czar at the white house, john kerry, was in front of the cameras this week. if you could talk to him and say one thing to him, what would you say? >> like i've been telling all the other people in this administration, tell the truth. and give me my dang job back. i had a good paying job. i don't want to live off the government. give me my dang job back. griff: neal crabtree, we will be

staying in the touch with you. we feel for you and we hope the best for you. thank you for taking time to come on this saturday. >> thank you. griff: all right. gillian in. gillian: well, president vladimir putin of russia is facing bash lack from the russian people the looks of which that country hasn't seen in decades. this follows a major crackdown on allies of russian opposition leader alexei navalny. we'll tell you what the white house is planning to do about it next. ♪

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♪ ♪ griff: russia putting out a warning to those who are planning to protest the arrest of russian opposition leader alexei navalny tomorrow. kitty logan is live in london with the latest. hi, kitty. >> reporter: yes, alexei navalny remains in jail ahead of that protest planned for tomorrow, sunday. police are warning people not to attend.

navalny in court on thursday accused the government of trying to intimidate him, but his appeal against his arrest was rejected. he was detained on january 17th as he returned to russia saw from germany. he was recovering there from a suspected poisoning which he blames on the russian state. on saturday some of the largest mass demonstrations in many years in russia in several cities, all these people demanding his release. now, around 4,000 supporters were arrested during those protests last weekend including navalny's wife. what we've seen happen this week is that net closing further. navalny's brother, oleg, was arrested. he's under house arrest. this is one of a series of raids on homes all linked to navalny's family and supporters. president biden has voiced his concern about these events in a call with vladimir putin, but russian police are warning people not to show up for this

protest tomorrow. they're saying they're going to prevent people coming, but it's likely, i think, griff, that we will see more arrests when it goes ahead. griff: and we will be watching. thank you, kitty. gillian: for unsight, let's bring -- insight, let's bring in bill bratter, founder of the campaign for justice. bill, thanks so much for joining us. a quick question before we get into the details of what's happening with alexei navalny right now. i recently had the opportunity to interview one of his close family friends, vladimir, who said, look, navalny has been poisoned multiple times, i've been poisoned multiple times. there's a reason the russian government isn't killing us off which is what they ultimately want to do. they could do so if they wanted to. what's your take on that scenario? why aren't they just getting rid of dissidents which is what they've done for centuries? >> well, they have been and they

do. boris nemtsov, who was one of the most popular opposition politicians, was murdered in 2015 right in front of the kremlin. vladimir that you just mentioned, they tried to kill him twice. i believe it was only a fluke that he survived. and then alexei navalny they tried to kill, and if it hadn't been for the airplane landing -- he was on a flight from siberia to moscow, they poisoned him before he got on the flight, and the plane took an emergency landing, and the paramedics ghei him some antidote, but if that hadn't happened, he'd have been killed. i think vladimir putin is acting out of desperation particularly in the case of navalny because he's scared of navalny leading an uprising which is exactly -- gillian: i was going to say, isn't that what we're seeing, or at least the beginnings of an uprising in let's talk politics for a we could, right?

the only -- second, right? the only reason i putin's bothering to do any of this stuff is because his political calculations tell him it's fine for him to do this, but isn't he talking a tremendous hit among russian citizens? tell us a little bit -- i mean, we're looking at the pictures right now so we have a sense of public opinion, but talk to us about what you see there inside the country. >> well, so what's happened is that vladimir putin has, up until now, kept his hands off alexei navalny because he was afraid of an uprising. and then -- and this was actually as of six months ago. and then belarus, the country next to russia, rose up. they ended up having their own uprising which is continuing to this day, and it threatens the leadership of their dictator. and putin saw this and was terrified. he said i don't want this to happen in russia, who would be leading this fight. it would be alexei navalny. they poisoned him trying to kill

him. he survived. they tried to keep him out of the country. they threatened him with arrest if he came back to russia, and they thought he wouldn't come back. but navalny is cut from a different fabric, and he came back. gillian: he's alive and well. >> and that's threatening putin even more. gillian: so is i've got to ask you, to a lot of folks here in the u.s., this is all very far away. a lot of americans have written russia off as an enemy of the united states. tell us why this, we should care and tell us how all of these things happening to russian dissidents actually impacts us, americans here in the united states. >> well, let's not forget that russia is the largest nuclear power. and as such, it's also a country run by a serial killer, vladimir putin, who is a massive kleptocrat. he's stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the russian

people, and you've got a guy like that who's backed into a corner and with nuclear weapons, and this is everybody's problem. this is not some far away problem. he could do anything crazy, and we have to be extremely worried about a volatile and cornered character like vladimir putin, and we should all be paying attention, we should all be figuring out what we can do to contain him. gillian: well, you know, president biden has just announced they're going to sign this new s.t.a.r.t. treaty that will kind of protect americans a little bit over the next five years. we'll be tracking that closely. bill browder, thanks so much. >> thank you. gillian: you bet. griff: a big winter storm is bringing rain and snow to millions, adam klotz has more on what we can expect. adam: hey, griff. this storm really picking up in the next couple of hours. we've got winter storm watches and warnings running from the

great lake area all the way to the east coast. my full forecast after the break. ♪

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gillian: the coast and parts of the weste hunkering down ahead of the winter storm. adam cloths is tracking it in realtime. adam: a big story the next

couple of days. there's this area of warm air in the middle of the country, 50 degrees in kansas city, dropping down closer to freezing in chicago, that is where this system currently lies. over the next couple of hours, this large mass is going to be lifting into that colder air, suddenly it turns into freezing rain and snow, and for some folks it turns into a whole lot of snow. winter storm watches and warnings from iowa, around the great lakes and running to the east coast including d.c., philadelphia, new york, all areas where you could see potentially heavy snowfall here in the next couple of days. this is a very slow moving system. overnight tonight we begin to get into some of that colder air, so you're looking at chicago through the great lakes, and then the system continues to lift more and more towards the east coast so by the time you get into late sunday, sunday night into monday morning, you're seeing snow in new york city. and then this system just continues to push very slowly up the coast. i'm not taking you late into monday night and tuesday, and still lingering in portions of

new england. it's going to be one to watch, and this snowfall is going to pile up. potential models here are looking at 10 to 8 inches in chicago, running up along the coast, maybe 7 inches in new york city, 10 inches in live in. i wouldn't be surprised if these numbers go higher. i will leave you with, if you're not in one of the major cities, still inland a lot of heavy snow also. we will be watching this from now all the way into tuesday. back to you. gillian: all right. adam, we appreciate it. [laughter] griff: i'm laughing the whole time that's going on because adam says the snow will pile up. i am so ready. every year i buy a new snow shovel. my wife really hates it, a bunch of them are piling upping but i've already gotten the one picked out i'm going to get at a safeway. but my daughters gave me men's ugg boots. they're very warm -- gillian: you're not wearing them right now. griff: i haven't worn them yet.

if there's 8-10 inches of snow, i'm putting 'em on. gillian: you know what would be a neighborly thing to do, griff? >> lend you my uggs? gillian: we live across the street from one another, shovel my house too. griff: i'm more than happy to. so, giving back to our national guardsmen who are staying behind in washington, what one restaurant is doing to support our troops and how you can help. coming up. ♪ ♪ e perfect schmear of cream cheese. the recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me...the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection.

griff: more than 5,000 national guard troops are staying here in the nation's capital until march. dozens of d.c. restaurants are providing free the meals and bringing america together in the process. joining us now is mitch lean middleton. thank you for taking time on this saturday or and more importantly thank you for what what you're doing for our troops. tell us why you're doing it and how it all started. >> absolutely. thanks for having me on. this really started when two member of congress decided to

feed some of the troops and wanted some of our pizzas from we the pizza, and my manager called me and i said, you know, just send a few extra pizzas to help them out, and then we saw all these photos of so many troops in the capitol, and i called my manager back and said just send a hundred pies or just donate a hundred so we can feed as many people as possible. and then a photo was snapped, and it went around the country, and people started calling to donate pies to feed the troops. and it kind of snowballed from there. griff: okay. so one of those members of congress, michael walz, a former green beret, put this in motion. you pick up the ball and run with it. how much of a logistical challenge was it for you? if. >> it's been absolutely crazy. i mean, we had such an outpouring of customers and people in the d.c. area and really eventually from around the country donating pies. and when the national guard

troops were coming in, we realized that we were close to making about 800 pies a day for them x. they were there for, you know, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and one of them said do you have anything for breakfast, and i said i don't, but a restaurant across from the capitol, my friend gina runs it, and she makes bagel sandwiches, and i know somebody else that makes doughnuts. that's really what i love about the hospitality industry. i called those e two people, they just wanted to donate to the troops. and then what we ended up doing is we allocated pies that were coming in to help pay restaurants. so every restaurant that's donated so far -- and we're up to 30 restaurants -- has been paid for the food that they've donated to the troops through donation. griff: so how many pizzas do you think you've given to the troops ever so far? >> close to 20,000. griff: wow, that is a lot of pizzas. what's been the reaction? have any of the troops reached

out to you? >> oh, it's been absolutely amazing. i've gotten letters, because we've been feeding troops, metropolitan the police department, capitol hill police and firefighters, we've kind of expanded our efforts, and i've gotten letters from national guard troops. i had a letter from a mother whose son was here, and she wanted to send him a pie. i had a letter from a guardsman who received a pie and asked if we could give a pie to his family that's in d.c. because he had a wife taking care of the four kids by herself. so we brought them food. we've had incredible response. i had a beautiful letter from a front-line worker on 9/11 who, you know, gave this beautiful story of how he was in new york, and restaurants opened their doors there, and he was, you know, covered in soot, and he ate and drank and never paid anything, and he donated a couple hundred to kind of pay it forward. so it's been really an emotional, beautiful moment. griff: it sure is. and that's why in our america together segment we wanted to

feature you. tell us just quickly about your family. your brother spike, a famous chef, but really your whole family is involved in this effort. >> we are. it's a family-run business, and we've been doing things in the d.c. community for years. and we just felt, you know, after the crazy year of covid as most of the restaurants across the country were hit, but then, of course, the january 6th event particularly hit the restaurants on capitol hill and in d.c., and it just became an opportunity for us to give back to the community that we love so much, the hospitality industry and for us and our friends that we know to kind of come together and give a little thank you to people that were really kind of protecting, you know, the capitol building but also our backyard. griff: we're just out of time, we have to leave it there, but if you look at the bottom of the screen, that very long web site address you can go to and give to help micheline and her family

and all those restaurants keep doing the great work they're doing. thank you very much. >> thank you. gillian: well, a deadly collision between a tractor-trailer and a mini bus on a very icy highway. we'll tell you what happened coming up next. ♪ ♪

griff: now for a look at some of our headlines. at least 12 people are dead, another 11 injured after a tracker trailer collides with a

mini bus in central russia. investigators are working to figure out what caused the crash. two popular music festivals have been canceled in california, coachella and stage coach. they were supposed to happen in april, no word yet on if they will try to reschedule for later in the year. and this can out -- this out, look at all that white, fluffy snow. this pup looks like he is having a blast. you can see the several feet of snow -- [laughter] we'll see if we can get any videos of east coast pups after the wig storm sunday and monday. i will certainly be posting pictures of my dog in the snow and shoveling gillian's front stoop because i've committed to it, and my wife says i'm going to be held to it. gillian: thank you, kathleen. [laughter] appreciate it. griff: you know, what are you going to do? you've got to make the best of the snowment it is, after all, february. that is what happens this time of year.

we'll bring you a lot more on that. that's all for us in washington, "america's news headquarters" continues. i'm griff jenkins -- gillian: i'm gillian turner. thanks so much for joining us. ♪ ♪ eric: well, president biden signaling his support for that democratic plan to pass his covid relief proposal with or without republican support. you know, congressional democrats may use a budgetary tool to let that proposal pass in the senate with just a simple majority. hello, everyone, this is a new hour of "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. house speaker pelosi and senate majority leader schumer say they could consider a covid relief bill as soon as next week, but republicans still want less