that's it for this "special report." fair, balanced, unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by rachel campos-duffy starts now. >> rachel: thank you. good evening and welcome. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." i am rachel campos-duffy. president joe biden made two big promises on the campaign trail. he was going to save the soul of america and crush the coronavirus. he spent months hammering trump's virus response and he swore his administration would do better. that they would speak clearly and honestly and be transparent about every decision they made. and so far, they have done none of that, especially when it comes to reopening our schools. the administration has continued to move the goal post on when and how our children can return to the classroom. it's not just parents that are

getting frustrated with the lack of clarity. even the media which blindly carries joe biden's water on everything is asking, what the heck is going on? >> it's not a trick question. i feel like you have treated it like a trick question. people just want to know what the white house position is on whether or not teachers have to be vaccinated for kids to return safely to school. >> rachel: it's not just the vaccine issue. questions about antiscience lockdowns are giving them problems too. >> contra state and california, california basically and locked out of their numbers aren't that different from florida. >> so much of this virus we think we understand and we think we can predict. but it's a little bit beyond our explanation. this is a virus that continues to surprise us. it's very hard to predict. >> rachel: time after time, when posed with a simple question like "when are you going to open the schools?"

we get answers like this. >> our goal is that as many k-8 schools as possible will reopen within the first 100 days. our goal is that it will be five days a week. we have to work to achieve that goal. the issue here is not just about statistics. it's about our kids. >> rachel: what are we to believe? maybe battling covid isn't as easy as they said it would be. or maybe something else is going on. the pandemic has peeled back the curtain and dispelled the myth that teachers unions are all about our kids, that they care about our kids. whether your local public school is open or not isn't about science. it's about how powerful the union is in your state. don't take my word for it. take it straight from the union's mouth. >> listen, it's never been about the guidelines per se in

chicago. it's always been about the generations of neglect, under resourcing and underfunding and the deep funding of public education here. >> rachel: oh, i get it. it was never about the science on the guidelines. especially when less than one-tenth of 1% of all covid child cases and in death. it's about the money. take a look at the graphic. if joe biden's -- it is joe biden's covid funding plan for the next few years. 6 billion for public schools this year. 64 billion between 2022 in 20203. 64 billion for what? you can separate the desks for free. you can put plexiglas around the teacher's desk. that's really cheap. more hand sanitizer, extra janitors after school to clean up. catholic schools are doing just

that on a shoestring budget. why 20203? the virus is subsiding. god willing we won't be dealing with covid by then. how come they are funding schools like it's only going to get worse? you know the answer. it's a payoff. a very expensive thank you to the unions for turning out and helping joe biden get elected. it sure isn't about the kids. listen to how the school board member and talks about frustrated parents who just want their children back in the class. >> are we alone? >> yeah. >> if you're going to call me out, i'm going to [bleep] you up. >> they want their babysitters back. >> rachel: in wisconsin and teachers unions tried to keep private schools close to there's a reason why. if catholic schools were open, will be there excuse for staying close? thankfully the republican majority in the state legislature stood up for the

private schools and my children are able to attend full time in person learning at our local catholic school. if we've learned nothing from covid, it's that freedom matters especially in education. if you didn't care about school choice before covid, you probably do now. and if you don't want to be held hostage by the teachers unions again, now is the time to organize. at the most local level for school choice. because the way things are going, the public option seems like no option at all. joining me now is mercedes schlapp, former white house director of strategic communications. chris hahn, former advisor to senator chuck schumer. chris, i'm going to start with you. the cdc said it was fine for teachers to come back to school without vaccinations. now they say it's not. why aren't the teachers back in school? >> i think they should be

getting back to school. our number one priority should be bringing our kids back to school and i think we need to work with teachers unions around the country to make sure they do that, just like we have done here in new york. i live in new york, in the suburbs of new york city. my daughters attend public school. they are open five days a week out here. they are open five days a week in chicago. they are opening up around the country. the money that you're referring to in the budget is to help create ventilation systems and other infrastructure improvements in the schools. i don't know how that's a payoff to teachers unions. i think we are just looking for a new bogeyman. public education is important. make sure we do everything we can to get our kids back in school as soon as possible. >> rachel: 64 billion for ventilation. sounds like a boondoggle. someone's going to get kickbacks. catholic schools don't have that. there's been no increase in that. why are we paying this money just to get them to go to work? >> i think the first point here is that the teachers unions have had so much power for so long.

we can talk about the amount of money being given to the schools and yes it should be put to good use. they are not even spending the money fast enough to get these ventilation systems in place. like you were saying, ensuring that we are able to have socially distanced desks as well as plexiglas. i can tell you my kids, three of them are in school full-time five days a week in a catholic school. they have been able to be very successful. when you're looking at the fact that the children who are suffering the most are minority children, blacks, hispanics, low income students who not only are experiencing huge education delay but also not receiving the services they need. it truly falls to the biden administration but also the teachers union who are putting

our children last. >> rachel: what do you mean, chris? what do you mean when you say work with the teachers unions? the science says that they can go back to work. why aren't they there? just tell me the answer. >> in new york where we have one of the strongest teachers unions in the world, kids are going back to school. somewhere around the country there is a dispute between the teachers union and probably a right-wing ideological school board, mayor or governor that is stopping kids from going back to school because they want to hold the teachers union accountable for no reason other than they are trying to negotiate, as all unions should do in this country, for their members and they are trying the best they can to make sure their members have a safe return to school. you can't socially distanced in crowded cities in most places. they are trying to figure out ways. staggering when kids come in to try to do it right and i imagine that where this is not getting worked out it's because there's a white winger.

>> rachel: high school students aren't back. >> yes they are. >> rachel: high school students are not back in school. they probably will be back the rest -- >> they are working it out in chicago. >> rachel: known or not. >> they're not in school in person at all full-time. they have a very dysfunctional hybrid model that's not effective. we are seeing the mental health component impacting these high schoolers, impacting children especially in states like california where you're even having the city of san francisco sued the school district. let me tell you where the power lies is with the parents. >> rachel: that's what open the new york schools. >> school boards. >> we need more of that. >> rachel: let me play this sound bite from jen psaki really quick. i think a lot of people felt reassured. those who voted for joe biden. we will get back to normal. >> what's going on? when do we think we will get

back to some normalcy? >> we are not in a place when we can predict exactly what everybody will feel normal. we don't know about timeliness going to look like. >> rachel: chris. >> at least we have a president that's trying to resume normalcy, not just present like the former guy who would just yell at everybody, saying get back to normal, open your businesses. open schools. no plan, no money, no science. at least they are trying to listen to the science and do things properly. thank god. hallelujah. >> the only one who seems to be yelling as you. here's the deal. we know that the former president worked with the congress, came up with a bipartisan bill for covid relief, worked with the governors, provided the resources they needed in regard to make sure that we had not one but two vaccines developed through operation warp speed. ensure that we have the money

necessary for vaccine distribution while you have joe biden and kamala harris basically saying that there were no vaccines when they got into office which of course -- >> there weren't enough vaccines. we talk about this great success of operation warp speed. mercedes, your plan was you had no plan. let the states come up with a plan. it was utter chaos. now we are trying to have a plan. 1.7 to 2 million people a day are being vaccinated. >> rachel: chris, chris, chris, chris. >> because of president trump's leadership and or operation warp speed that two vaccines were developed. we are working to get businesses open, working to get schools open safely when you have biden and his press secretary, they don't even -- >> rachel: okay, okay, okay. we are going to have to close it up. great debate. you both have good points. i tend to side with mercedes on this one and told a lot of

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>> rachel: the climate cult is on defense after the green energy collapse in texas which still has hundreds of thousands without power. groceries are running out. hospitals are without water and power, having to evacuate patients in the death toll is climbing. how are prominent democrats responding? >> you also have state leadership that doesn't believe

in climate change. it's very clear that's what's causing these extreme weather events, whether it is severe drought in the summer or winter storms, the likes we haven't seen in anyone's lifetime. these are going to be more common, more intense and more deadly. >> rachel: then there's congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeting "the infrastructure failures in texas are quite literally what happens when you don't pursue a green new deal." author stephen king writes "hey, texas, keep voting for officials who don't believe in climate change and support its privatization of the power grid. maybe in four years, you can vote for trump again." why are they so afraid of people who criticized their climate agenda? they know it isn't true, yet they are determined to jam it down our throats. just listen to this message is its undersecretary for climate change, yes, that's his real job title. listen up.

>> 60% of our emissions come from residential heating and passenger vehicles. let me say that again. 60% of our emissions they need to be reduced come from you, the senior on fixed income, there is no bad guy. at least in massachusetts to point the finger at, turn the screws on and break their will so they stop emitting. that is you. we have to break your will. i can't even say that publicly. >> rachel: can't even say publicly but he just did and he was later forced to resign for saying the quiet part out loud. here to respond are two texas residents, karl rove, former deputy chief of staff president george w. bush. laura logan, host of fox nation's "no agenda with lara logan." i will start with you, karl. i don't know who is to blame here, the politicians who took

the subsidies, bought the windmills, or the people pushing the windmills. what do you think? >> first of all there is some blame to go around. what i would say is we do have a problem and it is with winterization of everything. our wind turbines. a week ago monday wind was providing 42% of the electricity in texas. as of tuesday this week, 8% of our electricity needs, coal and natural gas had to step up. the winterization problem on the wind turbines. not that natural gas power plants but the natural gas transmission facilities which are -- which need to be winterized as well. we have a thing called ercot that oversees the electrical grid in texas. they needed think about weatherization. we are seeing what happens. the idea that this is somehow or another or a failure of the fossil fuel economy. texas has one of the most robust

renewable fuel portfolios of any big state in the country. particularly states without hydroelectric. what really failed here if you want to pick out one thing out of all of our -- when you go from 42% of your electricity being produced by wind to 8% in a very short. lack of time, eight days, that's a real problem. >> rachel: a lot of people are wondering how texas ended up with 25% of its power coming from this minute could happen. >> that's really a very good question. whether or not you winterize your wind turbines in your pipes and you invest in your natural gas systems, it all comes down the policy decisions. the policy decisions here were the republican leaders in texas going all the way back to george bush invested in green energy and renewable energy. they have been pushing, pushing, pushing everyone onto more

electrical power with lesss nucr power, less gas power, less coal because coal is unpopular with environmentalists so what millions of -- what hundreds of thousands of texans are saying online and on the phone and in chat rooms, local chat rooms, they feel that they have been sold out by the leadership of more than that in the bigger picture they feel they have been sold out by the climate industry because green energy and renewables have been used pretty much as a federal slush fund for a very, very, very long time, pouring money into industries that don't have a snowball's chance of making any difference to the climate outcomes. people are frustrated there is no more honest conversation. by the time you winterize the turbines. abby seen the size of these things? i have talked to people who work on repairing them. when they go out of production, you have to remove them and destroy them. the footprint that it takes to make them and put them in place,

maintain and destroy them is absolutely massive. the number of birds they kill is massive. enormous impact on the climate that people are not discussing because it is not an honest conversation. that's the real issue. >> rachel: i couldn't agree with you more. we know there's money involved. it's a slush fund. there's also something else. i want you to look at this quote from aoc's chief of staff. "the interesting thing about the green new deal as it wasn't originally acclimating at all." do you think it is as a claimant thing? we really think of it as a "how do you change the entire economy" thing. you heard the climate guy from massachusetts they we need to break their will. how much of this is about science and money? how much of it is about control? >> a lot of the green new deal is about control. refashioning of the american economy. >> rachel: why did the republican politicians in texas buy into it?

>> wait a minute, wait a minute. i don't agree. with all due respect. i was around the 1990s when this began. we created a wholesale market which means we separated the people who sell the power from the people who generate power. what happened was prices went down. utility prices went down dramatically. wind is a big part of our portfolio for one reason. federal tax policy. we give a gigantic subsidy to people who build wind turbines. they get a subsidize that makes it very attractive. but it's a federal policy. it's not a texas policy. that's why wind is going all the -- growing all around the country. there was a window subsidy and we continue to renew it even though the original deal was we just need to subsidy for a little while to get the industry established. it's been renewed and renewed. >> rachel: we have to go but listen, we have to talk more

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>> rachel: a new memo from the biden administration says i.c.e. officers will need preapproval before departing anyone. detainees are receiving vaccinations. have you gotten yours yet? chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has the report. >> president biden has a new immigration and customs enforcement guidelines will allow the agency didn't make

better use of its resources but critics say i.c.e. is essentially being abolished without being abolished. i.c.e. officers will need preapproval, as you said, from a senior manager before trying to deport anyone who is not convicted of an aggravated felony. assault, robbery, drunk driving do not qualify as aggravated felonies despite dozens of americans being killed in recent years by illegal immigrants driving under the influence. acting i.c.e. director tae johnson, not surprisingly is telling the administration "we must prioritize our efforts to achieve the greatest security and safety impacts." the rank-and-file say the guidelines are stripping them of their authority and republicans on the house oversight and judiciary committees sent a letter to the acting director saying "these reckless changes allow criminal aliens to remain in our communities place americans at risk and will undoubtedly lead to many preventable crimes." last year the 93,000 illegal

immigrants arrested by i.c.e. had more than 374,000 criminal convictions. meantime, some immigrants being detained by i.c.e. are now getting covid-19 vaccines. i.c.e. says the vaccines are allocated by local health departments lets up to each state to decide when detainees should be vaccinated. in california despite its disastrous vaccination rollout and shortage of vaccines, democrats are pushing governor gavin newsom to prioritize the vaccination of detainees. state republicans are pushing back. in congress, republican whip steve scalise says "this pattern of president biden putting noncitizens ahead of american citizens is even more disturbing after last week's action that put foreign jobs over american jobs." he's making americans wait to get the vaccine behind people who came here illegally. i.c.e. says there's about 14,000 detainees in custody. >> rachel: thank you.

a stunning admission tonight. a top crisis communication firm acknowledging something conservatives have been saying for years, the corporate america is deathly afraid of offending woke leftists. the recent firing of gina carano. she was warned about her social media posts which included things like mocking mask wearing and joking about trans people. now a p.r. rep is admitting to the hollywood reporter "i don't know what people at disney personally believe or don't believe with regard to politics but as a corporate entity they want to stay as trouble-free as possible and anything that's going to offend the left is a problem. i have clients were making an extraordinary effort to post what the social left wants to see." here to respond is katie pavlich and ben domenech.

both are fox news contributors. thank you for joining us. katie, i guess you can say anything you want if you're liberal but if you're conservative you can expect some corporate backlash. >> yeah, i think it continues to expose which side of the political aisle is actually the more tolerant of the tube. the word liberal no longer has any meaning on the left. they are leftists. republicans and conservatives have been accused for years of being tyrannical, wanting to control people's lives, being fascist. yet here we are with hollywood admitting, which we all knew. you had a number of underground conservative movements in hollywood for a long time. that corporations are now afraid of the left. not necessarily their customers or their fan base but of the left coming after them and causing thumping problems. it goes to show that they are far less tolerant. it's amazing that gwyneth paltrow for example can

get up at an awards show and praise roman polanski after he fled the country for allegations of rape of a child. yet a conservative may say things untoward or over the edge in some ways on twitter, she's fired from her job and dropped from her talent agency. there is a double standard. it goes to the tolerance issue of which side is more open to debate and different points of view. >> rachel: i have been saying for years, the myth of liberal tolerance. then, you have a little baby. she's probably not watching disney yet. i have nine kids and i watch a lot of disney. after they did that with gina carano, i don't know what to do. i want to fight back. i don't want to fund these people who are to fire conservatives for speaking not so controversial conservative views so i canceled my disney plus. i'm often talking about how much i hate cancel culture. what am i supposed to do?

i am asking sincerely. what should conservatives do in the face of this? >> i think they should respond by doing what they think is right when it comes to streaming services they purchase. there's plenty of different things out there. to understand what's really going on here, we have two recognize we live in a moment that the animated by narcissism and conformity. narcissism because we have the view now that your feelings as an individual the most important thing on the planet. if you're insulted by the perspective that an actor in a particular show that you happen to watch has on social media, it's deeply important and something that needs to be addressed. and conformity. when it comes to the ideological perspective of people in hollywood, there is an expectation of conformity. there's also an expectation of diversity but only in the form of skin color, ethnicity, gender et cetera. not when it comes to actually having any ideas that break from

the hard or offend the collective. i think in this moment, that something we have to deal with it goes beyond just the firing of someone from hollywood and really gets down to why our culture is so stale and so corporate. some dissatisfying handling such a bad taste in their mouths. if you want to know why so many movies and tv shows seem repetitive. like regurgitation's mysteries that you've heard 100 times before, it's because that's what they can do that is safe. they have to avoid telling your story that might offend in some way. >> rachel: i only have 30 seconds but i want to answer this question about what do we do as conservatives. we get paid to give our opinions to it's easy for us to get out and give our opinion but a lot of people are scared of losing their job. what's your answer? what do you say to people out there who want to speak their mind who truly believe these things but are just afraid of

the backlash? >> i think that's spot on. needing to get the bottom of why everything has to be the same way but you've seen conservatives fight back. ben shapiro launched a movie company. they hired gina carano to do a movie with them. finding other alternative ways to be creative, be artistic and show people that the best way to live in america is to be open and have new avenues of thought and art. >> rachel: absolutely right. we need to start a new platform, new culture. i think we also have to do a lot less of our own self censoring we want to live in the world that's not so censored. great, great, great insights from both of you. thank you. up next, we are following breaking news, how are new by memo says i see officers will now need preapproval from a senior manager before they can

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>> rachel: for nearly a year, children across the country been ordered to stay inside, wear a mask and not socialize with their friends. those who are allowed back into school are walking into classrooms that have been retrofitted, totally unsuitable for learning. look at what one teacher in south carolina found when she went back. >> i have a rather large classroom compared to the other classrooms in our building. this is the middle seat of the back row of my classroom. this is their view. of the board. i'm just wondering when we ordered this $5 million with of plexiglas, we have a classroom of 28 desks set up to where school board members could sit in them and see what this was really going to be like. how am i supposed to hear my students when they are in the back of the room wearing a mask behind all of this plexiglas.

>> rachel: how did we get to this point? it certainly isn't science. study after study proves that kids should be back in school. by keeping them home, he now appears we are paying very dangerous price. joining me now is fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. thank you for joining us. i wanted to talk to you because we hear so much about what's going on. one of the studies that i came across is that our kids are gaining weight. there is more screen time. there is a lot less moving around. they are not walking to school, many of them. there's all these other consequences of the lockdown. >> hi, rachel. absolutely. playgrounds are close. children are in front of computer screens even if they have a computer. they are doing binge eating. they are doing comfort food snacking. there's nobody there to remind them of anything. there's no fruit or vegetables. can you remember back to 2010

with the hunger free kids act of 2010? happy hunger free kids act which said school had to have fruits and vegetables in them. that actually brought down weight. 1 out of 3 children in the united states are overweight or obese to begin with. when we have this situation, we are a growing amount of depression. we have 25% increase visits for mental health emergencies from children. not to mention all the anxiety and all the depression. it all comes from lack of exercise, not sleeping right, not getting to see your friends or talk to your friends and not eating properly. parents have to understand what a crucial role you're playing. are you taking your children to the supermarket with you? are you preparing vegetables and fruits? how much snacking are you doing? what kind of role model are you? >> rachel: there's a lot of personal responsibility that needs to happen here from parents and so forth. but there's he's health bureaucrats, dr. siegel, who

have given such bad advice. we know that the best way to ward off the covid, to survive it if you get it, i got it, to be healthy. people who aren't healthy, who are overweight, not exercising are going to not have as easy of a time getting through covid. why are we locking down playgrounds? why are we stopping kids from playing sports when we know that it's not going to harm them if they got covid and if they are healthy. why are we doing all of this? it's really these health bureaucrats that are putting out these guidelines. >> rachel, it's the politics of fear. controlling people through fear. feeling self-important by restriction. we know a long time ago that schools work safe places to go. we saw the european studies over the summer. we saw in australia. we had to prove it here and then we prove it we still don't have the schools open. when you're in school. we should have physical education classes open, sports. we should have sports. okay, you can have certain

mitigations. masking and some distancing but the camaraderie of looking your teachers face. regular exercise in school and regular meals at school. all of that decrease his weight and increase his health. i want to tell you as an internist we are talking about risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, risks of heart disease. it goes up dramatically with inactivity and obesity. it's an absolute disgrace that we have waited this long to be talking about opening schools. there is no downside. the risk of transmission within schools is actually lower and the risk from children to teachers, extremely low. and the risk of children getting sick, very, very low. we have known that a long time. >> rachel: and vitamin d. you get that from playing outside. we know that helps with covid. dr. siegel, so great to see you. isn't it a travesty with happening. we need more doctors like you. maybe being those bureaucrats and the government, giving these guidelines. it sure doesn't make sense to

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♪ ♪ >> well, the politically correct gender police may be cheering president biden as having the most inclusive administration in history. others are slamming the president's gender policy calling it sexist. how could that be? by benefiting only women and girls and overlooking the very real struggles faced by america's boys. joining me, the coauthor of the voice crisis, why are boy struggling and what we can do about it." thank you so much for joining me today. this is such an important topic. tell me what you see is wrong

with the current policies with the biden administration. >> it's pretty amazing, because president biden says he is inclusive and he is in favor of healing and unity and being in favor of diversity. he formed a policy council that completely leaves out boys, leaves out fathers, leaves out men. and he says it's also about racial injustice. and yet, the black males are completely left out. he talks about lgbtq being so important and he has left out trans males. it's a big part of lgbtq if you are a male. it is the most sexist and racist policy that can be established and it is one thing if you are just establishing sexist policies, but if you are claiming to be in favor of unity and healing, that's not a good combination. >> rachel: yeah, you know, i first started to see their disparity between how boys and

girls are treated. i have boys. i just wanted to add award ceremonies and graduations, why are girls getting all of the awards and 90% of all the awards girl two girls and 10% to girls? what is happening there? >> it is partially teaching that boys need to be doing, all the things that we talked about. are very powerful -- boys don't have as many social emotional skills. they are much more productive when they are doing physical activities. so, that's part of it. and so, but boys are also having enormous problems when there is fatherlessness. >> rachel: yes, it's a crisis. >> when i submitted my proposal, i outlined 10.

it leads back to fatherless being more important than another cause. one a boy grows up in a female-only home, that is a problem. if a boy grows up with a very active father and mother and goes to a female-dominated school, that's a very problem. >> rachel: you are absolutely right about that. we have left boys behind and we are not talking about follow fatherlessness. by the way, doing right by our boys, raising strong boys means, it's good for girls who want strong men. thank you so much for bringing this up to us and i hope people will read your book. all right. this week, we spoke to governor who has introduced a bill to ban abortions based on the diagnosis of down syndrome. today, in the south committee, they unanimously supported it.

they are also leading the charge to fight for the lives of babies. it is very personal. my beautiful baby, valentina, has down syndrome. she has absolutely made my family better. she is the only thing we all agree on. as a mom, i am thankful for his bill and i have been lucky enough to join her in south dakota to help her fight along with many other advocates who have taken this to the floor and we appreciate everyone who is championing this cause. i have to tell you, there is nothing like seeing the personal story where you can feel the love of these wonderful beautiful children. for example, two sisters from wisconsin have become sensations for highlighting their incredible bond. they have gotten millions of

views from those videos dancing around their home and doing each other's hair. that is more powerful than 1,000 pro-life speeches. take a look. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ okay, i can watch these all days. she says she doesn't know what she would do without her sister. girls, keep sharing your videos. america needs them. that's all we have for tonight. thank you for watching. i'm rachel and i will be back tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i'm mark steyn in for tucker. throughout the western world, governments of all kinds unload the chinese coronavirus. they do what most have tried to do before, quarantine and lockdown millions upon millions of privately-health, destroying their livelihoods and at least for the third of the population suffering from clinical depression, destroying their mental health. meanwhile, at the same time they walled up perfectly healthy