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destabilizing activities across the middle east, we will work in close cooperation with our european and other partners as we proceed. we will also work together to lock down radiologic material to prevent terrorist groups from acquiring and using it. >> harris: former secretary of state mike pompeo and other critics are warning about getting back into the nuclear deal and the dangers of removing sanctions. >> we know that under president obama they coddled the iranian regime, signed a deal that presented a pathway, a clear pathway to a nuclear weapon. the iranians will sense that's a deal they can strike and continue to inflict costs on the american people. we cannot go back, the american people can't afford to go back to those policies. speak of the same team is back. will they have the tough mindedness to negotiate a much better deal with these iranians who are very tough negotiators?

>> i am serving in the cia as head of the middle east division. we had our proverbial boots on their throat and we took it off and took on a bad deal and i think that's what we are absolutely in danger of doing again right now. again, if we give up those sanctions, that's our leverage and we will be in for some real pain. >> harris: a lot of voices on that. you are watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. emily compagno, katie pavlich, laura logan and in the virtual center see today, cohost of "fox & friends weekend," pete hegseth is here. we get that, from all the civilians in your service, i'm going to start with you, firsthand knowledge we are facing as we jump back into the deal with iran. >> what we are saying is the virtual third term of the obama administration, all the officials are negotiated that terrible deal are back in the

white house so of course they are wedded to the foolish and naive outcome they hope for which is that somehow if we relieve sanctions, which is our leverage, and then invite them to the table, we somehow stop them from getting exactly what they want which is a pathway to a nuclear bomb. the ones closest to this threat, in reaction to what the biden administration is looking to do, they said this will pave iran's path to a nuclear arsenal which is, if you believe the words of what autocrats say, means death to israel, death to america to protect their interest and a trump administration -- not their interest, their ideology, these are radicals that are a hold of the government there and that we know it and they remain exporters of radical islamic terrorism around the world to include targeting our troops even very recently, this is iran, they are radical, they want to vomit and this will make it easier. >> harris: katie, i would ask

the question, why are you eager to get back into a deal that they are not even recognizing the parameters of an haven't been. we know it now, just in the last two days, they won't allow those inspections for us to see what they've got cooking with uranium and we know they are already processing that again. >> yeah, they are kicking out inspectors, they just attacked americans, they killed an american contractor and the response from the biden administration is to give them an open door to conversations, going to the iranians first and saying, we want to renegotiate this deal which by the way never prevented the iranians from getting nuclear weapons, it just simply pushed it off. if you are a member, the administration under obama who did this deal admitted, from the white house podium that they knew a lot of the money that we were giving them was going to go to terrorism, we saw iran's aggression increase after the

nuclear agreement, the argument was, if we come up with an agreement, their behavior will change. it got worse and there couldn't a more stark contrast between the way the biden administration is handling iran and the way the trump administration handle that. they've been taken off the terrorist list even though they are iranian-backed terrorists by the state department and immediately after that happened they attacked a civilian airport in saudi arabia. the iranians are responsible for the deaths of americans and continue to attack us and yet the solution from this administration is appeasement. we've seen this before, it will not end well, both short-term and long-term. >> harris: i often come to you to find out what we are missing because i know you are taking a look at that deal and seeing the things we might be missing. which parts of it are you focused on? >> lara: well, you know, the iranian regime has been the

number one state sponsor of terrorism worldwide year after year after year, this is not a partisan determination, one republican and one administration after another and what is i really mean? they have proxy forces, the iranians are not stupid enough to go on every invasion and every fight and every war, they put proxy faces on, they are in yemen, they are in syria, they are all over the world, responsible for the deaths of literally tens of thousands of muslim people and not to mention their own people. this deal never did anything for the united states. after the new administration got into power, then rose admitted that they lied to the media, the ride to the country to get this deal pushed through in a dishonest way, they were negotiating with the regime when it was him violating their own laws to do that and now they are coming on their knees, cap in

hand, begging the iranians to make the deal again which honestly makes no sense. it doesn't serve american interests, it doesn't serve the interests of decent, good people in iran who have been fighting against a corrupt regime for decades and it doesn't serve the interest of the world because iran has expressed and shown through its actions time and time again that it's interests are the only interests he cares about. and it's going to hurt people to do that. we were warned that violence would follow the assassination and it didn't, the last administration showed exactly how those threats were and yet the administration is going cap in hand saying please, sir, may i have some more, sir without being honest to the american people with out saying what role all that cash, that was hand-delivered to the iranians, where did it go? did that contribute to the death of americans, too? you bet it did. >> harris: emily, would you

forgive me, i want to hit pete just one time because as i'm hearing lara talk, capitulation is what i'm hearing you saying, cap in hand and it makes me think of our officers on their knees, do you remember that, p ph? >> pete: of course, our navy end of the videos meant to dehumanize them as propaganda and what did we do about it? a whole lot of nothing, ultimately which sent every signal we needed to send to the iranian regime that we were open to be steamrolled and that there path to the bomb if not today, later and we'd be foolish in the process. the look humiliated and weak in the middle east which is the opposite of the signal the trump administration had shown. >> harris: emily? >> emily: i echo my colleague's thoughts here, removing the sanctions equates to a capitulation before we even get to the negotiation table and i point out that israel called it a surrendered to begin with but removing our leverage, we

won't be able to address the flaws in it. i found the interview with former middle east cia station chief dan hochman absolutely illuminating and that he pointed out, the review squad includes china and russia. china right now is currently negotiating a $400 billion structural strategic package with iran. what does that do in terms of leveraging and undermining us not only with our sanctions but also bolstering that relationship? i will close with another quote from secretary pompeo that pointed out that if we adopt that model of accommodation that the european union has been following, that in and of itself is a surefire path for there to acquire a nuclear arsenal and i look forward to this president and our state department addressing that relationship with china and russia and the ability to renegotiate that accommodation approach. >> harris: look, i wonder if the deal for china that you're

talking about now, not the nuclear deals with the ones for so much money are part of that we know reportedly extensive phone conversation between our president biden and president xi of china, i wonder what kind of detail of it was even discussed, i have a lot of questions but let's get to this, food supplies are running low in texas, we know the commissioner of agriculture of texas joined me and boy was he firing, thousands of homes remain without power, at this hour a fifth straight day. 14 million people under a boil your water order, the situation is getting more dire. has president biden been doing enough? we will take a look and a stunning new report suggests governor cuomo's controversial nursing home directive did likely lead to a spike in deaths from covid. end state republican step up their push to get him impeached. >> below the national average

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be to welcome. significant developments in the nursing home scandal involving andrew cuomo. the march 25th state directive forcing already vulnerable nursing homes to expect covid patients may have indeed led to more than 1,000 deaths. the finding contradicts a report that the administration initially put out. state republic and are looking to remove cuomo from office. they are moving to form an

impeachment commission to gather facts and evidence on the administration's handling of the crisis. pete, i like to start with you and talk about the odds here. the reality that if there is in a bipartisan call in that state and for this resolution to pass i want to point out for viewers that assembly republicans only need 32 democrats and one independent to come on board with a vote. there's 101 democrats in the assembly and in the state senate they only need 12 of the current 43 democrats to come on board. so my question to you is, do you see this impeachment happening? >> pete: its unraveling for governor cuomo, no doubt. when you start losing support in your own party, it started where they wanted to reverse his emergency powers in april, democrats are coming up proactively and saying, we think is gone too far and we need to pull those back. now it's a proactive call. governor cuomo has also taken a lot of heat for the harassing and bullying phone call he made to new york assemblyman ron kim

trying to force him, pressure him to put out a statement in support of governor cuomo, now 12 democrats have come out back in the assemblyman saying, we got that treatment from cuomo, too, he believes his way through every topic, made all the wrong calls so i think it continues to unravel, the crime is worse in the cover-up of the cover-up is further exposing the crime and creating an incentive for the democrats to come on board and potentially remove someone who's been an abysmal covid leader. >> emily: i want to talk to you about the reception in the state of new york, bob mcmanus writes, "he is an unprincipled actor to whom truth only matters when convenient, who has dug a political hole and who rather than admit it is using the power of his office to avoid a reckoning, your thoughts? >> lara: you know, i have to say that this is kind of -- it's

satisfying but it's really frustrating and away because he didn't have to have a commission to figure out that putting covid patients in a nursing home was going to kill people and governor cuomo is not the only governor who did that and there were people, screaming at the television at the time, with the force of my will begging people not to do that. oh, my goodness, you are going to kill people. and a lot of people saw that ass a moved to drive up the covid numbers. at no time does anyone, you don't have to be a doctor to know that putting covid patients in a nursing home with the elderly and already vulnerable is going to kill people. i think of janice dean who i know it's close to everyone's hearts and thoughts, i was really moved by watching her reporting, think about the people who lost parents, think about who is now, in this administration, who moved her mother out of a nursing home before other people in that nursing home died. so while on the one hand it is a

just reckoning because what was done is terrible and the cover-up was just as bad or worse, as they say but it's also not enough because, you know what? nobody could have done this unless they turned on themselves, the people in new york, the attorney general, they could have stopped this but they didn't, did they? they chose to wait until after the election when everyone wants to get rid of governor cuomo now and they are making this about governor cuomo but it's not just about him, there is a bigger principal here being ignored. >> emily: katie, to lara's point about this not being enough, there's a bipartisan call for them to a move the immunity clause he slipped in, that is bipartisan, however they haven't done it yet. what do you foresee happening here? >> katie: throughout this scandal which started last year, we've been covering it here closely but a number of people in the media have chosen to ignore it until a convenient time but governor cuomo made this very political, he said that this was just republicans

going after him, the trump administration but when he said in that press conference, who cares, they died, that was very personal for everybody who lost a family member and it wasn't just republicans who lost a family member as a result of andrew cuomo's decision to force nursing homes to take these people back when he had the ability to send them elsewhere, there were hospitals that were built, the ship was sent in by the federal government to take care of people and andrew cuomo made the decision that resulted in people's deaths and then made fun of it, essentially and put it at a level that was just political for people. now it's personal and the cover-up also includes his threats against a number of people, janice dean was just mentioned, she tweeted that when she started speaking out about andrew cuomo's recklessness and lack of accountability last year, she was told that she should watch her back because of the way the cuomo family

operates. he hasn't threatened her directly at this point but he is threatened other people including democrats. and i'm not so sure that's going to work and what is he going to do when he has to answer questions about subpoenas and the fbi comes knocking into the department of justice, you can't really tell them, who cares? >> emily: harris, it does call to mind past examples of an elephant hiding in the room, these allegations of being a bully or worse. that somehow it's accepted and somehow everyone knows it so how is this pattern allowed to go on and do you see a reckoning here? >> harris: look, i'm just going to get to the facts because last hour i had a leader of the republicans in the new york state assembly and he said he thinks there's enough evidence to begin this process of impeachment. you have the eastern district of new york, u.s. attorney looking at this, the fbi looking at it, there's no reason the state legislature can't also look into it so if the bullying amounted, as you and i talked about yesterday, emily, to any sort of

criminal behavior, if it went beyond that particularly with representative don campbell or -- ron kim, rather. but we will see, in essence here are those thousands of deaths that were not reported, the purported cover-up in the actual decision, the actual decision that his own e.g., letitia james said, looks like that led to the deaths of some people. with all of that that's evidence that they will be looking at. >> emily: you are so right and i think this is just the beginning of uncovering all of those facts. outrage from parents over this video. take a listen. >> are we alone? [bleep]. you're going to call me out, i'm going to [bleep] you up. speak of the video of the school board officials appearing to mock parents desperate to get their kids back into school just ahead, plus crisis in texas, nearly half the state is under a boil water order due to frozen

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♪ ♪ >> harris: looking at the crisis in texas, supermarkets are running out of food, millions of people are without safe drinking water and thousands are on day five with no electricity, the frigid conditions have led to the deaths of dozens of people across the south, including more than 20 in texas alone. in one home it was so cold the ceiling fan froze, covered in ice, people waiting in long lines at grocery stores, the blackouts have caused produced to spoil, icy roads have kept trucks from replenishing shelves. texans forced to wait in line just to get water for families as some 13-14000000 people are under orders to a boil tap water before drinking it. i spoke a short time ago with

sid miller, from the texas deferment of agriculture. >> early on i sent a letter to the governor to move the agriculture processors upon the priority list so we can get food into the grocery stores. crickets, i haven't heard one word back from the governor. we got shelves just like i predicted, empty shelves, this is covid all over again. so you know, we need to get rolling here and it's going to thought out today but it's going to be a while before we can get the stores restocked. >> harris: and more, some are taking issue with president joe biden's response. he now says he wants to accelerate a major disaster declaration for texas but critics say that he waited too long to act, only yesterday did he authorize fema to start sending supplies that could take days to arrive, sean hannity went after the president over

the lack of response. >> where is our commander in chief, that new guy? that's right, this morning he decided to take a snow day, the guy ultimately in charge of fema and all the country's emergency resources and federal agencies took a day off in the middle of this natural disaster. where is the selective liberal out on this. be one we do know the president approved a federal emergency declaration in texas on sunday but of course the roads are impassable, getting things and was difficult. the governor of texas and the president, we know, spoke yesterday by phone. emily? >> emily: i just want to take a bird's-eye view for a second, that every severe weather situation reveals how ill-equipped we are to handle and president biden declaring that federal emergency room, remember, in 2018 fema was already supporting 692 federally

declared disasters when hurricane season started, that ended the most destructive in american history and they issued a report that you're saying, basically, we are ill-equipped to handle it, don't rely on us so heavily in the future so i think we and americans need to evaluate that as a response, this keeps happening. after hurricane katrina i volunteered for a week, year after after it and people were still lining up for three meals a day, this has to stop happening. >> pete: texas famously has an independent power grid for all the right reasons but it means you better be prepared and in this particular case, an overreliance on renewables and lack of insulation on gas infrastructure, they are in a tough spot. that's where the federal government needs to step up and responded i do believe joe biden's response has been underwhelming, there's more that can be done, thank goodness they pulled troops back from capitol hill so they can provide some of the support for the population of texas as well.

>> harris: lara? >> lara: i am sitting here in texas and i can tell you it's been a long week, mostly without heat, without power, without water. i have lots and lots of family in the same situation and we consider ourselves the lucky ones. we've adopted some of our nave patched, but really what this exposed, that to be without power in texas is like starving to death in a grocery store, it's ridiculous on what disturbed you particularly the arguments over what is responsible, the reality is here, you are flying helicopters using fossil fuels, and people say, you should already have, winterizing mechanisms but what are those mechanisms? that takes more work and more fossil fuels and it's time for us to have an honest

conversation about renewable energy and global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it. this is the first time in texas' history that it had a winter storm warning. so this means that it is not getting warmer and warmer and warmer, this is an opportunity for us to reset and be honest about the reality of climate change and what it really means. >> harris: meanwhile, they are hungry, katie, literally, did you see the store shelves just then? >> katie: it's awful, there's a lot of finger-pointing going on and they just need to get the supply chain open so people can get food. the other thing is, that this is the first massive storm they had in a very long time in texas which is why winterization of the infrastructure was not prioritized, every government has to make decisions about what works in their state and what kind of funding they are going to put towards things that maybe don't always happen.

there's not a lot of snowplows in georgia because it doesn't snow a lot. so they will have to evaluate that and really how much infrastructure they are going to put in to winterize a state that doesn't often have this problem. >> harris: so a host of "the view" are trashing iconic radio host rush limbaugh a day after he died. does this prove conservative's argument that the media look down on half the country? we will be back. ♪ ♪ where can a healthier heart lead you? for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto is a heart failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart so it may not work as well. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. and with a healthier heart,

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hard into these rural white listeners come people sitting in their tracks in the middle of america and listening to rush limbaugh. >> emily: we've seen this sort of thing before, political and media elites mocking trump supporters, take a look. >> you could have put half of trump supporter's into what the "basket of deplorable's." right? >> that's partly him playing to their base, playing their audience, the incredulous boomer that backed donald trump, that wants to think donald trump is the smart one, you are all elitists. you elitists with your geography and your math and your spelling. >> your math and you're reading. >> i'm voting for joe biden.

here. >> ph, what choice do people have but to construe this as condescension, the kind that isolate sand from what we are seeing here, is rampant in the media and in hollywood. at >> pete: before him, they didn't have a choice, he offered an alternative voice, spoke like them, understood them and believed in their aspirations, that you didn't have to be from manhattan or have an ivy league degree to have something to say and he was able to galvanize and enjoy entire generation of conservatives. i have heard him the second-generation founding father and that's right. he is appreciating the way in which they are going after him right now because he knows it's because he was so effective in educating huge parts of the population to love their country

and for that we thank him. >> emily: katie, that biden campaign ads there, how is that unifying? >> katie: it's not and it's not that you are just to degrading an entire group of people, you are being very bigoted, though statements are bigotry and shouldn't be taken any other way but i think rush limbaugh would be reveling in the idea that the left is acting like they always do and exposing themselves so, you know, i am not a white male, i listened to a rush limbaugh in my ipod back in the day and i am very proud of the "white males i know that drive trucks in the middle of america." they make this country work and if the media want to continue their bigotry it tells a lot more about them then about the people listening to rush limbaugh in their pickup trucks throughout the country. >> emily: lara, what has your experience like a band with any similar campaign lumped into a political figure as well,

because to katie's reverse point, i'm sure lady gaga has millions and millions of fans across the political, ideological spectrum that might have been devastated to see her or someone they hold up on a pedestal making fun of them. >> lara: who cares about lady gaga at this point? or don lemon or any of these other people, nobody cares. you are talking about millions of americans, millions and millions and millions of people, not just, hillary clinton says half of trump supporter's, half of 80 million, close to 80 million who voted for him, that's millions of people in this country who are tired of being denigrated, tired of being disregarded, tired of being abused and now, you know what? they are being targeted because this administration has legislation before congress, for example, on gun control which determines if you are psychologically suitable. if you voted for trump are you psychologically suitable to own

a weapon? they are removing gun control for millions of americans conservative on the writer who they don't think are suited to human existence by keeping it for themselves and we are talking about lady gaga, you know what i mean? there are serious things going on here, there's a witch hunt across the united states some of the military across the arms he met armed forces, you are good enough to have your legs blown off and your face burned off in a fire, you can't wear a uniform if you didn't vote for joe biden? by the way, your tax dollars are good enough, nothing about you, your churches can burn, you can burn, everything about you is worthless, you i'll tell you what, the only people moving around in texas right now are the ones i don't know few trucks. conservatives are saying that every day, how would you like us to fight you, what are the terms you'd like us to fight on? they are agreeing to that, why? it's time for them to stop.

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>> katie: we are monitoring a press briefing this hour, an investigation into a nursing deaths, can cuomo survive? at least 40 dead as severe weather continues across the country, 29 million without drinkable water in texas alone. where are the feds and will biden be visiting the state? a new study says politics are seeping into every aspect of our lives including how we choose our friends and what we buy. join john roberts at the top of the hour. >> harris: the superintendent of california school district apologizing now after school board members were hot trash talking parents who want to get their kids back in the classroom in person. the elementary school board appears to believe the online

meeting was private, here we go. >> if you're going to call me out, i'm going to [bleep] you up it. not just me. >> they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back. >> we have a meeting open in the public right now. >> that's what lori just said. >> great. >> harris: yeah, that's what lori just said. the district superintendent calling the marks inappropriate and parents are upset. >> it's heartbreaking, you know, we thought we were partnering with these individuals, we thought they were advocates for our children's education. we have a great relationship with our teachers, they are in our homes every day, it just seems as of late that they mock us, that we are just complaining and we have nothing better to

do. >> harris: wow. we just saw "the faulkner focus" and mercedes who you know has five school-age kids, you have many, i don't even know the total number but i've seen the beautiful babies and the reaction on social media has been, how can they not know that they are alive? webex says it right on the screen. i don't want that person teaching my kids if you can't figure out that you are alive. >> pete: clearly they felt comfortable enough to share those views because they knew other people on the call feel the same way. the statement of the administration or the superintendent which apologized says don't worry, this isn't typical. that's the biggest fear everyone has, is this typical, is there actually a dripping condescension to parents. this first comment, i'm going to mess you up, that was in response to parents who had been mentioning they'd like to get their kids back in the

classroom. you might maybe say something in the break you didn't mean to say, you still stuck to it. >> harris: it was more than hot mike, it was nuclear. >> katie: my first reaction was the same as yours, are these people are idiots, are they? they are in a public meeting that may not be alive, that's a first problem. the second issue is parents are paying property taxes to have their kids in school and yet these people who are being paid by taxpayers and parents are refusing to go to work and despite science saying they can and that they get on a public call and say these horrible, awful things about parents and say that they just want babysitters back. no, they are paying for their children's education and it's being taken away from them and they are not getting there taxes back so at this point it's just staff combined with a whole big dose of condescension and looking down.

>> harris: emily, at one point, they were commenting, parents are just upset because they don't have their babysitters. >> emily: the amount of offensive comments there, we don't have enough time in the show to go over it because it was really reprehensible, what they said. what broke my heart is the mother that was on fox earlier, what broke my heart is how she said, we trusted them. we were communicating with them, i was communicating my concerns in a very heartfelt, open, honest way to find out that not only are they mocking them but frankly threatening them in that way and as she pointed out, teachers are in my home every day, that relationship is so important to those parents and to have that level of deception and betrayal happening, i hope every school board member is not only resigned but is disciplined in every way and certainly for now on, have their mics muted because it's absolutely not with those parents need right now. >> harris: the quote of 2020 is "you are on mute." they didn't even catch it.

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>> emily: royalty no more, bucking team at buckingham palace announcing that prince harry and meghan markle are no more. they remained much loved members of the family. katie, how does this mean they are taking applications for new duchesses, which means, can we apply? >> katie: i wish this meant we don't know to talk about them anymore but i think it is not true either. so i am not going to say anything at all about meghan markle and her husband. >> emily: lara, your thoughts? >> lara: well, i lived in london for about ten years.

there are a lot of arguments for why they take a lot of money and there is something that runs very, very deep in england, there is something kind of magical about that history. there are young kids, making their own decisions and it's something that, you know, i'm sitting here in texas. >> emily: right, right. my obsession with "downton abbey" aside, they say a lifetime of service can be pursued outside of royal life, that anyone can pursue this life of service. that was their response to this. >> pete: my response to this headline was, i thought they were already broken up, is this a new headline?

this is a thing and they already left. we need to correct it. >> harris: that's what i was going to say. i see that as a mystery. my big thing that i really want right now. what you got going on? you can tell us. it >> katie: it runs deep, i am a daughter of the american revolution, i respect my friends who live in london but i'm sorry, the royalty thing for me, i just can't get on board, i don't care. i don't care. >> harris: you let it out, there you go. >> emily: and now we know. i was literally going to email you, "what happened." i can talk royalty all day, i'm obsessed, i admit it, i confess to everyone, the hallmark channel, all that stuff. maybe it's my weakness, one of

many. princess lara, thank you for joining us, peach, katie pavlich, harris, see you tomorrow. think of her joining us. >> this is a fox news alert on the growing crisis in texas, the power slowly returning across the state at this hour, yet still tens of thousands are without power or heat days after a massive winter storm brought the power grid there to its knees. and now many are without food and water. hello, everyone, i am sandra smith. >> john roberts in washington, and nearly 60 people have died as the storm swept up from the southwest of the northeast in texas, power is back on, half of the state's population has been told to boil water before drinking it, houston's mayor says that will last until next weekend now there are warnings of another looming threat, food shortages. >>