we'll follow it all week. >> a lot of calls to strip the governor of emergency powers under covid. i don't know what that means. if you don't have the powers to keep restaurants and businesses closed do you have a chance to reopen the city? >> dana: i think you do. faulkner focus. >> harris: house democrats are plowing ahead with president biden's covid-19 relief bill and that is against the headwind of critics who say the bill focuses more on liberal priorities than actually helping any americans. i'm harris faulkner. you are in "the faulkner focus". more than half of what is included in that nearly $2 trillion bill has nothing to do with the coronavirus at all. some of those unrelated provisions include raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. $270 million in arts endowments.

$200 million for museums and libraries. $50 million in family planning funding. and more than $100 million for a controversial underground rail project in silicon valley which has yet to break ground. here is republican congressman byron donalds. >> i know the president wants to say the cornerstone of his bill is money to get vaccines. checks for people who unemployed. the reality is the cornerstone of this bill is wasteful spending, pork and buying off members of congress just so they can get their liberal wish list using coronavirus pandemic as an excuse. >> harris: minutes from now i'll talk with house minority whip steve scalise about it. in focus this hour. federal criminal charges could be in the cards for new york governor andrew cuomo over the nursing home scandal. and millions of texans still

without safe drinking water. and now some are being hit with massive electric bills. let's begin with fox business reporter edward lawrence who has more on our top story. good to see you today. >> you mentioned a big list of extras there. we're starting to get a sense of what other things, non-coveed-related things are in this massive spending plan. even some of the money set aside for the coronavirus will not be spent in the united states. $750 million of the covid money will be set aside until every penny is used for the global response to covid-19. this money will be used by the cdc, then it goes a step farther and says that it can be used on other emerging infectious diseases around the globe. rejoining the world health organization means it could work with the cdc where that money goes. $50 million will be used for environmental or climate change grants. this section here says the

money will use the activities to implement justice purposes and objectives by the administration. it could be enforcement. it references the executive order signed the day after the inauguration which asked for nature-based solution reducing the reliance on coal and reducing the financing of coal projects to stop investment. senator marsha blackburn says the bill is unfair to people suffering under covid. >> the democrats are using this as a cash cow. they are going to keep printing money until they solve their problems and they are going to force states like tennessee, which are well managed, have no state income tax, and people that are living by the rules to pay for all of this mess that people that do not live by the rules have made. >> now we know the time frame

to raise the minimum wage to $15 four years from the signing. we're digger deeper into the nearly 600-page bill filled with all kinds of things. the house budget committee will work on it on wednesday and a vote could come on friday at the end of the week. back to you. >> harris: thank you very much. you have gotten us started with the facts this hour. i want to bring in house minority whip steve scalise. republican from louisiana. great to see you today. i know the list is long and this is just one example. but why in the world is an underground project for rail, which hasn't broken ground yet, in resource catch rich silicon valley, california in a bill to help people who are suffering in the middle of the pandemic? >> i hope that everybody in america is taking a look at some of the liberal pork in this bill and what they are trying to do. all in the name of covid relief. we need to rush this through.

you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. you will find a lot of things disturbing. less than 10% of the money is for public health. if you look at the schools money we ought to be opening up every school in america right now. the money is there to do it. there is over $60 billion out there from the previous bills to safely reopen schools. they will give another $100 plus billion and you saw the president's spokesperson yesterday said it's not even going to require them to open up schools. they get the money. they don't have to educate our kids in the classroom. devastating millions of kids across america. that's what's in the bill. $15 minimum wage. bailed out states of new york. new york governor cuomo won't release the data. he still won't give that. even democrats are calling for his removal. california has a $10 billion surplus right now. newsom was bragging about that

last week. $10 billion surplus in california. this bill will borrow money from our kids to give newsom billions more. it makes no sense. larry summers not a conservative economist said it could lead to more devastation in the economy long term including slow growth and lost jobs. this bill is devastating for america. we need to defeat it and focus on helping families and small businesses get back open and schools get back open. >> harris: congressman i want to hit this quickly and move on. you gave some pretty astonishing numbers there. $60 billion still sitting in previous relief packages. where is that money going? >> right now it is sitting idle. over a trillion dollars, harris, in overall relief package money that is unspent from all the bills we did in a bipartisan way under president trump. the paycheck protection program

alone was a great lifeline. saved over 50 million jobs. there is money left over even in that program. there is still a lot of money unspent from previous bills we passed. they want 1.9 trillion not to reopen schools and help businesses. the congressional budget office says the schools money $95% of that money won't be spent until 2022. do you want to delay school openings until next year? if you vote for this bill. any member of congress is voting to delay school openings and give away money we don't have that will be borrowed from our kids to slow economic growth. >> harris: they may be giving away their jobs. the voters will decide that. if i misspoke and said 60 million i spent billion hasn't been allocated for schools. >> that's just for schools. >> harris: just for schools, wow. new york lawmakers this week will decide whether to strip governor andrew cuomo. i heard you mention him representative scalise.

they will look at taking away his covid emergency powers. a former top d.o.j. official says governor cuomo's actions may have been criminal. if his team knowingly gave inaccurate data on nursing home covid deaths to the feds. let's watch and i'll get your reaction. >> new york by the summer had by far the highest death rate in the country, over 32,000 deaths. twice the deaths of any other state. if new york were its own country it was the top 10. the governor was saying the nursing home deaths were very low. they provided data that showed she had understated the deaths in those nursing homes by 1/3. >> new york

families who lost their loved ones in nursing homes and we found out we uncovered that he gave an order we're talking about back at the beginning of the pandemic against cdc guidance. he gave a mandate that said if are you a nursing home patient in a hospital covid positive you you have to be spent back to the nursing home. the most vulnerable population. what happened is they sent covid positive patients back and it seemed like in many nursing homes almost every person in that nursing home got covid from the covid positive patients. he started stonewalling instead of giving us the facts. the scandal might be really bad but the cover-up is worse. we exposed just a few days ago his top aide admitted they covered up the data because they didn't want the federal government finding out? my god, you are talking about thousands of families devastated because they lost a family member, a father, mother, that they never should

have lost because of cuomo. instead of confessing, he is covering it up more. a major scandal. i wish he would be honest with us about the data. >> harris: this may be one of those instances and families have told me this where the initial impact of the decision was worse than the cover-up so many died. so many more died than we had any idea. the press secretary for the white house jen psaki was asked about the president's previous praise for andrew cuomo's pandemic leadership and she dodged the question. let's take a peek. i'm being told we don't have that. i apologize to everybody. my question is -- go ahead. >> president biden, when this story broke and we're talking about the story where the top aide admitted they covered up the data, she was talking to democrat state senators in new york thinking nobody else was listening in and they leaked it because they are disgusted by

the governor's actions. president biden when ko*em cuomo was in the white house he said he was the gold standard. if that's the gold standard for president biden, is that really the direction they want to go? how about you focus on getting the facts out there. we have an amendment in committee last week to require that cuomo release the data. every democrat voted against it. i don't know why they want to be complicit in the cover-up. the families want answers and deserve answers. this never should have happened. i think are you just seeing the tip of the iceberg. he is threatening democrat assemblyman right now trying to get them to cover up and be part of that. they don't want any part of this cover-up. aoc and deblasio saying it needs to be investigated. major scandal that should have never happened. thousands of people died in new york who never should have died. >> harris: thank you very much for being on the program and rolling through the technical

glitch there. appreciate your time. the impact of president biden's rollback of trump administration immigration policies is already being felt on our southern border. what it all means for states like california and texas and speaking of the lone star state, listen to this. >> it's not enough for everybody and it is certainly not enough for everybody to get a shower. we're trying to get drinking water to people who need it the most. >> harris: millions of texans waking up today again without safe drinking water while others face sky high utility bills. governor abbott says the state must take action. texas congressman joins me next. s who need cash. refiplus from newday usa. it lets you refinance at today's record low rates

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now. >> it's overwhelming to see. >> when you are so used to having those conveniences and then don't have it. >> okay, do i feed my family or do i run the heat? which one do i do? >> harris: oh my gosh, that one mom. things children don't need to see. heart rending decisions facing texas families today. an estimated 10 million people there are waking up again without safe drinking water. officials are trying to ramp up bottled water distribution to help out. and address a massive spike in energy bills. some customers charged thousands of dollars as demand for power surged during last week's blackout. texas kept its energy grid free of government regulation but the governor says the price

hikes are unacceptable. >> suffer through days of freezing cold without power should not be subjected to skyrocketing energy bills due to a spike in the energy market. >> harris: jodey arrington joins me now. to see your governor there pleading for help from energy companies. why is this happening? >> well, this is poor planning. we should have had winterization, we should have had power reservings that were adequate. we should have had a smarter rolling black-outs. curtailment of power plan and none of the above happened. now, 99% of the time, harris, we have the most cost effective most efficient energy supply of any state in the union. there is that 1%, 30 year once in a generation storm and those investments have to be made. the power and heat are back on.

water supplies for a third of the people of texas are still struggling having boiling water requirements and the like. so we're still struggling and limping along to recover from this tremendous storm. >> harris: look, you know, i love capitalism, we all do, my goodness, the american way. what has to be done to rein in these energy companies. you deregulated him. people are making a decision whether they eat and pay for heat. that's punishing. >> look, we shouldn't be a no government conservative party. we should be a limited government party. there are needs for certain safeguards and consumer protections. in this case there is a gap in requiring utilities to make this investment. if you don't, then they won't because it cuts into their margin. and so this is an example of where you have to balance some

level of requirements, safeguard and regulation with an otherwise free and open market that will serve the customers the best. so it is just recalibrating that. it is a shame it wasn't done and so many people had to suffer. >> dana: you put the t back in transparency. capital t. if they don't -- if they aren't forced to they won't make those type of investments. thank you for that. i spoke with texas agriculture commissioner sid miller friday and he pointed out that the republicans for what happened pretty much needed a warning that consumers across the board were going to pay a price. we're seeing what that's like now but let's take a look. >> us republicans run the state and we dropped the ball on this one. starts with our governor. the buck stops there. they okayed raising the price of energy on our consumers when they can least afford it. our farmers, everything is backed up in the supply chain

so they will receive record low prices again and consumers will pay record high prices when they can least afford it during the pandemic during this record freeze. >> harris: representative arrington you gave us so much transparency just then and members of your republican party are in charge in texas are in agreement that going forward things need to change. how do you fix that now, though? how fast can you do it? >> well, it will be as fast as this week. it is number one on the legislative agenda. we're in session as a state and they've got to stop and put a moratorium on people being disconnected from their utilities for not paying their bills, number one. there are those exorbitant bills that are coming in that have to be dealt with. that's first and foremost along with the water supply. long-term you have to find out why the puc, public utility commission, a three-member commission appointed by the

governor and ercot did not make the investment and the requirement of utilities to have reliability of power sources through this emergency. through this disaster. >> harris: look, you know, if democrats are looking across the aisle and figuring out what would make it worse maybe it's this. migrants are beginning to enter the united states through the state of texas today. today with all that's going on after president biden rolled back the trump administration's remain in mexico policy for those seeking asylum. the very first group of migrants already entered california on friday. congressman arrington, what does this do to your state at this point? >> well, it is insult to injury is what it is at this point. we pay $12 billion annually just in texas, one border state. it is not just the economic cost, it is the fact that our

federal government's first and most important job is to protect and consider first the american people. our citizens. we have 25,000 people just in this caravan or the people that stayed in mexico waiting for their asylum claims to be processed. we don't know who is in that group of people. we haven't vetted them. we have restrictions and mandates on the american people but these folks will come into this country illegally. they will be released into the interior with not any test, with not any vetting, and there is more to come. the message is clear. the biden administration has said we're open for illegal crossings and we've empowered the drug cartels. this is now their most lucrative business and there will be more exploitation of poor and vulnerable people. that's the bottom line. >> harris: it is hard to believe the timing that democrats are doing this with. you mentioned testing. covid testing, title 42 that

president trump -- former president leaned into and said it will protect us as people come into the country illegally or try to. all of that it seems would be put by the wayside. so wonderful to have you on the program. so transparent. lots of good answers to what's going on on the border and in texas. congressman from the state of texas, thank you. >> good to be with you, harris. >> harris: remember how confident wanted to scrub names like lincoln and george washington from all the city schools? there is news on that front. what the embattled school board president is saying now. plus this. >> big noise, big boom. the first thing i thought about a bomb on the plane. >> this is very serious. i feared for my life, i did. >> harris: after that big scare in the sky over colorado saturday, a popular plane is grounded.

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land with no injuries reported on board. but now the feds are investigating and dozens of popular passenger planes have been grounded. we're live in denver. >> boeing says it is suspending operations of all its 777s with this engine called a pratt & whitney 4,112. shortly after it left the airport. >> departure heavy may day. aircraft experienced engine failure. need to return immediately. >> 231 passengers and 10 crew members were on the flight. some watching the fire in the engine and pieces break away and while it was scary, no one was injured. the engine failure happened over a denver suburb where metal came raining from the sky. >> you could feel the heat from

it. so immediately we knew something bad had happened. >> it was all of a sudden a lot of turbulence and then a really bright kind of bang and flash. >> no one was injured by the falling debris and the ntsb is on the ground investigating. faa administrator says he consulted with his safety team saying i have directed them to issue an emergency air worthiness directive that would require immediate or stepped up inspections of boeing 777 airplanes equipped with certain pratt and whitney engines. this will likely mean some airplanes will be removed from service and look at this. also on saturday another boeing plane with is same type of engine dropped parts over the southern netherlands after a midair explosion and fire. this was a boeing 747, 400. the denver incident was a 777.

same engine, though. harris. >> harris: that's the key apparently. thank you very much. san francisco school board is pushing the pause button on a plan to rename dozens of schools which honor presidents like george washington, a abraham lincoln. senior correspondent claudia cowan has more from san francisco. priorities set, go. >> that's right. after months of ridicule and accusations that their priorities were a little off the san francisco school board is hitting the pause button on its controversial move to rename 44 public schools including this one named after abraham lincoln cause school board members decided these names are offensive. in an op-ed this weekend the board president said reopening

will be our only focus until our children and young people are back in school. lopez went on to say the board in postponing future meetings of the renaming committee and will have input from historians when the process resumes. one of the complaints board members relied on factual errors to determine which names had to go. 60 miles away in oakley, california frustrated parents held a rally to get their kids back into class. this follows the resignation of the entire oakley elementary school district board after those members were caught on a hot mic mocking parents for wanting schools to reopen. in los angeles and san francisco where private schools are open, public school families are staging zoom-ins, kids logging m for distance learning in front of their school instead of being inside the classroom learning in person. >> on the screen so long it hurts my eyes and makes my

brain feel like mashed potatoes and makes me feel groggy. it makes me lose my focus. >> i think it is important for all kids not just the kids whose parents can afford it, to be back in the classroom with their classmates and the teachers back to learning. >> and the city agrees. the city is suing its own school district and board of education to compel them to move things along. the first court hearing with this lawsuit happens one month from today. harris. >> harris: wow, listen to the children. they already know so much. makes my brain feel like mashed potatoes. concentrate on getting us back in. the head of the national teachers union says it is a myth that teachers don't want schools to reopen. why is it hard to get an answer for in-person learning for the

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>> i do want to debunk this myth that teacher unions, at least our union, doesn't want to reopen schools. teachers know that in-person education is really important. >> harris: after what representative scalise told us this hour we'll keep the schools in focus. the head of one of the biggest teachers union say educators want to reopen classrooms as much as parents but dodging specifics on when or how it will happen. radio host guy benson and leslie marshall fox news contributors. different shows except for this one they're together.

all right. let's get started, guy, with the transparency that we obviously are seeing now. they say they want to do it but they don't really know how to do it. does that go together? >> i'm sure there are many rank and file teachers who are heart sick over the fact their students are sitting at home in a failing situation where they are falling behind academically and doing it for months and months and their mental health is deteriorating, feeling isolated. it is a disaster for kids and many of the teachers understand that. the problem is the bosses in the union are holding out and slow walking this entire process and the union bosses, we just heard from one of them, can deny it and say it's all untrue. i saw one tweet from a teachers union blaming everything on republican talking points. the proof is in the pudding and what they are doing and what they aren't doing. just to claudia's segment we

watched, her package a few minutes ago on the show. we know millions of kids have been in school since the fall. this academic year. public school kids and overwhelmingly private school kids have been gathering in person, in classrooms and it has been overwhelmingly safe. there is no special mystique around private schools. they have been doing it safely. public schools can, too. there is an obstacle. overwhelmingly it's the unions is the obstacle. >> harris: i want to get to congressman scalise, moments ago on "the faulkner focus". >> we ought to be opening up every school in america right now. the money is there to do it. over $60 billion from the previous bipartisan bills to safely reopen schools. they give another $100 plus billion and you saw the president's spokesperson yesterday said it won't require them to open up schools. they just get the money. >> harris: leslie. >> a couple of things.

first of all, the federal government doesn't decide or make the decision for schools to open. that's done on a state level. even further within school districts within those states. if you look additionally which guy didn't point out i'm in los angeles county. second largest school district in the entire united states. we have different covid rates than perhaps a very rural district and much smaller state. you can't just have one rule that applies to every state or every single district within the state. >> harris: $60 billion they're getting help. >> in march in los angeles 3-6 are going back to school based on the numbers, based on the science. to the point of the unions. an example here. some schools have four unions to contend with. at least three. l.a. has a union, california has a union, two national unions, aft and nea. not all of them agree with regard to vaccines. in communities where there are

lesser ventilation systems specifically communities of color, black and latino communities their schools aren't in the same position ventilation-wise in los angeles. just can't make one rule. >> harris: the money that was already allocated representative scalise said $60 billion sitting there asking in the new relief for another $100 billion and none of it is going for what you are talking about as it should be. if you want to reopen and you need those new ventilation systems that's part of what the cdc called for. vaccinating teachers was not. i could talk about this for hours because this is our future. did you hear the little girl that you mentioned from claudia's report. she said my brain feels like it is turning to mashed potatoes. we need to get the little ones especially in the classroom. they learn better at those ages. educators have been saying this for a year. >> that's right. even if communities with

significant spread of the virus, we know it is nose-dived almost all across the country. even where it has spread rapidly schools are still significantly safer than the community at large for those students. dr. fauci has said this, the data is overwhelming and we don't need to dig into reports. we can look at private schools across the entire country that have been open. we can look at the entire school system in florida that has been open since august with very few negative impacts. that's what is really important. briefly harris to your point if they will ask for $128 billion more dollars and they haven't spent $60 billion for schools and in the new package the majority of that money doesn't get spent until after 2023? i begin to suspect that this actually doesn't have anything to do with reopening schools safely and has to do with other priorities for adults, not kids. >> harris: i have to wrap you. leslie, you put something in the conversation so important. i did not know there are

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>> harris: president biden's attorney general nominee guj merrick garland is expected to face questions in his confirmation hearing today on a possible federal investigation into new york governor andrew cuomo. lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle say the governor's suspected cover-up of nursing home deaths from covid-19 may constitute a federal crime. bryan llenas is live in

brooklyn. >> republicans want to get judge merrick garland to commit to investigating cuomo and his administration. meantime, though, the former acting u.s. assistant attorney general for the department of justice's civil rights division says the cuomo administration withheld nursing home death toll data from him and the trump administration doj underreporting death in public nursing homes by a third. >> after we learned this information we went to our sister division, the civil division, the department of justice, that asked for the same information for the over 600 private nursing homes in the state of new york. new york stonewalled and didn't produce anything throughout the rest of the year, perhaps waiting for a change in administration. >> in a "wall street journal" op-ed they make the case this could merit criminal charges,

this alleged cover-up. numerous federal criminal statutes could apply. a crime to make false statements to the government and conceal information and otherwise obstruct government investigations. new york may have engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and its agencies and possibly obstruct justice among other crimes. new york city's democrat mayor bill deblasio had this to say about governor cuomo claiming there is no scandal here. >> i do not accept his explanation. there needs to be a full investigation. thousands of lives were lost. families deserve answers. we need to get the whole truth here and make sure nothing like this ever happens again. >> over the weekend white house press secretary jen psaki was asked if president still believed ko*em was the gold standard in responding to the pandemic. she declined to get a yes or no just said the president is

working the cuomo. >> harris: thank you very much. a top ivy league professor is admitting to using heroin and calling for the legalization of all recreational drugs. reaction from kat timpf. "outnumbered" is at the top of the hour next. don't miss it. story, it's time to refi. but if you're a veteran homeowner and need cash, here's big news. introducing refiplus from newday usa. it lets you refi at all-time low rates plus you could take out $50,000 or more. money for security today, money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus. it's only for veterans and it's only from newday usa.

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enjoy fresh, any time, with febreze. >> harris: a columbia professor who says he snorts heroin and takes other substances is for the legalization of all recreational drugs. he chairs the school psychology department. he wrote this in a new book, "there are many things in life i enjoy more than a two lines by the fireplace at the end of the day. my hair when use is as recreational as my alcohol use. it's one of the tools i use to maintain my work-life balance." fox news analyst, fox nation

host? your reaction. >> i think hearing an ivy league professor saying, i do heroin, at something people will be shocked by and have this collective gasp, but the more insane to talk about rather than his use is some of the policy ideas that he is discussing which are things i happy to agree with. personally, i don't do heroin, but the fact that he does heroin doesn't affect me. he said in this country we are supposed to have the right to make choices we want to make as long as they don't interview with others. i completely agree with that. he points out the fact that the vast majority of overdose deaths are from illicit substances and that harm can be reduced by legalization and regulation wishes something i agree with. >> harris: it doesn't bother you he's talking about that illicit drug use, in a way you know has an outreach to his

students. you say doesn't affect anybody, but everybody knows it. >> heroin obviously can lead to addiction, death, but the truth is, so can alcohol, so can food. i think that it's something that obviously is going to be shocking. it's a choice that's far different from when i would ever make, but i think talking about the fact that it's crazy that for being possession of a substance you can go to jail, we should be trying to not focus so much on the shock value and more on the policies that he is proposing. which i think as a libertarian, those are things we should consider. >> harris: new york city is doing a 180, mayor de blasio's plan to shutter to ice skating rink's run by the trump administration. the ranks were set to close yesterday weeks ahead of

schedule because the city is cutting ties with the trump organization over the riots. however there backtracking over public i cry from the skater. here is eric trump with the trump organization. >> there is a point where politics doesn't have to enter everything, we've operated this for 25 years. we do a lot for the city of new york and this was a good monday morning feel good story. right thing we have done, these programs are going to shut down. >> harris: cat? >> thankfully they are staying open. this was ridiculous all along. anyone in new york knows there is little to do right now because of this pandemic. we shouldn't be shuttering one of the few options that families actually have two get out of our generally tiny living spaces. >> harris: is so. kat timpf, good to see you. my pleasure to be with you

weekdays at 11:00 p.m. eastern and now we are we're a few seconds away from the top of the news hour. time for "outnumbered." fox news alert, we are awaiting commentshe paycheck protection program, house democrats are set to move forward with this nearly 2 trillion covid relief bill which republicans are blasting as "liberal wish list items." it would allocate a trillion dollars in taxpayer money to a slew of controversial items which seem to have nothing to do with covid relief. some of them include raising minimum wage to $15 an hour. $270 million, 200 million for museums and libraries, 50 million with family planning, fox news has learned exclusively that the bill has more than $100 million in funding for a controversial silicone valley

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