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of the covid relief bill. we've got coverage on those top stories and mark meredith is keeping track of cpac and david spunt ahead of president biden's arrival. david, good afternoon. let's start with you. >> hey, griff, hey molly good afternoon to you. president biden is at the white house and he made an announcement just about 30 minutes ago to the american people about the covid relief package expressing his excitement, glad that the house passed this last night. the vote, griff, though, not bipartisan in the least. 219 democrats, 210 republicans, all the republicans voted against this and two democrats joined the republicans in voting no. however, president biden is optimistic as this heads toward the senate. listen. >> now the bill moves to the united states senate where i hope it will receive quick action. we have no time to waste. if we act now, decisively,

quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus. we can finally get our economy moving again. >> president biden, griff, wanted to do this in a bipartisan manner. the white house really touted his relationships on capitol hill to be able to do this bipartisan. ultimately it was not-- and as i said the two democrats crossed party lines to vote with republicans no on the plan. some of the provisions, increased testing, increased ppe, school funding, food, child care assistance and stimulus checks. the two democrats voting against the plan, curt schrader from oregon and jared golden from maine. golden said it goes far beyond the key provisions to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, after supporting 4 trillion for covid relieve in 2020 i won't support trillions

more in funding that's not targeted and necessary at this moment. it does not allow the $15 minimum wage to go to the senate. and the parliamentarian ruled that that cannot go into the senate package and again, president biden looking forward to move this to the senate and he ultimately wants the $15 minimum wage and telling aides and saying in the public that now is not the time. he'll be in wilmington where he'll spend the weekend with his family. >> david in wilmington. molly. >> a long list of headline speaker today as we head into day three of cpac, including some former trump administration members. we have mark meredith who has been on the ground following it for us. >> molly, good ber election we've seen a large gathering of republicans trying to come together to decide which issue candidates and causes they're going to embrace in the year

ahead. we are expecting a number of high profile speakers to come to the podium later on this weekend. they include house minority leader kevin mccarthy, he's to speak later on today. as well as we'll be hearing from the former secretary of state mike pompeo, as well as senator loomis of wyoming. we've heard from other notable names on friday and most of the focus is on tomorrow. the main headliner, former president donald trump. he's going to be the last speaker here at cpac. what's interesting about the speech so much focus on what he's going to say and not going to say. we're not expecting him to announce any bid for 2024, at least not yet and the focus is going to be that he wants to make sure he remains the standard bearer for the republican party and he's not going to shy away from issues and campaigns. we've already seen that happen with some endorsements he's sending out from his political action committee. we did hear earlier today from a former ambassador as well as the former acting director of intelligence grenell who talked

with the legacy of the trump administration. >> america first is now positioned to guide our country through the trials and tribulations of the next generation. once unleashed, this document has shown won't easily be tossed aside. >> cpac is a little different this year. it's traditionally held near d.c. and it's moved to florida due to the pandemic and fewer restrictions. mavericks masks and temperature checks and some have been reminded to keep their masks on. and the conservatives, not only what they want to see in the next four years and taking on the biden administration. and there are notable names that are not here, mike pence, who has championed conservative issues for decades and he

declined to speak and he'll certainly be following what happens on the stage as well as other. >> you're there and a chance to see it unfurling as it does in person, as you mentioned in florida instead of right outside of d.c., but it's sort of a pulse of the conservatives in the republican party. here we are just beginning, sort of the new -- a new transitional period and the big question is, you know, what will former president trump mean in the next four years headed into another presidential elections and into midterms as well as former members of his administration. as you mentioned ric grenell on the ground. and mike pompeo scheduled to speak. how are they being received? >> well, this is a very pro trump crowd. no doubt about that. and when you go through the convention center all you see, maga hats and signs. you're not seeing people

wearing t-shirts for other candidates they would support in 2024. the person who received the loudest applause and warm welcomeds that surprised me was texas senator ted cruz, he save a massive speech and a crowd with him. and an energetic crowd with his message. an indication of what kind of support he'll have going down the road in the next few months if not the next few years. there was talk about what happened and the trip to cancun last week, but this crowd in the ballroom was excited for him. there are conservatives, former members of congress, and people constantly on the news programs, but molly, for the most part most of the excitement certainly for president trump. >> yeah, it's fascinating to get just a glimmer, a little glimmer of what we may see here in the years to come and mark meredith, thank you for keeping an eye on it and keeping the pulse of it for us. thanks, mark. >> you bet. >> watch this administration,

look what they've done. they've reentered the who. they're going back into the paris climate treaty. they canceled the keystone xl pipeline. china is laughing all the way to the bank, my friends, as this happens. >> that was senator bill hagerty fresh off his panel at cpac an hour ago. the republican senator, member of the senate foreign relations and appropriations committee is joining us from cpac. hi, senator, how are you? >> great to be on with you, griff, doing well, thank you. griff: senator, i want to get to cpac, there's so much talk there. let me get your initial reaction, you and the senate have now been handed this $1.9 trillion covid relief bill and minimum wage increase. how do you intend to vote? >> well, i think i'm going to be joined by my republican colleagues voting against this. it's a $1.9 trillion package a lot of which nothing to do with

the pandemic. their goal is to come and jam through what is essentially a socialist wish list right through on a completely partisan basis, and i don't think they'll have a single republican vote. griff: senator, some of your own republican colleagues suggesting maybe there's a way to do a breakout, a separate thing on minimum wage increases. why say you? >> well, i don't think the minimum wage belongs there. i think the senate parliamentarian is going to take it out. what the minimum wage increase does puts states like mine, tennessee, at a disadvantage. we've got a great work force and a lower cost of living than some of the blue states that want to push this through. we don't need this at a time when small businesses, restaurants, et cetera are trying to get reopened. we're putting more and more burdens on the backs that are the engines of economic growth. i want to see the recovery. this should focus on shots in arms, getting our kids back to

school and parents back to work. griff: one last question, is it your expectation that the senate will strip the minimum wage increase and send it back to the house and there, they'll have to decide whether they'll approve that or else there's further delay? >> yeah, that's my expectation. i think it will unfold. griff: let's talk about cpac, you are there. we took a little of what you had to say on that panel. what's your message to the conservatives? >> well, the energy here, griff, is overwhelming and they're looking forward to having president trump here tomorrow. what we talked about on our panel was the great blue collar surge that occurred with our economy when president trump came into ofls. office. he stood up for the american worker. our trade policies were singled out by president trump as one of the key means to get reciprocal terms and get american workers back to work. we created over 500,000 manufacturing jobs under president trump's first term, and i want to see us continue to push those american values

forward. america first has worked for america, it needs to continue to work for america, and we will see, i think, a tremendous increase in energy as the hours mount for president trump's arrival here. griff: speaking of president trump, cpac was made famous perhaps mostly by ronald reagan's ideas the one who brought it. what do we expect from president trump tomorrow? >> i think we'll see a tremendous speech, he has the opportunity to contrast the programs that he put in place, from 2017 forward, we saw our economy resurge. again, it was a blue collar resurgence where blue collar workers had a greater increase than white collar workers, best in history for hispanic workers, black workers. i think what you'll see is a contrast between the economy and the opportunity that president trump made possible for america and the policies that president biden is putting in place right now. president biden's policies are making us weaker every day.

think of the keystone xl pipeline, we've become energy independent under president trump. strong for our economy, strong for national security. what biden is doing is blocking the keystone pipeline, blocking drilling on federal land. what does that do? it takes us less energy independent and puts us again at the whim of other countries that don't have our best interests at heart and where does the oil go from canada? it's going discounted to china, china is laughing all the way to the bank on this and other policies. griff: all right. senator, thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you, griff. great to be with you. griff: molly. >> all right, now let's bring in democratic california congressman and a member of the house financial services and foreign affairs committees, brad sherman. congressman, thank you for taking a moment out for us on this saturday afternoon. we really appreciate your time. >> thank you. i want to qualify one thing, i'm not at cpac.

>> that's true, and it's quiet, we can hear you fine. >> i want to start with the biden administration and strikes in syria. there have been a number of democratic colleagues that have come out against the strikes that were, ever course, targeting specifically iranian-backed militia efforts. these were intended know the to create a bunch much casualties, but impact infrastructure. they said they wanted to send a message. at least representative out one of your claeks says there's no authorization without imminent threat and congress authorization. and many of your colleagues share this. >> i think the vast majority of our caucus supported what president biden did, first as a legal matter. we did authorize the use of force in iraq, i was there for

that vote, others were not. when you under-respond to an attack, when you fail to respond you invite another attack. when we failed to sanction russia for what it did to our elections. we ended up with under-responding with them targeting our soldiers in afghanistan and putting bounties on their head. when iran kills or tries-- or a contractor tries to kill soldiers in iraq, we need to respond. and the response was entirely legal because we -- as people would say we should repeal it, we should modify or repeal it, but we did as a congress authorize the deployment of forces to iraq and that includes defending those forces from attack. attacks that may originate on the syrian side. >> congressman, shifting gears there in the early morning hours today, somewhere around 2:00 a.m., the covid relief bill has been put through and it's heading for the senate now at this point in time, but

there's been a lot of controversy about this. president biden speaking out just about an hour ago and talking about how this is something that americans favor and yet, here it happened in the middle of the night, early in the morning. what is in this? there's been a lot of disagreement. no republicans voted for it. two democrats voted against it and the argument is that there's simply too much pork in it, it's not targeted enough. your thoughts on the package that you've actually created that's headed to the senate now? >> well, the greatest nerve or chutzpa is when republicans say it was in the middle of the night. we were going to vote in the early evening, but they used every delay tactic to push the vote and it was indeed in the wee hours. this bill is popular with the american people, they want us to spend everything it takes for vaccination and to deal with this pandemic. they want us to extend unemployment insurance to those, no-fault of their own, are not getting a paycheck.

they want that $2,000, we gave them only $600. the other $1400 per person is in this bill. and it is the republicans who started attacking democrats saying we're trying to defund police. state and local governments spent the lion's share of its money on public safety and their revenues are down, particularly sales tax revenues, down, income tax revenues down in many states. if we don't replace that revenue, they're going to have to cut the amount they had to spend on public safety. >> congressman sherman, before i let you go, i want to talk a little about the bipartisan effort that was supposed to be happening here, a new administration coming in and yet, here we see a bill going forward that no republicans voted for it, even two democrats voted against including representative jared golden, a representative out of maine and his complaint that he raised, a democrat raising this complaint that essentially they had already passed an enormous

amount of relief that has yet to be spent. so what about that argument that just now, this is too much spending and it's not targeted enough as this heads for the senate? >> well, the have a majority of it is targeted on things that the american people understand and strongly support. deal with the virus, provide unemployment insurance, provide $1400 per person at a tough time, and aid state and local government and allow us to maintain our public safety and our schools. i think that's solid. obviously a bill this long, you can always find this or that provision that you disagree with. every bill could be made better. i haven't ever voted for a bill that was perfect, but i think that this is what the american people want. as for it not being bipartisan, we propose 1.9 trillion dollars. there's a group of 10 republican senators might have been willing to go one third that large, but they haven't said what big piece would they take out.

what they take out the rescue money we have for restaurants? would they take out the $1400? would they take out the unemployment insurance? >> it will be interesting to see what happens and what ultimately goes down at the senate and what you guys get back when it returns. representative sherman thank you for joining us and thanks for your insights. >> good to be with you, molly. griff: biden's administration agenda is looking at growing amount of children crossing the southern border. >>. >> u.s. border agents are concerned about what they call a crisis on the southern border at mexico. a high number of awn accompanied children. they're handling the surge. they estimate 13,000 unaccompanied minors will arrive at the border by may. the number of children coming to the u.s. is projected to skyrocket the next three months. this video from el paso, texas

shows the protocols put in place to handle the influx of migrants and president biden was asked about another tent city put up at the mexican border. >> there are thousands of unaccompanied children coming to across the border. texas put up one in the last administration. our hope and expectation is that that won't stay up very long that we'll provide for every kid who comes across the border safely to be housed in a facility that's licensed. >> u.s. customs confirmed the tent cities are coming soon. since april 2020, cdp has seen more brought on by the pandemic and natural disaster. as they work to build facilities for safe processing, temporary soft-sided facilities

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the country. she says years ago cuomo kissed her without consent and asked her to play strip poker, allegations he denies. calls for an investigation from majority leader schumer, alexandria ocasio-cortez, kristen gillibrand. and cuomo faces continued criticism over nursing homes. and angered how he handled the outbreak. one of those who died in their care. >> and this was and terrible for my family. she raised eight kids. she didn't deserve this, nobody should die alone like this. >> republican state legislators in michigan are looking at how governor gretchen whitmer handled the outbreak, calling for a potential investigation of their own. new york has the highest death toll of nursing homes in any state in the country.

now, a letter from five ceo's and new york hospitals are coming to the aid of governor andrew cuomo saying these policies at the beginning. pandemic were really proper practical protocol they would take sending parents back to nursing homes and policies at the beginning of the pandemic. molly. molly: he'll be facing a lot of tough questions in the months and weeks ahead. griff, now to you. griff thanks, more on this and her personal story, fox's meteorologist janice dean joins me now. janice, you have an exciting new book coming out and first, you heard alex's report. you have courageously and tirelessly been pursuing justice for thousands of families just like yours for justice when it comes to governor cuomo. tell us where the latest is. where do things stand? >> well, i think we're seeing a

money trail and that's why we need an independent, bipartisan investigation with subpoena power to get answers not just from hospital lobbyists that are defending governor cuomo's decision to put over 9,000 covid positive patients into nursing homes, but from real people like us who have had family members that we lost and had no idea there was a march order in place. griff: we saw you out on the streets protesters. tell us what you were doing. >> i was with assemblyman ron kim, a democrat from flushing queens who has a relative in the nursing home and he also wants an investigation and he's gathering evidence against this governor that could be criminal. so, we need lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to come together and for the sake of all of the families, want answers just like all of us.

griff: and do you think that you'll ultimately get them? will there be an investigation? will the families just like yours get the answers they deserve? >> i hope so. there is an ongoing investigation, a federal investigation that is happening right now in the state of new york, and the fbi are also involved. there's also a doj investigation that has been in place for many months. so i'm hoping that the biden administration continues that doj investigation. griff: well, we'll be following it and thanks to you and your efforts, we get a front row seat i want to turn though to something a little brighter, no pun intended. that is your latest book "make your own sunshine" it's amazing. i sat down last night when i got it, your publisher sent it to me and took just one chapter to get quickly into some tears and that's this chapter that you wrote about the napkin notes dad. why did you write this book? tell me about the napkin notes

dad. >> well, i started writing this book before the pandemic, but i wrote most of it during the pandemic and i will tell you, it got me through a very dark time with my husband losing his parents, just writing these stories, talking to these wonderfully kind people, garth callaghan is one of the great stories, the napkin notes dad who wrote napkin notes for his daughter emma when she was younger and continued writing those notes even though he was diagnosed with cancer. he wrote hundreds of them because he thought he might die of cancer and he wanted to ensure that his daughter emma had those notes even long after he was gone. the good news of the story is he's still with us, he's doing well, and the story will bring you to. griff: in the time we've got left, i read in your book you had a rule no celebrities, but yet, when it came to tim thibeault you couldn't hold that rule and you had to talk about tim thibeault, why? >> tim thibeault is the real

deal. obviously we know him as a heisman trophy winner and he was playing baseball for a time as well, he's someone who cares about human beings and his tim thibeault foundation does so much for children and families and i'm not going to give away too much, but you must read about tim thibeault the humanitarian, his story will bring you to tears, but happy tears and about sunshine. griff: indeed. and it comes at the end of the book, "make your own sunshine", i would recommend that everybody get a copy. one you'll keep for a long time and a little bit of the chicken soup for the soul sort of vibe. well done, janice dean. we'll talk about you and your fight with governor andrew cuomo. janice dean, thank you very much. >> thank you, my friend. griff: molly. molly: police are searching for the suspects who shot lady gaga's dog walker and ordered

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>> police on the hunt for the suspects who took lady gaga's dogs and shoot her dog walker. and there's a little bit of good news. christina coleman is from los angeles with great news. >> great news for the singer, the dogs are safe and unharmed. the woman brought the dogs to a police station northwest of l.a. last night. the woman appears to be uninvolved and unaffiliated with the theft. this after millions of people got a good look at the dogs koji and gustav. she's in rome working, but didn't stop her from posting their pictures when they were

stolen. she offered $500,000 for the return of them no questions asked. frenchies are a popular breed a target for thieves. long time family friend ryan fisher was walking the mega-stars three french bul bulldogs in a neighborhood in hollywood when the two men pulled up and attacked him. [screams] [gunshot] >> the suspects struggled with fisher before one shot him in the chest and took off with two of the three dogs and his family says he's expected to make a full recovery and lady gaga posted i continue to love you, ryan fisher. you continued to fight for our family and you're a hero. fisher is said to be in stable

condition and officials are searching for the suspects behind the attack. molly. molly: we hope they get them as quickly as possible, we do not need dog snatchers on the streets, particularly ones who are violent. thank you for that report. we appreciate it. griff: liberals need a stand your ground law, for cancel culture, so that when the woke mob comes after you for some ridiculous offense you'll stand your ground, stop apologizing, because i can't keep up anymore who is on the (bleep) list. cancel culture is real, it's insane and growing exponentially. >> that's bill maher taking on cancel culture in america and it's a usual talked on both sides of the political spectrum. cpac's theme. the contributor and host of the

next revolution, steve, thank you for being here. i can't believe every now and then bill maher says something that shocks us on friday night. what do you make of what he's saying? >> well, he's exactly right. i agree with you. he's often a voice of reason on the left and that's great to see. i mean, look, before we start any conversation about this, you know, we've got to acknowledge the driving motivation behind a lot of the campaigning we see is something that's real, which is racial injustice. there is racial injustice in america. we've got to constantly fight it, but remember the answers to it are often conservative solutions like stronger families and school choice, but what you're seeing driving the cancel culture is not anti-racism, it's not a fight for racial justice, it's actually more like mccarthyism. it's seeing racism in everywhere in everyone and it's completely divisive, it is itself racist and we have to stand up to it and fight it. not just as bill maher is doing

on tv there, helpful and encouraging to everyone who wants to resist it. this is happening everywhere now. you're seeing it not just in academia where it started in the school system, you're seeing it in corporate america, of course, on social media. it is everywhere. it is un-american, and divisive and we have to fight back. griff: you mentioned academia. there was a story in the new york times about smith college this past week, not sure if you saw it, but ultimately, it was a case that the student, the african-american student that was claiming a lot of terrible things happened to her, turned out the investigation with the law firm hired by the school proved none of that was true, but yet, the school continued to pursue, to be more woke, if you will. >> it was totally disgusting because what it did, is again, something that's so un-american. it completely removed the presumption of innocence. it completely accepted this one person's account of what happened and when you had the

other people lining up and saying, no, that's not what happened, there was no racist intent here, we were doing our jobs in the normal manner. by the way, these were custodians and security office people far less privilege than the person making the accusation and yet, the school there on that occasion completely accepted the fake story. and that's what is so troubling about all of this is that this narrative of racism everywhere has completely taken over the most powerful part of our country, academia, corporate america, the people with the real levers of power are now pushing this narrative. it's so destructive. griff: you mentioned corporate america. you've been talking a lot about biden and corporate america's woke agenda. and let's show our viewers just in the last fourth quarter you talked about apple's profits reaching over $100 billion, up 57% because of their sales to china. what he is going on? >> well, you see this is what

is so infuriating what's going on in corporate america right now. they lecture everyone here with their kind of woke slogans and trying to parade themselves with this endless virtual signaling about social justice and environmental concern and whatever it may be here at home in america. meanwhile, in the rest of the world, they're sucking up like apple is, to the most brutal authoritarian regime in the world, the chinese regime. they're making money by being complicit in genocide in china. they're literally making money from the slave labor in the uyghur concentration camps and come back to washington d.c. to pay lobbyists to be allowed to continue to do it. it is such hypocrisy. >> we're just out of time, steve. i'm going to tune in with my popcorn top to the next revolution because you have an interview with former president donald trump after his cpac

speech. a quick preview, what will you ask had i am? >> look, i'm able going to ask him what he says in the speech and we'll continue that conversation. i'm particularly interested in looking ahead to the future, what role he thinks he can play and his agenda can play in the future of the republican party. i think it will be a great conversation. griff: steve hilton, the next revolution. tune in, thanks, steve. >> thanks, griff. griff: molly. molly: more than a week after a severe winter storm wreaks half vac on the south, mississippi's largest city is working to secure enough water for their residents. the state's governor joins me to discuss the response to the water crisis coming up. but not every tomato ends in the same kind of heinz ketchup. because you can't be everyone's favorite ketchup without making a ketchup for everyone. ordinary tissues burn when theo blows. so dad bought puffs plus lotion, everyone's favorite ketchup

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>> mississippi is dealing with the effects from last week's winter storm that crippled much of the south. one of the cities hardest hit was jackson where people have been facing shortages of clean drinking water. joining us now how the state is responding to this water crisis

and the overall challenges is mississippi republican governor tate reeves. you've got good weather right now and it's been very, very rough recently and with texas, got so many big headlines, to hear about how things are going in mississippi and how the recovery is going, how challenging is it? >> well, thanks for having me on, molly. it's been a very difficult time. obviously, we went 96 straight hours in mississippi with temperatures that never rose above freezing. now, our friends in north dakota and other places across the country may be used to that, but we're not in the south and it wreaking havoc on our infrastructure, we had a lot of freezing rain, a lot of sleet and a little bit of snow and because of that it created some real challenges with the infrastructure, not only on our roads and bridges and to get around and the pipes underneath the ground and there's no doubt that the water system in a

number of cities, but particularly here in the capital city of downtown jackson, due in large part to many, many years of ignoring the challenges really broke at the seams and we're trying hard to get that back operating and functional and it's certainly proven to be challenging. molly: yeah, well there's been a little bit of political back and forth that does happen in the wake of any big weather challenges that happen between the mayor's office and the governor's office that are challenging. the mayor agreed with one of the points you made now. saying this, the challenges with infrastructure are more significant than they've ever been. that's because we have an aging city not only do we have more street issues and concern in terms of our roads, but we have pipes that are described as peanut brittle. setting politics aside from any people that are in charge between cities and state government, you know, how do you solve the problem for the people of jackson? >> well, and i think that's the key point that you made there

at the end and that's what i've said from the beginning. there'll be time to play politics and i will tell you the politics is much nastier between the city council and the mayor than it is between the governor and we need to set politics aside and get things to the people of jackson. immediately upon request i immediately activated the mississippi national guard. we moved that in to get the water pressure up and in addition we delivered hundreds of thousands of bottles of water to the citizens of jackson and we're seeing real process and that's important. you're exactly right, everybody wants to blame somebody. the fact of the matter is we need to focus on getting things to the citizens that need it and we'll worry about the blame

came out in the future. molly: one more topic before we have to go. the incoming biden administration has significant shifts, including a ban on oil and gas development on federal lands and off-shore waters. there are communities across the country dealing with these as far as energy policy is concerned. you've joined 16 other governors sending a letter to president biden raising some of your concerns. how concerned are you for the policies and what it could mean for the people of your state and the jobs in your state? >> i'm extremely concerned about many of the policies of the biden administration and energy policy is near the top of the list. let's be realistic, we were on the path to energy independence in the trump administration. in my state i have tens of thousands of mississippians that work off shore and on pipelines, they make high wages and do very, very well.

by one stroke of the pen president biden killed 1.4 million american jobs just with respect to the pipeline. the fact of the matter is prices are going up at the pump and-- . governor reeves, we're running out of time and coming up against a hard break, but thank you for your insights. governor tate reeves. we'll be right back. e martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to

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>> the life of captain tom moore the u.k. world war ii vet who helped millions during the pandemic is being remembered today. kitty logan is live in london with more. hi, kitty. >> hi, griff. of course, captain moore led a very public life in his final year, but this is a private ceremony for family only. he died on february 2nd this year after testing positive for the coronavirus. his funeral took place north of london and the coffin was covered by a union jack flag and he was honored with soldiers and a fly past. he was a military veteran served in the second world war. he walked around his garden a hundred times during the first part of the pandemic and raised 46 million for the charities here in the u.k. and his determination captured

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and david spunt where president biden will speak and begin with david in delaware. hi, david. >> pment stayed at the white house to watch that street in the house that went incredibly late actually just a little bit after 2 a.m. president biden now towght that the bill is on its way to the senate. >> we have no time to waste if we act now, decisively quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus. we can finally get our economy moving again. >> griff the final vote 219-112 no republicans voting to back this package and two cross party lines to vote with republicans know on nearly $2 trillion plan which increases testing, helps with ppe, school funding food assistance, rental assistance, child care assistance and stimulus checks. the two in thes i mention vote against the plan golden from

maine and kurt from oregon. senate majority mitch mcconnell out with a statement in the middle of the night after republicans led five bipartisan bills last year democrats have chosen polar opposite when senate republicans went to the white house to suggest cooperation president biden team said no thanks well this bill covers just about everything democrats wanted. it does not allow that $15 minimum wage proposal to go through to the senate. the reason the senate parliamentarian ruled that that wage proposal cannot go into the package say welcome that it is against the rules of the senate. the white house putting out a statement expressing some displeasure with that senate parliamentarian but ultimately the parliamentarian has final say, doesn't mean that president biden and company won't try again for that $15 minimum wage some time in the future. griff. >> and interesting week in washington with that covid relief bill david spunt in washington thank you molly.

molly: day three of cpac underway former president trump set to address the crowd there that's tomorrow. mark mer dieted is live on the ground he's been watching all as it unfolds. mark to you. reporter: molly we have we expect to be dominated by trump when you go around this hotel his supporters are everywhere and seen some of them line up hotel in anticipation when he'll be speaking and in 30 minutes hear it from mike pompeo former secretary of state and number of former of the trump administration and vocal supporters like devin nunes spoke about what david was talking about that opposition to that american rescue plan passed by the house overnight. >> what people have to understand, this is, this bill that they passed that, you know, $2 trillion bill, this is about it is a slush fund. and these guys are very predictable. they ram this play call before. people may forget. but when obama it was first

elected back in 2009, what did they say? we have to have a surplus bill or economy will collapse. >> now trump is expected to be the last speaker at cpac tomorrow and not declare his candidacy for 2024 but direct, a desire to be several administer staffers talking what about this speech could mean for him as they look to the future and back on trump legacy. >> president trump is going outline a bold optimistic vision for the future of the gop. to midterm to be take back the white house in four years. reporter: now to give you an idea of what the reception the former president will get in convention center hallway and it is a -- very large statue of donald trump you can see there. he's in a suit as well as an american flag with shorts group of those coming up with this second time they've done a statue like this and certainly

has been getting a lot of attention and people posing with statue but ting gives us a better idea of the kind of crowd that's here at cpac and also expected to hear from house minority lead for kevin mccarthy and he's somebody that has certain been a long time trump ally but there have been questions about how the relationship is between the two men. since the capitol riots and what that could mean as the republicans look to decide which candidate worth going forward whether they need mccarthy or trump back and say what molly a lot of people eager to hear from former president including the people who made that sculpture. molly. molly: insight into who is in that crowd mark meredith joining us now american conservative union chair matt. thank you so much for taking a few minutes out. i know you must be very, very busy down there you've got all of these speakers lined up and warm reception from not --

from not only from some of those that were also in the trump administration. and served under the former president as well. i just topght get your thoughts kind of a sense, vibe for how warmly received the former president will be when he speaks tomorrow. >> i think the fact that twitter and facebook and other social media companies and media companies have tried to say that it is inappropriate for donald trump to have a voice or a future in politics has really bonded him even more to his supporters, and to conservatives including conservative who is didn't necessarily know if he was going to be a conservative president after four years it was like eight years of accomplishment smashed into four years they're hungry to hear from trump and big question is what's he got to ?ai say? >> certainly we have insight into what potentially the president may say john roberts gave us scourses that gave him

some idea you mention big tech i guess there's some expectation that the former president will go after big tech. but also on the agenda, talking about fellow republicans. those perhaps that have not been favorable to him and recent weeks you expect the former president to call out current republican leadership and do you think that that is good or bad for the republican party because some have talked about the gop as in, as if it is a civil war. your thoughtings. >> yeah civil war something kind of ridiculous i think, i think it is better when politicians are honest. and i think we've heard from some republicans to never republican like donald trump that much, they were with him while he was president. when he's not president, they decided to say look, i don't think he should play a role anymore. but that's honesty. i think donald trump should come to cpac spag and be equally honest. it is time to settle some scores he hasn't -- been as -- present in our life on twitter and on our tv as he was for five

years but i do think he ought to spend lion share of this precious time he's got talking about this coalition. he built the coalition. it was a movement unlike i've never seen in politics, and the elephant is apartment of that movement but it is not necessarily even the bigs apartment of that movement. all of these independent voices a lot of conservative who is aren't necessarily registered republicans, and we've got a march in coalition to defeat radical socialist policies that are coming our way he's got a unique opportunity to tell us how we win on policies how we take back house and senate and push our agenda. molly: i think you touched on something where i was going to go necks is what does trump mean over the necks two years heading into midterms over next four years heading into another presidential election, who will the president who will the former president be to the republican party and the coming years? you know, there's that potential, will he run again or will he be in essence, you know, a king maker or has his power

been diminished is this settling scores -- something that will harm the republican party? where do you see former president influence going in the years ahead? >> the reason why donald trump cast of the spirit of the overwhelming majority of republicans added new people is because he tells it like it is. he doesn't sugar coat it and it was so unusual in politics been few whole question about what his role is going forward -- put the shoe on the other foot. what's barack obama's role for the democratic party? there's no question he's the most important voice. his wife is probably the second most important voice. the clintons have been -- very powerful voices when the democratic party what happened on the republican side is when our president was so destroyed in the national media by time they were done with their presidency they wanted to get off the stage. the difference with donald trump is i don't know if he's going to run for president again. but he very may well. he is going to stay enganged much like clinton and obama did.

i think it is good for our republican effort for our conservative effort, and i think it is strange that reporters are so surprised that he would stay engage democrat presidents always stay engaged. >> matt thank you so much. for your insights we appreciate it. ofng the president speaking tomorrow night the big headliner this have event no doubt, whether a republican agrees or disagree with him i think there will be a lot of people turning in to see what he has to say. matt thank you so much. have a wonderful rest of your weekend if you're event continues and to wrap up. thank you. >> you as well. griff. >> a surge of underage migrants crossing into our country lewis kas tomlinson live with how they plan to respond. >> jen asked how the administration was handling this surge of children showing up at southern border without their parents. >> we have a number of unaccompanied minors, children who were coming into the country without their families.

what we're not doing qhat last administration did, was separate those kids, rip them from arms of their parents at the border we are not doing that that is immoral and not the approach of this administration. >> border officials estimate 13,000 unaccompany minors arrive at southern border by may and number of children come to u.s. is projected to skyrocket over next three monthings. this video from el paso texas shows protocols that have been put in place to handle the inflongs of migrants president biden asked about report in "the washington post" and another tent city week into roe owe texas next to border. >> right now the thousand unaccompany children coming across border. texas they opened up one. one that was a former of one used in the -- administration. the last administration. our hope and expectation is that won't stay open very long that will be able to provide for every kid who comes across the border to be housed in a

facility that's licensed. >> u.s. custom customer more tent cities are coming since april since an increase in western due to worsening economic conditions. brought on by the covid-19 pandemic and natural disasters. as we work to build and improve permanent facilities for the safe and orderly processing of individuals of the border temporary soflt sight facilities are sometimes necessary. with the government calls it outside we know them as tent cities at the border and more are coming next few weeks. griff molly. >> lucas tomlinson in washington, thank you joining us now to discuss it is former custom border correction commissioner mark morgan thank you for talking you heard lucas talking ab new tent facility put in eagle path viewers may recall i traveled 7,000 miles from san pedro to honduras to immediately on other side of the border from eagle pass. clearly, they know a big surge

is coming perhaps one we haven't seen. the likes of yet -- >> yeah griff, absolutely right. there's so much to unpack there. first let's talk about this hypocrisy with the facilities. now remember, i was there in 14 and 15 i was there into the trump administration, and look the same facilities that now being built are being called humane and necessary. are the same exact facilities that were built under the trump administration, and the seam exact facilityings that were utilized under obama and then vice president biden administration. but depending you're a republican, they were immoral hue mane if you're democrat they're necessary effective and safe. it is just political hypocrisy look if people keep asking me what's going to happen i keep telling -- it is important -- you alluded to and january, 70,000 and it can going to be well over 80,000 and right now they're looking to 4,000 a day people pranged try towing legally the crisis is here it is because of biden open border policies. >> i want to join immediately or

more specifically into the unaccompanied children coming. we could see as many as 9,000 in february. sources tell fox news, so why is it that these children are coming on this dangerous trek. and appreciate it it is a danger threat. look it is to say and this happened because of covid and natural disasters that is pure political spin now we know worsening economic to drug drive illegal immigration but if they can they're not getting in those numbers will still come down. these numbers are crisis level numbers. we're looking again over 4,000 a day. are here for one reason and one reason only. the message is clear. biden is resendinged every effective policy to deal with the illegal migration our borders are open. that is what is driving numbers as you said, 9,000 unaccompany minor single day 450 a day that is a crisis that is already here. >> so what do they do mark how does this administration tack it will and what are you hearing in

terms of how they're going respond? >> they don't want to tackle it. that's what we're not talking about. this is what they want. we are now seeing united states government shepherd in a new era encouraging facilitating, illegals. illegal immigration. and that's what they want and now scramble around doing everything they can to make sure that they release people that have entered illegally as fast as they can. and then they're making sure that i.c.e. removing all isis enforcement authorities to actually remove them lawfully when they're order removal. this is intengt this is what they want and it is happening right now. griff. >> and the threat that this poses -- is not just isolated to our southern borders that correct? >> that's right. it is happening everywhere. obviously, the majority illegal immigration and southern border will you look this is not just about illegal immigration as well. it is about the resources that have take to deal with illegal immigration. we're already getting reports now that -- that in custom border protection

are going to have to pull resources of national security mission, to deal now with a illegal immigration numbers that biden administration is caused. it is circular keeps going on. this is insanity. we've been down this road before. this administration know it is, and they're absolutely encouraging facilitating this same thing that we saw in 2019. >> lastly in time we have remaining you mention politic now i want to ask you if biden has a problem alexandria cortez saying never will be okay no matter the administration, or party talking about the new facilities being opened. what do you say? >> yeah. well aoc says griff is no moment to me she's saying for the american people border patrol forcing migrants straight from toilets she lies to american people and called her on and continue to lie what she has and thinks is no moment to me and is

irrelevant. >> former commissioner, acting commissioner mark morgan thanks for taking time today we look forward on this story it is a growing one. thank you, sir. >> you bet. >> molly. molly: all right schools are slowly reopening but debate over how and when that rages on. we're on this, up next. ♪ hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play ♪ ♪ hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid ♪ ♪ and all that glitters is gold ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. ♪♪♪ it's velveeta versus the other guys. clearly, nothing melts like velveeta. ♪♪♪ dry, distressed skin that struggles? new aveeno® restorative skin therapy. with our highest concentration of prebiotic oat

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molly: schools across u.s. are slowly bringing children back into the classroom for in person learning. but many parents are being dissatisfied since school officials put in place joining us now is marjorie, she's one of the leaders of together again, and cps now that is a parent led volunteer organization and montgomery county maryland perhaps harder job, that she has is that she's a mother of four. and it is also worth noting marjorie that you have a science background as well. so thank you so very much for sharing your story with us. i know it is a little challenging now you have a lot of other thing to handle so we appreciate you giving us a few minutes of your time. just right now, your personal experience four kids, you know, that's a challenge into itself then you want to ensure they get a education where do things stand right now in montgomery, county? >> montgomery county is outlier

as state providing least in person instruction to their public school students. you know govan hogan back in january, did tell all of his school districts to reopen by march 1st many of his districts are doing that they have plan miss of them have already phased in some students. montgomery county, though, is -- only bringing back 700 students on gnar 1st. out of 160,000 students, so they're really making a bare minimum effort and they're phasing their students in over two months whereas you know, many of the other districts are phasing in over two weeks. some of the kids coming in at very end are coming in in may and only going to get a couple of days of live instruction there's really no urgency on behalf of mcp cringes to get kids back into the classroom it is a real tragedy. >> i want to get in that you are an infectious disease expert so immunologist so deep background

and perhaps greater unctioning than even average person has. would you make the argument as so many governors and some health officials the cdc said it is not necessary for teachers to get the covid vaccine before schools reopen? is part of your frustration with the argument that you believe it is safe for schools to reopen -- and yet there's this long stall towards opening stores. >> yeah. like most -- people in the scientific community and in september we were very hesitant you know respiratory virus in a school can be pretty disastrous. but i think at this point there's been so much data showing that with very basic precautions in place, schools can be open safely. and there's many, many studies from around world showing that it is possible, and yeah. i mean, we have to when we talk about vaccines we kind of have to tack a step back look at the data that we have. you know, with all of the studies that we have showing that schools can reopen safely. they've all done, all been

prevaccination. so we know that vaccination is not needed to reopen our schools and frankly, waiting for all staff to be haven'ted just does not address the urgency of the situation. you know, virtual learning has been a disaster. this should be treated as a national emergency, we should be doing everything that we can to open our doors immediately. and waiting for -- teachers to be vaccinated it is not needed and you know we need to just get kids back into the classrooms as soon as we can. >> there's been a lot of focus recently on the mental health of children, and also this societal benefits of them able to go there and socialization all of that, but unof the things i think a lot of parents might be age to relate to you about is you look at a town over a next state over in west virginia they have 18 counties with five day a week learning. 23 with four day a week. and -- some with 14 counties or so with blended cohorts or what we're seeing in a lot of communities.

all across the country, where a group goes one week another group goes next or split it up monday, tuesday, thursday cleaning day on wednesday. so it really differs when you just look around a little bit is that part of the frustration where you can see nearby that there's another school that -- that kids are already in class. >> it's incredibly frustrating. you know, this our group formed because we were seeing the data we were seeing schools can be reopened safely and we were seeing schools around us open. you know, maryland private schools have been open since the start five days week. you know, again in september, we were all kind of nervous what was going to happen but at this point it is very -- it is ridiculous that schools are not ohm at this point and this is really falling at the feet of our local leaders. you know, there's a lot of fear in the community. there's a lot of -- you know, unrealistic views of the risks of reopening schools. and our local leaders are not doing anything to those fears. you know, and area where is

schools have opened, the parents have demanded that the schools opened and they've had strong leaders working with the parents and teachers, to forge a path to reopen. in our area and montgomery county probably many other counties that are experiencing similar problems, they do not have strong leaders. they have weak ladiers and leaders that dot not want to buck teachers union and they have leaders that are developing policies that are based on -- you know, fear and anxiety over fact. they do not have our children's best interest at heart if they did they would be fighting alongside us to reopen our schools. and sadly, they're not so the parents and a lot of these counties such as mine are the parents are left to fight this battle on their own. >> this is very challenging and it is spring mow, and there are concerns already raised about the fall so we'll see what happens in the coming months. marjorie thank you so much for sharing your story i know there are a lot of other parents out there that feel the same sort of frustration so we appreciate you share a little bit of your voice

with us today. marjorie, thank you. >> thanks for having me. griff: other news -- i jumped again there i apologize. all right fda excited to authorize a third covid-19 vaccine as soon as today. this after a panel recommends approval of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine charles watson is live in atlanta with the latest. hi, charles. >> hey, good afternoon griff a meeting to authorization johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccine, is reportedly expected some time today. if it gets to final go ahead for emergency use, as many as 4 million doses could be shipped out to states as early as monday. puttings the third vaccine in the fight against covid-19. >> what this means from the data we looked at that we have three highly effective vaccines. importantly, each of them are very erktive against the disease and virtually all of them say that you look at the data and it

is clear that you get essentially no hospitalizations or deaths. >> now clinical trial shows johnson & johnson recognize is about 72% effective in the u.s., and 86% effective against severe cases of covid-19 in this state. vaccine doesn't offer quite as much protection as pfizer and moderna more than 90% effective but unlike competitors john son and johnson requires one shot and can be stored at much lower door warmer temperatures and as vaccine production ramps up johnson and johnson says expect to have 20 million doses available i the end of march and 100 million by july. the biden administration say, we could have enough doses for every american by august. >> averaging 15 million doses a week. and come mid-march, maybe about 21 march we'll be shipping as much as 30 million doses.

>> griff, was it johnson & johnson with emergency use authorization public health officials are not only hoping that a third vaccine on market will help speed up vaccination efforts but will put the u.s. in the good position to fight back against these emerging variants that have popped up across the country. griff. >> that would be good news indeed charles watson in thrapght. molly. >> all right day three of cpac we're continuing to bring you live coverage. secretary of state mike pompeo is on deck he's set to speak -- and we'll, of course, take you there to the stage in orlando when he steps up on. stay with us.

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from former secretary of state mike pompeo. that will come any minute and we will bring you to it, but for right now let's turn to our political panel to get an idea of what we may hear joining us constitutional law attorney kings college smith and democratic strategist laura, mark laura thanks for being here mark i'll start with you. what are we going to hear from president trump tomorrow at cpac that's the speech everyone is really looking forward to. >> i think, griff we're going to hear the summary of cpac which is that trumpism the view that donald trump the agenda of donald trump we saw in last four years is going to continue to be the life blood of the republican party going forward. certainly speeching up to now at cpac are consistent with that message and by the way when i mean trumpism i mean lower taxes, america first, proconstitutional rights and clearing rights to bear arms as well as right to free speech and the understanding of the most important welfare program in america is called creating jobs.

which president trump did a great job on for four years. >> laura i've seen cpac referred to as tpac in some writerrings because of trump influence. what do you say about really the former president's grasp on gop and what's it going to mean for the future? >> trump owns the gop for better or worse for republican future. right now republicans are facing an identity crisis because there are those that would like to break away from trumpism which my colleague defined but i think is really just defined by personality of donald trump. and so that fear, fear of their own voters allegiance to trump in the republican party, and fear of the ground swell of progressive voters of voters of color, of women, and of suburban voters who have abandoned the republican party, is really driving the republican agenda. i think if they step out of fear, they're probably going to have better long-term prospects because this strategy is a short-term gain only. griff: not all republicans we

saw congresswoman liz cheney number three, leader in the republican house there mark, what does it mean for bode for people like cheney or -- take mitt romney, for example. >> well, i think at the end of the date republican party is really a party of big ten we become debate and different ideas but at the end of the day reality is that the views of donald trump and the agenda of donald trump not just man but stood for is prief lent view of the republican party now and going for the and if you look at the results from the november election, it is at the state level republicans did extremely well by controlling not losing single legislature and any state house it is very powerful evidence that the message of donald trump resonated up and down the line. and i don't think that's going anywhere, and i think the best proof -- being in the pudding right now is the message it is that we're seeing from the speakers at cpac and very consistent with the

view points of donald trump. which really did expand the republican base. to include many blue collar workers and union workers and people historically viewed as democratic voters. but i think that there's now a seismic shift in the demographic towards republicans and donald trump is big part that have. >> indeed but laura mark mention big tent in the gop in the speeches we've seen so far we've seen a lot of inciting really violence if you will attacking the more moderate wing people that are not aligned with former president trump. >> it is very true, and liz chane any cheney was allowed toe in the tent but going to be primaried and that does benefit democrats. when you see this crisis in within the republican party, where they don't know where they want to go, and the personality driving remember, the republican platform is trump. everything begins and ends with

trump. that means someone filling his shoes to try to keep that energy and enthusiasm is a long shot and we see candidates yesterday not resonating really with the cpac audience and then there's all of those swing voters that republicans have alienated that i think people like liz cheney would like get back in polls. griff: live there at the stage getting set mike pompeo coming up mark let me ask you quickly. what does pompeo have to do in his remarks to both support former president trump but and this also perhaps open a lane for his political future. >> i think mike pompeo is next for foreign affairs since he was donald trump's secretary of state so, obviously, his is on foreign affairs which means what i would predict is a strong discussion of america first and the policies. i think in some ways you may even see a strong discussion of the successes of the trump administration in middle east

we're not only did they start -- any new wars they actually engage in create peace process and peace -- success is so much so that donald trump himself has been nominated for multiple noble peace prizes which says quite a bit about the success and outcome of this administration. and i think you'll see mike pompeo talk a lot about foreign policy successes especially in middle east remind people at the end of the day u.s. government as it should be about protecting americans first. and not our overseas friends at the i end of the day american government is elected by americans those interest should come first i think mike pompeo will hit that point hard. >> find out any moment now and bring it to you quickly let me ask you can pomp your oh nicky haley broke from trump here in comments can they really -- graduate and move on from president trump? >> the question is does trurp stand up or step down and until he commits to not running they

don't have a chance. neither does any republican because of trump's strangle hold on the party. that said, does mike pompeo or nicky haley have an opening i think they do if he decides to stand down but thref to thread that needle of not abandoning allegiance to trump and trump loyalty while trying to carve out a different path. that's a very difficult two step for any republican. griff: mark you made a really good point which was that it is the message in the america first agenda that really aligned people in the gop more so than president trump's personality which some critics have called a cult and we're watching the lights come on here by the way any moment and we will bring you pompeo the moment he comes up to speak because how do you separate yourself mark if you're going make yourself independent of president trump but align with the same algd? >> i don't think it is really difficult at the end of the day republican was a center right party the only reason why i think republican party looks a

little bit more to the right than they have historically has nothing to do with agenda of the republican party but everything to do with radicalize left wing agenda of the democrats and embrace sod by comparison what you see is the republicans look more conservative not because the change their view or agenda view since ronald reagan but left and democrats have actually shifted so far so the progressive wing of that party, that actually the republicans look more conservative by comparison than they have historically but donald trump stands for a center right american political view point and america first view point again also a center right view point, and i think nothing is really changed other than the democrats have become more radicalize moved to the left and that's really where the distinction and americans have recognized that and recognize is now if you look at how biden administration is governorring in the first, you know, month or so. >> well let's bring in the -- biden administration because

you're seeing already with both immigration and in the case of the covid bill that passed minimum wage issue, progressives having a division within the democrat party from the more moderate centrist members laura what's going on? >> well i don't know that there's that much division when we saw just two democrats defecting from the passage of the 1.9 trillion stimulus last night. this is a stimulus that is widely, widely endorsed by the american people including a majority up to 60% of republicans. so they about abandonment of bipartisanship by the republicans and not signing on to $1400 checks landing in pockets of americans who need them extending unemployment is a real problem. you do see actually unity on these big issues on the democratic side. griff: wait a minute laura so we have alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeting saying they're lucky we didn't ask for $25 an hour 25 is a good deal so the progressives

are clearly upset that the senate ruled to strip no wage out. now what they send back the senate that is to the house and they vote on, may not include anything to do with any minimum wage and only takes five democrats to sink this bill that would hand president biden his first legislative major legislative loss is it really -- the -- proof in the pudding what the house does with the final version, no? >> house is that most of the majority of democrats in the slows committed to passing this with or without the minimum wage. the minimum wage, of course, incredibly important not just to democrats -- and -- ♪ ♪ >> i have to leave it right there we see former secretary of state mike pompeo who is coming out actually someone is introducing him. i apologize. coming up, but folks on their feet there in cpac, and as he gets to be introduced here we are going to let you hear from

his son nick pompeo we're actually not going to listen to that just yet touching to have your son introduce you there. certainly a proud moment for mike pompeo, the citizen now, and the former secretary of state, and we will be fascinated to hear what he has to say. will it be as mark smith says much to do about foreign policy and will he perhaps carve a political lane looking ahead for himself in this future? i want to bring in my colleague, molly line right now, molly you heard that conversation i had with the political panel talking about really -- the direction of the gop, and what we're hearing from the speakers here on cpac. what do you think we hear from pompeo? molly: well, interesting enough that the title of his address today expected to be at the conference is how the bill of rightings inspires us at home and across the world. and of course it would be no surprise if former secretary of state touches a lot about on -- on foreign policy that, of

course, is specialty something he's been driving home even in the recent weeks writing on in wall street journal in regards to china reckless labs putting world at risk not exactly breaking new information. but just standing very strong from where he is looking at holding other countries accountable for actions that they take, and taking a very strong proamerica, foreign policy stance. as we look and we wait to hear what he has to say. you know those will be the types of thing things that we're likely to hear from him and laura raised a good poangt when she talked about whether or not he can -- even lean towards implying some sort of presidential interest or presidential run may very well depending on what happens with president trump. of course, the headliner of this entire cpac event so it is pretty unlikely that the former secretary of state would do anything to stop them on toes of the former president as he steps up to the podium today before the crowd is expected to be very

friendly to him as former member of the trump administration but it will be fascinating to see what he has to say, and how he talks about what this all means for the conservative movement going forward. i wouldn't be surprised if we hear a little bit about contrast with the biden administration. and what has been happening now, even in just very beginning in a biden administration but there's -- plenty of contrast already to be drawn and here we go let's take look back at the stage as we expect there he is. there is the man that we've been waiting to hear speak and hug to his son there, former secretary of state, mike pompeo. take listen he's enjoying not unexpected friendly welcome there at this conference. ♪ ♪ [applause] >> thank you for that warm greeting. it is always a blessing and a little bit unnerving to have

your son at the podium. look, i look out here and i see you all. i feel really at home. and thank you for that. [applause] last year, last year i came here as america 70th secretary of state trump's secretary of state, and before that, and before that i was here as a member of congress from south central kansas, yeah go kansas. [applause] but this is different. time is different in the last few months we've been called clowns, deplorables and ignorant red necks, we've been called evil resistance "new york times" thinks i'm worst secretary of state of all time. yeah. yeah. since i last saw you chinese sanction me iranians don't think so much of me either. but i'm proud of our fight. and i'm proud of our accomplishments that we have

truly upended the status quo. [applause] we've demonstrated enormous resistance for socialist to the world cancel culture talk some about that. we resisted seeing our liberty and our freedoms slipping away. this is a noble worthy fight and we're in it. we -- [applause] we fought hard. we fought for hard nearly every front and we will always fight for it. i remember when they were calling us disrupters said they were, again, establishment they said of course, now, i will tell a story i think i come by this disruption naturally in pompeo family compared to my grandpa his name was earl mercer. now, grandpa earl, always said what was on his mind he was prate rough cut. kansas, worked hard he never

wanted a mr. contest but you wanted him around and in the 1930s, grandpa earl was the sheriff of mitchell county, kansas population day a little bit less than 6500. my mother dorothy was one of earl's grace ten kids and richard the last of the lon lot and run for reelection of sheriff, and richard decided that you know there was good money that was really good money in home made gym. [laughter] so for a basement everything was good. plus the campaign and bootleg business all good. until exploded in the basement it blew up basement and the camping. grandpa earl was a one term sheriff in richard county he moved family a little further south where he raised my mother in wellington opened a pool hall

how's that going best chili in kansas. i tell that story because i think there's a couple of things that we thoughts of who believe and part of the conservative movement for so long can learn from this, first, he was a great sheriff. and he was regarded as such because he never tried to be anything he wasn't. and he was never afraid to tell people the truth. he did what the people of mitchell county expected of him he respected them. second, the lesson from the gym problem is plans change things we don't always see it going exactly way we want but we should be true to ourselves and we will success at all of it if we do. [applause] grandpa earl knew too that facts mattered so today i'm going to arm you with some facts accomplishments from past four years how we protected everyone of you and our great bill of rights every turn. and what's good news today for

me is when you'redly diplomat you have to stay in your lane i don't have that i'm going to let it rip. [applause] so look, where do we begin we began with you and workers all across america we put back to work we put back to work women, put back to work african-americans, asian hispanic trump did that, our team understood that this matters. [applause] we've focused on the economy, that put americans back to work. we did it, by also securing our borders giving americans the chance to make the good wage and a chance to take care of their families. [applause] and we also i'm from kansas don't forget we built american energy jobs too we rolled back regulations on job creator and we wanted everyone to take risk and grow their business and create opportunity for people

across america i heard this time and time again i remember for congress in 2010 when president obama was in office. employers workers both lost confidence we restored that confidence we knew we have their back and not burden them. we wanted them to be successful. we were -- [applause] the hallmark of our work here in america was that we were bold and fearless and when i hear today i hear democrats pretend their care about jobs in america but before this seats were warm in the oval office they destroyed 10,000 jobs on a pipeline. and i see too -- my predecessor, green, john kerry, right, he thinks these folks are going to make solar panels. yeah tell you what you ask good people of oklahoma, kansas, south dakota, pennsylvania, you think petroleum engineers are going to make solar panels? no and you can bet this too those cheap solar panels start flooding into america like

you've not seen and this won't be good for the united states of america. don't get me wrong sometimes we get to say we don't care about environment we create jobs. that destroy the environment but that's just not true we didn't simply didn't do it didn't protect environment on the backs of american workers. there were more job openings and people looking for work for much of these past four years that was an amazing accomplishment. [applause] and when the chinese wanted to come steal your job we said no way. [laughter] 40 years, bipartisan, democratic republican, 40 years of failure. letting made in china crush us was going to stop me. we've demanded fair and reciprocal trade never forgot china has more for us than we do for them and president trump understand policy that and we've

presented american worker from the chinese communist parties on us here in america. [applause] now my job often took me overseas. we protected our freedom abroad. we kind of did it like grandpa earl did we were honest, hardworking, we treated the world as it is not as we wished it were. and not going to live in fantasy land i walked out of quiet rooms in europe. [laughter] [applause] we had a restrain foreign policy but when the time came when the situation so required we let we came hard, we came heavy. i sent messages repeatedly to bad guys arntiondz around the world if you touch an american you'll pay dearly. now -- now we all know --

we all know that strength, strength deters bad guys weakness begets war. we want to stay out of wars. we did. i was with the president so many trips and he would tell his counterparts across the world he would say look i'm going to put america first as president of the united states and i expect you will put your country and your people first. we'll work together, and accomplish this for both of our countries and we did that. [applause] you know, america first is right for america. it is right for each of us america first secures our freedom. and the entire world benefits when america is fearless and bold and strong. we just tick through a few ways right so first we show up paris climate accord was destroying yolk so we said good-bye so we want safe drinking water but it was a fantasy for diplomats and when president biden reentered this deal i can tell you that xi

jinping was smiling every single minute and american workers lost. we too spent a lot of time we defended america in middle eetion and defended israel in middle east too we were told a number of things. all right this was what establishment foreign policy you can't sanction itola in iran but the war. what we did, there wasn't a war. we were told -- we're told you can't move the united states embassy and israel to jerusalem there will be a war. well we did, and there was not a war. [applause] we were told we were told you can't allow israel to have a right to sudan, smair ya there will be war and we did that. we righted that and there was no

war. we told -- we were told and this was believed for a lot of time you can't pick your piece in the region in the middle east between arab nations without buying off you'll create world war iii but we did. the abraham accord forged a real peace in the middle east. [applause] >> so, thank you. you know, we rewrote decades of failed negotiations because we were willing to go against the elites of the foreign policy establishment to secure american freedom and to champion your values. it's unfortunate, it looks like

the new team, team biden, appears to be heading back into appeasing iran. this'll be a disaster for the united states of america and a disaster for the region as well. i remember, too, president trump sent me to pyongyang when i was the cia director to meet with chairman kim to prepare for the historic summit that was ultimately held in singapore. you all remember this, we threatened fire and fury. threatened fire and fury not to go to war, but to deter it. and deter the it, we did. you know, since those summits -- [applause] one in singapore, one in hanoi, the north koreans haven't tested a long range ballistic missile, and exactly zero tests have been conducted. that's real foreign policy. [applause] i was, it was humbling too because on the second trip i had the chance to bring home american hostages from

pyongyang, three men, at 3:00 in the morning. [applause] and america first, america first always means never forgetting about our warriors. there was no greater honor, too, than to have brought back other americans like pastor brunson, detained wrongfully for far too long -- [applause] and we brought back so many remains of our fallen in korea as well. this was -- [applause] amazing and right and america first. [applause] how many of you remember qasseming soleimani? allah rest his soul. this was the iranian general who was trying to cause trouble for america. he was on a mission to harm americans. but earn a few steps ahead of him. so in the end, he didn't cause trouble for americans or anyone else ever again. [cheers and applause]

do youdo you know, do you know t even to this day most of the liberals and most of the folks on tv still won't acknowledge that ridding the world of an america-hating terrorist was a good thing. this is fantasy. look, we too, we drew a red line. when the syrians gassed children and women and we told them don't do that again and when they crossed it, president trump ordered 70 beautiful american-made tomahawk missiles to let them know that a we weren't going to allow them to kill women and children. [applause] america first, america first takes real courage. the secretary of the state walkings into a room and tells it like it is and a president who has his back. we had that. [applause]