26th? before or after june 1st? >> dana: okay. >> bill: i'll say the week of memorial weekend. maybe that wednesday. >> dana: he will have a big speech. it was a good week here. all right. >> bill: nice to be with you. >> dana: see you next week. >> bill: bye. >> president biden doing a 180 on a senate rule he once championed. he now says that it is a racist rule as republicans accuse democrats of pushing a shameless power grab. this is "the faulkner focus". i'm martha maccallum in today for harris. democrats want to make sweeping changes into how our elections are run across the country. there is so much in this bill that americans need to be aware of. president biden calls the filibuster now racist which we'll dig into why is that

what's being leveled here? but as senator, senator biden then fiercely defended the filibuster as did former president obama. democrats used the filibuster frequently during the trump administration but with their party in control it is now a very different story. >> it's being abused in a gigantic way. it makes jim crow look like jim eagle. gigantic what they're trying to do and it cannot be sustained. >> i strongly disagree even a curse review of these previous changes in the senate rule on a limited debate show the previous mechanism to invoke cloture always respected minority rights. >> eliminating the filibuster, another relic, the rights of every american.

>> everyone in the chamber knows if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fiengt and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse. >> power panel, matt schlapp and wendy, professor of education at johns hopkins university. thank you very much for being here. wendy, let me start with you on this. you see that very dramatic change of opinion on this over the years from president obama and senator obama at the time and senator biden and now president biden. why the switch? >> i believe there is a switch. i'm not going to sit here and say there isn't one. what we have to look at is the overarching picture. this bill is inherently racist. it is a form of voter suppression. this things within it will impact communities of color and that shouldn't be the case in a

country as prominent as the united states of america where we believe in the rights of every individual to be able to vote. so i do believe that biden needs to come out and he needs to say that yes, i did feel this way about the filibuster in the past but i'm feeling this way about the filibuster currently and this is why. moving away from the language of deflecting whether he has flip-flopped in the past but let the american people know and educate them on why this bill will continuously impact communities of color and why that -- >> let me ask you something. clarify something for us. are you saying that the hr1 now s1 the voting election bill. are you saying that is what is racist or the filibuster in and of itself is racist? and do you think the filibuster should be removed just for this bill or in total? >> of course, you know, i'm left leaning so i will be honest. i feel like the filibuster

should be present when it benefits my party but in the same token i want to make sure we are aware of what is within this, right? when you are saying you can't give people water who are standing in long lines to vote, yeah, that's inherently racist. it's the communities of color that often have the long lines. let's call a spade a spade here. so yes, we have to be informed about what's going on within these bills and educate americans as to why it is important for us to discuss them in an educated way. >> discussing in an educated way sounds like open debate and this is what this is in danger of overruling. >> congratulations that's some honesty. presidents don't the end to like filibusters when they have a slim majority because they need 60 votes to pass anything. the last thing big that passed barack obama was president and he had the 60 votes before ted kennedy died to pass obamacare.

donald trump was right. he wanted mitch mcconnell to get rid of the filibuster and now joe biden wants to get rid of the filibuster. we have to when hit this thing that somehow there is something racist about the filibuster. that's untrue. it's true the democratic party under richard russell used it to stop civil rights legislation but it was intended to make it harder to pass legislation in the senate after it came out of the house. so it is intended to create some bipartisanship in the country that we need to somehow get back to. this idea that it takes an i.d. -- an i.d. to vote, that you have to identify who you are to vote is somehow racist is so far afield from what we've come to in this country. we had black people in this country who were denied the right to vote not because they didn't have an i.d. and people didn't know who they were. it was because jim crow tried

to use excuses to prevent them from voting. i would like to work with every liberal to make sure every legal vote can count. every single one, even those against my candidates but we have to make sure there is a process that is even for everybody. by the way, white people get thirsty and black people get thirsty. i have had long lines where i have to vote. i'm not so sure we should call everything racism. >> wendy. >> i think that what matt said is a testament to some of the stuff that i'm saying. i think it is interesting that he said the intent. it's great things are ta* are intended to help everyone but what is its use? not just about the intent, the creation of something. it is about how is it being currently used? if it is currently being used to impact nefariously communities of color, then we have to re-evaluate no matter

what the intent of its creation was. >> hr1 does not adversely impact people of color. this is a crazy, illogical idea that showing an i.d. to vote is somehow attributeable to someone's race. we have to make sure people have confidence both republicans and conservatives and liberals and democrats have confidence in our elections. when you have voter fraud. there is voter fraud in every election. sometimes big and sometimes small. people begin to doubt whether or not their vote matters. the idea that democrats and republicans agree that everybody should be able to vote. that people should be able to vote by mail. that people should be able to vote in absentee ballots but that you have to have a verification system. anybody who is against that >> you have to be able to prove who you are like you do for many other things in life show i.d. axios is reporting white house

chief of staff ron klain held private meanings with left leaning lawmakers including ocasio-cortez to discuss multiple policy items. the conversations are happening as president biden signals he is no longer interested in support if republican lawmakers when it comes to his agenda. watch this. >> president biden: i would like republican elected republican support. but what i know i have now is i have an electoral support from republican voters, republican voters. they agree with what i'm doing. >> not sure where that idea is coming from according to most of the polling he has about 10% support of republican voters in this country. so can you explain what you think he meant there? >> i think probably that's the goal that he has. but you know what we do know is that biden is one of those individuals when it comes to the ways in which he, you know, puts across legislation, he does get bipartisan support.

he does that more so than other individuals in the democratic party. >> he didn't get any bipartisan support on the covid-19 bill. not any. >> not any on the covid relief bill but as far as him and his history and his legacy, he has had bipartisan support. >> maybe that's done. but he is signaling he is not particularly interested in it this time around. i'm running out of time and give matt a second to respond here. >> look, it's very clear that joe biden and the biden administration is working with the very, very progressive left, socialist wing of the democratic party and they've bought off on the whole agenda and it is going to be up to joe manchin and kyrsten sinema and a couple of people close to the center to stop this madness. that's what the whole 2022 election will be about. hr1 is an a abomb nation as a

part of that. >> we'll put on sinema and manchin saying that they're supporting racism. he will be on those two senators and watch it closely. wendy, thank you very much. matt, thank you very much. great to see you both. >> thanks, martha. >> the rain started slow and then in a split second it come in sideways like a freight train. it missed us by six feet. >> i grew up here. this is killing me to see it this way. this will never look like home to me again. >> severe weather wrecking homes and lives across the south. two dozen tornadoes ripped through five states. five people are killed in alabama as a result. reports of one death in georgia and mississippi and millions

are still under this destructive tornado watch at this hour. charles watson is in alabama with a look at damage on the ground there. charles. >> things certainly don't look good here in alabama. it is almost sickening to watch as people sift through the pure destruction of their property. neighbors tell us a tornado touched down here around 3:00 yesterday afternoon and this community here there were at least 15 mobile homes, we're told. today they're all almost gone. most of them reduced to rubble. back here you can see the homes that are partially intact. they have significant damage as well. we're told the force of the tornado threw those homes 15 to 20 feet off their foundation. just about everywhere you look there are large pieces of mangled metal and roofs hanging from trees, power lines are down. all of this as people in this neighborhood try to figure out how to rebuild from this

incredibly painful loss. we spoke to one neighbor who says three members of his family were among those who were killed in those very powerful storms yesterday. take a listen. >> even though i lost my whole house, i'm just worried about, you know, how they are going to make it out of this. they got kids. like i said, they all lost everything. >> that neighbor tells us two other family members are also hospitalized with serious injuries. on top of that they have anxiety. there is a threat of severe weather over this weekend they have to look out for. a tough situation here as they start the rebuilding process. back to you. >> that is for sure. charles watson, thank you very much. we'll watch that very closely in the coming days. good to speak with you today, charles, thank you. coming up here house democrats and republicans coming together

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>> what you are seeing now is inhumane. it is a horrible situation. nobody has seen worse or anything like it. what they are doing now is outrageous and they should finish the wall. >> bill: former president trump hitting back after president biden blamed him for the current border crisis. biden says he makes no apologies for rolling back trump immigration policies. he also denied that migrants are coming to the united states because he is a nice guy. senator ted cruz is leading a delegation of republican senators at the border today. he posted this video to twitter early this morning. >> the other side of the river we have been listening to and seeing cartel members, human traffickers right on the other side of the river waving flashlights, yelling and taunting americans, taunting the border patrol. >> bill: let's bring in brandon judd from the border council.

he joins us by phone on donna, texas, a facility overwhelmed with migrants now. thank you for being here and good to talk to you again. how is it going down there with this delegation of republicans and what are they seeing? >> i'm glad they got to see what they did last night. we were the ones that took them out to the border. senator cruise and the rest of the senators to the border and showed them where the crossings are taking place and smugglers were and sure enough they were so audacious they came to the bank of the river and taunting us and making fun of us and saying we couldn't do anything to stop the crossings that were taking place. these people were going to come regardless. so they got a real worldview of what we deal with on a daily basis. and now they are in the actual process in the facility. president trump said nobody has seen anything like this. i was here in 2014 and saw what

took place in 2014 in these process facilities and what happened in 2019 and i can tell you personally that what we are seeing right now is horrendous. it is absolutely inhumane the way these people are being packed in these facilities. it is just like sardines. there is no room to see the floor. they are packed in there so tight laying on the ground. so yeah, everything that you are hearing, the reporting that's coming out of here by these senators that actually want to know what the truth is, it's all accurate and it should really upset the american public. i hope it does. >> bill: how do you know the people who were taunting last night? what were they taunting and how do you know who are just families being brought across by actual smugglers, how can you tell? >> when we're dealing with the individuals as law enforcement agent myself and somebody who has been doing this for 23

years, you know when you are talking to the actual smugglers the way they taunt you. they were bringing down the family units as we were sitting there trying to shine our flashlights on them. again when they are telling us i can't speak on air exactly what they were saying because it was filled with curse words but they were telling us where we could go shove it. these were the actual smugglers. it is very clear who they were. when these weren't the family units. family units don't talk to us that way. they're giving up because they know they'll get released ultimately. >> bill: i want to play this from the news conference yesterday. this is president biden talking about the migrant surge and saying that it is just normal what we're seeing. watch this. >> president biden: look, i guess i should be flattered people are coming because i'm the nice guy. there is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter

months of january, february, march. it happens every year. the reason they're coming is that it's the time they can travel with the least likelihood of dying on the way because of the heat in the desert. >> bill: the numbers tell a different story. total encounters at the border last month february were up 177% year-over-year. migrant encounters were by about the same amount, brandon. one of the -- first of all answer that. he didn't get any pushback. no reporter said only 13% of the families are being sent back and the numbers indeed are a lot higher. >> no, i'm glad there are so many people that are fact checking. even liberal media outlets are fact checking him because what he is saying is so outrageous. i'm so thankful there are organizations -- i'm not trying to give you cud owes, like fox news to tell the american public what the actual truth is. if we don't know what the truth

is we can't fix the problem. define the problem so you can fix it. when you have a president sitting up there saying i guess i'm a nice guy it is encouraging people to violate our days. if we do that we're no better than the countries these people are coming from. >> bill: before i let you go this struck me. yesterday president biden said some families are not going back because mexico is refusing to take them back. some, not all. we're in negotiations with mexico. that will change. they should all be going back. so that seems very odd to me because a, he said you should come. he told everyone you should come if you're facing oppression in your ton tree. he also has undone the remain in mexico plan. that statement seems confusing to me based on what he says his policy is. >> completely and total contradictory. political rhetoric. he should have kept the remain

in mexico policy in place. he didn't. he is the one who invited this problem that we're currently dealing with. >> bill: a big problem on their hands. brandon judd, thank you for being here. great to see you today. >> thank you. >> bill: big admission from twitter ceo when he testified with other big tech leaders on capitol hill. what we learned about censorship on social media that you will find quite interesting. plus this. >> quite a contrast to the previous president. >> there is a sense of humanity. >> didn't turn back when asked about being a good guy. >> bill: fawning reviews from the media for president biden's first news conference especially when compared to his predecessor. reaction from media columnist joe concha next. uy from 12c. -go talk to him. -yeah, no. plus it's not even like he'd be into me or whatever. ♪♪

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opening statement. quite a contrast to the previous president who always wanted to be the center of attention. >> there is a sense of humanity that he is talking about here saying this is who we are, the america that we are. we aren't going to turn these kids away. >> he didn't turn back when asked about being a good guy. the decency of this presidency and american people he says he embraces. >> bill: many in the media appearing to swoon over president biden's performance yesterday. he went longer than any president in a century before actually holding a formal news conference. it was a very, very controlled environment. he took only 10 questions. the press pool was limited to 25 reporters. president biden appeared to take questions from only the names and outlets he read from the q card. the numbers next to people's names next to their photo for identification purposes. his predecessor panning what he saw as a softball news

conference. >> they were strange questions and asked in a very interesting way. it was like softballs like you are throwing soft balls out and it is a different world. nobody has seen anything like it. it is very sad to watch actually. they are feeding him questions. they are easy questions. >> bill: joe concha fox news contributor and politics columnist for the hill. good to see you today. i want to start with this tweet from cnn. here is what a reporter had to say. i thought republicans thought biden with trip and fall. it is normal and refreshing. we don't have to track the sheer volume of lies. what did you think about the news conference and that particular comment? >> interesting. good to hear i'm still employed when you said the former i was thinking -- thank you for correcting that. look, i'm glad you played that montage in the beginning.

all those reporters, they were anchors you showed sharing their feelings. it was like a dear diary. dear diary, i found president biden to be very empathetic and a nice guy to the press today. or wow, it feels so normal that president biden wasn't as aggressive as president trump. these are all feelings based on the way that president biden conducted himself but reporters should be doing this thing called fact checking because again when seller says you couldn't keep up with the lies of president trump, yesterday there were several claims that the president made that were very interesting that you can call lies. for instance, biden quote, we're sending back the vast majority of families coming to the u.s. border. no, axios says you're sending back 13%. that's not vast. biden claim the idea that i'm going to say, which i would never do an accompanied child ever end up at the border we'll let them starve to death and say on the other side.

no previous administrations did that except for trump. in other words trump left children to die at the border. fact checked as well and it didn't happen. no documented deaths by starvation. claim, truth of the matter is 28% increase in border. 31% last year in 2019. no, as you just showed in the segment earlier it is up something like 171% with children, 174% overall. so you could call those lies, you could call those gaffes or whatever. fact checking should be going on not sharing feelings on how nice joe biden seemed to be. >> bill: it is so striking, joe. i couldn't help but think the whole thrust of questions during the trump administration in this environment how mean and nasty and dishonest are you. yesterday it was like how nice and kind and heartwarming are you? the bottom line is for the american people is they need to

deal in the facts and policies in both situations, right? you need to look -- we now have images of what is going on at the border. there were problems in the last administration and problems in this administration. anyone worth their stuff will have to make more of an effort to point out what's going on if they want to be humane and care about these families. >> yeah. some of the questions were dishonest. pbs said joe biden had said over and over again not to come. no, as a candidate he said surge the border. he makes the argument they are coming because they see you to be a nice guy. that's not true. they came because of his rhetoric. that's what the mexican president side and migrants said when they are interviewed coming across the border. you capture vice president to be in charge of fixing the crisis at the border yet

candidate kamala harris actually compared ice to the k.k.k. and said illegal crossings should be decriminalized. i would have love to have heard that question and answer. hopefully somebody will ask something like that. >> bill: i want to point this out again. he said they should all be going back to mexico. that would equate to a remain in mexico policy which this president has unraveled and that's another point that should have been pressed on and should have been asked about. i want to get one more topic before i let you go, joe. big tech ceos taking it from all sides on capitol hill. one area where there is bipartisanship on the hill. steve scalise forcing this answer from twitter since the "new york post" biden article. >> we made a total mistake with the "new york post" and

corrected it within 24 hours. it was not to do with the content but the hacked materials. we had an incorrect interpretation. we don't write policy according to any particular political leaning. if we find any of it we write it up. >> bill: important to note he would not say who was responsible for censoring the hunter biden story in that case. your reaction to what's going on there. >> then therefore i guess there will be no accountability if we don't talk about who may have handled this. nice to say five months after an election when we made a mistake. in october when the chips are on the table and when the "new york post" got locked out of their twitter account and anybody who shared the hunter biden story found their accounts locked as well. it was crazy. overall it is like groundhog day with the big tech hearings. they happen every three months and i won't use that. it is like seinfeld. a show about nothing. the tech giants and ceos get on

capitol hill and get grilled and nothing changes. section 230 nothing changes. bias against conservative nothing changes. these companies are making a vast amount of money each of them. as long as that's happening that's the way it will go. one thing i did find promising that i think democrats and republicans can agree on. mark zuckerberg asked about the addiction of social media particularly by young children. as you know i have a 5 and -year-old and i saw it during the pandemic. i got them ipads, when we took it away like the kid in the exorcist. the head would spin around. i saw the addiction. it is real and hopefully come to an agreement on how you try to manage this in some way, shape or form the social media companies like you did with cigarettes with kids in the past. >> bill: exactly. social media is the new smoking and we see the same lineup from executives trying to defend the

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>> covering ronald reagan for six years i never saw that. watching news conferences over the years i haven't seen that. a president in a news conference reading talking points. >> bill: lots of reaction to president biden using cheat sheet to remember key talking points. it is not unprecedented to use notes. former president donald trump brought a notebook to a briefing in 2019. critics are pointing out how biden paused and stumbled through certain questions and answer. tucker carlson last night with this. >> of course we'll get a lot more done and confuse fewer people if we read our policy positions from small pieces of

paper that others have prepared for us. that way we won't lose consciousness in mid sentence or start a war accidentally. >> martha: ari fleischer fox news contributor and former press secretary. off the top is it typical to have notes on the podium for a president during a press conference? >> i would put it in three categories. to have a list of reporters that you call on absolutely typical. no problem with that. to have a little bit of a jog of a memory for some statistics and things of that nature, no problem with that. but to read verbatim paragraphs worth of answers on china, afghanistan and north korea i've never seen anything like that before. the point of a news conference, martha, is to see a president think on his feet. to quickly judge how sharp is the president and how able is the president? we don't need to pay a president or their staff to write things down and read them

off a script. everybody can do that. i just found it bewildering he could read those answers to foreign policy questions off a script. >> martha: i find your answer very interesting. you have seen a lot of these situations up close and as you say some of those things, to be fair on the cards, were statistics and things along those lines. you are so right when we got to the deep questions about china, about afghanistan, these are moments when you want the president to look the reporters in the eye and say here is what i think about that may 1 afghanistan deadline and why we may need to push it. you put people's lives at risk in that decision and the most important decision a president has to make. >> let me also put a finer point on it. a news conference is that opportunity for all of us, particularly with the oldest president in history, to see how he is doing.

what's the alternative? the alternative is the white house staff says to reporters email us your questions and we'll email you back a printed response. that is what they did yesterday on the three foreign policy questions. reporters asked it, joe biden had a prepared paragraph answer and then he read it off of what was given to him by his staff. that is no way to measure a president. this is not healthy and i hope today at jen psaki's news conference did he read verbatim? why did he do that? he is perfectly eloquent and conversant and able to stand on his own feet and do it. why not on the foreign policy? >> martha: a great question. watch this moment from the press conference and your thoughts on the other side. >> on a related know have you decided if you run for president in 2024? >> president biden: my

predecessor needed to. my predecessor, oh god, i miss him. no, the answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection. >> do you think you'll be running against former president trump? >> oh come on, i don't think about it. i have no idea. i have no idea if there will be a republican party, do you? >> martha: there is a lot there, ari, what stood out to you? >> how silly the question was. you have a chance to ask actual meaningful questions of the president at a news conference, first news conference and ask about an unknown and uncontrollable event for 3 1/2 years down the road. i found it predictable and silly the washington usual stuff. in terms of his answer, what about joe biden's whole soul being for unity and then he goes i don't even know, do you, if the republican party will be around? he is so derisive for his critics. the problem with joe biden. the only line people remember

from his inaugural my whole soul is for unity and rendered that hollow yesterday. he never meant it when he first said it. he is a very partisan man. a very partisan president and republicans need to be warned and go in with eyes wide open. he is not the joe biden people thought he would be. >> martha: fascinating. when you look at the hr1 and s1 it may be there is no republican party if all of those voting rules are changed. a lot of debate and controversy over that. we'll see if that's what he meant. great to see you. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: florida state senate picking up a bill that gives some students an unfair available some say. should the government have a say in how money is spent? don't forget outnumbered at the top of the hour and keep it right here.

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>> do students with certain majors get more colic to scholarship money? college students pursuing degrees with low employment prospects, critics say this to be unfair to the students of liberal arts majors and governments should not be deciding whose scholarship money goes to but the state senator response of the bell says i believe we should encourage all students to pursue their passions by the fact remains that higher education comes at a significant cost about students and taxpayers and there needs to be some element of career planning involved, governor desantis also supports this bill. kat timpf joins us now, go do see you. what you think about it? >> i think even just zooming out from the specific incident and talking in general, i hate to use this word but we need to

normalize talking about a cost/benefit analysis when it comes to formal higher education. think about it, if there is this product, any product, it's super expensive, it's going to cost a lot of money and once you buy it you don't really get anything from it, nobody would buy that but when it comes to formal education people are not just buying it, people are saddling themselves with the debt to buy it which i think is a really harmful narrative honestly especially because you have majors like this, showing that the cost, there is not going to be the benefit to back it up, why should it be controversial to adjust point that out? point that reality out and live according to that reality and make decisions according to that reality? >> as a liberal arts major i have to say i think there is value, to me it should be based on merit and ability to succeed so if you are a very hard worker, you know, it should be

based on your potential for success, based on your record, you might be a very successful political scientists, a very successful painter, you know, this is not to say that i sign on to some of these wacky, ridiculous majors that i think don't need to much but i'm saying, to just totally throw out those professions is perhaps not the best way to approach it. >> certainly not, you are talking to an english major so i completely agree with you there. i am just, my point is that even having that conversation, making that consideration i think should be something we should do more rather than, i'm going to go to school and do this and i'm going to take out this loan, people are always saying, good for you, good for you, it shouldn't be like that, i had a opportunity, i was accepted to an ivy league grad school and i knew i could never afford to pay back the loan so i didn't go and i took another route instead so at least just being allowed to sort of have those conversations and okay, if you want to go into

this field, having a plan. yeah. >> i agree. meanwhile the rhode island senate working in an uproar over their new dress code which calls for attire most people would consider pretty basic, slacks, blouses, collared shirts and suit jackets as part of the real demand for public and legislature, rhode island is what i meant to say, senator jonathan acosta called it oppressive, watch. >> what they mean is white collar dress. if that is what is necessary, that's what you are saying. the function of this type of norm is to exclude, it is to say that which does not belong here and in this presentation or in this explanation of what does belong here, it is all stuff for white collar white people.

>> i don't take it's crazy to wear different clothes at work than you do at home, if i dressed as i dressed at home i would not be allowed on the air, probably, and i should not be. i can't stop thinking about what situation we are in right now and the ongoing pandemic and all the associated economic issues and struggles, these people in the senate in rhode island are paid for by the people of rhode island, their salaries are paid by the people of rhode island, i highly doubt that this is what the people of rhode island are ideally would pay them to do any time but especially in a difficult time like the one right now. >> he said he used to wear a jacket and tie as a teacher but decided it was restrictive it had something to do with whiteness that he didn't want to advocate. i think professionalism in the workplace is something that makes people, you know, sort of behave in a more professional way generally speaking, it's

true with uniforms and schools and all sorts of examples have been looked out over the course of time. >> in the beginning of the pandemic i started putting real pants on just to get myself in the zone. >> thank you, kat, good to see you. things are watching "the faulkner focus," harris will be back tomorrow. i mean come on monday. "outnumbered" starts right now. i will see you at 3:00 for "the story." >> emily: thanks, martha. fox news alert, president biden laying the groundwork for democrats to pass a sweeping far left agenda without needing republican support as he joins calls to change or drop the senate filibuster, democrats often used that procedure to oppose republican measures when they were in the minority that now biden calls it racist. outgoing democrats using the same argument, watch. >> for generations, the filibuster was used as a tool to block progress on racial justice. and in recent years ee