griff: it's monday, march 29th. fox news alert. the massive cargo ship stuck in the suez canal partially freed according to reports. the race to open the major trade route that could cause another toilet paper shortage. carley: armed antifa members brings oregon's capital to a halt. reports of paint filled balloons hurled at cars, lasers pointed at drivers and several arrests. griff: plus, the biden administration feeling the pressure. the president says they're working on a border plan but no word on what it is or when it will happen. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ you ain't seen nothing yet. ♪ baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet. ♪ here's something that you're never going to forget.

carley: good morning, you are watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm carley shimkus in for jillian mele. griff: i'm griff jenkins in for todd piro. i love that the producers put bto's you ain't seen nothing yet. certainly when it comes to the administration's border plan, we haven't seen it. carley: we haven't seen you in a suit and tie for so long because you've been at that time border. it's great to have you back. griff: i think i remember how this works. carley: doing a great job. we're going to start here with a fox news alert. engineers partially freed the ship blocking the suez canal. no timetable exists. from navy ship movements to the supply of toilet paper, fears grow of the international impact to the stop in trade, this as the cost of trade lost every

day, the canal is closed, is estimated to be $9.6 billion. with an estimated 400 million being lost every hour. unbelievable. griff: wow. now to the border, president biden has yet to reveal when he might visit migrant facilities as his administration struggles to deal with the crisis. carley: marianne raferty joins us live as we learn that the surge of unaccompanied minors is expected to last through the fall. what's the latest. >> reporter: border facilities are overflowing. it is expected to get worse. fox news confirmed the surge of unaccompanied minors will last at least seven months. there are 18,000 plus kids cramped into holding areas. they are looking for help willing to volunteer. a memo reads the office of resettlement needs employees for

up to 120 day deployment for unaccompanied children and orr provides a continuum of care for children including placements in foster care, shelter and residential care providers. press secretary jen psaki confirming on fox news sunday that the children won't be sent back. >> we are not going to send children under the age of 18, kids under the age of 18 back on the treacherous journey. it does not mean they get to stay in the united states. it means their cases are add adjudicated. >> reporter: henry cuellar says there are too many to process them properly. >> over 2,000 of them have been released into the united states without a notice to appear. i emphasize, without a notice to appear at an immigration court. >> reporter: meanwhile, former president trump saying he may head to the border. >> over the next couple of weeks the border patrol wants me to

go, probably over the next couple of weeks. i don't think there's a rush for me to go. >> reporter: president biden on sunday reacting to former president trump's remarks, saying this. >> we are putting in place a plan that i feel very confident about and i don't care what the other guy does. >> reporter: there are now 5 to 800 crossings daily and that's projected to keep going up to somewhere around 26,000 a month by september. griff, carley. griff: marianne, thank you very much for getting us started. obviously carley i've covered this quite extensively, both on the u.s. side of the border as well as on the mexican side and if this doesn't define a crisis, i don't know what is. you've got over 18,000 children in custody. the month of february over 100,000 encounters, up 28% from january. and at the end of the day, there's got to be transparency on this issue.

the administration says they're putting a plan in place. i think that's a akin to having a house on fire and getting a notice from the fire department that they're working on a plan to come to your house. regardless of the border being on fire. the media access is simply unacceptable. the muzzling of border patrol chiefs, unacceptable. chris wallace was pressing jen psaki on that access yesterday. listen. >> at this point, in terms of allowing access to border patrol facilities for reporters, you are being less transparent than the trump administration. >> well, first of all, chris, the trump administration was turning away kids at the border, sending them back on the treacherous journey or they were ripping kids from the arms of their parents. we're not doing that. we are committed to allowing cameras into the border patrol facilities, absolutely. griff: we'll see whether or not there is the media access, rather than what you're seeing now is a bit of a controlled video released by the

administration. this is what they want you to see. but of course they don't want you to just freely see everything. carley: you're absolutely right. white house press secretary jen psaki said they're committed to allowing cameras into the facilities. that is false. they allowed one camera into a facility that is considered the aspiration alphas it, it's what they want you to see, but there are a lot of detention centers the biden administration doesn't want you to see. senator ted cruz went to one in donna, texas last week. he tried to get footage of what it looked like inside and was stopped by a woman who works there. take a listen. >> please give dignity to the people. please give dignity to the people. >> you work for the commissioner, you're a senior advisor, hired two weeks ago and you're instructed to ask us to not have pictures taken here. >> please respect the people. >> because the leadership at dhs doesn't want the american people to know it? >> carley: senator ted cruz sent a letter to the biden administration urging more access, saying we understand the

heart breaking tragedy unfolding at the border because we were there. we saw it. but the american people are unable to see it because you remain intent on keeping the media from shining a light on your administration's failures. i again urge you to stop denying rea at, confront the consequences of your policies, and allow the media access to these facilities. you know, griff, you spoke to brandon judd last hour. he said this would be very simple to solve. all you have to do is go back to what president trump was doing with the remain in mexico policy. but i don't think that's going to happen because that would mean a political loss for the biden administration and i don't know if they're willing to do that. griff: i don't think they are. we'll find out. apparently there's a plan. we'll see if it is similar. but quickly, you're looking at pictures from congressman henry cuellar that he released to break open this story of inside the facilities. before that, i had leaked photos and released photos of a temporary outdoor processing

site. it's because of these leaks, because of the pressure to get media access, that's become so important. i think we'll find out also an important part of the conversation is leting the border patrol officials speak freely as well as seeing pictures. carley: you're right about that. griff: we have another fox news alert. hundreds of insurrectionists attempt to overthrow oregon's state capitol. watch. >> disburse from this location immediately. if you do not disburse immediately you will be subject to arrest. griff: authorities arresting three people during the clash between two groups. video shows extremists surrounding a man's truck. they also threw balloons of paint and pointed lasers at other drivers. carley: funerals for the boulder shooting victims gets underway one week after the rein of terror inside that grocery store. first responders from northern colorado raising more than $22,000 for police officer eric

tally's family. families pledged to donate all proceeds to help the fallen hero's wife and seven children. tally will be laid to rest tomorrow. griff: president joe biden will split his massive infrastructure plan. >> i don't think republicans in this country think we should be 13th in the world as relates to infrastructure. two separate proposals and we'll work with the senate and the house to see how it should move forward. griff: the president will unveil the first part of his plan wednesday, focusing on items like rebuilding roads and railways. meanwhile, biden will push another coronavirus recovery bill on top of the already passed $1.9 trillion package. florida congresswoman kat cammack will join us later to weigh in on the spending binge. carley: today, nascar hopes to start its engines at bristol motor speedway after torrential rain turned the dirt track into

a muddy mess sunday. both the cup series and truck series races were postponed. kyle larson is set to start from pole position. as a result of the weather policies, the green flag in the race is set for 4:00 p.m. eastern. catch all of the action on fox. griff: i can't wait to see it by the way, carley. the first time in 51 years nascar cup series had a dirt track race. i think denny hamlin is going to sneak up on him. we'll find out and report back tomorrow. time now, 10 minutes after the hour. a warning from a new mexico rancher, the border crisis is coming to you. >> it affects the safety of not just our families, our business, but this stuff is going further into the country. it's not staying here. it's coming to a home near you. griff: border agents telling him to be careful on his own property. that rancher joins us live, next. carley: plus hold your horses.

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>> we've seen republican senators at the border, former president trump says he's been asked by some border patrol agents to go to the border. when might you go? >> we're putting a plan in place that i feel confident about and i don't care what the other guy does. carley: president biden says a border plan is coming as calls for him to go to the south and see the crisis firsthand. griff: there is an alarm about security issues that impact more than the southern states. one of those people is new mexico ranchers russell johnson.

he joins us live with his warning. russell, good morning. thank you for joining us. first, what are you seeing and why do you say it's more than just the border communities that are affected. >> good morning, hangs for having me on. what -- thanks for having me on. what we're seeing is a huge increase in foot traffic that's coming through the area because we've got a three quarter mile gap and one other smaller gap and what that's doing is funneling traffic into our area. but what we're seeing is not the unaccompanied minors and family units. what we have is adult age males that are funneling into the area and border patrol told us these are gang members mixed in with this so it's a criminal element that we're dealing with out here, not the family units and unaccompanied minors. carley: you say that border patrol told you to be careful on your own property. and now we're learning that the biden administration believes that this crisis is going to continue for the next seven months. how does that make you feel? you're going to have to deal

with this for a long time. >> well, i'd be curious to know how they're coming up with seven months. with the policy rollbacks they've had, with revoking the remain in mexico policy, halting border wall construction, this is going to go on until something changes from what they're doing right now. everything that trump had in place was working and had stemmed the flow of this mass migration we've seen and they need to put all that policy back into place and finish the border wall system or otherwise we're just going to continue to see this. just yesterday border patrol apprehend's a group of 10 and a group of 23 right behind my house and my family is being exposed to this and if i'm not here to protect my family, we've had instances where it takes border patrol an hour to respond to an incident when we call them about stuff. i don't blame border patrol. they're stretched thin. every time we have mass

migration, they have to baby-sit the unaccompanied minors. it negatively affects people living and working on the border. griff: you're part of the el paso sector, that's up 261% in single adult encounters, i assume the number is higher from march. i want to ask you about former president trump saying over the weekend that he will likely visit the border soon. do you think that he should do that? and what do you hope former president trump could do? >> well, obviously in 2019 we experienced a very similar incident where we saw mass migration, so he's dealt with this before. i think it's great. the more attention that can be brought to this matter, the better. but i sit here and look at the biden administration and they're pointing fingers about who

started the fire, instead of putting it out. they need to do something because like i said in the previous interview, this stuff does not stay on the border. it goes further inland. and even these people that are being caught, they're eventually going to be turned loose into the states, in some cases without a court date. when i hear that up to 10% are covid positive, when you look at the facilities, they're just jam-packed full of people. what's the exposure rate? this country's suffering this pandemic and we're just turning this into the states. carley: you're absolutely right, this is a crisis that affects more than just people living along the border. border patrol, as they're trying to process asylum claims as people come over, they're distracted, that's when the cartels are bringing the drugs and some of the people that don't want to get caught into the country. it's a very organized thing. so it's really a crisis that affects the whole country.

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griff: that was extreme weather, a state of emergency in effect for nashville after four people died from flash flooding. carley: the rainfall going down as one of the wettest days in the state's history. fox news senior meteorologist janice dean joins us live with the latest, one of the wettest

days in the state's history, janice, my goodness. >> it's been tough over the last couple of weeks. that cold front that brought the heavy rain to the mid-south, parts of the tennessee river valley, is now moving offshore. we saw several -- dozens of reports of hail and damaging winds yesterday. things will improve with this area of low pressure that's moving into canada and that is bringing some snow to the interior northeast and the coastal rain that we saw yesterday is moving offshore so that's the good news and then things are quieter. however, even though we're not going to see a big storm system in terms of moisture or rain or snow, the winds are going to kick up across the plain states, the rockies, towards the midwest over the next 12 to 24 hours and that's going to cause some high fire danger over the plains states for at least a dozen states. let's take a look at it. there's the forecast wind gusts, 50, 6070 miles per hour and the

wildfire danger is widespread for many states today. we'll keep an eye on that, strong winds, dry conditions and warm temperatures will fuel the wildfire danger. otherwise, a pretty good looking forecast for much of the country and we'll certainly dry out across the east coast. so fingers crossed, all right. carley and griff, back to you. carley: fingers crossed indeed. janice, thank you so much. appreciate it. meantime, d.c. mayor merrell bowser takes heat. a spokesperson for the mayor telling fox news in a statement, today's prescheduled social media post was part of the effort and should not detract from the tragic death of mohammed anwar. he died last week when he was thrown from his car. two teenage girls are accused of using a stun gun to steal the vehicle before crashing it. griff: well, two florida teens

get stuck high in the sky while on a ride at an amusement park. take a look. they were suspended 30 feet in the air when the slingshot ride broke down. it's part of the old town theme park in kissimmee. investigators say nonload bearing cable snapped. the ride reportedly passed the last inspection earlier this month. the teens were fortunately not hurt but that is certainly scary, carley. carley: that's a ride they're never going to forget, to say the least. griff: time now, 25 minutes after the hour. how does the u.s. border crisis make us look to our adversaries? our next guest says the biden administration's foreign policy is hhaphazard and incoherent.

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carley: we are back with a fox news alert. overnight engineers refloating the massive cargo ship blocking the suez canal after it ran aground last week.

benjamin hall joins us live as we learn what more needs to happen to clear the canal. good morning, benjamin. >> reporter: good morning, carley. it is the stern of the ship that has been refloated. the bow, the front, is still plowed into the heavy mud on the side. that's considered the hardest part to free up. so yes, good news but still a lot of work to be done. so far, the ship has been moved around 100 feet and at least 13 tug boats have been pushing and pulling in various direction, while they continue to try to vacuum up sand from underneath. they've dug down nearly 50 feet. the pentagon has weighed in. they say the longer passage is suspended the more it will impact civilian and military transits. the u.s. offered to send help. it's been rejected by the head of the suez canal who said with regard to the american assistance, we thank them for

their offers. i think mr. biden announced they're ready to cooperate. we'll ask for their assistance at the right time, god willing. one would think this is the right time considering the amount of traffic stopped is around $10 billion a day. the amount it's costing per hour, $400 million. at last count there were 321 ships backed up behind the evergiven, carrying up to $100 billion in merchandise, some of which is perishable. some ships have live stock and they're starting to die. 12% of global trade passes through the suez canal. consumer prices will rise every day this goes on. as we've been saying now, reports of a potential global shortage of toilet paper. carley. carley: i thought we were going to leave the toilet paper shortages in 2020 but here we are in 2021. benjamin, thank you. >> reporter: amazing. carley: unbelievable. griff. griff: carley, the white house insists our borders are not open. but lawmakers who have actually

seen the surge firsthand have a much different take. >> we're overwhelmed at the borders. it's not a crisis. it's a loss of sovereignty down there. the description i heard by the press secretary about the border, reminded me of what baghdad bob said about the iraqi war. griff: what does the issue of sovereignty say to american's adversaries. rebecca heinrich joins me now. thank you for taking time this monday morning. no one better to talk to about the implication t's to our adds veer sharelies -- adversaries, iran, russia, north korea. how do they see this? >> you don't have a country if you don't have a secure border of which the people of that country control, the government can control. and clearly the biden administration has lost complete control of who is coming through the border and it communicates something that has been very

frustrating over the trump administration, people confused about rhetoric matching policy. the biden administration has talked a big game about being humane and moral and having a compassionate policy on the border. that has led to a you humanitarian crisis. sometimes the harder thing is the moral thing, has a more humane result. what it's communicateing to our adversaries is this administration is not able to maintain the sovereignty of our country and do something as simple as have control over who comes in the united states of america. griff: so rebecca, our adversaries presume are sitting around now saying here's the poorest border, here's the administration in the name of empathy and democracy are not using enforcement anymore like the previous administration. what might they be eyeing as ways to really take advantage of it? >> well, adversaries are always

looking to see if the united states has resolve. is the united states actually going to do what is necessary to defend ourselves? so you might have a government that says, yes, we want to protect the american people. what does that mean? are you willing to do what is necessary even if it means things like sending the correct weapons to taiwan, deploying the right things, working with our allies to deploy greater military assets even when china is going to be upset about it and north korea's going to be upset about it. do we have the steel and the resolve to do what is necessary and to make hard choices and right now if we can't even close the border -- by the way, the porous border, it's incentivizing the humanitarian crisis. it's not compassionate to the people who are coming here, not compassionate to the american people. griff: you mentioned north korea. i want to ask you because north korea is doubling down on their nuclear weapons plans, saying biden's comments after the

regime's recent missile test threatened north korean sovereignty. what would you advise the administration do on north cree ya right now -- korea right now. >> president biden essentially laughed when a reporter asked butt the initial cruise missile tests and north korea followed up with ballistic missile tests, and threatened japan and u.s. forces deployed in south korea and japan. i would say tighten sanctions, keep the trump sanctions in place, deploy missile defense even though democrats have been soft and rolled it back because they believe it provocative and make sure we cooperate with our allies. the closer whoa cooperate with -- we cooperate with japan and south korea, the better to dissuade north korea and china from act ago against us and our interests. griff: rebecca, good advice on this sunday. hopefully the administration will listen and take a cue from you. carley: new video shows police

berating then handcuffing 5-year-old who left school without permission. watch. >> sit down! sit down [crying] >> stop that noise! stop that noise now! [crying] >> these are the people that tonight want to listen, don't know how to act. carley: the child's mother is suing the police department citing trauma to the boy. dr. anthony fauci takes credit for producing a coronavirus vaccine. take a listen. >> the decision we made on january the tenth to go all out and develop a vaccine may have been the best decision that i've ever made. carley: well, during the cnn special, fauci failed to give any credit to former president trump who led operation warp speeds. jason miller, a senior advisor to trump, tweeting if it were up

to fauci we still wouldn't have a covid vaccine. taking the credit though. tab somebody's got to -- griff: somebody's got to do its. san francisco is grappling with he covid and business closures but the city will give $1,000 a month to essential artists. carley: the community's demand that officials go back to the drawing board. ♪

griff: one million dollars, that's how much money new york city taxpayers reportedly front every night to house the city's homeless. carley: cheryl casone from our sister network fox business here with all the details on this one, good morning, cheryl. cheryl: good morning to both of you. new york city has been spending that amount of 60 hotels since the beginning of the pandemic. yes, over a year ago.

but a new report identified issues from open drug use to indecent exposure, fights and most recently a murder at these hotels as basically an example that this does not work. despite the fact that vaccines are available to vulnerable populations, city officials have no timeline to end the multi million dollar program. new york city assemblyman mike you lawler says enough is enough. >> well, this is a culmination of seven and-a-half years of failed leadership by bill de blasio. he has failed to adequately address the homeless crisis in new york city. it's a terrible policy both from an economic standpoint, it's a terrible policy from a societal standpoint. cheryl: and to add to that under bill de blasio as the mayor of new york, tens of thousands more now rank in the city's homeless population versus when he took office from michael bloomberg. city officials in a statement say they provide extra security.

griff: cheryl, i waited all morning to ask you about this story because in college i painted mountains of fish, put neon on one. i think i would qualify in san francisco as an essential artist to receive $1,000 a month. what are they doing out west? cheryl: they're planning to pay, quote, essential artists $1,000 a month during the pandemic. applicants have to show they actively engaged through music, dance, creative writing, visual or performance art, installation, theater or film. 130 artists have been identified for the pilot program. lisa booth says san francisco has bigger problems to fix. >> liberals always focus on the obscure while ignoring the real issues. in san francisco right now restaurants are at 50% capacity, movie theaters, 50% capacity, gyms at 25% capacity. you open those, you have more people back at work, more people

giving money to the arts. cheryl: to add to that, guys, san francisco also took all of its homeless and housed them in hotels. so they've got the same problems in that city that new york city has right now. carley: we sure do. it's a cross-continental situation. so from essential art to essential sports, what's happening with the nfl. cheryl: the nfl is expanding the regular season from 16 to 17 games. according to espn this will be announced in the next few days. the move was ratified a year ago between the nfl and player's association but several high profile players not happy about it including russell wilson. the 16 game season has been in place since 1978. a lot of players say because of the wear and tear on their bodies that it's too much for them. but oh, well, it's going to happen. carley: fans will love it. griff: an extra week for fantasy football fans to win that trophy. i like it. thanks, cheryl. carley: thanks, cheryl. let's check in to see what's

coming up on "fox & friends." i'm sure you're a fan of the 17 game season or are you. >> i am a fan. i get to watch, i don't get tackled for an extra week. the guys that actually hit each other are not happy about it. good to see you getting along. we know about the rivalry you have. you don't care about that, it's about the show. good job. major league baseball, the pga and coca-cola feeling the pressure to koi boycott georgia, golf. augusta, the masters not being played because of the georgia voting laws? activeists are calling on them to stand up against the republicans' new voting law, we'll discuss what the reality is there. former border patrol chiefs are sounding the alarm about the crisis down south. is it a crisis? blaming biden's overhaul for the acceleration of migrants coming to the u.s. a 13-year-old boy in new

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carley: a lawsuit brought by a group of new jersey parents successfully pushed public schools in some districts to return to in-person learning. now those leading the charge are advising others who want to take

legal action of their own. joining me now, president of jersey first, steven bafiko. good morning. we have heard from a lot of parents who are demanding their schools go back to in-person learning. you took things a step further by filing a lawsuit against your school in month claire, new jersey. tell us why you did that? >> good morning, carley. thanks very much for having us on again. yes, we have filed a federal suit with a group of concerned parents against both the district and the superintendent. in our community. that was done primarily out of ongoing frustration with the inability of the board of ed and the super to arrive at a reasonable solution over a reasonable timeframe with the teachers' union, given what's gone on for the last year which

has been 100% remote. we got to the point where we thought it was important for parents to get involved in order to create a strong advocacy to support young learners because students haven't had an active voice in that negotiation. carley: where are you in the lawsuit? have the schools reopened yet? >> in our district, in mont claire, new jersey, they have not. the teachers union and the board have attempted a nonbinding agreement at this point to potentially reopen the schools for a hybrid learning program by april 12th. our federal suit will continue to go on. it really doesn't change much i think for us and our position. importantly, what we're trying to do here is not only force a he reopening of the schools for in-person learning on a full-time basis, but one of the chief challenges here in new jersey is the inconsistency by district on the metrics or the

measurements that each district looks to in order to safely and successfully reopen the schools. so a big part of these suits are establishing objective measurements that are reliable not only today but in the future. carley: i can't believe, your daughter, she's 9 years old, she's been virtually learning for over a year now because mont claire is 100% virtual. she's not alone. only 17.5% of new jersey public schools are back to full in-person learning. but there's only been less than 1,000 coronavirus cases linked to schools. so what are parents -- what are teachers rather telling you or the teachers unions in the schools telling you as to why they're still learning virtually, not 100% in person? >> yeah, well, i guess it depends on what time of day you ask the question. the teachers unions have been incredibly inconsistent in the objections that they've raised, some weeks it's building safety,

other instances it's been vaccinations, other times it's been kids vaccinations. so i think the obstructionist he behavior that the teachers unions continue to exhibit in the face of an overwhelming lobby of supporting evidence, science, a successful precedent of schools reopening elsewhere, it suggests that the behavior is probably more motivated by self interest than it is the interest of the community. carley: yep. you're taking matters into your own hands. steven, thank you for joining us, telling your story. we appreciate it. >> thanks, carley. have a great day. carley: great. and we will be right back. .

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>> griff: breaking overnight, a draft of the report from the world health organization and china reportedly concluding, quote, transmission of the virus from bats to humans to another animal is the most likely sebaali narrow and that a lab leak is extremely unlikely. carley: expert are already questioning it and congresswoman joins you live. >> the report is out. world health organization and china say it was an accident through animals not a lab leak. former cdc director robert redfield has a different take. take a listen to what he has to say. >> i am of the point of view that i still think the most

likely etiology of this pathogen in wuhan was from a laboratory, escaped. other people don't believe that that's fine. science will eventually figure it out. carley: what's your reaction to this situation? do you trust this report? [laughter] >> well, good morning, and, actually, we learned over the last year that, no, we really can't trust anything coming out of the w.h.o. you know, they were complicit in the beginning of covid, working with the chinese government to obstruct deny access, and really lead the world down a path that ultimately cost lives. and global economy. you know, this is insane that now they are coming back saying that this originated from a bat. and we remember seeing the images of these meat markets where the horrific conditions just make your stomach turn and i can see, yes, there is definitely no sanitation there when you are looking at these chinese meat markets with all

these exotic animals. let's be clear. this virus has been tracked to china, to mainland, china, the data suggests as that gentleman just said that this originated in a lab. i haven't had an opportunity to go through the report exhaustively but i can't really say definitively, again, the credibility of the w.h.o. has been tainted ever since they were working with the chinese government to cover up the origins of this and then, of course, we know all our data modeling was skewed moving forward, which, again, cost us lives. and it is just unconscionable what the w.h.o. has done. so i don't put very much credence into anything that is published from that organization. '. carley: so true. griff: take confidence we have learned from that team that's doing the report they will continue research in every area except for the lab leak hypothesis. quickly, congresswoman, before i lose you, one other topic i wanted to get your thoughts on and this is in this first 100

days, president biden is proving to be quite a spender now pushing another coronavirus recovery bill on top of the 1.9 trillion package that already exists. what are your thoughts? >> well, i wish they would stop calling it a code relief package because as we saw just a few weeks ago, the massive $1.9 trillion spending pill was anything but a covid relief package. let's just call it what it is this is a biden and nancy pelosi wish list of liberal leftist agenda items. this is the green new deal. this is universal healthcare. all wrapped up into one at the expense of you and i. they just want to garnish the wages of our children and grandchildren. we already are seeing inflation. we are already seeing sequestration. we cannot survive this as a country if they keep spending at these levels. we are approaching $30 trillion in debt. carley: you are absolutely right about that. the big question is how to pay for all of this and a lot of people think that, you know, tax increases are definitely coming

down the pipeline. we will get your reaction to that next time. congressman kat, thank you very much for joining us this morning we appreciate it. griff: thank you. >> thank you so much. happy monday. carley: all right. and "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> you are being less transparent than the trump administration. >> we are committed to allowing cameras into the border patrol facility. >> please give dignity to the people. >> you were hired two weeks ago and you are entrusted to ask us to not have any pictures taken. >> refloat the colossal container ship blocking the sue he see canal. >> $10 billion lost every day. >> oorigins of the covid-19 pandemic. >> you are saying china did the investigation? >> pretty much that was it. >> imagine if we had asked the soviet union to do a co-investigation of chernobyl. it doesn't really make sense. >> right here is where little uighurs normally would play. as you can