>> 4100 subjects in this location, 700% over capacity. jillian: cramped in cages, shocking images show thousands of children inside migrant facilities as texas rangers thrown into the rio grande river. a live report. >> biden's spending spree, the president expected to roll out his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, how will he pay for it?

by raising taxes. jillian: an unconscious man from a burning car. the incredible rescue, and camera. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪♪ will: you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. carley: i love that patriotic intro, made in the usa. great way to start this wednesday morning. griff: it would be a good one. demi lovato. the infrastructure will include a lot of things. carley: we are sure it will. a shocking video, unaccompanied children crammed inside a texas facility.

griff: mary a referee with more including the rescue of a 6-month back child from the rio grande river. >> reporter: shocking images from cramped border facilities, migrants stacked wall-to-wall, many unaccompanied children, many feel the capacity is overrun. >> it is 250, previously the total capacity, 4100 in this location. we are over capacity, 700% overcapacity. >> reporter: the 4000, 400 unaccompanied minors, 250 to 300 unaccompanied kids taken into custody, an average of 5 days.

during one, a mother through her 6-month back into the rio grande river, the infant fortunately was rescued by a texas ranger. the mother telling agents it was broken by smugglers who attacked her. one senator visited the border. >> when interdicted, and that is how these children drowned. they sell children. the biden administration knows these things and dismantles what worked. mark jillian: this and the biden administration scrabbling to find temporary shelters. on tuesday 500 boys at an army base in el paso, texas and dhs confirming 82 teens are covid positive that another makeshift shelter at the san diego convention center. as the scenes continue to

unfold, kamala harris tasked with that, reached out to guatemala's president tweeting she would discuss coordinated action to discuss root causes of migration to the us. texas governor greg abbott writing a letter demanding answers and pleading to head to the border to see firsthand. he says, quote, i urge you to visit the border, and the biden administration to take swift action to secure the border. in imperial county, california, a tractor-trailer. carley: thank you, marianne. griff: as more images surface from the border, president biden has no one to blame but himself. >> the biden crisis, the important thing to understand is political decisions joe biden

made caused this crisis, three in particular. he holds the construction of the border wall, reinstated the catch and release policy and into the remain in mexico international agreement which stopped this, the lowest illegal immigration in 45 years, right now have the highest illegal immigration in 20 years, it was preventable and it was joe biden's fault. >> a new poll showing most americans are not happy with president biden's handling of the border, 53%, 34% do approve. what we saw, these images, shocking to lawmakers, americans and everyone in the country except for the officials in the rio grande valley, who saw this coming.

>> >> i will not get into the weeds but here comes infrastructure. to announce $2 trillion in the infrastructure plan. it includes a tax hike, a really big one. they roll it out today. one thing is for certain. it will not have republicans support. >> a big concern over this $2 trillion infrastructure plan is going to be how to pay it. $2 trillion covid 19 relief bill was just past, a $1,400 stimulus check and now some democrats are demanding president biden do this on a recurring basis, they

wrote joe biden a letter, and we urge you to include direct payments, automatic unemployment insurance inspection coming to economic conditions in your billback better long-term economic plan. we are pleased the american rescue plan included a 1-time direct payment, a single direct payment will not last long. nearly half of all senate democrats signed that letter, checks including bernie sanders, elizabeth warren. the question is now that the economy is getting up and running is it time to dole out more money like that? >> reporter: who doesn't like recurring free money. here is the thing. our own larry kudlow who did deal with these things in the last administration is warning

that this could lead to universal basic income. >> buried it in the plan is something called social infrastructure which will be a massive expansion of the welfare state with no work incentives. checks and unemployment insurance. more unemployment insurance gets you more unemployment, we are looking at universal basic income plan before this is said and done. before the 3 and $4 trillion price tag, end to fossil fuels, the biggest tax hike since 1942 along with gigantic expansion of the welfare state this is a transformational bill. carley: this infrastructure plan will talk about roads, bridgees, infrastructure, white house

press secretary jen psaki said we should be thirteenth in the nation infrastructure which is true, america needs a facelift but as larry kudlow points out you have to read the fine print to see what is in the bill. >> it will be broken into two part, more details throughout the morning. carley: turning to some headlines, off-duty minneapolis firefighter will return to the stand in the george floyd murder trial after a teenager who filled floyd's arrest took the stand yesterday with an emotional testimony. apologized to george floyd for not doing more, not saving his life. >> reporter: x officer derek chauvin's attorney argues police were district by the crowd surrounding them during the encounter with floyd. chauvin faces 40 years in prison if convicted.

griff: the mastermind by the watergate break-in has died, gordon liddy organized the plot to place wiretaps in the democratic national committee headquarters in 1972. he spent 4 and a half years in prison for conspiracy for illegal wiretapping. his son says he died in virginia after suffering several medical issues. he was 90 years old. jillian: the faa will investigate the crash of space x's starship prototype during the landing attempt. the live stream of the flight, not clear what happened but space x ceo elon musk said something significant happened shortly after landing. meanwhile musk is asking people to consider moving to texas where he is testing to incorporate the city of derby.

griff: march madness center is ucla beats number one michigan, 51-49 and enhancing the run to the final four. saturday after the bulls win in an 85-66 blowout against usc. a referee collapsing in the first half of the game leading the court on a stretcher for an unknown medical issue. he is said to be in stable condition. to the ladies, the women's final four is set with three number one seeds advancing to the tournament. it will be a hoops kind of weekend for sure. 11 minutes after the hour. san diego parents outraged their children are forced to learn from home while migrant children get in person classes was one mom demanding schools reopen. carley: britney speaking out, the popstar says she is embarrassed by the controversial documentary. ♪♪ lives of six million jews

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>> the public schools are opening in early april and these kids are going back to school for hybrid learning and also on spring break so these teachers, not sure if it is volunteer, you will have to ask the local school districts, while the kids are on spring break. context is important. >> reporter: the teachers are on spring break, the white house on defense, teachers in san diego will offer in person learning to migrant children while 100,000 american students in the city are still learning virtually. griff: reopen san diego has been fighting to get kids back in class for months. allison harmon joins us now. thank you for joining us and i assume you are upset about this.

san diego county office of education statement first and get your reaction. they fail children in california regardless of immigration status have a constitutional right to education and a moral obligation to ensure a bright future for our children. your reaction? >> my reaction is i agree. why are kids not in school? carley: you speak for a lot of people. the other element is 700 girls in the convention center, 82%, or 82 of them tested positive for covid 19. that is a 9% positivity rate, that is 82 students in the san diego high school tested positive for covid, the school was shuts down in these teachers would understandably be upset

and they are going into these convention centers after months of fighting to stay out of classrooms. >> they will be volunteering which as i understand it, no pay. as a parent in san diego and somebody who has been fighting, unpaid by the way, my kids out of zoom school because it was horrible experience for them, out of textbooks, i didn't want them trapped online all day, yanked around, 2 hours a day, 2 days a week or whatever they were planning and trying to find out within a day of these immigrant kids who i have the utmost compassion for all kids believe me. to find out that within a day we

got a plan for education in place, in person. a slap on the face. griff: i want to show that staff, 9% of kids in that convention center test positive while 0.00.8% of residents are infected. for the year that you fought to get it reopened teachers said we can't go into the school because we are worried about covid but yet now as soon as the convention center opens up with 10% infection rate they rush in. what message does that send from the teachers? >> as a former public school teacher i am pretty disappointed. teachers know how important what they do is to them. seeing how these teachers jumped

into service these immigrant kids who need caring adults. if it was not safe i doubt they would have done that. to me it says a political thing, not about safety and that is disappointing because one more thing i want to bring up, i know from first-hand accounts our icu is pulling kids out of attempted suicide, getting addicted to drugs, having fentanyl overdoses. they need to be back in school. >> the mental health aspect of this on kids cannot be overstated. how much it has affected them. schools will reopen in san diego april 12th on a hybrid model. maybe this will push teachers to enter classrooms 5 days a week. thank you for joining us, appreciate it.

griff: russian hackers steal thousands of state department emails was what we are learning about the latest cyber attack. carley: the nra taking on president biden's push for gun-control. >> dealing with rational gun-control. the only gun control ever passed was mine. it will happen again. carley: executive director says the new legislation will restrict americans rights without stopping gun violence. he explains next.

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wondering if i am doing rational gun-control. the only gun control ever passed is mine. it will happen again. griff: the national rifle association ready to take out president biden as he looks to past richter gun laws. membership is surging and they are aggressively fighting. joining me to explain, executive director, jason ouimet. i want to get to what is in congress right now but first address if you will the narrative that the nra is weekend after turmoil in recent years. >> thanks for having me. the nra is not weakened at all. we are strong as we have ever been, growing at 1000 members per day since the beginning of january so we are fully ready to fight this, fully engaged in this, we are as strong as ever

and our members are ready to fight alongside us. griff: chris murphy was on meet the press this weekend. he said that you have lost a lot. here's what murphy said. >> i got a lot of calls from republicans in the senate who don't want to fight this fight any longer because the nra's authority is fading, we have a chance. griff: your reaction. >> just because chris murphy says it doesn't mean it is throughout all. can control is in the answer. it has never been the answer. passing legislation that makes it harder to get firearms from our biting individuals doesn't make anybody safer except the criminals. that is what this bill would do. doesn't do anything to make anybody safer. it will not stop the problems that are going on and can't be enforced without a federal registry which will be paid for

at taxpayer expense and the exemptions in this bill are merely lipservice, there are no legitimate exemptions to this bill at all. this is straight up gun-control which is a step in the direction of greater gun-control and murphy said himself this was just the first step. griff: for viewers to explain, this is a bill passed by the house that has new background check requirements or transfers between private parties and the background check review from 3 to 10 days. what do you predict becomes of these bills in the senate when the senate splits 50/50? >> we will put everything we've got behind us, arm our members with the fact so they do what they always do, email, text, right there senators and tell them gun-control is not the answer.

we will have significant financial support behind this effort. the nra has never been on the sidelines, we will not be on the sidelines in this fight and we expect this gun-control as gun-control in the past is going to fail. griff: jason ouimet, it will be interesting to follow, thanks. >> happy to be with you. carley: the time is 27 minutes after the hour. the first college to require students to be vaccinated before returning to campus but should vaccines be required to get an in person education? california county handing out universal basic income but only to women of color. the proposal sparking controversy coming up. ♪♪

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griff: good morning, benjamin. >> reporter: despite cyberattacks, despite the cyberdefenses they had in place, russia and other countries able to hack into government deep arms, we don't have any details about this attack but according to politico the hackers stole emails from the apartments, and classified networks, and we are not in position to discuss the nature or scope of any alleged cyber security instance. a vulnerable piece of software to hack the nuclear security administration and department, the russian attack may have been the biggest in government history.

and as well as sanctions, national security, unseen measures taking place. counteroffensive cyber security action. and terrain in this amount of hacking. >> you, thank you for joining us, live from london, appreciate it. the head of the world health organization says more legislation is needed to rollout covid 19 emerged from the chinese lab. it was the least likely cause. the who released its report on the origins of covid saying it most likely came from bats. white house press secretary jen psaki responding to the report

saying americans deserve, quote, better information. >> the american people, the global community, medical experts, doctors, all the people working to save lives, families who lost loved ones all deserve greater transparency. carley: the white house is still reviewing the report. republican senator john kennedy says there's a simple solution to getting answers, money. >> we are going to have to go cat woman on the world health organization and by that you've got to take away their money. what president biden needs to do is join with canada, australia, japan and south korea and every other country that puts up money for the who and say we are not giving you any money until you demand china all out in an independent group of researchers to have unfettered discretion to find out if the virus leaked from a lab and to find out its

origin. griff: going and can only senator kennedy, president biden rejoined the who after donald trump pulled the us out. carley: vaccine passports could be the new normal, rutgers university announcing proof of vaccination will be required for all students planning to attend this fall but should colleges be allowed to require you to get the vaccine? here to discuss his democratic analyst guy vincent. good morning to you both. how do you feel about these vaccine passports? should colleges be demanding people get vaccines before returning to class? >> rutgers is the first one else vaccines will be required but it is not going to be the last. this is a decision every college and university is going to make and they owe it to their

students to make their decisions now so the students know what is expected of them and if a student is skeptical of the vaccine they can make their college decision accordingly. this vaccine is wonderful progress, there are students telling campus reform they have questions about it or may be holding off for religious or medical reasons. rutgers's policy allows for that and i would hope other colleges would do the same because if there is anything we have learned in the past year in this country it is mandates just don't work. there are too many unique human situations for one rule to apply to everyone. colleges need to stake their claim early and students deserve the right to make their decisions based on that information. >> i believe schools have a right and can and should require

vaccines as a condition for students attending in person. we have all seen the public health risk that covid has created killing over 500,000 people. i believe the schools have the ability to make this decision if they want to as a condition to those attending school in person. this is not a new concept. this has been decided by the supreme court in 1905 with jacobson versus the commonwealth of massachusetts case where smallpox vaccines were required to attend schools. the supreme court decided states can enact laws like this to consider the public health and safety of those inhabitants within the state. rules can certainly require this. it is necessary to protect to those students at the school and more schools should follow their lead. carley: some rutgers students were asked how they feel about requiring to get vaccines.

>> it is really quiet. you don't see a lot of people -- >> i just want to have everything back to normal. if we get this then it will go back to normal. carley: they just want things to go back to normal, just two people, no discussion of infringement on rights. >> personal rights don't disappear when there is a public health emergency and students know that. they told campus reform they believe extended school closures are motivated by politics, not science. students want to be back in the classroom and if there shot in the arm is part of the cost of admission to do that they are going to be willing to make that happen. it is important to remember schools are reopening successfully even before there was a vaccine. schools like notre dame, liberty university bring students back to campus and do it in a way

before anyone receives the shot. carley: critics vaccine passports on a federal level say it is just another government infringement, first it was masks, then business closures, then restrictions on gatherings, holidays and now vaccine passports mandating people get a vaccine. what do you say to that? >> i do not think it is a political decision. it is a scientific decision. we have seen colleges like duke university have an outbreak, students are required to be in dorms and quarantine. we know that schools and states want to enact laws and the federal government to protect the public health and safety of those individuals. these colleges and universities want to make sure laws are enacted and protecting students health overall.

carley: great discussion, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. griff: us attorney general merrick garland orders a review to track hate crimes. garland writes, quote, the disturbing trend and reports of violence about the asian american community requires renewed energy. we must commit ourselves to this urgent task. it calls for a review if additional funding is required for law enforcement efforts about hate crimes. new york city mayor bill deblasio slammed the disgusting assault on a 65-year-old asian woman. he condemns bystanders for not stepping in and urged new yorkers to call for help if they witness an attack. the third lawsuit filed in response to georgia's new voting law, the complaint argues legislation suppresses minority voters rights.

washington post is calling out president biden for falsely claiming it ends voting hours early, the president said the new bill halted voting at 5:00 when people are still working but polling places are open until 7:00 pm. the new law does not change the time. >> britney spears broke her silence on the new york times framing britney spears documentary. the 39-year-old posted this video of her dancing and wrote in part i didn't watch the documentary but from what i did see if it i was embarrassed by the light they put me. i cried for two weeks and i still cry sometimes. spears writing how dancing brings her joy, the film that went into her conservatorship sparked a lot of interest in the free britney movement. griff: police say the driver from a burning car, the rescue,

and camera in phoenix. the officer breaking the window the fire extinguisher to pull being conscious driver out of the car, doing chest compressions bringing him essentially back to life. the man is recovering at a hospital. griff: we thank our hero officers who do stuff like that every single day. heroism defined indeed. still ahead as more migrants overwhelm the border congresswoman ocasio cortez plays word police. >> what about the surge? this is not a surge. these are children. griff: the blowback she is facing next.

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carley: the california county is testing universal basic income based on gender and race. students must be women of color with a child under the age of 18. the program is being funded by the marion county and marion county community foundation. the foundation's ceo denied the program is discriminatory saying it is laser focused on the area of greatest need. griff: turning to the border. one border official, deputy

chief raul ortiz, i man i've known for many years and interviewed many times, when he says something you can count on it, here's saying he expect to encounter 1 million migrants this year. look at the numbers just in that donna facility, 4100 migrants at capacity and covid rules for 250, that is well over a 700% increase. unbelievable. carley: cameras were allowed for the first time in the donna facility and you saw kids ramped in tight places, 700% capacity. a lot has been made of semantics. what should you call this. one more word into the mix, aoc says it is not a surge.

>> what about the surge? just got check, stop. anyone using the term surge around here consciously, to investigate a militaristic frame, these are children and they are not insurgents. we are not being invaded. carley: wasn't it president biden who said he encouraged migrants to quite literally surge the border? that is the word he used and if you remember 100,000 migrants were encountered at the border in february, dan patrick is not happy with what aoc had to say. >> what aoc says continues to be idiotic and irresponsible. we had a texas ranger save the baby who was thrown in the river

recently. a child drowned in the river, 10,000 overflowing at various bases, federal facilities and private facilities and private governments taking over. aoc if she isn't idiotic in what she says then she knows better and is lying to the american people about what she says. i am fed up. griff: he is fed up because the numbers simply tell the story. do we still call it a challenge? it was a challenge as one point, why they continue to define different semantics. the numbers don't lie. carley: what it is is a problem that needs a solution. still ahead the hits keep coming for george gascon, the

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griff: los angeles's liberal district attorney releasing hundreds of inmates back to the streets over covid medical concerns, hiding behind hipaa laws when asked to justify it. inmates of been released, officials are told they have no say in the manner, los angeles to the district attorney who joined me now, hatami a lot of

viewers are puzzling about this. >> thank you for having me. george gascon's policies, only goal is releasing as many inmates and prisoners as he can. the sad and painful reality is dead children, dead people have no voice. murderers do. george gascon's policies and directives only want to amplify the voice of criminals, inmates and murderers over victims and survivors. he will release criminal and blame it on covid even after inmates have been fully vaccinated. he wants to allow 20 to 30,000 inmates who served 15 years in prison to be released. they are only dangerous to

families. victims and survivors to not make a choice and these policies are dangerous, do not help the public at all and all they do is help the criminal. are you safer now the george gascon has taken office or not? the clear answer is no, you are not safer. griff: gascon's office shutdown, explain what is going on. >> it is sad. what is happening is we are being prevented from doing our job. my job is to represent the people, represent you, represent victims, do the right thing and fight for justice, i am being prevented from doing that, district attorneys prevented from doing that. we are not allowed to question

the california department of corrections. if they make a decision we are not allowed to say we want to see proof that the inmates have covid or the inmate does have some type of issue that deals with this. we are not allowed to do that. basically what we are told is inmates say they have a high risk for covid or some issues even if they were fully vaccinated they are about to be released. >> they are defending releasing inmates putting out a statement saying this series of actions driven by the goal of ensuring the health of our incarcerated population and staff, the prison population will alleviate the impact on local hospitals that provide emergency care to individuals, prisons experiencing outbreaks and also fails to take into account the safety of the community.

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griff: wednesday march 3, '01, president biden's border crisis, for the first time cameras were allowed to capture the thousands of children in the facility as other images like this when showing a 6-month back how dire the situation is. carley: we are learning the details of the biden administration's $2 trillion infrastructure plan. and pending tactics to pay for it.