i was paid handsomely. i don't want to say text act number. i was paid very well. a bad thing if he sat there and said i made millions. >> dana: if he doesn't want to say it it probably means it was a lot. martha maccallum >> the white house is growing chaos. this is "the faulkner focus" i'm in today for harris. stunning numbers as the feds say they have encountered more than 171,000 migrants in the month of march alone. take a good look at that number. look at the year-over-year number. 34,000 in march of 2020. anybody that tells you there is not a huge escalation here is simply not looking at the numbers. and the latest sign that the border crisis is picking up.

more than 18,000 migrant children and teenagers are now packed in the facilities you see on the lower screen. the d.e.a. is warning that smugglers, because of all this movement, now have dramatically more turnt to sneak narcotics over the border while this is going on. at the same time, deportations are falling dramatically under the biden administration. so the arizona governor doug doocy weighing in saying the white house is in total denial pointing to what the dhs secretary told him. >> secretary mayorkas and i had a conversation. i felt at the end of the conversation he was divorced by reality. he tried to sign off by saying to me the border is secure. and i pushed back and said mr. secretary, that type of communication will ring with complete inauthenticity in the state of arizona.

the border is not secure. >> we're live in mcallen. >> we're at the d.e.a. warehouse, 26,000 pounds of marijuana worth $9 million. all of this will get burned up in oklahoma. the d.e.a. says it's a growing issue. number of migrants is clearing the way for smugglers to get some of these drugs into the country. so far in 2021 the d.e.a. here has seized 866 pounds of cocaine, 75 pounds of heroin, 4,000 pounds of meth and 28,000 pounds of marijuana. from the 2019 to 2020 fiscal year the amount of fentanyl seizures blew up by almost 600%. this year it has confiscated double what it found in 2020. >> seizures that were made from 2019 to 2020 could essentially kill half the population of

america. what we made so far on pace to see this year to kill the other half. >> here is a live look at the rio grande valley with our drone crew. we've seen migrant crossings today. the administration pointed to the root cause of the issue of the crisis in central america. a special envoy will travel to guatemala and el salvador to speak with leaders this week. >> these numbers are certainly -- we are not naive about the challenge. what our focus is solutions and actions to help address the unaccompanied minors. >> more than 18,000 children are in u.s. custody as new centers around the country continue to fill. the critics argue the situation here at the border is not only a humanitarian problem but also a security crisis. when looking at security video the dea and border agents say there is a clear distinction between migrants seeking safety or mules carrying drugs.

the two groups take separate routes. smugglers sticking to tunnels, boats or private roads. most of the drug shipments here arrive by 18 wheeler. take a look at this pack here what a backpack would look like filled with marijuana. the ropes acting as the straps for people carrying this over the border. as far as the migrants we have seen ourselves in the time on the border they are mainly families holding children or small bags. the only belongings that they can carry. >> thank you very much. extraordinary images from the warehouse in mcallen, texas. let's bring in the vice president of the national border council. nice to speak with you once again. i just want to play this from senator john barrasso over the weekend about his trip down there and this disconnect between this narrative coming out of the white house that the border is closed, and what is actually going on there. watch this.

>> we were told to delete the pictures. no one did. you have seen the video coming out of all of these kids crammed together under the foil blankets huddling together. they are only allowed to be there for three days by law. you wouldn't want your own kids to be there for three minutes. many are staying up to 10 days. >> what's going on here and how can anyone say the borders are closed when the numbers are up so dramatically? >> i'm glad you bring up the numbers. the numbers you bring up are numbers being portrayed. things that you can actually find. what is not being talked about is drug seizures are up. unaccompanied jaouf nils coming across the border are up but is also very up is the gotaway numbers. the individuals the first off the number is just a guess and no one knows twha their intentions are. that is happening because agents are being moved to other areas to take care of the

unaccompanied juveniles. drugs are coming across. what we're catching is what's being shown. right now nationwide there are over 141,000 gotaways. tucson sector alone this year so far we're at over 41,000. they lead the country in gotaways. those numbers are much more scary. those are the individuals that you have no clue who they are. you have no clue where they are coming from. or their intentions. they don't have good intentions because they've gone the extra steps to make sure they don't get caught. that's a domino effect. agents are being put in positions like the unaccompanied juvenile camps to be able to sort out all that paperwork. so now other individuals are coming through with the drugs, the cartels. it is a bon anz yeah for that.

>> it is difficult to catch them because you have such a huge glut of people and human beings coming across in the other areas, art. what is this like for the people in the border patrol who in many cases are no longer at the checkpoints, right? they've been pulled off the checkpoints. >> it is very frustrating because you are trying to go out there. they are doing their job and they are very good at it. but they need help with policies. they need help with some of the things that were being done in the prior administration. you expect policies to change when you get a new administration. what you don't expect is for policies to be eliminated with no policies in their place to fix the issue. and that is what is being seen across the border right now. obviously the holding cells being overcapacity. that's all a big deal. but i'm worried about the future because all these gotaways, people need to start

paying more attention to them. we don't know what their intentions are coming into the u.s. the numbers they're showing i don't believe that's a true number. i don't think that's 50% of what is actually coming across. >> give us the gotaway number again you think may be double. >> right now the gotaway numbers nationwide are 141,000, tucson sector is leading with 41,000 and counting. >> over what time period? >> for this fiscal year so far. >> incredible. headline in the "wall street journal." deportations of arrests of immigrants in the united states illegally fall sharply under biden. what's the posture? ice arrests are down by 2/3. we know there was so much pushback against ice even from the vice president and kamala harris who is supposedly in charge of some of the diplomatic side of all of this. tell me about that. >> look.

there is a fix and i believe the fix is you get more immigration judges, you get more asylum officers and move them towards the border. put them there so they're actually fast tracking some of these false asylum claims. when you create a magnet and tell criminals there won't be any consequences for their crimes, more criminals start coming across because they won't face consequences. they need to figure out how to put back the remain in mexico policy that was huge. that deterred false claims of asylum. right now there is no actual way to deter them and they just having a field day coming across that border. >> do you believe the majority of people are being sent back? that's what the administration continues to say. >> there is a group that are being sent back. that's always going to be there. the problem is there is a mass majority that wasn't there before that are coming across like the unaccompanied juveniles, family units and, of course, these gotaways which

somebody needs to start paying attention. >> that's a huge question mark landing in somebody's backyard with not a lot of trail attached to them in terms of who they are and why they're here. art, thank you very much. good to speak with you today. >> thank you. >> maybe the queen of twitter but when it comes to making laws, alexandria ocasio-cortez ranks among the least effective members of congress if you break down the numbers. new details on a study how effective she actually is. a stunning admission from hunter biden breaking his silence on his business dealings with burisma and the laptop that got so much attention before the election. what it could mean for the f.b.i.'s probe of his finances. >> it does not specifically talk about your laptop. >> yeah. >> was that your laptop? >> for real i don't know. i really don't know. >> you don't know yes or no?

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>> did you make a mistake taking a spot on that board? >> no, i don't think i made a mistake in taking a spot on the board. i think i made a mistake in terms of underestimating the way in which it would be used against me. >> but you must have seen the optics >> because i really didn't. i'm being as honest with you as i possibly can. >> martha: no regrets. hunter biden defending his decision to take a lucrative seat and paid handsomely for the job being on the board of a ukraine energy company while thinks father was the vice president of the united states. he was overseeing ukraine in the capacity as vice president. he says it wasn't a good look. a tearful interview discusses

his battle with drug addiction. the president's son claims he quote, couldn't remember if he had left a laptop at a delaware repair shop. that became the center of a "new york post" expo say about his dealings with the energy tirm burisma and that story was blocked. "new york post" writes this. he conceded the laptop was his opening a door about scrutiny about his scams and influence peddling. the door must stay open until america gets the truth. "new york post" columnist michael goodwin joins me now. you do something when i do. when there is a story you keep the pieces of the story as it comes out because you get the feeling that you may need to go back to those articles and back to what was said down the road. you say that's exactly what you did when this hunter biden story came out back in october and you were glad you held onto

them. in retrospect, what's in there that you used when you look at this new interview with hunter biden? >> thank you, martha. i think primarily the most important thing to remember here is that what tony bobulinski, the partner of hunter biden and jim biden, hunter's uncle and joe's brother, tony bobulinski came forward last october and said that he was the ceo of this company they were forming with a chinese conglomerate and he himself met with joe biden about the deal. that joe biden was the secret partner in the deal. that they had set aside 10% for the big guy, and that hunter often referred to his father as the big guy. and another partner in their wrote to tony bobulinski never mention joe face-to-face. joe's involvement because they

are paranoid about it. so the fact that joe biden was involved in this deal i think is the essential issue. and hunter, you know, his convenient not sure about the laptop, i think the interviewer at cbs made an honest effort. the follow-up question should have been it is not about the laptops per se but those are the contents. the emails that showed there was this deal with the chinese energy company, ron johnson's senate committee found that hunter and the family got $11 million from the chinese after the deal fell apart. what was that money for? so you have all of this confluence of the biden family making money from burisma, from china, from other places where joe biden was involved. joe biden was going to china a lot as vice president. hunter flew with him on air force 2 and made a deal while his father was in the country

meeting with vice president xi then. are we supposed to believe none of that happened? hunter was just such a junkie that these things didn't really happen and he is really a victim? come on. >> martha: there is a lot of focus on his addiction which anybody can be sympathetic to but it throws a cloud around a lot of this other information that needs to be nailed down and documented. you make a great point, michael. he says yes, it could be my laptop. i don't remember dropping it off. the contents on the laptop that was backed up by tony bobulinski saying those emails are real. i'm cced on them and that's what matters here. the press reaction just to remind everyone in a stunning admission by npr, which came out and issued a mea culpa and essentially said we said this was russian disinformation. let's put it on the screen.

it says correction, a previous version of this story about hunter biden's laptop said u.s. intelligence had discredited the laptop story. u.s. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect. it is pretty stunning, michael, the way that this story was treated and now that he is bringing it back into the limelight himself, some at least npr has had to back pedal. >> i wrote on sunday the door to this now has to remain open. there is a way to do that. there are a lot of good, honest journalists in washington who do not work for the legacy media corporate cover-ups and they can be asking joe biden at press conferences if they ever get called on but they can ask jen psaki any day about the laptop and emails, about what it says about joe biden. ultimately this is about joe biden. it is not just hunter's laptop

and what hunter or others wrote. it is about the president of the united states being potentially compromised in regard to our relations with china. that's what senator ron johnson has said that he feels this is an open invitation for blackmail because the biden family has taken so much money not just from businesses in china, but from the communist government-related businesses. that's a very significant development. i think this is something the media ought to be on every day like a dog after a bone. >> martha: 10 for the big guy is a stunning statement and as we say, tony bobulinski said he often referred to him that way. we need to get to the bottom of it and these questions need to be asked especially since china is such an enormous part of the foreign policy challenge the united states faces right now. michael goodwin, great piece. always good to see you from the "new york post." thank you for being here today.

coming up border apprehensions reaching levels we haven't seen in decades. but we have not heard from the person who is tasked with handling this crisis and the countries that are involved in it. vice president kamala harris. where was she this weekend and where is she today? we'll tell you. then there is this. >> every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and reject the culture which facts themselves are manipulated or made up. and joe biden has broken his own rule. 84 days and now he has lied to the american people. >> president biden accused of stoking anger over georgia's new voting law as democrats put pressure on corporations to fight back. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way

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5:00. it doesn't. they go from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. former new jersey governor chris christie had this to say about the president over the weekend. watch this. >> he is lying about this bill. he has lied to the american people about it to cause the raging fire he said he would put out. he is lying to cause racial divisions in this country. that's what he accused donald trump and doing. he is a liar and a hypocrite. >> martha: forceful from governor christie. after president biden voiced support moving the all-star game out of georgia saying i think it is morally reprehensible and disgusting he is perpetuating blackmail over the lie. he said this about the president. still relatively early in the biden presidency. patterns are hard to discern but there are three claims president biden has made that appear impervious to fact checking given he has said them at least three times.

ari fleischer former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. good to have you here today. your thoughts on this from the big picture at this point. >> this is what bad reporting and a demagog can to do a country. the reporting on the georgia law was terrible from the start. anybody who could claim it is jim crow 2.0 needs to be ignored. americans don't pass jim crow laws anymore. it's as if racial progress hasn't been made and people revert back to the worst things they can say of their opponents and joe biden traffics in it. when he was up against mitt romney's campaign in 2012. milquetoast than mitt rock re. he said they want to put you back in chains to a black audience. he calls it jim crow on steroids now. as a result major league

baseball, delta airlines have tucked their tails and been intimidated and created a bigger political crisis for themselves. >> martha: it is embarrassing for these companies how knee jerk and quickly they jump into the politicalization. states are red or blue. we'll have corporations that are red or blue. it really is mind-boggling. the "washington post" has four pinocchioed a number of things. a lot of folks are ganging in on this. look at this from cbs news. they put out a headline on fighting the georgia law that says three ways companies can help fight georgia's restrictive new voting law, ari. >> this is activism, not journalism and why the american people are breaking into two. that break is terrible for

america and sports, major league baseball and corporate america played into the break. here is what should have been done on the georgia law by major league baseball. they should have said there are good and smart people who think the law is a mistake. there are good and smart people who think the law was reasonable. baseball brings people together. we will not get involved in this issue. it's not har part of it. when the press gets something wrong from the start and interest groups rise up and put on pressure on presidents, ceos and commissioners and forces their hand which happened here. i wish there were leaders who could follow facts. >> martha: somebody has to get a spine and not make the knee jerk reaction and say thank you for your input. let's take a look at the law and let's actually see what's in here. we have conservatives and democrats who are baseball

lovers and who like to fly an delta and drink coke. look at this from senator rubio who wrote to the mlb commissioner. i'm under no illusion you intend to resign as a member of augusta national golf club. it would require personal sacrifice as to the virtue signaling moving the all-star game from atlanta. point well made? >> point well made. think about the poor city that will get this game. half their fans will celebrate it. half will boycott it. that city will be judged on a political basis not baseball basis. this is a lose/lose and why you don't go in this road if you are in a sports business. i do get involved in these style of issues. it doesn't win. there is no up side. if the law was jim crow 2.0 then and only then should people be doing what they are doing. when you make the false assessment from the start that this law is racist, this law is

jim crow you have doomed all reasonable judgment from that point forward. there are some things worth fighting for. this was not it. >> martha: meanwhile i want to get one other topic. the border crisis still a big concern obviously. there is no indication if we hear from the vice president kamala harris who president biden on national television tasked with addressing the root causes of migration to our southern border. joe concha calling out a lack of leadership here. watch this. >> no one appears to be in charge of this, right? the president of the united states said okay, my vice president is charged with fixing the problem. then they move the deck chairs around and say it's diplomacy. who is overlooking this crisis exactly? >> great point by joe concha. president biden assigned vice president harris a mission that can't be accomplished. he asked her to solve the

problems of honduras, columbia, el salvador. they are coming because the united states is a better economy and country. you can't fix that. that's what he has assigned her to do to get at the root causes. no amount of money in the world to solve the problems. they have to deal with their issues. we can help on the margins but it won't slow down the wave of illegal people. you need border security and compassion for the people who are here legally. the people who make america a better country. you don't open the borders as joe biden and ka*fm hair has done. i don't blame her for hiding. she has no good answers to hard questions. >> martha: thanks, ari. coming up the texas rangers are set to be the first professional sports team to reopen at full 100% capacity at the ballpark today. we're live on the ground at the field. exclusive new details about a

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>> martha: 4.1 magnitude earthquake near los angeles. hollywood park three miles from the los angeles international airfield. top earners in new york city would pay the highest combined local tax rate in the country. the move to move out of new york city. cdc says fully vaccinated people can travel without testing or self-quarantining

afterwards. they still urge caution. more than 165 million doses of the vaccine administered in the united states so far. which is great news. we have to keep that going. we're learning more about the case of maya millete who disappeared in early january. a member of her family telling fox news days before she disappeared maya warned them if anything were to happen to her, her husband would likely be behind it. now there are new allegations of a murder for hire scheme. jonathan hunt live with this chilling story from los angeles. hi, jonathan. >> the most damaging accusation by the family is that in january just before she disappeared 39-year-old maya was on a camping trip with family members and told them if anything happened to me, it would be larry. presumably meaning her husband, larry millete. that statement coming into

foxnews.com via a family member who wishes to remain anonymous. she was last seen january 7 where the couple lives the same day she made an appointment with a divorce attorney. her brother-in-law said she and her husband had been having trouble in their marriage for some time and larry reached out to the family for help. the brother-in-law told fox news he was more of an aggressor trying to get us involved. he was trying to get us on his side when we felt like it was a lot of lies that he was telling us. in september larry millete allegedly sent the family this picture appearing to show some sort of an altar with a picture of the couple spattered with blood. police in chula vista say they have not found any evidence of a crime but will continue to investigate. >> we still have a missing

persons case. we don't actually have a crime which is thankful, right? that leaves hope that maya is found and found safely. at this point i don't have any information that tells us otherwise but we'll continue to pull and unravel everything we can to try to find her. >> her husband, larry, has not responded to fox news' questions about the whereabouts or welfare of his wife. martha. >> martha: thank you very much from los angeles. for more on this fox news exclusive and other top stories download the fox news app. it is available in your app store and online. coming up president biden rolling out a massive spending package that the white house is billing as a historic investment in our nation's infrastructure. republicans say it is a trojan horse for tax hikes. our power panel goes head-to-head after the break.

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>> martha: texas rangers

getting set for historic opening day as they open the stadium in full capacity. the first professional sports team to resume full -- grady trimble has a lucky assignment today. >> it's a beautiful day for some baseball here. fans are already walking into the stadium for what could be a sell-out crowd of some 40,000 people in attendance which as you said would be the largest crowd at a sporting event since the pandemic started. just to put that into perspective let me show you numbers from other major sporting events that took place this year. if this is a sell-out or anywhere close more fans here than were at the super bowl, daytona 500, world series that took place here and march madness final four games and finals taking place tonight. they have been criticized, the rangers, by as high up as the president of the united states.

president biden called it a mistake and not responsible. the team insists they can do this and they can do it safely. when you are inside the ballpark you are required to wear a mask and if you are in the concession lines you will have to keep social distance between you and other parties. and from the fans that i've been talking to that are already here even though the game is hours away from first pitch they're ready to be back for baseball in full force. >> we're excited. really excited to go in there and get around people and have fun and cheer the rangers on. >> by the way, this is a brand-new stadium. it was constructed and finished last year supposed to start for opening day a year ago. but the entire season was pushed back. no fans were allowed inside the stadium. for a lot of rangers fans this will be their first time being able to cheer for the home team at the brand-new globe life field. this full capacity is specifically for opening day.

going forward the rangers will have some sections of the stadium that are reserved for social distance seating for people who want a little more space between themselves and others. martha. >> martha: sounds like a good plan. thank you very much. off to the ballpark today for those folks. for the biden administration. >> i think we need to update for infrastructure for the 21st century. our care economy is something we have to take seriously. >> one area where the american people want to see us get it done. both members on both sides of the aisle have been talking about it for a while. this is a once in a lifetime moment. >> they make their pitch for the president's latest spending plan labeling it a golden opportunity to reshape america's infrastructure. the president is already facing opposition if both sides of the aisle with republicans slamming the proposal as nothing more than a liberal wish list and a massive tax hike.

>> it's a huge tax increase for one thing. it is a tax increase on small businesses, on job creators in the united states of america. >> martha: progressives say the plan doesn't go far enough. alexandria ocasio-cortez arguing the price tag should be $10 trillion in order to be effective. fox nation host tommy lay ren and kevin walling joining us now. good to have you. i want to start with this sound bite from the weekend from council of economic advisors chair on face the nation pressed on the spending side of this. watch this. >> this is 15 years of higher taxes the pay for 8 years of spending. >> one pays for an investment up front and there are returns that gather over time. i would say the reason why the president is proposing these

corporate tax increases because it's the right thing to do. >> martha: what is the impact? tomi, let me start with you and kevin we'll go to you. >> the right thing to do is never tax your way out of a problem. again what needs to be reiterated to the american people like they did with the covid spending bill. less than 6% of the bill goes to roads and bridges. new want to help states you need to improve the inextra structure we agree that needs to happen. allow states to manage their budgets and do it effectively and this is a progressive wish list, a trojan horse, bigger government wrapped in a bow and where is the talk of unity from the democrats? they'll ramrod it through once again without republican support and hopefully without some democrat support as well. big government getting bigger and bigger under biden's american last agenda. >> martha: is that the strategy to make sure they can get all parts of the democrats constituents and not try to

reach across the aisle with this enormous bill? >> i haven't given up hope for some bipartisanship on this. i remember when president trump convened democrats and republicans during his term to talk about infrastructure spending around $1 trillion. i think there are some things in the package that would be of interest to republicans when it comes to modernizing our electric grid as we saw was the crisis in texas. >> martha: why not say that? why not say let's get republicans and democrats back to the room and saying a trillion dollar package that would actually do the kinds of things. we want to see shiny airports and no potholes in the roads. things all americans can get behind. why didn't they start there? >> martha, they released their plan. the president last wednesday in pittsburgh. it's a goal. i think now comes the negotiations. i actually like the idea that tomi presented with block

grants. let's empower state governments. you saw aoc on the progressive life saying $10 trillion. republicans want a smaller bill. that's where the president shines. somewhere in the middle. some of these projects could be very appealing to republican voters across the board. we have to come together on this. >> martha: a lot of people i've spoken to on capitol hill on both sides saying they don't recognize this president as the person that they always thought he was and the way he was when he was on the hill in years past. they don't think there is much likelihood that's the way this process will begin. >> this isn't the moderate we were sold in the election. certainly not. i want to go back to something you said if we can meet in the middle. the problem is we move further to the left. aoc and bernie sanders saying they want $10 trillion. democrats saying they want $2 trillion. republicans are supposed to meet in the middle? we continually move to the left

and the goalposts keep moving further to the left and republicans are expected to compromise on the lun see. a trillion is more than enough. we need to be responsible with our money and corporate tax hike won't help anybody. incentivize companies toggles where and now is not the time to be hurting small businesses but get our economy back up and running and reopen america and that's the message from the white house, not let's spend on the liberal wish list. >> martha: janet yellen saying she would like a global corporate tax rate. i don't think that's likely to happen. everybody will want to undercut the united states at 28%. you want to make yourself more attractive. a new study that finds congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is one of the least effective members of congress when it comes to getting things done. center for effecting law making rafrned her 230 out of 240 house democrats. none of her proposed legislation has ever made it out of committee. does that matter to her voters?

or are they just glad she is constantly screaming their causes from the mountaintop? >> martha, good question. she won the primary taking on a moderate democrat that got things done for his district. they wanted someone to be a fire brand out there and what she is doing for her district and progressive cause. the same report showed jim jordan is the third least effective member of the republican caucus. i think when you have extremes on both parties that's not where legislation actually gets done. they are there to throw bombs and support the left and right flanks of both our parties. to meet in the middle is where things get do jordan is on the right flank and aoc on the left flank in a similar position. >> martha: a lot of position are in those ranks, tomi. i would love to see the people at the top of the list and how they got done. i don't feel there is much getting done at all on capitol

hill. >> there is a big difference between being and activist on twitter and doing things for the kun traoe. aoc has been very effective. we're talking about infrastructure spending bill moving further to the left. she has been able to do that and has that party wrapped around her finger. her on the other members of the squad have been very effective with their messaging. i wish conservatives would have something like that on our side and be as effective on they are. maybe utilize social media more and be more outrageous to match aoc. she is shaping that party. she is making it more progressive and moving everybody to the left. people don't recognize joe biden anymore. he used to be a moderate. he certainly isn't. you have the far left running the party, controlling the party and aoc at the helm of that. she is dangerous in a lot of ways and one to watch. >> martha: thank you both. great to see you today. >> good to see you. >> martha: thanks for watching "the faulkner focus".

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