of georgia what impact does it have, what does it mean to have talladega back here for the businesses in the community, we'll talk more. rachel: all right pete: did you have fun, rachel? rachel: its been awesome, i learned so much from jeff than you guys. will: well i hope so. he won this thing six times we just learned what a hair dryer was. rachel: [laughter] neil: a nation coming out, and, well, taxes going up, and maybe a lot. welcome everybody happy saturday to you i'm neil cavuto and this is cavuto live today, we're focused on a couple of big developments not the least of which has been happening certainly on the virus front, as america continues reopening and promising signs now, with johnson & johnson drug allowed on the market, that the that will speed up even faster, but juxtapose to that, higher taxes on the way. much higher than earlier thought , a top capital gains rate of north of 43%, more than double what it is now.

the argument has been for quite sometime for the biden folks that this will only affect the small slither of the population, about one-third of 1% of americans, but we've been crunching the numbers. it would appear that that, expands a lot and includes potentially you as well. we'll explain as will senator steve danicas of the great state of montana get his read on this what he's concerned about but ahead of that let's get the read from mark meredith with the biden plan that i guess is going to be officially debuted in the state of the union address next week, right? reporter: yeah, neil you'll have to stay tuned but already details are starting to leak out good morning to you. next week, president biden is expected to call for another round of tax increases, this time, the focus on wealthier americans who make their money off of wall street, as you mentioned, the president will be laying out his plan for this potential $1.5 trillion in spending when he speaks to congress on wednesday, the money is expected to be used for the american families plan to fund things for child care,

education, as well as social programs, and while the white house is not sending out a one pager here with the details of their plans, fox has told the capital gains tax rate for wealthier americans could nearly double so that 39.6% potentially even more. the white house was asked specifically about who will be targeted on friday. >> what i can say is it will only affect people making more than $1 million a year, that's .3% of taxpayers or three out of every 1,000 taxpayers that's even at the top 1%, so other net worth by $4 trillion in the middle of a historic pandemic. reporter: but these increased rates certainly could impact people that live in higher tax base places like new york state or california, see the numbers there, what it could mean for them. no official events on the president's schedule for this weekend, but within the next few minutes the president is actually going to be heading out to wilmington, delaware his home spending the weekend there we'll see if he tips his hand as he talks to reporters to see if he wants to talk about what kind of impact

this will have otherwise stay tuned to wednesday night, i'm sure you'll be watching as well. neil? neil: mark just to clarify and address the joint session in congress is technically not a state of the union address but because of covid protocols he'll be speaking to a smaller crowd, right? reporter: that's correct it will be a smaller crowd and we're still waiting for details about who will actually be in attendance, will the white house do something where they call out specific americans or not. they were kind of previewing that it'll be a little bit different than what we have en so in years past but of course, everything has been different than what we've seen in years past the president has made it clear he's looking forward to speaking with congress, the white house saying they want to mark this as they mark the 100 days in office they feel it's important for the president to talk not only to members of congress, neil but he's going to be hitting the road next week and going down to atlanta, georgia that ever-all-important state for democrats now that they have those two senate seats the white house trying to keep the focus on the american public as well. neil? neil: all right, mark thank you very much for that, great reporting as will, from the white house, mark meredith so the argument for going after the rich is that they finally

have to pay their fair share but i've been keeping track of this for a long time, exactly what defines fair share. when we got the top rate back up to 39.6% before president trump cut that back to 37%, we were told that the 39.6% that was fair, we were told then they had a top rate in new jersey that was north of about 9.5%. we were told that was a fair share before they added a couple of percentage points to that. that was more like the fair share. if you get the gist of what i'm saying it's a moving target, and something that i've waged a lot of guesses especially those pushing for higher taxes on the wealthy, exactly what defines fair share? this is just a nugget of that from 2008 when i've tried to get some clear response and a clear answer from bernie sanders what is a fair share? take a look. >> is the way to rectify the gap between rich and poor bringing the rich down, in other words taxing them more? >> no.

the way, look let's remember that on the dwight d. eisenhower you had a marginal tax rate for the wealthiest people in this country of 90%. by the way on the eisenhower the economy really flourished. neil: i've heard prominent democrats, senator, tell me, it was 7 oh,% jimmy carter so we have a ways to go was that their way of saying that 50% is the floor? >> no. who were these prominent democrats who said that? neil: if i told you i'd have to kill you. >> well we don't want to do that. before you make those statements , i don't know that that's an accurate statement. neil: you were bragging about the fact used to be 90% so consider yourself lucky. >> i gave you an indication. neil: i know. >> that the economy did very very well, when you had that as a marginal tax rate. neil: but you're not saying it should be 90%. >> no, of course it is not going to be 90%. what i am saying is that the time is long overdue that we thought protecting the middle

class. neil: all right, bottom line, we are already over 50% if this goes through with top combined rate and state and local income taxes in states like new york where the top combined rate be about 52%, california north of 56%, new jersey north of 51%, and in other words, we are there now, if this goes through. let's get the read from senator steve danes, the montana republican sits on the senate finance committee. i don't know what fair share is, still, senator, but we're raising it and on a regular basis now, what do you make of this? >> neil the first 100 days the biden administration has been bread taking to see how far the left they've lurished, the massive spending increases, the green new deal, and now looking for massive tax increases. you look back into 2017 and we cut taxes. that results in the best economy that i've seen in my lifetime. remember where we were in early

2020 just prior to the pandemic. record levels of low unemployment including for minorities. record levels of wage growth for the middle class. why? because we cut taxes, and what biden is suggesting here is massive increases to capital gains is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want to keep job growth occurring and wages increasing. it's shocking, neil, to see the fact if you add of course then this new rate that biden proposes, plus the medicare 3.8% surcharge, plus the state taxes will have capital gains rates north of 50% that is going absolutely the wrong direction and we should be cutting capital gains tax, not more than doubling them neil: all right we should explain for those who want to know why you arrived at the 43.4 % top figure is your honor aring it to the top rate of 39.6 % the 3.8% surcharge, the rich has to pay to continue funding obamacare gets you there but you're right. when you add some of these other things you're well over 50%, you

know, for all of that taxing though, senator, i do notice that the biden administration will fall shy of paying for all of the spending that it wants. in other words about two-thirds of it be paid by the taxes on the very wealthy, which leads me to the conclusion that you either have to raise taxes more on the wealthy, or , you know, expand it out to include people who aren't so wealthy, to reach that $3.25 trillion in spending costs. what do you think? >> well look what's happening within our own country. the people who are out there and have growing jobs and businesses , you know the people that are actually seeing good results in their business, they're fleeing states like california and new york, they're going to low tax states like texas and florida. the same thing will happen here on a global basis, with biden wanting to raise taxes across every front including capital

gains, and the corporate tax rate, you're going to start see ing business moving overseas. this is not the right thing to do to keep american jobs here in our country and because this is a global competition, we've got to take a look at what china is doing. we're going to have higher tax rate than china and i'm just wondering if biden his new motto is making china great again. we've got to be thinking about this as we look forward for the next 10 or 20 years it's a big mistake and a big fight we got in washington. neil: do you think that any spending plans should be paid for because during a lot of the trump years, the democrats say well they didn't do that, they went ahead and proposed spending, built up our deficits and debt at an alarming rate so who are republicans to talk? what do you say? >> it's actually a fair point. republicans have not been doing a great job either of keeping spending in control. that sort of comes back to spending is the problem, neil. we're collecting plenty of tax revenue. it's the spending that's out of

control. every chart you look at will show that and in fact we're looking at infrastructure plan at the moment. there is a path forward with a very significant $600 billion plan the republicans are talking about. we could use some of the covid relief dollars that have already been allocated and redirected and they're not needed. our states are doing fine. we passed $6 trillion of covid relief out into this economy. we can redirect those dollars from infrastructure. there's an example we can do something here without raising taxes, and still take care of crumbling infrastructure in our country. neil: in other words your smaller plan that republicans are looking at in the vicinity about $600 billion. it does include user fees and tolls and that sort of thing, but that's the extent of it, right? >> yeah, and we don't need to raise taxes. think about the fundamental question here that you ask somebody on the street do you want to pay more taxes the answer is no. we're paying enough taxes. if you again look at the trend line, it is a spending problem, not a revenue problem. that's what has to be addressed

and we have got to face up to that in washington. its got to be bipartisan like the first bill i ever introduced into congress was we should stop paying members of congress if they don't balance the budget. hit the members of congress and their pocketbooks before it goes into the pocketbooks of the american people. neil: we'll watch it very closely, senator daines, always great seeing you thank you for coming in on a saturday as always senator steve daines sits on the finance committee will have a very big role in this demanding pending on how far it goes. we've been talking about higher taxes on the rich and the consensus among democrats has been well this will not affect people who are not in that one-third of 1%, but if that one-third of 1% sees a higher capital gains rate coming and they've been making a lot of money on the same stocks and investments that you have, and they decide to cash out right now, you don't think that's going to affect you? >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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so george, if i can begin with you on wall street's reaction. this has been well-telegraphed during the campaign, joe biden made it very clear he was going to be gunning for the rich, he was going to do essentially double the capital gains rate, maybe we didn't see in the context that it can go up to 43.4%, but it was not a shocker, so, is that why the market sort of reversed itself on friday? >> well, neil, wall street, good morning and wall street doesn't care about these kind of things until it does care. its been ridiculed for many years as being manic depressive and bipolar and it swings from euphoria to fear very very rapidly, and it will care if this goes through. i think what wall street is really telegraphing is this isn't going to get through to congress because definitely long term capital gains tax rates be the single-worst tax policy of my lifetime and bring the economy not to a dead halt but slow it down tremendously. neil: all right well the immediate impact

rebecca at least mathematical impact be all right if you know you're going to be double the charge to unload some big money makers for you, you would presumably do so before that charge, that higher capital gains rate goes into effect. do you think that the closer this looks to possible reality that's what's going to happen? it could lead to a big market correction or worse? >> yes, neil, because what's happening is you've got investor s that are in the 20% capital gains tax rate right now , they're making over a certain amount, and they are see going to be doubling from 20 to 43.4 like we just talked about and so they're selling and you could sell a stock and turn around and buy it right back but get your basis up now to the fair market value so that you have a much higher basis if your basis is low sorry to talk tax law for you but that's what i'm saying and what we have to ask is a question of just this country believes in investments and investments

equal gdp growth and, you know, corporate searching development that's what all of this is. we don't have investments like ordinary income, and this is basically singling out a class of successful people in america that we should all aspire to be like and say we're going to tax you almost 50%, at the federal level just because you're making investments, and that is the wrong direction for our country, and general, but certainly comes out of pandemic. neil: you know, harold, i get a sense that the biden administration really doesn't focus much on the stock market certainly not nearly as much as donald trump who regularly trump new highs and the market was incredible during his tenure , this president just says on thinking about main street, not wall street, paraphrasing here, but we do know that the wealthy, the last time we saw the cap gains rate hiked in 2013, they sold about 1% of the assets of that market.

now we have an $18 trillion market right now, a similar sell-off would lead to close to $180 billion in market capitalization, just melted away do democrats care about that? does it concern them? do they not look at the reverberations from that, or they just, the wall street hate the crowd so much they don't care? >> well first off good morning and thanks for having me on. i think the biden administration , like every presidential administration, cares deeply about investors, care deeply about workers and care deeply about the market. the fact that to put some of this in context back in early january when the two senate races happen in georgia there were those who saw that the democrats won both seats or were able to gain a placebo with the vote of vice president harris that that would lead to terrible terrible ramifications for money, markets, and big corporations. in fact that's not been the case i think what the biden administration is looking at is how do you tax wealth and how do you tax work?

i'm not sure they've got it right. i happen, my thinking resembles some of the things that have been said this morning i'm not convinced that doubling the long term capital gains rate is the right thing to do. i want to hear this debate but i do think it's fair they're struggling to figure this out. the second thing is we have to spend a lot of money over the next several years in this country. we spent massively in the 20th century winning the cold war, some more democrats than republicans turned out to be the right thing to do. we won that war and we also created more jobs and more wealth in america and we defeated one of our great adversaries. the 21st century is clear. our adversary is china. how do we invest in our country to create advanced manufacturing hubs, innovation hubs, how do we ship manufacturing from overseas so we can make more basic things like paper towels and soap and p urell, not to mention pharmaceuticals so how do we do that so that's a debate i think congress needs to have and frankly we'll have to decide how we want to pay for it and again, auto in not convinced that raising this tax rate or this

tax as high as they're proposing is necessarily the right thing to do. neil: i respect the heck out of you, harold, but george, i would not equate winning the cold war with building more roads and bridges they are both important, don't get me wrong but assigning the same urgency to it, i think, george, is an excuse to keep going after the rich. but they are already paying the lions share of the taxes, they will pay more of those taxes, even with the tax hikes we're looking at, it's barely paying, george, now about one-third of the plans spending so either they widen this out to tax more people or tax the rich even more. what do you think happens next? >> you know, neil, i would go back to the distinction between main street and wall street that we've been kind of skirting around. i'm in finance but i care a lot more about main street and when we talk about long term capital gains tax rates let's say some guy founded a manufacturing business in ohio 20 years ago and he sells it for a $750,000

gain. well that's a great all-american success story, but long term capital gains tax rates are close to 50% rather than close to 25%, what are the odds he's going to go to the beach for two , three, four years and not reinvest his money to start a new business and hire people? it's very large that he's going to go to the beach and that's what a lot of people don't understand especially democratic politicians or left politicians who have never been in the economy. you're going to slow the economy , these people aren't going to take a risk if you tax them too much to do it so i think we've got to pay for infrastructure, we've got to do infrastructure, but raising taxes to the moon is not the way to do it. you've got to prioritize your spending and tax policies got to be reasonable. neil: all right george you come back along with rebecca a little later i wish i had more time and harold i do want to thank you again your pragmatic approach this hasn't happened yet it's still early to your point so we'll see what happens. in the meantime, more protests

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neil: all right, black lives matter protests erupting in portland last night, and in scores of cities again underscoring the view this is bigger than minneapolis and bigger than the derek chauvin verdict, that now has essentially landed him behind bars possibly for the rest of his life. matthew whitaker is with us the former acting u.s. attorney general, and it's good to have

you, matthew, because this is the same week we learned that the justice department wants to explore and investigate policing practices in minneapolis, but i suspect, given these up risings and other cities as well, that they want to expand that. what do you think? >> yeah, good morning, neil. i'm so glad to be with you again what i see the department of justice doing is reinserting themselves into these local police departments with a pattern and practice investigation that's going to start in minneapolis. you know, we functionally ended these types of things in the trump adminitration. we did not believe they were affected. they do not help the rank-and-file officers that are on the street, doing the work and they end up placing , you know, really onerous requirements on these cities through the monitors and the judges, that supervise these and we didn't see that they never end and the department of justice is suddenly in the business of effectively running police departments or offloading it and i think ultimately, it boils down to

these major cities, having the political accountability by the mayors and the city councils , to take control of these police departments, if they believe they're not doing their job effectively, and running them in a way that it's consistent with best practices. neil: you know, it's what those best practices should be, in the eye of the beholder but the one thing that we have seen is the consistent sort of pointing of the finger that is systemic racism going on. that has gotten to be, now a widely-accepted view even though i had not seen evidence of that across-the-board and in all police departments, across the country, you dealt with this during the trump adminitration. how did you respond to this? >> well i mean, let's start with the premise that police departments are not systemically racist. the evidence is quite to the contrary, and, you know, i've seen people like bernie karik and others produce the actual evidence that shows that this is not the problem in our major cities. the challenge is to some extent a respect for law enforcement or

lack of respect for law enforcement, neil, plus i think we have for some reason, a culture now where complying with legitimate police orders is somehow seen as optional, and i think that is also a problem. now at the same time, can the police improve, can some of the george floyd deserve to lose his life? and absolutely not and we know the police can get better in certain circumstances through training, through better awareness and obviously, better techniques, and i see that commitment everywhere i go when i talk to police officers. neil: you know, from your justice when you were there the argument has been that police feel sort of cornered now that obviously, everyone has these devices and smartphones and will go ahead and show whatever happens in those tense moments, some of them tragic, some more routine, and i'm wondering if it has changed the police. i know in new york city it has,

in philadelphia it has. i don't know what's going on in minneapolis right now post the chauvin verdict but its got to be affecting morale. what do you think? >> it is. i mean, obviously also what the obama administration did to police in the eight years and now what biden is doing also affects morale, but there should be, we should be unafraid of accountability through whether it's citizen journalists with cell phones or whether it's body cam footagement i mean, the police obviously have a standard that they need to meet, and police officers are trained to meet that standard. each individual that they interact with is unique, but there are, i think, over 60 million police interactions, you know, millions of arrests, almost all of those , there's a very very small percentage where something ends up with a bad outcome and again, we need to be working to make sure that each interaction is more positive and that we don't have bad outcomes like we've seen across the

country, but again, it's not an epidemic. it is a small, small percent of the overall number. neil: you know, part of this george floyd act that congress is tinkering with right now, matthew, is this idea of weeding out potential bad apples and that is one area with which republicans at least seem to agree. that part of it not some of the other stuff, which would attach funding to police departments and all of the rest, but that notion of being able to screen potential officers and recruits and update that screen ing regularly. what do you think? >> yeah, and again i think tim scott has been a very sound and rational voice on this. i mean, if joe biden wanted to be bipartisan and work in a bipartisan manner, he would put his arm around tim scott and work together to try to, you know, use these best ideas including this way to keep track of officers that move from department to department, but have previously done bad acts,

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>> president biden, if you want to stop the disaster that's unfolding here it will only get worse in the coming months. president biden, you should declare a national emergency and deploy the vast powers of your

administration to stop what's happening here. we here in arizona are willing to step up and do our part. yesterday, i declared a state of emergency at the border and i announced we're deploying the national guard. neil: that's about the most the arizona governor can do without the president similarly declaring an emergency at the border, but his hands are tied in other words the governor can't do much more than he has already to bring in some national guard troops to try to contain things. mark daniels joins us right now, the arizona sheriff thank you for taking the time. what difference or added benefit would the president declare an emergency at the border add to what the governor wants to do, sir? >> well the first thing it does is it sends a message. it sends a message that we're sharing the oath of office just like our governor did, i applaud governor ducey to work with my

county and others to secure and protect our citizens and our state. the president biden, i told secretary mayorkas this this week if you prioritize the southwest border and all our borders to include, send a message that the border is closed for illegal activity, because the only ones that's supporting this is the cartels. so, we need the president to do that. neil: all right, the cartels are one thing, the administration says that republicans and those who they argue are making this a bigger deal, from their point of view, are making it seem like it's all drug cartels and it's all people pushing those innocent children and the rest, that's making the situation look out of proportion to what it is. what did you think of that argument? >> well and i'll be honest with you, after 37 years, neil, working this border, and seeing good, the bad and the ugly again , and then for people to

put politics into public safety, humanitarian, national security, is very upsetting. i don't police for politics. you would hope those that take an oath of office would do the same but unfortunately, congress does it, the administrations do it, this president is doing it, because it's intellectual avoidance to understand when you have mayors, sheriffs, governors , both our u.s. senator s are applauding our governor for bringing the national guard to the border even the experts from border patrol are saying we have a crisis but this president, this administration fails to recognize that until they recognize it, we're in trouble here on this border. neil: you know, that was the gist, essentially, sheriff of what former president george bush told our dana perino, that the only way we can get something done on this is for both parties to work together. i want you to react to this , this is from president bush on the border tension. >> the border security is the

touchstone issue because until we get that right, people are going to be screaming about all kinds of things that scare the american people, and we can get it right. we're just going to need to work together to get it right. neil: you know, i do see , of course you're trying to get it right, sheriff so the embodiment of that, and we do see some promising times. sometimes we have a democratic congressman working with united states republican, senator as we've seen, in texas, but those are rare, and few and far inbetween. how do you get the parties on the same page, because they have like interest, to sort of tighten things up at the border, but a world of difference of how you do that. >> neil, i'd say two things on that. first of all look at the oath of office. the number one priority any elected official has at local, state, and federal is to protect their citizens and protect americans. number two i'll say this , and this is what scares me as a law enforcement officer, is the fact that it's no longer whether

you're right or wrong. it's who you politically align with, and that is fractured. that is completely fractured in the way of thinking. we need to get back to protecting america, protecting our borders, and we can move forward and i agree with you and put the political affiliation aside. we can do that, we can fix this. we truly can. neil: just a quick thought, you mentioned these drug cartels sheriff. how many of them, how many, you know, of some of these drug runners themselves are getting through? >> well they estimate 300% increase from last year, when it comes to the get aways, just the get aways, thousands a day are getting away on the southwest border into communities throughout the united states. neil, i'll say this , 90% of all of the illicit drugs come through the southwest border and that's a federal statistic and you look at this that's 220 people a day are dying of drug overdoses in this country. that's a public safety concern

that should bother every family, every american. it's affecting our schools our families our communities. we have to have a secure border. these cartels are exploiting. i stopped a car yesterday and there was four illegal entries the driver, the coyote driving them from the border to phoenix, arizona, who told us all about this , was getting paid $4,000 to drive four people for a three -hour trip. that shows you the money behind this operation, how well- organized the cartels are. we need to focus on cartel. every time we have a discussion on border security. neil: you have one tough job, sheriff, and you calmly and professionally keep doing it all your men and women, thank you very very much. the co-chief county arizona sheriff, thank you, sheriff, again. >> thank you. neil: all right, in the meantime here, as soon as today, today, you might be able to get that johnson & johnson vaccine that was stalled for a while on concerns it could lead to blood

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that's really predictable. that's a really tight spot. don't worry. i used to hate parallel parking. (all together) me too. hey. you really outdid yourself. yes, we did. the all-new buick envision. an suv built around you... all of you. neil: good to go, johnson & johnson's one dose drug, now back on the market. some doses are available as soon as today in parts of the country this after it was stopped for a while amid concerns about clotting and a very limited number of cases, that has been dispensed with they are issuing warnings though if you're concerned about that apparently a good number of people are, vaccine anxiety has lifted a little bit here, i don't know whether it was exclusively because of what was going on with j & j but the latest daily vaccination count fell under 3 million for the first time in a while dr. raja, the nyu lan gone school of medicine with us.

doctor what do you tell people, maybe your own patients who say i'm leary of these j & j thing, i might go for the other two but not this one. >> well i think it's a very understandable sentiment, but you know, we have to put everything in perspective, and as you mentioned before, these cases while it is a very serious clotting issue, and even resulting in a few deaths, are low compared to the millions of people almost 8 million people who have now received the j & j vaccine, so when you're thinking about statistics it's extremely low and your chances actually contracting covid and even dying from covid be higher if you didn't have any vaccine over the next several months, much higher, but you know, are there other options? yes, there are but not for everyone and there are people who don't have access to the other vaccines or maybe they're able to get j & j tomorrow, but can't get pfizer and moderna for several weeks or even months, and for those people, i'd say take what you can get because you really are protecting yourself but we also know there's certain groups that are more at-risk for

this very rare complication, you know, it was only seen in women, a question of maybe one man its been linked to but if you're a woman between ages 18- 49, you are potentially at higher risk for the complication maybe those women, that's what's put on the warning label, maybe they may consider getting something else, but for the average person certainly it doesn't fall within that group, i think it make sense to do it. neil: you know, all of this is happening when vaccination rates dipped a little bit, doctor, as you know, they have gotten to the point where close to 200 million americans have had at least one dose of any one of these vaccines so are we closer to herd immunity in your eyes or do some of the anxieties around maybe j & j and the vaccine movement itself put that off? >> well, yeah, i mean those anxieties give me anxiety because it does sort of put off that time that we're actually going to achieve herd immunity and we're closely getting to that period where we're going to

have more vaccines that actually people who want to get them and that's what we really need to battle with, convincing those people who have been hesitant, who are either fearful of the vaccine or just kind of think well i don't really need it, there's no rush to get it. now is the time to really hunker down on those people and make sure that they understand how important it is to get the vaccine and make it as easy as possible so whether that's going into the community, going to church or going to offices or making sure employee s have time off to go get the vaccine, we really have to reach those people, because we will not reach herd immunity with the current state of affairs. neil: how long are we going to be wearing these masks, doctor? >> great question, and i think a lot is a bit unpredictable because we have to see what's going on with variants and all of that but if at goes well and we get enough people vaccinated to achieve herd immunity i think there will be a time, hopefully, by the end of this year, where we may not need to wear the mask right now, really the cdc and dr. fauci are saying if you've

been vaccinated you may not need to wear the mask in many situations so we are getting there slowly. neil: all right dr. raj, thank you very very much. i guess the next question because it's still pertinent in terms of crowd sizes they are seeing this nascar talladega race where they're filling it to one-third capacity. still a lot, certainly a lot more than last year at this time , but how will things still be a little different this go- around? the latest from talladega, after this. that delicious scramble was microwaved? get outta here. everybody's a skeptic. wright brothers? more like, yeah right, brothers! get outta here! it's not crazy. it's a scramble. just crack an egg. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit

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neil: you know, we talk about the difference last year versus this year especially when it comes to the nascar talladega race, back then, not many were allowed to see the event.

this time, you know, it stands that can accommodate better than 80,000 fans it'll be more like 28,000 this go-around but that's essentially 28,000 more than last year eric amarolla joins us right now, nascar driver, he's in the race this year, eric, very good to have you. how do you feel this go-around? >> well, looking forward to it, talladega is always a great racetrack for me we won there a couple years ago and looking forward to going back there and seeing if we can do that again. neil: you know, i was looking at the size of this thing. i had no idea that one lap is more than 2.6 miles. how do you just prepare yourself for that? >> well, it's an interesting racetrack, neil, we're running 200 miles in an hour but we draft there more than any other racetrack that we go to so you take 40 race cars put them on the racetrack at 200 miles an hour and put them all about one inch apart and usually, we're less than that.

we're beating and banging and pushing each other and it makes it extremely exciting for the fans and it makes it very intense for the drivers. neil: sounds like my wife driving but that's a whole other issues aric. there are going to be fans in the stand this go-around. 28,000 is nothing to dismiss, but it's going to be a lot different than last year, right? >> yeah, it feels great to have fans back in the grandstands. that's what, you know, creates that energy. we've raced quite a bit last year in the beginning part of this year with limited amount of fans, and we're starting to see more and more fans being allowed access to the racetrack, and as a race car driver it feels so good to go out and put on a race with people cheering you on in the stands, it creates a lot of electricity and energy. it's still not what we're used to we're used to 80,000, 100,000 in talladega, in the grandstands and then probably another 40 or

50,000 camping out in their motorhome, grilling out, cooking out which is why we love the sport so much it's such a great family atmosphere when you get all of these people around hanging out and tailgating. neil: are they allowed in the vans and all of the other, you know, the rv's that typically, like you say have 40- 50,000 of them, is there a limit of them as well? >> yeah, there is unfortunately , and they have limited access to the drivers, well no access to the drivers as well, and that's one of the things that's made nascar so unique for so long is the amount of access that the fans have to the athlete, the drivers. they can come in the in field and come in the garage area and get autographs from us. they can see us walking out the driver inductions are on pit lane right before the race. the amount of access that the fans have to the drivers is really what makes our sport so unique from the fan/driver, fan/ athlete aspect so its been unfortunate to not have that due to covid but things are slowly

starting to get back to normal normal it seems like and hopefully, one day, we'll have that fan and driver interaction again. neil: yeah, you have nerves of steel, young man, we'll see how it goes i wish you well, aric, the nascar driver. we'll have much more, after this ...

>> all right. a police protest could continue popping up pretty much all over the country, this as the justice department is calling for investigation into police practices in minneapolis. now, a lot of these black lives matter crowds that are building in cities again, as i say, all over the country are saying it needs to go way beyond minneapolis and might have their wish granted. we'll explore that. and first to griff jenkins in elizabeth city, north carolina with what's happening on that front, griff. griff: good morning, neil.

the protests growing here in elizabeth city, north carolina after the shooting death of andrew brown, jr. on wednesday morning. you can see behind me, neil, a press conference underway right now, speaking is the elizabeth city mayor betty parker and it comes as the press conference yesterday afternoon, the city held an emergency session to compel the body cam footage of the sheriff's deputies that had the search warrant brown, surrounding the sheriff who has ultimate control of that body cam video. he has not released it yet in north carolina pursuant to a court order so the mayor and city council on monday will request the court to release that video. we were able to speak one-on-one with the sheriff to talk about that and here is what he had to say and about holding his deputies accountable if they did something wrong, watch. >> ultimately you believe it will be released? >> yes, it will ultimately be released, yes, without exception.

if there was any violation of law or policy, accountability is the first thing that's going to happen. they will be held accountable, absolutely. griff: and neil, last night, a third night of protests taking to the streets. it has been entirely peaceful every night. they have taken to the streets demanding the video be released and they want to hear the-- directly from the sheriff. and a councilman gabriel adkins, his message to the sheriff. >> i would say, sheriff, we put our trust in you. we're crying out, the family is crying out, i'm crying out on behalf of the family to please, you know, we need the video, we need the footage. the family needs closure. the family needs to begin to be able to heal over the passing of their loved one.

griff: and neil, as we continue to monitor the mayor's press conference here, we've learned around 3:00 this afternoon, the family, the brown family will be holding a press conference as well and see what they have to say. a final know, at least seven of the deputies involved are on administrative leave as it plays out in the hands of the state bureau of investigation. neil: grief jenkins, thank you for keeping us posted in north carolina. a lot of the protests and events, they're the two sides that are talking past each other. gianna caldwell says that you can support, both parties must put aside politics and come to the table and democrats should

stop erroneously assuming that all are racist. and he got an earful for that. and the founder and chairman, we're going to have them on here to look at the economic impact of back and forth on this, but if i go to you first, it's either/or. it's either the police are awful or they're-- you know, they're being vilified unfairly. there's no gray in between. what do you make of that? >> well, we've gotten to the point, neil, where facts truly don't matter. we've seen where there's one side that says defund the police and everything will be okay. well, we've already began the process of defunding the police in some areas to the tune of almost $900 million, homicides have gone up. violent crime increased in at

least one area. we, as you mentioned are talking past each other. the black lives matter crowd and you've got the police and there's no real discussion. i'm hosting on monday on my podcast, a black lives matter activist by the name of amani and clarence cox iii the former president of black law enforcement, and i encourage people to listen to this for solutions. i'm pro police, the former spokesperson for a former large national police group and i support police, but they're not above reproach and they have accountability and some conservatives, not all, i want to make sure that's clear, believe if you say anything about reforming the police it's an attack on the police. that's not true. we need to come together as americans, not blacks, whites, latinos, asians, but americans and have this important discussion because we have to

move our country forward. if not, we'll continue to destroy each other from within. neil: you know, rebecca, what's happening in the meantime, i think he touched on it, the spike in crime that's up, triple digits in cities like new york. i'm wondering, this has a wider effect, too, it could impact the people supposedly going to return to their offices, return to cities, this weighs on that, does it not? >> it does, neil. you know, i really liked his point about the fact that we really have, you know, a double standard. i think things are changing, neil. what i've started to see and i think this is, you know, a country-wide thing for america, we have been through a lot as a country since last year with the coronavirus and we're starting to come out of it, starting to see maybe some light at the end of the tunnel for normalcy and we've got these things happening like a lot of mass shootings all of a sudden, a lot of crime all of a sudden, and why is all of this happening, all of a sudden?

and what i am tired of and what i'm start to go see a difference with, neil, people are saying, listen, we aren't going to have a double standard anymore, we're not going to say defund the police, but the second something happens we're going to call the police to help us. you can't have it both ways, and i completely agree that police are not above the law and if they act like they're above the law, that's when they get in trouble and take things too trouble. but that doesn't mean weevil -- we vilify them. >> ceo's and chairmans are weighing in and saying that police reform is paramount and not looking at the other side. i mean, this sort of snowballs doesn't it? >> it builds on itself and becomes frenzied on both sides,

against the police and bad behavior and rioting and looting. and those who resist police reform because we do need police reform. there's a happy middle in here and i like the point that you made about the fabric of american society and how it affects everything. if you gut the police, gut the budget, make them less likely to enforce our laws and punish criminals, our city suffer and those with the least margin of error, those on the edge suffer the most. the most vulnerable society. when you have the left saying they want to bring up the impoverished and people's level in society, the major cities, those people are going to suffer the most so it fits together. if you want a stronger economy for our major cities as well as small towns and rural areas, you've got to have public safety as well as policies that favor all elements of american society. it all works together and we need to be unified in pursuing solutions. neil: you know, as a young african-american, and a conservative, you have to

wrestle this with all the time and you hear it from conservatives when you criticize the police. it puts you in a weird kind of position. how do you answer them. >> it's not a criticism, it's let me hold you accountable as we should as american citizens who pay taxes, you've got to hold the police accountable, but respect and honor the job they do because they're putting their lives on the line. i have issues where, as you know, and we talked about this earlier this week, where on my social media, my instagram specifically, but my twitter and facebook as well, i lost hundreds of subscribers on those channels because i said, thank god justice was served. derek chauvin guilty on all charges. and if people want to check those comments out, said hey, george floyd killed himself.

where are you getting it from? people were gaslighted me because i disagree with their opinion. it's a time where it's all or nothing, you agree with the vocal minority or nothing at all and that's where it becomes a problem, there are so many people that give into the vocal minority versus doing what's right and we need to be about doing what's right. speaking truth. so, i'm on here as a paid contributor to this network, i'm going to give you my opinion, people may love it or hate it, but i'm going to tell you what i think. i grew up in on the south side of chicago and extremely poor, and crack cocaine. and so many people don't say because they're afraid of being vilified. neil: i think there's something to what you say. rebecca, when people are

assigned talking points or what you think you're going to hear from them. it surprises folks and that's why i want to commend and saying another network, don lemon and chris cuomo when they journalistic malpractice, and the coverage of the 16-year-old machia bryant, and-- you can't brush these all by the same stroke. i'm wondering, few do this and for don and chris for doing that. and when you hear what they're doing, few do that, they lock themselves into some caricature positions. i wonder if we make progress if we keep doing this? >> i want to say something here. i think that corporate america

is in for a rude awakening because what's happening is, even everything that we've been through with coronavirus, we literally still are a divided country and woke up corporate america a going after the progressive left and supporting them because they are the loudest. conservatives are more quiet, more humble, more reserved. that's my opinion and more quiet, but i'm starting to see something different, neil. i'm starting to see the conservative movement say, no, we're not going to have men or biological men in female sports and bathrooms. not going to have a vaccine passport when the borders are wide open. that makes no sense and policies that apply to me and don't apply to you. >> and anyone watching the video of the 16-year-old girl about to stab another girl right there, and a police officer trying to save someone's life and the moment it's happening is disgusting and everybody should reject

that opinion as just ludicrous. let's call black black and white white not good and evil and that's not the truth america's knows. neil: that's what made the don lemon and chris cuomo exchange defending the officer who shot that teenager so important, and i think we need to see more of that kind of thing, george, don't we? >> i'd like to see the lebron james' of the world and put jon voight in there to be balanced and not qualified and just not talk about it and i'd like to hear from shaquille o'neal, he may be a celebrity, but he's a trained law officer. and i'd like to hear from people who know what they're talking about and don't want to whip people into a frenzy, but calm things down and unify us. neil: well said. i want to thank you all very, very much. >> thank you, neil. >> thank you. neil: and this is still

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>> you know, it's gotten a lot of reaction, but an article in "the washington post" detailing how you can go about police, it got attraction after the derek chauvin verdict. the former superintendent and chief of the boston police department, chief, thank you very very much for joining us. among some of the things that are outlined in this article, recognizing the fact that you have to be careful with these things that the police can seize your device and in the event of an emergency here, but it's sort of like a who-to on this. what did you think of the approach? >> yeah, absolutely. it's important for our citizens

to be able to watch how police officers engage in this community and document it. that's absolutely fine. that took a little bit for law enforcement to get comfortable with that because it was new years ago, it should be taught in every police academy, make sure you're professional and policy and procedure and understand what you say will wine up on social media and wind up on a camera, on a cctv system someplace and that's why i encourage officers to wear body cameras. often times we would see parts of the conversation and parts of the interaction and wouldn't see the leading up to it, where the officer was struck in the hand with a projectile before he went hands-on with a subject and it's fair to get the information. you want to be careful doing it though. you do not want to put yourself into the personal space of a police officer who is engaged in an issue. you don't want to be antagonizing the officer for a couple of reasons.

one, can get tensions up higher, two, it puts the officer in harm's way if he's trying to focus on you at the same time they're doing their job and trying to make sure they're safe. the more tension we have in encounters with police, the more likelihood they're going to end in a manner we don't want to see them end in. neil: you know, you raised the point be careful what you do on social media or jumping the gun, no tacky pun intended there, chief, even this writer says, before you post the experts suggest thinking through how you and the person you're trying to help can stay in control. narrative. facebook is the-- what content stays up and standards, but might be creating unknowingly a false narrative, even in the shooting of this 16-year-old that got so much immediate, you know, condemnation until people realized what was actually

going on. so what are the social media rules? >> yeah, well, we saw that in the marathon, unfortunately. fortunately and unfortunately went from 26,000 twitter followers to 426,000 twitter followers in less than 24 hours. we were getting a lot of good information and we did, we asked the public to share videos, photographs, of anything that could help us make that case. but at the same time, there were individuals who were posting false information. there were individuals posting doctored photographs and putting them out and people without having any-- because it was on twitter, the commercial that talks about because it's on the internet, because it's on twitter, doesn't mean it's real. there is no editor, there is-- in your news room there are standards for journalism. there is no standards for journalism on twitter and unfortunately sometimes gets people reacting to information that's not true and can lead to challenges and tensions that

don't need to exist at all. neil: i haven't looked at all of the george floyd legislation now that they're pushing it in congress, among some of the features more easy and coordinated access to technology, i don't know if that means that police have more cameras or body cams, but that they be in sync, whatever is in their squad car is in sync with whatever is on their person. that's one thing they're looking at, i'm just wondering, this idea of still more technology, what do you make of that? >> technology is good when it's applied appropriately, right? and it's good to have all of these videos, but you do have to have a program in place where you go in and do an audit and make sure we're holding folks accountable. the last thing i would want as a police chief is to have a horrible situation, a video played out and violated rules policy and procedure and going forward we find out that we've had, you know, numerous instances with that same

officer and had opportunities where we could have interjected, disciplined, trained or even taken action and removed the officer and we didn't do that, even though we had the information somewhere in our data bases and weren't using that information to improve ourselves. neil: got to tighten that up to your point. chief, thank you very, very much. >> thanks for having me, neil. neil: all right. in the meantime, here. you've heard about this effort on the part of some democrats who want to pack the united states supreme court, add four justices to the present nine and giving joe biden the opportunity to presumably select four liberals and give them the majority. be careful what you wish for, like state attorney generals could start getting involved, including my next guest from florida after this.

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limits for the justices themselves, whether there are nine or 13 of them? >> well, it would be a disaster and i think it's hashed to overstate the consequences long-term this would have for our republic, the founders warned about this kind of political meddling and as you just heard from general moody on the previous segment, this is something that you would expect from some third world banana republic and the state department would be concerned if this was happening somewhere else. this is happening in the united states of america, if you put it in a broader context, neil. what you see the article 1 branch, the legislative process, the democrats right now are moving a bill hr-1 federalize election and allowing electioneering and political consultants to battle harvest. and the abuse of executive orders by president biden,'s on ludicrous speed and bull dozing any constitutional separation of powers through executive order and now the article three

branch, the judiciary, by packing the supreme court because it has a conservative majority now, you don't like it, you're going to add four presumably progressive justices. i mean, this is a disaster, and we've got to stand up and fight back. neil: what is the likelihood that it goes through? >> i think we should take the democrats at their word here, they're taking their marching orders from the radical left. joe biden on the campaign trail was very non-specific about what he might do here. he's formed this commission, within six days, this legislation has been proposed to pack the court and so, this is a radical agenda. i think we should take them at their word, they're serious about this. i mean, this has long-term implications and these are structural issues that undergerd our republic. this is something you would see in a destabilized regime not in

the united states. we should take this seriously and push back because this would be a disaster for the country. neil: you know, general, i think we've had the better part of a century of nine justices. it wasn't always that way, as few as five, as many as 10. so there's no rule that it always has to be nine, but obviously, for ruth bader ginsburg to say it works well before she passed away and not for increasing justices on the court and others that echo the same sentiment. i'm wondering if the appetite isn't on the court for this, and the appetite for some prominent liberals isn't for this and even the president of the united states when he was a senator years ago, thinking it was a boneheaded idea when fdr tried it, then why is this gaining traction? >> i think what you're seeing right now, neil, is the democrats have publicly said that even during the obama

years, they didn't go far enough to the left quick enough, and i think they see the writing on the wall that the american public doesn't like what's happening, 2022 is on the horizon and they want to do as much as they can, while they can. and as it relates to the supreme court and packing the court, if they're pushing for, you know, 13, well, why not 20? why not 50? why not 100? there's no limiting principle here, which is why this is so dangerous, but i think the democrats are taking their marching orders from the radical left that's why you're seeing hr-1, that's why you're seeing d.c. statehood moving through congress and why you're seeing the idea of packing the court which was laughable a few years ago and now is a serious idea by some on the left that they're moving forward. so, i think it's just the politics of the left right now and the radicalization of the democrat party that's moving this forward. they're talking about it very seriously. they've got a commission in

place, they've got legislation in place and it's a real problem. neil: all right. well, we'll watch it closely. they might want to be careful what they wish for and they could get what they want and all of a sudden looking at a republican president who would have that power. too soon to tell. attorney general of missouri, very good seeing you. >> good to see you, neil. neil: in the meantime i want to let you know the good news on kids getting back to class. pretty soon physical instruction will be back in a lot of places. here is the bad news. if you can find enough teachers. after this. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. 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 martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right.

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>> here is the good news, kids will soon be returning to in-person classes. now the bad news. if they can find enough teachers, well, to teach them. jacqui heinrich following this out of washington d.c. the sudden of shortage of teachers is an epidemic, what's going on? >> the teacher shortage started before covid and it threw it into crisis mode with recruitment and retention. now as more schools resume in-person learning some are suffering more than others. washington is showing a

critical shortage of special education teachers. and subs have opted out with the pandemic. and in michigan, 44% compared to last year. and first lady jill biden, a community teacher her he have is, how covid relief funds could help return things to normal. >> this has been so different learning over zoom and trying to connect and feel that sense of community that i think that teachers create in classrooms that is so important. >> parents are running out of patience. in jersey city yesterday, it was planned as a protest against the board of education, turned into a celebration after officials reversed their decision, announcing that students will in fact return to the classroom next week.

>> we're tired of the narrative that teachers don't want to be there because we saw firsthand the celebration that they're going to get to see their kids. >> the department of education is encouraging states to develop plans to get back to in-person learning and once it's submitted they can get funds from the american rescue plan. neil. neil: jacqui heinrich, thank you very much for that. in the meantime, push up higher the education ladder to colleges, kids could return next fall, but only if you have proof you've been vaccinated. the doctor the stevens institute of technology, the president there, kind enough to join us there. doctor, will that be the requirement at your university? >> yes, good morning neil. and the answer is yes, we made the decision and made the announcement about two days ago that vaccination will be required of students as well as faculty and staff in order to make sure that we can have a

safe return to campus for everybody in the fall. neil: so if, let's say, your students or some students say i really don't want to do that, can they attend virtually or not at all? >> you know, we've been thinking about this and discussing it. first of all, we're going to have some reasonable exemption provisions, people can request exemption, either for health reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs, so we will take those requests into consideration and we will try to provide accommodation and the accommodations may vary depending on the circumstances and depending on the individuals, but we'll try to be as-- >> you know. got it. doctor, what is the reaction among students and their parents? >> you know, this is very interesting. we did not make this decision

without consulting with our community. we actually consulted the student government association, we consulted the graduate student council, and there was an overwhelming level of support for this. having said that, once you make the decision and the announcement, as you can imagine, there are some people who are not comfortable with this. so far mostly positive and in favor and receiving kudos and some who object. neil: i wonder are the ones who are objecting, i'm out of here and i'm never coming back? >> now, it is possible. i think it's unlikely. as i told you earlier, we will try to take into consideration reasonable requests and provide accommodation to the extent possible, but there might be some very unusual, very extreme circumstances where the person would say i'm not coming to your school and i think that's

a possibility. if we have not done this and yet we had asked people to come back to campus we would have had more negative reactions. neil: so, doctor, what is your school policy on masks? that's another big sort of controversial issue for lots of folks. >> at this point in time we have all kinds of safety protocols, including a requirement for wearing masks . if you ask me what the situation will be next fall, it's hard to predict now, but i will not be surprised if some of these protocols continue to apply even in the fall. i think the transition will be a gradual transition and not an abrupt one. neil: you know, young people tend to be the most loathe, i guess i'd say, to get the vaccine. you get a certain age and i

remember this from many, many decades myself, you think you're superman and don't need this kind of thing so they resist. what do you think, how do you win them over to the notion, it better for them and exposure to parents and grandparents and what have you that they do get through and get vaccinated. >> you're raising an interesting question. first of all, i should tell you that this is not the case in our university. we tend to be a science and technology oriented community. our people believe in the power of science and therefore, we're not getting a lot of pushback like this, as i told you. i personally met with the student government association and they were unanimously supportive of this idea. having said that, there are probably some younger people who would say, i am immune, i am strong, i'm not going to get covid. if i do get covid, it's not a big deal. what do we do? we try to appeal to their good

senses and try to educate them and the notion of herd, and if many of us your vaccinated. we will be in a better place, it's public health and not just personal health and most are reasonable and they follow our thinking. >> all right, well, they're very smart student body and as are you. and let us know how it's going, a lot of them are future scientists themselves. thank you very, very much. we're going to go to something else a bit more mundane, but very, very crucial right now. what's happening with the weather across the country. there's serious spots in trouble and by the way, also happening around alabama, talladega. the race track could be wet, very wet. after this. hey, guys! they have customized solutions to help our family's special needs... giving us confidence in our future... ...and in kevin's.

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>> all right. for the big race for tomorrow

in alabama that nascar talladega track certainly looks wet. they've been having nasty weather. let's go to adam klotz, meteorologist, and see what it looks likes. >> the race fans are on the back side of this system. and maybe more rain in talladega today. it's now shifted off to the east of the portions in alabama. everything you're looking at there highlighted in the red box is a tornado watch. that means the ingredients are there for tornados and we've seen severe thunderstorms already this morning and that's something that's going to linger in afternoon hours. alabama, and panhandle and georgia, and we see an area highlighted for severe weather, enhanced risk and also a tornado risk that's high across florida, big bend, and savannah

and jacksonville where the ingredients are ripe. we could see a couple of small tornados, something we'll be paying attention to. this is the future forecast and you can pay attention to the time stamp in the corner and this is running through the course today. by 11 p.m. or midnight, this is dry also on the back side of this system for sunday. so it's going to be a lot clearer out there. otherwise these are your temperatures, neil. it's cooler out west and we're talking snow with some of the higher elevations, so spring weather on the east and winter weather out west. back over to you. neil: crazy times, adam. adam klotz following that weather pattern. next week of course, the president of the united states will be addressing a joint session of congress. we know it's going to be limited capacity because of the virus and maybe no more than 200 will be listening to him in the well of the house. and many more at home, but it's that message and decidedly progressive one that's surprising those certainly on the right. what if i told you, on the left

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>> i do think that biden administration, president biden has definitely exceeded expectations that progressives had. and i'll be frank, i think a lot of us expected a much more conservative administration and i think that his -- not only what ultimately has come out, but the active invitation and willingness and collaboration with progressives in his first 100 days already almost 100 days has been very impressive.

neil: all right. alexandria ocasio-cortez loves it, some more moderate democrats, republicans certainly, not too keen on it. she's talking -- we are talking about the tone and tenor of the biden administration, about 100 days in office. about 100 days formally next thursday. having said that argument is something like this, the president was talked about a moderating influence, and won over progressives, endoring spending plans and added features that progressives love and going after the rich and career with politics and national correspondent, susan, they might have their differences over climate change and energy commits, no shortage of green to all of these commitments and the president seems to be getting high marks from progressives, what do you make of it? >> well, i think that we see

right now certainly seeing the opportunity before the 2022 mid-terms to take a hard left here and do all they can, you know, to, a, fix the nation in terms of addressing the pandemic. i think that's the top concern and i would give him high marks going into this state of the union on joint address to congress next week. in terms of hearing from the progressive side of his party, i think he's trying to voice, allow those voices like aoc to be heard, but at the same time you don't see him really, you know, taking action on things like court packing, that they really want, that's at the heart of their agenda and the green new deal as you mentioned. but generally, i think they are surprised with him and is getting high marks. take a bit of a victory lap

next week in his state of the union because he is having pretty good high numbers across the board from americans, his approval ratings are in the low 50's, which is something that trump never reached. if you care about poll numbers and we care them at real clear politics although we like to take them in the aggregate, i think you've got to give him credit there, but certainly there are-- not out of the woods yet in pandemic and signs of normalcy and people want to know when they can get their lives back to normal and we haven't heard a lot of assurance from joe biden on this, we had the fourth of july comment in his speech, aggressive he's getting inside their barbecues and masks and seeing who they can invite into their back yards. in terms of addressing that situation, i think he's generally doing a good job, but on the border, as you said earlier in your program, it's

another story on issues like racial justice, i think he needs to really bring the country together on those two issues and show that he can handle the border crisis which i think a spiraling out of control and now police reform, he needs to show he can make good on his promise to the george floyd family last week when he said he's going to get the george floyd bill passed in congress and to see how that happens now, how you get 10 senate republicans to pass, to get together on qualified immunity as a sticking point there. and i'd like to see him address all of those topics, but i do expect at the beginning of the speech we will see the victory lap. neil: i just maybe see, and you follow this better than i do, don't have a lot of time here, but the notion that strike while the iron's hot. a good possibility the house as close as it is will flip as it normally does at midterm

election for an incumbent president and that they're going to ram as much as they can right now. what do you think of that thinking and that's what's really behind this? >> yeah, i think you do see that in terms of spending and how grand these proposals are. health care, and care workers, it's part of the infrastructure, everything is infrastructure, and we're going to see some compromise on that hopefully with republicans putting out much more tailored bill this past week. but, yes, i think he's trying to do that, but he has to be walking a tricky line here, because when it comes to police reform, it's very integral with the funding of police and that's where democrats have a hard problem because the public generally supports police reform, but they do not support defunding the police and the same with court-- >> not at the expense of their security. i jumped on you rudely, i

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>> president biden now facing pushback over potential tax hikes though the white house says he's delivering on his promise to close the inequality gap especially as the u.s. tries to recover from the pandemic. welcome to fox news live i'm molly line coming to you from boston. >> and i'm benjamin, and talking about raising 39.6%. and tracking all of these