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rio grande. in the last 24 hours sources tell me a now minutes going, 2241 # apprehensions in the very location in the last 24 hours and that's an increase of 372% from this time last year. beyond that fence you see that structure on the right side, it's a brown top, page building. that's lupe cabrera's bar, he's had it 30 years in that location and he says he's never seen anything like it the way it is right now in that opening you see just right to the gate entrance. the hole is where they did not finish completing president trump's border wall and as a result, migrants every day come over the fence and sometimes he comes in and sees them sleeping in the open air spot right there. now, this comes as officials discovered over 90 pandemic in a houston home in a possible smuggling operation.

william la jeunesse is live from texas with the latest. >> hey, griff, there's no question there are basically agents in south texas are stretched thin. agents from florida in texas and national guard and there remain large areas of the border that remain not patrolled and that's where check points like this come in. this is highway 281 is from the rio grande valley, busiest sector along the southwest border and then this road will take you to san antonio and houston to stash houses like the one you mentioned. now, agents here will basically develop reasonable suspension that maybe someone is struggling narcotics or individuals, and basically these are migrants who are seen as a commodity by these criminal organizations and they'll pull over and do a secondary inspection and that's when the agents go through the vehicle. the technology here that can see through the skin of tractor-trailers and with their own k-9 communities and sniff out drugs and almost daily

they're finding migrants hiding in produce trucks, 18-wheelers and pickup trucks and hopscotched from stash houses along the border up to points north and often they're extorted, families are being extorted of additional money before they let the individuals go. one of the big problems that you mentioned are holes along the border fence that have not been completed that were authorized by president trump that were stopped by president biden. now, he has said that moneys that were appropriated from the defense department will not be spent to complete sections of the border wall, precisely how many miles, we're not sure. under president trump about 460 miles were built about 300 miles remain and that has been stopped. yesterday the president also said, he said the situation along the border is improving. >> there are 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. that's a record. that sound to most folks like a crisis. >> well, look, it's way down

now. we've now gotten control and it's getting urgent action now. for example, a month ago we had thousands of young kids in custody in places they shouldn't be and controlled by the border patrol. we have now cut that down dramatically. >> so to suggest that the border is under control is entirely inaccurate. what the president is referring to is that he doesn't have as many children being held in central processing facilities under the border patrol. now those are-- these individuals are with hhs or now they've been funneled out to sponsors or family members in the united states, but you can talk to anyone along the border, griffin, as you well know, they will not say that the situation is improving. in fact, some would maintain it's getting worse. >> and quickly, william just so our viewers understand, the shot on the drone there, that is, if you go 75 miles give or take a few due north directly from where you're seeing this

shot right here, you will find where you are, william and that's why that check point over your shoulder is one of the most important, if not most critical in the nation. >> yeah, griff, it's probably a layered defense. agents along the border where the drone shot is and roaming patrols, they see fences and cameras and individuals get in and you have no agents and then this is a lats line of defense before the migrants make it into points north and elsewhere in the united states and why you have the check point and there are 30 of these from california to texas where they're doing basically the same thing and set up tactical check points and try to funnel traffic into one area or another. they catch migrants, catch drugs on a daily basis. >> william la jeunesse down in texas. thank you. alicia. >> and while all of that is going on, president biden is

working to drum up support for his spending plan, as he faces major questions from republicans and some members of his own party over how to pay for it. mark meredith has more from wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend. hi, mark. >> alicia, good afternoon. president biden has made it through his first 100 days, but his biggest challenge remains getting congress on board with his economic agenda and the president continues to push lawmakers to spend trillions and trillions of dollars and expand the role of government. earlier this week we saw the president roll out the second phase of his economic plans, what the white house is calling the american family plan. the administration wants to spend some $2 trillion to invest in i think so this like universal pre-k, bringing down the cost of higher education and expanded programs. the white house insists they can pay for this by tax hikes on wealthier americans, and they argue that that could hurt the economy and couldn't

stomach this spending. >> the unsustainable spending is a major problem, as margaret thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. government needs to focus on the basics. >> in less than two weeks, he'll host at the white house, and some democrats are urging the president not to let the negotiations drag on. >> i am not of the mind that we should be delaying progress for the purpose of getting one or two republican co-sponsors when it's very clear that their objective for the most part is to obstruct the progress that president biden would like to see. >> as for this weekend, nothing on the president's official schedule, but we know he's going to be hitting the road against next week. southern virginia to continue selling this plan and alicia we learned that the president will make two stops in louisiana, lake charles and new orleans as he tries to get them behind the spending plan. >> mark meredith with the

president. griff. >> joining me now is republican texas congressman and house ways and means and joint cameral committee. thank you for joining us on this saturday. and i wanted to take you where mark was on spending. week show you a list of the taxes, if you will, that will pay for roads and bridges and a whole lot more, but you had a tweet this week that really jogged me to remember the days of ronald reagan when president reagan talked about our government is too big and we, the people is you and i, and we need to get it down and now it seems we're seeing the opposite. >> yeah, well, listen this spending spree is not just going to make us less competitive because we're going to raise taxes according to biden and democrats, higher than communist china, which will crowd out capital and run our jobs back overseas. and it's not really just about a debt that's unsustainable and

a potential debt crisis which a country can't print its way out of or borrow its way out of. it's about the contraction of our liberties. as government expands, our liberty contracts and this is not just cradle to grave tear for our citizens, it's control. and ultimately, that's what this plan, we the government plan, and those aren't my words, those are president biden's words. he equates we the government with we the people. he couldn't be more wrong. if we lose our liberty we lose the key ingredients that have unleashed the greatest country, the most prosperous country, the most persian gulf country in the history of the world. >> congressman bipartisan seems a thing of the past in this town right now. what in this massive infrastructure bill do you and your fellow republicans agree upon? what can you get done? >> well, this president promised bipartisanship and unity.

we've seen nothing of the sort. and he's had more executive orders than the last four presidents combined and speaking of economic recovery and growth, he's totally destroyed a pillar of growth and jobs, which is an affordable, predictable, safe supply of fuel and energy with the fossil fuel industry. writing one executive order after the other to ban drilling, to cancel the xl pipeline, get back into the paris agreement and now again he wants to tax us higher than communist china as i've seen. we're going to put so much weight on the job creators at a time when they can least endure it and not only are we going to slow recovery, we will depress this economy and put us in a far worse position, all because of not infrastructure, but the green new deal. not protecting families, but expanding entitlements in the welfare states to make families more dependent on government. that's the ultimate plan here, and that's why his tone might be moderate at the joint

session, but his plan is anything, but. in fact, it's the most radical plan i think this country has ever seen. >> congressman, you have led delegations to the border last month and you're intimately familiar with the crisis we talked about before you came on. nothing in terms of building walls or some of the things the last administration did, do you believe that border components should be in this bill? >> absolutely. it's the number one job of the government, keep your people, your citizens safe. prioritize their safety and security. and none of that came out in the president's remarks. in fact, he said we've got to stop declaring war on immigration. i've got a message for the president. these people, these wonderful people, the american people are not at war with immigrants. we welcome the legal immigrant. america is more generous to immigrants than any other country. we represent 5% of the total world population. 20% of the total immigrant

population. no one treats the immigrant better. we're at war with illegal immigration and guess what? he's not in the fight. he's totally checked out. he is a derelict in his first and most sacred protecting american. people winning the war are the people on the other side of the border, the drug cartels. the losers are the people abused over here and kids used as passports and this president has totally checked out on all of the above. >> just a few seconds left. if you could put one i think this in the bill that isn't in there, wall construction? >> i would put in any security measure starting with replenishing funding for the wall and not redirecting it to levee because we don't have a flood control problem at the border, we have a deluge of people, crime and the like coming over and i would start with border security and start closing loopholes and just enforce the laws on the books

today. >> congressman jodey arrington. and talking to the economic advisors about president biden's latest spending plans tomorrow on fox news sunday. check your local listings for time and channel and howie kurtz talks to former trump campaign secretary on media buzz, you don't want to miss it. catch it and much more coming up 11 a.m. eastern tomorrow. alicia. >> a new report reveals aides for new york governor andrew cuomo overruled officials know ared -- in order to 0 conceal the

numbers. >> and this was one month after this began. looking at numbers this month. more than 15,000 new yorkers have died either in nursing homes or long-term care facilities. well, the new york times reporting that concern andrew cuomo's senior aides held onto a scientific people with the true nursing home death toll for five months before releasing it. according to the report they blocked two department letters from reaching state legislators. the administration defending its action saying first it didn't trust the data. a lawyer for the governor arguing they shared the true information that they had. the governor addressing this report this week. >> we did not want to release the number that was inaccurate because that would fuel the politics. oh, the state said it was 900, it turns out to be 2000, turned out to be 8 had--

800, it had to be accurate. >> all of this taking place during qui mow's multi-million dollar book deal, "leadership lessons from the covid-19 pandemic", the governor faces a sexual harassment investigation, an impeachment enquery. new york city mayor bill deblasio reacting saying everyone was just covering it up and that's only adding to the feud between the two. the governor responded to the mayor's comments, even pulling into question mayor bill deblasio's polling numbers and criticizing some of those comments this week. alicia. >> alex hogan in new york, thank you. for legal analysis on the probes that governor cuomo is facing, let's bring in andrew stollman right now. he is our guest here, the attorney and northwestern adjunct law professor, andrew, before we get started, i want to play something from janice dean because we hear about

these investigations, but i want to remind everybody about something. take a listen. >> i have to believe that justice will eventually be served, sean. there's a fbi investigation, a federal investigation, and the justice department investigation that hopefully is still in effect and not only the nursing home issue, but this guy has other problems with sexual harassment and covid tests for friends and family. >> janice dean lost both her mother-in-law and father-in-law in these exact nursing homes that we're talking about, that's why she's been out there. so, we have four investigations here right now. right, one federal and three at the state level. so democrats are in charge in the state of new york, really. could they move this along any faster if they wanted to? >> absolutely. and i'm kind of reminded of the old wendy's commercial, "where's the beef"? where's the impeachment.

you don't have to get into the sexual assault or the harassment. he had four million reasons to look the other way and the chickens have come home to roost. and narc -- new york legislature why aren't you acting? >> and when there are multiple investigations taking place, is he riding out the clock here? >> absolutely, he's hoping that something else pops up to kind of kick the can down the road. a new story something to get his name out the of the headline. the coverup is worse than the crime of the he's caught redhanded if he's not willing to resign he ought to be impeached. >> that's something we've heard throughout history in terms of political investigation the coverup is worse than the crime. in this case, the crime's alleged here, he helped and his

team pushed the coverup and falsify the data and then you have eight accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment here, the crimes are pretty bad. sometimes maybe in comparison. some might say it could be in comparison to the coverup that's worse. >> a good point. remember, thousands of people who have died and there's a criminal investigation, the fbi is looking, so i would strongly encourage the governor to have very good criminal counsel on standby because his worst case scenario isn't being impeached. his worst case scenario is that he gets criminally charged. these are extraordinarily serious, serious allegations. >> and i mean, we have a possible assault charge coming as well. this goes all the way up the line. >> it's a parade, sexual

assault, sexual harassment, there's potentially lying to the doj. get a good criminal counsel, because you're going to need him or her. >> and these are going rather slowly, the appearance is there. when you have so many victims in one stage and so many upset the way that the covid crisis has been handled while we know this book was underway and the selling of this book and release of this book, is there a political price to pay for her democrats in this state if things don't go somewhere with these investigations? >> absolutely. we have to remember that new york is still in crisis. people are being diagnosed with covid and they are dying, and right now, the governor can't leave that fine state. so the $64,000 question is where is the legislative oversight by the new york general assembly to make sure you have a leader who can do

his job during a really important crisis. so what are they doing you know, what actions are they going to take next and why are they sitting on their hands? somebody has to look into that in the new york legislative. >> we'll ask the questions. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> alicia nasa faces a growing threat circling the earth. we'll tell you what it is next. balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health.

>> dragon spacex for awareness, we believe the object is further away than anticipated. lower risk of possible conjunction, but please ensure those are closed prior to tca in approximately 20 seconds. griff: that was spacex alerting astronauts of a potential impact with space debris last week. this one turned out to be a false alarm, but highlights the threat posed by space pollution as earth's orbit becomes crowded with satellites. let'ses discuss this with state university of new york and an expert working with nasa to track space debris. professor, thank you for taking time. this is fascinating, and i

think in your industry, you call it space junk, this debris out there. first explain what is the threat? what is the problem? >> well, the problem is that this space junk is moving very, very fast 17,500 mile per hour, obviously, if you have a collision with two objects moving that fast it's going to be very violent and can be very dangerous. griff: and how how much of this space junk, space debris is out there? >> right now we track about 28,000 objects softball size or bigger and those are worrisome enough, but the ones that are about one centimeter to 10 centimeter size about 900,000 of those objects. the ones that are one millimeter to one centimeter estimated 128 million, a lot of objects up there. griff: and you can see on our green in animation provided by nasa, it certainly looks like it's quite a problem. let me ask you, what is the

solution? to you send someone out? we're discussing this with our staff, saying maybe we need a space janitor of sorts to try to get it under control? >> there's been a lot of solutions proposed, but unfortunately, none of them are feasible at this point, and so, people want to go and grab some space debris it's not like i can take my car in buffalo and go to washington and next day drive it down to florida, you can't do that, you won't have enough fuel. you're fighting this and losing every time. physics doesn't allow to do it. there are a lot of need ideas, but nothing feasible. griff: i hate to ask you, is it inevitable. fortunately, it was a false alarm from the clip we played, but inevitable that we'll have

a problem at some point? >> yes, it's a question when not if, we need to do something, i agree. griff: let me ask you about spacex specifically. they've really elevated our capabilities and without them, we probably would not be where we are, but at the same time, because they do put so much out there in space, are they sort of the solution and the problem at the same time? >> well, yeah, i mean, there are constellations, mega constellations launching right now about 1500 right now could be as high as 12,000 that the fcc allowed and others are putting up constellations, too. and at 3% failure rate, talking about 30 already that are not active, so that could be a problem, but the good news is, they are providing internet, there are trade-offs that have to be made and something to be discussed in the future. griff: professor i can't bring you on without talking about the loss of michael collins,

the module pilot for apollo 11 on this show just two years ago we had an opportunity to interview him, one of his last. take a listen to what collins had to say. >> not very often, you know, i lead a quiet life and i'll be walking along down my street at night when it's starting to get dark and i sense something over my right shoulder and i look up and i see that little silver sliver up there and i think, oh, well, that's the moon, i've been there. it takes me by surprise. griff: as we remember him, what are your thoughts, professor? >> great astronaut. such a great guy. i would really encourage everybody to read his book and, yeah, it's a loss. we only have about four or five, i think, remaining gemini astronauts.

so they're getting older and he is surely going to be missed. griff: he will indeed. and it's because of him, he played an integral part in getting our national air and space museum here in washington so you'll remember him if you come and visit washington once that opens back up. professor, thank you very much for taking time and i appreciate it as we remember the module pilot of apollo 11, michael collins. in black) ♪ ♪ ♪ the bowls are back. applebee's irresist-a-bowls all just $8.99.

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>> now for a look at some of our headlines. venezuela has granted six american automatic executives house arrest. the move comes as the biden administration takes a look at its approach to dealing with the country. the six employees of citgo have been behind bars in venezuela since late 2017. three people are injured after an earthquake hits just off the coast of japan. the 6.8 magnitude quake striking just before 10:30 a.m. local time. officials say they did not need

to issue a tsunami alert. this is the second quake in as many months in the area. a fire in a hospital in india kills 18 people. the fire starting in the hospital's covid-19 ward. 31 other patients were rescued by hospital workers and firefighters. the cause of the fire is being investigated. >> president biden's mask messaging is causing confusion as people try to sort out who to follow, the white house or the c.d.c. lucas tomlinson is live in washington with more. hi, lucas. >> that's right, the c.d.c. issuing new guidance on mask wearing outdoors, saying they can come off for fully vaccinated people in certain circumstances. president biden recently addressed the issue. >> but if we were in fact talking to one another close i'd have my mask on and you'd have a mask even though we'd both be vaccinated so it's a

small precaution to take that has a profound impact. >> president biden spends 30 seconds looking for his mask after a speech in georgia thursday night. some are wondering why fully vaccinated adults need to wear a mask at all outside. and from the trump administration, they offered the best advice. >> if you're around vaccinated people you should not wear a mask, you're very, very safe we know the transmission is very low. it's confusing and causing people not to have faith in the vaccine, it's opposite than what we want. >> the c.d.c. director explained the guidelines. >> if you're fully vaccinated and want to attend a small outdoor gathering with people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated or dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households, the science shows if you're vaccinated, you can do so safely unmasked. >> griff, the problem is most

adults want to gather in large outdoor gatherings and dine indoors as well as. c.d.c. says 78% of people who were hospitalized or died were obese. slimming down through diet and exercise might be the best prevention for the diet as well as warding off cancer and heart disease. griff: lucas clearing up mixed messaging. thank you. alicia. alicia: and, griff, president biden is proposing to significantly raise the capital gains tax to help pay for his 1.8 trillion dollar spending plan. and joining us to discuss is macro trends advisor's founding partner and visiting research fellow at the university of san diego school of business mitch rochelle, the co-host of a podcast. thank you for being here today. i always run out of time with

you because i have so many questions. let's begin quickly with this capital gains tax proposal. could hit 39.6% to help pay for this $1.8 trillion. what do you see the impact being in the long-term on that? >> yeah, alicia, the thing to remember is capital gains historically has been taxed different than ordinary income because the earnings on the underlying investment have already been subject to tax. let's say you own apple stock and owned it for 10 years and have a huge gain. the earnings of apple have already been taxed and basically a double tax to have a high rate on capital gains. that's why capital is taxed different than ordinary income or earnings from salaries. so the notion of bringing the capital gains right up to the other level is sort of antithetical to the way we view investment versus, you know, earnings. alicia: so, okay, now let's move to some good news here because we did get some

encouraging news with the gross domestic product report coming out that shows a 6.4 rise in the first quarter here. that is some good news, definitely, and we can look at exactly what folks are spending money on. what people are consuming and what we're doing and what we're seeing here and the way this consumption is happening, what's been driving this? is it that people are spending money, they're going to restaurants and shopping, hotels, all of those things that we weren't able to do the last year. that's good news, but is there any caution in this good news that you see is this. >> yeah, a couple of things, i think there's good news in the future and better news to come. if you look at 6.4% growth in the economy and that's an annualized growth rate, most of the consumption was on goods as opposed to services and you think about the u.s. economy, we're typically viewed as being a service economy. so the services that i would reference would be going to a movie, going to a ball game, going to a restaurant.

we got the benefit in the first quarter of reopening the economy, but we haven't fully reopened the economy for the consumption of services so i'd expect the economy to boom throughout the rest of the year into 2022. because you asked the question, a word of caution, the thing you have to worry about when the economy heats up, does it heat and that's the way to look at it inflation. >> what's the role in the number that the stimulus checks are paying right now and then we also have that, the federal bump into the unemployment weekly rate of $300 that expires in september. >> yeah, all of that is flooding currency, u.s. dollars into the economy and it's played a big role. the good news, some other things that came out this week, one of them is that the savings rate has gone up and people are paying down debt. so the good news some people aren't just spending that money willy nilly, they're actually investing it and saving it and paying off debt. so, i think there's some good

news there, but if it wasn't for that stimulus, with the fact that we'd shut down the supply side of the economy, i don't think we would have seen the growth like that. >> as you know, president biden and his administration taking a lot of credit for the good news in the economy. but the wall street journal had an editorial and these thoughts. >> mr. biden wants to take credit for rescuing an economy in flame. but democrats in washington have been dousing dead embers. and the economy was rolling out no matter who was president, true? >> i agree with that and you need to look back to what our economy looked like prior to, let's say march of 2020. the unemployment rate was at a historic low. the diversity of the unemployment rate being low was there, and the economy was really poised to, you know, continue to chug along pretty well. so, i think it had positive momentum. this whole lockdown thing happened and once we started

reopening without the stimulus checks i think you would have seen a lot of economic growth, it may not have been 6.4% this quarter, but i think you would have seen a lot of economic growth because people have the ability and the capacity to go out and consume. alicia: folks need to check out your twitter page and they'll understand why i'm saying that i approve your tie today, derby day tie. good pick, good to see you. >> all right, good to see you. griff: alicia, diversion at the border as agents struggle to deal with migrants and drug cartels into the country in that very area. that's next.

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talked to the agents that i have been working with in covering over the years, they tell me while it shocks us in the country to see these, they see it on a near weekly occurrence. how much of this is drug cartels, not just loosely unorganized migrants crossing our border in large numbers? >> hey, griff, the majority of this is organized through the cartels, make no mistake about it. it's quite ironic this week the department of homeland security announced they're going to unveil a program to combat human trafficking, but yet, we're the ones causing the problem of increasing human trafficking. you know, there's a rule in law enforcement that says, don't be in a position where you have to solve a problem that you're creating yourself. and here we have the government creating the problem. you know, the other thing, as it relates to cvp and the children in custody and they're

spiking the football and it's a when in march when we get the statistics for april. the administration shunting celebrating anything, they're following the law when they get the migrant children out of cvp custody in under 72 hours. the fact that we're increasing hhs facilities, renting hotel rooms, none of this is solving the problem, it's just continuing to entice migrants to make the trip here. griff: if you were advising dhs right now about those large numbers being a diversion for cartel activity, what would you tell them? >> you know, the border, griff, is one of these places where law enforcement wants to be right 100% of the time. if they can, to stop all threats. so if you look at statistics here and the numbers and ms-13 members that have been previously deported and they're now making second attempts into the country and some are getting caught, likely the

majority are not. if you go one for three in terms of sending members to the border of a criminal element and only one out of the three are getting caught i would say we've got a pretty big problem still. >> the quote got-aways is the number one concern you're dealing with, because you're getting people that shouldn't be here, in yuma, arizona, they got an ms-13 guy. is it a point now, charles, where our agents are really out of control, overwhelmed and can't stop this sort of activity? >> they've been overwhelmed combined with the sheer numbers and responsibilities of cvp and ice on the border, from law enforcement to almost humanitarian, right, not a role they're supposed to focus solely on. they are a law enforcement agency here so they're being pulled away from their

responsibilities, that's something that we're hearing and as far as policy changes. look at implementation of catch and release again, of ice not allowed to make arrests around certain locations throughout the u.s. and we're going to see this problem spread across the country. right now we're seeing it in places like houston, you brought up. immediately in the area of the border, but this is going to start to spread as these migrants are placed throughout the country. they're given noticing to appear, which most are going to be ignored. griff: charles marino, good analysis and good advice, hopefully the administration is listening. charles marino, thank you very much. >> thanks. alicia: griff, it's derby time in louisville. we'll preview the top horses and jockeys lining up for america's oldest sporting event next. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! ( sighs wearily ) here, i'll take that!

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out. and enjoying mint juleps on this sunny day and betting and wagers coming back as well. we're watching the handle to see how much is going to be wagered. the high was recorded in 2019, more than $165 million was wagered and dropped to less than $80 million last year when the race was moved and held without fans in place. earlier today we talked to jim mcinveil. you might know him as mattress mack. he's trying it to a special promotion. if he wins and they'll get back to you on their purchase. >> i had a promotion if customers buy $3,000 temper pedic mattress or more, and

they win they get it back free, free, free, and i'm going to bet at least three, maybe $4 million on the favorite essential quality to win the kentucky today. >> now, yesterday, with the wagering going on, that's the philly ahead of the derby, that total came into just over $54 million, which is pretty close to the high mark for the high at 60 million and that's at reduced capacity here. we'll see exactly how close we get to today on derby die to the high mark we saw in 2019. one byproduct of reduced capacity here, churchill downs, shorter lines at the betting window. >> and i bet shorter lines at the bar as well. i've never tried a mint julep,

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>> the president says his administration has, quote, gotten control. officials in houston discover 90 people in one home in a possible human smuggling operation. >> reporter: this is basically furious, texas, highway 261 and this is a superhighway of illicit activity, narcotics and human smuggling and this is one of 30 checkpoints on the southwest border, the last chance for the border patrol to stop thousands of migrants who got into the rio grande sector hidden in pickup trucks and tractor-trailers and passenger vehicles and is up to border patrol agents based on their experience to have reasonable

suspicion, they have a k-9 unit here to stop the vehicle and there's technology, to see through the scan of an 18 wheeler and they can rescue or discover thousands who are hidden in these vehicles each year and if they make a pass here they will end up in a stash house like the one discovered by police executing a search warrant for kidnapping, 90 immigrants mostly from central america packed inside, some had not eaten for days, dehydrated 10 or rather 5 tested positive for covid. these drop houses are critical link in the chain of custody used by criminal organizations to hopscotch groups of migrants from one border area to cities in the us and often held there for extortion, money, family members, here or back home. >> that is how it is.

if you don't pay they -- they will miss you. that is how it is. >> what makes my neighbor ramp up. >> things are getting better and maybe there are fewer unaccompanied minors in central processing centers by the border patrol, but others along the border and still the president using 42 deport people to mexico, the rio grande valley to san diego where they are being returned to tijuana, the kind of thing he criticized donald trump for.

getting control of the border, agents would say that is not accurate. alicia: a source on the ground says the intake site for unaccompanied children is receiving 85 more kids later today and you are talking how they are getting moved out. can you explain where you are and the importance of this location. it is so interesting. >> reporter: the border patrol has layered defense, agents on the border where our drones are and then roving patrols, you try based on sensors and cameras to capture people who have been detected and then you have checkpoints, 30 of them california to texas and this is the last chance because they are being put in stash houses along the border, being held for

appear go of time, the transportation team picks them up and try to get north over here to the next location and ago to cities like baltimore, la, whatever in these are very critical elements. how do we know if someone is in their? we don't. that is what the challenge is all about, a critical part of this is to stop or reduce illegal immigration. alicia: the president is yet to go there. griff: president biden negotiating with gop lawmakers as his spending bill faces resistance from republicans and moderate democrats. mark meredith bringing it to you from wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: president biden is urging congress to approve two massive spending bills, one to

address infrastructure and climate change in the other to expand the role of government when it comes to childcare and other social programs. we've seen the president trying to sell the message making the case to congress and the public at more spending is needed to transform the economy. he was marking amtrak's birthday but also to call for major improvements to roads, bridges and rail ways. >> people stay here and grow because of the ability to access, access transportation, access infrastructure as it allows us to compete and with the rest of the world, to win the 21st-century we've got to move.

>> reporter: republicans not impressed including senator steve daines who wrote under president biden the era of big government is back and bigger than ever. biden as first 100 days of taken the country down destructive path, far from unified or bipartisan. we are going to be seeing more progressives try to get their message out, bernie sanders will hold a rally in louisville, kentucky not far from mitch mcconnell, sanders will urge voters to support a more progressive agenda rallying people behind raising the minimum wage and expanding obamacare. mcconnell doesn't seem to feel threatened. he made clear he does not support the president's agenda saying this could jeopardize the country's future so the president is expected to host mcconnell and other congressional leaders at the white house two weeks from now. we will see if those negotiations and something out that both parties make it clear where the president stands. alicia: a member of the house appropriations committee, a member of the. dog coalition, congressman henry cuellar, i want to begin with proposals by the biden administration, you voted for the american rescue plan which was $1.9 trillion and after that the president came back with

$2.3 trillion infrastructure bill and we are looking at $1.8 trillion american family plan, $6 trillion. how concerned are you about americans not having an appetite for that kind of sticker shock? >> we are under a pandemic, we didn't see spending and we will see some spending now. as to what the amount is, we need to have a discussion and we haven't gotten to that point yet. the leadership, i hope members can have a safe zone is to the total amount we are looking at. alicia: listen to what marco rubio from florida had to say. >> saying we will spend $1 trillion on this doesn't mean you care more but you will spend more of other people's money and run up the debt. alicia: your response?

>> i appreciate the senator but i find it interesting how after a new president got sworn in on january 20th all of a sudden people start caring about the deficit and debt. if you look at the last prior four years i was talking about the deficit in debt under donald trump but i find it interesting people bring it up only when there's a democrat in office. alicia: uri, republicans have added their fair share to the debt and the deficit. to the border, the president's address to congress on wednesday there was a reaction we found quite interesting from the arizona senator democrat mark kelly. he said, breaking the immigration system, a plan to address the immediate crisis at the border and continue holding

this opinion accountable to deliver the resources and staffing necessary for humane orderly processes to improve border security and support local economies and fix the immigration system. i bring this up because you are part of a bipartisan effort to actually do something. can you explain? >> this is what i have been saying for a while. i agree with immigration reform. we haven't had immigration reform since we had bipartisan commission in 1986, president reagan and the democratic congress. we had proposals that i did notice the president did not talk about the border. there is a border crisis, the numbers are so high. they are better at moving the unaccompanied kids from border patrol, take this next door but

on the outflow, but people coming in those numbers are still coming in. look at the situation, it is 8500 people they released on the honor system and they are not even part -- have not been given a notice, part of the immigration system. to say we have everything under control. i'm supportive of president biden, but we are not paying attention to the border communities and this is not under control, i can tell you that. alicia: appreciate your time. happy saturday to you. griff: the governor of georgia making a trip to the southern border to check in on the state's national guard to get a firsthand look at the growing

crisis after calling out vice president kamala harris for not making a visit to the us-mexico border herself. joining us is brian kemp, thank you for taking time on saturday, you just heard a democrat border state congressman henry cuellar saying it is not under control. what did you see? >> it is a crisis, unbelievable what is happening. in december visiting troops before the christmas holiday, much different right now. look at the numbers in january, they had 17,000 apprehensions in that area they are patrolling, february, 28,000, march it was 62,000, they are going to hit 60 again. they will have 600,000 apprehensions this year.

very much different than it was. the cartels are making a lot of money shipping people across the border, really have a strategic plan. they start throwing kids and people in the river who can't swim to divert border patrol agents from getting these cartel members and sent people to be a decoy to draw attention to them and float forward rangers full of drugs across the river and get them into the interior of the country, drastically different versus december when i was there. griff: you saw what you are talking about and i have a source, 2245 apprehensions. if you could give one piece of advice to the vice presidents and president biden about what needs to be done, what would that be?

>> the first thing they should do is get on the ground and talk to the border patrol agents doing this every day, talk to the texas troopers i talked to, the georgia national guardsmen that are there who in three logistic missions flying helicopters with the border patrol, maintenance and working in the tactical ops center to run cameras that were mentioned earlier and good understanding from what is going on. they are being overwhelmed and people who need more resources, had the opportunity to jump into governor at it after being briefed by his folks. they will be spending a fortune next year to support a federal mission of protecting the border. it is terrible what is happening and to say the crisis is over is not true. these children, they cried about months ago and moving them to

different parts of the country and i can tell you people on the ground are worried the title 42 if that goes way it will be worse than it is now which is hard to believe. this is the worst numbers ever since they have been keeping it on people coming across the border, the number of apprehensions. alicia: the health concern maximum which we do deport people let me ask you what you make of the fact that on the day you want to the border president biden came to georgia and was heckled by anti-ice activists. listen to what he got treated to. >> but georgia. >> end detention now! >> i agree with you. i'm working on that. give me another 5 days. >> does it concern you the president is not getting the message from the board of regents you talk to? >> i heard that on the news

coverage and don't understand that. he doesn't understand what is happening on the border. instead of coming to georgia he should be going to mcallen, texas, or arizona or these other places and get a handle what is going on in the country. alicia: griff: you are intending to sign some bills about human trafficking. >> our first lady is doing as much as anybody in the country to end human trafficking but not only that but also to support the victims of human trafficking, we had three additional pieces of legislation this year, unanimous support in our legislature so we intends to move the needle on that tragic issue. griff: have a great rest of your saturday. alicia: california offering a path to early release to 76,000 inmates including some violent and repeat sullins to reduce its

prison population. christina coleman tracking the story live in los angeles. >> reporter: with little public notice these changes were submitted and approved and allowed with little attention but definitely getting a lot of attention now. kevin -- tiktok who is challenging gavin newsom in a likely election tweeted the decision to release tens of thousands of violent criminals onto our streets to public safety in california will put families at risk across the state, reckless and dangerous decisions like these have become common under gavin newsom. i just spoke with the chairman for san francisco's republican party. here is his reaction. >> think about san francisco. we have murders up in san francisco, home invasions and

now we take repeat violent criminals and put them back on the streets almost as if they have a blueprint for the destruction of the state. >> reporter: spokeswoman for the department of corrections and rehabilitation support these controversial changes, the goal is to increase incentives for the incarcerated population, the process, good behavior and follow the rules while participating in educational programs which lead to safer prisons. it is part of the ongoing effort to reduce the state prison population so more than 12,000 inmates for serious but nonviolent offenses under the 3 strikes law will be eligible for earlier release and more than 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes are eligible for good behavior credits that shorten distances by one third instead of one fifth of the time

as before and that includes 20,000 inmates serving life sentences with possibility of parole. alicia: thanks. >> texas is holding a special election -- to a congressman loss to covid. that is next. so you only pay for what you need? just get a quote at libertymutual.com. really? i'll check that out. oh yeah. i think i might get a quote. not again! aah, come on rice. do your thing. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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alicia: in texas special election to fill the seat of coniston ron right who died of coronavirus complications in february. it is a crowded race was 23 candidates including the lake congressman's wife. >> reporter: texas republican susan wright is competing in a special election to hold onto her husband's congressional district after he passed away from covid 19, and 23 candidates competing for the district including other republicans. but right has a special one and said today is election day in texas, strong on the border, and to protect the second amendment.

in 2016 he won 6 congressional district which includes his margin of victory. and and they may have a chance. and or move in a different direction. there is a majority of the vote. it is very large. >> charles watson, thank you. griff: earth's first helicopter on mars gets an extended do it on the red planet. that is next.

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>> andrew giuliani signing off about the federal rate of his father's home writing in an op-ed, quote, stalin's tactics was conducted in tended to have symbolic significance. it is highly unusual to target a client, the justice department has come to rely on this tactic for attacking political, caldwell strategy consultant, democrat strategist and ceo laura think. thank you very much. the giuliani's son andrew made no secret of his intentions to run for mayor. do you agree with that? >> i think he could if his father has done anything wrong. i can tell you not failing to

register as a lobbyist is a technical technical crime, one that usually doesn't come with jail time especially having your home rated. when you consider it a fact that joe biden is accused of something similar why do we not see the same thing happen to president joe biden's son. when we see what happened to conservatives over the years when the federal government is run by democrats, where they were targeting tea party groups, a number of other instances where conservatives have been targeted by those in the federal government. you wonder how this is happening especially when so much of this is been exposed. i am not family with everything that has happened with the rudy giuliani case and i am not an attorney but one may suggest there's something fishy going on

and i can't answer what it is that a lot of people hope to get to the bottom of this. griff: they did read his home and office. what do you think? is this perhaps all about politics and selling political scores or is there more to it? >> federal judges do not grant search warrants for political reasons they have to see evidence to do that at the feds came with receipts and giuliani is going to have to deal with them. our justice system is at work. he will have his day in court and fight over the evidence but the justice department has made their case, federal judges agree with them and the evidence happened. keep in mind they had to demonstrate in court that rudy giuliani was likely to destroy evidence. they have those receipts, we don't know what they all are because a lot of that is done in private and that is how investigations were run when

rudy giuliani was running the ag's office and how they are done under every administration so rudy giuliani is going to have his day in court but has to show up and make sure that he proves he is innocent so look at the evidence and let me say one thing, crying political coverage, he can no longer hide behind the trump presidency, you can't say you can't investigate me and everything is a witchhunt when you have evidence in front of you. i would be careful about otherwise everyone in power, to cry politics and say your innocent. >> we saw what happened with the fisa court, the fbi shielded information from the fisa court where politics was involved in the russia collusion investigation. it actually has. >> let's not pretend it happens every time to rudy giuliani. >> i'm not saying that.

you are connecting dots. i'm saying politics has been involved with the judicial system before. >> you want to -- you want to see him convicted if he is guilty? >> if he is guilty by a jury of his peers certainly. the federal government has not used politics before, they used it in a number of cases. griff: let me get one more thing, the white house has a messaging problem when it comes to masks. this week the president telling nbc it was their patriotic duty but his own cdc says something different. do you think they have a problem on their hands they need to clear up when it comes to wearing masks and the wrong message about folks getting vaccinated? >> i think we have to hundred million vaccines in arms, 45% of the population vaccinated, we are seeing mask mandate to be

taken away. we can thread the needle on this messaging or that, we're in good stead with joe biden at the helm of lifting us out of this crisis, not today's news about masks, everybody knows we are recovering, we are in restaurants outside, starting to go back to baseball games and most people are bullish on that. >> politics have been infused into everything back to obamacare and now talking about the mask and 8 opening up the country which a lot of people need their jobs back, this is become problematic and certainly talking about messaging from the biden administration and as bill maher has said, democrats have not been following the science,

i don't want them to think i'm a trump supported. that tells me everything you need to know about where the country is, still polarized and we need to get beyond that. >> thank you for talking time on >> major milestone for the war in afghanistan is the military begins the final phase of its withdrawal. th the move raising concerns over talent and escalating attacks. live in london the details. >> it is all about what has been insulating its attacks and including friday night last night when a massive car bomb went out sending 60 afghans to the hospital killing at least 27 including students making their way home from the capital where

they've taken the equivalent of the sat, watching the conflict for two decades, just brutal, these are the latest casualties in a conflict in which 50,000 civilians and 70,000 afghan soldiers have been killed. the question is whether the taliban will start attacking us troops, they refrained from doing that for some 14 months since the trump administration announced it would pull out, not a single american soldier was killed in afghanistan last year. the taliban agreement not to attack us forces was contingent on the us completely pulling out by may 1st by today. president biden changed to the deadline since september 11th, it landed there in the first place. the telegram hasn't decided what to do now with their tactics. they also want ap reporting to

promise the afghan military response taliban attacks even as they grow, they could topple afghanistan's current government, the biden administration and us intelligence agencies say it is no longer necessary to keep us troops in afghanistan for terrorist attacks. and 10 years ago this week after, the final phase of this role begins, it is a big day, 800,000 troops of been deployed to afghanistan over the last two decades sending chunks of their days. and their killed in afghanistan. griff: the big apple's mayor had tough words for governor andrew cuomo over the nursing home

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griff: we are learning new information about the scope of the death scandal. >> good afternoon. a new report revealing some of governor andrew cuomo's top aides knew about the nursing home death toll but withheld those numbers made by the new york times founding they prevented a scientific paper from publishing which backlogged, they stonewalled the release of two health department what is with important data intended for lawmakers but they are denying this, they claimed they shared all true information, including bill deblasio.

>> they covered up, this has been one after another piece of evidence that there was a full-fledged cover-up that was explicitly to help the governor sell his book, one of the motivating factors, a book he used employees to help right. >> cuomo fired back the polling numbers. there will reopen by july 1st. >> i wanted opened up on monday. i want to open up new york city tuesday. i buffalo opened on thursday. >> new york city or new york governor andrew cuomo faces several other investigations like the sexual harassment claims in the impeachment

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>> president biden releasing his ambitious agenda that would reduce childcare costs for parents and expand pre-k? >> low middle income families. and high-quality care for children up to the age of 5. the most hard-pressed working families won't have to spend a dime. >> for more on what is in the american families plan and where the funding will come from let's bring in vice president federal policy and strategic communications at the council for a strong america jenny harper. happy saturday. thank you for being here today. i like to begin by putting up specifics from this proposal so both can see what we're talking about, $225 billion in child

care fund, $225 billion for paid family and medical leave programs, $45 billion in nutrition related spending. let's begin with childcare funding. how what americans feel that? >> i heard from the president that funding would go for affordability for childcare for families. >> and providers to provide smaller class sizes and appropriate activities for kids and would support the workforce in ensuring people -- >> without the pandemic would this have been needed at this level. is this covid related lord did go would exacerbate.

the impact on the economy, and infant and dollars, lost productivity wages and earnings. it is an issue that has been in crisis for a long time. it impacts families all across the united states. >> universal pre-k for ages. childhood education has incredible benefits injuring kids are ready for school and higher graduation rates on the social and emotional intelligence and make sure they have access to quality programs is important. very few kids have access to

pre-k, this seeks to provide $200 billion the states could use to provide the pre-k programs to be done in different settings and families have choice. >> the expansive vision is also very expensive. we talk about $6 trillion worth of packages this year that have been proposed or past. do you have any concern that this could in turn hurt some americans who receive help on one end but the economy could be heard on the other side. >> what is important to remember is the strength of our economy is tied to the strength of our childcare sector. parents can't go to work if they don't have a place to send their kids. these are big numbers but it is a big problem and ultimately this is in the proposal phase. congress has to decide what to do with this but it is a big

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glasses is growing as we are hours from the most exciting 2 minutes in sports. lydia is in the middle of churchill downs. >> reporter: a beautiful day we had for the kentucky derby, doesn't get much better. you can watch the big race. there are some changes this year because of capacity restrictions, they expect 40,000 people to be here. usually you can expect 115,000 or more. i will step out of the way so you can look at the crowd that is convening out of the race. 657 for the derby. we had a chance to talk to jeff lipson, the owner of bezos, a horse that is running in the derby later this evening. he won the derby, always dreaming and shares the memories from that. listen. >> time stood still when we were in the winners circle in 2017.

you don't want to leave the circle. >> you can hear a race finishing, back to you. >> lydia has an amazing fascinated. it is fantastic. >> this hat came from frank all is in brooklyn. it is quite nice. griff: thank you very much. it's the 50 to 1 odds horse, and that is brooklyn strong, a gelding. the last time a gelding won was 2009. it was a 50 to 1 odds horse. how about that? alicia: and where do you find the time to find all of this information all of the time? didn't you just, like, drive back into town from, what, north carolina, you were at the border before? i don't understand.

griff: i read a washington post article that laid it all out, and it's very fascinating. alicia: okay. griff: the mattress mat gentleman from houston is betting millions on, and then it goes to rock your world, 5 to 1 and hot rod charlie is 8 to 1. have you picked a favorite? alicia: no, i'm going to go with yours, brooklyn -- brooklyn what? griff: brooklyn strong. alicia: all right. i have to ask you -- i have to tell you, i have never had a mint julep, and every year i say i'm going to have one. i wasn't a bourbon drinker, but now thanks to covid, i love it. griff: having been born and raised in the south, i may have had a mint julep, but i've never been to the kentucky derby. i went last enough and there was a protest outside. but it's great to see the racetrack there in churchill

downs opening up, a sign that we're finally getting a little bit further to seeing normalcy return. that's all for us. "fox news live" continues with eric and arthel. i'm griff griff jenkins. risch liver and i'm alicia acuna. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ eric: well, starting today california is giving 76,000 prettiers the opportunity to get -- prisoners the opportunity to get released earlier, and guess what? the vast majority are prisoners who have been convicted of violent crimes. the state making the move with little notice beforehand as it tries to further trim the population of what once was the nation's largest state correctional system. and, of course, now the question is what does all this mean for public safety. hello, everyone, and well come to a brand new hour of "fox news live." i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville.