this is a balance expert. how many of those little bagel donuts do you think? >> bill: look at the skill of that guy. >> dana: he is looking up. that must be his secret. >> bill: fantastic. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is up next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert stakes battle going on over school reopening. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". emails obtained by the "new york post" show the american federation of teachers regularly communicated with the cdc on school reopenings and after the union suggested slowing down the restart of in-person learning, the biden cdc went along almost word for word with some of the unions'

suggestions. also more mixed messaging out of the white house as president biden continues to wear a mask outdoors. he is fully vaccinated. blah, blah, blah. contradicting his own cdc guidance for fully vaccinated people. a white house senior advisor defending biden's mask wearing. >> i think the president takes the cdc guidelines very seriously and he has always taken his role of sending a signal to follow the science very seriously as well. you know, we do take some extra precautions for him because he is the president of the united states. but i would say that people should follow the cdc guidelines and take advantage of getting the vaccine. >> harris: senator tom cotton is on deck with us today to weigh in on all of it. he will join me moments from now. first let's go straight to the white house. our correspondent peter doocy is there with more on the top story. peter.

>> good morning. the american federation of teachers got what they wanted after sending this email to the cdc that has now been published by the "new york post" saying it would be great to see the insertion some variation of the following. in the event high community transmission results from a new variant of sars covid 2 a new update of the guidelines may be necessary and that last part in quotes wound up in the official cdc guidance. records of political donations finds the american federation of teachers and affiliates donated millions to liberal groups last cycle and leadership claims they lobbied trump officials more than biden officials this year with this quote. we represent 1.7 million educators and public employees spending the last 14 months serving on the front lines of the covid-19 pandemic and we have been in regular touch with the agencies setting policies that affects their work and lives including the cdc. most states moved teachers to the front of the line for

vaccines months ago but many have resisted going back so far. now republicans are pressuring the president to send them back. >> all the president has to do is stand up and be very firm. the teachers aren't the problem. it is their leadership. the teacher unions. i think the unions are holding out for more pay. in the meantime our children get hurt and what is so avoidable and a shame about all this is president biden can fix it. he says he is the education president. >> "new york times" opinion piece makes the case because school reopenings affect parents ability to go back to work and parenting falls on women reopening could become the biggest gender equality issue of the year. >> harris: thank you very much.

i want to bring in senator tom cotton. republican from arkansas. let's get started right there, senator. you know, is this a case of the biden administration simply copying the homework of the teachers union? >> harris, good to be on with you. the cdc is a thoroughly political agency. most americans disregard their advice on steaks, hamburgers and beer and increasingly disregard their advice on schools reopening. they need to be open. we've been open in arkansas five days a week in person since august. largely fine and the case across the country as well. we shouldn't have a political bureaucracies answering to the beck and call of teachers unions. we need kids back in real school not a zoom session with teachers not in the classroom. we need kids in schools with their teachers now. >> harris: i want to get to this. it has to do with the mask

wearing. we're seeing some of that mixed messaging from the president of the united states. and him even getting special treatment, he is the president, they say. more protection than the rest of us who are fully vaccinated. masks have become a totem in the culture war. there is no vir true being permanently masked. no virtue in demanding zero risk. if there were we would never jump in a swimming baol or get into a car. get vaccinated and then get used to wearing hard pants, brushing your hair and teeth and meeting friends outside of zoom. senator cotton, your reaction. >> dr. fauci says we need to keep wearing masks indefinitely. he once again is wrong. almost half of all american adults are now vaccinated and it's been a couple weeks since all americans became eligible. by the end of may anybody who

wants a vaccine will have had a chance to get it and have it become fully effective. zero reason to be wearing masks outdoors. joe biden when he walks from the white house to the marine one helicopter should take off his mask and show americans that it is fine to start getting back to normal. we are increasingly reaching the point where people are more worried about getting the vaccine than they are worried about getting an appointment for the vaccine. one way to encourage people to get the vaccine would show once you have it you can get back to your normal life. you don't have to wear a mask, or keep social distancing. go back to your norm' pre-coronavirus way of life and what most americans are hoping for. people vaccinated fully should take off the masks and get back to normal. >> harris: it is so simple to hear you say it and so simple to see the president and his team do it. they are looking for his mask that he took off and he can't find. i'm sure you saw the video and everybody looking has on a mask.

it is like you way, way to sell it, not. we'll move on. as president biden hits the road this week, senator he is trying to build support for his massive spending plans. hillary clinton says she is thrilled he is taking his agenda. >> it wasn't until the pandemic that i think a truly working majority of americans crossing party lines as we've seen because of the approval that republicans and independents are giving biden, suddenly understood in a clear way that, you know what? there are lots of times when we need the government. >> harris: this comes 25 years after her husband, president clinton, famously declared the era of big government is over. wow. i hear more mixed messaging, senator. >> harris, if hillary clinton

is praising the biden administration it's a sign they're doing something wrong. there are times when the american people need the government. to protect our borders, to stop illegal aliens from crossing at record numbers. what has joe biden done? totally opened our borders. he is insisting that his public health agencies get more and more migrants into the country as opposed to border security stopping them coming in the first place and our government needs to protect citizens from crime. joe biden and democrats continue to attack the police, his department of justice is going on witch hunts against police departments across the country. democrats are trying to pass more laws in congress to let felons out of prison early. those are a couple times when the american people expect their government to protect them and it's exactly the opposite of what joe biden and the democrats are doing. >> harris: it is great to have

you on the program today, senator and very glad to get to this real quickly. a group of senate democrats are calling on the president to shut down the guantanamo bay prison. president biden's secretary of state was asked about it. i can't wait to ask you about it. let's watch first. >> will the biden administration close guantanamo bay? >> we believe that it should be. that is certainly a goal but it is something we'll bring focus to in the months ahead. >> harris: senator, i know you have served, we know that. we celebrate that service and that sacrifice with you on this program all the time. when you look at what they want to do with gitmo, what comes to mind? >> well, i think they want to treat those guantanamo bay terrorists the way they treat the migrants. probably let them in and out. once they get on american soil no telling what a bunch of liberal lawyers will do in court. if the democratic senators want guantanamo terrorists in the united states.

let's put them in their states. >> harris: senator, is there an unintended consequence of this that maybe the american people should be aware of that the biden administration isn't touching on? >> there are more legal rights granted to those terrorists once they're on the american main land soil. no telling what the liberal department of justice and liberal judges do. the safest place is guantanamo. if it wasn't for liberal judges intervening they would have -- terrorism is still a threat. if we have operations where we capture a lot of high value terrorists in the future, where will they put them? bring them to the united states or send them to some other country where they may not have the protections they do have at guantanamo? gitmo is a suitable place. we are detaining some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. that's where they should stay

and future detainees should go. >> harris: nothing recruits like people inside the greatest country in the world having that sort of liberal advocacy on behalf of them. they can talk, they can proselytize. >> i saw that was the case with the blind sheik in the first trade center bombing. he remained an active proselytizeer from federal prison in the united states. >> harris: senator cotton. good to see you today. thank you for your time. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: three top media outlets are retracting their reports about rudy giuliani as the former president's ex lawyer demands to know their sources. plus could wokeness cost the democrats control of the house, senate and presidency? why democratic strategist james carville is once again urging his party to get a reality check.

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act now. >> harris: "new york times," "washington post" and nbc news are all walking back erroneous reporting on former president trump's attorney rudy giuliani. giuliani tweeting where did the original false information come

from? joe concha is a columnist for the hill and fox news contributor. where did the sources come from and how do you walk back the story? the retraction they're doing it. that's putting a really big cat in a really small bag. >> part of the retraction, harris, i love that analogy should be okay, here is the source that burned us. if you are "the new york times," the "washington post", nbc news, you were fed false information by somebody. was it somebody, former f.b.i.? was it somebody in the biden justice department? somebody who is a former intelligence official who plays a cable news pundit on tv? who gave you this information. if you're so really concerned seriously about truth and transparency you will burn the source. i bet my kid's college fund that that will never ever happen and then this source will continue to push false

information again and again and they always seem to be pushing information or these news organizations always seem to be reporting news that is false towards conservatives and republicans. i want to see three major news organizations just once have a story that is wrong about a democrat. we never seem to see that now, do we? >> harris: it's at high level. and the answer to your question is no and the audience knows it because they see these publications are not going after the other side like they are the conservative side. first it was former president trump with no actually there weren't bounties on the heads of american soldiers. how do you get something like that wrong when even senator cotton on my program a while when the story was breaking said i personally saw the intelligence. there was no there there. how do they do this and get away with it? >> they get it wrong because they believe what they want to believe. for four years they wanted to believe there is some very

nefarious connection between say the trump administration and russia and then we even saw it extend to the hunter biden story. it was blamed on russian disinformation. rudy giuliani getting a warning about russia misinformation. can we drop that? the american people are on to it. 3/4 of americans believe traditional major news sources report news they know to be misleading. three news organizations pushed a narrative they wanted to believe was true. >> harris: thank goodness they aren't painting everybody with the same brush. democratic strategist james carville is continuing to warn that his party will suffer at the polls if they don't distance themselves from wokeness. watch. >> you should speak clear, direct english and address

people as they address each other. not like the humanities department at am hers wants you to address everybody. people want to live like this scared to address an issue because it might come out the wrong way. no one is using their language except for, you know, some of our people in television. if you need wokeness listen to npr. >> harris: wow, james carville has a lot of fire for his own democrats right now. >> i can't believe 18 years in the appearance in old school. carville is from the clinton era democrat which never could get elected on a national level today, right? that was the clinton era that negotiated with newt gingrich in terms of getting things done like welfare reform and a balanced budget. now we don't see that. he sees the polls that i see, harris. recent harvard harris poll

talked about how 64% see cancel culture that stems from wokeness as a threat to their freedom. 54% say they are very concerned they could be fired if they express the wrong opinion on social media and it's discovered by their co-workers. think how close the last election was. georgia, arizona, wisconsin, all within 1 percentage point. i think in two cases 10 or 12,000 votes that decided those states. if those states go in the other direction you may have a different president now. you want to appeal to the left go ahead. it was independents and primarily those maybe even center right that may have helped put joe biden into the oval office and they can take him right back out if they see a party that's gone so far left they don't even recognize it anymore. >> harris: i want to go a little bit deeper with the limited time we have on how republicans respond to all of this. what you are saying is the woke folk want to shut everybody down and win the argument just with silence. and their own lack of imagination apparently. then they don't have the use

the big words to debate. what should be the response to that? there has to be a way for winning in response to that. >> never back down, never apologize when the mob comes for you. you are signing your own execution harris. i think that's in the end you can't back down. you have to keep calling this stuff out and the carvilles of the world and bill maher. you could call them left of center, he is now that considering where the party has gone. when their own start to eat themselves for lack of a better term that's when maybe the fire goes out here. in the meantime stop thinking that social media is so real that every time something trends if you are a corporation that you think you will be boycotted and the bottom line will be effect. go forward, don't back down and never apologize. >> harris: the cancel culture is striking again. some people are accusing a jeopardy winner of flashing the

white power hand gesture. thanks, joe concha. donahue said he simply raised three fingers to single he was a three-time winner of the game. i deeply regret this terrible misunderstanding. i am no friend of racists or white supremacists. let's look at it now. fox business is digging in on this one. lydia. >> it is a hand gesture commonly understood to me okay. but according to the anti-defamation league what started as a prank has turned the gesture into a symbol of hate at white supremacists groups have co-operated the gesture. many have been falsely accused of being racist. the jeopardy winner is a recent example. last year a san diego man was fired after being accused of making the gesture while

driving his former employer's car. san diego public utility. he said someone snapped it without his knowledge and accused him of making the white power hand gesture near a black lives matter protest. he tells me he was cracking his knuckles like this when the photo was taken. there are other reports that say he was mimicking someone who snapped a photo of him. he and his lawyer insists he did not intentionally make any gesture whatsoever. >> how a white man can accuse a mexican man of being a white supremacist and the white men who hear the story believe them. only one person of color in the whole story, that's me. and i'm the one prosecuted for being a white supremacist. i have none of those connections whatsoever, none. >> the company says it stands

by their decision to terminate him. including his failure to report the incident. when i asked the company would not answer specifically how he violated company policies and whether other information supported any type of conclusion that he was making any gestures intended to mean white power and attempts to reach the person who posted the photo have been unsuccessful. the photo and account have been deleted. he says the job loss is devastating. nearly a year later he remains unemployed, visiting food pantries and using his last dollars on rent. >> harris: lydia, that was going to be kind of my follow-up question for you is how his well-being is. it's one thing to cancel somebody's words, but another thing to cancel their livelihood. it looks like they are willing to go after people with no evidence and you couldn't get them to point to a policy. >> exactly. you know, for mr. kaffer tee he

says it's very devastating. this job was his american dream. he had been in this role for six months for the first time had a retirement account and health insurance and to lose that just based on the accusations that he says are totally false has really devastated him. >> harris: wow. the cancel culture seems so weak, right? emotional intelligence, can they get any? lydia, thank you so much. do as i say, not as i do. that's the mantra for some. perhaps this individual you will be familiar with when it comes to those words and actions. these new questions for climate envoy john kerry after it's revealed he had significant investments in big oil right before he joined the biden white house. plus shout-out. why the results of a special election over the weekend may spell trouble for democrats in 2022. power panel comes in next.

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government fileings show it was worth 14 million dollars and the industry's worst omissions offenders. since selling his portfolio he railed against big oil and pushed companies to convert to clean energy. >> what they ought to be doing is figuring out how do we become not an oil and gas company, but how do we become an energy company? if you are sitting there in an oil and gas company you don't want to sit there with a lot of stranded assets. some people are fighting to hold off that inevitability. but that fight is, i think, useless and you will wind up on the wrong side of this battle. >> harris: power panel now. guy benson host of the guy benson show on fox news radio and fox news contributor. marjorie clifton is with us today form he obama campaign consultant and principal of

clifton consultant. we love capitalism. people get rich. great stuff. problem is capitalism is hypocrisy. >> some people are defending kerry saying he disclosed this as he was required to so it is not really a story except okay, fine, he checked those boxes. he did what he had to do. the question is why did he make those investments in the first place? i have nothing against big oil. i would love to have millions of dollars worth of stocks in big oil. that would be fantastic. he as the claim at czar is out there talking about how it's not the future, pollution and polluters. i would love to hear the question poised the him pointedly and forcing him to answer. why were those investments made in the first place given your entire worldview? he loves driving around in private jets. it feels like for john kerry he has his own interests and priorities and then other ideas that he wants to impose on the rest of society and there-in lies the issue.

>> harris: there lies the line rules for me, not for thee that some put in his mouth. marjorie, when do we think john kerry fell in love with the climate? great for the american dream. build your capitalist dream but preaching to the world no one else should have them how does that make him the guy as the spokesperson the envoy and why did he have the stocks in the first place? >> why a lot of politicians aren't very popular right now. a lot of hypocrisy all the time on both sides of the aisle unfortunately. one of the things kerry talked about was the trend to where oil and gas companies go them becoming energy companies and trends in terms of what consumers are looking for environmentally. look, stock portfolios, active or passive is wonderful now investors do have options through companies like morgan

stanley and j.p. morgan who offer portfolios where you can do climate conscious investing and other social impact investing. why kerry wasn't doing that i don't know. we also this with wilbur ross, the secretary of commerce who said i will be divesting when he entered the trump administration and he still held investments with chinese and russian entities tied to vladimir putin. unfortunately we see this a lot with politicians and i agree we should have them sticking to what they are preaching from their pulpits as well. >> harris: i'll ask you guy if you want a last word on this otherwise i'll move. >> i think kerry should allow a journalist aboard his private jet to ask him specific questions about these stock holdings. >> harris: all right. we'll move to this. democrats locked out of the first competitive race since joe biden was elected president. republican susan wright and

another republican won to replace wright's husband. the gop controlled the sixth congressional district for decades. president biden came within three points of flipping it. fox nation host tammy bruce tweeted this. dems should prepare for a shell acting in 2022. should they, guy? >> i never want to read too deeply into one special election outcome. however, if you do want to take a look at this as an early tea leaves experiment for 2022 it is not good news for democrats at all. this was a fairly competitive district in 2020 as you mentioned. president trump carried it but not by much. democrats got blown out by roughly 25 points in the so-called jungle primary. they had less than 40% of the vote share and republicans won the top two slots meaning it is

a guaranteed gop hold. in a district that biden was competitive in. the democrats won't have someone on the ballot. that's how badly they performed in the open jungle primary. an early warning sign about what the environment might look like next fall. >> dana: i >> you have to look at the context. we had a lot of voters showing up for -- to vote against trump which meant down ballot candidates that performed better than they have historically. this particular election his widow is being reelected. it is a different scenario, a sad situation dying of covid. the democrat contesting the seat along with the other republican came within 400 votes of actually taking that other position. so i wouldn't call it a landslide at all. it was pretty close given.

but also historically a republican seat. it is unlikely to begin with. i don't think it says much about anything at this point. >> harris: guy and marjorie, thank you very much. i want to get to these headlines now. start with tornadoes right now in georgia and alabama. tornado reportedly has touched down in atlanta in the past hour. and multiple twisters caused damage across mississippi yesterday over the weekend. forecasters saying more severe weather is forecast from north texas to the ohio river valley. four people killed and more than two dozen hospitalized when a boat capsized and broke apart by san diego yesterday in a smuggling operation. vice president harris will chair the space council. white house officials say she will focus on commercial and security issues in space. what about the border that you

can actually touch? not the one in the sky but the one with mexico? we're still counting. been 40 days after president biden tapped vice president kamala harris to head the administration's response to the border crisis. we're watching it all for you in headlines. are the feds now going soft on the crackdown the trump administration unleashed on the portland, oregon riots last year? dozens of cases are being dismissed. we're live in the pacific northwest with the details and this. >> what we're seeing is indeed a surge of people to the border. we've seen that in the past but we inherited a totally broken system. broken intentionally. >> harris: the biden administration deflecting blame for the crisis on the southern border. my next guest says they are effectively abolishing ice.

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>> harris: police declared the situation in downtown oregon to a riot over the weekend. six people arrested. we're learning most of the rioters charged in connection with the violent protests last summer are now not actually going to be prosecuted at all. several of those suspects were accused of assaulting police officers. you know, we covered it here. dan springer is live for us in seattle with the story. dan. >> i think this will surprise a lot of people. we saw it play out in portland last summer. the feds stepped in and arrested a lot of people for riot because basically the local district attorney said he would not. the chaos took place right outside the federal courthouse in downtown portland. we watched this incredible violence unfold every night as federal officers were brought in from around the country to protect the federal buildings

in the city. what d.a. schmidt said he wouldn't charge people even for felony rioting the white house pressured the u.s. attorney in oregon to haul them into federal court. charges were filed against 98 people. they have dismissed or deferred 58 of those cases under president biden. 7 people pled guilty. one to prison. 32 cases pending. the federal public defender says justice is being served. >> i think the government went overboard in some of the way they addressed these protests. many of the cases that were brought because of the federal government's overreach are now being dismissed. >> now of the 31 deferred cases, which means no record or jail time and maybe some community service, 19 are felonies including get this, 16 assaults of federal officers.

the former head of homeland security who went to portland to check on the courthouse is shocked that so many cases are being dropped. >> it's offensive to all the men and women who risked their lives in portland for 90 or 120 days or longer in some cases being attacked night after night after night. >> chad wolf told me that billy williams. the u.s. attorney under president trump in oregon was hesitant to file those federal charges saying it is basically oregon doing what they do. it would only inflame the situation. the u.s. attorney's in office now says basically we will dismiss cases unless we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt and get a conviction. to see scores of these cases being dismissed when he saw video of officers out there and in some cases fighting with the protestors is surprising.

>> harris: we have to get to the point where video matters or it doesn't. it seems pretty easy. i know not everything is admissible in court. we watched it play out. people weren't even shy about covering their faces. 16 assaults of the 19 felonies, nothing? wow. nothing? >> some of these cases being -- yeah. crazy. >> harris: dan springer thank you for following up on that and the big headline, too, it is continuing. they just had to declare one. good to see you, a riot there. we'll move to this. >> children as young as 6, 7 years old coming here with no adult who are sent on a dangerous journey. i don't think it's because of a speech joe biden gave. it is because of horrible conditions in those countries. >> we inherited a total broken system.

broken intentionally. traffickers and others are trying to tell them that the border is open. it is not. >> children are being allowed in. >> they are the one exception because we will not -- it is the right thing to do. >> harris: biden administration officials are deflecting blame as you can see there for the crisis at our southern border even after joe biden's remarks on the campaign trail and after enforcing new guidance which severely limits immigration and customs enforcement agents, ice, back in january ice made this prediction. rough estimate is book-ins would be reduced. and the vast majority would come from cbp transfers. arrests did plunge a month later. they told you you are going to book people in and bring them in and that number will get cut in half and we're seeing it

happen. arizona attorney general joins me now. great to have you on the program again. tell me why this is happening? ice predicted it and now we're seeing it. >> everyone is entitled to their own opinion not their own facts. the document you just referred to was something that we uncovered during our lawsuit against the biden administration. as you know we have three tracks of litigation going on. one of them is over the intraguidance policy of the biden administration. internal documents show they knew this would result in a drastic decline in the number of people being apprehended and processed for deportation. they knew and refusing to pick up people in arizona, prisoners, for example convicted of serious crimes. we know from what we've heard even in short term detention facilities people accused of murder, rape, kidnapping aren't being picked up by ice. what happened the biden administration decriminalized people from coming over.

incentivized people from coming over getting all the benefits like housing, healthcare and childcare to people and spending tens of millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars the house folks and it has led to the crisis. this is not only a crisis, it will be a tragedy. we will end up with a terrible event. i know as a prosecutor when you release criminals, rapists, murderser and hundreds of thousands of people coming into our country every year apprehended from the terrorist watch list. they won't stay in arizona. it is a nationwide problem and a ticking time bomb. >> harris: i talk to sheriffs and attorney generals all over the country and it's what's happen. we see cartel, drug and drug distribution, that kind of crime fan out very far north of the border. i want to get to this. attorney general is joining us for anybody tuning in. your state is leading a coalition of red states calling on the u.s. supreme court to

intervene. in a legal battle over a trump-era policy the biden administration overturned that restricted green cards for immigrants who are considered reliant on welfare. you wrote this. it is unconscionable to overwhelm our infrastructure and immigration personnel when we are dealing with the health and economic devastation of the pandemic. what's the follow up to that, attorney general? >> we just filed our petition, us and 12 of my colleagues, 12 states. 13 of us to the u.s. supreme court. basically what we're asking the court to do is allow us to come in and defend these rules and defend the statute. the biden administration dropped the defense of this. multiple cases in multiple circuits. as a result of the biden administration's policies the public charge rule has been gutted. this is something that is a statute that has been on our books for 100 years.

the trump administration defined it in their way meaning you can't have welfare and childcare. it's a common sense rule trying to protect taxpayers at the same time trying to protect the public. >> harris: quickly what do you say to the squad, the congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and others who will fight back and say but that's not the humanity thing to do, the humanitarian thing to do. what is your comeback? >> i'm a first generation american. my family fled communism. what the biden administration is doing are undermining immigration policy. having millions of people come into this country being exploited by the cartel. fueling the cartels more money is dangerous for everyone whether you are democrat or republican. >> harris: i want to thank everybody for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" after the break.

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