>> dana: we're doing all right. professional hair and makeup helps a lot i would have to say. do we like hemmerino. do we like that or not? the 55% say yes. here is harris. >> bill: only 55. hey, harris. >> harris: fox news alert now. the white house once again being pressed over mixed messaging on wearing masks. whether it's undermining confidence in the covid vaccines now. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". president biden still wearing a mask at least one outside despite being fully vaccinated, contradicting his own cdc guidelines. he is also still masking inside even among a group of fully vaccinated people. the white house's covid response coordinator grilled

about this on what kind of message this sends after more than a year of covid restrictions for most americans? >> why does president biden in a room full of vaccinated journalists, why does he need to wear a mask? >> the president will continue to follow the cdc guidance. being able to take off his mask in a room full of journalists and white house staffers all of whom are fully vaccinated is demonstration that the vaccines work. i think the concern is that by being overly cautious the signal is going out to the public that there isn't necessarily a light at the end of the tunnel. >> i think everyone is tired and wearing a mask -- we're getting there. >> harris: wow, former fda head is professional at not answering the questions. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta. jonathan, you have some answers and information. thank you. >> hi. former fda commissioner scott

gotlieb is among those saying governments, both state and federal need to ease back on the covid restrictions as more americans are getting vaccinated. take a listen to what he said. >> certain outdoors we should encourage people to go outside. vaccination rates are high and we have good testing in place and we're identifying infections we can start lifting the restrictions indoors as well on a broad basis. >> under current cdc guidelines only vaccinated individuals can go outdoors without masks except in crowds. dr. fauci says he expects the agency to ease these guidelines further as more americans get vaccinated. although he speculated some may voluntarily wear masks during future outbreaks of rest pri tear disease after seeing how widespread masking eliminated the last flu season. >> so it is conceivable that as we go on a year or two or more

from now that during certain seasonal periods when you have rest pri tear viruses like the flu people might elect to wear masks to diminish the likelihood you'll spread these diseases. >> bill: i want to leave you with good news. dr. fauci says as more americans get vaccinated the risk decreases of having another surge like what we experienced in the fall and early winter. he thinks with so many people getting vaccinated that is much less likely than before. harris. >> harris: all right. jonathan serrie, thank you very much. dr. marty makary professor at johns hopkins university school of medicine and fox news contributor. great to have you back on the program. look, i know that we're following the science and the facts. i'm curious as to why the white house looks like it is not. because of the optics of president biden. >> there is contradictions. public perceives a low risk out there in the community and they

are correct. i think what you'll see is one more guidance that's out of step with the real risk level out there. also people are getting frustrated that the goalposts are getting moved. the goal to get back to a normal life and remove mask restrictions was less than 10 cases per 100,000. half the country is there right now, harris. about a dozen states have less than 7 cases per 100,000. so when people see the goalposts moved and see the cdc moving two to three months late consistently on every major issue of the pandemic there will be a lot of frustration out there and political leaders will need to respond to that. >> harris: a "wall street journal" op-ed argues that lockdowns didn't stop covid-19 citing a recent study that found more virus spread inside homes than workplaces. so we've known this all along. but now there is even more evidence of it. the op-ed is reading in part there is little doubt that infection would spread faster in congregations than smaller

groups if both engaged in similar practices but since larger groups have an incentive to have expensive methods of infection larger organizations may be better at prevention than households. >> it raises a good point. when you tell people they need to stay at home. they do things differently and more lickly to do them in indoor gatherings or distancing or mask requirements at the workplace. this study is telling us things we've already known. rather than look back we need to acknowledge we've made a lot of mistakes. when we told people to stay home we should have told them to get outside. when they told people to wash their hands we should have told them to mask up when the infection risk was high. >> harris: more teachers are sounding the alarm over the effects of remote schooling

during this pandemic and educators are warning kindergartners may never fully recover from the learning that they have lost. one north carolina school district official wrote this. kindergarten cannot be replicated even by the very best teachers in the virtual environment. low quality kindergarten experience could impact children for a lifetime. your thoughts on this and how the science really plays a part in this. how do we know this? >> gosh, this is really frustrating because we know that the research is finally going to catch up at some point with the restrictions that were put into place. it happens after every major natural disaster, any major event in the country be it a hurricane or some major public health crisis. we finally get the research that shows that the restrictions or the implications were far worse than we thought. we saw it after hurricane maria in puerto rico and katrina in

new orleans. this study tells us we may need to change the curriculum. there is a year loss. you don't just make up for that. we maybe need to start things off differently. i'm concerned in august we'll have a massive national debate erupt around a perception of risk even though that risk is low. and that debate is not going to be a healthy debate. it will allow our political influences to come in. >> harris: you know, yes, we follow the science. how about selling it with the science and the facts? sell them. why are we at a place where people don't even believe what they should believe because it's right there and real? >> i think two things. we have a completely distorted perception of risk. today we're 1/10 the level of the middle of a mild flu season. the case fatality rate is similar now that covid is in younger populations. we're well below the levels of a mild flu season.

the perception of risk is disproportionate. if you dismiss immunity as a way to manipulate people we have to get to 85% vaccination in order to have a normal existence. that is ignoring natural immunity. the reality is 60% of the u.s. adults have been vaccinated and half of those unvaccinated have natural immunity. it puts us around 80% and the public perceives a low risk in the community and they're correct. >> harris: the reason that fits into this conversation about children and schools and kindergartners in particular and how much work we need to do is because we anticipate based on what is said, there is no reason why we can't flip a switch and responsively go forward in our journey and get back to some things like school full-time so on and so forth. a new piece in the "new york times" says that many families are hesitant to return to schools because of the changes they've made this year at home.

quote, unquote. teenagers from low income families have taken on heavy loads of paid work because so many parents lost their job. parents made new childcare arrangements to get through the long months of school closures and part-time hours and are now loath to disrupt established routines. some families do not know that local public schools have reopened in their areas because of language barriers or lack of effective communication from districts. your last word on this. >> i think there is an entirely different perspective from some wealthy who has private tutors who has a good lifestyle during covid. covid has been good to a lot of people. renovating their homes during covid. in inner city baltimore here it has been a very different story. it is very hard to keep kids in school pre-covid and covid has really distorted that entire ability to get kids in school and keep them in school. >> harris: dr. marty makary. thank you very much for your time and expertise. >> thanks.

>> harris: much more on the school reopening debate this afternoon. martha maccallum will talk with randy weingarten, american federation of teacher and response to influence over school's covid-19 guidelines today on "the story" at 3:00 p.m. eastern. the c.i.a. is at it again with another in a series of woke recruitment videos despite facing widespread backlash and mockery on the first one. we'll show you the latest effort, plus this. >> how embarrassing to highlight the biden policies in the current administration on our national guard. our texas national guard picking up garbage. >> harris: president biden getting it from all sides for his handling of the border crisis. you saw embarrassing was the word there. even some democrats say the administration does not have

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>> harris: i want you to take a look at something right now. we don't get to see this in realtime, certainly not being pointed out by border patrol. but there are some reporters and cameras there now and we can see a steady flow of people and especially during the commercial my teammate reracked that as it was happening just a couple seconds ago. you see the steady stream of people coming across the border with mexico entering our nation without going through a legal checkpoint, without any of those things. you don't see them being covid tested right there, right?

there is a whole lot going on before they cross the rio grande. this is del rio, texas, to immediately get into the united states. just moments ago there was an elderly gentleman they were helping out of the river. some have camping gear so they can spend the night and do what they need to do. this is a heavy stream of people. a lot of children in the group that we are seeing now, too. women and children in this group looks like that woman is praying as she comes across. you saw her, right? she was physically making a cross and literally, the religious cross as she was praying coming through this water, the rio grande. of course, this section of it is lower. we have seen instances where our border patrol have had to get engaged to save people. that water is moving. look at the center left of your screen and look at the stream flow there. you get north or south of here it could be a different situation. you see how deep it just got

and they're helping her out? this is going on and going on and going on. on the other side we don't have good information on who is pulling them out exactly. can my team tell me? do we know? there is a gentleman there with a mask on and is ready for whatever needs to happen there. we're following it. it folds right into what we're about to talk about. pete hegseth is co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. we watch these pictures together. the people need help getting out. this was a big group. >> it is. it has been groups like this day after day, hour after hour. these are powerful pictures but if you've spent time there or know anybody down there on a regular basis they say this is all the time. this is the one moment the camera happens to catch it. look at that families struggling to get across. you put your life, the lives of your kids and family in danger to make this trip because you

believe the united states of america is open. you believe ultimately you will be allowed in and stay in. when you look at the data from deportations to kids being released and not just from the facilities on the border but throughout the country, all the evidence is and always translated through the cartels, that it is time to come to america and we're seeing a physically dangerous part of it. harris. what we hear more often and more devastatingly is the sexual abuse, the human trafficking, the drugs, the exploitation of young people and women which we should not be tolerating. the biden administration should stand up now. they are not and reason to believe why they're not. they're enabling the cartels through their policies. >> harris: can you see the woman being pulled across the slippery rocks? we've seen people perish. remember the baby under 2 years old and former president trump was talking about now we have

to stop this because it is so, so dangerous for these people? i don't know again who that gentleman is who is helping out. he is armed and clearly someone with some familiarity to the path of these people. they are readily going into his arms. they know our border patrol right away. our guys have on uniforms and they know they'll do their job with all their hearts and might. but they have chosen a section. oh oh, okay, i hate to see this. that water is -- pull him up, pick him up. pete, come on now. we know that these numbers, they have 60,000 plus unaccounted for who have come across called getaways in the last couple of months. we know that from border patrol. we watch the danger now. this is not video, this is live. scooping little ones up so they don't go under the water. >> in case people have any question about who the good guys are. i don't know who that gentleman

is helping people out of the water but i have to believe he is connected to law enforcement on the u.s. side or ultimately americans who put their lives at risk every single day are the true human tarrance and they do an impossible job. they know the leadership in washington does not have their back and they're dealing with sheer humanity. they are dealing with the ramifications of policies, people are policies. in this case these -- you want to talk about separating kids from their parents? it's a defacto kid/-- they are willing to send their kids with coyotes. can you imagine the danger and fear just in that boy there walking past? he is hoping for a better life. you know what he is going? to the united states. which he knows and believes is not systemically racist.

is not evil. ultimately he is hoping for an opportunity on the other side. and our rules are what should matter. >> harris: so we're seeing two things quickly before i let you go, pete. we just caught this breaking news and we knew there were cameras down there. there are drones down there. but i saw what looks like on the gentleman in the blue there an official type of emblem. it might have been -- i can't tell what that badge is but clearly they're helping these people way outside of a checkpoint. they are coming across in an area that was not meant for this to be happening. there is danger involved. the illegality involved and all of that. as you say, they persist in coming and we're dedicated to at least getting them to some safe form but they become now part of that onslaught under the biden administration. we have to run and we have another breaking news story. thank you for being with me for these live excerpts. i want to take you now to --

rockets are being fired right now, tray yengst is in jerusalem. >> good morning, rockets are being fired into israel right now from the gaza strip just moments ago sirens blaird across jerusalem and smrin city outside of the old city here started to shout god is great. this was a promise from hamas earlier today saying that if israeli forces were not removed from the old city in jerusalem and if all the prisoners that are currently being held right now in israeli prisons were not released they would fire on what israel says is the capital of their country, jerusalem. we know this is a city contested. it has been the focus of demonstrations and riots. riotssinging on now behind me as rockets are still being fired into israel. you can see over here these are the palestinians clashing with

security forces all week. the focus for these people has been on two separate things. one having to do with a neighborhood where palestinian families live that could possibly be evicted. the other having to do with the mosque. right now muslims are celebrating the holy month of ramadan and more than 300 palestinians injured earlier this morning as clashes erupted in jerusalem's old city. we were just on the mosque compound where police stormed in earlier throwing tear gas and stun grenades. the manager of the mosque spoke with fox news telling what israel did this morning a barbaric act. hamas echoed that and threatened to send rockets. to give you a sense what it means for the region, i've been covering this for a few years now. there have only been i would

say two or three times where rockets were fired toward jerusalem. every time that happened there were days of conflict. one such time had to do in 2019 when the israelis took out a senior jihad rocket commander. we are likely to see in the coming days air strikes from the israeli military in gaza and potentially limited ground operations. we're getting information right now as i'm speaking i want to show you my phone. it says now rocket attacks these are some cities along the border and that means that hamas is not only firing short range rockets but also medium and possibly large range rockets. what happened right here, we heard a number of explosions and possible impact outside jerusalem. >> harris: i want to put today into perspective for people who may not know. you talk about ramadan is coming to an end. not too many days from now.

54 years ago today during the six-day war in 1967, that marks jerusalem day which is going on right now. and then that is always a collision point. i remember when the former president opened the embassy there from tel aviv to jerusalem because it's the place where people see where they gather. it is the capitol in their hearts and in reality we want an embassy there so said the former president. on this day was the day my team and i landed and when we got there, there were clashes going on. and i don't ever remember anybody saying what you just said. we knew it was bad when we were there on that day right before the opening the next day. but those short range missiles and then you say a longer mid range missile. that is news breaking in a very concerning way. >> i'm getting in information

just now. islamic jihad according to the israeli military has fired an anti-tank missile into southern israel. this is significant because it means that factions inside gaza are not only firing on israel from the air but also the ground. earlier this year we had a sit-down interview with the israely defense minister. i asked him about the situation in gaza. we've spent many days inside the gaza strip speaking with leadershipened we want to against a sense. the defense minister in israel told fox earlier in the year. targeted assassinations are not off the table for israel. in the past when factions have fired on jerusalem, a major escalation, that has often been a response and right now it's an indication as these alerts are still coming in, these are

all towns along the southern border with israel and gaza. if there is any indication it will escalate into a much larger conflict. >> harris: the targeted assassinations are something different than people gathering in a group like that. that's something that is much more tactical and feels a lot more so certainly is when you are on the ground. very dangerous. tray yengst, thank you very much. i appreciate the reporting that you are doing. we'll come back to you as news warrants. i almost don't want the pull away. you just saw the police in jerusalem go through and break up crowds. you see people milling back into their lives. you saw people at the bus stop there. they fold right back in. but if this is about to escalate we'll check back with trey yengst. it can do so in a flash. the whole world watches that situation. and thirsts for peace in the middle east and israel. the biden administration defending the government's unemployment extension despite

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>> harris: a lot of news happening now. top stories. emergency is declared in 17 states and washington, d.c. after a cyberattack to one of the largest gas pipelines in america offline on friday. you can look at the map and see where it's affecting. the white house says it's closely monitoring the colonial pipe. they say a russian criminal gang may be responsible. a manhunt underway for the gunman who opened fire in time square over the weekend. police told the "new york post" the suspect, 31 years old. got into an argument with his brother before the shooting happened. and horse trainer bob baffert

defending kentucky derby winner medina spirit after his horse tested positive for a manmade steroid. >> it did not happen. that's the really seriously troubling part of it. that is not a drug that i would use on a horse. we don't use that. we don't use that drug. the horse never had it in him and we have the documentation. we did not cheat to win the kentucky derby. >> harris: churchill downs suspended baffert from entering horses at that track. kentucky's horse racing commission says a second positive test would disqualify the horse completely. >> people can earn up to $21 an hour staying home. there was no incentive to go back to work. incentives matter. i've been talking to other governors. a number reach out and say help us through the details. the three specific changes we made was we eliminated the

pandemic supplemental payments going back to pre-pandemic levels. reinstituteed the work search requirement. people need to look for work. we added this back to work bonus of $1200. >> harris: the battle over getting america back to work is intensifying now. that was montana governor. he told me that extended job benefits are keeping too many americans at home. he joined us on "the faulkner focus" and one of three republican governors now to end the extra $300 in federal weekly payments. his remarks coming on the heels of friday's very bad jobs report which fell way short of the hiring boom many had predicted. however, commerce secretary says the jobs report points to the need for more government assistance. >> we are monitoring that but at this point there is nothing

in the data to suggest that that's the reason people are out of work. this unemployment insurance has been a lifesaver, a survival lifeline for so many americans. the number one reason now that people aren't going back to work is what you said, fear, or they can't find childcare or schools are still closed. >> harris: power panel now. a professor of education at jobs hopkins university. and a radio talk show host. kevin, welcome to the program. haven't seen new a minute and welcome, wendy. kevin, i will start with you. how can all these governors be wrong about the underlying or undercurrent of reasons for why people are not going back to work? or are they right? go ahead. >> there is a little bit of truth on both the sound bites you just played. i think with schools particularly in hardened blue areas still being closed or more closed down than they are

in some other places i do think lack of childcare or school opportunity is preventing some people from reentering the workforce that might otherwise be able to do it. we've changed that whole economy and a lot more people are working from home as many will attest to. i do think that the governors are on to something and i can speak to this from firsthand knowledge of the restaurant industry here in new york city. bho have chefs and owners that are trying to reopen and reinvigorate the eating industry and many of their staff have been -- have declined the opportunity to come back to work because they actually get much more from the benefits that have been laid out with the supplementals on top of the regular unemployment insurance than they would get right off the bat going back to work. it is a catch 22. we have to create jobs and we have to get people back in the workplace. >> harris: those payments wendy are not going to last forever. you have to have some

longer-range game. all those businesses and people not wanting to actually go to a job. it hurts all of us eventually. >> it does but i think that what we have to understand is after the pandemic, we have to reimagine the ways in which we look at working. now every job now requires you to go back into the office. so i think that companies need to make pivots and see the ways they can accommodate people who continue to work from home. as a mom of three children i would say the biggest issue right now is childcare. you cannot mandate individuals to go back to work when they do not have anywhere to put their children. i believe the job numbers will look completely different in the fall once we start opening doors, once children start going back to school and once current employers start reimagining the ways in which people come into the office. maybe telework is something of the future. >> harris: real quickly. the president has said and i think the vice president is scheduled to join him today too and will talk about the economy

after the really bad job numbers friday. what does he need to say? >> he needs to let everyone know not to panic. we're still in the midst of a global pandemic. right now those numbers may not look where we want them to be but in due time and if we do this together as a country we're going to get there. >> harris: all right. look, as kevin pointed out and as these republican governors are saying you may not best be able to spend all the taxpayers money and rack up debt over years getting out of it. it may require that people go back to work. good to see you both. thank you. we want to take you back to the border in del rio, texas. i had my eye on the situation we showed you moments ago when pete hegseth joined me for breaking news. the biden administration insists that the border is closed. does it feel closed to you? is this what it looks like? look at the stream of migrants crossing the rio grande river. this is ongoing.

our own reporter is there on the ground. i did moments see some uniforms. is that border patrol? i look over your shoulder. who is on ground to deal with this situation? i see police now. >> good afternoon to you. believe it or not this is the third day in a row we've witnessed the same thing happen here. this is the largest group we've seen so far. 52 migrants just crossed the rio grande. you showed the video a few moments ago. almost all of them are from venezuela. border patrol is here now and state troopers. the biggest group we've seen do this the third day in a row. happening every morning we've been out here in del rio. every day most of these migrants have been coming from venezuela and cuba. i want to try to ask quick. [speaking spanish] >> everybody here is saying

they're from venezuela. everybody has families here in the united states. this is right now border patrol is dividing this group to two different groups. the ones we just talked to are the families. over here are single adults who have come across. what's happening here is local sheriffs deputies and state troopers are having to process these migrants when they present themselves at the river here because border patrol has been so overwhelmed. they have to call in border patrol who show up here and begin processing these migrants and we've been talking to a lot of folks over the last three days. why they are coming, how they are coming. one family telling me yesterday they went from venezuela, crossed into columbia, paid somebody off to get a flight to get into mexico. then took a bus and came to the border crossing behind us right behind the rio grande and crossed when the river is running low and safer. almost everybody here telling us they're coming to the united states because they fear the venezuelan government and looks like we have some more people about to cross right now.

so this is what we've been noticing and happening every morning. a guide pop up at the top of the hill. scout the area out and then vehicles will pull up and then these migrants will get out of the vehicles, walk down to the waters' edge. it is shallow running low right now and this is when they like to cross. it is much safer. it looks to be a group of about six or seven most likely potentially a family unit. most of the units we've seen are families like this. guys, we hear the administration saying the border is getting under control. we heard dhs secretary mayorkas say on friday that the border is closed. local law enforcement here will tell you no it's not. this is a crisis. this is something we've seen happen every single day. del rio sector extremely hot averaging more than 700 apprehensions every day in the last week. border patrol have apprehended more than 5,000 migrants. very busy in del rio and

happening along the u.s./mexico border. a lot of frustration down here on the ground. send it back to you. >> harris: i want to cut in for a moment. what we saw live at the top of this program was more than just people entering illegally at a point that obviously is not a checkpoint set up for them. they are standing in line because our resources had to go there from the united states. they are coming into a porous point that is not technically a security point. there are a couple things that crossed my mind. we know the drug cartels are gaming the system as people are crossing and they are hoping they'll do it this way. for two reasons, they put the bracelets on them. many try to get rid of those markings before and they can do so without detection because with our cameras down there, i don't know how much more we would see. i don't know what kind of security cameras are down there but so you have the cartels able to mule people in if you will to use that as a verb.

the other thing you have is the danger that maybe people don't know about. we saw a child being lifted. the water was above his or her head. lifting that little one up so that his head doesn't go below the surface of the water. that water is moving, fast. this is not the way we want people to come into this country for their own safety. so i'm looking. what kind of questions is border patrol asking? are they asking about the cartels and looking for bracelets? these people are coming from venezuela. the cartels are waiting for them. >> right, we haven't heard border patrol asking them questions like that. where are you from? how many people? where are you trying to go? process them and get them onto the bus. what you've been saying is true. we watched -- knew the group would come. we saw a man at the top of the hill over there scouting the area out. something we've seen happen every day. a couple minutes after that the vehicles pull up and folks get out. you are seeing it happen again right here. looks to be probably another

family unit crossing the rio right now and doing it every single morning that we've been here. you can see they aren't trying to run away or hide. they are presenting themselves to local law enforcement. we have a border patrol unit here. the first day we were here it took two hours for border patrol to arrive. the local sheriff here says they need more resources down here and somebody from d.c. needs to physically come here and take a look at what is going on. this is happening every single day. harris, you can imagine the frustration on the ground looking at these images. here we go again. >> harris: i'll have to let you go but i'm curious. our cameras, border patrol. they weren't there from the beginning. i see the two gentlemen because i can see someone official in the white and blue shirt. in the beginning these people were crawling up. are they taking getaways from today? we could pull the tape.

i'm curious. are these people making it into the country before authorities are able to get there? a quick answer. >> some are. the ones we've seen here are not. these are presenting themselves. they want to be taken into custody because they don't care if they get caught. they want to be here. down the road why where we're at other people will try to get through in the brush. police pursuits with local sheriffs's department having to chase people. overwhelmingly is what you are looking at here. people presenting themselves to local law enforcement, many emotional like this. they want to be taken into custody and most of the people from venezuela and cuba and haiti get those asylum claims. >> harris: they look exhausted and emotional. you have been talking with these people in a bilingual way. that's very helpful. some of us understand. i just blown away with all we've been able to see. 72 hours of this you watch with

cameras rolling for much of it. the exhaustion. i would have to imagine this young woman. what are they telling you, bill? >> almost every single -- she said venezuela. so just like what we've seen all the last few days. almost everybody is from venezuela. this man very emotional if we can show him. [speaking spanish] >> you can speak english? why did you decide to come here? you can see folks very emotional after making this journey here. we've been seeing this a lot. it is sad to witness some of the people we've talked with say they want a better life. we've been trying to get an answer why they are coming

right now as opposed to months ago or maybe last year. we haven't gotten a concrete answer yet. a lot of people saying they felt now was the right time. >> harris: right now right at that spot. but right at that spot we're not set up for intake. you saw -- there is a reason why they pick the porous areas, it takes time to get authorities down there and to process them so you are asking the questions why. i'm also asking the question of where they've chosen. look, you can just watch. you told us, you can see the scout. he says okay, looks like it is a good time to go now. we'll see the people on the ridge up there. telling the audience on the top of the screen and they make their way across. we do have checkpoints in this country. those people at the crossing, the scouts have to know where the checkpoints are, too. you said right from where you are they will hide in the bushes if they have to get a i fwrai this sort of activity.

one last shot to tell us what is happening now. they are talking with that very emotional gentleman you spoke with and transportation is next? >> yeah, what happens, this is again -- >> harris: are they testing? >> border patrol shows up. proper se, split them to different groups and families and individuals and one of border patrol large transport buses show up. taken to border patrol processing center. depending on who is here for what reasons, if anybody is making asylum claims they'll be turned over to ice the make the claims. they'll have to vet where everybody is. folks from cuba, venezuela and haiti have been presenting themselves like this. everybody we've talked to has been from venezuela or cuba so far. i know you have to run on time but the situation on the ground here in del rio take it from local law enforcement.

we talked to the local sheriff says he has never seen it this bad if his career but his entire life. he has lived here his entire life. it is a crisis and wants people from d.c. to come here and take a look and tell him to his face that the border is closed. >> harris: one last question. covid-19 testing? they are not following title 42 which the former president put into place to protect americans as people come across. are they being tested? >> not where we're at. i'm sure that will likely happen at the processing center but we don't see any rapid tests happening. we've seen them asking does anybody have symptoms? i have not seen physical testing happen >> harris: all right. thank you very much, bill, at the point where people are coming across illegally into this country through the rio grande river. del rio, texas. thank you. we'll move to this. of course we'll keep an eye on both the situations at the border and jerusalem where rockets are being fired not

just short range mid and long. we have a couple of big stories cooking right now we're watching. veterans in new york city -- the city denied their request to hold a memorial day parade on staten island. while the city turned down our military veterans it had no problem hosting a cannabis parade in manhattan last week. the veterans group is calling it a slap in the face. >> this is sickening what the city is doing with our veterans. a clear double standard being applied. we're asking the city not to play politics with our veterans. the weekend before last this marijuana parade took over blocks of park avenue and broadway, numerous other blocks in manhattan. police barricades and personnel on the ground and we're just asking for the same treatment. >> harris: jimmy failla host of fox across america on fox news

radio joins me now. you were one of the funniest human beings on the planet. this seems like a serious hour today. we've had a lot of breaking news. this situation, how do they explain choosing marijuana over veterans? >> it is a clear double standard. number two i have to ask, harris, who the heck -- every day is a marijuana parade in new york city. i have never walked three feet without smelling weed somewhere in new york city. which is ridiculous. it is part and parcel of a larger problem when it comes to mayor deblasio and attitude towards men and women in uniform. the guy who that's thrown the cops under the bus at every turn and no surprise he would deny this courtesy to the veterans. he has a lety disrespect for people who wear the uniform. no denying it. too many instances like this we can point to. it does bother me as someone so supportive of the troops and as i said i'm all weeded out at

this point. despite my outfit. >> harris: you look fine. i like polka dots and box stripes. when you walk through the city. i live in jersey. when we take the kids over, if you had on 10 masks it wouldn't matter. that smell is strong. it is a full on parade most days. i do want to talk about the language that is being used real quickly. we don't have a lot of time. they want to wipe away some of the woke crowd, the word mom. and we are going to call those of us who become moms, they'll call them birthing people. your reaction. >> scientists have a word for people who use the term birthing people. they are called idiots. they're called idiots. i can't let the woke crowd get this one. you are not erasing women. we just sat through four years of being told oh, they are trying to erase women under trump. this is the handmaiden's tale

all over again and calling women birthing people like are you a machine on an assembly line. i'm not having it, sorry. >> harris: we got through a lot for this entire hour. glad we rounded it off with you, my friend. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". right after this commercial break it is high noon on the east, "outnumbered." so many do not know that. there's no expiration date on your eligibility for the va home loan. every veteran, every service member out there if you're thinking about buying a home if you're thinking about a cash out refi whatever you're thinking with a mortgage, you should come to newday usa first. veteran homeowners. three reasons to do a cash out refi right now. home values are high while rates are low. newday lets you borrow all of your home's value. and you could take out $50,000 dollars or more.

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