>> the ball is so small. [laughter] pete: it can't bounce twice, rachel. oh, my goodness, look at that. oh, man. will: thank you so much. pete: have a great saturday, everybody. rachel: that was awesome, thank you. neil: all right. now i'm for the ping-ponging lawyers, how about that? president biden at his home in wilmington, delaware, at this hour. what is not there, a batch of classified documents that was found last month and brought to light only this week. attorney general merrick bar -- garland, appointing a special counsel, and republicans are planning probes of their own including the chairman of the house oversight committee, james comer. he's here and so is former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy on why this seems to

keep happening and what we can do to keep it from happening again. welcoming everybody, i'm neil cavuto. so glad to have you here. i'm glad i wasn't part of that ping-pong thing, but we do have lawyers ping-ponging back and forth on this. i'm trying to relate that, i guess not so well. anyway, hope your weekend's going well. as for former president, present president dealing with special counsels looking into their classified documents, don't know if things are going quite as well with them. let's get thest from the white house on what president biden could be looking at. lucas tomlinson is there are. hey, lucas. >> reporter: speaking of ping among, a lot of back andport between the white house press secretary and the washington press corps who's been increasingly asking tough questions about how the classified documents got to biden's house which, as you mentioned, he's there today. some think it's a potential crime scene. the white house insists it didn't know this special counsel was coming. >> we were not given a heads up that the attorney general garland was going to make his --

made his announcement yesterday on the special counsel. that is something that we learned like many of you watching the news. >> reporter: so just watching tv, neil. thanks to our colleague, peter doocy, we know the material was located next to president biden's prized 1967 chevy stingray corvette, weeding gift from his father -- weeding gift from his father. -- wedding gift. the house judiciary committee, the attorney general about special counsel robert hur, and earlier the house oversight committee writing, quote, for the past two years the biden administration and big tech worked overtime to hide information, but the biden family's suspicious if business schemes and joe biden's involvement. now the democrats no longer have one-party rule in washington, oversight and accountability are coming. >> this is reckless, it's dangerous, it's, to quote biden himself, irresponsible. and the reassurance the president gave that his corvette

was locked in a garage merely reveals how little he knows about classified document handling. >> reporter: some are wondering why president biden was return to his wilmington the residence and some think it is the a potential crime scene. neil: lucas, hang for that. lucas tomlinson at white house. let's get the read on what he might want to investigate, james comer, house oversight committee committee. mr. chairman, thanks for coming back. >> thanks for having me. neil: what do we know, what do you know about these documents or just exactly how classified some of them are? we're told that a bunch that were found in the president's garage in wilmington had top classification, you know, markings, but you know more than i maybe. what have you learned? >> well, unfortunately, i do not know more than you, and that's very concerning because i have jurisdiction the over the national archives. this agency is supposed to do a

briefing anytime something like happens. he was not. not only have they -- they have not. even though we've requested a briefing, they haven't answered any of our simple requests for information. this is very concerning. we are going to deal with the national archives as this mess progresses. but right now we have a lot of concerns. who had access to these documents. it's hard for us to believe, as joe biden said, that his team of lawyers were moving boxes around and and they discovered it. no one believes that lawyers are in charge of the moving team. and i wonder, did all of the documents end up at the same place initially, like let's say the biden center, and then someone at the biden center took to some boxes to the house? and were looking through the information at the house? there's a lot of questions here, unfortunately, we don't have the answers. neil: we do know a little bit about the timeline about how this all became known. as you know by now, chairman, merrick garland was aware of

this back in november. that was before the midterm election. we don't know how much of that was relayed to the president, but we knew that he knew back then. so i'm just wonnerring what could explain if -- wondering what could explain or are you concerned about the delay in making that known and getting a special counsel appointed much sooner? >> we're very concerned. i mean, joe biden promised the american people he would have of the most transparent administration in history. i could make a strong argument this is the least transparent administration in history. the only reason we know about those documents today is because of investigative reporting by cbs. someone leaked to cbs that joe biden had these classified documents, or we would never know about it. so this is very concerning. this is another example of a two-tiered system of justice in america. this is another example of how the current president has been treated versus the former president, and this is why we've created a task force to examine the weaponization of department

of justice. neil: you know, or congressman, i am curious as well about joe biden and his comments on this to the degree that he didn't know about it. now, that might be the case, might not be the case. but if it is the case, isn't that even more problematic? isn't that even more worrisome, that classified documents were in his possession, and he didn't know it? >> exactly, neil. you know, that is the argument for defense that a lot of democrats in congress say, look, he didn't even know about it. well, that makes it even worse. because here's what we know, and i can tell you this from the investigation into the biden family influence peddling. this family has a history of receiving lots of anonymous donations from china whether it be to the biden center for diplomacy, whether it be to hunter's shady business dealings, for hunter's artwork. there is a pattern here. and this is very concerning. and you may ask why would china invest so much money in the

bidens? just look recently what was discovered with respect to the university of penn successfully if lobbying the fbi to drop the china initiative which was an investigation into china's influence in our university system, stealing our research and development technology. they had the fbi drop this in the biden administration because they said it was the racist. so that alone one a pretty darn good -- alone would be a pretty darn good investment for china. the fact that they had classified documents stored improperly, that's another reason why. neil: i'm just wondering whether in your investigations wherever they go, chairman, whether you want to talk to robert hur, the special counsel who will be involved in this. >> i think it's going to depend on what he does. i'm not a fan of special counsels. i didn't think they should have called for a special counsel for trump, and i don't think they should call for one for biden. but after merrick garland called one for trump, he had to do the same thing for joe biden. he had no other options. these special counsels never work out the way they're

intended, they never stay within hair area of investigation. merrick garland said this special counsel with respect to the biden classified documents would focus solely on the classified documents. i don't want them to expand their investigation for the sole purpose of blocking house oversight investigation of the widen family -- biden family influence peddling. neil: well, the reason why i asked, sir, is in the case of donald trump and special counsel appointed to look into him also by merrick garland, there was an effort to get jack smith to speak to various committees, the special counsel of that case, and he refused. >> right. neil: i'm sure it would be the same posture by robert hur. so to americans watching this all unfold, their investigations continue undeterred, presumably uninterrupted. yours will go on. i don't know what's being planned in the senate. it's a lot of investigations. >> a lot of investigations, and, you know, it's very unfortunate that congress would have to

dedicate any amount of time to investigating whether or not this administration's compromised from china. but i think that that what's been brought out to light in the last but days is the fact that the biden center for diplomacy was funded almost exclusively from china. and that's a concern. when every american, regardless of party affiliation, regardless of ideology believes that we need to stand up to china, that china's stealing our intellectual property, they're pointing their currency, that they have human rights abuses, the list goes on and on and on, and yet they continue to take our manufacturing jobs, they continue to, you know, put americans at risk. and yet administration is tied in to china in every which way imaginable. we have to investigate this because this is a concern, and, you know, the one positive thing about the fact that biden had these classified documents is it shows that our investigation is justified. neil: all right. we'll see, it'll be among many.

we'll watch very closely, chairman. hanks for coming in on a saturday. james comb takes over the house oversight committee and, man, does he have his work cut out for him. so does andy can mccarthy, because we've been picking his fine legal brain, a former u.s. assistant the attorney, fox news contributor. andy, just the uniqueness of this is startling. two special counsels concurrently investigating presidents, one a former one, the other a present one. that never ceases to amaze me. >> yeah. well, i think first the one, neil many, was really a political decision by merrick garland and as chairman comb -- comer just said, it kind of forced his happened on the second one. there's no good reason for the biden justice department to have a special counsel to investigate former president trump. conflict of interest that's inherent in the special counsel situation is when the justice department has to investigate

its own administration, and in particular its own president. but obviously what happened here is garland are and probably biden expected that trump was going to be chargedded in connection with the mar-a-lago documents, and they wanted to distance themselves from that that decision or at least project the illusion that they were distanced from it, and that was the purpose of having that special counsel. and, of course, because they did that, the next domino is if you have an investigation of biden and you have these explosive revelations, he really didn't have any choice at that point. neil: which is more explosive? st very early on, but what do you think? >> you know, i think that it'd be nice if we took a step back and recognized that in this constitutional system the president is supposed to be checked primarily by the congress. president's not supposed to be checked by prosecutors who work for the president. these are executive branch

officials no matter whether you call them special or independent or what have you. so what i fear, neil, is that that they're now going to say that because there's a special counsel on this, everything should go dark. if congress asks any questions, they're going to be accused of obstructing the special counsel's investigation, and and that's really not the way it's supposed to work. congress is supposed to be the primary vehicle for checking abuse and misconduct by the executive branch. neil: you know what's weird though is how this is the discovered. and i know in all the cases that have come to date so far, it's not the national archives that has revealed, hey, we're missing some important documents. and that's what kind of surprises me. and i don't know what the procedure is, but i've always ventured to hi can't we have it like -- think can't we have it like a library system, you check out a book, you've got to return it, the librarian knowns you have the book. the librarian in my hometown, she will crack you down.

[laughter] why isn't there a procedure like this with these valuable documents that national archives would know, oh, we're missing this on libya, we're missing this on ukraine or this on china and then say, well, where the hell is it? >> boy, that's such a great point because we have so much better ec call capability today than -- technical capability to, like, track these things down, right? so think we would be using that. the reason i think it goes in the other direction is frightening, and that is that there's the way too much information in the government that's classified. and then the other thing that we don't talk about nearly enough is that there's about 5 million or more people in the united states who have security clearances. neil: wow. >> which means, like, you know, the crown jewels, whatever they are, are all over the place, dispersed and, you know, they end up in garages. it's, you know, it's a -- neil: i'm telling you, i'm

telling you, my librarian would find these people, all 5 million of them. [laughter] but we'll see, it's wild. it's wild to me that we don't have a better system in place. andy mccarthy, thank you, my friend. >> thank you, sir. neil: it's been six days now since president biden visited the border, but growing concerns that not much has happened since. maybe because the trip wasn't what it was billed to be, after this. at go better...together. like your workplace benefits... and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financial choices together... can help you be better prepared for unexpected events. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor?

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but the point of his trip, sir, was to see them for himself. >> migrants themselves? that, i don't think, is going to accomplish our goal. neil: and with all due respect to the democratic congressman from texas, a good man, decent man, supporting the president who visited the border last week finally but never saw any migrants themselves. now, he said it wasn't a big deal, he saw where the my grants are processed, but -- migrants, but i likened it to going to a missouri giants game, again, if you're a fan -- new york -- and the giants don't show up and you never saw the giants. which, by the way, could be a gift, but that's a sideline. i'm just saying, it's just weird with. and six days after that visit without seeing migrants and without seeing where things are going and where those people are going, it's one thing to be processed and another thing to be, well, not processed or see how the process actually goes about with the migrants himself es. better than 2.5 million have slipped through in the last year, maybe hundreds of thousands more gotaways, not a

one seen by the president of the united states. brandon judd is the national border patrol council president, kind enough to join us. that's what sticks out in my mind, brandon. i mean, if you're going to visit the border, you're going to want to see what the problem is at the border. the problem is record number of migrants crossing through, illegal migrants at that. the president tonight see a one. >> neil, you're absolutely correct. and all we have to do is look at what happened after his visit. when he was there, we were apprehending about 3500 people per day. since he's left, since that time, we're now up to 4500 per day. so you can clearly see that his visit did absolutely nothing. his trip to mexico did absolutely nothing. and so if he doesn't come down and he doesn't look at programs and operations, he's not going to pix the problem.. -- fix the problem. and right now we're seeing no pix to what is currently going on. that is what is the so frustrating to us. he came down, and it appeared to us that all it was was a photo

op. he brought the mainstream media down, and he cleaned up the city of el paso so nobody got to see exactly what was going on. and that's the issue. if you do not view firsthand what the entire crisis is about, you're not going to come up with a program, operations that are necessary to pix the problem. neil: well, right after that visit, as you know, brandon, he went to mexico. he spoke to that country's president about maybe finding ways to deal with this. and one of the things that came up was a way to treat asylum cases, those entering the country, trying to enter the country from so-called dangerous places like venezuela, cuba, etc. and that mexico would have a key role in adjudicating these cases, up to 30,000 a month. but if you think about it, some could interpret that as just opening the door to many more coming whether they're using a asylum as a reason to get hem here or not. >> yeah. so when you evaluate the plan that he came up with, all it is is a repackaging of the original

six pillars that failed so miserably. and then on top of that, he's just encouraging more illegal immigration, because he's allowing certain people to come in legally, but then those people that weren't able to come in legally, they're just going to continue to come illegally. when you look at mexico, there is no reason for them to stop what is currently going on. this issue brings in billions of dollars to hair economy. smuggling, the drug smuggling, the human trafficking, all of that brings in money to their economy. so it doesn't make any sense for the mexican government to want this to go away unless we put the requisite pressure on them such as tariffs or anything like that, going back to what donald trump did. there is no reason for if mexico to fix this problem. they're going to want it to continue. so we have to look at what can we do in our own country, what do we have control over. and if we focus on that and we approach it in that way, we can actually come up with the solutions. neil: all right. the solutions did not seem to be forthcoming from this past week,

but we'll watch it closely, brandon, as i'm sure you will. a lot more closely. national border patrol council president. in the meantime, you've herald this back and forth over eliminating gas stoves because they're dangerous. a number of government entities had raised that as a way to clean things up. now, of course, the governor of new york is saying when it comes to new construction, new buildings, new restaurants, no gas stoves. and a lot of people are kind of fired up about that because it's a real crisis. you can't believe the debate it's igniting and how many ways i can work this in to puns, after this.

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well, it's lit up -- not only our e-mails, but the entire country. what i've done with these analogies and my own floor director reminding me that the whole thing has been a gaslighted. but madison alworth has been looking into this, and it is a real concern. and right now it still is a sort of a front burner issue. madison alworth with more. >> reporter: neil, consumer product safety commission says they are considering a ban on gas stoves like this one right here. that would have a huge impact, because 39% of americans use natural gas for cooking. here many new jersey -- in new jersey, 69% of homes use natural gas. after a lot of public pushback, a white house official tells fox they do not support a ban on gas stoves like this one, but here's the thing, cpsc could still suggest a ban. the americans we spoke to overall are not for it.

>> my preference, i think, would be gas. yeah. just because you can cook better on it, yeah. you go to any mice restaurant, you look back in the kitchen, they've got gas -- >> i paid extra to switch to gas. >> my whole home is gas. >> no. gas all the way. >> in the end, it's about if i can save money, yes. if already incentives as there were for, like, evs in the beginning, sure, absolutely. if not, then i'll just stick with whichever one, whichever option is cheaper. >> reporter: some statements are already making the decision to ban natural gas in homes. missouri is going to ban naturao ban natural gas in new buildings, until then though while we're here many new jersey, we can still use that natural gas for cooking. back to you. neil all right. thank you very much for that, madison. i guess i hear from a lot of folks if you cook on an electric the, it takes a lot longer. my next guest owns multiple restaurants all over the place. he's fired up to talk to us about it. i know what you're saying, neil,

give it a rest with the puns, but a new york city restaurant the tour is here the brooklyn chop house, owns that, he's got a great book out be a disrupt arer, street wise lessons for entrepreneurs from the mob to mandates. i think he's going to be very clear in his viewpoints. it's very good to have you. what do you make of this push to sort of ease that out? because even the governor of new york is talking about, while not now with existing facilities, maybe like your existing restaurants now, but for new ones in the future, gas goes. >> first, thank you for having me on. neil: thank you. >> government for the last three years, it's complete government overreach. they're asking the wrong question. how can we improve? and what we do at our restaurants, we have scrubbers, we have high-tech the filtration systems, you know, we do -- we are concerned. i have three teenage daughters. we are concerned about a staying

as green as possible. but let me tell ya, like, for example, we are opening up brooklyn dumpling shop, we have, like, five or six of them in development right now that are electric kitchens. it actually works with some fast casual restaurants. we're opening yukon in stores on wednesday, it's a 100% electric kitchen. so it's not one size fits all, and that's the problem with government when they tap into small businesses when they've never run a lemonade stand. they're making decisions for us that do not work. they should be asking the question how to do we improve and where does electric fit in and where it doesn't. at brooklyn chop house, my other restaurants, you can't cook a wok with an electric pad -- [laughter] neil: or a steak. but let me ask you about that that. obviously, in some restaurants in some locales electric has worked for you. now, what we're told is that in the very new future, i don't know when exactly in new york, the governor's going to say new construction, new buildings, new

restaurants that that you might build, no, forget gas thing, it's only electric. so that's very real. that's on the horizon. i don't know how far that will go, whether she can actually push that. but what do you make of that? >> it will halt our grill because, remember, casinos, office buildings, residential towers, they depend on us for content. think about it, when you go to a casino in vegas, you might go because a certain restaurant there, or you might buy an apartment because the amenities are there. you start dealing with things like that and making restrictions where a restaurant can not open in a development -- cannot open, you will halt growth completely. neil: so just the danger that the government or some in government exists with gas stoves, which i never realized that there's something inherently dangerous about it for respiratory or compromised respiratory systems, and that's why. is there any truth to that? and is there any truth to the fact that food cooked via gas is

also dangerous? because that's what they're saying too. >> yeah, i mean, i don't believe that. i mean, i'll tell you, there's always ways of improvement. like, for example, we have scrubbers because we're in a residential building. we have scrubbers. all the emissions are all digitally doneful i'm not sure all strawn tours can afford thad that. we've taken that to another level, and i hate to put that one size fits all on the industry because some restaurants won't need it. but if you've got 300, 400, 500 seats, you've got to step up your game with smoke evacuation, and we do that in our restaurants. when you have a 1,000 square foot restaurant, you don't need to invest $4,000 in a smoke evacuation system. neil: pick and choose your battles. all right, stratis, thank you very much. he's flexible, bug that's his ball, not the government's call.

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disney, but if he thought that his predecessor's battles with governor ron desantis were over concerning the free ride that the governor said the company has enjoyed and the special treats it's had, well, he has another hinge coming. ashley webster has more on the battle that ensues even now. ashley. >> reporter: well, neil, florida governor ron desantis is really counseling -- doubling down. nine months ago he signed a bill that eliminates the tax district that's been operated by disney now for more than 50 years. it's a huge area, encompasses some 25,000 acres, and disney has ruled the roost. it's its own kingdom. but the governor says no more and sent us the saint saying: the corporate kingdom has come to an end. under the proposed legislation, disney will no longer control its own government, but will live under the same laws as everyone else, will be responsible for their outsanding debts and will pay their fair share of taxes.

it all started when then-disney ceo bob chapek got into a dispute with the governor over florida's parental rights in education bill that critics had dubbed the don't say gay bill. bob iger is back in charge, and he reportedly apologized to disney employees for the company getting involved in a political fight. so the question is, could this mean a potential reversal or compromise in the dispute? if either way, republican state representative randy fine says it's beyond time to level the playing field. >> no private company should control a government mt. united states. it's just -- in the united states. it's just bad public policy. but even worse than that, it gives disney special advantages that hair competitors don't have. why should universal studios or sea world not get the same competitive benefits as disney world? it just doesn't make sense. >> reporter: desantis says local counties in the state will not raise taxes to cover the $100 million in annual operating

expenses and the more than a billion dollars in bond debt can. but the real question is whether bob iger can find common ground with ron desantis. let's not forget, republicans hold solid majorities in both the house and senate in florida, meaning the governor hasn't had any problem pushing through his prior -- priorities. neil, back to you. neil: ashley, thank you very much for that. i don't know what it is about disney, but lately it seems to bicking off a lot of people. bob iger is todaying -- saying he wants all workers to return to their offices and put many at least pour days a week there. this -- four days a week there. none of this shelter sheltering at home. jonas max perris on that, samantha, kat timpf. kat, he's saying that's done, i need you here. we're a creative company, we need all our creative people together, and that's the way it's going to be march 1. what do you think? >> yeah, of course, you know? and he has the right to do that

just like anybody has the right to do that in their company, and i think that people have probably gotten used to being at home, and that can be a tough adjustment going out in public again. but some companies it is beneficial. some jobs it is beneficial. and i know myself for creative work when it's collaborative and in person, the way you organically sort of bounce your ideas off another person and it's not just over the phone, that is better. and i can understand why for a company like disney he would want to do that. neil: i've been with some people in person, and there's zero kinetic energy. not here, mind you, but i take your word on that. samantha, what do you make of it? you know, he's just the latest ceo to kind of force this. i believe all the major investment banks, goldman sachs, no sooner did they start that, hen they just fired about 3,000 people. they did at least tell them in person. i mean, it seems like the pend if lumbar is swinging, what do you think? -- pendulum. >> and as you can see, iger is

in a lot of battles right now, and the last battle any ceo wants to be in is a battle with their own employees. and unfortunately, since the last time iger was in the ceo seat, the world changed a lot. and it's not a one-size-fits-all world anymore. you need a bespoke policy, and while some departments at disney might need to return and be collaborative many person four days a week, many could probably use a two or three-day week or entirely remote situation. it's really important that he's listening to what the world is saying and what employees want, and 68 of people want to work -- 68% of people want to work remotely 100 percent of if time, so will needs to be a give and take. neil: all right. we're seeing more ceos, jonas, are going in this route. the give and take the thing might be, you know, forced on iger if we're still to realize the fact that 10.5 million jobs are going begging in country. so he might not have that luxury.

but where do you see it going? >> i see it -- when the unemployment rate starts to go higher, which is likely given the state of interest rates rising, then what workers want is not going to be very relevant. they have this want that's been filled because the unemployment rate is, like, 3.5%, and that's participant of the reason peopln people have this flexibility. a lot of leftover from the covid shut down and a lot of ceos are coming out and saying three days, four days, it's going to keep creeping up until it's back to five days. the bls showed that a productivity has declined more than it has since 1947, another period with a low unemployment rate incidentally position war. and that is -- postwar. and has not good. it's one of the reasons why we have high inflation, because we're not producing as much goods and services per dollar of work, basically, and rising unemployment's one way to get that. look, at least the work from if home thing worked. it's nice, but the reality is if

we can't produce as much, then workers need to get paid less to produce less if hay want to work if from home. you are a more happy, enjoyable work force, that's great, but you can't pay the old wages of work when you're the high productive worker in the work force. it'll probably happen naturally as unemployment comes up, and these are things the federal reserve is trying to fight, the low productivity and high demand that the consumer has right now. it seems very enjoyable, but it's not good for an economy in the long run. neil: kat, it's not that black and white for everybody. to jonas' point, maybe there ard of touched on this -- areas or parts of a company where they can work remotely. i i always find it a good idea for lawyers at a company to work remotely. but leaving that aside, i'm wondering where this goes because, as i said, more companies are doing this. but now he's putting a different spin on it. he's saying that we are more productive as a company. and to jonas' point, likely to a

make more money as a company. he's not saying that if we're all physically here. what do you think? >> right. and that's up to him. and more companies are doing this, and at the same time there are some companies who are saying we're not going to do this, you can work from home. so if you're somebody who that's very, very important to you, then maybe you want to find a new job because there are people who are coming in, they may not like it, but it might not be worth going to find a new job or not. i think that's to be determined in terms of what people value and if that's a deal-breaker for them. neil: guys, cutting this close because of all these developments with weather down can south and nasty weather at that. and doesn't nicole value d.c. know it. she's in selma, alabama, to see the worst of it. nicole. >> reporter: neil, a difficult weekend ahead for the historic city of selma, alabama. tornado survivors telling us their stories and what they hope they'll do to recover, next.

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neil: at least nine are dead in alabama and georgia after a heavy line of storms and tornado toes, i through -- tornadoes, i think there were more than three dozen. nicole valdes has more from fox weather in selma, alabama. how does it look today? >> reporter: well, neil, there are hundreds of people without a home. hose that do still have theirs standing are without water, without power, without heat as we approach another cold weekend here in selma, alabama, a city known for making history more than 50 years ago, but many people telling me they believe this violent tornado will be etched within selma's history. and as you take a look at some of the devastation behind me, roofs completely collapsing on top of some homes, some people actually trapped in their homes just hours after that storm moved through. and really it's going to be a

painful time for those who call this their home. you mentioned mine dead across the south. just yesterday alabama governor kay ivy, seeing the destruction firsthand, she's asking president biden to to expedite a major disaster declaration for the entire state of alabama in the wake of these violent tornadoes. specifically here many selma, we're talking about what was looking at a higher end ef2 tornado according to the national weather service, and hay surveyed much of the damage here including disruption to a selma daycare when they made that call. this that brick building collapsing on top of more than 70 people who were taking shelter inside when that tornado moved through. now, the martial weather service also says -- the national weather service says they're not sure whether the tornado that hit this town was also responsible for six deaths one county over. neil? neil: nicole, thank you for that. nicole valdes in selma, alabama. all right, in the meantime here, the battle over the taxman, i

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minnesota republican congressman joins us now, house majority whip, so a big cheese, to put it mildly. congressman, very good to have you. republicans are succeeding at getting the done, but -- this done, but the argument is it just stops with you because it's going to go nowhere, we're told, in the senate and certainly nowhere with the president. so what do you do? >> well, good luck getting money out of the new house majority, the republican house majority, neil, as we go forward with appropriations bills and the like. listen, republicans were elected to the new majority in the u.s. house with a mandate by the american people to address things like this. and, you know, whether it's the 87,000 irs agents that you just referenced, agents, by the way, that the other side argues will to chase down millionaires and billionaires, and you and i both know as do the voters, that's not the truth at all. they're there to shake down every main street mom and pop

buzz a-- business across this country to try and fund the bloated biden agenda that, frankly, has been driving inflation that we haven't seen in 40 some years plus. so we have a mandate. you saw it week, it started with those 87,000 irs agents, defunding them. and as we go forward with the budgeting process, the senate's going to find out there is the a new force in town, it's a republican majority led by kevin mccarthy in the house. neil: as you know, democrats have come back to clarify on that, and this is all part of the inflation reduction act, congressman, that there respect 87,000 irs agents, that this is over a 10-year period, many of them are, in fact, office staff and personnel and, you know, half existing irs work force including agents are retirement age, so they can go. so we're not talking a number anywhere near that. what do you say? >> well, listen, the cbo says it is 87,000. if any reason that they're not going to have the 87,000, it's

going to be because republicans in the house stopped them from funding this unsanity. by the way -- insanity. by the way, more than doubling the size of the irs already. and then i would argue because of their disincentives, the policies that democrats and joe biden have put in place to keep people out of the work force, neil, that's the other reason even if they were going to have the money to try and hire 87,000 irs agents, they basically have paid these people to say out of work, so they're going to have a hard time like all of these mom and pop businesses across the country in finding employees. by the way, these are the wrong employees. why are we funding 87,000 irs agents? neil: but they're not, that's what i'm trying to say, sir, they're not all irs agents. believe me, i'm not a fan of agents coming after me or anyone else, i'm just saying they say it's total staff and everything else and and over a 10-year period. your point is well taken though about how much you want to fund an organization that has been arguing for years it needs funding to go after, you know,

tax cheats. but your separate argument has been that the focus more often than not isn't on the rich, but on people who can ill afford challenging the irs. that's your big problem, right? >> exactly. and the answer to your question is, neil, they can say whatever they want, but why don't they just go to the cbo which is under the biden administration. these are 87,000 enforcement agents. that that's where the republicans in the house got their information and their number. so what they say is not exact exactly what their administration is telling us. neil: okay. because i did look at that cbo thing. they refer to it as personnel. but, again, you might be right, the personnel could be a lot of agents. bottom line, you won't tolerate it. bottom line, this is going to go on for a while, this battle between the senate, you guys and the president, right? >> well, it has to, neil. we've got to put people back in charge of their own lives. this excessive, bloated government that's been driving the cost of live increases, the

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