ambassador to japan bill hagerty responds.ut first, a drug epidemic responsible for killing more than 100,000 americans last year, the house voting this week to stop flow of fentanyl made in china and coming over our border from mexico. take a look at this recent tweet from fox news' bill melugin at the border. 1.6 million fentanyl pills, nearly 5 pounds of fentanyl powder confiscated over 3 days by border patrol in arizona. it had been smuggled into the united states with five different vehicleses, hidden inside a computer printer, the dash and spare tires. joining me right now is house majority leader steve scalise. congressman, it's great to see you this weekend, thanks so much for being here. >> always great to be back with you, maria. thank you. maria: wow, this is is so disturbing, the fentanyl flow. tell us what this bill does. you passed it in the house. thank you for this legislation. >> no, thank you. and, look, the halt fentanyl act is really focused on addressing this problem that is one of the many bad side effect

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joining me tennessee o senator member senate he appropriations banking foreign relation rules can he bill hagerty here thanks so much for joining me. >> good to see you he maria. thank you. >> first question where are you on this deal? >> maria, this -- language has been out less than 48 hours we're poring through it i am flying to washington after this interview, at this moment i'm deeply concerned we've got a tremendous amount of difficulty because of massive spending democrats the taken that spending put our economy into a challenging situation we've got national security crisis mounting all over the world needs to be cease set of cuts better than blank czech biden administration is asking for but a will the more to be dug into house has bill going to move through their process rules committee wednesday after markets close my understanding they vote on it watching very closely talking to -- >> this fiscal responsibility act june 5 date janet yellen says we run out of money, is quickly provening two years spending caps into evidence by sequester would implement caps 1.59 trillion, 24, you've go

bill hagerty -- a welcome center in your community. that was bill hagerty. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to say i agree with a couple of gentlemen about the fact that people and what they are learning and not learning in school and being able to have a conversation, and i'm not a media person, but as far as being lonely, yes. it has to do with i'm 61 years old but people nowadays as far as i'm concerned, are not the same as being friends as they were in the 70's and 80's and 90's. i think that is a big thing. and i got really badly hurt my job. but also i am a born-again christian. even going to church around where i live there's a lot of them but now they go into the new age movement. sin is not a thing to be talked about. it is hard to find people that are real and you can trust and actually have something in common with. i think that is probably due to my age or whatever, but -- host: have you ever wanted to be on social media? caller: i can tell you i was probably eight years ago on facebook i have been on so long but got locked out but it

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shannon: senator bill hagerty, who's got a proproposal legislatively to give the power to the presidents a health crisis. would you support that? >> shannon, first of all, the exact problem with politics is what senator scott said. i mean, come on, president biden doesn't give a damn about americans? here's someone who has dedicated his entire life to public service. i would never say that about president trump. i would not say that he count care about americans, so -- -- doesn't care about americans. so why don't we deal with these issues instead of ad hominem attacks on the president. of course i'm concerned about china shipping fentanyl, it's wrong. i've heard the testimony in congress of mothers who have lost their children. let's solve that. i mean, instead of launching ad hominem attacks at the president. shannon: okay, let's do a little bit of a lightning round, a couple of other things. the debt ceiling, there is a call by the white house for a clean debt ceiling. there are enough senators, republicans, who say they won't vote for a clean ceiling. it's fully buster-proof there -

bills we passed that allowed -- >> very clearly. must have been. no question about it. >> senator hagertyred >> i think that was a very astute answer you gave our chairman. thank you for being here today. i also want to thank you for bringing up the plate of evan gershkovich. that is a tragic situation and i appreciate you raising the issue. today u.s. agm is requesting a hundred $44 million. that is a 59 million dollars increase for fiscal year 2024. as a lifelong businessperson, i've always had to justify any requests for investment. demonstrate that is a good investment, that we are meeting stated goals and objectives and we are going to deliver value for shareholders. i think u.s. agm owes accountability to the american taxpayers in congress. i wanted to put you in the shoes i have been in a number of times before and to ask you for the wegman elevator pitch about how u.s. agm is a good american taxpayers. >> it is, senator. i am very much in line with your way of thinking the first half of my life was spent at the wall street journal and i have a lot of respect for thinking about way

sanders: senator targ's bill -- hagerty restricts the entry of people and goods from where substantial drug smuggling exists. i'm concerned about the increased use of fentanyl in this country. everybody is. as you have mentioned, we have seen over 100,000 americans die from drug overdoses in the last year alone. unfortunately this isn't the way to address this problem. title 42 is a public health authority and the use of it should be dictated by public health experts. instead of proposing real solutions to address drug trafficking based on what will keep people safe, some of my republican colleagues want to use title 42 as a political stunt to keep out people seeking asylum. i welcome the opportunity to work with my republican colleagues on serious solutions to address drug trafficking, unfortunately, this is not one of them. i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. hagerty: mr. president. the presiding officer. the senator from tennessee. mr. hagerty: mr. president, my democratic colleague is objecting to allowing health and had human services to -- combat drug smuggli