member that plot to kidnap governor gretchen whitmer? heard a lot about that and witmer was able to cover some of her own incompetence, if not all, by pointing to the fact that she is a victim. the whole team of insurrectionist was going to drive a van up to gretchen whitmer's vacation house and threw her in the back and drive away. the mastermind of this plot according to the fbi was a man called adam fox. adam fox turned out to be a homeless guy who was living in the basement of a vacuum repair shop. the whole story was a farce, it was insulting really once you got to the details. if you read the charging documents carefully, and you should, it gets even more ridiculous. it turns out that even the five people in the gretchen whitmer kidnapped van was an fbi agent in the van. the defense acquitted in these documents in an informant or undercover agent wasn't "usually present" in the groups meeting. simple math which we can do, nearly half the gang of kidnappers were working for the fbi. remember the guy who'd suggested using a bomb to b

joining us now is michigan's governor gretchen whitmer. governor, thanks so much for being with us.ou doing this early? >> well, there's no question that our case numbers are plummeted, our hospitalizations, our mortality rates, our vaccinations are upwards of 61.2%, so we're really hitting this virus on a lot of fronts and we are in a stronger position now and we thought it made sense to move forward. it's an exciting moment after a long tough year for every one of us. >> no question you are trending in the right direction but you had said that the fuller reopening which you're doing now wouldn't happen until you reached 70% of adults getting one dose. you are not there. you're just over 61% now. >> yeah, we're not there. like a lot of states we see it trickling, right? we're still doing vaccinations, we're meeting people where they are. i have not gotten a lot of help out of my legislature in terms of make shoog you are that we have the strongest program that's fully supported and fully endorsed, but we're making great strides and we are in a much stronger position than a lot of o

before i'm doing better than gretchen whitmer. as you have shown and your state at some troubling numbers we do reverse engineering of the covid data. they found minor people died because of contracting covid and the nursing home so they really just stop counting? tsubaki look we smoked them out braids or tomorrow in the state is going be special hearing with the state, the legislature oversight committee. my lawyer, had to sue the state for data. my lawyer is going to offer our findings. and then yes the director the state health department is going to come give testimony for i do not know she could possibly come up with this is what her people say. last summer, we were not even counting until june but we did not have an official count. cuomo stopped doing this mix in may but went in her who copied cuomo doubled down still does it today at nicole mingle. thought happens is this art can these desperate they hire a firm they find a 44% of them got back to the nursing home. unbeknownst to any of them that is not clear but what is cl

gretchen whitmer has instead said that she is proposing to let part-time workers continue to get governmentoming to you, this is a rather dismal jobs report and wasn't like last month. nevertheless it was still 100,000 jobs short and i have to believe in a trumpet economy you wouldn't be seeing numbers like this. >> kayleigh: absolutely not. and let's focus on the hospitality industry, which saw the highest increase in jobs, 186,000. that's still not enough. that points to the shortage across the board of labor and all the pressures in the supply chain so note that the u.s. labor department today sort of acknowledged it mildly by saying yes, this is an upward pressure on rising wages but the supply chain is facing burdens of supply push down to the consumer. look at the rising solar rates that small businesses can't afford to pay so they have reduced hours to account for it. we know out of 100 open positions may be seven will be filled but these are the pressures that are sort of festering right now and as the world opens up and all of us go out to eat and go to restaurants and bars we see

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this comes as the far left governor of michigan, gretchen whitmer, you know, governor shutdown is nowidering handing out unemployment benefits to those that are actually employed. okay?? government spending, taxes, record inflation, regulations, the democratic party does not understand economics 101 and these policies are hurting the country. here with more fox news contributor jason chaffetz and house majority whip steve scalise. congressman scalise, i start with you. good to see you both. i start with you. week not know inflation is at a high. city five cents on average. the increase in gas since joe has beenenci present. joe gibbs putin a waiver to build the pipeline. while simultaneously canceling the keystone xl pipeline. and firing people that have high paying career jobs and now energy dependent once again after achieving independence after 75 years. how will those are any of these policies good for the american people?fo >> this is insanity, sean. if you look at what he did with keystone just thousands of american jobs. and offending our friend and neighbor, canada. canada mak

obama partly blames unappointed benefit for slow employmentt growth this as michigan governor gretchen whitmerthat a smart move let's ask founding partner mitch roschelle, it's good to see you. i thought it was crazy to pay them to stay home for the summer but crazier to go back to work part-time. >> crazy i was this goes on until the summer and into labor day. isn't that ironic that it ends on labor day, that is absolutely positively what is suppressing the jobs numbers in the biden administration could deny all they want is not antidotal evidence, there's reliability so hathought is helping. jackie: part of the problem even though the loan employment rate went down, the issue isn't necessarily the everybody's getting back to work some people have completely disappeared from the workforce altogether as a matter of fact chamber of commerce unemployed americans revealed that there are return to work barriers that a survey showing many of the newly reported 9.3 million unemployed may never return and will point out that the chamber endorsed biden's policies spending in all this abroad about the

why is gretchen whitmer flying to florida which was supposed to be this really scary place with covida lot of trust that i'm not sure they can get back. >> greg: maybe that's a good thing. i'm an even know what that means. coming up, the tour de france van that caused a major crash might be in trouble if the police can find her. liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need. how much money can liberty mutual save you? one! two! three! four! five! 72,807! 72,808... dollars. yep... everything hurts. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ sometimes you wanna go ♪ ♪ where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪♪ ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you. welcome back, america. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. [swords clashing] - had enough? - no... arthritis. her

but michigan's governor gretchen whitmer, who is in a lot of deep yogurt because of coronavirus and otherk to work work. you can get 1200 on me. >> tell me more about these succulent benefits. do they come with sides? >> you got sauces. >> brock obama had the worst recovery since world war ii -- barack obama had the worst recovery since world war ii. 7 million americans are still not working. that is not good. the economists say it is for 3 reasons. surprise it is not the democrats' fall. workers are scared of covid and going back to work. because the democrats scared workers with fake news about covid. democrats and their union buddies shut down that schools. and all of these free bonuses for free cash. again, the democrats' ideas but i can take this problem in this country and i can draw a straight line from that problem to the democrats but that is my job. i love doing it. but it is true. and you guys need to figure that out. i wanted to be fair, though. i do want to be. because -- >> sure they do. >> a recovery. this is not a recession. this summer is going to be great. and we are goi

gretchen whitmer once the darling of swamp publications like political before prohibited people from buying seeds. an attempt to lift graduation limits and allow public records request because of covid. gavin newsom cling to power like a broken desolate to refuse to lift in the state of california even as the rest is that of the country returning to normal, contrast that with governor ron desantis who in florida, we choose freedom over fauciism and the real life of the pandemic far higher than what would have been but necessarily erased a year of education and destroyed small businesses and wrecked huge portions of the economy. but instead it was america's innovation industry that won the day and waste corporate propaganda deemed impossible all the way up until the vaccines were here. the ruling class use the threat of disease to consolidate its power and it has used lies, violent riots, reeducation, corporate media and tech censorship to achieve this. but it is a house that cannot stand. because it is built on nothing but threats and the kind of shameless hubris we have had to see t

and gretchen whitmer, the governor of michigan, told me she realized at that point that in her state,hing. they were out. and it was up to the governors to find a way to get all these supplies, and they were -- wound up competing with each other even sometimes when they secured those things, they were seized by the federal government. so, it was -- it was a -- it could be almost comical if it hadn't been so tragic, you know, the health workers -- many of them got ill and a number of them died. how many would have been saved had they had the ppe they needed? >> yeah. i'll tell you, lawrence wright, we described it as being potentially the definitive book. it is called "the plague year" and i think we're absolutely right in categorizing it that way. lawrence, thank you so much. >>> it's a big decision facing new yorkers and today for the first time, many get to do something about it. first time, many get to do something about it ♪ it's grilled cheese time. ♪ ♪ yeah, it's time for grilled cheese. ♪ ♪ after we make grilled cheese, ♪ ♪ then we're eating grilled cheese. ♪ ♪ because it's tim

. >> i'm doing better than gretchen whitmer because as you have shown in your state they found very troublingumbers when they did reverse engineering of the covid data many more people had died because of contracting covid in nursing homes and did they stop counting? >> we smoke them out tomorrow in this state there will be a special hearing with the legislature oversight committee, my lawyer i had to sue the state for data my lawyer is going to offer our findings and the director of the state health department is going to come on and give testimony i don't know what she could possibly come up with but this is what people say. last summer we weren't even counting until june we did not have an official count cuomo stopped doing the mix and may, witmer who copy cuomo double down and still does it to this day the co-mingle. what happens, they start counting these deaths, they hire a firm the firm about 44% go back to the nursing homes unbeknownst to anybody we don't even know if they published his findings, that is not clear, what is clear once they found out they stop counting and they said it

obama with unappointed benefits for slow employment growth, this is democrat michigan governor gretchen whitmerworkers to keep the unappointed benefits, is that a smart move let's ask founding partner mitra shall, it's great to see you, i thought it was crazy to pay them to stay home the rest of the summer but it's crazy to say go back to work part-time but keep the benefits. >> crazy i would say worse but this is family television, this goes on, it ends at labor day, isn't that ironic, i think that is absolutely positively what is suppressing the jobs numbers in the biden administration can deny all they want is not any good love evidence that that is what is happening. jackie: part of the problem even though the unemployment rates went down the issue isn't necessarily everybody's getting back to work some people have completely disappeared from the workforce that is a matter of fact a chamber of commerce pole of unemployed americans revealed that there are return to work barriers that the survey shows many newly reported 9.3 million unemployed may never return to work and i'll point out the c

national governors association as well as individual governors on both sides of the aisle, like gretchen whitmer, and charlie baker, the afl-cio, united steelworkers, american society of civil engineers, numerous tribal communities, the national association of counties, and many others. the president will travel to wisconsin tomorrow to keep actively making the case for this agreement and getting it over the finish line. he's also going to continue to make the case for his american families plan, which we're also fighting to pass through the pass approach we've been discussing with all of you. also wanted to note for all of you today, thanks to the president's commitment to playing a leading role in ending the pandemic everywhere, two million doses of the pfizer vaccine will begin to ship to peru from the united states and 2.5 million doses of the moderna vaccine will be shipped to pakistan. over the weekend we announced we're sending 1.5 million doses of moderna to honduras and we'll announce more places the united states will be sending our doses. finally, i wanted to make sure you all saw tod

so could michigan's gretchen whitmer. i don't think the biden doj will let that happen.omo gets hammered for that, for the nursing home deaths, you're right, the michigan governor would get hit too and potentially other democrat governors too. you really think the doj would be that, you know, would go so far as not to do anything? >> well, let's put it this way. the trump doj wanted to get governor cuomo on a false acts violation. i think you already have enough evidence there to do that because of the february meeting with deer rosa who was cuomo's aide who basically admitted they were submitting false numbers, worried about keeping the trump doj from them. the biden doj shut down what the trump doj was doing but only picked it up when you had evidence that indeed cuomo was covering up nursing home deaths whether for his own politics or to promote his book. whatever it may be it is right in front of them and they are still dragging their feet. elizabeth: interesting. 10 women are accusing the governor of alleged sexual harassment, even assault, vip testing, using state

gretchen whitmer has declared a state of emergency to wayne county.bout the severity of this rain. i mean, that does not look like a potentially good radar for anyone in the next, what, 24 hours? >> yeah. over the next 24 to 48 hours we will continue to see the rain pile up not only across the midwest but down into the plains and portions of the southwest, too. since friday, michigan, the consensus about 4 to 6 inches with isolated higher amounts. that continues to missouri and portions of oklahoma and texas as well. parts of missouri we have seen some of our rivers in missouri hit major flood stage. here is some of the other totals we have seen since saturday. some of us have gotten up to 8 1/2 inches, 7 1/2 inches. as you mentioned, christie, other people have seen some amounts up to nearly 10 inches. it is currently raining in oklahoma city as of now you don't need the -- it's continuing to rain over the same areas and that leads to the potential for flooding. that's why we have a flash flood watch up from new mexico through texas, oklahoma into mi

. >>> this afternoon i was able to sit down with michigan governor gretchen whitmer to get her take onstructure negotiations and what her state needs in the face of destructive flooding. >> good to see you. thanks for your time this afternoon. >> thank you. glad to be with you. >> the detroit metro area is grappling with the impact of flooding from a torrent of rain this past weekend. how is your administration providing assistance to those folks whose homes and belongings have been destroyed? second it also strikes me that this flooding highlights the urgent need for revitalized infrastructure in michigan. >> there's no question about it. this is climate change meeting with decades of underinvestment in infrastructure. this is what's happening. we've had freeways that were flooded. we've had homes that were flooded. i declared an emergency very early onto get the process started. i went and looked at the damage yesterday. we took an aerial view in a state police helicopter. also we were on the ground, visited with a number of municipal leaders. we're working in close conjunction to ma

particularly, obviously, have had a very contentious relationship with the state's democratic governor, gretchen whitmer. with you, you have been a target of a lot of their vitriol. rhetorically. there -- there -- there's sort of -- there's, both, a way in which your state has served as a kind of laboratory. i think these kind of capitol -- you know, protests at the capitol. armed protest at the capitol intimidation sort of started we saw during covid last year in michigan. but also, i wonder, if you are worried or concerned about michigan republicans attempting to, kind of, go the route we have seen the folks in, say, arizona go, or other states? >> oh, absolutely, it's all connected. i think what we are seeing in arizona it just the beginning. and until, again, there is real accountability at the ballot box for republican leaders who have continued to spread these lies. we are going to see this -- these efforts to continue. to undermine people's faith in the process. to try to spread audits that are fake audits like this to other states. and to, also, change the rules the game to make it harder for pe

governor gretchen whitmer declared a state of emergency for wayne county because of the flooding. parts of australia are back under a coronavirus lockdown for 14 days. this comes as 30 new cases of the highly contagious delta variant were reported in new south wales. all of the infections have been linked to the bondi outbreak in the northern territory of 48 hour lockdown went into effect after four new cases were reported. australia's government is now facing criticism over this new lockdown. i would rather regret us going too hard too early, then go too easy and risk it all residents in certain lockdown zones cannot leave their homes except for essential work, exercise, medical needs or caregiving. the northern territories are expecting more cases of the delta variant virus. thailand and malaysia have also announced new coronavirus lockdowns officials in thailand. say the country is now dealing with its worst coronavirus outbreak malls in bangkok must be closed by nine pm and gatherings of more than 20 people are prohibited. the restrictions will last for 30 days. malaysia is al

will give healthcare workers to administration 5 million more shots >>> the michigan governor gretchen whitmerhange and power outages worsened the flooding. >>> another body was recovered overnight from the site of the collapsed condo in surfside, florida. that brings the death toll to ten. in just two hours we'll get eat update, and a new focus on building inspections in the area that's right after jim cramer on cnbc >> good to see you back in the studio kate rooney is here. >> cathie was filing for a bitcoin etf with the s.e.c., call 2 is cathie wood has a history, and is now cutting out the middle man a bitcoin etf on too much here back to you. >> i'll pick that up over to jpmorgan's announcement, which is a small different increase the press release now again, as expected down from 3.3% to 3.2%, the expectation was down nothing too major. dividend doubled, and it did jump on that news. it's a big higher than some expected it has improved, but it has fallen, but perhaps could have fallen a bit more. it will be interesting to do if that gain, because of the doubling of the dividend is mainta

let me ask you this, your leadership there in michigan, gretchen whitmer's administration acknowledgedthe coronavirus nursing home deaths could be under-counted in the state. james, are you going to run for governor? >> you know, maria, everybody wants to know. they want me to break it on this show. let me say this, i love public service and i'm evaluating the possibility and so you want me to break it on your show at some point? maria: let's do it. break it right now. break the news. break it right now. [laughter] maria: come on, james craig. >> i love you, maria and i love fox. maria: you're coming back. you're coming back. you'll be back. james craig, great to see you sir, thank you so much. we'll be right back. a partner o help share the load. wealth is saving a little extra. worth is knowing it's never too late to start - or too early. ♪ ♪ wealth helps you retire. worth is knowing why. ♪ ♪ principal. for all it's worth. ♪♪ [sfx: revving trucks] pilot over radio: here we go, let's do this. ♪♪ pilot over radio: right there, right there. [sfx: revving trucks] pilot over radio: g comp

. >>> and michigan governor gretchen whitmer says that she wants frontline workers to get hero pay visitingsing home to support legislation that would permit one-time payments to essential workers. >> when you work that hard and do these tough, important jobs, you should get paid a salary that you can live on, that you can take care of your family on. >> and the u.s. is joining other nations denouncing china over the arrest of five people at a pro-democracy newspaper in hong kong the state department says that the u.s. strongly condemns the arrest, which appear entirely politically motivated. you are now up to date wilf, back to you. >>> still to come, the nasdaq is flooding with record high closing levels bradley tusk will join us with his take on the sector and the big things he's watching at the moment. >>> here's a check on bonds yields, pulling back significantly, touching 1.57 on the 10-year yesterday. back to 1.516. "closing bell" back after this what happens when we welcome change? we can transform our workforce overnight out of convenience, or necessity. we can explore uncharted wa

by all means, i think, you know, gretchen whitmer was down here on her own doing her own side inspections real estate to make available. here's the beautiful thing, we just put $10 billion in reserves in our state reserves. we carry a aaa bond rating for the last three years in a row, first time in the history of the state of florida. not only are we a sound financial place to do business, but we're an inviting place to do business because we listen to our people, listen to our families and businesses, we listen to our job creators. david: jimmy, i want to get your take on disney reopening saying though they are going to ask -- first of all, they're taking the masks off, that's good news, but they're saying you can only visit the parks if you've been vaccinated. florida is one of those states that has rules against vaccine passports. how does disney check? >> i think it's going to be the honor system. look, disney has done an amazing job getting the parks back open safe in florida, unlike what they were kept from doing by governor newsom in california. so, look, disney's going to continue

. >>> michigan governor gretchen whitmer is saying climate change is to blame for record flooding thereything we can to address climate change. stuart: michigan representative fred upton sounding off on that. he is next. ♪ stuart: president biden took two brief questions before boarding marine one on his trip to wisconsin. number one, he said he could visit florida as early as thursday. number two, he also said the first lady, jill, will travel to the tokyo olympics. okay. that is not much. those were two questions. not like the old days, is it? now this. >> this is a moment and a need for to us help one another but also to do the hard work of protecting ourselves going forward and that is doing everything we can to address climate change and building a resilient infrastructure that will keep us safe, to keep our economy going. stuart: you seed intoing in flooding back there, governor whitmer says climate change is to blame for the floods. representative fred upton from michigan. welcome back. good to see you again. do you think climate change is to blame? >> it is more than climate cha

reporter: michigan governor gretchen whitmer doubling down on the extra $300 a week in federal benefits. she proposes a plan to allow only part-time workers to work and still get the unemployment benefits, including that federal plus-up so if you look at this report the labor force participation rate, as well as the bottom line number here, it's actually a report the federal reserve will look at and see a case to not change anything related to monetary policy and that's what the market is reflecting. back to you. >> john is talking about that this morning and really what he was watching within the report is how does the fed react, maybe they won't. edward lawrence live in washington, edward thank you very much. let's bring in career builder ceo, arena novalselski. does this mean we need to end these unemployment benefits faster? remember 25 states now have decided to end these benefits now because they need people to come back to work. >> and that's one side of it, cheryl, so we're talking about most likely, the unskilled part of our workforce. that is most impacted for the unemployment

some of those names will perhaps be a little surprising, including gretchen whitmer, the governor ofgan, became one of the top prospects, because biden really felt like he was connecting with her. host: how did then senator kamala harris use the police reform bill to her advantage in becoming the picky echo -- to become the pick? edward: after george floyd was murdered there was pressure to move that police reform bill. for harris, this gave her an ability to be involved in a significant piece of legislation that drew on skills and backgrounds that she had and in addition to that it gave her a reason to be out and doing interviews where she could talk about something substantive, but not just talking about politics. she could essentially audition for the biden team who are watching her performance and see how she was doing without having to have everyone ask her the same question with her giving the same dodges. that was really important and it also gave an ability to push back on some of the criticism of her record as a prosecutor which had come up during the primary, and show that

." >> michigan governor gretchen whitmer vetoes a bill that would exempt high school graduations fromest level since march 2020. >> and your very important breaking breakfast news of the day. it is national doughnut day. >> sir i'm going to have to ask you to exit. jillian: stores are giving away delicious deals, dunkin' is offering a free classic doughnut with the purchase of any beverage while krispy kreme is giving out a free doughnut of your choice and you can also double up on another freebie if you're vaccinated. lawrence i'd be lying if i said i haven't had a doughnut yesterday. >> you know i love donuts. >> chocolate. >> thanks, jillian. now this. it's called too woke, siri county in north carolina banning coca cola machines over the company's opposition to the georgia's voting law. joining us is one of those county commissioners from siri county, eddie harris. i've got to ask you this , commissioner. there was a little bit of confusion about is it a boycott? you say this is just a response to them trying to cancel the republicans, right? >> well, yes. absolutely. perhaps it m

benefits are contributing to the labor shortage in his state and it comes as michigan governor gretchen whitmerusiness and economics at the kings college in manhattan. brian brenberg. so, brian, she is teaching them how to double dip. >> yeah. i saw this story and it was a couple things that stood out to me. one was wait a second so you are going to give people jobs or let people take jobs but you are still going to pay them unemployment. isn't unemployment intended for folks who can't find jobs? explain that one to me. but the other problem with, this lawrence, is they are taking the money apparently from leftover american recovery act funds. i keep hearing this and i'm thinking why do we have so much money left over from this plan? if this plan was so critical to get us back and recover, why do i keep hearing there is all this money that can be re-purposed? it feels like workers are getting fleeced here. businesses are competing against the federal government. and workers, as a result, are having to make an impossible choice. do i take more money by staying at home or go to work? it feels lik

this week michigan governor gretchen wit whitmer was able to drop our state's restrictions. that's great news for our small businesses and our restaurants and our entertainment venues just in time for peak travel season in beautiful michigan. nation wild more than two million jobs have -- nation wild more than two million jobs have been created since he took office, to million jobs since he took office six months ago. half as many people are applying for unemployment each month as were in january. and next month families will begin to receive advanced child tax credits that are going to lift half of the poor children of our country out of poverty. incredible. these monthly payments of $250 or $300 per child will help families pay for the things they need to care for their children and it will also boost the economy. we made amazing progress, and it wouldn't have been possible without leadership from the white house. around $20 billion in funding for vaccines from congress, the dedication of our medical professionals, the hard work of our small businesses who have done so muc