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maria: coming up, wyoming senator john barrasso with breaking news on the economic sanctions to comerussia and the economic impact of biden's policies on america. then, biden's big call and supreme court nominee as justice stephen breyer announces his retirement. will joe biden's pick be the progressives' pick? if alan dershowitz weighs in on the supreme court moves and vice president kamala harris' deciding vote. then, release the transcripts. questions are swirling on what went down on two phone calls of president biden's, one with ukrainian president zelensky, the other with ccp head xi jinping. >> the answer is that we did, i did raise the question of transparency. i've spent a lot of time with him. he, in fact, he's just not being transparent. maria: not being transparent, that's it. coming up, former director of intelligence john ratcliffe on the origins of covid-19 and the intelligence behind china and russia's deceptions. plus, joe biden moves to protect the ukraine border but blows off his own southern border. mexican cartels are making $100 million a week on human trafficki

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host: senator john barrasso, republican leader in the senate yesterday. along with his colleagues holding a news conference to mark president biden's first 12 months in office. we are getting your top news stories. is that one of them? steve in indianapolis, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. my top news story this morning is the border. i tried to get in while you had the republican congressman there. the congressman along with the republican audience who is listening in don't understand how border -- our border laws. our law which we owe bide -- abide, this country obeys, we have signed a treaty with other countries and this treaty states that whenever an alien put his foot or her foot on u.s. soil and ask for an asylum, we give them a chance. to go to court, to see what's going on. see if they can become a citizen. i don't understand why it is the republicans don't seem to understand that. i don't understand why is it that republicans don't seem to recognize that in order to change that law you have to talk to your congressperson in order

sending money features as libel have exclusive interviews with former dni john reckless will senator john barrassoreaking news on conflicts of interest in washington. and china, join us sunday 10:00 a.m. eastern life and fox news plus start smart every weekend right fox news business for more warnings with maria. we hope you'll join us every weekday six to 9:00 a.m. eastern for mornings with maria but have a great weekend everybody and i will see you again monday. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. gerry: hello, this become the wall street journal at large biting is to make a supreme court pic and is going to be all about what she looks like of course. affirmative action on and in the court. plus, ken 11th hour diplomacy with warnings in europe has a menstruation already open the door for russian aggression? and then republican governor of virginia starts in

former dni john reckless will senator john barrasso and peter schweizer breaking news on conflicts of interest in washington. and china, join us sunday 10:00 a.m. eastern life and fox news plus start smart every weekend right fox news business for more warnings with maria. we hope you'll join us every weekday six to 9:00 a.m. eastern for mornings with maria but have a great weekend everybody and i will see you again monday. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. gerry: hello, this become the wall street journal at large biting is to make a supreme court pic and is going to be all about what she looks like of course. affirmative action on and in the court. plus, ken 11th hour diplomacy with warnings in europe has a menstruation already open the door for russian aggression? and then republican governor of virginia starts in with voters elected him to do that's apparently unacceptable for some the states educators. and of course an exciting fresh face for the democratic party as nancy pelosi assures a grateful nation that she is in fact ready for another term in congress. will be discussing all the solar panel wa

john. >> john: wyoming senator john barrasso, a member of the energy committee. said that raised so many eyebrows during the press conference yesterday. >> russia will be held accountable if it invades and it depends can on what it does, one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etc. >> john: jen psaki rushed with a mop to aisle four for a quick clean-up and then a little while ago he grabbed his own mop, and said if russian troops move over the border, that's invasion. met with the response i laid out for putin. there are some people who say that putin will only look at what he said at the beginning and say ah, that's a green light for me to go in. >> let me tell you about vladimir putin. he's a poker player and he's cunning, opportunity isaias -- opportunistic, and looks for tells. he also can smell weakness. and he views president biden as weak and ineffective, specifically after the collapse in afghanistan. so putin, his aggression is funded by energy which is his cash cow and the biden policies previously

john barrasso from wyoming. did you see the piece today? >> dana: i like to read it the night before so i can be prepared. >> bill: are you with joe biden or jefferson davis? the president's speech is a voice from reality. the filibuster is likely to fail. it concludes with the following line. it is a bad presidential look. a couple of things in this voting rights proposal that i don't think a lot of people are aware of. it would force you to count late-mail ballots like a postcard. you don't know where it's coming from. the other thing about the drop boxes in the state of georgia. they didn't exist before the pandemic vote of 2020. that will be permanent to a degree in the state of georgia regardless. >> dana: another thing in the bill that a lot of people don't realize is a taxpayer funding of campaigns. that polls so poorly in america it has for a long time and of course then you have the voter i.d. requirements which most people including a majority of democrats think should be there. what president biden did from the "new york post" sa

should respond, this is a clip from john barrasso, the republican from wyoming, talking about that issue on the floor of the senate from late last week. >> john mccain, who i traveled with on several occasions to ukraine used to say russia is a mafia run gas company disguised as a country. inner z is the only successful -- energy is the only successful sector of the russian economy. natural gas is what is propping up the russian military and the entire putin regime. vladimir putin uses energy as a geopolitical weapon and he knows how to use it. uses energy to coerce and to manipulate our allies and our partners in europe. if they don't do something that putin wants or they do something he does not like, he can turn off the power and turn off the heat. we signed example of this in november, when russia threatened to cut off gas flow to moldovan. moldova had declared a state of emergency. europe already gets almost half of its gas imports from russia. with the nord stream 2 pipeline in russia and germany, the imports will only need to go up and they will go up. the secretary told the forei

. >> senator john barrasso says there has to be accountability for the money that was passed.ecause most of it hasn't been spent. martha? >> martha: let's bring in ari fleischer and juan williams. good to have you here. you have 14% of the 5 trillion that has not been spent. 14% of $5 trillion, i can't do the math but that's a lot of money. why would we be considering allocating more money to covid relief? >> well, obviously you want to make sure the economy doesn't stall. we did a great job as a country with the initial covid relief of preventing economic problems. right now as we go through this latest phase, martha, the stock market is relatively high, the gdp relatively high. we don't want a strong setback our strong economic times. >> martha: we don't know where the money went, ari. you have inflation, the supply chain problems. there's a lot of ways to address the problems for companies without blanketing more money out there when we don't know where a lot of the money went. >> martha: let me tell you about two towns where i live. the town of new kanan, connecticut is de

senator john barrasso blaming democrats for wasting money. >> democrats put $2 trillion in so-calledid relief, passed only by democrat votes in march. i think it was one of the things that really stimulated the inflation that we're having to liver with now. we need accountability for that money. there was $47 billion in that package for coronavirus testing. reporter: we know there is a lack of tests. long lines to get those tests. white house press secretary jen saki putting issue squarely on covid variant, on states not spending rescue plan money. >> what is important for people to understand, there is some of this funding hasn't been spent in certain states to put in mitigation measures. now is the time to do that. reporter: latest poll show 60% of americans disapprove of how the president is handling the economy. liz? elizabeth: edward lawrence, good to see you. thanks for joining us. hear back with us now, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee. he is senator ron johnson, senator it is always a pleasure to have you on. you took heat recently for saying quote, why

maria: the timing is what senator john barrasso brought up on this program last month, questioning theehind joe biden's vaccine mandate. i am back with the a.g. of missouri, eric schmitt. and, a.g., you also questioned the timing of the mandates and why he circumvented congress and put it all on osha which doesn't have such legislative authority. >> no, and i think that's exactly right. you think back here, joe biden had taken this off the table. he had said many times he wasn't going to have a vaccine mandate. afghanistan happened which is perhaps the worst foreign policy disaster in generations, a betrayal of the american soldier, billions of dollars of equipment left behind, a total disaster. and then immediately after that to change the narrative, he announces these vaccine mandates which are clearly unconstitutional, unlawful and, you know, why the supreme court agreed with us in court last week. i think it was a distraction, and a cynical one at that. the american people deserve better. look, this has never been about the policy, this is about power and control, and they're going

senator john barrasso saying 6-3 decision was the right one. >> a big win for the american people and freedom and it is a big loss for president biden and for big government. i'm a doctor. i'm pro-vaccine. i'm anti-mandate. to me the mandate was a massive overreach by the government. reporter: so this white house now shifting the pressure. in a statement from the president reiterated by white house press secretary jen psaki they're putting pressure on companies. listen. >> supreme court's decision on the osha mandate essentially means that end of pandemic is up to individual employers to determine whether their work places will be safe for employees. whether their businesses will be safe for consumers. reporter: in 5-4 decision the supreme court upheld the mandate for health care workers at facilities that specifically get federal money. the white house saying that the administration will aggressively enforce that. back to you. elizabeth: edward lawrence, thanks for your reporting there. good to see you. welcome back to the show, joining us now, from house education and labor congress

that was john barrasso as the white house scrambles to spin yesterday's inflation nightmare. consumer prices jumping by 7% over last year. highest inflation rate in 40 years. the president's top economic advisor has an interesting strategy. bury your head in the sand and hope it goes away? >> most independent forecasters expect the prices 20 moderate over the course of 2022 consistent with our view and you have a president and administration waking up every day thinking about the practical actions we can take to try to help accelerate that, protecting -- unsticking supply chains. >> harris: the white house tweeted out this handy chart despite fed chair jerome powell testifying the day before that inflation would persist well into 2022. the cover of the "new york post" with one word about our journey right now, crushed. steve moore former economic advisor to president trump and freedom works economist steve, good to have you in focus today. americans are feeling crushed. tell us what that means economically. >> so i was just listening to your fascinating conversation with marc

maria: my next guest is working on that bipartisan sanctions package, wyoming senator john barrasso ishird ranking member in the senate and the ranking member on the senate energy committee. senator, it's great to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. >> great to be with you, maria. maria: can you walk us through what sanctions package looks like that you and your colleagues are working on on a bipartisan levelsome when would you expect this to come to the senate floor for a vote? >> yes, maria. we need to sanction russia before an invasion, not aftera wars. and here's the reason, let's put this into perspective. vladimir putin is like the big, bad wolf. he is huffing and puffing, and he has the capacity basically to blow ukraine down. he's accountable to no one, and he views our president, joe bodien, as weak -- joe biden, as weak and ineffective. we immediate to put in sanctions now so putin will see just what pain he will suffer if he does invade and they have to hit him militarily as well as economically. from a military standpoint, we need to make sure now that a uk

senator john barrasso joins us now. what is your reaction to the decision from the supreme court today? >> the supreme court ruling is a big win for the american people and for freedom. it's a big loss for president biden and for big government. i'm a doctor. i'm pro vaccine. i'm anti-mandate. to me the mandate was a massive overreach by the government. now to know there's 100 million workers in this country that work for private companies that are now subject to this mandate. i think it's a good thing for our economy. in terms of the healthcare workers, we need those people on the job taking care of patients and to know that some of them may get fired as a result of that second ruling because they don't want to get vaccinated, that is a mistake. i'm against all of the mandates. >> martha: that's interesting. in california, they're asking people that are healthcare workers that are covid positive to return to work because they're so short staffed. then you have the other element, which is that this omicron variantseems

wyoming senator john barrasso gave us his input yesterday. >> vladimir putin is like the big bad wolf the capacity to basically blow ukraine down. he's accountable to no one and he views our president, joe biden, as weak and ineffective. we need to put in sanctions now so putin needs to see what pain he will suffer if he does invade and they have to hit him militarily as well as economically. maria: we are expecting a vote on the sanctions package on wednesday in the senate. the markets this morning on wall street are mixed, the dow industrials down 159, s&p 500 down 8, but the nasdaq is higher, 55 points right now, one half of 1% as we begin the last trading day of the month, the s&p 500 seeing the worst month since march of 2020 as investors worry about inflation, the supply chain crisis and multiple rate increases from the federal reserve. a reversal at the end of last week, the late afternoon rally sparking the up week for all of -- first up week for all of 2022 before. the nasdaq and s&p 500 fractionally higher on the week after three weeks of losses. european markets climbing, t

now, senator john barrasso says that the focus needs to be on accountability and where the money that'srican rescue plan, $1.9 billion -- or trillion, $1.9 trillion, and not all of it has been spent. he wants to know where that money is. [laughter] stuart: don't we all? edward, thank you very much, indeed. congressman byron donalds, republican, florida, joins me now. congressman, do we need more relief? >> no. what we need are for mayors and governors of blue states to stop with the ridiculous lockdowns, the ridiculous mandates. look, the mayor of d.c. just put into place not only indoor mask mandates again, but now at every restaurant you've got to show your vaccination card. that's why restaurants and small businesses are struggling, because of these ridiculous policies as opposed to letting business owners get back on their feet. it's that simple. every state has money they can't even spend right now that's come from washington d.c. we can't continue to bail out bad performance and bad leadership of governors and rock mayors. stuart: sounds to me like buying votes. you splash out tri

should respond, this is a clip from john barrasso, the republican from wyoming, talking about that issue on the floor of the senate from late last week. >> john mccain, who i traveled with on several occasions to ukraine used to say russia is a mafia run gas company disguised as a country. inner z is the only successful -- energy is the only successful sector of the russian economy. natural gas is what is propping up the russian military and the entire putin regime. vladimir putin uses energy as a geopolitical weapon and he knows how to use it. uses energy to coerce and to manipulate our allies and our partners in europe. if they don't do something that putin wants or they do something he does not like, he can turn off the power and turn off the heat. we signed example of this in november, when russia threatened to cut off gas flow to moldovan. moldova had declared a state of emergency. europe already gets almost half of its gas imports from russia. with the nord stream 2 pipeline in russia and germany, the imports will only need to go up and they will go up. the secretary told the forei

should respond, this is a clip from john barrasso, the republican from wyoming, talking about that issue on the floor of the senate from late last week. >> john mccain, who i traveled with on several occasions to ukraine used to say russia is a mafia run gas company disguised as a country. inner z is the only successful -- energy is the only successful sector of the russian economy. natural gas is what is propping up the russian military and the entire putin regime. vladimir putin uses energy as a geopolitical weapon and he knows how to use it. uses energy to coerce and to manipulate our allies and our partners in europe. if they don't do something that putin wants or they do something he does not like, he can turn off the power and turn off the heat. we signed example of this in november, when russia threatened to cut off gas flow to moldovan. moldova had declared a state of emergency. europe already gets almost half of its gas imports from russia. with the nord stream 2 pipeline in russia and germany, the imports will only need to go up and they will go up. the secretary told the forei

we are going to talk about this morning, i am leading the show with senator john barrasso what's aheadll against russia. so we are going to talk about whether or not were going to get that vote this upcoming wednesday is what they are planning people talk about that. plus we will talk about information and flowing information. peter schweitzer is here exposing a number of high-level congresspeople as well as the white house and how they are complicit with china. who is making money at america's expense? of course peter has reported that joe biden's family took $31 million from the ccp. john ratcliffe's ear at the intelligence behind china and russia's deception and allen will join us to talk about the supreme court pick, the nomination is one of joe biden's big calls coming up in the coming months. we will get into it in ten minutes time, rachel. rachel: it's an amazing lineup and the 31 million-dollar stories of bombshell. we are really looking forward to seeing that. thanks for joining us this morning, maria. >> see you later. so far up next tom brady retirement rumors rocking the fo