sure that the republican leader fights with the conservative leader but not anymore because kevin mccarthy is the right leader for the right time and he will be the best speaker of the house. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> kevin would like you to keep talking. >> i didn't come here to suck up to kevin mccarthy. i tell him the truth. it's great to be in florida where you are normal and open and i don't have to wear a mask. that's so much better than california. did you like it when kevin mccarthy said it was the right thing for trump to be at cpac? what's your response? [applause] [applause] and we are getting closer. the other thing we were just talking about backstage, and we talked about this with ambassador lighthizer and with the new senator from tennessee. help me, phil hagerty. i've got a lot on my mind, folks. what we were talking about was the fact that the new republican coalition, we are the one focusing on the forgotten men and women. we are focused on the actual workers. >> there is a new poll that came out that literally says the republican party grew with the blue collar

kevin mccarthy was in the back saying i see some good candidates there.hinking what district can i run him for? speaking of that, election day was rough in some ways, really rough, but in other ways, it really gave me great optimism for the future. the greatest story of election night was getting so close to getting that gavel from nancy pelosi. did it shock you that you got that close? >> we got closer than anyone thought we could get. they said we are going to lose 20 seats, no one said we are going to win seats. my dearest friend is a hard-core republican said the best we can do is lose 10. do you know why we one that? president trump worked on all these races. i want you to tell your friends, especially your liberal friends. it's the first time since 1994 no republican incumbent lost. you know who the 15 democrats lost to? conservative women and conservative minorities, each and every one of them. [applause] and what happened is even when president trump was sick with covid, he called me and said we have to keep doing this because we could not do the

so today i asked kevin mccarthy how what's happening in the house right now is any different than hisport of donald trump's efforts to get congress to overturn his loss. >> i disagree with the premise of your question. if you challenged arizona and pennsylvania, would that have changed and lowered president biden's numbers below 270? >> you supported the -- >> wait. i asked -- you ask me questions every week. i just asked you a question. if you removed arizona -- but you weren't removing it. you were just asking the question about it. if arizona and pennsylvania were removed in the electoral college, would president biden's number lower below 270. >> no, but -- >> you're asking me the question. i'm answering your question. let me answer your question since you asked me. let me follow through. so you gave a premise that's not true. >> donald trump tried to overturn the results in congress and you support that effort. >> now you're saying something that's not true so let me answer your question and show you how your premise is not true. i'm showing where your question doesn't hold merit

something that kevin mccarthy is watching.e same time, he is still trying to keep all of donald trump's support. after the insurrection, he is still flying down to mar-a-lago to make up with him and make sure that he stays inside the republican tent and campaigns for congressional candidates in the mid-terms. so you see him struggling here because he's trying to have it both ways and it is just impossible. you cannot say that you didn't play a role in this. it's all on tape as manu point out. it wasn't just the texas lawsuit. he was on camera at fox news saying president trump won the election days after. i mean, he was there from november all the way to january. >> manu, there's another exchange that you had with kevin mccarthy from last june that is so relevant to the moment that we are if right now. and here it is. >> the president has been describing the coronavirus, he's been calling at this time kung flu. do you think that's an appropriate way to characterize the virus? >> do you think that's the most pressing issue you

now kevin mccarthy recently found out the truth and what's he doing?orth a resolution to have him removed. at this point i think nancy pelosi owned eric swalwell, from what she knows about his past. b3 moving on to our southern border that we've been talking about since the top of the hour, you them like we are about to hear from you or republicans in the house led by leader mccarthy. they have been doing the southern border and to the problems in crisis at our border, that are being housed in cbp custody at the border and it seems like the democratic a message today is, this is a mess at the biden administration inherited from the trump administration. listen to this. >> with the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border. >> this idea that it's joe biden's election that has prompted more people to show up is belied by the actual facts. >> joe biden and inherited a huge mess on immigration. >> what we are seeing today is a consequence of four years of dismantling every system in place to address this with complete humanity and compa

republican leader kevin mccarthy is in davenport today holding an even with republican representative miller-meeks where they're going to say that speaker me ler pelosi is trying steal miller-meeks seat away from her. the nrcc campaign arm say they have good polling on this issue, this is resonating with those critical independent and suburban voters in battleground districts, especially when republicans use the word that pelosi is being a hypocrite, trying to overturn an election. but i will say that there might

>> yes. >> a one-word answer, yes, which good for him, kevin mccarthy at least on this day willing toable facts but the bigger question, melanie, is that 12 republicans were allowed to do this, to circulate, this is the louie gomert started this, the alternative, no reference to january 6th, no reference to the attack on the capitol. does the leader, and i think i'm giving the answer in the question, have control of his caucus? >> no, the answer is no, john. i mean earlier this week we actually reported that there is a behind the scenes fight over this strategy that conservatives are trying to push. it's not just opposing the gold medal bill. they've been forcing procedural votes. they've been requesting recorded votes on these typically noncontroversial bills and kevin mccarthy tried to make the case behind closed doors, this is counterproductive. we need to stay unified. we're trying to win back the house. let's keep you guys all together. we can't have you out there rogue, forcing these votes creating headaches really for everyone. it's not just democrats. republicans are also gett

we'll get a reaction from house minority leader kevin mccarthy coming up.ater the chairman and ceo of ganko investments is here, where he's putting money during the recovery. but let's take a look back at some of the week's top newsmakers in this week's edition of "the talkers." watch. maria: you see what's going on in the biden administration, overturning the trump administration's success at the border. >> maria, this is a real crisis that's taking place on our southern border. it's a crisis of american sovereignty, making sure we know who's coming in and out of our country. maria: is this the the new normal, pass things without any republican support? >> on reconciliation that's possible, but if they don't do away with the 60-vote requirement, every other piece of legislation will have to be bipartisan. maria: ted cruz says that the stimulus bill rebate checks will also go to illegal immigrants. >> this is a slush fund. it has nothing to do with covid, that's what i want your viewers to understand. maria: what do you want to see from governor cuomo? >> w

kevin mccarthy, what he wants to do, he wants to sweep january 6th under the rug.edges that it happened, he doesn't want to be a part of and he wants to somehow say it's political, but here is thing with the security review, this was a standard security review. i've been a part of security reviews and securing embassy compounds, vulnerable facilities in war zones. we know how to do this. this is not rocket science, basic stuff. you do strategic assessment, tactical assessment, look at training, recruiting, technology being employed. there's a standard template for doing these reviews and the people did this review followed that template and we have a product that i would have expected to be delivered to us. there's nothing political at all about this. so the response by kevin mccarthy and others, that is what is political here because they don't want to acknowledge this happened in the first instance. but you are right in that the devil is going to be in the details and implementation of this we have to get this done. january 6th was horrific. we have to make sure

machine in california, and i think that they know that if we have a fair election in 2022, that kevin mccarthy is going to be speaker by probably by a 30 or 40 or 50 vote margin. when i became speaker, bill clinton had been in office two years. we picked up 54 seats. when barack obama got elected two years later, they picked up 63 seats. if you watch what they're doing in the house, there doing a few things. they are ramming through every radical piece of legislation they can i think on the assumption that they think they're going to lose the house in 2022 the only have two years to get their agendas. second, they're going to try to break rig the game.

kevin mccarthy says it's worse than the public realizes what happened with eric swalwell.ld like to ask you after we take a listen to kevin mccarthy. >> intel committee is different than any committee we have we have all the secrets of our nation, it's very simple if eric swalwell cannot get a security clearance with the company he should not be beyond the security clearance with the country that's what we gave him but he could not get one with a job in the private sector. >> i got a classified briefing with fbi in speaker pelosi she knows what i know and she knows he does not deserve or should belong on this committee. elizabeth: what is kevin mccarthy nancy pelosi no that everybody else does not know. >> my guess it was financial as well a honeypot relationship as well as a scandal it was probably financial because she was assembling donors to invest in his campaign and to me that is more dangerous because he needs them now and he needs the money she's assembling for him to continue his political career i would like to know how many other members of congress are in that

house minority leader kevin mccarthy and a dozen other house republicans are going to visit migrant facility in texas amid the escalating crisis at our southern border. meanwhile, the bad and white houses deploying emergency officials from fema to help with the surge of unaccompanied minors despite the president denying there is a crisis. fema goes where there are disasters. u.s. border patrol reportedly is holding more than 4200 migrant children in short-term facilities. nearly 3,000 of them held longer than the 72 hours legally allowed. house speaker nancy pelosi is blaming former president trump's policies for the situation and echoing biden and calling it a challenge, not a crisis. >> what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border and they are working to correct that in the children's interest. so this, again, is a transition from what was wrong before to what is right. >> harris: however, louisiana senator bill cassidy says president biden's so-called open border policies are to blame for the unprecedented levels of migrants crossing over. >> empirically it is en

what is also interesting what kevin mccarthy said. swalwell says he will be sitting across from people that will be held to a different standard, their exposure to others has been than swalwell. they're handing him the most precious secrets and they're held to a different standard. obviously he shouldn't be on the committee. >> about 30 seconds, congressman. you have eric swalwell tweeting this is a new mccarthyism, clearly talking about the house minority leader. your final thoughts on where eric swalwell and this investigation, multiple sentences, fails to include multiple statements of wrong doing. all of the leaders support for qanon. he's one of the big pushers of the russian collusion thing. final thoughts on this. >> swalwell is a total partisan. he uses the intelligence committee to throw a bomb at the trump administration. the reality is, these are basic true facts. kevin mccarthy received the presentation from the fbi. nobody is making allegations. they're looking at what occurred, what his actions were and his actions disqu

if your reaction to kevin mccarthy's resolution, what do you want to see with regards to eric swalwella while and moving forward remembering 17, 18, 19, recently as the last few days, he ran around calling every republican in the country and president trump some kind of russian agent. all the while knowing he was peddling the steele dossier that the democrats had created and passed around to all the media. it's one of the old sayings that those that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. it's not a lot of trust on the republican side for him. we will be voting on this either tomorrow or perhaps after easter. he'll be interested to see where the democrats come down on this. it would be easy for him to come out and give everybody all the information and we will see if it happens. >> maria: kevin mccarthy told me that if anybody else was in the briefing that he received along with speaker pelosi that it would be clear that he should not be anywhere near american secrets. your thoughts in terms of why now eric swalwell is attacking kevin mccarthy publicly? >> it's kind of the ml, rig

and they are rushing it all at once. >> maria: republican leader kevin mccarthy's warning to presidenty did not sit well with democrats. congressman reuben galago tweeted mccarthy's tweet either wrong or lying. texas congresswoman escabar accusing mccarthy of quote trying to fuel the divisions we have learned that border patrol has in fact picked up more than a dozen individuals from yemen, serbia and iran among other areas. joining me now the man in the middle of all of this congressman kevin mccarthy who just got back from his trip to the u.s.-mexico border. congressman, it's great to see you don't. thanks very much for being here. what can you tell us about what you saw up close and personal? >> maria, i know you have been to the border and you have been there when there was crisis. it's worse than ever seen. president biden has created this catastrophe. i went to a brand new facility, a processing facility. 98,000 square feet. it was built where it could never hit capacity it. hit capacity by more than 1040 people. mainly unaccompanied children. as they walked in, they would take o

it is hard for kevin mccarthy when trump is literally picking off his members. trump didn't actually go after kevin mccarthy in name. mitch mcconnell did go up. he moved on from the boos. he could have milked it a little more. he seems to understand the importance of party unity. i thought it was interesting that he encouraged, he told listeners to only donate to donald trump jr. -- donald j. trump.com and not to any other pac organization, rnc. yeah. so he understands, he has a grim on the grassroots and that's the power of the party. >> we'll see how it plays out in coming years. thank you for starting us off this hour. tomorrow the senate judiciary committee will hear from fbi director christopher wray on the bureau's handing of the deadly january 6th riot on capitol hill. sources tell nbc news the bureau is nailing down on a single assailant as it continues will the investigation into the death of officer will brian sicknick. joining me, ari melber. what's the latest on this investigation? and how significant is it that the fbi is able to zero in on one susp

whatever and kevin mccarthy goes, no. these are your supporters. and this whole line about antifa is something that because trump has pushed and continues to push his supporters have also been pushing since then. >> they were masquerading as trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa. >> there is some indication that fascist, antifa elements were involved. >> we have many credible reports that antifa was very much involved. >> i think a lot of it is the antifa folks. >> there were probably some under cover antifa that dressed as trump people. >> no. just to be clear the last person you heard from is the ceo of my pillow someone trump has turned to again and again for advice but all of the talking points you just heard from people who either had no idea what they were saying and just making it up so the president would hear what he wanted to hear or knew they were lying at the time, who knows, but it is all untrue. there is no evidence. you heard it from director wray himself to suppo

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minority leader kevin mccarthy speaking out yesterday. he'll be making a trip down to the border on monday and here is a little bit of what he had to say, listen. >> this is not a political issue anymore. it's becoming a national security concern. he hasn't even acknowledged the crisis he created. griff: now in laredo because we have a buyer delegation coming down, republican, texas senator john cornyn coming with henry colla, has his district. first to carrizo springs, teen facility an hour away and the media not allowed to go on the tour and then come to laredo for a round table with some of the local leaders. we will be bringing that to you all day long, brian, ainsley and steve. steve: griff, you and i have talked about we have not seen color coated wrist bands that apparently some of the smugglers are putting to people to indicate that they have been paid by, you know, they paid the smugglers. do the smugglers only have to get them across the river and then they are processed, essentially home free once they get them off the boat, ri

house minority leader kevin mccarthy was on the ground in texas today and demanding biden do somethingut it. >> heartbreak. the sad part about all of this, it didn't have to happen. this crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration. there is no other way to claimant that a biden crisis. >> jesse: all right, juan come i don't see how the system was broke. because in 2019, nbc news reported and i have it right here that illegal immigration on the southern border had hit an all-time low under donald trump. so how can you actually with a straight face blame donald trump for this? >> juan: well, i'm not trying to blame anybody. let me just say from the beginning, jesse come i don't know why kevin mccarthy chooses to spend his time playing politics at the border when he can be doing his job at capitol hill and getting congress to deal with this issue. i mean, right now there are two bills, two immigration bills that are going to get a vote this week in the house. when dealing with the farm workers. and in both cases, most american support those bills. they suppor

swalwell i like to ask you about that after we take a listen to kevin mccarthy.el committee is different than any we've had it's very simple if eric swalwell cannot get a security clearance with the company beyond the security clearance to the country, that's exactly what we gave him but could not get one of the job in the private sector. what is happening i have a classified briefing with the fbi along with speaker pelosi she knows what i know she does not deserve or belong to this committee. elizabeth: what does kevin mccarthyhy in nancy pelosi know that everybody else does not know. >> my guess it was a financial relationship as well as a honeypot relationship as well as a scandal and a financial relationship she was assembling donors to invest inn his campain into me that is more dangerous because he needs them now and the money he's assembling for him to continue his political career, i would like to know how many other members of congress in that position. the other thing most people don't understand what mccarthy meant by that, when i joined government any

>> i was going to say, over the weekend, the minority leader, kevin mccarthy said he would bet his personal house that they would take the government house. would you do the same? >> i don't think jackie would allow me to say that. but i'll guarantee it. we will win the majority in two years. >> sorry. so on average during -- i think during -- on average, during the first midterms of a new presidency, the president's party typically loses 27 seats, i believe, on average since world war ii, as you just said you only need 5. so what is your strategy going to be? what are some top targets for next cycle for how you're going to do this? >> it's pretty simple. you have to have great candidates. last cycle we had some of the best candidates that i think republicans have ever fielded for the u.s. house of representatives. you have to have the right message and then you have to have enough resources. we typically will not have the resources that the other side has. but you don't have to. you have to have enough. and clearly we did the last time. at least based on the gain that is we made. we didn't

kevin mccarthy is leading a delegation of one dozen republicans to the southern border today. casey stiegel is live along the border in mcallen, texas, casey. >> good to see you. as you heard plenty of finger pointing to go around in terms of who is to blame for this escalating situation down here. right back here behind me is a part of the border wall in mcallen, texas. to give you a better perspective let's go to the sky courtesy of the fox news flight team drone. you can see that the wall itself does not actually run for miles and miles and miles like a lot of people might think it would. it actually has brakes -- breaks in it and the smugglers exploit the gaps funneling traffic through those points including children and families. texas governor greg abbott says he does not understand why the feds are acting so dismayed over how this happened in the first place. >> so it is a fact that they are overwhelmed but what is stunning is they express surprise and shock about the fact that they are overwhelmed when the border patrol themselves and everybody in texas has known this

on january 6th itself and news reports indicate that kevin mccarthy was yelling at the president and his ring. i was disappointed by that. and i don't think that we're going to get back to being majority in the congress and across the country if we keep, you know, doing what kevin mccarthy has been doing which is not speak plainly about what donald trump has done to us. >> all right. candidate for u.s. congress in texas, michael wood. thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. we'll keep an eye on your race. >>> nearly 84 million americans have received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine. as the u.s. takes step forward in the fight against the pandemic, for some who had covid, the problems persist. nbc news correspondent ann thompson has more. >> reporter: with each step -- >> how is the breathing? >> reporter: and test? >> strap you in. >> reporter: carl helps to code a covid mystery. six months after your recovery, you are still struggling with issues. >> yes. >> reporter: does anyone understand why? >> a lot of it is unknowns. a lot of what's going on w

there was a surge and kevin mccarthy didn't criticize trump for that, but beyond that he didn't seembe this worried about covid spreading during packed trump rallies or at the trump white house, but all of a sudden he's invoking these fears of diseased immigrants coming in. >> yeah, i mean, it is part of politics of washington today. it's very unfortunate to attack migrants, attack immigrants, to attack, you know, the quote unquote other that are coming here and using them as kind of a tool to kind of present -- to kind of paint them as kind of a danger to the united states. it's -- you know, it's an unfortunate reality of the politics of the day, and i think that that's one of the things that the biden administration is at least trying to combat against, but they do have a very, very, you know, difficult situation on hand. it is a crisis at this moment. hence, why they are sending fema in to address this. >> nia we don't have time to run the clip but he's been airing since he said t.republican senator ron johnson said he did not feel threatened at all during the capitol insurrection

now, when i had a chance to ask kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, how he's okay with what donaldich he supported, the effort to overturn the election results in congress, how -- why he's concerned now about the efforts to overturn the elections of a republican winner by the democrats. he offered a bit of a revised take of history. >> reporter: the iowa race. in your view, what is different between the efforts there to overturn the elections in the house versus donald trump's efforts to overturn the elections in congress that you supported? >> well, i disagree with the premise of your question. so, if you -- if you challenged arizona and pennsylvania, would that have changed and lowered president biden's numbers below 270? >> you supported the texas lawsuit that would have -- >> you ask me questions every week. i just asked you a question. if you removed arizona, but you weren't removing it, you were just asking the question about it. if arizona and pennsylvania were removed in the electoral college, would president biden's number lower below 270? >> reporter: no, but donald trump

is kevin mccarthy riaht, are immigration. is kevin mccarthy right. are the _ immigration.ng across the border has gone up since the start of the biden presidency? the numbers start of the biden presidency? tte: numbers have gone start of the biden presidency? tt9 numbers have gone up. migrants going across the board have gone up by 28% but democrats point to the numbers have been rising since last fall. they pointed to the failed policies by the trump administration. so there's a lot of finger pointing and it is an emotional issue where it will be difficult for lawmakers to hash out a plan that will satisfy both sides. hash out a plan that will satisfy both sides-_ hash out a plan that will satisfy both sides. : ., both sides. and when we look at the hundreds of — both sides. and when we look at the hundreds of children _ both sides. and when we look at the hundreds of children involved - both sides. and when we look at the hundreds of children involved in - hundreds of children involved in this. are there families on the other side of the border are they not making the jo

ainsley: kevin mccarthy says they've broken capacity at these facilities but thank you. more than 1040 children and it is growing every day. lawrence: this is nonsense. you don't get to spit in our face and tell us that it's raining. the fact is the administration is now changing their talking points paid first, they said there was nothing to see here but they won't let reporters and to see what's actually happening. now they are saying that this was the trump administration's fault so what is it? is a crisis? this is now on the ground and your theme on the ground and now in my hometown of dallas, texas they are sending 3000 teens into our convention center to house these young people because the parents have decided to drop them off but the media coverage of this has been the most disgusting thing i was watching one of the other channels the other day and they were talking about these guides leading people across the rio grande. that was not a guide. it was a member of the cartel. these people are paid and that is how these people get across the border but these are not

maybe that question is better directed to our leader, kevin mccarthy, or our whip, steve scalise, or others. >> kevin, come on. we'll have him on any time. go ahead and put a good word in for us. you have criticized in the past democrats for tying republican incumbents to the qanon conspiracy theory. but that's clearly a full-blown strategy for them in 2022. last week, we talked to the chair, that became very clear to us that's something they're going to be doing. how do you protect your incumbents from that attack? >> listen, i don't care what they do down the street. i'm totally focused and we're unified as a group on winning back a republican majority. you do that, again, by having great candidates, by having the right message and making sure we have enough resources, which i started this interview off with. we're going to follow that blueprint again. we're going to build off of it, and we're going to do even better this time. the other thing is the compare and contrast. i mean, when you got a -- i talked about the policies that were enacted under the trump administration that wer

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here's kevin mccarthy.ill they're moving, you talked about, hr-1, is about protecting them, not helping the american public. they want to take taxpayers' money, the hard working taxpayer to use it on their own campaigns. they want to change election law so they can change the system so they would be guaranteed that they would always win. they want to have a czar that would take away free speech. and what's happening in the campaign. this is the most important thing to them. to just hold onto power. maria: so what's the explanation? >> maria, let's start with -- that's not the first bill that nancy pelosi has passed. .maria: hr1 means what? >> we talked about the covid bill. maria: mr1 means priority. >> it was the first piece of legislation. it will be the first big bill the president will sign. maria: why does she want mail-in ballots to stay forever. why is she using the election as her hr- 16789. how come covid wasn't hr-1. >> that bill already had a number that was there last session or the last congres

and remarks by house minority leader kevin mccarthy speaking from the u.s. border in el paso, texas. later the house judiciary committee on the future of the media industry. >> you're watching c-span. your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by cables television companies in 1979. today, we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span's of years as a public service. -- provide c-span to viewers as a public service. >> president biden spoke about the $1.9 trillion code release plan. that announcement with james sperling could be overseeing the over them with mentation, this will be 10 minutes. president biden: good afternoon. when i signed the american rescue plan last week, i said help is on the way. this week i can report it's not just on the way, it's here. sooner than people thought possible. over the next 10 days we will reach two giant goals. first is one hundred million shots in people's arms will have been completed within the next 10 days. 100 million checks in people's pockets in the next 100 days. shots in arms

house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. >> it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. >> it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can't say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren't doing that. >> when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. >> bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. >> thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all along the southern border who now say on average that they are apprehending more than 500 children a week. more than

for you, what do you think when you watch kevin mccarthy and other republicans head to the border?of hypocrisy, and i think of the last four years of what they wanted to do with immigration, which was based on hate, fear, cruelty, family separations, and useless, ineffective border wall. and that's what they have to offer, and they're launching a trumpian-type hate and fearful, politically motivated campaign to distract from the incredible work of the american rescue plan and how it's going to benefit the american people. >> what is happening at the border is, of course, a critical piece of this larger conversation about immigration reform, but it's not the totality of the conversation either. and part of what we're going to watch happen on the hill this week are these votes on these two pieces of legislation that are really looking at what happens in the interior of the country, about people who are already here. talk to me about the strategy making this a priority in the reform fight. >> well, we have an incredible opportunity to finally give dreamers and tps holders an opportuni

largest package on record joining me right now house minority leader house republican leader kevin mccarthy9 trillion-dollar package? you were the first to tell us all that it is only 9% covid related, was this an opportunity to jam in as much spending as your colleagues on the left could do? during the crisis? >> exactly that, less than 9% goes to covid if you are a pelosi friend you are getting a lot of favors in this san francisco has 650-million-dollar deficit the city. they are getting 92% of that deficit wiped away getting 6 hundred million dollars, reward bad behavior changes structure of how states get money if you shut down, if you over spend on pensions you get more money than those who stayed open. they reward people in the swamp if you are a federal employee, you get a 21,000 more dollars, if you are in private sector you get nothing, this is really about favors, to pelosi's friends not about covid. we have already now spent more than five trillion dollars if you put in today's numbers, world twar 1 107b8 spent other four trillion dollars the amount of money going into the syste

house minority leader kevin mccarthy says sending out money is not the solution to get americans backcentive to get people working again is what we would like to see going forward but democrats find no other way to provide checks out and i'm concerned about that but i trust the american public would rather work than have a government pay us, would rather have a better future and would rather not sacrifice our children and grandchildren's futures for our wasting of money today. jillian: the final covid-19 bill would be a bipartisan effort. it was a long way from the $1.4 trillion figure republicans were willing to support. benjamin: the biden administration in denial about the border crisis despite admitting more migrant children are crossing into the us when facilities are available to house them. jillian: david fund joins us with the latest. >> reporter: republicans wants to collect the crisis, democrats don't want to call it a crisis, they want to call it a challenge. no matter the wording both sides of the aisle agree there are problems at the southern border, no question about tha

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kevin mccarthy still -- still in donald trump's good steads, despite on the house floor mccarthy saidnside your own republican caucus? >> i mean, look, i think it's still exactly where we have been. first off, nobody survives being a friend of donald trump, by the way. so you may as well get it over with now and keep your integrity intact. but i think it's -- everybody wants to talk about unity in the republican party. there isn't, right? and we're going to pretend like there is unity. and there is some unity opposing certain tinges, but that's not a unified party just because you are opposed to something. that's why there needs to be this discussion. this is a time for choosing. are you a country first republican or are you a donald trump first republican? and somebody like liz cheney with real courage can stand in front, know she's going to take some hits from the freedom club and the people that go out and act like they're defending the constitution and are doing the opposite with cancel culture. but she has shown her ability to stand up and be strong in this. maybe i'm too much of

kevin mccarthy led a delegation to the border yesterday.e, talked about what he saw. here was part of the message. >> i know the president is going to travel this week. this is where he should bring air force one. this is where he should look the people in the eye. this is where he should talk to the board of regents. let them know this is beyond a crisis. he can't continue to deny it but the only way to solve it is to admit what he has done. if he will not reverse action is going to take congressional action to do it. >> sandra: john was standing there, he stepped up to the microphone and said "individuals they have on the watch list for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border." what more can you tell us about that speaking directly on your state? >> when we were talking to the border control, controlling the del rio sector. they said in the last couple months they had detained people from 54 different countries. it's not just a phenomenon from people coming from mexico or central america. its people, if you pay enough mo

joining us now with the reaction is house minority leader kevin mccarthy down at the border yesterday. we got some of the video, you can tell us what you saw. number one, i see a health crisis, financial borden on the american people. now a national security threat. he is incentivizing people to come. speak on his very first day in office, he said he was going to make all 11 million illegal immigrant citizens. there is a family from honduras, we asked them how long has the truck bed and 22 days. do you know why 22 days? 50 days ago they heard the president tell them to come. they call joe biden the migrant president. what we do is remove remaining to stay in mexico, getting 100 day stop of any deportation. he has created this problem. remember what president trump did. there was a surge coming over and president trump stopped it. he built a wall. i went to el paso, they built 133 miles of that. you know, the day they stopped? midnight january 20th. they stopped and they tore down the old barrier. somehow it is wide open. when i sat and talked to the border agency, the one thing i wish