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is currently administering over 1800000 doses of the 1000 vaccines a day now a combination of the mcgurn and pfizer frags seen which is likely going to increase soon now about johnson and johnson is approved for distribution right now at least 50000000 people have released have received one or both phyllis's of the vaccine in the u.s. bridge accounts for 15 percent of the population plus 7.7 percent are now fully vaccinated millions of other americans though they're still waiting to be vaccinated brant. there's talk of maybe moving to. approach what can you tell us about that well 1st i want to. what they're not referring to is the johnson and johnson a single dose of vaccine what they're referring to is just to receive one dose of the other 2 dogs vaccines like the pfizer mcgurn are and right now there has been about a half of a dozen small studies which have all been very consistent with whether another but they have not been yet published that all suggest that this strategy could actually work now the theory behind it is to reconsider whether millions of doses intended as a 2nd shot i

we're back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn.ell, it's absolutely drivel -- [laughter] do we have a whole hour? because it would take that long. look, among the things you just mentioned, same-day voter rebelling straight, automatic voter registration off of government rolls. so, for instance, if you ever got food stamps, you'd be automatically registered, mail-in voting, very long dead 'emlines, basically an end to any voter id requirements or efforts to clean up ballot lists. and that's before you get to provisions, for instance, that would allow activist groups on the left to know more about donors so that they could harass conservative groups, for instance, a new federal matching program which would require taxpayers to essentially match private donations to candidates and an end to the states' ability to set their own congressional districts. i mean, this is unlike anything you have ever seen. paul: but, dan, the democratic response to that would be what do you have against voter access? what do you have against making votin

paul: let's bring in our panel, kim strassel and bill mcgurn and editorial page writer, jillian, who has just returned from reporting on the southern border. jillian, you are down there, what did you see? how big is the problem? >> it's big. thousands of encounters with migrant at the border, anything you have going on here is perversion, dysfunctional but central american migrant, you go to the southern border, is not a way for you to go up to the port of entry seek asylum, your only option is to cross illegally if you want to seek asylum, turn yourself in so is a great under the current restrictions, if you're traveling, he will be expelled but if your and unaccompanied child, a family with children under seven you basically are admitted into the u.s. so what it's doing is creating incentives for the most vulnerable people in the most dangerous ways. paul: president biden said at his press conference this is merely a routine seasonal fall so we've got more coming before the weather gets too hot, is that correct? >> i don't think so there's a cyclical moment to this, 2019, 2014 but

bill mcgurn, great column. see you soon. >> thanks, stuart.daq is off 106. there you go. scott shellady is with us. i'm dying to hear what you're going to say. we're opening up but the cdc director warns of impending doom. president biden says we have to get back to mask wearing, all the places, all the states. have at it. i can't wait to hear what you got to say. go ahead. >> first of all, did you expect her to say anything else? burn the mask. have a great spring break? that would not happen. we shouldn't be surprised. number two, she said feeling about impending doom. maybe the knicks will win the nba championship, but i don't care about both of those things i want the facts. the facts are the virus discriminates. 95% of the deaths age 50 and over. we should deal with that. another thing i mentioned on the show a while back how we had this psychological clank in this country. last time we systematically behaved differently was world war ii. if you were afraid of world war ii back in 1945, it was immoral. in the 75 intervening years if you'r

power new nation needs to buy vaccines by themselves we'll handle it so we'll get you the vaccines mcgurn of vaccines and what ultimately happened is they bungled it 1st they were too expensive then they were too late because the united states britain snatched up all the vaccines look at the statistics only 5 percent of europeans have been able to get a single job that is compared to 14 percent in the united states already 30 percent in the united kingdom so europe is lagging far far behind european nations understand that this is a catastrophe this is a catastrophe of on a huge number of levels of a political level or the health care level and ultimately what has happened is that all these nations have said look we're going to do this ourselves obviously the europeans the european agencies the euro kratz they have fumbled this so we'll have that ourselves you have poland running to the chinese with hands outstretched begging for that scene quotas you have austria. going out and saying that you know we're going to now cooperate with israel to develop 2nd generation 2nd generation vaccines

nonsense of the state department reported on 4 russian website supposedly trying to discredit the pfizer mcgurn the jobs in favor of sputnik the sask a telescope story. the world changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madelyne as well that our global engagement center has identified 4 russian online platforms that are directed by russian intelligence services and spread disinformation about 2 of the vaccines that have now been approved by the f.d.a. in this country we are aware of it we're monitoring and we are taking steps to address back just in time to wage vaccine war because while hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit while not vaccines are where it's at 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might vaccine the russian ones the kremlin bolts had no choice but to raise that disinform in heads again the emphasis on denigration pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st besides putin could be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said to global pandemic couldn'

graphically because for example the new aggressive very very ends were in widespread the edward mcgurn pfizer released her vaccine so while johnson and johnson has a 72 percent efficacy in the u.s. it has a 68 percent efficacy in the u.k. now is 66 percent efficacy in south america and 57 percent efficacy in south africa so while we at least know that the johnson and johnson will prevent deaths in the more aggressive variants found globally it's not entirely clear just how well the madeira and pfizer will work against the mutated viruses brant archie correspondent cited passenger thank you so much for keeping us up to date. time now for a quick break but when we return u.s. equities are rallying after a dismal week when we come back we'll see who's having a big. they break down the market movement as we go to break here the numbers of the quote. on the campaign trail joe biden said nothing would fundamentally change he was right washington is against you legally bombing syria and one trump ism. any time soon. during the vietnam war us forces are also bombs in neighboring laos there was

bill mcgurn joins me with more. >> good to see you.point out the most vocal critics of donald trump, the people who wanted him out the door now can't stop talking about him. >> that starts with the president. he had a press conference last week and mentioned trump eight times, might have been a ninth or tenth the didn't refer to him by name but talked about his predecessor. this is what we were supposed to get when we elected joe biden, he said i am not donald trump we will move past that but these guys are stuck in the trump days because he was a convenient boogie man. >> janice: isn't blaming the past administration an american tradition? donald trump brought up his predecessor a lot and blamed him for a lot of things as well. >> that is true. this codependency on donald trump is not just by joe biden and the white house, but very prominent for them but other people, the lincoln project, how do they make money without donald trump? governor cuomo was given an enemy, he is in trouble. it seems like a lot of people can't move beyond do

have received one dose and one in 10 have received the 2 doses required by mcgurn and pfizer the c.d.c. also released a new set of guidelines on monday for americans who have been fully vaccinated it states that they can gather with other vaccinated people as well as low risk individuals who have not been vaccinated in homes without masks or social distancing it also knows that they should still wear a mask and socially distance in public and avoid large gatherings c.d.c. officials also warn that those who are vaccinated are not fully immune from spreading the virus and its mutations i think it's also important to remember that people who are vaccinated there's increasing data suggest that they might get breakthrough infections musser amounts of virus also are more disease loss sources do want to see it's a milder disease however we're still waiting for began to emerge about whether they could transmit that virus to other people. meanwhile canada has become the 1st country to authorize for vaccines adding the single shot drug from johnson and johnson to its roster but when it comes to

another $20000000.00 shots by the end of the month so with the doses expected to be delivered by pfizer mcgurn and johnson and johnson nearly all of the u.s. population can be vaccinated as early as december of 0. this year brant. how does this job steve jobs and vaccine differ from the other vaccines we've seen approved so in an ideal world a vaccine would be delivered in a single shot so supplies could be stretched to cover a lot of people now would also have no significant side effects and would be able to easily ship and store well we now have that with the johnson and johnson vaccine if you compare it to the other 2 vaccines here johnson and johnson is the only vaccine there you only need one dose and it also doesn't need to be frozen which helps it in transport now although the johnson and johnson if you look has a lower efficacy than the other 2 vaccines it's very important to mention that all 3 vaccines year they have shown to have no hospitalizations or deaths in large clinical trials so in essence no vaccine is actually better than the other when it comes to preventing deaths and tha

vaccine what they referring to is just to receive one dose of the other to dos vaccines like the pfizer mcgurn are and right now there has been about a half of a dozen small studies which have all been very consistent with whether another but they have not been yet published that all suggest that this strategy could actually work now the theory behind it is to reconsider whether millions of doses intended as a 2nd shot in the pfizer modernize. to do those could be distributed as a 1st stoesz instead to offer at least some sort of protection and to a greater number of people but not all dr and that if our 2 of course serves as a cover 1000 advisor to the white house has said it's an idea worth further study he also things that right now the science doesn't really support delaying a 2nd those for the vaccine since a single shot could leave americans at risk from all the more aggressive variants like the ones of tech that in brazil and south africa now a great example of that is what's happening brazil right now where some brazilians who had immunity from previous bouts of the virus got it again

bill mcgurn says tendon's nomination was always about the numbers.en. >> 50/50 senate as long as you can keep your caucus in line means every senator has veto of it and that means with joe manzo the chin west virginia came against her. someone on the republican side they were doomed. they need the 50/50 vote to break the tie. anyone can be a kingmaker. >> the next secretary of commerce. to approve -- >> rising floodwaters, mandatory evacuations underway over fears them will burst. using the boat to save covid-19 vaccines from going away. jillian: a meteor is caught on camera lighting up the night sky over the united kingdom. the ball of fire exploding as it approaches the earth's atmosphere. scientists believe it is likely a small piece of commodore asteroid. time is 25 minutes after the hour students suing california governor gavin newsom. todd: it will be a packed panel to get back in the game. ♪♪ todd: fox news alert 10 rockets tracking your base house yesterday in iraq. jillian: what we know now, good morning. >> we got more information on this,

and ramallah nurse each off as only a few miles could minister to her fellow medical colleagues the mcgurn of vaccines were part of a one time delivery by israel a small amount but still seen as a relief for those having to deal closely with patients. and if. we as doctors and nurses are on the front line i hope that everybody will get vaccinated like this means that we will be protected and have the capability to move on and fight the disease we have a lot of the palestinian authority has received 62000 coronavirus vaccine doses through the w h o's kovacs program providing jobs for lower income countries in february 10000 doses of the sputnik vaccine arrived from the russian government however the palestinian authority has come under criticism for the delay in starting a wider vaccination drive. the situation is deteriorating in palestine but also as in several countries around the world as a result of the late arrival of the vaccines the discrepancy in administering the vaccines does not bode well and bringing the end of the pandemic any closer. to. 2000 doses of the sputnik vaccines wer

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let's bring in bill mcgurn, a main street columnist and former speechwriter for president george w.% approval rating, 68% of people said they would like to see them run again but 55% said that they would vote for him. this his -- do his presidential fortunes for 2024 really ride on how much help he can be in 2022? >> i think they do. but i don't think he can get there by relitigating 2020. i think we have to move past that and he has to make a choice between focusing on himself, his own grievances about 2020, and the future. i think most americans are more interested in a future. look how tiresome hillary clinton became constantly re-relitigating 2016? it was kind of a rally speech and he had an enthusiastic crowd and so forth, it was more major than the rest of his rally speech is but one is calling out the name of the republicans across him, i'm not sure that the path to the white house. i think it's very hard to run against both people in your own party and the other party at the same time. i think he particularly heard himself in the georgia senate races in january. had he helpe

shannon: phil mcgurn writes about this, she wanted to believe mister phillips was a good person and hopeo see the errors of his thinking, i will try to ruin you. why should others be concerned about this particular case? >> activists are weapon rising our system of justice to make it an arm of cancel culture and trying to punish and ruin those who disagree. jack has been in the crosshairs for almost a decade. pending at the supreme court waiting to see if they will hear it and no others, no american should be forced to violate their convictions. >> when you get a call, with satan smoking a joint or halloween message, other things you turned down, you know it is another test, how do you view it and worry about answering the phone sometimes? >> our set standards, we treat every customer the same, that doesn't go against our principles. this attorney in a face-to-face meeting told me if this case were dismiss and they went away, i would get a call the next day and a new case. shannon: how does this end. what kind of finality, for religious freedom rights, what does the court need to say to

benjamin: a live look at the white house as fox news contributor bill mcgurn says this is a short-termsident biden. >> it was a strategically a mistake for joe biden to not come to compromise with republicans and to take it to reconciliation. he might have gotten a short-term victory but i think had he gotten a bipartisan bill he would be in better shape for the more radical things he has coming down the road. instead he polarized right away and i'm not sure in the long-term this is going to help, by saying i'm going to do it alone. >> the relief bill, goodness walter with the dow closing a record high above 32,000 points. it has been a very tough year for small business owners across the country, california and florida, to talk to them about how they are managing one year later. later this hour you will hear from them and how each are doing under different state restrictions. >> two urgent manhunt underway for murder suspects who were accidentally released in new york and california. christopher bunsen came free due to an error on his paperwork. in southern california steve mandela wa

joining me now, "wall street journal" columnist bill mcgurn and jason riley with the manhattan institute for being here is. jason, start with you. you heard in the introduction the head of the l.a. teacher's union that said that if you link funding to in-person schooling, you're propagating structural racism. she blamed white parents for that. what do you think about that argument? >> i think she's at least being honest in her argument about what her priorities are. it's clearly continuing to get pay without fully doing her job. the teachers are continuing to get paid without doing their job. more and more people are coming to see what's really going on here, which is that the unions are putting their own interests ahead of the parents and ahead of the children who they claim to be -- to care about. i think their position is continuously untenable and more an more untenable as this stretches out. you can see the backlash in new jersey and other wealthy suburbs. brookline, massachusetts outside of boston we've seen this. the philadelphia suburbs. we've seen this -- these are not republica

let's listen to bill mcgurn on this. >> when he uses a press conference, the president to say predecessorht the charge against trump was that he was jailing them but apparently the real charges he was starting some, deliberately starving them to death, that's unbecoming for president. elizabeth: is also a slap in the face of the president of mexico. your reaction? >> it's disgusting. i'm glad you brought that up because i was angry when i heard that because 20000 men and women wearing that uniform, everyday in the kevlar vest to defend the nation, it's better from the commander-in-chief. they've saved over 4000 lives last year, save 4000 lives. these men and women working there butts off, getting sick, falling asleep at work because they are dim for the crisis that she created and he's attacking them? let children die? over 4000 lives will surprise me, every one who turned their back for what he does today, it's disgusting. after receiving the president and chief do what he did today, it is disgusting what he did. elizabeth: your final word on kamala harris being ordered to oversee the bo

let's listen to bill mcgurn on this.uses the press conference the president to say that his predecessor wanted to starve children to death i thought that charge against trump was that he was jailing them on our side but apparently the real charges that he is starving, and deliberately starving them to death. that's unbecoming for a president. elizabeth: it's also slap in the face of the president of mexico. your reaction? >> it's disgusting and i'm glad you brought it up. i was angry when i heard that because 20,000 men and women who wear that uniform every day with a kevlar vest to defend this nation deserve better for the commander-in-chief. they saved over 4000 lives last year, save 4000 mice. these men and women are working their buts off and they are falling asleep at work because they are dealing with a crisis that their commander-in-chief created and they are saying they are letting children die? the facts are it wouldn't surprise me if the president if every every man woman turns their back on him. never seen a p

the american people public but soon we will we've been working with vaccine manufacturers pfizer mcgurn a johnson and johnson to manufacture and purchase hundreds of millions of doses of these 3 safe effective vaccines and now at the direction and with the assistance of my administration johnson and johnson is working together with a competitor merck to speed up and increase the capacity to manufacture new johnson and johnson vaccine which he was one shot in fact just yesterday i announced and i met with the c.e.o.'s of both companies i announced our plan to buy an additional 100000000 doses of johnson and johnson vaccines. these 2 companies competitors have come together for the good of the nation and they should be applauded for is truly a national effort just like we saw during war to now because all the work we've done we'll have enough vaccine supply for all adults in america by the end of may that's months ahead of schedule and are mobilizing 1000 of vaccinators to put the vaccine and ones are calling active duty military fema retired doctors and nurses administrators and it goes

and mara lykes, national correspondent of the radio, and bill mcgurn, columnist for the radio.ith lisa murkowski of alaska and apparently it was a good meeting. but not good enough. >> did not seem like she was going to get lisa murkowski's vote. if so they would've kept going with her. look, all along most administrations lose at least one nomination, and she was always marked for the one that might be called from the herd because of her controversial tweet and the bad blood that she had with republicans and even some democrats like bernie sanders. but as ron claims on msnbc, still a job in the white house that does not need senate confirmation and they have a replacement for her, another woman of color, shalonda young who already was nominated to be the deputy omd director. >> bret: why not put her up first? if this was sacrificial lamb so that they could give some scalp to the republicans? >> well, i don't think it was republicans that caused the scalp. in a 50/50 senate, as long as you can keep your caucus in line means every single senator has a veto of it. and that's why

. >> trace: let's bring in our panel, marc thiessen, bill mcgurn. thank you both.oughts on what dr. giroir said about the way president biden framed the whole idea of we wouldn't be where we are if we didn't just pick the ball up from the disaster we inherited and took off running. >> look, the reality is this is a bipartisan achievement, right? there would be no vaccines if it wasn't for operation warp speed. they produced a vaccine in about nine months, which is the fastest in human history. the previous record was four years. so that's a huge, huge public achievement. they got the distribution plan in place. biden deserves credit for executing it. my concern is not who gets the credit because they both deserve credit. my concern is that biden talking down the good news. every american out there that is seeing this vaccine roll-out, we're at 2.5 million a day, when can we get our lives back, get back to normal? the answer should be simple. when you get vaccinated, give it a month for immunity to kick in and live your life. instead what we're hearing is, we can ha

bring in our panel jonathan swan, national political reporter for axios, katie pavlich, and bill mcgurne at the white house, big a compliment i guess -- they wanted bipartisanship at some level but they will take this, definitely. >> there big focus is actually on the sales job after the passage. they've studied very closely what happened with barack obama in 2009 with his recovery act. it's joe biden's personal view that the reason this bill did not have positive political effects was because he didn't take a victory lap, he didn't sell it well enough. that may or may not be true but they are operating under that theory. if that's how they are thinking inside the white house. you were going to see a huge campaign from them, cabinet officials, white house officials, surrogates fanning out across the states trying to make people feel viscerally -- the checks they are receiving, the child payments, whatever benefits they are receiving from this, they know they are receiving this from congressional democrats and joe biden. >> bret: i think the post stimulus from the obama years, you are ne

biden said and didn't say with fox news contributor liz peek, "wall street journal" columnist bill mcgurn a speechwriter for president bush in his past. bill, how do you think he did? >> i think it was a standard kind of biden press conference. a lot of people were wondering whether he would have agiant gaffe. there were moments he drift in and out. that no one follows up. on transparency you will not cover the border until i have a plan. until i release it. i also thought going back to a long theme, he liked to talk about himself as a healer but when he uses a press conference, the president, to say that his predecessor wanted to starve children to death, i thought the charge against trump was that he was jailing them on our side but apparently the real charge is that he was starving them, deliberately starving them to death on the other side. that is unbecoming for a president. then at the end about president xi, president xi is committing genocide against the uyghurs. secretary pompeo under donald trump was one of the first to call that out. i don't think there is any measure by which

right stolley dolly was given the mcgurn a vaccine which she helped to develop with a donation of $1000000.00 in april of last year her message don't be a chicken squat get out there and get your shot. wise words they ferguson is a hoax with business news i'm point guard for all of us your brilliant thanks for the company. i'm skilled at the work that's hard and in the end this is a me you're not a lot of the year and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. in the smugglers with violence and. what's your story. 'd 'd on what numbers of women especially of victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are trying in all weathers to understand this new culture. another visitor another you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for awhile information. and your internet banking act to get more privacy google said it will no longer allies multi website on tracking our live service that well our correspondent what this means for the advertising industry. also coming up as a pandemic for teacake then in germany some businesses are hoping the availability of

stuart: want to bring in bill mcgurn, "wall street journal" guy of the moment.e gets a backbone. i've not seen anybody get a backbone yet. what do you say? >> i agree entirely. look, you know what happens? some one bans dr. suess or some word or some ridiculous nursery rhyme they find offensive, we all chuckle about it or something in private, everyone is afraid to dough it in public, especially anyone in authority. we all know this is absurd and ridiculous but this is the danger. you can give into absurdity and ridiculousness. you know, the kids suffer for it. the parents know better, more with all, they will get kids book themselves and teach it but the other kids won't. we're dumb down curriculum. dulling worst aspects of public education, input from all these crazy people. stuart: i see enormous pressure here for this to stop but it is not stopped yet. do you see any signs that we're going to reverse this nonsense? >> no. you know, if you go back 30 or 40 years to the demonstrations on campus, you did see a few college presidents take a stand. john silver at