immigration agency house minority whip steve scalise is here to respond, this is a massive threat not to me in my show but you and your show but to journalism itself to the idea of a free press, you cannot have a free press if the intel agencies are secretly spying on you and using that information to threaten you into control you. maria: tucker carlson accusing the government of illegally spying to obtain and leak sensitive information to get his fox news program canceled he will lay out the evidence coming up. a volatile week for stocks as investors weigh concerns of a second-half growth in the spread of the covid delta variant, joining me the founder of partners mark mobius, it's great to see you, thank you so much for being here. maria: we talked a lot about the fact that the federal reserve has begun the conversation of tapering interest rates and likely headed higher over the next couple of years and yet what is going on in real rates the ten year treasury this week hitting one point to 5% mark that caused the big selloff, your assessment of what is going on as stock investors s

there he is today, steve scalise saying he was getting vaccinated.ly with the delta variant becoming a lot more aggressive and seeing another spike it was a good time to do it. when you talk to people who run hospitals in new orleans or other states, 90% of people in hospital with delta variant have not been vaccinated. it is great to see steve scalise doing that. i hope more follow. he's not the only one. there are tons of republicans carrying this message. missouri republican state senator from -- missouri state senator lincoln huff is one who has gotten vaccinated. he joins me now. great to have you on, senator. tell me a little bit about what things are like in greene county, missouri. >> sure. we've seen -- chris, thanks for having me on. we've seen an abnormal i would say spike in this delta variant in our community. that can lead to a lot of things. springfield is a hub. what we have seen with that is complication of our health care system. we have two major hospitals and both of them, as you just mentioned, have a number of cases of this new

with that i i would like to cl up our with steve scalise. >> thank you kevin, and i share those same senments. our prayers go out to so many law enforcement offers who lost their lives in the last year, and every day w thank those capitol police officers who risk theirives to keep us safe and to keep this capital opening, hopefully open again t tourists who can come to the capital to see their governmt in action. but what we'reere to talk about today is speaker pelosi's constant attempt to cover u facts that she doesn't want out there. you know, for weeks now jim jordan and jim banksave been raising some very tough questions, questions that need to be answere about why speaker pelosi didn't me sure that capitol police had all the tools they needed to berepared for that day. no maybe because they were raising those questions they got canceled by this new cancel culturehat we see moving throughout the country, led by speaker pelosind a lot her socialist aies in congress where the want to shut out voices that race tough questions thathey don't want to be asked or answered. and yet ty we

. >>> today republican leaders like house minority whip steve scalise and marco rubio are amplifyingprovaccine message. watch. >> i would encourage people to get the vaccine. i have high confidence in it. i got it myself. >> government has a role to play in encouraging people to get vaccinated. i've done that consistently from the very beginning. i think everyone who is eligible should be vaccinated. >> joining me now are senior reporter ben collins and white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. jonathan, i'll start with you. why do you think we're seeing this sudden about face from republican leadership? why decide now to openly encourage people to get the vaccine? although you had senator rubio saying he's encouraging it from the start, it has not been the case for the broader gop and some of the other leaders. >> right. there have been some exceptions and to be fair, senate minority leader mcconnell has been on this from the beginning. he contracted polio as a child. he knows how important vaccines are. so he's been on it. but he's been a lonely voice on this a

you saw steve scalise who has been talking on fox news, the house gop doctor's office urged people to get vaccines. at the same time, they are still not willing to confront which is arguably one of the biggest culprits of vaccine hesitancy. that's the misinformation being spread by the members of their own party. as rachel said, a lot of it is awareness to provoke the base and also awareness to call for censorship on social media and they're eager to go after democrats. >> to that point, this meeting with the doctor's caucus today, several republicans talked after. we'll play it in a second. to his credit, it may be late, but better late than never. the number two republican got his first shot over the weekend. started talking to his constituents again. seven months after the vaccines come out, i'll take better late than never. you expect a change of tunes from republicans. they want to tell their people get vaccinated. look around the country. a lot of this is happening in rural america. but as melanie notes, not exactly the number one topic. >> why are democrats stone walling our ef

michael walsh, steve scalise, thank you so much. we forge ahead.revealing vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus. are we heading to another total lockdown? is that what they needed to destroy our lives again? senator ron johnson up next, don't move. here are the two battling to the line and allyson felix... simone manuel's above her trying to fight on, and above simone... getting an opportunity to show her stuff. nonstop, displayed at the highest performance level... finding something and the us takes gold! ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ - yes! ♪ ahhhhhhh ♪ ♪ dream until your dreams come true ♪ show me the olympics. [ "bugler's dream" playing ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we a >> we in the woods yet. what is happening in america right now is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. let me say that again. a pandemic of the unvaccinated. brian: thanks for saying it again. i was confused the first time. president biden shaming anyone who doesn't want to get the vaccine that is yet to be approved by the fda and there's no rush to do it but h

last hour we mentioned congressman steve scalise of louisiana. asked if he was getting the vaccine, he said soon, soon, he finally got his first shot this past sunday. and publicized it saying quote when you talk to people who run hospitals in new orleans or other states, 90% of people in the hospital with delta variant have not been vaccinated. that's another signal the vaccine works. the house minority whip added that the vaccine is safe and effective. willie. >> meanwhile, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, again, is encouraging americans to get vaccinated as the united states sees that surge in covid cases. mcconnell has been one of the most outspoken members of his party urging vaccination to stop the spread of covid. >> these shots need to get into everybody's arm as rapidly as possible or we're going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don't yearn for that we went through last year. >> meanwhile, more than 200 missouri pastors are teaming up to promote vaccination, the christian faith leaders will launch an advertising campa

. >> house minority whip steve scalise and majority leader steny hoyer. mr. scalise and mr. hoyer talked about the house agenda. that, m majority leader, i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise, for yielding. monday, the house will meet at 12:00

here is what steve scalise had to say. i encourage people to get the vaccine.high confidence in it, i got it myself. >> new covid cases have tripled in the u.s. in the last two weeks mf more than 95% of people right now are unvaccinated. we have dasha burns outside of a middle school in north carolina where there are growing concerns about the number of new cases among children. good to see all of you. so this news conference from republicans seems, i think, to be the biggest most organized shift we have seen in tone and messaging. how much of the party is where they are and is anyone going to listen? >> yeah, chris, there is a still a split in the republican party. but there is a recognition, why is that? they predominantly identify as republicans, as rural residents, as white evangelicals. and we know from data that people can be persuaded. they can ultimately get the vaccine if they learn things and hear things from trusted sources. so people like steve scalise, the number two republican that you just heard there, he is trusted by a lot of people and he coul

steve scalise, i just called him steve but we will call him congressman. idea is they are slow walking flight and for the death. i mean, when does the department of justice do that? advice on what they are supposed to bear doing. >> first, we miss you and alice jason, it's good to be with you but, like you pointed out then it surely never get president trump this opportunity and when they were leaking out information that turned out to be false from some of these federal agents. a he is a little alone and investigation that seems to be credible and ongoing. the real question is, what has happened with the investigation? did they pick it back up again? so when you look at that question put to have a question which is really alarming, all of these cell phones that both went missinges but as we know some of the cell phones were actually wiped clean. we often remember the hillary server but many of these bathrooms that they did find turned out to be completely wiped of data. so some of those fbi agents by entering and exiting her password too many times. is th

michael waltz, steve scalise thanks so much. we forge ahead. revealing today vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus. so are we heading to another total lockdown? is that what they needed to destroy our lives again? center ron johnson up next, don't move. [swords clashing] - had enough? - no... arthritis. here. new aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don't thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. ♪ ♪ >> we are not fully out of the woods yet because what is happening in america right now is a pandemic, a pandemic of the unvaccinated. let me say that again, it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> brian: thanks for saying it again, i was confused the first time. president biden again shaming anyone who doesn't want to get the vaccine that has yet to be approved by the fda and they are in no rush to do it. how true is that statement? the pandemic is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. cdc director rochelle walensky confirming today new data shows vaccinated people are just as likely to s

announcer: house minority whip steve scalise and majority leader steny hoyer

i was heartened to hear people like steve scalise say get vaccinated. thing. >> hospitalizations are up in 45 states. the cdc says 97% of people that are hospitalized for covid are not fully vaccinated. the restrictions now continue to build as well. the latest from new york city's mayor saying as of september, all city workers will have to furnish proof of full vaccinations or take a weekly covid test. martha, back to you. >> steve harrigan in atlanta, thank you. >> let's bring in dr. marty makary from john hopkins school of public health and a fox news contributor. thanks for being here today. >> thanks. >> what is your take on this delta variant? because there's so much that feels like we still don't know. >> that's right. we're in a bit of unchartered territory. one thing we know people with immune protections can feel good about the protection against severe illness and death. it's a small segment where we're seeing delta rip through. that's adults at risk that are nonimmune. that is some segment of 10 to 20% of adults in the u.s. they have to be c

you saw steve scalise this week getting vaccinated. that's good. florida governor ron desantis telling people get vaccinated. but, melanie, is this real? i mean, take a listen to joe biden. he characterized this as basically a come to jesus moment for republicans. >> what we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and, by the way, you notice a lot of our very conservative friends have finally had an altar call. they've seen the lord, whether it's on fox news or whether it's the most conservative commentators. >> so, yes, in some corners of the republican party there has been a shift. house doctors caucus held a conference encouraging people to get vaccinated but at the same time they focused on origins of the virus, and tried to blame joe biden and skepticism of the vaccines. i talked to democrats who say too little, too late. it's great that steve scalise finally got vaccinated and some in fox news are moving in the right direction. but are they too late? >> we still don't have answers about many republicans in the house and whether they're va

. >> and right now in the nation's capitol, steve scalise, elise ste panic are joinings a new push to encourage people to get vaccinated. today's event is after months and months of republicans promoting vaccine hesitancy or ignoring those who did. in a new report it reveals part of the tragic toll the pandemic inflicted. more than 1.5 million kids around the world have lost a primary or second degree caregiver due to covid-19. think about that. all who call this a hoax. here to make sense of all this, sasha burns in north carolina where new cases are surging. ben collins following the latest on the battle of misinformation, and dr. peter hotez with the vaccine for development. cases aren't just jumping up with adults, with kids, too, how bad is it? >> reporter: the numbers are concerning and shifting quickly here, compared to last week, this week north carolina saw a 32% increase in cases in children under the age of 14, to the point where now that age group makes up 15% of cases statewide. here in durham county, those under the age of 17 makeup a third of cases. those numbers come a

steve scalise announced he got the first dose of the vaccine on sunday after seeing the covid cases riseto get the vaccine, i always felt it was safe and effective. >> in his state of louisiana only 36 berrios only 36% of people are fully vaccinated and daily case rate is three times the national average. and senate minority leader did not mince words this week -- >> this is not complicated. 97% of the people who are in the hospital now for covid are unvangd. unvaccinated. so if there's anybody out there willing to listen, get vaccinated. >> but there are still a number of republican lawmakers who do not face any public rebuke from their peers for pushing vaccine lies. >> talk about going door to door to take vaccines to the people. they can then go door to door to take your guns or bibles. >> this is not true. but that was not enough reason for the north carolina congressman to correct his statement. jessica dean, cnn, washington. >> well, the statements encouraging vaccination by prominent republican politicians are clearly a start in the long run, can they have an impact? joining me n

here is steve scalise. >> we've expressed confidence in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. but again as all of the doctors have talked about, ultimately if anybody in america, would you encourage people to get the vaccine. i have high confidence in it. i got it myself. >> john, what do you think of this? >> well, first of all, joe biden was right to correct himself when he said i shouldn't make fun of it. he shouldn't make fun of it. because any step forward adds value to the attempt to help diminish suffering and death in the united states. by getting more people vaccinated. we know that vaccines work. it is welcome for that endeavor that some voices in conservative media and conservative politicians like steve scalise, mitch mcconnell, sean hannity and others are joining the core us and trying to get followers to get vaccinated. one of the real problems for the united states and a big problem for the joe biden administration is that millions and millions and millions of americans, for whatever reason, have been reluctant to get vaccinated and that has slowed to a crawl th

republican lawmakers including congressman steve scalise wanted investigation into nursing home policies in those states that admitted positive covid-19 patients from hospitals. polo sandoval has been following the developments, joins us now. what is the doj saying about why they're not pursuing any further investigations? >> fred, this is not what republican lawmakers wanted to see. we'll get you more of that in a second. bring viewers up to speed how we got here in the first place. remember, it was last august. little under a year ago, department of justice civil rights division announced they would put in a request to four states, michigan, pennsylvania, new jersey, and here, state of new york, for key information, key documents specifically when it comes to state issued guidance, directives, seeking advisories, and this is key, executive orders regarding admission of people to nursing homes. what they were looking to do, they were seeking to determine if state orders requiring admission of covid positive patients during the height of the crisis into nursing homes possibly played a ro

see when it comes specifically to new york and that's what is drawing criticism including from steve scalise that called this not only outrageous but a quick portion of the statement he posted online here. this is coming from a member of the select committee on the covid crisis. representative scalise writing, these deadly orders contradicted the cdc's guidance and needlessly endangered the most vulnerable among us to the virus and even worse, governor cuomo in new york intentionally tried to cover up the true death toll resulting from his mandate. this is really important, fred. this does not mean that the other separate investigation that's happening right now by the u.s. attorney's office in brooklyn, this is completely separate. that is still ongoing. we did reach out to governor cuomo's office for comment on that. haven't heard back yet. >> let us know what you do. polo sandoval, thank you so much for that. >>> coronavirus looming over the olympics in a very big way. more athletes testing positive as the games go into full swing. we'll take you to tokyo. >>> and parents, listen up. with

. >> let me start with what we heard just this week from sean hannity, steve scalise and the highestanking house republican finally got his shot after seven months. so why the sudden change? >> well, andrea, i think it's a couple of things. first of all, i think there's just extraordinary concern about how contagious the delta variant is. we are seeing it right now as the white house puts it. it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated and where are those pockets of unvaccinated americans largely? red states, southern states, largely republican states and these are certainly elected officials and tv commentators saying, look, hey, you're our audience or constituents. we need you to get these shots to be okay and steve scalise is someone who has underlying health issues and he was shot a few years ago in a baseball field and it's somewhat surprising that it took him this long to get it. there was a photograph of him getting the injection far from donald trump who got the vaccination early this year, but behind closed doors and though he has started talking about it and encouraging his followe

we talked about steve scalise getting an injection. and hannity telling people to take this seriously. it is july 2021. these decisions were being made in march and april of 2020 and they live -- they just have -- like a german cockroach, it just keeps on going. >> that's right. what an incredible exchange today between dr. fauci and senator paul and under coulders in which donald trump made anthony fauci a punching bag for his political base. fauci career scientist had one objective through 2020 that was to save lives and get america out of this pandemic and trump in part according to our reporting because he was jealous he tried to bludgeonon fauci and star him in the star him in th tar him in the minds of make america great followers. you see if today. with the republican lawmakers going after fauci trying to discredit him and lay blame in his hands for some of the deaths in this country as fauci is trying to do by all accounts the right thing and keep this country safe and frankly keep people vaccinated so we can move on. >> as i s

in washington, steve scalise, the second ranking house republican in congress says he got vaccinated this week as republican lawmakers are stepping up their calls for vaccinations. >> these shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible. >>> the latest cbs news poll shows republicans are still far more likely than democrats to say they will not get vaccinated. according to those poles, the top reasons for not getting vaccinated are, people worry about the side effects, they don't trust the government, and/or they don't trust the science behind the vaccines. >>> let's get a live look right now at capitol hill, where a bipartisan infrastructure bill comes up for a key procedural vote in the senate today. it would allow debate on the measure to begin. senate republicans have indicated they plan to block the debate because they say they still don't know enough about what's in the bill. but a bipartisan group says even a failed vote today would not kill the bill, and a deal is still within reach. >>> to wall street right now, where stocks are moving higher, continuing to reco

. >> trump allies steve scalise the number two republican trust covid vaccines to. after months of dodging questions from reporters about whether or not he would get vaccinated, scalise got his first dose of the pfizer vaccine on sunday calling it's safe and effective. that's nice, congratulations on that. these about faces are important, conservative voices have influence and could change the hearts and minds of the hesitant. but let's not give them too much credit. hannity and scalise could have and should have spoken out months ago, it shameful that it took this long to combat trump's lies. their voices could've made a big difference with republicans who doubted the seriousness of covid, or who were hesitant to get vaccinated. a kaiser family foundation poll shows that 23% of republicans will definitely not get vaccinated. that a yahoo poll of vaccinated americans find that 37% believe that covid vaccine pose a greater risk than the actual virus to your health. americans are continuing to get covid, they're continuing to die from covid, but now as the cdc directo

somehow chaos at the border. >> gillian: house minority whip steve scalise joins me now, thanks so muchg time for us today, with this current iteration of calls for defunding and calls of homeland security. we have heard calls for this from progressives. you see pushes from the president, or is it likely coming for the oppressive limb and progressive community including kamala harris, it seems to me from where i say a little bit of a divide. >> it will be with you, and frankly it is very disturbing when you hear a sitting member of congress referring to people who are keeping our nations secure as terrorists. i have been down with the border patrol agents, and we actually went and saw just how out of control the border is because of president biden's policy is, where he is reopen the border, and it is the drug cartels from mexico who have operational control over the southern border, and it has become more and more in washington the party of defunding the police and border patrol and defunding i.c.e., who is standing up for americans who are hardworking who want to have a functioning le

that includes mitch mcconnell and steve scalise. conspiracies. but why now? i mean, to quote her favorite singer jojo, is it too little, too late? >> well, i think that it might be in that i think it's very tough to undo months and months and months of politicizing science and then try to undo all of that with just one week of a few statements. i mean, what we've seen from republicans and from conservative right wing propagandist media, from the onset of the covid virus to the development of the vaccine, to the distribution of the vaccine, has been a nonstop chorus of don't trust the science, don't trust the facts, give amplification to conspiracy theories, and you just can't undo that with the snap of a finger. you can't spend month after month after month telling your audience one thing and then expect them on the turn of a dime to change their mind just because you finally woke up and realized, it turns out, owning the libs at the expense of killing your voters isn't really a good strategy in the long term. and you look at the st

. >> yesterday louisiana representative steve scalise announced that he received his first dose. he called the vaccine safe and effective and joined a growing number of republicans now urging people to get the shots. >> ignore all the other voices that are giving bad advice. >> nationwide vaccination rates have plunged since the middle of april. >> we are having to basically convince people one at a time that vaccines are safe. >> according to the cdc less than half of the country is fully vaccinated against coronavirus. >>> a new study found the johnson and johnsonvaccine elicted lower amounts of antibodies against the deal take variant compared to other vaccines. >>> you may be able to keep working home longer if you work apple planned to start bringing back employees in september but now the plans have been pushed back at least a month. the city of san jose is still moving ahead to slowly bring back 6,000 employees and reopen city hall on august 2nd. >> not everybody will becoming back and working five days a week. >> we prepared by getting employee's vaccinationstatuses. >>>

vaccinations to a pace higher than the national average in some red states, louisiana congressman steve scalise is one of those newly vaccinated with the delta variant. i felt. >> i want that extra level protection. i would encourage people to get the vaccine. i have high confidence in it. the biden administration announced new outreach efforts this week to increase vaccinations, including a 100 million dollars from the latest round of covid relief for rural health clinics. we know everyone's vaccination journey is different. we are ready to get more americans vaccinated. whenever wherever they're ready. the white house is also releasing more funds for testing took about the variant 400 million dollars to rural hospitals. and 1.6 billion to places like homeless shelters treatment centers and prisons quickly detecting cases allows us to help prevent outbreaks and contain the virus in washington. i'm jessi tenure. now to our coronavirus coverage learning tonight that 2 doses of the pfizer vaccine are 88% effective against the delta variant. that info coming from the new england journal of medicin

. >> reporter: yesterday, louisiana representative steve scalise, number-two republican in the house, announced his first dose calling it safe and efive. he joined a growing number of republicans urging constituents to get their shots. >> ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice. >> reporter: vaccination rates have plunged since the middle of april. >> we're having to convince people one at a time that the vaccines are safe. >> reporter: according to the cdc less than half of the country is fully vaccinated against covid-19. a new lab study found that the johnson & johnson vaccine ellisitied -- illicited lower levels of protective antibody against the delta variant compared to the pfizer and the moderna vaccines, but it's unclear if the johnson & johnson shot still offers enough protection or perhaps a booster will be needed. anne-marie? >> all right. laura podesta in new york. laura, thank you very much. >>> so republican senator rand ulnd during a capitol hearing, the n nation's top infectious disease expert of lying to congress about u.s.-funded viru

here's house republican whip steve scalise. >> i have been vaccinated and the vaccine is safe, effective and widely available across the united states of america for anybody who wants to get it. yamiche: but the g.o.p. is split on messaging. many in the party embrace conspiracy theories about the vaccine and the virus. in the meantime, this is fast becoming a crisis of the unvaccinated. here's what the republican governor of alabama had to say. >> folks supposed to have common sense but it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. yamiche: what can leaders in washington do to get more americans vaccinated and will the delta variant reverse the progress me against the pandemic? joining us, top reporters, yasmeen abutaleb, health reporter for "the washington post." and joining us in studio, eva mckend, with the spectrum news. and carol leonnig of "the washington post" and philip rucker of "the washington post." carol and phil are authors of the best selling book "i alone can fix it, donald trump's catastrophic final year." i'm so excited to dig into all of the

steve scalise, thank you for your time.lie: border patrol agents tell socks it's a never-ending game of cat and mouse as they struggle to keep up with smugglers who are running massive human and drug trafficking operations. fox news went along on a ride along with an elite special ops forces at texas state troopers. bill melugin's live in del rio with the very latest. hi, bill. >> hi, julie. good morning to you. we've witnessed quite a bit of activity out here in del rio this morning. he probably sealed in my right shoulder we have a group of migrants who just showed up to the gate and are waiting to turn themselves in to border patrol. one of the many groups we've seen in del rio this morning where there are more than 900 apprehensions happening every single day. take a look at this video we shot last night. we went out in the dark with an elite force of texas rangers for an exclusive right along with a special ops team. basically what we did is we went out into the dense brush and we were on the hunt for illegal activity,

but the number two republican in the house, congressman steve scalise, finally getting his first pfizer dose, saying, "especially with the delta variant becoming a lot more aggressive and seeing another spike, it was a good time to do it." senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, pleading with americans not to believe all the anti-vaccine misinformation. >> the way to defeat getting back into the position we were in last year is to get vaccinated. this is not complicated. i want to encourage everybody to do that and to ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice. >> reporter: and even on fox news, where hosts have downplayed the threat of covid, sean hannity now urging his viewers to get their shots, saying, "i believe in the science of vaccination." and despite the covid positive cases, the white house is not making any changes to its proper protocol tonight. the president gets tested every two weeks, and we've asked the white house that same question tonight. but no word on just how many fully vaccinated staffers have tested positive. >> rachel, thank you.

steve scalise, a full maga stalwart finally got vaccinated and talked about it. that's helpful. ron desantis today with a pretty strong -- i'd like to say, claire, that's because covid cases and numbers are on the rise. there are polling numbers bouncing around republican circles, they're paying a price for this. just a little political math, claire. people over 65, over 80% of them are vaccinated. they vote. they outperformed their muscle in midterms. those people want their kids, their nieces and nephews to be vaccinated. i think you will see real erosion with people over 65 who have gotten vaccinated, who know it's safe. those who are out there pedaling these lies trying to suggest that the vaccine is not safe or folks don't need to take it. the tragedy is we have enough vaccine, we're lucky in this country, to provide shots to anybody who wanted them. we could have largely been free and clear of the pandemic, but it's dragging us back. we're going to pay the price and pay the health care costs of the unvaccinated, more mask mandates, more freedoms pinched because of the unva

political playbook says mccarthy -- jim jordan and steve scalise, steve miller and susan. susan let's be honest, there's no reason for mccarthy to be in my home state of new jersey other than to kiss trump's ring and assure him this committee will not hurt in any way. given that, lead him -- country first and she is legitimate people for this committee because let's remind you, that insurrection was not partisan. they were going after all of our government. >> there is no chance that kevin mccarthy will do the right thing. he has yet to show that he's able to do the right thing. i've now called him kevin mick trump, he's just a trumpster running around. i'm sure that if trump gave him a list of names and said memorize these, this is why one on the committee, and do as i say, and little kevin mick trump will do that >> matt lewis would agree. he wrote in the daily beast about mccarthy's visit. he writes, forget kissing the ring, the implicit point is that mccarthy is performative lee looking the bottom of trump's shoes. trump, not mccarthy, is the leader of the republican p

announcer: house minority whip steve scalise and majority leader steny hoyer debated speaker pelosi's rejection of two republican representative's from serving on the select committee. ask about something that is going to be coming up next week, that is this january 6 commission that the speaker created is expected to meet next week. yesterday we saw an alarming departure from congressional tradition, and that is speaker pelosi unilaterally made a decision to remove minority members from that committee. you go through the history of congress. prior to this year, never has the speaker denied the minority the ability to choose who they are going to put on committees. and not only did it happen yesterday with multiple members, a ranking member of a standing committee was removed, an officer in the united states navy was removed from that committee without explanation. that first of all undermines all credibility that this committee will have. it's clear that now it's an attempt by the speaker to just completely politicize that committee. why the majority chose to abuse power in that way

serve with both of these fine gentlemen in united states congress when i was there but i left and steve scalise -- just called him steve, the idea that they are slow walking the hunter biden investigation because there is an election going on, since when does the department of justice do that? that's not what they are supposed to be doing. >> we missed you in the house, jason. good to be with you but as you pointed out, they never gave president trump this opportunity when they were leaking out information that turned out to be false from some of these federal agencies, let alone an investigation that seems to be very credible and ongoing. the real question is since the election is over, what's happened with the investigation? that they pick it back up again? when you look at that question and then the other question which is really alarming is all of these cell phones that both went missing but as we know, some of those cell phones were actually wiped clean. we all remember the hillary server but many of these cell phones they did turned out to be completely wiped of data and some of those fbi

money than ever on their personal security, a track tragic reflecttion of the time we live in steve scalise shot for practicing a charity baseball gym. because of these threats of violence, members of congress are allowed to spend campaign money on their safety, some members of congress travel with personal security while in their districts and states, there is a police present when requested. the capitol itself it heavily guarded there are police everywhere, metal detectors and dogs trained. it is there safety is prior toyy number one for members of congress. but what about you? are you safe? do you feel safe? could your neighborhood benefit from greater police presence. is your place of work armed with metal detectors or guard dogs? do you have personal security when you travel? i understand full well why members of congress spend money on their personal safety. i just don't understand why some members of congress don't feel the same way about your safety. if their safety is the highest priority, shouldn't your safety be too. corey bush represents st. louis, missouri in congress, she want

steve scalise just got vaccinated and told others to do it. fox's sean hannity and steve deucy saying people should get vaccinated. what should be discern from this? >> some republicans figured out that it is not a good business model or voter -- and it's not good for the economy if people aren't vaccinated and if people continue to get sick. you just mentioned some representatives scalise that just got vaccinated over the weekend. there are some republicans that all along have been pushing vaccinations, have been pushing mask wearing as well including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who has been pretty steadfast throughout, but yesterday he reiterated that it is necessary for people to get vaccinated. let's take a listen to what he said. >> the shots need to get in everybody's arms as quickly as possible or we will back in the same situation. >> i'm very concerned about vaccine hesitancy. republicans were the most hesitant group. >> so that was senator cassidy. but chris it is a tale of two republican parties. you still have people unde

the political violence that occurred all this past year and going to look at the targeting of steve scalise and republicans on the baseball field. we need to look at the tragic loss of the u.s. capitol police officer on good friday. nancy pelosi and the democrats do not want to investigate that, i want to make this political and partisan. >> last word, jim jordan? >> they can't talk about the 12 murders as you brought up in the normal lag in chicago, they can't talk about the crisis in the border and certainly can't talk abouty inflation. so that's just who the democrats are. >> sean: thank you all for being with us, it's a predetermined outcome, trust me. joining us with reaction is a host "unfiltered" dan bonds you know right on fox news center. geraldo, if they want commission, i would like questions answered. we now have videotape showingpe that people repositioned weapons around washington, d.c., evidence that this had been planned by some people. will they get that question answered? can they answer the question, being a why was the police chief, the capitol police chief denied six ti

minority whip steve scalise is one of them. >> you were recently vaccinated. the antibody test months ago and tested positive for the antibodies. so clearly that gives you protection. but with the delta variant, i felt i wanted that extra level of protection. ultimately i would encourage people to get the vaccine. >> we have "washington post" columnist max boot and carl cameron. great to see both of you. carl, i want to start with you. before we get to what's happening on capitol hill, i want to get your take on what's happening at fox. sean hannity said something on monday night that got all of our attention. after he had been skeptical of covid, called it a hoax months ago, on monday night he gave what sounded like an enthusiastic endorsement of the vaccinations. listen to this. >> please take covid seriously. i can't say it enough. enough people have died. we don't need anymore deaths. research like crazy. talk to your doctor. i believe in the science. i believe in the science of vaccination. >> carl, that is completely different than the tact he first took