that was a win, i guess, for tom cotton. he's tried it before. that's the model of governing we are seeing from republicans, temper tantrums, obstruction, and nonsense, focusing on priorities like mr. potato head and dr. seuss, attacking joe biden for referring to lifting mask mandates as neanderthal thinking. we're seeing a perfect example of that model on display tonight right now as i speak to you as the senate moves towards a vote on the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. and republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin is making good on his promise to slow down that relief, getting to americans by whatever ridiculous means necessary. >> i don't want to sound like a leftist, but i'm going to resist. the first way i'm going to resist is i'm going to go down and object to the waiving of the reading of the bill. i will make them read their 600, 700-page bill. >> good for you, senator. that's right. in the midst of a pandemic that's killed 520,000 americans -- thousands every day, every day, we're just numb to it now, but every day it continues.

i took a little note when i was listening to tom cotton's interview. many times can these people be wrong? how many times can they be wrong? how many times are we supposed to take these people seriously? like, is someone keeping a chart like when you are wrong x plus 0 times or whatever then we can ignore you? how many times in the media and some of these experts about this virus going to be wrong and send us in the wrong direction? we're right to ask questions. that's what the media, by the way, should be doing. >> rachel: the latest thing is dr. fauci said children should be wearing masks when they play together outside. it's ridiculous. there is zero science. i just wonder when will the power grab end? how much more do we have to take? that is not based on science, by the way, dan, i'm worried about our children coming outs of this whole pandemic neurotic. i mean, i say that sincerely as a mom. >> you are not wrong. and by the way my child's school they have no mask mandate at all. they have had no problems whatsoever. zero issues there at that scho

here is senator cotton one year ago on the program. watch this. tomd they came here because they want a better job. they are facing persecution or race or ethnicity, they want a better job, that's not grounds for asylum. maria: that's not the right soundbite but what are your thoughts on the origination of the coronavirus, senator? senator: well, at the rate we are going we will never know because because tedrose is in charge of the world health organization is with china and dr. tedrose would fall out of its pocket. no disrespect. but the biden people that rejoined the world health organization need to get out and call up dr. tedrose and say your team back in and if the chinese don't cooperate, we are out of here. we will not support the w.h.o. anymore. short of that, we will never find out what happened. maria: so, i mean, the biden administration is getting us back into the world health organization but the w.h.o. is being run by the chinese communist and they're spewing out propaganda that's not true in terms to have origination of the coronavirus

. >> [cheering] >> you have senator josh hawley, senator ted cruz, senator tom cotton. >> [cheering] >> all those are potential candidates, all of those spoke at cpac. at the let you in on a secret, don't let this room. i don't know if you folks know this but there is one other gentleman who might be on the ballot in 2024. and in about 20 minutes, president donald trump is going to be on this stage. >> [applause] [cheering] >> so, before we do that i think you are going to enjoy, we are going to give you some of the results of the pole. jim mclaughlin was trump's pollster, he is also the washington times poster and he has put together this information for you. i will give you the three second sneak peek, you're going to like it a lot. >> thank you very much, that was great. i will tell you something, we were the ones crazy enough in 2016 to actually say on the sean hannity show the friday before election day that president trump was going to win. let me tell you, we got attacked by the media like you wouldn't believe and i'm sure when they see the results of this, and i can tell that

senator tom cotton. the corner of wall and broad. notice the down fall in the down jones industrials. what if i told you it was double that and because of good news? we heard the economy is firing on all cylinders here. the argument that many republicans are using ago a generous stimulus package, that aside that we crossed an important level on interest rates. for example, 30-year fixed mortgages are over 3%. that's a jarring number to people that are not used to seeing that. i could go into great detail about how when i got my first mortgage with my wife, we paid 13.5%. but i don't like to do that even though i raise this story my director says about 2,000 times. but it's the trend that is jarring a lot of folks. the fact that 10 year be bonds were backing up and the federal reserve chairman, jerome powell, was indicating that he's okay with that. won't do anything to staunch the flow of that. had markets rattled that maybe inflation is coming back. might have been over-donn. we were off the worst levels of the day. inflation at the

joining us now, arkansas senator tom cotton. senator, welcome back. >> good to be on with you, chris. chris: you just watched my interview with secretary mayorkas. your reaction, sir? >> chris, it's rich that secretary mayorkas won't let press travel with him to the border but he will come on your sunday morning show and peddle the same kind of nonsense that created the biden border crisis in the first place. he's basically saying the united states will not secure our border and that it is a big welcome sign to migrants from across the world. chris: so you say that you have three simple solutions. what are they? >> yeah, chris, the biden administration keeps saying that trump somehow dismantled the immigration systems. that's false. the biden administration lifted the order as relates to minors. now we have lots more minors at the border. that's not a surprise. second, the remain in mexico policy. the trump administration worked with the government of mexico to allow migrants who showed up on our border to make an asylum claim b

and former head of the cdc confirms what senator tom cotton told us a year ago on this program. >> we that the virus did not originate in that food market or wet market or whatever you want to call it in wuhan even chinese communist party has now acknowledged some of that. all the way back in december, though, we knew that origin story was a myth. maria: coming up senator john kennedy on the border and biden radical agenda.r plus is neither joe biden or kamala harris want to visit the border president trump says he'll go eric trump is here on biden's border agenda and father new way to communicate with followers and democrats election reform power grab. christian walker and charlie turk will be hereb. on how the 1 voting bill will change america and big tech dominance and critical race theory. all of that and more as we look ahead right here right now on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ maria: first this morning, the heartbreaking realityhi of president biden's border crisis exposed. this weekend 19 gop senators traveled to the rio grand value to witness the impact of the administration's

joining us now, arcing, arkansassenator tom cotton.r cotton: good to be on with you, chris. >> chris: you just watched my interview with secretary mayorkas, your reaction, sir? >> senator cotton: chris, it's rich that secretary mayorkas won't let press travel with him to the border, but he will come on your sunday morning show and peddle the same kind of nonsense that has created the biden border crisis in the first place. i mean, he's basically saying the united states will not secure our border and that is a big welcome sign to migrants from across the world. >> chris: so you say that you have three simple solutions. what are they? >> senator cotton: yeah, chris, the biden administration keeps saying that trump somehow dismantled the immigration system. that's false. it was the biden administration that dismantled three highly effective policies. first, the public health exclusionary order. they lifted that order as it relates to minors. well, guess what we have now with the border? lots more minors. that's not a surprise. second, th

and i think tom cotton is a good guy, too. but why would anybody get inv invested. >> what should the tom cottons and marco rubio's do in this instance? >> now that they didn't take the step in the senate, i think that they should distance themselves from trump and carve some new path, like senator cassidy and senator romney have said. we stand for a lot of other things besides populism and nativism. so we want to go back to that. so if you want to run for president, they've got to decide. what are they going to do? be subservient to trump, in which case they'll probably run and he won't, or try a new path? it was disturbing to see so many speakers at cpac talk about the failed republican establishment of the past. or taking the party backwards. we're not taking the party backwards. what got us here was the republican values of free enterprise, private industry solutions, globalization and trade. you know, look right now in china and asia. because trump wouldn't do tpp, we have tpp in asia. >> i notice you didn't mention senat

senator tom cotton tweeted on wednesday that he is blocking the effort to expedite the confirmation of judge garland for several reasons, saying "i am blocking them because judge garland has refused to answer basic questions, including whether illegally entering the country should remain a crime." monday's committee meeting lasted slightly more than an hour. [gavel striking lock] -- [ gavel striking block] . we have three items on o

tom cotton, harvard boy. and you have donald trump again, mr. populist, who not only went to an ivy league school but now lives at a country club. and ted cruz saying country club republicans. no, you are in fact, your guy that you worship, that you kowtow to that insults your wife, insults your father's memory, and accused your father of being a murderer, you still worship him. even though he says your father killed jfk and he attacks your wife. you said the democrats are country club types. no. your guy not only lives at a country club, his own country club. >> at a town that doesn't want him there. >> i don't know because i went to the university of alabama, roll tide. and university of florida, go gators. they are elitist who look down their noses at working class people. i don't know because i didn't go there. but i will say, you know, from a young age ivy league people they have all worked for me, they are all pretty good workers. roll tide. but they spent the weekend attacking country club types. >> i know. >> hello. trump. and attacking

and rachel campos-duffy, passing the 2.9 coronavirus really filter who qualifies might shock you, tom cottonts voted to give checks to criminals in prison a few include mass murderer dylan ruth, boston bomber and drug trafficker, this is a sort of thing that i think a lot of people would have an issue with their own tax dollars being used too go to these convicted criminals, violent criminals, rachel tell me a little bit about what do you think is going on in terms of the dynamic with abiding a administration there are 70 people that have held up the relief bill as being something essential for america and yet the early signs that we have seen in terms of jobless numbers and tax revenues and states kind of indicate this bill seems unnecessary at best. rachel: is not just the economy improving its whole covid pandemic is improving if you talk to very honest scientist we think were very close to reaching herd immunity in the next couple months but the democrat won hurry up and get the spending on the door and as you indicated and you read this is untargeted and it's getting into the wrong hand

get started today. >>> tom cotton wants to introduce legislation.at he says. >> our armed forces should that be endorsing or recommending or requiring for training any of this left wing nonsense that suggests that any race is inherently inferior or racist or oppressive, or that our country or our founding documents lying the constitution or the declaration are inherently racist or oppressive. when young men and women raise their hand and take the oath to join our military, they should know that they are fighting for a great and noble mission. that's why i'm introducing this legislation. >> talking about this with the former army ground commander in iraq. he is also the co-author of hunting the caliphate. thank you. so. you heard him. senator cotton is calling critical race theory left wing nonsense. he doesn't want it taught in the military. what do you say to that? >> first of all, good evening, don. i think the legislation isn't necessary. i served with and i know many of the senior leadership in the u.s. military and i trust them. we need to trus

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openness to raising the minimum wage, not to $15 an hour, but for example is mitt romney in comp -- tom cotton introducing a bill. that would raise the wage to $10 overtime and index it to inflation. so it's higher than the current 7.25 dollars but not as high as 15 the democrats are pushing. congresswoman uriah paul -- jira yapal was making the case there are five senate republicans on this bill but she questions whether they can deliver 10 republicans to pass the bill to raise them men wage in the senate. so that's a question of whether there is room for compromise their if it can bring more than five senate republicans on board or if democrats need to limited the filibuster. host: jim is in north carolina, independent caller prayed -- caller. caller: hello. host: you are on the air. caller: good morning. i want to make you comment. when obama was elected any of the house and senate and got involved with a lot of smaller items instead of going for the big push, they need to understand let's get done what's most important first and then the little infighting we have going on in the senate and

more on that and next senator tom cotton is here on this incredible story that he has been on for a veryre all over a wuhan white wash investigation. and what really happened at that lab and why does everybody keep scrambling to say that it was nothing when other investigators that we spoke to yesterday say it absolutely is something. he's next. with mortgage rates at their lowest in history, it's time to refi. but if you're a veteran homeowner and need cash, here's big news. introducing refiplus from newday usa. it lets you refi at all-time low rates plus you could take out $50,000 or more. money for security today, money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus. it's only for veterans and it's only from newday usa. my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 14 day system. with a painless, onesecond scan i can check my glucose without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabetes better and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. you can do it without fingersticks, too. ask your doctor for a prescription for

senator tom cotton tried to stop it but every democrat voted it down. senator tom cotton voted in favor of the last bill and we asked for him comment on that. while no republicans supported it, joe manchin sided with the republicans about trimming back unemployment. now the white house is working the phones. biden is ready to go when it passes. >> our legislative team are certainly not taking anything for granted. they're checking in with officers, making sure they have the questions answered. >> the house is expected to vote on this tomorrow and then it should head to the president's desk. charles? >> jacqui, thanks so much. another $1.9 trillion on the way. but in case you're keeping count, the committee for responsible federal budget estimates a trillion has yet to have been spent. so do we keep the spigots flowing and will impact will that have on the economy? with me steve moore, jessica tarlov and liz peek. also, this is heavy open households. a lot of money when it's said and done. the impact? >> yeah, i want to quote larry summers, a liberal eco

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people will look at marco rubio, tom cotton, former vice president pence, ted cruz, kristi noem. there are others who will put themselves forward and will have their day in the sun and we will see how they do. host: don is in traverse city, michigan, independent line. caller: the republicans have a bad problem with getting rid of democratic processes. democrats have a 121 page platform and there is a platform of committees participating. they are not doing a democratic process. they don't seem to understand it. when you look at the insurrection, that was a rejection of the democratic process. if we don't watch out, we are not going to have that democratic process available to us pretty soon. guest: i would have liked to seen a real party platform and not simply a blank sheet. it is quite clear what republicans believe. they talk about it on the floor of the senate, house, from state houses whether in the legislature or the governor's office. republicans believe in a strong america, strong national defense, they believe in the priority of the family and creating safe living condit

in fact, senator tom cotton of arkansas is now pushing to delay merrick garland's confirmation to leadn accused judge garland of dodging questions about immigration and suggested democrats were trying to expedite the process. cotton's road block won't stop the confirmation, but it will slow it down, meaning chuck schumer will have to clear more hurdles before a final vote. that probably won't happen until next week at the earliest, meaning, yes, more waiting for merrick garland, who, of course, in 2016 waited in vain for supreme court confirmation hearings that never came. joining us now, congressional reporter for the "washington post," marianna sotomayor. marianna, great to see you. congrats again on the new gig. let's start there with senator cotton. >> thank you. >> and his delay of merrick garland's confirmation. we know that it won't change the vote, that he's still going to be confirmed, eventually, as attorney general. so, what's cotton's game here? what does he gain specifically from this delay, particularly at this moment, with the time of such threats at the capitol, with th

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want to have you listen to senator tom cotton on "fox & friends" this morning. get your take about how the situation we're dealing with now could have been predicted based on what you saw in the past. watch. >> joe biden the democrats, they don't believe in borders. they don't think it's a crisis. they think it is a feature. they turned detention centers into reception centers. >> dana: trying to think back to the time in the obama administration and what we're dealing with now. >> during that time the fix for what was going on in the border large numbers of children and families coming with children in unprecedented numbers, was detention. was getting a family detention center put up, two in texas, to add capacity to that function. then in 2015 reports overturned the use of those detention center with children in them. that's fine. then we went into the trump era and he put together a compact with mexico and the northern triangle to reform how asylum is treated at the border. it was fixed again. this is the third time. the department has only been around since

republicans like arkansas senator tom cotton say the situation is overwhelming for border patrol agentst the biden administration to do more to secure the border, making a mockery of our border. and you see consequences of joe biden spell policies. the biden administration says it is taking action and 10's of thousands of people are coming to our border. >> we know and so the majority of adults are being turned away. our policy remains the same. a group of democrats led by texas representative henry choir and sylvia garcia toured a border facility run by the department of health and human services. they got health care. they got legal services. they got education. they got a place in sleep. a place to take a shower. this whole nonsense. >> the border is open. people are coming in and bringing infection is simply calls this week a u.s. delegation met with officials in mexico to discuss the root causes of migrants leaving their home countries. >> we learned from border patrol officials this week that they encountered the family of migrants trying to cross the southern border and they foun

steve: when you see other nationally known conservative leaders, like mike pompeo, centre tom cotton,thers coming to speak before cpac. does the president look as them as friends or foes? jason: i would say they are still friends. one of the striking things, if you take a look at the poll, the company governor of florida ron desantis, he received 20% in that whole. also important to keep in mind, 37% of all in from the state of florida. a little bit waited in his favor. president trump is still the flag bearer for the party. i think this is important, talking about this national base, the way he put together this coalition, the way he has change issues on trade, middle east peace, remaking the courts, to carry our southern border with mexico, emigration, these issues, especially on trade, getting pushed offer the last couple of decades, are now the new benchmarks of the republican party. the party has changed. steve: you have just done something, double down for a minute. a lot of people were worried about donald trump as the guy. we use to look at barack obama. maybe to a lot of peop

. >> bill: let's bring in tom cotton. thank you for your time today. >> good morning. happy st. patrick's day. >> bill: mitch mcconnell said it would be a 100 car pile-up in the senate. is this the way it's going to go? sfwloo i hope not. i hope we respect the institutions of the senate. right here is a letter if four years ago signed by 27 democrats still in the senate insisting we maintain the right of senators to have extended debate on legislation. 27 senators when they were in the minority wanted to maintain the rules. they're getting pushed around by the radical left. they want to make washington, d.c. a state, grant amnesty to illegal aliens. they know they don't have the votes to do that but push around joe biden who appears to be so weak he is caving to them. i don't think they'll push around joe manchin who said he respects the traditions of the senate. he wants to protect the interests of workers in west virginia and arkansas and so many other states. >> bill: are you sure about that, senator? joe manchin henld on that recently, too. >> senator manchin has been very c

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senator tom cotton reacts this morning.sume you may have also heard nancy pelosi yesterday on abc. here's the talking point of the left about the border right now, senator. >> this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children's interest. i'm so pleased that the president, as a temporary measure, has sent fema to the border in order to help facilitate the children going from one -- to our issue into where they are carried for as they are transferred into family homes, homes that are safe for them to be. so this, again, is a transition from what was wrong before to what is right. there are many reasons that go into this, but the fact is we have to deal with it at the border. pete: senator, she was not the only one sunging this same tune yesterday -- singing this same tune, inheriting a broken system, is what they say. >> yeah. pete, at no point in that rambling, incoherent answer did nancys moses -- nancy

joe mentioned, for example, the fact that tom cotton's speech landed flat with the audience.oned to cling to to say here is the actual way i decided to fight for you. >> then there is this after censuring liz cheney, republicans seem to be going one step further. state lawmakers are considering changing election law that could make it harder for her to win another term next year. the wyoming senate is set to hold a committee vote on thursday on legislation that would require run-off contests after a primary election if no kond date wins a majority, a prospect that could doom ms. chaney after forcing her to a contest loyal to president donald j. trump. claire mccaskill, your thoughts? >> liz cheney has been the profiling courage during this whole insurrection at the capitol, and she has continued to stay strong. i'm curious in elena believes the vote that was garnered in secret if that is going to translate to stopping this legislation in wyoming designed to bring her to her knows. it is really startling that you are not hearing from the senators in wyoming right now about thi

let's bring in arkansas republican senator tom cotton.you all. steve: good to have you as well. over the last couple of weeks, we have noticed that the administration is reluctant to call it a crisis. it's not a crisis. it's a disaster when you look at what is going on down there. >> yeah. they also sent fema. in case anyone has forgotten the e in fema is for emergency. i guess you could call it an emergency. total disaster. you heard griff's report that now they may be releasing people into the country without so much as a court date. and i know that joe biden and secretary mayorkas claiming that crump dismantled the system. will joe biden dismantled the policy that had closed our border, allowing migrants to stay in mexico while they process asylum claims forcing them to make asylum claims not in the united states but the first country they pass through when they left their own country places like guatemala. they claim these countries are too violent can't possibly. baltimore has a higher murder rate than most of these countries in the

years later in 2007 it increased to 585 an hour 655 in 200-8725 in 2009 republicans mitt romney and tom cotton are proposing a more modest increase of $10.00 an hour over 5 years instead of 15 reporting for news fuse houston tosha sweet archie you know raising the minimum wage is a great rallying point for democrats on the campaign trail however is that one of those promises which does not need to come through or discuss to bring in from mercer director of development advocacy and sustainability for whole child strategies thank you so much for joining us live there thank you thank you for going to be well i have to tell you 2009 the last chance obviously a lot has changed our country i can see why there is a demand right now for people to raise the minimum wage but i do have to include this but do your country right now can afford raising the minimum wage following basically this year of economic perils caused by the pandemic. well i think the real question is not whether you can raise a wage but when is it going to raise it the talk is that it will not reach $15.00 until 2025 and so one of th

other nationally known conservative leaders like former secretary of state mike pompei o or senator tom cotton others coming to speak before c pac as well does the president look at them as friends or foes i would say that they're still friends and i think one of the striking things as you take a look at the poll in that head to head now current governor of florida rhonda santas who was some of the president trump indorsed received 20 percent in that poll also important keep in mind 37 percent of all the attendees of the conference were from the state of florida so it's a little bit weighted in in his favor some of the hometown folks but president trump is still the flag bearer for the party both in the current and in the future and i think this is important because again as we talk about this national base the way he's put together this coalition the way he's changed issues on trade middle east peace which is very important remaking the courts securing our southern border with mexico on immigration these issues that especially on trade that really been kind of pushed off the last couple decad

their senator tom cotton wants a $10 minimum wage federally. that is craziness, right. the voters in his own state overwhelmingly support a very deep red state like arkansas, and you do see the split within the republican ranks, right. josh hawley is supporting the $15 minimum wage for big business. we see in a lot of the red states, florida. you see it in arkansas and missouri. when it is put to the voters, they do support higher minimum wages. but it seems like the republican senators from the same states do not. and, you know, i just have to think they are going more along the partisan lines more than listening to what the voters in the state want. we have seen it over and over and over again. a higher minimum wage than right now is quite popular. that is if i am the democrats i keep going after it even if it can't pass. good politics even if it is not good policy. >> there is no finesse. nobody talks about different rates in different states. it is very interesting, especially when it is so important to so many. thank you for making it clear during the segment with

joining me is arkansas senator tom cotton. are you worried that some of your fellow republicans might see this crisis as a opportunitt to strike an immigration deal that some years back a bunch of us helped defeat, all talk on enforcement and no action? >> laura, i hope they don't see this as an opportunity to pass that anti-immigration bill. they gave amnesty to 15 million illegal aliens and flood our countries with workers who drive down wages for american workers. the last thing we need to do is encourage more migrants to come here with promises of amnesty. the biden border crisis was not created by legislation. joe biden can solve it this week with 3 steps. apply the public health exclusionary orders to minors like president trump did. 2, reinstate third country agreements with countries like guatemala. if you pass through a country not your own, you have to apply for asylum in the first country you are in. for those who seek asylum elsewhere and they get denied they have to remain in mexico. they don't get to come here an

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with maria" because you were all over this story you did "sunday morning futures" as well, with tom cottonther thing is mutations virus that happen but go ahead. maria: welcome i want to get to mutation in a second but you make great point thank you very much for that, tom cotton, came on my program, a year ago, in march -- and in february 2020, and said this virus did not come from any wet markets did not come from all speculation, you came on "sunday morning futures," and said well, the onus on ccp to tell us why it didn't come from -- razor what you said -- right, and so, kudos to you but the bottom line is the global times xinwan news spewing propaganda muddying the situation the information out there, so, people have been left with the question maybe it didn't maybe it did maybe it didn't but cooler that we know, that it is likely, that it did come from that virology lab you make good point connecting dots in terms of taxpayer monday funding that what about this mutation talking about people are worried about this strand from brazil, different virus strands that are coming into this c