senator marsha blackburn of tennessee. is the debt clock evoking the iron lady. thank you for joining us on "fox news live" on this sunday. >> thank you. arthel: speaking of the royals, prince harry and meghan markle, yep, speaking of britain, i should say, are set to go in depth. why they stepped away from royal duties, how the palace is bracing for the sit-down interview, plus more a accusations of inappropriate behavior from governor andrew cuomo, a former aide said she struggled to free herself from him repeatedly hugging. former arkansas governor mike huckabee is standing by to weigh in on that [♪♪] when you have diabetes, managing your blood sugar is crucial. try boost glucose control. the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. boost glucose control products contain high quality protein and key nutrients to support immune health. try boost. beauty's age-defying formulas are what's kept supermodel cindy crawford looking so youthful for so long. look at cindy at age 31 and at 52. if you want to start looking younger right no

. >> we will talk to senator marsha blackburn just back from the border herself, president biden nominated the wife of west virginia senator joe manchin to be cochair of the appalachian regional commission, he's an educator who served as president of the state board of education among a number of other positions. senator manchin is a moderate democrats seen as a swing vote on many of the president's key legislative initiatives and the issue of filibuster. the analysis from reporters who asked questions and president biden's first formal news conference continues tonight. white house correspondent peter doocy questioned the press secretary about what has never been included on the list for any formal q and a for the president. >> we noticed the transition at the white house any time the president has given a list of reporters to call on, the only network tv pool that has never been on the list in front of the president and i was curious if that is official administration policy. >> we are having a conversation, aren't we? do i take questions from you every time you come to the briefing room

joining me now republican senator marsha blackburn of tennessee. senator blackburn, here we go again. they have already released what you would call a few trial balloons. it seems pretty clear to me, just like the covid bill, this may be called infrastructure but it will be almost everything but under the guise, hey we're fixing potholes. it looks like a progressive wish-list. what are your thoughts? >> you're exactly right. i think nancy and chuck got a credit card with no limit and they will wear the numbers off that thing. what we do know is this, the last transportation bill that was pulled together was about $325 billion. of course it didn't make it through the house. now they're talking $3 trillion. it includes things like the green new deal, universal pre-k, free community college, money for schools and hospitals, money for all the things that have absolutely nothing to do with infrastructure and i think that you're going to see your old merriam-webster dictionary have to red line the old meaning of infrastructure, put in a new meaning if th

blackburn of tennessee spoke against the bill on the senate floor. >> thank you, mr. president, this past saturday senate democrats signed off on the largest and most partisan transfer of wealth in the history of the united states congress, in the weeks leading up to the boat they insisted that the $1.9 trillion giveaway would bring the relief, the american people were seeking, they quoted suspect pulling in antidotes to support their ridiculous claim bipartisan and chose to use the reconciliation process they did that on a partyline vote in the claims of bipartisanship and necessity began to show almost immediately after the final vote the majority leader called it and i'm quoting one of the most regressive pieces of legislation if not the most progressive in decades. but we all know his definition of progressive is not compatible, compatible with the targeted relief everyone here would probably agree that this. country needs, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle not seen an opportunity to fulfill the radical campaign promises that had put them into power, th

senators marsha blackburn and chuck grassley are here this morning to get into it. markets acting this morning mixed. take a look at futures indicating a fractional move for the dow industrials, but the nasdaq is selling off and selling off hard. it is down another 183 points right now, one and-a-half percent, as the rollover of big tech continues. the s&p 500 down 20 points as interest rates move higher once again. markets were mixed last week, similar story. we had a strong jobs report, that kept the dow industrials in positive territory. it was the nasdaq that was down once again last week, the third down week in a row with a decline last week on the nasdaq of 2%, that is extending this morning. one issue, interest rates moving higher. take a look at the 10 year treasury, topping 1.6% this morning. it is pulling back from that right now at 1.59%, up 2.7 basis points. crude oil also on the upswing, its highest level since october of 2018. after the world's largest crude terminal in saudi arabia was attacked, crude oil now at $66.28 a barrel. european markets are m

senator marsha blackburn spoke against on the senate floor. thank you, mr. president. this past saturday senate democrats signed off on the largest and most partisan transfer of wealth in the history of the united states congress. in weeks leading up to that vote, they insisted that their $1.9 trillion give away would bring the relief the american people were seeking. they quoted suspect polling and anecdotes to support their ridiculous claims that the bill was bipartisan. even though they never even tried to secure bipartisan support. in fact, i would argue that democrats threw away the idea of bipartisanship the moment they chose to use the reconciliation process to force their hand. after almost 30 hours of debate, they did just that on a party line vote. then the cracks in their claims to bipartisanship and necessity began to show. almost immediately after the final vote the majority leader called it, and i'm quoting, one of the most progressive pieces of legislation, if not the most progressive, in decades, end quote. but we all know that his definition of progres

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i'm not sure that they need senator marsha blackburn to come to their defense now. here's the thing. if you don't support the democrats' agenda -- and nothing says that you have to -- then tell us what you do support. instead, we've got the gop's fake outrage machine at work. they just cannot resist. and none of it is based in fact, right? i told you last night about the dr. seuss thing. they were saying joe biden cancelled dr. seuss and democrats -- no. it was the company that runs dr. seuss -- it's dr. seuss's company who on their own said, this doesn't represent our company anymore. we're going to take these books out of circulation. but fake outrage, republicans had to say, okay, it's joe biden, it's the democrats. nothing to do with democrats or joe biden. it's all a big, big darn lie. senator marco rubio. oh, marco rubio, really? jumping on the chance to troll president biden, tweeting he should apologize for using an old stereotype and suggesting he should seek training on unconscious bias. okay. bonus fake outrage points to mississippi governor tate reeves f

i'm not sure that they need senator marsha blackburn to come to their defense now. here's the thing. if you don't support the democrats' agenda -- and nothing says that you have to -- then tell us what you do support. instead, we've got the gop's fake outrage machine at work. they just cannot resist. and none of it is based in fact, right? i told you last night about the dr. seuss thing. they were saying joe biden cancelled dr. seuss and democrats -- no. it was the company that runs dr. seuss -- it's dr. seuss's company who on their own said, this doesn't represent our company anymore. we're going to take these books out of circulation. but fake outrage, republicans had to say, okay, it's joe biden, it's the democrats. nothing to do with democrats or joe biden. it's all a big, big darn lie. senator marco rubio. oh, marco rubio, really? jumping on the chance to control president biden, tweeting he should apologize for using an old stereotype and suggesting he should seek training on unconscious bias. okay. bonus fake outrage points to mississippi governor tate reeves

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now joined by marsha blackburn of tennessee, great to see you, senator. thanks for being here today. what did you see? you listened to his words during the debate, during the presidential campaign. that's what we're seeing happen here. what did you see first hand? >> what i saw first hand is total chaos. this is joe biden's border policy. joe biden's immigration policy that is causing this crisis at the southern border. i was in arizona, i was sheriff lamb and cochise county. each said that it's joe biden's policies that are driving this. marsha, the cartels are so organized. they're big business. they are now out fitting people in cartel clothing. they put wrist bands on them to show whether they have paid or if they need to go in to servitude once they arrive and work out what they're paying. like griff said, nothing, nothing drugs, human beings, nothing crosses that border without the cartel being in charge. it is el chapo's cartel that is running the area just south of the arizona border. that is where 50% of the drugs that make their way across this

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in the recent weeks, i spoke to marsha blackburn. she has made that concession. this is in order to -- this is part of this infrastructure bill. romaine: this infrastructure bill is pretty sprawling. very ambitious in scale and scope. i wonder if i could get you to comment on the proposal to pay for this. it will involve a corporate tax increase. kevin: that was the crowning achievement for the previous administration. democrats say this is something that only benefited the ultra-wealthy. i mention this because that will be a significant poison pill. i thought it was captured on bloomberg surveillance where tom indicates that this is a significant policy shift for the united states as a whole. this is not a snap your fingers and every bridge in america will be built. this is a plan for the next decade of american investment. there is a consensus from the geopolitical standpoint. parts of this bill, a significant part of this bill is nonpartisan and needs to get accomplished. this is the kind of forward thinking policy that many in the halls of congress have point

marsha blackburn, joins us from the great state of tennessee. what will happen with beccera with a tie vote? >> the way it will proceed with that, he goes to the floor four hours of debate to see if he can be discharged from committee. you will see that debate take place. his record with the way he went after the little sisters of the poor, suing them, the way he has pushed back against religious liberty. these are all things that cause, call him into question. you have someone who has zero health care experience. zero. experience in public health. yet he wants to be the secretary of health and human services, manage this trillion dollar budget during the time of a pandemic and he has no health care experience. so stuart, what you're looking at is why does joe biden want him there, why is he trying to push him through senate approval when there is so much opposition to him? stuart: because he is hispanic. he is the former attorney general of the state of california, which is still a, what is the word of it, a state that welcomes illegals and i t

blackburn of tennessee spoke against the bill on the senate floor. >> thank you, mr. president, this past saturday senate democrats signed off on the largest and most partisan

senator marsha blackburn joins us, republican from the great state of tennessee. senator, earlier this morning we showed video of wristbands issued by the cartels so that migrants could just walk across the border. that was their entry point to the united states. that was their permission from the cartels to get in. now you were at the border. did you see something similar to this, a border out of control? >> yes. it is a border out of control. i was in arizona with sheriff mark lamb in pinnell and sheriff daniels in cochise county. here is what is happening, stuart, the cartels are running the border south of the u.s. border. they're running the mexican border. the sinaloa cartel which is "el chapo"'s cartel basically runs the border there in arizona. what you have is the cartels, when you sign on with a cartel to come into the country illegally, they will give you cartel-issued clothing backpack, carpet shoes, a wristband. this wristband is color-coded. it says you have either paid your transit, or, when you get into the united states, you have to work out your

. >> as the scandals pile up, senator marsha blackburn says the latest reports on the nursing home deaths certainly point to intentional cover-up. listen. >> what we are seeing is that they chose to manipulate this information to serve their purposes or to serve the governor's purposes. how heartbreaking this must be and certainly is to people who lost their loved ones, the way this nursing home scandal was handled, by putting these individuals into these nursing homes when they knew they had covid-19, not using the other facilities that had been made available, in new york and now you have the loss of life, a cover-up that seems to be developing into intentionality by the governor and his advisers to manipulate this data and hide the facts. >> in the caribbean university poll finds and most new yorkers think governor cuomo should stay in office at 59% say he should not seek reelection next year. overnight, 620 page coronavirus release on the senate floor. jillian: senators will meet to debate the measure. griff jenkins live in c. >> reporter: the senate will finally begin the 20 hours of

-- and marsha blackburn. i even go out to lawmakers like tom garamendi. he has urged for there to be more diversification. i think you will see over the next couple of weeks and months people like senator chris coons, a democrat from delaware, put together some type of package as it relates to china, but the hope from what i am hearing, based upon my reporting, is tha t this type of package will be a nonpartisan bill that will move through congress, similar to the bill a few years ago that senator schumer and i believe senator cotton were able to push through in terms of investment to diversify supply chains. lisa: a nonpartisan bill is hard for me to wrap my head around right now. i imagine a fraction of $3 trillion. how could this be constructed? what could the size of the consensus bilby? does that mean that this effort really has to be piecemeal, a number of different bills spread out over months or even years? kevin: i think this is the type of legislation that, quite frankly, doesn't really get the atte

david: senator marsha blackburn, have a wonderful st. patrick's day. thank you for coming in. >> and to you. david: thank you very much, appreciate it. coming up, calling out columbia university. why the school is facing criticism for a multicultural graduation plan. from dr. alveda king. she's next. ♪ ♪ -- ♪ ♪ some say this is my greatest challenge ever. but i've seen centuries of this. with a companion that powers a digital world, traded with a touch. the gold standard, so to speak ;) it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? ...delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. ♪♪ david: the biden administration pledging more money to get kids back to chat. the department of health and human services announcing a $10 billion invest

i raise that because people like conservative senator marsha blackburn would agree with that specific element. and how he plans to get this across the finish line, either through a singular legislative vehicle for a piecemeal legislative approach, really could make all the difference. this is a sea change, and pieces of this will be the blueprint and the roadmap for not just the next couple of years, but for the next decade. guy: we look forward to your coverage as the day progresses, as we work our way towards the speech and the postgame analysis. what didn't we find out? what do we need to find out? i suspect those are going to be big questions later this evening. kevin cirilli, thank you very much, indeed. in its current state, the american society of civil engineers says u.s. infrastructure gets a b+. to get to a grade of b, it would cost $4.6 trillion. we are not close to that with this number. improving roads and bridges alone apparently is going to require $1 trillion more for states, look at italy's -- more than states, localities, and federal government has allocated. there's

kevin cork is doing into the details and senator marsha blackburn is here to weigh live and is cities those on banning gas stations it looks like canceled cultures collided with climate change activism. are you ready for an electric future? we begin with those latebreaking accusations regarding governor cuomo's original scandal, new allegations about manipulating the true number of covid-19 deaths. aishah hasnie is the latest live from new york. >> reporter: this is a big deal because it essentially means governor cuomo's administration had a total picture of nursing home deaths as far back as last summer but chose not to release that information to the public. on top of that the wall street journal reporting that cuomo's top advisers convinced state health officials to change their reporting on nursing home deaths. here is what the journal is reporting tonight. mister paul's aids and other officials made to the nursing home report that haven't been previously disclosed reveal the state possessed a full accounting of nursing home deaths as early as summer of 2020. the health departmen

blackburn. let's get to biden's bailout in a second but i just love your reaction to the news that we reported in the top of the show, president biden finally saying something about andrew cuomo, totally inadequate as we discussed earlier but what is your take on where the cuomo scandal stands tonight? >> i tell you, i thank you are exactly right. it is inadequate. there are growing calls by a bipartisan group of legislation at the local state and federal level who are calling for him to resign and probably he should be listening more to the people that are there in albany and spending less time trying to plead his case across the country. steve: i think a lot of people would agree with that and not just republicans. that is what is interesting about the way democrats finally weighing in but still nothing from vice president harris as i noted earlier but the great champion of the meat to movement and you will remember that from those hearings. senator, let's talk about the bailout bill. it seems

i didn't hear marsha blackburn do a press conference about child separation. they're not upset about the treatment of the migrants. they just wanted to point to something that looked bad for tv. biden recentered the humanity in the conversation -- >> stop. >> -- and i think that's what's important about today's press conference when that issue came up repeatedly. >> thank you all for starting off our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks lawrence. >> thank you. >>> coming up we have a lot ground to cover in this hour tonight. the voting rights crisis in georgia tonight, tonight two experts, congressman williams of georgia will join us next. and white house press secretary jen psaki will be with us later in the hour as with beto o'rourke. please stay with us. we will have a lot to cover tonight. we will have a lot to cover tonight. i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ wondering what actually goes into your multivitamin? at new chapter, its' innovatio

senator marsha blackburn on this show with harris yesterday echoed some concerns. take a listen. >> the cartels -- you can't come to the border without a cartel. and the cartel will take a child away from parents and give it to an adult who does not have a child if they are trying to push that adult a cross the border. then the child goes back to the cartel and then comes in again. this needs to stop. >> a retired captain of the texas department of public safety joins us now. jason, let's pick up where senator blackburn left off with harris yesterday. she went on to say the next thing that happens to these children, most of them girls frankly is that they get kidnapped by coyotes and ultimately sold into sexual slavery which can last years to decades. i know you work a lot in intelligence and from a security perspective. tell us about this problem in particular. it is not getting a whole lot of attention. it is horrendous. >> it is not and thanks for having me to discuss this specifically. while we're really concerned and for good reason on the number of unaccompan

please welcome tennessee senator marsha blackburn. [applause] sen. blackburn: i am delighted to see you. i look forward to cpac every year. seeing friends and being with happy warriors and fellow conservatives. i absolutely love it. this year is no different, but i'm going to tell you something that is different this year and it is not just that we are all wearing masks and have covid-19, comments of china, it is that we have a bunch of radical liberals in the white house and the house and the senate and they are determined to radically change this country. it is very evident in the area of free speech. they are determined to take away your free speech and the first amendment. here is what the first amendment actually says, hundreds shall make no law. that is an order. they can't do it. they cannot make a law. respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peacefully to assemble and to petition the government for the redress of grievances.

you see marsha blackburn of tennessee, this bill inching closer to passing in the senate during an all-nightmare that you know. >> the voting process known as voterama almost fell apart due to a 12-hour delay. and the surprise road block was democratic senator joe manchin who faced off with fellow democrats on enhanced unemployment benefits. senator manchin is back on board, though, after agreeing to a compromise on extending the benefits through september 6th. now republicans are running out of options to stall voting. forced to keep going after democrats refused to stop for the night. >> now that this agreement has been reached, we're going to power through the rest of the process and get this bill done. >> well, my goodness. it's been quite a start. quite a start. to this fast-track process. >> cnn's lauren fox is up early for us on capitol hill. lauren, quite a start. well, what about the end? when does it end? >> reporter: well, in talking to a lot of aides and no one has any idea when the end of this voter rama is going to come and when they're going to finally vote on that $1.9 trillion p

i'm not saying that mitch mcconnell's in any danger, but this is looking like the marsha blackburn/josh hawley senate more than the mitch mcconnell senate at the moment. >> yeah. i mean, it's really -- i don't think -- it's hard to overstate the significance of the shift, to have all of these members on their way out while their replacements coming in just have completely different tone and tenor and approach to the job. i think it's really going to change the way things are done. jake, let's talk for a second about the covid relief package. the vote seems to be sliding by a day as they try to get the text together for it. do you see any challenges on the horizon getting this back through the house? i mean, progressives have been critical of joe manchin for essentially forcing them to negotiate with themselves, lowering that unemployment number. do you see any problems? i mean, i have a hard time imagining someone's going to stand up and say, yeah, actually, i'm going to stand in the way of democratic president's first major priority. >> no, i mean, if it was republicans, they probably

blackburn, they were looking at any other issue. >> oversight hearing, the january 6th element was the focus, members hadn't had wray in front of that panel in something like 20 months, there was a lot of interest in other topics here but that said you saw it early on from chuck grassley, the leading republican on this panel, tried to introduce the idea of what about antifa violence in places like portland and seattle, and wray wasn't really willing to take the bait on that. he said, you know, we don't look at this on a left/right ideological spectrum. we don't care about your politics, we care about the violence. that's the kind of thing we're investigating. a lot of other republican senators took different tacts on this. you mentioned blackburn, tillis brought this up again there at the end but republican senators also focused on their pet issues, you had josh hawley and mike lee talking about, you know, was cell phone tracking data used, perhaps, inappropriately to track down some of these suspects here as a way to talk about january 6th adjacent issues that are more politically com

. >> senator marsha blackburn of tennessee sticking it to joe biden, using the present tense describing neanderthals. i did not see that coming. but here we are. it was a very busy week for house of representatives passing several major pieces of legislation. that all came to a halt when they had to cancel sessions after capitol police announced it was aware of a threat by militia group to once again try to attack and breach walls of congress. as we continue to learn more about those involved in the january 6th insurrection, the investigation appears to be circling closer and closer to republicans. former white house and donald trump himself. charges against federico klein, top political appointee at the state department who is charged after seen on video assaulting police officers with a riot shield and asked a judge to be kept in a cell without cockroaches. the insurrectionist photographed with his feet on speaker pelosi's desk, and he through a tantrum whining it is not fair he remains in jail while other rioters are let out on bond. and this week, the commanding general of the natio

senators ben sasse, mike lee, josh hawley, tom cotton, john kennedy, ted cruz and marsha blackburn all voted against garland. at his conference hearing last week, garland promised that investigating the capitol riot would be a top priority for his justice department. joining us now, the co-founder of punch bowl news, jake sherman. he is also an msnbc political contributor. jake, it's great to see you. we've got nominations on the one hand and this covid bill on the other hand. and of course, when it comes to covid, the question is, can mitch mcconnell keep all of this is democrats together to actually get this over the finish line? looks like they may be working over the weekend to get that done. what's your latest reporting on that balancing act because there is so much pressure from progressives to try to keep the minimum wage in that bill, as we mentioned? >> good morning, kasie. well, i think there is very little chance of the minimum wage ending up in the bill, virtually no chance, because bernie sanders is suggesting that democrats ignore the parliamentarian's ruling, which is no

that's why you see the likes of marsha blackburn trying to turn this into a black lives matter conversation and ultimately why, joy, any commission that includes republicans is doomed for failure because they will turn it into a cancel culture, free speech, political affiliation debate, not one on the security threat that was caused on january 6th. >> yeah. they can't even defend -- denounce qanon because some of them are qanon. ben collins, malcolm nantz, david jolly, thank you. >>> 19 million men, women and children being told you're on your own. >>> remember ronny jackson who voted to overturn the election? pentagon inspector general's report is accusing him of misconduct while he served as president obama's white house physician. in and of itself is scary thought. including allegations that he made sexual comments to insubordinations and drank on the job. ronny, with all of that, you are not the worst. the reid out continues. e worst. the reid out continues live bookkeeper for peace of mind. your books are all set. so you can finally give john some attention. trusted experts. guaranteed

meanwhile, senator marsha blackburn of tennessee defended neanderthals and argued that the president's comment should be seen as a compliment. >> we were called neanderthals when i led the fight against imposition of the state income tax in tennessee. so you know what i did? i started the neanderthal caucus, because neanderthals are hunter-gatherers, they're protectors of their family, they are resilient, they're resourceful. they tend to their own! so, i think joe biden needs to rethink what he is saying about the states that are choosing to move away from these mask mandates. >> politico shared this statement from the white house, who responded to the culture wars with a suessian rebuttal. bear with me. "republicans may complain but they're still in thrall to a president who akthed luke a neanderthal. instead of coming together the flames they fan when they should be working with joe on the rescue plan. cry, whine and nash their teeth as they may, it's actually the republicans who are in disarray." i have a feeling i may see a clip of that little performance in my twitter feed later

i didn't hear marsha blackburn do a press conference about child separation. they're not upset about the treatment of the migrants. they just wanted to point to something that looked bad for tv. biden recentered the humanity in the immigration conversation -- >> stop. >> -- and i think that's what's important about today's press conference when that issue came up repeatedly. >> zerlina maxwell, jennifer palmieri, john heilemann, thank you all for starting off our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> coming up we have a lot ground to cover in this hour tonight. the voting rights crisis in georgia tonight, two experts, congresswoman hakima williams of georgia and stacey abrams' campaign manager lauren largo will join us next. and white house press secretary jen psaki will be with us later in the hour as will beto o'rourke and professor michael eric dyson. please stay with us. we have a lot to cover here tonight. y with us. we have a lot to cover here tonight. em. mimicking their every move. and if she counts on the adv

blackburn. she's also going to be visiting the southern border tomorrow to get a firsthand look there. thank you for joining the show and i'd like your response by getting to what house speaker nancy pelosi said yesterday, saying that she believes the biden administration has this under control. >> this is eerily familiar words from nancy pelosi. in 2015 when the border started getting out of control after president obama's daca order, which by the way, it's not the law, it was an executive order. and she would say it's all under control. that's the first year i visited one of these facilities. came back, this is out of control, we need to do something. oh, you know, you're just saying that because it's -- you disagree with the administration. but here is the thing, we have a humanitarian crisis on our border. there are the cartels who have been so emboldened going through central america and mexico and around the globe. you have international drug cartels, human trafficking, sex trafficking car

senator marsha blackburn spoke against on the senate floor. thank you, mr. president. this past saturday senate democrats signed off on the largest and most partisan transfer of wealth in the history of the united states congress. in weeks leading up to that vote, they insisted that their $1.9 trillion give away would bring the relief the american people were seeking. they quoted suspect polling and anecdotes to support their ridiculous claims that the bill was bipartisan. even though they never even tried to secure bipartisan support. in fact,

you said marsha blackburn defending neanderthal thinnings a "new york times" reader had more apt, writing that they're in the business of inventing too many for survival. tim miller, this is the debate that republicans want to have in the middle of a national crisis? >> yeah. remember a couple weeksal when the republicans were saying we can't spend the time on this impeachment, and we can't spend time liking do this domestic terrorist attack, because we need to get down to the business of the country and worry about coronavirus. and now that we have ron johnson playing that stunned on the senate floor and most of the republican entertainment complex focusing on neanderthals and the gender of mr. potato head and all of that. this is a very un-serious party, coalition, but i think the democrats need to recognize that and play against the opponent on the field. i like the doctor's messaging about how we can have a close-to-normal summer, we just need to do this for six weeks. i would love the democrats focused on that. let's get this bill passed, do this for six weeks, ten weeks and let's ge

steve: senator from tennessee marsha blackburn. >> i will be a vote no on this. when you have a bill that only 9%, 9% is there for covid relief, the rest is going to arts, humanities, transportation, bailouts for the big blue states, this is a way that they are going to prepay the advancement of their socialist agenda. this is what they're going to use to say thank you to some of their big donors and fortunately pelosi's subway. that earmark was pulled out because people were so up in arms. these things have nothing to do with targeted relief for americans who are suffering because of covid. steve: and to the republican's point, less than 10% is actually going to actual covid stuff. john kennedy, the senator from liz said yesterday, calling this a coronavirus bill is calling harvey weinstein a feminist. ainsley: i have a question, if it's 1.9 trillion, where do you come up with the number and if you pull out nancy pelosi's subway and chuck schumer's bridge, does that mean the 1.9 goes down and they find out the money goes somewhere else. i think this would pass w

fox business is learning senator marsha blackburn as long as others are introducing legislation today, the sister city transparency act calling for a review about the city with sister cities in china for oversight and transparency. senator blackburn saint sister cities are a strategic partnership that beijing brokers to create a foothold in american communities and it's imperative we's shed light on these partnerships to determine whether they leave american communities vulnerable to foreign espionage and ideological coercion. chinese sister cities are all over the us even in places you might not expect with california over 53 sister city partnerships with china, florida, texas has 12, new york state and washington have partnerships with beijing. stuart: hillary, that is the story from dc. thank you. still ahead on this program today, michael goodwin, pete hegseth, laura logan, doctor scott atlas. a second hour of "varney & co." coming up next. ♪♪ you can spend your life in boxing or any other business, but one day, you're gonna take a hit you didn't see coming. and it won't matte

and that's why senator marsha blackburn she is so outraged by. this she wrote a letter to dhs secretary mayorkas and she said this is enough to buy a small house. this is a waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. brian: absolutely. look at these numbers. if there was no covid a thousand people can get in there. with covid 2506789 do you know how many are in there 4100. are you kidding me? unbelievable. we are in a pandemic. if the president wants to be loose on the border and do the opposite of president trump. all he had to do was tell his far left wing, sorry, guys, i have got to keep title 42 in place. we are in the middle of a pandemic. i'm asking the americans to wear two masks and have a small cookout on the fourth of july and stay away and get rid of -- keep your mask man indicates in place. i just can't let a bunch of other countries in our border for free. it's not fair to our border patrol. but he chose not to do that. what makes it worse is he is ignoring it. he is making the men and women on the border patrol feel like they are being ign

marsha blackburn, senator from tennessee, saying "democrats are in washington. that means taxes are coming. tax and spend." that will continue as the specific proposals come out, but we are asking whether you would support or oppose the idea of tax increases on high income earners in corporations. andy says he would, add of florida, seminole florida -- andy says he would come out of florida, seminole, florida. caller: the tax cuts that occurred in 2017 -- i don't make $400,000 a year. when i was working, before i retired, i was making over $100,000, but that's because i was a programmer. so this bull -- stuff\ of hurting the economy is exactly that. the tax cuts point to the very wealthy few in this country, which is classic american. further, they are going to sunset those tax cuts on a personal basis and corporations are going to have the tax cuts stay in place, so we really have to go after these corporations because they got a permanent tax-cut. they got that going for them and they need to go in the opposite direction. instead of what they didn't 2017 -- th

with an update is tennessee senator marsha blackburn. thanks for being here. i will admit votea's a barometer sounds scary to me. when you have this much money at stake in this many votes, the vote on the minimum wage was supposed to take 15 minutes, 12 hours. what is happening right now on the senate floor? >> the longest vote in history, they kept that vote (11.5 hours. the good thing is we have been able to stop the minimum wage hike. that is a very good thing for the american people and for jobs in this country and we've also been able to win a vote on the unemployment insurance so that is not at 400, it is at $300. these are good positive steps. we have more votes to go. we are continuing to try to whittle money out of this so that the bill is going to be a little bit better. when you have this behemoth of a bill, 91% of this bill does not go to anything related to covid-19. it goes to arts, humanities,. state bailouts, loan forgiveness for certain categories and groups of individuals and paid leave for federal employees so they can stay home with their c