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good wednesday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is wednesday, april 17, 7:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. hope you're having a good wednesday morning. time for the hot topic of the hour. house republicans delivering impeachment articles to alejandro mayorkas, accusing him of refusing to enforce border laws and breaching public trust. >> you refuse to comply with the laws passed by congress and you breached the public trust. you facilitated and encouraged record levels of illegal immigration since your first day in office. we all witnessed the devastating results of your open border agenda. maria: we sure are all witnessing, ashley. your reaction? >> well, as a -- yesterday, i think that was the hearing yesterday that he testified in front of and actually gave really, really bad answers which we can get to in a little bit. but the senate received the impeachment articles from the

house yesterday at 1:00 today the senator schumer will swear in the senators and they'll act as jurors. remember, there's no ability for them to negotiate or talk, this is 100% the articles are read and then they'll vote on it so there's really no time for messaging in regards to either side being able to talk about what's really happening. they only need a simple majority. they can cut off debate with 51 votes and it's over and these will be tabled and nothing will happen. maria: that's what i think will happen is chuck schumer b doesnt want a trial. >> it's effe effectively an opportunity to not put alejandro mayorkas on trial but to put joe biden on trial. i recognize republicans, certainly the house wants to make a statement, it's an impeachment to nowhere and there comes a point at which you have to accept what you can accomplish and what you can't. we know the problems at the

border so le let's you address m rather than try to pursue something that will probably get shot down in the first hour. >> i think it's important as a symbolic gesture, saying we're not going to take this anymore. when you look at the brand of the republican party and donald trump, what ends up happening is people say they're supporting the values and issues that are most important to me. they're y giving voice to my concerns, safeguarding ther american dream, recognize the values of americans like me and so when you see things like this even though you know it won't get done it actually i think helps support that idea that they're going to fight the fight that's most important to the american people and this is the that's most important to the american people. maria: we're just off the murder of laken riley. alejandro mayorkas was grilled about why laken riley's you alleged murderer was paroled into the united states. watch this. >> which was it, human tear pan

reasons -- humanitarian reasons or significant public ben if fit that you paroled him into the united states. >> i don't have the details. >> i'm asking for one simple fact. >> my answer remains the name. >> you don't know. >> i don't have the details with respect to that individual's cates. maria: your thoughts. >> this is a horrible position for mayorkas. i think something that you said is that this is the president's policies that this is happening, this is not necessarily the secretary of homeland security. maria: he's taking a directive from biden. >> he absolutely is. i don't understand how you can go up in front of the u.s. congress and not have answer as to one of the hottest political issues happening right now. he looks like he's completely incompetent and is and something congressman zinke said whichs is very important is the president does have the act to shut down the -- ability to shut down the border. that's what president trump did. they're doing nothing about it.

this issue is right around the neck of president biden. >> it is. 94 executive orders were taken off the books by joe biden on his first day in office. >> exactly. >> don't forget, the american people say that donald trump and the republicans align with my values and are doing things about issues that i care about. that is so important. what they say that joe biden and the democrats can do, they're qualified and can he defend and uphold democrat you civil that's it. everything -- democracy. that's it. everything else falls on the side of the republicans. maria: with all that we've been going through with the wide open border and still to have no success penetrating the democrats and the white house, unwilling to do anything. >> well, obviously he floated that last week, the president did, in regards to doing an executive order. maria: now he wants to do something, six months away an election. >> three and-a-half years in, let's do something about it. maria: they're fighting greg

abbott and the state of texas because they're trying to pro ect the themselves and have laws that will mean they can arrest illegals who are breaching the border. >> greg abbott should become the secretary of homeland security. >> he understands more than anybody else. what really yo amazes me -- youn understand how migrants are infiltrating texas a, it's the border. but the fact you had 330,000 i believe number is illegals flown into the state of florida, there's no border. they're flown into the state of florida. it boggles the mind that we are doing this. maria: it shows you that the biden administration wants those illegals in this country. >> they certainly do. maria: period. they want it either through the open border or you through flights, whatever it is, they want more people. is there any other way to look at it? >> no, they want more people and we know why they want more people. they want votes. maria: right. >> and a this just might be a way to do it. and wouldn't it be -- maria: and it it does shift the senses sus.

census. shifts congressional seats. >> once they come in, they don't want democratic p policie. once they are here, they see it fails them. maria: when they go to democratic run cities, the democrat congressional candidates will get more seats because it's more people so it doesn't matter if they're voting the way they want them to vote or not in the beginning. they're getting the seats because of the census. we'll take a look at federal reserve chairman jay powell dialing back rate cut expectations yesterday after a lack of progress on inflation this year, not the progress he wanted to see. we've got the word on wall street coming up with expectations. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us. ♪

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maria: welcome back. time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me now is payne capital management president and host of payne points of wealth had podcast, ryan payne with us. also with me is adam johnson, ryan, thanks for joining the conversation,. >> thanks, maria. maria: we're looking at a market that is rallying this morning, expecting a higher opening for the broader averages. take a look at futures, a gain of 135 on the dow this morning, the nasdaq up 51, s&p higher by 21. interest rates look like this after the federal reserve chairman jay powell spoke yesterday. the yield is down almost 2 basis points at 4.65%. jay powell signaling rates will be higher for longer if inflation persists. here he is. watch. >> we said that we'll need greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2% before the appropriate to ease policy. the recent data have not given us greater confidence and instead indicate that it's likely to take longer than

expected to achieve that confidence. that said, we think policy is well positioned to handle the risks that we face, if be the higher inflation does persist we can maintain the current level of restriction for as long as needed. maria: your reaction, ryan? >> be the it's not broke, don't fix it. i think that's what you're seeing right now. look, we've had -- blew my mind but we saw the gdp number come in for the quarter, the atlanta fed at 2.8% for the first quarter, that's phenomenal gdp growth, better than last decade, that's for sure. we saw retail sales number on monday was better than expected. people are spending money. employment markets is hot. the other wild card is oil prices are up 20% this year, i think that's problematic. i think the fed should not cut rates. the economy's hot and inflation is hotter than expected over the last three months. maria: if we don't get he any cut doesn't that represent a big disappointment for markets and does the that cause a selloff in stocks. >> i think that's what we're seeing right now.

the market was up 27% from last october up until march so we're getting selling on that but i would argue here, i'll take my he playbook from the bull's-eye brief which i read every sunday, i had my slippers on, smoking jacket and i read radioed it, ik -- read it, i think it will -- the whole year will be driven by earnings, not predicated berate cuts. companies are improving margins. earnings will be double digit by the end of the year. that's pretty phenomenal. >> i think the story is all about earnings right now and i think increasingly -- some will probably question my logic for saying this but i think inflation and the fed increasingly becoming a rear view mirror story. simply because as the economy ramps you, the 2.8% he gdp growth you're talking about translates into i think 10% earnings growth this quarter. that's the story. maria: 10%. >> 10% is strong.

how i get there is currently the analysan collectively expect 3% growth. 3.2 plus the 7 beat gets you to 10.2 versus call it 8% last quarter. it will be the third consecutive quarter of growth. i think that is the story. yes, we would like to have rate cuts and, yes, because we're not getting the rate cuts we thought it's still hard for small caps. it's still hard for recently minted companies that ipoed, it's hard for companies that aren't making money because they need the benefit of lower rates. but for everybody else, all the big established companies, tech for example, or just big chunk hey companies, honeywell, rockwell, delta air lines, some of these i am long. yes, i'm talking my book. but it's good for them. maria: your thoughts on whether or not we're actually going to see the strength continue throughout the year because there's still the debate about

the macro story. hadthere was last year as well. >> i don't think the economy's slowing down. we're talking about soft landing, slow landing. there's no landing. this thing is high flying right now and if you look at it, we had 2% economic growth the last decade. we're clocking at 2.8% this first quarter and i also argue rates -- it used to be about 4, 5%, that was normal rates. we're getting back to normalization in the rate market and inflation and i think bottom line is economic growth is back to what it used to be since world war ii. maria: let me get your a take on boeing. a whistleblower and panel of experts will testify before the senate today as the whistleblower says the company's 787 jets should be grounded to allow proper safety checks. boeing's ceo declined an invitation to face lawmaker questions. united airlines reported a loss for first quarter on grounded boeing jets. united cut its aircraft delivery

plan expectations for the year. boeing, american airlines, southwest, jetblue, expected to report earnings next week. adam, this is going to be certainly watched closely, not just from an earnings standpoint and business standpoint but safety. >> safety and the fact that this is a great american company that has stumbled. i own it. it's very hard to own because it seems to go down a little bit more every day. there's never one disas tear day, -- disas t disaster, justy there's consistent selling. for the past several years they have lost from 5 to $10 a share. that's been a disaster. and yet one of the themes that has served me very well over time as an investor is, quote, when great companies stumble, dot, dot, dot, you buy them and that is why i bought boeing. it's a great company that has stumbled terribly.

safety is an issue. they started outsourcing a lot of the production. that has not worked. they're looking to bring production back in so they can control it. we're not there yet. this cost dave calhoon his job as probably it should have. maria: yeah. >> but i think that actually when you talk about a company that is capable of doing what boeing has done consistently over many decades, it's a question of re realigning priorities and getting everyone on the same page and i'm willing to give them not only my proxy and put my money where my mouth is and own the shares. maria: great to see you. quick break and then the communist party of china pushing the fentanyl crisis into america as more chinese nation had naild into the china border. kentucky congressman an i did andy bar ishere to tell us more. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ you're a heart breaker, dream

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right now is kentucky congressman andy barr, a member of the house financial affairs and part of the china select committee. what more can you tell us, the ccp working with the drug cartels, roger marshall said the drug cartels are the secondary partner, it's the ccp leading this to ensure the drugs get into america. >> yes, maria. our investigation in the select committee on the strategic competition of china has uncovered a coordinated effort by the chinese communist party to literally poison and murder over 100,000 americans every single year. kentucky, my home state, is the fourth highest overdose mortality rate state in the done you tri and so this -- country and so this is very personal to me. p fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of those fentanyl deaths and what our investigation found is that 97% of all of the fentanyl precursors are manufactured and distributed from the people's republic of china, exploiting

our open southern border, coordinating with the cartels to flood our country with this deadly fentanyl, only a tiny little bit of this fentanyl is very, very deadly and it is the leading cause of death in the united states for americans between 18 and 45. what we found is that not only does the chinese communist party directly subsidize the manufacture and distribution and export of these precursors but they refuse to prosecute any of these companies. they have ownership interest in these companies. and while they censor the domestic sale of drug precursors inchina, they openly e-commerce sites to distribute these drugs to foreign countries including the united states. maria: i've got the report in front of me right now. it is just stunning. raises two obvious questions.

if the we know this is happening, why aren't we doing anything about it and why are we acting as if everything is fine, sending janet yellen, antony blinken and everybody else to go meet their counterparts in china and never bringing this up? >> yes. this fen fentanyl war waged agat the american people by the chinese communist party is another example of the weakness of the biden administration's foreign policy. here once again is an example of the biden administration chasing diploma massey, chasing upfront concessions and begging the chinese to help us on the fentanyl issue with no results. for example, at the apecks summit, the last biden xi t meeting biden gave upfront concessions and said we're going to delist the institute of forensic science, a known human rights violator on the commerce entity list, we're going to take the sanctionses off this

notorious organization within china in exchange for cooperation down the road on fentanyl and as witnesses testified yesterday, nothing -- nothing has been done. the chinese have done nothing. they accelerated their war using fentanyl against the united states. this foreign policy of weakness is literally killing americans. maria: is joe biden uninformed, insepinept, or compromised? >> as jamie comer said, whether he's compromised, i think he's developing a pretty good record on that point. setting aside the compromise and corruption of the biden family, this foreign policy is not working. there is no deterrence. and so what i am urging the administration to do and what i'm urging the senate to do is take up my bill, the stop chinese fentanyl act which would impose tough sanctions on

chinese company party officials at every level for not doing enough to stop the the flow of these illegal fentanyl precursors into the united states. athat's what we need. as attorney general barr said yesterday we need more sticks, less carrots. maria: right now there are chinese companies trading on u.s. exchanges and american investors are buying those stocks, in effect funding the expansion of our number one adversary, the ccp. 40 huge publicly traded chinese companies are responsible, reportedly, for keeping iran a current going concern. they are held by nearly every large u.s. asset manager. should those companies be removed% u.s. capital markets? >> yes. so, maria, we are working on legislation to deal with the outbound investment to protect american investors from unwittingly financing the chai noose communist party -- you chinese communist party for human rights violations, for

their military industrial complex. we don't want western capital flowing into china in ways that would actually enhance their maligned activities. one of the things i would say is that our advantage in the competition with china is that we are capitalists and their disadvantage is that they are communists. they misallocate capital and so we should be the best version of ourselves in this competition. we should enhance our position and our competitiveness with them but certainly we need to give -- we need to create a green light, red light system that gives investors certainty and clarity about investments that are flowing china that do compromise our national security. maria: i'm trying to understand why we have such vulnerability when it comes to national security. we've said it over and over again. it only took 19 terrorists to take down the world trade center and yet we've got all a of this happening under our noses and there's been no change whatsoever. certainly not at the border.

since october of last year, there were more than 24,000 chinese migrant southern border encounters, the majority now happening in california. there were 135 in arizona, 91 i1 texas, 4 in new mexico. almost all are happening in san diego and the to total amount ts year surpassed the last three years combined. what are the chinese migrants doing why are they coming into america, getting apprehended, to trying to not get detected. the reason i ask is joe biden is uninformed, inept or compromised because no one can understand how is it possible that we are allowing a wide open border to welcome terrorists, would-be terrorists, chinese migrants who have their own plans to become saabtores later and thousands of pounds of fentanyl which is led

by the chinese communist party and we're sending our cabinet members and asking as if -- going having beers, eating their mushrooms, whatever it is, i don't understand why. so is it uninformed, inept or compromised? >> all of the above. all of the above. this is why the american people have zero confidence in this administration. it is total incompetence, perhaps it's the fact that they're compromised. but here's the bottom line. these chinese nationals are in fact the largest group of illegal migrants crossing our southern border. there are more illegal chinese nationals crossing our southern border in this fiscal year alone than the entire amount of chinese nationals coming into our country from 2007 to 2020 combined. this should raise eyebrows. this should raise eyebrows for all of us. 24,000 in the first five months of fiscal year 2024, for my

constituents back home that's the entire number of people that crowd into rump arena for a kentucky basketball game, those are all chinese nationals, military age people coming into our country because we have no control of our southern border. it's outrageous. maria: so congressman, it is outrageous and we all know it's outrageous. you're an elected official. what are you going to do about it? thomas massey is now joining marjorie taylor greene, we believe, he's threatening to force a vote to oust house speaker mike johnson over his foreign aid plan. massey and marjorie taylor greene both calling for johnson to resign because, again, you're talking about money to ukraine, to israel, to taiwan with no new security at the border. why not? >> well, if you are a conservative, if you support donald trump for president, if you want to secure our southern border, the last thing you want to do -- the most counter

productive thing you can do, the dumbest thing you could do is vacate the speaker's office six months before the most consequential election in american history. our speaker is doing a great job and he is the toughest border hawk in our entire conference. speaker johnson under his leadership is the one who brought hr2, he is fighting for hr2, he brought the impeachment against mayorkas and successfully delivered it to the senate he which is doing nothing. speaker johnson understands that we only control one half of one-third of the government. but in order to deal with a very thin majority, when we don't have any help from the white house, we don't have any help from the senate, you have to be tatactical, you have to be smart and grow our majority. the idea if we vacate the speakership we're going to secure the border, that is absurd. that is absurd. i hope my colleagues who actually want to do something, who actually want to achieve

border security don't do this. maria: congressman, real quick before you go, we're about six and-a-half months away from the election. should we just pray that in the next six months nothing happens until donald trump can take this up? >> well, look, we are very fortunate that we have very patriotic and effective customs and border protection agents, despite this administration, we have terrific law enforcement all across this country and they're doing the best that they can under the circumstances. but the american people need to understand that our country is more vol th vulnerable than evee and that is on joe biden. if you want to secure our country, if you want to make our country safe, we need new leadership in the white house. maria: congressman, we'll be watching your work. thank you, sir. >> thank you. maria: andy barr in d.c. we'll be right back.

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maria: welcome back. the mayor of denver making cuts to the city police force to make way for more funding for illegal migrants. cheryl casone with details now. cheryl. >> that is right. denver's democratic mayor mike johnson he defending himself after announcing a $46 million program for migrants while announcing an $8 million budget cut p for the police department. the massive spending plan in addition to another $44 million in spending for migrants in the city in place, 5,000 my grants migrantswere living they the shn january, the number has fallen. he insists it's a sustainable plan for treating newcomers with dignity. the fire department also facing a budget cut. the universities of southern california canceling the commencement speech after online activity. she is accused of promoting anti-semetic and anti-israel

views on her instagram school officials say the choice has taken on an y alarming tenor in recent days. she says usc is, quote, caving to fear and rewarding hatred, maria. and those are some of your headlines. back to you. maria: thanks very much. hundreds of anti-israel protesters storming the brooklyn bridge yesterday, delaying traffic, some burning american flags, chanting death to america. watch this. >.wow. joining me now is new york police department chief of patrol, john shell. chief, great to see you. thank you for being here. i want to say you and your team are trying really hard and you're doing a great job. i know that in some pockets of the city you're seeing declines

in crime and i want to thank you for that because i know you and your team are working hard on it. how did your officers handle that situation with the death to america chants, burning the american flag? >> we don't like the rhetoric. we have to stay impartial which we do. we have to honor the first ament and let them get their voices out. to the extent we can, the lawless behavior like you saw on the bridge two days ago, jumping on the roadway, we'll arrest you when we can. any acts of crime, violence, criminal mischief, we'll lock up. we have to remain neutral. we have to let them have their voice whether we agree with this or not. we've been dealing with every day since october 7th. maria: you can send them into a holding cell but alvin bragg will let them out again. we've seen the repeat offender situations over and over again. the manhattan da alvin bragg is touting a decline in new york

city violent crime. they said transit crime us down year. on monday, a man was slashed across the face at a subway stop by a suspect police say was known to them. in another attack a 9-year-old was punched in the face. here's president trump seeking out about the city's crime problem. watch this. >> we're making a big play for new york. this city, i love this s city and a it's got so bad in the thereafter three years. it's alvin bragg's fault. alvin bragg does nothing. he goes after someone like donald trump who did nothing wrong. there are hundreds of murderers all over the city. they know who they are and don't pick them up. maria: tell us about recidivism. >> crime, we'll say man hat a manhattan,crime is down this ye. it's down city-wide.

people like to say crime is down. but what people -- we talk about the perception piece. the perception piece is that although crime is down, people don't want to see random attacks on the subway, don't want to see murder parolees jumping with a gun in their waistband. why is a young girl getting you assaulted in port authority and we know this person and he shouldn't be you out of jail. the random attacks, that's what people get upset with. the numbers are down. you mentioned transit. in january we were up 45%, 46%. now you we're down 2%. that's a collective team effort because public safety is a team sport. cops did a great job getting it down. the public doesn't want to see recidivism, repeat offenders. crime is coming down. but not coming down fast enough. the math had d doesn't equal.

that's repeat offenders. maria: do you feel like the city is safe? the numbers say what the number say but i've got to tell you, walking around the city, i don't feel safe. >> look, we are the safest big city in they the world. we are. maria: had doe doesn't feel t. >> i'm not going to tell you how to feel. how do i make you feel better? i think when you see our cops out there, when we're looking at the illegal bikes, vendors, homeless encampments, you don't want to open the sunday paper or the daily paper and see this person randomly attacked a woman, been arrested four, five times in the past. why is he out in the street. i think that makes you feel unsafe. i don't want to tell how you feel. maria: that's why i began the interview thanking you and the force. i know he the cops are doing n a incredible job. at the same time the das are not and you're talking about repeat offenders. it's happening over and over of again which tells me this is all

about policy. bad policy. >> well, it's -- maria: like the parole program. >> parole, there's a change in parole, it's hard to get someone violated these days. years ago if someone violated the rules they had to follow, be home by 9:00, don't take drugs, we don't violate them much anymore. that a adds to the perception piece. we've got the judges. the judges play a big role in this. a lot of time the da takes a hit but they ask for bail and they don't get it and the judges don't do what they're supposed to do so i do know the judges are on -- they're going back to judicial review as we speak which is a good thing but all the stakeholders -- public safety is a team sport h. maria: what do you want to say about the squatter horror story. a man who has not paid rent in six years now subletting the new york city apartment. the law is protecting this behavior. a city program offers free

lawyers to tenants facing eviction which includes squatters, all paid for by tax dollars. how is it even a blurry line? how is it even a gray area that somebody can go into your house, squat there, sit there and not come out and then think he's going to sue you to steal your home? >> for user us, this is the 30 y rule -- if someone says i lived here, lived here 30 days, it's hard to get involved and it becomes a civil matter. as a homeowner i wouldn't like it either. i think it's in discussions. i think everyone is on board, this had has to be changed. maria: why are we having a discussion? governor ron desantis took action right away. he said you know what, you go into someone's home and try to ststeal it, that's a felony. why can't we do that in new york? it's a sanctuary city. >> the lawmakers, i lead the -i leave the conversations to them.

for the police department it's what hard to come to someone's house it's hard to differentiate who lives here, who doesn't. we refer that to the tenant landlord court. that's all we can do in the situation. the law change, i leave that to them. maria: what is the one most important thing you feel you're battling in the city with regard to crime. >> repeat offenders. and we're talking about the retail theft, the random attacks, the retail theft, crimes that shouldn't be happening committed by the same person over and over. if we took care of that piece, again weed be talking about something else today. maria: great to have you. thank you for your work. >> i'll tell the team. maria: patrol chief john shell. we'll be right back.k. (♪) (♪) (♪)

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maria: welcome back. the speaker of the house mike johnson facing more challenges to his leadership after congressman thomas massey said he will co-sponsor congresswoman marjorie taylor greene motion to vacate the speaker. here's the speaker yesterday. >> i am not resigning. it is in my view an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion. we're simply here, trying to do our job. outit's not helpful to thecounte

republicans advance our agenda which is in the best interest of the american people. maria: joining us now, congresswoman elise stefanik. great to see you. thank you for being here. what's your reaction to wase going on in the house right now and the challenge to mike johnson? >> well, first of all, i strongly support speaker mike johnson as the conference chair i oversaw three weeks of the process of electing a speaker under the unfortunate motion to vacate that removed kevin mccarthy, mike johnson was the only one that got through the process and had unanimous votes on the floor. we are they challenging times, the slimmest majority since 1917 and we're working every single day to hold the line and if you look at what we've accomplished in the house republican majority, so much of what we have done the senate under chuck schumer has refused to take up. we passed the most significant border security bill. we passed the most significant parents bill of rights when it comes to education, we stood strongly with israel. we have a number of bills we

brought to the floor, asitting our support of israel, condemning iran and as we see the squad and parts of the democrat party are anti-israel and anti-semetic. mike johnson is doing a strong job in a challenging time. i chaired the conference yesterday. the vast majority, almost to a person strongly supports speaker mike johnson. we know the way to save our country is this election year by electing president trump, flipping the senate from democrat to republican and increasing seats in the house. we don't need more chaos. maria: i know if president trump wins he will secure the border, he's been talking about it for several years. but can we afford to wait six to seven months in order to actually secure the border? why aren't we republicans having any success securing the border? >> you want to know why? because of joe biden. joe biden can secure the border with a stroke of a pen. chuck schumer and joe biden can take up and sign into law our hr2, the secure the border act. it i was joe biden's executive actions on the first days in office that he created this wide

open border so house republicans, we also sent over the impeachment articles to the united states senate that chuck shy you her doesn't even want to take up. the impeachment articles for secretary mayorkas who refused to comply with the law leading to the wide open border. ther american people know joe biden owns the crisis and they know house republicans passed the most he robust, strongest border security bill and conducted oversight of this failed administration. maria: and you're right, i think people do understand that. they also understand the ramifications of this wide open border so should you be now digging in and saying no money to israel, no money to ukraine, no money to taiwan until the border is secured, take up hr2, do it. >> well, we have said they should take up hr2. we have sent over the impeachment articles. we will continue to stand for strong border security but maria, when it comes to israel aid i disagree with you. we can have the disagreement. i think with our most precious ally under attack in the middle

east it's important to show the world because the american people understand it is important to support our most precious ally after they faced the bloodiest day since the holocaust with the hamas terrorist attacks on top of iranian attacks this weekend which are direct attacks on israel. the israel aid package i believe and we have he voted to pass that yet another bill that chuck should mere refused to take up -- chuck schumer refused to take up in the senate. maria: i i'm trying to understand why you can't get success in closing the border or securing the border deer. >> we have success in the house. maria: you've done an incredible job fighting anti-semitism and your support for israel. columbia university's president will testify before the house committee on education and the workforce later this morning about the schools' response to anti-semitism on its campus, chairwoman. you have an op-ed out in the post, the new york post. you say the house will hold columbia accountable for campus anti-semitism. you write the unprecedented and continuous attacks on israel's very existence have shocked the

conscience of the world. they also exposed the deep rot of anti-semitism that exists within our society and unfortunately no sector has allowed this rot to grow more than america's colleges and universities. chairwoman, what are you expecting from today's hearing and how will you get a change to this anti-semitism that seems to be spiking again? >> well, first of all, it's important for the viewers to know that the columbia president was in fact invited when we had that historic hearing with harvard, mit and penn and she didn't attend the hearing. as she looks at the past couple months as the earthquake and the two presidents became former presidents there's been a lot of preparation, she hired pr consultants, various attorneys to prepare today's testimony. that's not going to cover up for the failure of columbia university to fail to protect jewish students. tolerated and allowed professor who have anti-semetic consistent remarks targeting jewish students, it includes you

assaults they've not ensured rules have been applied. they have rules for where student groups can protest. they're breaking the rules. there's no action taken. we'll ask the tough questions. they're working overtime to try to cover this up. you saw an op-ed in the wall street journal and i my question though is they hired so many pr consultants to help the university presidents, how many people have they hired on campus to combat anti-semitism. the answer is zero. zero. i will hold them accountable. we will hold them accountable. maria: do you believe the dean of columbia should be stepping down? >> well, certainly with her failure to condemn anti-semitism, yes. that is going to be exposed in full at this hearing, no matter how much preparation, the facts are there. this is rampant on columbia and it's one of the dens of anti-semitism that's the worst on college campuses. maria: congresswoman, you've done an incredible job on this. we so appreciate your time and

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