A man opened fire yesterday on f. B. I. Agents attempting to serve a child pornography warrant. After he spotted them on his security camera, killing two of them, wounding more. The bureau identified those agents as 43yearold Laura Schwartzenberger and we do not yet have the photograph of 36yearold david alfin who also was killed. Three other agents wounded. A live report from sunrise, florida, is coming up. President biden is set to meet with democrat senators at the white house this hour on his covid19 Stimulus Plan after suggesting that republicans counter proposal is dead on arrival. Biden told Top Democrats he wants a big, bold package and the party is prepared to pass it without republican votes despite the president s push for unity and working together. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Democrats are fast tracking a Stimulus Plan despite lacking any republican support as the president faces increasing pressure from the far left of his Political Party to act. But democrat senator joe manchin is warning against passing a bill along party lines. We are going to make this work in a bipartisan way. My Friends On The Other Side will have input and well do something we agree on. Im not going to do it just down the lines of saying party line vote. It has to make sense and if its out of the realm that makes sense we built too much trust up among each other to allow this to fall apart. They can count on me to make sure we do everything to make this bipartisan. Harris now post columnist Michael Goodwin wrote this. If biden is sincere trying to unite the nation there is only one option, take the gop gift, joe. Also in focus this hour republican congressman andy biggs who just returned from visiting the southern border. He will join me with a new warning on joe bidens move to dismantle former President Trumps America First policies. Our power panel on critics calling out democrats Double Standard as they push to strip a republican congresswoman of Committee Assignments and Lawrence Jones is here on the campaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom. They need 1. 5 million names. They have more than 1. 3 million. They are getting close to putting that on the ballot. First lets begin with larry kudlow, former director of the National Economic council and we begin on our top story. Larry, good to see you this morning. First of all, getting to the middle. Is that just a fantasy . Where should democrats and republicans and the president trying to get to at this point . Where should they be trying to get to . Well look, Michael Goodwin is a Friends Of Mine and a very smart guy. It would be lovely if we had a more moderate bill. In fact, im not really sure why we need stimulus because the cbo is saying 2021 is a big growth year. Imf is saying it will be stronger in the u. S. I think we have a vshaped recovery. We havent spent the earlier socalled stimulus or assistance and seems like minimum wage increases are job and prosperity killers if you ask me. So is killing the Fossil Fuel Industry and so is open borders. Which is going to be a job killer along the border. The logic here is completely wrong. One last point on this. There is a Turning Point here with respect to covid, which of course is the biggest driver. We have to get the economy and the schools completely open, okay . Thats not coming from stimulus. Now, the 26 million total covid cases so far, guess what . We have now over 33 million vaccinations. 1 1 2 million per day. So the vaccines are beating the cases. The cases by the way, are hooking down. These are all very positive signs for the economy. I would give money out if you want to help the covid process, to help solve the cases, to help solve the vaccination distribution. Thats fine. I dont know why we need the rest of that package. The gop moderates have a decent idea. Democrats are not going to buy it. Theyll run through. It is being pulled to the left. National review editor rich lowry, my pal, says the most leftist presidency so far after two weeks. May well be right. Well see. I dont expect miracles here. They will drive through their agenda. It will be counterproductive for the economy in the longer term. Harris i wrote that down. You know, i didnt think it would be a miracle it would take when President Biden before he became president said he could do this bipartisan. You see a push from senator joe manchin. Quickly before i move on. How much power does joe manchin have in all of this . He has a lot of potential influence. So does senator sinema from arizona. But i just think im not optimistic about this. You know, the democrats might lower the threshold for individual assistance, get it back down to 40,000 or Something Like that. But the thrust of that package is probably going to go through. I am concerned though, harris, let me throw this in before we move on. There is a lot of talk, Elizabeth Warren and others pushing for higher taxes now. Thats very counterproductive. Harris you mentioned arizona senator sinema. Before she was a senator she was known as a congresswoman for going with President Trump about 60 of the time on what he supported. You mentioned democrat senator Elizabeth Warren. Im glad you did. Renewing her push for a wealth tax, larry. She plans to introduce Legislation Slapping a 2 tax on americans with assets valued over 50 million. With a tax rate rising for higher asset levels. What does that do to the overall economy . It is a job killer. It is a prosperity killer. Look, the left has always said oh, tax cuts for the rich, the rich dont pay their fair share. Yes, they do. The rich socalled, however you measure that, the top 1 , they pay about 40 of the income taxes, okay . People in the middle once you get down to 50,000 or 60,000 dollars those folks dont pay hardly any income taxes. The trump plan lowered Business Taxes and individual taxes, lowered them and guess what . Incomes went up for the middle. Incomes went up for the lower rungs. You know. The geese that lay the golden eggs are the folks who are the investments. The best friends of the middle class worker. They start the investment that generates the productivity and new technology and new generation tools and equipment. That in turn raises productivity, that in turn raises real wages for families which is exactly what happened in the prior four years before the pandemic. Why unravel that . Its a religion, a left wing theory that has no basis in fact whatsoever. Dont go there now. This is a terrible idea. Harris larry kudlow, i could listen to you all day. You bring two things together. You bring positivity and facts together. Even if the facts are tough, youve got a positive plan to go forward. I wish you could just shout it from the rooftops. Well use The Faulkner Focus to put it in focus today. I have to let you go. Ill bring you back, i promise. If i got a second we should persuade the unity should be in Calm Persuasion, not name calling. Both sides need to get rid of the extremists who are violent prone. Lets grow the economy, help the American Workers and school kids. This shouldnt be that hard but i fear it may be. Harris got it. You said Calm Persuasion plus facts. Good to see you. The f. B. I. Is investigating now that deadly ambush on agents in florida that happened yesterday. Remember this hour we were telling you about it and saw first pictures. The shooting turned into one of the most bloody days in the f. B. I. History. Daniel alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger who you see on your screen. The f. B. I. Now is paying tribute to the fallen. Dan and laura left home this morning to carry out the mission they signed up for and loved to do, to keep the American People safe. They were valuable members of the f. B. I. And will forever be heroes. Harris Steve Harrigan is live in sunrise, florida with the latest. Officials are calling it a dark day for the f. B. I. This apartment complex behind me a gated Community Around a lake is where that gun fight went down. It happened just before dawn at 6 00 a. M. When a Child Pornography Task force was trying to enforce a Search Warrant on an apartment. Two agents killed, three agents wounded. Of those three wounded two were hit with multiple gunshot wounds. Theyre in stable condition in the hospital. The third wounded agent was treated on the scene. As they approached the apartment, according to miami herald, which cites unnamed Law Enforcement officials it is said that the suspect fired from inside the apartment through a closed door with an Assault Rifle hitting the agents. He was apparently monitoring their approach on a doorbell camera. A nearby swat team came in Armored Vehicles to join in the fight and headrest cue one of the wounded agents. The two agents killed are being mourned by the f. B. I. As fallen heroes. The f. B. I. Is a family. In our chosen profession it is fraught with danger. Today this grim reality has taken two of our best from our family. Those two agents leave families of their own behind. Alfin leaves behind a wife and one child. Schwartzenberger leaves behind a husband and two children. Harris, back to you. Harris Steve Harrigan, thank you very much from florida. Republicans are accusing democrats of a Double Standard for trying to remove a republican congresswoman from her committee post. 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Harris thanks jim jordan accusing democrats of a Double Standard over that your push to strip congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene of her Committee Assignments. Theyre meeting today on that issue. One editorial said miss greene won and judged how she handles in office. Democrats have pranks in the ranks. Ousting a member of congress has been left to the voters with the exception of criminal behavior. Democrats were silent when omar remarked Political Support for israel was all about the benjamins, which many saw as antisemitic. Some House Republicans are pushing an amendment to have omar stripped of her committee posts. It was pretty much crickets from democrats back in 2018 when representative Maxine Waters called for the public harassment of Trump White House officials. Waters chairs the powerful Financial Services committee. Power panel slides in now. Matt schlapp, leslie marshall. Double standard or Something Else . I give nancy pelosi and the democrats great credit. They will they control almost everything in washington but yet they will put the republicans on the defense for one member of congress. And i think this is all part of this cancel culture. The democrats are brilliantly trying to cancel the election from voters in this district in georgia by saying their selection of ms. Greene is somehow beyond the pale. What i would say is we didnt endorse her tear american conservative union. We were aware of some of these social media posts. She has the right to be asked these questions and to give answers if her answers are well outside the mainstream and voters in georgia dont want her to be their representative theyll send somebody else to congress. Thats how the democratic process works. Harris lets talk about what is going on on the left side of the aisle and compare these situations, leslie. Because, you know, antisemitic remarks count. They are offensive. So should democrats also be willing to kick out one of their own . I find as you know im half jewish, i find antisemitism very different than threatening lives and violence. I dont want to get any quote wrong. Here we go. Quote, put to death regarding the f. B. I. This is from Marjorie Taylor greene either liking these post. Hang them regarding former president obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton. She berated and called false 9 11. Hartland and sandy hook. Harris nobody is excusing this behavior. Do you let the voters figure it out both for greene and for omar and potentially for others . How do you handle it is the point. We all know what dangerous behavior and offensive behavior. We know what it looks like. Do you let the Voters Decide or do you want to take that away from them . You are not taking away from the voters their vote if she remains a congresswoman. But the Republican Party do have a responsibility not only to their party but to the nation and there are republicans among the Family Members of parkland and sandy hook who said they dont want her on the Education Committee making decisions for our children when they have harris if the voters want to be represented in the high profile ways. They didnt vote for her to be on the Education Committee. They didnt vote for her to be on the Education Committee but a member of congress. Let me speak to this. As far as being a member of congress is your ability to serve on committees. The thing that is ahistoric here is somehow the democrats reaching across the aisle no not unify but disparage and remove Committee Assignment in mccarthys conference. Its a fair challenge to republicans that part of our responsibility, which we i think have risen to the challenge with members of Congress Like steve king and others, there are times to reprimand your own colleague. If your challenge is to Kevin Mccarthy to look at what she has said, i think thats a fair challenge. My answer to that if i were if that question was posed to me would be all questions are fair game for politicians. They deserve to have to give answers about how they think and they deserve to vote. This is a premature attempt to smear the entire party after that terrible violence that occurred on the capitol. I think were trying to make politics out of things we shouldnt make politics. There is a system. Go through the system. Let her answer. If you dont like her answers, take her own. Harris let them all answer. I dont hear leslie saying lets not talk to omar as well. It would be interesting to hear from these people saying these things. Look how they do it in other countries, the videos that go viral with kicking knees in parliament. They can go around the tough issues and it gets tough on the floor of the house or senate or whatever. But just to stop the process is what i was asking about. Why cant you let it go forth