temporary. finally, we are looking heavenward where astronauts victor glover and michael hopkins are in the middle of a space walk. apparently, they're getting ready to upgrade things, put some more cameras outside. as if, by the way. what is it with nasa right now and cameras? that rover on mars, the international space station could be looking at more than 20. happy saturday, everyone. i'm very happy to have you. i'm neil can cavuto. we're looking at developments here on earth and what's going looking from space at earth. first to edward lawrence who is, well, might be out of this world with his yeapt -- great reporting. [laughter] edward, you're following this new border surge and particularly how homeland security's going to deal with it. do we know? >> reporter: right, exactly. still on earth, by the way, neil. there's starting, actually, to be a showdown in places like this, the bus station. what's happening is undocumented workers are coming across the border as well as those seeking asylum, they're getting on buses going to places like dallas which is where i am now and other cities. i'm going to show you, though, exclusive pictures that fox news obtained. this illustrates the problem. there's so many people crossing the border that customs, border protection has to process them outside. this is a site in mission, texas. some get on the greyhound bus when released pending court dates. greyhound confirms that it has asked for more than funding to add drivers and buses to handle the surge. the administration to make 100% sure no migrant gets on the bus with covid-19. right now cbp does not test, and still the administration saying this is a challenge, not a crisis. >> this administration has made clear that we are going to pursue an effective and humane immigration policy and unwind what we believe was the ineffective and inhumane policy over the course of the last four years. that's point number one. point number two is we've made clear that now is not the time to the united states. >> reporter: and, however, you look at these exclusive pictures, it's the same number of people that are being apprehended now as may of 2019, the peak of the surge last time. texas' elected leaders frustrated. >> it's print sad, but it doesn't seem like the evidence matters. they've adopted this policy of open borders, and they're sticking with it despite the consequences of, you know, the spread of covid, human trafficking, increase in drug trafficking, increase in crime and just general chaos. >> reporter: the u.s. also seeing ap increase in the number of kids that are coming across the border unaccompanied. health and human services has 8800 in their care. now, we have not gotten an exact number from custom agents, but there are more. on monday house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going to lead a delegation of 12 lawmakers to go and look at those facilities the kids are being housed in. some of them are the same facilities, neil, that the trump administration got criticized for for using. back to you. neil: edward lawrence, thank you very much, my friend. now to a resident who is witnessing firsthand this surge because it's happening right by her property. emily lord king joining us now from texas. emily, thank you for taking the time. tell us what it's like there. >> so pretty much overnight once inauguration day took place we started seeing, like, increased traffic. we have had one incident in the past four years, and we've had daily incidents at this point with human smugglers. they try to get away from law enforcement, they drive right onto our property then scatter. of there's not enough border patrol agents or law enforcement officers to handle what's happening right now if, and they end up on our property. we're not safe. last week there were nine that got away and one that was caught. and, like, how do you sleep at night with that? how are americans not safe and these immigrants are coming over and we're not protected now? neil: so you were kind enough to give us some images of what you're dealing with on your very own property. you hear them, you see them or do you see evidence the next day that they've been there? maybe you can share that with us. >> so we will hear sirens from local sheriffs' offices and border patrol agents, helicopters will start circling searching for these people at night, and that's when we know, like, they're close. lock the doors and pretty much, like, take shelter because you don't know if you're going to walk outside and they're on your front porch or in the back of your truck or what. neil: you know, emily, we had a chance to catch up with democratic congressman henry cuellar who feels for what you're going through. and, of course, he and republican senator john cornyn had this bipartisan sort of powwow on maybe how to deal with this situation at the border, and it does appear to be a crisis the way you're describing it. but he had some advice when i was talking to him, emily, about what president biden should do. i want you to react to this. this is democratic congressman henry cuellar talking about what joe biden might want to do to address this. do you think it would be wise for the president to come to the border himself and see what you and senator cornyn have been seeing and discussing? >> absolutely. i mean, this is something that i invited president obama to come down here. i think any president should come down but really spend time also with border communities. as you know, the president sent a delegation of two secretaries and a whole bunch of folks who were with the white house. they didn't talk to anybody. neil: all right. so far the president has not gone down to the border. are you concerned about that, emily? >> yes. i mean, if he were down here, he would see what these communities, like, we started dealing with basically overnight. i mean, it has been fairly quiet and peaceful for, you know, i'd say the last 2-4 years. and overnight there's, you know, smugglers everywhere, your fences are torn down. he's welcome to come down and help mend a fence and keep our livestock in or help protect my house because now i don't know who's on our property. neil: emily, the white house is reluctant to call it a crisis, so let me ask you. you're there. you're right at that border. to you, is it a crisis? >> yes. you know, how do you go from having one incident -- i'm just one resident on the border -- to having, you know, we've had five or six. we have them daily, like, you know? how do you say that that is not a crisis? like, things changed overnight, and there's got to be a better solution than this ca chaos. neil: emily lord king, thank you. emily, you have a beautiful family. hang in there. southern texas rancher just simply trying to live on her own property without some of the hassles that have picked up considerable steam over the last few weeks. we'll keep an eye on that border, give you any sense of change coming out of the administration. how they hope to address that. in the meantime, talking about that $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, as you know, the prime minister did sign it into concern the president did sign it into law, but what might make that price tag look cheap. david spunt with more from wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: neil, good morning to you. president biden will spend a few days at his home in wilmington the, delaware, then he'll hit the road to georgia and suburban philadelphia to tout that nearly $2 trillion covid relief package, this as those $1400 direct payments are going to be going to americans as soon as this weekend. as you mentioned, it is what is next on deck for president biden and for democrats in the house and senate that many want to know what's going to be on the agenda. and while it's not crystal clear what'll come next, we know the president and the democratic-led congress have several priorities including infrastructure, health care, climate change and immigration reform to mention a few. with democrats in control of the white house, the senate and the house, it's entirely possible the president can get through his plans for those topics even though there's a thin majority in both the house and senate. house budget chairman john yarmuth, democrat from kentucky, recently quoted in the hill publication saying the next presidential package may be a, quote, kitchen sink or grab bag of priorities. the white house not holding back on priorities like climate change, also looking at the possibility of immigration reform. president biden was waiting to give this joint session of congress, traditionalally what the president does in his or her first year of office, he's been waiting to do that, we're told he's going to do after this covid relief passed. possibly that's when he'll mention his next priorities on deck. neil? neil: all right. david, thank you very much. david spunt traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware. by the way, the democrats, of course, are taking full advantage of controlling the house, the senate and the presidency. they talk a good game on bipartisanship just as in the early days of the administration republicans did as well. but it never works out that way. why is that? and why are some future bills being consider by democrats, only by democrats? after this. ♪ neil: do you know whether the administration is negotiating with republicans to get their support on infrastructure or on these tax increases? what? >> yeah, so the tax increases are coming, there's no question about it. they don't intend to have discussions with republicans. they've made it very clear based on this covid package they don't see a need to have any conversation with us. and maybe on the tax side for good reason. you wouldn't raise these taxes in good economic times,. much less trying to recover from a pandemic. neil: all right. kevin brady is darn sure convinced that democrats are going to continue to take advantage of running the table now that they control the table, all the a table, house, senate and the white house. and maybe talk a good game about bipartisanship, ram one piece of legislation after another including what could be a $2-3 trillion infrastructure package, a host of others that will probably come with tax hikes as well to help pay for it. reid wilson is the hill correspondent, joins us now. reid, it wouldn't surprise me, obviously, a party in power likes to take full advantage despite talking of bipartisanship. but to the degree democrats might be willing to go with pushing, what do you think? >> yeah. this is a -- there are a couple of things going on here. first of all, the two parties are more homogeneous than they ever have been. republican from alabama and republican from washington state are as ideologically coherent as at any time, you know, something that didn't exist in the last 20, 30, 40 years. there's an element of performance, political performance as well. the two sides don't want to give the other side a win, so they're going to withhold as many votes as possible. and also, neil, i've got to say i see a level of anger in congress itself that has built after the january 6th insurrection especially in the house of representatives, members are just, they're angry at each other. neil: how far does that go though, reid? if, indeed, democrats are seizing on this narrow majority they have in the house, dead even in the senate, to exploit that to the full degree, that would presumably include these tax hikes beyond the ones that the president has already announced, right? the hike in the corporate tax to 28% from 21%. but this seems to be much more than that. >> i think it all comes down to what moves next in the house. if they decide their priority is going to be immigration reform, there's no real tax conversation around that. the conversation might end up being around the burden on businesses about a program like e-verify. on the other hand, if you're talking about infrastructure, speaker pelosi said within the last week that the democratic package would have to have some pay-fors because some of the moderate democrats are starting to get anxious about the debt and deficit. so in that case, you could imagine sort of a rethinking of how those taxes and are levied. interestingly, it appeared last week that republicans opened the door to some kind of carbon tax which is noting something they've been historically open to in the past, but they think that may be a way to pay for some of the transportation package which is, of course, historically a pretty bipartisan bill. neil: yeah. you know, could there be something beneath this though that you're not missing, but maybe i am, that there might be a deal in the works where i know when barack obama became president, he promised that he was going to reraise the top rate back to 39.6% but held off. economic conditions warranted it, he was trying to get help on the health care act, that it was pushed back. is there any sense that you have that president biden, the white house in general might push back some of these preplanned tax hikes to get republican support for, let's say, things like infrastructure? >> yeah, i think that's possible, and i think kevin brady raised a good point in that clip that you played. the fact is, and to your point earlier, the democratic majority is narrow in the house of representatives and dead even in the senate, and when you're dead even in the senate, you've got to talk to guys like joe manchin and bernie sanders and get them on the same page. in the house there's a substantial coalition of moderate members in swing districts who aren't going to want to vote for a tax hike and aren't going to want to see those republican ads that congressman x voted for tax hikes. democrats are already anxious about the 2022 midterm elections, they don't want to give republicans any more ammunition than they absolutely have to. neil: you know, i know a lot of the surveys say that americans, two out of three, overwhelmingly like the $1.9 trillion stimulus, but to be fair to republicans when they point out some of the waste in that or the features that have nothing to do with covid or, furthermore, are years out, then that view changes a little bit. but the republicans have been countering whatever good stuff democrats have been saying about stimulus. where does this stand, do you think, and where's it going in the public eye? because that's going to be crucial for some of these other pieces of legislation. >> absolutely. and this is the big thing that president biden learned as vice president biden a decade ago when the obama add mrgz -- administering, when president obama signed the recovery act, the americans -- i can't remember the exact name, but, you know, the $800 billion after the financial crisis. they sort of signed it and then just assumed that it would work and didn't bother to sell it. that failure to sell the bill to the american public ended up costing democrats in the 2010 midterm elections when, of course, republicans famously delivered the shellacking. so i think you're going to see president biden and members of the administration fanning out all over the country really trying to sell this $1.9 trillion package much more aggressively than president obama did. and now we'll see if that pays dividends, but they're starting from a really high mark here. as you say, somewhere around two-thirds, three-quarters of americans like this bill, they're going to like it a lot when so many of them get $1400 checks in their bank accounts. so democrats start with an advantage, but what's the old cliche, you know, a week is a lifetime in politics. how many people are going to remember this particular bill from march 2021 when it comes time to cast their vote in 2022. neil: that's a very good point. reid wilson, the hill correspondent, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> thanks, neil. neil: all right. reid touched on these $1400 stimulus checks that are coming. some of you might have them already if you have direct deposit. that's the great news. now, here's the bad news. almost every major thing to you buy has gotten more expensive. sorry, have a nice day. we'll have more after this. 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