number of migrant kids remained in custody but the biden teams are still not calling the situation, sandra, a crisis. >> john: griff jenkins is live near the border in el paso for us where we do expect to hear from a group of lawmakers a short time from now. the microphone is set up. i had a fat, you are on the ground they are. what have those lawmakers been seeing? >> hey, sandra and john, how are you? the leaders which by the way includes congressman tony gonzalez and el paso as part of his district. what you can see behind me, the press conference is waiting to begin after the tour and the visit, the briefing to lawmakers are getting. they started at the el paso central processing center resources told me they are at or near hitting their capacity levels right around us today or tomorrow, certainly this week. then come up they are going to go up to what is called monument three and get an overview briefing, a briefing and an overview of the high points. you can see here as we look up this mountain, that's mexico in the background and that you can see the border patrol agents up in the car. i think we also have our fox drone team up over mission, texas, and at rgb where i was yesterday. in the el paso sector, let me tell you about their numbers. the uac is up 144% and single adults are up to 231% right here where we are. that of course over the weekend is the big news. dhs secretary meyer chris tapping fema to help hhs house and received these children that are crossing a border in record numbers and that's what senator tom cotton said earlier this morning is proof that there is indeed a crisis. listen. >> the biden administration is sending fema to the border and they are by their own declaration admitting, it's a disaster. that's what it is when you deploy fema. a disaster. but they are not deploying fema to secure the border come to try to finish the wall or stop the migrants from crossing, they are deploying fema to expedite them, to waive them in even faster and send them wherever they want to go in the united states. that is the point biden border crisis. >> finally, they visit with a jaw-dropping number of those children, up 61% since january, a total of 9,457 a cross february. sandra and john? >> to that very point, what can you tell us those lawmakers will be able to see or view while they are when it comes to how those miners are being housed at our border? >> well they will theoretically be able to see everything and see how they are being taken care of and perhaps how it may be different from what the trump administration did in the administration, the obama-biden administration did before. because remember all the comparisons go back to 2014, and of course what we saw in 2019. but it's worth pointing out that dhs has yet to let any media or any press inside and so really, transparency is not part of this as far as what we are able to see. we have to trust the lawmakers when we interview them. >> john: when it comes to the texas border, you are like stopping tom connor's, you've been everywhere from el paso to every stop in between. what's it like across the entirety of the border and how does that compare to other times they've been there in the past? >> great question. as you can see behind me and el paso you have a land border but then when we were in the rio grande valley that was entirely the rgb sector which is 310 total miles of river boundary between u.s. and mexico. but what has changed when i've been here in the past in 2019, and i was in whereas across the way in 2019. i may go back again to tease it. it was in el paso in 2019 which is different than perhaps the absolute overwhelming exasperation of the border officials because back in 2019 they were trying to find solutions to really slow the flow. now during a covert pandemic they have more liberal policies and they are worried that if something doesn't change quickly this has no sign of ending. >> sandra: griff, excellent reporting on the ground there as usual, thank you very much for that. we will check back in with you and those lawmakers on the ground, we are expecting, john, to see and hear from kevin mccarthy and those other lawmakers shortly with what they were able to see. john, to your point about how these miners are being housed, we can only hear about it so far from here but then packed into close proximity, some of them not seeing light of day. tough conditions as the number of minors headed toward our border continues to surge. >> john: in 2019 it was a similar situation where the obama administration wasn't letting us in. i got to know that then secretary of dhs and i implored him on a personal level to let us in. if you don't have anything to hide, let us take the cameras in. unfortunately south of mcallen, or just west of mcallen, we were able to get in. keep up the pressure and sometimes they open the door. we will see. >> john: a fox news alert, new concerns over new york governor andrew cuomo's administration after reports that his vaccines are couch county and executives to determine their loyalty to the governor. this as more call for the governor to resign or be impeached. we have complete coverage and in just a moment we've talked to senator daphne jordan who has introduced legislation to help hold that cuomo and his aides accountable in the nursing home scandal. but first brian yoon is who joins us live from brooklyn. >> "new york times" reporting that two unnamed county executives say that the man in charge of disturbing vaccines in new york larry schwartz called him to gauge their loyalty. and one of them felt so uncomfortable about the call that they moved to file an ethics complaint. that person saying "at best it was an appropriate and at worst it was clearly over the ethical line is acting counsel because the claimant "patently false. in the meantime 26, nearly all of new york's congressional delegation are now calling on cuomo to resign including now senator kirsten gillibrand who reversed course late friday. >> i believe that the governor has to resign. you know, every situation is different and the thing that is very unique about this moment in time is we are in the middle of the worst crisis of our lifetime. >> president joe biden was asked about this and for the first time he directly commented on the scandal and did not call for his resignation. listen. >> do you think governor andrew cuomo should resign? >> i think an investigation is underway and we should see what it brings us. >> house speaker nancy pelosi too speaking for the first time and she stopped short of calling for his resignation. >> john: i have an entire transcript of a briefing that cuomo just had and not a word about that scandal. neither one of them is talking all about covid and we will see if he says anything else about it going forward. brian lyness for us. >> sandra: senator daphne jordan joins us now. i should also point out to brian yanez report, governor biden not calling for his resignation, jen saki was asking about this in the briefing room just a short few minutes ago and she said, like everyone that continues to read these news stories end of elements they seem to be happening every day, the president but does find them troubling. we find them troubling, hard to read, every woman needs to be treated with respect. the president finds the investigation appropriate at this time. sort of backing up what we already heard from still not calling for a resignation. if i could just get your thoughts on this moment is so much continues to change. >> cuomo definitely needs to go and maybe it will take president biden to make that happen. i will give the governor this. he's entitled to due process regarding the recent sexual harassment allegations made against him but given the totality of all of the serious circumstances surrounding him, he has lost the trust of his governmental partners and the public trust. he has lost my trust. so let's look at what he's facing. he has seven credible accusers of sexual harassment including current and former staffers as well as a journalist and one of these accusers is actually accusing him of sexual assault. he is looking at an ongoing federal department of justice investigation into his attempted cover-up of 15,000 nursing home deaths. there is an expanding call for a probe into his questionable questionable book deals and he has employees not going into work at the governor's office and the only way i know why, they've been leaving this whole summer. his top aide in terms of a vaccine distribution is calling county executives gauging political support for the governor, basically setting up a quid pro quo environment. >> sandra: if i could stop you there on that very point because here is new york city mayor at bill de blasio on that investigation into the cuomo vaccine czar that he says is needed. >> what we heard about the governor and his team trying to link vaccines applied to political support is the definition of corruption. it's disgusting and dangerous. there are lives on the line and it cannot be tolerated. >> sandra: and so there's that and there's questions over whether we will hear for president biden to call for him to resign but there's also questions over why we haven't heard from more women on this including kamala harris. nancy pelosi still won't even say she thinks that he needs to resign. here is pelosi. >> but you are not calling on him to resign right now? >> i think we should see the results of the investigation. she may decide, hopefully this result will be soon and what i'm saying is the governor should look inside his heart, and he loves new york to come in to see if he can govern effectively. >> sandra: i wonder if she would be saying the same has this been a republican? >> absolutely not. she would have been all over any republican right now. it's just wrong and again, she is looking at just the sexual harassment allegations, there's so much more going on around him. he created a dark cloud around our state government and it's time for him to go. >> sandra: new york state senator daphne jordan, thank you for joining us this afternoon. so much piling up there and so much to take in. even as jen saki just said in the white house briefing room a moment ago, she and the president like all of us continue to repeat developments which seems like daily or sometimes hourly on this story. >> john: before the show in a discussion with one of our crew, he has got andrew cuomo a clintonesque ability to compartmentalize. he has all of this swirling around him and he holds a covid briefing as if nothing is going on. >> sandra: that's remarkable. and his twitter account goes on as if nothing is happening as well. >> john: we will see if he can hang in through another election. developing now, dr. anthony fauci says the cdc could soon reduce its recommended 6 feet of distancing rule for students in classrooms. >> does a study suggest to you that 3 feet is good enough? >> it does indeed. what the cdc wants to do is they want to accumulate data and when the data shows that there is an ability to be 3 feet, they will act accordingly. the cdc is very well aware that data are accumulating making it look like 3 feet are okay under sir in certain circumstances. >> john: the standard 6 feet of social distancing has become the major hurdle to schools as they look toward trying to reopen. just last week those three researchers wrote in usa today that they had recommended to the cdc and were working for the cdc 3-6 feet and cdc took the upper limit of that. >> sandra: you think about how much this could change things for schools and administrators, accommodating them to get more into those classrooms. you think about what those classroom looks like and it's tough for them to adhere to the 6-foot guideline so this could be really important change. >> john: cutting it in half would be a huge factor. >> sandra: an eighth grader fighting to reopen schools, sounding the alarm on virtual learning and pulling it at any mental health issue. she and her mother share their deeply personal story on why it's so important to get those kids back into the classroom. >> john: plus, the border between u.s. and mexico is a tidal wave of migrants entering the country illegally. coming up next we will hear from one of the men and women responsible for protecting our border about the incredible challenges that they are facing right now. >> the biden border crisis was created by joe biden's premises, amnesty and open borders and free health care for adults during the campaign, and that's why it has increased every month since the election. ♪ ♪ ppen. refiplus lets you refinance at the lowest mortgage rates in history plus get an average of $50,000 cash for the financial security you and your family deserve. refiplus, only from newday usa. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. at t-mobile we believe you should get more. isintroducing magenta max. to help manage your blood sugar. unlimited premium data that can't slow down based on how much smartphone data you use. plus netflix on us and taxes and fees included. only at t-mobile. the leader in 5g oh, you think this is just a community center? 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>> as you said, its location on the southern border sees different demographics based on the smuggling organizations on the south side and what they choose to smuggle and push across the border. in tucson we seen a significant increase of single adults over the last fiscal year, about a 206% increase over the same time frame last fiscal year. >> john: may have some statistics from border protection here, we wanted to put on the screen put and comparing fiscal year 20-21. an accompanied alien children encounters, 3271 and in fiscal year, you must sector, 464 and fy 20, and that's 104%. single adult encounters that you just talked about, is the raw numbers. fiscal year 20, 17,255 in tucson, 52,795 in fiscal year 21 and that's the 206% increase that you mentioned and an even bigger increase that the numbers are lower in a yuma. what's driving all of this? >> traditionally we seen tucson sector and comic experience an increase in flow this time of year and this year we seen a larger number of that. but we are equipped to deal with that. our men and women on the front line are adept and agile and we have it adjusted to meet that upcoming threat. >> john: do you know what percentage of people who have been crossing the border have been turned back? obviously the unaccompanied children dug and turned back but single adult encounters, how many are excluded? >> about 88% since we started operating under title 42 in the tucson sector. >> john: how does this compare to previous years? we looked at 2020 which was a cute low year in part because of covid and restrictions for cross-border travel. 2019 was a bad year in 2014 was about your as well. how does this compare to what you've seen? because you've been with border patrol for a long time. >> i have. we are not near our highest peaks of flow, we are very well is situated and we have wonderful technology laid it down here in arizona and we have great infrastructure and we have the right amount of people in the line right now. >> john: roberta erickson suggested that the promise of what she called a more humane immigration policy was partly what's driving this search. she said surges react to hope. of the people that your agents have talked to as they come across the border near the turn back or they are apprehended, for the picking that up? is that what you're saying? >> we have a number of different reporting sources for that and we've seen a variance of reports that we've received so i couldn't pin it to one underlying or overlying theme. >> john: but the raw numbers are increasing. at the moment you are able to handle it, how much longer can you hang in before you ask for assistance? obviously fema is being called into certain parts of the border. >> currently we are making adjustments internally and we will continue to do that and coordinate with our headquarters in washington, d.c. if we need additional resources et cetera we will ask for those at this time. >> john: at the deputy chief of the tucson sector border patrol, thanks for being with us. we appreciate a firsthand look of what's going on there. thanks very much. so sandra, there you see the difference between what's going on in texas which tends to be the hot spot in arizona. different demographics and different numbers as well. >> sandra: good stuff there and a sheriff coming on next hour telling a story about what's being seen on the ground. also on the ground you will see the microphones are up, leader mccarthy and those republicans are set to speak. meanwhile, many schools in california remain closed still. a memo showing schools considering is that covid really funds to hand out teacher bonuses, even encouraging a vacation. details on that. >> john: looking forward to that. but first g.o.p. lawmakers outraged after democratic congressman eric swalwell got to keep his spot in the house intelligence committee despite his past connection to a suspected chinese spy. a republican on the activity, brad wenstrup says swalwell can't be taught though mike trusted. he joins us in moments ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ excuse me ma'am, did you know that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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