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Where are the tests? >> you know, i can't comment on where the funds have gone but i can say that we haven't done what we needed to do in terms of tests. part of that i think was last spring where the numbers were going down. looked like we were reaching an end game in terms of this pandemic. so you weren't seeing the same drive for testing. right now we're seeing how critically important testing is, how valuable it would be for children to be able to be tested, to be able to stay in school if they've been exposed, for people in the workplace to be tested if they've been exposed. it's very imp...

Every right to ask what happened to the money, where the money went and why they didn't get a test for their $82 billion. that is the subject that they can continue to try to bear down on here. with regard to masking, listen to this from scott gottlieb, the former fda commissioner. >> this is an airborne illness. a cloth mask won't protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. could protect better through droplet transmission but not like this coronavirus. >> martha: you know, people have been wearing cloth masks the last two years, doctor. where is the guidance on this ...

What i find fascinating about this is the $182 billion that went to school systems across the country and supposed to use it for testing and mitigation. president biden said we weren't too happy with what happened to some of the money. once we give it to them, it's their money to spend the way they want. why is it the only place that they're watching where the money goes is arizona? >> there's been no accountability to the unions for the amount of money that they've been given. they continue to focus on arizona. for some reason, this president is obsessed with masks and with mandates. he has a...

Thousands of pages of a massive $1.5 trillion bill to avert a government shut down on friday. it still is very important, bret. because it includes $1.6 billion in aid for ukraine. that's humanitarian and defense dollars with rare bipartisan support. the bill also will expand the u.s. defense budget here at home to $782 billion. that's a big jump, a $42 billion jump over fiscal year 2021. now, house democrats tried to move on a vote on this bill this morning but it was stalled by progressives. they are upset over the covid funding portion of this package. you will remember, bret, congress has ...

Trooper who says he was forced to resign by the texas department of public safety after returning from iraq disabled by his exposure to the open air burn pits. a group of bills currently on capitol hill and named it to pit exposure a presumptive condition for va health coverage. the cost, about $282 billion over ten years. in november, the va and white house made covering burn pit exposure a priority. president biden believes his own son's cancer resulted from it. it's taken a long time to get to this point but it is a big priority for this administration. the question is how to pay for it and...