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>> dana: thousands of unaccompanied children on the border. >> bill: the white house is saying these migrants when asked the question about it are just responding to a message of hope. >> you think it's a coincidence as soon as trump and his immigration were on the way out and biden and his stated policy were on the way that the historic surge at the border started? >> first of all one of the things i think is important we've seen surges before. surges the end to respond to hope. and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent-up demand. >> bill: th...

the surge and are encouraging smugglers to be bolder than ever. >> we've seen surges before. surges the end to respond to hope and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent up demand. so i don't know whether i would call that a coincidence but i certainly think that the idea that a more humane policy would be in place may have driven people to make that decision. >> harris: well, here is how many are coming. more than 100,000 migrants were encountered at the border in february. that's a 97% jump from the same month of last year. nearly 30,000 unac...

>> sandra: kristin fisher has more. >> president biden will be delivering his first prime time address hours after signing his biggest first legislative accomplishment in to law. this american rescue plan 1.9 trillion. now, remember, this was supposed to be a bipartisan package. in the end, it had zero republican support. now the white house is proudly calling this the most progressive bill in american history. that is not sitting well with republican senator john kennedy. listen here from this morning. >> we tried with president biden. he said look, i'll meet you halfway. we said ok...

he's not talking about the enormous cost of the immigration crisis on the southern border, at least not extensively yet. a we'll break it down, those costs a bit later. and we'll talk with republican senator john cornyn of texas. first up tonight, white house correspondent peter doocy live on the north lawn. >> the president hasn't said anything about the border in a week and a day now, all of his public events have been focused on the covid-19 including this afternoon. he talked about rival companies coming together to make the single shot covid-19 vaccine from johnson & johnson. >>...

with impeachment plans. we are going to have the very latest coming up. donald trump jr. will respond to all of this. who also have a full report from our crisis, and it is a crisis at our southern border. but first, on saturday without any republican support, the u.s. senate passed their own version of the $1.9 trillion so-called emergency covid relief bill. but unfortunately, this far left a spending spree, socialist spending spree, yeah, has next to nothing to do with the emergency relief. ted cruz, only 9% of the bill is actually dedicated to health care. some, by the way, foreig...