 And welcome back to news on I'm Miranda Khan CEO and founder of Stock Swoosh Melissa Armo and attorney and Democratic strategist Ken Altschuler join us for our bipartisan panel today. Good to see you both Good to be here So we were just speaking with Ben Burke-Wam our contributor who is there on the southern border on the Mexico side of it Getting his reaction to what he is seeing on the border. They're still seeing that influx We've been covering the story for months now Sending him out there. We've also talked about recently that there were 50,000 people that were supposedly led into this country There's no way of really keeping track of them. And then we just got inside directly About vice president Kamala Harris's strategy. She just released that today. It's pretty much a One-page document if you will it seems to be a Little lacking there, but I want to get your thoughts on that Ken It seems to be and I just want to get your opinion on this. Is this just Regurgitating talking points that we've already heard from the Biden administration Well, you know, I've been I've been critical of the Biden administration and I'm a big fan of Kamala Harris But I've been disappointed with the way she's handled this her one trip to the to the border Three months after being appointed the czar was disappointing Yeah, it is talking points at least it's something But I'm not one to say, you know token gestures or progress. So I'm disappointed in it I think it is regurgitating. I mean, we know that you have to make the central America a more fiscally Responsible environment for people you need to get rid of graft in governments And the Biden administration has been doing something toward that end You know, you have to have some kind of policies with real results and real action So I give this maybe The plus I'm not really enthused by it. It's a step, but too little I guess I would say too little too late I'd like to see much more concrete plans and and goals in mind And I'm not seeing that and I'm disappointed and it's gonna hurt the Democrats in 2022 as I've said every time I've been on the show. We've talked about it Melissa Well, I agree with him that it is gonna hurt the Democrats in 2022 because this is a big issue One of the reasons it's such a big issue right now is because of the fact that we still have cove it these people are coming in They're not testing them. Some of the people have already said that there's people that have cove it They've been getting cove it going into Texas. Why aren't we testing these people? Why are we letting people come in from foreign countries when we still the pandemic and now they're talking about cases going up They want to remass people or in the middle of a pandemic whether or not they want to help other foreign countries We have enough problems here right now in our own in the United States of America I don't think we should be worrying about anybody else right now, but this country we had bad economic data that came out today Worse than expected and we'll see how the market reacts to the end of the week We don't need any more of these problems We want to stop cove it and when you have people coming in across the border And you don't know where they're coming from and you don't know what diseases they have and then they're shipping them all Over the place. They're not just coming into Texas and California. There's some some of the people They're saying they're sending to the middle country middle states and even New York well That's spreading coronavirus if in fact they have it, which of course, we don't know the people aren't getting tested But I heard cases That were in Texas that they feel like it was spreading in Texas that I think it was one of the local Sheriffs have talked about he said we didn't know yes, these people. Yeah coming We're that they were being released. I know exactly what you're talking about Which is why we mentioned at the top of the show that the governor of Texas Issuing that executive order saying that they can't just be dropped off here We'll continue to monitor that situation But speaking of health and we are going to get to cove it in just a minute But I want to talk about California Because it has now just become the first state in the nation to provide taxpayer funded health benefits to elderly illegal immigrants So california will provide 75 million dollars and disaster relief assistance This historic move is expected to cost california taxpayers at least 1.3 billion dollars ken You're killing me You're killing me this afternoon randa because this is another thing I don't think you give benefits to illegal illegal immigrants. I mean You've got to be in the country legally to get American benefits and and i'm all for helping people in need But you can't just make this an open pocketbook and particularly in california and particularly when they're they have a surplus because of government Funding because of covet and I understand you can use it for you what you want But no you can't give something to someone who's here illegally We have to improve the system improve the immigration system Get people processed quicker give asylum when necessary, but don't give handouts. It's not good policy It tax our economy and as melissa said we have some financial issues here Why compound it so I don't agree with it and as a liberal? I think this is a bad way to go I really am not in favor of it Well, keep breathing because we still have more to get to So melissa, I want to get your thoughts on that because there are so many americans right now that Can't afford their day-to-day expenses as it is. You know, you've already got the president trying to extend That eviction moratorium right now There are plenty of people watching this program right now who can't afford health insurance And now you have the people in california probably many of them who can't afford their own health insurance But now we're going to be taxed to provide health insurance and health benefits to people Who don't have the legal right to be in this country to begin with your thoughts If I was a california resident I would be angry about this because to be honest with you the health care system changed And insurance premiums went up and a lot of health care companies went under when the affordable care act went through That this is years and years ago now I mean the rates for insurance as a as a healthy single female I can't if I told you my rate you fall right off your chair right now because I own my own business If you work for a company you can get a cheaper price if you're in with a big group plan But if you're an individual or you own your own small business and you have to pay for health care The costs are astronomical and it's been that way since the affordable care act So that's across the board. But as far as california goes california is a disaster They are trying to do every an election to recall the governor there I don't know of larry elder who's running against him is going to win But he's got a shot. He's got a shot people are upset people are leaving california They are tired of this nonsense. They are tired of being taxed I think it's one of the worst states as far as these things go And it's hard to say that because I live in york and we have a lot of problems here The california has serious serious problems. They're losing residents who is going to pay for this One of the things about the illegals that are here I know some of them are working and some of them are working under the table and some of them are working with With ein numbers or illegal social security numbers that aren't yours. The problem is they're not filing tax returns They're not paying taxes. They're not paying into the system even though even though some of them are working here They're not paying in so it's really not fair to the people that do file every year and do pay in And they're paying tax every single week Well, I'd love to know for the viewers that are watching if you live in california Would love to know your thoughts on this or maybe perhaps you moved Away from california for the very reasons that melissa just mentioned there I know that's one of the reasons why ben burquam Who's on this very network left california and moved to arizona? So i'd love to know your thoughts you can always do that by Finding me at real moranda con and social media hashtag share your voice So i want to get into this and we're probably going to have to get your reaction coming up after the commercial break, but Obviously, I want to talk about covet. So as we learned yesterday CDC now recommending vaccinated individuals including children K through 12 or mask indoors We've talked about congress now enacting that Mask mandate all of this to protect against the new delta variant But according to the CDC director Rochelle Walensky, there's not evidence though when it comes to Justifying children masking in schools. Let's take a listen Now the delta variant Isn't making kids any sicker per se. Is it because the statistics as the studies have come back from children in covet? What from the uk, uh, what did we learn there some 99? 0.995 Of the 470,000 children in england infected Survived. I mean that's an incredible survival rate. The delta variant isn't making kids any sicker. Is it? We don't have any evidence that is doing So we don't have any evidence I'm going to ask both of you because we're coming up with a commercial break and I want to give you adequate time To respond to this because this is a story that's affecting Everyone in this country. So melissa can stick around. We're going to talk about that We're also going to talk about that bipartisan agreement that happened late last night on infrastructure As 17 republicans voting in favor of it including mitch mcconnell Not making uh former president donald trump all too happy what he has to say about it and wife for once I think him and aoc Are in agreement. We're going to explain that coming up. You're watching news on