probably 100 million dollars or more business sales a tragedy -- atlanta o you predominant black owned they ought to stick to their knitting this fight hard top tax hikes on them stop regulatorily burned on them this is something they know a lot about, these are financial issues. you don't want to cripple companies through higher taxes and regulations, what that is going to mean if you do that? that means fewer jobs lower wages, all right. so it helps everybody it helps the owners shareholders the workforce, helps the stakeholders in the community who depend on some big companies, so i would say they should stay with knitting do what they do traditional business roundtable put out very good things for this go for tax issues go for regulatory issues maybe go for energy issues one of these you get involved in social policies you are going to be in trouble, because -- half your customers will like it and half your customers will hate it. that is not good for business. >> especially when you are talking about something that you didn't read the bill because there is that, no way you would h

the decision to hold the rally in atlanta sparking criticism. the president himself has been a vocal critic of georgia's new voting laws and supported efforts to boycott business in the state. georgia proved to be a he key state for biden in the 2020 election. futures are pointing to gains to start trading this day, big gains if you look at the nasdaq 100 futures, up almost 1%. this after president biden unveiled his american families plan in his first address to congress and the proposal calling for tax hikes. >> i will not impose any tax increase on people making less than $400,000. but it's time for corporate america and the wealthiest 1% of americans to begin to pay their fair share. just their fair share. i'm not looking to punish anybody. but i will not add an additional tax burden to the middle class in this country. they're already paying enough. dagen: joining me now, federated hermes chief investment officer, steven auph. also joining the conversation all morning long, steve forbes, who i know will have a lot to say about the speech la

really, throw everything what is going on, atlanta, cdc, covering rocket launches. scrupulous about it all. dan geltrude back with us. shana sissel is back with us. dan, we talk a little bit about the out of this world stuff, but i'm looking at the price tag on some of this spending, infrastructure, 2 1/2 trillion on the jobs act and all, how will we pay for all of this? >> what they're telling everyone is that we're going to have corporations pay for this. we're going to have cavuto and all his rich friends pay for this but the point is, neil, eventually you run out of that money and to me it is all about propaganda. let's look at the names they're calling this. the americans job plan. the american families plan. those things sound nice and they're popular. joe biden says these spending programs are very popular. start telling people the truth. this is spend us into bankruptcy plan. that can't continue forever and the reason it is happened to this point, neil, there has never been any consequences to our wild spending. sooner or later the bill will come due. at tha

jonathan seri with the latest from atlanta. reporter: hi there, neil. well the cdc is convening its expert panel of vaccine experts. this is an independent panel that gives the cdc, fda and other regulators advice in this case on how to proceed with the johnson & johnson vaccine. u.s. health officials recommended a temporary pause as they investigate a possible link between j & j's vaccine and a small number of women who developed a rare form of blood clot 6-13 days after receiving the shot. with only six cases reported out of the 6.8 million vaccinations now more than 7 million critics say the feds are being overly cautious and may unncesssarily frighten people away from potentially life saving vaccines but federal health officials say it's the safety culture that should reassure americans. >> jointly, cdc and fda were able to identify these rare events, and act quickly to alert healthcare providers and the public. this demonstrates that the safety systems we have in place are working. >> it should reinforce, in those individuals, how we take safety so

in fact, a day after the atlanta shootings he posted on facebook, we've all had bad days, but it never justifies hate crimes. and then we find out the day before he allegedly committed a hate crime against an asian-american woman in seattle. he was screaming vulgarities at her including asian b-word, punching his hands into his palms as if he was getting ready to assault her and her two kids. luckily, she was able to get away, but this was not the only instance that he's alleged to have committed something similar. another instance he allegedly cut off two asian women who were driving and a similar circumstance where he used vulgarity against them, citing their asian identity. throwing items at the car. they thought they were going to be assaulted and they, too, were able to speed away. so he has been charged with one count of a hate crime for the three instances. he just recently posted bail, and now he's out awaiting a trial. stuart: jason, this whole story story of hate directed at asians has been framed by many people in the media as white supremacy. i don't think the reporting is

leaders and lawyers, starbucks a board chair linkedin founder and home depot founder and the owner of the atlanta falcons participating discussing measures to take opposing georgia's new voting law. they want to build on the lender they say is signed by 72 african-american executives released last week so they need this second statement could come this week. many signing on to this next statement read to the "wall street journal". state and federal lawmakers in the companies are misreading the matter and also acting as a shadow lawmakers which they should not do but then you hear from the canned fraser's and others that instituted and really catalyzed the movement that we should not let up and that corporations should be speaking with their authorities. stuart: i would like to know exactly what they want to do about this, which at this moment to is unclear i want to bring in congressman jody hice from the state of georgia. tellis, what you had to say to these ceos, major-league public corporations which are taking a stand against you and your state? >> you know, it's preamble leave the ball. we a

protection, senators ted cruz mike lee josh hawley citing the league decision to pull all-star game out of atlanta in protest of georgia's voting law mlb antitrust exemption in place nearly a century essentially allows league to operate as monopoly. markets are higher this morning, as we begin the first-quarter earnings reporting season we've got big bank earnings he is coming out all morning this morning, dow industrials up 22 nasdaq up 47, s&p 500, up another 5 1/4 further into record territory, after hitting another all-time high, in yesterday's trading session, meanwhile, inflation is certainly in focus as federal reserve chairman jay powell readies comments for the economic club of washington, he will speak to the economic club this afternoon, that may very well move markets or create headlines joining me right now former a regular economist and author of trumponomics lavr here, dagen mcdowell, steve forbes get to see you art thank you for being here kick off with massive spending that we're seeing, okay? you've got another 2 and -- 1/4 trillion-dollar spending package calling infrastructure

league baseball all-star game is moving to denver which is 9% black versus half of the population of atlanta. it's black and crushed black-owned businesses. i think that that's where the republicans also can really win in talking about what are they doing for prosperity for all georgians. >> well, i mean, do you think the ceo's actually read the law, dagen? it's quite extraordinary. are they getting rolled over and bullied by the extreme left. dagen: they didn't read the georgia law and they didn't -- they have virtually no knowledge of laws in liberal states like new york that are more restrictive. so maybe they ought to, you know, bone up on that before they weighed in. they are becoming extremely political and so what does this mean? now all of the ceo's are going to have to say, oh, are you in favor of hr1, are you in favor of federalizing election law and taking power away from the states, are you in favor of the proact which has passed the house which gets rid of right to work laws? again this is crushing states' rights and ceo's are going to be required to express their views on feder

is about volting integrity and our election profits and i'll say major league baseball when you left atlanta it is about 51% black but you're move to them when is about 9% black. also i'll say look, those who want to pull out you're hurting african-american men and women and those young fans of your you're hurting everybody of all colors it is not helping because you're leading false narratives. >> look, georgia, georgia cam wasn't new law why? because people were questioning what happened in 20 vernon why did you need to come out with a new georgia law? >> well first of all, the legislature should have been the within who should be one to make laws in georgia election laws that's the problem. brian kemp staig city abrams and secretary of state they went into back room cut a deal manipulate election laws they can't do it only members of the general assembly what legislature did this time is came back and the law and put some changes in there went in the right direction but the biggest problem maria -- that the government failed again is that on again is -- that this election system they stil

the thing about dallas, texas, austin, atlanta, the places that have been boom towns we have a new normal here. once you have a flood of people moving from high tax states, it changes things forever. i think our new reality is going to set he'll in. it's going to be -- settle in. it's going to be interesting to see what happens. maria: yeah, it's true. obviously, you're in dallas but rob luna who is with us this morning, he's from california. rob, jump in here. do you see moves happening in california where you are to speak to what rogers is telling us? >> yeah, i mean i think what rogers is saying is definitely true for the most part. that being said, maria, i know the narrative is everyone is leaving high tax states like california. i think that's true. that's mostly in the upper end. when you look at the homes in california, starter homes, 4 or $5 million above, that's where you seem getting beat up. the 1 million, $2 million price range in california, there's still bidding wars. i think you've got to look at it across the board depending on your price point. maria: rogers, it's great