peter doocy, thanks so much for joining us from the white house. thank you very much. >>> the covid-19 pandemic has delivered crushing blows, as we know, to the restaurant industry. members from the national restaurant association say restaurant and food service sales are down $270 billion from their expected levels. 1.8 million jobs have also been lost during the pandemic while 1 so 10,000 restaurants --110,000 restaurants are permanently closed or will be closed long term. but our next guest says things will be okay for his industry. we welcome cameron mitchell himself. great to see you, cameron. you see a little more optimistic. have we turned the corner? >> well, i'm a heck of a lot more on optimistic now than a yr ago today. but, yes, i think we have. we finished march about 90% of our same-store sales in 2019. we've got our weekend business is tremendous. we're still over 100%, we're about 80% midweek mainly due to lack of the business dinners out there. and business lunches also are still down. so the aggregate, we're about 90% back, and we

. >> related to their own peter doocy pushed white house press secretary jen psaki for answers on what ever it is the vice president is doing, watch. >> first vice president harris says she's not gone to the board yet because we have to deal with covid issues. what is she referring to? >> well i would certainly have to ask your team about that specifically. i would say also her focus is not on the border it is on addressing the root causes that is why the majority effort time has been spent on working with diplomatic level. >> it is those root causes us on a talking point. they do not think the border is the most important part of the border crisis? got it. let's make tonight's party panels are great when you got washington examiner senior editor, he is a political columnist american enterprise institute resident fellow, tim carney's back another senior editor this one from reason author of panic attack young radicals in the agent trump, rob a sauve cedar democrat posterior fox news contrary to the one and only jessica tarr laughed, welcome everyone that solve this mess, shall we? >> y

doocy. >> vice president harris says she's not going to the border yet because we have to deal with covid issues, what is she referring to. >> i would certainly have to ask your team specifically but i would tell you her focusus is nt on the border, it is on oraddressing the root causes in the northern triangle that's where the majority of the time has been spent on working with on a diplomatic level. >> her focus is not onho the border, who is watching the border. >> somebody that puts on a uniform and patrols the border on a daily basis, i can't tell you how disappointing that statement is, i wish i could tell you with a straight face that the american government has control of our borders, unfortunately i can't, cartel's criminal organization they control everything that is happening on the border, they understand what they need to do, they flood us with unaccompanied children and family units knowing that it overwhelms our resources and pulling our agents out of the field which allows them to create artificial gaps which allows them to smuggle in dangerous criminals and smugglin

today fox peter doocy tangled with white house press secretary jen psaki over what the administration is doing to stop this kind of thing. >> as the white house consider beating a border security now there's a video of a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old being thrown over the wall in new mexico? spirit beating a border security question expect there's video now of thrills and phibro. >> i've seen the video i think any of us who saw the video were incredibly alarmed by the steps of smugglers. once that we been quite familiar with that we have spoken out our concerns about as secretary said the inhumane ways smugglers abuse children will profiting off parents in desperation is criminal part and morally reprehensible. the president certainly agrees with that prescription the video of kids getting tossed over the border fence on the overcrowded detention facilities, when is the white house going to change their approach to this crisis of their own making customer care to comment on this is fox news contributor former acting directly or advice, thomas homan for good seo. the question that is hau

doocy. listen to this. >> first, vice president harris says she has not gone to the border yet because we have to deal with covid issues. what is she referring to? >> well, i certainly have to ask her team about that specifically, but i will tell you also that her focus is not on the border, it's on addressing the root causes in the northern triangle. and that's why the majority of her time has been spent on working with diplomatic level. ed: so her focus is not on the border, who's watching the border? >> you know, as somebody who puts on a uniform and goes out and polls the border on a daily basis, i can't tell you how disappointing that statement is. i wish i could tell you with a straight face that the american government has control of our borders. unfortunately, i can't. cartels, criminal organizations, they control everything that is happening on the border. they understand what they need to do. they flood us with unaccompanied children. they flood us with family units knowing that it

here's the exchange between president biden and peter doocy. watch. >> have you had a chance to speak to any of your international partners, any -- has president xi, the one you go way back with, have you had a chance to ask him if these reports are true that china maybe misled the world from the beginning. >> i have not had that conversation with president xi. thank you. maria: well, i mean, my question was, why not? why hasn't that conversation -- isn't that one of the most important conversations as far as china is concerned? >> well, i mean, i guess the question is, do you expect him to tell the truth if he actually knows the answer? look, there are enormous tensions in the relationship right now. i think people are -- people want to have more information about coronavirus' origins and because they don't have good information and they don't trust the information coming out of china, there's a lot of pushback on anything the chinese claim on this, so that's one source of tension. south china sea as you mentioned. this is a relationship that'

that's snippy and that's not what peter doocy was saying. let's bring in fox news contributor sean duffy, great to see you. this is just more than troubling and especially the reaction we are getting from the white house. what's your take? >> good to see you as well. we had this little peek into what kids go through. this was the end of probably eight horrific journey for those two little girls, three and five years old who you concede those that care for the children don't care if they are dropping them over this massive wall. i think what's happened here is simple, the white house doesn't want to change policy on the border because this is the plan on the border. they want to open it up, went to lead a rush of people coming and it's about expanding their voter base. they don't really care about the kids and the problems they go to on the trip to america. the white house knows children are read and sold into sex slavery are traveling with cartels and criminals and no girls are loaded up with birth control and that covid expands because of t

the number one priority of his administration, and then we learn this listen to exchange between fox peter doocy and president, watch. >> -- you have to act -- through china may be misled the world at the beginning. >> no -- i have not had that conversation with president xi. thank you. >> i have not had that conversation with president xi. my question is why not? why aren't we asking china about of coronavirus your thoughts. >> i cannot understands this i don't know how you have a conversation with the chinese communist party without confront about wuhan virus that spread around the world at the very lease, because when they first learned about it knew that there was real human-to-human transmission they covered it up authoritarian regimes do we can't let them get away with it. to think our president administration may not have confronted chinese about it an enormous mistake not only in making them accountable for what they did to the world past year now year an change but continued risk from laboratories biosafety is terrible, dangerous the risk of something like this happening again is

peter doocy asked joe biden the question a couple weeks ago, he said no, no, no, that hasn't come up. go figure. general, it's good to see you this morning. thanks very much. great conversation. >> great talking to you, maria. maria: we'll catch up soon coming up, the state of real estate, more people buying second homes as a result of the pandemic. how out-of-towners are driving locals outs of some of the cities. plus, a redesign for the new york times. why the newspaper is dropping a term from its pages, it's making a buzz this morning. we'll tell you about it when we come back. you're watching "mornings with maria," live on fox business. dignity. it demands a rapid covid test, because we all deserve an answer. it demands your heart stays connected to your doctor, so you know it's beating as it should. and a rapid test to help evaluate concussion, in case something were to happen. at abbott, we fight for these moments, developing life-changing technologies. because dignity demands it. ♪ ♪ ♪ when i was young ♪ no-no-no-no-no please please no. ♪ i never needed anyone. ♪ fr