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how the trifecta of inflation a supply chain crunch, the labor shortage could all hit you in the wallet and the stomach. >> will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [cheers and applause] david: america remembers the great dr. martin luther king, jr. and his historic quest for freedom and equality. his niece, dr. alveda king, will be joining me this hour. but first our top story this hour, new polling showing growing frustration with biden's handling of the economy. this as the white house trying to use its jobs record to push back against critics. hillary vaughn has the very latest for us from capitol hill. hi, hillary? reporter: david, when it comes to jobs president biden is giving himself a a-plus for what they are calling a record breaking historic, most-ever

jobs created in one year under any president ever in history. president biden: most jobs in any calendar year by any president in history. now i hear republicans say today my talking about this strong record shows that i don't understand, i don't understand. a lot of people are still suffering they say. they are. or that i'm not focused on inflation. malarkey. reporter: some voters though say he is not focused enough on inflation and the economy. a new "cbs poll" out yesterday says 58% of voters think biden is not focusing enough on the economy. 65% of those voters say he is not focused enough on inflation. when it cops to jobs some say biden doesn't deserve high marks either, as biden takes credit for the most jobs ever, 6.4 million jobs in 2021. some say there is a big caveat. some are pointing out these are

not new jobs but instead old jobs coming back post-pandemic. we're still 3.6 million jobs short where we were precovid. an adp economist nela richardson says this, the economy has not added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark, not one. all the jobs we've seen gained are recovered jobs that were lost. we're not producing new jobs. some republicans say president biden's bad record on the economy has been on repeat since he took office one year ago. >> he has had a bad year. he has had 52 weeks of bad weeks. i mean people are 7% poorer now because of biden inflation. things are not going well. and the president need to stop and reset and say, what is it he is trying to accomplish. reporter: also with the "cbs poll," david, people described how they feel under president biden's presidency so far. the top two words, disappointed and frustrated although one

bright spot in the poll for biden, a lot of voters polled said they do like him personally. david. david: there is that. hillary, thank you very much. meanwhile virginia's first republican governor in more than a decade is hitting the ground running. glenn youngkin immediately taking executive action on day one. mike emanuel is live in virginia with the very latest. he hasn't wasted anytime, has he, mike? reporter: absolutely right, david. good afternoon to you. governor glenn youngkin is setting a tone, showing virginia voters he is taking action right away on issues in his campaign. signed nine secondively orders, two direct and some includes ending use of divisive concepts including critical race theory, reversing mask requirements for schoolchildren, investigate wrongdoing in loudoun county. on the mask mandate, northern

virginia school districts fairfax, arlington pushing back. arlington tweeting, aps virginia will maintain the current mask requirement for students staff, visitors. masks required inside of our facilities and on school buses. here is the new governor's response. >> so i just hope arlington county schools and rest of the school systems around the commonwealth of virginia use this week to listen to parents and get prepared because we granted parents the option of deciding whether they want their child to wear a mask or not. we're going to protect that right. reporter: after his saturday inauguration youngkin's first interview was on "fox news sunday" where he talked about principles of critical race theory from school. >> we have instructed our board of education, i have instructed our secretary of education, our state superintendent of public schools to review the curriculum and get racially divisive and

other divisive teaching concepts out of the school system. reporter: as youngkin gets started it is clear he will have a fight on his hands moving forward with his agenda. david? david: he is. he has a strong staff a strong lieutenant governor in attorney general as well. mike, thank you very much. republicans paying close attention to the youngkin gameplan looking for ways to use it in their own races. joining me now is hugo gerdon, he is from "the washington examiner." let's start with education. that is really the issue i think safe to say brought him to the governor's mansion more than anything else at least. his main message have parents have the right to side what their kids are being taught in the classroom. we shouldn't just have to leave it up to the school boards and the teachers unions, et cetera. is this the key message on education? >> yes. i think it is. i think it is extremely important and it is what

governor youngkin is doing is to some extent a template that republicans can use all across the country because during the pandemic, parents all across the country have been seeing what their children are being taught. they realize that their children are being indoctrinated with extreme left-wing ideology. critical race theory teaches white children that they are irredeemably oppressors. that they are part of the privileged class, they can gnat make up for it, they in some ways have to @tone for being white. it teaches black children they cannot really be inheriting the american dream. it is not open to them irrespective of their particular circumstances that they are part of the oppressed. this is the idealogical poison parents were aghast to find being taught to their children.

the key thing here is what governor youngkin is doing saying he is on the side of parents. he set himself up in that way during the campaign when terry mcauliffe doomed his campaign he didn't think parents suggesting what their children are taught. he was siding with the unions and with the teachers and with those people who say do what you're told, not, don't use your freedom. you just played a clip just earlier on of martin luther king talking about freedom. david: exactly. >> i think what parents want is freedom. he is playing this. i think that the republicans all across the country are going to show themselves as listening to parents, listening to ordinary people and not being on the side of the sort of official dom. david: hugo, there is a specific policy that relates to all of this and that is school choice. this is something republicans have been talking about for decades. we pay a lot of money educating our kids in taxes and we should have some control over not only what our kids are being taught

in class but where they are taught, that they should be able to take the money that they spend to the school of their choice. if a school is totally out of control, they should be able to move the kids. do you think that is going to gain traction around the country? >> yes, i do. i think it is going to gain traction. i think that the idea that the money that the government spends on education should follow the student, not simply go to what is in "the washington examiner" magazine this week we refer to the educational cartel. you know the left and the democrats, you know democrats get a lot of money from the teachers unions. in return they essentially protect public schools at the expense of students. david: right. >> people all over the country are realizing that their children, not just being indoctrinated but they're also not being taught properly. they're not being taught to read properly. they're not being taught math properly. there is a growing movement

amongst parents, particularly actually minority parent, people who are less wealthy, don't have the money to put their children into private schools, but who think they should and they're right they think they should be able to take the money to educate their children where they're going to get a better education, break up the public system, break up cartels. let them go to charter schools, the money is not insignificant either. we're paying a fortune. in new york it is $30,000 per kid to educate. if you send a kid to parochial school it is six to $10,000 a year. it is 1/3 of public schools. we're getting a reveal exactly how much teachers are getting paid. teachers work hard, i understand that, they get the whole summer off, they get a lot of vacations off. in chicago right now a career teacher retires at age 62 with a starting pension of $72,000 a year.

it compounds every year and it could total $2.3 million in total retirement benefits. that is a lot of money. >> yeah. it is an enormous amount of money. teachers, not just teachers of course but administrators too. there is something going on for he can decades number of administrators go up with relative number of teachers. administrators have great teachers, they're dealing with children, they're looking after children, teaching children, they are a bit sort of like nurses, et cetera, who have a very high regard in the public but schools have been taken over by administrators. there are far more of them. a lot of them are left-wing idealogues. the teachers unions are greatly in control. they have fantastic deals in terms of retirement. most of us have to put our money into retirement accounts. we don't know exactly how they are going to be, how much they're going to earn. david: right.

>> they are guaranteed input but not guaranteed output. teachers are getting guaranteed output compounding 3% a year. they have better deal than people in the private sector. people are learning this. they don't like what they see. david: hugo, got to end it there. i was a teacher in chicago. i look at deals like that, i'm wondering if i made the best career change. i love what i'm doing, don't get me wrong. they're doing quite well with the retirement funds. hugo, we'll see more coming up this hour. thank you very much. straight ahead, honoring the legacy of martin luther king. we'll check in with commemorative services being held in atlanta. then martin luther king, jr.'s niece, the great alveda king, joining us right after the break. >> because i have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content

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commemoration church service is underway in atlanta fox news steve harrigan is live with the day's events. reporter: speeches have been going on for two hours. we heard earlier from the vice president. many organizers say this is linked to closely to voting rights. there should be no celebration of martin luther king, jr.'s birthday until action on civil rights. president biden posted a vido concerning this issue. president biden: on this federal holiday that honors him, it is not enough to praise him, to do his his work but deliver jobs and right to vote. reporter: brian chem will speak here today. georgia has been here in the news when it comes to voting rights for sometime going back to 2020. that is when president biden

flipped georgia in the democratic camp carrying the state by razor thin 11,000 votes. back to you. david: steve, thank you very much. bring in america first policy institute, center for the american dream chair, and niece of dr. martin luther king, jr., dr. alveda king. dr. king, wonderful to see you again. thank you for being here. appreciate it. what is the main message? the message that your uncle's life represents that most needs to be heard right now? >> david, thank you so very much. over at the center for the american dream with afpi we care about the american dream for all-americans. my uncle, reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. said he had a dream, the american dream. it is rooted in the american dream. that of course would deal with voting, with racism, and all of the issues that we are concerned about today. today i am boosts on the ground

in the neighborhoods of atlanta, georgia. we had terrible weather. some families in need, single mothers, seniors, homeless, elderly. so we're delivering food and prayer to the community today. i believe that is something that we can appreciate as americans. my uncle said that he dreamed after day would be no black power, no white power, only god power and human power. he said we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters and not perished together as fools. that is for men and women and children. that is a 365 days a year effort and we have to be busy building the american dream for all people regardless of skin color. i believe that the vote is important. i really do and i of course did march and go to jail in the 1960s as a youth organizer for all of these very important

causes. david: but you know a lot of people say that we kind of got derailed a little bit in the past couple of years from the dream that you just enunciated so beautifully of what your uncle said, what your life represented as well, the life of your family. it's a move derailment that we're trying to correct now or at least some people are, including the governor of virginia, the new governor of virginia. he spoke to one point at which we became derailed. that is the whole critical race theory, that is one of the reasons he got elected. let me roll a little bit of sound from him yesterday on "fox news sunday," get your reaction. roll tape. >> to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and another is disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin cuts across everything we know to be true. in the immortal words of dr. martin luther king ring in our ears we must judge one another by the content of our character, not the color of our

kin. david: does the new governor have it right, alveda? >> actually the new governor makes an excellent point. we have been derailed from the american dream and the dream of dr. martin luther king junior aborting 63 million babies since 1973. we have been derailed when you say to a caulkcation girl you are evil because of your skin color. you need to apologize for your skin color, apologize for your racism, the little girl, that is derailing the american dream. we have to come back together with human dignity from the womb to the tomb for everyone. we shouldn't be arguing over, for instance, did you take the shot? no. why didn't you take the shot? did you take the shot? yes. why did you take the shot? then becoming enemies over arguing over our health here in america. we have got to come together as brothers and sisters and not

perish together as fools. david: you know, i think if i was to think of one major goal of your uncle it would be that bringing together of america, not just of america but all people on the planet and right now there seems to be people that are so interested in their personal goals they become, make this country even more divisive than it was before. it is an end to that kind of division that we were promised by the current president but many many some of his policies seem to go in the opposite direction. >> we need to make it easy to vote, hard to cheat. we need to strengthen fatherhood in america. we need good education for all of our children. there should not be any hungry families out in the streets. that is what we're doing today, feeding the community at that. so we need to come together. my uncle, martin luther king, jr., believed in faith, hope and love for the whole human

community definitely in america. that is part of martin luther king, jr.'s american dream. david: you know, there was a great philosopher who passed away on friday. her name was alice von hill today brand, she had a good long life. she was 98 when she passed away. i want to read the quote from her in our dilemma rush to technology leaving god behind. the world which we now live is a world whose out look is so distorted we absolutize what is relative, money making, power and success and relative what is absolute, truth, moral values and god. we really got to get back to basics of truth. the basics of moral values and the basics of god. i don't think your uncle ever lost sight of that. >> he did not. martin luther king, jr., the preacher and the profit would say hurry back to god. get solutions from heaven, put

them in action. i do believe a day of service. we are serving the dream. as we serve the stream serve the people that need us most. that is a way to remember martin luther king, jr. david: great suggestion. dr. alveda king, wonderful to you here in this moment of remembrance of your great-uncle. thank you so much for being here. best to you and your family. >> thank you, god bless. david: god bless. inflation is gripping the country. so have consumers reached their pain threshold? what the ceo of target is saying right after this. ♪ i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 665 dollars.

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details. hi, madison. reporter: hi, david. so the spread of omicron has wreaked havoc on many industries, grocery stores not immune to that either, dealing with labor shortages. here at stew leonard's to avoid that, all employees are cross-trained. if one department is experiencing a lot of people calling out sick, they're able to move employees over or even to other stores. as you mentioned it is not just the labor shortage that these grocery stores are dealing with. take a look at this. in new jersey, other grocery stores from over the weekend. even when the stores are open, shelved are bare. certain items you cannot find or can't find the exact brand you want. stew leonard's has adjusted suppliers to keep the shelves stock. >> tropicana is a name. we find it difficult to debt tropicana in our stores so we have to pivot. pushing simply orange or stew

leonard brand, we will have oranges not just the ones you're used to seeing every day. reporter: the items you're buying are higher because of inflation. some in washington are blaming grocery stores for price gouging but if you look at the publicly-traded company markets across the u.s., albertson's and weiss, their third quarter profit margins were lower than in 2020. either way americans are tired of paying more for less. >> just the two of us and i spent $500 a week on food and i don't even know what i bought. i feel sorry for people with big families. they can't afford to eat anymore. prices are terrible. there is no reason for it. reporter: omicron labor shortages, david, it just doesn't impact grocery stores but impacts truckers that get supplies here. impacts suppliers that make different goods to end up on the shelves. all these issues add up to the current problem that americans are facing today. david. david: a perfect storm.

madison, thank you very much. have consumers reached the pain threshold? retail sales dropping in december. now the ceo of target warning that people will take fewer shopping trips because of inflation. let's get the read from national retail federation president, ceo, matt che. great to see you again. are you worried, matt, that inflation is now forcing consumers to pull back in their buying? >> hey, david, good to be with you. thanks for joining us we're here on the show floor in new york at the javits convention center. having a great show. we had target yesterday, john from walmart today. many ceos will have best buy and lowe's on this afternoon, ralph lauren this morning pepsi could yesterday. i think what we're seeing is that consumers continue to be in a very strong, healthy position because of the fiscal stimulus and because they haven't been spending money in other parts of the economy. the omicron variant has really

caused a spike in shortages in some categories because so many workers throughout the supply chain aren't able to do what they do every day for american consumers. the supply chain issues are going to persist for the rest of this year. it is going to take a while for inflation to come back down but we're hopeful as the omicron virus burns through the economy in the next six weeks that we should be in a much better place in the next month or two. david: matt, you mentioned the fiscal stimulus. precisely that stimulus that is one of the main causes of inflation. i mean you have the federal reserve buying up all of this debt being issued by the treasury because of the fiscal stimulus, that is causing the inflation. so, again, the cure for one problem seems to be the cause of another? >> that's, you're paraphrasing milton friedman's line feels good at the beginning but not so good at the end. david: exactly. >> we were certainly of the view while we needed some fiscal

stimulus in the early daves of the pandemic back in the spring of 2020, that what we're seeing and experiencing now is really demand shock. it is not supply shock. the supply chain was beginning to recover. consumers evolved their behavior but there is so much money out there in economy in, sitting on the sidelineses in savings accounts, consumers are really causing a lot of pull, a lot of demand on those goods and services. the supply chain was built for 3% growth on annual basis. we're seeing stuff like 30% in the past two years. so the way through this is get the economy moving, reopen all of the economy and get everybody back to work as quickly as possible. david: matt, the question how will you do that? because a lot of those fiscal stimulus programs have kept people at home. that is why we have 11 to 12 million unfilled jobs. you mentioned that the demand side with all the money printing. that is causing inflation but it is also the supply side. the fact all those unfilled jobs

are not producing goods and services. that's creating a shortage of supply. that is also causing inflation. >> that's right. we don't have enough workers participating in the economy now. the workforce participation rate is not high enough. we need more people to get off the sidelines and come back to work. i think that begins to happen as some of these benefits expire and as we really force everyone to get back into the economy and go back to work. as the season goes on we're hopeful that happens. the labor shortages are real. they're due to omicron. they're due to the benefits packages out there creating disincentive to work, you're absolutely right, and that will take some time to resolve. david: matt shea, hang in there, brother, thanks for being here. >> thanks, david. david: identifies at the hostage-taker at the texas synagogue. what we're learning about him straight ahead.

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♪ david: we're learning more about the hostage-taker in the texas synagogue standoff over the weekend. fox news correspondent dan springer live from colleyville, texas, with more. dan. reporter: hey, david. the fbi which by the way is still on scene here at the synagogue said in a statement yesterday they believe the hostage-taker acted alone but then late last night manchester police in the uk arrested two teenagers and they say that they are connected to this case in some way. they're being questioned and still in custody. the ordeal lasted by 11 hours. the gunman took over the beth israel congregation during the saturday service. he held four people hostage including rabbi. halfway through he let one hostage go. the other three later ran out unhurt. the hostage team wept in in, there was gunfire. he was killed.

he is 44-year-old, malik faisal akram. he arrived two weeks ago. he went into homeless shelter and bought a gun on the street. demanded release of aafia siddiqui, serving a 86 year service, 20 miles from the synagogue. she is known as lady al qaeda, convicted by a jury in 2010 trying to kill u.s. officials in afghanistan. the fbi is calling the siege a terrorism related matter which the jewish community was targeted. no one is saying why akram picked this synagogue but could be proximity to siddiqui's cell. the rabbi was thankful to be alive and thanked law enforsment the for job they did. he thanked the community network that provides active shooter training to him and other synagogues in the u.s. in the last hour of our hostage crisis

the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening. without the instruction we receive would not be prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself. axe akram's brother took to social media and condemn what he did and said his brother was suffering mental illness issues. david: of course, david, there were the other arrests in england. we wait to see what happened there. how they were connected to him. new york mayor eric adams insisting the subway is safe despite a weekend where a fatal shoving incident took place. listen to the mayor. >> we know that public safety is not only actual but it is perceived and when you have an incident like this the perception is what we're fighting against. this is a safe system. because of the job that the transit officers have carried out and what this chief has done in this system. we're going to continue to

enhance, to deal with the mental health crises that we have in our system. david: let's bring in new york city council minority leader joe borelli for reaction to this. joe, i'm sorry, but a woman is butchered in a new york city subway by a monster who has a rap sheet a mile long and this new mayor calls it a perception of fear? it is not aer is exception of fear. it is reality of fear based on him and others like him that are still on the streets and in the subways of manhattan. >> of course, david. no new york can tell with you a straight face that subways safety has gotten any better after eight years of bill de blasio. certainly the actual crime data and crime statistics indicate that things have not been in as safe as they were in the past. i hope eric adams remembers the people who elected him. he is someone who made a

conscientious choice, correctly by the way, speak to majority of the new yorkers, not listening to the far left, the regular new yorkers, want a proactive, responsible, efficient police force, to investigate, prosecute and purity people like this in confined conditions. if he doesn't deliver on that, unfortunately his mayoralty might be as bad as the last guy. david: joe, for those who don't know, this city used to be one of the safest cities in the world, in the entire world. now you can walk down any city street and see an individual that is just as frightening, just as much of a powderkeg as this person who pushed that poor innocent woman into the subway. she died as a result of that. this perp should have never been out on the street, period. i don't care if he was crazy. he was not only endangering others, he was endangering himself. he had a big rap sheet as i said before for violent crime in the past. you can't put this off on a perception of fear as the mayor did. i mean that's really

extraordinary. >> no, it is extreme. look again, new york has always had heinous crimes. the difference in the past two years or three years the democratic elected fishes that govern this made a conscientious decision to pay more attention to bail reform, pay more tanks to reforming the police department, to defunding the police department, to ham perking cops hard work than they do to potential victims and to new yorkers who have to unfortunately live in fear of this type of mentally ill criminal. it will take really some sort of action from the part of regular new yorkers, elsewhere in this country to continuously ask the democratic party why does 99% of your time, why do all of your energies, why do all of your resources constantly go towards talking about protecting criminals, inmates, people accused crimes and why don't they spend time worrying about

victims and you will all the victims that come as a result of their policies? that is the reckoning that the democratic party with regular americans. david: joe, the fact it its happening all over the country. wherever you have one of these soros prosecutors we got in new york with alvin bragg, you have it in los angeles, san francisco, milwaukee, chicago, all of these radical prosecutors who let people like this perpetrator out on the street to harm or kill other innocent citizens in the united states, you're going to have this problem. i don't know if this mayor has the backbone to stand up to the prosecutors, to stand up to the city council or albany where these crazy bail laws were constructed. i mean you have to have somebody with real backbone. this mayor came in. we thought he had it. he was a former cop. he is sounding the right thing but he is not walking the walk. >> he has the mandate. he has the public's backing to do almost everything you're talking about. he has the public's backing to go against bail reform.

he has the public's backing against alvin bragg. if he came to the state legislature or the city council, you know what? we are being proactive with our police department and we saw results but people like alvin bragg aren't going to prosecute low level crimes, low level meaning armed robbery, then it's a whole different ballgame. david: right. >> i hope we take the mayor at his word. i hope he starts putting the things he said on the campaign trail into practice. we need to see more police officers, we need to see more proactive police department. and we need to see more cases and criminal actions being solved and people put in jail. that is what has to happen. make no mistake, he wants to bring the swagger back to new york. new york relies on 1.6 million commuters per day, about half a million tourists and visitors every day. they will not come back unless the subways feel safe. david: i don't mind swagger as long as backed up with action.

to call the murder of that woman perception than reality. we have to take the monsters off the street because they are on the street, they are threatening and killing innocent citizens and it has got to stop. this mayor has to use different language right now. he is in la-la land right now. he has to get back to reality. i was hoping it is there, looks like he is not yet. joe, thank you very much. good to see you. killing the competition, coming up a new allegation saying big tech ceos tried to do just that. ♪. [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, things work the way you wish they would. and better protection costs a whole lot less.

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♪. david: well new bombshell allegations accusing big tech ceos of working together to rig the online ad space. jackie deangelis has all the details. hi, jackie. reporter: good afternoon, david. this is an ongoing suit, right? it is led by texas attorney general ken paxton joined by a dozen state attorneys general as well. this complaint alleges that alphabet and meta subsidiary facebook essentially worked together to rig the advertising market. remember ad revenue is the big driver of these companies bread and butter t points fingers at google ceo pichai and meta ceo

mark zuckerberg that they signed an agreement allegedly that facebook would bid and win a certain amount of ad auctions. google spokesperson says the complaint is, quote full of inaccuracies and lacks legal merit. a meta spokesperson said this, facebook responding to it, meta's non-exclusive bidding agreement with google and similar agreements we have with other bidding platforms helped to increase competition for ad placements. these business relationships enable meta to deliver more value to advertisers while fairly compensating publishers resulting in better outcomes for all. note the word choice here, david, meta is saying these agreements increase competition, when over the last few years washington is questioning if tech giants dominate, control their market can essentially using their size as an unfair advantage. whether new allegations have

further scrutiny will be seen. i will keep you posted. david: wonderful how language can be turned around the way they do that. jackie, appreciate it. twitter meanwhile permanently suspended account linked to iran supreme leader after the account shared video depicting assassination of former president trump. hugo gurdon back with us now. some people say better late than never. i say what took so long. what would you say, hugo? >> the account should have been suspended a long time ago as should the accounts of various other dictators to. i believe the accounts of north korea is still up there. the extraordinary thing here is that you know, twitter says that it has certain standards and that they often they fight those standards. for example, when they take down peoples accounts for spreading misinformation or incitement of violence of the oddly enough the dictators and tyrants abroad have been largely untouched until now.

and that, the standards are usually applied for invoked at least to silence people who twitter's very left-wing staff presumably want to silence. david: yeah. >> so the double standard is been very apparent for a very long time. david: it has. let's bring it beyond twitter but include twitter in the mix as we head toward the midterm elections, what facebook in particular is trying to avoid is what happened in 2016 where the trump campaign very effectively used social media to push their case. a lot of people say it was the secret sauce to their winning that election. facebook wants to avoid that happening again. they're clearly on the left of the political spectrum. so is twitter, even more so. that's why a lot of people say what happened to all of the so-called conservative social media, the parlers, et cetera,

why haven't they gained more traction? will they in the run-up to the election in 2022? >> well, i suspect that the it will. you know as people's political interests intensifies towards the election i suspect that they will get more traction but obviously you know, when a short time ago various companies, for example, amazon, which controls the cloud, you know, shut down parlor's ability and essentially closed that thing down. you know, there are efforts being made to provide conservatives with alternative social media platforms on which to express their views and debate issues, et cetera but you know, the, all of the major social media companies are very much, very strongly biased towards the left. all of their staff are and you know, people say, oh, it is the algorithms that control the

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relief, fox's congressional correspondent aishah hasnie has the latest from the capital. i say so-called because we know a lot of the programs had nothing to do with covid-19. even if they say so. >> good afternoon this is a bit of déjà vu with what happened last year, democrats are focused on trying to pass parts of the build back better plan, they just need a vehicle to land them 51 votes to get it done. they could try to attach parts of bbb like paid leave with another big covid relief package something that would include covid money but also money to fund the government which is bracing for a potential shutdown next month congress as you know has passed $6 trillion in covid relief so far the early spending with bipartisan blaster democrats passed the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan, they did it without

republican support, they did it by themselves and that package included a number of the president social spending priorities, now with the rights of omicron all the testing issues across the country and businesses scaling back democrats have been talking about sending out another big shot of money. >> i would not rule it out. were very delicate. in our history were trying to recover and get businesses open again were going through a transition where we need to work with the economy and help americans get back to work. >> ticket had to deal with republicans who say states are flush with cash the sensitivity to unemployment, senator joe manchin still very worried about inflation and states and cities that expected relief from last year's covid package are still taking issue with how the money was not ruled out in a timely manner and distribute it properly but the clock is ticking and democrats are

feeling the pressure they know they have to deliver by the time the president delivers his state of the union address, that is around the corner in march. david: thank you very much, more spending means more inflation and consumers are upset about the inflation. we have a new poll showing 62% of americans say they disapprove of the weight president biden is handling the economy on inflation this is a former economic advisor to none other than president obama there warning the economy it could experience elevated inflation possibly even higher than 2021, joining the investment banker in the war on small business author carol roth and fox news contributor jonathan hoenig. this is a great pair, i love the two of you together. with me in the middle. with even democrats like jason furman and larry summers has

spoken out about this a number of times, they are expecting more inflation in president biden says inflation is going down. whose voice would you take as wisdom here? >> i would take none of the above because they have all been wrong on so many of us have been right. if i was forced to pick and that choosing i would pick the people who were saying inflation is going up it is nice of them to wake up and join the party. the challenge with them none of the merger beating it to the cause which is government and central planning decisions. the reality is we had systemic issues in their labor force in a tight labor market going into covid. but the decisions of the government that the fed made has allowed three plus million boomers to retire prematurely, millions of legal immigrants to not be included in the workforce. i don't know how we are going to suppress wage inflation when we

do not have enough people to come back into the labor force and that will affect not just straight up labor issues but also the supply chain in general. david: i don't know if you heard her report, there trying to now push parts of the bbb plan for more trillion dollar spending, even without bbb and spending a penny for bbb we already have the inflation going up based on $6 trillion in spending. a lot of the covid spending had nothing to do with covid it was much more programs that add up to trillions of dollars. the fed says that they can control inflation. i don't think they really can based on all the money that has been spent so far. >> as carol said, the culprit is government spending in the democrat solution is more poison and more government spending

inflation is just not an economic number because of inflation all of our viewers got into a half% pay cut last year we talk about being the silent tax you're losing money without realizing because of the terrible impact of inflation, as you said the more government spends the more they micromanage the economy and see the inflation take hold, keep in mind it's not like a cloud, inflation i hate to say this is more like a cancer of persistent cancer that can last for years if the government does not do something sooner than later. david: i doubt that jerome powell has a magic bullet, i feel a little bit about powell as i do our new mayor in new york eric adams to talk to great talk. once he became mayor he is not doing anything to solve the crime problem in the other problem that we have here. i don't know if jerome powell has the backbone to do what is necessary to kill inflation. >> to have the fortitude and the faith in the fact that we have

nearly $30 trillion in debt and already ridiculous portion of our budget going to service interest on that debt. he knows as interest rates increase the amount of our tax revenue is going to interest service will only increase and put a lot of political pressure on him as well as the pressure from the market that are used to getting the free, he is between a rock and a hard place and now they're saying there is concerned about slowing growth in the economy is at the time to raise rates. i'm sure he'll do a little bit of something to inflate the market but i would not be surprised to see him reverse course at some point later this year. david: then we have the woke central bankers, larry summers warned us about them a couple of months ago wine was just nominated to be the feds chief bank regulator a woman named sarah raskin she wants to use monetary policy to address climate change, that has nothing to do with inflation, does it?

>> david, that is the beginning of the end of a republic a currency in the mix of the financial center and financial central banking with politics. it could be dangerous president but keep in mind the market is not waiting around for the fed to do this or that, short-term interest rates have gone from four tenths of 1% to what it half% were rdc and those impacts of inflation whether higher oil price or grocery prices or higher interest rates. david: we have a lot of messages hear from our audience, they want to see more so we will give you more coming up at the end of this hour. thank you very much read will see you in a couple of moments drivers beware gas buddies morning real pain at the pump next month as a rise in price and oil and all the middle east tensions not to mention russia could lead to higher gas prices. gas buddies petroleum analysis patrick joins me now. where are gas prices going in

your mind? >> it's going to be an ugly year the last segment talking about inflation could hold more true of what we expected the pump, prices is already inconsistently over $3 a gallon this is the calm before the storm the real increases will start march, april and last enter memorial day into early june eclipse $4 a gallon and for areas like california that will be $5 a gallon is a possibility gasoline comes from oil even with omicron and 83 the last time i looked. then you have russia and ukraine problems, russian is a producer of oil, if we have an all-out foreign policy crisis with russia and ukraine will that drive oil prices up further? >> i think there is more risk to the upside with his development.

only taking a look at what's going on with russia and ukraine a lot of reports, russia is the second largest oil producer behind the u.s. it could get ugly if i did wants to do something significant to russia. you talk about sanctions but even looking at the instability that that would add if russia does make a move he could make it worse for voters when it comes to filling up. david: we don't have a lot of leeway back will be were energy independent. we lost the leeway that gave us negotiated ability. i'm wondering about refineries in particular because there has been a lot of talk about new regulations and all kinds of things that could depress the ability of our refineries to turn off the gasoline that we need. >> exactly right, refining capacity has been reduced by what happened with covid we saw gasoline demand plummet with jet fuel it is probably the worst

fortune of the barrel right now, as a result it's hard in 2020 and 2021 with a significant challenge we see refineries shut down also because of tremendous damage from hurricane ida, were gonna be asking refineries to do more with less in the new year and we did not mention president biden has already test the spr to bring prices down, something happens with russia, that move is looking like an awful decision. david: that's supposed to be used for emergencies. also this administration wants to entirely get rid of gas burning vehicles they want to transition away from it, they set up the goals of moving towards electric cars do you think those are reasonable goals or are they impossible goals that we can never reach? >> it is certainly a big challenge insurmountable i guess we'll find out. it does look like considering the climate challenges we've been facing pushing people the

then you have another issue like we saw in texas last year with the grid melts down. it's a sizable challenge to get a doctor not only that but the infrastructure for ev's is lagging behind. david: electricity has to come from somewhere and a lot of that is fossil fuels. it is a concentric circle that were talking about. patrick, great to see you my friend, thank you very much i'm glad we have gas buddy on my side. coming up u.s. hospitals overrun leaving staff overworked as shortages plagued the healthcare industry details and reactions from doctor bob lahey do when we continue. ♪

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david: learning to live with covid, consensus growing among public health experts that covid could be here to stay in america needs to focus on managing with it rather than eliminating fox news correspondent has a very latest from atlanta. >> we are all trying to prepare for what could be a new normal,

the omicron surge continues to drive up demand for covid testing the biden administration promising free covid test with american homes up to four free covid test online starting january 19 often positive results from home test go unreported to local and state health departments the actual numbers of covid cases will be undercounted. some county health departments are adding online forms for residents to report a positive at home test result and in exchange they received guidance in an isolation letter that they can show their employer or school. some health experts argue case numbers are an unreliable measure of the status of the pandemic they stay the nation should focus on hospitalization rates. on saturday los angeles county reported 66 covid related deaths

the highest number in a single day since last spring, l.a. health officials say the majority of deaths over the past regard associated with individuals who became infected after december 20 with the omicron variant was circulating widely that serves as a stark reminder that even though omicron cases have been mild for most people the variant poses a threat especially with people with underlying health condition in the unvaccinated. new york state reports positive covid test below 13% that is down from 33% on january 2. while that is welcome news health experts caution hospitalization lag behind case numbers. >> we seen a spike that is peaked in new york, new jersey, new england, probably florida and what i expected hospitalizations to peak in the next week or ten days in those places. the rest of the country has a ways to go. >> the doctor predicts that the

u.s. as a whole is in for another 3 - 4 very difficult weeks before the effects of omicron begin to subside. david: thank you very much, hospitals nationwide overwhelmed with over 1000 facilities reporting major staffing shortages for a variety of reasons. illinois among those overrun states grady trimble is in chicago with the very latest on that story. >> here in chicago several hospitals including this one at hospitals across the country are suspending elective procedures just like they did at the very start of the pandemic because there's so overwhelmed by the rising number of cases and hospitalizations. in other states from maine to michigan and wisconsin to washington governors are calling in the national guard to overwhelm hospitals. there acting as assistants to nurses and fulfilling other

duties at those hospitals, nationally 80% of hospital beds rn news and 20% of those with covid patients. as you said more than 1000 hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages right now with many more expecting to in the not-too-distant future. right now 17% of hospitals that report to the dhhs. there's a combination of factors leading to the staffing shortages. healthcare workers burden on others getting sick. in california there trying to combat that the state health department says healthcare workers who test positive for covid but asymptomatic are allowed to keep working as long as they keep n95 or kn95 mask on, the american hospital association says the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers can worsen staffing issues. say the aha will work with the hospital field to find ways to comply the balances the requirement with the need to retain sufficient workforce to meet the needs of their patients. one positive note to in don,

jonathan alluded to this even though omicron is all more infectious another variance that we've seen during covid, deaths are down compared to the last winter surge. david: deaths are down in most cases are much milder than the other variance. we should emphasize that fact which is happened not only here but in south africa and in the uk. thank you for that report joy to be director of st. joseph's institute for autoimmune and dramatic diseases. my friend doctor bob lahita, he's also author of a new book community strong booster natural healing power and live to be 100, i love that title. that is great stuff. let me first talk about the ridiculousness of having vaccine mandates that prevent healthy hospital workers from working you might have natural immunity but allow people to be brought back in who test positive for covid to replace those hospital

workers who are not allowed to continue to work because they don't have a vaccine. to me that sounds nuts, what does it sound like to you. >> it sounds nuts to me too, here we have not only nurses and doctors who were stretched out and many are infected but also room caretakers, sanitation people working in the hospital, physician assistants, people who are called centers that sit with the patients were very, very sick but not sick enough for the icu, all of these people are in short supply. every day we get text messages saying we need help, we need help we need nurses, we need this and we need that greed is pretty frustrating that is in the northeast if you're in a hospital in the middle of the country, you are in trouble. david: in new york allowed 30000 healthcare workers have been fired or quit because the vaccine mandates 8000 specific hospital workers have quit or

fire because of the mandates in other words you fire folks who test negative who have natural immunity and you can find out if they did or not you fire them but you allowing people who are testing positive for covid. it is the height of craziness and not following the science. >> is very logical. i think we have to have some people at the senior level in the government making real decisions about this and making sure we can accommodate everybody. david: you're gonna like this i'm gonna tie your book talking about boosters, you focus on natural immunity and i love that part of your book then natural healing power. some people say were going too far with the boosters that one booster after another particularly since omicron as we seen in south africa and the uk and now this wonderful california study at 70000 patients it's burning through quickly and much less vera lit

the delta or the preceding variance. do we really need a booster since they will not have one specifically until march? >> they are working on it and i don't think it may be needed, i tell you if your amino suppressed a comorbid position that will cause your death, maybe those people will need a fourth shot. but right now the business of boosters weakening the immune system, that is ridiculous. no energy will be produced with this, where you weaken the immune system with too many boosters. it does not happen. david: you are not alone, newark chiefs drug regulator marco cavalier he says there is no data supporting a fourth booster. if even if you are going to get a booster you should allow more time between the boost between getting one every month or three months even, he suggests they should be spread out over a year. >> i agree i totally agree i

think your activity but even after the first injection is really very powerful and allows your immune system to understand that covid is a nasty critter. david: the tmb sales forgive me, that is the second stage that your body has a fighting off these illnesses, the first is the antibodies it's clear the omicron's gets through the it embodies but is the t and b cells that are built up through natural immunity and vaccines that are killing this virus. >> is a lasting immunity where the immune system has recognition of foreign invaders in your body i talk about that the book in the great detail, sometimes throughout your entire life to your immune system to the foreign invaders. david: that is great news since omicron is displacing the more vera lit viruses that we seen so far. great to see a best of luck thank you for being here.

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david: sec chairman gary gensler is raising new concerns over his plans to add more regulations to market transactions. he would call it reform, charlie gasparino joining us with the details. >> one of the ways you can figure out sec policies to look at who the sec chairman meets with the calendars published

semi-regularly, the october calendar for the sec chair gary gensler is out there and i went through and i found something interesting to people showed up on the calendar that, i i input a lot of people on wall street particularly in the trained high-frequency business gary gensler had meetings with michael lewis, do you know that name, the author who did flash boys and a lot of other things he wrote a high-frequency trade trade and they both had, he runs an exchange and anti-agency called ie x, both had meetings with gansler in october. a lot of speculation on what that could mean whether renewed push to crack down on high-frequency trading. lose it under lewis' thesis and brad's thesis that high-frequency trading is ripping off pension funds and

investors and not a lot of evidence and never sustain crackdown with a high-frequency trading after the book came out. but that was back in 2012, this is a different story a more activist sec and more activist data was under president obama and a lot of speculation that he might be going after this also speculation that lewis might be writing a book and the book could be mean stocks, high-frequency trading, robinhood all the stuff you're hearing now a lot of interesting speculation going on i reached out to all the players involved and nobody wants to talk to me. david: i have a quick question how will all of this affect cost for average retail investors they see the high-frequency traders and vigor are not what it does it won't infect me how could it snowball to the average investor. >> i will be a shield for wall street for a second, all these firms that do high-frequency trading whether it virtue, said adele, you name it they provide

the quiddity to the marketplace today make sure there is a lot of trading stocks, and they are compressed and they do it fast, they also make markets in various stocks and do it efficiently and they have to make these markets, take your trade as a retail investor and match it with the seller or buyer at best cost. i think this is a stupid investigation of this is where he's going flash boys was a brilliant written polemic, the red very well and has no proof that the flash boys are ripping off pension funds, it was basically a street, tuesday nobody has ever come out with a real study that said the traders are ripping off saving pennies off the dollar on trades from pension funds because it is not true. anyway it's an interesting debate my guess gary gensler wants to regulate everything under the sun will go there and

maybe lewis will write another bestseller on how robinhood ripped off investors during the mean stock trade. david: good report, thank you so much i appreciate it walmart is preparing to enter the metaverse revealing plans to create their own crypto currency and fts. let's bring back carol roth and jonathan hoenig for their take on this. i want to go to you first i was reading a competing news organization i was reading a piece on what walmart is planning to do with the meta retailing they kept talking about virtual sneakers without an explanation, i thought it was bad reporting, i ask you what is a virtual sneaker you have to think of the metaverse in a fully immersive digital growth and you have a virtual avatar,

obviously. if you buy off the shelf it is not going to have inebriated thing going along with it if you have a fancy speaker they will offer the added digital product which is a property rights template, you will have ownership in the digital world and that's what all of this is talked about metaverse and all the potential money is going. really potentially huge moneymaking and transformed into situations that will be great for society. david: what do you think, is it real, you love innovation in the marketplace and you want government to get out of the way, some innovation is real and does affect our lives directly, will this? >> i'm confused if we are going to be in the metaverse, who is going to be in this universe. it reminds me of the late 1990s,

every company was scribbling in their names to put themselves out there at the.com play that the stocks of eroded, early in the quite nice, that, walmart is jumping on the friends. bitcoin and nft and mainstream, all companies will be doing a walmart. david: carol i'm going to go one step further with conspiracy theories. i suggest the change of facebook's name to meta is somehow related to all of this. they wanted to get out anything that has meta attached to it and immediately withdraw that's their new name. they now have coined the market for this and maybe it allows them to enter retailing before.

>> they've always been forward thinking of how they come off of things. you have to remember this is it necessarily just about this digital world as jonathan was alluding to is a bridge to the real world if you look at the walmart trademark, verse to home or verse distort reversed the curb, they're trying to find a way to say that you're here digitally and goods and services to make a will as well. this is open terrain. all of these big companies whether it's facebook or walmart or whatever it is they are covering their bases because we don't really know with going to happen but they want to make sure that they lock up the trademarks and they started the thought process. david: i might not always like what facebook does but i don't deny that a great marketer and an amazing marketer of what they do other social media platform do you think this'll take off and end up eventually helping facebook or meta, whatever you

want to call them in those who follow suit like walmart is doing? >> i suppose the real advantage of digital sneakers that they don't scoff or don't get soiled or wear out. there's something going on there is new technology and innovation whether walmart will pioneer or facebook of that matter that remains to be seen we will watch the stocks. david: thank you very much we appreciate it. novak djokovic returning home to fans in serbia after his deportation from australia why the battle over the vaccination status is not over yet. more after this. >> novak djokovic welcome home we support you here they can take away your visa but being a proud serbian and the world number one, they cannot. ♪

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david: novak djokovic is back in serbia after being deported from australia over the vaccination status. new questions over participation in the upcoming french open as well fox news correspondent jonathan hunt has more from los angeles. >> kicked out of australia and now potentially banned from the next major in france. novak djokovic could watch much of this season from his home in belgrade serbia the number one tennis player arrived in belgrade following a long night and day of travel from australia having been kicked out from the government there because he is unvaccinated and according to australian officials, he had no valid medical exemption to enter a country which is put in place some of the most strict covid related travel rolls in the

world. the judge upheld the australian immigration decision of the court hearing over the weekend and within hours novak djokovic was on his way out leaving the tennis world shaken but relieved to move on also a major distraction for the other 256 vaccinated players competing in melbourne in a statement novak djokovic said i'm uncomfortable that the focus of the past week has been on me and i hope that we can all now focus on the game internet i love the big question for novak djokovic as he is the greatest of all time and break a current tie of the majors one between him and raphael the doll and roger federer is where he might be allowed to play in the coming months. the french open as i mentioned is the next major in may and france has announced boards events will be off-limits to unvaccinated spectators and

competitors. prior to that one of the bigger spring tournaments novak djokovic place is indian wells in southern california that is in mid-march and the attitude of organizers there will be interesting to watch. novak djokovic's getting little sympathy from his rivals raphael the doll can solve this very simply by getting vaccinated. david: or limiting his term tournaments to florida and texas where they don't have the mandates. after the break white crime experts are warning of a slowing criminal cases been solved over a growing anti-police movement. we have the details when we continue. ♪ we discover exciting new technologies. redefine who we are and how we want to lead our lives. basically, choose what we want our future to look like. so what's yours going to be?

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david: team usa is warning not to bring their personal cell phones with them to the beijing games over the phone surveillance by the chinese government, benjamin hall and the very latest from the state department. >> some time there has been a concern about the safety and security of athletes heading to beijing, it appears team usa shares those fears, athletes use burner phones with a go to china verse their own electronics to

avoid chinese buying. according to the memo sent out by team usa, it says that the athletes could be subject to malicious intrusion, infectious data compromise when they get to the olympics. at a minimum it says they should wipe all data from the devices before arrival and upon departure. the report per usa today has been echoed by other countries states that, despite any and all safeguards that are put in place to protect the system and data to china it should be assumed all data communications in china can be monitored, compromised or blocked. the state department has warned visitors that the security personnel carefully watched foreign visitors and telephones, hotel rooms and internet. personal possessions can be searched without your consent or knowledge. the administration has announced the diplomatic boycott of china's genocide against the uighurs is emerged that after 15 state department officials are traveling to provide as they say

security support operation. they have been dubbed the genocide games. it is not the diplomatic boycott that we would led to expect, another fear rising the omicron cases are being detected in beijing and we know the chinese government with a handful of cases have been found elsewhere they locked out tens of millions of people put tens of thousands into quarantine camps, the fear is to have days away from the olympics those lockdowns can be headed to beijing. david: benjamin, thank you very much. only 42% of d.c. murder cases were closed after criminologist say it could all get worse. civil rights attorney brian claypool on this disturbing trend in washington. good to see you, thank you for being here. only two out of every five murders are considered closed in washington.

what does that tell you about the police force, their detective unit and the prosecutors in d.c. >> good to be with you, shame on the washington, d.c. city council. they are trying to blame the unsolved crimes on people in the community who are failing to cooperate in the criminal investigations because of the defined the police movement. i don't see any evidence of that at all. what i see a d.c. city council after the george floyd murder they started defunding the police in washington, d.c., number one. number two mayor bowser came out recently and said we have to hire more police officers in d.c. what is the d.c. city council do they say thumbs that we won't hire anymore police departments. these crimes are not being solved because there's not enough police officers on the streets to investigate these crimes. it is pathetic. david: we should mention that the d.c. solve the murder rate go way up in 2020 and went up

from 2019 covid-19% and in 2020 when it went up from 2020 as well. we see this 114% increase in homicides. this is the city like many cities in the united states right now in crisis, even the mayor the mayor on the left of the political spectrum she wanted increase in police funding but the d.c. council is not doing it. it's very similar the new york and l.a. when the council and the very radical, we should mention prosecutors who don't want to prosecute anybody for violent crimes are going against the will of the people. >> you are correct, yet the perfect storm in cities like d.c. and los angeles. what do i mean by that we will not hire more police officers. what does that tell criminals i go out and commit a crime i might not be prosecuted. then you have prosecutors in d.c., l.a., it is horrible and l.a. a prosecutor george gascon is

not prosecuting heavily criminals. that gives criminals a hall pass to go out and commit crimes there are no consequences for the crimes. we need to get back to funding the police we need to get back to prosecutors that believe in justice who will hold these criminals accountable and not give them an incentive to commit serious crime. david: when 58% of the city's murder cases are open that means that 58% of the perps in those cases of the murders themselves are still out there and many of them are probably going to commit another murder, right? >> exactly, that is a tragedy in all of this, only 3500 police officers in d.c. after george floyd they cut police officers in los angeles. the sheriff and los angeles is doing an incredible job despite

a cut in law enforcement in despite prosecutors that simply will not take serious crime and hold these criminals accountable. do not believe this left-wing radical rhetoric it is because of the defined me police movement because people are cooperating there was a 6-year-old girl murdered in the summer you shall be evidence that a witness did not cooperate with law enforcement people across the u.s. have a good heart they want to cooperate and try to solve crimes this has nothing to do with people not wanting to help the police this has everything to do with not enough police. david: do you see any situation we only have ten seconds of any situation getting better any signs that the situation will get better? >> absolutely, i was talking about it today, the d.c. city council will need to hire more police officers, bottom-line. david: great to see you again,

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that is leading to it. it is a rain any monday, slow, rainy monday in new york. google is telling employees who work in the office they have to take weekly covid tests as a temporary measure due to the surge in omicron. this as the company's chief health officer said the company expects a significant rise in omicron infections in the coming weeks. that is a safe bet. thanks for watching. here is my friend charles payne to take you through the next hour. hi, charles. charles: david, happy, martin luther king, jr. day to you, my friend. good afternoon, everyone, i'm charles payne. this is "making money." this is mlk day. we're celebrating the progress black americans have made and looking at challenges ahead. equality and prosperity is alive and well for all americans. political discourse in d.c. is getting in the way. to acknowledge gains some would have to put down the cudgel of power. how the decline of religion hurting the black community and all of america. we have