220. kind of in the middle. that accounts for 10% of all proposals for the entire year. how about that? you didn't propose on valentine's day did you? >> no, i did not. no, i didn't. did you. stuart: no, don't ask. i did not. absolutely did not. >> okay. stuart: five, four, three, two, one,. david: in for neil. david: tell you something you didn't know. i was married on the day after valentine's day. they were booked up. tomorrow is my 33rd anniversary. stuart: thank you for sharing that with us. david: i'm david asman in for neil cavuto on "coast to coast." two hours ahead, the dow is in the red. america a little less free when it comes to your wallet.

why a new report that says the united states is falling behind other nations on economic freedom. we'll get into that. hollywood hypocrisy again, this time over the mask mandate. nfl great jack brewer is here what makings of celebrities celebrating maskless at the super bowl as children coast to coast are forced to cover their faces. and a key bridge connecting the u.s. and canada is now open but much of ottawa is still in gridlock. we're live at our northern border as the canadian "freedom convoy" continues with its demonstrations. but first, the standoff with russia and ukraine. president biden failing to make diplomatic progress during his saturday call with vladmir putin. this is the latest u.s. intel says russia could invade in just a matter of days. fox news correspondent trey yingst is in kyiv with all the very latest. trey? reporter: david, good afternoon. diplomatic efforts are underway in kyiv to try to end the rising

tension between russia and ukraine. people here are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst light as candle at a church in central key yes. she is praying for peace as ukraine braces for war. >> translator: that's why we're praying to god that he helps us and everyone should do all they possibly can to save peace in this country. we don't want war in ukraine. reporter: updated intelligence indicates more than 130,000 russian troops continue to stage on the border of ukraine and could invade at any moment. over the weekend ukraine conducted military drills to prepare for a variety of scenarios that could unfold. right now the ukrainian national guard is simulating its forces what a riot scenario would look like. there are real concerns by officials in kyiv if russia does invade ukraine there could be demonstrations for those sympathetic to the russian government and they want their forces to be prepared for that

scenario. reporter: today efforts for diplomacy continue. german chancellor olaf shoals pete with ukrainian visit this afternoon. during sholz's visit they called on to punish the russians not the ukraine cans. >> can stop the war, by stopping nord stream 2 and by investing ukraine's entrance into nato and the european union. reporter: the german chancellor will head to moscow tomorrow for a similar meeting with russian president vladmir putin while these diplomatic efforts continue, so do military preparations. lithuania overnight delivered antiaircraft missiles to ukraine and u.s. weapons shipments continue to arrive in this eastern european country. david. david: trey, there are 44 million ukrainians. does putin or do you having seen there, reported from there for quite a while now, do you expect them to simply to roll over if the russians invade or could they be, russians be in for a

long period of urban warfare? reporter: if the russians do indeed ukraine it will be a very bloody bat bell that takes place. we saw the drills in the south near crimea and those drills have taken place all over ukraine. in the eastern part of the country forces have been fighting for eight years with the russians they have anti-tank missiles, antiaircraft missiles. they intend to use them if russia invades. david: could indeed be a door do door situation where the russians would be forced to use more than 100,000 troops they have aligned right now? reporter: they certainly have more troops prepared if they need them. we see the videos online all the time of russian forces moving closer to ukraine's border. there is a lot of technology being used in the conflict we haven't seen before. tiktok, for example, there are many tiktok videos with russian tanks and artillery headed to

the border there are more where that came from. one direction is diplomacy and the other is a long ground war in europe. david: trey yingst thanks for being here. the showdown with russia is only making things worse. edward lawrence live from the white house with that story, edward? edward lawrence david, markets may be less spooked about an invasion today. they're still down as you see today but not as much as experts would say if an invasion actually happens. still, oil prices though, taking the hit. oil prices are up today. the administration, that is because the administration has made us more reliant now on foreign oil and they're worried about this conflict. you see the things that he is doing. you see the administration is doing with the supply. the price of oil hovering above $90 a barrel. there is the list. that means gas prices will

continue to go up in the u.s. republican senator bill cassidy says this is directly because president joe biden dearmed our energy industry. >> think about it, less than a year ago under the previous administration we were not only energy independent but poised to become the, to have the ability to make the eu energy independent. less than a year we've lost that ability and so now russia has the leverage over the the eu in terms of energy supply. reporter: so president joe biden says that he will shut down the nord stream 2 pipeline that russia will rely on as a deterrent for russian president vladmir putin to invade ukraine but germany might not be on board. still democrats have faith in that stick, listen. >> economically, look, you know, russia can't survive without selling its oil and its gas for very long. now they have stockpiled reserves, that sort of thing but you know, the russians need to understand that they are going to, their standard of living

will decline dramatically for what? for what? so putin can feel like a strong man? reporter: today the russian foreign minister lavrov is indicating that russia, there could be a diplomatic situation that could get out of this escalation we're seeing but he does stress russia will not negotiate forever. david. david: edward, it is a hard sell for democrats to say that russia can't survive if they don't sell after europe has been decimating its own energy supplies and of course all of the hoped for lng, our liquified natural gas going there has been dashed by the the biden administration attack on fossil fuels here. reporter: some analysts see a 26% increase of trade with china between russia and china, not relying on other countries. that relationship is growing also. but yes, russian president vladmir putin really has himself in a spot where he is supplying a lot of the energy to the

european union, to european countries because they're removing reliance on coal. germany, for example, wants to close 84 of their coal plants in the next 19 years. david: ed, we've been hearing a lot from the biden administration about this phone call suggesting progress had been made. we had the statement from the foreign minister of russia. seems to me that our possibilities are far from exhausted. at this stage i would suggest continuing and building them up. frankly that sounded like boilerplate stuff. it did turn the market around earlier this morning but we see the market turned south since then since it recovered a little bit. i wonder, it's a pretty thin read to plant your policy with russia on the fact that these negotiations are succeeding? reporter: exactly. the russians are very good at manipulating information because as the talks two on you see more russian troops, you heard trey say more russian troops getting behind that front line as

possible support. russia may be using this as a way to get more troops into the area. you just don't know at this point. but again it allows more time as they're talking to do things that russia needs to do in order to take ukraine if that is the direction they go. david: biden administration is it tapping into our strategic petroleum reserves to bring down our prices a little. whether that is effective is matter of debate. what is not at debate, depletion of those resources, they are supposed to be emergency purposes. are we in danger of running out do we have a real emergency here at home? reporter: not in danger of running out. this was supposed to be a one-time fix to a shock in the system but not a long-term strategy to bring down gas prices that has been the issue from critics. they also say that the policies overall for the biden administration led to a one million barrel decrease per day

in the production here in the united states. david: wow. reporter: so again that limits supply going forward and you see the list there of the things they're doing. raising fees on drilling on federal lands. banning new leases on federal lands. revising the drilling, opening up the anwr area in alaska as much as the trump administration did. constricting supply, weakens the position. that was senator bill cassidy's point. david: very interesting. edward, thank you so much. get reaction from all of this former state department official under president trump christian whiton. christian, great to see you. thanks for being here. do these conversations with putin do any good at all? >> it is unclear if they do because so far the united states and the biden administration has talked up diplomacy and negotiation but really interaction thus far is just stating the u.s. case and that's not really next and putin already knows our point of view. if you look at sort of the real world effect of this there is no

real world effect. it doesn't seem to have any influence on the trajectory of russian action. david: has putin made up his mind? that is really the only trajectory that really matters, right? >> yeah. he seems to have the whole world in the palm of his hands in that way. i don't think he has. i'm in the minority view all along i think it is less likely putin will actually do a major invasion or a minor invasion of ukraine. even though the united states is not willing to put in writing not letting ukraine into nato. there would be other nato members that would start that action because it would lead to war with russia. the only real piece of unclarity to me, biden made such outlannish threats to russia if it does anything that gives putin perverse incentive to do

something to illustrate that the united states and in nato are in effect a paper tiger. david: some people say that we should do something preemptive with regard to sanctions. sanction some of the people that are closest to putin, who have billions of dollars in accounts, freeze those accounts, something to that effect. would that change his mind one way or the other? >> i don't think it would. you are right there is that debate going on within the foreign relations committee in the senate right now. republicans want something preemptive. democrats want to give the president more flexibility. they're also mindful that biden wants flexibility with sanctions in europe because he may want to give frankly a sweetheart deal to iran, different situation, same group of people we may need to influence the europeans. putin so far hasn't seemed to react terribly much to sanctions and the people around him, they do occasionally leave russia but they have essentially insulated their finances i believe from the worst of u.s. sanctions.

david: all right. christian whiton, good to see you, my friend. thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. david: coming up the u.s. economy under president biden plunging to an all-time low. we break down the numbers. we're talking about economic freedom here, and whether there is a direct correlation here with prosperity. have we killed or in the process of killing the goose that laid the golden egg? more on that coming up. ♪. imagine getting $150,000 dollars... for one year of epic adventures... in a new dodge hellcat... and you don't even have to quit your day job.

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♪. david: some bad news for the biden white house. the president's economic agenda dragging the u.s. to be all-time low in the heritage foundation's economic freedom index. fox business's gerri willis is here with behind what is behind that drop. hi, gerri? reporter: david, that's right, this is a concerning story. economic freedom is falling in the u.s. this is according to the heritage foundation index of economic freedom. the report determining the u.s. fell 2.7 points from last year to a record low of 72 point 1. now the index launched in 1995

evaluates countries on rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency and open markets while also taking a look at specific categories like property rights, judicial effectiveness, government integrity and tax burden. americans are currently dealing with 40-year highs in inflation as we've been saying with the consumers price index rising 7.5% in january of this year compared to the same month last year. biden's first year in office also saw a supply chain crisis. u.s. consumer confidence plunging to an 11-year low and industries rocked by vaccine and mask mandates and this is important, u.s. national debt notching a new record when it surpassed $30 trillion. heritage president kevin roberts saying this, this year's index of economic freedom paints a disturbing picture both at home and abroad of the decline of economic freedom is serious cause for alarm and has real and

tangible consequences for all americans especially low income families and the working class. now you might want to know, what countries us out in the ranking? singapore as usual coming in the top spot. followed by switzerland, ireland, new zealand, luxembourg, taiwan, estonia, netherlands, finland and denmark. as i send it back to you, david, i will just say a lot of european countries in this list beating us out, that is the big eye popper here. the u.s. score now, 25th. david: wow, we have dropped a lot. that is extraordinary in just one year with the biden administration. thank you very much, gerri, appreciate it. reporter: you're welcome. david: let's get reaction from delancey strategies president gaffed levy and investment banker carl roth. there is a direct connection between the economic freedoms the country has and its ability to create prosperity, the

ability to have economic die thattism. do you agree with that point? >> i do. that is depressing valentine's we received there, david. david: it is. >> i've been talking about this for the past two years because we have witnessed the greatest transfer of wealth we've ever seen in history from main street and the average american to the wealthy and the well-connected and like you were saying the point is, it stands in the way of economic freedom and wealth creation opportunities which is the promise of america. that is why we have people come here from all over the globe so they can participate in that but when you trounce on property rights, when you disrupt risk in the market, when you move us away from something that looks like capitalism towards something that looks like central planning that is going to be the outcome and whether you think that is intention or just the result of incompetence in central planning it doesn't matter, the outcome is still the same. david: jared, i think carol brings out a great point, wealth disparity liberals talked about

actually decreased after the trump tax cuts and it is increasing with the tremendous growth of government in all the loss of this economic freedom we have in the u.s. and inflation of course is the cruelest of all taxes for the middle class and the lower class. all you have to do is look at all the regulations in energy policies over the past year, shutting off pipelines, refineries, et cetera, that has cost americans billions, hundreds of billions of dollars. >> what's amazing to me is that conservatives are somehow blamed for this and you know, i, from a young age i realized, wait, wait, this is backwards. conservatives are like, give it back to the people, power to the people. let us, empower us to make our own way and you know points you made earlier when you disrupt free markets and you unfairly and quickly give or remove ad havings to one group or another, just to sort of favor your

party, you're disrupting the whole thing. every policy, not every policy, most of biden's policies really, truly, have taken away the power from the people and from individuals and businesses and corporations and sort of put it back up in washington. this is the way we're going to do things and am further to see a country like the netherlands with uber high taxes, not the easiest place to do business, beautiful, great place to do business, not easiest, ranking in top 10. it speaks volumes where policies are going here in america. if it doesn't change it will hurt the lower middle class. david: it already has. that's the point. it is decapitalizing the lower middle class. inflation does that. speaking of inflation, speaker pelosi came out with a very novel excuse for jump in inflation. she is blaming high inflation on low unemployment, listen. >> the consequences of that investment in infrastructure

bill and rest is that more people have jobs and therefore inflation goes up. it is not right with all due respect in the world to my friend joe manchin, it is not right to say what we're doing to inflation. it is exactly the opposite. david: that just doesn't make sense, carol. let's be honest. it doesn't make sense. we had a lot more people working in the trump administration, during the trump administration and we had inflation below 2%. we had 3 million more people in the workforce right before the pandemic hit and inflation was below 2%. >> so there are a couple of unusual things going on. obviously monetary policy is the primary driver here. in addition to government policy, fiscal policy, really trillions and trillions of dollars that has a consequence. but i do think and she has got sort of the right underlying issue but the wrong explanation. i do think the disruptions to

the economy and disruptions to the labor force, the fact we have taken so many people out of the labor force. wed have three million boomers who prematurely retired probably because their 401(k)s and houses were showing bigger equity values. we had people who had uncertainty whether they could go back to work because they didn't know what the covid policies were going to be. legal immigration has been decimated. all these things contribute to fewer people in the labor force. that means we can't fulfill jobs. that means we have the problems with supply chain and inflation. again sort of in the neighborhood but obviously blaming the wrong things. david: jared, i owe you one. you guys are coming back. i will start with you, jared because we've got to run but we'll see you folks in a few minutes. meanwhile celebrities maskless at the super bowl as kids coast to coast are forced to mask up at school. nfl great jack brewer sounding off on that when we return.

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♪. >> we're fighting for freedom for all canadians, but canadawide. we want to end every single mandate for every canadian. >> our leadership should be here talking directly to solve the issue yet they're not here. david: the canadian "freedom convoy" not backing down after a key bridge from canada to detroit is finally cleared. fox business's grady trimble, joining me from ottawa, ontario with more. grady? reporter: grady, ontario is the province, so you're correct there and you can see they're not backing down. they're still in the middle of wellington here even after the bridge at windsor was clear and we're in front of the parliament building, people over the weekend, past two, almost three weeks, have been coming and leaving signs. freedom not feardom.

thanking truckers. at this point, more than truckers here. they are vehicles blocking the roadway. people from all over canada, really, i spoke from people came 60 hours away, drove here for this. just met tammy and marcia. you guys are health care workers, in order to keep your job you had to get the vaccine. for yourself that is what he chose to do but you want other people to have a choice? >> i want them to have a choice because i had to choose to take the vaccine or not work. reporter: what do you think of what you've seen over the past day or so you've been here? >> i'm amazed. i love it. i met people from four provinces that have come here already to here this morning. i'm very proud of everybody that is here, what they're doing, what they're fighting for. reporter: how does this end? there are talks about the prime minister using emergencies act, basically gives the federal government carte blanche to clear the street and downtown city center? >> i hope it ends ending

mandates and my children, grand children, everybody, having freedom to choose what they put in their body, freedom to go to school without masks. i hope that it ends. i can't predict as far as taking trucks out. reporter: what do you make of the people say the city is under siege, businesses can't operate? >> would have been to several businesses today. we haven't had any experience. we have not had negativity from people that own businesses we're in. they're fine a lot of people are going unmasked. nobody is having a huge issue with it. the businesses that i have been in don't have a problem. not to say there isn't people that do. i'm sure there is. reporter: yeah, main corridor downtown is closed here. that is what they're dealing with here, david. we'll keep you posted how this progresses, how it ends, like we just discussed there, we don't know. david: the protesters are hardy today. i'm looking at my weather chart here. it shows ottawa in single digits. apparently seven degrees there right now. so kudos to them, and kudos to

you, grady, for sticking it out. thank you very much for the report. after the big game yesterday los angeles is facing a much bigger problem, what to do with the ongoing homeless crisis. it keeps getting worse it seems. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles with more what is being done. hi, kelly. reporter: hi, david. yeah i'm in venice where another large income campment sprung up over the last three weeks. we have 40 tents in this stretch here and it just keeps growing because these people have nowhere to go. l.a. residents are calling a little bit after game of "whack-a-mole," right? you clear out tents from one place and aesthetic quick fix like at sofi stadium and they pop up somewhere else. you can see over at the last count l.a. county has about 66,000 residents who are experiencing homelessness. 12% under the age of 18. the estimates now, 80,000. that means 20% more people have become homeless during the pandemic and residents are extremely frustrated about the lack of permanent progress.

recent poll, four in 10 voters felt significantly unsafe due to homeless communities in their neighborhoods. >> you know how many tourists come through here? and right now with the gangs coming, people walk up our street. what have we got to show for it? this is embarrassing. reporter: lawmakers argue residents don't want solution they're creating in a statement to fox news, city councilman argued i'm fighting for more housing shelter services to get people off the streets and elsewhere and my efforts are consistently opposed by obstructionist but oppose encampments but oppose every alternative. i speak with number of homeless advocates this is beyond housing. it unemployment, addiction. temporary bed will not help someone who has to leave the only community they know behind. this might not look like yours or mine but it's a community here. critics tell me the incentive

structures don't encourage people to in treatment to get fully better. there has to be a full overhaul of the system before we see any long-term progress, david. david: i must say sleeping on the streets doesn't help anybody, least of all people sleeping there. there are alternatives. that is the point. kelly, thank you very much. in l.a. some of the biggest names in hollywood along with some california officials were seen maskless during the big game yesterday while kids in california schools, they still have to be masked. reaction from jack brewer foundation ceo jack brewer. jack we'll talk about homelessness, crime. we have a lot to deal with. first of all it doesn't make any scientific sense this masking in schools when you think of all the harm it can do but the hypocrisy is too much to bear, no? >> it is, really is. sad when you think about the parents sitting there and really this is classism at its finest. middle income and lower income parents who are watching the

super bowl in l.a. county watching these hypocritical leaders, i mean these are political leaders that are making these rules and regulations. they're not abiding by them. then they stick your child in the school to deal with all of the issues that come about with two years of being masked, being excluded from society. not able to see peoples faces. these will have long-term consequences. as you see our nation is dealing with so many, whether homelessness, crime, all of this confusion going on, to throw this into the mix for these children. they are the ones really hurting. families that are voiceless. david: by the way kids don't obviously know what is good for them. if you ask them whether they would rather have vegetables or candy they will choose the candy but look what happens when a teacher tells kids, this is in las vegas by the way, to, the teacher told them they don't have to wear masks. let me play the tape. get your reaction. >> starting tomorrow we don't

have to wear masks anymore! [cheering] >> bless their heart. david: you know, obviously the teacher was ginning up their excitement about the whole thing but this is really developmentally hurting a lot of kids, millions of kids all over the country? >> it is. you have a epidemic now with kids that are so low on the math proficiency levels that the odds of them catching up and graduating at the reading level they're supposed to be is really unlikely. that is unfortunate. to put that on top of all of the other things that were taken off. david: it is. >> i applaud the kids. i would be screaming, yelling having a blast. david: me too, absolutely. we just had the mandate taken off of us in new york late last week and shopping over the weekend was wonderful. i felt like one of those kids. this administration by the way, jack, is always talking about root causes. whether or not it addresses root

causes is another issue. talking about homelessness, we're looking at mask mandates. when we're talking about homelessness, crime issues, really i think you hit the cord of one of the root causes which is a fatherless family and there are just so many families across the united states that have these. how are you addressing? i understand there is a project in florida you're very interested in that addresses this? >> yeah. got to tell you david, god is good. i'm so honored. i will be this week heading out to the state capital in tallahassee, florida, joining speaker sproles who courageously proposed a bill to address fatherhood, address issues with the foster care system, all the kids that don't have families or structure around them to actually give them hope, give them resources and real options so they can go on to be productive members of society. i have to tell you, i hope many more states take the lead like speaker sproles has done, so

courageous to take the fight. a lot of times you do get bashed when you start talking about fatherhood. talking about fatherhood does not discredit motherhood, both are essential but a child, particularly a male child needs a influence in their lives, disciplinary, that can help establish you know order and understanding and give them all the tools they need to be successful in life. i think what speaker sproles is doing in florida will do that. david: quickly, opposite side of that root cause thing, a lot of cities, even the federal government was chiming in about this of enabling addicts to get drugs. what is your short answer on that whole prescription of how to address root causes? >> you're appeasing it, you're not rehabing it. you're doing the whole motto of not holding folks accountable. people that are addicted need to be held accountable but need to be given that support and giving

more access to drugs, drug paraphernalia is ridiculous. it won't work. it is not what giuliani did to clean up new york city. it never worked in the history of mankind. we need to rethink the logic. david: i think you're right. jack brewer, always a pleasure to see you. thank you for the good work you do, the good work is spreading. jack brewer, thank you very much for being here, my friend. meanwhile cryptos spending bill time during the big game. will it all pay off? we'll take a look after the break. ♪ throughout history i've observed markets shaped by the intentional and unforeseeable. for investors who can navigate this landscape, leveraging gold, a strategic and sustainable asset... the path is gilded with the potential

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>> [inaudible]. >> like i was saying, it is ftx, safe and easy way to get into crypto. >> i don't think so. i'm never wrong about this stuff. never. david: that was funny. crypto apps soaring to the top of download charts after a wild night of football drew in millions of curious viewers back with jared levy and carol roth. jared, that was my favorite ad. my favorite one when i was doubting the the future of forks during the middle ages. i carry 10 forks around with me wherever i go. i loved it. did it work? was it effective? >> full disclosure i bought ethereum ahead of the super bowl. i bought more, a couple others when the first ad hit. here is what i've been noticing, right? there is sort of amongst young people particularly this get rich quick sort of feeling. it is kind of like penny stocks,

right? "wolf of wall street" kind of a style, this excitement of anything can happen and last night really showed how frenetic it can be, that qr code floating by coinbase. i was up there following it. it was a viral, powerful movement. when you have to remember here, if you're an investor not all of this stuff will make sense. it is not about currency, about the technology, about nfts, future of the way we're going through business. also about the demise of certain industries like title companies for houses. that is something we need to look at. we start exchanging things differently in the coming years. it worked. it was genius ad. i loved it. david: carol, i think it is about the demise of central banks or perhaps the coming demise. if central banks can't get inflation under control, if the experiment with interest rates and it doesn't work people will

look for an alternative and this is it. >> i certainly think that is part of the underlying thesis. the challenge, that the central banks have markets denominated in their currency. they have giant militaries attached to countries that they work for. so i'm not so sure, i mean we're already starting to see regulation, that this is all going to play out that way even though the underlying thesis makes sense but very interesting, david, this whole thing reminds me back in super bowl super bowl xxxiv, the dot-com super bowl, 14 different dot-comers out there spending all of this money, i feel like, that was a the top for dot-com. this is similar feeling. you know who won the super bowl? it was the rams. david: my goodness, that's true. i forgot about that the dot-coms came back with facebook and all rest of them. maybe there is a comeback for

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♪. david: new filings in special counsel john durham's russia probe allege the clinton campaign not only paid to spy on president trump, they actually were implanting false information into his databases in an attempt to link trump to russia while he was a candidate and later while he was president. fox news correspondent david spunt has the very latest from the justice department. david. reporter: hi, david. from almost three years of investigating republicans all the way up to the former president of the united states are beginning to feel like what you may call vindicated by this filing by special counsel john durham t was filed late friday night t was a motion relating to a potential conflict of interest within the defense team of former clinton campaign lawyer michael sussman. sussman pleaded not guilty to lying to the fbi for allegedly coming to the fbi for information that the trump campaign was in cahoots with a russian bank but not divulging

he was working on behalf of the clinton campaign. that information did not pan out n this specific motion durham reveals sussman was involved with someone known as tech executive one who worked an internet company to infiltrate servers at trump tower and the white house. according to the court filing tech executive one tasked researchers to mine internet data to establish a inference, and quote, narrative tying candidate trump to russia. in doing so the tech executive indicated he was pleasing certain vips, referring to individuals at the law firm and the clinton campaign. >> basically the academics are telling michael sussman, hey, we found some connections but they're very thin, they're very easy to rebut and sussman went ahead still made it sound like it was a slam-dunk case. reporter: former director of national intelligence under trump john ratcliffe reportedly told john durham that the evidence should submit more charges. and that means he wants more

charges. he thinks more people could be indicted though declined to names. >> i think this conspiracy and i do think there was a criminal conspiracy, is broad and deep and i hope that, you know, obviously john durham is moving carefully but i would expect and anticipate, based on intelligence that i have seen there will be quite a few more indictments relating to this. reporter: if republicans take the house in november they plan to investigate this with public hearings. david? david: as well they should. david, thank you very much. get reaction from former house manager during the clinton impeachment trial bob barr. this goes way beyond spying this is infiltrating trump's websites, secured websites to try to insert false information that would prove in their mind as russian collusion. here is what hillary clinton said back at the time right before the election, computer scientists have apparently

uncovered a covert server linking trump organization to russian state bank. jake sullivan, working with hillary, now national security advisor went beyond that, this line of communication may explain trump's bizarre adoration of vladmir putin and endorsement of so many pro-kremlin positions. he goes on and on. this takes the scandal to a whole new level, does it not? >> it does. it is very insidious and what makes this even worse, if you look at it and consider what these people were doing in the context of the most recent information that has come out from a couple of senators, senator wyden and a privacy and civil liberties oversight board that the cia has been for quite some time now engaged in unlawful and improper collection of data on american citizens in violation of law, it becomes even worse and if this administration doesn't want to get to the bottom of it certainly i hope congress will

but we may here again, as you indicated have to wait until the midterms. david: this is more than just spying. this is inserting disinformation into secure websites. by the way, not just when donald trump was running for president but when he was actually president, somebody went into his secure executive office of the presidency website trying to insert this data to frame him. >> they did. these were people that knew exactly what they were doing both politically and from a technology standpoint and i'm sorry to say that even one of my hometown universities here, georgia tech university, in atlanta, georgia, seems to perhaps been part of this insidious activity. david: bob, we only have 30 seconds but there has been talk about hillary clinton running for president again in 2024. i would think, particularly if durham is looking at her specifically that this would kill those chances, no? >> they should but these people

like hillary clinton, they don't give a wit for anything having to do with the law or ethics. they're going to plow ahead if they think they can win or they can harm republicans no matter what. david: and finally isn't infiltration into a dedicated executive office of the presidency website, isn't that illegal? >> it's illegal even if it is not part of the executive office of the president. there are very far-ranging computer crimes that this would apply to even outside of the executive office. david: it is extraordinary. bob barr, thank you so much for this. appreciate it. good to see you again. >> sure. david: more cavuto "coast to coast" right after this. stay with us. ♪. nt to make the right moves fast... get decision tech from fidelity. [ cellphone vibrates ] you'll get proactive alerts for market events before they happen... and insights on every buy and sell decision.

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♪ >> at this point almost -- >> the gas is, like, outrageous. >> i mean, it's painful, it's painfulful. i mean, it's near double. >> used to be able to spend a 20 and fill up my tank the, now it's 30-35 to fill it up. >> cost of everything, gas, oil for the house, food, everything. david: as you can see, americans are battling rising pain at the pump, though you didn't have to be told that. it's happening coast to coast as the price of oil is now approaching $100 a barrel. madison alworth live at a gas station in new jersey with what drivers are dealing with right

now. >> reporter: drivers at this station are dealing with absurdly high costs. i think i found the most expensive gas station in all of new jersey. we're in bedminster. this station selling regular gas for $5.89. and that's if you pay cash. if you pay credit card, you're looking at just under $6. so really feeling that pain at the pump. it's not just happening here, we are seeing this across the u.s., and these prices could be a sneak if peek of what is to come as the price of crude oil per gallon is trading over $90. now, as everyone waits to see how the situation in the ukraine unfolds, that $100 per barrel milestone could be on its way. and like i mentioned, you know, this station is incredibly high, but it's not just here. we are seeing prices go higher across the u.s. energy prices are one of the biggest drivers of inflation if, and is we are seeing that in those gas prices. the national average for a gallon of regular gas is $3.48 today, up $1 from a year ago.

and experts say that we could see the average move higher in the coming months. >> all of the factors are going to point to an upward trajectory when we start seeing the transition, warmer weather, refineries doing maintenance. all the ingredients are there to hit $4 a gallon. >> reporter: yeah. so we're already seeing an energy crisis in europe, david, and so if russia does decide to invade ukraine, that really does create fears that this could worsen the gas prices here and further drive up that inflation. david: by the way, i just went back into a picture i took justs after the election in 2020. here's the price, you probably can't see, this is in new jersep of that? $.01 for a -- 2.01 for a regular gallon of gas. madison, thank you very much. well, democrat lawmakers are mow calling for a suspension of

the gas tax "news of the world" to bring -- in order to bring prices down. quote: shameless democratic pandering won't protect us from high gas prices. the paper goes on to suggest an increase in the gas tax. let's bring in price futures group senior analyst and fox news contributor phil flynn, who's shaking his head already. [laughter] phil, by the way, of course politicians are pandering. that's what they do for a living. but the gas tax, the federal gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon. it's more for diesel, it's 24.4 cents per gallon. but when gas prices have been going up more than a dollar, sometimes more than two dollars a gallon, could easily go up another buck, would 18.4 cents per gallon make that much of a difference? >> the answer is, no, it's not going to make that much difference9 and -- and, in fact, it may even drive prices up higher. one of the things that drives

down prices is when demand gets impacted by the higher prices. but, you know, talk about the suspension of the gas tax, it's sort of like if i go to your house, dave, and i see this expensive vase and i knock it over and break with it and i try to take credit for glueing it back together? [laughter] it doesn't make any sense. all the people that are calling for this suspension of the gasoline taxes have done everything to raise gasoline prices. not one thing can they name that they've done on the democratic side of the ticket, have they done to encourage u.s. oil and gas production, produce if more refineries, and they have this unrealistic expectation that we can just, you know, kill pipelines, you know, tax gasoline as their personal political pig by bank and be -- piggybank and be shocked when prices are going up. david: it's like deficit spending, they're shocked to find out inflation is not transitory when they keep

spending trillions of dollars. i mean, we know these things. they're trying to avoid the obvious here. the real cost, the bottom line for the energy prices though, the real cost of these prices that we pay at the pump are biden's regulations on fossil fuels which he wants to get rid of, right? >> that's a major part of it. and i'll tell you what, it's also the cities couragement -- also the discouragement of investment in the oil and gas sector. they're saying it's not welcome in this country, right? everything that they've said, there's nobody in the administration that says we think you should be investing in u.s. oil and gas. it's exactly the opposite. they're telling people, you know, invest in solar panels, in wind farms, you know, gas is the thing of the past. but, you know, they want to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, right? they want to tax us even more, and they want to use a gasoline tax to help pay for bridges and things like that. did they ever stop to think that most of the things that they have build back better with are made with fossil fuels this --

fuels? it's nuts. they'll try to break the price just before the midterms and then right after that, right back up. david: right. the bottom with line is they're choosing the wrong enemy. it's like russia, i understand russia's the aggressor in ukraine, etc., but gas prices in europe and home heating in europe, etc., has been going up long before there were worries about russia invading ukraine, weren't they? >> absolutely. you know, it's been 15 years of energy policy that is based in fantasy and not reality. yeah, everybody understands we have to be, have an energy transition, get off fossil fuels. but before you do that, you better have some alternatives in place. and this -- there hasn't been good planning in europe. actually, i look at data from the international energy agency, and you know, dave, i've been complaining for years i think they offered an overly optimistic viewpoint on how quickly we could get off fossil

fuels. all that data they know now has been flawed, and everybody in europe's paying the price for it. david: just to be specific about it, i don't wantment to get hemmed in by the numbers, but it's over 200 million barrels that we're talking about here that just disappeared according to their stats, no? >> it is. it's, like, where did it go? david: how could you lose 200 million barrels of oil? [laughter] >> well, they did. and i'll tell you what, for years they've been massaging the numbers, and they're either doing it, dave, so consuming countries can buy it cheaper, but i think what they were trying to do was sell the world that we can close, you know, gas pipelines and we can shut down oil and gas production and still be okay. well, we're not okay, and we're seeing that right now. david: absolutely. phil flynn, who studies these numbers very, very carefully, i don't know anybody who studies them as well as he does, phil flynn, great to see you. thank you so much, appreciate it. >> thank you, dave. david: the white house is now warning a russian invasion of ukraine could come any moment

now. fox news correspondent lucas tomlinson is leave in kyiv with the very latest on all this. lucas. >> reporter: david, we've just learned that ukraine's president will address his nation tonight, this as u.s. officials continue to warn that a russian invasion of ukraine could happen any day. earlier russia's top diplomat spoke to russian president vladimir putin who said talks with the west are not over. [speaking russian] >> translator: seems to me our options are far from exhausted. at this stage i would suggest we continue the talks and build on them. >> reporter: germany's chancellor arrived here in kyiv earlier told to meat -- today to meet with ukraine president zelensky who said, quote, it was a big mistake for some in the embassy to move to western ukraine. he also reit it rated his desire to join nato. russia sees that as a threat because of the potential of nato

troops deployed within striking range of moscow. it'd be like holding a gun to putin's held. thousands of troops continue training in the north. i spoke with a member of ukraine's parliament earlier today who said if russia launches a full scale invasion is, martial law is likely to follow. >> martial law if russia invades is almost guaranteed. it requires -- [inaudible] then again, the question is russia exact exactly, and even though russia has all the options, which option they'll pursue is not clear. >> reporter: now, it's valentine's day, and it's celebrated here in the ukraine just like it is back home. earlier i walked the streets i saw couples holding hands, restaurants with people dining, having a good time. a strange cry from russian forces who continue massing on ukraine's border, we're told more headed are there this evening. david: i think of paris -- not that i was there -- but right before the invasion in world war

ii. maybe it's the last time they figure they can go out and enjoy themselves. lucas, best of luck. please be careful, my friend. quickly, go ahead, you wanted to say something. >> reporter: they served champagne on the titanic, didn't they, david? david: yeah. [laughter] they did, indeed. lucas, good to see you. thanks very much. well, is there any way the world can avoid a russian-ukrainian conflict at this point? atlantic council senior fellow ambassador nathan sales. thank you for being here. do you see any progress at all with these talks between lavrov and putin and biden? >> well, i don't think we should write off diplomacy yet, but we're getting very, very close to midnight if, dade, make no mistake. the problem is the united states has been playing defense for the past several months. vladimir putin is seizing the initiative, and we are left, the united states and our nato allies, are left playing defense and reacting to the initiative that he has seized. i think what we need to do is

play some offense here. that means imposing sanctions on some russian banks and russian energy companies. show putin we're serious. and then if he comes across the border into ukraine with tanks, there's a lot more economic pain in store for him and his economy. sanction some oligarchings. this can give us something to trade away in the event that russia des class9s -- des complaints. rather than take our forces away from the front lines in deference to putin's sensibilities. david: what about nord stream 2? of course, the failure of the biden administration to reup the sanctions that had existed before they came into office, they expired, but rather than reentering them, they just let them expire. is it time to slap those on right now, or is that something we hold on to? >> it's well past time, david. nord stream 2 is a no-brainer. putin knows that nord stream 2 is a gun loaded and aimed at the head of europe.

he's been planning to use it to blackmail europe, and we walked right into his trap when we lifted sanctions. this is not a complicated issue. republicans and democrats in congress agree that the security risks of allowing russia to hold europe hostage using energy resources is simply unacceptable. now the administration needs to take decisive action to kill this project once and for all. david: have you seen this administration take decisive action in any major foreign policy conflict? i can't point to one where they have taken decisive action whether you're talking about afghanistan other than the withdrawal itself, but they kept promising things that they never delivered with regard the that like keeping troops in until we get all americans out. >> well, i think that's exactly what wee need to -- we need to see here, is a real change in approach. it's better to act in concert with allies, but we can't afford to let ourselves be held hostage to the lowest common denominator

that would be acceptable in western european capitallings. what we need to do is be prepared to act a unilaterally if necessary or with a small group of like-minded countries like the united kingdom and poland. we can't let american foreign policy and strategic interests be dictated by our friends and allies in europe who, for their own reasons, have made different energy policy choices and now find themselves in a position where they're entirely dependent on vladimir putin to heat their homes in the winter. david: yeah. but, you know, the great chess master who knows russia very well and knows putin pretty well too suggested there's been a lot of talk about how putin's just playing chess. he said, no, no, he's not a good chess player because a good chess player has to realize the board and read the person. -- realize the board and read the person. putin's good at reading the board, but he's not good at reading the person. putin is focused on biden and

sees the weakness in biden's foreign policy, and that's all he's playing on. he doesn't think at all about the board moves that we could make with regard to sanctions. the his -- he thinks he's got biden because of his weakness on other issues. what do you think of that analysis? >> i think you're exactly right, david. i think putin senses weakness, and when america is perceived as weak, that is provocative. dictators see windows of opportunity to seize territory, to subvert their neighbors and to dismantle the american-led international order if america is not up to defending it. and america, make no mistake, we have incredible leverage at our disposal. we could crater the russian economy. we can disconnect russian banks from the international banking network: we could destroy their exports of energy. that accounts for 60% of russian exports. that can go down to 0 if the united states chooses to do so. so we have an incredible amount

of leverage, the question is whether this administration is going to use those tools to force vladimir putin to reconsider launching a ground war in europe. this is peace through strength. the united states needs to demonstrate resolve and strength, and putin will back down. david: ambassador, my producers are going to kill me because with we've run out of time but last question, very, very quickly. germany, are they a reliable ally in this? >> they could be were the. the -- they could be better. the fact that germany has green lighted nord stream 2 and is limiting the ability of other european partners to sell defensive weaponry of german origin to ukraine which needs it to defends fend itself -- defend itself, germany should think about what it can do to make nato a stronger alliance rather than a weaker one. david: ambassador nathan sales, thank you very much. appreciate it. after the break, california officials and celebrities seen defying l.a.'s mask mandate at the super bowl, so why aren't our kids getting a pass?

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muck measure. david: a return to normalcy getting underway as many democrat governors roll back mask mandates, but president biden is now saying, not so fast. peter doocy is at the white house with the details. >> reporter: david, good afternoon. a lot of the folks that work here at the white house where president biden lives in washington, d.c. which just announced they are going to start rolling back their vaccine requirements for indoor businesses, and they're going to loosen mask requirements which is in real contrast to what we heard from president biden himself in an interview that ran last night during the super bowl. >> look, i love how people talk about personal freedom. if you're exercising personal freedom, puts someone else's health in jeopardy, i don't consider that to be freedom.

it's about moving in the direction you know is likely to diminish the prospects that this virus continues to spread. >> reporter: so the president makes it sound like you cannot have it both ways when it comes to masks, but some democrats disagree. >> if you're somebody who doesn't like wearing masks, respect those who do. if you're somebody who likes wearing masks, please, respect those who don't. >> reporter: so president biden made a decision today when he was outside walking from marine one to the white house residence, he decided that he was going to wear his mask outside. he only pulled it down for a second to answer a quick question about russia by saying happy valentine's day. [laughter] david: all right. peter, thank you very much, appreciate pit. meantime, pfizer director dr. scott gottlieb, one of the directors, says shots for kids under 5 delayed due to low covid cases in trial. joining me now is infectious disease doctor and johns hopkins

school of public health scholar, dr. amesh. what do you think of this? we should mention, by the way, scott gottlieb was a former director of the fda, so he knows whereof he speaks. how can we determine whether vaccine mandates are good or should be recommended when there's still questions about whether trials are good enough? >> well, what we're trying to figure out is what the optimal dosing is in the under 5 age group. the early trial data shows in six months to 2 years of age, the standard two-dose regiment works, but the older ones, it seems maybe they need a third dose or a higher dose, and they have to do a clinical trial because it didn't show it was that protective. there were no safety signals there, and i suspect eventually we are going to get this vaccine for the under 5 age group, it's just going to be on a slower

timeline, and it's going to take longer because cases are falling. when the cases are higher, the more quickly you can do the trial. it's frustrating, but i think in the end we will get a safe and effective vaccine for children under 5. david: well, dr. gottlieb is pretty specific. he says most kids are not getting symptomatic covid. may -- they may actually have covid, but they're not getting the symptomatic cases, and, therefore, you wonder whether mandates are worth while for kids. >> it is definitely true that children are spared the severe consequences of disease, and they're more likely to have asymptomatic infections. and i think that's why we have to have this robust debate about where the vaccine is most valuablement and the prospect is a very different calculation than giving it to older children or adults or the elderly where there clearly is a strong value in protecting against serious illness, hospitalization and death. but there are some children that are under 5 that would benefit

from vaccine -- david: you bring up a great point -- forgive me for interrupting, but not all cases are equal. that's why these mandates, these general, you know, global mandates are not really worthwhile, in my particular opinion. and, in fact, everybody is different, every case is different, and that's a decision that should be made by individual patients or the parents if the patients are underage and their doctors, no in. >> i do think one size fits all solutions aren't how we want to be in this pandemic. we want precision-guided recommendations. when it comes to mandates, i think it's very different when the government is doing it, and i think that's a slippery slope where we don't want the government issuing the mandates. private organizations, private businesses or private schools want to say this is a requirement for entry or participation, that's a one thing. but it's not surprising, for example, the president's osha mandate failed in the supreme court because i think that was going the other way. i think it's much better when it's organizations and individuals deciding to get the

vaccine. and this vaccine is very valuable for those people who choose to get it, and i wish more people would get it because that's what's kind of keeping our hospitals in crisis mode. david: well, let me just read to you from the cdc's comments on state vaccination requirements because they have a lot -- cdc has a lot of power over what cities and states do. they say, quote: state and local vaccination requirements for daycare and school entry are important tools for maintaining high vaccination coverage rates and, in turn, lower rates of vaccine-preventable diseases. so it does appear that they are recommending vaccination in many cases in schools and around the country. do you think they should withdraw that statement? >> no, i don't necessarily think they need to withdraw it because schools and daycare centers all have vaccine requirements. they've had them for a long time even against diseases less concerning than covid-19. for example, chickenpox, it's a requirement for many school

districts, and it has a lower disease burden in children. it's unlikely to cause severe disease in children. we want to encourage vaccination. i think when the government is issuing mandates, it creates a backlash and gets people dug in even further and ends up being counterproductive. we have to come back and understand what our goals are, and it's to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death from covid-19, and i don't think that the government giving, making mandates the treatment of choice or the policy of choice is actually working because we're kind of stuck with this 62, 63% fully vaccinated, and it's not moving. and if you look at children, 5 to 11-year-olds have a very, very low vaccine uptake. that's one of the lowest groups. so is what we're doing isn't actually working -- david: i agree. >> -- the goal which is to put covid-19 behind us. david: you're speak science. doctor, great to see you. thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. a quick market check before we go, the dow is down about 125

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♪ david: let's check in on the markets here. the dow well off session lows, it was down over 300 points at one time. wall street is kind of eyeing the rising tensions with russia, and as they ease the markets ease a little bit, as they get tighter and worsening, the markets get worse too. let's get the read from capitalist pig hedge fund manager if jonathan hoenig. jonathan, great to see you, thank you for coming in.

what's happening here is kind of the day to day tensions of russia that weaver seeing reflected -- we're seeing reflected in the market, but i think the real underlying condition is what's going to happen with interest rates and infallacious no? >> david, that's exactly what's happening in front of our eyes. they used to call them the bond individual landties back in the '70s and '80s. basically bond buyers are demanding higher rates and not even waiting for the fed. the 30-year yield has gone from 1.2% to 2.4%. it's nearly doubled. and part of that is, as you said, fear about uncertainty in europe, but it's more than anything about inflation, and that's why you're seeing today -- yes, the market's coming back a little bit, but tremendous amount of weakness. and gold is the real safe haven today. inflation is the number one fear for investors right now, and you seeing that in gold as well. david: well, let's be absolutely clear here. the fed, even though it says it's going to be tightening, hasn't yet. in fact, it is still monetizing

the debt. it's monetizing the debt by buying the debt that the treasury issues because of all this deficit, all these trillion dollar spending programs. the treasury issues debt in order to cover those expenses, and the fed is still buying up tens of billions of dollars worth as we speak, they're doing it. they say they're going to end it at the end of this month, but they're still doing it now. >> and if the fed controls the short end of the curve, david, but not the rest of the curve, and that's why you seeing -- you're seeing interest rates overall a, you can't fool the markets themselves. david: right. >> people say, oh, what does inflation have to do with me, but this is government-caused uncertainty. europe we can't necessarily control, but the inflation is caused by government, and it's causing a lot of consternation and uncertainty among stock and bond investors alike. david: i don't know anybody who says how does inflation affect me because everybody is affected. the question is when the fed, if

it does do what it says it's going to do, when they stop buying the debt, the u.s. debt, who buys it? the only way they're going to sell it in the marketplace is by raising rates, right? if. >> yeah. rates almost inevitably have to rise, and we're seeing them rise day after day. never seen fixed income as an asset class look as weak. rates have been going down for about 30 years, so more than even a change in the stock market, null a inflation, money printing and monetization by the fed could be signaling a major change in the bond market and higher rates not just for a couple of years, but for a decade or more to come. david: back in the days before we had super-inflation here, you always had the interest rates a little higher than inflation, right? right now and for the past 20 years or so, ever since the financial crisis really, you saw that equation switch. are we going to have to go back to that, and if so, then we're

going to have to have interest rates above -- now above 8%, right? >> well, and, david, a lot of those art a officially low interest rates fueled a lot of asset bubbles in stocks, crypto, but a lot of that momentum, a lot of that juice seems to be wearing out. even despite all that money printing, you've got 70 percent of stocks below their long-term moving averages. so this could be that kind of double hurt for investors right now with stocks and bonds going down at the same time. lots of fear out there and lots of uncertainty, most of it government-caused. david: you mentioned gold, very quickly, are you buying more of it? >> i think you have to be looking at gold right now, hard assets writ large, david. the government is destroying the purchasing power of our assets, that's why, you know, commodities and cigarette makers are about the only thing green on my screen today. david: wow, that's very interesting. jonathan, thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. meanwhile, house republicans are demanding answers after the

gofundme site blocked donations to the canadian truckers' freedom convoy. create ices say this is the latest example of big tech censorship. hillary vaughn live on capitol hill with the latest. the really infuriating part, hillary, was when they said we're going to take the money that was meant for the truckers and distribute it to our charities which socially amounted to theft or at least fraud. at any rate, what's the latest? >> reporter: exactly, david, and that's something that some republican lawmakers really want to book into. they -- look into. they want to know exactly how this money is given back or where else it's going, but they also want more information and even a hearing into why gofundme singleded out canadian truckers participating in this freedom convoy protesting vaccine mandates in canada. they say it's another sign that big tech is biased and uses platforms to punish those who have views they don't agree with. kyiv scalise and james comber

calling it, quote, selective discrimination, and they want more answers. but also state attorneys general are looking into gofundme's decision to shut down the fundraiser. attorneys general in texas, florida, west virginia and missouri have started their own probes into the matter. and in the meantime, a competitor stepped up to host donations, givesendgo opened up their platform if to fill this online fundraising vote for the -- void for the canadian truckers. the site says they received more than $8 million in donations in response. >> this is a huge pr mistake by gofundme. our platform is booming. we haven't seen this much business, people are vowing to never use gofundme again because of the ideological stances that they're taking. we take a neutral position. we allow people to fundraise. >> reporter: but, david, there has been another snag. that web site was hacked. the names of people that donated

money on that platform have reportedly been leaked online, and this is kind of another effort from an outside group, a hacking group, to silence people's freedom of speech. david? david: unbelievable. i didn't realize that. hillary, extraordinary times we live in. thank you very much, hillary, appreciate it. coming up, another recall effort in california, this time it's for school board members who are accused of being focused on everything except the three rs. details when we return. ♪ oh, what's love got to do, got to do with it? ♪ what's love but a secondhand emotion if. ♪ what's love got to do, got to do with it? ♪ who needs a heart when a heart can be broken ♪♪ just an investor, you're an owner with access to financial advice, tools and a personalized plan that helps you build a future for those you love.

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board. fox news senior correspondent claudia cowan is live in san fran with the latest details on this. claudia. >> reporter: hi, david. that's right, well, it's been one controversy after another with the san francisco school board, and as you mentioned, tomorrow's recall takes aim at three board members, all of them democrats who critics say prioritized racial equality over education through a series of blunders during the pandemic including renaming 44 schools it deemed to be offensive including schools named after abraham lincoln and george washington without a plan to get kids back into those very same schools. covering an historic high school mural because it depicts images of slaves, refusing to consider seth rendell during a zoom meeting for a parent add advisory council because the white, gay father of a biracial child wasn't diverse enough and eliminating merit-base add missions at an act a demically

elite high school because too many asian kids were getting in. san francisco's chinese community was further enraged by a series of racist tweets by allison collins who is black. before she was on the board and became its vice president among other things, she tweeted asian americans have used, quote: white supremacist thinking to aassimilate and get ahead. when collins was subsequently demoted, she sued the district for $87 million, fueling another side show. if they are recalled, san francisco's mayor will choose their replacement. she has blasted the school board for being, quote, distracted by political agendas. while reeled is a democrat -- realize is a democrat -- reed is a democrat,, david, we could know the fate of one, two or all three of these school board members by late tomorrow night. back to you. david: we will be watching. thank you very much. reaction now for american fed ration for children director

corey deangelis. corey, great to see you again. whatever happened to the three rs, corey? you know, it's fine to have something on top of that, but as the attention span and the test scores and everything else that our kids drops on the most important things, these other incidental way things that go on in a classroom are taking precedence. >> yeah. looks like the leaders of the school system have their priorities all out of whack. but, look, look at all the ballots we've seen bubbling up over the past two years when it comes to k-12 education. first it was in-person versus remote, then this curriculum or that curriculum or this covid mitigation strategy or that one. they're all just symptom of the larger problem here which happens to be we forced thousands of kids into a one-size-fits-all, government-run school system regard rest of their choice. so while i think the recall is a step in the right direction towards some form of accountability, the strongest

form is bottom-up accountability, allowing families to vote with their feet to the institutions that align best with their values while also incentivizing the public schools to do a better job and perhaps to focus on the basics so that they don't upset so many parents. david: well, you used the word choice, and we're talking about school choice, and i want to get to that in a second. first of all, one positive thing that happened during the pandemic was the curtain was pulled back, we saw what our kids were learning because of remote learning, remote learning techniques, and we didn't like it. a lot of us parents did not like what we saw. now the teachers unions and some radical school boards are realizing what happened and are trying to cut off, trying to put the or curtain back over what's going on, right? >> yeah. but parents aren't going to fall for it. they're never going to unsee what they saw in 2020, and they're pushing back. we're seeing them push back at the school board meetings with the school board recall elections, and they're pushing back at the capitals as well.

thirty states already have bills in play to fund students as opposed to students. 2021 was the year of school choice, but we're just getting started, and we're pushing forward, and parents are going to continue because they felt powerless in 2020, and they're going to make sure they never feel like that ever again. david: well, and the perfect example of what you were describing is virginia where you have a governor who's come in specifically on this subject. i think without the issue of choice of parents over what happens in schools for their kids, he wouldn't have been elected governor, but he was, and he's now trying to make a difference. and they are attacking him with everything they have, the school unions, the radicals on the school boards and individual districts. how can he turn -- will he be able to turn things out despite these attacks on him? >> i think he can, but at the same time if you've been watching -- and i'm sure you have -- even though he banned mask mandates in schools, he still had some of the districts

still doing what they want anyway, and the ultimate power move here for youngkin would be to say, okay, you don't want to listen to my order, well, we're going to allow families to take their kids' education dollars to a private, charter or some type of home-based learning option. arizona's governor just recently did something similar, up to $7,000 can follow the child to a private school if they disagree with what's going on in the public school. david: follow the money. it works every time. and finally, i thought he was beginning, that governor youngkin was beginning to do that, was to open the space for school choices. does he, does he violate any kind of federal mandates in order to do so, can individual governors make it happen in their states? >> yeah, they can. they can also use the legislature to do so as far as what i've seen in arizona with doug ducey. he used the american rescue plan funding, and you'd have to look into the specific rules in virginia, but they did it in arizona already.

and other governors have introduced similar plans. and virginia now you have the house is controlled by republicans, and there are at least four education savings account bills in play in virginia. david: yeah. >> so that's something to watch going forward as well. david: you think of a city like new york where they spend $30,000 per student, and a lot of parents are wondering, jeez, if i had $30,000, i think i could spend it in a lot smarter ways than what the government is doing right now. corey, great to see you. appreciate you being here. please come back and see us again. corey deangelis. after the break, while many businesses are seeing a sweet pop in business for valentine's day, my next guest says he's being met with not so sweet business costs. the costs are rising even as demand keeps going up. ♪ ♪ who do you love? ♪

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hard to find staff to kind of supplement that team. so, yeah, it's a problem. david: you know, you must be ad good manager because i was talking to a friend of ours here, zane tankel, who's got about 20 applebee's restaurants that he oversees, and he says, yes, it's a problem staffing, but if you keep a good relationship with your employees, they'll stick with you. is that generally true? >> for sure. i mean, one thing that my grandfather and my parents really instilled in me is continuing to try to make andre's feel like one big family, and that's really what we do. we work really hard to make everyone feel like they have true purpose and that everything that that they do is an integral part of what we do at andre's. david: well, we can't control inflation, unfortunately, or you can't anyway. in about 20 seconds, how much of a problem is that, are the rising prices for you right now? >> it is a big hurdle that we

are facing. i mean, we are fortunate that we have taken steps to kind of not pass those costs on to our customers. we've looked at ways to produce more efficiently, also look at our best selling products and really put emphasis on those things to try to, you know, offset some of the more intense labor costs that we see in some of our other products and, therefore, absorbing some of that inflation that we're seeing across the board. david: well, you sound like somebody when's got great relations with your -- who's got great relations with your employees and with the customers, and with the 200% increase in orders, good for you. andre's in kansas city, if you're in that area. more "to coast" right after this. ♪ ♪

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