my life. unwrap your family story, with ancestrydna. hi, i'm jason and i've lost 202 pounds on golo. so when i first started golo, i was expecting to lose around 40 pounds and then i just kept losing weight, and moving and moving and moving in a better direction. with golo and release, you're gonna lose the weight. >> i think the american people deserve to know if president biden has been involved in these foreign dealings which be a violation of his duty. >> jobs have been really resilient and we haven't seen a lot of the amazon layoffs of 10,000 or facebook layoffs of 11,000. there's going to be some pain out there at some point in time. it's like we're whistling by the

graveyard. >> i don't think the fed will pivot until we get verified confirmation that this inflation is finally put to bed. >> for investors, stick with the theme although 2022 has been a tough year. stay invested in the market. a rally is coming in the u.s. markets. >> once the crowds go home the regime then starts to oppress. the regime right now is flooding into chinese society to try to prevent a reoccurrence of this , and the big test, of course will be this weekend. ♪ dancing around the christmas tree, have a happy holiday, everyone dancing in a new old fashion way ♪ ashley: there you go, how about that for some christmas spirit on this tuesday morning, as you look down sixth avenue and the traffic backed up right there at sixth and 48th. good morning, everybody. it is 11 a.m. on the east coast, on this tuesday, november 29.

almost into december. i'm ashley webster in today for stuary varney and as we take a look at the markets, yes, we are in the green, but only just essentially flat as the markets wait to hear from jay powell tomorrow and the big jobs report on friday, but of course we lost about 1.5% across-the-board yesterday. today we're just treading water. let's take a look at big tech we always like to keep track of these names that you know what's going on there. mixed bag, i would say more down than anything, meta platforms up eight-tenths of a percent but all others moving lower largely so except for amazon down 1.5% but apple, microsoft and alphabet also moving slightly lower. let's take a look at the 10-year treasury yield. get a sense of where that is, holding its own at 3.72% up nearly four basis points. that's the market setup for you right now but let's get more to politics, and this. former vice president mike pence is slamming president trump for his recent dinner meeting

with rapper ye west and holocaust denier nick fuentes. listen to this. >> president trump was wrong to give a white nationalist an anti-semite a seat at the table, and i think he should apologize for it and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification. ashley: chairman david avella joins me right now. let's start there. should donald trump apologize? >> this would have been a good opportunity for president trump to have ghosted kanye on the occasion of this dinner when he walked in and saw that others were there for having dinner as well. all that to say, ashley, this does provide an opportunity for republicans to promote the idea of more funding for u.s. history, so that students know that it was this

country who for decades fought against the type of hatred that came out of or comes out of nick fuentes and his group and the denial of u.s. history, that it was americans who helped fight the hatred that he promotes, and even to this day, and since then , you've had republican and democrats put billions of dollars in our foreign policy and in our military to make sure this world isn't a lot colder and harder and uglier by hatred, and we are the u.s. , the greatest force for good to this day, and our leaders need to think about that and how do we continue that. ashley: very good point. i've got another one for you, david. apparently the rnc is launching a review of their performance in the mid-terms and the findings are going to be released within the first six months of next

year, so a little bit of soul searching. what do you think was the main problem for republicans that just failed to meet expectations in these mid-term elections? >> two things, hopefully this report will show, which is going into 2024, we need not have a system that was as good at turning out votes as the democrats had in 2022. we need a system that's even better and more modern for 2024 and that making sure those voters, republicans, independents and democrats, who support our candidates, get their ballots cast. we have to do a better job of making sure it's easy to vote and hard to cheat over the next two years, and along those lines , hopefully the rnc chairman ronna mcdaniel s will make a pledge that every dollar that the rnc spends on advertising in 2024 is actually to promote ideas that republicans have. we don't need consultants

continuing this every cycle. it's another black grainy ad telling folks how bad the democrats are. voters know how bad the democrat s are. we didn't give enough voters information particularly independents to say we'd rather go this direction, and it be to ronna's benefit as she seeks re-election that she commit that rnc dollars will actually go to promoting what republicans are for , not simply bashing what democrats are against. ashley: so you think a lot of it came down to messaging, because republicans had a lot of material to work with, which i found surprising that they just couldn't capitalize on. >> there's absolutely no question it came down to messaging, ashley. you look at when do we, where do we have great success. it's where independents and republicans and persuadable democrats voted for the republican candidate and those races where we didn't, we did not do well with particularly with in voters, and

they are much more practical and want to know what you're going to do to help them and less interested in the nonsensical issues that too many candidates focused on this election and in turn, they lost. ashley: right. all right, david avella, thank you so much for taking time to talk with us today. >> thank you. ashley: as always about the interesting world of politic s, thank you so much, david appreciate it. let's check the markets, thank you. let's bring in kyle wall to talk about what's going on. good morning to you, kyle. i guess my question to you, do you think the fed will be less aggressive at their december meeting? the markets have pretty much counted in, accounted for a 50 basis point hike. do you think that's going to be what we're going to see? >> i do. i think they will come in around that type of hike, around 50 basis points, but i think more importantly, they always say don't fight the fed but i think in times like this , we really

have to listen to the fed and listen to what they say during the minutes about what they see with the cpi and the ppi going forward and to see if they are going to be less aggressive over the next three, six, nine and 12 months because if they are that will lead us to a lot of opportunities in the market that we can begin to factor and deploy capital based on the fed starting to take a step back. ashley: you know, we've had a little bit of doom and gloom today i hate to say it from some analysts who say look the real impact of these rate hikes by the fed haven't even really been felt yet but they will next year though we are facing a recession and not to be fooled by some of thve data we're seeing now, because these rate hikes are really a lagging factor and one person even talked about stagflation as being a real threat. what say you? >> i really think inflation, and even stagflation, it's a double-head dragon. number one you have the federal

reserve bank and chairman powell who will go ahead and use monetary policy to offset inflation but i also think we need to have our leaders and the new people in the house of representatives, the new leadership there, to go ahead and start to put forth some fiscal policy, to also maintain the rampant spending that we've had over the last two years, and i think if we can get a combination of those two it could offset some of that into 2023 but i do think we need both of those. not just federal policy but also some real fiscal policy and that could help out the markets in 2023. ashley: very quickly, on tech kyle. tech sector being the leader for so long. are those days over, and do you perhaps maybe see a tech in re bound. sorry let me do that over. a rebound in tech. >> i don't think those days are over and if the fed does begin to taper as we're talking about on the upside it's going to lead to a few things that'll be very beneficial to tech.

the first thing will be a weakening of the u.s. dollar against our trading partners like the european union, the united kingdom and the japanese, and that will help tech out across-the-board and also help our multinationals like johnson & johnson and proctor and gamble but i also think too, we used to talk about the dogs of the dow which has been beat up the most. i do think tech if we do have this tapering of the fed policy may have great companies like microsoft, apple, that will start to recover but also with the supply chain opening up you're starting to see a rebound in some of our chipmakers like nvidia so i think there is some opportunity in tech. i wouldn't give up on it quite yet. ashley: very good. we'll finish on an optimistic note there, kyle thank you very much for taking time to join us this morning. really appreciate it. >> thank you. ashley: all right lauren come back in. i'm still cracking myself up. i said do you see a tech in re bound. [laughter] lauren: oh, i do that all the time. at least you noticed it. ashley: i can amuse myself for

hours on stuff like that. anyway, you're following some of the movers today. let's begin with union pacific. lauren: i guess the market is optimistic that biden calling on congress to pass legislation to avert devastating rail strike is good news, so this stock is up just about 1%, also, deutsche bank, the same analyst there that upgraded ups also raising their price target on union pacific to $238. lordstown motors, look this is still a dollar and change stock, but it's up 2.5%. they have received final authorization to sell their electric endurance pickup truck and they have started delivery. investorses breathing a sigh of relief and up 5.5% in fact just hitting a new high stronger earnings yesterday and look all of these unfortunate lockdowns in china are actually pushing people to shop more online. five brokerages at least

increased their price targets today, ashley. ashley: pinduoduo is fun to say. the ceo of snap says employees need to come back to the office when does that begin? lauren: imagine that! it begins in february. i'm calling it an ultimatum. bloomberg reporting that the staff at snap needs to report to their desks four days a week, so it's not even every day. four days a week starting in february. love the memo that was written to staff. we've been working this way for so long that i'm afraid we've forgotten what we've lost and what we could gain, by spending more time together. i want to know how employees who have been home for three years really feel about spending time with their co-workers that they probably don't miss, because that's just the way its been, but i called it an ultimatum because snap just laid off 1,300 workers so if you don't want to be laid off i think the message is clear. get your butt at your desk four days a week.

ashley: i think that's the message plain and simple. all right, lauren, thank you very much. now this. one airline just shutdown its customer service hotline for good. they aren't even going to try. if you want help you just have to deal with the computer. well, we're going to tell you where that's happening, how great is that? a new poll shows 62% of voters want hunter biden to be investigated. senator rick scott has been pushing for an investigation for months and guess what? he'll be on the show. and its been nearly a week since kyiv was last attacked and the city now holding its breath waiting for the next strike from russia. we'll have a live report from kyiv, right after this.

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ashley: ukraine is trying to conserve as much energy as possible as temperatures there plummet. jeff paul joins me this morning live from kyiv and jeff, is the city anticipating new attacks on the energy infrastructure there? reporter: yeah, everybody is, including our crew, and all of the other journalists here. there's sort of a tangible sense of tension in the air here in kyiv because pretty much over the past month, there have been several attacks nearly each week so many who call this area home are wondering when and where the next attack by russian forces could be, and on top of all of that, the weather is really starting to take a turn in the wintry direction and that's starting to have a big impact on the war and the people who call ukraine home. temperatures are now below freezing and the snow is really starting to pileup and the farther you go outside some of these bigger cities like kyiv

, it just seems to have a bigger impact on some of these more rural areas who have fewer resources. they're using firewood to stay warm and having to haul in water that they pumped from the functioning wells, just to survive. the newly liberated city of kher son, civilians are continuing to get shelled. russian forces are still pound ing the area from ink across dnipro river causing families to evacuated once again and that's why nato allies meeting in romaine young protesters reaffirmed not only their commitment to helping ukraine but the stopping russian president vladimir putin. >> it's his lack of understanding what free independent nations can do, and i think what he's afraid of is democracy and freedom and that's the main trend for him and we don't want that. that's the reason why he hasn't invaded ukraine. reporter: nato secretary general went on to say that their door is open, for membership and that

russia simply doesn't have some sort of power to veto any of those decisions that nato makes. they say eventually, very soon, you're going to have sweden and finland officially part of nato and when asked about ukraine, possibly joining nato, he said that's still very much in play. back to you. ashley: all right, jeff paul from chilly kyiv, thank you very much, jeff. meantime we just heard from secretary general of nato speaking out against the war in ukraine, and he did so here as well. listen to this. >> what we see is that the president putin is trying to use winter as a weapon of war, which is a lot of suffering on the ukrainian people. ashley: wasn't the clearest audio, was it, but basically, let's bring in former ambassador to nato kurt volker joining us now. and kurt, what we heard there

from the nato secretary general is basically putin is using the freezing winter temperatures as a weapon against ukraine, and i think that's clearly what the aim is, right? >> that's exactly right, and he's using it as a way to make the ukrainian people suffer. it's a deliberate policy to deny heat, to deny electricity, to shutdown water supplies. this is a cynical policy by putin and one that i hope that we step up even more to resist. ashley: and how much does that weaken ukraine' defense? i mean, obviously, they are do everything they can, but as a tactic and as cynical as it is, is it effective? >> no, it's not going to change the course of the war. that's what's significant here. this is not going to stop ukraine from fighting back, but it is going to make the ukrainian people suffer, but as far as the military goes, ukrainian military is doing a very good job with american and other help of targeting russian

logistical supply lines, forcing the russian forces to move back and to hunker down and they will probably even be advancing during the winter, but that is why putin is engaging in this cynical attack on civilians he just can't make the gains on the ground that he wants to make ashley: right. i want to get into this issue as well, kurt. the "wall street journal" reporting that the backlog of u.s. military aid to taiwan has now ballooned to $4 billion worth, since russia invaded ukraine so i guess the question is, is our support of ukraine kind of putting taiwan at risk? is that country prepared for an invasion without that help from the u.s.? >> well first off, i can't explain the backlog in supplies to taiwan, but there's really no competition and the types that we're talking about between what's going to ukraine and what taiwan needs. on the other hand, when you think about the way china looks at this , if they see a lack of

u.s. resolve, if they see that russia is able to defeat its neighbor ukraine and successful, that's going to be an encouragement to beijing whereas if they see that ukraine is successful, the u.s. and the west show great resolve and russia actually weakens itself of trying to take ukraine, that's going to be a very strong message to beijing as well, so rather than saying competition here, i think getting one right helps us get the other right. ashley: all right, we're going to have to leave it right there, kurt, but thank you so much as we continue to follow what's going on in ukraine, russia and taiwan for that matter, kurt volker, thank you, sir, as always. let's take, thank you, let's check the markets right now, as i say kind of been treading water today. more information coming out tomorrow when we hear from jay powell. the big jobs report at the end of the week, and now just taking a step lower as you can see the dow off half a percent, the nasdaq down 1%, the s&p 500 down a little more than half a percent so we certainly seen a downward turn in the stocks

today and again, all three of the major indices lost 1.5% in yesterday's trading, over concerns of what was going on in china. all right that said, let's take a look at the travel stocks if we can because guess what? today is travel tuesday. companies offering deals on flights, hotels, and other tourist attractions. if you didn't know it, maybe you want to get your tickets today. expedia up, booking holdings up 1% airbnb up by the way half a percent. now this story, for teen airlines discontinued their customer service phone line. all right, come in here, lauren. did they just get fed up answering the phone of people complaining? lauren: probably. they're going to complain more now. the computers will get mad so if you have an issue at frontier you have to talk to that chat bot who i wind up talking to all the time at many different companies and websites and they just give you links that don't answer your questions. so, you know, if you're one of those people who actually gets on the phone and you say

representative, representative, agent, agent, or just press 0, you can't even do that anymore, because there are no humans that can answer your phone call at frontier going all digital. it's a cheaper airline, discount carrier, so this saves them money and in return, keeps fares low. i don't think this is going to go over well. ashley: no, chat bots saying, lauren simonetti is back on. you probably have your own, you know, chat bots just for you, lauren. lauren: the worst is when they ask you to prove that you're not a robot, but sometimes, the questions are difficult. in which picture do you see traffic lights? i'm like what is that thing in the corner? is it a traffic light? i usually get those wrong. ashley: you're not the only one. i fail those too, it's embarrassing lauren, thank you very much. now this. a college graduate says she was so in doctrine ated by her college that her family had to pay a professional to deprogram her and her woke ideas.

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♪ ♪ ashley: you're taking a look at beautiful naples, florida. 82 degrees there today. one of the stomping grounds of stuary varney, one of the many stomping grounds of stuary varney how beautiful is that? now let's check the markets and see what we're doing there. we took a turn downward in the last 30 minutes or so. we were treading water for the most part but we see the dow now off 171 points, down another half a percent, nasdaq down nearly 1%, s&p also down another one-half of 1%. all right now let's get back to the protests in china that sent the markets down yesterday. police cracking down on

demonstrations, and reportedly checking people's phones looking for messages about protesting. all right, come in, susan li. we're seeing people holdup blank pieces of paper. we've seen a lot of that in china. what does that signify? >> well it symbolize censorship , and some are coining it the white paper revolution so the white piece of papillary e emerged as a new target for chinese sensors as they are scraping and scrambling to remove images from the internet. we do have the latest report even now chinese police are using mobile data from apps to track the movements of people involved in these protests. the journal reporting this morning police are now scan ning social media accounts and we did see hundreds of citizens taking to the streets participating in these historic protests ink across country from beijing out to the far west and yes they are frustrated at ongoing covid lockdowns which is hurting the chinese economy. that is set to grow at the slowest pace in decades. youth unemployment hitting 20%

this summer and u.s. stock markets are down this week on concerns that china's lockdowns and the upheaval will hurt the global supply chain and the global economy. now, america's biggest company, apple, might lose production of 6 million of those high-end iphone 14s. wait times reportedly at five-to -six weeks now for apple phones and just breaking a few minutes ago you had the city where most of the apple iphones and devices are put together in china, now they are lifting covid restrictions and they did that at the top of the hour. the white house doesn't anticipate a major hit to global manufacturing. >> i wouldn't get into parsing the dollar figure effect here of the remaining challenge of covid in china, but clearly, china as a major economic player and china still struggling with covid. there's obviously, there's an impact on the economy. >> meantime you have shanghai disneyland closed once again after four days of reopening, and no reopening date in sight.

as a $5 billion facility for disney and they say they are only complying with china's zero -covid restrictions. now china reported another 32000 new covid cases on monday, and really it's a country whose health system is underdeveloped. i checked the latest world bank data and it shows china has fewer hospital beds per 1,000 people than kazakhstan and that's why beijing argues that they need to keep these strict measures in place because they just can't handle any overload on the health system and the hospital system. ashley: all right good stuff, susan, thank you very much. let's bring in senator rick scott, republican from florida this morning. great to see you, senator. china seems committed as ever to their zero-covid policies, despite these protests. are they ever going to change? you know what's interesting, senator, even world cup video that's being shown in china has been edited so they don't see many crowd shuts because the crowd, guess what, aren't wearing any masks. >> well first off, it's

communist china. let's all remember that. number one, we need to get a president that's going to say that, you know, it's wrong how the communist china regime treats its citizens. we need to get american businesses to say they aren't going to do business with communist china government or government entities, and then as consumers, we have to say stop buying chinese products. all we're doing is we're helping the government of communist china, so we are all in this together. we have to understand they've decided to be our enemy and communist china government decided to be our enemy and we have to start taking care of american citizens. we shouldn't be here helping the chinese government, ever. ashley: very good. all right, next one for you. we are a week away now from the georgia senate runoff election between democrat raphael warnock and republican herschel walker. we've seen pretty big turnout already. what do you expect from herschel walker. how is he going to do do you think? >> he's going to win. the reason is hes an apartment

complex that kicks people out for being a few dollars behind in their rent, he treats his wife horribly, he votes with joe biden and chuck schumer 100% of the time, so georgia is a state that we're going to win. the herschel walker will do a very good job as a u.s. senator, and the left doesn't like herschel walker because he's going to be such a great senator , so we're all on board. brian kemp the governor is on board. we're doing everything we can to make sure we get our vote out and win down there. next tuesday is important. if you want to help go to teamhe rschel.com. ashley: well done you got that in. next one for you, senator. a recent poll found that 62% of americans want hunter biden investigated. 61% believe joe biden knew about his son's china business deal, so the question is, americans want answers, but will congressional investigations actually get to the bottom of this story? >> we should. we deserve the american public

deserves to know about our president and their family, so in the case of hunter biden it sure appears, let's get the facts, that he has an inappropriate relationship with communist china. let's find out what the facts are. let's put out the facts. if he does it, he ought to come clean and say what's his relationship, what's joe biden's relationship, how does that impact american policy? so let's get to the bottom of the facts here. unfortunately, in the senate, the democrats don't want to have any investigations, any transparencies and it's not to have a vendetta. to get good information so the american public can make informed decisions. it's not the swamp in d.c.'s government. ashley: final question for you, senator. in your challenge to mitch mcconnell on the senate leadership for the gop, you had said that mitch mcconnell represents the status quo, and it's time for a reset and if we want to be successful in 2024, we have to move forward with somewhat of a new agenda.

do you still feel that way? >> i think we have to tell the american public what we're going to do. are we going to fight to get rid of the irs agents? are we going to fight to make sure we don't kick people out of the military that don't get a vaccinated? are we going to fight to balance a budget and reduce the amount of debt we have. we've got to focus on how do we get these things done and bring all republican senators together to fight for these issues. that's where i proposed, i believe we need to work as a group to get good things done for the american public. ashley: well you know it's interesting, the rnc is now doing an internal audit of itself, essentially, to find out where did we go wrong in the mid-term election campaign and part of that was messaging being questioned. would you agree with that that the message was never clear. >> i think we've got to give people reason to vote for us, so i think we've got to be very clear. if you vote for us, we're going to be hell bent on getting these things done.

that's how you win elections and how i won my governor's race in 2010 when i never run for office before. i had a very specific plan for 700,000 jobs over seven years and that's how i won. ashley: very good. we'll have to leave it there but great stuff as always, senator rick scott joining us this morning. >> nice seeing you ashley have a good day. ashley: same here, you too. now this. an analyst altmsnbc suggests the crisis at the border isn't real. roll tape. >> the united states is not being overrun, flooded by uncontrollable situations on the border. that's not happening. ashley: she needs to go down to the border before she makes statements like that. she also wanted the channel to stop showing video of migrants at the border. i wonder why? we'll ask brandon judd how he feels about that. the supreme court could make a ruling on student debt relief as early as tomorrow. hillary vaughn has the report from capitol hill next.

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ashley: a graduate from massachusetts says she was brain washed by woke culture at school. listen to what that student,anna bella rockwell told fox & friends this morning. >> i was brainwashed into believing that our toxic society had oppressed me my entire life and i didn't even know it and now it was my duty to fight for injustice and be an activist and look for injustice in absolutely everything. ashley: well, annabella says she hired a $300 per day de programmer to help her unlearn everything absorbed in the cult- like college. wow how about that?

all right now this. the supreme court is weighing the legal battle over president biden's student debt handout. hillary vaughn is with us cover ing this story. hillary? good morning, what's the latest? reporter: good morning, ashley. well the biden administration is proactively approving some people to receive this student loan bailout, even though the legality of president biden 's plan is up in the air. education secretary cardona writing in an e-mail to some people that applied for that relief, "we reviewed your application and determined that you are eligible for loan relief under the plan, we have sent this approval to your loan servicer. you do not need to take any further action. unfortunately, a number of lawsuits have been filed challenging the program which have blocked our ability to discharge your debt at present. while they wait for the supreme court to decide whether or not the president can follow through on his promise, to pay off millions of people's student loan debt, the white house insists that president biden does have the legal authority.

>> he's optimistic. he's an optimistic person. we are confident in our legal standing, if you will, as you know, it's up to the supreme court and we're going to continue to fight. reporter: republicans in the house are not waiting for the supreme court decision. they say they will use their oversight power once in the majority to look into the timing and rollout of the student loan relief. the top republicans on the house budget and education committees telling the office of management and budget to preserve records and are questioning the timing of the rollout right before the mid-terms, and also wondering whether or not the cost of the plan and whether or not it would potentially impact inflation or considered at all. ashley? ashley: interesting stuff, hillary, thank you very much. now this. morehouse college in atlanta is making history with a first of its kind new course. what is it? well lauren is going to tell us.

lauren: it's a metaverse course, but before you mock it, it's really cool. so they are using virtual reality to teach black history, so students hop into the metaverse, where the course will be taught, to see what a slave ship was like, to tour the underground railroad, to experience the martin luther king jr. "i have a dream" speech so this is the effective use of technology, virtual reality, the metaverse, to recreate history and i think they should do that for younger students too to really be there and see it? you won't forget it. ashley: i would never mock. i'm not a mocker. i'm a rocker. thank you very much, lauren. lauren: i would have mocked it if someone didn't explain it to me. but when you explain it, i say all right, that is cool. ashley: we know stuary varney be rolling his eyes and they be stuck in the back of his head right now. all right let's take a look at the dow 30 stocks if you can just to get a sense of where the markets are. we can make fun of stu because

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busy and of course, we're seeing that all up and down the u.s. mexico border that clash that you speak of happened across from el paso, texas, so on the other side of the texas u.s. mexico border, and then that was happening while mexican authorities tried to dismantle a camp that was full of migrants that at one point reportedly housed more than a thousand who said that they were all waiting there until title 42 expired next month. then they were crossing into the u.s.. well, anger and chaos ensued as mexican officials cleared site and migrants were offered bus rides to official shelters. u.s. law enforcement monitored by ground and by air, this is from texas dps from choppers that were above. this is the same spot where weeks ago migrants did cross and a salted american agents. >> and if you're getting hit with people that are surrender ing, in the local area, you have to collapse your

operations to be able to deal with those in processing which means they're going to be huge blind spots along the border that you simply can't patrol. reporter: meantime, agents in the el paso sector intercepted 26 pounds of methamphetamine and three pounds of fentanyl in recent days while agents in arizona in the last four days seized approximately 2 million fentanyl pills, almost 17 pounds of raw fentanyl powder some of which was died the color purple to resemble rainbow fentanyl or kids candy basically. the data shows 435% increase over two years of the amount of fentanyl that has been seized out here along the southern border. ashley? ashley: remarkable. casey stegall in eagle pass, texas. thank you very much, casey. let's listen to msnbc analyst by the way. you've just seen that they deny

there is a crisis at the border. listen. >> we should not be perpetuat ing a conversation about a crisis that is a human drama, but that this united states is not being overrun , flooded by uncontrollable situations on the border. that's not happening in terms of tens of thousands of people trying to get -- no. >> there is no crisis at the border. if anything what we need to do is highlight again the hypocrisy of the republican party when it comes to how they handle immigration and policy. ashley: i just cannot understand how those two individuals can say that, what are we just faking the video? are these actors or the border? i don't think so national border patrol council president brandon judd joins me now. brandon, how on earth can these people say there is no crisis at the border? >> well, first all you have to

do is listen to what they are saying and all they are giving you is rhetoric. they aren't talking about facts, they aren't giving you any evidence. they are specifically spewing their particular talking points, but let's deal in facts. there are more drugs on the streets today than ever in the history of the united states there are more drug overdose deaths than in history of the united states. more people have crossed the borders illegally and have evaded apprehension than in the history of the united states cartels are generating record profits. again, those are all facts and you never hear that from msnbc. all you're going to hear is political rhetoric sticking to specific talking points and that's how they deflect from this issue and that's how the democrats are able to getaway with this. until the mainstream media is actually willing to jump into this conversation and have an honest discussion with the american people, we're never going to solve this border security crisis. ashley: but do you think the average american believes the democrats? are they that blind? do they have the blind faith of

these democratic leaders because maybe they're not watching fox. i don't know how many other networks are covering this , but my goodness, they can't be that blind to it. >> so i have to deal in reality i have to look at what alameda is reporting as far as the border goes, and the vast majority of the media is not willing to discuss with the american people what's actually going on and so no. a good number of people just don't know what's going on unless they are tuning into fox, or a few other smaller outlets. they just don't understand. i travel this country all the time and i talk to people all over whether it's in florida , iowa, des moines, and very few people actually know what's going on. ashley: very good. brandon, so sorry we've run long thank you so much, we'll have more, right after this.

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ashley: here's the trivia question, we didn't forget. the lottery was used to help fund which american war? there are the choices. what do you say, lauren? >> oh, man, the war of 1812. ashley: 1812. i will go with the civil war. what ask the answer. it was used to help the american war, which won, revolutionary war. we were both wrong, lauren. thank for your help. cheryl casone in for neil toda