i have taken it upon myself to lend the same hand to try to pay it forward, stepping up when i see someone in need or trouble. trying to be a little more patient every day as well. i'm not sure why it wasn't something we were doing before covid. kindness is free, folks. the world could certainly use a little more of it. take a look at the markets. we had a mixed session today. the dow saw a little bit of a pop but the s&p and nasdaq 15 and 144 points lower respectively. we'll continue to watch everything for you. we'll see you tomorrow night. that does it for "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. >> new tonight the supreme court ruling that title 42 will remain in place for now. this as migrant crossings at the border are reaching record numbers. officials say they're

overwhelmed. also the deadly winter blast blamed 60 deaths across a dozen states. we'll explain what this storm exposed about our energy grid. beth van duyne, james comer, arizona attorney general mark brnovich, former white house economic advise soars acting chair tomas philipson. power the future daniel turner, pick coast so ceo austin allison, nicole neily parents for education. twitter feels reveal suppression of covid messages that contributed the white house. plus a sigh of relief from small business owners. irs is delaying the rollout of a new tax policy to have venmo, cash app users to report transactions over $600. i'm james freeman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right

now. james: holiday travelers remain stranded. thousands of flights canceled as new year's approaches. lydia hu in new york with the latest on the travel disaster. lydia. >> reporter: good evening, james. southwest continued sweeping flight cancellations leaving thousands stranded in the wake after winter storm. president biden tweeting about the massive travel nightmare saying the administration is working to insure the airlines are held accountable. today more than 2500 flights were canceled. that is 63% of southwest scheduled flights that made up 87% of flights canceled into and out of the united states. many airlines were impacted by the winter storm but southwest particularly so.

now the u.s. department of transportation is launching an investigation saying that the rate of canceled flights is unacceptable. adding criticism is the union that represents the airline's flight attendants. the union blaming what they call, quote, years of neglect in securing, and implementing technology. they say, quote the result, thousands of crewmembers stranded across the country. some forced to sleep on cots airports, some in hotels without power and water. some working long hours well past acceptable duty days and more. the airline issued an apology yesterday in a statement. it said it is working to reach all travelers that were impacted to reach out to new travel plans. airline ceo bob jordan, tells "the wall street journal" the company schedules a third of flights in coming days, the crews to get back in the operative positions to resume operations but some passengers now say the airline can't rebook them until this coming weekend.

james. back to you. james: thank you, lydia hu. impacts on the severe weather, congressman beth van duyne, transportation infrastructure committee and power the future daniel turner. thanks for joining us. congresswoman you have oversight about transportation issues her about complaints addressed towards southwest airlines, do you see a policy failure, a business failure, just the inevitable result of a very severe storm? >> well i mean it is all of the above. i have not been in contact with the ceo of southwest. i read the statement. sounds like they need to modernize their system that definitely had an edge here. sounds like what they're trying to do is do right by the people affected. they're reimbursing them for hotels, food, alternative transportation that they will

have to have but this is a big loss to south which is and you know, i just feel terrible for all those people who are traveling right now. can you imagine traveling with small kids, stranded and stuck in an airport for hours and hours? my heart goes out to them. southwest airlines is right in my backyard. seems like they're trying to do right by their employees and by their customers. we'll see what happens. james: let's hope so. daniel, i want to talk about on the ground a lot of electricity shortages across the country over the last several days. customers in various areas told not to use large appliances. some wonder how this happens in a modern economy. what do you see as you look across the landscape? suddenly a range of electricity shortages? >> yeah i would like to take president biden's call to hold southwest accountable and hold some of our elected officials accountable who are pushing this

transition to unreliable wind and solar. if you're in buffalo if you're in new york state where my whole family is, and where i was born, what good does it do that kathy hochul former governor cuomo's transition to wind and solar? if you're in buffalo and you're alive because of fossil fuels, it is because of coal, because of natural gas. governor hochul like governors across the country are pushing wind which does not work below freezing temperatures and pushing solar which does not work in a snowstorm. the way the airline industry is reliant upon good weather conditions, the electric grid, we made it reliant on weather conditions because it is not tested technology. if we're going to hold people accountable, let's hold accountable those politicians pushing unreliable wind and solar. james: congresswoman, is this focus on warming climate making us unprepared for code weather? daniel just mentioned wind and

solar, they're intermittent, unreliable sources and a regulatory pushing for electricity for heating. some people wish they were using oil and gas furnaces right now. >> it is dependable, it is reliable, it is affordable, so yeah absolutely. we saw the big crash in texas on our electric grid because of freezing temperatures, the wind failed, the solar energy failed. later on in the summer, nearly 50% of our sources of energy, if we had relied on them would have been out, you would have saw thousands of people had died. when we look at, we need to look at this. american energy security is national security and it is economic security. without it our nation will fail. we need to repeal the biden natural gas tax which was part of the inflation reduction act which ironically that gas tax has directly increased

inflation. when you look at lng exports, you make those rules and regulations much more like our crude oil so that we can provide oil to our allies and we need to look what the offshore drilling plan is going to be. biden administration was supposed to come out with their five-year plan. a while ago they still haven't done that we need to stop doing everything to be able to demonize the energy industry this is what biden ran on this. is exactly what he ran on. i really appreciate the other gentleman's comments, that yeah, we need to look at these politicians who are pushing crazy, crazy policies. at the end of the day biden's radical agenda is affecting hard-working people. those are paying the most now. in the northeast they're paying 45% more for their energy costs in this terrible blizzard than they were before biden took office. james: i am glad you brought up the so-called inflation reduction act. daniel, do you have anymore advice for the congresswoman as

she and her colleagues take control of the house really days away. >> optimism to hear a member of congress who has such good common sense energy policies. so i applaud the congresswoman we'll support her every way possible going forward but she is absolutely right. there are steps that the house ways and means committee can do to stop the implementation of the natural gas tax. that is huge in the new year starting in january. it is going to make energy way more expensive than it already is. it is a national security priority. thank you, congresswoman for standing up for american energy interests. >> thanks, daniel, congresswoman van duyne, appreciate it. next up the supreme court ruling title 4will remain in place for now as migrant crossings at the border are reaching record numbers. the latest twitter files reveal government's influence on up is pressing covid messages that contradicted the white house. house oversight reform ranking member congressman james comer

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>> latest twitter files drop exposing government influence on suppression of covid messages that contradict the white house. hillary vaughn in washington, d.c. with the latest details. hillary. >> reporter: good evening james. this is the 10th drop of

internal emails at twitter detailing how tweets an twitter users were moderated twitter ceo elon musk say these files, quote, how every social media company is engaged in heavy censorship with significant involvement of and at times explicit direction of the government. this latest release shows how the government under two administrations both trump and biden tried to influence covid information on the platform. the files detail how as a result some doctors and scientists who had opposing views on views on covid were banned. independent journalist david zweig reporting on the files tweeted that both the trump and biden administrations directly pressed twitter executives to moderate the platforms pandemic content according to their wishes. zweig saying there were countless incidents of tweets labeled as misleading or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions simply because they veered from cdc guidance or differed from establishment views.

some engagement from the biden administration got testy. company documents show twitter's head of u.s. public policy lauren culbertson wrote, the biden team was quote very angry twitter had not again in more aggressive deplatforming multiple accounts. they wanted twitter to do more. but the biden administration flip-flopped whether or not they were involved. >> we are in regular touch with these social media platforms and of those engagements typically happened through members of the senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team. >> we were not involved, i can say, that we were not involved. james: sometimes censorship efforts came from inside of twitter. company documents showed twitter former deputy general counsel james baker asking executives why trump's tweet telling people not to be afraid of covid was not taken down. one twitter executive explaining to baker optimism is not the same thing as misinformation. james? james: thanks, hillary. for more on these latest twitter

files, welcome house oversight reform committee ranking member congressman james comer. congressman, thanks for joining us. and the good news is you're about to be the chairman. you can lead this oversight effort. before we begin i like you to listen to dr. marty makary from johns hopkins. here is what he is saying in response to the latest revelation. >> look at the amount of misinformation put out by the government itself, by public health officials, ignoring natural immunity. that the vaccine has a risk benefit analysis that strongly favors vaccination in young, healthy children. we've never seen that data. that is closing schools would reduce transmission in young people. that the vaccine works in six-month-old babies or that flu mocks fin works. there was information about the government they wanted to change

the narrative that is the sad part about the impact of science. james: congressman, maybe you can explain to us how any of this government activity complies with the first amendment? but i also want to just emphasize, this is not a theoretical problem. wouldn't it be bad if the government suppressed debate. they were suppressing the right answers. this catastrophe of our covid response. >> right. james: happened because the government was leaning on social media companies to silence and legitimate experts from various medical schools saying lockdowns are not the answer. >> yeah. the government made so many mistakes during covid, specifically dr. fauci made so many mistakes during covid and to learn now that the government was working closely with dr. fauci and there was no oversight. there is no role for the government to play in censoring

free speech to begin with. no tax dollars should ever go to fund any government employees or agency that the sole purpose is to suppress speech. what we've learned is they were trying to determine misinformation. what they may have sincerely considered misinformation we now know to be fact and no one should have the authority to be able to censor and block people on social media platforms to have competing ideologies and competing schools of thought. now we know those competing ideologies and competing schools of thoughts were more factual than a lot of things we were getting from the government. this needs to stop. we need to hold people accountable. we need to know what else the government is involved in. that congress doesn't have any knowledge of and under no circumstances has congress ever given the government the authority to suppress speech. james: yeah.

i mean i'm trying to understand, we pay for so much government, there are so many buildings full of lawyers in washington. i don't understand why many of them weren't saying, maybe the government shouldn't suppress free speech in this case? maybe you shouldn't silence scientists debating an important issue? there couldn't have been a more important issue. how does this happen? how does no one or were there lawyers and others in the government saying don't do this? have you found those people? are we going to hear from them at your hearings? >> we're going to hear from the first three that were outed that elon musk outed, ms. gaddy, mr. roth, mr. baker. our investigation, primary investigation involves around the biden family influence peddling. we know the fbi suppressed the hunter biden laptop story, labeled it as russian disinformation when they in fact had the laptop.

they knew darn well it wasn't russian misinformation but they told facebook and twitter that it was. we now learn the government was very involved suppressing speech among other medical experts and other people that didn't agree with dr. fauci. history will not be kind to the american response to covid-19. we are going to learn that one person, dr. fauci, had the authority to make every decision based on public education, based on our lifestyles, and now, based on free speech. no government agency should have ever been involved in doing this and just now learned that the fbi had 80 employees in what i deem as the ministry of propaganda within the fbi, nobody in congress authorized that. no one in congress that i know of knew about about. that needs to stop. we need to stop wasting taxpayer

dollars in doing that as a concerned citizen, concerned about free speech, everyone should be concerned this could change in a few years. we could have a republican president censoring democrat free speech this has to stop that will be a priority for republicans in the majority. >> last thing before we go quickly, who from what you see so far was the worst offenders suppressing information from the public health community? cdc, fauci, the white house, who was the worst offender. >> it was fauci and collins. we traced emails back to february of 2020 when they were communicating with each other trying to spin the lab leak theory. they tried to spin that as russian disinformation when we now know that the odds are heavily in favor of that covid-19 coming from the wuhan lab. james: thank you, congressman, and good luck. next up, a sigh of relief from small business owners.

the irs delaying the rollout after new tax policy that requires venmo and cash app users to start reporting small transactions above $600. the supreme court ruling title 42 will remain in place right now as migrant crossings at the border are reaching record numbers. arizona attorney general mark byrnovich up next on "the evening edit". showtime. whoo! i'm on fire tonight. (limu squawks) yes! limu, you're a natural. we're not counting that. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ -hey there. -hey. -hi. hey there. how are you? i'm with disabled american veterans. i was wondering if you had a quick minute

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february whether gop led states can intervene in litigation over the policy. this as border patrol says they are overwhelmed by a recent influx of mic grants. fox news matt finn live in eagle pass. what is the latest, matt. >> reporter: the latest concerns continue in the border town. we saw five different migrant groups entering the united states totaling hundreds of migrants or asylum-seekers in one single day. the surge didn't slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. cpb said between december 2rd, and december 25th, 16,000 encounters. 200 were expelled under title 42. but 3,000 was released into the united states. here is the vice president of the national border patrol council responding. >> cartels, drug smuggling, human smuggling organizations they don't care what side of the

aisle you vote on, they don't care on what side of the aisle you stand on. this is problem that needs to be taken care of because it affects everybody. >> reporter: in anticipation of the supreme court potentially ending title 42 today military officials moved hundreds of personnel to the border in el paso. vehicles were put in place a wire friends went up. 400 soldiers from various agencies preparing for the sector toy to potentially explode. this structure as large as a football field will serve as a overflow processing tent, we'll see if the structure gets taken down or stays in place, when the supreme court will hear title 42 based on merit. over the weekend another high-speed chase a texas dps trooper pursuing a smuggler from north carolina driving in maverick county, texas. he had nine illegal immigrant in

his truck. those high-speed chases we see on almost a daily basis on the border. back to you. james: thank you, matt finn. bring in arizona tone general mark byrnovich. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. james: i think it's clear that everyone who has to deal with the border patrol, the local police agencies, et cetera, they are happy that this order is staying in place at least for the moment. as we get to the underlying merits, this was justified as a covid public health measure. the supreme court i guess will decide the merits later but for the moment are they kind of saying that covid is still an emergency or are they not really addressing that question? >> we led the charge in the case called arizona versus mayorkas. we had to take on the biden administration for joe biden's failure to do his job. the reality the states have an n

interest. they tried to stop title 42. that is one of the last tools in our tool box to stop unprecedented flow of people illegally into our country. the biden administration incentivized decriminalized people breaking the law. as a result of that we're seeing record numbers every single month overwhelmingly the system, taking a to not only in physical costs in states like arizona and health care and incarceration costs but every day people are dying as a result of drugs flowing into this country. james: obviously this title 42 allows the government to expel immediately people crossing illegally before an asylum claim but in general there are a lot of laws on the books, are there not, pre-covid that would allow the biden administration to enforce the law if they want to. if this falls do you now sue on those other laws enforce what was in place before covid? >> in that is the thing that

breaks my heart, especially as a first generation american. people come here because the rule of law means something. the biden administration completely shredded it. the reality, once you decriminalize, stop enforcing the law, there are no consequences or penalties to break the law, people are greeted with free hotel rooms, free air care, free health care, you incentivize it, decriminalize it, and you get more. what should be done to stop the border crisis, enforce pisting law. prosecute people entering the country illegally and go after the cartels as terrorist organizations. people that break the law coming into the country illegally those that facilitate it are aggressively prosecuted by the federal government. james: we want to play a sound bite here. we hope you listen this is rodney scott. >> if you look at the omnibus, some of the language that's in there, it is basically to process people and release them

into these communities as fast as possible. el paso is the biggest border town along that texas border and they cannot handle this flow. del rio is only 30,000 people. that is the residents in that community. these are small border towns. they can't handle the flow. there weren't even enough flights out of el paso or san antonio this past week to handle local residents and all the migrants. this is, this is beyond anything we've ever seen before. with these frigid, fridge grid temperatures the biden administration encouraging for coming across illegally is responsible for every death that takes place. james: general, i want to make sure what he said, they cannot use all the money in the omnibus to use actual border enforcement t can only be used to facilitate dealing with people after they have crossed the border? >> yeah, no disrespect to anyone in washington, d.c., but

washington, d.c. is a place where good ideas go to die and whether you're a republican or democrat, right or left, this is a fundamental issue of right versus wrong. this begins with enforcing existing law. so all these people, republicans, democrats play all the games, say all these things, meanwhile since joe biden has been president, more than five million people illegally entered this country, enough to fill up several states in the united states. just this past month, we had a national championship game coming up. you could fill up three stadiums with how many people illegally came over. $20 million unreimbursed health care costs to yuma, arizona. cochise county spending millions on unreimbursed incarceration costs. americans are dying every single day. until they get serious people will continue to die in this country. jackie: james: tragic, general. thank you for your efforts. this is an opportunity if the president ever wants to ask seizing it to lead. i know there is a deal he could have if he wanted to embrace border enforcement and more

legal migration but for whatever reason still not interested. anyway, thank you for your efforts, mark brnovich. coming up many americans feeling the pinch of inflation. we will be speaking with one tech startup explaining the great lengths they go to keep their business above water. a sigh of relief from small business owners. irs delaying rollout of a policy of venmo and cash app users to report transactions of $600. tomas philipson next on "the evening edit"

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>> reporter: taxpayers are relieved a decision by the irs that for one year, ebay, zelle, venmo report 600 bucks transactions. other workers are hit hard time like the rule. kids in the online resale platform for children's clothing tell fox business it should be abandoned all together. >> over 75% of our sales in 2022 came from sellers who were over that 600-dollar threshold that impact as large portion of our community, most who are parents simply selling clothes and other earningses that their kids have outgrown. >> reporter: congress passed the 600 threshold form 1099-k reports as part of the american rescue plan act two years ago. prior to that platforms had to report income of at least $20,000 or more than 200 transactions. the change was expected to bring in$8.4 billion in income over 10

years. that according to the joint committee on taxation. the democrats said the move was essential improving tax compliance over businesses that underreport. critics said it could hit wrongly hurt people using payment for apps splitting cost of meals. the irony of this tax rule change, democrats originally said they would target wealthy americans. this rule hits low and middle income americans. watchdog groups say 40 to 50 million additional 1099ks could go out if a permanent solution knit found. james, back to you. james: gerri, thanks a lot. i'm not sure more irs paperwork counts as american rescue. here is former white house economic advisors acting chairman tomas fill lop -- fill lop son. this is pushed back, maybe this

is too much to america sure the hassle this causes across the economy but as a economist how do you look at this policy? >> it is kind of continuation really of biden's effort to raise $80 billion for the irs, raise taxes to collect $80 billion for the irs to do what? in order to raise more taxes essentially. economists a more fruitful approach simplify the code and people don't misreport and we don't need as many bureaucrats going after misreporting. it is actually a real issue. about 1% of gdp is the estimate of administrative costs to collect taxes with the time and money 2 takes people to do this. now we'll start cracking, cracking 600-dollar payments which add as bunch of paperwork and time to people. james: talk about misreporting,

thinking zelle, venmo, other apps probably don't know what the transactions r a lot of them may be people splitting the cost of a purchase they made together, roommates, what have you. a lot of it isn't going to be income, is it? >> yeah. i mean there is an economic aspect of this, we're just raising the burden on people in reporting their taxes. there is also a political issue i think which is the irs will now go after potentially politically sensitive causes donating in some sense. used to be a business was defined on the applications collecting 20,000 a year from 200 people but now with a smaller amounts you can see that there will be debates what really causes income or not essentially. and that's going to leav political bias i think. james: you talked about the cost

of the irs all the hassles and misunderstanding that are sure to result from this, are they actually going to collect a lot more money? >> i don't think so. i mean there is a lot of effort going on in going after peoples taxes a lot more. this whole omnibus bill was essentially an effort to raise taxes and raise spending. it was kind of an enormous horse trade with other peoples money where the republican got 10% increased defense spending and democrats essentially got 6% in nondiscretionary northern defense spending that trade, the debt service and costs are going up dramatically now. think of that as your car, monthly car payment for your viewers, which is made up much interest plus you know, the loan size.

the government is now taking on a lot larger debt at higher interest rates. so the debt servicing costs is going up expose next exponentially because of servicing that debt. james: i'm glad you brought that up. increasing cost of the government with interest rates having risen will rise quite a bit more, we'll see, crafting this thing like they don't realize where more than 30 trillion in debt, more than 100 trillion if you count promises they made on entitlements. do we hit a wall, do we hit a reckoning given this increase in the cost of funding our debt, servicing our debt? >> well the inflation, yeah, no, basically the spending is the issue. you can fund spending by three sources. one is taxes now, one is taxes in the future which is taking on debt and make future generations pay taxes for interest on that

debt. or you can inflate, have an inflation tax which we saw when you monetize the debt, basically print more money to pay for things. so i think the issue is now essentially with this omnibus we don't really know how big the deficit is in this new bill essentially because cbo has not scored it. i think it is unlikely the fed is going to monetize this anytime soon. so it is going to be a debt to our future generations. james: yikes! thanks, tomas. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> up next, critics are blasting president biden's hhs assistant secretary for demanding censorship of alleged misinformation on gender affirming care for kids. that is what it is called. many americans are feeling the pinch of inflation. we'll talk with a ceo on the inflation in these times.g picasso foundefor next on

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♪. james: many americans feel the pinch of inflation startup companies in the tech space are trying to stay afloat. joining me now to discuss it all, picasso homes ceo, cofounder austin allison. thanks for joining us. i just saw the news today, four straight months of declines in the case-shiller home price index. in the tech world do you see layoffs being announced, their stocks have gotten pummeled. you're right in the intersection of tech and real estate, yes you're maintaining positive mental attitude. why is that? >> thanks for having me, james. you know you have to maintain a positive mental attitude but i think it is important to remember that technology is a big industry. it spans lots of sectors. what i can speak to what we're seeing in the real estate technology space. you know, times have changed. but i would describe it as a return to normalcy. what we experienced over the course of the last couple years was not normal.

home selling in a couple of days for multiples over ask is not sustainable. what we're seeing now the return to normalcy. what you see the headlines that real estate is down 30% year-over-year what is important to remember, real estate transactions are still up quite a bit compared to prepandemic levels. the area we focus on is up 152%, as an example. so i think it is important to take all this in context and make sure that whether you're serving the real estate industry or another sector, that you're focused on delivering value for the customer. >> okay. your company sells high-end homes. i think generally vacation homes but you don't buy the whole home. you buy a piece of it? >> yeah, that's right. the easiest way to get your mind around it, think about picasso like carpooling for second homes. we enable up to eight families to pool resources together, co-own a beautiful luxury second home but share all the costs and

share all the hassle because when you own a whole second home by yourself it is a lot of headache and a lot of cause. with pacaso we manage every detail, every detail from bill pay, design furnishing. one of the things we're seeing in this environment as interest rates have gone up whole home affordability has gone down, meaning it is more expensive today for people to afford a home because interest rates were higher than they were in the past. we're seeing a lot of people gravitate towards co-owner ship, you can afford a lot more home when you own it with other people than when you buy the whole thing yourself. james: okay, i'm not sure how this differs from sort of a traditional time-share, i know one thing you talk about, you say easy scheduling when you want to go visit the home. how can it be easy if you have a a bunch owners who have a claim on isn't. >> technology? we pioneered a proprietary

application. we call the feature smart stay, which lets people share access to the calendar in a fairs equitable way. if you own 1/8 of the home, smart stay says you get 1/8 of the peak season, 1/8 of the non-peak season and 1/8 of the holiday season. you will not own 100% of the home you get 80% what like on the calendar, for 80% less cost and0% less hassle. james: those homes look like a nice place to be. austin, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, james. james: up next critics blasting president biden hhs assistant secretary. she is ripped for demanding censorship for misinformation on gender affirming information for kids. nicole neily for parentsth a defending education

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james: chr critics blasting dr. levine for a video from may that resurfaced. >> misinformation about gender affirming care. positive value of gender afirming care is not in

scientific remedical dispute, we need to use our voices to create a healthier, cleaner information environment. james: joining me now, parents defending education founder. president nicole neely, i can't imagine something about which there would be more dispute about the science, alleged wisdom of administering drugs and performing surgery on children to change their biological gender. >> that is the kind of information that families need. thanks to bureaucrats like admiral levine, parents are not able to get that their hands oparents need to know the story of detransitioners, europe is walking back the kind of treatments that america is full steam ahead with,

people are used to organization like big tech companies doing their bidding this information has not been getting into the right hands. james: we were talking on this show with the damage done from government's effort to suppress debate about covid. they were so wrong, so wrong for children in so many cases about lockdowns and now, appears we're going to do this all over again? how large is this effort to shut off debate on what should absolutely be debated? >> it is horrifying, answer is more speech. the issues should be debated in public square. people should have access to information, i trust my fellow morning more than admiral levine does, my fellow parents will be able to read there information and studies and make up their own minds about what

is the best fit for their family. james: we were just showing graphic there with union boss randy weingarten. during covid she was one of the worst offenders when safe, then there would be a long list of totally unnecessary, unscientific expensive changes we allegedly needed before we could open up. you have been working on this issue, do you see any good that has come out of this? are parents more engaged? or schools and unions more accountable before they sign off or endorse these kind of shut downs, which did so much damage to your children. >> i think it is interesting that we're watching union try to memory hold their behavior. we know by records request, aftwork handed in glove with cdc to keep the schools closed when parents spoke up, worried about their

children's mental health, they were shamed, chicago teachers union said they push to reopen school is rooted in sexism racism and misogyny and in los angeles, they learned resilience. shame on them. they actually actively sc kept schools closed they damaged our children, they should be held accountable. james: nicole thank you. >> thank you to you, i am james freeman in for elizabeth macdonald, you are watching "the evening edit" on fox business, that does it for us. thank you for watching. kennedy: hey tuesday. tramping on the holidays is never easy, but holy hot dogs this is next level shiffa, it started with heavy snow and freezin