♪ i don't know about you, but i feel good ♪ lauren: pitbull this morning, good morning, everybody it is 1t is early morning in the west, 8:00 a.m. there. it is january 16, 2023, and yes, the markets are closed, in honor of martin luther king jr. day but we are still openment hi again, i'm lauren simonetti in for stuary varney today. now, let's get straight to this. the media is flooding the white house with questions over

president biden's classified documents, roll the tape. >> do you acknowledge that the fact that the white house did not reveal this to the public, despite the fact that you've known about it for months , undercuts the president's promise of being transparent. >> well here is the thing. they were transparent. >> you're reaching on a constant basis. >> okay, i am saying to you. reporter: what is the white house trying to hide? >> nothing. reporter: someon the president a statement to read on tuesday that was in complete at-best, misleading at-worst. who? lauren: [laughter] joe concha good to see you. i expect that from peter doocy but not from all of the others. and joe, the washington post calls this story both a test and an opportunity for the media. how do you think the media is doing outside of our channel? >> well, by the way, on the bus

today you're the quarterback, congratulations, this is awesome look, this whole thing is rancid , and even a partisan media that usually serves the pledge of the democratic party outside of peter doocy or jacqui heinrich can't hide from this , right? because look, i'm not defending joe biden here. vice president can't declassify or take anything out of the white house and he certainly did that or someone did it for him but all these classified documents turning up at separate locations that have been sitting there for six years and only now , right before a sitting president was likely going to announce he's running for re-election? they are all discovered after they are being, you know, inadvertently misplaced? that dog don't hunt. this makes the swamp look like the mediterranean, but i think peter doocy did ask the best question of the week when he pressed the secretary who is enjoying this three day weekend after getting pummeled in the white house briefing room over the last week, he asked

jean-pierre about the visitor logs for the house in wilmington remember, joe biden has been in delaware for nearly 200 days of his presidency something like 61 weekends since becoming president, and the press sebaceous can only respond by saying well, we've been very transparent about the white house logs. no that's not the question. the question is who has been going in and out of a crime scene, ms. jean-pierre because this is very important. apparently the white house is saying well we kept no such records. that's such bs. of course when never visits a president somebody has to be recording this somewhere and the press should continue to press for those answers because we need to know whose been going in and out of that dell dell house where the documents were being kept. lauren: that's interesting because over and over when some people criticize the president for taking so many vacations away from the white house the white house says well he can work from anywhere, from his personal home. well if it's that much, what did you say 61 weekends there should be a log but we have to move on. concha, the governor of arkansas

, sarah sanders, defend her executive order to ban crt in schools. watch here. >> we have to make sure that we are not indoctrinating our kids and these policies or ideas never see the light of day. we should never teach our kids to hate america or that america is a racist and evil country. in fact it should be the exact opposite. lauren: so we're hearing from some republican governors and very loud ones, like desantis, but also governor sanders about getting this wokeness out of the state policy and also in education. do you think education remains a major issue in the presidential election in 2024? >> absolutely. it's a top four issue. it goes economy, always economy first, right? and then you have crime, which is clearly become a huge issue, the border which you've been talking about all morning and then education. that's the one that really hits home with suburban moms that can decide elections in states like

georgia, arizona, virginia, ohio , michigan, pennsylvania, and you see the test scores now coming in as a result of the lockdowns from covid and our educators particularly teachers unions taking our eyes off the ball, basic blocking and tackling. you have kids just like i do, lauren. it's all about math and science and reading and writing and instead, we're getting what? we're teaching our first and third graders about sexual orientation, gender identification, all this woke ness? we got to get back to the basics or else we'll be so far behind china we'll never be able to compete when these kids become adults because more and more companies in the u.s. will simply outsource to those students who graduated from schools in india or china or even places like estonia is beating us as far as test scores are concerned. lauren: i was at a restaurant over the weekend, i'll tell you off line where, and it was a group of us and at one of the elementary schools the parents were saying yeah there's this one physical

education teacher and they give one trophy, not everybody gets a trophy, you know? it's not a participation trophy. there's one winner, and the response from all of the parents at that group chuckling was like, how does that physical education teacher still have a job? awarding an actual winner. >> that's a great point and by the way, somebody texted me and said lauren simonetti is at my restaurant. it's okay you can say you went to arby's. it's fine. lauren: it was wendy's. >> maybe that was it, but yeah, i mean, look. my high school, wayne valley new jersey, state champs, when i played there and one trophy for one winner. you've got to reward merit, and you could learn a lot by losing. i always tell my kids, whenever they get something wrong on a test, i said you know what you did wrong? they say yes, okay so i'll say spell this word or what's this math equation? and they get it right and i say the ones you get wrong are the ones you remember most so we learn by making mistakes. we learn by not winning sometimes. michael jordan got what cut from his junior varsity basketball team and became the greatest

basketball player of all-time. sometimes you need to lose in order to learn how to win, lauren. i sound like a coach right now. lauren: you do, or a dad. joe concha good to see you. >> maybe. great to see you. keep up the great work. lauren: have a good one. let's talk money and bring in jason katz. jason, hello. beautiful backdrop you can tell me where you are if you'd like to. where are you? can you tell me? >> i'm in new york city. lauren: oh, it's a different location. so jason came into work today. not just for us, but to do your real job, managing money as well so let me ask you this question. are we going to see a severe recession or a mild recession, or any recession in 2023? >> you know, we've been bracing for this category five recession and frankly, i think it may end up being aver tropical storm. the inverted yield curve is suggesting a tsunami but if you listened to the bank ceo's on

friday those are the folks that have their ear to the ground and they are calling for a mild recession so the pre-conditions lauren for a hard landing in my humble view are not in place. banks, corporate, personal balance sheets are in impecable shape so it's too early for the fed to declare mission accomplished, but cpi is moving in the right direction. we have growing but slowing jobs , an up-tick in labor participation and a deceleration in wages so you're talking about wendy's, arby's, when you're dieting losing the first 10 pounds is really easy. it's the second 10 pounds that are hard, so the path to save 3% inflation should happen quickly. it is. the move to 2% inflation, that's the challenge because of wages and services so the bottom line is inflation is driving the fed and the fed is going to determine if we go into a recession, predicated on how high they bring up rates and how long they last there, and we think that they are getting the memo from the bond market that they are going a little too

far. lauren: okay, okay, where does bitcoin and cryptos fit into all of this? bitcoin hit nearly 21,000 over the weekend. it's still above 20,000 now. does it go back to 16? does it go back to as keith fitz-gerald told us earlier, potential 8,000 or does it go back up near record 67,000? >> i'm more in keith's camp. crypto is a risk assets. let's like not sugar coat it. it's up 25% or 26% this year but down 77% last year. that is a volatile asset, and look, a lot of the shorts have been cleared out but let's call bitcoin what it is. it doesn't have utility, it's not backed by taxpayer dollars, and it's soon to face severe competition from central banks, so i know i'm raining on the parade of a lot of the nextgen investors and i apologize but the secular bear for crypto is in its early innings. lauren: wow. all right, well you know what? you're honest.

jason altz, thank you. enjoy your day in new york city. i was envisioning you somewhere else. i couldn't see the buildings that clearly. well, people in china are heading back to their hometowns for the lunar new year and that's raising concerns of another covid outbreak there, and experts are nervous about people leaving their big cities where they have hospitals, et cetera, and spreading covid in their small hometowns where they might be less equipped to handle a surge in cases. china reported nearly 60,000 covid-19-related hospital deaths in the last month. it sounds like a big number but some critics say the real number , because of their population and their inability to deal with covid because they had a zero-covid policy for three years, that the real number might be actually higher, and dr. siegel is very concerned about new variants that they aren't telling us about. back here in the u.s. , the cdc has identified a possible safety concern for some people who received pfizer's covid vaccine. they say the jab could be linked

to increased strokes in those aged 65 and up. the aforementioned dr. siegel just weighed in on that warning. roll the tape. >> it's just for the pfizer shot and it's for the first 21 days after getting the shot and the age of 65 or older. they showed what's called a signal, an increased incidence of stroke. well, this is the vaccine data safety link, which they take very seriously. now they are going to try to investigate it over the next couple of weeks and then the fda advisory committee will meet on it to see whether it's a real association or not. in the meantime, it's a problem because those over 65 are a high risk group. lauren: what do you do? well the cdc still recommends people stay up-to-date with their vaccines. now this. maria osmond is defending her decision not to leave her kids an inheritance. we have her reasoning coming up. i can't really say i understand it or agree with it. we'll have that, and an investigation is underway

after two planes nearly collide on the runway at new york's jfk airport. one of those planes had to abandon take off at the very last moment. it gives you chills just listen ing to the flight recorder we're on that story, and new york's mayor eric adams says the city is at a breaking point over the migrant crisis that could cost new york $2 billion, and at least 40,000 new residents coming. where is that money coming from? madison alworth has that report, just after this. ♪

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lauren: major cities such as new york, chicago, and washington d.c. are paying millions to house migrants crossing the southwestern border. madison alworth is outside the row hotel in new york city. madison? an employee there says that migrants have made an absolute mess of the place. you're standing in front of it. is that true? reporter: yeah, well what we're hearing from that employee is that the hotel is completely overrun. he says, you know, of course some people just looking for that better life, but as a result, the hotel is a mess and he fears for his safety. >> we don't have any guests any more. they sold the entire hotel from the fourth floor to the 28th floor, it's all migrants, so we got people who are getting drunk , using marijuana. they are punching and beating their wives or girlfriends.

we have teenagers running around wild around the hotel, opening the fire exit doors and doing what teenagers do in the stairways and this and that. reporter: mayor eric adams says the city is at its breaking point and is looking at a $2 billion price tag to deal with the migrant influx. this is double what the city had initially anticipated. during a trip to the border this weekend he pointed at the federal government for a lack of response and lack of help and the problem is only accelerating u.s. customs and border protection source tells fox that the december migrant numbers will exceed 250,000 crossings for the first time in history. the official numbers have still not been released but this pressure is really being felt across the country, thousands of miles from the border where i stand here in new york, but other cities including denver, they had around $2.5 million set aside to deal with the migrant influx.

they've already spent $1.5 million. within that lump sum 500,000 went towards buying bus tickets for migrants trying to get to other cities like right here in new york. it's a great shuffle. at the end of it, it's all human beings and mayors and employees at hotels like the one behind me are all asking for help and for this for some solution to be presented because right now it's a non-sustainable situation that we're dealing with. lauren: i was reading a new york post report, madison, and when mayor adams went to el paso and spoke to the migrants, they said well, we want to come to new york. we hear you're going to treat us really well. we can find jobs, we want to come to new york. of course they do. everybody wants to come to new york, but it's unfair if you live in new york and you need the services. madison, thank you, great report a new york city council minority leader joe border patrol borelli joins us. how bad is the crisis for new york city right now, because you'd say we're already in several crisis, the covid crisis

, the education crisis, the crime crisis, how bad is this one adding to all of that? >> well, this is putting on an unplanned and essentially un sustainable budget gap for our city. right now, going into this fiscal year, we were already facing two or 3% cuts to some of our necessary city agencies but adding to that fact now is we've blown through essentially the first billion dollars we've put up for these migrants and now mayor adams is talking about a second billion dollars. i think the democrats in this town, especially the progressives, are waking up to the fact that money doesn't grow on trees and they have to start deciding whether they want to continue this paying program for these hotels in perpetuity or they want to get things like the grass cut in their parks. they want to keep the doors open to the fire houses, et cetera. it's going to be a clear choice come june when our budget is due lauren: joe, do you really think that the democrats in new york, are really waking up to the fact

that this is impacting their quality of life? >> i think some are, and i think frankly, we've rightfully criticized some democrats nationally who have put their head in the sand and not acknowledged anything. i think mayor adams going to the border does two things. it acknowledges that the problem is real and it acknowledges that essentially that like i said money doesn't grow on trees. lauren: and he called it a national crisis. he said that point blank. joe, i want to be sure to get this in, sorry to interrupt your thought but i do want you to respond to this. the new york police department is reportedly scaling back on releasing graphic videos of violent crimes. there's concerns that the videos are being used as sensationalism you're watching some of them on the screen right now, but joe, i'd argue these videos show what is really happening in new york, if you live here or if you visit here. do you think the city is trying to censor the crime problem? >> yeah, i don't support this at all. look certainly some videos might be graphic to the point where they would be damaging to a

victim. we don't want to damage victims, their privacy and their rights but these victims are showing what is happening in raw terms across our city and until we can get that information out there, i don't think we could really have an honest conversation about how bad the crime problem has gotten, especially on our subways. lauren: when you talk to regular people, joe, do they tell you that they are really scared to go about their daily life? >> yeah, unfortunately, my ring camera app is filled every single night with videos of people getting their cars broken into at-best. sometimes their houses are broken into and this is a neighborhood you're familiar with on the south shore of staten island. also had an attempted kidnapping recently so crime has gone from on the back bench in neighborhoods that were once safe to at the forefront and it really does all come down to raise the age, less is more, and bail reform. three legislative agenda items for progressives that they

passed and have done nothing but made our city much less safe. lauren: yeah, we're from the same area, joe, and it used to be a great area where you didn't have to worry and things have changed. thank you for the time. good to see you. >> thank you. lauren: now this. some convenience stores are using an unconventional tactic to keep homeless people away. they're blasting classical music . ♪ lauren: the guy who owns that 7-eleven in austin, texas, says he got the idea from other stores who are doing the same thing in california. they play the opera really loudly so people don't want to camp out in front of their stores. it's also too loud for people to hang out and have conversations, do drugs or just loiter around, so they do what they have to do and leave. the texas store says they've gotten several noise complaints, but the music is actually working to keep the homeless

away and it appears the police aren't actively responding to the noise complaints. now to a scary moment and this is incredible at new york's busiest airport, jfk. two planes nearly collided on the runway, so the faa and the ntsb are both investigating after a delta flight had to abandon takeoff when an american airlines plane crossed in its path on the taxiway. look at those two planes. this was at jfk. the delta pilot had to hit the brakes about 1,000 feet to spare, so it wouldn't hit the american plane. no one was hurt. the flight was delayed until the next day, so everybody on the plane like went forward so aggressively, had to eventually deplane and wait overnight. the american airlines plane was able to take off after a 30- minute delay so i guess that's good but really, it's unclear how all of this happened and it makes it a little bit scarier to fly or in this case not fly, and listen to this.

drivers are searching, it's a crazy story. new york city's east river for pre-historic wool it mammoth bones. it's a bone rush and it was sparked after a fossil enthusiast whose name is john re eves went on the joe rogan podcast and reeves claims a report from the american museum of natural history says that fossils and bones were dumped into the east river back in the 1940s, but why take the plunge for some old bones and a lot of people are? because it's lucrative. mammoth bones are incredibly valuable and they've been sold for as much as $645,000; however , museum officials came out after the rogan podcast was released and they said this report that reeves referencing is completely bogus but as you're driving past the east river, maybe watch what's happening in some of the boats there. people trying to get a little bit richer. gen z is throwing caution to the wind with their careers. we're going to tell you about

another quitting trend that is going viral on tiktok, and lawmakers want answers about who may have had access to classified documents. david webb takes that on next. ♪ what's your name, little girl, what's your name ♪

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home. he wrote a letter to the white house that states and i quote, " given the serious national security implications the white house must provide the wilmington residences visitor log. as chief of staff you are head of the executive office of the president and bear responsibility to be transparent with the american people on these important issues related to the white house's handling of this matter" but we are not getting a log. david webb, because they don't have one. >> yeah, and for the record i wasn't laughing at the music. lauren: what were you laughing at? >> just this mixture of the combination of you, me, and clarksville, tennessee. that's used in a lot of songs. texas does get the win. lauren: you're not from there are you? >> no but i also live close to katie when i was in houston. lauren: you know the area get back to the d.c./delaware area. why isn't there a visitor log? i mean, comer, national security could be at risk. it's not only recently. it's six years of documents.

>> right. if you're not being transparent what are you hiding? so that's the question. now we need the answers. there are other things that go with this , by the way. part of the time hunter biden in one of his drug-fueled phases was the occupant of that very same house, where these document s are found and it's not necessarily about him. i don't want to deflect just to him but when you have drug deals , drugs being dropped off and who do we know is there, we aren't going to get a hunter biden log, but the national security implication of the type of people that have had access much to representative comer's comments in a garage that you can open easily -- lauren: but it was locked because that's where the corvette was. >> right the corvette got out how again? oh, yes you press the button. look this is tragic, pathetic and hypocritical all tied together but what they need to do inside the doj and the ins service is figure out what was on that, on those sheets of paper and those documents. what it pertained to and try to track it back to see if there was anything compromised because

this could be potentially even more damaging. remember, biden talked about sources and methods when he referred to trump, with classified documents. well, sources, methods and information relating to iran, united kingdom, ukraine, and china that we know of in these documents and to what extent. lauren: will we ever find out? >> they will find a way to hide it for a while, but i think in the end the transparency comes out here. lauren: so you do have faith we will get an answer? >> it's not a matter of faith but matter of if the investigation follows, i'm not talking about special counsel, house oversight they can go behind closed doors. the american people need not the transparency of the classified document itself, but what happened and what was compromised. if it's compromised, well, there you go. lauren: yeah. next one for you. congressman jim banks plans to create an anti-woke caucus. what exactly would an anti-woke caucus do?

>> start the conversation of the congressional level. okay, look i'm not a fan of constantly making committees and all this. fact is woke, as it is, has gone into congress with the various members of the squad, the leftists and others. lauren: and to the military. >> and this is where -- lauren: and to schools. it's everywhere. >> it's the brain that's brilliant on you. no, because you're hitting right on the point. they have a responsibility. you have a military being pushed into woke. you have our services, the letter agencies, the fbi, the dea and other agents are publicking these trainings, this fake critical race garbage which is what it is and our congress needs to be involved in cleaning this out. let them do their jobs as prescribed in their mission statement, not worrying about whether somebody feels they are a corrot to the and a turnin tomorrow. lauren: you can easily claim offense to get out of anything. you have cover with the way things are going.

we are seeing and hearing from governor sanders, governor desantis, not going to work in their states but those are just two states. >> but more governors are stepping up on this and state legislatures are going back into session soon in many states. that's where this battle also belongs. your local representatives need to get involved and people are closer to them. you see them at the grocery store. talk to them, engage with your neighbors. ask them if this is what they want for their children. lauren: i do and i haven't heard one person and i live in new jersey. >> and you're very shy i know that. lauren: no one, they actually made fun of it. >> well they make fun of it but now they have to take action on it. the bottom line is actions, not words. lauren: or votes perhaps. david listen to this , maria osm ond is doubling down on her choice to not leave an inheritance to her children or grandchildren. she did an interview with "us weekly" and she said i think all

in hairy tans does is breathe laziness and entitlement. i worked hard and i'm going to spend it all and have fun with my husband. she plans to leave her money to charity when she dies but while she's still alive she still pitches into help her kids if they need something, like a car. what do you think of not giving her inheritance to her kids? >> look, children are your legacy. if they are irresponsible kids maybe want to have that conversation but come on. let's be real. they deserve something if they are good kids because that's the part of the job in life, part of the cycle of life. i don't know. lauren: or change how you parent them. let us know how you feel, weigh in at "varney"@viewers.com. did i get that right? there it is. "varney"viewers@fox.com. a quick programming note. there are two epidemic episodes of stuary varney's american built and they air tonight. here is a preview of the destroyer. >> each moment might be your

last. >> danger on the high seas. >> they were sinking ships faster than we could build them. >> sailing into harm's way. >> you know that you're going to take damage. >> the steal, the speed, and the sacrifice. >> we're fighting a huge war. >> you do what you have to do. >> how they built the greyhound of the seas. >> the most powerful destroyer yet seen in the u.s. navy. >> the fletcher class destroyer lauren: "american built" airs tonight at 9:00 eastern time. the last of the temporary border walls made out of shipping containers is coming down in arizona. sheriff mark lamb has reaction from residents and farmers living along the border who it was protecting. and an upcoming supreme court ruling could "up end" the internet. that's a warning from google as the court considers a challenge to section 230. that's the liability shield for social media sites. kelly o'grady has got that

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♪ lauren: beautiful shot. that's pleasant, south carolina right near charleston. it is a warm, we'll call it warm , 54 degrees today. and it seems like we have yet another quitting trend that is happening on tiktok. it's called the "no two week notice" trend and raising questions about whether it's ethical to suddenly resign or leave your workplace hanging. the argument is that a job doesn't give you two weeks when they fire you, but they often give you severance, so why give them two weeks notice before you quit?

many tiktokers are calling move self-care but critics make the point that by posting this on social media saying you're suddenly quitting you're letting future potential employers know that a, you aren't responsible and b, you aren't reliable. why would they ever want to hire you? and now this. google is warning that an upcoming supreme court decision could upend the internet. kelly o'grady has the story for us. kelly? take us through it. reporter: hi, lauren. yes, so the supreme court is set to hear gonzalez vs. google and it's really setting up a key fight surrounding what's known as section 230, so for context it prevents sites like twitter or etsy from being responsible for content that you or i post because they are platforms not editors. this suit challenges that. it's alleging that you tube help ed turn viewers into the terrorists that committed the 2015 isis attack in paris. it argues the algorithm actively recommended propaganda and therefore bears responsibility in those deaths. the case is becoming critical because of the precedent it will

set so our google and other sites still entitled to the protections provided bisection 230? google argues altering would undercut the internet. "without section 230, some websites will be forced to over diabetes block and impede access to information, limit free expression, hurt the economy and leave consumers more vulnerable to harmful online content" so the concern is you're left with overly curated sites or ones flooded with objectionable content but many believe section 230 does not account for the power of these sites and needs to be revised. >> content moderation is something that we need. the standards should be that section 230 or whatever the law is should be interpreted to permit publication consistent with other laws. reporter: and one nuance i want to highlight is whether changing it would mean only the big players surviver that reviewing every single post would require so much manpower that only google could handle it

financially but lauren, the supreme court will hear the case next month so we'll definitely be following that. lauren: wow, kelly, thank you. the new postage stamp price increases are about to kick in, starting january 22, the u.s. postal service will increase stamp prices by another 4.2%. that's a few cents a stamp but the famous forever stamp which is what everybody buys goes from 60 to $0.63. imagine what that does to your christmas cards? this will be the third price hike by the postal service in the past year, so if you didn't stock up on forever stamps, they're going up to $0.63 each, and now this. multiple sources tell fox news that more than a quarter million migrants crossed the border in the m month of december. border officials still haven't published the numbers yet. why not? griff jenkins has our border report, that's next. ♪

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expected to surpass 250,000 people for the first time in history and that is not official yet, but what multiple sources are telling fox news. griff jenkins is at the border in el paso, texas. griff? the numbers are high. we know that, nine straight months above 200,000. now a quarter million. why haven't the department of homeland security released these official numbers yet? griff: well, that's a great question, lauren, and i have given them a few days in speaking with them to let them know it's time to put these numbers out. they have not responded, so we've gone ahead. we didn't get it out right away when we first learned it, but who knows. i can tell you this much though. you can add two dozen more. lauren, let me go up to our drone shot here in the sky, you can see behind me. we've got two dozen about two dozen or more migrants have walked up just in the last 15 minutes behind me. they came into the custody of the national guard, the border

patrol will soon come down here with a bus. it only takes about 20 minutes to get them processed and sent about their way. most of these migrants are from central america, specifically most of them from ecuador. they tell me, but it is just in decorative of this problem, which is anything but getting under control. the 250,000 in december. also, we're learning from those same sources, lauren, that there are more than 70,000 that got away. those are ones that were not apprehended, not encountered, they were seen by officials but not brought into custody. the next-highest month we've ever had was may on record, 241,000. you know, on sunday, yesterday, i was able to speak with the congressman tony gonzalez who represents this area. here, along the river, he talked to me about this situation. here is what he had to say. take a listen to congressman gonzalez. >> that's where i worry the most is everyone is starting to get numb to it as if these numbers are okay.

it's not okay. our laws are being broken. our immigration system is completely non-existent. griff: and lauren, let me show you some footage we saw yesterday of a large group. we get these large groups nearly every single day, this one had about 150 migrants from traditional countries, like ecuador, cuba, and colombia, but there are also three migrants in there. one from sinogal, two from geuin ea basal, western african countries and the gotaways that head north on the ranches had one ranch owner when they tried to break-in. here is a bit of her experience . listen. >> you know, nobody wants to hurt anybody but it's me and my daughter, i will shoot them if i have to. it's scary. it's frightening, you know? i feel like we're losing our country. griff: now fortunately, she did not have to shoot the migrants because the sheriff's deputies

in kinney county came and took them into custody but it is part of why folks like pam, ranchers here as well as officials, hope that now, with mayors visiting the border and the president biden's visit that something will finally get done to try and get this situation under control lauren? lauren: griff, if you just look over your left shoulder is that a shipping container? where the migrants are standing in front of? griff: that's right and i can push, robert will just push in a little bit. you can see the migrants. these are the shipping container s that have the razor wire on top, lauren, which is what texas dps governor abbott has put in place as a makeshift wall that runs for miles along the rio grande to try and deter and funnel the migrants two points like this which is manned 24/7 by the national guard so that they can get it under control and to be honest, while it looks a bit scary to see these shipping containers and razor wire, it's

for the benefit of the migrants who are in danger of making this trip and we, of course have drowns all the time here, so this is to try and get this situation under control no wall, obviously, here, federal wall, but the officials would certainly like that if they could get it. lauren: griff, thank you for showing that to us and i want to go now to the border in arizona because crews have actually started removing the temporary wall made out of shipping containers along the border there. they were setup to deter migrants from crossing. the project will cost taxpayers more than $200 million when all is said and done let's bring in sheriff mark lamb, from penal county, arizona. good to see you. thank you for taking the time. is that shipping container effective? >> of course. i mean, that's why, i have a six foot voila round my house although it's not going to stop anybody it is certainly a deterrent and those shipping containers were acting as a deterrent like griff just said it acts as a funnel and funnels people into areas where we can

concentrate more law enforcement presence between border patrol and local law enforcement so it is very effective, although it is not the end all be all. it is effective and so it's sad to see that the federal government is now forcing arizona to remove those. it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and it is leaving the american people and the people of arizona at-risk. lauren: it's 200 million in taxpayer dollars that will be paid to take it down? >> yeah. lauren: wow. >> yeah, we paid to put it up. now they are forcing us to take it down. it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and clearly, they don't care what the people of arizona want. lauren: what do people of arizona want? >> we want this to stop. you know that there's been 40,000, one of your guests said it earlier i think it was griff that said the congressman said that we cannot get inoculated to these numbers. there have been 40,000 people with criminal convictions and who are wanted by law

enforcement that were caught trying to come into this country last month there was 14,000 gotaways in the tucson sector which is our sector. lauren: sheriff i'm so sorry, we have a hard break coming up i have to interrupt you. trivia, where was dr. martin luther king born is the question we'll be right back. a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the number one cold shortening brand! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam's unique zinc formula.

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martin luther king, jr. born? was it one, atlanta, two, an montgomery, alabama, three, birmingham, alabama, four, charleston, south carolina. the answer? atlanta, number one. he was born back in 1929. he would have celebrated his 94th birthday today. that does it for the past three hours of "varney & company." neil cavuto, hand it to you a second early. neil: thank you, i appreciate that, lauren, thank you very, very much. on this day we're honoring dr. martin luther king. all the major markets are closed on this federal holiday year. a big pressing concern for all of us around thursday at midnight. that "countdown" clock we'll show you gives you a good idea what we're looking at. that is the point which we have to sort of look under the couch cushions for spare change or couple of billion, a couple trillion here we'll be up