dana, she is the smartest gal in the room and there is the beautiful couple. >> dana: one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet. congratulations to the couple and family. he is a cute little guy. >> bill: i met her the first day i started working here 16 years ago. she is the only one i know who talks faster than ben shapiro. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. the cdc has spoken and democrats across the nation have decided they aren't listening anymore. finally reporters across the board are starting to ask what we've been asking all along. has the nation's cdc loss -- the list of blue state governors lifting indoor and school mask mandates is growing by the day. new york and illinois will ease covid restrictions on the public there. the cdc will not budge yet on

recommending masking indoors particularly in schools. they say you still have to do it. white house press secretary jen psaki was force evidence to defend the cdc yesterday. they pointed out that democrat governors are treating the agency's guidelines more like suggestions than the gold standard. >> does the cdc run the risk of becoming irrelevant in the eyes of many americans? >> i don't think the federal experts on health and medical advice should be irrelevant. >> cdc calls the shots here. not like he measures tradeoffs. the economy, mental health, people's behavior. >> we're going to listen to our doctors and medical experts. >> harris: tucker carlson calling out democrats on the about-face on mandates. >> over the course of less than a week the same people who have systematically turned america into a quarantine camp suddenly out of nowhere started calling in unison for medical freedom.

turns out the only real cure for covid-19 is the political ambition of the democratic party. the answer to this is simple. strip these morons of their powers and return this country to democracy. >> harris: from the white house now jackie heinrich reporting. >> these democratic governors who are relaxing restrictions say the data is on their side with case numbers falling. but cdc says that is just not the case and the white house is not throwing any criticism at fellow democrats framing these governors' decisions as allowing more choice. >> the same messaging criticizing states that are making these moves like we heard previously with for instance ron desantis. >> there is a difference between standing in the way and threatening to pull back funding and allowing for local school districts to make choices which is what a number

of the the states are doing. >> even if your state doesn't require a mask you should still wear one because it is still the guidance from the cdc. >> we look at cases, we look at hospitalizations and we've been reporting hospitalizations, we look at deaths and those decisions are made at the local level. at this time we continue to recommend masking. >> despite that science more democrat-led states are breaking with the cdc. illinois lifting mask mandates by the end of the month. rhode island ending it this year. new york is keeping it in place for schools claiming that science is the basis of that decision. democrats across the board are embracing the change. the chair of the house democrat campaign arm tweeted with science as the guide time to give people their lives back and later pushed a step further saying new york should also lift the school mask restrictions. >> i think that in a state like new york we can stop mandating it and we can leave these

decisions to parents and local school boards but the lowest level of government possible. >> he also admitted that it is key for democrats to move on from covid ahead of the mid-terms. people are just sick of it and it is hurting their polling. prompted plenty of cries of hypocrisy from the gop who have been the target of fines for violations against the mask mandate required in the house chamber. now plenty of house democrats are sounding off wanting to remove that as well, harris. >> harris: wow. a big dramatic sudden, isn't it? >> out of nowhere. >> harris: thank you very much. democrats will say this about face is all about science. a lot of people disagree. a new op-ed in "washington examiner" says one thing is for sure. it's about political science. in "focus" marc thiessen former

white house speech writer and "washington post" columnist himself. good to see you today. first of all, please weigh in on the suddenly among blue states. >> well, the examiner op-ed is right. 70% of americans say it is time to accept that covid is here to stay and we need to get on with our lives. they don't want to see what happened in virginia in off year election happen in all of their states come this november. so they've never been following the science. there has never been any science to back up school closures or mask mandates for children. it doesn't exist. our friend marty makary looked and found there is not a single study that shows that masks reduce covid transmission among kids. there is, however, a new u.k. study that shows that covid was never more dangerous for kids than seasonal flu even back in early 2020 during the height of

the pandemic. germany has reported that not a single healthy child in the entire country has died of covid. not one. we don't have the data here because the cdc doesn't track it. we know covid is no more dangerous to children than the seasonal flu. time to take off the masks, no science behind it. time to stop the school closures when a new variant comes along and start to learn to live with covid. >> harris: i want to catch the nuance you put in there. this is what they've been telling us all along. doctors, if your child or someone in your household as a comorbidity, is not as healthy as they could be then it has always been a concern. what germany and other countries have found that is not the case for healthy children. you just said it. a "washington post" piece now with, quote, this about democrats dumping mask mandates. this is politics, of course. the will of the voters is

important to track. but allowing the impression to set in that politics is the central driver for change and an impression hard to avoid at this point democratic leaders are undercutting their ability to respond to the pandemic moving forward and undercutting two years of rhetoric. so how could this backfire? what do they mean by that? >> first of all, it's a ridiculous claim. the reality is what's reduced the trust of the american people in the public health establishment is not the influence of politics, not that they've been listening to the voters but getting the science wrong from the very beginning. the public health establishment. this is on par with the failure of the intelligence community before the 9/11 attacks to see the attacks coming. and this has been -- that pandemic has killed far more americans than 9/11 ever did. almost a million americans have died. the health establishment wasn't ready. didn't have measures to place to deal with a pandemic when it came.

shortages of ventilators and the rest of it. for over a month, for six weeks they said it wasn't spreading because they were using the wrong -- flu surveillance model when it was spreading. they were checking for people arriving in hospital when it was spreading so they completely missed it. screwed up the testing at the beginning. cdc contaminated its own tests. they said don't wear masks up until may. they told us masks don't work, masks -- you will touch your face more and spread the virus. they said it was spreading from drop lets. go down the list. they have gotten everything wrong every step of the way. closed down our schools when kids weren't at risk. so i'm sorry the fact that now finally the democrats are responding to americans who are saying we've had enough of this and need to get on with our lives. that's not what help the credibility of the public health establishment. >> harris: the observation, we've been getting letters from schools and everything is what is coming down the pike in new

jersey. march 7th mask lift and that kind of thing. this is the democrats taking on the cdc and the white house. what happens when it gets to the teachers unions? >> yeah, because the teachers unions are the single largest contributor outside of trial lawyers to the democratic party. they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers unions and why we had the school shutdowns in the first week. 2,000 schools across the country shutting down because of omicron when it wasn't a threat. so the democrats need to start listening to parents. i think the only thing that will break the grip of the teachers unions on the democratic party is if a massive parents uprising drives them out of power. and loses their majorities in capitol hill. >> harris: like what happened in virginia, like that. that will get their attention. we're already seeing it in new

york. the new york governor says we'll get away with indoor masking but i will wait until after the february break to take a look at what is going on in the schools. they know they have all that data now. but they will take the pulse of the teachers union. speaking of which the chief of the largest teachers union said this about getting rid of masks in schools. this is interesting, watch. >> i am in favor of an off ramp on masks. the real issue becomes is the spread low enough so that there is no dissemination or transmission in schools. >> harris: the second largest union. i'll correct myself randy weingarten there looking for an off-ramp but only if it's perfect. >> no spread. i'm sorry, again, the data show that for kids under 18 and that was actually at the start of the pandemic. today anyone under 50 years old

covid is not more dangerous than the seasonal flu. do we have mask mandates for seasonal flu and shut down schools for seasonal flu? of course we don't. we have to stop treating this. for kids this is no different than seasonal flu. if anything less dangerous. we have to stop treating this like it is a pandemic anymore. the pandemic is over. covid is with us and we have the tools to deal with it. we have treatments, vaccines. things we didn't have in march 2020. we have multiple layers of defense. >> harris: my question would be for that union leader this very simple one, what are you looking for in terms of zero? in china they had one village where they got to zero and tested one person and suddenly had 98 cases and shut down a province of 4 million people. we aren't china. we won't roll like that. i don't know what the teachers union is thinking that it will look like going down. all right, down the road. let's get to this.

joe rogan speaking out on the intense campaign to get spotify to cancel his podcast. critics accusing him of spreading covid misinformation and video has circulated online a montage of him repeatedly using the n word for many years. he has apologized. this week here is what he says. >> in a lot of ways all this is a relief because it is like -- that video had always been out there. this is a political hit job so they are taking all this stuff that i've ever said that is wrong and smooshed it all together. it is good. it makes me address some things i wish wasn't out there. i do think you have to be very careful to not apologize for nonsense. >> harris: bar stool sports founder says the cancel crew were coming for rogan. really no matter what he did or said. >> this is a coordinated attack and nobody knows it. i may be most uniquely aware of

what it is like to go through this because it happened to me. if this didn't stick it would be on the sexism. if this didn't stick it would be on to anti-semitism and if this didn't stick on and on it goes. at the end of the day it's about power. >> harris: your response. >> bill: number one if you don't like what is said on his show don't cancel him, go on the show. send dr. gupta from cnn gone on and go on his show. second of all, why are people turning to a comedian for information? the trust in the media, the corporate media has collapsed. most people think for -- polls showing majorities of americans believe the media lies to push a political narrative. they don't trust them and they go to alternative sources. if you don't want people to listen to joe rogan clean up your act and regain the trust of the american people.

>> harris: more sticker shock for american families. the president's inflation crisis is getting worse. today hitting a 40-year high. and this. >> americans see two million people, maybe 6 million people cross the border illegally last year and see this administration reward them with an all-expenses paid vacation trip to any american city of their choosing. >> harris: counting the numbers highlighting how bad the president's border crisis has gotten boiling it down to this. if you can come here illegally, you get to stay. louisiana senator john kennedy in "focus" next.

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>> exactly the wrong thing time after time after time. individuals that illegally cross our southern border are released into the country and federal law enforcement officials are being treated as if they're hotel check in staff rather than federal law enforcement. >> harris: biden's border crisis is a disaster that everybody can see and now new numbers are adding a huge exclamation point. ice has slowed way down on kicking out illegal immigrants from america. this despite 1.7 million border encounters over that same time frame. the preliminary figures show there were fewer than 56,000 removals. that's a 70% drop from the year before. bill melugin live at the border in la joya, texas. bill, they can come here illegally, break our law that way and then get to stay here. >> harris, good morning to you.

what the ice numbers show is pretty remarkable. in a nutshell for fiscal year 2021 ice deported the fewest people we've seen in years while at the same time we had the highest number of record setting migrant encounters down here at the southern border. now that activity is really starting to pick up once again. look at the video we shot right here yesterday in la jolla. we're once again seeing the return of these consistent family units showing up here and walking down this road to give themselves up. dozens of them each time multiple times a day. some are pregnant women. some bringing young children. a lot of nicaraguaians lately. most of those people are being released from custody because the nicaragua government won't accept them back via title 41 after a slow month in january where we're starting to see it pick up again. look at the video. we came out here last night and saw the same thing. coming day and night.

more family units. this will be problematic for border patrol. their resources supposed to be out patrolling the front lines will have to be doing this paperwork and processing all over again. plenty of other action on the border as well. look at these photos out of border patrol's el paso sector where they made a massive human smuggling bust. a big rig trailer with 132 migrants crammed inside being smuggled. the migrants from guatemala, honduras, ecuador, mexico. some were expelled via title 42. look at this out of del rio sector. in a matter of two days border patrol found two 5-year-old girls traveling alone. one from guatemala guatemala walked across the river alone. another a 5-year-old girl from honduras who arrived with three other children.

their encounter numbers are up more than 215% over the same time period last year. last year was a record-setting year in itself. >> harris: let me take a moment for what happens to these children. a lot of times they get left behind because they can't keep up with the groups the drug cartels are moving. maybe lost a shoe, whatever the situation is. but when you hear border patrol saying they were found alone there is no exaggeration in that whatsoever. they just leave them to die. they don't have anything on them. food, water, nothing. bill melugin, thank you for updating us on all of it. republican senator john kennedy of louisiana has been sounding the alarm on this for quite some time. this suddenly especially when you see the faces of children feels so personal. why is the white house allowing this to happen?

>> sometimes, harris, when people act like they don't care, it's not an act. i don't think president biden or at least the people running things in his administration, care about securing the border. i don't think they -- his administration really cares about telling folks in central america don't come, don't come. i mean, they may say the word but everything the biden administration does has created incentive for them to come. i think the biden administration honestly believes in open borders. i think they believe that vetting people at the border is racist. that's wrong and most americans disagree. they think vetting people at the border is prudent not because we hate everybody on the outside, because we love

people on the inside. and most fair-minded people want to know who is coming into their country. we don't have the slightest idea who is coming into our country. they could be good people just looking to work, but there are also probably terrorists, they are gang bangers, they are drug dealers, they are convicted felons and they are coming from all over the world and president biden and his people are welcoming them. >> harris: you know, i mentioned -- you and i have spoken about this before, it is personal. a mark against all of us if we can't get this right. >> it's horrible. >> harris: we were built on legal immigration. america is an amazing place and part of us being amazing is what you are talking about, taking responsibility when we get things wrong and stopping that action and doing it differently. you know, when you look at where the numbers are for the president on this issue, senator kennedy, you know the

american people are not happy with him about this. and the hits keep on coming for biden. inflation soaring over the last year and last month hitting its highest rate in more than a generation. hammering american families and wiping out pay raises. consumer prices just 7.5% last month, a whopping 435% spike from a year ago and biggest increase since february of 1982. a top white house economic advisor admits it is not good. let's watch. >> his first thoughts here are what kind of stressors is this creating for family budgets, for households. he knows that stresses are real and that they are highly elevated. >> harris: and as everything is getting more expensive, gasoline prices on the rise, too. today the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.48. up a dollar from last year.

we have ground ourselves into a nightmare in terms of inflation. >> we have. let me say quickly on immigration. most americans support legal immigration. i do. it's why we admit over a million people a year. more than any other country. now in terms of inflation. as i've said to you before, harris, i like president biden. i'm just not sure we can afford him. so far the best evidence of the existence of the biden administration has been the damage they leave in their wake. exhibit a is inflation. it is the most pernicious tax imaginable. it water boards middle americans and those among us who are at the lower end of the wage scale. it is not complicated. we told president biden when he

passed with all democratic support, no republicans, his 1.9 trillion dollar emergency covid bill that had nothing to do with covid. has more to do with crack pipes. we said if you do that we don't need it. it will cause inflation. it did. and now as i've said before president biden wants to stuff more diapers down the toilet. he wants to pass the build back better bill which is $5 trillion. we've got too much money chasing too few goods and if he passes build back better we will have 20% inflation. and then the federal reserve is going to have to raise interest rates so high that it is going to throw us into a recession. this is not complicated. democratic economists have told the biden administration this. unless you sleep through econ

101 they teach you that in the first week. >> harris: you mentioned the white house and all of this and pushing back on the actual numbers of things. right now the white house is pushing back after that report that health and human services would be using taxpayer dollars to give crack pipes to drug addicts. let's watch this. >> hhs put out a statement clarifying around some of the reports that crack pipes are not going to be part of the safe smoking kits funded by the administration. were they never a part of the kit or were they removed in response to this pushback? >> they were never part of the kit. we wanted the provided clarification for the hhs harm reduction program. >> harris: this might be one senators are reading. senator tom cotton. to be clear hhs is giving taxpayer dollars to distribute crack pipes on their behalf.

just because hhs bureaucrats aren't personally handing out the crack pipes doesn't make it a good idea. senate marsha blackburn vowing to hold up the funding until it's clear that taxpayers aren't shelling out a dime for those crack pipes. >> let me say this about miss psaki. she ought to be jana king employee of the year. she has to clean up three messes every single day. here is what i do know. the biden administration has taken $30 million from their emergency covid bill and they are using it to facilitate the smoking of crack cocaine and crystal meth. they say they can make it safer. and i say there is no way to make smoking crack cocaine or meth safer. it is like trying to put a filter on a cigarette. they ought to take this $30

million which they said they would use for covid. they ought to use it to secure the border, to stop the drugs coming in and use it to get those folks into addiction programs and they ought to talk straight to the american people and explain look, you are right. we got caught trying to help people make it easier for people to smoke crack and it was dumb thing to do and we reversed course. >> harris: you know they aren't going to do that. they will never admit that but you are right. if we put the money right where the vice president kamala harris root causes are to the problem, then we could make a difference. but you are calling for complete transparency. that is a big ask. real quickly before i let you go. we were in a position now where democrats are capitulateing on a whole lot of things. i want to get your quick thoughts on where you think we're going. they are going to have to come

up against teachers unions like in new jersey when they try to wipe away the mandates inside classrooms. i think it will be a harder fight for them than the cdc. >> i think it will, too. but it's time for the biden administration. they stand for science. i think we have a cleaner idea of the dangers and it is time for the biden administration to talk straight to the teachers unions and tell the american people the truth. i don't have anything against dr. fauci but for a variety of reasons, some of which happen to be dr. fauci's own thoughts, the american people trust dr. pepper more than dr. fauci right now. >> harris: senator kennedy of the great state of louisiana, thank you for being in "focus" and talking about so many important topics with me today. >> you bet. >> harris: mounting crises

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>> harris: let's look live now. this is the blue water bridge and it goes from ottawa, canada, into port huron, michigan. and traffic is backed up there. that's not the protest. that's where traffic has been rerouted because along the now famous ambassador bridge where the blockade is happening, where truckers are protesting mandated vaccines, that's now being rerouted to other areas and you are seeing traffic block up in other places. and you know what?

this could catch on. the department of homeland security is warning police to prepare for protests similar to canada's freedom convoy. the agency monitoring reports that u.s.-based truck drivers could begin blocking highways and major roads in california almost immediately. like just ahead of the super bowl a couple days away. president biden's state of the union address could be impacted. that's march 4th. it stems from the canadian protest against vaccine mandates some of which i was just showing you because the traffic now has to be rerouted away from where that is happening to get goods coming and flowing again. and it is catching on around the world. truckers in france, spain, new zealand, netherlands, united kingdom coming out in support of those canadian truckers. ohio congressman jim jordan here. >> americans and canadians obviously and people around the world we've had it. they've had it. they are so sick of the double

standard. so sick of the mandates. what we want is what god gave us, freedom. that's what this is all about. >> harris: brian eisely is operations manager at united freight, main expedited freight. i want to talk to you about what could be coming and what you think is driving this around the world lean-in we're with canadian truckers. what is behind it? >> this is a great opportunity to set the record straight. first and foremost the dhs and maybe some other media types have characterized this as an anti-vax movement. it is not anti-vax. it is anti-vax mandates. all these guys are just fighting for what god gave them. their freedom. jim jordan is right. i'm glad it catching on around the world. it is unfortunate the land of the free took so long to take this step. they have to thank our

neighbors to the north for taking the first step. these guys are great. every hard working american, canada yeah,, french should put support behind them. plenty of opportunities to donate and volunteer. a lot of people are out there fighting and it is important when you need it. >> harris: i have a question for you because i was just closing in. we can take another live look at the blue water bridge. they have to reroute traffic because of what's going on with the truckers. i'm glad you said it again. i've been saying it, too, they're pushing against the vaccine mandate. we don't want anybody to get it twisted. ari fleischer was on "outnumbered" yesterday and made this point having to do with the rerouting and getting around what's going on at the protests. >> you don't have the right no matter how good your cause is to do that to your fellow citizens. i don't support interfering the

mobility of other people, carrying out the things they need in life to be on time for. i oppose it whether it's occupy wall street or a group i'm sympathetic goals. good goals, bad tactics. you alienate more people by doing that. >> harris: what do you think? >> the only bad tactic is the one that is this is working. this has made the elites -- because of poll numbers, not because of any other actual factors such as child suicides or children not having a proper education. now you are starting to see the left wingers take down their mask mandates in new york and california. this movement is so much more than it looks like just because it is drivers. nobody realizes the drivers run

these countries. they run the world. everything in your studio as i said on "fox & friends." everything in this office here is and always been on a truck and that is also everything in dr. fauci's house. >> harris: i want to point out they are doing a workaround. and again i hadn't heard that until ari said it. somebody will get their goods. they found another way around this. brian, quickly, do you see it coming here as fast as the super bowl? is this sort of thing building in the united states as quickly as people think? >> i think this coming sunday for the super bowl is a little misinformation that's being played. it is not that -- it is not really that soon. there is -- i am not a head organizer, i wish i was. i'm not that influential. it will come here. the guys in america will show

the world what we can do. we're the land of the free. god bless america and god bless these drivers for everything they've done and what they will do. >> harris: brian, thank you. truckers, boy, push our world into the next level. without our stuff, we'd be lost. thank you, brian. >> thank you. >> harris: critics again tearing into president biden's staff for protecting him from reporters' questions. sound familiar? >> i'm not supposed to take any questions but go ahead. >> president biden: ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here. i'm sorry, the last question i'll take or i'll really be if trouble. >> harris: the president's approval rating hits an all-time low and some republicans are calling for him to take a cognitive test now. power panel next. >> i think that in a state like new york -- i think that in a state like new york we can -- the newday zero down home purchase loan,

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>> harris: how low can the numbers go for president biden? an average of major national polls. not just one, but many, now put his approval rating under 40% for the first time since he took office. some of them were in the 30s before but this is across the board now. meanwhile, the white house

continues to shield the president apparently from reporter's questions. a white house official said yesterday to not think about asking biden questions at a round table event and not the first time it's happened. >> president biden: i'm not supposed to take any questions. i'm not supposed to be having the press conference. as usual they gave me a list of the people i will call on. gave me a list here. the first person i was to start to call on was kelly o'donnell of nbc. i'm happy to take questions unless i'm not supposed to do that. whatever you want me to do. i'm sorry, this is the last question i'll take. i'm really going to be in trouble. >> harris: oh, power panel. david avella, chairman of gopac, democratic strategist ms. maxwell.

they sometimes give the president of the united states a list of who will be in the room but all of the directives and all of the trouble that he is getting himself into, i mean, what is that about, david? >> great question, harris. the problem for the president is that when voters have decided you are incompetent and taking the country in the wrong direction, there is not much you can do to get them on board. the president now looks deep into the numbers and you'll see democrats now disapprove of the job he is doing. he doesn't have a single person in his administration that can effectively promote what he is trying to do. >> harris: apparently not. 40 republican lawmakers are calling on president biden to take a cognitive test. the exact one president trump took in 2020. in a letter to the president himself the lawmakers say his quote mental decline has become more apparent over the past two years. bree, your reaction.

>> look, i don't think that -- i agree the president should probably take the cognitive test. >> harris: you do? >> president trump set the precedent before. i believe he should take it. but i believe it is also an attack on his age and mental capacity. president biden has proved numbers and numbers of times that he is ready the take the country forward and the proven track record to do it. he should take the cognitive test that president trump took but i also think as of right now it's a major attack on him on his age and mental health. >> harris: there are a lot of older people who want to run for president. all of them are at that 70 mark like hillary clinton. >> i don't think it should be attack on his age. >> harris: what do you make when you see the president, when there would seem protecting him from taking questions when we've seen him make several gaffes.

that is proveable, there are receipts. >> well let's look at it this way. the press secretary has made on numerous occasions one, the pandemic has been one of the reasons why we haven't been able to have as many press briefings as we have had. >> harris: they would say we have all the access we need. >> she has been having daily press briefings and the president himself answer questions daily -- weekly. he answer many questions daily during the week. so whether we're having as many press conferences as we have had with many presidents in the past, the fact of the matter is the press secretary is making sure we're keeping the american public informed and also this administration is making sure that we have other ways of meeting the voters where we are to keep them informed what this administration is doing. >> harris: when i say a gaffe you know the big one i'm thinking about when the president recently said if russia wants to have a minor incursion, just a little bit of an invasion if you will, they can go ahead and do that with

ukraine. it was at a news conference. i don't know if they are begging for more, probably not >> you think about the president and where they are. the question isn't should he take a cognitive test. the question is what happens if he fails it? and what's the next step that is going to happen? and his best chance to get voters back on board thinking about the poll numbers for a second would be to hug bernie sanders and elizabeth warren more to get democrats back on board with him, to get him out of the 30s. it only guarantees then, though, harris that independents will lock in with republicans and it will be a historic day coming this november. >> harris: this president can't get the blue state democrats to agree not to knock off all the mandates for schools. they are in opposition on a lot of things. bree, welcome to the program for the first time. david, always great to see you. i'll bring you back. power panel.

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♪ ♪ >> harris: canada is intensifying its crackdown on the freedom convoy after truckers protested covid restrictions shut down part of a major international crossing, known as the ambassador bridge. you've probably heard about it by now. similar convoys are popping up all over europe and parts of the world, the department of omitted security is now monitoring that they could spread here. i'm harris faulkner, this is "outnumbered." today i'm with studio in the studio with emily compagno and