senator, president biden has better things to do than visit our border. i'm sure the widow and those two kids would beg to differ. the border seems pretty important to them. texas state senator brian hughes, thank you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> carley: thank you so much. absolutely. two hours went by pretty quickly there. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: bye-bye. ♪ ♪ run, run rudolph ♪ santa's got to make it to town ♪ make him hurry ♪ tell him he can take the freeway down. >> brian: christmas song. looking at our christmas tree which according to i starterred this morning 340,000 lights, exactly. 12,000 ornaments borders. >> steve: down one. >> brian: 50 feet tall.

>> ainsley: are you making this up? this is real? >> brian: oh, yeah. >> ainsley: how do you know these stats? >> brian: i know that you know that already. >> ainsley: you already know it all. >> brian: i know a little bit about everything. every morning i just got to make sure they're all there. if one light goes out, the whole tree goes out. >> steve: i had that problem at my house. >> ainsley: did you ever fix that? >> steve: no, somebody who is at the christmas place in pigeon ford, tennessee sent me a note he said you know what, steve, check your led driver. take a picture of the driver. it's the little thing that plugs into the wall because i have an led tree. i tested it. it all lit up. i put all the decorations on it kathy, mary and me for two hours. plugged it in so it went out. >> brian: how bad do you feel when your tree is a little small and you can't get all the on. s on and you think to yourself you have lost. the ornaments live for one day and they didn't make the cut. so they have got to go back in the box for another year. >> ainsley: there is us next year and then the year after.

>> brian: don't you feel terrible? >> ainsley: and the year after. my tree is a little smaller than i normally get. and i'm missing my bigger tree. but i have half of my ornaments on the tree. the other half are under the window in boxes. because i have been working on christmas cards the last three days. so then i had a chance to do it. because the christmas cards have to go out. so you prioritize your list of what you have to get done. >> steve: brian, you only put the christmas tree ornaments on for one day? >> brian: that one day everything goes up exhilaration and then when you just look at those boxes still in the boxes, of ornaments, still ornaments still in a bigger box and you wonder what do they have to look forward to? they missed the cut again. i almost feel like. >> ainsley: you are pretend therg alive and have feelings? >> brian: you feel like wow, sorry. >> steve: i think you feel like you just need a bigger tree. >> brian: bigger tree, higher ceiling. >> steve: in the meantime, thank you very much for joining us on this thursday. and we are starting this hour

with some terrible news. we do not yet know the identity of a border patrol agent. he is 38 years old. he is the father of two. at 1:00 in the morning on wednesday, he was apparently chasing some migrants and crashed his atv into a closed fence at a very high speed. he was found by other border patrol agents. he was unresponsive. they took him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. we do assume that his identity will be revealed later on today. but it just goes show you, you know, this is such a serious business. and so many lives are on the ryan. not just on migrants coming across but the people who have sworn to uphold, you know, the security of the united states. even though their boss won't really let them do that. >> ainsley: yeah. president biden went to arizona. this happened one day after the president announces i have other important things to handle than go down to the border. well, it's very important to the

people who do work on the border. and the national border council president brandon judd said it's apparent that biden cares more about politics than our children, friends, and neighbors. want u.s. border chief raleigh ruleortiz. our prayers with his family and co-workers. >> we hit basically all time high suicide three in november enough because it's so debilitating to be down there and not get any backing from the government. as the illegal immigrants who tangentially cause the death of this border agent. the president says i'm too busy i have a chip factory to unveil. i can't do one things in one day i'm already 80 years old. here are lawmakers weighing in border security is not a democrat or republican issue. it's an issue that effects all americans. >> the joe biden has created the

border crisis. his policies have downgrade it. he is on record stating that there is other, more important things. that is ridiculous statement. and it is a disrespect to our border patrol agents. >> trr is no doubt that impacts your life. that is tough to define. but there is no doubt that what is happening at the border is impacting our agents. >> ainsley: those were congresswomen and men in washington right after our show i went home and watching bill and dana. and they had this press conference on. and i thought wow, i didn't even realize this was a new problem that so many of these border agents were committing suicide. but in 2022 the total suicides with the agency is 1. that's more than any other year over a decade. three officers took their lives as you were saying in last three weeks, brian. appears to be taking a toll on our agents and congressman tony gonzalez says there is no single

reason attributed for the spike in agent suicides but he says 2 million people are crossing the border last year alone. hundreds of immigrant deaths. children arriving alone at the border crossings. long work hours. dealing with high stress situations it is taking a toll. >> steve: absolutely. and the agents are frustrated. we have spoken to the border patrol association many times on this program. and they are frustrated that they cannot do their jobs. you can see it on their faces. to the point that there were three suicides in november, there have been 14 suicides in this past calendar year. you can see it in their faces. you can hear it in their voices. and, think about it. they are so under the microscope, our border patrol people are remember a number of months ago where there were those pictures of the guys on horseback and the haitians were coming in and they were trying to, you know, do their best to make sure that everybody stayed safe. and then there was the one image or two images where it looked like there was a strap flying.

next thing you know the president is saying they are being strapped. and the secretary of the department of homeland security said will be held accountable. >> those people were cleared. they didn't do anything wrongs. , technicality down the road in the department awaiting them. nonetheless, their careers were ruined. so you have got to figure every day when you put on the kevlar vest to do your job, today could be the day i do something where somebody takes a picture and my job is gone. >> brian: here. >> ainsley: or their lives. >> steve: yeah, their lives. >> brian: should the president go down to the border? listen. >> do you think it's important for president biden to go to the border for himself? >> i think it's important for the administration to recognize it's a crisis. we all know it's a crisis. i have been clear about that. and so when you have a crisis in your country, you should deal with it. >> but do you think he should go to the border, the vice president, senior leaders? >> absolutely. >> senior leaders should deal

with a crisis in their country. >> do you think the president should go visit the border himself? >> i think the president know what is is happening at the border i think dhs secretary has been there many times. >> do you think there is value to the president going? >> i think there is value to the president going everywhere. >> brian: three amigo summits coming up early 2023. that's a perfect time for lobe door to understand we are going to shut down the border like president trump said or else you are going to put people on your southern border to start blocking them from hours. it if you watch title 42, 18,000 per day. 540,000 per month. 6.5 million per year. lifted and this president is visiting chip factories and going to delaware five times a week instead of administration something that has our. >> ainsley: a border patrol

agent bo wright. many of us can relate to him. he was 49 years old. army vet. he has been an agent for 10 years. he was a k-9 hand ler, he loved dogs. since 2016, he left behind a wife and two children. another one xavier took his own life. he he loved the outdoors and sports cars and dallas cowboys and spending time with loved ones. >> steve: god rest their souls. joe biden in his life has never stood at the border and looked across. we have all done that he has never done it. apparently just not interested. during his whole life. but, now he is president. and you have got this migrant crisis where you have 2.4 million migrants coming in just in the last year so why doesn't he go? brit hume hits the nail on the head in this soundbite. >> brit: he seems to have gotten by with his failure to take care of the laws of the border being

faithfully executed as the constitution requires him to do. he is not having to got border. going down there, i guess, this week but is he not going to visit the border because he doesn't want to call attention to the lawlessness down there. >> brian: and he didn't pay the price in the election. he feels no urgency. >> ainsley: a leader is supposed to take charge, right? >> steve: buck stops here. >> ainsley: if you are in office and there's a major problem, the boss steps in and helps fix it. eventually it gets to the boss and the boss has to do something about it. in this case our boss is ignoring it. and joe biden is saying he has more important things to do. >> steve: because the boss would fix a problem. joe biden doesn't think it's a problem. >> ainsley: right, the border is secure he says. >> steve: how crazy is that? >> ainsley: coming up, a new clue in the murders of those four idaho college students. what investigators need help finding now. >> brian: teasing action against the extwitter lawyers with ties to the fbi who suppressed the hunter biden laptop story as elon musk makes a new vow to

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>> carley: a possible break in the four slain university of idaho students. >> authorities are asking for the public's help in identifying the driver of a white hyundai alan that seeing near the home of at the time of the quadruple murder. >> steve: todd piro joins us live with the latest. >> todd: good morning. police seeking more information about the occupants of that vehicle, which was seen near the home where those four college

students were murdered, almost a month ago now. authorities believe the car is a 2011 to 201 white hyundai alan that. they don't know the license plate number but asking of anyone who knows a car matching that description to contact them. police seen wednesday loading up 10-foot you haw with plastic tins and boxes packing up the belongings that included pink cowboy boots you see them on your screen that madison logan had displayed in a window in her room. these families deserve to have these personal items. >> we went in to gather the belongings. we're just trying to get stuff back to the families so that they can have some closure. we're going to do our job and do it to the best of our ability. and we owe this to the family. we owe this to the victims. we owe this to our community. >> meanwhile, university students are grappling with new unsettling reality in moscow. one student saying, quote: my feelings of security have been rattled. in some ways, i don't believe i can ever view moscow in the same light.

pepper spray isn't exactly the kind of thoughtful roommate gift you think you need until it is attached to your key chain weighing you down with the truth of your new reality. and sunday is going to mark four weeks since madison, ethan, xana and kaylee were killed. police have promised this case will not go cold as they continue investigating every angle. just think about those parents who want answers who want answers to what happened to their beautiful children. we are now at a month. guys, back to you. >> ainsley: that's something. they think it's this car? someone knows someone who drives a car that looks like that in the area. >> steve: do we know, todd, why suddenly a month later they are talking about a white hyundai? was it one of those doorbell cams or something or did somebody just have a memory. >> todd: don't necessarily know. your instinct is probably right probably gone through cameras from the area. triangulated the data to arrive at this vehicle. also it, could be, we have been asking them to release information. they have been hesitant to do so

to not jeopardize the information. maybe there is something now that allows them to think if we release this now, we are not going to jeopardize. we are going to get closer to finding out who did this. you have to ask that question. i think both of those hypotheses are both valid. >> steve: you wouldn't think there would be that many of those cars in that neck of the woods. >> at that time of the day. you got to remember we had a guy on our show talking about this is a college town on a sunday morning between 3:00 and 4:00. not a lot of people out on the road. either you are sleeping or, you know, sleeping off the night before. >> ainsley: all right, towed. thank you todd. >> brian: twitter and what's going on there jack dorsey was the ceo, the founder of twitter. they say he was kind of removed from the day-to-day operations. now there is more proof. yesterday, he put out this tweet. and he was saying something that i thought was more of a monday story than a wednesday story. that is some criticism gets elon musk for not giving matt taibbi as well as bari weiss the

ability to see everything in their backlogs that related to the hunter biden laptop suppression story. then we'll find out that the lawyer behind this, jim baker, walters the same one with the fbi that was slowly doing almost a slow down or a screening of those emails, stopping the initial tranche of releases matt tapey and bari weiss from getting it. we expect the flood gates to open. if the goal is transparency, writes to musk, to build trust, why not just release everything without filter current and future actions. make everything public now. okay, final. a little problem as miranda devine comes up in 90 minutes, a lot of this stuff could have been deleted. >> steve: after jack at twitter put that out elon musk who now owns twitter wrote. this. the most important data was hidden from you, too, he is

talking to jack dorsey and some may have been deleted but everything we find will be released. >> ainsley: sounds like elon saying it was hidden from you, too. jack dorsey didn't know even if this happened under his watch. >> steve: what is he suggesting is that the people in charge of the censoring left jack dorsey in the dark. coming up, and we told you about this on let's see today is thursday. we told you about it on monday. that house republicans who are going to head up the oversight committee, they decided they were going to send out letters, they sent out letters to three former twitter executives on tuesday. they would like some answers. also now, this mr. baker, apparently, according to mr. comber, who is the incoming republican from kentucky is going to head the oversight committee, he would like to see mr. baker in the hot seat to answer some questions. >> ainsley: judiciary committee says stay tuned. miranda devine, who wrote that original story for the "new york

post" that was censored right before the election in 2020, she is coming up at 7:30 this morning with that. >> brian: fbi director chris wray and his boss. attorney general merrick garland oddly silent through this whole thing. they should be outraged by it unless of course they were complicit in it. let's see what emerges. >> steve: mr. baker did leave the fbi like five years ago. but i think what was really telling yesterday was karine jean-pierre again when asked, was there communication between the biden campaign and twitter, which we have been talking about for weeks, would be essentially a smoking gun. she said i really can't answer that because of the hatch act. because it involves a campaign. can't talk about it. if something shows up, where there's communication from the biden people to the twitter people, hey, take that down. not good. >> brian: the telling thing is the fbi briefing everybody. having the laptop in 2019. not doing anything with it. vilifying the guy who is the

computer repairman who has now been vilified, thankfully, having that along the way briefing them. they look absolutely awful in this. >> ainsley: he handed over the laptop. in december of 2019. 10 or 11 months later is when miranda devine's story was coming out. the fbi knew giuliani had the information. they knew miranda devine had the information. they start meeting with these social media companies once a week to say hey, there are going to be stories coming out. they are hacked stories. and there might be one in october involving hunter biden. it what a coincidence. will when the story comes out that's when twitter and facebook say this must be what they were talking about. we need to censor this story. >> steve: we do know that those meetings were actually attask force there were five, six, or seven members of the trump administration in the room from the department of homeland cyber infrastructure. the whole works. they were there said there said hey, we don't know what it is. something is coming. beware. and twitter used that as a

excuse to censor. that's what we know. >> brian: keep your eye on tim thibault. >> ainsley: still at the fbi? >> brian: no he is retired but he is there at the time. >> ainsley: carley has headlines for us. >> carley: i certainly do. a fox news alert. three people including two firefighters are dead after a three alarm fire at a home in eastern pennsylvania last night authorities say two people who lived in the home managed to escape unharmed. state police identifying the first responders killed as 59-year-old marvin gruber and assistant fire chief zachery paris. the cause of the fire is under investigation. it a federal memo warns at least five electric substations in oregon and washington have been attacked in recent weeks. officials say hand tools arson, firearms and metal chains have all been used in those attacks. authorities believe the motive is to cause widespread power

failures. this comes just days after two substations in north carolina were hit with bullets leaving thousands of people without power. what's going on there? wow. the "new york times" is asking readers to join a 24-hour digital picket line today after negotiations over higher pay and greater benefits collapsed overnight. author of the woke 1619 project nikole hannah-jones expected to week at a rally for striking workers this afternoon. guild suggests people take a break from wordle and pull out a cookbook instead of reading the times. wordle was the most searched word in the world for 2022 according to google trends year and search round up. wordle beat out phrases such as election results, ukraine and queen elizabeth. it is estimated more than 1 million people play wordle every single day including the entire staff of "fox & friends." >> steve: that's right. to make it more interesting.

we don't choose our own start words. it is chosen for us. and today what is the start word? >> mound. >> ainsley: does it give you good clues? >> ainsley: one yellow. >> steve: we are all going to start at the same place. did you already solve it, ted? how many, three? is he a genius. all right. >> ainsley: one of my favorite traditions as a mother is reading together with my daughter hayden. i'm so grateful to every single one of you for making my book "i'm so glad you were born" a best selling children's book. so today join me, join us, hayden will be with me for a live instagram reading of the book from 5:00 to 5:30 follow me on instagram it's a earhardt that at symbol for details and i hope to see you later. >> brian: how will this work? they ask you questions while you read? >> ainsley: post that this morning where you can ask questions. and then we will choose a few of

the questions and answer those. and then i will read the book while mom is cooking while dad is. >> steve: going to read the whole book? that's awesome. >> ainsley: for story time. we read three books every night in our house. one christian book and two that she chooses. this is our book tonight. one of our books tonight and hayden will help me read it. when we get to the point where it says i'm so glad you were born she screams that out. at the end of the book it says i'm so glad i was born. >> steve: three books tonight. wait until they're a little older. >> ainsley: it's a lot. >> steve: the books are like half an hour. >> ainsley: carley, get reading. nighttime is hard. feeding them, brushing teeth, giving baaths. they are making excuses, i need milk, i need to go potty after they are already in bed. read the book and falling asleep as you are doing it. sometimes i do. i plug in my phone dad job. hours plug in the phone in connection with to the bed and set my alarm if i fall aleap. oftentimes my alarm goes off and i'm next to hayden.

>> steve: that's fortuitous to do. join ainsley 5:00 for "i'm so glad you were born" instagram. >> brian: 26 minutes are a the hour. coming up, breaking news involving celine dion the devastating diagnosis she is revealing to her fans. >> steve: vaccine mandate 40sing democrats to make serious decisions. it coming up on "fox & friends."

♪ ♪ >> brian: well, we told you this this morning. a border patrol agent dying while chasing a group of illegal immigrants in mission, texas. this serving as another example of the dangers our men and women face while trying to protect our border amid president joe biden's failed policies. he is just indifferent to it. here to react texas congressman pat fallon. congressman, you now this was inevitable. you knew about the suicides up to 14 this year. now we lose this 28-year-old. >> oh, it's absolutely tragic. we are supposed to be supporting all of our law enforcement. and joe biden has turned a blind eye. sixth border patrol agent we have lost this year. and it's just devastating. >> so, having said that nothing is going to change. the president feels like he did good in the midterms. what price did he pay for that?

he is going to go mexico next month and probably bring up everything but the border. >> and he said that brian. he said is he not going to change anything. look at the tale on the tape. 240,000 illegal border crossings in april. worst month on april. 1258% worse than the last month president trump has been in office. only to be eclipsed by the next month 241,000 illegal border crossings and over 200,000 every month since. and lost 170,000 americans to opioid overdose deaths last year. 80,000 to fentanyl and joe biden has the guts to bring it up fentanyl is mostly made in china to bring it up with xi jinping when he met with them. >> brian: taunted us with the number of fentanyl deaths in our country in their statement when they had their riots in their country in china because of their zero covid policy. here is brandon judd on what is happening at the border. >> until we take out the fear of law enforcement coming forward and talking about their mental health issues, they are never

going to do it. if you are overworked, there is no doubt that impacts your life. but there is no doubt that the -- what is happening at the border is impacting our agents. >> brian: isolated in the middle of nowhere. 1400 sue decides. almost all-time high. we will see if you guys in the house can eventually hold the president accountable to do something. it shouldn't have to debate. i want to talk about something else i know is important to you and certainly to me and those who serve. that is the vaccine mandate. what have you done in the house to maybe override what the president is demanding of our military and this is everyone get vaccinated or you are tossed out? >> well, brian, as a veteran myself. this has been a very important issue. the ndaa is the national defense authorization act. and that's what funded the military. we insisted our red line we had to end the vaccine mandate now. not next year. not maybe. and we are also ebb courageous reinstatement for the 8,000

military members thrown out because they wouldn't take experimental vaccine. this is at a time, brian, when military is missing the recruiting goals. the army miles an houred it by almost 25% this year. and throwing out folks that we have had tens of millions of dollars invested in their training. >> brian: do you have the votes in the house to do it even in the lame duck session? if not, what can you do to force the president's hand because you have john kirby who is an admiral for some reason for some reason is he for the mandate. isabrina spring she is for the keeping the mandate in and i can canning everybody out. what can you guys do? >> would you he we don't have a military funded unless we pals the ndaa. we have the votes. memory serves 60 no votes. on the vaccine issue i think you are not going to get that many democrats voting only because of that here is another stab, stat, brian, 4464 folks that applied for a religious exemption in the

army last year, only 44 were granted. so less than 1%. and then in the navy, i don't believe there was any were granted. so it's -- they really aren't looking at. they are making it mandatory regardless even if you have deeply held religious beliefs. >> brian: over 5 shot fauci test positive and then the therapeutics didn't work. same thing with the president. you know if they do this they will be getting a variant every other month because we are already four variants behind. how could you put these men and women through it in the prime of their lives and conceivably in the best shape of their lives? congressman, keep fighting for that, please. >> you know, thanks, brian. when you mix politics and medicine you will get bad politics and bad medicine. that's exactly what we are seeing milks over military. >> brian: you can't get majority fast enough. congressman pat fallon, thank you. >> thank you, brian, god bless. >> brian: carley shimkus now has the news. >> carley: that's right. and an update here, brian. police arresting the suspect

accuse of smashing a man in the head with a baseball bat on a new york city sidewalk. officials say a verbal argument between the two sparked that brutal attack. that victim was taken to the hospital, thankfully now in stable condition. karine azhizi has been charged with assault, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon. six survivors the attack on pearl harbor, all of them over the age of 100, gathering in hawaii yesterday to mark 81 years since the deadly attack by japan on the united states. the six veterans were joined by about 2500 others in an emotional moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. the moment the attack began. about 2,400 american service members were killed in the attack that threw the united states into world war ii. 81 years. and families of fallen military heros are getting an early christmas vacation are new world actor gary sen niece and his foundation returning for annual snowball event partnering with

american airlines to give deserving military families a special trip without costing them a single penny. about 2,000 families from across the country who lost a loved one in the line of duty were felonyn out to orlando for a five day stay at disney world. who doesn't love that? 21 help with pressure of his first world cup. >> i have been continuing to do that out here. read my bible every night. for me it's really important to have the presence of god in me. it gives me more confidence god's plan is perfect so i can go and know that god has my back. >> carley: inspiring there. after suffering racial abuse online for missing the final penalty in england loss at the european championship. he has rebounded to be one of the england standouts on world cup run with three goals so far.

possibly more to come. adam, over to you. >> adam: good morning, carley. really nice weather out here on fox early this morning. across large portion of the united states. where temperatures are fairly comfortable. look at that, 50 degrees in new york city. we are tracking a major cold front stretching back from chicago, all the way back towards the dessert southwest. you see that something a very detyping cold front, coldst air moving in the upper planes. feels like negative 12 degrees in fargo. 8 degrees in minneapolis. that is a real cold wintry blast settling in right across the country. right along where that st. louis stretching back down moving in towards the dallas area. and your forecast for today, well that rain continues to move across the middle of the country linger into the country. those your whether headlines, brian tossing it back inside to

you. >> brian: thank you, adam. walmart ceo warns of uptick in theft. could cause stores to close. making it harder to save money and live better. ceo of chrysler, bob march deli on the cost of crime next.

crime reaches nationwide retailers created to protect their products. they got. to say in filly, a gas station owner hired arm security guards with big guns to keep away the crooks. while walmart ceo warns thefts could raise prices on everybody, or even worse. >> theft is an issue. it's higher than what it has historically been. we have got safety measures, security measures. >> does that matter? >> if that's not corrected over time. prices will be higher and/or stores will close. >> how much of that though do

you have to go state by state and actually work on that issue? you see videos now. >> steve: no kidding. here to weigh in home deep toe chairman and chairman bob nardelli. >> good morning, steve. good to be with you. thank you. >> steve: you bet. i don't know if you that pictures, those images from home depot where a guy with a cart full of stuff just pushed an old man out of the way who was working for home depot and he hit his head. next thing you know he is dead. it's not just -- and this is where it happens right there. that man would die a few days later. it is heart-breaking to watch. but that just goes to show you, it's not just retail theft, it's murder in a case. >> yeah. steve, it's request protect our associates not to interfere. not try to stop something like that that could result in that .

very, very sad. let me ask you. this it will in the lower single digit. now elevated to the point where you have doug mcmillen talking about impacting earnings. this is another silent contributor to inflation. so theft used to be something, you know, we put in risk prevention and inflation control devices back then. we put in cameras. we put in other protective devices. rfids if you went through the exit and didn't bay you would have to go back through a scanner. today this thing is an epidemic. it's spreading faster than covid, steve. and the degree of severity of now it's not just theft. it's smash and grab, there's an entitlement out there that if you have it, you worked hard to earn it, i want it, i'm just going to take it whether it's a car or the video you showed of individual walking out with those sprayers, five, six, seven sprayers, as long as it is under

800 to $1,000, it's kind of an entitlement you can take it. and that's just having a tremendous impact. our associates are afraid. the retail sales people are afraid. consumers are afraid. we have got to get control of this. and, steve, if the administration doesn't get control of this, they are advocating did to the businesses. both public and private. the issue you saw there with the gas station, that's something i saw very common traveling. when i would go to mexico city you would see it. when i was in cally, colombia i saw it. i never thought we would have armed guards at a gas station. i always -- you too, steve, when somebody was at the gas station they would check your oil and wash your window. they are not there with a gun to protect you so you are not carjacked while you are filling your tank. >> steve: you are absolutely right. >> it's unbelievable what is happening and what we're allowing to happen. the abdication is put into the hands of walmart and target and the gas station, for example, that had have to take control

and protect their property and their employees. >> steve: you know, bob, you brought up the consumers. people are afraid to go christmas shopping. they are doing a lot of shopping online. they don't want to go in the store and be caught with between a guy with the gun and the clerk who said put that thing down. so ultimately, it can impact and we just heard from the ceo of walmart, it's going to impact their bottom line unless they jack up prices or close stores. but if it impacts the bottom line, that impacts the stock price, which impacts people's 401(k)s which means a less beautiful retirement ultimately. if you are invested in companies that lose stock price, that's not good in your 401(k), but that's what is going to happen if feel are afraid to shop. >> yes, steve. used to be somebody would take a candy bar there maybe was damage as a result of shipment there was misplaced inventory. but now it's just blatant robbery. it isn't the small incidents that take place. this is just blatant.

>> steve: it's organized. >> in drug stores. whether you see it in grocery stores. the other thing is the more doors you have, in and out doors, the higher susceptibility to theft. take a grocery store one door in and out. that's a built in protection. when you have something like home depot with multiple doors, again, you are unfortunately subjecting yourself to a lot more robbery. and that what happened the other day with that poor gentleman, steve. >> steve: i think he was 82 years old. god rest his soul. bob, nobody knows more about retail than you. thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you, steve. merry christmas. >> steve: merry christmas to you, sir. up next, the american girl company is facing backlash after publishing a how to guide for transitioning genders. the book going as far as telling kids how to do it without their parents knowing it. a furious mom who found out about it sounds the alarm coming

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>> ainsley: parents are outraged as yet another company pushes on children. pushing children to explore general did i identities. quote if you don't have an adult you trust, there are organizations across the country that can help you. turn to the resources on page 95 for more information will rhode island mother and fellow at the independent women's forum education freedom center and she joins us now. good morning. >> good morning, how are you? >> ainsley: i'm doing well. what do you think about this? >> this is infuriating this book is telling little girls stopping

pursuant is way to love their body. that's teaching themself loathing. it's very scary this book would direct children 10-year-old little girls to go find strangers for medical advice on how to take pursuant blockers because they might not feel good about going through pursuant which i don't know any child who feels good about going through pursuant. so, if they are upsetting, i read american girl when i was little. my daughter is 6 years old. i thought this would be a great year to get her a christmas present and start reading the books, now it turns out this is another traditional american brand that patients can no longer trust because you don't know if they're going to be sling in this dangerous woke indoctrination. little girls, really just gaslighting little girls and tricking them into thinking that harming their body is actually good for them parents need to be very vigilant. read every square inch of every book you give your child now. you can't turn on a movie rated g. you have to watch the whole

movie, because you really don't know what the woke industrial complex is doing when they're corrupting one american brand after another. >> what about from a business perspective. we saw it at disney. their stocks went down. they had to bring back their former ceo bob iger, their president. now we are seeing american girl. is it smart? because we all have different thoughts and different opinions about this. and we all talk to our kids in different ways and have our own moral compass. but, for a store to go this route, you are going to isolate about 50% of your base or your customers. is that smart? >> no, that's not smart. they deserve to lose revenue and parents should start boycotting this brand. and it is correct that we all have a right to direct the education of our own children. so having a book that is telling children to go seek medical care without their parents neverring about it is not actually helping parents raise their kids in the way that they see fit. this is a brand that is interfering with parental

relationship between a parent and child and actually for little girls. >> let me get to the second part. there is a another quote we wanted to read to you out of the same pages in the book it. says at first you and the doctor might talk about wearing the clothes. and using the pronouns like he, she, or they. that make you feel most like the true you. if you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes. what are your thoughts? >> oit's terrifying that a book is telling them that that it's completely normal. a doctor that wants to give you pursuant blockers is a bad doctor. and parents and children need to run far, far away. it's totally fine geologic through pursuant. this is a book speaking only to children. it's not talking to parents. >> ainsley: nicole. we got to go up against a hard break. we did reach out to the store for a statement. we didn't hear back.

♪ have a holly jolly christmas ♪ it's the best time of the year ♪ are i don't know if there be snow. >> ainsley: fairfax, virginia. i love that shot. isn't that beautiful? looks like a little christmas town. >> we have gone there a lot to talk about politics and schools fairfax and loudoun county. your kids, two of them were born in that area, right? >> steve: mary was born in