>> as manies transparency. >> sam branch man freed has been arrested. >> ainsley: appear in court before he was supposed to testify in front of congress. >> ready to grill him six ways to sunday why not allow him to testify. >> days away 2,000 migrants pass into el paso. >> taking steps. >> average 8,000 people every day. >> those numbers are unsustainable. >> transmission will no longer be available in realtime. >> the city of chicago is

encrypting the broadcast. >> not right from a public safety standpoint and it's not right from a transparency standpoint. >> the latest batch of twitter files shedding light on the ban. >> censors maybe because i'm from china we understand how censorship can destroy public conversation. >> doesn't show any diversity of thought. >> merry christmas and a happy new year. [cheers] >> merry christmas, merry christmas ♪ ♪ lights on a tree ♪ watching them shine ♪ should be here with me ♪ baby, please come home for christmas ♪ baby, please come home. >> steve: live from fox square in midtown, manhattan, there's the all-american christmas tree

with 12 days before christmas. and there you can see we have got our stockings hung right there by the chimney. we will have to put the fire out before santa comes down the chimney just saying. >> will: let me see, steve, ainsley, brian, carley and janice. that's awkward. >> steve: that is awkward. will, don't you have -- you are wearing two socks right now. >> will: take one off and throw it up on the virtual fireplace? >> steve: i am being told maybe you are on the naughty list. >> ainsley: brian didn't come to work today so you get his stocking, whatever is in there. >> steve: i think there is coal in there. >> ainsley: we're glad you're here. >> steve: from coal to cold it is cold outside. right now in new york city it's 25. you can see with the flag there is a pretty good breeze out ever the west and it is i would say the wind chill is 19 degrees, really cold.

>> ainsley: 12 days away from christmas. that leads us right into this. >> steve: that's right. we are just 8 days away from the expiration of title 42. i think that's the first time anybody has connected those two things. and border officials are fearing for the worse when it goes away brian. >> will: just this weekend agents apprehending 16,000 border crossers. >> ainsley: peter doocy joins us with more on the crisis. this is a gift that we are giving the migrants trying to get over the border right this christmas? >> it's been litigated for two and a half years now. but, at last, according to the calendar, title 42, which is the thing that lets the government kick migrants out before they can claim asylum is set to expire next week. >> are there national security concerns over the title 42 expiration? >> so the team has been working very hard to ensure that we are taking steps to be able to manage the expiration of title 42 and to put in place a process

that will be orderly and humane. and we believe that in doing so, we can protect our national security concerns. >> okay, are these concerns? in the last 48 hours there have been 16,000 encounters. $97 million in narcotics in the last 48 hours, four firearms, three gang members apprehended, two sex offenders, to murderers, two warrants and one injury to a child. we have sat in many white house briefings where we have been told title 42 is a public health policy. it is not immigration policy. but, if this public health policy is going toned, the administration is going to have to have an immigration policy ready to go asap and there is no indication a new plan for the border is coming any time soon. we do expect the dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas to be in el paso later today. but i have been on trips to el paso with alejandro mayorkas and the policy still has not

changed. back to you. >> steve: and, peter, is there any chance that the administration might -- with 8 days left, you know what? given these gigantic numbers, maybe there should be some sort of a pause or anything like that? is there any indication the administration is going to do anything different than what they are doing? >> there is no indication of that. there is always a chance the problem is politically that this is a covid thing. and so if they stay, that title 42 needs to continue that is an admission that covid is out of control. but, the reason that would not be out of the realm of possibility is because that's how they are going to court and defending their student loan debt forgiveness. they are saying covid is still so out of control the economy is too in dire straits and so people shouldn't have to pay their student loans. they blame covid for that it's possible they could blame covid for this, but we just don't have

an indication that's going to happen. >> ainsley: why do we even have to have title 42? why can't see say it's illegal to cross the border without being going to the proper channels? >> and if you ask folks around here, they will tell you the border is secure and they take it seriously. and that's that. >> steve: around there, peter, as they amp up the leaf blower as once again they always do during your hits, they are still taking covid very seriously. you were at an event last week where everyone had to get the nasal swab for covid. >> yeah. basically any time anybody wants to be around the president we still have covid protocols around here. so, it is part of life at the white house. it's not a part of life for the folks watching. they have to decide whether or not it is going to shape immigration policy for the next couple months or longer.

>> steve: from the north lawn, peter, thank you. >> will: to your point, ainsley, you shouldn't need the guise of covid to enforce the policy or policy to paper over what should be the federal government's job to enforce our border and deport illegal immigrants. this is what peter says they suggest they take it ear justly. 8,000 over the border. "new york post" describes it as rush hour. you heard the numbers in that report. 16,000 encounters in the last 48 hours. that's averaging 8,000 a day jeh johnson said 1,000 amounted to a crisis. we are at 8 times what he would have described as a crisis under obama. >> ainsley: if you read that "new york post" you think the border is out of control now just wait 8 days because title 42 ends. estimating 47,000 are waiting to get. in threatening to overwhelm el paso and other border towns. most of them are trying to get

in under the economic opportunity excuse that we're coming here to make money for our family. but they are saying that cannot be the basis for an asylum claim. so those don't qualify but they are still going to be allowed to come in. and the shelters are already at capacity down there. >> steve: because, when you think about it, ainsley and will. you know, as joe biden's administration allows all these people into this country illegally. >> you know, in five years when a judge rules against them are they going to leave? absolutely not. it will be like the dreamer situation. the number one crossing from mexico into the united states is el paso. and last night at their city commission meeting, el paso's democratic mayor oscar lesser rejected calls from people the deputy city manager and other councilman to declare a local state of emergency. >> steve: look at the lines of people. they have 2500 people a day

cross the rio grande into el paso. how many are released onto the streets of el paso. 500 every day. every two days that's another thousand people. el paso is a little town. and here's the thing. the mayor is a democrat. and when he was busing people to new york city and to chicago, you know, he took a lot of heat, we hear, from the biden administration. it's like what are you doing these other places? he has stopped doing it. apparently the city will take it up again, but they need some money. right now spending $10 million out of their own pocket. only reimbursed for 2 million. el paso has a problem and so does the rest of the country. where are all those people going to live? >> ainsley: matt whitaker the former acting a.g. says the administration has given up on the border. listen? a lot of americans there aren't words to describe how you feel

when you see people coming across the river and giving themselves up and ultimately being released on the streets of el paso because we don't have enough detention facility. i think this administration needs to shut down the southern border, let border patrol get their feet under them. process is already here. and you know, use title 42 until it runs out here in december in order to just, you know, get some rational policy in place. but, you know, right now it appears the biden administration has completely thrown up their hands and given up. millions of people have already come in. i'm sure that those that are around the world seeing these images understand how easy it is now to just come into the united states illegally and be allowed to stay. i think that's jus you the border is secure. in chicago, the crime crisis absolutely out of control. the latest news there is you are going to have a harder time understanding hearing about it. the latest move in chicago is that the city is looking to ban or stop the ability of the media

and citizenry to hear the police scanner. police and fire scanners block is that signal. >> steve: they are going to start encrypting it. every newsroom i have ever worked in over there at the assignment desk. the dispatcher has a police scanner so he can hear when there is a chemical still spill or a hostage situation. >> ainsley: traffic congestion. >> steve: something of interest to the people so that we can get the word out hey, avoid this intersection because there is a chemical spill or there is an active shooter or stuff like that. what they're doing is essentially going to encrypt all the channels and only for decades news departments all across the country have listened to that so they know where to send the crews. in chicago, when we send crews to the news and there is breaking news, bad news all

over, it's making chicago look bad. so the question is, is lori lightfoot encrypting the police scanners so the news media in chicago can't report the news? it kind of looks like it. and that's why a whole bunch of news outfits out there have sent letters to the mayor she will not budge. >> you walk into any newsroom, local newsroom across the country and you will see the assignment desk and all the reporters are sitting in the newsroom. we all had cubicles, our desks were facing each other so we could see each other and always hear what was going on. short across the newsroom saying this is just breaking get on the set we have got to report. this there is a shooting at the school or a bus that's overturned or whatever it might be in local news a and you can hear thos those scanners up at e assignment desk. they are getting the news in realtime so we can report it to you. because sometimes it effects you and your family. there is a letter to the fox 32 readers in chicago and it talks about how this is going to impact our ability to provide

timely, accurate, potentially life-saving news to you. they said there was a shooting at a courthouse there. the perpetrator fired more than 40 shots in expressway. the city of chicago prevented from you knowing about this dangerous incident by blocking all of our live scanner transmissions. also another guy with a rifle walking down the street at west poolman neighborhood. and chicago police said we -- they said we are not able to alert the public what is hang. also around dinnertime people returning home from work and children returning home from school. >> steve: that's what the local affiliate in chicago wrote. but, a coalition of media outfits wrote in part we ask to meet in person with the city to further address these issues. but despite multiple attempts, mayor lori lightfoot flatly refuses to discuss the matter. in short, the mayor's decision to restrict our ache sells to scanner channels will harm our ability to keep you, our readers and viewers and listeners safe and informed. and more difficult to hold our government and its personnel

accountable. >> just a couple of weeks ago on the program, we talked to bill kelly, william kelly, a reporter out in chicago. his press pass was revoked by the city of chicago he is famous for asking the mayor hard questions. pulling the press credentials for every news outfit. you will not be able to hear the police scanner anymore. here is what he told us about the mayor on november 23rd. >> i was asking the obvious questions. and as she lost her temper every single time. the videos went viral. millions of comments, likes and shares. but now mayor lightfoot is in re-election mode and she doesn't want any more embarrassing questions to go viral, so she revoked my media credential. and i'm telling you right now, steve. this is a very serious constitutional crisis in the city of chicago and she wants

to, you know, win this case against me and then expand this attack on the first amendment to all the reporters who ask her real questions or any reporter nationally who would dare to ask a real question of a powerful politician. >> will: last couple of years comes to elections or covid or crime is if you can't control reality, can you control the perception of reality. and what is happening in chicago now, what we can see from mayor lori lightfoot is she is not going to control that crime crisis. but in an attempt to win re-election, she is going to control the minds of chicagoans as to exactly what is happening in their state. >> ainsley: a way for her to control law know and don't know. if you don't know all the crime, then you are in the dark. and she looks better if the crime numbers are down or if you don't -- media is not able to report it. steve: a blackout. a news blackout. >> will: let's head over to carley with some news. >> carley: yes, exactly. staying with the crime crisis here, guys. a horrible story out of georgia.

atlanta police arrest this suspect in connection with the deadly stabbing of a grandmother. this happened during a carjacking. the shocking crime happened in a gaited community in the wealthy suburb of buckhead, the area that wants to succeed from atlanta. eleanor bough's body discovered by her son coming home from the holidays. police believe the 77-year-old walked in on the suspect as he tried to steal her lexus suv. a go fund me has raised over 2 # thousand dollars for her funeral. firefighters in new jersey are still battling a big fire that flared unjust after midnight here on the east coast. thick smoke and flames can be seen from the commercial building's roof. temperatures are below freezing and water from the fire hoses are creating sheets of ice out on the roads in the area. so be careful if you are in the area of that fire for multiple reasons. the fec charges sam grand

blancman freed for collapse of ftx. brand new filing accuses the company's filing building a house of cards as the safest crypto currency platform. the f sec funds make undisclosed investments lavish purchases and political donations. arrested in the bahamas and likely to face extradition to the united states. risen to this. pennsylvania senator john fetterman as one of this year's most stylish people. >> ainsley: what? >> ainsley: fetterman's wife not john fetterman recount. pretty funny tweet right there. the democrat is known for his casual style. usually seen in a hoodie sweatshirt or a jacket or with basketball shorts. check out this. is he actually sport agnew look mutten chops. that costume cameo in christian bale's new netflix movie the

blue pail eye. how about him making "new york times" most stylish people. >> steve: is that a joke? >> carley: no. >> carley: should be. >> steve: we heard randi weingarten say joe biden better than fdr. >> ainsley: even his wife no. go to social media companies they are in likelihoodies and lulu lemons. >> will: you could not tell if they are going to communion or basketball practice. i don't know which one you are headed though dressed the same. >> carley: different when you are a teenager versus a senator elect. a little bit of difference there. >> ainsley: thank you, carley. >> steve: is he wearing shorts now on the senate floor. >> will: i saw a picture in a suit. i don't know that he is doing it on the daily. >> steve: i don't know that he is on the senate floor yet. >> ainsley: mom it finding what she suspects to be the deadly drug in her front yard that mother joins us next. >> will: some in the media

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♪ >> ainsley: portland mom is sounding the alarm on the city's drug crisis after police find what suspect to be deadly fentanyl pills in her front yard feet from the children's toys. the mom also found discarded needles, chased people from her property and even had her car stolen, attributing much of this to a homeless camp near her house. she is now begging local leaders to take action. her name is evelyn macpherson

and she joins us now. good morning, evelyn. >> good morning. >> ainsley: tell us what your found in your front yard. how did you find the pills? >> well, i was home just by happenstance because a friend called with some kind of crisis and my husband was on my phone. i left the house and dropped my kids off down at my mom's house to do some homework and left the baby as well. i came back to get my phone and my husband was tending to the chickens in the front yard and i walked around the trampoline that's right there and asked him what was in the garden because i just noticed it out of the corner of my eye. he said i don't know what you are talking about. i said okay i will go pick it up. i went to go pick it up and the back of it just popped off' and blue pills fell out. so i called over to him and i said i think i just found fentanyl in the yard. you have to be kidding me that's

how i found it. >> ainsley: was it fentanyl. >> yes, it was. >> ainsley: you have little ones. how old are your children. >> my children range from 17 to 7 months old. >> ainsley: oh my word. i'm sure of them are at the age they play outside. i know you have a 6 and 7-year-old. >> 8 and 11-year-old were just jumping on the trampoline. actually taking the baby out there to play with them. >> ainsley: how do you think it got there? what's the situation in your neighborhood? >> i'm actually uncertain how it would have gotten precisely there i do expect it has to do one side or the other. we are in two busy streets. there is a lot of drug trafficking that goes on between those areas. and we have had a lot of camping. we're pretty close to the freeway, unfortunately, there is a lot of camping around us.

>> ainsley: how do you feel as a mom to know something was going on in your yard, on your property when you have kids possibly inside? how does that make you feel? >> well, i'm pretty unhappy about it. it took me a little while to process it. i immediately called my friend who runs pdx real on instagram. i have been helping her with content and we are good friends and been working on this problem for a while actually in our neighborhood, just calling and reporting, getting our neighbors to call and report i told her i'm so angry right now. i bet. we should put that out there because we knew the media was following us online and we wanted to make sure that the public understood just how close to home the problem is. >> ainsley: well, we did hear from the county. they said noma county's policies do not incentivize illicit drug use. to the contrary. the incentivize drug users to

get well. what do you think about that statement? >> i think those are words. i think that they say things like that. they don't have anything to actually incentivize i think it's a way to just shut everybody up and tell us that they are doing what they're supposed to do. but i think we would see results if that was the case. >> ainsley: one quick question. are you planning on moving? >> oh, yeah. yeah. my basement is full of boxes at the moment. both empty and half packed. yeah. absolutely. >> ainsley: it's sad that policies are forcing you out of your home. you are a taxpayer. you deserve a safe community. >> they are forcing me out of my home that i like i grew up down the street from here. >> ainsley: wow. >> my parents still will live five blocks from here and i don't get to live close to my parents and feel safe so it's pretty disappointing. >> ainsley: you have a good family. god bless you, evelyn, i'm so sorry you are going through. this thank you. >> ainsley: you are welcome.

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>> will: the fifth installment of the twitter files revealing

the lengths the company went to bar president trump from the platform. >> bari weiss tweeting after january 6th twitter demand ban trump. a lot of employee advocacy happening said one twitter employee. there was some pushback. at least a little pushback one employee wrote on january 7th maybe because i'm from china but i deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation. joining us now is fox news contributor tammy bruce. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> will: what's your biggest take away from twitter files 5. >> it's what we would have expected. it's nice to have proof. it's good to have it shown to us. i would caution and i think this is a larger story. this isn't really -- and trump always said this from the beginning, that none of this is really about him. that this is the exposure of something much larger. that he is one aspect. and what he represents, of course, is recognizing the forgotten man and woman, voicing opposition to things. new ideas and all of that the

larger story here is, of course, the collusion, apparently with government. and twitter to do. this this is one entity. we also have google. we have facebook. we have other, you know, organizations in the country. this shows us the ease with which they did this and the comfort. and the kind of the automatic willingness to do it is that this is how they operate. this is a sign that the left's primary focus is to shut people up. is to shut down the conversation. because i think they know that's the only way they can win. but, also, it is because these what they have become used to. >> and, for generations, i would argue, through legacy media and other dynamics which is harder for us to understand or see, you we suddenly saw it and i think that's the larger big issue. not people shouldn't think this is just about twitter this is the nature about government and attitudes what we have been facing and what has been controlling the country.

>> will: i totally agree it's a starting point had which we may see grow in the coming days. because elon musk seems to be teasing the idea that the next revelations twitter files is the extent they went to control our minds when it came to covid. he tweeted the following my pronounce are "prosecute/fauci. i don't know if you saw this he went on stage dave chapelle concert and booed in san francisco. the atlantic wrote this the tweet is a cruel and senseless play on pronouns rights towards flown fauci that actually said, tammy, this was an offense against fauci and, by the way, dangerous towards the trans. >> that's it. everything is a danger. conditioning people into fear. writing a book how fear is used to control society. all of this moves into fear. making people who are liberals fearful. saying everything is a danger. making conservatives and others who don't conform to feel like i'm a danger to society, it's obscene, it is unacceptable.

those accusations against musk are false. they are lies but this is where you see what they fall back on the training they have been training the american people. and of all people who should not want to be trained, behave in a certain way, it should be the left, there's a reason i was on the left. it used to be about real personal freedom. personal responsibility. wanting government out of our lives. and, yet, now this is what we have got. >> will: yeah. training the american people. a phrase in and of itself is bothersome. tammy, great to see you. >> will: today marks one month since four college of idaho students were murdered. families still have no answers. >> a look back at the investigation. plus, more than 16,000 illegal immigrants flooding our southern border this weekend and title 42 hasn't even been lifted yet. will the president ever visit the crisis that he created? former acting dhs secretary ken cuccinelli is next

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♪ >> steve: border patrol agents at our southern border reporting more than 16,000 migrants trying to cross over just this weekend. that is a jaw dropping statistic considering former obama-biden official jeh johnson once said that 1,000 overwhelms the system. imagine 8 times that. meanwhile, california governor gavin newsom finally visited the border himself yesterday. there he is right there and took a picture and put it on instagram. so, will the president ever go to the border? let's talk to former dhs secretary ken cuccinelli who joins us today from florida. >> ken, let's face it if there are tens of thousands of people coming across each and every week, washington knows, and this is just got to be part of the biden business plan regarding the border. >> it is. yes, it is. we look at this as a terrible error and failure of policy.

this is not a failure of biden policy. this is a successful biden policy because they want an open border. and what you saw this weekend is going to be nothing in just a couple of weeks because, remember, title 42, the public health order, comes down by court order in about a week so, when that happens, these folks will know that even the half or so that get returned quickly because of the public health order will no longer be returned to mexico. that's going to go away. a lot of the people who are concerned about the border like we are don't realize what a high proportion of border crossers have been returned under that public health order. it has remained over half for most of the biden administration. >> steve: that's right. >> that's about to change. and the result will be that we will instantly double the number of catch and release folks in the united states. double. overnight and that's with no

change in the flows. and those flows are going to go up when more people all over the world know there is now nothing stopping them from coming into the united states. >> steve: that's right. and, ken, we are looking at video out of eagle pass, texas and over the weekend as well there were images of i think it was 20 buses being escorted to the southern border, escorted by the mexican police. so, clearly, the mexican police are in on helping get the migrants to the u.s. border. and then, of course, u.s. officials are letting them come in. and on the southern border, this is making the cartels rich because, in a lot of cases, people are coming here at the, you know, at the behest and being facilitated by the cartels. so we are helping the cartels get richer. what crazy world are we in? >> yeah. that's absolutely true. you saw -- i saw bill melugin's reporting via twitter over the

weekend on the buses and you have got the mexican government back in the position it was before president trump, which was facilitating the move of people through its country up to our border. you also now have something that wasn't as predominant and has grown over time. and that is the money-making of the cartels that you just pointed out, literally billions of dollars pulling in an average of billions of dollars a month from trafficking people to the american border and into the united states, between the mexican and american government, those cartels are having that business facilitated. we are feeding these folks an opportunity to make billions and billions of dollars with which they turn around to do more to kill more americans than any terrorist group has ever succeeded in doing in the history of the united states. >> steve: you would think more

people in the administration would say hey, boss, are we sure we want to do this apparently they do because they let hundreds of thousands across. >> there is one stopper. >> steve: yes, sir. >> one quick stopper. every time these reports happen, they are at the texas border. the governor of texas -- governor abbott has declared an invasion and turn them back to mexico, he could slow this flow down. >> steve: let's see what happens. thank you very much for joining us live. >> good to be with you. >> steve: news time and carley joins us. >> carley: yes, exactly, steve, listen to this. american soccer journalist grant wahl's body has been returned to the u.s. after his sudden death while covering the world cup in qatar. an independent autopsy will be conducted to determine official cause of death wahl's brother who believes foul play was involved thanked american airlines and the u.s. government for their assistance. a pennsylvania school board member is stepping down from her post at the start of next year after making disparaging

comments about the incoming board president. listen here. >> i feel that electing the only sis white male on this board, president of this district, sends the wrong message to our community. a message that is contrary to what we, as a board, have been trying to accomplish. >> carley: well, the upper moreland school district superintendent issuing a statement saying quote she wishes to apologize for poorly chosen words and does not want to be a distraction from the great things happened in our schools on a daily basis. be a tar director james cammeron missing out on long awaited see equal hollywood career because he reportedly has covid. cammeron did not get to walk the red carpet at last night's star studded debut. he says he is feeling fine and plans to complete his schedule virtually.

♪ >> my team. >> carley: "avatar," the way of water debuts in theaters nationwide on friday. mercedes is showing off fewer his stick "avatar" themed car. the concept was adapted into a version described as barely drivable. it features a joystick instead of a steering wheel. an auto start system and both the driver and passenger can operate the car. that is something else there. janice, you take the wheel from here, my friend. >> janice: i would love to drive that car with you, carley. maybe we can make it happen. hi my friends where are you from. >> delaware. >> what's your name. >> kathy. >> kathy. >> and mike from courthouse new jersey. >> are you both ready for some snow? >> absolutely. >> i could pass. [laughter] >> janice: let's take a look at it because we do have snow coming. let's take a look. on the warm side of the storm, where we have temperatures above average, tornado warnings in effect for parts of texas in

through oklahoma. these really the line of storms that's going to move through dallas in the next couple of hours. tornado watch in advance of that. if you live in these areas, have a way to get your watches and warnings volatile today not only today but tomorrow across the mississippi river valley. that's the warm side of the storm. the cold side bringing blizzard conditions to parts of the rockies, the northern plains and upper midwest and ice storm warning as well. where accumulating ice is going to make travel difficult, if not impossible. and the snow still to come a couple of feet, my friends. so this is a multifaceted storm that's going to come up to the northeast here. so we will be watching that for my friends in new jersey and maryland, steve, and you will be prepared because i know you have the at fox weather.com. >> steve: i have got it right here and i have got a shovel just in case. >> janice: very nice. >> steve: thank you, j.d. >> janice: you got it. >> steve: like to take a moment to thanked everybody make doocy family simply happy cookbook the number one cookbook in newark

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♪ >> steve: as inflation soars all across the country, higher prices are impacting food banks across america. >> ainsley: a recent survey saw 50% increase from demand in september to october. charitable food sector expects that needs to grow. >> will: next guest is dedicated to fighting the hunger crisis this holiday season and finding long-term solutions to food insecurity. >> steve: here to kick off annual 12 days of giving feeding america c.e.o. claire. good morning, claire.

>> good morning, thanks for having me. >> steve: inflation is impact all of us, particularly people who were at the lower end ever the food cheneyway. i mean, they are really struggling and that's why you need as many of our viewers to help you as possible this year. >> that's absolutely right. but if you will allow me just a few seconds to thank your viewers. they have shown extraordinary generosity and support, especially during the pandemic. unfortunately live our work is not done, but we have to reflect and thank them for everything they have done so far. now, to speak directly to what is happening in terms of inflation, many penal aren't aware but some of our communities have actually had more struggles with inflation than they did with the -- at the peak of the pandemic. we saw increased demand in many, many places. at one point 80% of our members were seeing increased demand. it's now at 50 but unfortunately, some of this is not going away and it's not going away soon, so we still need help.

>> will: claire, paint the picture of food insecurity in america. what does it look like for a family out there that is struggling to find food? >> this is a really compelling question to be asking ourselves. anyone could be food insecure. when i think about our network, we spend across the country about 200 food banks over 60,000 agency partners. so that's everything from a big distribution center to a small church pantry in a rural town. and, what we have found is every single county in this whole country struggles with food insecurity in one way or another. a lot of the people turn to us for help are children, almost 10 million kids in this country are food insecure. the elderly who just can't make ends meet working class, poor people who can't make ends meet. sometimes it's because they just lost their job and people are living paycheck to paycheck. sometimes it's because it had an

unforeseen medical emergency and all of a sudden they can't make ends meet. there are lots of people, lots of reasons why they come to us and we stand with them whatever the reason and we try our best to make certain that when they can't make ends meet, we are there to make sure they at least have the food that they need. >> ainsley: claire, what do you need from our viewers? how can we all help? >> we like to talk about it in three ways. we need funds, food and friends. so, during the pandemic, we saw some increase in funding, since the pandemic has ebbed a bit, we have less funds come in. we have less food come in. and we even have less volunteers. we need all three. so we ask people to go to feeding america.org. there we can help find ways to do all three of those things. and when we talk about inflation, we are now, because we have less food being donated, we are now having to go out and buy food when food costs more money. so we need help. i have so much confidence in

your viewers and in the american public to show up and be generous as we always have. we're counting on people to keep doing that. >> steve: so the website is feeding america.org. i went on the website and put in my home zip code. i saw in new jersey for every dollar you are able to buy three meals for people. also, it gives locations of food banks if people want to drop off food. everybody check it out. help her out and help out a lot of your fellow americans go feeding america.org. claire, thank you very much for joining us. >> ainsley: thanks, claire. >> thank you for having me. appreciate you. >> steve: you bet. thank you. >> will: classrooms saw historic learning loss during covid lockdowns but randi weingarten has nothing but praise for the president. >> what you and what the president has done, it is more than any other president since fdr. ♪ not again...

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