over again. you know, that looks like a good time. tomorrow on "special report" we will monitor the fallout and reaction to the supreme court's title 42 ruling. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report." i'm rich edson in washington. thanks so much. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> rachel: a monster storm left america's airports crippled. thousands didn't get to see their families this christmas and people still stuck with no idea of how they will get home. senior correspondent steve harrigan is in atlanta. >> rachel, we see just a mountain of bags here as we're seeing similar scenes across the country bags separated from their owners. that's a result pretty much of 5,000 flights canceled today alone. of those canceled flights, about

2600 of them from southwest airlines. southwest canceled 60% of its flights overall just today. they are blaming the storm, which hit its hubs hard in chicago and denver. stranding crews and when you stand here, i mean, you just look at the al gone any on this womannens face waiting. talked to people who missed crews and family gatherings. one woman looking for insulin in a suitcase somewhere and she has no idea where that suitcase is and you really get the sense of a bubbling anger about this situation. here are some people we spoke to today. >> the flight from phoenix got delayed by seven hours and they canceled fly flights from phoenix to houston. i'm here stuck at the airport. they were suppose sod get my luggage back. i have been looking since last night. luggage is nowhere to be found and just stuck here. >> i have only been missing my luggage for a day. i had a flight yesterday at 2:50 i got to the airport my flight was canceled. rebooked for wednesday and that

flight was canceled. so now i'm here today on tuesday trying to find my luggage. >> that woman considered herself lucky she has just been waiting one day and has at least one more day to wait. some people are just giving up on flying like her renting cars which are now suddenly in short supply as well. >> we got a confirmation if they give us one we are going to drive 17 hours. i think that's our only option at this point. >> president biden said earlier today in a tweet that the airlines would be held accountable for this chaos but that's little consolation for the people who have been here one, two, or even three nights on the ground. back to you, rachel. >> rachel: thank you, steve. while americans are freezing and stranded at airports and at the side of frozen highways, joe biden has his rump in the sand in the caribbean. dozens dead, millions of americans without power and those who have it are at a paying through the nose for heat because of joe biden's war on american energy. this is the left and the media

try to destroy ted cruz over going to cancun during a storm? i haven't heard a peep about joe's trip. the media only cares when it's a republican. and biden doesn't care about infrastructure at all. his bill was a big green scam. and where's pete buttigieg? he is the secretary of state. we knew this storm would mac gel our airports and highways days before it hit. how did our secretary of transportation prepare? well, this is what he said last week there are things you can do check frequently with airline website. airlines have been offering waiving the change fees so if you want to try to beat the storm or if you can delay your travel a little bit until it clears you can do that definitely encourage people to look into their options there. >> rachel: he sounds more like a travel agent than the secretary of he had transportation. we don't want to delay our flights we want to see our

family. the 25th still means something to us. it's jesus' birthday. we celebrate by being with our families and going to church. that never mattered to pete. remember last year? supply chains were a complete mess? many families were worried they wouldn't be able to get christmas gifts. pete buttigieg told everyone they're on their own. >> i think there has always been two kinds of christmas shoppers. the ones who have all their list completed by halloween and then there is people like me who show up at the mall on christmas eve. if you are in that latter bucket obviously there is going to be more challenges. >> rachel: he is not just a travel agent is he a lifestyle expert. i'm thinking of bringing him on "fox & friends weekend" because of that. this year thousands of americans spent christmas in the airport, which is weird because on christmas eve, he told everyone the worst is behind us. we did it, joe. we saved christmas. tell that to these people. >> this is ridiculous. we have been here for hours.

if you look how many people is in line. 500 people nowhere to go. people sleeping on the floor. i need confrontation. i'm going to need some confrontation. >> i just want to get them to their dad's for christmas. and it's already stressful enough putting them on a flight with a child care assistant that you don't know. >> i only have the weekend off. so i was flying to my sons in savanna to see them for christmas and my grandson. it was delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed. they didn't cancel it until 2:00 a.m., which was after all of the car rental places were closed. i'm sorry. >> pete has got a message for them, too. you might have spent christmas in the airport, but you'll be home in time for kwanzaa. is that really what stranded americans need? the secretary of transportation went awol wishing happy kwanzaa from undisclosed location. the truth is pete pete buttigieg doesn't want this job. evidence thinks is he better than this job. he wanted to be president. but the american people rejected

him and so he is stuck being the airport czar and he can't even handle that. any time there's a crisis, he goes into hiding. when our supply chains snapped he took a longer parental leave than i did and i gave birth and i was nursing. when the rail union threatened to strike, pete took a personal trip to portugal, basking in the city as our rail system was on the verge of crumbling. he doesn't want to get his hands dirty. pebuttigieg possibly pops up whn he sees a political opportunity like using taxpayer dollars to buy chinese solar panels and windmills that will fall apart in a couple years. buttigieg only likes talking about roads and brings if he can call them racist. >> i'm still surprised that some people were surprised when i pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and black neighborhood or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black

and puerto rican kids to a beach or would have been in new york was designed too low for it to pass by that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices. >> rachel: like democrats always say, never let a good crisis go waste. pete found a silver lining in this storm for his own career, of course. >> from what i can tell, southwest is unable to locate even where their own crews are, let alone their own passengers, let alone baggage. so i conveyed to the ceo our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address. this and i have made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can't happen again. >> rachel: buttigieg has a new boogie man, southwest airlines. because they canceled 70% of their flights and people are mad, so now pete sees an opportunity to deflect from his

own incompetence. let's bring in tomi lahren host of outkick tomi lahren. fearless. merry christmas to you. am i right? is pete buttigieg in over his head? >> tomi: he is absolutely in over his head. i'm actually surprised is he not on paternity leave right now as we have more chaos any time he can get a chance to get ton mainstream media of course he is going to do it. what i find most interesting what pete has said especially today is this is not going to happen again. you and i both know because we have both traveled quite a bit. this has happened several times now. this happened last year. whether it's southwest or american or united it. seems like this is a continuing problem. but each time he goes on the news. he vow was it won't happen again and then it happens again. he vows to hold the airlines accountable, then it happens again. there is no accountability for anybody in this administration. and americans suffer because of it. >> rachel: he said there is going to be consequences. so what are these consequences? >> yeah, we don't know what the consequences are because, again,

if there were real consequences we would have seen this now after this has happened several times. do you know what i wish, rachel? i wish that the biden administration would be as excited about holding these airlines accountable for flight delays and cancellations as they were imposing a face diaper mandate making sure everybody masked up between bites because as we know the airlines had to be responsible for that but not so much customers being stuck in airports for days on end. >> rachel: yeah. i wish they cared for heating costs for people on fixed income now freezing to death as well. i think really at the heart of it, tomi, is that the biden administration is so focused on equity and affirmative action, if they weren't we wouldn't have a pete buttigieg, we wouldn't have a kamala harris, we wouldn't have a karine jean-pierre. >> well, and let's also keep in mind that their other religion is climate change so they do everything they can to strap these airlines with regulations and make fuel more expensive and let's not forget it doesn't impact them because they fly private on our dime. pete buttigieg has done that himself. it doesn't impact them.

they go on t haven't and make themselvesselves feel like they have done something and americans sit in airports days on end. >> rachel: yeah but he wished you happy kwanzaa. >> always wonderful when they can put a nice celebration and wrap it in a little bow. kind of like wishing us a happy memorial day. one junket one after the other. >> rachel: what do you think is going to be the media reaction or the reaction from people that are suffering at the airplanes and even in buffalo? >> well, again, what pete has often said is that the airlines need to take accountability for this and they do. if the government is not imposing any consequences we are going to continue to see this. he also tweeted earlier today he hopes other airlines will put a cap on their fees so that people can take those flights. we have a massive backup and worker short tang and supply chain crisis that's still in effect. and you are also seeing the ramifications when you impose a vaccine mandate on the airlines. let's note forget how we got in

this. southwest having a problem getting workers to show up. i wonder why that happened? it all goes back to their precious covid lockdowns and everything they did thereafter with their covid policy. and we are still in the aftermath of that. >> rachel: traveling has never been worse it. feels like we are in a third world country every time we go to the airport we have to deal with all of these things. tomi lahren, thanks for joining us today. >> thank you so much. and i'm excited that you are going to be in nashville very soon we will welcome you with open arms. >> rachel: thanks, tomi, i'm excited to go. see threw. stores are being looted and people are shooting guns in the street and kathy hochul just blamed climate change. ♪ ♪ why give your family just ordinary eggs when they can enjoy the best? eggland's best. the only eggs with more fresh and delicious taste. plus, superior nutrition. which is now more important than ever.

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rach dozens of people are dead and many more could still be trapped after a monster storm hit buffalo, new york. fox weather meteorologist joins me with the latest. >> yes, rachel. very tough situation that continues to evolve out of western new york. this is with really impressive and unfortunately fatal snow totals. check this out. this is a look at what we have seen since friday. buffalo airport continuing that ground stop. that's where they saw 51 inches, places like lakeview over 4 feet of snow there as well. this is a look at the yearly average. every year seasonal average 95 inches. all the way through the swirt of winter. only a few days in and 101 inches of snow since november 1st. so this season already a blockbuster storm. that's even if we didn't see another inch of snow for the rest of the season. this is where some of the heaviest totals have lined just south of buffalo water towns

that's where over 4 feet of snow has fallen, 36 inches indicated in some of these areas and off to the east. luckily, snow has stopped and also wind has stopped. winds out of the south. buffalo gusty, no longer but up to 14 miles per hour right now overall, we are going to see the rain and snow fizzle out 26 degrees right now in buffalo. we do see a warming trend in the forecast. temperatures right now in the 40s as we head into your thursday. some melt-off expected by friday and saturday. rain back in the forecast. rachel, the key take away here is this precip is rain rather than snow. everyone needs to see that break, which will be nice and a warming trend as well. so hopefully that will create for a slow meltoff. >> rachel: that's some good news. thank you, bright. for more on this story download on favorite connected tv device. in deep blue cities like buffalo criminals never let a good storm

go to waste. thieves are out in full force looting every building they can find, the police can't keep up. officers are biz with is search and rescue missions with at least 30 people believed to be dead. meanwhile, there is bullets flying in the streets. >> trying to shoot somebody. [gunshots] >> whoa. [[bleep] [scream] [bleep] [gunfire] police are shooting. >> and take a look inside some of the local shops. they have been completely ransacked. the shelves are empty. the cash registers raided it. looked like a third world country. >> she got expensive soup, huh?

>> damn. don't get your face. >> this isn't tijuana. it's a major city in the united states of america. the crime is so bad new york is deploying 50 national guard soldiers to the buffalo area to try to regain control of the city. and what's new york governor kathy hochul doing? she is holding a press conference to talk about climate change. >> historic storms are no longer historic to us. that's become the way of life in our state. and that's the result of climate change as you see extreme weather events all over our country. but, all of us in state and county, local government know we have to prepare for the next big one. >> rachel: so dozens of people are dead and countless others are still missing, possibly buried alive and she is giving a speech to her democrat donors.

curtis founder of guardian angels joins me now. curtis, how inappropriate is it that she is talking about climate change when there are so many people that have immediate needs that are suffering? >> absolutely. she is not a stranger. that's her backyards. i remember 1977 the same thing happened. i was stuck there in 198 #. a busting up wooden desk, cabins, putting it in a pot belly storm to stay warm. that's the way buffalo used to be and then trickology. climate change and global warming came and supposedly the snow would never come again. well, mother nature has food. kathy crime wave who he couple and everybody else is back with a vengeance. this is the way it's always been in that lake erie area. so the thing that is so symbolic of new york. new york we have looting. we have shoplifting and boosting. in good weather and bad weather. they are extricating dead people

on one side of the street and coming by on snowmobiles and looting on the other side of the street. and the worst, even a family dollar store. how low can you go? usually it's the liquor store first, the jewelry store and then the sneaker store. but when they hit the family dollar stores, we have hit rock bottom. notice, no threats of you loot and shoot like desantis in florida. remember hurricane ida? we're a second amendment state. you come in here looking to loot, we're telling all our folks to shoot. that's the way it has to be or they will just keep coming in waves. >> loot of these looters should have been in jail. they have been let out. they wouldn't even be on the streets if the laws were different in new york. >> of course, you want to loot, you want to shoplift? you want to loot come to new york there is no cash bail. why do you think so many people are fleeing new york. new york state from buffalo to brooklyn has had nor flight. more exodus than any other state in the nation. where are they going? desantis land. freedom land, where the people

have rights and the sheriff will meet you right at the corner there with a double-barreled shotgun if you are trying to steal property. >> rachel: curtis this is a weather story. >> it's a crime story. it's also a culture story. the democrats and people like kathy hochul have done so much to take god out of some of our institutions to secularize this country to denigrate families and marriage. and then should we really be surprised that we have kids, young people with no morality who are looting on christmas while people are suffering from a storm? >> not only that. but she knew in advance what was going to happen. she should have had the national guard on thursday. do you know where she was? she was right here in new york city. because our mayor, the swagger man with no plan eric adams was vacationing, raising the roof in jamaica. she had to come where there was some flooding as a quid pro quo. she should have been in buffalo from thursday. should have declared an emergency. state emergency, management would have been kicked. in and the national guard would have been there in full force. and there would have been no

shooting and looting. >> rachel: i see what you are saying. i know you believe leadership matters but truly it's really our fault. we caused climate change. and that's why we're in this. >> the merapi ron brown goes oh they wouldn't stealing food and pharmaceuticals. i have been through some riots of looting and shooting. they never steal the pharmaceuticals and food like remember aoc all out crazy alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> rachel: they just wanted bread. get out of here. curtis, great to have you. merry christmas, happy new year. >> can we bring desantis up here? can you loan us desantis and save new york state? >> rachel: i think you are going to have to move to florida. >> no. >> rachel: thanks, curtis. up next a brand new supply chain crisis on the horizon. children's medicine off storeon shelves. somebody wake up joe bidene ean.

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♪ >> rachel: the supreme court today announced title 42 will remain in effect but illegal border crossings keep breaks records. cormt matt finn has the latest. >> rachel today our crews saw five different groups of migrants cross into the united states here in this border town of eagle pass. totaling hundreds of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in one single day. the surge of migrants is not slowing down here. it did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend either. in fact, cbp sources tell fox news between december 23rd and december 25th there were 16,476 encounters at the southern border. 2,150 migrants were expelled under title 42. but 14,326 migrants were released. here is the vice president for the national border patrol council responding. when you are releasing 14,000 people that doesn't make any sense. i know a lot of the focus is on

title 42 but this is happening with title 42 still in place. so that's just to give you some type of a message of how bad it is going to get if title 42 gets removed. >> now in anticipation of the supreme court potentially ending title 42 today, military officials moved hundreds of personnel to the border in el paso. military vehicles were put in place and a wire fence rapidly put up. 400 soldiers from various agencies all preparing for the el paso sector to potentially explode with migrants. also in el paso in the middle of the dessert there's a massive tent a major structure larger than a football field which will serve as overflow processing tent. now we will see if that structure is taken down or sits in place until the spring when the supreme court says it will hear arguments on title 42 based on merit. also, new video from over the weekend, yet another high-speed chase. a texas dps trooper pursuing a human smuggler from north carolina in maverick county, texas. that driver had nine illegal immigrants smuggled in his

truck. and those high speed p pursuit something we see so very often here along the southern border. rachel? >> rachel: thank you, matt. nearly three years later we may be in clear when the comes to the pandemic. now doctors are warning of a new tripledemic and with it becomes a brand new supply chain crisis. pediatric medications like tylenol, advil and motrin are become harder and harder to find as the flu, covid and rsv illnesses are spreading like wildfire. giant retailers are now limiting how much medication parents can buy for their kids. at cvs, you can only get two boxes at a time. at walgreen's they say you can get a max of six bottles online. but they are completely sold out anyway. and now target w is the latest o join them with parents only being allowed to buy two bottles at a time. are we living in cuba? sure feels like it if we are having to ration medications. to make things worse, since these meds are running out the

black marketed is stepping in with third party sellers jacking up the prices. a bottle of children's tylenol is going for as much as $237 on amazon. on wednesday, dhs said they will release tamiflu from the strategic national stockpile to help with the shortage. and if you ask the white house they say supply is great. >> right now manufacturing is going 24/7. supply is good. demand is unprecedented for all the reasons you laid out. we have more rsv, flu, covid out there. so that demand, that increased demand is what is causing at this moment spot outages in certain places. >> supply is good? how does that work when retailers have to ration how much medications customers can buy? and you may be asking where is joe on this? well, we don't know. it's been weeks since his press secretary read that page from her binder. >> drug shortages are not uncommon and it's something the

administration is regularly monitoring. the fda is always tracking shortages at the national level and works closely with manufacturers to understand their production and supply. this is something that we are monitoring. i would refer you to the fda on any specifics. >> are you considering stepping in and working with companies in any way similar to how you did with the baby formula shortage. >> i don't have anything to share on any type of outreach. >> rachel: speaking of the baby formula shortage that's been going on for nine months, you may be wondering if that's all cleared up by now. nope? according to census bureau survey from last month a third of u.s. households are still having trouble finding formula. in a new report commissioned by the fda says the agency needs different kinds of leadership to handle god crises like this so people like pete buttigieg and the biden administration can talk all day about equity but at the end of the day rich families are the one who are going to have no problem finding baby formula and kids' medications.

dr. marc siegel is a fox news medical contributor. so, first off, welcome, merry christmas, and i'm going to tell you right off the bat right here, i'm reading this story and i'm thinking i'm going to go and buy a couple bottles of baby tylenol. is that the wrong thing to do? >> while you still can? while you still can get it for $8 or have to go online or get it for $200. she wall was here said that's not the only things criminals is not stealing is tylenol. whatever happened to the words defense defense production act? >> rachel: thank you. >> where with is the president public-private partnership that we talked about at the beginning of the pandemic. of course the government can be involved in increase supply here. what does he mean we have plenty of supply when the shelves are bear? okay. they didn't anticipate this tripledemic which by the way they should have because when they finally relieved the lockdowns here and took off the masks all those viruses were

floating around and our immune systems were weren't ready for it. , people panic buy. that's what people do and hoard they worry about it like you just said. oh, rachel is saying they are not there. let me see if i can go to my cvs and quickly get it. >> rachel: i'm going to do that after the show. this is a national security risk. absolutely. the chinese can hold us, you know, hostage with medication. >> i'm glad you brought up the chinese they are part of the problem because first of all their factories were close'ed. 90% of the ibuprofen we import comes from china. 70% of the tylenol comes from china. a lot of the pharmaceutical products we use to make tylenol here comes from china. now they have opened up? guess what is happening? they're hoarding it over there. it's not making it over here. >> rachel: of course. what would you telling the biden administration to do like right now to solve this problem? this is a serious thing. >> look, you also said in the build-up, beautiful build-up to this that they have tamiflu, which is for flu that they

released from the national stockpile. flu is going down now. it's 30% down over the past week and rsv is way down. what i would tell the administration to do so to work with the manufacturers here. whatever ones we have and we have some to make it now and get it onto theselves now. defense production act public private partnership it works let's do it. i don't think rationing is the answer. it leads to more hoarding. >> rachel: well said. thank you, dr. siegel. coming up, the so-called medical experts are trying to shut down an investigation into the covid-19 vaccines. why would they do that?

>> rachel: new batch of the twitter files is out amend the white house is at the center of the scandal. this time learning just how involved the white house was in covid-19 censorship campaign. it actually all started with the trump administration. who is reportedly concerned about misinformation leading to runs on grocery stores.

at the same time high ranking executives at twitter were already flagging tweets they didn't like including president trump's tweet saying don't be afraid of covid which former fbi agent james baker tried to say was covid misinformation. when the biden administration came in, twitter got even more involved. the files show biden was very angry at twitter for not being aggressive enough and punishing so-called anti-vaxxers. they wanted twitter to do more. soon twitter was shutting down harvard epidemiologists say you didn't need the vaccine if you were a child or had natural immunity. dew. his only crime was being right. got to the point twitter was outsourcing twitter information to ai bots. simply banning tweets that the white house didn't like. meanwhile the biden administration has been lying to us about everything. here's biden's top covid adviser accidently admitting that masks don't work. >> most experts believe that if we make some basic investments

we can reduce in fact all respiratory infections by 30, 60, even 80ers '. the notion that you could cut respiratory infections, there is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well. >> this was never about the facts. it was all about control. it's not just with covid. they do it with everything. biden's assistant secretary of health and human services rachel lavigne was also pressuring tech companies to take their view on child sex mutilation. >> there is substantial misinformation about gender affirming care for transgender and gender diverse individuals. gender affirming care for youth and adults is not in scientific or medical dispute. we need to use our clinician's voice to collectively advocate for our tech companies to create a healthier, cleaner information environment. >> rachel: note the orwellian healthier, cleaner information environment. just crazy?

they do this with everything. and they just hate when they get caught. no one has been persecuted and ignored more than the people who had adverse reactions to these vaccines. and it's why florida governor ron desantis is championing their claims recently calling for an investigation into the covid-19 vaccine. in court files, desantis says, quote: it's impossible to imagine that so many influential individuals came to this view on their own. rather, it's likely that individuals and companies with an incentive to do so created these perceptions for financial gain. in other words, a lot of people were getting rich off of the government accepted narrative on vaccines and everyone is losing their minds over it. so-called public health experts, the same ones who said you wouldn't get covid if you kept getting shots say that this, governor desantis' take on the vaccines and his investigation be betrays science. but these people all betrayed

the american people. it's why more public officials should have the courage of ron desantis. let's turn now to congressman james comer, the ranking member of the house oversight committee. welcome to -- so glad to have you tonight. why was -- were americans not allowed to debate the efficacy and safety of these vaccines? it's just unconscionable. >> it's terrible. and history will not be kind to the decision makers throughout the whole covid-19 process. and the walls are starting to cave in on people like dr. fauci now that time has passed and rational people have had time to evaluate and we realize just as you said earlier, all the mistakes that were made with respect to vaccines. all the decisions that were made to force government shutdowns that put a lot of small businesses out of business for good. they ran the national debt up trillions of dollars because of having to respond with stimulus bills. and in public education those of

us who have kids in the public school systems can testify that they lost at least one year of quality education because they were forced to try to learn virtually in a system that wasn't equipped to do that. so now is the time when republicans will take over next week and hopefully try to get some accountability in this system and try to fix it to where it never happens again, number one, and number two, hold people accountable for all the mistakes that they made and all of the decisions that were made without authority like what they've done with twitter in deciding who to censors and who not to censor and who to suppress and not to suppress. >> rachel: accountability is important. i'm hoping for that we have to admit there is a real conflict of interest here. big pharma has everyone held hostage, lawmakers, the media. politicians. will the republican majority be brave and break their chains of

being beholden to big pharma and sort of take a pledge and say we're not going to accept any more donations from big pharma? i don't see any way to stop this. >> i think you're going to see the republicans on the oversight committee take that stand with respect to holding big pharma that accountability. look. >> rachel: congressman, are they going to refuse to take donations from pharma so they cannot have this conflict of interest represent us and not the big pharma. >> most don't get any donations from big pharma. what we need legal candidates dr. fauci who are receiving royalty from the vaccines that they were. forcing americans to take. i don't think a lot of people in congress realize that they were employees in the government royalties pharmaceutical companies. that's something that certainly needs to be looked into. when you look at it wasn't

because he had investments in pharmaceutical companies. it was because he was getting roilgts from the pharmaceutical companies. >> rachel: it's corruption at the highest level and it held this whole country hostage, forced people to take vaccines that had no long term studies and many people experienced injuries and many people lost their jobs because they didn't want to take the vaccine and we weren't even allowed to debate it. it's just incredible. i'm really looking forward to that kind of oversight. thank you for joining us today. >> thanks for having me on. >> rachel: of course. next, it's the hottest new trend, teens asking their parents for cheek reduction surgery. ♪

>> rachel: we have seen all kinds ever trends from butt lifts to do it yourself botox. tiktok gained popularit and young people rely on influences. if you don't fit the mold you don't fit in. a new trend gathering popularity. it cuts out fat from inside of a person's cheek. a number of celebrities are having extremely refined cheeks.

alisters are promoting it to their audience. >> you are really seeing the results. i like it. yeah. >> rachel: this cheek reduction surgery is trending on tiktok mostly used by teens. >> ♪ ♪ >> this is the day after my fat removal. this is exactly one week after my fat removal. i am already blown away. >> chin lipo! amazing.

>> rachel: the permanent surgery is not just trending on social media. google searches this month for it shot up over 20 tints. -- times. some warn against this sunken face trend. >> this is the dumbest trend i have seen in a long time. young people spend thousands of dollars on skin care to keep your face looking great when you get older. this is what you will hate when you get older. >> this is why i stopped doing buckle fat removal surgery. there is a lack of knowledge regarding the long-term effects. >> rachel: this is my daughter. we talked about this trend over

christmas. aren't these girls going to miss the fat pads in their cheeks? >> absolutely. it will accelerate aging. >> rachel: what is the role of social media. >> social rewards what is bizarre and unnatural so bad beauty trends show up in our feeds. beauty trends in the past used to last for years. now they last months or weeks. the time span to make a really big decision is short. you are not making the best decision for you. >> rachel: are making a rapid and quick decision. it's permanent. >> right. >> rachel: what is interesting your article goes much deeper. part of the problem is that modern culture says that beauty is subjective versus objective.

explain. >> for centuries there has been a science to beauty. today they say everything is subjective in the eye of the beholder. that's why we have on the cover of magazines obese models saying this is beautiful and healthy. that's not true. there is a reason why the mona lisa and the spiral on sea shells are enduring for us. youthful looking full faces are attractive. when we are telling young people there is no truth to beauty, it becomes hard for them to decide what is beautiful and makes them do horrible trends like this. >> rachel: in a culture where there is no truth in anything including beauty and people are falling for these trends on social media when is another

addition. -- addiction. what is the answer? >> don't be sucked into these trends. look at the science of beauty and know what is isn't going to be good looking. >> rachel: that's all for tonight. don't miss the all-american new year's show. i will be in nashville with my co hosts. >> ♪ ♪ >> good evening. welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." george santos is acueded about lying his biography. he claimed he was jewish but