with randall carlson on fox news. tune in each night at 8:00. our friends, the fabulous, the honorable jason chaffetz is filling in for hannity tonight. jason, how are you doing? >> thanks. i love that interview with shawnte. ordinary people doing extraordinary things. great show, sean. happy holidays and happy new year. i appreciate it. welcome to this special edition of "hannity." i'm jason chaffetz filling in for sean. picture this tonight. president joe biden be basking in the warm caribbean air, listening to the sound of waves crashing on the shore from a luxury villa in the virgin islands. complements of a wealthy donor. at the same time, a winter nightmare is unfolding in buffalo, new york after days of

blistering cold weather and nearly 52 inches of snow. dozens are now dead, thousands are without power. new york's governor referred to driving conditions as a war zone. police and national guard are going door-to-door plowing their way through the snow to perform welfare checks. the death toll in new york is expected to rise. thousands of flights have been cancelled or delayed, especially on southwest airlines that have stranded americans and their luggage all over the country and what is being described as a colossal failure at every level. here with a few report, katie byrne. katie? >> some southwest flyers never made it home for the holidays. many are still stranded tonight. for those that gave up and decided to drive home instead, now they're showing up to airports like this looking for luggage and told they won't see it till friday. >> i got a car the next day.

i don't know how. i got it from enterprise. i drove two days. now we get to the airport, no bags. >> 2,500 flights have been cancelled. wednesday, it's an improvement from tuesday by not by much. travelers are growing inpatient. >> it's tiring and stressful. too much delays. cancellation every now and then. i have to sleep at the airport. >> the situation is not expected to get better this week with southwest operating a third of their routes through friday so crews can catch up. this started with a winter storm that hit before christmas. some say the airline is using outdated software that is creating staffing issues leaving passengers stranded. >> i spent $1,000 with a rental car, hotels, meals. >> the feds are looking into

this. lawmakers say investigations will be coming in the new year. jason? >> as you might expect, president biden is blissfully unaware. he called a lid at 10:06 a.m. so he could bask in the caribbean sun. the president is on vacation after all. keep in mind, this comes after a recent beach vacation to the luxurious kiowa island in south carolina. another relaxing vacation in nantucket along with around 60 mini vacations to delaware this year alone. so with joe taking off so much time to recharge, who is running the show? well, it's certainly not biden's transportation secretary, mayor pete. it took him four whole days to respond to travel crisis caused primarily by southwest airlines. one prominent democrat, nina turner is voicing concern.

"what's happening with railroads, airlines and the supply chain is a result of small city mayor being made the secretary of transportation as a means to pad his resume for president. secretary buttigieg is a prime example of falling up." joining us now with more, two republican members of the house transportation committee, south carolina congress woman nancy mace who was directly impacted by the travel chaos along with texas congresswoman beth van duyne. thanks for joining us tonight on hannity. i want to start with you, congress woman mace. you had some personal experience. how are you going to help solve this from a congressional viewpoint? >> well, not only that, am i on the transportation committee in congress, specifically the aviation subcommittee, this hit close to home. my teenage kids got stranded in

baltimore trying to make it home on christmas eve. even today, five days later, we don't know where their luggage is. we've been personally impacted by this. the young lady operating the camera i'm in front of right now was stranded in denver for five days. she made it home but didn't see her son for christmas. still doesn't know where her luggage is. this has impacted thousands upon thousands of people. i was disappointed to hear the president basking in the caribbean right now. tens of thousands of people can't get on trains, can't rent cars or can't recoup their flights to get home. they're stranded across the country right now. i want to hear pete buttigieg saying he's going to audit and figure out where the $7 billion went that southwest received from american taxpayers tonight. that's what i want to hear tonight.

>> that's the issue. congress passed presumably you voted against it, maybe you vote ed for it, $1.2 trillion in infrastructure. mayor pete, you know, there handed out a lot of money. but i -- he says he's going to hold them accountable. where is he? it took him four days to respond and make comments. >> it's not just biden that goes on vacation when he's most needed. buttigieg was not qualified. he's cabinet secretary. in his first year in office, when we have tremendous supply chain issues, people can't get the supplies that they need, when businesses are going bankrupt, where is he? he takes two months off for paternity leave. earlier this year, we had our rail strike. we were going to have again a massive amount of hit to our economy, you were going to have municipalities that couldn't get

chemicals to treat their water supply. where was pete? that's right. i was on a family vacation in portugal. he couldn't be bothered not to go on vacation. this is a man that was not qualified for the job. he has never been on the job. we trusted him with 1.2 trillion of taxpayer dollars and you'll see how he has fallen on his face time and time again. >> i like that comment, this is somebody in his career that has fallen up. he had a failed presidential run. i don't see anything -- there's a reason why they call him pothole pete. what in his resume would lead you to believe that he could solve the major problems that we're having with rail, transportation and the airlines and whatnot. you'll get a chance to grill him and hold him accountable when republicans take control. what do you hope to do, congress woman mace, when he comes before

the committee at some point? >> we'll have lots of questions. on the oversight committee, i'll have a gavel. one of five chairman. he has a lot to answer for when he comes to congress. what is he doing with the taxpayer dollars, how are they being distributed. how is he going to hold southwest accountable? what you're seeing today is the federal government rewarding bad behavior by having a private company be bailed out and subsidized by the american taxpayer. what is pete buttigieg going to do besides hold a press conference? this is one thing that i want to make clear. nina turner and beth van dyne are correct on pete buttigieg. this is what happens. you had democrats and the left spend millions against people like me in swing districts that want to hold the administration accountable, that want to holding asies accountable so republicans can't hold them accountable. it's important to support candidates like myself and beth van duyne. go to nancymace.org to hold the

administration accountable when we're in the majority. >> you have your work load ahead of you. there's certainly is no excuse for the amount of money that these -- this administration has been given. but how they spent it, what they've done and how they've done it, go get them. next week you'll actually have the gavels in hand. thanks for joining us on "hannity." nancy mace and beth van duyne. thank you. without a doubt, if a republican jetted off during a crisis, they would be ex-scorated. but not joe biden. the very liberal associated press cheered for biden's big trip tweeting "president joe biden tuesday was headed to a place very familiar to him, the u.s. virgin islands to enjoy down time and warmer weather and ring in the new year with family." breaking news there.

and cnn, that was even worse. take a look at this for the hard-hitting report from this news outlet. "the first couple are beach people said a family friend familiar with vacation preferences. others that know them well said there's little more that they enjoy when relaxing than pitching an umbrella on the beach, tossing a towel on the sand and closing their eyes under a warm sun. later in this so-called article, it read the first lady in particular finds peace in her books and soaking up the sun. i think you get the picture. here now with reaction, fox news contributor charlie hurt and the host of the larry elder show, larry elder. i know you both enjoy the sun. charlie, who likes -- who is anti-sun? i'm sure the first lady likes the warm sun on her eyelids as she lays back. this is really bad optics when

you have millions of people that are affected at home. >> yeah, that a.p. story reads like and erotic novel written by stacey abrams. we all like the sun and the beach. nobody likes the beach the way joe biden does. he spends something like a third of his presidency at the beach, as his beach house in delaware. i get it. everybody needs a vacation. people understand that. but can you imagine if somebody -- when you had a storm like this, can you imagine if george w. bush decided in the middle of katrina to take off and go to the gulf and vacation somewhere? the media would absolutely destroy him. i think all of this is going to ultimately come back to bite biden. the big picture is this. joe biden has spent his life on a government salary. his wife is a school teacher. somehow they came in -- they spent their lives doing this and

they have become so fabulously wealthy that they have vacation homes, that they jet around to places like st. croix at a time when people across the country -- you don't have to be in buffalo and you don't have to be riding southwest airlines to realize that americans are plunging themselves in to debt just to get by right now. this is going to come back to haunt these people politically. i'm glad it will. people -- this stuff -- people sort of -- they want people to have time to go on vacation, but this is getting ridiculous. >> yeah, look, everybody does need to do it. there's hardly a case to be made that joe biden is burning it at both ends, that he's working so hard that the poor guy just has to be let out there. come on. he doesn't have a case for that. if something is happening, it's a disaster, they want to see their leaders be there reacting,

pulling the levers to make their life better and easier. these two, the secretary of transportation and the president of the united states clearly were not. >> you know, jason, i have never been one of those to criticize presidents for taking vacations. it's a rough, tough job. you always have your staff with you, you're always commander-in-chief 24/7. my problem is he should have been calling lids earlier. he should have called a lid every day at noon. maybe we would have avoided the disastrous pull out from afghanistan or reversing the donald trump policies on the border or maybe we wouldn't be paying people not to work or have joe biden standing up there saying if you take the vaccine, you won't get covid. as far as left wing politicians are concerned, i'm just assume that they stay away from the oval office and not make decisions and not undermine the country, not make us go from energy independence to energy dependent. not increase inflation.

i would rather that joe biden have taken a vacation every single day with presidency rather than show up for work and make all of these decisions that are hurting our country. >> yeah, charlie, you know, one of the vacations he has been taking is obviously he's been neglecting the border. media continues to be such a disappointment. i don't know why i act surprised anymore. hardly do they ever hold this person accountable. he had so few interviews during the year. he barely got through one with an actress the other day. so the media continues to disappoint me. >> no, it is shocking the degree to which they have given up any even pretense that they're trying to cover any of this with any sort of critical eye. we saw it with president obama and then we saw it with

president trump where they turned on him. they just completely incapable of treating them fairly at all. now they have gotten to the point that they don't try to treat stories remotely seriously. you know, we are in a situation -- this is why i think that ultimately the american voters, democrats and republicans alike will punish this guy for this stuff. as larry pointed out with all of these problems that, you know, every problem that people feel in their personal lives, whether it's inflation, the wide open border, gas prices, every problem you can draw a direct line to those problems from policies of this administration usually executive orders that this president has put in place himself. it's going to haunt him. they dodged a bullet in this last election, but they're going to pay the piper in the next

election. >> larry, i have about 20 second or so. last word to you. >> jason, you're disappointed by the media, the same media that has been ignoring the twitter file story, the same media ignoring the borders. say it ain't so, jason. they have a double standard, selective outrage, hypocrisy. you know it, charlie knows it, i know it. >> listen, have a wonderful happy new year and thanks for joining us tonight on "hannity." coming up a new day on the hill with republicans set to take control of the house, the biden white house has to be nervous. details ahead with congressman james comer as this special edition of "hannity" continues.

>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." in six days, the republicans will take control of the house and that means oversight of the biden administration. elise stefanik tweeted today that accountability is coming for "joe biden and his administration." hunter biden and the entire biden crime family, big tech and its allies and adding that house republicans will once again make government accountable to we the people. this as we learn about more corrupt behavior inside big tech. elon musk said that twitter staffers had a fauci fan club slack channel. at the same time, the platform was taking direction and money from federal officials to censor dissenting viewpoints on covid policies like lockdowns and mandates. it's not just twitter.

musk is also claiming that google is using censorship tricks to make certain links disappear from its platform. this will all be the subject of congressional investigations once republicans take power in the house. here to preview more, the incoming chairman, congressman james comer. congressman, i have to tell you, i used to be the chairman of your committee. you have a full plate ahead of you. you have a target rich environment. set the stage here when you get the gavel next week, what is at the top of the agenda? >> well, there's so many. i'll tell you what we're going to start with. let's remember this, jason, there's been no oversight. they haven't had a single cabinet secretary or undersecretary in front of the oversight committee for the entire time joe biden has been president for two years. you go back two years prior to that when they were in charge of

the oversight committee, we had 39 cabinet secretaries and undersecretaries in front of the house oversight committee. we're going to start with the wasted taxpayer dollars. we're concerned about where the pp loan money went, going to the entire origination of covid. we believe the government was involved in a cover up trying to cover up every effort that would have shown that this covid-19 virus originated from the lab in wuhan. we're going to talk about the tax dollars that went from the nih to all the medical scientists that had dr. fauci's back and always defended him he said that we needed to do as americans and we probably shouldn't have been doing. with respect to government shut downs and virtual learning in schools. obviously we're interested in

the biden family influences. more than anything that has come out is the cover-up by the fbi who had the laptop and new that this family was involved in influence pedalling over a decade and making great efforts to communicate with twitter and facebook to censor the story, this is very concerning and we want to know why. so we've got a whole host of items that we'll begin oversight on in six days. >> jason: get that committee populated and staffed up. there's a lot to go after. it was malpractice when you put it in term like that, congress did not hold anybody coming before that committee. it's interesting the first week or second week of january, president biden is headed to mexico city and my recollection is last time he headed to mexico city as the vice president, guess what? he brought hunter biden.

hunter biden brought james cooper, his business partner. on air force two, they went there with hunter biden's business partner. so that will be interesting to see if any of the other media cover that story. i'm glad that you're diving deep into that. the biden family business and the corruptions that is there and the ongoing interests is certainly legitimate story. as you look town the road and covid, explain what you can get at after covid. nobody in the house or senate did an investigation of the origins of covid. >> no, they didn't do anything, jason. you look that we have found all of this correspondence between dr. fauci and dr. collins where they were really concerned about spinning the narrative to label anyone that would suggest the covid-19 originated in the wuhan lab as a conspiracy theory. now we know there were disinformation boards in all of

these government agencies. it wasn't just the fbi. it was hhs and dhs and the department of defense. and there were lots of disinformation boards trying to suppress anyone who had competing ideas or competing facts to dr. fauci, anything that dr. fauci said was gospel, anything that anyone said would critique him on would need to be banned from social media. so this is a concern. we're also chasing the money. one thing that i learned when investigating about all of the money that went to nih, that went to the different sign firsts, that were on dr. fauci's advisory boards, is how big of a slush fund the national institute for health had. we believe that a lot of this slush fund was going to -- was being handed out to people to always confirm everything that dr. fauci said. you know, one thing that we need to make sure never happens again is that one person has this much

control during a pandemic. there should probably be three drew faucis instead of one dr. fauci. we now have learned that the person overseeing dr. fauci from the nih was his wife? the list of potential wrong doing is never ending with respect to covid-19. think about what you just said, jason. there's not been a single hearing in the house or senate over the origination of covid-19. why would that be? why do we now know that there were disinformation boards within all of these government agencies? remember, dr. fauci said things like there were no taxpayer dollars that went to wuhan lab. no taxpayer dollars went to fun gain of function research. our community, our staffers determined that was false. now they're trying to spin the narrative and try to explain their behavior. you can't explain it. >> jason: no. when you get to dive in and find out how dr. fauci and his wife became so rich and whether or

not they were actually getting royalties from these things that they oversaw. wow. that's going to be explosive. congressman comer soon to be chairman comer, things for joining us on "hannity." for more reaction, former senator scott brown. an executive director of heritage action for america, jessica anderson. thanks for joining us. senator, i want to start with you. we went through a long laundry list with the incoming chairman. there's a lot of things like say the border and the lack of border security. what else do you want to see the house getting after? >> first of all, there's so much to do and so little time. the wide range of biden missteps and issues that the congress soon to be chairman referenced are real. i commend him and his committee for tackling those things. the one thing that was glaring that you referenced, which was the border and what they're going to do about it. it's not secure. more importantly, what about the

economy? what about inflation? what about energy? let's get a change of direction. that's why the american people put the republicans in charge. it wasn't because of a laptop. it was because they wanted different direction on the economy. it's hurting, it's been going the wrong direction and the american public expect the republicans to do something about it. so i hope they don't get lost and get bogged down on some of these issues that they just referenced, which are important but respectfully the economy is more important. >> jason: no doubt. look, they have to legislate, they have to be able to try to reign in the spending, which is at record levels. jessica, one 0 the concerns, some of the bills that they passed, they have john podesta in charge of a fund of $350 billion. so called clean energy. we got exasperated by silindra

under the obama administration. now they are dealing with green energy. you can't tell me that will be fraught with waste, fraud and abuse. >> you absolutely know it will be, jason. to the senator's point, we need to expect more of this incoming house. they need to do multiple things at once. they need to legislate and they need to be intense when it comes to oversight. it's not just the salaciousness of hunter biden's laptop that needs to be exposed or the danger at the border that needs to be understood. it's this larger question of can the american people actually trust that our elections are fair, that big tech is going to protect our first amendment rights, that the border is secure. all of these things are at the heart of why oversight matters. right now none of us can trust that any of this is true. they have a heavy task ahead. six days in time we'll know if they're up to this. i hope that they will turn this around and actually show the

american people why we want coon servives to be in power because it's oversight and then we need real accountability. >> john: senator, what can the congress do in terms of foreign affairs? you were an ambassador, a u.s. senator. what can the congress do to affect foreign affairs? >> they can start giving money and aid to people in countries that want to kill us. stop buying oil from other countries that want to hurt and change our way of life and become energy independent like we were under president trump. that is just for starters. we can secure the border. foreigners are coming in. a majority we have no idea who they are. that's number 1, 2 and 3. and then showing guts -- jessica, we may be on different sides but the high tech bills they're pushing for allow for back doors and green light

celebratory affect for the chinese communist party especially on the open apps bill they're looking to push. when you deal with chuck schumer and amy klobuchar and give the good government agencies the power to regulate our high tech industry, which is the number 1 performer, come on. we have to do better than that. i don't trust the government when it comes to these things. look at obama, look at the post off, the veterans affairs department. they can't run things. they don't do it well. when you give chuck schumer and these people right now the money and the ability to do what they're doing, it's a recipe for disaster. >> jason: yeah, jessica, last word. i have about 20 second or so. >> i would encourage as the oversight team exposes everything at the heart of the biden regime's corruption, they have to follow-through with

accountability. we hope to have a big wave in 2024 to bring an end to the bad actors hurting our country. >> we want to expose these things. sunlight is the business disinfectant. i hope people get a reality check on how bad our country's finances are as well and do things, maybe tackle things like term limits or balanced budget amount or something like that. thank you both for joining us tonight. all right up next, shocking new video show as group of suspected illegal immigrants attempting to ransack a home in south texas. we'll play the tape and get reaction to biden's border crisis with ken paxton and arizona attorney general mark bronivic as we continue. mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season.

>> jason: yet another day and another biden border disaster caught on tape. security video obtained by bill melugin shows a group of suspected illegal immigrants trying to break into a house. the owner says it's not the first time. meanwhile, rather than taking an ounce of ownership over the drastic policy failure, the biden white house attacks republicans like texas governor greg abbott that bussed more migrants to biden's door step in washington d.c. the government said the white house is full of hypocrites let by the hypocrite in chief who has been flying plane loads of migrants across the country often times in the cover of night. whether bye-bye -- biden likes

it or not, it could be his defining issue in the new year especially with house republicans vowing to conduct real oversight. here we have texas attorney general ken paxton and mark bronivic. let's start with ken paxton and talk about that situation in texas. this is caught on tape. this type of crime is happening more often than just the one incident that was caught by fox. >> you're right. unlike joe biden, i've been to the border many times and talks to ranchers and farmers many times. people are terrified because their property is being damaged, fence are being cut, cattle being let loose. getting their cars and trucks stolen, they don't feel safe with their children, this is a common occurrence and all along the border. it's unfortunate that this president doesn't seem to care

and doesn't even have the time to meet with any of these people that have suffered tragic consequences as a result of his policies. >> jason: yeah, the president hasn't met with these people. they won't even meet with the border patrol. attorney general bronivic, explain from the arizona perspective what you're seeing. if you can, get into the idea of bussing and what the administration is doing to move people outside of arizona, texas and other states to other parts of the country. >> jason, there's crazy, there's insane, and there's what joe biden has done in our southern border. what his actions demonstrate is that he's ready for a different type of asylum. the reality is, every state is a border state. 50% of the fentanyl is flowing through the arizona border. the past two months, enough fentanyl has been seized to skill entire populations of

stateses like louisiana. this is an unprecedented crisis. every day there's about 2,000 got-aways. people bringing in illegal drugs and crime into our country. >> sandra: so when i see something like governor abbott sending a few thousand migrants to places like martha's vineyard or to washington d.c., you can see the left, all he's through cries about what a ka tras -- catastrophe it is. there's costs to our education system and of course you cannot break the law, your first act entering the country, breaking the law, undermines the principles of the rule of law and why people want to come to this country in the first place. what joe biden has done is unnecessary, unwise and unconstitutional. that's why we continue to sue him. >> yeah, look, these are policies put in place by the

biden-harris administration. these are the consequences of the changes that they made. attorney general paxton, texas has taken the brunt of this. i heard the mayor of denver complaining that they had about 1,000 migrants and they wanted an emergency declaration. texas is dealing with this and arizona is dealing with this by numbers that are so astronomical, i can't fathom. >> yeah, day one joe biden announced he wouldn't deport people. we've sued him 11 times over immigration issues. the reason is, he is violating his own laws. the consequences are not surprising. he's known exactly what he was going to get. we've gone from really good numbers under the trump administration and following federal law to basically ignoring federal law and ignoring his duty as president to enforce his federal laws. and the problem is we're all suffering the consequences. and it's not just texas and arizona.

i promise you this. as more and more people come, as millions cross the border, we're all going to be affected. mark is right. this is not just border states. we're all going to become border states. we're going to pay-to it in costs and in higher crime. >> that's the issue, attorney general bronivic. the biden-harris administration is not enforcing the current law. these people are being invited into there country. they're just expecting a handout. what else are they going to do? they're here illegally. >> just to put this in perspective, we throw these numbers out there. there's a record amount of people dying of drug overdoses in this country, especially fentanyl. the cartels have seized southern control of our border. i was a gang prosecutor for

years. it breaks my heart to see what joe biden has done and secretary mayorkas has done. the cartels are making record profits and we're paying the cost. the number of apprehensions of people on the terror watch list are once again record amounts of people. so america is less safe as a result of the biden administration policies and really it starts with just a simple enforcing the law as it is. look, i'm a first generation american. i understand why people want to come here. when you undermine the rule of law, when you undermine the constitution, you essentially eradicate and destroy the very reason why people want to come to america. until joe biden cares more about middle america than he does about south american, sentra america, this problem won't go away. it's a manmade disaster and we're less safe as a result of joe biden. >> jason: i think they're doing it on purpose. i think the democrats know exactly what they're trying to

do. i can hear them making the argument, at some point they're going to say there's so many people here we can't deport them. well, you invited them here. you have to deport them. have a happy new year. thanks for joining us. coming up, joe biden once called travel restrictions against china racist. now he's imposing travel restrictions of his own as covid-19 infections are rising. full details straight ahead with the fox news medical a team. don't go away.

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travel restrictions against china company fphobic. lockdowns have proved to be ineffective and the lockdowns are failing. here at home, medicine shortages for children are prompting major drugstores to limit purchases. for example, at cvs health has a 2 product limit on fever reducing over-the-counter products as families grapple with influenza, rsv and covid. here too break it down, fox news medical contributors dr. marc siegel and dr. nicole saphier. dr. saphier, i want to start with you. you know, why wait two weeks? if you're going to put these restrictions on travel from china, why not start it today? the other part, is this effective? >> come on, jason. look at the chaos that is

happening at the airports right now. president biden needs to give them a couple weeks. i don't think that the testing requirements are going to do anything. the only thing that would be interesting is to get some positive tests from people coming from china, just to see exactly sequence the virus if they test positive to see what variant is circulating in china right now. we assume it's omicron. it could be delta or something else. they have high levels of infection. for every new case of infection, that's when you see the variants emerge. with low level population immunity like china likely has, there's a concern that a new variant will come from that. you know, is that doing to happen? i don't know. i think we have learned from history that these travel mandates, testing or travel bans, they largely don't work. >> jason: dr. siegel, what is your take on this? >> i agree with a lot of what she just said. first of all, imposing this two weeks after the fact is not

really the right thing to do. if you think there's time to to anything, do it now. so it looks very political. i do like the idea that they're going to try to target people that go from china to other countries like europe and on in to the united states. i'm wondering, having interviewed whole land security at the time in 2020 when trump put them in place, how they're going to make that happen. the airlines don't release that information. i like the idea of testing. but you know, people get around that. jason, you can test negative today and positive tomorrow. that is toing to happen. so inevitably people will come in to the united states with this -- with these variants from china. i'd also agree with dr. saphier's point that with low population immunity in china, because they have a low vaccination rate, they use at very poor vaccine, they have these ridiculous covid zero strategies where nobody got exposed to the virus, this proves it doesn't work. now there's millions of case

there's and it's almost inevitable that a new variant will spin out of this and put us at tremendous risk. i almost feel that we should ban travel from china completely. halfway measures aren't going to work. even banning travel from china it's too late for that. this bf.7 looks like it's more contagious than the others we've seen and that's there in china right now. we could be heading for worse. i almost agree, by the way, panic is not the answer either. >> jason: so dr. saphier, i have to transition a little bit to something that really affects moms and dads and grandparents like myself. that is ability to get over the counter medicine. we have baby formula shortages and now getting ibuprofen that come from places like china. are we making too much of this or is there really a run on these over the counter medicines

that parents need? >> jason, the shortage of childhood medication, fever reducers, cold medications, it's multifactorial. we have a lot of sick kids. there's flu, there's rsv, strep, covid. people are using the medications. certainly the demand is up. also people are still in that state of panic as they were. when you start seeing words like tripledemi and shortages, people go out and buy it up whether they need it or not. when people horde it, when the children that needs the medication, it's not there. there's simply chain issues and there's more increased demand. there's more sick kids. people are still in the state of panic. like you saw with toilet paper, people are buying this up as well. when you start seeing the stores put restrictions on the amount of bottles you're able to buy, that's not a bad thing. you don't want to necessarily have people price gouging and you want to make sure that

there's stocks on the shelves. >> jason: dr. siegel, i have about 30 second or so. what is your thought on this? >> one of the proofs that she's right that this is panic buying is that no one is paying in attention to the fact that rsv has dropped 65% and flu is down 30%. there's a decrease and it's not changing anything. one quick point, jason. where is the government on this? where is the supply chain from the government? where is the defense production act? the cares act should have allowed for some of this to be in the national stockpile. >> jason: come on, doctor. >> where is ibuprofen. >> jason: doctor, the president is on vacation. he will get to it when he gets back. we'll be back after this. stay with us.

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>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of hannity.

many thanks to sean for allowing me to sit in his seat. i hope you have a chance to check out my website. or my twitter handle, or my podcast, which is jason in the house. it's time to turn it over to "the angle." we have raymond araegard -- aratio. >> good to see you. this is a special edition of the img from new york city but first we have a fox news alert. we're learning that the health of pope benedict has taken a plastic turn. the former pontiff is sick. it's being reported that benedict is experiencing kidney failure. we'll monitor any breaking news on this situation and bring it to you as it comes