visit coventrydirect.com. ♪ ♪ >> cheryl: hello, everyone, this is "outnumbered." i am cheryl casone, lauren simonetti, dr. nichole saphier, amy freeze, mark tepper. we began with chaos at the southern border. waves of migrants waiting in mexico for the end of title 42 are now planning their next move to come to our country in a way that they can at any cost.

and even the border restrictions remain in place. one group even tried to break into a rancher's home in texas 50 miles from the border. the video shared with fox news shows the moment the suspected illegal immigrants to pry open the windows to use a two by four as a battering ram. this is not the first time this has happen on this owner's property. thankfully, upgrades made to the security after previous break-in attempts stop the suspects this time he was still, other migrants vowing "we will get in." one telling "the new york post" we have hopes of crossing in the u.s. we want to cross legally but we will cross illegally if that is our only choice. with all the mayor and el paso has so many beds and medicine. we don't know if that applies to us but many people are growing desperate and crossing illegally. others say, we are here waiting, trying to do things legally but you see others sneak in illegally, and it makes you

wonder if you are the dumb one for waiting. you know, nicole lee humanitarian crisis at the border has gotten so serious. we saw in el paso christmas eve, it is 20 degrees out and migrants on the streets. it continues to worsen but the administration continues to ignore it. >> dr. saphier: absolutely right, cheryl, you have access to medications, freezing temperatures and a terrible situation not to mention fentanyl and other things coming across the border. i will get make it simple for secretary mayorkas and the vice president to securing the border. you have to stop the illegal entry at all points, whether asylum or not. if people, cross illegally they need to be immediately deported. we don't have to call it a wall if that hurt your feelings. call it part of the infrastructure or inflation reduction act. whatever you want to do, we have to stop at collapsing economy. $8 million to hire 86,000 irs

workers. rather than squeezing the hardworking americans by having them pay more taxes, why don't we decrease governmental assistance to undocumented immigrants? $2.1 billion was improved, approved for immigrants and on average taxation and economic py reports say 50% of undocumented immigrants actually pay taxes and of those that do, they only pay a percent of their income. the average american pays about 28%. they have their priorities skewed right now. they are trying to squeeze hardworking americans, but they are severing themselves because inflation. they need to focus on undocumented immigrants. >> cheryl: mark, this is an economic story and a good point there has been talk from republicans and take that money. i don't think the administration will do that but i think the same time the crisis is escalating and it will only get worse to nicole's point for

humanitarian standpoint and economics standpoint. this rancher spent $13,000 and i doubt he had that much money. >> mark: that is why i have that entrance to my house. a big boy, strong bite. but you mentioned in a billion dollars earmarked for irs agents but what about the $110 billion in aid that we are giving to ukraine so they can secure their border from russia when we are not allocating any of our dollars to secure our border? obviously, that is a huge issue. i think part of the problem is, it is not close enough to home for most of these politicians, which is why i love governor abbott is doing. he's putting them on a bus, sending them to new york, martha's vineyard or wherever he sends them. i can tell you come i live in cleveland, ohio, peer that is as far away from the southern border as possible. last week, it was taking my 15-year-old daughter to the

party. during the 30 minute car ride, we had to have the fentanyl conversation. sophomore in high school and might try to sneak a white clock on the vape pan or whatever the kids do these days. it is unfortunate that i have to have that conversation. and i have to continue to remind her over and over again, "this stuff is bad and if you touch it, you can die." >> cheryl: lauren come as far as the numbers, griff jenkins giving us the new number what is happening fiscal year 2023 started october 21st, 670,000 encounters, 240,000 got away since october 1st since the fiscal year began. that is an incredible amount of migrants crossing and most of them illegally here at the fentanyl crisis to marx point is growing. >> lauren: the transformation three months tie the size of miami, the population of miami got through the border illegally.

they are training our taxpayer dollars because they need services and legally they are not allowed to work. that is another issue. if you look at el paso, you're talking about call it whatever you want, wall, barbed wire fence, these 1 mile session in el paso built with black fence and it actually worked days after they put this wire fence up here they sold the numbers decrease. it was a visual deterrent. arizona try to do this and they got sued by the white house. so in the absence of figuring out what these policies will be with tens of thousands of migrants waiting, just waiting to cross because, quite frankly, using griff's numbers, give it a shot to try to get in the appearance be one that is what griff was telling us. >> lauren: the might as well do it to stop the flow. >> cheryl: amy, they are saying they are desperate and waiting there at these camps outside of el paso. they are like, "look, we will commit no matter what biden

says." >> amy: i am for immigration but i wanted to be done illegally. i feel like people feel that way. people get desperate but they really do want to come to america, they have to do it in the right fashion. if putting the rancher's family, these kids use tasers, that will be our line of defense question like that is so unfair. new york city, thousands of migrants coming across the border commit is still unnerving to me. i can't imagine being the home near the border, and my children have to be taught how to defend themselves because desperate people are trying to move into a free country. >> you have the mayors of these liberal cities, d.c., chicago or here in new york screaming at the rafters, buses are arriving! greg babbitt said 16,000 migrants total on buses and i just gave you the numbers, 240,000 gotaways since october and that is the math. >> you have to look what

happened governor newsom said free everything for everyone. illegally, no housing and access to the government subsidies. but yet you have a mass exodus gnomic exit of california and people can't get the things they are paying for themselves. because they are legally harboring americans. florida, governed by desantis and people are flocking there. at some point, people will start to look where they want to be unfortunately your people have a little bit more -- you can't just say we are going to get freedom for everything for free everything. it does not open and you can't give away homes, cars. at some point if you are not paying taxes, maybe you shouldn't have access to some of this. >> americans that go over to mexico and come back over maybe they get what they want. is that how we should run it? don't come back over and then all of a sudden everything? >> mark: to the taxpayers, eric adams had a week or two ago, he basically said because of the influx of migrants,

taxpayers, all the resources will be under pressure. he will have to pull them back or what not to deal with the crisis. >> who pays for all of that? rich people in new york city, top 56% in 2400 of them, they took their money went to florida and texas and tennessee because the money goes further and know when is bothering them. >> cheryl: who suffers but particularly the children. i don't want to see another story about a fentanyl overdose. i'm tired of it. it will get worse. who is winning and all of this? the cartels. do you know in san francisco, cheryl, they now say i'm a moderate democrat and i am against the idea we have districts they are with drug dealers on the streets. no one is arresting them. there is 80 on the block at a single time, and they are constantly poisoning our kids. they won't arrest them because a very liberal administration is worried that they will offend

them here that is their priority. >> cheryl: we have a lot more coming up during the show. during the early days of the pandemic, then candidate biden ripped on president trump calling him xenophobic for posing a covid related travel ban. now, his white house is doing the very same thing. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, or death in adults also with known heart disease. and you may lose weight. adults lost up to 14 pounds. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop ozempic® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. gallbladder problems may occur.

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all nationalities and vaccination status and to travelers in the u.s. with their connecting flights. but when president trump did something similar in 2020, then candidate joe biden blasted it as xenophobic. watch. >> this is no time for donald trump's record of hysteria, xenophobic, hysterical xenophobia to fearmongering to lead the way. >> dr. saphier, let me bring this out to you. three years have passed peer those comments don't age well when president joe biden did the exact same thing. should we have these travel restrictions with what we know now on china? >> dr. saphier: there is a little bit that president biden has to put on his big boy pants or maybe i shouldn't say that and be so critical when president trump was dealing with it when it was actually a state

of emergency in many unknowns. thankfully, we are not in that situation mouth and life is much easier. but it feels a little bit like deja vu and i'm not sure we have learned much in the last three years. there has been many go arounds with travel restrictions and you have to test if you go to china or these other places but often times they have layovers, and other places they don't half to do testing. we sell this early on for travel ban spirit by the way, testing at this point i'm not sure that will do much. the only benefit i see for testing people coming out of china and hong kong is to see is there a new variant? we can sequence and let's sequence and see. do they have omicron like ourselves or what are they dealing with? >> they are doing and remember those two flights from china arrived in hong kong yesterday with passengers who had a covid so now they will sequence, okay, is this indicative of the entire chinese population? mark come as you look what happened china and they went completely closed to almost

completely open, but it is a series of bad decisions. bad faxing, vaccination rates after that decision. now completely opening up an 18% of the population has covid. i don't trust beijing with the answers. >> mark: no, none of the data can be trusted, which makes it even more difficult to try to put some sort of policy in place when you don't know what the actual data is. but going back to biden's tweet on xenophobia. there has been a hypocrite time and time again. i can go back to last week. i can find a tweet from him tweeting something about gun control, literally a week after he released the world's most notorious arms dealers. this is mr. prolabor who stripped rail workers up ability to negotiate. so hypocrisy is nothing new but getting back to the whole china

situation. >> but hypocrisy, we are making rules for people coming out of gnomic off of the plane but no rules or nothing question what do they have to do a test before they come across? that is not fair. >> president biden tweet and i know has not aged well. he went after -- here it is. we are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus and need to leave the sites and not donald trump's record of hysteria. xenophobia. this is the tweet biden, here we go this did not age well president biden. what are you going to do now? will you lock us down and mask us up? china opened up because you have people dying -- and protesting and the public said enough. we have already set enough in this country. europe has already said enough. and what do you call it, right, nicole, not a pandemic but covid is here to stay.

so i don't think biden has a chance of going back to what we would like to do, which is to mask us up here that time has passed. >> cheryl one of the points he put up from the tweet, donald trump's fearmongering and inciting panic but the twitter files have shown us by elon musk and essentially said the trump administration reached out to twitter in an effort to decrease some of the panic but yet it was the biden administration suppressing actual scientific experts and did not fall in line with the cdc was saying. >> china so far behind where we are on covid because they have been locked up the last three years. so they don't know what we know. they don't have the vaccines that we have, antivirals that we have in the immunity that we have here the job at the president of the united states is to protect americans. do you think we need temporarily this policy, this testing to protect americans? >> that is the interesting thing and what you brought up in the

beginning. are we doing this to test to get the health information from people coming from china to see if that variant is something different we need to raise our concern for? if not, why is it being done because we have these tools already in place and immunity has been established. is that the reason, and why aren't they just saying that we are looking for the new variants? that is why we are straining. >> to help the president with billions of dollars of booster doses mrna at doses that we as taxpayers paid for and send it to china because americans aren't taking it. >> they are traumatizing the situation. we don't believe you. we don't leave anything. coming up southwest airlines says it might take days to fix the travel mess that has left thousands and thousands of people stranded pretty far from their final destinations. we are live at chicago's midway next.

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♪ ♪ >> the travel nightmare for southwest customers continues. thousands of passengers are still stranded as they are aligned struggle from last weekend's winter storm. more than 2300 southwest flights are canceled today. the travel instructions leaving thousands of bags piled at the airport unclaimed by travelers caught up in the chaos. southwest issuing a second apology late last night as it places scrutiny from the customers and officials in washington. mike tobin with chicago's midway airport, make. >> cheryl the big ugly visuals that have come to the winter storm meltdown are largely gone. i will step out of the way and you can see what remains of the ugly visuals and these are people lining up at southwest baggage service to try to track down their bag. the line is much smaller than yesterday. as we keep around baggage claim,

it doesn't mean the bags have been reignited with the owners. what we are finding out from southwest passengers there is an entire airplane hangar filled with bags so the bags are not making back to original destination but you talk about the mess of canceling gnomic cancellations nationwide 2,471 flights have been canceled. of those flights, 2,361 or southwest cancellations. so you still have the major meltdown that belongs to southwest. if you jump over to tomorrow, that number jumps down to 39 southwest flights canceled. it is not clear if that is an extension of the fact they have already canceled two-thirds of their normal route. still southwest management come as you mentioned, offering another apology. >> my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you, and you

will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on restoring the liability and level of customer experience we expect of ourselves and that you expect from us. >> thousands of people are stranded across the nation and staying in cheap hotels, trying to get rental cars. price gouging in the rental car industry. but regardless you have a lot of people spending money they didn't expect to spend. now, they are just worn out by the meltdown from winter storm 2022. >> i don't even have my medicine. my medicine, my charger, my everything. my personal stuff is in the suitcase. that is depressing for christmas. >> my concern is really one of my bags is full of christmas gifts. i really want that bag. >> one of the things southwest airlines southwest airlines is unable to do is offer up numbers how many bags were lost, how many bags tracked down and how

many reunited with their owners. all they are offering up now is calling on new resources but the links on the website so people can get on there with baggage claim numbers and tracked down their bags. they can also start trying to get some compensation for meals, hotels and things of that nature, cheryl. >> cheryl: mike tobin live in chicago thank you so much. this airline is politician scrambling to get ahead of the issue. the transportation secretary pete buttigieg facing criticism for not acting sooner said this to "good morning america." >> we are past the point where they could say that this is a weather driven issue. the rest of the aviation system is down to a rate of about 4% of flights being canceled. as she reported, we are north of 60% right now when it comes to southwest. so what this indicates is a system failure. >> back in august new york

attorney general saw the writing on the wall warning pete buttigieg in a letter, "deep leaf troubling cancellation of flights over the past several months, particularly over holiday weekends." all right, mark tepper this is the thing with this. "the wall street journal" has an editorial and pete buttigieg in air traffic controller? here is what they say the meltdown this southwest is one for the business record books. and they will pay a price for months, years to damaged reputation. the only worst result is passengers to put transportation secretary pete buttigieg in charge of this. >> mark: yeah, we have talked about this before. he's not qualified for this position. he has a mayor and all due respect to mayors, they fix potholes, move stop signs and make sure the snowplows come out. they are not dealing with the complex logistics of railroads and airlines. it is not what they do.

from my understanding the whole southwest situation boils down to the staffing situation. most airlines use this hub and spoke system where staff is based out of denver and they go to new york and always come back to that. where as with southwest, they go from .2. to point. if you miss one point to the next, it screws everything up. it is like the domino effect so they have no room for error and that seems to be the root of the issue for southwest and why they haven't been able to recover. >> cheryl: that is how they do business, but it is also one of the reasons why they do business the way they can do it because they can put the cheaper fares out there and keep their costs low. that is the way they have done business. so maybe it is a flawed system when a catastrophe happens if that is how you get a cheap fare. >> he probably jinxed himself, nicole, listen to him earlier this year and react on the other side.

>> do you think this issue will be just in time for the holidays? >> i think it will get better for the holidays. we press their alliance to deliver a better surface. >> dr. saphier: bless his sweet little heart. what did you expect by putting him into this complex role? i was listening to the southwest ceo said earlier and he said it was antiquated technology. they have a difficult time reaching employees. their crewmembers and they go home and have a hard time finding them if not in the airport anymore. i was thinking, oh, my gosh, imagine if that happened at the hospital. we have a storm and take a couple of days off. i don't know, god forbid may be a blackberry. i guess good luck with a heart attack. we are shutting down. nowhere else is this anywhere. i don't think the government necessarily needs to step in but southwest needs to be canceled in the sense if you are going to be this way, people need to go to other hairlines.

you can get the lower air prices. pete buttigieg had a missed opportunity and could have looked at the antiquated system of southwest peer that could have been his role. it is not his role to come in and say pay this person and this and this purity should should have seen this coming. >> lauren, southwest, they are already st staring down the barl of the gun and congress to pull the trigger on them here that is what's going to happen. speed two more regulations and hit them when they are down and wounded. elizabeth warren is talking about let's break up this merger between jetblue and spirit airlines peer of the more you regulate something, the more you kill it. the thing that really gets me with pete buttigieg, he was kind of given all of the dash democrats say this is a problem and you mentioned the new york ag to exchange but months ago 38 attorneys general both republican and democrat wrote a letter to congress begging to transportation department to crack down, saying this has a

problem the way all of this is organized. december 21st, there was a memo that went out to the southwest workers calling this a potential operational disaster! i mean, i can keep going. turner, progressive from ohio asked the people and judging as incompetent. i mean, he's been on the radar for so long. members of his own party. yet, this still happened. everybody will try to fix it after the fact. it might make things worse because then you have the feds really in the industry. so you should audit them to figure out exactly how did you spend $7.2 billion that you were given because clearly not on your system. >> cheryl: the cheaper prices. >> mark: but to pay for it right? >> cheryl: coming up in the next part of the show, new york city mayor going on the defense over his decision to take a vacation in the middle of

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♪ ♪ >> cheryl: . new york hunker down for severe winter storm in the entire state was put under a winter warning. where the world was new york city mayor adams? in the u.s. virgin islands. he is caught fleeing the scene of hardship. here he is defending that decision. >> i traveled away. i deserve private time. i'm a believer of that. >> cheryl: you know, and make him a personable everyone is entitled to vacation and we need private time and sometimes you have to hide in your bathroom and do what you have to do but new york and new jersey and people across the country told to not turn on your heed,

conserve your electricity commit makes for bad optics. >> energy wise we are on the white out. and don't have your heat up high. so this is the second coldest christmas in new york city history. so we are talking about temperatures that have not been like this at least in 40 years. so, it was extremely cold. we are not supposed to turn on our heat. meanwhile i went on vacation and i am a meteorologist to talk about the weather. as the storm got worse and intensified to come i was on vacation but i had to get in front of the camera and talk about the weather and be accountable to the forecast and professional job that i had. i don't know what removes you from that. yes, you are entitled to vacation but when there was a crisis and 9 million people facing the coldest temperatures that they have had in 40 years and you have buildings that don't have proper heat and pipes

freezing, you need to be accountable at least they are to organize and say i've got it under control. the people in place. there has to be a voice of the people you represent and crisis. >> to be fair, you had ted cruz who went on to vacation when you had texans freezing an entire power grid went out. what are your thoughts on this? >> mark: you mention ted cruz but i want to head on the double standard because ted cruz, what he did was not cool. he escaped a power outage where people had no electricity and dying in texas. but he came back he canceled his vacation and came back. you are not seeing that from eric adams, joe biden. president trump when the guy would golf for hours once a month, the media swarming over him like making fun of him saying, "he's not doing his job." so there is definitely a double standard at play here. as far as vacation, look, i agree with everyone here.

everybody is entitled to free time. but you can't -- it is very arrogant to do that during a time when people are struggling. very arrogant. >> are you really off if you are a politician? >> to the point, the assistant said he was by the pond the entire time. loren come i want to go on a rant about this double standard that mark is mentioning. the double standard i live with every day, as a doctor i can't accept a pin at lunch or anything from patience, vendors, anything but yet president biden is able private to fly to caribbean island and stay at a billionaires donor cells. that is a double standard i'm not okay with. >> as a journalist come i can't take everything but everyone upset about mayor adams in the virgin islands. the president of the united states with multiple crises and st. croix mansion

with his family celebrating. okay, he needs a break, too, it is christmas. he will probably decide to run for president again. but he's been on vacation a lot. so as we are kind of summing up the segment, if you ever run for office, which will not be the case, don't ever take vacation because you get criticized for it. but we have a president that seems to be on vacation. >> everyone deserves to be on vacation, but may be the timing isn't right. >> cheryl: i think eric adams was lucky and the storm actually missed new york city m hit buffalo instead appeared what happened to buffalo would have happen here and he was not here. he would not have been able to arrive and this would be a different ball game for eric adams. i think he dodged a bullet on this one. but he needs to be more aware of being close to home if he is needed because he is the mayor of a city still in crisis. >> at least he can calling for his duties. coming up the dumbing down of

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>> get this parent that top ranked school in virginia outraged. they accused thomas jefferson high school science and technology of hiding their kids academic awards all in the name of equity. the teachers with all the information because they didn't want to make the students who win feel bad. but that meant the national scholars could include hard-earned honor on the college applications. >> the role of the educators is to have full potential and not limit potential peer that is what they've done is betray the trust of the community. they cannot be trusted. >> okay the fairfax county insist delaying the national scholarship commended students was one time error. the counselor said emails with follow-up calls where the students have applied and the national merit scholarship accommodations appear to suggest to withhold the information is inaccurate and contrary to the

values and f cps. okay, nicole, those merit awards are like a golden ticket to get you into college and those kids for five years missed the vote. >> cheryl, first of all i would think a merit award on hard work and grades would help you get into college and get scholarships. but you are finding those far and few between because you are not getting into college because of your achievements anymore. there are many other reasons and for the name of equity. the one thing i don't like whether intentionally or unintentionally, to say positive reinforcement is huge and to take that away makes people not want to strive harder, yes you don't want to make people feel bad for not getting the award. i see other people get the reward but elevate them to get the award. achievements are within your control as opposed to the things not in your control but working harder, studying harder and doing harder and these people getting scholarships with achievement awards would help elevate people that you don't

want to bring down. >> lauren, same thing happen to you. >> lauren: when i graduated high school, i was valedictorian and that year for whatever reason they decided they would not have the salutatorian so i was not allowed to be valedictorian. i didn't really care what my mother did. all your hard work and they are not officially calling you valedictorian! because she saw me work so hard. and just to put some numbers on the scholarship, this is huge 1.5 million kids a plate and 15,000 qualifies for that is like the top 3%, top 3% in the high school class who want to get the scholarships to college. oops, we forgot to tell you. it is the most important application only to get you and that may be a free ride. after your parents have worked so hard to raise you up. it makes me mad.

>> mark: we have to get back to celebrating winners. winning is good and in fact, it is okay to lose as well. you learn a lesson and it makes you stronger and builds character. so losing is okay as well but we have to get back to winning and losing. we have to get back to that and stop vilifying winners and start to appreciate them. if nobody was winning, how are we supposed to grow as a society? how are we supposed to discover new things and invent new th things? you have to -- you don't want to dis- incentivize people from trying to win. that is what we have done over the course of the last 15 to 20 years. we are telling people no matter how hard you try when you win, we will not talk about it. >> what about the joy of seeing someone else succeed? you have robbed someone else and it makes it hard for me to believe the teachers did this on purpose because you have worked hard for your students. don't you want to brag about

them as a winner like that? at the same time we have become so diffused that we don't want to have too much emotion in one direction or the other. it is a huge disappointment so we need the national merit -- >> i agree with all of this and i hope everybody gets a ribbon thing, you know, no matter what. i believe my generation of parents were forgiving that trend. i know the rest of it, not so great. we will were working on ways to be competitive. what is going on in virginia? i saw the governor of virginia in their education system. >> absolutely, parents want to go back to "old-school." not everybody gets a trophy anymore so you make everyone feel good. no one gets it. even the people who work the hardest are not rewarded for the hard work and good behavior. so i think you will start seeing

a lot more efficacy coming out of parents as we saw out of virginia and hopefully it will continue. parents need to take control because the education system is completely fault under randi weingarten. we have done harm to her children over the past few ye years. >> randi weingarten was barely a teacher, you know i'm sorry. that is a whole nother story. i digress. we will come back. more "outnumbered" coming up in just a moment. ♪ ♪

>> last but not least, one woman is cashing in on gen z phone phobia. mary january cops, known as the phone lady, charges up to 480 bucks an hour lessons how to talk on the telephone. here are a couple of tips to get more comfortable on the phone. and it starts by calling people that you know.

then try not texting for an entire weekend, and choose a magazine for body language cues. she is explaining her business. >> i certainly didn't start out working to solve phone phobia, but in the last 8 or 9 years it became evident that that is what the client base wanted. i would get calls from ceos and so on asking me to help them with their staff who were hesitating and anxiety-ridden about making phone calls. >> oh, wow. so bad that companies are calling her. amy, you've got kids. >> i have four children, none of them like to talk on the phone. this is true, so i would say first congratulations, mary, a great clientele waiting for you, your capitalism and entrepreneurship is well-founded. at the same time, i do try to force my kids, it's so sad they

don't want to be on the phone, they want to text everything. >> but sometimes, you know, i sometimes get in text conversations and the other person, mark, will pick up the phone and call me and say it's so much simpler. why didn't i call you first. >> it is, it is, a course how to win friends and influence people for young kids. >> $480 an hour, too. >> great entrepreneurship. you know, one of my biggest pet peeves is when people use the wrong your or you're while texting, and now it's all ur, so they are never going to learn. they will not know if they should use you're or your. >> the apostrophe. >> they grew up in homes without land lines, and what is that

black thing on my desk? >> this is a cd player, and look at me like i'm from mars. you know, cd, put it into the machine and plays on the tv? what's happening? gen z is in for a big awakening, and she is smart. where the economy is going and layoffs are going, a possible recession, this generation has never seen hardship, they have never seen what it's like to actually have to work hard for less money and you know, so guess what, gen z, you will not get the latte and massage when you come to work tomorrow if you have a job. they are in for a big awakening, and they are having relationships on text message, breaking up with each other on text message, that's a true story. >> it's normal for them. honestly, i think you would make more money if you could explain gen z terminology, if you going

et up, you know what glow up means? how someone has gotten better in their life. >> glow up. >> my 22-year-old is bringing phone calls back, refuses to text me, he only calls. >> you've done well. >> role model for the entire generation. >> we have all glown up. now here is "america reports." >> fox news alert, some of the 20,000 migrants waited weeks on the mexican side of the u.s. border for title 42 to expire are making their way across the southern border. >> anita: new york post front page claims they know they will get in and not be sent back by the biden administration should they be detained by u.s. border agents. is this spiralling out of control. texas congressma