from both of them multiple times , you have seen her bring roundtables together to regulat figure out how to deal with thi critical issue of protecting th woman's right to make her own decision about her health care. so you continue to see that fro this white house for sure. >> yesterday, the former president called for the jailin of a pair of reporters who as well as the editor that supervised him and the publishe of politico the white house statement went out earlier toda but i was hoping that you could wait in on how the president feels about that and his commitment to press freedom. >> can tell you the president believes that freedom of press is one of the bedrock of our

american democracy. that is something he truly believes and that we should continue to fight for. calling for egregious abuses of power in order for to suppress the constitutional rights of reporters as an insult, it's a complete insult to the rule of law and undermines fundamental values and traditions. instead, it is the responsibility, it's a responsibility of all leaders t protect first amendment rights and that's what the president believes and that's what is going to continue to do to make sure we protect those rights. >> something happened they are, clearly. where it not quite exactly sure what happened to the white hous briefing. somebody must've pulled the plug . there is something going on today. apparently we have it back, so let's get back to it right now, we don't have any audio now. clearly our plug has been pulle somewhere, there are a lots of patches and routings that go on

in that briefing room and that white house. in fact, if you were to look under the floor in the briefing room because it used to be swimming pool, there are stairs you go down. >> in there, there is miles and miles and miles of wires and plugs into everything and everything and on any given day they could make a go to blackbird gig if that is the case, it's been plug back in because we are told it's back up ? >> let's go back in. >> you are mentioning the possibility of executive action on behalf of the american people , i was just wondering if the ministration any health or relief for thousands of immigrants to the country to th agreement of the 30,000. they are here, they don't have jobs, they are depending on different communities charity work and they've been told they

don't have court dates for another two years. >> a couple of things, i'm not certain what executive action h was talking about we've been talking about something else i' not quite sure. look, president biden announced because i know that is usually how this question is connected to its connected to individuals individual seeking to enter the united states in a legal and orderly manner. the folks they got there before the program was announced remai in immigration enforcement proceedings rate if an immigration judge determined they have a legal basis to stay in the country, they can, if they don't, they will be subjec to removal as required by law. of course and stay when the president has taken this issue seriously which is why he put forth a comprehensive immigration reform carried to fix the system we currently have , that's why he continues to

ask he continues to ask congres to take action. when you think about the record funding that he has been able t put forth and also trying to figure out multiple ways you want to come in and come throug a legal process he offered many avenues to do that. he has used the tools that are in front of him to deal with government to deal with border security, but again, he needs republicans in congress to stop doing political stunts and to come to the table and deal with the issues they deal with it that we to the american people.

what other actions are on the table and if there are other on the table, where they taken this . >> they will look at the tools that the president has in front of them to see if there's any executive actions that he can take he took some right after that dobbs decision came down h took a couple of executive actions and he took them right away. with organizations that are fighting every day for women's rights. they really deal with what we are seeing currently with roe v wade and for congress to act, this is what you need to continue to hear from this

president that is what you will continue to hear from the vice president. he is going to certainly use th platform to make that very clea to the american people. we're going to see what else we can do, but to deal with the issue. >> the number of job cuts in th announced. >> with microsoft early as this week, the. >> of course we watch very closely when we hear the types of reports of americans losing jobs, that is something that th president is certainly aware of and watching and clearly his team, but, there is data that shows, they gave they are

investing in the united states. vacant continues to grow, the claims are historically low. so the leading analyst have mostly stated that they do not believe that recently are indicative of trends in the border economy. of course, of course when we hear that americans are losing jobs we certainly watch that very closely. >> one clarification if i can the documents, he said that he is doing everything that attorneys are asking him to do, it was his answer embedded through counsel? >> he and his team are operatin at that is the same answer he

has given several times and so has his white house office counsel. that is nothing new, he has sai that before, but again, i am no going to get into the words of the president. i am just not going to dive int that. >> can you sort of characterize what that meeting is, is it sor of a temperature taking? since the priorities and the agendas are set for the upcoming ? >> it as part of that new leadership of new congress. they are going to talk about a range of issues. it's not uncommon. it is just that said how common it is for the president to meet with leadership at this time. we are doing with the president

believes is important as he tries to deliver for the american people he tries to do that bipartisanship he talked about because we understand tha is what the american people wan to see great so that is what yo will see next week with the president. to get you will talk about the feeling. the nonpartisan set of pocket met the are arguing, republican would cut back here, but they are not honoring for how to ensure the stability of the program. there were a few sentences on the campaign website. does the president have a plan to ensure that social security and medicare this is the halfwa point of this administration. >> the president's plan is that he is going to protect social security, he is going to protec medicare, and what he is saying

clearly and we have said this, you hurt essay it. on medicare, and critical programs, but that benefits every day americans that is something we are going to call out, as it relates to that debt ceiling, this is something that should be done in a bipartisan way. that is what he has been saying very clearly, we should not put on the chopping block, the very programs that matter to america people they have already paid into social security. medicare, medicaid, this is something americans have paid into and. >> my question is, what they sa is medicare in 3-5 years will not be able to meet. social security in 12 years wil not be able to eat at the

president has been president fo two years he hopes to be president for six more years, will it come in 2023? >> what we are seeing, and i just said this, these are programs of the american people paid into. these are programs that are seniors, these are programs across the country that people really value and need when you have these maga republicans in the house letter saying they ar going to hold the debt ceiling and that those things are cut, that is a problem. that is not how this works grea dimensions 78 times this is a debt ceiling. three times in the last administration, so we should no be doing this with conditions w should do it without conditions and we should not be negotiatin around it. they said america must never default on its debt, it never has and never will.

you are talking about why the very underpinning of the american economy. that is what they are trying to do. they are trying to hold program that are critical and important to our veterans, our seniors because they are trying to play the local game and that is the thing that the president will continue to call out. >> thank you, everybody, have a great weekend. >> note new information on the growing document scandal with the president, john. saying she is going to be prudent yet again and answering questions no further and also not getting to our reporter again pick. >> for at least a second time this week, karine jean-pierre passing up our colleague. i don't know if she just didn't

want to take questions from jackie or if she ran out of time , but we believe it to our folks at home to make that decision. let's bring in byron york. the chief political correspondent with the politica examiner. you were listening with all of that. there was some about the documents, a lot about the debt ceiling other things turned in there as well, it's kind of a significant downtime because tw years from today, we are going to be watching a president on the platform outside the restaurant of capital taking th office and we are wondering who it's going to be. based on who it's going to be i this administration will it be joe biden has been in the running or will it be somebody else? >> they seem to view it little differently which it was two years ago today that president biden took the oath of office and became president of the united states and they have bee

when they can in the mood of touting the president's accomplishments and spending bills republicans can't get their act together and would threaten american democracy if they were given power again, so the white house now is in touting compliments mode and they have made clear there have been some speculation that the president would announce his reelection plans up or down before the state of the union he's not going to do that befor hand, but all signs, all signs point to the fact that he wants to run again. >> i'm sure you've been watchin a long and document scandal grows. we had karine jean-pierre at th white house and so first revelations of the first batch of documents found, and i can't help, but watching and wonderin and listening issue being told

not to provide any further information because the doj basically said the white house can't, or she has not been give any new information, doesn't have any new information to relay. i guess there's a lot of things that could be going on behind closed doors but to go to a briefing where she has been pressed daily and not offer anything new is interesting. >> karine jean-pierre is not president and doesn't make the policy for the entire white house. clearly, as far as the press briefings are concerned, the white house has decided to stonewall the press on this rat we saw president biden in california yesterday addresses little bit and said he had no regrets about how it's been handled. she said she couldn't comment o it, so the white house has made

a clear decision that in the press briefings they will simpl not answer any questions they have a couple of mantras saying that the president strongly respects classified information but then they tell everybody else to go to either the justic department or the white house counselor's office, neither either of which are answering questions. >> it is curious the president says he has no regrets about leaving classified documents in a place where they shouldn't be. essentially he is handling classified documents. byron, standby, we are going to hopefully get back to you in a minute. >> thanks, byron. >> fox news alerts, and the eas room of the white house where

president biden any moment will be meeting with a bipartisan group of mayors here in town in washington for the national conference of mayors. among the people who has been attending this week is adams is basically down on the border in el paso. biden didn't see much of anything when he was down there and then eric adam said what we really need to take care of the border is a borders are great every time i say that, every time i think about that i chuckle because don't we have one of those? >> we do. her name is kamala harris and she has been at the helm of tha for quite some time and it's a situation that's only gotten worse. we go back to the last guest that we had a few moments ago detailing the level of cartels that have swelled in this country on these open border policies, and the brutal killin

of that young mother and her baby and how they are infiltrating the country and working with gangs that are already on the ground here and causing a lot, a lot of damage. there are big questions for those big questions that the white house say the border crisis the growing document scandal, and. >> clearly there were a lot of beers in lots of cities across this nation with a lot of concerns about where things are going. we have got for coverage coming up in the second hour here of "america reports." we have dr. stephen coleman who is in los angeles covering the spiraling crisis there. they may have to bus people fro new york city forward to upstat new york. we've also got garrett penny in chicago where crime is already up 65 percent year-over-year.

i should also mention madison all worth, the high cost of living in the big city. let's find out what the situation there is in the windy city. this crime isn't just happening embed areas it is taking place everywhere all across the citie in the neighborhoods that have been thought of as safe, a lot of folks in those areas are getting a big perspective, not lot is being done to turn thing around, and again, just this week, several residents said they are ready to pack up. >> crime was the biggest topic at the mayoral debate and mirro lori lightfoot defended her efforts to address crime arguin that things are starting to tur around. >> of course, my primary goals is to make sure that chicago is the safest big city and the

country. we have made progress year-over-year, ending down 14 percent and homicides, 20 percent in shootings, which i recognize we have to keep working on the strategy. >> how much progress has the city actually made on crimes since lightfoot took office, compared to 2019, last year murder was of 39 percent shootings at 43 as well as deat and carjackings newly doubled. as for solutions eight need to hire more officers they had lef the chicago police department and only 2100 of the spots of benfield. there's only one reason for the exit is not all of which lightfoot has over. but they say that mayor and her policies happened found. >> garrett is heading that up for us and chicago bears.

>> mayor eric adams just made a trip to see the wide open borde and now he is an washington demanding that president biden help the cities stretched thinl by this crisis. warren green had more from our new york city newsroom. >> it is a frustrated new york city mayor basically telling president biden to do his job and get the border crisis under control. this mandate in national call t action. estranging local resources, the big apple took in over 40,000 immigrants and the past year after governors and some mayors began busting asylum-seekers to big cities of north right adam says the city will spend nearly $1 billion by the end of june. and that the federal government.

>> knows that he deserves this. chicago, washington, houston, los angeles, new york, note cit deserves what is happening. we expect more from our leaders to address this issue in a real way. >> they came up with a six-poin strategy for the border crisis which includes a better way to evaluate asylum claims before migrants enter the united states . the border control of the biden administration there has been, but allowed in, a comprehensive border plant is not just for migrants and asylum-seekers, also to prevent the flow of drugs including fennel coming into the country. >> it is a problem for so many.

thank you very much. >> it now to los angeles for th city council has approved $50 million for the mayor's emergency effort to fight the homeless crisis. for some context, the less time and ellie hear declared an emergency over was in 1987. life in los angeles, you are in front of a homeless encampment right now. >> the homelessness crisis in los angeles in the rain i encountered a man they are at m house that appeared homeless an was bleeding. police say they believe he had just knocked a man's teeth out with his umbrella and stole a cell phone that gives you an idea of the crime associated with this rate the traffic here is blocking the intersection heard it is not uncommon to see this when you are driving by. there's lots of garbage and trash.

spilling out into the streets where people are traveling very take a look at this video. this is a video i shot with my producer, we were just driving by cleanup crews trying to clea out the homeless encampment at another intersection, it is not unusual for people to see this when they are driving around, people digging in their dumpsters looking for belongings . it is tragic and very very sad. they transfer $50 million to th emergency fund of the mayor's initiative. at an economic alliance meeting. >> as we falcons is the cities. we are absolutely addressing th encampments. considering the magnitude of

this multilayered program that includes homeless people fighting addiction, dealing wit mental illness and just the poo housing and this very expensive city. they do not expect it to go a long way. back to you. >> christina, thank you. >> while all this is happening, it's getting more in more expensive to live in some of th great american cities. forget buying a house right madison all worth has more on this great medicine, how much money do americans have to make in order to afford a home in these areas? >> the number is shocking because living the american dream continues to get harder and further out of reach. you will need to make over $95,000 per year. that number is based off of 20 percent down payment.

90,000 is a problem because tha initial median income is just $70,000. when you focus on the city, tha while it is particularly squeez there taking a look, here is this it is with the highest required income to qualify for mortgage. topping out that listed san jose , california where you will need an annual income of over $359,000 to qualify for just th median home, the top for all cities in california are also hybrid looking at the most affordable mentor you look at pittsburgh where the annual salary of over $55,000 is neede followed by cleveland where you need just under $60,000 to qualify for a median home there. we seen a slowdown and the market because of high interest rates and lack of affordability but another thing that could ad to the job cuts. in the california cities i highlighted, that industry has

already laid off around 50,000 people since just the start of this year. >> that is incredible and its effects so many people. thank you very much. >> with all of that in mind, let's bring in our chief political correspondent. byron, welcome back. from claimed they chief of staf at the white house retweeted tweet from building back together u.s. earlier today. it's a picture of president biden looking at a stack of bil signing folders. two years in, since lyndon b. johnson and he is far from done. a few more folders there. we should point that out in tha stack that there are labels to describe them. a lot of people look at the las two years of the biden administration and say they better off the answer to that question. no. >> the voters who elected

republican house of representatives are sending tha messages to stop and the white house is touting the legislativ accomplishments from the first to years. they really did punch above their weight and their. no majority at all in the senate . with the legislative legislativ accomplishments. what we will see i think is the president trying to use executive authority as best he can to address some sort of problem, the problem is to tell voters that he's actually doing something great in terms of legislation, look at the house and the republican majority and the house, do you think they ar going to guess anything that jo biden really wants?

>> i wouldn't think so. we had an inkling about how the country feels we asked was 2022 a good year or a bad year. 67% that it was a bad year and 23% that it was a good year and that's a slight improvement fro the year before pr and when you can settle what madison and lauren was just reporting about comeau what life was like in th big cities is there a disconnec between the way that the white house is seeing things and what was actually going on. >> that wasn't really interesting series of reports looking at immigration and crime . are really interesting series o reports of what's going on in the big city and what i think w are seeing in some are democratic leaders were actuall unhappy with what is happening in washington mayor eric adams in new york, the visit he made

to el paso was extraordinary pure he goes down there and unlike president biden he does see the homeless -- excuse me, the illegal border crossers who are sitting at the streets and overcrowding shelters and overwhelming the government's capacity to deal with them and then eric adams comes back and says we can't take anymore new york city give full. it is a sanctuary city and the city has received about 40,000 migrants here that is a lot but it is a tiny fraction from what's crossing the border. >> how did he see such a different scene then the president they had. i know that there are absent flows in migrant crossings, but for the president to go to a shelter and there is nobody there, it just doesn't seem

possible. >> well, i think we have discussed this before on the ai at the administration and the local authorities cleaned everything up before the president got there so he wouldn't have to see anything unpleasant and he has to really address the consequences, his policies. the washington examiner call it a visit, something that was set up for the president to come an for everything to look really nice beard by the time mayor adams got there and later, the city was back to its normal situation right now. he got to cfp or by the way -- exactly. and the officials who are sending migrants, migrants goin to new york city now being forced once before sending them or the texas governor greg abbott who's a republican and the colorado governor, a

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getaway. they forced their way through security had somehow made it ou of the prisons roof before that three of the convex art are sex offenders. >> despite rising crime plaguin cities, lawmakers have soft on crime policies like like the incarceration and sentencing reform. we have a manhattan senior fellow and author of criminal injustice thank you for being here, rafaela. you have had a lot to say on this pure beer seeing a rising crime will be just had another new report, brand-new numbers revealing this crisis is gettin worse. so pious is still the effort of some to let these criminals bac out on the street. >> i think there is a movement out there that will never be satisfied and when you can go back and quote somebody like james t wilson who was arguing for harsher crime policies, who

was he arguing against, people that said we had a mass incarceration problem back then. >> you've got the new york city mayor dealing with huge problem here in new york and a lot has changed since the pandemic and you had certain people leave an certain people who could not leave and you have a swelling population of the homeless and crime spiking although he seems to think that crime is trending downwards, his words, and these are the latest crime stats in new york europe year. robbery, felony assaults are up grand larceny, there was a drop i guess he's referencing in the murder rate of 12.5% but overal grand larceny also doubt overall , crime is a huge problem in this city. >> that is exactly right. people who have been worried about this and tied their political success to the issue -- as evidence of their broader climate but that's not the case spirit lots of other department

crime categories are up significantly. the thing to remember is betwee the late 1960s in the early 1990s when new york city crime peaks, we never had five straight years of homicide increases had that tire. mac. the factly of one year in homicides going down after four straight years of them going up should necessarily be a sign that all is great in the future. >> time and time again, other cities have crime spiking in lo angeles and other places coast-to-coast in time and time again we find out that criminal involved in some of these reall awful crimes has a lengthy rap she and should've never been on the street in the first place and they are out there and they are able to carry out these crimes pure that is why you are writing about it, embracing failure. despite the recent crimes, the car's ration advocates are unrepentant. fire we not learning by what we are seeing every single day. >> i'm not sure why that is the

case but i do think the forward movement has done above the effective job of building a false narrative in getting the public to buy into wet. the need for second chances in this country and we have second chances -- you look at a person in a state prison in this country today an you will see somebody who has ten prior arrests in five prior convictions. these are not people have been denied second chances. they've been given multiple bites of the apple and with every book brightly are essentially gambling what the life of people who are not fortunate enough to live in saf places than that is what lives in these conversations. >> you looking for peace in the short one. americans can. >> a few more years of declinin quality of life, particularly i places that can least afford several setbacks. you have that and then the governor of illinois, okay, you see chicago dealing with major spikes in crime and it's a huge

problem for the governor of illinois is still defending bai reform in his state of the seve pairs. >> crime is coming down gradually in the city and acros the state. it's going to take a while. these things don't come down immediately. but it is getting there. it is working and the reality i that when you talk about no cas bail come it doesn't mean that you're just letting -- >> some places -- [speaking at once] >> as he says from his spurt -- from his perch in switzerland it's getting better. it's working, show me the numbers and show me the statistics. we just had a report out of chicago it is getting worse. >> he can't show the numbers because it not getting better. it's going to take time for things to get back to where the need to be, but the spike is relatively quick. no one seems to harp on that point he is dead wrong. >> and this is the city of chicago, which he we have covered since the beginning of

the crimes spiked up your in certain neighborhoods in the cities, like chicago, they always contain it to the south side. it's everywhere now. it's the most affluent and nicest neighborhoods that have existed. >> that's exactly right and as the well-to-do start to share the cost associated with the crimes spiked, i think we will see a decrease in the tolerance. >> if they haven't art if left, because that is happening in so many of the cities. john. >> your in washington dc, officials like the chief of the dc police force believe that yo can't gold light on all crime i the way that so many of these d said some city leaders want to because you are just putting criminals back on the streets it's not even an application of justice to specifically detain them but put them back out of the street, which is why he opposed what happened to the dc city council, what they did to produce a lot of these

punishments for some of these crimes. if you let people do that, the next time they are going to do something worse. >> you and i are reporting on these crimes every day, almost always you learned this person should've never been back out o the street when they were. >> how many people have been killed in the last year by people who should not have been in the streets. that will tell the tale. showing reports about the idaho murder spots the suspect, bryan kohberger, claiming that he visited a restaurant where two of the victims worked twice before the november murders. he also followed some of them o social media. laura ingle has been looking into all of this. the restaurant where two of the victims worked is not a large restaurant so there's a chance that -- >> the mad greek restaurant is family owned and operated greek and pizza restaurant. it has a dining area and a bar area that is pretty tight so xana kernodle and kaylee was

working according to people magazine the suspect, bryan kohberger, came into the restaurant at least two times and ordered beacon pizza. we know that investigators came into the restaurant to ask for security camera footage because one of our reporters from the fox investigative unit was in the mad greek when they came in looking for him. at people magazine reporter say the former employee of the restaurant that he spoke with, who saw kohberger come and say there were distinctive details about his order. list some. >> they did see bryan kohberger come there a couple of times, a least twice the only reason why he stood out was not because he was doing anything weird, but h is such a strict beacon that he was requiring no she wanted mak sure that all of its food had not come in contact with animal products. >> oh people also reported that kohberger may have followed the

three female victims of instagram and he tried to direc message one of the victims repeatedly. no one close to the case can comment on that now after an update gag order was imposed yesterday preventing law enforcement, lawyers, family members, and any pending potential witnesses from speaking out about the investigation. kohberger is back in court on the 26th. >> laura, thank you so much. >> we've been watching the president, the bipartisan mirrors, the us conference of mayors, and they are having their winter meeting at the white house and the president i delivering remarks. he's talking about fentanyl right now and we are going to dip in at less than. >> half access to food and schools are close protective housing affairs, marshes right here, she's done a heckuva job. she's working very hard to clos the wealth gap and build

generational wealth through homeownership. all -- how do all of mainstream people get their wealth. >> they still have equity in their home. that is how somebody built thei equity. she's working really hard to provide that opportunity. and as well as combating homelessness. and while folks are continue to recover, were also rebuilding. the mayor of new orleans is now my senior advisor and coordinator, bill rebuilding america once in a generation through bipartisan infrastructure. it is always hard to make -- [applause] working with all of you to modernize our nation's roads an highways and bridges and water systems, the internet, and so much more up your last year alone nearly 7,000 projects wer

identified and are underway. >> so the president is taking this opportunity meeting with the mayor as the white house pu it to celebrate the achievement of the last 18 months. we dipped in because of what addressing fat and all because it is a serious crisis happenin in this country right now and this president obviously has some pressure on him, growing pressure and bipartisan pressur to do something about our southern border over which the fentanyl is flowing. i'm told that he's addressed crime and fed him all no more than three minutes up the speech . that is a huge concern and you would think the mayors of that room, they would like to hear more about that but he's now gone to talking about infrastructure and the economy. i talked about the economy a fe minutes ago and it seems like there's a celebration moment happening at the moment where they have a mounting crisis including presidents own document scandal that the white

house continues to provide no transparency in what is handlin their. >> me talk about celebrating th compliments of the past 18 months, does that include the more than 100,000 people that died from fentanyl poisoning in the year 2022. administrators in over a dozen schools in virginia now on the defensive as more parents question why their students wer not immediately notified that they had spooked one prestigiou national merit scholarships. this cues the schools of holdin back the students who ask escap excelled to despair this student's feelings that didn't do so well. likely a major reason why more and more parents are choosing t keep their kids out of public schools and school them at home. let's go to the independent women's forum who has five children enrolled, two at langley high school, which was one of the culprits in this growing scandal. it started with thomas jefferso out to spread to 17 schools in

three counties, more than a thousand students. puppet schools deny any conspiracy in a statement sayin and suggested a deliberate attempt to withhold this information would be inaccurate and contrary to the values. what do you say quick. >> it's interesting because i think it is great that there's going to be an investigation of this because we should get to the bottom of this and perhaps this was not deliberate the problem is apparent for somebod who's paying a lot of attention to what has been going on in ou public school systems, it falls into a pattern of misplaced priorities. maybe they didn't do this deliberately but one of the things that is disturbing is apparent is just sensitive. they got a lot of priorities at academics at all. and so this is -- we need to look a lot more but think that parents also are starting to say that one of us just want out. the good news is that in addition to investigating governor young can and virginia legislators, they're trying to give parents better options and have the choice to get out of

public schools if we want to. that is as important as any report because a lot of parents want to start voting with their feet and getting their kids elsewhere. >> homeschooling in ginny is up 36%. and while they're trying to preserve public school education , it's getting harder because schools are doing thing like this. the governor we talked to earlier in the week about this, he didn't say that he thought i was deliberate but he did say that spirit listen here. >> let's just remind ourselves that we do have a superintenden of schools in fairfax county wh claimed that equal outcomes for all students at any cost was he top priority. they have hired in equity consultants in order to drive this mentality. it is not just not consistent with virginia values, it's inconsistent with american values. >> she was here yesterday and said she was told by somebody a thomas jefferson that her son was not notified of his merit scholarship and didn't tell her

because we didn't want other kids do feel bad about it but this whole concept of equal outcomes is impossible. is like anybody who flies an f-18 or f 35 in the navy is going to go to top gun school. it just doesn't happen. >> the only way for it to happe is to do really badly and that is if you bought equal outcomes. that is a dismal look at education. it is obviously so contrary to how we actually want our kids taught. you want them to be the best they can be however that is and it is sad. you think about the wasted mone in your talk about all this diversity, education, and the focus on equity, they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> they are spending more than that. they found that diversity education and inclusion come up virginia has spent more than $15 million on salaries just in 2020.

is likely much hire now be at here is what they said in this paper that they put out. the results of all of this is a malignant identity politics tha turns women against men, ethnic group against ethnic group and young citizens against their ow civilization and country. would you agree with that quick. >> absolutely. when you think about the things that are most disturbing at wha is going on in our schools, it is focused on division. instead of seeing people as individuals, they are increasingly putting people in boxes and thing we can only hav this many in this group and really separate people and it i just a culture that is not how it's supposed to be that is not what we want for our kids spirits. >> this is a huge concern for parents. we also want to go to somebody who never has some anything to say about that, sandra. >> and here i am chatting away with brian kilmeade on a friday afternoon. a raging debate is happening and , guess what, it is about sleepovers. it seems that parents are now

thinking twice about sending their children to slumber parties. the time tradition of staying u late eating junk food is a no g for millennial parents. sleepovers have gotten very complicated. it was a once right of childhood , points of the parents are turning over invitations because of potential unknowns like risk of exposure to gods, covid, and drugs for let's brin in brian kilmeade of a host of one nation. i grew up with parents who did not allow me to have sleepovers. it was like a hard no. as i got older i convinced them and ended up going to a couple but they were like why is it necessary. a lot of parents send their kid in pajamas and then they. them -- pick them out. what you fall on this quick. >> it is too hot to handle and controversial. i was thinking about backing it and being differential.

i am pro- sleepover. parents absolutely do. it is a good time for the kids to bond. >> teenagers even are just kids? >> it has to be well secured peer-to-peer he nature state overcome you're doing that because he went out last night and you didn't want to come hom but when you think about 8-12-13 , they have again the next day and you gotta be leaving, let's just go do that. i think it is part of the whole freedom concept. i'm not letting my kids go to the playground that i don't wan them playing out front unless i'm watching. i don't want them sleeping over unless i can be there. there has to be a balance verbally let kids be kids for a little while, even if there is controversy that happens, that is something they learn. they learn to deal with their friends outside of school. interesting or you disagree. the way you set interesting, i kind of know you disagree. >> at the same time we are seeking parents have full control over their kids on the decisions they are making and then we send them off to

somebody else's house but you can't be over their shoulder. i'm not suggesting that people be helicopter parents but there is a level of concern out there obviously that is reasonable. you said your kid to somebody's house you don't know what goes on there. >> you have a bigger family and that is a good primer. cousins usually know, your relatives, and then you try the friends thing and you understand , you ask a few questions, are the parents armed . >> i guess when it was the pandemic, it is are the parents vaccinated among prints were skeptical of this writer childhood, one question, can i spend the night unleashes a sle of others. how well do we know the other parent spirit i think that is totally reasonable. are there guns in the house breed you hope these are responsible people. if you know them, you assume they are paid what about alcoho and drugs. what is the risk of covid

exposure. are there other siblings around. will the kids be watching youtube or tiktok. i'm not a big believer in sleepovers spirit. >> you have live 364 you know for your kids are and if they decide to skip out of the house and start with antics out of th street, that's a problem. obviously you have got other parent spirit my friend billy who i met the other day wants m to stay over is probably not going to fly. but if you know the parents and especially if they play sports, it might be a good -- >> you are a good dad hit the national view also responded saying cancel culture comes for sleepovers spirit americans nee to make a practice of theory each other less spirits so they are taking the side of let your kids go out and make mistakes. >> and sandra smith, you are still up in the year paid you are workin through this. >> i'm not really there yet. i will get there, i'm sure,

making these decisions people are concerned about not knowing what is happening, especially i big groups. it's one thing to have your kid with a one-on-one's sleepover but these big groups, there can be considered spirit americans the longer assume shared values with their. than actual communities and the continue to withdraw one from one another it more elaborately curated communities for the goo thing for children to learn how to manage without mom for a night or get an idea of moving to different standards, whether you perceive them as lower or higher or just different. >> absolutely pay her i think i just got the national ring review on my side. the bigger story is even though on one nation i don't wear a ti and john roberts berated me a week ago about not wearing a tie , he said it shows disrespect for the audience, now you can reply pitlick at this, john, is this the proper respect for you show? >> i love the tie.

we need to have ia knot lesson. >> where you stand on this debate. >> my daughter's dream for her 12th birthday is to have a sleepover with one of our best friends i guess we are in favor of them. >> that is amazing. that settles that. >> she showed up this concept, there's a little tepe you break your head goes it and then you've got an air mattress and sleeping bag. that companies cost a fortune s we decided that we are going to do it on budget and we fought everything off amazon. >> do you not own a bunch of teepees? >> [indiscernible] >> beautiful. pump that. happy birthday to your daughter. >> she as planning way ahead. >> got you. i like it. brian come any last thoughts?

week up five seconds. >> craig moorman the guest on saturday night, he addressed th pga and tiger in every thing like that and that is exactly what it will look like with a better not. >> what do you think about the people being invited to play in the masters. >> absolutely. they were, a point system so they can qualify for the master for people that have not won a major. >> they for joining us. have a great evening. >> and i john roberts. >> martha: i love that sleepover conversation. i'd like to get into a piece of that discussion. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. let's get right to "the story." we're waiting to hear from jacqui heinrich in just a moment about the latest from president biden. he's about to head out to his beach house in wilmington, not at his home in delaware. the beach house an