>> john. >> all right. brand new this morning, more than childless cat ladies way more new reporting from cnn's kfile this morning on republican vice presidential nominee j.d. vance the controversial comments he made questioning the judgment of people without children. they were not a one-off in may of 2019, he told the crowd, quote babies are good because we're not sociopath i've seen people who become more attached to their communities, to their families, to their country, because they have children so i would say that we should care about declining fertility not just because it's bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good and we think babies are good because we're not so-subtle paths. >> then in november of 2020, during a podcast appearance, he said this there are just these basic cadences of life that i think are really powerful and really, really valuable when you have kids in your life and the fact that so many people, especially in america's leadership class just...