charles lowrey joins us now. we really appreciate you joining us.how these incredible volatile situation that we are in, with the reopening and inflation and spike in growth affect your strategic plan. it's difficult to navigate such a change in current. charles: thank -- thanks for having me. i'm excited to be on your show. we had a very strong start this year and we are focused on our plan. and our plan is to, we have three parts to that plan of transformation. the first part is to prevent our products. the second is to focus on cost efficiencies. those are all within our control. we can execute on those. we are allen seen that with the return of capital to shareholders. we -- we plan to return tenant have billion dollars to show her up to shareholders. it really is a strong start to our year. we had record aoi. good fundamental. we will continue to execute as we go through these turbulent times and we will control we can control and we will execute what we -- we will get -- we will execute on our transformation plans. amy: as part of that plan th

. >> martha: that's what rich lowrey talks about. you have the 6 to $10 trillion estimates package going out there. you have the problem where companies across the country have these jobs they can't fill because the unemployment benefits, plus the supplements go all the way through labor day. so a lot of them are saying i can drive a truck across the country and deliver stuff or i cannot. i said wait until after labor day. here's a business owner, this is a.j. von tempo with a brooklyn restaurant. watch this. >> if -- with the unemployment benefits sticking to, i have about 50 or 60 jobs to offer that i cannot fill right now. >> martha: this is a conundrum for the biden plan, karl. >> absolutely. i had diner in dallas with eight business owners from around the country. every one of them talked about the issue, said my problem is getting good -- finding good workers. if the job pays less than $55,000 a year, virtually impossible to get somebody to come to work because they can make as much or more by staying home and collecting unempl

glen lowrey told us why he's pushing back. >> i'm weary of the narrative.weary of feeding these children. i'm talking about the 18-year-olds that come as freshman at brown university. we're supposed to be challenge them to think, not filling their heads with propaganda. >> brian: that was a little bit of the interview. tonight's guest is urging people to take action writing this. do you know what is happening to your kids in the classroom? what the they're being ought to? dads and moms, you have an active right to be a part of your kid's education. here with us, benjamin watson, super bowl winner. now the host of why, author of "under our skin." to listen and reads you'll learn a lot. thanks for joining us tonight. from looking over your shoulder and talking to your kids and interacting with them at this level in the pandemic with so many families at home, what are you noticing? >> specifically, you know, my assertions and my assessment of many of the things we're talking about, critical race theory is probably different than many of the viewers and kind of