my pleasure to be here in person with you today and joined by sandra simon, our new ceo nursing home administrator along with other members of the laguna honda executive staff and members of the cms incident command are also present and joining us virtually. i stand here today on behalf of all of them to present you with the very brief but hopefully comprehensive update on the cms recertification journey of laguna honda. as you imagine, staff work tirelessly towards cms recertifyation. we welcome surveys for the cms medicare certification survey. that survey consisted of two components. the first was a health inspection portion, which took place between november 27 and december 1 and the second portion, the fire, life safety and emergency preparedness portion which took place december 4 through december 7. you will recall after the successful medicaid recertification back in august, we achieved our goal of becoming recertified in the medicaid program. as you know, more then 95 percent of laguna honda residents rely upon medicaid as primary funding source for their care. this most rec

my name is sandra simon, serve a g home administrator and chief executive officer. know, i joined the teas the fiscal year was coming to a end so i'm accompanied by colleagues to help with this presentation. i will say, it has been such a honor to serve alongside the staff of this challenging time and very challenging year and am so grateful and so proud of this team and the staff dedication, their perseverance, their excellence and just rely the pride they have in their work. it really was a honor during the survey to see the staff and how they interacted and proud of the work they have they have really carried the changes through. it is also been such a honor to serve the not only have i received such a warm warm welcome from them, the patience and support throrecertification process has been outstanding and we all know it is their care, their wellbeing, thei really drives and lifts this work. just after the close of fiscal year, laguna back the recertification into the medicaid program. that is the funding source that serves and supports about perct of our popula

. >> sandra: simone sanders townsend warning voters are not going to get the president's economic messagesting he get out there and actually talk to the voters himself. >> john: we'll see in the next little while what the president has to say about all of this, but again, sandra, this idea of bidenomics being the saving grace of this administration, perhaps not so much. >> sandra: here is the deal. grocery prices, energy prices, heating your home, all those prices are sky high and what the administration has been doing and kjp did in the remarks there as well, they are telling you inflation is down. well, no, it's not, inflation, prices are still going up but at a lower pace as larry kudlow often points out. prices never really come back down. once they go up, they sort of stay there, right, john? how often do you see something you pay for at the grocery store get cheaper. it just doesn't happen. >> john: and the shrinkflation, too, i get a bag of my favorite lay's baked potato chips, less inside it but the cost is the same. >> sandra: shrinkflation, right? joining us now is brian kilmead

so president trump victory in iowa last night, sandra smith will vote on fox voter analysis, mark simone and joe concha will visit with their thoughts and breitbart alex marlow and monica crowley, but first. this from me, it gives him momentum to new hampshire primary a week from today. his well managed campaign put program a suburb ground game, producing 51% winning 98 of 99 counties, losing 99th by one vote. now fox voter analysis shows that 2 top issues for iowans were illegal immigration crisis and the economy. this was president trump's bread and butter. he has run an issued campaign -- issues campaign it worked last night in iowa, actually, the illegal immigration cat as fee w cat as fee wa -- cot as fee was number one issue. >> we will seal up the border. [cheers and applause] because right now we have an invasion an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into the country, i can't imagine why they think that say good thing, it a very good -- bad thing, we have to have a deport level that we have have not seen in a long time. larry: this is afirst term. then a

sandra, the best of the best. >> thank you, larry. larry: up next on "kudlow," this is history in the making. we'll have a little discussion with joe concha and mark simoneight here on set. remember you can catch "kudlow" monday through friday at 4:00 p.m. we do not compete with sandra, right here on fox business. for some reason you can't make it at 4:00, please just text your favorite nine-year-old and she will show you how to dvr the show and you will never miss a issue in this campaign. i'm kudlow. thank you, sandra. ♪ moving forward with node- positive breast cancer is overwhelming. but i never just found my way; i made it. and did all i could to prevent recurrence. verzenio reduces the risk of recurrence of hr-positive, her2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer with a high chance of returning, as determined by your doctor when added to hormone therapy. hormone therapy works outside the cell... while verzenio works inside to help stop the growth of cancer cells. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor, start an antidiarrheal, and drink fluids. before taking verzenio, tell your

. >> sandra: we just talked about this last hour. the interview in politco with simone sanders that was working on biden's campaign in 2020. she said ditch the bidenomics message. you can't try to explain to people how they're feeling. they feel how they feel. this was the question about national priority. we asked voters in iowa, what do they believe is the most pressing issue. the surprise of our viewers, the economy was not top of the list. it was immigration. 41% of republicans said this was the most important issue at a national level. 33% said it's about the economy. they supported donald trump. when you look at those that said immigration was the top priority, 59% supported trump. desantis took second there. i was talking to charles payne at the 1:00 hour, he lumps these two together, immigration and the economy. immigration is having a pro fund effect coast to coast. >> trace: i do believe if injury the joe biden campaign and you see immigration as number 1 and the economy as number 2 and you keep out thing the economy, you have to be concerned about what voters

simone quien se encuentra en vivo desde una de estas comunidades. claudia dinos cómo está la situación por allá, qué fue lo que te comentaron los residentes. >> qué tal? muy buenas tardes sandrat, una de las más afectadas en el condado a lo largo del día hemos visto como las familias han pasado las horas limpiando, intentando salvar algunas de sus pertenencias que quiero mostrarles pertenencias que ahora, pues ya se han convertido prácticamente en basura. y es que para que se den una idea de lo que aquí ocurrió, las familias, el agua llegó hasta este nivel, las familias tuvieron que salir por las ventanas porque la presión del agua no permitía que las puertas se abrieran, dejando todo este desastre, este lodo y basura a su paso. pero vamos a ver lo que les preparamos es no duro cuando mucho 15, 30 minutos en inundarse en cuestión de minutos 100 de viviendas quedaron bajo el agua tras el paso de la histórica tormenta. >> no, no, no, yo pensé un pies, 2 pies, 6 pulgadas. pero ya cuando miré pues ya me asusté más por los niños. abría la puerta y entraba la presión del agua y dije no, pues me ayudaron los vecinos de atrás a sacar a mis niños por las ventanas. >> mi preocupación e