Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Im Maria Bartiromo thanks for being here. It is friday, august 18. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. House judiciary chairman jim jordan subpoenaed the Justice Department and fbi for documents showing conversations between the agencys private companies and other third party groups, allege showing big tech collusion. In a letter to ag merrick garland, jordan writes this, numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal governments power to censor speech online, directly and by proxy. It is necessary for congress to gauge the extent to which doj officials have coerced, pressured, worked with or relied upon social media and other Tech Companies to censor speech. Jordan demanding the agencies turn over response documents next month. Daniel, we know what happened here because of the release of the twitter files. We were told 1,000 people in government were working with twitter and other social Media Companies to tell them what was true and what wasnt true. Turns out that when they were telling the social Media Companies to suppress information about the biden laptop, it was all lies because the biden laptop was real and authentic and of course a treasure trove of information about influence peddling of the biden family. Maria, they intentionally were deceitful in communicating what was actually happening. Look, in the p end its deliberate, aggressively so, to censor. The principle at play is when you diminish one voice, youre enhancing another voice. Whose voices are you enhancing . It was that of the government over that of individual americans concerned about their safety, concerned about what was happening to each one of them, their neighbors and their communities they live in and it is a direct violation of our First Amendment and good on congressman jim jordan for taking this on and making sure that these folks are held accountable so this doesnt happen again and we dont have a repeat of this violation. Maria yeah. Chairman jim jordan is also subpoenaing citibank for documents for the house judiciary weaponization select committees investigation into the major banks, sharing americans private Financial Data with the fbi without Legal Process transactions. In a letter to the ceo of citigroup jordan writes show the documents show the bank may have shared customer information with federal Law Enforcement despite the customers having no individual nexus to criminal conduct, he says a citibank representative was included on emails and zoom discussions organized by the fbi, francis. This is incredible. This is what happened over the january 6th situation as well. You had congress wanting going directly to places like at t, telecom companies, wanting information on lawmakers. They just go right to the companies, demand information and apparently jim jordans writing to citigroup alleging that citi gave it up. What country are we living in . This is so insane. I can remember thinking to myself after january 6, thank goodness i wasnt in d. C. , just coincidentally at that time because i realize that credit card statements and debit cards we have no privacy anymore. The Technology Makes that very difficult. But these i wouldnt do business with citi for doing this. I would never have an account there and i think americans are starting to really have a lot of distrust in these different corporations. Ive never downloaded the tiktok app, because we have to at some point say were not going to support these efforts to undermine our privacy and completely unnecessarily. Its just so egregious. I think jordan is saying that the doj has only thus far presented one document. Oh, my goodness, i mean, the hubris continues. I really think there should be a poll on hubris for candidates and just see. Its just so nuts. Maria its outrageous. Its outrageous and it is a complete violation of our liberties. I totally agree. Were going to keep a spotlight on it for sure. Weve got much more ahead this morning. Markets are lower as evergrande files for bankruptcy in a u. S. Court. How you could that impact stocks, the major banks at home and abroad. Well talk about it, next. 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Joining me right now is former gartman letter editor and university of akron Endowment Fund chairman, dennis gartman. Also with me is Frances Newton stacy all morning long. Dennis, great to join the conversation, thank you for being here. I want to take a look at futures this morning. We are looking at fractional losses this morning across the board but it all started in asia. Asian markets were lower overnight after evergrande filed for bankruptcy in a u. S. Court. The yuan in china is now sitting at 16 year lows and youve got Interest Rates spiking here in the u. S. The 10 year yield yesterday reaching highs not seen in 20 years, well, since november 2007 is the last time you saw the 10 year at 4. 224 , the 30 year is the highest since around april 2011, pulling back from the highs reached yesterday, this morning. Investors are hoping for answers at the jackson hole economic retreat next week. Jay powell is going to speak on friday. We have the new York Fed Survey finding americans credit, americans credit the fed for inflation cooling. Your thoughts on the evergrande situation overnight in asia, is this going to be a trigger for banks here in the u. S. . Were not sure what kind of exposure u. S. Banks have to this bankruptcy situation. Its clearly not a friendly circumstance to be im not sure if this has come out of anywhere nobody should be surprised what is happening here. I think its deleterious to the u. S. Stock market. I think its deleterious to the Global Economy. I dont think its egregiously so. I think nobody should be surprised by this fact. We understood for two years that the Housing Market in china has been under duress, its going to continue to remain under duress and i think its going to have an effect upon both global stock prices and u. S. Stock prices here. I think well have a lot of discussion next week at jackson hole as whats going on in china. We made the decision almost eight months ago to get out of china completely and move to other emerging markets that served us very well so i think this is a very serious circumstance and i think its going to have deleterious impact upon the u. S. Economy, Global Economy and i think upon global stock prices at the same time. Maria well, good call for you on china. Weve been raising this issue now for several years but wall street Money Managers dont seem to understand the risks that are so obvious with the communist party. Francis, im worried about the u. S. s exposure. Mortgage rates are skyrocketing as well. Weve got the 30 year fixed rate now at 7. 09 , highest level since april of 2002, francis. Were told by real estate executives that people with walking away from mortgages now because they recognize their Monthly Payments skyrocketed with the numbers. Absolutely. If you had an Adjustable Rate Mortgage you are hurting today. This is going to drive the Housing Market into more unaffordability. Which means its going to keep rents higher and the owners equivalent rent which is a third of cpi will continue to remain sticky, it has an 18 month lag which means inflation is not coming down, which means the fed will have to remain higher for longer. This is not good. And then the thing is, remember, the Mortgage Rates are so high but the prices have gone up so much. Kneel cavuto likes neil cavuto likes to joke his First Mortgage with his wife was 13 , its a miracle theyre still married. Just joking. That a was on much lower prices and so this is going to price more americans out of the market. We have homeless and im just studying what happens with the trajectory of homeless, they get priced out of housing of. Its amazing. Theyre not all criminal drug addicts. They get priced out of housing. The other thing is that you said that the 10 year, it was last this high november of 2007. Does anybody remember what happened the high the closing high was october 10, 2007 before the great financial crisis and thats just it. We are putting ourselves at risk for not only the commercial real estate but also another housing and mor mortgage crisis with the rates. Maria good point about the financial collapse. I remember 30 year bonds at 14 and a quarter percent. Maria when was that, dennis . 1982. It was it changed rather dramatically. You couldnt give them away at that point. It was 14 and a quarter on the long bond and treasury couldnt give them away. They were articles of destruction for lack of a better term and its been a 40 year bear market and Interest Rates 40 year bull market in bonds. Stocks and bonds are going down together. What is that . Yes. Its atypical. Its caught a lot of people offguard. Maria you have real negatives facing the banks. Youve got spiking Interest Rates, the mortgage players are going to see an impact from 7. 1 Mortgage Rates. You also have all of this debt rolling over. On the other havened youve got the china situation hand youve got the china situation, evergrande going bankrupt. I dont know which banks have exposure there. Were looking at some challenges here. Weve also got earnings next week what that are continuing. Macys and lowes will report on tuesday, kohls is reporting on wednesday. And then youve got dollar tree, ultra beauty, burlington and nordstrom on thursday. Well get nvidia next week, wednesday afternoon after the close, on the coat tails of mixed earnings from walmart, target and tjx, francis. What are you expecting in terms of the earnings on tap for next week . Its the end of the summer but this could be a big market move on the nvidia and other retail quarters. Well, certainly on nvidia and definitely watching that with the perspective on tech aztec starts to roll over. The thing about it is, earnings are beating expectations but theyre still derating. Decelerating, down 5 compared to the Second Quarter of last year. Comps will get easier for earnings going into the latter half of the year but theyre still down so theyre beating expectations and thats what the market has been pricing in but as the fed remains high i see more weakness ahead. Maria dennis. I think shes absolutely right. The number for nvidia, they better do very well. It has been the number one stock for the past year, of the magnificent seven weve had. If theres any disturbance in the market, any disagreement in the market, any disappointment in the market thats going to be a very bad circumstance to say the very least so nvidia should be the terminal point. Maria not a lot of room for error, i will say that. Dennis, great to see you. Thanks for joining the conversation this morning. Dennis gartman. Francis, youre sticking with us all morning and were grateful for that. 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Maria welcome back. We have new fox news polls this morning, they reveal 80 of voters say they believe the economy is in fair or poor condition. Only 20 would describe the economy as excellent or even good. More than half of those responding say that President Biden has made the economy worse since taking office. 25 believe hes made it better while 22 say hes had no effect at all. The economy is voters top concern headed into 2024 with 38 of respondents saying its the most important issue facing the country, 27 points higher than second place border crisis. Interesting that the Border Security is number two. Joining us now, missouri congressman, mark alford, member of the house services, Small Business and agriculture committees. Thank you for being here. Whats your reaction to these polls . Look, i dont think this is anything new when it comes to especially a race for president back in the clinton days, it was the economy, stupid, that was the mantra. The same holds true today. Americans are concerned about three things, the rising cost of food, fuel and fertilizer and joe biden has done this to the American People, has targeted the fossil fuel industry but put the cross hairs on the backs of the American People. This inflation that were seeing on those three items especially and utilities is a direct tax on the American People and i think joe bidens got to pay for that in the polls come november of 24. Maria its interesting because it all goes back to policy. So what youre saying is resonating with me and the audience because we look at the policy being the Climate Change ajen da as agenda as the number one priority for the administration and its throughout the administration, the securities and Exchange Commission with new rules for business, they have to report what could be an issue in terms of the climate. A new report from real clear investigations now says this. Growing warnings that biden could get scorched by green dependency on red china. The author writes this, china is the leading producer of 30 of 50 minerals, 10 of the top 15 g15global wind turbine manufacturers of are chinese. This is from Ben Weingarden at real clear investigations. Congressman, we just came off of a period where so many people are complaining about americas reliance on china, that the supply chain in china is responsible for the underlying active ingredients in our prescription drugs. We also rely on china for certain technology. I mean, should we be relying on china even more with now this new move into solar panels or the batteries or the Rare Earth Minerals that are needed for those batteries, its all made in china. Were going backwards. Exactly right, maria. China has been playing chess and joe biden and this administration has been playing a game of tiddlywinks. China has their tent kells in tentacles in everything we do in china. They have relationships in all parts of the world, especially africa, where minerals are needed for the climate cult initiative. I think joe biden and the climate cult Initiative Want americans to be eating bugs and driving electric vehicles. Were not ready to that in america. I was just in Fort Leonardwood which is in my district. They train some 400 big Truck Drivers a year to carry tanks and other equipment for the army. Theyre trying to go to an electric vehicle by 2028. Were not ready to do that. We dont have the infrastructure, its short sighted. Lets start using the fuels we have, the fossil fuels we have plenty of, open the pipelines, open the drilling once again in america. Maria yeah. Thats not what the democrats want. You know that. House Oversight Committee chairman james comer is demanding the National Archives turn over unredacted emails involving then Vice President joe biden along the hunter biden and ukraine and burisma officials. Comer wants the emails and the committee is targeting specific emails in which President Biden used an alias, used a pseudo name, robert l peters, robin ware, jrb water, why ware, why is a Vice President using alias names on emails . It raises the question of is he trying to hide money flows, relationships with executives at burisma and the fact that house Oversight Committee chairman james comer says he accepted 5 million from officials at burisma and hunter accepted 5 million. Thats 10 million just from one company in ukraine. Maria, there are only two types of people i know of that use ps pseudony ms, those that write romance novels and those that are trying to hide something. Joe biden is no fabio. The web of lies and deceit the biden family has created and joe biden is the black widow in the middle of it, i think james comer is going to get to the bottom of it. We need the unredacted emails from the National Archives to get to the bottom of this, its a National Security issue. Maria where do we stand in terms of an impeachment inquiry, congressman. Another day another drip by drip by drip, all this information about money the biden family has taken envelope these are allegations taken in. These are allegations until we see serious proof here. We want to know what youre going to do about it. Well, maria, i know we talked about this last week. Americans are growing frustrated. Were in the work month of august right now, i bumped into Speaker Mccarthy at the airport in dallas a couple weeks ago and knows the importance of getting to the bottom of this. I believe truly that momentum is building and we are going to have an impeachment inquiry. Weve got to do it the right way. James comer, jim jordan are building evidence in the case. Rick steube has filed for articles of impeachment. We have to get our ducks in a row to build confidence in the American People and to further have a chance of even having croon vicks at the senate. You conviction at the senate. Indictment in the house of representatives is no good unless we have the consistent of the senate. Maria how much more do you need to show in fact a sitting president or sitting Vice President accepted bribes from a Ukrainian Company and Chinese Companies in the middle of questions about chinas motives on the global stage. What else do you need to see . Well, i think the evidence is there. Lets be clear about that. The left and aggressive woke part of the country are saying hey, wheres the evidence. The evidence is there. Its building the case. Im not a prosecutor, never have been, wont pretend to be. I know you want to get as much evidence as possible in the case before you bring it before the American People in this impeachment inquiry that i assume would be run by the judiciary committee, these facts will be made evident, theyll be formalized and we will have a vote of onlily, i hope eventually, i hope in the u. S. House of representatives to impeach joe biden. Maria all right. We will be watching, congressman. These are just extraordinary times for sure. Mark alford, thanks very much for joining us this morning. Thank you, maria. Maria all right. Coming up, bidens border crisis, yes, it gets worse, it is spiraling out of control a top issue for 2024 as a majority of republicans and even democrats want to finish trumps border wall. National Border PatrolCouncil President brandon judd is here to give us the facts of what hes seeing on the ground at the border. Stay with us. My relationship with my credit cards wasnt good. I got into debt in college, and no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. The high interest. I felt trapped. Debt debt debt debt so i broke up with my Credit Card Debt and consolidated it into a low rate personal loan from sofi. I finally feel like a grownup. Break up with bad Credit Card Debt. Get a personal loan with low fixed rates and borrow up to 100k. Go to sofi. Com to view your rate. Sofi get your money right. 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Meanwhile, yellow gets a lifeline, the bankrupt Trucking Company reportedly agreeing to sell its real estate to rival esse express line in a 1. 3 billion deal, that covers the loans gathered before it filed for chapter 11. It also ensures that two of yellows biggest lenders, citadel and the u. S. Treasury, will likely be paid off. Meanwhile, the app that can give you save you big on buying gasoline, waze, has a navigation tool which allows people to share the gas prices along the routes theyre on. Users can use the crowd source feature to select their preferred gasoline type, brand or price and then how far away it is from where they are currently. Their current location. Gasoline prices this morning are elevated, 3. 87 a gallon, thats 20cents higher than last month. Were looking at the price of oil also at multiyear highs. Those are some of the headlines were watching this morning. Meanwhile, we want to show you the shocking images from the southern border, they show texas officials arresting two of three armed Mexican Cartel members. Those Mexican Cartel members crossed into the United States with rifles and body armor earlier this month. We showed you the pictures of the guns they were holding in the rio grande, in the river, tucson has seen over 200,000 migrant encounters since the start of 2023. While the Rio Grande Valley sector has seen over 290,000. Joining me right now is national Border PatrolCouncil President , brandon judd. Brandon, great to see you. Thanks very much for being here. I know you say that the tucson sector has led all other sectors in got aways for some time because of the cartels Business Model for arizona. Walk us through that. Whats the Business Model for arizona for these drug cartels . The vast majority of the people that cross the border illegally in arizona, theyre trying to evade apprehension. Theyre not giving up. Theyre not just crossing the border illegally and saying here i am, come get me, i want to claim asylum. Theyre trying to make sure way into the United States without being taken into custody. They dont want fingerprints, pictures taken, dont want us to know who they are. The criminal cartels operate in lower amount of people but higher profit. They charge a lot more money to get these people into the United States and traffic them all the way to wherever theyre going to go, whether thats up to maine, whether thats to florida, doesnt matter. Its all throughout the entire United States. When you look at the pictures, what scares me about that is the way these cartels are now operating in the open. They didnt used to do this. Until President Biden, weve never seen cartels operate in the open of. They dont care right now because they know the Mainstream Media isnt going to coverto be honest with the coverage. They also know our government isnt going to do anything about what theyre doing. Theyre generating a profit that weve never seen before. Theres more drugs on our streets. Everything that were seeing, every single sign is pointing to complete and total chaos and a breakdown in all of law that exists on the border. Maria its just unbelievable to me that these Mexican Cartels are the ones who are deciding who comes into america and who doesnt. I mean, weve basically lost all operational control of our border. Yes. Maria th is that right . We have. Its scary to every one of us that go out and patrol the border. Were seeing the cartel the, they know what they need to do. In arizona, they know they have to flood our resources, they can get the products across, whether its fentanyl thats killing hundreds of thousands of americans or criminal aliens coming into the United States for criminal enterprise. Its really, really dangerous whats going on. We should be protecting the American People. We should be the front line of defense, yest yet everything wee is Border Patrol agents doing administrative a work, rather than enforcement work. Maria arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema is slamming President Biden and the democrats for giving new york 100 million in federal funding to help shelter migrants but arizona is only receiving 24 million to help with the border crisis, brandon. Youve got to explain this to me. Arizona is on the front lines and theyre get 2g 4 million and 24 million and new york city gets 100 million . This is absolutely crazy to me. When you look at this, this screams of politics, this screams of President Biden taking care of those individuals that support him. We know that new york supports President Biden and so hes giving the vast majority of the money to them. Knows he has a serious problem in arizona so hes withholding the money even though were the ones facing the the brunt of everything going on. We should get that money. We should get the money in order to protect the American People. New york isnt doing anything for the American People. Yet arizona is. Kyrsten sinema is absolutely correct to step to the plate and say what President Biden is doing is a absolutely wrong. Give the money to places where its needed, texas, arizona, in certain places in california. And when you look at new mexico, where President Biden consistent constantly panders to politic, to get his base to stand behind him. That doesnt do justice by the American People. Maria whats your sense of who is coming in now. You told me, look, its 150 countries, people are coming from everywhere to come to america. Theyre coming through mexico. Its concerning to me. We spoke with your colleague, lieutenant olivarez the other day, and we talked about the number of chinese nationals coming in. That numbers up almost 1300 year over year and he said these are all military aged men so whats that about . And tell us who you would say, the makeup of people coming in, from where . Theres so many aspects of Border Security that is scary. And if the American People was actually aware of whats going on, when you look at the chinese nationals that are coming in, we know that china does not like the United States. Why wouldnt they send people to the United States . We know that middle Eastern Countries dont like the United States. Theyre sending people. When you look at the demographics of the people that are coming, when you look at the ages, when you look at the gender makeup of the people that are coming into the United States, these are people that could do harm to american citizens, they can do harm to the american economy, the american way of life. Its crazy when you look at everything thats going on. On top of it, all have you to do is look at the criminals that were constantly arresting. When we apprehend people that are trying to get away, evade apprehension, we finger print them and find out their criminal records. Were looking at murderers, rapists, people that have committed child molestation. These are very dangerous, these are people that do not care about life and thats what were seeing on the border and thats why its so important that our government does whats right by the American People, rather than whats right by their own political aspirations and. Maria unbelievable. We dont see it, especially for the democratic party. Maria this is why were looking at potential impeach month alejandro mayorkas. Hes there telling us that the border is secure. Weve got a new daily mail poll to show. It shows 52 of americans believe that the border wall should be finished. 38 disagree, even a third of democrats want to see a barrier from the gulf of mexico to the pacific ocean. The Trump Administration completed about 453 miles of that border wall, 290 miles of the wall were left unfinished at the end of trumps term and according to u. S. s customs and Border Patrol, it remains unfinished. So brandon, tell me what youre seeing in terms of the impact to americans because when the last time i went to the border, ive been there several times, at least five times, i spoke with ranchers who said their property gets trashed every day. One woman said she cant throw out the garbage without carrying her pistol. Give us your sense of how all of this is impacting american citizens who happen to live in texas or arizona, near the border. The simple fact is what President Trump did was nothing short of miraculous. He dropped illegal immigration to 45year lows. We had less drugs coming into the United States. And part of the reason was because we had the infrastructure, we had the walls. When the walls start getting built were able to funnel the traffic to where we want it to go, when we can funnel the traffic we can be more effective and when that happens the cartels cant go out and advertise their services throughout the world. Thats how theyre making a profit, thats how theyre getting people to come to the United States, telling them its easy to get in the United States. When we have the physical infrastructure, when we have the walls we can stop those people from coming to the United States. We have to have infrastructure. We have to have personnel. We have to have policy. President trump gave us every sin gel one of those things and thats why the border was more secure, in my 25 year career than any time id ever seen it. Maria what about those american citizens who are being impacted here . Youve got you just said theft and, you know, crime. Do we know that partly this could be started from foreigners coming over the border or not . We know it is. Just look at whats taking place in border communities. I lolive onthe border. We see vehicle pursuits coming through our small communities every day. We see the danger that these cartels are putting people in, then you have to compound on top of it the drugs that are coming into the communities and were seeing huge Gang Violence with drug smuggling. You also have the vie license that is associate violence with the associated with the criminal activity. Everything were seeing in the border communities and a it could be made a safe tomorrow if the administration cared. Maria let me ask you, brandon, what do you know about what the drug cartels do once they get into america . What im trying to understand is are we actually seeing this kind of criminality under our noses in america where they create safe houses or stash houses, where they stash the drugs or stash humans in their Human Trafficking billion dollar business, multibillion dollar business . Those two people who were arrested for breaching the border, coming into techs the texas, they were drug cartel members, what do you think they were planning on doing . They were going to work for the cartels somewhere here in the United States. Thats what they were headed to do, thats what they intended to do. Its not just border communities, its throughout the entire United States. Everything that happens on the border funnels throughout the United States and thats why were seeing so much criminality that exists in chicago, miami, everywhere. It has to stop at the border and we can do it tomorrow. Maria how disturbing. Brandon, always a pleasure to see you. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you, maria. Maria a quick break and then schools in session, more states making the move to hold back third graders who cant read. You will not believe how people are reacting. It is making a buzz this morning. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Stay with us. Back in a minute. Ive been there all day. Youve got me working 9 00 to 5 00. Ive been there all night. Ive been there all day. Maria next week on mornings with maria, monday general caldwell and Juan Williams go head to head on the issues impacting your 2024 president ial vote. Tuesday, china threatening the u. S. Over taiwan while visiting russian ally belarus, congressman Michael Waltz is here. Wednesday, buyers and sellers at a stand still, jenna haford on where to find relief in a tough real estate market. Thursday, mark penn and robert kahaly issue their grades on the president ial debate. Friday close out the week with the expert panel and stories creating the biggest buzz. Its all right here on mornings with maria. Its not just designed to look good. Its built to command attention. Its not just a comfortable interior. Its a quiet refuge. Theyre not just headlights. They light the way forward. The new fully electric audi q8 etron models. Fly to paris. See the tower. 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Well, you know whats interesting, the old adage about what comes in comes out, a lot of what t new teachers learned n the universities are passing on to the students, its woke messages, not about reading, writingwriting and arithmetic. Glenn youngkin tapped into this in a smart way and why school of choice is becoming very popular. Latino parents for example want to make sure their child has is positioned for success. The best way to do that is of course to have a quality education. John f. Kennedy said the only way were going to have progress in america is to progress in education. Thats what were falling behind on and were facing our kids on a massive disadvantage, if the focus is on woke ideology, its a travesty whats happening. Maria p francis, what do you think . Parents have really taken the lead here because they watched during covid what their kids were actually learning and they were outraged by it. More states are getting on board with laws to hold back third graders who cant read, states like tennessee giving students a proficiency test in order to see if they can move forward onto the next grade. Supporters say its motivating for students. Critics are saying tests can be too stressful on the kids. Reading scores show last year only 33 of fourth graders were actually proficient or higher in reading. Francis. I mean, here we go with the participation trophies again, its not about actual competence, its about not making anybody feel bad. The kids are being set up to fail. Theres a couple things. I looked at something that ray dalio did. He was talk bow how this country about how this country is at risk for losing relevance. One of the factors is education. I listened to something about elon musk, talking about the travesty of our education. He doesnt care if somebody has a University Degree when he looks to hire people, he wants competency, he wants ability. He said something interesting. If you could make education more like a video game, you cant pry video games out of kids hands and more interactive and give them a why, why are you studying this, i didnt know why i was studying algebra and now i see the correlation of its problem solving. I have a way of resolving a problem thats not necessarily mathematical. Its developing neurons in the brain, developing the thinking around nobody is thinking about the longterm consequences of nnot educating the kids, theyre not going to have selfconfidence, more vulnerable to drugs and the whole gender identity thing and not being able to read makes tiktok and things like that ever more attractive and that gives more influence over the kids, and kids who read and can entertain themselves and think for themselves have less propensities for drugs and crime and other vulnerability as they get older so this is a very serious issue. Maria this is not a new issue. Our kids have been behind other countries now for a while. But its getting worse with the focus on gender studies as opposed to history and math. Thats exactly right. Look, i think thats where school of choice fills a void. Look, what we need is competition. And whats happened with the advent of esas and School Vouchers and parents getting involved is of course it is kick starting a lot of Public Schools into ratcheting up their level of education. In the Dallas School system for example, in texas where im from, theyre offering precollege courses, stem, night courses, summer school, skills and vocation courses, all because of school of choice is cutting in and crowding out the really i think a lot of the bad outcomes that are happening. Public schools are seeing this and i think theyre now stepping up and thats what we need is competition in our educational system. Maria yeah. Great point. Go ahead, did you want to say something, francis, comment . I totally agree with that. 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