my mom would be so proud. my posture has never been better. thank you for having me. dr. siegel, i love you. marc: great to be on the couch with you. harris: it is 15 days until the midterm elections, two weeks from tomorrow. there s a lot at stake, particularly for democrats and president biden. right now democrats have very slim majorities in congress. crisis after crisis is making the effort to cling to power all the more difficult. we are getting some stunning new numbers putting the surge of illegal immigrants coming to our country into perspective. are we showing that? on one side is the infrared that you can see from the chopper when you fly with the dps of texas. that s what you see. the last report from customs and border protection ahead of the midterms was released on friday night. very quietly. we collect the classic bad news dump on a friday. after another record breaker in september, fiscal year 2022 made history with the highest number of encounters. nearly
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.