Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a busy afternoon on the story. We are about to hear from President Trump at the border. Were also waiting for an update on President Bidens travel to brownsville, texas. So weve got a lot of activity, a lot of things popping. These two individuals obviously very serious about this issue with regard to the campaign. They both want to win the 2024 president ial election. Former President Donald Trump would like to be president again. President joe biden wants to keep his job. Theyll have to find their way through this issue in order to do it. Its a big issue on voters minds in this country. Its a crisis as we heard from the former Homeland Security secretary this morning on Fox And Friends. Obviously all of this has a huge impact on cities across the country and small towns as well as migrants have flooded in to all of these areas. For example, athens. Athens, georgia. The tragic death of laken riley at the alleged hands of this man who was he
house and we have a chairman of a key subcommittee tim murphy talking about things very much in line. we need to get it done. this keeps happening over and over again. people across the country are saying enough is enough. we can do something about it. it s an important bill to take a look at. i hope they take a look at it. thanks for coming on this morning. we asked how many presidents were born in missouri. just one. the man from missouri himself, harry s. truman. congratulations to michael diamond. the president is visiting missouri today. send us your trivia suggestions. we ll be right back. walmart asked hundreds of moms. about it s free layaway. here s what they said. paying no opening fee would help my family greatly. free layaway to me is like a piggy bank. i can do that, i can afford free. (laughs)
christine, i think we settled that hot dog versus chicken topic. if your kids are overweight you probably heard you need to eat less and move more. many parents suffer a disconnect when it comes to their children and don t know when their children are obese. something could lead to health problems later on. elizabeth cohen joins us. a lot of parents don t know their child is obese which is a big problem because you can t fix something if you don t know that it s wrong. this study that was done by columbia university researchers what they found is that half of the moms in their study, they looked at hundreds of moms. half of the moms didn t realize that their child was owe bees. that s a lot of moms who don t know that their child has a pretty serious health problem. did the kids realize they were obese? no, the kids didn t know either. four out of five of the kids.