>> good evening thank you for joining us we begin with a fox weather alert. the death toll continues to climb after more than 30 tornadoes hit six states friday night and tower —- entire towns were leveled mississippi to illinois. there is heartbreak in kentucky were at least 100 people are feared dead after what the governor says was the deadliest storm in his states history. the track of the lethal tornado was believed to be the longest track of any tornado to ever hit the united states. the community of mayfield and western kentucky is the epicenter of the destruction. more than 100 people were working at a candle factory when their workplace was devastated friday night. >> please send us some help. we are trapped. the wallace stuck on me. trey: the owner of the candle factory joins us now. first, we extend our condolences to everyone impacted by the storm including those who worked to your plant. what is the latest? is this still a search for survivors quick. >> thank you for their prayers. from the entire fox team. fema has declared this a rescue mission. they are the experts in the situation and it gives us all hope because the people of this town and myself we are in uncharted water. that is good news for us. >> tell us about the men and women. this was a another quick. >> we have 110 people that work the second shift making candles and the tornado came through with the force described in the earlier segment. it is totally has devastated this plant and community. trey: i don't think anybody can predict or prepare for a tornado this historic and powerful. i assume it was being monitored friday night is just hard to believe that this once-in-a-lifetime tornado happened. >> it is. everyone was aware of bad weather. but as we're all taught as children the first thing you do is don't get in your car. the management team at the factory that night high praise them for doing an excellent job. i know ten minutes before we followed all protocols and in get almost all of the employees to the designated area. we are all taught to go to the bathroom and get in the time to do all of those things. and the same is true at this factory the safest place of the designated area was the bathroom concrete brick walls. no windows it is a manufacturing facility. you would it was one of the most safest places to be but yet this storm prove differently. trey: the american people are famous for their generosity and compassion what can people do to help the entire community or in particular the survivors are friends and family? what can people do to help quick. >> go to mcp kentucky.com. where the money will touch the fingertips of our employees in this community. we are dedicated to rebuilding to stay in this community i grew up in this community just to the right of me is the church that is almost doubled as well. we are an integral part in this community and we will stay that way. we will do everything possible. trey: it is so tragic and right here at christmas which is supposed to be a time of happiness and a season of miracles we continue to hold out for more miracles and we hope there'll be more survivors. >> i appreciate it from your mouth to god's ears we really do want that to happen. while we mourn the loss of those we celebrate the other time the other number has gone down and we really appreciate you bringing the awareness to our community because it needs the help and it needs to thrive again and we cannot do it without everyone's prayers and support. trey: god bless you. >> we appreciate it the surgeon general is warning of a dire mental health crisis reagan people will talk to an expert on what we can do to help those we care about that is next on sunday night america. xfinity rewards are our way of thanking you just for being with us. enjoy rewards like sing family fun nights! rent sing for $1, then belt out all your favorite tunes from the movie with sing karaoke. plus, see sing 2 in theaters with buy-one-get-one free fandango tickets. join over a million members by signing up for free on the xfinity app. our thanks. your rewards. trey: welcome back to "sunday night in america". there is a critical health issue impacting our country teenagers and young people are struggling with loneliness and anxiety and depression our children and grandchildren are growing up in a very different world from the when we grew up in some things are better many things are not. one third of all young people report persistent fields of loneliness and depression. the pandemic as part of the problem for certain welcome to the world with the bombing of our federal building in oklahoma city april 1995 when the man who once wore the uniform of this country killed 168 people including 19 children. children born the year that domestic terrorist attack or not even 30 years old yet. not only was the courthouse attacked but it seems most of the safe haven of yesteryear are gone. schools have been attacked in churches and shopping malls and outdoor concerts and movie theaters in dance clubs, workplaces have all been attacked the only real sanctuary left his home. and for some home means constant access to social media where others judge them and ridicule them setting unrealistic expectations our children and grandchildren have been exposed to a steady diet of negativity of anger and fear and when all you see you begin to think that is all that exist and then a pandemic it children lost not only isolation isolation can make you sick just like a virus. it's no wonder the mental health of our children and grandchildren is being impacted but the question is what do we do about it? how do we wage a war on loneliness and anxiety and depression and how do we protect our children and grandchildren? joining us now is a father of three himself in a clinical psychologist in dallas texas. tell us what you see when you see the research of young people struggling with mental health. >> it is alarming. your summary is chilling and unfortunately accurate. we are seeing more young adults we have ever seen. they are not encouraged by society or institutions or even leaders. they said that common sense and logic instead it's emotion and rhetoric. that is what they are exposed to at home because moms and dads and grandparents and answer closer in the middle of this as well. and they have to learn at a very young age to have really important information and to know that the information can negatively affect and skew their perception of the world. they have to protect that in keep that information out and to be encouraged and inspired by things within the reach. trey: now first to the people themselves young people that may be struggling but then for the parents and grandparents you want to help them what is your advice for them? >> my advice to the young adults, i need you to keep talking about visiting. i need to hear you be inspired by subjects or work or some passion. that's a conversation we need to have. even though your mom and dad and grandparents are your friend group don't start sounding like us. i don't know why but when we get older we talk about illness, and disease and ways to die. don't do that. talked about what you are excited about and where you want to work and where you want to be. please remember your risk factors young adult are not mine. i was really worried about you getting hurt i'm talking about your driving and not having accidents not a virus. because the data the virus for that group is not nearly as deadly as other important things and isolation leads to the second leading cause of death which is the hopelessness that you don't want to keep living. so think broadly about your healthcare. pay attention to the virus you don't want to get it. neither do i that loneliness and isolation lead to anxiety anyone to be mindful of your overall health. don't do something good that starts another problem. trey: we have known each other since we were teenagers there were challenges in the eighties. i don't remember them but i guess there was. but it does seem different now that young people have more to compete with. or is just that in old man not remembering the past very well quick. >> it could be both to be fair. but when we look at the trend over the past ten years, is not the same as when we went to high school and college and mom and dad stopped using your experience of reference for them. it is a very different world. so where do you look to be excited about moving forward? so the challenges are greater. the psychological and emotional toll is far greater. and at every level that they look at. trey: words of wisdom. i look forward to having you want again. >> good to be with you counselor. trey: breaking barriers all of her life including recently in virginia what can others learn from her next? 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is that possible? >> yes. because this is america and you can be anything you want to be. he came with $1.75. he took any job he could find putting himself through school and started his american dream. so had he not had that education, he would not be where he is today and i probably would not be here with you. trey: you served in the military, un a homeless shelter. what did you learn from those two experiences that prepared you for the role you are about to embark upon? >> i also worked for the chamber of commerce and other things. and a volunteer to help the dirt on —- adults learn how to read. you learn that when you are helping people. if they are not able to understand this is an opportunity they are given to better themselves. i had hope for the women unfortunately they cannot speak for themselves you can lead a horse to water but you cannot force them to drink it. in the military i understand the marine corps specifically when you have authority you have to use it while you don't abuse it. you look out for your people and lead by example. that is one of the things i to do is a new lieutenant governor in virginia. trey: different types of service with your vast and varied background what do you initially to elected office? >> actually i never wanted to be a politician. i thought i would be a campaign manager so i went to campaign manager school i would manage everything and run the campaign who write the speeches and tell the candidate to go here. it fell to me and it was my call so i accepted it and i ran with it. because when you are given the charge to lead, that is what you do. you lead and you lead by example. trey: that republican party has not done traditionally very well at all. so a two-part question. how did the conservative platform when you over? and how do we do a better job of communicating with constituencies that have not given them a hard look in the past? >> one of the major things for the republican party is when george w. bush was running. and if all you ever have is welfare you will never have anything to pass on to your children. and then after that i thought oh my god i am a republican because i did not know what they stood for. they tell us if you are black you are a democrat that is what you do and that is how you vote. one thinking to understand the principles and then the ability to love liberty to be yourself and to take advantage of all the opportunities america has. i just need you to get out of my way as a political party. i can help to save myself. being a woman in immigrant, black, none of that will hold me back. life comes that you hard. but that is just one to overcome. you overcome it. you don't let them keep you down and you keep going because after all this is your life. because any will be nothing and move on. let the naysayers move on. >> . trey: your life story and background and biography we are very excited as you embark in a couple weeks with your new job as lieutenant governor for the commonwealth of virginia. all the best. >> thank you. merry christmas to all of your guests. trey: merry christmas to you and your family also. president biden met with vladimir putin this week as russia continues to build presence on the ukrainian border. what was discussed and what will russia do? 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>> he is flexing his muscle. i have to tell you it is very clear his intentions are much more serious. what we do is think is this president show weakness or strength? is it someone vladimir putin will respect or disrespect? the answer to that is very troubling and should scare the life out of the people. this is a free and independent nation. they want to be aligned with the left and with western values and putin says no. we will not allow you to do that. i just don't have the confidence that he has the ability to persuade vladimir putin otherwise. trey: the president says sanctions like he has never seen before. what kind of sanctions would get russia's attention? >> is not like they have not been there done that before. but what you can do is oil and gas sanctions. this is nearly impossible to do this. why? because over the last year he is weekend his own position. i know that you know this as a net exporter now you are in a position where gas prices have doubled and the president has to go to the saudi's and opec and begged him to increase production. do you think that president has put himself in a position to say we will not allow russia oil and gas on the international market? with the price of gas in the price of oil i don't think he's willing to do that and i think vladimir putin knows he's not willing to do that. and then the most important potential sanction he could impose on russia essentially is taking that off the table with the own energy policy and weakness. trey: congressman you were one of the more well-prepared colleagues i have had. do you have an opinion on whether the us should boycott the winter olympic games in beijing? >> at a minimum. yes. china has certain ambitions and they are very clear about it. they will not just be a competitor or a close superpower they will be the dominant power and then to movement out of the toward that goal. and at some point the good news is the american people are beginning to wake up to that. at some point we have to be willing to confront them. here is an example once again. there is legislation before congress that says we will not allow you to export products for slave labor you cannot put them in concentration camps force them to work and then buy the products. and then to push back on that legislation they are afraid china will not come to the table that is nonsense we will import your slave labor product because we yourself afraid of you not working with climate change but that is not caring about climate change they will never be serious about that. that's a terrible message to send that we will import your stuff if you talk us about potential climate deal. trey: one minute left. it feels like iran is closer to a nuclear weapon that we don't base on —- make decisions based on feelings what are your thoughts? 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are leaving americans in afghanistan? a resurgent virus? i am not being facetious. how would you write a positive story about murder rates that are soaring across the country? what with that headline even look like? i guess in period you could write a story where the headline was murder cases sore all across the united states that joe biden is not a suspect in any of them. i guess. i guess you could write a headline that says supply chain is huge resolved in time for christmas 2024. if joe biden kamala harris really want to know what nonstop negative press works like, switch parties. joining us now former utah congressman jason she fits. literally when i first read this i thought it was a joke. life doesn't get much better than adc democrat by the mainstream media? >> you must got through that statement with a straight face but not quite. that the biden administration are up against the carpal —- cold hard facts with issues like this. they go up against immigration numbers and inflation numbers. i don't know how they spend that. they are complaining about the referee but guess what? they will not call pass interference with the guy who is no chance of catching the past. they can can't complain only went that biden and kamala harris have repeatedly told the american people lies. this will not cost you anything the cbo says it will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. the border is closed. we see hundreds of thousands of people streaming north. inflation is transitory. you go to the gas pump and it is not. adam how they do it other than calling balls and strikes but calling it the media's fault cannot spend it right is a joke. trey: when i was in the big stories of 2021, afghanistan a huge story and then the withdrawal and then the drone attack that literally killed innocent afghan children, how would you write a positive story about that? what could you possibly say that is positive about that? or inflation? or the resurgent virus? or the crime rate? how do you frame that in a positive way? >> i don't thank you can. i know you personally like to quote the german philosopher. it's not that you like to me is that i cannot ever trust you again. and for a communicator joe biden literally week in his communication but then his wingmen kamala harris has nothing to say and nobody is interested in what she has to say. when she takes on a big issue like the border, she is nowhere on it. stories cannot about her staff and how toxic the environment is in the white house. these are self-inflicted by the biden administration. said of blaming a journalist at politico. trey: i remember the first press conference that president biden had. i thought it was like watching the comedy channel but it really was a reporter question asking him if migrants were coming to america because he was such a moral and decent man? he is complaining about that kind of coverage? >> tough questions about i.c.e. cream and what kind of i.c.e. cream uic. donald trump does not get enough credit to be open and transparent to take all questions at all times. the case can be made the media go so soft on biden. he doesn't get hard questions or sit down for interviews. he doesn't have to think on his feet. literally in the last 100 days from i think less than five really hard ask a real question instead of going on late-night television show. that is about all he does. trey: we served together. you are an affable guy and you made an effort to speak to the media. most of us would walk by them that you tried. i don't remember you getting any better press coverage than anyone else. so the notion if you want bad press conference or bad press coverage, switch parties. that is the best way to get really negative coverage is to become a republican. >> joe biden try to bring in the dog he was fighting everybody and had to get rid of the dog. get a dog that doesn't bite people. trey: thank you we will see you soon. one of the reasons there are so many negative stories is because there is a lot of negative news. those that are setting records for murder in 2021. it isn't just murder it is on the rise but with car thefts and assaults and burglaries and some on the left are on on —- in denial and aoc says the rising crime is just you and me being hysterical and omar blames the police for the rising crime and bush wants to do with your police but she wants to keep her on. and then closing federal prisons. there is no word what about the boston marathon bomber and l chabot to live when they leave super max or death row in a decade. it's not just the squad why it is president biden or the attorney general doing? he wanted to get to find parents in virginia but what about the violent crime in major us cities? vice president harrison is sometimes hard to find but on thursday she was in the senate chambers casting the deciding vote for a so-called progressive prosecutor. i want you to take a look and listen to biden's choice to be the united states attorney in massachusetts. >> who do you think you are?? this is private property. get out of here. i will call the police on you and make an allegation and we will see how that works. the rantings of a white woman that you are here to scare my children. get off of our private property. trey: how do you call the police if they are defunded and by the way when you were the district attorney you refuse to prosecute threat cases. you announced ahead of time a long list of crimes he would not enforce including threat cases. i guess it involves you. but what is strangely ironic about all of this i communities of color and those struggling to get ahead that are most impacted by crime the groups you take at the ballot box of those most by your policies. the crime is the most insidious tax of all on the poor public safety is not a political tool that the preeminent function of government. and my guess is it will be on the ballot come next november. joining us now is an attorney and the cohost of outnumbered. why in the world would joe biden nominate rachel rollins to be a prosecutor when she doesn't want to prosecute cases quick. >> because he is not interested in prosecuting crimes. if he was under his watch, 12 us cities would not have had historical murder rates a largest increase since the fbi started to keep a record. he would not have nominated ada that has clearly illustrated that will not prosecute resisting arrest interest pressing including intent to distribute when that county with the hardest with opioids and overdoses. and dozens of retail chains like target and home depot would not have sent a letter to congress begging someone to do something about the crime and dennis jen psaki has said it has concerned biden deeply about the crime rate the national sheriffs association says we have yet to see one red penny or any type of program that enhances prosecution for any type of deterrence whatsoever and we have only seen an executive order to codify or restrict federal funds from use and local law enforcement trends. trey: it may be that ms. rollins would make a great public defender. that the hardest the progressive prosecutors that are elected and stationed in municipalities, is that the trend that they leave criminal defense and now common sense prosecutors quick. >> under the guise of criminal justice reform a lot of the district attorney's great elected a while ago when communities believe in swinging the pendulum toward the middle. but the policies enacted have absolutely shocked the community. that is why we are seeing so many. and in los angeles out of nowhere they did away with sentence enhancement and then had the nerve while standing alongside the new us attorney who refuses to prosecute had the nerve to call the sheriff a pig and then they refuse to prosecute anyone who was elected. the police themselves for a crime and told the union to "do their job. how can they do their job and they to have the support of prosecutors? they are already public defenders in play and in position. they don't need prosecutors to be a public defender also. when you say crime is the most insidious tax on the underserved communities of people of black and brown communities, you are absolutely right. embedded in this in san francisco, walmart has closed all of their locations and walgreens radiating the infirm and elderly and get their vaccines and prescription medicine? this is where people hit the hardest they are disproportionately affected and communities are no longer standing for it. trey: we have the funding the police that had its apex. blaming the police for raising crime rates. and then the idea to close federal prisons. does the left really think that is a winning strategy for 2022 and beyond? they cannot possibly think that is a winning strategy quick. >> if they had common sense they wouldn't. but those progressives and activists, that is a hallmark of their policy. and they have a direct line across communications to the white house. they are the central the quest. and who gets the blame when the policy coming out of the administration don't work when children are shot and killed on the street with the epidemic of violence and security guards and officers are shot and killed and pepper sprayed. it is the average regular american who just want safety insecurity who care about the children and who care about accountability where is merrick garland, he is the attorney general for the entire country with the throes of a crime wave, there are certain federal statutes that he could be enforcing, what is he doing? >> is prosecuting parents while throwing more of your tax dollars at crime with anything required to timpani down. we paid 139 million of our tax dollars to more law enforcement and we've yet to see any of that and to see it work he also sent an additional million almost 18 million on 88 grants for community participation, neighborhood program would not see any of that is too little too late. >> i do not think defunding the police and coming up with a long list of crimes are knocking to prosecute auto think that's a winning political strategy but who knows. thank you i hope you have a very merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. >> thank you for spending part of your sunday with us i hope you have a great week ahead until next week you can find us online with the tray yachting podcast, good night from south carolina life liberty and the event is up next. mark: hello america i marked live-in and this is "life, liberty & levin", this is a special edition program to great guest jason whitlock and byron donalds and we have a lot to go through. before we do it's my contention that many of the major media platforms in this country are r