and death. we didn't change course, we offered a new solution. instead doubled down on masks and mandates and draconian restrictions calling them unpopular but effective. watch. >> i novak si nation requirements are not popular for many. not popular for those who are anxious to get them. my administration isn't to control your life, but to save your life and the lives of others that will save thousands of american lives. >> so you're watching this. and the obvious question is, if joe biden's policies are so effective, why are we in the middle of another massive surge? here's another question, we're almost two years into this pandemic. why are we still experiencing a severe shortage of covid 19 tests? three weeks ago reporters in the press corps were begging the press secretary for a plan to ramp up testing, then psaki thought those concerns were stupid and tonight she's forced to circle back. watch. >> a couple of weeks ago, you stood at the podium and there was a discussion about sending tests to people's homes and you said should we send them to every american. as you reflected on the change in omicron, have you reflected on your tone in that answer? >> well, jeff, i would say there's not a day that goes by that i don't leave this podium and wish i would have said something with greater context or more precision or additional information. >> yeah, you were mocking the press corps. her boss joe biden was also short on answers. watch. >> what's your message to americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and are wondering who took so long to ramp up testing. >> come on, what took so long? >> i'm hearing that from people who are trying to get tested now before the holidays. >> well, what took so long is it didn't take long at all. what happened was, the omicron virus spread more rapidly than anybody thought. >> he never takes responsibility. according to joe, it's not really his fault. fox news is to blame for anything bad that happens in the age of covid. watch? >> the unvaccinated were responsible for their own choices. but those choices have been fueled by dangerous disinformation on cable tv and social media. the companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and offering misinformation that can kill their own customers and supporters. it's wrong. it's immoral. i call on the pervayers of these lies and misinformation to stop it, stop it now. >> so we're the problem. his vice president kamala harris told people not to take the vaccine because trump got it done? joe biden is so concerned after bashing cable tv, he vilified manchin, he accused manchin of hurting little children, watch? >> you strip away all of the dignity of a parent looking at their child -- i'm not joking about this. imagine being a parent looking at their child you can't afford, you have no house to borrow against, no savings, it's wrong. but all of the things in that bill are going to reduce prices. >> angry and wrong. biden took four questions after coughing his way through a poorly written speech. and according to joe, it was four questions too many. >> inflation. having to pay more than the money you have because things have gone up. or bring down all of those across the board from child care to -- child care tax credit. i'm not supposed to be having this press conference right now. >> so whose in control in the white house. joining us is joe concha and laura trump. joe, i will start with you first. i will give the press some credit. ment they did ask some tough questions. it doesn't seem like joe is still equipped to answer because maybe he doesn't have an answer, right? >> laurence, when he says, i'm not supposed to be having this press conference right now. that's his handlers who told him that, right? and that sums up year one of this administration to a tee. i'm not supposed to be up here being held accountable for my actions. this is an administration and president that time after time continues to be completely caught offguard on things they should see from a country mile away. wait, the taliban has captured kabul? we didn't see that coming. wait, inflation isn't transitory? it will be here for sometime, we didn't see that coming. law enforcement isn't the problem? skyrocketing violent crime is happening because police are demonized and criminals don't fear prosecution because bail laws have been neutered, wow, we didn't see that coming. and, wait, migrants are flooding the border after we invited them in, stopped building the wall and attacked our own border patrol? we didn't see what happening. this testing should have ramped up month 'ing ago, laurence, as you know. as usual, team biden, daylight, dime short. for them to say we didn't see this variant coming shows you they are exceptional about complaining and placing blame and not so good on governing, on inflation, on crime, on the border, on education, on afghanistan, find an issue democrats can win on and run on in 2022 and win valuable prizes. they're going to pay for it dearly in 2022 and 2024 at the polls. no question about it, laurence. >> i hope you're right. lara, i want to go to you. your father-in-law did something that no other president would be able to do because the businessman wasn't in to the washington bureaucracy. he got operation warp speed done, got us a vaccine in record time, because he was able to get all of that red tape out of the way. the biden administration had one job, get those vaccines into people's arms and get testing ramped up. but they just weren't able to do it. why? >> well, i think joe just laid out some great reasons -- i mean, they have no plan, they never had a plan. they don't take responsibility for anything. and it's been frustrating as an american citizen to watch failure after failure and feel like we're not getting information whatsoever out of this white house. if you look at specifically where we are right now with the omicron variant, if this white house wanted people to take it seriously and put a little stock in what they say, then they could be transparent with us. they could tell us that while this variant of covid is very transmissble, it's likely the least lethal covid variant that we will see. in fact, there has been one death linked to the omicron variant thus far. instead, they tell us we're going to have a winter for unvaccinated people of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated, for their families. we're going to overrun hospitals. there's absolutely nothing to back that up. but all they want to do is just scare tactics, it's fear mongering. it's all about politics but they are terrified, laurence, joe just said it. they know 2022 and 2024 is coming up quickly. they know they have failed the american people at every single turn. they don't know what to do about it. so i guess the answer is more control. i guess the answer is to make people afraid, keep the masks going, keep the mandates going, make sure that our frontline workers are leaving their jobs over these insane vaccine mandates. keep the issues with the supply chain going because of it as well. it's all bad for america. we have no transparency. who knows who is really running the country. and no one believes them, no one buys any of this at this point anymore. >> you know, i -- i was just watching this press conference, joe, and sealing the president, coughing all over the place, no masks as he's telling other americans to do the same thing. if you want to see a super spreader event, see how the president doesn't know basic science and what to do when you're coughing and not to get it all over him and put it all over the podium. this is basic stuff. this is rules for thee, and not for me. >> well, it's more like rules for d's as for democrats and not for me. there's an indoor mask mandate now in washington, d.c. i love this thing when for instance even the press secretary walks out with a mask, then does a 30 to 45 minute press conference without a mask while reporters are wearing masks asking questions and puts it on and walks back out. there's no common sense in this in any way, shape, or form. i don't understand how the president and the press secretary is the face of this administration. let's face it, continues to attack joe manchin as they did over the weekend. joe manchin did what was common sense, laurence, which was in west virginia polls have president biden at 65% disapproval, three quarters of west virginiians oppose the build back better bill. if you're joe manchin, what else should you have done than say, you know what? if i'm against this, i'm sure if we spend trillions for, that will increase inflation more, we're at a 40-year high, we should press pause on this until we have a better idea of where we are from an economic perspective or an inflation perspective. but the administration tried to go ahead with this anyway, democrats did. and this is something they will rue the day they decided to go big on this instead of trying to get individual bills passed, laurence. shavings make a pile, get some little wins here and there on certain issues and then maybe build some momentum. instead, this is a calculation when we look back at this presidency, this was the end of it because they went too big and it was too big not to fail. >> then they called manchin a liar in the press release. joe biden is promised to be a moderate just like manchin? who changed? the president of the united states changed. now he wants joe manchin to do the same thing. we'll cover that later. joe concha, law l.a. are a trump, thanks for joining me tonight. an important reminder, christmas is around the corner. don't worry, if you're shopping for last-minute gifts for the kids, the state of new jersey has you covered. watch this. >> dear santa, i don't want games, i don't want toys, just give me the covid vaccine. >> this holiday season, there's no better gift than peace of mind. get vaccinated today. >> that's what kids are thinking about, huh? clearly vaccines have become an identity for many on the left. to the end, democrats are busy denigrating two classes of citizens, vaksed and unvaksed. some are trying to block unvaccinated individuals from flying. according to the biden administration, if we're all good and obedient, at some point in the future, we might not have to wear a mask all the time. here to react, author of why america matters, from hud secretary dr. ben carson. thank you for joining us tonight. you have treated a ton of patients. people know you for what you're able to do that no one else knows is take the twins apart from each other. doctor, when you see the medical institution targeting kids directly and not talking to their parents, what goes through your mind? >> well, it's very disturbing that we would take advantage of children like that. you know, the human brain is an incredibly complex organ. and it is developing at a rapid rate from the time of conception. when a baby is born, almost all of the organs have matured except for the brain. the brain continues to develop into your 20s. we are now trying to take these children and take advantage of the fact that their parents are not involved in a decision making and trying to twist them and manipulate them and it's nothing short of child abuse, quite frankly. you couple that with the fact that we're making them wear masks at a time when they're supposed to be learning how to correlate people's facial expressions with what they're saying, which is a very important part of socialization process. and we're not taking into consideration any of the ramifications of what we're doing. it's like you're going ahead with blinders on. and almost like zombies, everybody has to have this vaccine. you know? the fact of the matter is, we have a tremendous medical system here. it and why not let people have the real information and work with their healthcare providers, one size does not fit all. certainly for elderly people, you know, the vaccination seem to make good sense. when you do a benefit/risk analysis. but for young people, particularly for children who are healthy, who have almost zero risk from the virus, why would you now subject them to long-term risks that you don't know anything about. >> sthaes that's exactly right, doctor. dr. fauci was just on another network, msnbc, and when a reporter asked him if you should allow a family member to your house for christmas if they haven't been vaccinated. he said, i would don't that. for someone that we trust, doctor, what is your advice on that? >> well, my advice is to use some common sense. if they're -- if your family member has had covid and has natural immunity, they are safer than somebody who's had vaccinations. if they've had vaccinations, that's good. and if they're healthy and you're healthy, that's good, you need to take all those things into consideration. but to act like the police, that's not necessary. and particularly, given the fact that the omicron variant is not veryvirulent. everybody is going to have it. i predict with all of the testing we're going to be doing, we'll have massive numbers of people who test positive and this add administration will have no idea what to do with them? >> should we stop testing, doctor, so much? if people are asymptomatic, they're not showing any signs and perfectly healthy, should we continue to test those individuals? >> i think we should give thought to not testing people who are asymptomatic. we're going to end up with a real problem. we're going to have massive numbers of people who test positive. what are we going to do? are we going to shut everything down? it doesn't make any sense. if you're dealing with something that doesn't make people very sick, we need to be particularly concerned about our elderly people and the people who have co-morbid conditions and we need to direct our attention to them. but we need to be looking at therapeutics. we have the merck anti-viral, we have the pfizer anti-viral, which show tremendous promise, decreasing hospitalizations by 89%. are you kidding me? we're not pushing that? that should be an emergency. we should get that out. when people do test positive, we have something to do. >> what's holding it up. you've been in the private sector and also in government. what holds something like this up. >> well, when i was on the controversy task force, there was a sense of urgency. i don't see that sense of urgency now. why aren't they really anxious to get it under control? and you know, think about it, if we were so afraid of this virus, if this administration were so afraid of it, why are they letting people come through the southern border, 20% of whom are infected. there's a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense if you're talking about logic and common sense. >> those are the people we know of. that doesn't include the got-aways, doc? we thank you for what you've done with this country. >> thank you, it's always a pleasure to be with you. thank you. >> thank you so much. coming up, biden's poll numbers are worse than ever. but don't worry, democrats unveiled a brand new political strategy. the people in west virginia and the people who live there. and a shocking new report of the southern border as hannity continues. >> welcome back to hannity, now more bad news for joe biden. a new poll for fox business found a whopping 7 in 10 americans think 2021 was a bad year for the country. and it doesn't stop there. according to a new poll from the, 10% of voters say democratic accomplishments more than they expected. surge in inflation, rise in energy costs, with no end in sight is a stark reminder of the failure of joe biden and the failure of the democratic agenda. get this, according to a new cnn poll, biden's economic numbers have cratered to a point even lower than jimmy carter it shows you how much people are losing confidence with the biden presidency. i think a lot of voters are starting to have buyers remorse because they say that joe doesn't only not have the stamina, but everything that he promised as far as being a moderate, he lied to the american people and now he wants to blame your colleague, joe manchin. >> hello, laurence. merry christmas. so refreshing to see mr. manchin coming out and being the voice of reason. we need oning in covid. the biden administration has been a disaster. when he cancelled the pipeline, that contributed to rising gas prices. he opened the borders so we had a record surge of illegal immigration. the embarrassing and dangerous surrender in afghanistan. and,ing you know, the only solution is spending more money. that's a double whammy. not only do you create way more dollars chasing too few goods, so that's the definition of inflation, but you're spending those dollars to make it possible for people not to re-engage in the workforce. you don't have the manufacturers to hire more people, so that exacerbates the supply of goods. so the policies of the democrats, this is what we are seeing the results of, but it is their policy. it's accurate to call them incompetent, but that's way too kind. >> to your colleague, joe manchin, what was going on behind the scenes. seems like he was very transparent on where he stood on this piece of legislation. he thought it was way too much spending. he communicated that to the white house, he communicated that to the american public. but it seems like the biden administration weren't willing to, you know, compromise on the issue and when he said he was done, they decided to have his staffers out there and leak and smear this man. >> sounded to me he laid out in great detail what he would accept and the biden administration and those in congress figured they could pressure him into rolling and shove it down his throat. and they developed a plan of dishonest scoring, something that's about $5 trillion in spending, to score about $5 trillion, and when the cbo score came out, joe manchin said i can't buy this. plus, he was highly concerned about inflation. a 6.8% consumer price index. 9.7% producer price index. this is a disaster for the very people democrats purport to represent. seniors on fixed income and people on the lower income of our income spectrum. inflation hurts them the most. they're not going to be bothered by inflation. they're rolling in the dough. it's the poor people and elderly that are hurt by inflation. again, inflation caused by democrat policies. >> you know, senator, i have to ask you, it seems like the republicans are going to take back the house. you have to take back the senate. so if you get the power back in your hands, what are you going to do for the american people. because they're not going to have the squishy nonsense, they're going to be strong for an america first agenda. what's the agenda for you guys? >> i think we should continue with the successful trump agenda, reduce regulation, maintain a competitive tax system and stay off of the backs of the american public. let them live their lives, build their business, and have all of the products and services they value and get the government out of their lives as much as possible. it's successful. that's what made america great. our freedom. the ability to dream, aspire, and create. not big government. >> it's a simple formula, senator. hope your colleagues follow it. thank you for joining us on hannity tonight. democrats continue to point fingers at joe manchin for dealing their far left spending spree a much-needed realty check. who do you think knows west virginiians better, far left democrats or senator manchin? fox news digital went to the mountain state for reaction. >> support him 120%. >> absolutely. >> support him not backing down to biden. >> nothing that bill was going to help west virginia. and, in fact, it would have cost us jobs. for which we would of course be paying the tax base. >> it was the right thing to do. too much money going the wrong direction. >> he did a good thing in denying it. >> that is west virginia. but, of course, democrats and their allies in hollywood can't help but laufrng more smear attacks against everyday americans. look at this disgusting tweet from bette midler, quote, he sold us out. he wants us all to be just like his state in west virginia, poor, illiterate, and strung out. midler later apologized, but we all know how she really feels. even worse, new york congressman jamal bowman said this about the west virginia senator, take a look. >> it's tremendously frustrating for me as a black man in america because once again, it's an example of joe manchin as a white man showing that he doesn't care about black people. he doesn't care about latinos. he doesn't care about immigrants, women. and he doesn't care about the poor. he is a millionaire and he has the privilege to kick the can down the road and not vote for this bill while the people in my district are suffering. >> here we go. the same old tactics. here for reaction, congressman mcdonald and the author of all american christmas. shawn duffy. thank you for being with me today. congressman, i will start with you first. this is the same tactic. but i would like to educate the congressman about how black votes and latinos are doing under the trump administration. >> well, look, let me tell you quickly. whether you're black or hispanic, whether you're jamal bowman or bette midler, they don't understand the economics going on in this country. if prices are rising out of control, that damages your ability to live in your life. bette midler doesn't understand that, she's a wealthy actress. god bless her for her success. the colleague from new york has forgotten the money spent by this administration and the terrible covid policies, the two governors of new york now are crushed the poor people of the home state of new york. democrats need to learn from their mistakes but they're more committed to politics than they are the economics of the american people. >> shawn, you listen to these folks in west virginia. they respect their senator telling the american people what they -- how they really feel about this legislation. and, yet, it doesn't seem like the democratic party cares, i mean, he's the only democrat really there. >> well, but the one who cares about west virginia is joe manchin. donald trump got 68% of the vote in west virginia and here you have, you know, joe manchin, a democrat, trying to run and win in a state that's heavily republican. you have to be smart about your votes. so when you have bette midler and attacking west virginia, west virginia understands that build back better has a slew of green new deal provisions that kills energy that kills west virginia jobs and raises their taxes. but if i can make one other point on the race issue, whether you're socialism or communism, massive debt or inflation, it doesn't care about the pigment of your skin, it affects all of us, the same. if you go to venezuela or cuba, you can have people with more pigment and they're getting destroyed by this policy. they destroy families and economies equally. that's why good smart reup pubs are standing up and pushing back. thank god for joe manchin saying, listen, this will destroy the american dream, i don't care if you're poor, rich, black, or man or woman, it's going to kill us all. i'm going to say no to it. good for him. >> it wasn't just a racial smear. it's about calling these voters dumb. strung out on drugs, poor. they don't know any better. so we have to rescue them. this is what they really feel about voters. >> listen, the truth will always be that people in their ordinary lives know far more than liberal elites, especially those who might live on the coasts or in washington, d.c. i will take what the people of west virginia or florida or missouri or texas say about government overspending than somebody who has basically lived at the top of american life and doesn't understand the economic realities on the ground of every american's face. and as a member of congress, i will tell you, there's far too many members who know the true impact of economic policy and how washington has made that worse year-over-year over year. i'm staying with the people. >> yeahment. shawn, you've been there. you've been through the halls of congress. you see how this thing operates every two years, congress is there. every -- every six years, you got the senate. what do you see happening? >> republicans take over the house. it's very simple. it's the stop of the biden agenda. republicans won't be -- biden won't b do anything, pass any legislation because joe biden will never sign it. the best hope is we stop this craziness. and in the senate and have a good 2024, you can roll back some of these policies. but democrats understand if you get build back better in the place, they know it's almost impossible to roll those policies back. remember when john mccain said no to obama care and they hailed him as a maverick, isn't he a wonderful republican who voted no against the reformed obama care. where are the democrats right now? saying i love joe manchin. he's a maverick. he's going his own way. they don't say that right now. they hate mavericks in the democrat party. but they love them in the republican party. we're going to have a great 2022 and 2024 and get america back on track and have america first policies to get us on track. >> i find it comical that you're only a maverick when you're on their side. the moment you go to the other side, then you have to get out. you have to get out of the party. we don't want to be associated with you. you're evil and racist. this guy has been a democrat for years. they accept bernie. they accept crazy bernie. but manchin has to go. i mean, i find it comical. gentlemen, thank you so much. congressmen, shawn thank you so much. a breaking new report from the southern border where drugs, criminals, and covid 19 continue. and check in with cori brook who's taking a stand against the violence in the city, stay with us, more hannity next. >> welcome back to hannity, the self-inflicted biden border crisis is worsening. tonight we're learning more about a potential terrorist from saudi arabia with ties to yemen who tried to cross the arizona border last week wearing an emt jacket. he's linked to several subjects of interest but they don't know how he got the jacket he got for disguise. citing multiple sources saying uber drivers are aiding in the transport of illegal migrants into the u.s. the the conditions at the border are getting so bad that even biden is being forced to face reality. the department of homeland security announced they will use funds left over from president trump to fill in the gaps for the border wall. and even the media is admitting that the border response is failing. with an editorial arguing that bide up's own border policy is contributing to the surge of migrants and the death toll. here is attorney general mark bronovich. thank you so much for joining me today. mark, i want to go straight to you. you're a border state. i've been covering yuma as well as what's happening in texas. can it get any worse down there, sir? >> every time you think we mitt rock bottom, there's a record amount of people flooding into the country each year. last week, our officers were involved in fete nil. it's one of the reasons why i've been battling in the courtroom whether it's failing to sue, the biden administration is making america more dangerous in the cartel. don't forget. two milligrams of fentanyl can kill you and this last week we seized more than 6 million fentanyl pills this year alone. people are going to die. >> i'm sorry, attorney general, have you heard anything from mark kelly. he promised to be a moderate. he didn't believe in open borders, he's got a big race coming up. the id you hear anything to get this under control. >> no, i think that he is essentially voting with chuck schumer 100% of the time and he's been co-opted by the dc and globalist elite. it's like the old waldo thing, the old where's waldo, where's kelly. no one has seen him in arizona. as someone who grew up here and a lifelong prosecutor, it disgusts me. because this isn't a right versus left, it's fundamental of right versus wrong, lawrence. >> jason, we knew this was going to happen. when you allowed a criminal enterprise to get away with it, they take advantage. you heard that the crips and bloods are now aiding the cartel. we have uber drivers, we have american citizens that are helping to make this happen. but this was expected, right? >> yeah, no surprise. they probably get a little uber eats along the way. this is big business. this is billions of dollars. this is the drug cartel taking over the border, human trafficking. drug trafficking. they're bringing across covid in record -- >> i was on the immigration subcommittee there and the judiciary committee. when it was biden working with obama, it was similar. but biden has taken it to a whole other level and kamala harris, i mean, she is absolutely nowhere. they have totally ignored this problem. they never bring it up. if you go to the good state of arizona, you're going to find 150 different countries represented of people pouring across that border. not just a mexico issue, a world-wide funnel across the southern border. >> i'm from the great state of texas. the governor has to build his own wall, never been done before. have to pay for the national -- the texas state troopers to do the majority of it because the border patrol are overwhelmed. i mean, this is not compassion what's happening right now? >> yeah, and -- how many of these people are being raped, it's unbelievable. the attack on people and human life is disgusting. >> attorney general? >> yeah, absolutely. the president has the apex and this power constitutionally and statutorily as we come to the border. we saw the failure of the biden administration in afghanistan, we know as a result of the policies, americans will die. we know people on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended. you had the story of someone from audi arabia with ties to yemen. this is a real catastrophe. it's not global warming. biden and cartel kelly have brought it on the country and people are going to die as a result of the biden administration policies. shame on the biden administration and carteling, that's why we have to fight people like jason who have talked about this issue. you're right. we sued the biden administration because people are released from our prisons and our jails convicted of crimes like arson, rape, and manslaughter released to our community. shame on the biden administration, cartel kelly, and shame on nancy pelosi. >> you're right. jason, every state, every city is a border state, a border town. all these states, they're dropping people like a rock. >> the administration has not come clean, despite many requests from congress as to where you're shipping these people. the reports are they're putting them in airplanes, putting them in vehicles, they're moving them to other parts of the country, just flowing them in to society. and what are they supposed to do, laurence, once they get here? how are they supposed to provide or buy food or get a job or do something like that? you can't just dump hundreds of thousands of people and just end up being millions of people into the society and not have a major economic and crime impact. >> oh, they know who's going to pay for it. we, the american public are going to pay for it. including funding for illegal immigrants in all of the bills you want to pass. they have a plan. i think we're under this illusion that the left doesn't know what they're doing. they know exactly what they're doing. americans will pay for that. thank you so much for joining the program tonight. coming up, lori lightfoot is now begging the federal government to help fight violent crimes. one local pastor is taking action in his own hands and he joins us after a quick break. stay with us. more hannity. >> welcome back to hannity. tonight we continue to spotlight the ongoing violence in the city of chicago where week after week, crime surges, shootings spike, and residents live in fear for their lives. this week, mayor lori lightfoot begged the biden administration for federal resources to combat the violence. take a look. >> but we must build on the efforts, the help from the federal government. that's why i have formally asked the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland to, with all delivered haste, detail atf agents to chicago for six months so that we can increase the number of gun investigations and seizures in chicago. we need these additional resources well in advance of next summer. >> didn't the former president of the united states donald trump offer the mayor help? but she denied it. in 2021, chicago is seeing the highest number of homicide in 30 years. but rather than address the core issues, the mayor is more focused on the vaccine mandates. take a look. >> if you have been living without having a vaccination, it's time for a change. if you wish to live life as normally as possible, with the ease to do the things that you love, you must be vaccinated with the city of chicago. >> just so we're clear, kids in chicago are more likely to die from a gun shot than covid. but covid is the issue in chicago. but one pastor in chicago said he's ready to take action. he's doing a 100-day roof top vigil living on top of a church building outside of a tent to raise money for a new community senter to combat the windy city's violence. here to explain more is pastor cory brooks. thank you so much for joining me. it's always a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. >> it's very clear that the time to act is now. a 30-year high in chicago. what can with do to stop this right now? >> well, the time is now. and the urgency is at hand. but we have to do everything we can to stop out the violence in chicago. it's going to take an all out effort by everyone. that's the reason i'm on this roof and why project good is trying to build a center so we can tackle the issues that we're facing every single day. so we can transform lives. we believe that government does policy. but we major in transforming lives. that's what it's going to take to change the violence in chicago, a transformation of people's lives. >> pastor, i go to chicago. numerous amounts of days, i talk to the boys on the block, the gangsters, the families that have been impacted by this losing their daughters and sons. one thing that i have noticed is because there's a lack of enforcement and lawlessness, that the kids don't have a choice. you have gangsters telling kids join or we'll harass you. or your family. you'll wind up dead. there are multiple factors on that, am i right. >> there's lawlessness in chicago at this time. it's why it's good that the atf will come in and help out. we need them desperately. without a shadow of a doubt. one of the things that we never need to do is defund the police. we need to invest in our police so we can make sure that we have law and order. we need to make sure that we give our opportunity -- our police officers every opportunity that they can have to make sure that they have law in the city of chicago. and so we need to support them and we need to support their efforts. >> sir, i know you talk with so many family members that have been impacted by the violence that have lost folks, sons and daughters. what are they telling you right now with the surge. >> there's a sense of hopelessness, there's so many people recently, an article written by the "chicago sun-times," 57 children have been shot and kill in the city of chicago. that's alarming. that's not something that we should be used to. that's not something that should be normal. that's the reason we're doing everything we can with our organization to help as many parents as we can to change this situation to change this narrative. we need all of the help we can get. that's why i'm thankful to fox for giving me the opportunity to talk and bringing our attention. we need people across america to help us with this situation. >> you know, we do need more people. we wish more people in the main stream media will tell me about this story. why don't you forget about chicago, i can't, my brother sean hannity calls it, it's the american family. we have people in our american family being shot every single day, we cannot let this happen in another american city. thank you so much, pastor, so much for joining us. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> you bet, more hannity after the break. stay with us. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints experience the power of sanctuary and 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