>> look, there is federal solution. it's all state level, i'm looking at governors on the board here. he talks about it a lot. it ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road. >> gregg: and other words, there was no plan and there never was a plan. three months ago, the white house ignored top public health experts and turned down a proposal to add -- get this -- more than 730 million at home covid a tests to the marketplace each month. that recording to a report in "vanity fair" and in the middle of another search, covid tests are in short supply, i wonder why. journalists in the mainstream media are in full on panic mode. take a look. >> covid could not stop christmas but here we are again. the holiday season overshadowed by the pandemic that just won't go away. this time with the fear things may actually be getting worse. omicron is sweeping the country and becoming the dominant covid strain in just a matter of days. smashing hopes for a return of normal anytime soon. >> gregg: joe had a plan but now he doesn't. many in the media are taking their cues from dr. anthony fauci who wants you to be very, very afraid and telling americans stop having parties, don't have fun, cancel your new year's eve plans. watch this. >> what's your advice about larger settings for your parties? >> i would stay away from that. i've been telling people consistently that if your vaccinated and boosted and have a family setting in the home with family and relatives. what we are talking about is a new year's eve party, 30, 40, 50 people celebrating, you do not know the status of their vaccination, i would recommend strongly stay away from that this year. there will be other used to do that, but not this year. >> gregg: in fact, you should hide in the closet or go to the seller. covid-19 spiking around the country especially in new york and los angeles. dr. fauci wants you to live in abject fear. one local columnist in miami knows who to blame for all of days. florida governor ron desantis. the latest op-ed is titled "last lesson of 2021: omicron happens when we asked selfishly like governor desantis." here with reaction, byron donalds along with the arizona attorney general and senate candidate mark brnovich. thank you for being with us. congressman, joe biden says there is no federal solution. does he not remember a few months ago he said he had the federal solution and it was his federal nationwide vaccine mandate coupled with nationwide federal mask mandates. is this the guy who suffers from chronic amnesia because his brain is so addled? maybe it's both? >> i'm not sure what joe biden suffers from but it's clear that he is extremely incompetent and doesn't know what he's doing. this is the same person who said he had a plan but there is no monoclonal antibody treatments anywhere in the hospital in the northeast and being rationed right now because the administration did not plan. millions of americans are looking for tests or at home tests and there aren't any because we did not plan. at time after time after time, joe biden has failed. why are we surprised by this at this point, americo? we shouldn't be. compared to the beginning of the pandemic, there were no respirators and donald trump made sure they were there. there was no ppe, donald trump nature they were there. we were having a major supplying chain issue, donald trump nature didn't become a problem at the beginning of the pandemic. this is less for the american people to look at what's happening versus political talking points. the only person that had talking points has been joe biden. unfortunately we have to live with it. >> gregg: he had a lot of talking points, our attorney general, during the campaign. he had a plan, he had a solution and he said "i'm going to shut down the virus" and said it over and over again when he was inaugurated, he said the same thing i'm going to shut down the virus. isn't this the problem when politicians running for office make all kinds of wild promises they cannot possibly fulfill. when they fail, americans get angry and resentful about it, and politicians ratings tank. isn't that what happened here? >> i think you encapsulated that very well. the reason why they are sick and tired of politicians in d.c., they're so much hypocrisy and inconsistency. what breaks my heart, there was a time this country when the president said something you believed it and you knew it was the truth. but because people like joe biden and people's administration has been inconsistent and talking out of both sides of their mouth, they created more chaos when it comes to the pandemic and they try to exert unconstitutional powers they do not have. this country faced many processes in the past and they recognize and understand what's consistent about the country is the constitution. the federal government did not create the states and what works in manhattan, new york, may not work in manhattan, kansas, and isn't going to work in manhattan beach california. we have to recognize the system of federal that they recognize in times of crisis that's when we look to the constitution and rule of law more than ever. our constitution cannot be a mass distance and should never be canceled by president joe biden. >> gregg: i think joe biden sometimes believes americans are as stupid as he is. he said that if he had known about the winter surge, he would have made testing widespread readily available. in advance. but he was warned in the springtime by health officials that there was going to be a surge. they recommended millions of rapid tests. he was warned again in the fall. he was told we need 730 million rapid tests, he rejected the proposal. isn't he lying when he says nobody knew, fauci knew, cdc new, they are his science advisors, they told him. >> of course joe biden is lying, he's lying like he said nobody told him about afghanistan. it's a lie then and a line now. anybody with sense knows in the winter months any type of flu strain, influenza, covid, anything aerosolized is going to spread in the winter months in the northeast. it's happened every winter are basically in the history of mankind. the problem is we are dealing with an inapt president. this is the same person who is always failing, like i said a minute ago. why are we shocked at this point? the man doesn't know what he's doing. he's a failure. the american people need to do is we need to prepare for ourselves and we cannot rely on this president. we should never rely on government because government is too slow, not responsive enough, and not bright enough. we need to rely on ourselves and make sure we planned ahead, we need to do what's necessary late to take care of ourselves and our families. joe biden's not here to help you, folks, he will let you down every single time. >> gregg: i remember, attorney general, when joe biden the candidate scoffed at donald trump's prediction that in the springtime of this year, there would be vaccines readily available and distributed to americans. biden said nonsense, that's not going to happen. then when it happened, joe biden took credit for the vaccines as well as the distribution plan that donald trump had put in place. biden largely went along with it. as well as saying biden saying that he had no plan to deal with the vaccine, isn't that his real failure here? that he just never came up with a plan, he thought that the vaccine that trump had devised would solve everything. >> yeah, gregg, the one thing that has been consistent is the fact that everything that biden administration has touched has worked out very poorly. there's a whole saying about the failure to plan is the plan to fail. this country has faced pandemics before. this is something that we need to recognize that's happened before and depend on folks and leaders to make sure that they plan appropriately. big no mistake about it, we can't afford gas, we can't afford groceries, fuel costs are going through the roof. the biden administration is to blame for all of this. the enablers in congress is results of the policies, inflations going through the roof and there is no serious conversation about covid as a pandemic unless we talk about the epidemic at that biden created with fentanyl coming into the country, and think about this. and everybody watching it tonight, you're telling americans that you'll restrict our constitutional rights and we have to do xyz or testing nontesting, and allowing people to enter the entry illegally to fly all across the country and at taxpayers expense without being vaccinated and dropped off in cities at the dead of night without being tested. that underlies everything biden administration's doing and points out the abject hypocrisy and irrationality of what they are trying to do when it comes to the pandemic. >> gregg: congressman donalds, attorney general brnovich, thank you so much for being with us. let's turn to some breaking news. the cdc just announced it's cutting the recommended isolation time for those affected with covid-19 from ten days down to five days. this is the omicron variant. now being blamed for massive staffing shortages in businesses, hospitals, and airlines. sadly more than 800 flights canceled after 1500 were canceled on sunday. but dr. fauci believes masks on airplanes are effective and necessary and should be mandated indefinitely. maybe forever. in during one flight to atlanta, and unmasked woman assaulted an 80-year-old man for not wearing a mask while he was eating. watch this. >> mask up. mask up. >> [bleep] you, sir. [bleep]. [indistinct] >> gregg: it brings us to important issues surrounding mental health, lockdowns, remote learning, isolation causing serious issues. for many of americans especially children. surgeon general is now warning of a mental health epidemic for kids. in the meantime, one top health expert from brown university told fox news that school closures should not even be on the table. this week on cbs, a rare moment of clarity and honesty. watch this. >> i want to get to an underreported story. jan. >> for me, i mean come on my kids hear me rant about this every day so i might as well tell you. it's the crushing impact that are covid policies have had on young kids and children. by far, the least serious risks and serious illness, but even teenagers, you know, healthy teenager has a one in a million chance of getting and dying from covid which is way lower than dying in a car wreck. but they suffered and sacrificed the most, especially kids under represented, at risk communities. now we have the surgeon general saying there is a crisis among our kids. the risk of suicide attempts among girls now about 51% this year. >> gregg: joining now with reaction, fox news medical contributor dr. janette nesheiwat along with former attorney assistant secretary of treasury monica crowley. thank you for being with us. doctor, let me start with you and let me get your reaction to the latest information we are getting and the latest news alert from the cdc. people who tested positive only need to quarantine for 5 days if they are not showing any symptoms to wear a mask for another five days. you've been boosted and if you've been exposed, you do not need to isolate at all. what do you think that? >> i think it's a good idea because we need to get to the point, gregg, where we live with the virus and adapt to it. we can't live our lives surrounded and being ruled by the coronavirus. most people about their infectious one or two days before they develop symptoms and then three days after they develop symptoms. we have to take this into consideration. people want to get back into the workforce and they do not want to be sitting at home pretending. i have a lot of patients who feel better after three or four days. i have a lot of patients that have had no symptoms so it makes sense to shorten the quarantine period especially if you have tested negative and no symptoms, no fever, and you're feeling good. >> gregg: monica, we know that omicron is not as lethal as other strains, symptoms for most people seem to be mild. more than an a majority or a symptomatically, especially those who have been vaccinated and boosted. we are seeing the studies about the devastating impact, the deleterious effect on children is crushing them. the anxiety, the depression, is that not one of the underreported stories? >> absolutely, and i give cbs credit for covering it. although some of us have been writing about this for well over a year. this pandemic has caused a lot of collateral damage, economically, politically, culturally. but i think perhaps most significant is the impact that it's having on children, teenagers, and young people. there is a lot of mental health issues that have come up over the last two years since we have dealt with this pandemic. they bear the brunt of a lot of the ramifications of the school closures and the isolation from their friends and their teachers, and some cases their families. we have seen all kinds of mental health issues from depression, anxiety, isolation, suicidal ideation, suicide. we are seeing young people really feeling the effects of this. and a lot of people are talking about it now that the virus has weekend, we now have the vaccine since the therapeutics, and we are almost in a safer space for people to start talking about this. but the problem is that the damage is largely already done. >> gregg: let me get the doctor's point of view on this. doctor, we are seeing my kids with masks on in school all the time. they are eating meals outdoors in the cold. talk about the effects they have on kids. virtual learning, all in isolation, no socialization. what effect does it have on kids? >> first of all, completely unnecessary masking outdoors while eating completely unnecessary. the world health organization says no to masking these young children. the profound mental, psychological impact on the children doing this to them is astounding. like monica said, increase in suicidal ideation, increase of suicide among young girls. we see an increase in pediatric e.r. visits and drugs, alcohol, it's really heartbreaking. our priority should be number one keeping our kids in class and exhausting all resources to make sure that we do that. there are generations ahead of us in the decisions we make today will greatly impact them as far as their learning, their education, their mental well-being. that should be the top priority. >> gregg: monica, we all remember during the presidential campaign when joe biden said about donald trump. he said, "anybody who is for that many deaths should not remain as president." at the time, there was 220,000 covid deaths, but since joe biden took office, there have been more than 350,000 deaths, more people have died. so by joe biden's own logic, he shouldn't be president, should he? >> that's right. we should hold him to the standard that he laid out. what's interesting is we have had more deaths from covid this year when we've had the number of vaccines on the market and people getting their vaccines and their boosters. look, i think we are in a completely different place now. for the president today to claim that it's not a federal government response and it should go to the states when all of last year during the campaign, he was attacking president trump for not having a plan. president trump had a plan, it was called operation work speed and it was one of the greatest achievements of any president in american history. may be in world history. but joe biden comes in and clearly doesn't have a plan. from testing all the way down, he has been completely inapt. the statement today about there is no good federal response to this is basically an admission of his own incompetence. by the way, if he really believes that, there are some federal vaccine mandates going in for the supreme court if there is no federal response to this, then those vaccine mandates should be null and void. >> gregg: you know, doctor, i know you don't want into politics and this really does have sort of a scientific angle to it, but joe biden repeatedly blamed donald trump for of a covered desk. -- covid tests. he said if the president had done his job, all the people would still be alive. that's utter nonsense. would you agree that trump couldn't stop covid deaths anymore than joe biden could stop covid deaths? >> you know what i can tell you, gregg, i've taken care of thousands of covid patients in the past few years and talking about no federal solution, president trump sent me ventilators, pba, the uss comfortship, i had all the tools and resources to take care of my patients. to say there is no federal solution is disheartening to me. this is a virus that took us all by surprise. we did not know at the beginning what it would be like, how many people it would kill. like monica side, operation warp speed is one of the greatest blessings we have had. it saved thousands -- if not thousands, millions of lives globally. we need to look at the bigger picture and not point fingers, but continue to use the therapeutics, the tools that we have to make sure we keep americans safe. >> gregg: dr. nesheiwat, monica crowley, thank you so much for being with us. coming up, apparently joe biden is the last person in the world to know what "let's go, brandon" means. democrats are now trying to end the legislative filibuster. we will expose their rampant hypocrisy coming up next. this is a special edition of "hannity." ♪ ♪ switching wireless carriers is easy with xfinity. just lean on our helpful switch squad to help you save with xfinity mobile. they can help break up with your current carrier for you and transfer your info to your new phone. giving you a fast and easy experience that can save you hundreds a year on your wireless bill. visit your nearest xfinity store and see how the switch squad can help you switch and save. get $200 off a new eligible 5g phone when you switch to xfinity mobile. talk with our helpful switch squad at your local xfinity store today. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> gregg: welcome back to "hannity," joe biden and the democrats are ending the year in a state of dysfunction, disarray, and all out the dilution. president continues to suffer from cratering popularity, slumping approval numbers. for example,pi the president is underwater in both real clear politics average and in the 538 polling data. support is waning among independents and on key issues including covid, the border, the economy.y. one of the few people polling worse than joe biden is his own vice president, a whopping 54% disapprove of kamala harris' job performance and made her never ending stream of bewildering sometimes cackling moments. rather than admit their failures, the biden team is doubling down on dilution. for example, failed chief of staff ron klain this being mocked tonight after tweeting out an article saying that 2021 "wasn't all that bad." really?etet of course, their allies in the media are continuing to pay attention to everything but the issues that matter most to americans. take a look at the attacksr directed at an oregon father after he engaged in a harmless prank on biden earlier this week. take a look. >> i hope you guys have a wonderful christmas as well. merry christmas and let's go, brandon. >> lets go, brandon, i agree. >> gregg: i agree, "let's go, brandon."y now the father 35-year-old jared says he has been receiving threatening phone calls amid the hysterical outrage. same media who spewedg vulgarities about then added to donald trump for four long years are now enraged over a simple joke. here for a reaction, obama economic advisor austan goolsbee along with fox news contributor charlie hurt. good to see you guys. i wrote this down because it's a little bit of a long list and i will run through it quickly. this is joe biden's first year.e record inflation, soaring grass prices, spiraling crime, pandemic surge, afghanistan debacle, and of course his embarrassing failure to pass his $5 trillion socialist entitlement lollapalooza. intelligentny standard that's an unmitigated disaster. is it any wonder his ratings are in the toilet? >> no, it's really not. i would say this has been the worst first year of any president, certainly if you go back 100 years in the country, nobody has a record quite as one.l as this it's really remarkable about this is of course joe biden came into office with an enormous amount of goodwill. he had been around for 50 years, he was a known quantity and it's hard to imagine a guy that's been around that long anything dramatic happening with his poll numbers. he has managed to screw so many things up so badly. don't forget this guy must be a gregg, this is at a time when his party controls every lever of power in washington. there is no excuse. the silver lining for republicans at thee beginning of this year when they lost the senate was that whatever happened after that was 100% joe biden's fault and democrats fault. it this is the situation and really the only good news for joe biden is he picked the right vice president because she's even more unpopular than him which protects him from the 20 for the men meant and probably a few other things. >> gregg: can you imagine if she was actually popular? which was always unlikely since nobody voted for her in the primaries. austen, biden said of course, i don't follow my poll numbers. i don't blame him. in fact, i will even grant you that some of these problems are conditional. but most of them, wouldn't you agree that he did this to himself? that he earned these poor approval ratings? >> well, i would characterize and i said it when obama was in office and when president trump was there, and it will say it again to president biden's people. the sad fact of the american system is that the first year year and i i office is the mostn you're ever going to have as president.he you always go down. it's a one-way ticket down in popularity. he's actually above -- president biden's actually above where president trump was at the same point, which was in the high 30s. he's a little below where obama was, but all of them saw major drops in their popularity in their first two years, and the incumbent president almost always has a very tough first midterm election. thus far, it looks like their own path. i think you're being uncharitable when you make a list of things that went wrong. not to include a bunch of things that where really going in his favor like they passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill, they trust a rescue plan --nvo >> gregg: with help of republicans by the way. >> back down to 4.2% lower when he took office and created a record number of jobs in the byyear. there are definitely some positives to go along with the negatives. >> gregg:ga charlie, the polling data shows that joe biden is losing and this is important. among independents, and he's losing hispanic voters, about even now inhi a hypothetical matchup with trump which is saying something when democrats start losing hispanic voters. what does this portend for the midterms? >> i think what it tells us -- first of all, midterms will be a disaster for joe biden and the democrats. it tells that joe biden has managed to do something that all of theomll money and the campais that republicans can think up can't do the good for them that joe biden has done for them. why? because joe biden has gotten these voters to sort of clear through all of the nonsense and focus on the issues. on the issues, joe biden is wrong about all of them. it bears repeatingng again and again, the reason donald trump got elected in 2016 wasn't because he was a nice guy. he got elected because he had the right issues and he alone had identified those issues and the democrats and republicans ignored it for a long time. chief among them being illegal immigration and joe biden took a situation with illegal immigration and made it infinitely worse. the things donald trump fixed about that, he re-broke and re-broke at a level far more disastrous than anything we have ever seen before. i think the 2022 midterms will be however bad democrats thinks, it's going to be it's going to be even worse. >> gregg: as i mentioned, the only one with worse approval ratings is kamala harris. is she a drag his administration? >> i don't think most people evaluate the president based on the president's own actions and merits. >> gregg: except she's in charge of the border which is a big deal, she's in charge of the border. please, she went near the border but not at the border, let's be clear. >> as i said, i don't think that has much bearing on people's evaluation of president biden. as i say also, it is tough for me to see how you explain why donald trump's popularity was even lower than joe biden's right now at this same point in his presidency. this is the american way of presidents.w we chew them up and then once they're out of office, we raise them back up again. >> gregg: charlie, last quick question. ron klain, staff of joe biden, the retweets is opinion piece and says, you know, 2021 wasn't that bad. i mean, my lord. is this a guy who's just not in touch and does that represent a white house that's out of touch? >> i think it does. that's not exactly the reelection slogan that you want to run with, it wasn't as bad as he thought it was. but i think it's important to address one thing you said. of course, you're right, joe biden did get the infrastructure plan done. but donald trump tried to get it done for four years. of course, not only does he face opposition among democrats in congress, but even republicans did not go along with it to help him in that regard which i think is a testament to how much donald trump stood up to the establishment in washington. the other thing is he had billions and billions of dollars worth of false-negative conspiracy theory advertising in the media run against him. that's how i you get donald trup low polling numbers. >> gregg: i've got to wrap it up, but charlie hurt, you've come up brilliantly with biden's new campaign slogan. "i wasn't that bad, was i?" that's the campaign slogan. austan goolsbee, charlie hurt, thank you so much. the agenda stalled on capitol hill, democrats are becoming even more desperate for a political win and doing whatever it takes to grab power. spend trillions of dollars and tried to turn their far left fantasies into reality. and joe biden, he's going along for the ride saying he's open to an exception, a tiny itsy-bitsy little exception to the filibuster rule to pass the democrats federal election takeover bill.on t but the vice president is taking it a step further claiming that the united states will be offof the map as a "role model" if the voting bill doesn't pass. but if republicans were in power, democrats were singing a very different tune. watch this. >> what about the nuclear option doing away with the filibuster? >> that would be the end of the senate as it was originally devised and created going back to our founding fathers. >> let's not do the supreme court, we should have 60 votes of which we still do because we should get bipartisan support. >> the point is we still left the 60 votes in place for the supreme court and mitch mcconnell change that. i would prefer to bring it back. >> mark my words, history will judge this republican majority i harshly. harshly. if it makes this catastrophic move. >> gregg: in case you didn't notice, that was actually joe biden, that last clip in 2005 telling republicans that ending the filibuster would have devastating consequences for the country. hey, whator has changed, joe? in the meantime, far left progressives want joe biden to bypass the separation of powers and simply take executive action to deliverer on the failed $5 trillion build back better socialist to spending spree. $5 trillion. executive order, all you have to do a sign with your pen, joe. for example, chair on the progressive caucus that she will soon release a plan to open a path for biden to act all on his lonely. here now for a reaction, harvard law professor and author of "the case for vaccine mandates" alan dershowitz along with executive director heritage action jessica anderson. good to see you both. professor, as you know historically, the last 80 years the states have controlled there alone election pools. -- rules. now democrats want to take it all away and federalize it according to their preferences. isn't thate a power grab? >> well, i wish it was a principled decision on the part of the democrats, but the decision is basically designed to help them at the polls. voting reform helps the democrats. the republicans are just as hypocritical. they are opposed to some of the reforms, not in principle, but because it will hurt them at the polls. but whatever way you come out on voting rights reform, the idea of the ends justifying the means, the idea of makingbu short-term benefits out of long-term problems like ending the filibuster and packing the supreme court, giving executive power to our president over matters that are legislative are long-term problems designed to simply help the democrats in the short-term. the republicans did the same thing when they did not allow the nomination of merrick garland to go through and allow the nomination of justice barrett to go through. enough hypocrisy on both sidesle but the both sides act on principle not on partisanship. >> gregg: hypocrisy is endemic in washington, that's the only consistency. professor, you're right about that. jessica, biden calls suspending the filibuster just a tiny exception, literally he said that. in "the wall street journal" reacted by writing the following. "that's like an engineer saying he merely wants to remove the section ofel the cam." -- hoover dam. the whole point of the filibuster is to engage in discussion, engaging compromise, engage in a consensus. if you don't do that, if you throw at the filibuster when you end up is with legislature and -- legislation -- can you hear me? you end up with legislative whiplash and the pendulum will swing back and forth depending on when the majority changes. isn't that the real problem of getting rid ofof the filibuster? jessica -- i guess we've lost your audio. professor, what do you think? legislative whiplash is what you get? >> io agree. court packing might help out on roe vs. wade, ending the filibuster, but as soon as another party gets into power, you will see a go the other way. when you've had tried and true institutions, even if they are not necessarily the most democratic institutions in a the world, the senate was not created to be a democratic institution, it was created to be a check on democracy. while i have the floor, can i make one point on i hope you don't mind if i do this. can i remind the world that although he did some good things, a lot of good things it with apartheid, the man was a rampant anti-semite and bigot. the man minimized the holocaust. the man compared israel to nazi germany. when we are tearing down statues, jefferson, lincoln, washington, let's not build statues to a deeply, deeply flawed man a like bishop. let's make sure history remembers both of the goods he did and the awful, awful bad said that he did as well. >> gregg: jessica, getting back to the subject matter. do you see a pattern here that democrats don't like the current composition of the supreme court so they want to change the composition. they want to add states that would surely give democrats greater control in the united states senate. it's like the kid who's losing the ball game and says i'm taking my club and my ball and my badge and i'm going home. that's a dangerous b pattern, isn't it?l >> it's incredibly dangerous pattern, and what it shows is that the left's new year's resolution is absolute power. it's more power for the sake of power. they can't sell their agenda to the american people, so they're changing the rules. they are raking the game to advance their agenda. that's what this carves out for the filibuster is about, what the executive order to push build back broke further. it's not about taking the policies of the american people, by the way, the majority of americans didn't support them. biden doesn't have a mandate to do any of this. the mandates to provide stability to america. it's not the big government socialist agenda we are seeing being pushed through with hr one or s1 are what we saw with the build back broke, there is no magic or support for the this from the american people. the left knows this and that's why they want to rig the rules to advance their agenda every which way they can. it's a pattern and the american people will not stand for this. >> gregg: jessica, i'm glad we got you in there and the audio solved. jessica anderson, alan dershowitz, thank you very much. coming up next, violent swords around the country and we will show you a shocking video of us lashing ino new york city m.o. plus another horrific weekend of violence in chicago. pastor corey brooks will join us live from his rooftop in the windy city. don't go away, stick around for that. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> gregg: will come back to the special edition of "hannity," i'm gregg jarrett, america's largest cities all seem to have some things in common these days. democrats mayors soaring covid number shocking increases in violent crime. take the city of philadelphia for example, which is having its deadliest year ever with nearly 550 homicides and counting. new york, the bronx man was caught on camera slashing a woman in front of her own apartment during a dispute. of course, chicago where 22 people were shocked including two that were killed over the christmas weekend. tonight on a cool rooftop in the windy city, pastor corey brooks is continuing his 100th day vigil to raise money for the construction of a new community center to help combat violent crime in his neighborhood. pastor corey brooks joins us now. welcome, pastor, thank you so much for being with us. the same liberal democratic mayors who champions defund the th spolice, they saw their citis turned into a veritable war zone. then suddenly they had an epiphany, and now they want to refund policing where you are in chicago where lori lightfoot wants more police in the form of federal law enforcement. shouldn't we have seen this coming? >> yeah, we are dealing with a lot of rampant in the hearts of people. across our nation, especially in some of the larger cities where experiencing murder rates and shooting rates going up. it's unfortunately that we need to call in the feds and more government and that's an unfortunate thing. but we definitely need to have the help here in chicago. if we don't get the help, we will see the numbers rise on a consistent basis. it's the reason why were doing everything we can and trying to transfer the lives of young people so we don't end up with this over and over again. >> gregg: when you're doing is so admirable. you set up your church on the south side and a troubled neighborhood, some 20 years ago. people back then said, hey, this is a lost cause and forget about it. you wouldn't listen to them to your great credit, and you persisted. you've been able to reduce crime and transform lives in your neighborhood. how did you do it? >> we did it one life at a time. we have a great 12 employees that work on violence prevention in our neighborhood. all from different part of the gangs in the area and we have them work together. they usedn to be enemies of one another, no we have them working together to make sure there's no retaliation and make sure we work on crimes. but making sure we give them opportunities. one of the things that we rely on our community, we have a lot of young black men who do not have opportunities that they need and we need to give those opportunities so they have an alternative to change their lives around. it's a very difficult job, but it's a job we are up to the task of doing and proving that we can do it and it's working. >> gregg: pastor corey brooks, the best of luck to you. we appreciate your efforts and i know the people south side of chicago really appreciate your 100 day vigil. good luck, i hope you raise lots of money for that community center. pastor brooks, thanks. >> thank you so very much. >> gregg: we will have more "hannity" after the break. don't go away. ♪ ♪ a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? 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