pete: that's a shot of a fox all american christmas tree in fox square. if you're in the area, in town, come by and check it out. i people do. lots of christmas card pictures are being taken right in front of this tree with a lot of tourists. pete: lot of people are doing it. it's true. rachel duffy campos, will cain with you. will: that's not under my per view of things. pete: you don't even know? will: was shown a card and i said thumbs up and i went out. pete: imagine what it's lake to be married to will cain? will: i'm pretty easy. the reason i bring it up, i mea- i do you take care of all the tickets and things that happen like ---will: tickets? i you know, like a car or licensing. do you take care of all that stuff? i doing it off. will: you're failing. you said you'd be nice to me for four ho hours and you didn't evn make it 45 minutes. pete: they're done and going scout jen is a machine. rachel: that's amazing. i keep a box where i put them all and pick like a morning that i just no one's bothering me and i have coffee and look at everyone's cards. it's so lovely. will: that's not the way to do it. get a cocktail and get everybody around and go look at their card. you're doing it wrong. pete: or reading of other people's letter when is they write long letters. will: can you believe they went with a trifold? what are they sa saying with a trifold? fancy. you're laughing because everybody does it. pete: she does it with her coffee and i do it three drinks deep. like whoa. this kid is not growing up. rachel: i'm always amazed at how beautiful all these families are and all the babies and just having a different experience. will: one less person in the picture this year. rachel: okay. pete: that's true. will: moving on to the other season, which is politic season. democracy 2024 and we've got elections coming up and ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy all holding campaign events in iowa. pete: six weeks out. caucuses are coming. will: six weeks. crazy. pete: so they're all holding events there. everyone is focusing -- you know. as the polls -- with the polls as an indicator, at this point, it's donald trump's race in iowa and there's a big national poll that he puts them up almost near 70 in the latest poll and nbc news des moines register poll has trump at 43% in iowa. desantis and haley at 16, vivek at 7. i think at this point it appears to be a forgone conclusion that trump will win the iowa caucuses and whoevers in second can tout that and try to use that to slingshot into other states and it's a done race. rachel: there's hope that ron desantis had with that debate with sean hannity and between him and gavin newsom might give him that extra bump if you will and one of the people that's been really interesting in iowa is vivek ramaswamy who's been touching that third rail and i love candidates that aren't afraid to touch the third rail and one of the topics that he's been challenging governor reynolds who as you know is a big supporter of desantis, he's been challenging her and others on these pipelines that run through the state that end up with eminent domain rules going through the pipelines and they're supposedly to capture carbon and what he had to say is the thinks there's funny business going on and the governor supporting and other politicians supporting this because they're getting donations from those behind this, these pipelines. listen. >> i challenge the industry air sewsuation claiming this was a opportunistic speech and favor these pipelines and i challenge governor kim reynolds and the four republican congressmen to tell me what i am about to tell you. what have i gotten wrong here and if after hearing what i'm about to say, you still support the use of eminent domain impimplicitly or explicitly then have the courage to stand up in front of your own constituents and make that case. why are the republican puppets that, you know, claim to represent you quietly supporting this issue or even worse ignoring it. rachel: yeah. will: this is interesting. it's a local issue in that you're talking about imminent domain for pipelines needing to be laid. eminent domain and the reason for it is based upon global warming/climate change. pete: these are pipelines and we'll get more information from him and we'll have a lot of farmers saying el eminent domain and yet another climate scheme, that's a whole nother deal. rachel: might be like going into iowa and dis-ing ethanal. he's touching on something that a lot of politicians don't want you to talk about and that's interesting. we're going to -- as you said dig more into it. pete: at 4% in iowa, what happens if it stays there? rachel: sure. will: down south to texas, a fifth circuit court of appeals, the fifty circuit court of appeals denied a governor's ability to lay buoys on the rio grand as nautical border wall with texas and mexico. greg abbott, governor of texas tweeted, the fifth circuit court of appeals denying texas' sovereign aauthority to secure the border with marine barrier is clearly wrong and attorney genapgeneral pac packs paxton wo scotus to protect texas from biden's orders. pete: they don't have to remove the buoys till this is appealed, does it? will: unless they can get an injunction. pete: here we go. we're pulling the buoys out of the water and trying to appeal it. others have faced this trying to maintain their sovereignty. will: impedments in-- im-- rachel: we don't know who a lot of people are coming across the southern boarder and numbers are so huge and it's really hard to vet them. there's been a lot of contraversey and look at footage, this is right near barbara streisand and jennifer aniston's house. these kind of boats coming and letting people out, this is happening all over italy and spain for years now and now we're seeing it come here to the united states. we also saw some by the way off the coast of florida in the keys. a boat coming with illegals from cuba. pete: i mean, that could be an assault. could be anybody with any intention in malibu, california. it's very, seeing these impanelings and talking about them over and over again is disheartening. rachel: there's irony and a little bit like the martha -- remember when desantis sent the illegal migrants to island, was it -- pete: sure. rachel: nantucket or martha's vineyard. these are right by the homes of people who really support joe biden's policies so it'll be interesting to see how celebrities react in the backyard. will: we had gloria ro romero oo talk about that in malibu. >> every community in america is a border state. malibu is particularly interesting. it is over 100 miles from the border. it is the martha's vineyard of california and this is also a community that is a sanctuary city city with very, very woke politics that is overwhelmingly voted for people like gavin newsom and joe biden. so i think the politics are going to hit up against the reality of what an open unsecured border brought to you by biden harris is doing to what really is a very affluent community right at the beach. rachel: might give you an interesting insight into how every day californians feel about this. pete: they're voting for it. rachel: that's true. pete: not everybody but plenty of conservatives in california say we didn't vote for any of this. till you gain a critical mass and turn sanity back on. you mentioned europe, rachel, that's why you're seeing the uprisings and the protests and the problems in europe is because it's been unchecked, unfettered migration of illegals throughout european countries who is populations have been overwhelmed by illegals and then groups of people who say we're not here to be a part of your crown triple-demic, we're here to be a part of taking over your country. thankfully america has two big oceans and traditionally had friendly neighbors and is a huge country compared to this. hey, just drip by drip. drip by drip the intention is to change the country. rachel: no question about it. meanwhile in your set of the woods in minnesota. pete: talk about maple grove high school in minnesota. we played the crimson and had a couple of pre-solid games, basketball games back in the day. rachel: just wanted to tell us. will: nice. pete: letting you know. this middle school in maple grove, minnesota, the principle saying the whole school was transformed because of one simple thing. they got rid of yell phones. rachel: imagine that. pete: the principal of maple grove middle school talking about that on the ingram angle. watch. >> it's been night and day what we've dealt with in the last couple years and talking to each other face-to-face at lunch and you're not seeing them on social media in the hallway when is they have a break. they're not taking them out during class. they just look happier. pete: is anybody surprised? rachel: no. pete: how is this hard? rachel: it's not. my kids go to a school where they are not allowed to have cell phones. to me it's logical. i don't understand why they would allow it. they said it's interesting he says in the hallways, the kids are talking more. right. they're having conversations and you said there's less bullying that they've seen from removing the phones because a lot happens online know and pete: parents that excuse it away saying i need a way to reach my child. they need to reach me in a emergency. if you have a problem, raise your hand, talk to the teacher, go to the office and make a phone call. it's so not hard and parents out there who create the expectation, cave to their kids, news flash, 12 year-olds are morons and cave to their kids and you get chaos inside classrooms and it take as few courageous adults to say this is where we learn. put your phone in your locker and don't touch it. if you do, you're in trouble. maybe you'll focus on english and not instagram. will: what age? pete: up and up and up. 13 and then 16 and right now probably 17 at this point-blank layups. rachel: my daughter just got a phone at 15. pete: why is that not true? will: multitude of reasons. rachel: her phone she can't have apps. will: i feel the windup coming. my 12-year-old doesn't have a phone, my sophomore does. pete: reasonable. will: i think eighth grade is when we did it. eighth grade. eighth grade you don't have to. i just think you're all talk is what i think. pete: we'll see. will: i think by -- certainly by the time they're driving, you said 16 they're going to have a cell phone. pete: right now the talk there is some sort of flip phone ability to punch in a number and make a phone call in an emergency. rachel: that's what my daughter has. she's able to call us and we can text with her, she's 15 ask just got it. in fact, can i tell you when her school said everyone has to put their phones in the cubby, the first time she said i don't have a phone and they thought she was hiding her phone because everyone has a phone; right? she didn't have a phone. but, you know what i've heard on the flip side of this, some parents say, listen, we've had school shootings and those cell phones have been really useful in those situation so i've heard parents say that's why i want them to have it. they're not necessarily being like spoiled. pete: can't you put a land line in most school haves a land line in the -- keeping land line in the classroom. will: each classroom. they asked us to ask you guys to e-mail in. you're going to say we all agree. get them out of the classrooms. when is the right time to give a kid a cell phone? pete: love it. you might be right i'm all talk. any young new parent says i'm going to do this and you get broken down by reality. will: taxpayers me right now. will: that's me right now. i'm not sending them to college. trade school. well see. i've got twoer >>s left and see if i'm all talk. pete: it's difficult. will: what's the e-mail? pete: [email protected]. will: thank you. pete: thank you have you been hosting the show? rachel: i get the e-mail wrong autothe times. will: time for headlines. rachel: we're turning to headlines, a man hunt for the philadelphia prisoner who escaped while on a work detail entering its second day and u.s. marshals are joining the search after the prisoner escaped earlier this week. officials say he climbed over the facility's fence after tell ago guard he had to use the bathroom. authorities mention the inmate recently found out his release was going to be delayed till next year. he's currently serving a sentence for theft and burglary charges and right now vice president kamala harris is in dubai for a meeting for the united nations climate summit. she has her priorities and she's promising billions to fund the organization's climate fund. >> globally the united states is a leader in the effort to expand international climate finance. i'm also proud to announce a new $3 billion pledge to the green climate fund, which helps developing countries invest in resilience, clean energy, and nature-based solutions. rachel: she's sending $3 billion to other countries to control the weather. harris' announcement comes after the biden administration initially pledged less than $18 million to the un's climate fund. are you ready for it? it is the year of taylor swift. streamers can't shake her off. swift has just been named spotify's top streamed artist of 2023 with over 26 billion streams. she could rake in up to $100 million in royalties from the streaming service alone. that's not counting anything else. swift's publicist had to shut down rumors earlier this week after a social media account claimed she and her ex-boyfriend joe allen were secretly married and they say her -- her publicist says not true and those are your headlines. pete: i don't get it and there's some phenomenas that i get and others i done. taylor swift is one that i don't. will: when is garth brooks going to spotify? i can't get him anywhere. he took control of his content. pete: yeah, that just means he's nowhere. will: coming up, santos is out and a seat is say can. what does it mean -- vacant. what does it mean for the balance of power in the house. rachel: asking mike johnson and congresswoman elise stepanik. pete: the va's role in medical care for illegals drawing scrutiny. our next guest is a concerned air force veteran calling for change. 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