yesterday's job report came as a pleasant surprise for the biden administration. expectations were low given omicron-related job absences. take a listen. >> as a result, the month's jobs report may show job losses in large part because workers were out sick from omicron. >> reporter: well, instead, the labor department revealed 467,000 jobs were added last month, the largest gains found this leisure and hospitality showing a return to social activities despite the ongoing pandemic. the president credits the rebound to the resilience and grit of the american people. >> our country is taking everything that covid has thrown at us, and we've come back stronger. i'm pleased to report this morning, and many of you already know, that america's job machine is going stronger than ever, opportunity for hard working men and women all across this country. america is back to work. >> reporter: while the report also showed wages climbed 5.7% in january, those gains have been canceled out by raising overall costs. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel said, quote: hard working americans are facing decreasing real wages and spiking gas prices, but joe biden doesn't care. republican governors and legislatures will comet to reject biden -- continue to reject biden's disastrous agenda and support america's small businesses, families and workers. democrats want to see the build back better agenda return to the table hoping to see a deal on the $1.75 trillion social spending plan by the end of the month but, again, inflation is still high, the national debt even hire. those are precisely the reasons why senator joe manchin said he would not vote for that plan back in december. david? david: exactly right. thank you very much for that report. well, more companies announcing price hikes this week that really could change the way you shop and what you sip. fox business' lauren simonetti on all the spikes you're soon going to be seeing. lauren: starbucks says it's increasing prices perhaps several times this year on top of an increase in october and last month on what? well, that depends on where you live. consider this, their large venti coffee sets you back $2.45 last year, now it's nearly $3. amazon announcing a 17% increase in the price of prime. it will now cost subscribers $139 a year for fast shipping and ore perks -- other perks. this marks the first increase since 2018. and the items that amazon ships will cost more too. chlorox planning to raise prices on 85% of the products they sell by the end of june. chlorox sells cleaning items but also brita water filters, glad trash bags and hidden valley ranch. and they're not alone. kimberly-clark raised prices four times last year. add hershey, craft heinz, procter & gamble. tide and downey will cost more starting february 28th. and, david, we have a news alert. frontier airlines is not raising prices, but, rather, cutting the weight limit to checked bags to 40 pounds. so if your luggage weighs 41 pounds, you pay $50 for each direction. back to you. david: ouch. well, jobs and wages may be improving, but does it matter if prices keep rising? inflation still outpacing january wage growth. president biden still says the key to bringing costs down is for the government to spend more. does that make sense? here to discuss,s wheelhouse chief investment officer ann berry, former trump senior economic adviser steve moore, and former cam rah harris campaign adviser sarah norman -- kamala harris. ann, first to you. we're very happy that more people are working. thank goodness that's happening. and they're learning to leadership and work despite the covid pandemic, or maybe it's an epidemic now, but it's still with us. but inflation is still the skunk at the garden party. how much longer will it be that? >> it's going to be here for a little while, i think, david. and it's not simply the result of monetary policy. we've moved beyond that. just as lauren described, companies are announcing price increases not so much now because they need to, but because they can. if one of their competitors does it -- [inaudible] inflation will come under control, but pricing levels are higher even if the growth rate starts to come down. david:, and, steve, the president says spending many more money, yet we just had news we're now up to $30 trillion in terms of our debt load in the united states. can we afford to do that, and will it work, spending more to lower inflation? >> well, first, that was a blockbuster jobs report yesterday with those half million jobs, so i was really pleased to see that, david. one thing i really liked to see was more americans getting into the work force. as you know, we just haven't had enough americans working, so those were really reassuring signs. but you are exactly right, the inflation is the skunk at this garden party. and every indication right now that i'm looking at, david, is that inflation is not subsiding, it's not transitory. in fact, it's getting worse. you know, the oil price hit $90 a barrel. that's the equivalent of $5 a gallon at the gas pump. unless you live in california or new york where you might be paying $6 a gallon. i just filled up yesterday, paid $of -- $68. i usually pay about 45 for a fill-up. so this is a real problem, and you are exactly right, david. if you take, put more and more trillions of dollars of debt and spending and money printing into the economy, obviously that's going to make, that's going to be like pouring gasoline on a forest fire. so congress would be very smart to reject build back better. david: sarah, you know, you look at the polls, and i know they're polls, and the real poll is at election time. but the people, the polls say the people don't believe that president biden is doing ad good job on economic -- a good job on economic policies, particularly inflation. i believe he's 58% disapprove of the job he's doing on the economy. how do democrats turn that number around before the midterms? >> well, i think the really god news is now with this jobs economy we actually can focus on inflation. over the past two years, the fed has kept interest rates really low because they didn't want to hurt the growing economy. now that we have this great jobs report and a strong economy, they can start to lower those rates and inflation should in turn lower. and let's take a step back because there's another couple of things going on here. first off, i think we need to give credit back. every single metric that we use for economic success is up. we have historic job growth, historic wage growth, labor participation is up, so it wasn't the case that people were leaving the do economy concern the economy, it was that they were leaving bad jobs for better ones. we had some 20 million on unemployment to 2 million people in under two years. and that's because of the american rescue plan. and remember, not a single republican voted for the americans are cue plan -- david: but, sarah, i'm just going to repeat if i canned the question which is how -- if i canned, the american public don't buy it. they don't buy the president's suggest that the bbb plan will cost zero or lower inflation or somehow lower the debt. so how -- i mean, i just don't get how democrats are going to turn the public around on that. >> well, i think they're going to turn it around by a couple of things. one, we should talk about what that spend is focused on. so, for example, the u.s.-china competitiveness -- [laughter] competitiveness bill was just passed in the house. it includes billions to unsnarl supply chains, for the critical items like semiconductors and as well to revitalize domestic manufacturing. this makes us less reliant on foreign products and should hel- david: well, let me move over to ann again, if i could. i think sarah's correct in saying that the fed if will have more leeway to raise rates or at least to stop buying up those bonds. but what happens when the government spends money it doesn't have is the treasury issues these bonds, and the fed has been buying up most of them, printing money in order to buy them up. that's what's been causing inflation. if the fed stops buying those debt bonds, how -- who is going to be buy them, and won't that mean higher interest that could lead to stagflation? >> well, it's whether the fed is going to accommodate this fiscal outlet, build back better or some version of it goes through and we do see increased government spending of the mag any magnitude expected. jay powell, i think, has done a good job, he is going to have to make a decision on monetary discipline as much as possible and independently as possible from what's going on on the treasury side of the house. how can this message go out on this bill and the series of -- democrats are making -- [inaudible] from a historically low base. we're seeing recovery after devastation, and the message has got to be on product it. productivity. better roads, better infrastructure, better work force participation is still very low particularly among many minority groups. productivity and long-term growth have got to be the message -- david: well, steve, there's another message that you want to get out. you wrote about it this week in the "wall street journal" that one reason why the economy is still performing is because we still are the trump tax cuts. -- still have the trump tax cuts. we're operating under the trump tax system which gave a lot of incentives for growth even before the pandemic. i mean, we were doing extremely well. you suggest today that we should keep that in place because a lot of hose measures are going to be sunsetted. their going to be -- they're going to be going out very shortly. how is that possible with the current political discord in the country? >> well, exactly, david. and, you know, one of the things that really, i think, has propelled the stock market over the last six months because this has been, you know, a pretty strong market is the failure of this absurd -- by the way, it's not 1.25 trillion, it's $a -- $5 trillion that biden wants to spend. which is outrageous. one of the things that president biden wanted to do in that bill was reverse and repeal all of the tax cuts which had such a positive effect. we had the lowest poverty rate, the lowest unemployment rate, the biggest wage gains in something like 30 years. so i hope that a we do not see those tax cuts go away, but i just want to raise one other -- david: we don't have much time, very quickly. >> yeah. people -- if sarah, if the economy is good as sarah says it is, why is it only one out of three americans approve of the job that joe biden has done on the economy? david: you're picking a fight without any time left to go. sarah, we're going to see more of you coming up. thank you very much. a court telling parents they can't decide what's best for their children's health. we're going to tell you where that happened. also, more deadly shootings overnight as the crime surge continues all over the country. meet the sheriff who's got a plan to get it under control. that's coming up. the newday 100u borrow up to 100% of your home's value and take out up to $60,000 or more. give them a call. veteran homeowners, newday wants to help you use your va home loan benefit to get more. more cash, more savings, more peace of mind. the newday 100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. up to $60,000 or more. veterans are saving an average of $615 every month. with more ways to help more veteran families, no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newday usa. ♪ david: a virginia judge temporarily blocking republican governor glenn youngkin's executive order that puts parents in charge of deciding whether their kids have to mask up in schools. this coming as we are learning more about the real cost of all those covid school closures to our kids' future. lydia hu has the details for us. lydia. >> reporter: missed learning opportunities during the pandemic will cost kids $17 trillion globally in lost earnings over their lifetime. that's according to a recent report from the united nations and the world bank. that equals about 14% of today's global gdp. here's a former member of the baltimore city board of education who's also an economist. >> it means that the world is less prepared for its future, there's going to be more poverty, there are going to be more people out of work and, therefore, potentially more social instability. >> reporter: the new estimate of $17 trillion far exceeds the $10 trillion estimate from a year ago, a sign that learning losses are snowballing as closures continue nearly two years after the start of the pandemic. in the u.s. more than 7400 schools were closed to in-person learning one or more days during the week of january 10th, and just last week 2100 schools were closed one or more days. if we look to flint if, michigan, we see schools are closing there indefinitely to in-person learning impacting nearly 4,000 students. and in cumberland county, new jersey, middle school and high school students will attend for only a half day for the entire month of february to accommodate teacher shortages. the good news is experts say the accumulating educational losses can be reversed, but a priority must be set on reopening schools full time for in-person learning and offering supplemental learning opportunities through after-school and summer school programming. for the fox business network, i'm lydia hu. david: lydia, thank you very much. well, a new partnership between two of our major rivals, russian president vladimir putin and chinese president xi jinping, putting our leaders on high high alert. and the box crap to all of that, the beijing -- back adopt to all of that, the beijing olympics. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ moments just like this -- ♪ there's a burning in your eyes i can't recyst -- ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ at lowe's, you never have to be finished with your finishing touches. with aisles of ways to refresh and restyle. for whatever style you're feeling. at prices you're really feelin. shop the lowe's bath style & save event now in-store and online. are you taking a statin drug to reduce cholesterol? 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>> i -- you certainly can't discount that because at the same time the whole world has been focused on the russia-ukraine situation, china has continued to make military provocations like they did year with lots of overflights -- not overflights, but flights very near the air space of tien wan, direct warnings from high ranking government officials that the u.s. risks war with china over the taiwan issue. and, look, it's just, from a military perspective, if one side or the other goes, it makes a lot of sense for the other side to say, hey, this is our motion. so it is definitely a legitimate possibility. david: well, we're hearing some estimates about the cost to putin and the cost to the world in terms of casualty figures now from some of our russia watchers if they have a full invasion of ukraine, and now they're thinking, you know, he may feel free to go all the way to kiev, to the capital, and just take over the whole thing, 5-25,000 ukrainian troops killed or wounded, 4,000 russian troops killed, an estimated 25-50,000 civilian casualties along with 1-5 million possible refugees in europe. i know europe doesn't like those figures. what about russia? putin, as callous an individual as he is, he might face some pushback from the russian people if casualties mount on the russian side. >> i mean, that's certainly a possibility although i, frankly, think those are very low numbers. i think the numbers in an actual war are very low because i think that the killing power and striking power is so much higher than anything that we've seen in an actual war in decades. it's much worse than anybody thinks. but i tell you, the focus for us should not be on their casualties, but on the potential cost to us. and that's why, look, no matter what we want to say, russia appears poised to strike here, and the one way we can probably deter them is not with sanctions or anything else, but with saying, hey, we're just going to take ukraine membership in nato off the table, we're going to put a moratorium on it because it is not in our interest to have ukraine in nato, and if that can prevent a war, that's ten times better than holding this tough position and having ukraine invaded, and i think we need to give serious consideration to that. david: a lot of military families, including my own, by the way with, get very nervous particularly after afghanistan at looking at troop movements and moving our own troops closer to where the fire's about to begin. is, is there anything any danger of u.s. troops being drawn into all of this? >> well, there's an absolute danger. that's one of the things i've been arguing about that, you know, we're sending over 3,000 troops closer to the border, and frankly, these are light infantry troops, the 82nd airborne and a striker brigade, and those are the lightest -- even if you thought, i mean, you're talking russia has highly mechanized forces that are very well trained and lots of them, and we wouldn't stand a chance. but the fact that you're moving them closer, you probably have no intent to use them. god forbid the president should actually send infantry into an armored night -- fight, all you do is risk the chance of error actually causing a war. this is not a good move, and it current deter putin or help us. david: colonel, very quickly, i don't want to scare anybody, but putin's also supposedly shifted nuclear exercises to february from what was supposed to happen in the coming fall. should that be of a concern to us? >> it always is, and that's one of the main things i've been warning about for months, the possibility if anything goes sideways, the nuclear escalation is definitely there and on the table, and this just highlights it. david: dangerous times. colonel danny davis, thank you for being here. well, manhattan's radical district attorney, or alvin bragg, taking a lot of heat, so now he's taking back some of his soft on crime policies at least on paper, but is it too little, too late? 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retired new york police department lieutenant joe cardinally joins me now. great to see you, joe, thanks for being here. forgive me for being just a little skeptical that alvin bragg has turned 180 degrees and is now going to be tough on crime. what do you think? >> well, he's going to come full circle. what he's doing is he's picking and choosing. he said, well, i'm going to get some kickback on it, so these are the crimes we're going to let them have, and that's what's happening. it's coming from albany as well. when you have the bail reform situation and you have his policies put in place and you have once again cop killers being released from prison, all right, this is all one big plan for them. so, yeah, he can walk it back all he wants, but he's definitely the one that's going to be the problem with this because he should be prosecuting all the crimes for all the people, all the time. david: we just had an example o, but one of these young rappers who got smart with a gunshot a cop, and he was out within a week paying $15,000 cash on a bail certificate, and he's back on the streets. he's done this before. he -- i don't know, god forbid, but there is a good chance he might do it again. so while this d.a. is talking tough, he's still letting the criminals out on the street. >> well, that's my point. this guy is actually out on the street. what is it going to take, for him to actually kill somebody whether it be a cop or a citizen for him to actually be kept in jail? i mean, for god sakes, he should have been in jail to begin with, and he should have stayed in there. but these policies are letting them out, and the criminals know that, and the criminals brag about it. so, i mean, this is the point in society where we've come today when it comes to policing. it changes every day. and the politicians just camouflage it with their policies and then they'll come out on tv and they'll sit with the president and they'll all sit at that one table and say this is what we're doing, and it's just for that one moment. and then they get out of that room, all right, back to business as usual. that's what's happening across americaed today. david: you know, the real crime of it is that prosecutors and cops used to work together, they used to support each other. they had each other's back in terms of cracking down on crime and getting the criminals off the streets and protecting innocent civilians. i mean, it's not rocket science. you're tough on the criminals, you try to protect the innocent civilians. now we are hearing stories, maybe you know more about how new york works, and i'm sure this works the same in other places where they have radical prosecutors, prosecutors are actually changing police reports to go easier on the perpetrators in order to get them on a eloper charge. have you -- on a lower charge. have you heard anything about that? >> let me tell you something, we used to have meetings, and if one of the commanders changed anything, they were transferred, demoted, whatever it took, that's what they would do to them. yes, the d.a. is changing his language for the prosecution, and they're picking and choosing what they want to prosecute. so if there's a gun involved, yeah, but you know what? let's just tone it back a little bit and push it so it conforms to my policy, and i'm able to let them out with a clear conscience for him, all right? but policing was always a one-two punch, the d.a. and the cops together making a case, all right? and it was always that if the d.a. felt it wasn't enough, he told the cops, we need more evidence, we need to do this, and held make a stronger case. you can't even present the case to the d.a.s today because when it gets to them after they do all the hard work, they're going to say, no, i'm decline aring prosecution. and this kicks back to the governor's office because d.a.'s have immunity from civil requirement. so it would be incumbent on the governor to say you're not doing your job, but the governor's onboard with them too, so where do you go for this? you can't go to the federal government because who's running the federal government? david: yeah. i just want to get this in here because the president was in new york this week talking both to the governor and to the mayor about crime. but his -- there are questions about whether he really gets what's going on and whether his whole administration gets what's going on. jen psaki, the white house spokesperson, spoke about crime a couple of weeks ago on a webcast. relate me just play that and get your reaction. roll tape. >> on fox is jeanine pirro talking about soft on crime consequences. i mean, what -- [laughter] what does that even mean, right? there's an alternate universe on some coverage. what's scary about it is a lot of people who watch that. david: she doesn't know what soft on crime means. do you? >> i know what soft on crime is. listen, jen cac -- jen psaki is running a cesspool of ignorance at the white house. she absolutely cam camouflages and covers and sugar coats everything that's presented to her just to conform to what they want out there for the public. soft on crime is exactly what you and i just discussed. all the d.a.s onboard, put in there by soros, and you just go over there and say, you know what? where do we attack it next? you need to fight crime the way we used to fight crime, not with a political agenda behind it. when the crime is this, fight it. look what's happening in chicago and new york. these numbers are going to continue to skyrocket, and you're not going to get a handle on it until you get the one-two punch you need. the mayor knows what he has to do, all right? he has to distance himself from the people who are telling him don't do this, don't do that, let his police commissioner do their job. but when they're handcuffed and told what to do and you have an appointed position that could be taken away at any time, you're going to do what this mayor wants, and the mayor's going to do what the political party wants. david: even though we should remind folks he is a former cop himself, the new mayor of new york. hopes were high that he would get tough on crime, but so far we haven't seen -- >> [inaudible] david: quickly. >> i'm starting to think he forgot if about the uniform he wore. david: let's hope he didn't. lieutenant, thanks for being here, appreciate it. >> david, thank you. david: facebook taking a face plant. is it time for mark zuckerberg to face the music? 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the suit aims to reverse the acquisitions of whatsapp, but, david, i worked in m and m, over 70% of -- m&a, over 70% of transactions fail. we don't really know. and, in fact, a former ftc commissioner tells me proving the counterfactual is a tall order. >> we could see facebook broken up, but there's nothing easy about this case for the ftc. the case will involve a difficult effort to assess what would have happened otherwise. so the ftc is placing a very heavy bet on the idea that these acquisitions forestalled the emergence of significant rivals to facebook as a social network. >> reporter: in response to my inquiry, a meta spokesperson highlighted the ceo's comments orb the fierce competition from tiktok, so it will take years of litigation. still, even the idea forming the monopoly can harm consumers when its product is free signals tech platforms may not be invents bl. david? david: thank you very much. turning now to the wicked weather that's sweeping over nation this week. the storm's last stop bringing heavy snow, ice and power outages for thousands across the northeast. fox weather's brandy campbell is braving the cold, and there's a lot of snow there in boston. hi, brandy. >> reporter: hey, david. that's right, it is very cold out here nor boston. we're actually in the low 20s, and if you look around me, you can see, yeah, there's a lot of snow still here. this is actually one of those mounds where the city is placing snow. just to clear it from the area. but you look right bemind he -- behind me, this tree is covered in ice, and that's one issue a lot of states are facing. they're having ice buildup or just a lot of snow, and it's causing power outages in some places. not specifically here, but states like texas and tennessee, they are seeing a lot of out anings. across the board there are about 217,000 households currently, and that's an approximate number, without power still about a day and for some states about two days after that winter storm went across the united states. so right now we're still in a recovery mode for a lot of people. a lot of people still without power, and in some states it's mainly also just about clearing the roads and making sure or it is safe for people to drive. and that's one of the main focuses here in massachusetts. the state as well as the city, they've been out placing salt on the roads to make sure it's safe. just yesterday state police said in a 24-hour span they had responded to over 200 accidents because of icy roads due to that winter storm. so this is a lot that's come out of this winter storm even though it wasn't as crazy as that nor'easter we faced just a week ago. david? david: i'm worried about you walking backwards on that icy surface. be careful out there, brandy. good to see you. >> reporter: oh, i will. david: thank you very much. so with the midterms looming, will a new poll from the sunshine state have democrats scrambling? stay tuned. ♪ ♪ your plain aspirin could be hurting your stomach. vazalore... is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. try new vazalore. aspirin made amazing! ♪ get a head start in investing with the new schwab starter kit™. new investors can open an account and get $50 to split across the top five stocks in the s&p 500®. you can also unlock short videos, step-by-step guides, and other easy-to-use tools designed for people just getting started. plus, investment professionals are on standby 24/7 if you ever have a question. it's the smarter way to start investing. ♪ ♪ david: kind of a good news/bad news week for president biden. first, the good. job growth soaring in january, and the isis leader killed during a u.s.-led raid in syria. now to the bad, our national debt passing over $30 trillion. as inflation keeps soaring from groceries to streaming services and this: nearly 6 in 10 voters in the key swing state of florida say the country is heading in the wrong direction. so is that a bad sign for democrats heading into the midterms? real clear politics' susan crabtree joins us now for more on this. floridians used to be a much more divided, evenly-divided state. that began to change in 2016 when they went for trump, but they only went for trump by about 1.5%. that increased in 2020, and now they're even further to the right. what is pushing floridians to the right? >> well, percent first time you're seeing that republicans made a huge push for voter registration over the last few years in florida, and that is paying off. for the first time they're now surpassing democratic voter registrations in the sunshine state. also this push from the democrats to the left on socialism, i reported on this many, many times since 2020, that was a bad move in terms of florida. of course, you have a lot of cuban-americans there, people from venezuela, colombia. they are not happy with that type of politics and are very concerned. they've lived it, their parents have lived it, and it is not selling well there. david: yeah. they're not happy with the open borders well. we'll drill into that in a second, but there's a big issue here about what florida has come to represent in the united states during the pandemic. and they like to refer to themselves now, i just talked to the lieutenant governor yesterday, as the free state of florida. the word "freedom" writ large, both economic freedom that you just talked about and personal freedom with regard to what you can do in florida that you can't do in places like new york and california and michigan, i mean, that plays a big part in the popularity of more republican policies, doesn't it? >> yes, it does. you would think that it would be ron desantis, the governor there, would be doing amazingly well when it comes to his reports on covid, approval ratings on covid, but he, according to this new suffolk university poll, "usa today" poll that just came out earlier this week, he's only about 53% approval rating on the covid issue. but that's actually much better than most governors are doing. it's been a tough time for any leader of a state handling this pan dem pandemic -- pandemic. it's been a lot of twists and turns, as you see, and so many people are moving across the country to florida to enjoy those freedoms. so it is a little bit more of a mixed bag than i expected when i looked at those poll results, be but certainly when it comes to the economy and businesses being able to stay open, he gets very high marks, and joe biden is bringing down democrats. david: and the weather is nicer than new york, particularly now in the ice storm that we just had. let me just talk about hispanic voters for a second because you mentioned the fact that a lot of those voters in florida escaped from socialist countries, and they see this country moving closer to socialism, and they don't like that. but there's also the interesting thing about immigration because i think a lot of democrats thought that a more open borders policy would endaughter them -- endear hem to the latino voters in the united states. it has been just the opposite, hasn't it? >> yeah. this poll, this suffolk university poll shows the may major issues they're concerned about are the economy and immigration and inflation as well. those three issues are what we're seeing the most problems for democrats and joe biden from florida voters. and they are heavily hispanic, as you mentioned, and they really believe that the push to the left and also the economy being really hardest on the lower wage earners. david dave yeah. >> we've seen that during the pandemic. the pandemic and lockdowns early on were harder on lower wage income earners than others. david: very quickly because we've got to run, but writ large, most americans still much of prefer capitalism over socialism. that's why you keep hearing president biden say he's a capitalist even though he has policies that may differ from that. all the polls are consistent, about 60% prefer capitalism over socialism. aoc keeps pushing her anti-capitalist line. that's, is that popular outside of new york or is that something just specific to her own districtsome -- district? >> oh, i think you see that across the country. we've seen different polls across the country saying that this move towards socialism is hurting, it's hurting the democrats -- david: yeah. >> basically, anywhere you have a lot of immigrants from these countries that they've lived, they've lived that life. david: susan, i'm sorry, we've run out of time. great to see you, have a good weekend. i appreciate it. russia ponding, the u.s. a-- responding, to u.s. accusing it of a fake confrontation to justify invading ukraine. we'll go live to kiev with the very latest, coming up. ... you just can't stop banking. what would you like the power to do? no one deserves the american dream of homeownership more than veterans. at newday, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're holding the line on purchase loans with rates in the twos. already own a home and need cash? with the newday100 loan, you can get up to $60,000 or more and lower your payments $615 a month. no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newdayusa. >> oil and gas prices hitting seven-year highs in the u.s. as tensions rise between big producer russia and its neighbor ukraine. the white house says that russia is planning a fake flag operation to justify an invasion. the kremlin says it's not true as it keeps building up troops along the border. lucas tomlinson is in there with more. >> good evening from ukraine. russia continues the buildup on the ukraine border and has nearly all the pieces in place as antony blinken met his counterpart as the troopers were the 82nd airborne arrived in poland. >> but it -- prepared for the alternative. >> our jennifer griffin reports 70% of russia's forces are know now in place from the potential invasion from ukraine. and should vladimir putin give the order, they released this joint training to russian and belarusian forces using tanks, multiple rocket systems and forces. and in the can't olympics, there's a diplomatic boycott in the ukraine. there's a potential invasion route by the russian forces, ukrainian not far from the troops. and the ukraine defense minister who doesn't appear to be worried. >> ukrainian soldiers are practicing not far from the border of belarus, and they're amassing less than a hundred miles from the capital city. >> we know that imminent invasion doesn't work. >> later this month, russian forces are planning to announce nuclear forces training launching unarmed inter-continental ballistic missiles, normally in the fall, but ramped up another show of force by vladimir putin. molly: david. david: lucas tomlinson, stay safe, thank you. president biden warned sanctions are coming if president putin invades ukraine. and right now we're trying to prevent an invasion. joining me is democratic congressman adam smith, he's chairman of the house armed services committee. good to see him congressman, first of all, what are you hearing about the possibility of a russian invasion? >> i think we're hearing exactly what you've heard, which is they're certainly lined up to do it. putin has put himself in a position if he decides to do it, he's ready. we're not hearing that that decision has been made by russian leadership and i think, you know, it's still not exactly clear what putin intends. a lot of people think he's going to do it, no question about it, but at this point it appears that he's not officially decided, but the threat is real. he's set it up so he can do it at a moment's notice so we need to unite to deter him from doing that. david: we are hearing some casualty estimates that are really frightening here, about 5 to 25,000 ukrainian troops killed or wounded, 4,000 russians killed in some of the estimates that we're looking at. we got it from jennifer griffin. and one to 5 million refugees in europe. this is really catastrophic not just for ukraine, but for the entire continent. >> this is basically unprecedented since the end of world war ii. certainly there have been disputes and conflicts and wars in the times since then, you know, but countries the size of russia and ukraine, russian invading a country the size of ukraine in this full scale manner hasn't been seen since the end of world war ii. this is the most security crisis we've faced since the end of the world war. david: do you think that president biden's lifting of the sanctions of the nord stream two had anything to do with emboldening putin? >> no, it's not just to build a pipeline, putin wants to constitute the former socialist republics. what we need to do n.a.t.o. needs to be united in shoring up the defenses. what n.a.t.o. has begun to do, get weapons to the ukrainians and helping them defend against it and being prepared to put the sanctions in place that are going to be an economically devastating impact on putin. one. things that's happened in the last couple weeks, putin really didn't expect this big of a united international condemnation of his massing of these troops on the border. i think he hoped to get away with just a little bit of criticism so that he could do this with a relatively small cost. raising the cost is the best thing we can do to reduce the likelihood of this invasion. david: but when he saw the united states lifting the sanctions before we essentially gave away one of our bargaining chips. >> no, no-- >> let me ask the question if i may, sir. >> sure. david: and then he heard the president in that press conference talk about, well, a minor incursion maybe, and a lot of people looked at that and said he saw a green light. >> it's two different things here. first of all, we did not lift the sanctions on nord stream two. those sanctions were not put in place. the biden administration, per the law, had the option of deciding whether or not to impose them and he decided not to impose the more serious of those actions so they weren't lifted. on your second point, you're absolutely right. what the president said in that press conference was a major problem. should not have talked about a limited incursion, should not have done that. now, it's been clarified since then and our allies have been united, but it really does point out that rhetoric matters. having a clear, consistent message on this makes a huge difference and in that press conference, now, without a doubt the president did not deliver that clear, consistent message and i communicated that to the white house as a number of other folks did. david: congressman adam smith, interesting times and we wish those people in the area that could be afflicted by this the best of luck and all of our prayers go pout to them. this really could be catastrophic. >> thank you. david: fair and balanced, let's get the republican view on that. the senator from alaska joins us now on the phone. we should know that you voted to sanction russian's nord stream two now, but that bill failed due to lack of democrat support. but you did get six democratic senators voteening favor of it. is there a chance before an invasion we could reimpose those sanctions? >> yeah, david, i think it's important to focus on the energy sanctions and i'm hopeful that we can get a package of sanctions, including on nord stream two, but i think the broader picture is this. we need to recognize we're in a new era, it's the era of authoritarian aggression with china and russia they believe they can crush and invade their neighbors, their democratic neighbors and i warned after the afghanistan withdrawal fiasco that these authoritarian countries would be testing us and we're seeing that now in ukraine, and we're seeing that almost daily in the south china sea in taiwan, and i don't think this administration is doing enough to show strength. and i think that's a key issue. nord stream is just one issue, but there's a number of other ones with the signal that the biden administration is showing is weakness and that's not going to work in this new era of authoritarian aggression. david: but senator sullivan, a lot of us who have got family in the military are frankly worried about how deeply the united states should get involved after what happened in afghanistan. if we're going to say, we just heard the democratic congressman criticize the president's rhetoric on ukraine-russia. so are you concerned that we have the right leadership in place to carry out a more aggressive plan against russia? >> don't get me wrong, i do not -- i do not support sending u.s. troops to ukraine. i do support the administration's focus on bolstering our n.a.t.o. allies in the region with other n.a.t.o. troops, by the way. can't just always be the u.s. troops, but we have an obligation to our n.a.t.o. allies, poland, the baltics, under article five. here is the issue, david, it goes to your point. the administration always talks about dealing with russia and china from positions of strength. i agree with that 100%, but in two areas, and i recently pressed the secretary of state and the secretary of defense on these areas, they're not showing strength, they're showing weakness. one is in the military. i'm still a colonel, and right now the democrats have power in washington, the white house, the house, the senate and they have still not put forward an authorization to fund our military. it's outrageous and it's unacceptable. the second area, you've touched on it is energy. you know, the biden administration inherited the united states is once again the world's energy super bowl. power. and they come in and start cutting back on the production of american energy and doing it here in alaska, that's for sure and this is national security suicide. putin uses energy as a weapon and we need to be strong, especially on our military, and our ability to produce american energy. it makes no sense, and they're undermining not just jobs at home and in my state and higher prices at the pump, they're undermining our national security when they cut back on the production of american energy. david: senator, senator, i'm sorry to interrupt. we only have a couple of seconds and i want to ask about china and taiwan. and a lot of people think it might give cover what's happening with russia and ukraine, to china and taiwan? >> i think that ukraine and taiwan is not unrelated. xi jinping is watching what's happening in ukraine closely. david, i was out in as a marine, training, with japan, keen edge, we need to make sure we have strong deterrents against the chinese communist party from invading taiwan. that's why i put forward a bill, stand with taiwan act, which is about significant sanctions against china if they militarily invade taiwan, that's not just a military issue in terms of deterrents. we can have sanctions that is on the chinese commune case party and key sectors of their economy that could crush their economy and that's what my bill would do. i'm hopping to get republicans and democrats on it to deter taiwan and it's a serious issue as you know. david: senator dan sullivan, semper fidelis to you. >> appreciate it, david. david: president biden with the root causes of public safety. a public safety officer from texas says look no further than your own immigration policies. he's here and why you may be fed up when you hear about a new study on covid lockdowns. that's coming up. no one deserves the american dream of homeownership more than veterans. at newday, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're holding the line on purchase loans with rates in the twos. already own a home and need cash? with the newday100 loan, you can get up to $60,000 or more and lower your payments $615 a month. no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newdayusa. are you taking a statin drug to reduce cholesterol? it can also deplete your coq10 levels. i recommend considering qunol coq10 along with your statin medication. the brand i trust is qunol. >> border agents telling fox that they're seeing more runner and repeat offenders. this is as we're just days away from the release of new migrant apprehension numbers. what can we expect? william la jeunesse is in hidalgo, texas. >> david, right. agents we spoke to in arizona and texas are not optimistic about the apprehension numbers from january that should be coming out sometime this week. dps and border patrol are seeing more runners and repeat offenders. about 25% of those they caught have been caught before. why? under title 42 about half of all migrants are immediately sent back to mexico. they'll stay in a camp for a few days and then try again because of the booming economy, there are jobs here for those who make it. second, and this we've seen on consecutive nights in la joya, texas. >> why? they won't take the people back and they can't. >> and president biden offered protected status to venezuelans and many expect he'll extend that to nicaraguans and even newcomers and agents say they see it today. >> they're single adults and likely sent back under title 42 unless they have a protected status like venezuelans and nicaraguans. >> so this is video we got last week in yuma, where almost 90% of the immigrants are not from mexico or northern triangle countries, but coming from venezuela, brazil, ecuador and elsewhere. agents there and here are overwhelmed and both say the number of got-aways is dramatically undercounted. we're told 2 to 300 here and that's low, each day. we have no idea how illegal immigration is changing the demography. this week mexico did cut off venezuelans to cut down on 11,000% this year to last. david: that's huge. thank you very much. president biden issuing an executive order on addressing, quote the root causes of the border crisis. my next guest says the root causes of the border crisis are president biden's policies. joining me now is lieutenant with the texas department of public safety. lieutenant, thank you for being here. how specifically have biden immigration policies made the situation worse? >> hey, david, good morning, great to be with you. it's been a complete failure. we saw that at the beginning of the 2021, the remain in mexico policy canceling border contracts and the root causes and trying to make an impact on the current border crisis, but that failed to make any impact in 2021. we saw over two million apprehensions, in december over 178,000 apprehensions. we have individuals coming from over 150 different countries. so, you can't just focus on the root causes by focusing on the northern triangle countries. you have some from syria, russia, all the different countries coming to the border not just the valley, but throughout the southern border in laredo and also in arizona seeing individuals coming across. so it's much bigger than focusing on the root causes and getting to the northern triangle countries. the root problem is the policies and implementing policies a following through and putting pressure on those countries. david: and you have the asylum problem. the majority of staying here and some say through ngo's, a lot of non-government organizations are given hundreds of millions by the biden administration and they help ship these asylum seekers who probably wouldn't get asylum and ship them to the different parts of the states where they disappear. is that part of it? >> that's correct. we saw that recently with the story that broke out op on fox news, the single adults going to airports to whatever destination they wanted to get to. that messaging, we're going to continue to see people come across, they have families and friends from other different countries and once they get to the destination they'll have the message, the time is to come, and released and flown to wherever you want to go and we'll see the influx coming across. david: lieutenant, quickly we're hearing reports of terrible morale among border patrol because of what you mentioned. and our own hillary vaughan asked the chief about that. let me roll tape and get your reaction. >> chief ortiz you admitted that morale is all-time low. are president biden's policies to blame for that? >> no comment. david: well, he had no comment mon that, but can you comment on the morale in the border patrol? >> what i can tell you is that it's very unfortunate now the border patrol agents are having to deal with the current situation now they're not getting the support they need from the federal government and we saw that with del rio with the agents on horseback, but it's demoralizing for the agents. in texas we try to provide support to the agents and to help them because they need all the support they can get right now. david: our respect for the work you do, our great reexpect for the work you do. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. david: and some are blaming process i have policies for the surge in crime across the country. more on that in just a second. with ww, i lost 30 lbs and i feel incredible! i love the new program because the app does all the work for you. it's never too late to start. get started for just $10 a month at ww.com hurry! offer ends february 7th! >> earlier in the show, we told you about manhattan d.a.'s alvin bragg revising of two big soft on crime policies that happened yesterday. well, now there are new calls for the los angeles county d.a., george gascone to reverse his policies on crime. jonathan hunt has more from l.a. jonathan. >> david, it's rare for the police chief to speak out in this way so his words carry a lot of weight and as the city of l.a. reeled from the murders of two young women, one stabbed in the store where she worked and another on the side of a freeway. and armed street attacks, the d.a.'s policy of not using sentencing enhancement for violent crime is hurting the city he's supposed to protect. >> his office has the responsibility to ensure that they're using every measure that's afforded them as prosecutors with pursuing justice for these that are preying upon others, particularly violent crime and also the chronic offender. >> the d.a.'s office did not respond to our request for comment, but did say this at his last press conference. >> the reality is that the punishment based approach to the work does not serve us well. >> chief michael moore told us that the zero bail policy introduced by the court to reduce the pandemic era prison population is emboldening criminals, making them think they can just get away with their crimes. >> hours or days later they're back in the community and bravado like nothing is going to happen to me. that's discouraging to the community. >> when chief moore spoke to us, he had come directly from the funeral of the l.a.p.d. officer arroyos, shot dead as he and his girlfriend were looking at homes in which they hoped to start their lives together. david: how tragic. well, as crime soars all over america, president biden says easy access to guns in america is a root cause of the problem, but many law enforcement officials pointing out the criminals using them and the soft on crime policies are the bigger problem. joining me is the president of the national sheriff's association, sheriff standforth. good to see you. are the guns the problems? >> biden's policies are misguided. the guns are not the problem. the criminals are emboldened moving about freely within our communities and they're using the firearms and the penalty if you use a firearm, it's an enhanced penalty and go to prison not only for the crime they committed, but using the firearm. david: there's so much decriminalization of even violent crime and that's what the manhattan d.a. had to deal with and sort of the off the books approach to crime as well, where the prosecutors are not prosecuting to the full extent of the law. those seems to be as much of a problem as anything else. >> it's amazing the prosecutors want to become soft on crime, but they're targeting law enforcement and just regular community members as terrorists or as violent parts of our community when they look at the criminals, if they would just apply the laws that are there and enforce those laws that are there and become the rule of law, we would have a safer community all across america. david: you know, we're looking at the incidents that are happening in stores, a lot of these smash and grabs, they're not nonviolent crimes. a lot of that escalate into violent crimes where people are injured or even killed in some cases. so, you can't just decriminalize a crime that leads to death and violence. >> you know, i had an example given to me just earlier today, where a businessman travels around the country and he will not leave his hotel without removing his jewelry, his billfold, all of these valuables before he goes on the street. he feels so unsafe and i think that's true with all americans. we are not feeling safe on our communities, on our streets, and i think this is the reason because we've decriminalized and we've made ourselves so vulnerable and the government needs to take a prominent and a directed approach to fighting the crime by making enforcement, making it so that law enforcement when we send somebody to jail that the judge will keep them there and make them accountable for their crimes. david: the president says that guns are the chief issue, the root cause, if you will. tell that to the family of michelle, the woman who was shoveled to her death in the subway or the woman stabbed to death in los angeles or a 70-year-old nurse, that's michelle that we're looking at right now and briana cupford stabbed to death both by homeless people, another problem we've got to talk about or the folks mowed down by in wisconsin by a car. many people were killed. >> so the guns are not the issue, it's the violent acts by people, using a car, or hands to choke somebody. those are our daughters or wives, our children, and you know, america has had enough of this. we need to stand up to this and the biden administration needs to start listening to our communities, needs to start listening to law enforcement. there's people that know how to make this work and protect. they've got a hidden agenda they're sending out there and that's following. that's not the agenda for the american people not keeping the american people safe. david: and the crime is we do know what works because we've cleaned up the city before and we did it in the early '90s. sheriff, appreciate it. an unexpected win in yesterday's jobs report has the white house feeling up, but probably not with a new report showing the bad side effects of the covid lockdown. that's next. ♪♪ hf ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ your plain aspirin could be hurting your stomach. vazalore... is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. try new vazalore. aspirin made amazing! >> a big surprise in the jobs front. the u.s. creating 467,000 jobs last month as the economy rebounded despite the omicron infections and worries. the report after a new study from johns hopkins university showed the lockdowns did little to prevent death and did a lot to hurt our economy. and connell mcshane says the states without the mandate appear to be doing the best. >> only four states have more jobs now than they had before the pandemic and they all seem to be relatively open policies when it comes to covid. arizona, utah and idaho join texas in that group and from what we've seen in all of these states, and it's especially true here in texas, their populations are growing and it's helping out small businesses, like this restaurant where we're broadcasting from. and we stopped by another local company that makes statues, it's a fascinating process. texas has over 300,000 more people now than before the pandemic hit. >> texas is a work state and we strive to provide good environment for companies. >> freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom. [laughter] >> and just, just the whole idea that, you know, stay out of each other's way and stay out of each other's business. >> and they've been moving to the area in droves whether to work at tesla or a restaurant like this and from glen hammer's point of view overlooking the state capitol in austin at economics business, it's more pronounced around here. >> one way to think about it, texas is the strongest economy in the country, but within texas when you take a look at what's going on in austin, with over 30,000 jobs created in the last year or so, during a pandemic, it's even at a faster rate. >> we met this couple, andy and lena reeve they moved from san jose, california, they both work as chefs and they love it in texas and we've seen that on a larger scale, tesla and oracle relocating to the austin area and tell similar stories, business friendly policies, much more open during covid and that combination over the last couple of years, we're seeing it now play out in the job numbers. back to you. david: connell, thank you very much. are those red states getting the president a blueprint how to get our entire economy booming again? here to discuss with us again, wheelhouse chief executive officer ann barry, and steve moore, and sara, thank you for coming in. sara, first to you, it's very hard to argue against freedom, which again is what you hear time and again from the folks in florida and texas, and no taxes, zero income taxes in both texas and florida. how can you argue against that? >> as we all know, that right now biden is leading a once in a generation economic recovery, but, yes, blue states did take a bigger hit during the pandemic. simply put, blue states are more vulnerable to covid. jobs like lodging or working in the food industry are more concentrated in blue states, but even with those losses with those losses, blue states are the ones bringing home the bacon. in fact, counties that went democratic in 2016 produced 64% of our economic output. the counties that voted for trump contracted just 36%. blue states make the american economy great and even in red states like texas, it's blue cities like houston, austin, dallas, that keep the lights on. let's say to hold up the red state covid response as a model to follow. it would be irresponsible not to talk about all outcomes. by june 2021, covid deaths per capita from 1.8 times higher if you lived in a state with a g.o.p. governor. david: sara, we've got three guests, i've got to give other people a chance to crime in and steve, the bottom line, people vote with their feet and they're moving from states like new york and california to states like texas and florida. it is attractive, the idea of freedom and zero taxes, right? >> you better believe it and by the way the two states that have by far the highest death rate from covid, new york and new jersey. they shut down the economy, you were there, david, you saw it. when i go to florida now, the case for two years, go to a place like florida and texas, and then go to new york like you're in two different countries, the openness and the happiness, frankly of the people in states that are open. so, i hope we never, never, never-- never lock down the economy again. it was one of the most epic failures in american history. and people are moving in droves. census bureau shows that they're record in red states not just florida and texas, but utah, idaho, montana, it's an amazing phenomena. david: and people do vote with their feet. >> they do. david: and florida gets 300,000 new residents a year and that, by the way, that began even before the pandemic, that exodus. but the pandemic accelerated it because they had so much-- so many fewer restrictions than the blue states. >> look, i'm going to be forward-looking contributor on this panel. the days of restrictions related to covid, hopefully is behind us. i think it comes down to income taxes and life style. as you just said, david, people are moving anyway. they've accelerated that move, work from home and work from hybrid is more commonplace and we've seen a wave of early retirement. it's about great life style, great weather. low income and the fact that tech providing a lot of job creation, tesla, oracle as mentioned earlier. they're moving to low income tax or no income tax because they pay some of the highest salaries in the work force and compelling them to move. david: sara, quickly, the president thankfully has said and i think this led to the job figures that we saw, he said no more lockdowns and his administration lowered the time in quarantine. it does appear that even this white house is moving very much against the old lockdown model, correct? >> i agree and i would agree with that approach. what we were talking about earlier at the time of the peak pandemic, to use the example of florida where ron desantis against any reasonable public health care measure and now florida has the highest infection rates of-- >> but lower death rates than new york does. >> david, we just adjusted the numbers and florida has actually got a much lower death rate when you take into account the older population than most of the blue states do. florida did it exactly right. david: i'm sorry, sara, but we had to correct the record on that, it's about 10% lower death rate in florida from covid infections per capita than you have in blue states, but we have to leave it at that, gang. thank you for being here. thank you all for coming on. meanwhile, this year's global teacher award going to a u.s. citizen who came here poor and is now living the american dream. you'll meet her coming up and with the beijing olympic games kicking off yesterday our nation's top lawmakers warning our athletes not to use their right to free speech. i kid you not. we'll play the tape. e with no down payment. and they're holding the line on purchase loans with rates in the twos. already own a home and need cash? 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fox news headlines 24/7 sports anchor matt napolitano joining me now to discuss. first of all, a lot of people were disappointed saying that nancy pelosi should not have been warning our athletes, should have been warning china not to touch our athletes because sometimes athletes may say something and if china starts pushing them around like they're pushing around some news correspondents on television. we should be focusing on china not on our people. >> yeah the fact of the matter is, the same officials that thought a diplomatic boycott would be sufficient for the beijing winter olympics. xi jinping doesn't care who is there. vladimir putin is there and russia is not really there. and really, it's a double edged sword. david: what we're seeing on the aren't side of the screen and maybe rerack that tape. it was a correspondent for, in, it was a dutch television station who was giving a report and right in the middle of his report, live on dutch television he was man handled by a bunch of chinese government thugs who pushed him out of the shot and because they didn't like the background of the picture. if they can act that way because they don't like the background of the picture. imagine the way they would act if you disagreed with chinese government policies. >> absolutely. they came out with a statement saying yes, maybe the security guards were overzealous, it's true, the media are roped into certain parts of the bird nest arena for the winter olympics, it could be to cover up what's behind the scenes. we don't know. the fact of the matter is, china hasn't been transparent about anything. we saw a belgian skelton competitor who was put in isolation, tested negative several times and thought she would go to the olympic village instead transferred to a state-run facility and sends a tearful message out to they are followers on social media fearing what would happen next and she wouldn't be able to see the olympic village. it wasn't until it went viral and hours later she she had up at the olympic village. david: and we've got to talk about tom brady who is leaving. we don't have much time. and espn came out with best baseball players of all time. babe ruth. babe ruth was 100 years ago, do you think in 100 years tom brady will be the best in football? >> i say this as a new york jets fan who suffered from tom brady a lot. he will go down as one of the greatest and a century from now we'll talk his name. david: i'm a long suffering jets fan as well. i can understand where you're coming from, but he really, you just have to give it to him. he really was the best. it's hard to imagine anybody beating those records that he's set while he was playing. and matt, great to see you again. thanks for being here. matt napolitano from fox sports. appreciate it. thank you all from home for joining us, we so appreciate your time. keep it right here for the latest news on fox news channel. ♪♪ they're banking, with bank of america. his girlfriend just caught the bouquet, so he's checking in on that ring fund. oh, that photographer? he's looking for something a little more zen, so he's thinking, “i'll open a yoga studio.” and as for the father of the bride? he's checking to see if he's on track to do this all over again...and again. digital tools so impressive, you just can't stop banking. what would you like the power to do? 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